it f§§p l l the old jvorth stale forever gaston single copies five cen lewis h.livks editor k proprietor salisbury n c tuesday july 9 1867 whole no 213 vol ii no 42 w — ________ _____^ i the old north state tri weekly ej rates of subscription _£_( terms-cash in advance tri weekly sine year - • 6.00 six months - mtkt - hue month /•■- - *■ weekly " ; woe kl , uaper one year - - • 3.00 .. 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for the elixir nud he at once re stored trr health anil happiness a perfect i'uiv is iiiaruntceij in every instance price 1 or four initile-r to one address t one bottle is sufficient to effect a cure in all ordinary ca es also uk joixvili.e's specific pills for the speedy and permanent cure of ionorrheii gleet urethral discharges grovel stricture and all affections of the kidneys and ltladilcr cures ell'ectec in from one to live days they are prepared from vegetable extracts that are harmless on the system and never nauseate the stomach or impregnate the breath no change ol diet is necessary while using them nor does their action in any manner interfere with business pur suits price 1 per box either of the above-mentioned articles will be ent to any address closely sealed and post-paid hy mail or express on receipt of price address ail orders to berger shutts v co chemists n 285 river street troy n y aprill.'fi tw-ly know thy destiny madame __. p thornton the great en glish 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the picture and desired informa tion by return mail all communications sa credly confidential address iu confidence madame e f thornton p 0 box isa hud.on n y mar 38 18(37 tu ly i : vol mi lady returning to her country home after a sojourn of a few months in the city was hardly recognised by her friends in place of a coarse rustic hushed face she had a soft ruby complexion of almost marble smoothness and iustead of twenty , three she really appeared but eighteen upon i inquiry as to the cause of so great a change sim plainly told them that she used the cir , cassian balm ami considered it an inval | utible acquisition t.r any lady s toilet liy its i iiseuiiv lad or genneman cau improve their personal appearance an hundredfold it is i simple in ite combination as nature herself is simple yet unsurpassed iu its efficacy in drawing impurities from also healing cleans ing and beautifying the skin and complexion by its direct action on the cutiole it draws from it all its impurities kindly healing the same md leaving the surface as nature intended it ihoul i be clear soft smooth and beautiful price 1 seut by mail nr express on recept ut an order by w l.clark a (',.., chemists no 3 west payette st syracuse n y i'll ly american agents for the sain of th«t same march 88 tw iy from the new york triluuut the railing of jefferson davis examina tion of mr greeley before ihe house ju dieiary committee washington july 1 mr greeley was in washington to-day pursuant to a lewjmiqllis from the house ifcii'-"1 committee as wttmwr^^m^7j¥ft mill th njers being present except mr wilson the chairman after waiting two hours for a stenographer the examination proceeded : horace greeley sworn and examined by mr boutwell q have you at any time lssssl a conver sation or communication with the presi dent or with any member of the cabinet 1 in reference to tho trial or release of jef ferson davis ? a no sir not directly 1 once talked with or rather had a conversation with mr speed about the case but with no other member of the cabinet q when did that conversation take place 1 a in the spring of 18(10 ; i do not re collect the date it was the day before you mr boutwell offered a resolution about the case of jefferson davis in the house of reprepresentalive i who else was present at that con versation ? a mr george shea was the only third person present he was couusul for jef ferson davis t what was the nature of the conver sation eo for as mr speed took any part in it 1 a the object of mr shea was to as certain whether if an application were made lor bail the government would re sist it q what news on that subject did mr speed present on that occasion .' a none at all ; he wus very non-com mittal i could not make out anything from his conversation ; he did not know or did not wish to say why the views of the government were on the subject at all i came away with no impressjon uhout what be would do ; he s..id nothing that indicated whether he would or would not object q did yosi ever have any communica tion with or information from the presi dent in reference to the matter ? a none in the world q or with any oilier member of the cabinet . a no sir mr speed is tho only mem ber of the cabinet by whom i remember having heard the name of jeff davis men tioned q at the time of the release of davis on bail in may last did you have any con versation with any member of the cabinet a no sir on my way to richmond and back i did not slop at washington q at the time you wont to richmond bad you any previbns i iformation as tn what tbe policy of the government would be in reference to the releasing of mr da vis ? ■ a 1 hud none ; i had no information until we came into court as to what the government would do i do not know whether the government was going to re sist the application for hail or not by mr eldiidge : t at whoso sugges tion or solicitation did you become bail for jefferson davis ? a mr george shea's ; be was a very old and intimate acquaintance and irieiul of mine t you had no communication with any government officer soliciting you to be come bail for jefferson davis a no sir nor any information that il would be desirable q you had no communication on the subject with the president or any of his officers 1 a no sir q were you after you came here or after you went to richmond solicited by any officer of the government to go bail for jefferson davis i a no sir j was mr shea present at the time you signed the bond a yes q at richmond ? a yi s sir q had you anv communication with jefferson davis about going bail for him a no sir 1 had never any communi cation by letter word ; i did not know him until i buw iiiin in cour q did any one after it was known that you proposed to go bail for mr davis ap lv to you not to do so or write to you about it i a will sir there was a hubbub about it at the time i was here and senator wade and senator chandler talked with me about it i think senate cresswell of maryland was also present i do not recollect any other person q oil what ground did they advise you not to go bail for jefferson davis ? a there was a conversation of half an hour between us on the subject i cannot stnto definitely what particular reasons tbey urged tbey thought it would be bud policy and that it would have a bad influence q thnt it would have a bad effect on the republican party 1 a i believe so that was tho impress ion i had q were there any other persons en deavoring to prevent your going bail for jefferson dftv'ls ? a 1 do not recollect ; there may have been one or two personal friends doing so , although it was not generally known that 1 intended to go bail q did they put their objections ou par ty grounds alone ? a generally q there was ho principle involved in it a i do not recollect ; they mane no ' impression on me other that it would bein jurious to the party (.). did you tell hem that was a party 1 question to bail jefferson davis he having j been imprisoned so long ? a no sir in the first place i was de j sirous to bring on the trial ; llie first year i thought we could compel the govern i incut to bring the prisonor to trial by a ' writ of habeas corpus ; finally i thought the time for a trial to any good purpose had passed {}. did you go bail for jefferson davis with a view of never having him tried ? a no ; i wished to have him tried if j the government should ever wish to try | him y . i understand you as saying that you thought tho time for trying him to any ] good purpose had passed away f a that was my judgment (.}. is that your opinion now a yes so far as i know the facts ; if i he had anything to do with assassinating president lincoln or poisoning or btarv ing prisoners i wish him to bo tried ; i do j not know uuy facts that justify either i charge q you know of no facts on the subject i of his connection with the assassination of president lincoln ? a no sir none that would connect i hi_a with it nearly one hundred persons p sstrated by lightning — last thursday afternoon as a largo crowed were assembled in the 1 fair grotindl of the springfield union agri ' cultural association a thunder shower came i up and tins people present sought shelter in the exhibition sheds suddenly the i lightning strtick one of tin so sheds which contained men women and horses about one hundred persons were paralyzed in an instant falling on their faces and as many ! as fifty were rendered insensible for five or fn minutes while about a dozen were se riously burned two horses were killed on the spot an old gentleman named john gordinier and two or three others ! are not expected to recover one woman i was prostrated and deprived of ber senses but not of her power oi locomotion ; she instinctively gathered herself up and ran to the bus and was conveyed to holmes hotel and declared she had uo recollec tion of what took place after the hash un til she found herself in a room at the bouse the lightning struck a post in tho cen tre of the shed against which henry til 1 ion the landlord of the west falls hotel j was leaning and to which a horse was at i lacked by a chain halter the horse was . killed instantly while mr tilton escaped by being stunned and kuockod down a ■ singular tact mentioned in connection with the strange freak of electric fluid is that all ', the persons rendered insible fell upon their faces a young lady named mi*s nellie casscy was quite seriously injured and ; ber dnss was scorched but did not take liie another woman was struck on the shoulder the fluid passing down her side falsing a blister in its course a man from j j ( io was bit on the right side of the head and on his recovery the mark was found \ i to c uiuience at the right eye and could bo plainly traced down the neck across the chest and