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iern )er?H'; iatw; SicKy .wi!? 6 .j 'at& 4 p ! S? IS PR '-! .J? ' JAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, PZ at the First Session, which was begun irtrf AcJa o the City of Washington, m the District of Columbia, on Monday the fourth day of December, A. A 1865, and emledon Saturday, the twenty-eighthday of July, A. D. 1866." PUBLIC ACTS. . Andrew Johnson, President. La Fayette S. Foster, President of the Senate. La Fayette S. Foster was elected President of the Senate pro tempore on the seventh day of March, ami so acted until the end of the Session. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Chap. CLXXXTV. continued. An Act to reduce Internal Taxation and to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide In ternal Revenue to support the Government, to pay interest on the Public Debt, and for other Purposes," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and Acts amendatory thereof. That section forty-eight be amended by striking ont all after the enacting clause and inserting the following : That all goods, wares, merchandise, articles, or objects, on which taxes are imposed by the provisions of law, which shall be found in the possession, or custody, or within the control of any person or persons in fraud of the internal revenue laws, or with design to avoid payment of said taxes, may be seized by the collector or dep uty collector of the proper district, or by such other collector or deputy collector as may be specially authorized by the commissioner of in ternal revenue for that purpose, and the same shall be forfeited to the United States ; and also all raw materials found in the possession of any person or persons intending to manufacture the same into articles of a kind subject to tax for the purpose of fraudulently selling such manufac tured articles, or with design to evade the pay ment of said tax ; and also all tools, implements, instruments, and personal property whatsoever, in the place or building or within any yard or en closure where such articles or such raw materi als shall be found, may also be seized by any col lector or deputy collector, as aforesaid, and the same shall be forfeited as aforesaid : and the cro- ceedinss to enforce said forfeiture shall bo in the nature of a proceeding in rem in the circuit or where such seizure is made, or in any other court of competent jurisdiction. Ana any person who shall have in his custody or possession any such goods, wares, merchandise, articles, or objects, subject to tax as aforesaid, for the purpose of sel ling the same with the design of avoiding pay ment ef the taxes imposed thereon, shall be lia ble to a penalty of live hundred dollars, or not less than double the amount of taxes fraudulently attempted to be evaded, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction; and the goods, wares, merchandise, articles, or objects, which shall be so seized by any collector or deputy col lector, may, at the option of the collector, be de livered to the marshal of said district, and remain in the care and custody of said marshal, and un der his control until he shall obtain possession by process of law, and the cost of seizure made before process issues shall be taxable by the court : Provided, That when the property so sei zed may be liable to perish or become greatly re duced in price or value by keeping, or when it cannot be kept without great expense, the owner thereof, the collector, or the marshal of the dis trict, may apply to the assessor of the district to examine said property ; and if, in the opinion of said assessor, it shall be necessary that the said property should be sold to prevent such waste or expense, he shall appraise the same; and the owner thereupon shall have said property return ed to him upon giving bond in such form as may be prescribed by the commissioner of internal revenue, and in an amount equal to the apprai sed value, with such sureties as the said assessor shall deem good and sufficient, to abide the final order, decree or judgement of the court having cognizance of the suse, and to pay the amount of said appraised value to the collector, marshal, or otherwise, as he may be ordered and directed by the court, which bond shall be tiled by said asses sor with the United States district-attorney for the district in which said proceedings in rem may be commenced : Provided further, That in case said bond shall have been executed and the prop erty returned betore seizure thereof, by virtue of the process aforesaid, the marshal shall give no tice of the pendency of procredings in court to the parties executing said bond, by persoual ser vice or publication, and in manner and form as the court may direct, and the court shall thereup on have jurisdiction of-said matter and parties in the same manner as if such property had been seized by virtue of the process atoresaid. But if said owner shall neglect or refuse to give said bond, the assessor shall issua to the collector or marshal aforesaid an order to sell the same ; and the said collector or marshal shall thereupon ad vertis and sell the 6aid property at public auction in the same manner as t;oous may be sold on final execution in said district ; and the proceeds of tho sale, after deducting the reasonable costs of the seizure aud sale, shull be paid to the court aforesaid, to abide its final order, decree, or judg ment. That section fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-six, lifty-scven, lifty-nine, sixt3--two, sixtv- three, 6ixty-lour, sixty-five, sixty -six, sixty-seven- sixty-eigut, sixty-nine, ana seventy, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, to take effect on the first day ot September, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. That section seventy-one be amended bv strik in" out all alter the enacting clause and inserting in lien tnereor tne iono-ving: mat no person, firm, company, or corporation shall be eugaged in, prosecute, or carry on any trade, businessfor profession, hereinafter mentioned and described, until he or they shall have paid a special tax xnereior in ine manner uereniiiiter provided. That section seventy-two be amended by strik ing out all after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following : That every person firm, company, or corporation eugaged in auy trade, business, or profession, on which a special tax is imposed