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THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL j i ENGELHARD & SAUNDERS, ; tutors Rnd Proprietor. t T.i v;ll)M Alt. I.F.TTKR? ON BTSTWEfS UV91 KK ! AiDErspir. TERMS OF HCBSCRIPTIOX THK PAll.Y .TOCEXAIj is mailed to ft. h-o-ilier :it I'icjit Dm.i.AKS pern nmi m ; Four. 1(i.i.ai;s for six months; Skventt-fivk Cent THK W KKKI.Y JUI'UNAIj t Two Oiil- I te ter iit-num ; One Doi.lah for six niontlis. : S!il'seriiti.r. riirt ivcl to tin? Weekly for' . h in six mont':. j THi: n'OIAS A D THE SEBO. The policy of the Federal Govern ment towards the Indians is, to say the least of it, a contradictory n;. At one time it would scein thai- Indians have soae rights that the Government is bound to respect, and at other times it does not seem so. In the year ltffii;, Congress agreed to give the Choctaw Indians $300,000 for the strip of conn try known r.s the "Leased District," provided the Choctaws would within two years adopt into the nation and make citizens of about 3,000 negroes, formerly their slaves, and give to each individual negro forty acres of land. But neither the money promised nor the adoption of the Howard Amend ment declaring all persons born in the United States to be citizens of the State wherein they reside, could pre vail upon the Choctaws to disregard their rights of property and their prejudices of race, if not of color, so far as to admit their negro slaves to the rights of citizenship. And, if we are correctly informed, the Indians in the everglades of Florida also continue to this day to disregard the Constitu tional provision in regard to involun tary servitude. The time allowed by Congress for the Choctaws to accept the "benefits" of its legislation in their behalf has long ago passed without action having been taken, but from council to council the Government has extended the time. The question now arises what will the Government do in the premises ? The Government that can hang Cap tain Jack by a Military Commission would seem to have ample power to meet any emergency. But as the Richmond Dispatch says "this bit of history has another phase that is interesting. We see that Con gress has offered to buy the consent of the Choctaw to the enfranchisement of the negro as a voter and equal. Yet no such consideration was shown to the white man of tli3 South. He was not asked anything; but the re construction measures gave the negro directly all that the Choctaws are asked to give him. Nay, all that they were offered ($300,000) to give him, except the forty acres of land. "This is well worth the attention of the nation. The negro is superior to the white man, and the Indian also, in the estimation of Congress. Think on it." '1 IIK ELECTIONS. j Rnough is known of the results of the elections on last Tuseday, to justi- j fy the friends of constitutional gov- j avnment, and its honest administration j inbothFederal and State affairs, intak- J ing fresh hope for the future. For j the first time since the war we have been able to make some impression j upon the strong-holds of Radicalism. J The great changes in popular senti- j nient indicated by the vote east last j Tuesday, are explicable only ou the j ground that the masses of the North- : em people have at last awakened to : sdiiip seii.e of the df.nger threatening j the liberties of the eitixori from Fede- ! ral usurpations, coLTtiption and mal- ; administration of public affairs. The revolution in Northern public j sentiment for which we have been so long looking, has begun in earnest, v.e j tract; at least there is certainly much i to bid us hope not merely that it i has begun, but that it will con- I tinue until it shall sweep away all op- j position to it. I Let us teke a brief review of the field. j Iu Massachusetts, we have gained i forty-three members of the Legislature j and have reduced the Radical majority ! for the State ticket some fifty thousand ! ! votes. ; In New York, we have gained thirty- j live members of the Legislature and j have carried the State ticket by about ; 15,000 majority. Last year Grant ! carried it by 51,825 majority. , In Wisconsin, last year, the Radicals j had a majority of twenty-nine votes on j joint ballot in the Legislature. This j year that majority has been swept j away, leaving the Legislature entirely i in the hands of tho new Reform party. The Reform candidate for Governor was also elected. Grant's majority last year was 18,515. In Minnesota, Grant's majority last year was 20,498. On Tuesday the Farmers elected their candidat , State Treasurer and reduced the majority of the Radical candidate for Governor to a few thousand votes. In Kansas, last year the Radicals had a majority of seventy-one on joint bal lot in the Legislature, which has been entirely swept away, and the Legisla ture is now in the hands of the new party thereby securing the election of an opposition Senator in the place of the notorious Pomeroy. In Michigan there was a special election for member of Congress in the fifth District that last year gave a Radical majority of 10,609 for Mr. Foster, whose death, occasioned