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f. J- :; 1 fG&.-. ,0 PA ITfUO; WAV l rP (1 TT? Dl TfV " : .. i . , : . : -1L 1JLU , JCl OlIMdL; : v V. Ci ILllIIIdilio . . . ' VoLifXrraiM) series : :: : :k A 'm : x : s c samsBtjey. h. cL iikiUffliirViiBfcSfit! Sf- s -1 a!-t fe! Mil VOL I X.-tTHIRD SERIES j THE GREAT FBAl'D. Va'orittf Report of the rotter Jnresti- "a f ftwf Presidential Thefl lri ")u Vrui'en-Tfie Great DangefoJ '7- I i f . ' tji0arJ$ and- Federal Trwtpt at Ivims Aof, Sheruta and Other t -i titVrMiuiratonTilden and tDVmfi fi Declared the Ileal Choice of the eoiie4other favor to dc, dc. L Wasiuxotoxi March 2. On Saturday 1 the Chairman of the Potter Inyestigating. counted, nnless the two Houses of Coii f buuiuiitjee Bubuiittwl the, Kcport which . sluill otherwi'se agree. I h 'i' i,e bad frepjired to the Committee, and it xhe Report then argues that ths action "I. Mi's adotetl by -a vote of six - Democrats f the Canvansing Board was not only to i-tli-reej Kupubliraiis, 31 r. isutier oviug V ! sWiit. The three HepuidirniiH preiit, Menurs. )liscxrkCox and will pn-pare a nliMntf rcprt. - . 1 MrvHllcrwlrlrlp ii separate f Mate(ncrt, giviiig his. views in reference ( j'- o the b:rjpiins;wifh" the Hayes party, by-; ! wliirh thr lemcrat recoveitnl the Stiites I Hit .Soiith Carolina and Ionuiana. Mr. Stinger, lieiiiocrat, u member of' lLtli Coniittee, who was ehainnau of the I tub-coin iu it tee which sat in Louisiana, lias aW prepared a Ircport. : I r t' lotfjr'i. Rpnort is nocti.ssiiiilv linr. j ,ui, " . -. , ' I lis it deals .with all the Kiuts tliat have beeti befoi-e the j Committee, except the ' cipher dispatches, 'which will be mady tiie subject of a separate report, and prc t seated to the Committee to-morrow. i Mr. potter rejiorfc is regardel by the Peinm-nits wlio hiive ionised it as siugii ilrlv nil partial and judicial. It is entire- v devoid both ot riieuHicai ornuineuta- Stjoii and Jvitiipevative denunciation, and .1 derives i t foii-e lely From a close logical dediictioiof the rscts-pi-cscnted ly the I Connuitti?. Some of .the Deuucnits re- giird it as wauHug in color, or not sooniccis held the grossest power Over the Isfrongly oppressed as, the facts warrant iiid it is pot uulike1y. sonic member of the Committee belonging to the party Will prewjit an .additional expression of tvh views more vigorously, i 'Vl.u l.'rwii-h iiwn ivifli sm i ntriu1iif !in which set fin tli what was proper for doi)gieso investigate, and whatnot, ami the: dfili nil ties of conducting an in vestigation into criispirucics which have bk'ii snccL'ssfuUy; carried out, while the iRaecessUii,: pariy reuiains in power, it admits that the; confessions of the con Hpirators.. who have- become dissatisded ahionnt to but little but ioiiits to the f.i-t, not ghiernlly uuderslootl, thatalout 'tfte essential fta tares' of the election and canvas i Florida and Louisiana there kiio suksfautial dispute before theXom mittee tin; Republicans having called no witnessc's in' Flowda atNalI, and but far in Loaisi;ina, except as to the conduct jof the visif in g statesmen, sind incideutal 11 aWTit intimidation. It dismisses entirely the testimony of Anderson, Jcnks, Mrs. Jenks, Weber, afld liht i class of witnesses, and deals with tliccasu unon the creucral confrolliiur alone, ' ' ; i Thff Report is divided into three parts, I the iirst f which refers to Florida, Hie ;e'cond to Ltuisiana,lind the third to the I aljege J nrjed election certificates. ginuiiig with Florida, it cites the I laW dirtijiig electors to be appointed by the voies cast, and the Returning Board to can rass the Votes cast, and claims that tlic Tilden electors, having received a inftjority jf the votes east in the State, thereby necessarily entitled to be dttlaied elected ; and that the.Cauvass ing Hoardtby rejecting, without warraut f'-;ortipni of Hie votes, so as to Khow tlienuijority for' Hayes, unlawfully counted llldeu out;' The Cauvassiuir lnrd, it recites, delayednhis announce- WtUt Ulitl tliH mnraiiiff nf tli ilnr n ich tli electors were to meet aud vote, " iat, although action was instantly t!jeu jo oiis t the Hayes electors by the Tide.n.ecJors, 'decision, could lw luul til the Hayes