by law, shall register with the as sistant assessor ol the assessment district, first his or their name or style, and ii case of a firm or company, tue names ot tuc several persons con stituting sueu nrni or company, ana their places oi resilience ; secoua, tue iraae, ousiness, or pro fession is to be carried on; third, if a rectifier. the number of barrels he designs to rectify ; if a pecller, whether he designs to travel on foot, or wuu uuc, lwo, or mure uorscs or mules; it an innkeeper, the yearly rental value of the house and property to be occupied for said purpos. All of which facts shall be returned duly certified by sucn assistant assessor, to botn the assessor and collector of the district; and the special tax shall be paid to the collector or deputy collector of the district as hereinafter provided for such trade business, or profession, who shall give a receipt therefor. That section seventy three be amended by stri king outall after the enacting clause and inser ting in lieu thereof the following : That any one wuosuau exercise or curry on any trade, busi ness, or pruiesuuu, uruouny act nereiuaiter men tioned, for the exercising, carrying on, or doino of which a special tax is imposed by law, without payment uiciwi as in iuul ueuau required, shall lor every such oflence, besides being liable to the payment of the tax, be subject to imprisonment ior a term noi exceeding two years, or a fine not exceeding live hundred dollars, or both, and such fine halt be distributed between the United oiaiea ana ine lniormur, u there De any, as provi ded by law. - That section seventv-four be amended hi otrib-. ing ont all after the enacting clause and inserting in lie thereof the following: That the receipt i"' muni; wi nuj ojiuuui iujl snail contain and set forth the purpose, trade, business, or pro fession fof which such tax is paid, -and the name and place of abode of the persou or persons uav lug the same ; if by a rectifier, the quantity of spun ujlcuucu w uc jcuLuieu; ii oy a peulcr whether for travelling on foot or with one. or xr' or more horses or mules, the time for which pay-men-t4iiedate or time of payment, and (except in' case oT auctioneers, produce brokers commercial broken, patent-right dealers, photo- B uiuiutm, lunoninto ngems, insurance Drokert.'wia pedlers) the place at which the trade, business, or profession for which the tax shall be carried on r Provided, That the payment iwu Buvinivmai oijcuat iujl me person or per- vuu, Vwv, unjvio, JujfDiwtu3. surgeons, den tists, cattle brokers, horse dealers. duee brokers,- commercial brokers, patenno-ht uimiwo, iuuwgmiuuo, uuiiuurc, insurance aoreuts insurance brokers, and auctioneers,) or firm com pany, or corporation doing business in anv'other bwiu , urn. naming nerem con of goods, wares, or merchandise in other places than the place of business, nor for the sale by manufacturers or producers of t'leir own eoaAa wares, and murehandise( at the place of produc- vvu w ..uaouuiuwbUlU, BUU ttl LUCH principal OlUCe wr piucc ui uuaiuuss, proviaea no goods, wares . wvivu-uuiDv Duu uv acp Mteui as samples jlav;c ui uuHiness. Ana every person exercising or earrying on any trade, busi- J v. r , , . ""'"s auy aci ior wuicn a apecial tax Is imposed, shall, on demand of any officer of internal revenue, produce and exhibit the rueeipt tor payment of the tax, and unless he ehall do so inay be take and deemed not to have paid such tax, . And in case any pedler shall re fuse to exhibit his or her receipt, as aforesaid when demanded by any officer of internal revenue aid officer may seize the horse or mule, wagon, and contents, or pack, bundle, or basket ofany person eo relusing, and tho assessor of the dis trict in which the seizure has occured may, on ten days notice, published In any newspaper in the district, or served personally on the pedler. fit at his dwelling-house, require such pedler to show cause, if any he has, why the horses or l mules, wagon and contents, pack, bundle, or baa ket so seized shall not be forfeited ; and in case no sufficient cause is shown, the assessor may di rect a forfeiture, an issne an order to the collector orto anv eeDUtV collector OI tue uisinc- ior mo .sale of the property so forfeited; and the same, "- oft-- -navmcTit. of the exncnses of the proceedings, ehall h nnirt tn the rnlieetor ior the use of the United States- And all such special taxes shall become due on the first day of May in each year, or on commencing any trade, business, or pro fession upon which such tax is by law imposed. In the former case the tax shall be reckoned for one year, acd in the latter case, proportionately for that part of the year from the first day of the month iu which the liability to a special tax com menced, to the first day of May iouowing. Thut. section seventv-fivc be amended by strik ing out all after the enacting clause, and inserting in lieu tncreot tne iouowing : xnaxupou luk uum of any person having paid the special tax for any trade, business or profession, it may and shall be lawful for the executors or administrators, or the wife or child, or the legal representatives oi sncu deceased person to occupy the house or premises, n ,n iiir mnmip.r ti Kvt-.reise or carrv on, for the residue of the term for which the tax shall have been paid, the same trade, business, or pro fession, as the deceased ueiore excrcm-u ried on, in or upon the same houses or premises, iviHmiit niirm.it of anV additional tax. And in case of the removal of any person or persons from the house or premises for which any trade, busi ness, or profession was taxed, it shall be lawful fo" the person or persons so removing to any oth .r ulnr-G to enrrv ou the trade, business, or profes sion specified in the tax receipt at tue place to Wtnctl SUCIl person or persons may iwuuic " out payment of any additional tax: Provided, That all cases ot death, change, or removal, as aforesaid, shall be registered with the assistant assessor, and with the collector, together with the name or names ol the persou or persons making 6uch change or removal, or successor to any per son deceased, under regulations im ue jji couiutu by the commissioner ol internal revenue. That section seveutv-six be amended by strik ing out all alter the enacting clause, and inscrtiug m lieu tuercoi tne iouowing : iuul iu every tao where more than one ot the pursuits, employ ments, or occupations, hereinafter described. shall be