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Year: 1868

This body has organized and gone to work
in spirit of harmony and with sense of
the responsibility that rests upon them
which it is cheering te contemplate. Never
before has there beer a legislative or Con-
-stitutional ASSEMBLY IN North Carolina,
which has been characterized by greater
merit or by more exalted patriotism. The
people have done well, and while the dele
gates reflect honor upon their constituents
their constituents have shown that they
were well aware of the tremendous issues
before them, in the selection of their repre-
,sentatives. The future looks bright and
cheering. The heavens themselves have
been suspicious. A charming day succeeded
the drifting storm of snow and sleet. Thus
the long, dark night ottreason and rebellion
Is over and gone, and the glorious morning
OF freedom and Justice and equality before
the law has dawned upon US. The foes of
the Unian may rage and move heaven and
earth to defeat the patriotic work of this
Convention, bnt it will only be to dash them
selves to pieces against the firm founda-
;tions of Loyalty and Union. Let the loyal
men rejoice. weeping endureth for night,
but joy cometh in the morning."
Year: 1868

The Pillars of the Capitol should he
hung in mourning. to day, for the murdered
sovereignty of North-r rarolina.-S Sentinel.


The Sentinel utters the above with refer
ence to the assembling in the Capitol of the
loyal delegates of the people of the State, to
form Constitution to restore the State to
the Union. That Journal and those who
sustain it, have two radical objections to the
Convention. First, its action will deprive
them of office; secondly, the Convention will
restore the State to the Union, which the
Sentineland its supporters hate with deadly
hatred. This is the kew to the Sentiners in
decent, unjust, and illiberal attacks on the
Convention. og
When the rebellion was at an end, and
when the Sentinel and its friends saw the
ruin they had brought on this people, they
should not only have clothed the Capitol in
mourning for their sins, and as some slight
atonement for the atrocities they commit
| ted under the reign of Vance and Davis, but
they should have hurried away from
the sight of all, and hid themselves in some
obscure place, and prayed to God for for
| giveness, whether they were destined to re-
ceive the forgiveness of men or not. The
Capitol which was desecrated during the
rebellion to the worst purposes OF treason.
and from whose halls rang the devilish cries
of Vance and Others, that conscripts and de


serters must be hanged or shot on the spot,
wherever found, has at length put off It's
horrid aspect, bristling with cruel war
against the loyal and the true, and now
stands out in its majesty, as when our no
blest and hest in past time sat in it. with
the glorious old flag then, as now, floating
from its summit. The capitol IS now in the
hands of patriots and of the real friends of
the State. The vicious rebel sovereignty of
the State is, we are proud to say, no more.
1t has perished, leaving neao people in pos
session of power, who will do what they can
! fo the good of all, and who will scrupu-
lously keep that faith with the nation which
was so disastrously broken by disunionists
and traitors. The Capital in mourning, in
deed! Rather let it put on its holiday
adornments, and let all the flags fly and all
the drums beat. in honor of the good time
which has come, and of the brave and true
men who are now dcliberating in its halls. %
Year: 1868


We learn from a friend at Washington,
whose opinions are entitled to much respect,
that great interest is felt by the Republican
members of Congress as to the action of our
State Convention. The Congress is ready
to receive the State at once, as soon as she
presents herself in loyal garb under the re-
construction acts;, and the feeling at Wash
ington is, the sooner the State is ready for
representation in Congress the better for US
and for the nation at large.


We also feel at liberty to state that Con
gress will be prompt and liberal in relieving
from heir disability those Republicans who
can show that they have given material aid
to the cause of reconstruction.
Year: 1868

1t will be seen by our telegraphic dis
pate hes that this able and efficient officer has
been restored to his position in the Cabinet,
whence he was removed unreasonably and
Illegally by the President. -51.


The loyal peopleof the nation will receive
this intelligence with JOY. The rebuke ad-
ministered to the President is timely. This
action is feather in the cap of Congress.


