The Old North State

              ffptflj ms3j t it t p ' hanes fc ha-wpton pub & pro's the old north stale forever gaston single opie five cent vot.l salisbury n c fkiday , june 20 1sgg numlluk 1z the old north state weekly lewis hanes &. john s hampton publishers a proprietors . lewis hanks editor in uatks ok sudsraii'tien tj tkb.ti9 cash in advance tri-weekly one year • fs.to six months • • 3.00 - one mouth - - 7fi cu weekly 1 wee hy paper 0 y*':lr - • - i 1 00 ] •• •• six months • • l 80 ■ " » ten copies one year • 5,1.00 " " t«rcu!y conies hue year 40.00 a cross a on the piper indicated the expiration oi the subscription • tlie type on whicli tl ot.n n'oimi statu in printed is entirely new no pains will be snared to make it a wel nine visitor to evory family lo order to do this we h ive e igdfl • i the services ut able and accomplished literary contrlbut irs poetical the confederate flag 11v iiakky i flash of ia i.yksron four storm years wo saw it gleam a people's hope — and then re-furled even while its glory was tho theme of half tbe world thc beacon that with streaming ray dazzled a struggling nation's sight — seeming a pillar of cloud hy day if lire by night thev jeer who trembled as it hung omit-like blazoning the ky — and heroes sue as homer sung followed it — to die it fell — but stainless as it rose martyred like stephen in th trite ; passing like him girdled with foes from death to life fame's trophy sanctified hy tears ! planted forever at her portal ; folded true — what then > four short years made it immortal would x do you think if i'd n baby that i'd let him pull my hair do you think i'd put on collars just to let him foil and tear ! do you think i'd call it pretty when he bites his little toe ! yet i've known some silly mothers with their babes do just so do you think i'd set him crying just to see his cunning frown ? do you think i'd set him walking just ti see him tumble down ? would i call my baby pretty when he'd neither teeth nor hair yet i've known some silly mothers wiih iheir babies think they are would i buy him drums and rattles ,. just to hear him make a crash .- ayould 1 watch him most delighted break my mirror all to smash ! would 1 smother him in flannels just because his voice was low ? dose him up with llieir hella donna silly mothers treat them so would i think his brow byronic just because it was so bare 1 am his head napoleonic lu its shape — though minus hair could i trace the marks of genius in his eyebrows arched and low vet i've known some silly mothers ] with their babies think just so ayotjld i think my baby defined to become u man of men and to govern and control them by the might of sword or pen ! i dare say these noisy babies play the very deuce — 1 know ; and i've seen the wisest worn with their babies think just so a circular addressed to the conserva tive republicans of iowa calling a state : ( lonvcation for the purpose of organizing a i party to be known as the national union party has made its appearance the following is a paragraph irom the circular : ; we have heretofore teen republicans but being unable to oo-op crate with the jvidieal and dominant eh nun t of that party in a line of policy inaugurated since the j close oflhe war and which m believe to be fraught with the most disastrous eon sequences to the country wepropoi oto es iablish a separate organization to ih know ii i as the nation l'_iion i'.irty from the raleigh sentinel the tprison life of jefferson davis tla diary of poet burgeon craven the medical attendant of ex-president davis fni the first seven months of his prison lift baajust been published and will be rend with intense avidity both on this and the other continent the papers generally throughout the country are giving coplotas extracts from this - itjat ' remarkable book wc have space to-day fur only one but may give others hereafter the plain simple unadorned record of dr i raven sustains and corroborates the terrible report ofhis successor in office dr cooper while it is gratifying to know that since the report of the hitter the rigors of mr davis prison-life have been considerably mitigated it is difficult to conceive that any man — any state prisoner representing a cause ofthe magnitude fur which mr da vis is called upon to sutler — could have been the victim of such horrible brutality as marked the earlier btages ofhis confine ment such recitals a3 that whicli we subjoin — and which is but one out of many — re call the picture which the historian has left us of the terrible prison-hours of the hap less louis xvi si'a.vio.n's ikon's on the morning of the 23rd of mav a yet bitteier trial was in store for thc proud spirit — atrial severer probably than ha ever in modern times been inflicted upon any ono who had enjoyed such emin i e this morning jefferson davis was shack led it was while all the swarming camps of the armies of the potomac the tennessee and georgia — over two hundred thousand bronzed ami laurelled veterans — were pre paring for the grand review of the next morning in whicli passing in endless buc eession before the mansion of the presi dent the conquering military power ofthe nation mas to lay down its arms at the feet of civil authority that the following scene was enacted at fort monroe capt jerome e tiflow of the third pennsylvania artillery entered the pris oner's cell followed by the blacksmith of