pursued or carried on in the same place by the same person at the same time, except as hereinafter provided, the tax shall be paid for each according to tho rates severally prescribed : Pro vided, That in cities and towns having a less pop ulation than six thousand persons according to the last preceding census, one special tx shall be held to embrace the business ol laud-warrant bro kers, claim agents, and real estate agents, upon payment ot the highest rate ot tax applicable to either one of said pursuits. That section seventy-seven be amended by stri king out all alter the enacting clause, and inser ting iu lieu thereof the lollowinir : That no auc tioneer shall, by virtue of having paid the special tax as an auctioneer, sell any goods or other pro perty at private sale, nor shall he employ any oth er person to act as auctioneer in his bcuau, except 111 his own store or warehouse or in his presence ; aud anv auctioneer who shall sell jroods or com modities otherwise than by auction, without hav ing paid the special tax imposed upon su.eii busi ness, shall be subject aud liable to tue penalty imposed upon persons dealing in or retailing, trading or selling goods or commodities without paymeut of the special tax for exercising or car rying on such trade or business; aud where goods or commodities are the property of any person or persons taxed to deal in or retail, or trade in or sell the same, it shall and may be lawful lor any person exercising or carrying on the trade or business of an auctioneer to sell such goods or commodities lor aud on beluilt ot such person or persons in said House or premises. That section seventy-eight be amended by strik ing out uu alter tne enacting clause, and inser ting iu lieu thercot the following : That any num ber of persons, except lawyers, conveyancers, claim agents, patent agents, physicians, surgeons, dentists, cattle brokers, horse dealers, and ped dlers, doing business in copartnership at auy one place, shall be required to pay but one special tax lor such copartnership. That section 6eveuty-nine be amended by strik ing outall after the enacting clause, andiusorting in lieu thereof the following : That a special tax shall be, and hereby is, imposed as follows, that is to say : to be continued. Railroads, &c. NEW ARRANGEMENT ON R. & G. RAIL ROAD. RaleiUii & Gaston Railroad Co., ) Superintendent's Office, v Raleigh, Nov. 28th, 180G. J ON AND AFTER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29th, IStiti, Trains ou the Raleigh and doston Rail road will run as follows : Afail train h aves Raleigh, 7.15 a. m. " " Arrives tit Weldon, 3.00 p. in. " " leaves Weldon at 11.00 a. ni. " " Arrives at Malcigh, ii.00 p. m. Accommodation train leaves Raleigh 8.00 p. ni. " Arrives at Weldon, 2.80 a. m. " leaves Weldon at 7.15 p. ni. " Arrives at Raleigh 6.30 p. m. The mail trains connect with P. R. R. d: S. fc R. R. R. & Old liay line Steamers goiuing North, and with N. C Railroad, going South. Accommodation train connects at Weldon with train ou P. Ii. R. going North making through connections to New York. Accommodation train leaving Weldon at 7.15 p. m., connects with trains from the North on P. R. R. fc S. & R. R. R. & Anuauiissic line, and also with train from the South on the W. fe W. R. R. and at Raleigh with train from the West and South on N. C. R. R. Persons having business in Petersburg or Rich mond can take S.OO p. m.. Accommodation train aud spend the uext day in Petersburg, or Rich mond and return, arriving in Raleigh the follow ing morning to breakfast." W. G. LEWI3, Gen. Snp't. Dec. 1, '860. 110-tf. JORTU-CAROLINA RAILROAD. Change of Time, toes into effect Sunday, November 4th, 1866. SOUTH. STATIONS. ACCOMMODATION. MAIL. Charlotte Arrive 10.20 p. m. Arrive 5.30 a. m. Salisbury, 6.40 " 3.00 " Greensboro' 2.30 " 1:3.20 " Raleigh 7.15 a. m. 6.25 p. m Goldsboro' Leave 2.20 a. m. Leave 3.15 p. m NORTH. STATIONS. MAIL. ACCOMMODATION Charlotte Arrive 9.55 a. m. Leave 5 00 n m Salisbury 12.08 p. m. 8.15 " Greensboro' 2.44 " 12 20 n m Raleigh 8.20 7 45 Goldshoro' ' 11.15 " Arrive 1L15 " Mail North connects at Greensboro' with trains 4h. u. iv. xv. iui ine iNoriu. -accommodation iram liast connects at Raleieh ior weiuon ana tne :ort!i, at Goldsboro' for .-iuoii, lYiimmgion, and JVewbeme. man iram ooutn connects with C. & S C R a. iui i lie ooum. E. Nov. 10, 18(56. WILKES, Eng. & Snp't. 101 3mpd. RALEIGH & GASTON RAILROAD. THROUGH FREIGHT TARIFF, NORTH AND SOUTH, By the Air Line Route. TT7"E ARE NOW PREPARED TO SHIP ALL Philadelphia, BbBtodtFmo lo Jl bills of lading civina through est rates, THIS IS THE LINE FOR SHIPPERS. Tour goods will be handled connections close; no delay; time and expense less than by any other route. Insurance, trifline and from Columbia, S. C, and all intermediate stations, with more promptness and dispatch than any Express Company, at about one-fourth TAKE NOTICE ! Persons shinnintro-nnHa Snnh win .! i the following Agents, and by the following Steamship Companies, and NO OTHER Fri?tm.Ne TorU by tbe Atlantic Coast Mail Agents, No. 88, Liberty St., or Pier 36, North Frc-m Baltimore, by Baltimore Steam Packet Twif a V A jams, agent, loot of Union lOCkand bv BranrH'ts linTT.a- I From Philadelphia, bv the Phi dHnhi n,i to rv nrtn I r w, . V-i - r ...v mi. jrrom .uoston. bv th Rnct 0 V r " uuu I Agents, end of Cental Wh.rf TiX. ' e mmVirSgandSrv Agent, Ports- Goods coming by the way of City Point and icwsnsourg must ne so marked. " ' v r' AsaZ.7ZJ Pie, UX. , 1000. . Ill tr I ji n a . ,U6''T'P company, w. B. Clyde lue government is entitled to the cheerful, miPhtfden'hi?0- Deo Ave- kearty, loyal euDnnrt of every citizen: and ,tBAX.ElGH - SATURDAY, The North-Carolina Standard. We return our thanks to our friends for the additions they are making to our sub scription list. The terms of the Standard are as follows : Tri-Weekly, one year, six months, f 6 00 3 00 Weekly, one year, d 00 one year, six months, The Weekly will be clubbed as follows : Five copies one year twelve dollars. Ten copies one year twenty-two dollars. Those who get clubs of five or more, will be fur-, nished with one copy tor a year, gratis. The Legislature and Congress will meet soon, ana matters ot grave interest win oc cupy the columns of the newspapers. Now is the time to subscribe. The circulation of the Standard among Northern capitalists and others, renders it a good medium for advertising lands and other