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UP Itf THE BA'BNi' , -3 BY, THOMAS LACKLAND." ' Old Farmer Joe steps throngh the doors, As wide to him as gates of Thebes ; , And thoughtful walks about the floors Whereon are piled his winter stores, And counts the profits of his glebes. Ten tons of timothy up there, And four of clover in the bay ; Red-top that's cut, well micldlin' fair, And bins of roots, oblong and square, Tchelp eke out the crops of hay. A doaen head of cattle stand Reflective in the leaf-strewn yard ; And stalks are staeked on every hand, The latest offering of the land To labor lonjj maintained and hard. Cart loads of pumpkins yonder lie, The horse is feeding in his stall. The oats are bundled scaffold high. And peas and beans are heaped hard by, As if there were some festival. At length Old Farmer Joe sits down A patch across each of his knees ; lie crowds his hat back on his crown, Then clasps his hands so hard and brown And like a farmer takes his ease. " How fast the years do go I" It seems, in fact, but yesterday, That in this very barn, we three David, Ezekiel and me Pitched in the summer loads of hay I David he sailed his clipper now, And 'Zeikie died in Mexico Some one must stay and ride to plough, Get up the horse and milk the cow And who, ot course, but little Joe ! I might have been I can't tell what ! Wlio knows about it till he tries ? I might have settled in some spot, Where money is more easy got; Perhaps beneath Pacific's skies. I might have preached like Parson Jones ; Or got a living at the law ; I might have gone to Congress, sure ; I might have kept a water Cure ; I might have gone and been oh, pshaw ! Far better is it as it is ; What future waits him, no man knows ; What he has got, that sure is his ; It makes no odds if stocks have riz. Or politicians come to blows ! Content is rich and somethin' more I think I've heard somebody say : If it rains, it's apt to pour; And I am rich on the bam floor, Where all is mine that I can raise. I've ploughed and mowed this dear old farm, Till not a rod but what I know ; I kept the old folks snug and warm And lived without a twinge of harm I don't care how the storm might blow. And on this same old farm I'll stay, And raise my cattle and my corn ; Here shall these hairs turn wholly gray ; These feet shall never learn to stray ; But I will die where I was born." And Farmer Joe pulled down his hat, Anil stood upon his feet once more ; He would not argue after that, But like a born aristocrat, Kept on his walk about the floor. LOLA MOXTEZ HEE CLOSING TEARS AA'D ITER GRAVE. BY GRACE GREENWOOD. The theatrical career of Lola Montez in the States was not brilliant or prolonged. Pew wished to see her more than once. She filitted from city to city, doing some very generous thiDgs, Jet it be remembered of her showing especial kindness toward chil dren who were in sorrow and in need. Then 6ighing, like 1iim of Macedon, for a new world to conquer, she flitted to Calfornia, where she saw life under a thousand new aspects, each one wilder than the last. She flung herself, with reckless abandon, with what seemed pure Irish deviltry, into that rough, adventurous life, unsubdued, unterri fied, incorrigible, under some very hard ex periences. Strange stories of her eccentric ities, ber crazy freaks, her desperate, danng ways, came to us, and made us laugh, yet ' : shudder while we laughed. She tamed bears, rode en cavalier, gambled, shot at and horse whipped her enemies, flung about her money, and married right and left. She seemed to . have a mania tor marrying and being divor ced, for tailing in love, and fighting her way out poor mad little sinner. At length, broken in health, if not in spir it, she returned to the Atlantic States and be gan a new career as a lecturess. Her lectures .were flimsy, patched-up affairs, and of questionable moral tone. They were proba bly not written altogether by herselrj yet I oil rvn 1 rl an it c li - tiil1 1kita nvAliinn'l rAn thing better, if less ambitious, if she had given naturally and simply recollections of . the strange countries and people she had : seen. Though not a well educated woman, iier conversation was saia to ue singularly sparkling and racy. Yet the flash and sweep ot her magnificent eves, and the bewitching . fall of her lustrous, dark hair, went far with the general audience to make up tor the lack of wit and wisdom of her words. Though apparently the most respectable, .- this period was perhaps the most pitiable of her life. The tool of unpricipled men, she had entered on a work for which she was even less fitted than for the profession of ; tne dancer, ana in which she depended more directly fc r success on her unenviable repute. 1 ' Though her dress was modest and her man ner grave, her lectures were more demoral izing than her dancing had been. She usu ally read very nicely, with no effort at ora tory or display of feeling ; but on the night when I heard her, a somewhat objectionable passage was distinctly hissed bv a gentle man sitting in front of the platform. In . stantly a gust of passion swept over her lovely face, transforming it into something terrible. She paused, fixing her eyes on the p offender, and seemed like a tigress just about ' to spring. She mastered her anger, how , ever, and went on reading, but with a fierce gutter in iier eyes, W) tne end. After this, out of sight and out of mind, she passed wholly, till I heard of her sud- , ucuumcra wui umei siroKe mat lett her so r ' helpless and bo pitiable, blirrhtpri before her time a fate most terrible for'an .; organization like hers, all nerves, and fire and action. Then followed the long dim ' twilight of that Ifie of fitful and lurid bril liance, musty and chill, and ushering in a night that seemed quite dreary and starless. But the poor sou) thought she saw, amidst : the gloom, the steady shining of the Star of Stars, gracious and pitiful the star that shone bver the manger at Bethlehem and t!: came out above the Cross of Cavalry; and J ds Btar 8he fixed to the laft those great m i f78' through w"ich hi blazed every