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C. -:0: S&J3CX&& CT.ICE FOR THE CURE OF Cancers, Tumors, Scrofula, Chronic Ulcers, Epilepsy, Uterine Diseases, Liver Diseases, Skin Disease , And all Kindred Affections, 1 r f I.1 / ITlll.J /, l ly 1j v.m i\i'i v'.a.nt i j i v.*s 1 i aluksj ' ' iiiul Ulcers with our Specifics without the Use of the Knife, without Loss of Blood, and with but little Pain to the Patient. Our terms of Treat ment are in the reach ot all. All communications addressed to us will meet with prompt attention. Certificates of euros and circulars sent free on application. Oflice and Infirmary, Kast Centre St., Goldsboro, N. C. OK. ,J. MILES IIUNTEIt & CO. Sept. 30, 1873-29-0m. MILLERS ALMANAC For the Year 1874 ?.tf. i'UHMBUEU FOlt i { Y COUNTY' or ealc at 10 cents each bv I Jj M. I; BEATYi /?ec 9 1873 "TO-DAY," THE PEOPLE'S 1LLUSTHATKI) PAPEtt It is a thoroughly American enterprise, illustrated by the leading artist ami teeming with Jiho best efforts of the most able writers of our /country. 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Tin* Congress has to-day precisely the same right to interpose lis authority for the preservation of the essence ot Republican institutions in South Carolina that it had in 1807, when it declared that the Civil Government in the Southern States should "he, in all respects, subject to the paramount authority ot the I Hit cd St At es, to abolish, modity, control and supersede the same." The lirst Civil Government estab| lished in South Carolina after the war j was formed undei the proclamation ot President Johnson of June 21, I80o, i which proeluination emphatically dodeclares that it is issued hi obedience | to "the high and solemn duties" imposed upon the President "by the constitution of the Putted Stales," and for the purpose of enabling the people of South Carolina "to organize a State Government whereby justice may be : established, domestic tranquility restored, and loyal citizens protected in their rights of lile, liberty and proper; ty." An election was held ot dele' gates to a constitutional convention, ; the persons voting being those who I had taken the amnesty oat!: and were qualified to vote under the l iwsol'thc , State. The eon vent ion met in Septemj her, 1805, and {'rained an organic law. ! The State Legislature met, as required, on October 25th. There was in the action of President Johnson a bold j avowal of the power of the Lxccuiive, under the Constitution, to prescribe the terms upon which a State might be 'readmitted to the Union. And this view is home out by the subsequent conduct of Congress, which hody did not approve of the organic law of i860 and the laws passed hy the Ceneral Assembly, and, therefore, abolished the civil government in South Carolina. This was done hy t he Reconstruction Act of March 2d, 1807, which declares that until the people, of "the said Rebel States shall, hy la.v, he admitted to representation to the Congress of the United States, all civil governments that may exist therein shall be in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States, at any time to abolish, modify, control and supersede the same." And in the act of March 23d, 1807, Congress declares that the State shall he admitted to representation, it the provisions of the act have been complied with, and the State Constitution, as adopted, "shall be approved by Con | grCKS." Every public office in Sonlh Caro: 1 in:t to-day is held under, and every ! law on the Statute Hook is derived I from, the State Constitution trained under the reconstruction laws in 1878, and "approved by Congress." It was the approval of Congress which gave vitality to t he government of the State. Until the approval was had, the constitution and the body politic lay dead. The power of Congress, as expressed by the approval, was higher than that of the people of South Carolina, as expressed in the organic law which their representatives framed and which the\ adopted. And what Congress did it can undo. Tho authority which made can unmake. It is evident and indisputable that, as an act of Congress gave effect to the State Constitution formed under the conditions which Congress prescribed, the same body can now require, as it