property tor sale. Loyalty. What is loyalty ? A person to be loyal must be faithful, honest, and true. There must be no mental reservation, no evasion, no treachery, no disposition to break plight ed faith. There are three classes of loyalists in this country. First, those who have never broken, but who have constantly maintained, in. heart and by act, their allegiance to the national government. Such are the great mass of the Northern people, and those Southerners who, like Andrew Johnson, escaped from their States and took sides'during the rebellion with the government. "We except from this great and meritorious class those copper heads North, represented by the New York World, the National Intelligencer, and simi lar journals, who sympathized with the so- called during the rebellion, and who are now doing all in their power to perpetuate strife and disunion. Second, those Southern Unionists who could not leave their homes, but who main tained their integrity as loyalists as far as they could ; who struggled at the peril of their lives to stop the war and make peace on the basis of a restored Union ; who al ways cherished tne union in their hearts, and rejoiced when the Confederate, despot ism fell, and who cordially accepted the re sults of the war, and submitted themselves cheerfully and unconditionally to the nation al authority. There are at least thirty thou sand white Unionists of this stamp in North Carolina. Third, those original secessionists, who, having seen their error and felt regret for it, submitted unconditionally ; who have since shown their faith by their works, in incul cating national sentiments, and laboring honestly and cheerfully to restore the Union. We know persons of this char acter. It affords us pleasure to offer them the right hand of fellowship and to hail them as brothers. The best evidence of their con version and of their fidelity is, that the un repentant secessionists hate them more than tliey do the original Union men. Of course we include among the loyal the entire colored population of the South. They attach themselves to Union men, and adhere to the Union cause, just as the ani mals of the desert seek for and find water, or as the child runs to its mother. Theirs is a loyalty unadulterated, disinterested, pure. It is dashed with no doubt, evasion, or treachery, but is candid, honest and open as the day. We know but few if any latter-day war men, as they are called, who are loyal. The snake of secession hurt those most whom it bit last. These are they who went into the war with consciences against the war, but who, from ambition, or selfishness, from fear of losiug their slave property, or from malice and ill-will because they suffered hard ships at the hands of the federal forces, or from some other cause or a combination of causes, forget their first love, seared their consciences, committed themselves soul and body to the Confederate despotism, turned with bitter hate on their former Union friends, and submitted at last only because they had lost the power to resist. Such are the worst of all " conscious traitors." There is more hope ot original secessionists than there is of them. We have said there are thirty thousand voters in this State of the second class above described. To these may be added five to six thousand more, who fled the State, or who took service in the federal army. But it is said ttiat everybody submits to the laws. True enough. It is impossible to re sist the laws. But; suppose a Church mem ber should say he sabmitted to all the rules of the Church, and should claim credit for so doing, while at the same time he was con stantly engaged in ridiculing and disparag ing the Church, in characterizing it as want ing in justice and charity, declaring that he joined it only because he could do no bet ter, and in sowing discord and strife among the members ; is it likely that those older and better membem who had theretofore gov erned the Church, would be willing to see him take part in its government ? We think not - Tuey might bear with and pray for SUCtt a brotllcr but . they would be unjust to thc Church and to themselves if they mitted him to govern or control it. per- But it is said by marjy original secession ists, and especially by the case-hardened, conscience-seared latter-day war men, that it cannot be expected of them that they should feel or express attachment for the Union. Granted. We regret that they can not so feel and so express themselves ; but, on that very account, if they really have the good of the country at heart, if they wish to restore the Union, and if they are disposed to act jllstly and candidly, let them retire from of- ' " nccessary from tbe ballot-box, "uu permit tuose among us wno are attac&ea . .. the government to conduct public affair . . ......... - I w a wi i v AO 11 JM CAUGllU lliail UvUt7 TV Ilk. allowed to hold office who are not devo- tedly attached to the Union, and who will at aU Ume3 and in every proper war. tn rAarnro fho luunma nt all nm- v without resard to section, that enlarged nilmnol fi.oi;- T.:U s i JANUARY 1867 to the rebellion. If the government should pass into me nanus uij.ii use wuu gret growing out of the rebellion ia that they failed to destroy it, or if such persons should succeed u obtaining any considerable, con- trol over it, the result can not fail to be dis astrous. The countrv Bhould be constant ly guarded against the admission of disloy alists into its councils. Its repose, its pros neritv. and indeed its verv existence will & ml 1 mJ be kept in jeopardy, if the utmost vig ilance in this respect is not observed. . Significant Language. In his recent address to the people of Newbern, Gov. Vance is reported to have said : " But he was glad to come here now, es pecially as he was welcomed by all parties. and it gave him pleasure to think that thepeo pie of this great American nation were com ing together. They would all come toeeth er when the Northern people had learned the lesson we had been taught by the war. Keconstruction would take place, ne said when the North made us willing, and that would be by doing us justice." If reconstruction depends on the people of the North doing what Gov. Vance desires. it will never take place. The expressions used of the "American nation coming together," and of the North ern people " learning the lesson that we have," are enigmatical. What does the Gov ernor mean ? Are we to have