electors had met that same nftenuHHi and voted. ; lie jlenort then recites the indirmeut Jf the Supreme Court, which subsequent- '3 ieciuea that the Haves electors were iH eiecteaj;nor ! entitled to vote for the-1 fetate and that the Tildeii electors were ; the judginent of the Court in the action bro,t by Drew, the Democratic adidate Governor, toobtain a re auTasaere the Court directed a re- won .,ss ami decided that the Returning d, in refusinc t count th nitM m Iiad defraifded Drew, and unlawfully 4xcatc&is.; ,-The Legislature of the tetheieKn du-ected a recan vass of m electond vote in acconlauce witii this fyiV1 the rSupreme Court, the JnfSes of uhich were Republicans, and t he recau vais showed the Tilden electors chosen. j The Govemir then issued his ceif ificate to the Tilden electors, as the ue elector, but the Electoral Connnis J"j refund: to consider the Judgment of the Court t!i e xi r . - i : i 'i' -huh vi me xiegisiniure, me certificates giveu by the Gov ernor in favor of tlie Tilden electors, and I V'. : . W r ic could not tako notice of any 7t u D pe State after the 6th of De- wiuuer. ,i . :u. i. ti - ii ; -s v ! ., V ttcporirtws, attention to the fact Hi -11 a ronS miglit be repeated in flnJotate. a BW jii.!.!...!.! .i ... " ibv M i. J iMwiuciiuni eiecuon, V Jie canvassers withholding their an rccnJent of the rosnlf f lft : l5X:Uie m fixed for the meeting of ll.i t ectoral College, and then " ".ucver oeen yoiea tor at an, to be electors, .when, according ,to tliis.cast' notwithstanding, ntileli. Iwieion, tliey i would be entitled . irrevo - cau,y st vote 01 me rjLare. ac, therefore, recommends -a taw providing that wnere there was a diapute as(to who were the real electors, the gndgment of Court of J last' resort, if certiHed to Congress before, the meeting of the two Congress before, the meeting of th Houses of Congress to receive and count ' the electoral vote, shall be conclusive as to the right of the disputing electors, and i (f whic vote ! from the i State shall be ivgt tnt fnuululeuf, arid cites the in- Totc on unwarrantably' tf rounds, aim refused to reject fraud ulljut lJep voti, as illustrating thisJ V ublican irdeals at length wltli jtheclaim of the limblicans that they were eutitletl to tlio' vito of the Sratejithe face of the ; retnrus. by reason of thej'Driggcrfi-aud, j I by which a bogus return from Baker county was furnished tle Canvassing Board, which they at first rejected, but which, after they were oMiered tolcouut the vote us cast,.-Jliey:i fraudulently ac cepted iu place of the true! return. r It then deals with the conduct of the visitiug statesmen,-and particularly with that of Mr. Noyes," as contrasted ' witld that of Geueraf Francis C! Barlow, whose integrity, iudepcndeiice aud fidelity to all his obligations, and at the, same time his justice, fairness and truth, the Report esjecially commends. ; U ! In regard to Louisiana, the Report be gins with a 'reference to the "power pos---sessed by tlie Returning Board, which,lit says; never beforu existed elsewhere.; Under it the electors and the returning rtceiviug aim couuiiug oi lie votes. ! un der the pretext that the color line divided the political parties, thejr had nsel this power to fraudulently coniit the State for the Republican, and had jbeeu exposed by the Republican Com mittee of the Fftrty-thiitl Ctmgress, which had leported that the whites and blacks of the State, being eaual,-uiMl some of the blacks aud all the whites having voted fr the Dem ocrats in 1874, the State his necessarily beeii carrietl by tliem) although counted for the Republicans. 