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. - :- r ' " "'. . .-X. ?.,. VOL. I. RALEIGH, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1866. NO. 57; LJBCRTY AJSJy UNION, NOW AND FOBEVEB, ONE AND INSlAIABX-.--Laniel Webster. w. W. HOLDEN. W. W. HOLDEN & SON", EDITORS OF THK STANDARD, Ak(1 authorized publishers of the Laws of the United States. : RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. TERMS Cash in Advance. Tri-Weekly paper, 1 year...... ,c " " 6 months... - " 3 " ... Weekly paper, 1 year..... ' " 6 months $8 00 3 50 2 00 3 i'0 1 60 1 O0 12 00 23 00 5 copies 1 year. " 10 " 1 " . To those who get up clubs of five or more sub gcribers one copy, gratis; will be furnished. A cross mark on the paper indicates the ex piration of the subscription. BATES OF ADVERTISING. Ten lines or one inch space to constitute a square. - . One square, one insertion, r.ih subseauent insertion, $1 00 50 Liberal deduction made, by special contract, to large advertisers. Court advertisements will be charged 25 per cent higher than the regular rates. Special Notices charged 50 per cent higher than ordinary advertisements. For advertisements inserted irregularly, 25 per cent higher than usual rates will be charged. No paper in the South has advertising facilities superior to the Standard. Letters must be addressed to . W. W. HOLDEN & 8U, Raleigh, N. C GET YOUR JOB PRINTING EXECUTED ONLY AT THE STANDARD OFFICE. POSTERS, BILL HEADS, CARDS, LABELS, BLANKS, . IS I ACT IE VERY KXSB- OF JOB PRINTING IS EXECUTED IN A Superioi' Style AT THE STANDARD OFFICE. COLORED INKS, GOLD AND SILVER BRONZES, A Seleet Stoek of the Best Material for Priuting " Purposes foaud ONLY At the STANDARD OFFICE. The .Best Xrirxting-, AND THE CHEAPEST PRINTING OF VEE KINDS, EXECUTED ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE, AT THE. STANDARD OFFICE. CALL ASB SEE SAMPLES OF WORK, AND LEARN OUR PRICES. J. W. HOLDEN. NASBY. From the Toledo Blade. Nasby Preaches The " Prodigal Son. An Interruption. Mr. Confedrit Roads, (which is in ) the Stait uv Kentucky, July 6, 1866. j I preeched last Sabbath, or rather tried to, from the parable uv the Prodi gal Son. We had a splendid congrega shun. I notiee a revival uv the work in this part uv the Dimocratic vinyard, which reealy cheers me. The deraou strashun our friends made in Memphis, the canin uv Grinuel by Rosso, and the call for a Johnson Convenshun in Phil adelphia, all, all hev conspired to com fort the souls uv the Dimoerisy, and encourage em to renewed effort. It is bringing forth fruit. Only last week five Northern men were sent whirlin out uv this section dusted in the night to escape hangin, leavin their goods as a prey for the righteous six niggers hev bin killed and one Burow officer shot. Trooly there is everything to en courage us. The house wuz full. The weather wuz hot, and the pleasant incense uv mingled whisky, tobacker and snuff which ariz, wuz grateful to me. The sun shone in on I)eekin Pogram's face as he gently slept, and when the sun hits him square, I kin alluz tell where he sets, even ef it is dark. lie drinks apple-jack instead uv corn whisky, and chaws fine cut tobacker instead uv plug and consekently when in the pulpit, I kin distinguish the peculiar aroma uv his breath from those around him. My brethren, sed I, sich uv yoo ez hev Bibles in your houses, kin get somebody to read yoo the parable to which I shel call your attention. A man wnnst upon a time had sons, ez many men hev since, and wun of em wuz a tough one. He left his home and went into far countries, makin the old man shell out his share uv the estate, and he lived high, jist, my brethren, ez yoor boys do or rather did when they went to JSoo Orleans, in the days when yoo had a nigger or two wiehyoo could sell to supply em with money. He played draw poker and faro, he drank fancy drinks and boarded at big hotels, and he followed strange women, which will bust a man quicker nor any one small sin the devil hez yet invented, ez yoor pastor kin testify. Uv course his pile give out and he got down, my friends, did this ingenuous yooth, to rags and wretchedness, and ended in being an overseer uv swine. "What did he do ? He ariz and went to his father and the old man saw him afar off and went to meet him, and fell onto his neck, and gim an order for a soot uv clothes and a pair uv hoots, and put a ring onto his finger, and made a feast, killin for the purpose the fatted calf with he had saved for another occasion. Mv friends vou kin find in the skrip- ter suthin applicable to every occasion, and this parable fits the present time like a ready-made coat. The South is the Prodigal Son. AVe went out from our fathers house, on a expedition wiiich heznt proved altogether a success. We spent our share uv the estate, and a lit tle more. We' run through with our means and hev cum down to rags, and dirt, and filth, and hunger. We are. and hev bin'some time, chawing husks. We run out after them twin harlots, Slavery and State Rights, and they've cleaned us out. Our pockets are empty. No more doth the pleasant half-dollar jingle in sweet unison agin its fellows ; our wallets is barren uv postal currency and the grocery keepers mourn and re fuse to be comforted becoz we are not Y e hev got to the husk stage uv our woe, and wood be tendin hogs of the armies wich past through these counties hed left us any. We hev kum back. In rags and dirt we hev wended our way to Washingt6n and ask to be ta ken back. Now. why don't our Fath er, the Government, fulfill the skripter? Why don't it see us afar off and run out to meet us? Whv don't it out onto us a purple robe ? where's the ring for our finger, and the shoes for our feet ? and where's the fatted calf he ought to kill? My brethren, then Ablishinists is worse than infidels while they preach the gospel they won't practice it. For my part, I ' At this point a sargent belonging to that infernal Burow, who wuz in the awdience with enough uv soldiers to make opposin uv him unpleasant, sed he had bin a sort uv an exhorter m his day and desired to say a word in expla nation uv that parable, ez applicable to the present tune, and sez he et 1 am interrupted, remember I belong to the church military, wich is. just now, the church triumphant." And cockin his musket he proceeded, very much unin terrupted. 