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Year: 1868

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We invite the attention of our readers to
an able and interesting communication in
our paper to-day, over the signature of "A
North Carelnan." in relation to Immiora
ton, the Resources of the State, and the best
mode OF reViFing prosperity among our
people. 'a .
We concur with our correspondent, who
Is devoted friend to our people, that the
hrst step towards prosperity is representa-
ton IN Congress and the perfect restoration
OF the Union. Every thing in the future
depends upon that. We believe the Con-
ventI"n in session in this City is deeply lm-
pressed with this truth, and we have no
doubt it will work rapidly and judicousiy to
accomplish this great end.
Year: 1868

Members of public bodies have a
right, if they choose to exercise
it, to applaud any thing said
or done in the body. 1t is only ques-
tion of taste or propriety whether they
will do so or not But persons not
members, in the lobbies and galleries,
have no right to make such demonstra


tions, and when they do so they may
be dealt with Especially should reb-
els not be permitted thus to manifest
their approval or disapproval Of what
is said or done. Such persons should
be very quiet and very respectful in the
presence of the majesty of our loyal
people as represented in our Constitu-
tioDal Convention. sEM ylss
Year: 1868

The Washington correspondent of the New
York Times devotes a letter to the Chase
movement among the democrats. Claiming
that his sources Of information are such as to
admit of no dispute as to the accuracy of his
statements, he says:-


First, then, the Chief Justice insists upon
making his own platform. lie will not be a
candidate on any other. He says he can
change his party, perhaps, but not his princi-
pies. Hence if the democratic nomination IS
accompanied with an exposition Of principles
at variance with his well-known views Of
suffrage, finance and reconstruction, he cannot
accept it. His position, in brief, understand
to be this Reconstruction must be accepted
as an accomplished fact; suffrage, in the re-
constructed States, universal or impartial,
must also be held 10 be on irreversible fact
the credit of the government must be main
tanned in good faith, its contracts carried out
in letter and spirit specie payments resumed
at an early day, and the national bank system
protected These are the leading points which
he demands shall be conceded to him, and II
conceded, what will the democratic party have
left to fight for2 But, on thsother hand, he
is not without some material which, while he
does not regard it in the light of a concession
to the democracy. yet affords a common ground
upon which it so happens they can mutually
stand. This consists Of two ideas-universal
amnesty Compensated for by universal suif-
rage and opposition to the military element
of reconstruction, especially in its assumption
of judicial powers. He would restore the
Southern States to their positions in the Union
at the earliest possible time, and give them
once more the sovereign control of their own
affairs, subject only to the change Of condi-
tion wrought by the war. He thinks that the
democratic party are bound to be defeated
unless they accept the results Of the war ii
good faith, which includes reconstruction, OF
course, and cease fighting over settled issues.


If the democrats surrender to such plat
form as this, they will have wasted a grea
deal of valuable breath and paper in attack


ing the republican position. Almost the only
question that would be left, for reconstruction
will, it is hoped, be wholly accomplished be
fore the election, would be the personal fit
ness of the candidates.
Year: 1868




What is it2' | asked crowd of men
upon the sidewalk, from whom as approach
ed them, heard repeated shouts Of merri-
ment. What is there so amusing here ?"


Why, don't you see ?" was the reply,
" the fellows drunk that's all"


Yes | did see. 1t was young man, who
in different circumstances, might have been
called good looking. He had evidently been
well dressed few hours before, though now
his hat was battered, and his clothes soile1 !;
and it made him still more pitable sight to
see the evidence that he had come from a
good home He sat on the dusty walk, his
back leaning against the brick wall, his head
wagging, his eyes winking, and an idiotc
smile on his face. As he occasionally made
some senseess remark the laugh went up from
the crowd.


4 police officer soon came who appeared to
understand the case, and lifting the poor, dis
graced youth to his feet, he led him off, to his
home or some place where he could get sober


He was drunk that's ALL"


And is not that enough ?" thought l.
d" If that boy--for he was scarcely more than
a boy-had mother worthy Of the name il
he had a father who knows what it is to be
dishonored by child if he has brothers OF
sisters, will they not think it enough for the
son and brother to come home in charge Of an
officer, who will explain as he leaves him at
the door, found him drunk in the street2' .


That's all. All, boys to have such story
true of some of you, though it must be all, y
would be enough to break your mothers
heart, to deepen tho lines Of care on youi
fathers brow, as business or labor could never
deepen them; to bring from your sisters eye
tears such as they never yet had shed.