the late vacancy. On Tuesday a Democrat was elected as his successor by some two hundred votes. In New Jersey, too, we have made gains in the Legislature. Coming nearer home, we find that Maryland lias onc more given a signal rebuke to Radicalism. Virginia, too, lias proved that she is worthy of the noble blood that was so lavishly pourej upon her soil. The victory of Kemper and Withsks is a grand oik1, but with such men as Kf.mper and Withers for candidates, and Virginians for voters, the result was certain. We bid those, therefore, who have desponded, to be of good cheer, There is life in the old land vet. the lirand The Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina convenes in Raleigh on Monday, the 1st day of Decemlner next, being the 87th Annual Communi cation of that body. Delegates will be passed over the various railroads at balf rates. The meeting will be one of strict importance to the fraternity in the State, and it is believed that a full representation of all the lodges will be present. VOL. 29. JWS. EGBERT E. Lfcfc. t : Again the p eple of the South sor- row lor the death of one who bore the ! honored name of Lke. There is another fresh grave at Tjcx ington. The widow of the greatest Captain of the Age, the descendant of heroes and the mother of heroes, has followed her husband to the tomb. The Boston Advertiser thinks from present appearances there is a pros-, newspaper of any influence that sup ped of a livelier Legislature than the j ported it. Its returns decrease every State has had for many years and that 1 time we hear from Ohio. the remarkable success of independent candidates, in some of the most "regu lar" districts, and tho election of an unusual number of Democratic repre sentatives of ability and experience, will give a new aspect to the interior of the State house the coming winter. We concur with the . irlrcrf iurr in j thinking things will be a little "live-! lier" with eleven Democrats instead of j one in the Senate and sixty Democrats I instead of twenty-three in the Hotif-c of Representatives. FEOEHAL oi'TKAUCN. Unlawful interference by Federal officials with State elections is unhap pily no new thing. Indeed, it would doubtless create much surprise were an election to pass without some out rage on the part of tho officials ( f the Federal Government upon the rights of citizens and the sovereignty of States. Tho election last Thursday was no exception to the general rule. In New York City, Mr. Davenport made him self conspicuous in the performance of the dirty work required by his party. Mr. Davenport is an old and expert offender in the business of prostituting Federal official position to the behests of the Administration and its party. But New Y'ork was not the only place where Federal officials sought to pre vent citizens from exercising the right of suffrage. In Maryland the "despot's heel" is still felt. The Baltimore Ga zette of Wednesday says : One of the boldest outrages against the freedom of election and the liberty of the citizen that has occurred in this State since the war, was perpetrated by the Federal authorities yesterday. We give the story as it reaches us : Yesterday morning some fifteen or six teen persons, having their residence in Anne Amndell county, and legally en titled to vote there, chartered the Robert J. Rieman, one of the tugs in the harbor, to take them home to vote. The tug had proceeded on its way, as we understand, without moles-, tation, until off Stony Creek, when the United States revenue-cutter plying in j thes waters brought her to by firing a j shot across her bows She was then boarded bv the revenue o Ulcers, who tlirnrr nr.,1 bvrmcrl.f !Pr tir,l nil i on board back to Baltimore. It being ! then made evident that the persons arrested on the tug were citizens of Anne Arundel, and entitled to vote there, they were set at liberty, after a detention at Fort Mc Henry of several knurs, but to hide this scandalous out rage, to:. t give a colorable pretext for theseiui-eGf' 11. e tug and the unlaw- charee was trumped im against tho Tip LJigols withotit subterfuge she a license, and on this was held and h.-r papers t;ci.ed. the cii.izen.-i of Anne Arundel thus sum marily arrested ami as summarily dis missed on their arrival in Baltimore, made subsequently an unavailing effort to reach home by private con vevances in ' time to deposit their bal lots, but failing in this thev lot their I votes. Now mark the contrast. At the verv time the Robert .1. Kieman started fiom Baltimore with a number of Democratic voters, another tugboat, iu charge of custom-house officers, was gathering up nrg?oes from the oyster boat3 in the harbor for the purpose of voting them in Anne Arundel county. They were taken subsequently down tho river and landed at the same creek oif vhich the tugboat llobert J. Rie man was stopped and turned back. Such is this story of Federal outrage as related to us on good authority. If the particulars that have been fur nished us should turn out to be true, it i U. shameful interference in our local affairs only equaled by that of Casey in Louisiana. Of the main