w ild human passion and sinful beguilement, nut which had sometimAa iaAiJ u.. man pity, overflowed with penitent tears. who would denv thm tv.. ii. towarda those divine beckoning rays of . fvwuui grace f ' VwiVeJieArdfro?1 alaly who knew the bb-.TT.1, tho foot of the cross. nri r r-rti mere weemno tin .1,. - ' I. i e - Bccuieu to 'Thy Bins are for- near ine gracious wuiu: given thee." ' . In the summer of 1853 I visited Munich. While driving about that fine capital, which, from the aspect of newness, seems mora like an American than a European city, the beau tiful residence allotted by the late King to Madame Lola Montez was pointed out to us by our valet de place. " Was she very unpopular in Munich ?" I fiskccl. " Yes, Madame with our most respectable citizens, and latterly with the students ; but she was good to the poor; they missed her." In the art gallery of the new palace, King Ludwig, who was a great connoisseur of beauty, had set apart a hall for the portraits of living European beauties, and at the head of all these we found a portrait ot Lola Montez, decidedly the loveliest picture there. Even the reigning Queen, a young and pret ty woman, was given a less honorable posi tion in the gallery. We are told that the King exacted of his successor a promise that this picture should remain in its place, at least while he lived. In the rose-embowered studio of Kaulbach we found another portrait of as the painter named her " the Countess of Lansfeldt." It was a full length in an antique Spanish dress, a superb and stately picture, after the style of Vandyke. One bright afternoon in the winter of 18G6, 1 was wandering through Greenwood Cemetery, and suddenly came upon an hum ble grave, in a small three-cornered lot, quite unadorned and only marked by a plain white stone, bearing simply this inscprip tion : Mrs. Eliza Gilbert, Died February 17, 1861, aged 42. It was the grave of Lola Montez. I could hardly realize that after such such a free, wild swing at life, from continent to conti nent, she had been limited to such a narrow domain. How that little, triangular hedge seemed to imprison that willful, untamcable creature, that rebel against society, that Sin gula of the world ! How heavily the earth seemed to rest on that strange, wild heart, passionate as fire, inconstant as water. How still she lay, who had seemed like some glea ming, tropical bird, ga', fierce and restless. Kind people provided this place of repose for her poor weary, faded body, but it is hardly likely that they often visit the spot. There are no floral tokens of loving remem brance. Doubtless many an unmarkable grave in the Potter's Field on the hillside is more frequently visited. But as I stood over the mound, I felt womanly pity and regret, and gladly I have laid thereon an offering of flowers, to fade on the brown turf, as her beauty had faded from the world; not sumptuous roses, typical of her in her love ly prime when the great German painted her not lilies, which might seem to re proach her memory but a bunch of purple heart's ease, breathing reconciliation and peace. Divorce Trials and TriEin Various Sensations Produced upon their Audi tors. At a recent sitting of the Circuit Court at St. Louis, the calendar seems to have been crowded with cases of divorce, and the Court House with so extraordinary a num ber of the gentler sex as to excite general re mark. A sensitive yet philosophic genius, who appears to have been nn interested spectator of some of these trials, tlms expat iates upon divorce trials in general and their effects upon the spectators: There is something saddening in the con templation of a divorce, aside from the notions of evil that may be associated with it. After a courtship of years, perhaps : af ter all the yearnings and pinings, pledges of fidelity and whisperings of affection in moon light bowers, days of torture and nights without comfort, what a spectacle it is to see the romantic structure that has cost so much time and anxiety crushed to atoms by a sin gle sentence muttered from the judicial bench. But there is a more serious light in which to view the matter. The humanita rian must necessarily compassionate the poor, unfortunate woman, who, free and un fettered as she imagines, rushes from the court room into she knows not what. Mis ery, it may be, a thousand times more terri ble than what she has endured ; for though an inharmonious married life is a bitter and disagreeable thing, there are conditions and situations far more wretched and unendu rable. In watching the deportment of complain ants in divorce suits, one can almost read the entire history of their difficulties, and the emotions of the spectator are prone to rise and fall in unison with the manners and expressions of the pcrsors to whom his at tention is directed. For instance, no par ticular violence is done to your sympathies when a blooming young lady sweeps into court with an air indicating that she would like to sweep everybody else out of it, and with the utmost sang froid proceeds to nar rate her sufferings as methodically as if the performance were a daily pastime. There is a specific charm in the hateur of the creature as fascination in the proud curl of her lip and the dignity of her carriage. The little ceremony of divorcing her seems to afford so much gtatitication that you can scarcely re strain a desire to congratulate her, as upon the occasion of her marriage, hoping she may live to be divorced many times, and en joy it hugely. Not so with the wan, melancholy looking matron, who comes forward reluctantly, with feeble step and eyes cast downward, as if the occassion were next in solemnity to a funeral. He: eyes are dim and lustreless. They may have possessed a brilliancy once, but if so, it has melted away in tears. There is no trace of beauty in the pale and hollow cheeek, but her very tenderness speaks of a power of fascination that is departed, and there is a startling melody in her meek voice that produces an involuntary shudder throughout the entire assembly. The rela tion of her wrongs is long and tedious, and she