'here,upon the Republicans twt t about a false ceusus, in which tliey f made it appear that there were 25,000 more" black j voters in the Stsite than white, aud. as illustrating the fraudulent nature of this ceusus, the Re port refers to the fact that, while this dMisus reported but 57,000 ccdored men, women and children in New Orleans, it made out of them nearly 25,000 colored voters. It then instances the fraudulent rcgistratiou that was based npou this fraudulent census, whereby it was made to appear that the registered Republican voters exceeded the white voters- in the State more than 25,000, while actually there were no more, and, the refusal of the authorities to correct this false" regis tration in the cases where; its. falseness was poiuted out. J. From this the Report ; proceeds to touch upon the directions given by the Repub lican Campaign Committee to the elec tion officers, requiring them to return the votes according to the census, - that is, stating that the colored vote by that cen sus in a certain parish was so much,! and that they were expected to return a Re publican vote corresponding to that, if they were over to have any reward or preferment. j Notwithstanding "this organized fraud, says the Report, when the elections were over the Democrats had a majority, as returned by the Republican election offi cers, of some ten thousand, the vote polled Wing the largest ever polled in the State, and larger in proportion to tho population than that of other States. The Republican officers made returns of the voteaccordingly, aud ; declared! that the election was perfectly pcacefulj and fair. Tlie conspirators, in order over throw tlds majority, usurped powers uot giveu to them. Tlie Report then deals with the ques tion of intimidation, and endeavors to show how- it. was utterly impossible for the-Democrats to gain anything b' it. because the Returning, Board had been created on purpose to neutralize auy such action, Jby ; throwing out votes iu localities where it should prevail. As to tho conspiracy in East Feliceiua Parish, the Report states 'that after thei Democrats had got control of the negro vote there, Kellogg and Auderson, j who tircre the supervisors, f wanted td have no election, and Anderson fraudulently ran away with that view, meaning thereby to tiirow the parish out, as Grand.1 Parish had heeu thrown out, by tlje Supervisor of Registration abscutiug himself on elec-, tiondayj, notwithstanding that the 1 other officers held the election and. made! due retufii'of the Totei Tho ' Democrats in East Feliceiua, knowing that they had captnred the negro vote, hired Anderson' to go back ami hold the election. The Republicans then hit upon a new plan,' and directed their friends in the parish not to vote. They sent outl word to them not to come to the polls, and refused to permit buy tickets to be printed or issued for them, and exercised their influence to withhold their own vote, entirely. Eighteen thousaud registered rotes were 4,500 Anderson Lad prevented from being poueu, i maae auonc a,uw ueniocruuc votes whereas the whole Tote of the parish at previous elections, on both sides, had not exceeded 25,000. ,The Republicans witltheld from casting any Tote at all. and subseqnently made a claim that such was the State of terrorism existing at the time of the election that none on their side could vote. The Report refers very briefly to the alleged bargain by which Hayes, who bad 3,000 votes less thau Packard, could count in, while Packard went out, and mentions Mr. Sherman's effort to prove intimidation, pointing out that the evi dence was not produced whenever the Committee offered to receive it; how re peatedly it had been offered, and how re pcatedly they were met by some excuse fur not producing it Cffiftr theyt "had ex vanjind many of the witnesses that were befire the Retumiug Board, who, in almost every instance recanted and ex- plained how they came to make their false affidavit in the first place, and bow such statements as they made before the Re turning Board were totally unfounded. It then refers to the Sherman letter iu regard to which it simply states the facts as they stand, attempting to show that the letter was actually written and largely j influenced political action in Louisiana, and drawing attention to the attempt on tho part of Mrs. Jenks, whoso husband and brother are employes of the Treasury Department, to induce the Committee to produce a forged letter iu Hie interest of Mr. Sherman. The Florida imrtion' of the Report is followed by a list of all the persons con nected with the election who have been upiiointed to ollice, and tho Louisiana por tion by a. still longer list of the persons in that state appointed to office. The third part of the Report deals with the forged electoral certificate, and