This action by the Senate was announced
in the caucus of the Republican members of
the North Carolina State Convention last
evening, by Capt. Sweet, and received with
the most enthusiastic applause.
Year: 1868

The Sentinel is troubled at the prospect
that Congress will see to it, by judiclous
supplementary acts, that the reconstruction
acts are promptly carried out 1t sees more
wicked" work to be done by Congress.


''No rogue e'er felt the halter draw


With good opinion of the law'


The Sentinel assails Gen. Grant, because
it is forced to believe that he is in sympathy
with our loyal people. 1t says he has
"hitherto sustained character for honesty
and public honor" but fears he will lose
this character. OF course the General will
feel very badly when he hears what the Sen
tinel thinks of him. -4s
The Reconstruction Acts aciU be carried out,
manhood suffrage and all. No power any
where, short of the power of God, can pre-
vent it. 1t is going to be done. 1t must be
done. Fortunately for the country and for
unborn generations, the Congress is true,
and is standing like rock for the right
Let the good work of reconstruction he
pressed forward. Let us burn no daylight
uselessly. Let the new Constitution for the
State be framed as soon as practicable, be
submitted to the people, lie ratified; and
let US at the same time elect the necessary
officers to man the ship as she floats back to
the haven of the Union. Let traitors and
malcontents who are about to be deprived of
Office, growl and howl in the blue season as
they may, the work must and will he done,
for the Congress- requires it and our loyal
people of both races say Amen! f.5
Year: 1868

investigation which will lay bare this


whole transaction from its Inception TO
lie elimination, and expose "the guilty
parties, no matter who they may be, or
how they stand politically or socially. )"


Having taken this step, we trust Mr..


Taylor will not permit the matter to re-
main where il Is. There is a miua in
that school fund" transaction rich in the
materials for q report which win astound
the people Of Tennessee, and il is only a
question Of time as to when it will be de-
veloped. If this Legislature refuses to
order the Investigation, another Lagisla-
ture will, and then the people will see by
whose crime the State has lost nearly
half a million dollars.
Year: 1868

A couple of farm servants on q plan
tation in the southern part of Alabama,
who had been asleep in o loft of a large
barn, were awakened one morning re-
Gently by a great cOmmotion in the hay
NOW beneath them, and on looking
down saw o scene which, probably, is
without parallel. Swarming IN
through an open window was perfect
cloud of wasps, who were attacking a
young army of rats, whose squealing
had aroused the two farm hands. The
rats stood upon their hind legs, in a
perfect paroxysm of rage and fear, and
guashing their teeth at the wssps, who
stung them remorsslessly. The bodies
Of the rats were terribly swollen By the
poison of the inssctsj and in their rage
and fury they turned and bit eaeh other
The hay loft was strewn with the dead
bodies of the rats, until at last the sur
vivors fled from the scene and left the
wasps master of the situation.
Year: 1868

Carno Chlorine was cut in several places
and severely wounded, at the corner of
Carondelet Walk and IRENE street, about
half past eight o'clock last evening. He
was taken to the drug store, corner Marais
street and the Basin, from whence he was
removed this morning. He had two cuts
in his abdomen, one in his breast, one in
his back, and three elsewhere. He is cap
tain OF the schooner Catherine, lying at the
Old Basin, in the oyster trade.


Another Sieilian was found dead by OH
Ger Sbellman last evening about nine
O'Clock. He was stabbed through the
heart, and two other stabs we're in
1icted, one above and one below the heart,
either one of which would have caused i'm
mediate death. The name of the deceased
is Salvador 1t is supposed that he had
difficulty with the captain OF the Catharina
Salvador being employed on the schooner


An inquest was held by Coroner Ayilla
this morning on the body of the dead man
No testimony whatever was ELECTED as Il
the causes of bis death, and the verdict wa
stabbed by an unknown party.


Gillorme, who will probably recover
tells the improbable story that he shouted
by himself for Seymour and Blair
when a nigger ran out from benin,
a woOdpile and cut him. BE is not will
ing to acknowledge that he had fight wit
Salvador.