often hesitates, as if she would give the world that moment if her narrative were on ly false. Something is said about neglect, and cold and hunger.of drunkenness and bru tality, and finally it may be desertion. When the object of her mission has been ac complished, she does not leave the room hurriedly, but casts a lingering look be hind, as if there were something precious that she was about to part with forever. You have witnessed the whole proceeding, and, being only flesh and blood, you feel a disposition to use your bandana, or there is a strange sensation in the vicinity of your toes, and you feel an inclination to kick the next man to you in the insane belief tor the moment that every may in the world mis treats his wife, whether he has one or not. And so it is, over and over again each new applicant thinking, no doubt, that his or her case is the most pitible on record, whereas there have been thousands to match it. Judges would deserve pity, were it not lor the fact that by constant contact with such scenes they school themselves to regard them with indifference. Justice U blind and likewise pitiless. An inevitable accompaniment of each particular suit seems to be a female witness who is more familiar with the domestic affairs of the family involved than the wife herself. She knows whole chapters of crimes and cruelties, some of which at times appear to startle even the parties most interested, by their novelty. . . - The Cleaveland Plain Dealer says : " It is now Btated on tho highest Radical authority, that some weeks ago a distinguished Radi cal politician talked with General Grant about tho flattering prospect of the Repub hcan party, with the view of obtaining some - impression; but, on the conclusion orhisn SfH?nt,ouWyil: 'What do you think ot Marshal Brown's slut's pups ?' " 11. 1 u SPEECH OF BLACK FOOT. F!U' 'Then Black Foot took the floor, a gent, with braided hair hanging down to his knees, and without any particular seat to his pantaloons shook hands, and flung his robe over the broad shoulders of Commis sioner Taylor. SPEECH OP BLACK FOOT. He said that when be and his people were young they had no pots, no iron to make arrow-heads of. They went out on the pra rie and picked up old shovels to make arrow-heads. They struck flints to make fire and make flint knives. Thus was he raised. They had then no white man. His grand hniWl mpftt in skin kettles time be fore. They spoke about putting him on a re- . . , -rw i. .1 c : . serve to tne rami, xie was not reureu iur 11 1Tb fmilrl nnt. do it. It did not please him. He could not drive a wagon. What he wanted were horses and guns. The Great Spirit made man and woman to live togeth er, the man to fight and the woman to work. IT rMrt rmf want tn nhanorft. He had lie said, been friendly to the whites and want ed to stay so. He had been raised wild, but he had not done wrong. He, too, spoke of the Crows who went East in 1851, and wanted to know what had become of the rrnnria u-liifh wurfi to hp. (riven them for tiftV years for ceding the California road. When he was young he was a good looking young man," and then they could get from the tra ders, an abundance ot everything. Now they were poor and had no traders. He be lieved the Great Spirit had forgotten him. Other nations surrounded him, and his land grew small. The soldiers had made roads into the country he loved best his best game country ; he was as fond of life as his rrmnlfiitlipr oml likp him hp. loved his chil dren. Would not the Commissioners love him as he did them ? We did not kill tne cVfir.r nf tlin whites wliv did thev kill his game I He could go nowhere without see ing the white people; ne wanteu tne soi- .lu.ro -.nt. nf tho Pnwdpr rivpr road t the whites made nothing by going that way. m 1 . t - .- n..tnn 1 lie oioux were i-ryiiigiu gemim rj the whites but he held to them. The whites in the mountain gold hunting, were the ones who troubled his people most. When he asked the soldiers for food, they hit . ,1 -ix. . 1 1. mi... mm over tne neaa wiwi wuu. 1 ucjr cilen lvmitprl nn nrrpnt that did not lie. If a treaty was to be made, he wanted a copy of it, and he also w anted a bill of lading of the rrnmla epnt. In in wliitp. fathers had fooled him too often. He wanted Gen. Harney for a parenr, ana wanieu some nurses given them to go back with ; he wanted good things. They had been given damaged bread, which was like raw hide, unci some of them died from eating tbreof. About the Otster. The oyster when spawning does not cast its eggs like other fish, but dissolves, as it were, a part of its own body, which passes off in long slender threads as fine as a spider's web, upon which are congregated millions ot little ergs, not visible to the naked eye, but which, when put under a powerful magnifying glass, as tonish the beholder by their numbers. It is estimated that about seventy per cent, of this spawn is destroyed by fish, and about ten per cent, from other causes, leaving twenty per cent, to find its way into market. These little "seed" clinging to whatever they touch, generally to old oysters, and the many little shells one often sees clinging to large oysters are but the growth or these seed. Where oysters have spawned in a clear place, and free from their fish enemies, their growth is very rapid until they attain the size ot a quarter of a dollar, and it i3 at this period of their existence that the oys termen take them for transplanting. The shells are very thin and the inside meat scarce larger than a shirt button, one having the rest of the shell filled with a milky fluid which in time forms the body of the fish. Oysters, after they are transplanted, are xith few exceptions, not fit to eat under three years. It might be supposed that the oyster, with his hard shell, was free from all dan ger, buv, such is not the case. He has two deadly enemies. The star fish and the borer. The former will fasten on the mouth of an oyster, and in a short time suck the life out of him. The latter, with his little saw and giniblet bill, bores through his shell, and once gets through is soon destroyed. IMTED