1 lie prodigal son, sez lie, was receiv ed by the old man considerable doins, but my worthy friends he went out de cently. He didn't, ez soon ez he with drawed from the house, turned around and make war onto the old gentlemen he didn t burn his house and barns, tear up his garden, burn his fences and knock down the balance uv the children. Not any. He went away peacefully, a niis- quided good-for-nothin but yet peace ful good-for-nothin. Secondly he come back uv his own aKKora. ine oiu man didn't go after him and fight four years at a cost uv half his substance to subdue him ana Dting mm DacK, out when he hed run through his pile and squandered his share uv the estate and got hungry, he came back like a whip ped dog. sly mends, let me draw a small par allel between these cases. The prodigal, son went . out so did the South thus fairly the cases is alike. : . The Prodigal didn't steal nothin. -The Confederacy - took . everything ,it cood ; lay its bands on, - - i 1 The Prodigal spent only what wuz his to spend. The Confederacy spent not only all it stole, but all it cood hor ror, when it knowd its promises to pay wuxent wurth the mizrable paper they wuz printed onto. The Prodigal when he come back. come ez penitent ez the consciousness that he hed made a fool uv hisself cood make him. The Confedracy wuz whip ped back, but it still swears hefty oaths that it wuz right all the time. The Prodigal didn't demand veal pot pies and purple robes, and sich, but beg ged to be a servant unto the more sen sible brethren which stayed. The South come back demandin office uv which the fatted calf and rings and pur ple robes is typical, and considerably more share in the government than it had before it kicked over the traces and went out like the lost tribes of Israel. Spozen the Bible prodigal hed stop ped his parent and remarked to him thus : "I am willing to come back on conditions. Yoo must pay my debts yoo must give me an ekal share uv the farm with the other boys yoo must treat me in all respects just ez if I hadn't gone out, and this is essential yoo must take me with all the sharpers with whom I fell in with while I wuz away, and make them head men on the place, and above all I hev with me the two harlots which was the prime cause of my ruin, and they must hev eleven uv the best rooms in the house, and must be treated ez yoor daughters. To avoid displeasin the others I'll dress em in different clothes, but here they must stay, otherwise I'll go out again." Probably the old gentleman wood hev become indignant, and wood hev remarked to him to go and never let him see his audacious face agin, or rather, he wood hev strangled the harlots, scat tered the black legs, and choked the young sprout into submission. Them's me. I am anxious to kill the fatted calf, and am also anxious to put on your robes and shoes. But alas, the calf suffered from want uv attention so long dooi in the late misunderstandins that he's too poor the robes were all cut up into bloo coats for the sojers we sent out to ketch you Jeffson Davis wore the only style we hev in the shoes they wore our, and the rings. When you come back yoo! find us ready to meet you, but till then chaw husks. Looked around, this armed tyrant re marked that there would be no more preaching that day, and the congrega tion dispersed. I'm heart sick. At every turn I make that Burow stares me in the face and counteracts my best endeavors. It's curious though what difference sermons kin be preached from the same text, and it also curious how quiet our folks listen to a ablishnist who hez muskets to back him. Pktroleum V. Nasbt, Late Pastor uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensation. There is too much idleness in this country. It is breeding vice and immor ality. It is filling our jails with crim inals. Crime has been on the gradual increase for six months. This comes of idleness : and idleness comes in a great measure of that abominable idea that a white man cannot be a gentleman and work. He must get money, for that is indispensable. But how ? That's it. Young men have not the disposition to wfork, and by patient economy secure a basis for business operations. They must have it now. This suggests ex pedients. These lead to temptation ; and temptation leads to crime. Hence we have murtiers, norse mens, anu breaches of trust. Whv should a young man consider it degrading or even undignified to work ? President Johnson purchased his pres ent residence in East Tennessee with the proceeds of his labor as a tailor. One of the wealthiest bankers in New York commenced the world as a gard ener, selling to the huckster the products of his own labor. Gen. Pat. Cleburn, at one time