another war Are we to " come together" in that way 1 And are the Northern people thus to learn the lesson that we have ? The Governor is not as explicit as he used to be, when he said he would seekja glorious death in battle before he would submit to the federal government. and when he exhorted his poor conscripts to "fight the Yankees until hell froze over, and then fight upon the ice." By the way, where is our classical and dispassionate friend, Mr. Crawford, ot Kowan i Is his " Hell" in pro gress ? We advise him to get Brother Pell to dedicate it, when it is finished, as nothing pleases Brother Pell, so-called, better than such expressions as the above, in which Gov, Vance and Mr. Crawford so much delight. The Sentinel, speaking of recent rapes and murders in the Eastern part of this State, says: " We venture the assertion that an investi gation ot the facts will show that the guilty parties in these iniamous acts, when found out, will prove to be, in four out of five cases, tber colored vagabonds or ol that class of white men who affect to be Southern Loyal ists." Our coteniporary " ventures" a great deal, We presume there is no proof as yet as to who committed these outrages. We trust the guilty parties have no politics of any kind. If traced out, tried, and convicted. let them " die the death." We learn that Gov. Worth boasts to the colored people, by way of currying favor with them, that the first person he pardon cd was a colored man, in one of our West ern Counties. We believe it was a case of rape, and that the guilty person was pardon ed by the Governor. The Sentinel has the means of learning all about it. Let us have the case. The colored people are not to ,be propitiated in this way. They are not so week or so vicious as to wish to shield the guilty of their own race from deserved pun ishment. There is no depth of degradation or mean ness to which such as the Editors of the Sen tinel will not descend to retain their hold on power and patronage. Men who were " con scious traitors," seeking the life of the nation up to the last moment, who" then professed to repent, and took and failed to keep the amnesty oath, and who are now engaged in inculcating sentiments of hatred to the gov ernment, and to the Northern people, who have kindly spared their property and lives and who have even allowed them up to the present rime to vote, are capable or any thing. They judge others by the standard they have set up in their own corrupt hearts. But the day of their doom approaches. The Congress will deal with them and with all other traitors ; and if they attempt to resist the action of that body, no matter by whom they may be sustained or countenanced, they " will suddenly be destroyed, and that with out remedy." The truth is, civil government under se cession auspices has failed in this State. But for the presence of the military, restrict ed as they are by Executive orders, life, lib erty and property would be exceedingly un certain mthis State. The presence of the military and the fear of future consequences, is the main shield of the Union people of both races against persecutions and violence of the most flagrant and intolerable charac ter. Congress re-assembled on the 3d instant, We may look now for stirring times. In the House, on the 3d, Mr. Stevens called up his bill reorganizing the Southern States. In his speech, he says the late decision of the Supreme Court he would not say was infa mous, but it was more dangerous than the Dred Scott decision. Congress must do some thing to protect loyal citizens against the barbarians of the South. He denounced Dr. Watson, of Virginia, as an infamous murder er, who was released under that decision. He was still speaking when the dispatch was closed. The countrv will look with much anxiety for his speech. Pennsylvania. Gov. Curtin sent in his farewell message to the Legislature of Penn sylvania on Tuesday last. He discusses the constitutional amendment and recommends its ratification, and says that the proposition that the Confederate States have a right to a voice in its adoption is monstrous. . The amendment will be adopted by three- fourths of the States represented in the Con gress, and the southern states will then be required to conform to it. We regard this as settled. In addition to this, the Southern States will be re-orgaaized by direction of Congress, and reconstructed as a part of th e Union on a loyal basis. We regard this also as settled. Gen. A shley, chairman of the House com mittee on Territories, has remained in Wash ington during the present recess, attending to committee business. He has prepared a bill to be reported on the re-assembling of Congress, having in view tbe reorganization of the Southern States, not, however, reman ding them to a territorial condition, but re cognizing present arrangements until con ventions can be called to re.uodel their res pective State governments. I Interesting Extract. er josfc received frqm on;:of tne awest ana Vwirtniest pf our public meki, ThS writer say many things deserving of consideration and reflection, and" we trust he will pardon us for the liberty we have taken with his letteri " I have read with much inteaest the bill introduced by Mr. Stevens to provide cml government for North-Carolina, and after deliberate consideration of its provisions yield it my hearty approbation, except in one particular. I admit that the feature to which I object is. an important one. I have lived all my life in North-Carolina, seen and heard much before as well as al! through the late rebellion to aid me in forming an opin ion in regard to the temper and disposition of our people. Since the surrender of the re bel armies, I have mingled freely with them, and seen and heard enough to convince me that the opinion I had before often express ed was well founded ; u that a large majority of our people were not and are not well af fected towards the government of the Uni ted States, but in fact intensely bitter and disloyal in feeling towards it." I earnestly struggled against this impressien and regret ted that I was not able to eradicate it. This was at a time when the leaders and most prominent actors in the rebellion were comparatively silent, (as the subsequent course of many of them has indicated) be cause of unpleasant apprehensions in regard to their extensive landed estates and unpleas ant dreams of criminal prosecutions. Surely no honest