STATES MTERXAL REVEXIE, Assei-sok's Office, 4th Dist. North-Carolina. Cuapel Hill, Nov. 22, 18G7. Col. Jno. R. Harrison, Ast. Asso'r. 3(i Die. and J. G. Bromell, Esq., Asst. Am'r. 4th Division. Sirs The following extract is from an earnest letter just received by me from Hon. E. A. Rollins, Commissioner of Internal Rev enue, and imperatively demands immediate and vigorous attention : . " The small amount of succession and leg acy taxes received from your District, makes it necessary to bring the matter to your special notice. The press of work in making the annual assessments having passed, immediate and special attention should be given to the as sessment of these taxes. You will urge your Assistant Assessors to greater vigilance, and will instruct them to call upon Clerks, Registers and other officers having the custody of probate records, and of officers having charge of the registers of deaths within their respective districts, and examine such records, to ascertain the lia bility of legatees, distributees and success ors interested in the estates of persons de ceased. They should also examine records of deeds, to learn if any real estate has been conveyed without valuable and adequate considera tion. They should proceed to make all such assessments at once. A copy of form 06 should be delivered or sent to all persons liable to either succession or legacy taxes, iou will 01 course under stand that the limitation of fifteen months for reassessments docs not apply to the case of succession of legacy of which no return has ever been made, but that the tax may be assessed at any time while the lien sub sists. Pains should be taken to acquaint execu tors, administrators, trustees, &c, of their personal liability for legacy taxes, and that it is not only their legal duty, but for their ownprivate interest and protection to pay leg acy taxes and the succession taxes under Section 138, upon each sum before it is paid over to the legatee, distributee or successor. All persons, so far as may be, should be informed that a succession tax is a first charge on the interest of the successor, and of all persons claiming in his right, in all the real estate, in respect whereof such duty is assscsscd, and that such estate is liable to seizure, even in the hands of a bona Jide pur chaser. It is believed that the difficulty of making sale of real estate known to be thus liable, will do much towards securing for the government large amounts which are now lost by reason of the ignorance of the peo ple upon this point, and the neglect of As sistant Assessors." You are, therefore, hereby instructed and expected to give this matter your 'very first attention, to canvass thoroughly your Divis ion, and to make immediate assessment of all taxes of this character. Having done this, you will, from a memor dum kept by you of your transactions in this matter, transmit to me, on or before the 25th of December next, a full report, showing the names of parties, the liabilities, assessments made by you in this respect, &c, and. all other such matter as may appertain to an elaborate report, to be submitted by me to the department of Internal Revenue. You will please aekaow ledge the receipt of this letter. Very respectfully, SOLOMON POOL, Assessor.- :r-'-r ; i , . 1 . : , For the Standard.1 s The following is an extract From a private letter received by a gentleman of this State from a prominent North-Carolinia gentle man temporarily resident at New York. , The writer's experience in political life commend his opinions to a careful consideration. Speaking of the lato Northern elections he says : "In the first place, tho overwhelming ma jorities of last year produced its natural ef fect of indifference, especially wnere, as was the case in nearly every State, there was not a rousing canvass. In this State particular ly the Republicans hardly canvassed at all. The vote is nearly 100,000 short of what it was last vear. three-fourths of the delinquen cy beine Republican. In the next place the prouibitory ana ounuay jaws, wnicu tuougii no part of the Republican creed, had been mainly passed by Republican Legislatures, had the most powerful influence in rallying the Democracv and dispiritine the Republi cans, thousands of whom wanted to see the party defeated on that issue. In the third place, many of the candidates gave great dissatisfaction. The mass of the RepuDli can party is far more free-thinking and inde pendent and less drilled than the Democra- . 1 . r 1 1 cy. They demand, tnereiore, a uiguer range in candidates, and it they don't get it, tney stay from the polls. These briefly are the canvass. I am conncienc tney win oe re moved in large part for the campaign of next year; and, whether under Grant or Chase, the Republican party will bo success ful. And all the more certainly successful for the defeat of this year. They have come in good time for us to put our house in or der. I do not deny that the most capital was made out of the negro supremacy cry, and it is fair to give it some weight per haps a good deal of weight I have not, however, found Republicans generally cither before or since the election, dissatisfied with the Congressional plan. They are determin ed to give it a full trial and see its fruits, whether they be good or evil, and I believe that most men hero of all parties think it best, speediest and safest to reconstruct un der that plan better, safer and speedier than to go out to sea again upon some other craft." Two things will aid the Radicals amazingly. 1st. Let the Southern Republi cans put into the Conventions, &c, their best men ot either color. 1 lie idea too prev alent here is, (which the Copperhead press keep up in every way) that the whole Radi cal movement with us is pushed on by ne groes controlled by ignorant and vicious white men. If the character of our Conven tions and selections for office shall give the lie to this slander, the Northern people will find it out before the next elections, which they could not do before the last. 2d. It is all Important in my opinion that the Convention should not go one inch be yond the Reconstruction bill. Let them con form our Constitutions to those measures and stop. I hope you will elect ( nodical.) The County does well to have such a dele gate. Yours, &c. ." Has been elected by a thumping ma jority. For the Standard. GUILFORD ERECT! Messrs. Editors : Old Guilford has re deemed herself, and deserves to be placed on the Republican record. 