did before, the organization of a State Government whereby the citizens "shall he protect. ed in all their rights of lilt*, liberty :md property." Tlio authority of the United States?that is, of Congress?is "paramount," and we hold that Congress has the same right that it had in iy(>8 to "abolish, modify, control and supersede" the State Government, and that' the necessity for its intervention is as groat now as it was six years since. In the Chase poisoning case last week, says the fiayinaw Courier, the principal witness was Benjamin Colvin, who proved fully up to the exigencies of the case. When asked hy one of the counsel whether he did not have some trouble with Chase, lie answered: "Not more than I had with you, sir when we were playing draw poker, ami you stole four jacks and beat my 'flush,' skinning me out of $04." This reply set the whole room in a laugh, in which his Honor, the Court modestly participated. i r T ^ V? iB-X An I ndopei WAY BOKO. S. TU The Collowin^ Resolutions embody the plan adopted by the taxpayeis ' convention for the encouragement of 4white immigration to this State. lir'solvcilj That this Convention do at once establish a bureau of immigration, to consist o( one commissioner i for the State at large and one conitiiissioner for each county in the Stale, to reside at or near the county scat. Resolved, That the said eotmnis| sioners of immigrat ion shall be elected i l>v this Convention as soon alter the I adoption of these resolutions as mac | be touinl convenient. /iesolvcd, That this sisal I be the duty ot the commissioner at large, in connection with such assistants and agencies as he may see lit to establish and appoint in the City ol New York < ami elsewhere, and <>l anv other means I wdjieh in his own judgement may be calculated to cll'eot the object, to induce, promote and encourage white immigration to this State, lie shall also, publish a statement ol such ad! vantages as the Stale oilers in soil, j climate, product ions, social impovcments, A:u\, to the industrious, honest and frugal white immigrant, no mat| ter from what State or country die comes. /it'solvrd. That the paid commissioner assisted in the several counties by the local commissioner*, slnll lie specially charged with the protection >! the ; immigrants in the proper selection of their Iain's, in the procurement o( ; transportation, in the tj^n:ir?Iing them agair.st Irand, chicincry and peculation, in the temporary location, in I proper ami reasonable places of b ?ard and loging on their arrival, and in making all such regulations and provisions as may in any manner he necessary or emulative to their wel lare. Resolved, That it shall he the duty of each count y commissioner of immigration to call a meeting of the fit i /.ens of his county who are in favor of | while immigration, to he held at, the court house of his county on the first I Monday in March proximo, and lay ! before them the subject effect a permanent organization to act in concert with and as an auxiliary to the commissioner for the State at large, and to take such further steps as may he deemel advisable to promote the objett in view. ; Jlvsolv<'d, That it shall he the duty I <?f the said county commissioner ()| ! immigration to ascertain Irom the landowners of his county what lands are to he sold or given away, :is the case may he, and il for sale, at what terms, and to take down and preserve lor reference a brief description and the location thereof, and report the same from time to time to the Commissioner for the Stale at large, so that when immigrants arrive in the county | they may at once he provide I for. Il shall also he his dutv to eoPect such contributions in money from the cili /.' lis for the promotion of the cause of immigration as they may ho willing to contribute, and fourthwit h turn the same over to the coninTssioncr at large, taking his receipt for the same, /i SO/vc<fy That the commissioner at large shall give hood, with good security, in the sum of $5,000, conditioned, for the faithful dis< barge ot the duties of his otliee, the bond to be ap|>roved by the president of this (amvolition, and made payable to him in trust for the benefit of all persons who may contribute any money under the