From the nature Of the wounds Of bot
parties the fight must have been most des
perate. -F.fL. .......,-l ...l.,-.
Year: 1868

Up to the hour of going to press the
whole vote has been as follows. Tho Re.
publican vote is very light at all the polls:


Between twelve and one o'clock we OBJ
tanned the number of those who had voted
in the Fourth District at the several polls.
We give the number of registered at each
OF the polls, SO that it may be seen what
proportion have come forwards
Year: 1868




The Republican papers in Delaware
seem to be perplexed. over the course of
their whilom coadjutor, the Delaware Jour
nal and Statesman. 1t has not run up
the Gag of Grant and Colfax at its mast
head, since the nomination, and its Re
publican contemporaries appear to take it
much to heart, and hardly know what to
make of it. Sundry feelers have been put
forth, by one and another of them, in or
der to sound the journal and Statesman
MS to its present political status, and they
seem TO be as curious upon the subject as
college Of French savans over some alb
struse principle Of science. To US it seems
plain, that the nominations of Grant and
Colfax, and probably the platform on
which they stand, are distasteful to our
contemporary, and therefore it has not
seen fit to commit itself to either. We
have also noticed, now and then, some
very sensible and judicious observations
in its columns, administering little
wholesome rebuke to the Radicals fol
their political Inconsistencies and misdeeds
and we should be gratifed to see more o.
the same sort, for it is plain that it il
needed. What our Republican contem,
poraries propose to do about it, does NO
appear, for the present; but we suppose
we shall find out, after awhile, when they
shall have cleared up the muddle, in refe
renee to the journal and Statesman, int,
which they appear to have fallen.
Year: 1868

We devote large portion of our space,
in this issue, to an account of the ceremo-
mics Of laying the Cornerstone of the
Town Hall. and to the able address of
DIR. McCabe, prepared for the occasion.
We have enlarged our ISSUE. this week, in
order to crafty the very general desire of
the public to possess copy of this ora
tien- 1t may be had at the counter of d.
L. Dunuing's Book Store.
Year: 1868

for the Presidency, and to submit to the
domination ofan alien race. of semi-bar-
barous men. No perversion of truth or
audacity of misrepresentation can exceed
that which halls this candidate in arms as
an angel Of peace.


! am, very respectfully,


Your obedient servant,


FRANK p. BLAIR.
Year: 1868

moro or less, all Of which is excellent farming
land, in the HIGHEST STATE OF IMPROVEMENT 1t
is divided into five fields, all under good fencing
and well watered. The soil is well adapted to
the growth of fruit and grain. There is thriv-
ing
Year: 1868

IT. In the absence OF the most important element OF
success the third annual regatta OF the Atlantic
Yacht Club was failure II has only shared the fate
OF many an iustrious event which a similar circum-
stance has robbed OF It's ecldt The weather was de.
cdedly antagonistic to yachting and to that fact
alone may the want OF triumph yesterday be az.
trbutable. In every other respect nothng was left
undone by this enterprsing club to render its
annual display worthy to be dotted down
as brilliant achievment. Therefore, II the regatta
yesterday did not realize the bright anticipations
which the efficient arrangement and excellent neet
OF the Atlantic Club justified its members In forming
the treacherous elements are solely 10 blame. It was
dark. foggy morning, sunless, yet sultry and on.
pressive. The shrill and oft repeated whistles
OF the cautious tug and ferry boats on
the river rang through the misty air with
ominous sounds and foreboded the wors, OF
luck for the coming contest. But hope still
fingered. and with hope came the vision OF an ex.
citing race. The steamboat Wyoming expressly en-.
gagged TO accompany the race lay snugly at the
foot OF Montague street. Brooklyn, till nine O'Clock


wnen host OF friends, including large number OF
the fair sex, with the regatta committee and Judges
went on board. The star spangled banner then rose
aloft and the aunty little steamer went briskly down
the river, soon leaving smoke and commerce FAR be.
hind. Shortly before eleven the feet was dimly visible
In Gowanus basin for the fog had not yet disappeared
and to all intents and purposes seemed determined
TO hold It's own AS previously stated, the course
was from the anchorage down through the Narrows
to stakeboa. on Coney Island point, to the South
west Spit thence home the prize being any. art Gle
the winner chose not TO exceed $50 for each cl ass
The yachts were anchored In three lines according
to their respective classes. At 1859 the signal to all
the boats was given from the wyoming to prepare
to start Five minutes later the second class sloops
were sgna.!ed to start, and one minute afterwards
the schooners received similar intmation. The
following yachts took part In the contest
Year: 1868