at tempts to show how the Republicans, be lieving a uew electoral certificate was ne cessary, and how defective the first certifi cate was under the constitution, and which the Vice President refused, secretly manufactured auothcr, and how they ante dated it, and made it iu the paper and printing to resemble tho one previously made; how they had very little time to pre iwre it, aud how it was impossible to get all tho electors iu New Orleans to sign it within that time; that, therefore, it became a necessity to forge two signatures to the triplicate papers; that there were eighteen forged signatures, which were attached on December 21), in a small upper room iu the Senate building in charge of Conquest Clarke; how tho making of this second certificate was concealed until it was pro duced before Congress; how, when it was referred to the Commission, it was not read, but ordered to be printed, and the printer who changed, and the Electoral Commission were served with two copies of the forged "certificate, perfect in form, and no copy of the genuine defective cer tificate; how after the Commission ' luul decided, the record of the Commission was changed so that the forged certificate, which really was before the Commission, was suppressed, aud the record made to show as if the real defectiyo certificate had been considered aud passed upon. . The Report theu recites how all the per sons connected with the business have beeii appointed to office, and the suspici ous circumstances connected with the ap pointment of some particularly pointing out that Kellogg, aud Clark, his private secretary,: were privy to the forgeries, and that the latter is now clerk in the Treasury.; The Report winds up with a refereuce to the danger of Returning Boards, and yet greater danger of controlling elections and protecting Canvassing Boards by Fed eral troops; and, above all, to the! danger with which the country is threatened by reason of the enormous patronage centred iu the. Presidency j which makes the Pres idential office a prize so great that, in order to control it, the grossest violations of the law and frauds may be expected on the part of those who desire to profit by that patronage. ! It coueludes with the statement that that' the' full effect was not given to the.' electoral, votes of Florida and Louisiana; that Noyes, Sherman and others eucouraged this result ; that the second certincate irom Louisiana was forged as to two of its names; Kel logg and Clark being privy to it ; that Tilden and Hendricks received a true majority of the electoral vote, aud were the real choice of the People of the United States at the last Presidential election. '; SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS. ' Special to tlie Richmond Dispatch, 1st. Washington, Feb. 28. The committee finished the legislative appropriation bill to-night, and . the Senate will have an animated dissuasion over the supervi sors', amendment. 'All the Democrats will advocate it, and the vote will be a party one. j Its defeat may be regarded as certain. ; Your, correspondent cannot see how the Democrats of the House, even after a conference report, can yield in their determination to Tote for it. On the other hand, many persons here of experience andjudgmfot, say they will back down in order to prevent an extra session. A few days will decide it, STATE DEBT TROUBLE. - r - .:t jrt - i : Some of our friends are agood deal dis turbed about the State debt Someimong WVJIUlVUib them are shocked at the idea of offering to pay fifteen cents f for eEch dollar that'i they think the State honkly owes, and ! know that she does owelt They don't ) like repudiation. Otheri who think that i the debt to the Northern; bond-holders is no debt at all,: dislike the notion of ac knowledging tlie debt, nottiaying it, and thereby becoming liable tojthe charge of repudiation. Others, agaii, look only to the practical results in the shape of taxa tion. These fears are all probably heed less. The debt will Je paidj to the North ern bondholders ; there will be neither repudiation nor taxation. We do j hot mean that the Legislature will adopt the rlnn nf fliA Senator frnm Trivilfll fur it lii rejecte4itr-Tb lsaaolhl Some time since a distinguished citizen of Charlotte was in 'New York, and in conversation With a rather pompous bondholding banker be was asked by the i . t xT..i. ri: ' . 