the head of the Arkansas bar, subsequently the ruling spirit in a powerful army, began life as a day la borer. Judge Reagan, Postmaster General of the late Confederate States, was once a wood-chopper on the banks of the Mississippi. The world is full of such examples. But where can we point to a successful man who spent his early manhood " waiting for something to turn up?" Young man ! if you would succeed, go to work. If you cannot obtain a clerkship, take something else. You had better be rolling barrels, or plow ing, or building fence, or chopping cord wood, or carrying the hod, than doing nothing. Quit depending upon your friends. Strike out for yourself. Learn at once the greatest of all lessons, that of self-reliance. Have a head, a will, a purpose of your own. Go to work and watch your opportunity. The soil up on which you have been reared never refuses a competence to those who are willing to dig. Then, if you can do no better, dig. "it will pay to dig. Nor is there anything undignified or vulgar in it. It is honorable, if you choose to make it so. Then dig and watch your opportunity. But don't stand idle and " wait for something to turn up." At lanta Era. W. FULXIAM. "W. n. JONES. GEO. W. 8 WE PS ON. PUL1IAM, JONES & CO., Wholesale Grocers and Commission MERCHANTS, - "AVE IN STORE A LARGE STOCK OF GROCERIES, . which is offered at the lowest cash prices. .Tbey respectfully solicit ordors from tho Merchants ol North-Carolina, , ' ' PULLIAM, JONES. B CO. Raleigh, May 1, 1866. 20 tf: Railroads, Steamboats, &c. , CHANGE OF RAILROAD SCHEDULE. Office Atlantic & N. C. R. R. Co., Neabern, N. C, June 5, 1866. N AND AFTER MONDAY NEXT MAIL yj Train wiU run daily as follows : Leave Morehead City Arrive at Newport Leave Newport Arrive at Newbern Leave Newbern 7 15 A. M. 7 42 " . 7 45 " 9 00 9 15 " 10 53 " 11 00 " ....11 35 " 11 42 " 12 15 P. M. Arrive at Kinston...'. . ... Leave Kinston. . . . Arrive at Mosely Hall. ... Leave Mosely Hall .... Arrive at Goldsboro' RETURNING. Leave Golds' oro' 3 80 P. M. Leave Mosely Hall.. i Leave Kinston 53 Leave Newbern.. 0 Leave Newport. . 8 09 Arrive, nt. Morehead Citv 8 30 Passenger train connect with North-Carolina Railroad train going West at 12 45 P. M., and re turning leaves after arrival of Wilmiugton and Weldon Jtailroncl train going ouum. Passengers from West wait from 11 20 A. M. t o 3 SO P. M. The accommodation train will leave Morehead City on Mondavs, Wednesdays and Fridays, re turuing every alternate day as follows: Leave Morehead City (Station) 9 00 A. M. Leave Newbern 12 15 Leave Kinston S 10 Arrive at Goldsboro' . 5 15 RETURNING. Leave Goldsboro' 8 45 A. M. Leave Kinston 11 02 " Leave Newbern 2 15 P. M. Arrive at Morehead City (Station). . 5 00 in !pflviB nildKhnro' Tuesdnvs. Thurs days and Saturdays after arrival of Wilmington and Weldon Railroad train going North and ar rives every alternate day in Goldsboro' at 5 15 P. M.-a later train than mail train for passengers going North. FARE REDUCED. Through tickets will be sold at principal Sta" tions on North-Carolina New York, &c. Tune 12th, 1866 tf Railroad, Baltimore C. R. THOMAS President. North-Carolina Railroad Company, Enoineeb & Superintendent's Office, Company Shops, June 7th, 1866. Change of Time. - ON AND AFTER JUNE 10TH, 1806, TRAINS will run as follows: GOING WEST. Mail Train. Freight and AcconmntdAlion. Leave Goldsboro', 12.30 P. M. " Raleinh 3.45 "... HilUboro, 5.28 "... " Greensboro,... 7.40 " ... " Salisbury, 10.10 "... Arrive Charlotte, 12.35 A. M. , GOING EAST. Mail Train. 12.00 P. M. 4.50 A. M. 8.27 " 1.00 P. M. 5.30 " 9.00 P. M. Freight and Arrommodatioc. 4.30 A. M. 8.55 " 1.10 P. M. 5.25 " 9.45 " 2.15 A. M. Leave Charlotte " Salisbury, " Greensboro, " Hillsboro,... " Raleigh 11.15 P. M. 1.26 A. M 4.10 ".. 6.31 ".. 8.30 ".. 11.20 ".. Arrive Goldsboro", . Mail Train connects at Raleigh with Raleiirh suaion i ruins lor tne iNortn. ai uoiasDoro- with Wilmington and Weldon, and Atlantic & North-Carolina Trains. Accommodation train runs daily, (Sundays ex cepted,) connecting with Wilmington & Weldon trains. There is no Sunday Train going North from Weldon to Portsmouth ; pussengers arriving at Weldon on that day can go immediately through via Petersburg and Richmond. E. WILKES, june 9 36tf Eng. fc Sup't. PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S THROUGH LINE TO CALIFORNIA, TOUCHING AT MEXICAN PORTS, And Carrying the United States Mail. THROUGH IN TWENTY-TWO DAYS. Steamhip8 on the Connecting on the Pa cific with the COLORADO. CONSTITUTION, GOLDEN CITY, SACRAMENTO, GOLDEN AGE, MONTANA, Atlatttic : ARIZONA, HENRY CHAUNCEY, NEW YORK, OCEAN QUEEN, NORTHERN LIGHT, COSTA RICA, &c, &c. fcc. One of the above Large and Splendid Steamships will leave Pier No. 42. North River, foot of Canal Street, at 12 o'clock, noon, on the 1st, 1 1th and 21st of every month, (except when those dates fall on Sunday, and then on the preceding Saturday,) for Aspinwall, connecting, via Panama Railway, with one of the Company's Steamships from Panama for San Francisco, touching at Acapulco. Departures of 1st and 21st connect at Panama with Steamers for South Pacific and Central American Ports. Those of the 1st touch at Mauzanillo. A discount of one quarter from steamers' rates allowed to second cabin and steerage passengers with families. Also, an allowance of one quarter on through rates to clergymen and their families, and school-teachers. Soldiers having honorable discharges, half-fare. One hundred ponnds baggage allowed to each adult. Baggage-uiastcrs accompany the baggage through, and attend to ladies and children with out male protectors. Baggage received on the dock the day before sailing, from steamboats, railroads, and passengers who prefer to send dowu early. An experienced Surgeon on board. Medicine and attendance free. For Passage Tickets, or further information, apply at the Company's Ticket office, on the Wharf, foot of Canal Street, North River, N. Y. S. K. HOLMAN, Agent. July 7, 1866. 