fact there is no doubt whatever. BEXTEI TUtES MX tiKiflttil . The Augusta papers are happy be cause tho fourth of November has passed without inflicting any injury upon the business of the city. The fourth of November has been looked forward to with great dread in Augusta by merchants and others, because of the very large amonnt of their drafts falling due on that day drafts given mainly by planters for the purchase of provisions, stock, fertilizers, and &c, accepted by merchants. The Chronicle and Sentinel says : "Well, the dreaded fourth passed, and we are glad to be able to announce that the many forebodings of the day were far from being real ized. Inquiry among the banks and banking houses yesterday afternoon, by our reporter, developed the fact thae nearly every dollar of xi archouse paper maturing during the day had been met promptly with currency. In only a very few instances was further accommodation asked for or extended. The cotton factors came promptly to time and p.ub stituted greenbacks for the ac ceptances held by banks and mer chants. From all accounts the pay ments made during the morning must have aggregated nearly half a million of dollars. When we reflect that this large amount of currency was paid during a period of unprecented finan cial stringency when trade and com merce were partially paralyzed by the panic, and the money centres of the country were doing business upon cer tified chepks we cannot too greatly , admire the hon;r, the honesty and the j pluck displayed by planters and fac : tors. When the planters discovered what a responsibility rested upon j them, they came forward and dis , charged their whole duty nobly. Their ; cm ton was promptly shipped to mar : ket and tnoiigh sold to meet their j drafts. .lie "faetcjs, loo, strained 1 every nerve to maintain their credit .unimpaired, .and were busy for weeks ! making preparations for yesterday. t They have both weathered the storm, and we can nope now tor cetter onsi ness and an easier money market. W. H. McKellar, editor of the New York Folice Gazette, was severely in jured, o few days ago, by a flag staff of the Harlem steamboat falling on him, owing to a collision with a brig. 1 xmxntamt ThE NEW PARTY. It is already pretty well known says j the New York Evening Post that the "new party" in Ohio was effectually squeezed to death between the old parties. Its vote less than that on ticket ; and its county, where it even less than was was considerably the temperance vote iu Allen was born, was at first reported, that is to say, about sixty. But the most significant fact is that nearly one half of its vhole vote in the State came from Cincinnati, the home of the only A ST It AW. The Washington City Republican, one of the President's organs, after painting a melancholy picture of affairs in the South, its commercial depend ence upon the North, its want of manufactories, kc, indulges " the hope that in the pronounced policy of j the National Administration, support j ed as it will be by the action of Con i gress, of developing these impover i ished States and communities by a giana system ot internal improve ments, the Southern people will recog nize a new statesmanship, deserving their grateful recognition." If the result of the recent elections shall cause a "let up" in the action of the President and of Congress toward the South, the dawn of a brighter day is indeed at hand. We are getting some soft talk jusi now and will doubtless get more. We trust we shall get something more than talk. Meanwhile, " straws show which wav the wind blows. .tIASSAlltK Or ilii: VIHt.il II S pttiso.w'its. How long the civilized governments of the world propose to allow the Span ish authorities in Cuba to commit atro cities like the massacre of the Virgin ius prisoners, it is impossible to say, but it dot s seem as if the time had ar rived when common humanity demand ed that some action should be taken to put a stop to them. We trust that the President and Congress will as soon as possible, inaugurate a policy that by its recognition of the Cubans as bellig erents at least, will force the Spanish au thorities to observe, the laws of civil ized warfare. We are not sure, however, that the path of the Federal Government to ward the adoption of such a policy is a perfectly clear one, for it is possible the Spanish authorities when remon strated with by General Sickles, the American Minister, may refer him to the cases of Captain Jack, Captain SUl Airs. Wirzs, and Mrs. Surratt, who were all tried by military commissions and hung. What similarity, if any there is in the offenses committed or alleged to have been eomruitteelby the victims of Span ish barbarity and those of American barbarity, we know not, but still we fe- that the hanging of Mrs. Surratt, of Captain Wirz and of Captain Jack, na.v 10 'l1101'1 n nirt inaptly, as pre cedi-ht- i'.'T pe shooting of the ius priMiijiJ. Virsin- l toi im r.a. 0 HANDLES sit: Alt To: i j;-c, the carpet-bag Judge who (d that he intended to make one iRCla 1,1! i of th .counties iu his judicial circuit Ve.e hi 11," lias written -i litter to