1 be Republicans doubted somewhat their strength to succeed until the ' Rebs" and their allies brought forward theircandidates. As soon as this programme was announced, it was seen by a little work the Republican ticket could bo elected. The work was done as the polls have exhibited. The old rebel aristocrisy has been pinned to the wall, de spite its boasting it had the "poor whites" and the black men under its power and in fluence and could rule the latter vote by whisky ; that the two classes were depen dent on it and its means for their daily bread. The Republicans have succeeded and they mean to hold fast to their victory, and labor to augment it m future elections. Rebels look lank and sour, and occasionally spit out their venom, but their slime affects no body in the Republican ranks. The latter, though dominant, have made no outward show of rejoicing, but as sensible freemen knowing their duty have simply perform ed it. Yet they are sensible of the great truth that they have checked the advance guard ot the enemy, and taken a stand from which they mean never to retreat. Freedom and equality is their watchword. Ethnologists may war as much as they choose in regard to whether the human race is divided into three, five or eleven distinct species, tho monogenists have now the ascendency over the polygimists of the day, and mean to test the truth or the fallacy of the latter be lief in and through the principles and work ings of the great Republican idea in Amer ica. Let Republicans then stand firm and witness the day when this reform shall be fully-Jmt wisely founded, and established upoifihe everlasting rock of freedom. Say these rebel aristocrats, this theory will fail and the black man and the white man can never rule the same nation that such a thing willl never work in this broad land. Let all things pass for what it is worth and press to fill up the column of the Republi can ranks for the contest next November. But says one, the negro party has beaten us in Guilford. Ha ! ha ! ha 1 Says an other, it is now evident that Adam was a negro, but having turned pale in the garden under a scare, and that the mis take h&s just been discovered that the white man is the negro, and the negro is t he white man. Eh 1 eh ! eh I Says another, the "raZ" have beat tcs, but thank the Lord they can't confiscate my forty acres of land. Cause I haint got forty acres, umph ! umph! Many things they say and do to give vent to this hate to the government and its friends, and to injure the Republican cause. But their doom is unalterably fixed and soon their funeral rites will be performed. Republicans of North-Carolina, the day is ours. Stand firm to the Republican flag and see the salvation of loyalty, and the punishment of treason. The loyal must govern. "United we stand divided we fall." This latter you see in the Washington monu ment from Kentucky. It is poorly observed by that people. Stand firm to the end, is the duty of all Republicans. . HIGH POINT. The Election in North-Carolina. The election has passed quietly and resulted iu a favor of a Convention, and of the . Re publican party. The majority will be am ply sufficient to control the Convention. Among the members eleected are some of the wisest men in the State and some of the otherwise, some of the . best men in the State, and some no better than they ought to be. Some of them are wise enough to make us a good government, and some are good enough to sacrifice themselves for the interests of their country. Some are too ig norant to know what is best, and some will .change greatly if they do as well as they know. Some ot the members are ministers of the Gospel, and we earnestly hope " a lit tle leaven may leaven the whole lump." The people should remember that the hearts of these men are in the hand of the Loid, .and that he turnetu them whithersoever he will. AH party feuds should be forgotten, and the people should pray the Lord to endow the members of the Convention with such heav enly gifts as will qualify them for the tre mendous responsibilities resting upon them. Biblical Recorder. How to keep Plekty of Money. Sell more than you buy pay out less than you receive, and you will have money enough. How to be Money-less. Buy more than you sell spend more than you make, and the sides of your pocket-book will lie yery close together. Bm Recorder. 'Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable." Daniel Webster. BALEIGH. IV. CJ. Saturday, Nov. 30th. 1867. Impeachment. The last Washington Clironicle says : The reasons against the powerful and exhaustive presentation of the majority are ably stated ; but when we consider that much will lie said by some of the most ex perienced jurists in Congress in support of the views of the majority, and that the ex pectations of the people, and particularly of the suffering loyalists of the South, in favor of the constitutional removal of the Execu tive, have been wrought to the highest pitch by recent proscriptions and wrongs, it is not difficult to anticipate the result." The Chronicle, which is thoroughly in formed, evidently expects that the House will find articles of impeachment against the President. It will require but a majority of the House to do this, but two-thirds of the Senate will be necessary to his conviction. The indications are apparent that Congress will suspend the President during the pro gress of the impeachment, provided the House should decide to impeach bim. We have read all the House Reports on the subject, and have been particularly im pressed with the ability, clearness and force of the majority Report, by Gov. Boutwell and others. In the Senate, on Tuesday, the character and conduct of the President came incident