preceding resolulion. Jiesolcc<l, That the commissianer for the State at large shall have his actual printitig expense* paid, and receive an annual salary of ?1,200 . Loath of a Distinguished Son of Edgefield. The telegrams announce that Louis T. Wigfall, Senator from Texas in the I 'nited States Congress, and also in t he Confederate Congress, and a General of the ('niilcdcrate Army in the late war, died on the 20tJi inst., in Galveston, Texas. For three or lour vcars past, Senator Wigfall had lived in Haiti ill ore, but went on to Texas a few weeks since, on a visit, and there died. In the early part of this century, his parents removed from Charleston to Kdgcfield, where they previously owned a plantation and Rummer home?the plantation owned bv the late Wiley (Hover, K*o., at the | lime of his death. Here Louis T. Wigfall was l>orii in the year HI 15. lie finished his education at our own College and at Yah'. Then! y-live yeats ago, or more, he moved from i ICdgefield to Texas, since which time ; his distinguished public career has I been wc'i known to our people. A man of supreme inteleet, strikingly handsome, and splendidly fearless- -an orator, a statesman, a soldier. And, what is better than all, a patriot? dying without a stain or taint, and scorning with his latest breath the new order of things. True, in life, in ' the grave, ht.yond the to his native South! A type of the chainlcss I spirit oi the southern people!?JidyeJield Adv<,rtidcr. m a ' V*- f . rr ldoilt J()UK4i:vl. ESDA Y, MARCH 10; | R, B. BUott's Speech. (1ongressioan ll. l>. hliott add reused Ward Club No. '2 at Columbia, last work, the folloM'ing voport ol wbicb M'o take iroiu the Lnton. A large number of persons wci'c present, Mbo tvere not eonneelcfy with tin* t Sub, and who sp".uk well .ot tin* address: The speaker rel'ered to tin* I'ax-l'ayi ers' Con vent ion; he he ieve'l that a i great mistake had heeti made i'i think* : mo that it was a place m liere buncombe was to he found. Il M as tbo duty of (he Republican party to A1'* uomplish the objects they sough. h>r. lie role rod also to his course two j years ago, and that he had heen lv lore the people, pledging honestv and , i fair dealing.? 11? w well this admin- j isi rat ion had performed those pledges, I he people could judge id. So tar as he was concerned, he had carried out every promise ami every pledge, lie | had found out. early that, he had no part or lot in that administration; that I he was a stranger in his own camp. I I lis conscience approved of the course he had pursued As t <) the select ion of candidates for the next election, he submitted that now u'as the time to bo jjain to select men m'Im? would relorm the abuses in ! the 1 icpublicau parly. Il was a duty | j I" do ii ; thai llie salvation id the par- j j ty depended upon such elici ts; that, [ there w :is no ilouh'.. ol a change taking . .1 : 1?Iin ih'j politics of the country,) ! innl 111:it. it \\ ;?s tlio ?1 nI v ol his liearcr> io undcrstan 1 litis, and so conduct , tncmselvcs that tlioy may have :i loot i i hold. If you go to the Nori h ? in any Northern State?and mention the 1 name of South Carolina, you will (ind l i the estimate that they wil' put upon it there.?'i\? mention South Carolina is to merit the sneers ol the common- j : wealths ol the North. \\ hen corrupltion is spoken ol in other Slates, ii , was a ditlerent thing; hut when it was spoken ol in South Carolina, it was laid to the blame of' a negro govern inent. Il was therefore, tin.' duty ol j the colored people of Sunt h ('a rol lua to demonstrate to tho world thai they desired an honest government. It was time thai they < 1 i< 1 something to remove this stiupna. There are men of ability, character and standing in the Republican party to no this. All that was nee led was lor a movement to be earnest ly m I on loot to do this. His conversations with ail statesmen were impressed with the idea that something was to ho done.? There must be a change, rectification and relief, and it must come from the colorod men of South Carolina. This is not a boon to lie confered upon yomselves. No class of men could sufler without, all suflered. It was the time when the colored people ol Soitih Carolina should place themselves