The Annual Regatta To-Day-Iuausuration Of


the New Club House-vessels Entered for


the Race-special Notice-Excursion Boats


60 Make the Trip.


The annual regatta OF the New York Yacht Club
will take place to-day. Should the weather be
propltiOus the event, from the preparations
made, will be one long to oe remembered
with pleasure and pride by the Club. The beautiful
Club House. on Staten Island, will be opened ana
formally dedicated to its future uses. A
large number OF ladies' will be present on this oc-
cason. VIII be spectators at the race and receiving
the hospitality and attention of the club will lend an
interest to the occasion. Great expectations are
entertained that the contest between the yachts will
be OF more than ordinary interest, as may be seen
from the number OF excursion boats that are adver
tsed to accompany the yachts and thus afford
ample scope for seeing the race Below will be
found the official entries of the competing vessels
ENTRIES FOR THE ANNUAL REGATTA or THE NEW


YORK YACHT CLUB.


The following are the official entries OF vessels to
COmDete In the rcyatta:-
Year: 1868

After this the interest in the ceased and the
guests board the steamer, tired Of watching the
dilatory movements of the crafts returned TO The
within the prescribed time of eight hours. and the
race was consequently declared null and void
1t was subsequently decided to postpone the
again start for fresh honors at nine O'Clock.
With the exception OF being little too warm, the
bv the numerous CHESTS % on NH hoard among Whom
were Commodore John C. Gunther, BayOne Yacht
Club, and a host Of friends. Considerable regret
was felt at the uuprOpitous state of the weather,
but it Is earnestly hoped that the contest on Friday
next will compensate them for the disappointment
OF yesterday.
Year: 1868

Although entirely devoid OF any excitement. the
scene was exceedingly pretty as the little crafts
rounded the buoy, and now change Of position
awakened some interest TO the spectators from the
steamboat The Niagara, which all the while had
been gradually gaining ground. rushed to
the front and succeeded In passing the
few boats In front, who only appeared
to have some life She was closely pursued
by the Lavines and Clytie both Of which were skill
fully handled throughout. In the wake were the
Martha, Fanny Salus, Peerless. Hermit and Flor
ence. but the absence OF wind deferred them from
proceeding. At this time nearly all the other boats
had either abandoned the race or quietly moved
along without any intention OF competition. The
White Wing, which contained the Commodore and
party. when near Coney Island Point met with an
accident in the breaking of the hook Of the
throat halyiards, which OF course deferred her as
well as her c0mpaniOns-including the Addie ",
Alarm and others-from going any further. Besides,
all hopes OF being able to sail had been given up,
and the contest seemed to be between the yachts In
advance. Towards four O'Clock slight breeze blew
from the south, and accelerated the tardy speed OF
the contestants. The last lagboat at Southwest
Spit half the length OF the race, being distance
OF about sixteen miles, was reached by the follow


p.Vh
Year: 1868

The Rosebud met with an accident early the race;
and the vndex, after her disaster In Gravesend
Reach, wore round and made for home


on calculating the time allowance-thirty seconds
per ton mp to 90 tons and twenty seconds above
that measuremcnt-the Sphinx was found to he the
winner by two minutes and twenty five seconds and
the Phryne second by ten seconds; consequently
these two became entitled TO the prizes OF the Royal
London and New Thames clubs. In the second class
race the Luna came In some distance ahead OF the
Eudora, but NJ there was some dispute about tue
Year: 1868