1.1 liioci 11 ui voiviiuar nvuiu A'aJr her debt. l i "Yes," was the reply ; 'sho is able to pay it, and she is going to do it." "What I will she pay tbe whole debt, old aud new at par Tn Yes,w replietl the Carolinian. "How V inquired tlie bondholder. "She will pay it,M was the reply, "in negroes, valued at $1,000 each." "Oh J but we have freed your negroes," was the respouse of the banker. "But," retorted tlie North Carolinian, "we have got your money for our bonds." Not a few think this is about the ouly way in which there will be a settlement. We. are very heavy losers by it, but would be willing to call it square. io. Observer. JEFF DAVIS TO BE PENSIONED. Special to the Richmond Dinpatch, 1st. Washington, Feds 28. To-night, ou motion of General Shields, the Senate amended the House arrearages tiension bill so as to give any one who. served iu the Mexican war a pension from date, thus placing on au equality the Mexicau war soldiers with the soldiers of the wars of 1812 and 18G1. The bill -then passed-j-ay es, 33 ; noes, 20 and leading members of the house say it will also pats that body. While it was a surprise to mauyvSciiators, I know, twenty States had instructed Iu favor - of doing justice to the gallant men who served iu Mexico. The first declaration of the Republicans was, "Why it will give Jefl'erson Davis and leading Confederate Generals pen sions." Buiuside voted for it, and Morrill declared it would increase the iensiou appropriation twenty millions and what of that, when nearly a hundred millions have recently been voted northern sol diers t Some Senators who voted for the ameudiuent did not think it would pass. Senator Windom gave notice that he will move to reconsider tho vote by which the arrearages peusiou bill passed a little while ago. This means that an effort is to be made to defeat the pensions to the Mexican veterans, but they are stronger thau the extreme Radicals imagine in the Semite. ' The intelligent and trustworthy Wash ington correspondent of the Richmond State tells how jScnator Eustis, of Louisi ana, showed up Blaine's inconsistency : "After awhile Senator Eustis, of Louis iana, took advantage of it and so com pletely demolished Blaine that he did not attempt a reply, although he was special ly referred to and asked again and again to reconcile the fact that throughout the debate he had denounced the Chinese and declared that the two races could not live together in peace without the interposi tion of force, yet whenever he had occa sion to speak of race troubles in the South he always dononnced the white race and sought to force them to live iu peace with the blacks. Eustis was in favor of the bill becatise he would avoid nice troubles. Whenever races so distinct as the blacks and whites, or Chinese and whites, live together there will some timo be violence and bloodshed. ; These tliiugs sometimes happened in Lonisiana, yet Blaine always denounced the white people for a couditiou of affairs! that his own logic proved to be inevitable. This line of remark was pur sued at much length and with great ef fect ; then he skillfully drew a parallel be tween the condition of the Chinese and the negroes, and affairs iu California and Louisiana. There the Chiuese came into competition with white laborers, and did not seek jor exercise political power, while in the South the negroes, withont a histo ry, vHthojut civilization, and without ed ucation, were made citizens and placed in power iover the white people." Tliey do things witfr dispatch in Texas A man in! a certain neighborhood who had lost a valuable mare received the fol lowing teegram : "Mare here. Come get her. ' Thief hung." Josh Billings asks and answers as fol lows: "What is au editor? An editor's bisncss is to write out ) editorials, grind out poetry, sort manu cripts, keep a mighj ty big waste basket, steal matter, lite other people's battle's, take white beans and apple sass for pay when be can get it, work nineteen hours out of twenty four, and be scolded by everybody." A baby