the fort and his assistant the latter carry ing in his hands some heavy and harshv rattling shackles as they entered mr davis was reclining on his bed feverish and weary after a sleepless night the food placed near to him the preceding dav still lying untouched on its tin plate near his bedside wi ii !" said yr davis as they entered slightly raising his head 1 have an unpleasant duty to perform sir aid captain titlowj and as he spoke the senior blacksmith took the shackles from his assistant davis leaped instantly from his recum bent attitude a flush passing over his face for a moment and then his countenance growing livid and rigid as death he gasped forbreath,clutchinghisthroat with the thin fingers of his right hand and then recovering himself slowly while his wasted figure towered up to its full height — now appearing to swell with indignation and then to hrink with tenor as he glan ced from the captain's face to the shackles — he said slowly and with a laboring chest my iod ! you cannot have been sent to iron me ?" such are my orders sir replied tlie officer beckoning the blacksmith to ap proach who stopped forward unlocking the padlock and preparing the fetters to do their office tilcsc fetters were of henry iron probably fire-eightlts of un inch in thickness and connected together by a chain of like weight i believe they arc now in the possession of mujor-geueroi miles uml will form an interesting relic this is too monstrous groaned the prisoner glaring hurriedly round the room as if for some weapon or means of self destruction 1 demand captain that you let iue see the commanding officer can he pretend that such shackles arc required to aeenre the safe custody of a weak old man so guarded and in such a fort as this it could serve no purpose replied captain titlow ; his orders are from wash ington as mine are from him but ho can telegraph interposed mr davis eagerly ; ihere may he some mis take xo such outrage as you threaten mc with is on record in the history of na tions beg him to telegraph and delay until ho answers my orders are peremptory said the officer and admit of no delay for vour own sake let mo advise ou to submit with patience as a soldier mr davis vou know 1 must execute orders these are not orders for a soldier sh iiited the prisoner losing all control of himself — they are orders for a jailor — for a hangman which no soldier wearing a sword should accept ! i tell you the world will rin;_r with this disgrace the war is over the south is conquered ; 1 have no longer any country but america and it is fur the honor of america as for my own honor and life that 1 plead against this de gradation kill me kill me he cried i passionatelv throwing his arms wide ofrtl and exposing his breast rather thanln | ' flict on me and on my people through ne i ' this insult worse than death l)o your duty blacksmith said thdof ! ■ ficer walking towards the embrasure i if i not caring lo witness the performance it i only gives increased pain on all sides fo protract this interview \ t i at these words t_io-blnck_miilh ndr^ssid fl : with thp shackles and seeing that the . j : oner had one foot upon the chair near his | i bedside his right hand resting on the ba;k i of it the brawny mechancic made au t 1 tempt to slip one of the shackles ovcr tin ! ankles so raised but as with the vellc i nience and strength which frenzy can im ' part even to the weakest invalid mr da j vis suddenly seized his assailant and hurl '• i ed him half-way across the room ( in this captain titlow turned and see ■ ing that davis had backed against the ' i wall for further resistance began to remon strate pointing out in brief char language that this course was madness and that or ■ dors must be enforced at any cost ' why ' | compel me he said to add the further in > i dignity of personal violence to the nceessi 1 ty of your being ironed 1 am a prisoner of war fiercely retort ed davis i have been a soldier in the armies of anurica and know how iodic only kill me and my last breath shall be • a blessing on your head but while i luive i ' life and strength to resist for myself and for my people this thing shall not be '' done hereupon captain titlow called i a | geant and file of soldiers from the nrxl ' in and the sergeant advanced to siilze i tho prisoner immediately mr davis lew ' ■ on liira seized his muskei and uttcni|itcd 1 to wrench it from his grasp j of course such a scene could have but one isuc then was a short passionate 1 . cuttle in a moment davis was flung up on his bed and before his four powi lei assailants removed their hands from him 1 the blacksmith and his assistant had d uifi their work — one securing the rivet on the right ankle vt bile the other turned the key ou the padlock ou the left this done mr davis lay for a moment i as if in a stupor then slowly jrnising himself and turning round he dr t ied his 1 shackled feet to ihe floor the harsh 1 clank of the striking eh iin seems first to ■ have recalled him to his situation and | dropping his face into his hands he hurst into a passionate hood of sobbing rooking to and fro aud muttering at brief intervals oh the shame the shame 1 mail contracts ste the following from dr lobe the so cial mail agent for thi state will give the requisite information to our people in regard to mail contracts postmasters c we are glad to learn that dr jelje is about to visit the mountain district in or der to facilitate the opening of posi offices and post routes iu that section we are pleased to be able to say that the doctor is exerting himself to afford us mail facili ties : otfficeof special agent post-okfice department .