ly into a discussion, when Mr. Sumner said : Mr. Sumner. I hope what we may do will be done with reference to the welfare of the country, and with no particular reference to any rumors or reports. There I agree with my friend ; but I do not ajree with him when he says; " Give the President another chance." Mr. Trumbull. I did not say that. Mr. Sumner. We have been already giv ing him too many chances, and you cannot act now without taking into consideration his character and position. Thos4 are now matters of history. I would speak with proper delicacy, with prope- reserve when I allude to them ; but I must act under the responsibility of a Senator. A large portion of our country believe the President to be a wicked man, of evil thoughts and unpatriotic purposes, and in spirit and conduct the suc cessor of Jefferson Davis, through whom, at this moment, the rebellion is revived. Those are the seutiments of a large portion of our people. Mr. Dixon. I would ask the Senator if that is the opinion of the majority, in his estimate. Mr. Sumner said that did not belong to the question. It was undoubtedly the opin ion of a large portion of the people of the United States; whether a majority or not, the future would disclose. He did not wish to go in advance of or anticipate any such judgment ; but spoke now simply with reference to what was before them. The question was, whether they should grive the President another opportunity. He said no; and in arriving at that conclusion he did not act on any iunior that was afloat, referred to by the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Trumbull,) but with reference to the charac ter of the Chief Magistrate, as displayed by his own acts. It would be rashness in the Senate to give him another oppotunity to practice on the country in the carrying out of his policy, as he had done in times past. They should not give him five minutes' chance for the exercise of an illegitimate power which he might thereafter make effec tive. It was an old saying, ' An ounce of preventive is better than a pound of cure." This was an occasion for its application. He saw no reason why this session should not expire precisely as the next begins, and so exclude every possibility of evil conse quences from the character of the Chief Magistrate. In other governments the mo ment a king died his successor was invested with the power. Hence the saying, " The king is dead. Long live the king 1" The Constitutional Convention. Several friends have written us making in quiry as to when, in our opinion, the Con stitutional Convention will assemble. We know no more in relation to it than others. We should think it would require at least twenty days from the election for the com manding General to receive and exarrincthe returns. By the 10th of December, there fore, he will have it in his power to announce the result ; and he may direct the Conven tion to assemble on the 20 th, or he may postpone it till the first day of January. We think it certain it will not assemble la ter than the first of January. The Conven tion ought to be able to frame a Constitu tion by the first of February. The Consti tution thus framed could be submitted to the people by the 10th of March ensuing ; and if the Convention should decide that in the first election under this Constitution the same voters that vote to ratify and reject may vote for State officers it being, of course, understood that if the Constitution is ratified said elections of State officers to be valid, otherwise to be null and void, we say, if this course should be adopted, as it may, then the elections for Governor. Lieu tenant Governor, members of the Legislature, State officers generally, and members of Con gress, could be held on the same day on which the Constitution is submitted to the people. These officers elected, and the Con stitution ratified, the latter could be laid be fore Congress, and by the 20th of April the Legislature could assemble. and choose two Senators. If the machinery should work thus well, by the first Oay of May, 1868, our Senators and Representatives in Congress can be in their seats, and the new State gov ernment can be inaugurated. We throw out these suggestions for con sideration, and with no purpose to forestall the opinions of any. We have full confi dence in the Convention, and feel sure it will do;what is just, and right, ' ' Personal. We have been pleased to see oqrj'cbtempbrary; Mr. Boner, Assistant Edi tor of the Asheville Pioneer, in this City for. the past few days. 5 V '"EIJECTIOirIlETIJRlfS. V r'" y v - , i; A c : - New Hanover County. The full rote of New Hanover County is as follows: Joseph C. Abbott, Rep. 2,926, bamuel S. Ashley, Rep. 2,920, Abrain H. Gal loway, Rep. 2913, O. G. Parsley, Cons. 1,094, W. E. Freeman, Cons. 1,093, S. S. Satchwell, 1,085. We are aorry to find Dr. Satchwell in such company. For a Convention 2,928, osainst 1,081. This is good voting. Much credit is clue the Republican candidates for their zeal and energy. Mecklenburg County. The vote of Mecklenburg County is as fol lows: Edward Fnllings, Rep. 1,503, Silas N. Stillwell, Rep. 1,443, Gluyas, Cons. 920. Hunter. Cons. 917. This is a fine result in old Mecklenburg. Stokes County. Riley F. Petree, Rep. 527, Rev. R. W. Hill, Cop. 112. For Convention 548, against 96. Stokes is all right. The Republican vote would have been larger but for the order consolidating some of the precincts. The Mountain Country. A friend writes us as follows from beyond the mountains. He repeats, what is well known, that the splendid Republican tri umphbejond the Blue Ridge is due to the white, as there are but few colored voters in that region : " We have closed in triumph a bitter cam paign in the mountains. Every effort and influence has been brought to bear to over throw and thwart us this side the mountains, but we have triumphed, and beyond the colored vote, showing conclusively that the colored vote didn't do it. Our mountain people are determined to go back to the Union on the terms prescribed by Congress. Chowan County. Extract from letter from a