oft tho left arm the most j fearful consteistiiialion existed among the ' people until it was discovered how light the injuries were buffalo express july i the surratt trial — since the com ' siieiiceinenl of the suriatt trial a fact has come 1 1 light regarding the court which j tried and sentenced mrs surratt that de serves to be made public it seems ihat i after the triul and sentence the court joined , in earnestly recommending her to mercy and that all the members thereof except the judge advocate general signed the recommendation the paper is said to be i in the handwriting of the hon john a bingham f a kentucky correspondent of the cincinnati gazette has such a poor opinion of the loyally of that state that he says ; 1 1 jefferson davis as a candidate for the | presidency to-day would carry kentucky even over such a mild radical as u s.i grant by 50,000 majority and john c i breckinridge in a like cm t st wou'd beat , the hero of nashville and other bard-fought , j fields — general george h thomas — by i i even a greater majority freedmen and their contracts tlio politic il agitations antl league or ganizations are beginning to work fearful mischief in the rural district ns might have been as was by all calm and sagacious persons anticipated mr william allen of clarenfont had a very large crop of wheat and just as it was ready for the sickle the treedmen employed by him or ituiiietu.i . ) reprebto tea nic nets to gen eral schofiehl v ho had one of the freed men arrested iiiul brought before him the acknowledgement of tho freedman estab lished the fact that ho had broken his con tract without cause mid had with his col li agues left mr alh.n's very large crop to bo lost so far as they were concerned tho general had til's whole of them arres ted and conveyed back under guard to the plantation where thex were required ogo on with the harvest the guard remaining to see the work done it is plain that if such faithlessness is permitted the crops of the state must be greatly curtailed we learn from many districts sad accounts ot the irregularity of the freed men the party missionaries aro paving the wny for tho perpetuation of the bureau aud the rations — richmond dispatch the pulpit orator — a correspondent of the petersburg index writing from balti more says : '• hut there was a pulpit prodigy bore the same day who is growing issto such fame as bids fair to rival that of spurgcon his name is munsey and he is a member ofthe baltimore conference we believe of the methodist episcopal church south — he has not been long at this calling and was an unlettered man in humble life but comparatively a few months back when bis talent was revealed to a fri'-nd who aided liiin to the short culture wiih which he is producing such wonderful effect his power of oratory is said to be miraculous and his reasoning faculties no less so — people here and in the valley flock tohear him and his influence is talbed of and felt everywhere i could not gain a seat in the church in which he hold forth sunday night ; but several friends who wore more fortunate reported that all the praises they had previously heard bestowed upon him fell fir short ofthe real height of his pow ers certain it is that hereafter he will be so famous as to cause interest even to this meagre notice ot bis ministerial begin ning damages by the freshet the accounts from different parts of this and the eastern sections of the slate ofthe effects of the late heavy rains are we re grcct to say very disheartening the low land-crops everywhere have beeu complete ly flooded with water and the prospects lately so promising and cheering are with many planters blighted and put to naught from all along the cape fear information conies to us of the rice crop ruined corn and cotton submerged and the hard year's labor of the ind ust rioiis farmer totally lost we have recently been shown a letter from lumberton representing the prospect to be as bad il not even worse in that part of north carolina asid on the border of south carolina s took has been drown ed produce washed away and other prop erty destroyed ; tho charlotte & ruther ford kail road has been seriously dam aged and rendered impassable by hi^h water in several places ; cross tics floated off embankments broken down and the trains stopped the wilmington & man chester if road it is leased is isi even worse condition and as will be seen by reference to our columns the wilmington &• weld ui k k co has sustained great loss bv il heavy rail __ . _ vc'".,;!,i,"giad to'.ie;t'irbi$*to mention as some set-oft lor the above gloomy news that the crops on the high lands of cum berland nnd so far is we have beard oth er neighboring counties especially corn are looking well and promise a good yield lot us hope for the best and look forward with unfailing spirits to the chauce which is yet left of bountiful harvests throughout the south _ fob the ladies — as the season for wearing light-colored fabrics is at hand 1 send you an excellent method for washing 1 dresses of printed muslins lawns kc so ! as to preserve the colors whether the pat 1 lorn