How many hopes have been blasted, how
many sorrows have been caused how many
graves have been filled, by intemperance
Year: 1868

Two thousand seven hundred and sew
enty-nine new liquor-shops have been opened
in Massachusetts since the anti-prohibition-
its carried the last election there. When the
new license law goes into full operation, the
tide of intemperance will meet but feeble
obstruction. Those who said that the prohib-
itory law tended to increase drinking, and
that license law was needed to check the
evil, are already reiuted.
Year: 1868

As the trials Of life thicken, and the dreams
Of other days fade, one by one, in the deep
vista of disappointed hope, the heart grows
weary of the struggle and We begin to real
ize our insignifcance. Those who have
climbed to the pingacle Of fame, or reyel in
luxury and wealth. 60 to the grave at last
with the poor mendicant who begs pennies by
the waysde and like him are soon forgotten.
Generation after generation, says an eloquent
modern writer, have felt as we feel, and their
fellows were as active in life as ours are now.
They passed away as vapor while nature
wore the same aspect of beauty as when her
Creator commanded her to be. And so, like
wise, shall it be when we are gone. The
heavens will be as bright over our graves as
they sre now around our path the world
will have the same attraction for off
spring yet unborn that she had once ior
ourselves, and that she has now for our chill
dren Yet a little while and all this will
have happened Days will continue TO move
on, and laughter and song will be heard in
the very chamber in which we died, and the
eyes that mourned for us will be dry and will
glisten with joy and even our children will
cease to think of US, and will not remember
to lisp our names.
Year: 1868

SALLY ANDERSON BEFORE THE MAYOR
He HOLDS HER FOR TRIAL.-Sally Ander-
son, the negro incendiary who was dis
charged by Judge Underwood on Saturday,
was arraigned before the Mayor on yester-
day. The Mayor asked her counsel (Mr.
Bundy) if he wished to prove the indict-
ment found in March lecet.


Mr.. Bundy a.1amitted the indictment, but
wished :, know by what authority she was
rc,rore his Honor's court.


The Mayor read the charge on which she
was convicted in the Henrico county court
as the authority for her being in that court.


Mr.. Bundy said he was perfectly willing
to admit that she had been charged with
that offence, and that she had been tried by
the county court and convicted; but the
United States circuit court had discharged
her, and he contended that he (the Mayor
had no right to 60 beyond the records OF the
United States court. The Constitution OF
the United States expressly states that no
person shall be twice put IN jeopardy OF
life or limb for the same offence. This wo-
man, having been put in jeopardy once, it
is not constitutional to place her on trial
for arson again. But he did not rest her
case on this point alone, but ON the four
teenth amendment of the Constitution of
the United States. Under this amendment
Sally Anderson had been released by order
of the United States circuit court, and he
again said the Mayor had no right to go be-
hind its records. He did not say that
there is no competent court in the State
to try her, for the General commanding has
the power to appoint military commission
by which she could be tried, but before no
city or State court could she be brought,
and he therefore demanded her uncondi-
tional release.


The Mayor said that while he was obliged
to, aud did, recognize the laws of the United
States and the decision of the Federal
courts, yet he held that the decision of
Judge Underwood in this case only affected
the legality Of the court that tried Sally
Anderson, as the Judge did not decide upon
the guilt or innocence of the prisoner. In
regard to her being put in jeopardy of her
life, he would say, if she had not been tried
by o competent court her life was not IN
jeopardy, and he would therefore hold her
for trial before competent court of Henrico
under the Indictment found against her in
March. She would therefore be remanded
to Jail to await a requisition from the Hen
rico authorities.


Mr.. Bundy asked how long his Honor
would hold the prisoner to await this re-
QUESTION to which the Mayor replied tina!
he would hold her four or FIVE days.
We presume the, county authorities will
not receive or make application for this
woman. Were she to be arraigned again
for the same offence the prosecutor would
be obliged to maintain the unconstitution-
ality of our courts, thereby affirming, so far
as that would do it, the decision Of Judge
Underwood, which We presume not one
man-sane man-in million Is willing to
dn
Year: 1868




Respectfully returned. 1t is my opinion
that the Treasurer should pay the claims of
all persons who actually hold office in this
State with the approval of the Major General
commanding this district, and whose claims
are payable at the State Treasury, notwith-
standing they may be removed if the four-
teenth amendment to the Constitution of the
United States be enforced against them


! "Any person legally installed in office, or in
office cQlore oEcii can be removed only by n
proceeding instituted against sn.d person. A
contrary construction would cons titute the
Treasurer n judicial officer to investigate and
decide upon the title to any Office in the State.