the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society, iu which he waxed eloquent o:i "haud'es." "North Carolina hand les.'' Hoar him : lu the collieries of England, the mines of Australia, and the forests of South America; in the army of llussia, the artillerv of (ierniany, and the in fant navy of ancient Japan ; in short, in every market of tho world the repu tation of North Carolina handles is well established. Everywhere it is counted the best article in the trade. Its merits, both of quality and finish, are such that it is th.a subject of decep tion and counterfeiting by the manu facturers of other State. Who would not be a North Carolin ian ? Who is not proud of Tourgee ? Wo have heard nothing like it siuce the story Tourgee told about the find ing of all those dead negroes in that mill p 'lul ! Poor Tourgee .' THE KECEST ELECX IONS. The Radical press is indulging in some plain talk in accounting for the recent defeats its party has met with. The New Y'ork Evening T'ost says : "It will not be denied, we believe, by the most prejudiced adherent of the Republican party that it has failed to come up to the requirements of its opportunities. It has been many years in power, with a brilliant pres tige ihv cJUiicijcuce of a bticcebalul civil war and with every chance of doing pretty much as it pleased, and has yet left several of the most serious difficulties of the nation quite un touched, or has touched them in so awkward a way as to increase the number and complication of them." The Baltimore American says : We need not search long to find the oanse of the disaster. For two years there has been growing discontent in our i auks. The plain peophj of the country are impressed with the con viction that we are spending too much money ; Congress has been too lavish in its appropriations. With all our immense revenue, only a small per centage has been applied to the extin guishment of the national debt. The army, the navy, the civil service, tho pension list, and the Indians, consume nearly all that is left after the interest on the funded debt has been paid. We do not think that there has been more fraud and peculation in the disburse ment of the public money than is inev itable even in the best regulated civil service; but the people are leginning to feel that everything is done upon a scale entirely too pxtravagant. They want retrenchment. Eleven hundred dollars per annum for repairing a set of harness used by one of the Treasury officials seems to be an insignificant item to be complaining about, but as a type of the prevailing looseness in the keeping of accounts it is most sugges tive. ' Andy Johnson, in his Washington speech, said: "I stand upon the Con stitution of my country." Get off of it, Andy. Why are you standing on the Constitution with yonr dirty feet ? WILMINGTON, 1 THE JOlRVAl, A!il THE SPE CIAL. TAX BOiDK. We are glad to know that the posi tion taken by the Joukkai. in relation to the Special Tax Bonds, so-called, meets the approval of good men throughout the State. A member elect of Congvess in the western portion of the State, writes io us under date of November 5th. as follows : "Having just had time to read your letter (tho second ) on the subject of the State Debt, &c, I cannot refrain from expressing to you my high grati fication at the thoroughly satisfactory manner in which you treat the subject. Not one cent should be paid on the Special Tax Bonds, if we had moun tains of idle gold." Another prominent gentlemen living still further west, writing on 25th Oc tober says : "I have read with a great deal of in terest your letter to your Loudon cor respondent. It meets the issue squarely, and without flattery, is certainly the best document I have seen upon the subject, a.id should be widely circttia ted in aud out of tho State. In the State to convince our own people of the iniquities that have been perpetra ted upon them in contracting and out of tho State to convince our neighbors and strangers that we do but right not to pay a cent of the fraudulent debt concocted by Littlefield, Swepson & Co. You have sounded the "key note" and 1 am sure that it will meet a re sponse and an echo iu every valley and mountain of our good old State. Send me three or four hundred copies of the letter, with bill and I will remit the amount." OBITl'AKV, Lieutenant-general Willimii J. Hardee. Perhaps no officer in the army of the Confederate States of America was more successful in all he undertook than General Hardee. General Hardee, a native of the city of Savannah in the State of Georgia, was born in the year 1817. In 1834 he entered West Point as a cadet and graduating with honor four years after wards, was commissioned Second-Lieutenant, in the Second United States Dragoons and sent to Florida, where he served for two years. On 3rd December, 1839, he was pro moted to a First-Lieutenancy, and sent to the celebrated French military school at St. Maur. There, he was reg ularly attached to the cavalry branch of the t rencli Army. After perfecting himself as acavalry officer, he rt turned to the L nited States bringing a flutter ing letter of recommendation