- raleigh n ('...! une 13 go ) by request of members oflhe ( on van - tion i publish a short synopsis of the reg ulations of the post-office depnrlment.su ihat each member may procure a copy for reference 1 no hid for conveying the mails will hereafter be considered unless the lest oath ofthe bidder in ou file at the depart 1 ment a contractor must be twenty-one years old to enable him to give a legal t bond the proposals must be sigivd hy ■ the bidder or bidders the guaranty by not less than two guarantors anil the cer . tiiicate by a postmaster or a judge of re cord place a 5c revenue stamp on if and send by mail direct to contract office post oliice department washington d c 2 persons whose names are sent on for appointment as postmaster c must he twenty-one must take the test oath wliich must be bent with the bond after the appointment is made _>. a lady who has aliving husband can not give a legal bond therefore canuol he postmistress unmarried ladies and wid ows can applications for appointments must be seift lo i'iist assistant postmaster geueral uld post-uflices may be moved short ' distances to accommodate the neighbor ' hood without changing the name of the post ollice any one over 10 years may carry the mail by taking the lesi oath i hereby tender my thanks to the mem bers of the convention for their cheerful '■ co-operation wiih me and for the aid they have given me in establishing mail labili ties in various parts of the state hoping hereafter gentlemen fo receive more such acts of kindness at your hands 1 have the honer to bo your ob't serv't a jobe special agent shameless and sad in thc report of wednesday debate in the united states senate pending the dis cussion of the important amendment to the plan of reconstruction introduced by mr tuoouttle we lind the following passage mr sherman said he believed sir iioo jittle's amendhnent was ri;_.it in principl ■. mt he shifnld vote against it because he foit.it his duty to sustain the action agreed upon by his political friends it is unnecessary in this place to con sider the merit of mr doolittla's amend ment it is quite enough for onr present ! purpose that sir sherm 01 believed it to be right in prinfcn'ple and yet fell liinia if bound to vote against it to sustain the ac tion agreed upon by his political friends the confession was a frank one bul bc trayb an ignorance of public duly or an indifference to it on the purl of a senator ' of the united stati .-. which it is not plcai - ant to think of especially at a lime when i the council in which he its is entrusted , with interests of such awful moment to the ' people and their posterity as those which engage it now if mr sherman was a man of inconsid erable note or one distinguished among his political fellows as specially shameless and unscrupulous perhaps hisavow'al that he holds the obligation to serve his party paramount to the duty which he owi s to his country as on of its sworn public ser vants mighl be passed over without much comment as betraying a lack of conscience striking indie i but individual and excep tional he is one of ihe ablest of the re publican senators with a larger experi ence iii public affairs than most of them and with a better reputation for courage independence and honesty when there fore he confessed that he must needs vote igainsl au amendm nt to the constitution wliich h believed to be right in principle because it conflicted with thc schemes of ii party associates we are not to suppose that he is the only g.-ntleman in the pres ent congress who has sacrificed his con victions of the right on the altar of taction lie simply spoke out what others less bold aid nioi-e erafly choose and strive to con c al lie put into words a truth which cores of li l lieals attest only hy their ac ti nut lt has been made manifest more than once duriug thc present session of congress that the measures of thaddeus stevens were as distasteful to some of the repub licans ou the floor as thc insolent harangues with which he introduced and advocated ■ them mr raymond of new york for instance has delivered elaborate speeches to show that some of these measures were conceived in iniquity and were hopeless for good mr bingham has done like wise and so at different times have many others but when schemes which thev had spent their breath in opposing reached a vote thev have uniformly failed to mus ter the courage requisite to do the bidding of conscience in defiance of the commands of parly the frown of stevens has been potent 1 nough to coerce their support of measures which his logic hadfniled to con vince them wore light and which heart and reason alike told them were wrong it is impossible to estimate how many oth er who were unable or did nol choose to speak 11 i iest felt their restive rhetori cal associates and faltered as hey did in the decisive iiinmotlti w in 1 we conmder that congress is em ployed upon no less . work than the re construction of this government and has undertaken to remodel the law given us ! by our fathers : that the changes which are ' under discussion are of the most vital char i arter and look to a revolution in our polit ical system at least as radical as that ef fected when the constitution was sub.