47 3m. rpHE NEW LINE FOR BALTIMORE. JL earning the GREAT HARNDEN EXPRESS FREIGHT, leave Norfolk at 5 o'clock, p. m. The new and elegant steamers GEORGE LEARY, Capt. S. Blakeman, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. JAS. T. BRADY, Capt. D. C. Landis, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The steamers of this line have unsurpassed ac commodations, being all new and constructed with great regard to speed, comfort and safety, and the tables are equal to lirst class hotel fare. Travellers g ing North via Seaboard and Roan oke Railroad, can purchase tickets to Portsmouth, where coaches will be in waiting to convey them and their baggage free of charge to the New Line Steamers. Ample time is afforded to make sure connection, and the fare under any circum stances as low as by the Old Bay Line. Travellers going via Weldon and Petersburg and Norfolk and Petersburg Railroads can procure through tickets at Petersburg and have baggage checked to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. This line connects at Baltimore with the Rail roads for all Principal Cities North and West. Throngh Tickets sold on the Boats, and Passengers and Baggage transferred from Boat to Cars Free of Charge. Passengers, Baggage and Freight transferred to and from Portsmouth and New Line Steamers free of charge. Leave Baltimore from Spear's Wharf, footol Gay Street, at 5 o'clock, p. m. V. TOMPKINS, Agent sep 22134 ly8 At Norfolk. JUST RECEIVED! ; ' At No. 44, FayetteTille Street: Plain and Plated Castors. , i Painted and Ornamented Toilet Sets. . i Fire Proof Tea Pots. . .. , . - Handaoine Tea Trays. - ' - . . 3. BROWN, wl..h., .Raleigh, april 2S 1 -K HART & LEWIS . The Stamp Act. ONE. OF THE TAX LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. Acknowledgment of deeds, Exempt Affidavit, 5 cts. (in suit or legal proceedings,) Exempt ngicciucut or jippnuseiuout, ior eacn sheet or piece ot paper, on which the ' same is written, 5 cts. Assignment or Transfers, of mortgage, lease or policy of insurance, the same duty as on the original instrument of patent right, 5 cta. Bank Checks, Drafts or Orders, &c., at sight, or on demand, 2 cts. Bills of Exchange ; Inland drafts or order payable otherwise than at sight or on demand, and any promisory note what- ever, payable on demand or at a time designated except bank notes issued for circulation, and checks made and intended to be, and which shall be, forthwith presented for payment for a sum not exceeding $100, 5 cts. For every additional $100 or fractional part thereof, 5 cts. Bills of Lading vessels for the corts of the United States or British North America, Exempt vii iccciwi oi guouson any i treigu ports, 10 cte. Bills of Sale of any vessel, or part there of, when the considerrtion does not ex ceed 500, 50 cts. Exceeding $500 and not exceeding $1,000, $1 00 Exceeding oue thousand dollars for each live hundred dollars fractional part thereof, 50 cts. Of personal property, other than ship or vessel Bond personal, for payment of money see mortgage. Official, $1 00 For iudemnifying any person for the pay ment of any sum of money, where the money ultimately recoverable there upon Is one thousand dollars or less, 50 cts. Where the inonev recoverable exceeds one thousand dollars for every addi tional one thousand dollars, or fraction al part thereof, 50 cts. Bonds, county, city and town bonds, rail roads and other corporation bonds and script, are subject to stamp duty. See mortgage. Of any description, other t han such as are required in legal pro ceedings, and such as are not otherwise charged iu this schedule, 25 cts. Certificates ot deposit in bank, sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, 2 cts. Of deposit in bank, sum exceeding one hundred dollars, 5 cts. Of stock in an incorporated company, 25 cts. General, 5 cts. Of a qualification of a Justice of the Peace, Commissioner of deeds or Notary public, 5 cts. Of search of records, 5 cts. That certain papers are on file, 5 cts. That certain papers cannot be found, 5 cts. Of redemption of land sold for taxec, 5 cts. Of birth, marriage and death, 5 cts. Of qualifications of school teachers, 5 cts. Ot profits of an incorporated company, for a sum not less than ten dollars and not exceeding fifty dollars, 10 cts. Exceeding fifty dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, ' 25 cts. Exceedingone thousand dollars, for every additional one thousand, or fractional part thereof, 25 cts. Of damage or otherwise, and all others certificates or documents issued by any port warden, marine surveyor, or other person acting as such, 25 cts. Certified Transcript of judgments, satis faction ot judgments and of all papers recorded or on tile, 5 cts. Check Draft or Order for the payment of any sum of money exceeding $10, drawn upon any person or other than a bank, banker or trust company, at sight or on demand, 2 cts. Contract See Agreement Brokers, 10 cts. Conveyance deed, instrument of writing, whereby lauds, tenements, or other reality sold