imagines that he can sleep all day and cry all night, and still be the 'darling of the household." On this rock jwe split, - Ebjkty Tears Historical TIeW Fashionable people, as well as states a- v I I - r . i :- men, like the excitement ' of politics; In " " F 1'.' ' ' I i vul "w,u couotr a 8,n,P,, rresioent is a 8Jddaniler "odd visitors and Spec nUti'? dcnt8. president ' Jefferson, mo 80 .years ? ago, grossly 'out r!lged I??lte iet J V rilxxmg . to con- 4 r " uu lcUi1 V)J receptions j and everybody remembers how be offend ed tbe ladies,' when Washington ' had not i f f!uPif lnV?Siefenlion, in uiuuuy wools aiter. xuey naa caned ;to see him. Madison fidlbweU hinv wit his jolly Dolly,, who established a1 sort of dangerous sentiineut , in ber receptions. Tlie next Presiden,4 Monroe was as cold as an iceburgtff John Quincy Adamsjwas the. embodiment of , nnrcspousive i New 1828-12U, and although: by no means a ladies man, wrecked bis first cabinet ou account of Mrs. Timberlake. Mr. Van Buren succeeded him, and made a Knick erbocker society in the White House ; but he was so genial that- even his nanghty sou John could not extemporize a scandal for him. Then we had General Harrison. who died before bis regime was a month old, giving way to Johu Tyler, with; his airy son, Robert, and they went on in a row with the Whigs, so neglected because they had no party of their own, that no body seemed to care if they were baii or good. James K. Polk aud Mrs. Polk came iu 1846. At last we had a real lady in the White House stately, south ern aud sate ; nothing could be more attractive. All their four years' reijrn was socially blameless and respectable. They were followed by General Taylor ; his household, Colonel Bliss and his handsome wife. But as old Zach died at the end of his first year, that dream was soon over, leaving Mr. Fillmore to eke out the term ; cold, conservative and telush. Along came dashing Frank Pierce, but his wife was au invalid, and his ouly sou was killed in a railroad ac cident a month before his father was in stalled ; that administration, like nearly all the rest, was conducted almost without a woman. When Frank Pierce left, James Buchanan came in with his niece, Miss Harriet Lane, as mistress of the White House. Nothing could have been more cheeriug ; her reigu was one of roses, aud she was immensely esteemed. She lives to-day, much loved as the handsome wife of a Baltimore banker. Mr. Lincoln succeeded, but the rebellion turned the White House into a semi military barrack, aud his administration closed with his assassination, leaving Mrs. Lincoln, his widow, a liviug ruin. The accidency that rose ou his grave made no social mark, though nothing could have been more reputable than the ladies of A. Johnsou's family. General Grant, of all his predecessors, seems to have been most fortunate iu his wife and children. He had eight years of civil and domestic comfort. His successor, Mr. Hayes, is having an equally pleasant experience. Such is the brief domestic record of the Presidency since the door of tlie nine teenth century was opened. The first and second chief magistrates, Washing ton and Johu Adams, had no special do mestic happiness to exempt them from the rule. The retrospect .is curious and interesting. During these 80 years the Old World has beeu drenched iu blood to maintaiu its several governments. Eng land alone has held her sway without alteration. Frauce, Germany, Italy, Aus tria, Belgium, and Holland have all been the alternate prey of revolution and anarchy. All have been swept by war or subjected to change. The social element has suffered conspicuously. Queens have beeu deposed with their kings. Courtiers have fled for refuge to foreign lands. Aasassiuations have preceded and snpjjc- mcutcd great wars. Fashions have passed away with dynasties. But through all there is oue profound truth, that mankind is happier in the mass in the sunset of the century than it was in the dawn. Certainly, the most stable government is the Anglo Saxon. Where the Eng lish language is spoken, and English laws administered, there has been a great aggregate of hnnian happiness. Such is the retrospect of 80 years, or rather since the election