-ti tuted for the articles of confederation it is indeed a start ling and melancholy thought that the spirit of partisanship has subvert ed and overridden the spirit of patriotism in the great council of the nation fancv in the convention which framed the con stitution roger sherman or james madi son or lien jamiii franklin or robert mor c-8 or john rutlodge or alexander hara jlton or any one of that glorious company of patriots standing up in the majestic presence of washington and declaring that while he believed that one ofthe proposed articles ofthe great law was right in prin ciple he must vote against it because he must sustain his political party yet that is precisely what mr sherman did in the senate of the tinted states on last wedues day unrebnked and unanswered and it is > because demagogues of his kiud have un dertaken to make the work which those statesmen of olel did in good conscience and for all time conform to the needs of their party and embody its passions that we tremble for the future of these states and mourn over iheir proud aud vanished past — philadelphia age in indiana lhe radicals have been de feated in most of l he republican conven tions the storm which visited baltimore on sunday afternoon caused serious damage to a number of residences there radical conspiracy the washington llepiiblinin admin of yesterday in its leading editorial alleg es the existence of a treasonable conspira cy on the part of a certain political faction at the north it says : it is nothing less than a conspiracy to override thc constitution under the gui3e of a few construction of t l pari " ii.li of lhe first asapon , ' ii ih 1 instrument whicb i l.acli state shall ap ncr i i ho legislature tfa a number of electors - qn il to number of senators and i which tlie state may be entitled in k.l coi •.'■• i ." i ., • in w construction is that no state i : entitled to appoint any electors which shall not have senators and 1 prcsentatives i.i congress at the time si trting out upon this unsound hypothesis the c in ; resolved that no senators and represen tatives from eleven states who ■ inhabi tants were concerned in the recent reuel lion bhould be admitted to scats in con gress until after hic ! this rebellion is the key-note to tho ob stinate refusal of congress to admit to tlnir rightful scats senators and represen tatives whose loyalty was never doubted and to the organized opposition in couj gress to what is known as the i'kesi di:m plan of restoration referring to the various pretences as signed bv the radicals for excluding sou thern representatives the republican do dares that none of these reasons control the question a bingle hour only hi idea that un unrepresented state cantiol it we , h ctors of president and vice president does repudiating as an absurdity lbe theory that the electoral voice of a state depends upon its full and actual representation in i • ongress instead of upon the number of presentatives to which the state is entt | ii the jtejiitblieiiii says that the conspi i y has yet another feature it is held ] lnat if the southern states should send iu their electoral votes the simple refusal of tin president of the senate to open the ' certificates would sutfice to effect ht\rle,in j exl fusion the comments of the te),hl can upon this are worthy to be pondered : " we cannot contemplate any attempt to stifle the electoral voice of a state by such means iritltnitt lhe most painful ttppre lunsiuiis we greatly mistake thc temper ofour people if it would not provoke it con jliet quits ns ' irrepressible ' if not as bloo dy as unit which litis just terminated secretaries ofthe treasury tlie treasury department was created by act of onpross approved septembers 1789 the following ' itltof tbe secretaries from thecreation nf tbe depart ment drawn from official records with date t ip pointinent state from which appointed together with the your of birth and if not surviving the year f death except in two or three cases where the dateof birth or death has not been learned will lie found worth preservation we have no seen bo lull a sched ule published in any book : borv imtd a hamilton 2 . y sop 11 1789 1757 1804 o wolcott conn feb 8 itij ltj'i is33 6 dexter mass may 81 1800 nt>l 1816 a oallatln pa jan 36,1809 17t 1848 <;. w campbell tenn feb 9 1804 1768 1848 a j dallas pa oct 6 ism i7«i 1817 w ii crawford ga march 6 1817 1773 1336 h hush i'.i mirob 7 1835 1780 i860 si ingham ol pa march 6 133 177 ittfio i m lane del mav 6 4833 1786 is w.i l>.i[in pa may 39 list 1 17m1 — 1 ii tanev md not continued i v the •■■• naic sept 23 1s.3 .' 1777 1s64 l woodbury nu june 38 i i7i 1661 tewing ohio march 6 1 75 — w forward pa sept 13 1 . .'•« 0 j m spencer n v marchs . wi f m llibb ky june 15 ' i b j walker miss mat hi w mmcr*dl-h,pa„mnrr'i ' l-tt t corwin ohio july 33 is . . 1794 j gnti e ky march 7 is">3 .. ii cobb ca march 6 1857 p f thomas md deo is 1560 :> o _. 1 j a 1h j v jan ii liol 1 s — rp chase ohio may5 18ci 1808 — ' w p l-'i'ssenden me jul 1 it 1 i ti_i __ i umcculloob ind may 1885 ( 1 11.1tiv.of maine — ~ . 