shall be conveyed, the ac tual value which does not exceed $500, 50 cts. Exceeding $500, and not exceeding $1,000, $1 00 For every additional five hundred dollars, or fractional part thereof, in excess of one thousand dollars, 50 cts. Entry of any goods, wares or merchandize ut any custom house, not exceeding oue hundred dollars in value, 25 cts. Exceeding one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars in value,50 cts. Exceeding five hundred dollars in value, $1 00 i"or the withdrawal of any goods or mer chandize from bonded warehouse, 50 cts. Guagcr's return if for quantity not ex ceeding five hundred gal. gross, 10 cts. Exceeding 500 gallons, 25 cts. Power of Attorney to sell or transfer stock, or collect dividends thereon, 25 cts. To vote at an election if an incorporated company, 10 cts. To receive or collect rents, 25 cts. To sell, or convey, or rent, or lease real estate, $1 00 For any other purpose, 50 cts. Probate of will or letters of administra tion, where the value of both real and - personal estate does not exceed $2,000, $1 00 For every additional $2,000 or Iractional part thereof, in excess of $2,000, 50 cts. Bonds of executor, administrators, guar dians and trustees, are each subjected to a stamp duty of $1 00 Protest upon bill note, check or draft 25 cts. Promisory Note, (Sec Bills of Exchange, inland,) Renewal of, subject to same duty as an original note. Receipt for the j-aynieiit of any sum of money, or debt due, exceeding twenty dollars, or for the delivery of any pro perty, 2 els. Trust Deed made to secure a debt to be stumped as a mortgage conveying estate to uses, to be stamped as conveyance. Warehouse Receipt for any goods, wares or merchandise not otherwise provided for, deposited or stored in any public or private warehouse not exceeding five hundred dollars iu value, 10 cts. Exceeding five hundred and not exceed ing one thousand dollars, 20 cts. Exceeding 1,000 dollars, for every addi tional 1,000 dollars or fractional part thereof, in excess of $1,000, 10 cts. For any goods, etc., not otherwise provi ded for.stored ordepositedinanypublic or private warehouse or yard, 25 cts. Writs or Legal Documents, writ or other legal process, by which any suit is com menced in anv court of record, either of law or equity, 50 cts. Writ or original process issued by a court not of record, where the amount claim ed is 100 dollars or over, 50 cts. Upon every confession of judgment or cognovit for 100 dollars or over, except in cases where the tax lor a writ has been paid, 50 cts. Writ or other process, appeals from jus tices courts, or other courts of inferior jurisdiction, to a court of record, 50 cts. Warrants of distress, when the amount of rent claimed does not exceed 100 dol lars, " 25 cts. When the amount exceeds 100 dollars, 50 cts. Insurance, Marine, Inland and Fire. Where the consideration paid for the insurance, in cash, premium notes, or both, does not exceed 10 dollars, 10 cts. Exceeding ten dollars, and not exceeding fifty, 50 cts. Insurance, Life, when the amount insured does not exceed 1,000 dollars, 25 cts. Exceeding 1,000 aud not exceeding 5,000 dollars, 50 cts. Exceeding 5,000 dollars, $1 00 Lease or lease of lands or tenements where the rents does not exceed 300 per annum, 50 cts. Exceeding 300 dollars, for each addition al 200 dollars, or fractional part thereof, in excess of 300 dollars, - 50 cts. Perpetual, subject to stamp duty as a "conveyance." Clause ot guaranty of payment of rent incorporated or indorsed, five cents ad ditional. Measurers' Return, if for quantity not ex ceeding 1,000 bushels, 10 cts. Exceeding 1,000 bushels, 25 cts Mortgage, trust deed, bill of sales, or personal bond for the payment of money exceeding 100 and not exceeding 500 dollars, . 50ct. .Exceeding 500 dollars for every addition al 600, or fractional part thereof, in ex cess of 500, . ... : - 50ets. Pawner's Checks, ' 6 cts. -Passage Ticket from the United States to ,. ' , any foreign port, costing not more than - 85 dollar!, r 50 cts. Costing more than 35, and not exceeding : 50, . .. , 00 ' For every additional fifty or fractional . part thereof, in excess of 50 dollars, 1 00 GENERAL REMARKS. Revenue Stamps may be used indiscriminately upon any of the matters or things enumerated in schedule B, except proprietary and playing card suunps, or wuicn a special use lias Decn provided. Postage stamps caunot be used in payment ol the duty chargeable on instruments. It is the duty of the maker of an instrument to affix and cancel the stamp thereon. It he neglects to do so, the party for whom it is made, may stamp it before it is used ; and if used after the 30th of July, 1864, and used without a stamp, it cannot, anerwards be effectually stamped. Any failure upon the part of the nmker4. an instru ment to appropriately stamp ft, renders mm ua ble to a penalty of two hundred dollars. Suits are commenced in many States by other process tuan writ, viz: summons, warrants, puo lication, petition, &c in which case these, as the original process, severally require stamps. Writs of scira facias are subject to stamp duty as original processes. The jurat of an affidavit, taken before a Justice 01 1 ne reace, jxotary ruDiic, or otner omcet auiy authorized to take affidavits, is held to be a cer tificate, aud is subject to a stamp duty of five cents, except wnen taken in suits ot legal proceed ings. Certificates of loan in which there 6hall appear any printed or written evidence or an amount 01 money to be paid on demaud