ABOUT BxBIEs.-Rather delicate sub
iect" Tor a bachelor to handle. we know. and
our modesty would prevent our broechrns
it If we had not recently been grossly i'm
posed upon. We have ever been happy to
announce any additions to our population,
whether the increase came trough the chan
mel of emigration. or otherwise but in the
future we shall be extremely cautious in
giving publicity to those "events" which are
properly ranged under the head of .births."
Last week we received intelligence that a
family residing at Railroad had been increas-
ed by the addition of a son." with request
to publish the important fact. We did SO.
At the time the paternal parient was in San
Francisco. Upon his return he was over
treasures, and his delight enhanced three


fold by the information that 't' was boy.
For two days he treated his friends on the
strength of "that boy" when he was cruelty
undeceived by discovering that it was fe


male. In his disappointment we understand
that he has commenced suit against US to
recover the amount spent for whisky. We
wish it distinctly understood that no births
will be published in this paper, in the future,
the new conner are certified to by three cred
ible witnesses, or the "production" is ex-
hlbited at this office. te
Year: 1868

The subject of platform for the Ma
tional Democracy in the next Presiden-
tial election is now exciting much inter
esting discussion among party leaders
here, most of whom repudiate the ideas
expressed in the columns of the New
York U'0rld. The Democratic politi-
clans in Washington insist that the
platform resolutions shall be few and
very brief. The living issues between
the parties being now reduced to the
single proposition, whether or not
this is white mans Government" on
this proposition let the fight be made,
they say, and let this single issue stand
out in bold, relief. There is large
number of minor issues which can DC
settled in future, but the result of the
approaching Presidential contest must
and will determine whether this once
proud Republic is to be placed absolute
ly under negro control. The Radicals
will exert themselves to raise and com


bat side issues of an unimportant char
acter, but the policy of the Conserya-
| tives will be to hold them squarely 10
their platfoHD-negro supremacy in the
South; in the North, States rights. II
they can do so, let their speakers defend
this single proposition. If the negroes
of the South are to constitute the dom.
iuant party there, they will hold the
balance of power between the parties at
the North, and TINS rule the whole
country Uash. CORES. Of the Boston
Post.
Year: 1868

The Radical papers of the country are
generously advising the Democratic
party concerning its Presidential nomi-
nation. The New York Tribune dis
cusscs at great length the name of Mr..
CHASE, in connection with the Demo-
cratic nomination 10: the Presidency,
and calls to its assistance the New York
Times. 1t is very kind in those Kapers
to point out the difficulties which sur
round the Democratic nomination, and
to commiserate the Democratic party,
in advance of the fact, on what is claim
ed to be the certainty of their defeat in
the approaching Presidential election.
In an excess of magnanimity, however,
the Tribune is willing to concede to the
Democracy the great privilege of Sc
lecting the candidate under whose
leadership they prefer to be beaten.


After all, however, this simulated
confidence on the part of the Tribune is
bat the old tune of whistling to keep up
its courage. The refrain, unfortunately,
for the Radicals, is not loud enough to
drown the echoes which come to us
from Oregon, and which sound like dis
cordant notes on the Radical car. They
may well seek to hide the divisions
which pervade their own ranks, by
pointing out the differences supposed to
exist ia those of the Democracy. 1t
would be fortunate, indeed, for the 7ri-
June, if the brilliant Democratic victory
in Oregon chould be neutralized by
the information coming the same day
from the scenes of their defeat, that
there was "great enthusiasm for GRANT
and CoLFAX." We like intelligence oi
such enthusiasm when accompanied by
information of such brilliant results!


We can assure the Radical press that
while the troubles of the Radical party
are increasing since the nomination OF
their candidates, and are fast becoming
q deeply seated disease, the difficulties
which, in IFS opinion, agitate the Dem
ocratic party are only superficial. They
are nothing more than the evidences Of
individual preference, and the results
of the advocacy of the candidate
best calculated to lead the party tt
victory. When our standard-bearel
shall have been chosen, those differ
ences will all disappear, and the masses
of the Democracy, now advocating
their several favorites, will unite upor
their common choice, on the basis Of th'
Democratic platform. Ceasing all sem
blance of internal discord, every ele
ment that enters into the composition
Of the party will then ''march all on,
way" to secure the overthrow of Radi
calism, and to scatter the revolutionar!
elements that have been SO long plot
ting the destruction of constitutions
liberty.