0 . — the washington itejiithlicin argues that the natural result of the radical policy is to throw the southern people upon them selves and their own resources for sym pathy and for prosperity the tax on cot ton for instance will prompt them to man ufacture what they prow instead of send ing it to lowell the republican argues that the south will thus be built up into a strong power we have never doubted that practically the south has been injured by the absorb ing devotion of its leading minds to politi cal pursuits if it had bestowed a tithe f the energy upon industrial development that it has upou federal politics it would be as prosperous and gri at s a section as its wisdom and valour have mado the united states as a nation the hi red legislation therefore which is expected to retard and injure it may have exactly the opposite effect i may compel the south to turn its attention exclusively to tin d • velopment of its wonderful resources and if this is the result it will be h blessing ia disguise — ball e transcript _ _^ 1 a company is being firmed in atlanta to erect an oppera house at a cost of 70,000 amfssack from the presi dent on thk reconstruc tion question wellington june 22 — the president sent into congress to-day the fallowing message in ret._t.on to the reconstruction amendment to i i constitujiou : to the su ate and house of rcpresenttt ■ tires — i to cot gress a report of thp * le venom was referred 1 the 18th inst legislature f tin f ■ ■■!'• to the ' trill - -• my ... u'ft-s mii . d stati ci : '. . e r solu tion passed no ; ie 13th ;- fn it proi ising an amendment to the oonst-ttttion eve i in ordinary times any question of amending the co_ist!:utioa must be jui:ly regarded a tit paramount importance — this importance a thc present time is en ;, me d by thc fact that the joint resolution ivi a not submitted by the two houses f'or the approved ofthe president and that of the thirty-six states which constitute the : l ni n < i cn arc excluded from n bentation in either house of congress al : thou h with the single exception of tex as they hi ve bci n eniirely restored to all their fuuetions an states iii conforrpity with the organized law cf the land and have appeared at ;' ti k'atio ul capitol by ' senators and representatives who have pplicd for and have been refused admis sion to the vacant seat ; nor have the sovereign people of tlje nation bei i afford ed an opportunity of expressiag their views upon upon the important question which the ameddment involves grave doubts therefore naturally and justly arise a to whither the action of cougress j id i.i harmony with the sentiments of tho people aud whether state legislatures ' elected without reference to such an issue i bhould be be called upon by congress to decide respecting the ratification of tho i proposed amendment waiving the ques tion as to the constitutional validity of i the proceedings of < . ingress upon the joint resolution proposing thc amendment or as to the merits of th ai.icl . which it sub mits through thc executive department to the legislatures of the states i deem it proper to observe thai the steps taken by the secretary of slate as detailed in the accompanying report are to be considered as purely ministerial and iu no sense whatever committing the executive to au approval or a recommendation of the amendment to the state legislatures or to tie people on the contraiy a proper | appreciation ofthe letter and spirit of the ' ( onstitution as well as of the interests of the national order harmony and union and due defierei.ee for an enlightened pub lic judgment may at this time suggest a doubt iv-hetlmr any amendment to the constitution ought to be proposed hy con gress aud passed upon the legislatures of the states for final decision until after the admission of such loyal senators and rep resentatives of the uow unrepresenti d states as have been or may hereafter be chosen in conformity v ith the constitu tion and laws ofthe united states a.\ii;:i:\v johnson accompanying the message of the pres ident is the report of the secretary of state announcing that he had in conform ity with the proceeding which had beeu adopted by him in lsgo in regard to these proposed and afterwards adopted coagrea ioual amendments to tho coustituton of iicd states concerning the proiiibi ■ i . ' ry transmitted certified copies ion lo the governors of ther with a certiti 1 in iy i ■ . . - i ... gr julti on to ever am ienn ilu tu .. y oae y u after the close oj a ,.. ous and terribly ' cosily war the committee of ways and means iu our congress liould feel at lib erty to recommend the cutting down of one fifth ofour national taxes considering that reduction fully justified by ihe state of the treasury it is a solid aud unanswer able argument in favor of our national strength nnd rcsorces the ordinary method of crushing largo ma e of east iron into fragments are both cumbersome and sxpensive but th new french method consists in drilling a hole in the maps of cast iron for about one-third of its thickness filling this with water closiug it with a steel plug which fits accurately and l_ittitig tii ram ofa i he-driver fall on tin plug the v.r first blow splits up tho mass •<_»-. b^five car load of rations arrived by the montgom iry and westpotyt railroad a f w days ego fi r ihe destitute of alabama they were a pan of the proceeds of the fair originated and o successfully carried through by the noble ladles of baltimore their generous conduct will never bo fonrotten by the people of this a-.:d other unfortunate southern mat montjjo„i<.ry ad