leading Re publican, dated Edenton, Nov. 20, 1867 : " I am pleased to inform you that the Union Republican party of this County has gained a glorious victory, and alter a desper ate conflict we have elected our regular Re publican candidate to the Convention, Hon. John R. French, by the sood majority of one hundred and sixty. On the question ot a Convention the majority is 541. We had a severe struggle, and while the colored men have stood bravely to the work, many of the white pretended Union men, frightened by the Northern elections, formed a disgraceful alliance with the enemies of Reconstruction. The Clerk of the Federal Court for Albe marle District placed hiaiselt at the head of this unholy alliance and openly peddled votes headed against a Convention I" What shall be said of such a Federal office holder ? But Chowan, brave little County, is strong for a Convention and sends no mongrel as a Delegate. Our friends are greatly elated at this suffi cient proof of the triumph of Liberty, Jus tice and Equality, while all feel inspired with great hope for the future. Craven County. Hon. David Heaton, Rep. 3,221, Capt. W. H. S. Sweet, Rep. 3,217, C. D. Pierson, Rep. 3,191, and an average ot 500 each for the Rebel candidates. This is a magnified result. Craven is all right, and will remain so. Deserved Compliment. The Hon. Thos. W. Conway, writing to the Washington Chronicle from Augusta, Ga., pays the following compliment to Judge Edmunds, President of the National U. L A., and to Hon. Thos. L. Tullock, Secreta ry of the Congressional Committee : " It requires but little effort to discover the fact that but for the efforts of the Con gressional committee, of which Senator Morgan, ot New York, is Chairman, and Hon. Thomas L. Tullock Secretary, joined with those of the Union League of America, of which Hon J. M. Edmunds is President, the Congressional plan of reconstruction would have proved an utter failure in most, if not in all, of the Southern or rebel States. I have now travelled pretty extensively in nearly all the States formerly in rebellion, and at all points I hear ot the work of these patriotic agencies. The names of Hon. J. M. Edmunds, Hon. Thomas L. Tullock, and the other gentlemen who have been actively engaged in laying the groundwork of Re publican victory in all the South will be imperishably inscribed upon the pages of the wonderful history which will give future ages a true picture of this great work now going on throughout this once slaveholding region. Already the few men in the South who cherish the love of freedom within a white as well as a black skin, use the names of these true men with such manifest evi dence of the love and esteem which they en tertain for them that one naturally believes that a great service must have been render ed by them as the reason for this feeling. And the evidence presented on every hand goes to show that yast work has been done. I have entered cities, and small towns, and remote country localities, and at every point I found organizations for the promotion of the Republican cause. There are councils of the Union League for the most part, each bearing a charter from the respective State organizations, acting under authority of the national organization in Washington. These councils are all well supplied with loyal literature by the Congressional Com mittee and by Judge Edmunds. The speeches of Wilson, Logan, Kelley, and others are to be found pretty generality cir culated. How some organizations are able to live amid the hostility of the rebel ele ment and the almost universal hate existing in rebel breasts against Congress, is only ac counted for by the peculiar adaptation of the League to the emergency now existing throughout this section. The men who originated this organization in the moun tains of Tennessee knew exactly what safe guards were needed against the dangerous machinations of the rebel element. The dangers then existing in Tennessee, when Union men were hunted clown and murder ed by organized rebel bands, were similar to those which, have surrounded every loyal family and hamlet in the Southern States from that day to this. The Congressional Committee, in accepting the League as their best engine tor the promotion ot the loyal cause in the South, did a very wise thing, and showed the practical, clear-sighted sagacity ot the patriotic gentlemen compos ing that committee." Mr. Conway adds: "The Union men of the South are so deeply and bitterly hated by the rebels that, were it not for thorough organization, and the fostering care of Northern organizations like those I have named, they would bo ut terly crushed. The more I travel over the South, the more I see of the lingering flames of treason and hatred toward the loyal men of the country, and especially toward our loyal Congress ; the more I see how thoroughly, systematically, and wisely the Congressional Committee aud the Union League have aided the Union men of the South,, both black and white, and how ' wol they have helped on the good cause of loyal reconstruc tion, with impartial manhood suffrage as the chief corner-stone, the more I feci like saying " God bless the noble men who have done so well." i Important new materials.fbr the history of Maine, have recently Wen discovered in the archives of Venice by Ex-President Woods, of Bowdoin college.' - They - throw great light on the discovercries of Cabot and set tle many disputed points. The New York Tribune, noticing the elec tion in this State, 'says : ? " The Conservatives did their best in most Counties, but were troubled with a lack of voters." What they lacked in voters they made up for in bitterness. We think the white vote for a Convention can not be less than 40,000. Many white voters perhaps 5,000 did not go to the polls and vote the Republican tick et, from fear that general negro suffra'e would in the end be lost, ami they would thereby incur lasting odium. But they can now see their way clearly, and will hereafter act openly and boldly with the Republican party. We think the Republicans of this State con hereafter count with certainty on a steady vote of 90,000. The Tribune further says : M We estimate, from the imperfect returns before us, that the Republican majority in the State is at least 30,000, and (hat' at least two-thirds of the delegates are Repi.blicans The counties that used to give .the larrj Democratic majorities (being the most pre ponderantly slave-holding) now give the largest Republican majorities ; but we also carry many of the overwhelmingly white.