enquirer after truth need doubt the feeling of a large majority of our people, since the very free exercise of the pardoning power generally and specially indulged in by the President. I confess that though I was more distrust ful of these leaders than you seemed to be, immediately after the termination of active hostilities, yet I was not prepared to believe them capable of acting ouch, a part in this great drama, as many of them have acted. In the first place I thought that a large ma jority of them would see the wisdom and the benefit to be derived by themselves in acqui escing in the results of their unsuccessful struggle, and showing their acquiescence by being silent and refusing to be brought for ward for office by the more imprudent of their number. In this I have been disap pointed. There were many men in this State, who when they were anxious to be re lieved from the unpleasant anticipation be fore mentioned, humbled themselves to you, strongly approved your views, and declared that they were well affected towards, and would be truly loyal to the government. After obtaining tiirough your intercession the pardon they so much desired, they im mediately concluded or seemed to conclude that your views, not others, but these same opinions of yours to which they had pledg ed their support and expressed their most hearty approbation, were most of all others ruinous and intolerable. And with their pardons in their pockets, and in some few instances with a commission also signed by you as Provisional Governor, which enabled them to travel on railroads and steamboats free of charge, they devoted themselves unre mittingly to the task of holding you up to the people of the State as the most unfaith ful and unreliable man in North-Carolina, always urging the very cogent reason that you had not been a true friend to the rebell ion. This reason assigned by them was powerful and most effective. We all know the result. And from what I have seen and heard, and am now enabled to see and hear around me, I do not hope for a better result for any effort to restore our State to its for mer relations with the general government, however honest and earnest the true men may be in its support, w:hile all those whose hearts and feelings are so thoroughly with the rebellion, and who intact have not yield ed to results beyond that degree to which they have been forced by the arm of power, shall be entitled to vote at our elections. I insist that a majority of the voting pop ulation of tins State are now prepared to use all the political powers they may have al lowed them in a manner much more preju dicial to the government than they have been at any time since the termination of ac tive armed hostilities, only for the reason that they are oecoming accustomed to this sort of rebellion and their leaders induce them to believe that their plans are most hear tily approved by the President. The lead ers are not themselves deceived, although to effect their purposes they profess to have be come wonderfully taken with the President and his plans, even with the plattorm pro mulgated by the 14th of August Convention, when in fact, as their course of conduct clear ly shows they repudiated the President and every material principle he professes. They in fact despise him for that same controlling reason that he too was not with them in the rebellion, though born upon Southern soil. Have you not thought of the very delicate and uncomfortable condition of the dele gates in that Convention from this State ? If you have, I am sure, Sir, that you pitied them, and Wi.uld. if you could have done so with propriety, have relieved them from their condition. How Jieartihj they approved of the resolution expressing the gratitude of the nation to the soldiers, who fought for the suppression ot tne rebellion, is not stated, and the country has not been favored with the report of a speech iu favor of that reso lution, if cither of them made one. So, too, in regard to the resolution in favor of the debt incurred in tue suppression ot the re bellion and against the rebel debt, we are left to infer that they most cordially approv ed it by their silence, and it is sufficient for us to to know that they made no speech in opposition to either. Yet what do we know in regard to the deadly hostility they feel against the principles expressed in all these resolutions ? In my opinion they could scarcely have been devised more opposite to their views and wishes than they were. Yet to carry out Mr. Doolittle's plans and to deceive the country with the belief that they acquiesced, they gave the resolutions the ' jmcerful support of silent assent. Now I know that there was much to relieve our dis tinguished fellow-citizen from Rowan, who occupied a scat in that Convention from the unpleasant condition in which the others . were placed, which 1 would here mention out for the" fact that all the Secretaries of the Convention appear to have been so persistent in mispelling his name, that I am sure that few beyond his own townsmen could have known that he attended 1 I have written more than I expected to write when I commenced. I only intended to express the opinion that the majority of the people feeling, as I believe they do. hostile to the government, it becomes a most positive necessity that such as are disloyal in feeling be proscribed. I am in favor of the necessity of applying the test-oath in Mr. Steven's bill to vo ters as well as to delegates to the Con vention, as well as other officers. Many of our friends in the North and in Congress be lieve that unrestricted negro suffrage would prove a remedy for all the ills we suffer. In this I do not agree with them. I approve of the provision of Mr. Steven's bill for North-Carolina in this respect. My daily observation convinces me but the more firmly of the truth of the opinion now express. I have no reasons or arguments to offer for any plan which proposes to withhold the right ot sunrage trom any man, wnose age ana residence would entitle him to a vqte, save this that it is not now safe to the government, or for the promotion of loyalty or good feel ing towards the government, to extend the privilege to those, who are now " not wea affected towards the government of the Uni ted States," or to a large class whose igno rance and dependence would cause them to- be controlled, as they surely would De, Dy their secession landlords and employers." Pnblic