in line for the hat'.le <d life. The time is fast approaching when the black man shall be regarded lor bis worth as a man, morally and intellectually, when tney shall stand up for themselves and provide for ihemselvesas as olhei citizens do. He dwelt at length upon the question of labor, and argued that, it would amount to nothing so long as directed I l?y brute force, and not by the agencies that control it in other parts ol the world. Regarding immigrant ion, In* said there was cause to he fearful i <?f the results if labor was not made intelligent and skilled. If it. was made skilled, the people of the JMate would prole the colored laborer. ? It this cannot lie done, then the white employer will prefer to have white labor. , i iiis is i no only plan. II. i ays with you to remedy. .Men aro coming into the Slate w ho aro skilled, ami the skilled machine will always command belter laics than the unskidod. It is a practical <|Ucslion, '?nd lays with the people. ft was nonsense to taik about, the i in migrants doing anything. There may ho some politics in the movement, hut he was not atraid of that; it was the natural effect only that he was afraid of. These immigrants were not men who came hero j as slaves, or as men who were dictated i io as to whom they should vole for. j It was not the political effect?only 1 the effect it would have upon indus- | "TSpt diking of the character ol the; Government, he said: The negroes having been in the majority and voted the element in power, they are responsible. They have been l i f I i . i li 1 l ueceivcu; will uio | <*<>)>ii* ne oecicven i a second time? Will yon permit this ' : state <>l things to cont inue? It cannot !>? hidden that tlu-re is omothing rot- j ten in Denmark. There must bo no promised reformation, but practical reform. If there be any one in the way 1 oI that reform, he should be at once removed out of t he path, and now is i he ! time to do it. The national Kcpuhli- i can party today was ready to cut alof upon the slightest provocation for the corruption now existing in the South, and unless you do something, and that speedily, will he compiled to cut off the rotten branches, lie had warned them ol this more than a year ago; this was no new thing. One thing lie j knew, that instead of being belter, it appears to be growing wor*e. The question of tho Tax-payers* Convention is no soro-head movement. W ^3. 1874. NO. 10. r ^wiim nil?? nw wwn 1 *?-?>. rv >i*? The people have a rii*ltt to petition under tm1 Constitution, and w hen it name it would (nunc lrom his eonstit* uonts, whet her tin y voted for Idm <?r not, and ho was hound t > have i' properly vefoned. That petit i< n will he " 1 ' -o t'OMSIlllMV I\ alio M<> |l in ,wiiiselves to bo misled about it. The only way V')ii can prove that you ^yinpathi/.o wit li an honest a?i111i11i'4' ration ?>t alVairs, is for you to oirc notice to thoso who have inalailtuiuistim? d ali'r. rs i to ijuil; lof voit *o brtnjx farward a I now Kit of limn. It is your du! \ to viu ilicatc yours; If, and prove to the world tbat, you am ii; sympathy with tin -r vho want an honest government. 11?. |);i d Jio cause here to announce ot oha. vomn the cause of any particu! <: SN t.'ul. it was liia <! uy to poiuf at lenth?u to errors thai have nearly re suited ';m! l;rn!,,1'.v o| l'u* I: wiishiiM' l,:""ls ll,a[' l,a: .v.ns.,1 !!, ?.. , 1 n;<,,s .stayi-.l. i , . ,,\ u he ascendency ot on ones ||ot 11U\MI " , . p:irO.-,.l.ir ^ 1 "Vl'r, l.ul il m-ansof I 8"v,,r!' .i.e.,I. > v"" w""" bring revolution nifl \**wu?yTho K'ootion j. X37'"" aj,. \ 11 i \ i i X'/iiC*t o r licl < ..I i. Allied ,\I. howrv, m ? \ . >? has introduced, in the jlou>. j sent alives, a hill to amend U? e l ?w. !> constitutes the (don it'?, mission* rs, the Clerk of Court X. ( Shcrill, in each county, a bord of uiissioners who shall, thirl v ?i be I ore the election, appoint nulling* o'cleetion lor each township and ptocinat, I wo of which mar ai?ers shall la <>/...? " t. ... a;ii i,.i i-f. fI'),.. i.i i 1" i ,v ' r y shall he open from 7 A. M. to 5 I'. M , an I t lie voles shall he counted in public imundiately alter the closing o) the polis. Separate boxes shall he l<e|?t; one lor the voles (or County olTic is, and llie oilier lor the voles {'or Mate and I'Vderal o dicers. Notice of ilie time and place of eh'Clion shall he given twenty days in advance. A j majority ol the commissioners shall In- I stillieient to appoint ininagcr.