or at anv time de signated, are subject to stamp duty as Promisory Notes. The assignment of a mortgage is subject to the same amy as mat imposed upon tne original in strument; that is to say for every sum of five hundred dollars, or any fractional part thereof, of the amount secured by the mortgage, at time of its assignment there must be affixed a stamp or stumps, uenotmg a duty of five cents. When two or more persons join in the execution of an instrument, the stamps ft which this instru ment is liable under the law, may be affixed and cancelled by one of the oarties. In conveyances of real estate, the law provides that the stamp affixed must answer to the value 01 tlie estate 011 interest conveyed. . No stamp is required on any warrant of attor ney acconipauying u bond or note, when such Dona or note has amxed thereto the stamp 01 stamps denoting the duty required, and whenever any Dona or note is secured by mortgage, but one 6tamp duty is required on such papers,, such stamp duty being the highest rates required for such instruments, or either ot them, in such t case a note or memorandum of the value or de nomination of the stamp affixed should be made upon the margin or in the acknowledgement of tue instrument wiucu 13 not stamped. The Civil Rights Bill. "VVe publish below the Civil Rights Bill as it recently passed the Congress over the President's Veto " Ha it enacted bv the Senate and Souse .fJiepre- tentatiiies of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That an persons Dorn in tue unitea States and not subject to any fo'eign Power, ex cluding Indians, not taxed, arc hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; and such citi zens of every race and color, without regard to any previous conttitiou or slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall ive been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and Ter ritory in the United Slates to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal bencbt ot all laws and proceedings ior tne securi ty of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, anil penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 2. Atid be it further enacted, That any per son who, under color of any law, statute, ordi nance, regulation, or custom, shall subject, or 1 1. . .. .1 : . ...... c.n.n cause LU ue suujecteu, uujr iixiiuuiLaiik wi any duiio; or Territory to the deprivition of any right se cured or protected by this act, or to different punishment, pains, or penalties on account of such person having at any time Deen nem in a condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, ex cent as a punishment foretime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, or by reason of his color or race, than is prescriDed lor tne pun ishment of white persons, shall be deemed'guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished bv fine not exceeding one tnousana dol lars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion 01 tue court. SEn. 8. And be it further enacted. That the dis trict courts of the United States, within their re spective districts, shall have, exclusively ot the courts of the several States, cognizance of all crimes and otlences committed against tne provi sions ot this act, and also, concurrently with the circuit courts of the United States, of all causes, civil and criminal, attecting persons who are de nied or cannot enforce iu the courts or judicial tribunals of the State or locality where they may be, any of the rights secured to them by the first section of this act; and if any suit or prosecution civil or criminal, has been orsball be commenced in anv State court against any such person, for anv cause whatsoever, or against any officer, civil or "military, or other person, for arrest or impri sonment, trespasses, or wrongs done or commit ted by virtue or under color of authority derived from this act or the act establishing a bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees, and all acts amendatory thereof; or for refusing to do any ac- upon the ground that it would be inconsistent with this act, such defendant shall have the right to remove such cause for trial to the proper dist trict or circuit court in the manner prescribed by the 'Act relating to habeas corpus and regulating judicial proceedings in certain cases,' approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and all acts amendatory thereof. The jurisdic tion in civil and criminal matters hereby confer red on the district and circuit courts of the Unit ed States shall be exercised and enforced in con formity with the laws of the United States, so far as such laws are suitable to 'carry the same into effect ; but in all cases where such laws are not adapted to the object, or are deficient in the pro visions necessary to furnish suitable remedies and punish offences against law, the common law, as modified and changed by the constitution and statutes ol the State wherein the court having jurisdiction of the cause, civil or criminal, is held, so far as the same is not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, shall be extended to and govern said courts in the trial and disposition of such cause, and, if of a criminal nature, in the infliction of punishment on the party found guilty. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the dis trict attorneys, marshals, and deputy marshals of the United States, the commissioners appointed by the circuit and territorial courts of the United States, with powers ol arresting, imprisoning, or bailing offenders against the laws of the United States, the officers and agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, aud every other officer who may be spe cially empowered by the President of the United States, shall be, and they are hereby, specially authorized and required, at the expense of the United States, to institute proceedings against all and every person who shall violate the provisions of this act, and cause him or them to be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States or territorial court as by the act has cognizance of the offence. Aud with the view to affording rea sonable protection t all persons in their consti tutional rights of equality before the law, v ithont distinction of race or color, or previous condi tion of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, and to the prompt discharge of the duties of this act, it shall be the duty of the circuit courts of the United States and the superior courts of the Territories of the United States, from time to time, to increase the number of commissioners, so as to afford a speedy and convenient means for the arrest and examina tion of persons charged with a violation of this act. And such commissioners are hereby author ized and required to exercise and discharge all the powers aud duties conferred on them by this act, and the same duties with regard to otlences croat ec' by this act, as tbey are authorized by law to exercise with regard to other offences against the laws of the United States. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That it shall be the duty of all marshals and deputy marshals to obey and execute all warrants and precepts is sued nnder the provisions of this act, when to them directed ; and should any marshal or dep uty marshal refuse to receive , such warrant or other process when tendered, or to use ail proper -means diligently to ercute the same, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in the sum .of one thousand dollars, to the nse of the person upon whom the accused is alleged to haw. committed the offence. And. the better to enable "the 6aid commissioners to execute their duties faithfully and efficiently, in conformity with the Constittt ion of the United States and the requirements of this actj they are hereby authorised -and einpow- w -: ered, within their counties respectively, to. ap--.: - point, in writing, under , their hands, any one or ' more suitable persons, from time o time, to oxe- . cute all such warrants and other process as may . be issued by them in the lawful performance of their respective duties ; and the persons so ap pointed to execute any warrant or process as aforesaid shall have authority to summon and J', call to their aid the bystanders or tho posse com ' . itatus of the proper county, or such portion "of : ' the land and naval forces of the United States', or . ' the militia, as may be necessary to the perfor '", , mauce of the duty with which they are charged,-. and to insure a faithful observance of the clause " ,; of the Constitntion which prohibits slavery, In ;" ' conformity with the provisions of this act ; and said warrants shall run and be executed by said. . " officers anywhere in the State or Territory within , -which they are issued. ..--.- '' Sec. 6. And be it further enacted. That any per sou ho shall knowingly and willfully obstruct, r " hinder, or prevent an officer, or other person . charged with the execution of any warrant or process issued under the provisions of thissact, .. . or any person or persons lawfully assisting' him , or them, from arresting any person for whose api -' prehension such warrant or process may have been issued, or shall rescue or attempt to rescue -such person from t ie custody of the officer, otn- - er persons or persons, or those lawfully assisting .:. as alorcsaid, when so arrested pursuant to tlio ' authority herein given and declared, or shall id,"""., abet, or assist any person o arrested as aforesaid, directly or indirectly, to escape from the custody T of the officer or other person legally authorized as aforesaid, or shall harbor or conceal any person for whose arrest a warrant or process shall have been issued as aforesaid, so as to prevent his dis- covery and arrest after notice or knowledge of the fact that a warrant has been issued for the appro-1 hension of such person, shall, for either ot said otlences, be subject to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment not exceed ing six months, by indictment and conviction be-... fore the district court of the United States for theV district in which said offence may have been " committed, or before the proper court of crim inal jurisdiction, if committed within any one of the organized Territories of the United States. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted. That the dls ti ict attorneys, the marshals, their deputies, and -the clerks of the said district and Territorial courts shall be paid for their services the like fees as may be allowed to them for similrr scrvi-' ces in other cases ; and in all cases where the pro-- -ceediugs are before a commissioner, he shall be. -eutitled to a fee often dollars in full for his servi- ' ces in each case, inclusive of all services Incident to such arrest and examination. ' The person or " t persons authorized to execute the process to be , issued by such commissioners for the arrest of ' offenders against the provisions of this act shall ' be entitled to a fee of five dollars for each person ; he or they may arrest and take before any such commissioner as aforesaid, with such othxr fees -as may be deemed reasonable by such com mis--sioncr for such oiher additional services as may ' be necessarily performed by him or them, such as attending at the examination, keeping the prison er in custody, and providing him with food and lodging during his detention, and until the final determination of such commissioner, and in gei eral for performing such other duties os may bo' required in the premises ; such fees to be made up in conformity with the fees usually charged.. by the officers of the courts of justice within the ' ' proper district or county, as near as may be prac- ' ticable, and paid out of the treasury of the United States on the certificate of the judge of- the dis trict within which the arrest is made, and to be . recoverable from the defendant as part of the judgment in case of conviction. Sec. 8 And be it further enacted. That when- ever the President of tho United States shall have reason to believe that offences have been or are likely to be committed against the provisions ol this ac witnin any judicial district, it shall bo lawfui for him, in his discretion, to direct the juuge, marshal and district attorney of such dis- ' trict to attend at such place within the district. '- . and for such time as he may designate, for the '? . purpose of the more speedy arrest and trial of persons charged with a violation of this act; and it shall be the duty of every judge or otherofflcci, - v when any 6uch requisition shall be received by, ' him, to attend at the place and for the time there-' in designated. , Sec. 9. And be it further enacted. That it shall Z. be lawful for the President of the United States,' '; '. or such person as he may empower for that pur pose, to employ such part of the land or naval ' forces of the United States, or the militia, as shall be necessary to prevent the violation and enforce the due executirn ot this act, - - Sec. 10. Aud be it further enacted, Hint upon all questions of law arising in any cause under .' the provisions of this act a final appeal may be , taken to the Supreme Court of the United ' States." - Scale of Depreciation, The following Act, in relation to the scaling of Confederate Currency, from tho time of Its first issue to the end of the war, passed at the recent' session of the General Assembly : .-, ; . A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A SCALE OF DEPRECIATION OF CONFEDERATE CURRENCY.'' T' :V - - ' Whereas, By an ordinance of the Convention, ' entitled " An ordinance declaring what laws and ordinances are in force, and for other purposes," - -ratified on the 18th day of October, A. D., 1865, it is made the duty of the General Assembly, to provide a scale of depreciation of the Confederate -Currency from the time of its first issue to the end of the war; and it is further therein declared.'': that "all executory contracts, solvable in money,",-1' whether under seal or not, made alter the depre-?-eiation of said currency before the 1st of May,- . I8G0, and unfilled (except official bonds and penal -bonds payable to the State) shall be deemed to have been made with the understanding that they i . were solvable in money of the said currency" subject, nevertheless, to evidence of different in-' ' tent of the parties to the contract; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the . luthority of the same. That the following scale of depreciation be and the same is hereby adopted -' and established as the measure of value of one gold dollar in Confederate currency,' for -each -month, and the fractional parts of the month of ' December, 1864, from the 1st day of November! -1861, to the 1st day of May, 1885, to-wit: .. . ,. V e Scale of depreciation of Confederate currency the . ; gold dollar being the unit and measure of valve, from November 1st, 1861, to May 1st, 1865 : , ;;:.v : Months. 1861. 1862. 1883. 1864. $21 00 21 00 23 00 20O0 19 00. 18 00 21 00 23 00;. 25 00 2tf 00 , 80 00 . 1865. $50 00 : 60 00 60 00 loo!. January, .... fl 20 $8 00 February, .... 1 JSU UU March, 1 50 4 00 April, .... 1 50 5 00 May, .... 1 50 5 50, June, .... 1 50- 6 50 July, .... 1 50 9 00 August, 150 14 00 September, 2 00 14 00 October, 2 00 14 00 November, $1 10 2 50 15 00 December, 1 15 2 50 20 00 December 1st to 10th Inclusive, 85 00.'; lotu to zuiu, , 42 uu , -rv, " 1st to 31st, 49 00 -. ' ; And, whereas, Many grave and difficult disputes , may arise between executors, administrators, ; guardians and trustees, and their legatees, distri butees, wards and eestuysque trust, Tn the settle ment of their accounts ana trust, arising from the -depreciation of Confederate currency, State trea sury notes and bank notes, incident to and grow ing out of the late war; and that law suits acd expensive litigation may he obviated.' . ;"' ; Be it further enacted. That in all such cases, tt' parties are hereby empowered to form a fall and -perfect statement of the case on both sides, which case shall be committed to the determination of ' one of the Judges of the Suprior Courts,' cboeeit '.; by the parties, who is hereby authoriiwa to con sider and determine the same, according to equity and good conscience: Provided; however. That no v part of this section shall be construed to estop or hinder-any person from proceeding in the usual course of law, if he shall deem the same necessary. 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