- -North-Carolina is evermore devoted to Free dom and Equal Rights." We have done better than that. The Re publicans have the State by 50,000 to 60,000 and more than two-thirds of the delegates. Thanksgiving Day, (Thursday last,) was duly observed in this City. Some of our people attended Church, some feasted and some carried on their usual business. Mr. Blair had an unusually large number of guests at the Yarborough House. It is unnecessary to say that the dinner was re markably good, and was relished alike by the Bar, the Bench, the Ladies, the Banks, the Editorial corps, and the rest of mankind. Mr. Blair is " a host in himself." Congress. In the House of Representatives, on the 26th, Mr. Baker, of Illinois, offered a resolu tion instructing the Committee on Ways and Means to inquire into the expediency of changing the laws so as to arrest the con traction of the currency, of reducing the tax on distilled spirits, and of reporting a more economical means of collecting it, re pealing the tax on cotton, and of adopting as a criterion of the measure of taxation a scale of revenue which would yield a sum only sufficient with the surplus in the Treas ury to pay the expenses of the Government and the interest on the public debt, etc. Adopted. Mr. Kelley offered a resolution declaring that the welfare of the people, and the maintenance of the faith and credit of the Government, require the repeal of the taxes on cotton, and on the productions of manu facturing and mechanical interests except distilled spirits, malt liquor, and tobacco. Referred, on motion of Mr. Washburne (Rep. III.,) to Committee on ways and Meins. The Washington Correspondent of the Tribune says : " The Judiciary committae of the House will, at their next session, take up the hill referred to them providing for suspension of the President pending impeachment. The bill is a general one in its character, and it is the opinion of many of the Senators and Members that it is necessary that some leg islation should be adopted explanatory of the Constitution of the United States on the subject. It is doubtful if the Committee report favorably on the bill. The vote of the House on the resolution instructing the Committee on Banks and Banking to report a bill providing for the withdrawal of the National Bank currency ncl substituting therefor greenbacks, is re garded as very significant of the temper of the House on the subject.- The Ways and Means Committee, in tend to take up at an early day the question of contraction, and report in accordance with the resolution re ferred to them to-day. They will also take up the question ot repealing the cotton tax. The wool interests are said to be strongly op posed to the repeal of this tax, as it will ma terially interfere with the production of wool. Falsehoods Corrected. It would he impossible to correct one-tenth of the Talse- hoods started by the so-called Conservative press. We must depend for these correc tions on the good sense and honesty of the people generally. The Wilmington Post says " The report sent from this city to North ern papers by telegraph and published by implication in a certain sheet in this city. that S. fc. Ashley one of the delegates elect to the State Constitutional Convention said in a speech on Friday night : ' Every colored man who voted the Conservative ticket ought to be bung as high as Hainan" is an unmitigated falsehood. The man who pen ned it and circulated it is either a knave or a fool." So we supposed. From the Washington Chronicle. HCZZ1 FOB. SORTQ CAROLINA! Eloquent Letter of Ex-Governor Holden. Raleigh, November 22, 1867. We have heard from enough counties to render it certain that we have achieved a grand and glorious victory. We know we have earned Wake, Granville, Warren, Franklin, Johnson, New. Hanover, Bladen, Wayne, Craven, Lenoir Brunswick, Cumber land, Hamett, Davidson, Edgecombe, and Duplin, giving us thirty-five members. I think we are certain of forty five more, thus giving us eighty to forty in the Convention. We have heard nothing yet from the great West, but I am sure we have swept every thing there. It so happens, fortunate! y ,that we got the East through the strength of the for the most part, of the whites, who luite always been Unionists, and ar now nepuw--cans. The contest has been fiercest in the middle part of the State, where ex-Governors Graham and Vance reside. The result has completed the destruction of the rebel influence, if we are only true to ourselves and hold the helm with an iron hand. "' The majority for a Convention canmt be less than 5O.000. Our friends went for it en masse, and the opposition were divided, some voting for and some against it. The undercurrent among the people was strongly for a Convention, though in many localities their prejudices were played upon, and they were induced to vote for candidates opposed to a Convention. It 'night be well for Penn tsyleania and Ohio to tote again. " We shall have the advantage, in framing the constitution of our State, of seeing the constitutions of other States. . It would be a burning shame to us all, if, after having ob tained such, a victory in the interest of the Union and of our loyal people, we should do. anything or omit anything by which the rebels should again get control, and divide and oppress ns as in the case of Maryland and Kentucky. Yours, very truly, W. W. HOLDEN. A generous burguiar, who is said to have been recently, transported to Australia for breaking open a safe, made a draft of -inoT del safe which he believes thief-proof, amU sent it to one of his victims as a compefisa- flu. in!nni n;linll llO had iTlUiCteUl upon iniu.