Sentiment. zeal' livhich the pepplei are'f-manif eating WU signing the Memortala to Congress ior civil government in North-Carolina on a thorough ly ' loyal basis! We have already forwarded' a number of Memorials, and we think it probable that by the 20th of this month we shall have forwarded ten thousand to fifteen thousand names. The right of petition is " dear to free men and formidable to. tyrants only." We beg our friends to send in the Memorials with the names as rapidly as possible A highly intelligent friend, writing us from a Western County, says : "These views, you may not know, are not recent with me. A firm supporter of tbe war to the end, when the end came I cherished ardently the spirit of peace, both as an in terest and a duty. I steadily insisted that we should put our Union element forward and foremost in the work of reconstruction. I have voted uniformly for none but undoub ted Union men. I deplored the schism be tween the President and his party as a cal amity to us, which it has turned out to be. I have favored the Howard amendment, and now favor immediate reorganization as the ahnrtest road to re-union. Our highest in terest and our first duty is to get out of this condition of uncertainty, which oppresses our energies and paralyzes our industry. The fact is, my ardent desire is to see all our for tunes rebuilt, my own among the number ; and I know this cannot be done while the nrospnt condition of affairs continues. I think the temper of our people not the lea ders is improving." The above is from a gentleman of educa tion and fine attainments. He is right, There is no hope lor this people but in th immediate restoration of the Union, and this is impossible without re-organization. A friend writing us from Rowan County,' 6ays: "From our leading men in this part of the State there has been, and there is no hope for peace or reconstruction. Every effort they make seems to be in the wrong direc tion. If their perverse obstinacy is allowed still to continue they will complete our ruin The common people, the farmers, would have settled our business long ago, but the leaders have prevented them. Now, Sirs, I want to reconstruct the Union on the terms Congress will give us. They fought us and whipt us ; -we would have it so ; and now it is but rea sonable they should reinstate us. We should take the best terms we oan get, and take them at once. The longer we wait tbe worse the terms are obliged to be. I do hope the people will take this most important matter in their own hands and settle it. It is their business. They are to be the greatest suf- ljerers by this continued disunion." Sensible, every word of it. The foregoing i s from an honest farmer, who can have no i notive but the good of his country. Another honest farmer, writing us from O 'range County, says; . " We have Been Mr. Steven's bill, and we a pprove it. It may be that it is not quite ti ght enough, but if we can get good, safe id .en to execute it, it will do. Let justice be d one. Let our ' State be re-organized on a lo yal basis, and let secession and treason be o lious for generations to come." A friend who is well posted in relation to pi iblic sentiment, writes us from Cabarrus th.it the Union people of that County, and of St. inly, Union, and' Rowan are tired of being ruled by rebels, and want a new, permanent civil government on a loyaj basis. Meanwhile our noble Union people west of tho Blue Ridge, are in despair, and are call ing on the Congress through petitions to form a new State out of Western North-Car- i olina, so that they may enjoy peace and safe- ty to themselves under the old flag. We ' learn that the proposition is taking like wild irire, antl that thousands uf the people are signing the Memorials. And now, will Con gress act ? More than twenty months have passed since Lee's surrender, and still the loyal pe Dple of these SoufherruStates are un der rebel", rule ! They feel they have a right to governments, the offspring of the law-making power. They know that settled indus try and prosperity are impossible as long as they an; held in this condition, Many of them are growing poorer every day ; thou sands hav e already left the State; to try their fortunes in distant lands ; and those ot them who do not- wish to leave, but who desire to remain and. lay their bones, when they die in their native soil, most earnestly appeal to the Congre: is to come to their relief. They put on no a.lrs of defiance they diunand no rights they indulge in no abuse of "the yankees" or of the government, but they simply ask that; government to remember them in its justice and kindness, and! to be stow upon them the necessary authority to re-organize in such a way as will be accepta ble to their brethren of the North, and as will secure to them such a basis of govern ment as will protect them in their lives, lib erties, and fortunes. Colored Celebration in Golclsboronn. We learn that a large number of the col ored people of Wayne County celebrated with becoming spirit the annivers ary of their freedom on the 1st, instant. The procession was vevy long, and. the speaking took place at the Fair Grounds, near Gobdsborough. Addresses were delivered by Mrl James H. Harris, of this City,, and Mr. W, K. Lane, of Wayne. Mr. James E. O'Hara presided, and made some remarks. We learn that at night the colared people 'had a school exhibition in the Town Hall, I which was kindly placed at theLr disposal by the Town authorities. We learn that a number of white gentle men were in attendance at the speaker's stand, and that Mr.. Harris, the lending col ored speaker, and. indeed all the colored peo pie assembled on. the occasion,, were treated with respect and- kindness- by the whites. Good order was- preserved throughout the day. The Snasv Storm The Northern papers contain copious ac. counts of the recent snow storm, which has been very general and heavy. I We observe that the storm of snow and sleet extended) as far south as Angusta, Ga. The ground was covered with snow in Au- gusta, and the- storm was regarded as the )l heaviest that had occurred for years. The !: sleighs were running. There had previously been & sleet, but it commenced-snowing heavily here about ton o'clock, Thursday.. On Thursday night there was & heavy fall of sleet, and on Fri day morning' the -sun rose clear, producing a beautiful effect on the trees, fields, and shrub bery. The weather. is, npw clear and pleas, ant We have bad sleighing in IRaleigh for 3 the first tSnafjor.