THOMAS +. BowDES.n
Year: 1868

AT meeting OF ihe Bricklayers' Union in
New York Saturday evening it was stated that
money WAS not coming IN now a. fast as it did
at the commencement Of the strike. A com.
mittee OF two members Of each local union was
then appointed to canvass the different unions
in New York and vicinity for material aid.
Year: 1868

THE WHITE HoUsE.-There was q very
small crowd Of visitors at the Executive Man.
sion to-day, all Of whom were admitted to see
the President. General Banks and Secretary
Schofield had interviews with the President
this afternoon.
Year: 1868

The COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE
and Deputy Harland continue to ignore the
proceedings going on against them in New
YORK, although their private advices infor m
them that Binckley yesterday expressed great
surprise tnat they did not appear in person to
answer the charges.
Year: 1868

The following is the brief address Of
Governor, Peirpoint, noticed in this pape,
Saturday, which was accidentally omitted
" To the People of Virginia:


- g The late State Convention has submitted
for your consideration State Constitution
on which you are called to vote for its adop.
tion or rejection. q My views have beer
asked in regard to it. I desire that there
shall be no doubt as to my opinion on this
subject. i advise the people to adopt it.
wish the vote could be unanimous IF you
wait for o perfect Constitution, you will
never get one, or one that will please every.
body. The Legislature has the power tt
remove the disability for holding Office from
those who ought to hold Office. The Legis.
lature win do this, if necessary. By the
judicious exercise Of the power vested in
the Legislature, there will be no difficulty
in organizing the State under the Constitu-
ton. 1t has in it many valuable provisions
which will endear it to the people if they
adopt it. A happy and prosperous State
will grow up under it.


"On the day the State Convention assem-
bled the so-called Conservatives-those who
inaugurated the late war-also assembled to
perfect their organization to defeat what
ever Constitution the State Convention
might adopt, because they knew that the
Constitution would contain provision
guaranteeing universal manhood suffrage.
To this these Conservatives were opposed
before the Constitution was made. They
would prefer that you should never have a
State Government if they could not admin
lister it; hence they object. They want class
government, and the privilege of owning
the labor, that they may make the laws.
This Constitution provides system of uni
versal education-the first time it has ever
been provided for in the State. What SO
dear to the poor man as means of educa-
ton for his children. If we had always had
this in our Constitution the vast amount of
our white people who now cannot read and
write would be intelligent, and in much
more Independent condition. 1t secures a
comfortable home to every poor man, who
has or will earn one, that cannot be taken
from him. Then every poor man in the
State should vote for it if he does not wish
to rear his offspring in ignorance. The ar
gument is, the poor mans child must grow
up in ignorance that the rich, who inaugu-
rated the rebellion, may hold office. Free
men, understand this.


"My advice is, vote for the Constitution
The State can be organized under it, and
well organized. The declaration of General
Schofeld that the counties could not be or
ganized under it was only to discourage the
Union men and encourage the Conservative
clique who surround him. l repeat, vote
for the Constitution.


81 am compelled to leave the city, and
may be out of the State for ten or twelve
days, but 1 will return to aid you in your
good work. +. Il. PEIRPoINT.
Year: 1868

ROMANCE AND REALITY AT THE HUB
Among the kind, fair hands that fairly
patted kind approval of Mr.. Dickens here
was pair that have history. That dia-
mond was placed on that finger eight years
ago, andit has not been removed since, nor
will it be until q palmer circlet is put on
another. Without mentioning a name that
is we'll known here as a guarantee of old
Puritan stock, it will answer to say that the
young lady is the youngest daughter Of one
of our first families, and has been beauty
from mere child. When she was some
years younger than now, and when there was
not that impossible gulf between the first
families of Boston and the F. F IS ofthe South.
she became engaged to young South Caro-
linian-a student at Harvard. True to his
promise made to her, the youth, when hos
tilities commenced, held aloof from the mi
litary organizations which sprang up around
him, and sought to serve his State IN the
diplomatic line. He went over to France
some little time after Mason and Sldell,
and worked under them at the French court
and elsewhere, doing valuable service, fo1
one SO young, in financiering and intrigue


Meantime his father died his family estates
were confscated, and ravaged now by one
side and now by the other, the close Of
the war found him almost penniless and an
exile. As the young lady was by this time
fully of age, and as her lover had now an
honest right to be called a loyal man


she announced her engagement to her i'm
mediate family. OF course, there was the
strongest opposition to such an arrangement,
especially as the proposed gentleman was
without fortune; but the determined girl
maintained her right to confer her hand on
whom she pleased, flashed the diamond OF
her engagement ring in the eyes of her
opponents, and declared her intention to be
unalterable. The young ex-rebel also stuck
it ont manfully. He worked well and
assiduously, and, happening to come
under the notice of Erlanger,, he made
a favorable impression, and became,
in a small way, protege of that tinancler.
BY him he was put in the way OF doing q
good thing-in fact, several good things
and, by the help of the banker, rose quickly
to the possession of a competency in hand,
and the prospect of more than that if ne
keeps on. But, to come to the close OF this
story, the fruition of the faithful pair is
nearly at hand. The stern father has sue
cumbed to what he sees to be necessity,
and next month the quandam rebel, now a
French banker, will be here to take his
bride from the same house in which he won
her heart as q young student.-Boston Cor
respon,dence Chicago Times. e
Year: 1868