>, who; may (ill vaeancies. The coinjuaisatian ' of the commissioners and managers j shall he two dollars a day, and any neglect ofduly shall he punished by line and i in prison m en t. The clause in relation to t ho appoint inont ol two managers from each political party conhl not la? easily carried into client where more tlian two part ies were in the Held. This dilliculty might h" overcome hy providing that eaeli oigani/"<| party, having a full Ticket in nomination lor State or County ollicers, ; hould he represented in each board ol managers hy at least one inemher of that hoard, to he Hcleeled hyliie hoard from the known supporters of that party. Mr. Cowry's hiil is a vast iuiprovemcnt upon the present election law, and we trust that Borne! such hill will pass. ?A'ccs and Courier. Tho Bar Improvomont. As stated hy us yesterday, the I steam dredge has arrived. In in" ordered here from Haiti more l?v the I'. S. (love.iunm nt I'M* v.'n: k upon our injr. The dredge was towed (."tun the above pori by the Steamer Hunuft ]h< .n and has been on the way one month, most of the passage being ma le by I ho sounds on account ol t!m bad weather ami incessant winds that h ive prevailed. The I'J/intiit Dmui w as assisted j Irom 1 lean fort to i his poi t by t he st ; in too *'/as that part ol the pus>ag' had to be made by sou. The three j "vessels arri ved lie re in goo 1 or lei not i i . withslaiiding the boisterous weather. The steam dredge is under the e >mmaiid ol (hipt. II. Kipp an experienced ofliccr. Its dimensions are ()."> feet long, 30 feet beam, T!, feet hoi 1, draws I feet, ami, as may rea lily be perceived, is a vessel constructed very 1 moeh on the order of a flat, tin* most peculiar portion oi it being tlv exceed- 1 ingly eoiu plie ited character of the! dreging apparatus, which cm mts ol an immense h am, p -rhaps i'o fcy feet long, obliquely ri i g In in I he deck forming an acute angle with th* id pondicular spar to which tt is I r cel. I he beam is calculated to in >\c on a pivot when occasion require*, and has attached to its upper end a set ol bug iron oullevs t.iiion<rh which t he diiiin i j - ' r>'" # * indrawn by an engine of 120 horse' power. Tiicro ij an immense iron grapple, weighing about six t >nf?, j which in iulcude I lor drawing logs, and an iron mud-bucket weighing '<>1 ions. Both IbOSO machines are ot formidable appearance and are to be used in connection willi lite chain rd'ered t : above. The dredge is to be us*d tor cleaning the river of logs an I other o ^ ob*truclions, and %n i 11 operete principally near liig Island. it is s aid I > h.tve done good service in its line both at Hell (Tile and iJiainnnd lieel, near No'v York City. As tin? dredge is without any power of locomotion, it is to be run in connection w'lli the steamer 1'hanw />unn, or />. /'. Woodbury, as this steamei is soon to he called hi honor of a pioneei in our bar improvement. The later vessel is now equipping with an oncilating engine of great power, which is to bo stationed amidships no as to work two suction dredges, which are intended to pump sand. Theso dredges arc to | hi Pitt d at M .00 | or square for f; t a ?\ an m< h v\ ??1 be :lian>?M lor as i s? \u . Marrl.in#' nol'ees five. I)?'atId and I'tinernl nolle -s five. (M iii .n io?| of oiio ,H4|!iir?' five; ov-ir -v? suit o Hiarnt d at adverthhij; i d J!?. 1. -li ;??ns iioli? </h of one v;iiiiic t *. A liberal discount wdi * ? madr n. rh.M who.se advertisements a < }?: b p l:i I'u . term of tlu*e? months or longer. Iianti out oil ? ither side oi tho vessel, the lower en 1 ot curb hein^ sluipcl like a shoe, and to draj$ upon the bottom. The sand taken tip is deposited in hunker* until dumped at a eotivenient dim a nee at s< a. The ]\. irn i /Jutm is lutrn1< 1 for work immediately at tho I if. Tiio siietion died ;<! is, however, v?? n< hat exporiin atal, as it has ha dfy left _;i\in a ! lir trial before. \ he Meant dr* dot? Will leave for its soci o of oj rations to-lay, ami tJie steal .' r wi.i jipilnp 1)0 ready in two weeks. 