-Bevcral . years-.. Loyal Suffrage. JKThe-Sentifuiwjs loyal jmrnrage . in this State -a ithouti regard: to $olor,j would "en franchise about "45,000 colored voters and from 5 to 10,000 white voters, while it would disfranchise- about-- 80,000 ' white voters." This is not true. Gen. Dockery, though not a candidate, received nearly 11,000 votes of white men in this State at the late election. There are at least 30,000 white men in this State who can take the oath, and will vote under Mr. Stevens' bill. Mr. Johnson holds, and so told the writer of this in Joly last, that if there be but 5,000 loyal men in this State, they alone are entitled to govern. The following letter from Presiden t Johnson to Gov. Sharkey, will Bhow what the former thinks of negro suffrage. The SentiI haa never yet laid this letter before its readers. Is it afraid to do so ? Mr. Johnson rim;. and contends for the principle of nero suf frage. The principle once admitted, all the rest is merely expediency and detail. Executive Office, Washington, D. ft, August IS, 1865. Governor W. L. Shaukey, Jackson Miss. : I am gratified to see that you have organ ized your convention without difficulty. I hope that without delay your convention will amend your State constitution, abolish ing slavery and denying to all future legisla tures the power to legislate that there is property in man ; also that they will adopt the amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolishing slavery. If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitu tion of the United States in English and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, and pay tax es thereon, you would completely disarm the adversary and set an example the other States will follow. This you can do with perfect safety, and you thus place the South ern States, in reference to free persons of color, upon the same basis with the free States. I hope and trust your convention will do this, and, as a aconsequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempt to keep the southern States from renewing their relations to the Union by not accepting their senators and representatives. ANDREW JOHNSON, President of Vie United States, m Quick WoK.--We find the following tele grams in the daily papers of the 3d January : Paris, Jan. 2. The Moniteur publishes a telegram from the United States which de clares that nil French ships are placed on the same footing as American vessels, and says that vessels bearing the American flag will be free of all navigation dues in French ports. Liverpool, Jan. 1. To-day being general holiday, business is entirely suspended. Pabis, Jan. 2. Napoleon's speech on new year's day to the diplomatic corps expressed hopes for the peace and conciliation, for the stability of thrones and the prosperity of nations. Napoleon speaks in Paris on the 1st, an nouncing views on which may depend the fate of empires, and what he says is re-pro duced the next day in the papers printed in the interior of America. Ji new PostofBce has been established in Moore County, called Carter's Mills, James A. Cole, P. M. Fatal Accident. On the evening of Jan. 8d, 1867, about six o'clock, Wm. Cooley, an employee at the Raleigh & Gaston R. R. de- nrtt wn.fi smmlr H-v a train eft.r4 an ilia road, near this City at Mordecai's crossing, and instantly killed. On the ensuing morning Coroner W. R. Qrawford summoned the following jury, and held an inquest over the corpse : Messrs. P. Overby, Jas. Harris, J. J, Overby, Lynn Adams, H. A. Badham, B. F. Cheatham, E. S. Lougee, T. B. Smith, H. Bell, H. D. Coo ley, W. H. Dodd and W. N. Harris. The'following testimony was elicited : John Beckham sworn. Went down to the place where dead body was lying about 2 or 3 o'clock on the morning of January, 4th. Examined it, found lite extinct, and saw that it was covered with ice. Monroe Hortoa sworn. Engineer of train, and saw Cooley near 6 o'clock on the even ing oi the Ed on railroad track about feet ahead of the engine before it struck him. He was knocked about lo feet. Could not stop his train in time to save Cooley, because there was another train immediately behind. The jury rendered the following; verdict: "That. said Cooley oame to his death on the 3d day of Jan. 1807, and at the place afore said, by an accidental blow on tbe head by a locomotive.n Mr. Cooley was 23 years of age, and leaves a mother advanced in years, two sisters- and one brother. He was supposed to be drank at the time of the accident. FROM WASHINGTON.. THE I3ITEA CIOCE AT OP THE PKESHE2T I The Bill to be Introduced By Mr. ley, of Ohio, ! X Ash Sailing of the-Steamer Don on a secret mission with advtirtil Porter and Hon. Frederick Seward ou board y dbe. Wasizx36Tok, Jarv,3 There is 'good au thority for saying a bill for impeaching the President will le introduced in the House on Monday next by Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, wtth everv nrosrtect of its success. The President was notified to-clay of the. fact, and he expressed himself ready for the trial. Tbe U. Si steamer Don leaves Annapotia on a secret mission, having on board Admi ral Porter and Hon. Frederick Seward, As sistant Secretary of State. Her destinations is believed to bo to establish United-State authority on some Island lately discovered, as it is understood the vessel will not be beared from until she returns home. It ia not true that Gen. Grant accompanies tho mission. The tariff of Commissioner Welles will be presented to the Senate on Thursday zext. It may be said, on tbe best authority, that the statements heretofore published purpor ting to give the substance pf this report are wholly fallacious, and very wide of the facts. The report cannot be styled as free trade re port, as it reeommenda an increase of the tariff wherever it can be borne. It 13 biniply a plain, taeid, common sense statement of the results of a patient and intelligent investiga tion into the condition of our industrial af fairs, tbe reason for the imposition of tbe tariff and the effect of certain rates of tari ff opon eertain classes of commodities in New York. The Arkansas delegation visit the Presi dent to-morrow. ' The British postal reports show that the voyages ot tue Uunara mail steamers, in Liverpool to New York, average 18 days 11 hoars each, and the return voyages, from New York, to yverpool, 11 days 7 hours each. i;