SHARP PRACTICE.-Some years ago cele-
brated highwayman was arrested for rob-
berry and while he was thinking what q
good chance there was for him to escape, a
cunning friend (also in trouble) offered to
help him for reward. r.


"I have two hundred pounds" said the
robber, zone hundred Of which, if you save
me, shall be yours"


agreed" said the other. "And now
all you have to do is to tell me every par
ticular, word, etc., that passed at the time
you committed the robbery; and when you
are brought to the bar, plead not guilty, and
leave the rest to me.''


Then the highwayman related every
word and circumstance that he could recol-
lect as having passed between the gentle
man he robbed and himself. F.,


At the trial, when the robber was brought
to the bar, he pleaded not guilty. Just at
this time there was heard great hustle
among the visitors, which being loud enough
to disturb the court, the usher was called
upon to explain the disturbance. He re-
ported that one of the prisoners said
he had something Of the utmost import
ance to say to the Judge, who imme-
diately ordered him to the bar, and asked
him why he disturbed the court. He then,
assuming a piteous countenance, told the
Judge that, though he had been O
wicked fellow; his conscience would not
permit him to let an innocent man
suffer for a crime that he himself had
committed; upon which the gentleman who
was the prosecutor seemed greatly discon-
certed. The fellow then addressed himself
to that gentleman, and repeated every word
that had passed between them at the time
he had robbed him, and had the impudence
to exhort him to take care for the future
how he swore away an innocent mans life.
The gentleman stood reproyed. The real
culprit was now acquitted, and the other
remanded back to prison, till bill of in
dictment was found against him. The real
criminal was faithful to his promise to his
preserver, and then made off at full speed.


When the supposed culprit's trial came
on, and he was at the bar, to the astonish-
ment of the whole court he pleaded not
guilty, for which he was severely reproved
by the judge, who asked him how he dared
have the efrontery to deny q fact to. which
he had pleaded guilty at the bar. To which
he, with great composure, replied that he
not only denied the fact, but could immedi-
ately prove his innocence, not only to the
satisfaction of the Judge, but of the whole
court-adding that he could prove an abb
at the time Of the robbery. .sE...s


:" How will you prove this :" said the
judge: .'...-a. = =, - .-.


"The gaoler shall prove. it for, me- II
you will be pleased to look over his list of
Year: 1868

WHAT 1T TAXES TO KEEP THEM DowN.-The
force required to keep down the Democratic in
nocents in New York city on election day, may
be estimated from the following paragraph -
GO A good deal of precaUtion was taken to pre-
serve the peace in New York city on election day.
The Sheriff swore in FIVE thousand deputies to
aid the police, and the United States Marshal al
so had large force on duty"
Year: 1868

ANOTHER RIcHMoSD IN THE FILLD.-Geo. M. Willing, Chief of the Willing Mining and Exploring expedition, who isnow in St. Louis, has written letter to A. J. Shanks, of this place, one of his old Black canon eompadres, in which he urges upon the people of this Territory the importance of eleeting him (Willing) to Congress. The platform upon which the Dr. wishes to stand before the peo- pie of Arizona is as sound as a Democratic dollar, and his ideas in regard to the peopling of our Territory, and the development of its mineral and ether resources are beautiful and comprehensive, but we rather incline to the opinion that his brain is little addled if he imagines (which he does) that our people will shoot him into Congress at such long range. He says he is using all his strength and influence in favor of Arizona, and prom ises to return here soon. We may give all or portion of his letter to our renders next week
Year: 1868

FROM LA PAz.--A private letter dated the 7th inst, has been received by gentleman of this place, from friend at La Paz, which states that report was current in La Paz, on the 7th, that the Apache Mohave Indians had all left the reservation, and started for the mountains, taking with them about fifty head of Government cattle The letter states that the Superintendent immediately sent a party after them This news was not writ ten for fact, it was simply rpmored that such was the fact, and the writer of the letter seemed to think that the news would prove to be false.

 The steamer Cocopnh was expected to ar- rive on the Sth instant