of George . Washington iu J789. The aggregate is before the world, aud there is no place where it cau be more profitably studied than in the city of Washington, and no page of it is more interesting than that which records the inner life of over sixteen Presidents. Forney 't Progress. TOBACCO PROSPECTS AT WASH INGTON, i Special to the Bichmond Dispatch, 1st. : Washington, Feb. 23. This morning Messrs. Tucker, Cabell, Robbins, Beaje, Scales, Harris, Boone, Davis of North Carolina, Banning and others represen ting tobacco districts, called on Mr. Hayes and showed him how important it is to the interests of the country that the bill reducing the tobacco tax should become a law. In a proper spirit they used the arguments calculated to place the subject before him in its true light and while he nntl.i'nir frt indiVnfo 1 what he will do ' Jt was evidenfcihat the delegation made! a good, impression. Others will call s and see him. . The tobacco men have not dis continued their work, not will they until the biU.is signed and has become a law of the land. , : : - i '.The IIljner Cfrilizcd."' y' . -1 4 sS.jThe.young man whcommitted.the highWay robbery , in Fifth - Avenue, Newj York hy robbi ng a lady "of be diond;ar-ring in ' hroad dayI(ght a w&k?orlw1a MnfoBsraAn jtq twenty; years imprisonmeut. . lie hadH recently served a term of two - and, a half jears in the penitep Jiary for grandj larceny The caseJV.ilInarkaiie1 at the trial, who applauded "the pris oner's counsel whenever he assured the Jury that if Mrs. Debary had not been a lady of position in society no such efforts would have been made to arrest and punish his client. Kvery Juror was challenged and asked the unusual qnestious'Areyoii married?" "Does you wife wear jewelry in the streets?" After two hours twelve men were found whose wives do not wear jewelry in the streets. After being sentenced the prisoner was taken to the Tombs, "surrounded by a crowd of his friends, who seemed to regard him iu the light of a conquering hero." Wiiat a population this is, where men dare thus' to manifest their sympathy and respect for a felon ! H. in Ral eigh Observer. From the Charlotte Obs Tver. Darwinism not Philosophical nor to be Dreaded. The opera tions of nature iu her history are not evolutive but segrative aud aggrega tive. The end of Darwiuism is, there fore, but a collection of singulars and not philosophy. It may, however, serve the purpose of promoting inves tigation and add to our knowledge of facts, .and so far prove to be useful ; but beyond that it reminds me of the disappointment of dogs who run a trail made by the dragging of a dead fox's tail. ' They find the lifeless tail, but no fox. The four English scientists, Tyu dall, Huxley, Spencer and Darwin, have doubtless demonstrated them selves to be magnificent sensationalists but the intelligent physiognomist mar vels that such faces should outcrop the brain of the profound phislosopher. Let us, hovever, wait for the end indeed of their labors. Nature lias freaks ; she sometimes introduces monstrosities to variasrate tiresome uniformity. Let Tyndall pursue his atoms, Huxley his protoplasm, Silencer his hetcrogenity . 1 T-v 1 and homoirenitv. aim uarwin ms monkey; these pnrsnits were fasliir n able more than two thousand, years ai'O, vet the banner of the cross waves iu triumph ov-r the remains of those who introduced them. "It is the eye of childhood" that dreads a fiction. J. F. G.'Mittaq. Josh Billings on the Weather. When roosters are observed before daylite-in the mornin, soreing amung the klouds, and uttering lamenta shuns, then look out for some sunden weather. When you see 13 geese, walking injun file and toeing in you kan de- liberately bet your last surviving dollar n a hard wintar, and a great flnctuoitsness during the next season in the price of cowhide boots.. When spiders are seen climbing up the wall backwards, and frogs cough as the they had the hickups, look out for rain ; this is also a sure sign that children will have the measles light. If bees hang around their hives, and mules are seen in a brown study, a storm of sum kind is cooking, and you will notis the market for herring is very; shifty. , Jis before a heavy snow storm, ov 3 three foot deep, chimbly swallows are uncommon skarse, and in the moral world there is great laziness in' the agitashun ov the tempeiauce question. If ptgs squeal in the night, and erass-hoppers cum pph ov theirroost, and mingle in free fight yu may hope for high winds in a few weeks, and also the typhus fever in your uabor- hood. ;-m- -i '?.:. , ' 1 - !