1 hi Logins to look like wo) . \V:hnhtaton ?/ Tun N K\v Neoro Sknatop. A. K. Urine, l In- now tinted States S i .t' r l rot i M i -h>sm j pi, was lonnorly a s'dc. Alt rthe war ho bcenrre a porter on t ,-ti unboat; sid roqucnlly ho att" ! I s? h ol for a imo at Obcrlin, < )h'.o, i .-lit red polities as norgeanl-at-nrnn ? f r ( tin Mississippi Legislature*, and v. kei* \ elet ed WMHHOlVing MS shcHt)'. Somtl o| ho Morilu m papers arc highly ' lickh*<1 at I ho idea of a former ncg.o sia\ ocoupyi' i! tho sent in the S'enati* one held hy .1 llerson Davis. I And well tiny may ho, for it is x trii ;nph ol tlio | rinciples for which tin* onec lair I'nioti was overthrown, ami undtM' the niigh mess ot wins dinln ims the country has been gruani f ever since. ! D tlio uprising <t tin* d< bitted, thO olevalion of igi.orviue,, v< n ilit v and co'rru pt ion to plains otn <> renowned for virtue and iiiteunts \ < I he I' uling of tho highest posith ns < lex >r and trust in tho i ;.d, V- < '[ iiii the lillhy mdical paper* at lm? . Voidi exult. Tho shafts ol envy nips shout high, and JelVei son J) is bining mark. It is the most u <* 18 *1 \ ? Y\l * in the world for the m I i ural ti. \ ^ at seeing an i 'iiorant net ? to ex till . . , * , , , .. \ <o a hu/./.u d, m i he ol r Ji"i ml li . , *. ( "" v\'? I l?y one 01 iiic S" '' & oih-O iiuiioi V |/K1 / . statesmen . \ 'Journal. \ TW. _ ... , racial tauey for wont b r oils n.ive a 8, i .1 . i.m .. .... 1 \ I dogs. {< has niu. h small children an 4,,i . .. tobaeeo and whiidt.siike I ho smell <>l .... . . . i it ii \ 11 trouble a if*. , ki v, and hence sld- ? .... ' i .i . i "eh like -in In their tastes ihey a. t ' 1 I ! ?n , \ t ^vnt? a 11 l I in. lan. 11) capture am. \ v .. . ' \Oen a rchr . coiticl's more happiness u , h0llt.tti.ve of the I III ale >c\ V ing a new bonnet in a crow 1 ^ ^ same length ol time. A Milesian astounded a grot * ' y entering his shop with this retpt s- s ' Mr, Metiray, would you bud mo all empty barrel ot Hour to make a hencoop for nie ilogV" Might not a publican w ho, having been unfortunate in his business, ha I I reopened his Iiouj , be lertne<l v k-rcpublicau?" A negro led 1 ;i cow while a crosseyed man was to hit her on the head with an axe. The negro observing tins in in's eyes, in some fear in ptircd: k-f? you gwine to hit wliar you look?" "Yes l.'Cii liohl uo cow yoiiraoli, , said Cuffco. A I?rooklvn young man, who saf. down to meditate in his sweetheart'* Ih p, h ;ir{ onca-io i 'to eaiinn her against looping her k its w tli pins. !Jn fnu 111 thai the c>n>. ipi "( o h t I a tendency to ?list'i b his in nt it poh a. This is the year in which the 1 ifo Si tor Ann Maria Taiga ot Koine predicted tiie Kopo would die, with attend tnt eon vulsions of nature. "Korlhtvo days and t hree nights," she said, "C'iinii erian darkness will rest over the earth, haling every ohj ct in tho world from vie.v; the people who look out of tho windows for tho purposeof descrhing what is going on n the firmament will ho immediately struck down dead." The proprietors of a hotel in Town brought an action against the editor of their village paper to recover a certain amount for needs and cigars. T^o e litor contest oil the suit in as much as i i return for the said dinners and cig > rs I e had set forth the virtues ot tho proprietors and the exei'lionce of their i i viands, nil worth a th usund dollar , for whirl) he should have claimed no compensation hud ho not boon charged, for the dinne rs. Tin* <??Htc?r p'vado I his own ease, and the jury returned a verdict throwing th.. costs on the hot^i keepers. A clergyman being invitee' to oporn a Legislature with prayer, offered 'the following ambiguous petition: 'Ofay corruption and sin of every form o is lar from every member ol this Le^isl.iture as Thou art." mi t *i ...... i'w . vr:.. i no i jegjsiaiure 01 >> ofticni v ir uiiv i?. Raid t ? have parsed a law ut it> last session "to prevent tlx* owners ol hogs from running; at large.*' An epigrammatic female says that male is only mule spelt wrongly." This is non-senso when every one knows that if a man is a mule, a woman ia muler. A wag,on being asked for an appropriate inset ipt ion to a foundling asy uiu* proposed, "Thus far; no farther.' i I.&J it.