be printed in black or variegated hues i the dress should lie washed in lather and i not by applying the soap in the usuai way i direct upon the muslin make a lather by boiling some nap aiul water together i let it stand instil it is sufficiently cool for use and previously to putting the dress into it throw in a handful f'salt rinse the dress without wringing it iss clear cold water into which a little salt has been thrown remove it and rinse it in a fresh supply of clear water and salt then | wring the dress in a cloth and hang it to dry immediately spreading as open as pos sible so as to prevent one part lying over another should there be any white iu the pattern mix a little blue in tbe wa ter thk way voters are made on yesterday a negro appeared for registra tion here and when the challenger asked where do you live ." down here he responded on mr lyncb's street where do you work . " up tho canal down at the rolling mills that's four miles from tho town do jmj1 enul hero every night to sleep 1 " yes sir have you a wife or children living at this place f " no sir have you a father or mother who are living here ? " no sir whose house do you live at t " i don't know ; i sleep with a man whatjs his name ? " i don't know sir registrar to cliallenger — do you in sist ou his proving his residence ? " i think the statement so absurd that any proof is unnecessary but if you insist upon registering him i insist upon proof of residence of course the proof was brought and the darkey left a full-blown suffragan though it is more than doubtful whether he was ever in the city before in another instance a negro named wm balls applied for registration and being challenged announced as to bis residence that he lived in mr monntcastle's house he was asked how long he had lived there and replied since this morning he was told to wait until to-day and he could reg ister ! notwithstanding he had moved in to the city only for the purpose of register ing and will be out of it iu less than a week — lynchburg news jtw during a recent discussion in the british parliament when the debt of the united states was the subject it was said that the payment of interest rather than principal wus the true policy mr case approved this view and said : when he was in america before the war he spent all the time ho c uild among the slaves and be was introduced to one who was very rich and abundantly able to buy his free dom he asked him why he did not to do so no hurry about dat said the sagacious darkey i'segrowin olderebery day and growiu cheaper " gp a young lady school teacher of indianapolis was last sunday endeavor ing to impress upon her scholars the ter rible effects of the punishment of nebu chadnezzar she told them that for seven years he ate grass just like a cow just then a small boy asked : did he give milk 7 we are not informed whether the teacher gave any further bovine informa tion to the small boy ty two english women not long since called at the studio of randolph rogers i in rome and in the course of their survey i ofthe rooms one of them asked the name i of a statue before which she and her com i panion had paused in evident admiration of its beauty mr rogers politely infi sml ed bis questioner that the figure was culled nydia the blind girl of pompeii when she turned to her companion and repeated the information that the statue was called nubia the wild girl of bombay tw some time ago the war depart ment called on the commanders of the five | military districts for estimates showing what amount of money would be required t r carry out the reconstruction acts in their several districts these estimates have been rendered and it appears that general sheridan's estimate is more than double that of any other commander from the the fund of 500,000 appropriated by con grocti to defray tbo expenses of reconstruc tion under the act and its supplement tbe following sums have beeu apportioned to the districts mentioned : gen scboficld's 839.444 general sickles 29,454 gen eral old's 87,222 ieneral pope's 897 i 222 and ieneral sheridan's 8106,006 a be itj ir i extract — the velvet ' moss growb osi sterile rocks the misletoe j flourishes on the naked branches tho ivy cling io the mouldering ruins the pine ! and cedar remain irish and fadeless amid the desolation of the receding year — and j heaven lit praised something green and beautiful to see and grateful to the soul j will in the darkest hour of fate still twine in tendrils around the crumbling altars and broken arches ot tin desolate temple of the human heart w about these days manufacturers of almanacs have their annual opportunity to record tbe fact that for awhile it is now perpetual day at the north pole since the i sun at this season does not dip behind tho horizon the boston transcript says : — ! in iceland the finest print can be read at | any hour for many weeks to come the ' same phenomenon obtains in the remote regions of walrussia and if it lasts many • ! weeks it would seem to afford afavorablo i opportunity for some otherwise unoccupied i walrussian to get through with sumner's ! speech