- Jt !' IMrs, ilsadore -Middled -4 aumurwvraan, ana one nf ih P11 P4nl certainly -test8 of IKa 1 ?! dsscssion pf as mncherveand'feii 1 H r: wum;c1ja arc, oiten Vntii- saed tQnny bf her sei.ta lhh- F !1 " s e was in ber bond tor Ittfiur avavsoniArTr7rf tilL pi pos itionaibrary:- lam d 'that va. f - ! Jjutning upon i chair InJ the "back part w of ihe roonihad s thrown I npoathe 1 Prn?t :d,irV;f :- hifl feetihe ' -i shw of imknhrj;wIscTonchine "I" - j WCM inrvl -Tner mom? :.tf&3iJSm She also remarked that the ODen hand of the shadow had but two fin gers, and remembered that several desperate burglaries had recently been committed ?n the neighborhood,5 $up poitiously by a negro desperado, who was notorious as having lost two fin gers of his right hand. Mr. Middleton wasibsent from the city, and besides herself in the house, there was but a single maid-servant. Instead offalnting with fear, or shriek ing; for help, the brave lady sealed herself at very table underneath which the piiscreant was concealed and rang for the servant. - i v "Maud me the writing materials. Bridget," said she, with perfect'calm nesfe, "I want you to take a note this nstantto Mr. Forfa r, the ieweler. and have him send ybu back with my j diamond necklace I aud eardrops which I left there fin repairs several days ago. Bring them with you, no matter if fully repaired or not. They are by twenty-fold the most valuable articles of jewelry that I possess, and I do not wish to pass another night without having them in a bureau drawer." I The note was at once written and dispatched, but instead of being, in the tenor that she had signified, (on purpose for tlie couceared robber to overhear, for she had no jewelry un der repair,) it was a hasty notelolthe jeweler, an intimate friend, in which she succinctly stated herterrible posi tion and urged him to hasten to her relief, with the requisite police : assis tance, immediately on receipt of the missive. 1 j The agonies which that refined and delicate woman underwent when left alone in the house with the conscious ness of the presedce of that desperate robber, perhaps assassin as .well, crouched under the very table upon which she leaned, and perhaps touch led by her skjrts, can only bc!eiYt( the reader's imagination ; but her iron per ve sustained her through the vor ileal. She yawned, huminedan oper atic air, turned over the leaves of a novel, and in other ways lulled -the hirker into a -sense of perfect '-security-, and expectancy, and waited, Waited, with a wildly beating heart, and her eyes fastened upon the- hand : of her little ormulu clock with a greedy, feverish gazej . At last, hdwever-, came, tlie prayed for.relief. There was a ring at the door bell, and she strolled carelessly into the hall and down Stairs to open it. The ruse had been a success. She not only admitted Bridget, but also Mr. ST-orfair and' three stalwart pd licemcn. The latter passed stealthily Up stairs on tlie boudoir, where they7 suddenly pou heed upon the concealed j If 1 : , burglar so unexpectedly as to secure Him rith hardly ;a struggle. r The prisoner proved foJe a negro criminal nam&l .Clapman, but mostly, known as 'Two Fingered Jetty who yas in great request about that time" for several robberies committed in the neighborhood ia short time before. I - . . . : Aami m m 4 v 4 - ' and he is now sentence in the Alabama State pri- Tl j Wilmingtoii Siarx The father and grandfather of Secretary McCrary, of tlie Wfar Denarlmenti'ere born in Ii-edeilcoanty the Secretary- is quite proud of his North Carolina blood; Soapsuds water is an excellent liquid manure for some garden crops, especially for eel ery," and if appl ied every 'other day during its growing season, the stocks will be crisp and of a mammoth size. fi4 t H.N . i i I U: 1 1 J - r - - r i .r i 1 F 1 1 i I ' 4- -l.-W: '-I Hi X.-