from Marshal Oudioot to the Secretary of War at Washington City. Lieuteuaut Hardee quickly reform ing his regiment soon became actively employed iu defending the advuneed settlements of their Western frontier from Indian depredations. On the 18th of September, lstl, he was promoted to be a Captain of Dragoons, and accompanied General Taylor across the Rio Grande to the Mexican Campaign. Re was taken prisoner at a place called Ci'rricitoa, being overwhelmed by superior num bers and was comjjelled to remain a captive for several months, brtt was exchanged in time to take part in the siege of Monterey. He was promoted for gallantry to be Major of Cavalry on the 25th of March, 1X45, and for subsequent meritorious conduct was made a brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. In the regular army he was promoted to the the rank of Major in the famous Second Cavalry Regi ment, of which Albert Sydney Johu ston was Colonel and Robert F.. Lee was Lieutenant-Colonel. Jefferson liavis, then Secretary of War, detailed Major Hardee to prepare a system of infantry tactics, and ' tint fruit of his labors was "Hardee's Tactics," so well known throughout the South. Tn 1SSG, on the completion of the "Tactics," Major Hardee was ordered to West Point with the local rank of L'"entetiant Colonel, where he remained with the exception ot one year s absence in j Europe, until he was promoted to the j full rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of cavalry in the regular army a position that lie resigned ou the 31st of January, IKni. About the last of February, 1SIJ1, he offered his services to the Confederate Government at Montgomery, Alabama. They were gladly accepted, and ho was commis sioned Colonel of the First Regiment of lufautry, assigned to duty at Fort Morgan, with instructions to take all the approaches to Mobile under his charge. In June lie was appointed Brigadier-f I eneral and sent to Arkansas, from whence ho was transferred to Kentucky. Having been appointed a Major-General, a portic-n of the forces under his command on the 17th De cember, 1851, fought the battle of Mumfordsvillc. He remained at Bowling Green all the winter as second in command at that post. At the bat tle of Shiloh his zeal, ability and skill were especially conspicuous. From this time General Hardee, with his corps was attached to Bragg's Ar my and commanded its left wing at the battle of Perryville, where his conduct won him the commission of Lieuten-ant-General. At the battle of Murfroes boro Lieutenant-General Hardee took a conspicuous part, his corps consist ing of Breckinridge and Cleburne's Divisions. After the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, in which he took a distinguish ed part, Lieutenant-General Hardee was appointed temporarily to succeed General Bragg in the general command. On the 13th of January, 18G3, General Hardee married Mary T. Lewis, a daughter of the late Richard H. Lewis, of Pittt county, North Carolina. Returning again to the command of his Corps, after the appointment of General Joseph E. Johnston to die command of the Wes tern Army, General Hardee remained with it until President Davis visited the camp after Hood succeeded John ston in Ueptember, 18(4, after the evacuation of Atlanta, when he was re lieved at his own request aud appoint ed to command the department of South Carolina. After the fall of Charleston and Columbia Hardee re joined Johnston's Army and continued with it until the surrender at Greens boro, after which he made his home in Alabama. His death occurred at Wytheville, Virginia, on Thursday last. There is only one way in the world by which Radical' can be beaten, and that is by fighting them. Toexpect to defeat them without a contest woidd be a folly eqnal to that of the careful dame of whom it is written -Mother, may I go out to Yes, my UariiDg daughter; Hang yonr clothe on a hickory linih. But don't go near the watei ." Postmaster-General Creswell is not at all pleased, it is said, with the result of the election in his Dative State of Maryland, where he hoped a majority of Radicals would be .elected to the next Legislature, before which he pro posed being a candidate for United States Senator, to succeed Mr. Hamil ton, whose term expires in 1875. N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1873. or tli Carolina flautist state Coii- I vent ion. ! LKroin irar Own Keporter. j This body convened iu the Baptist i Church in Warren, N. C, this morn ing, Nov. 5th, at 11:30 o'clock. Presi dent Brooks reads and comments upon the 27th Psalm. After the singing of the hymn, " Am I a pjhiirr of tho Cross?" the Convention is led iu prayer by Lider n. ll. Uverby, ot Camden count v. Elder J. 1). Hufham is elected Secretary jrru tern. Rev. Dr. Brooks is re-elected Presi dent. He makes some remarks upon the duties and responsibilities incident to this session, and urges the members to be faithful to their work, rcniem bering that they are to give an account of their stewaidship. Ho makes a pleasant allusion to the warm-hearted hospitality of the Warren people; and calls upon the delegates to exercise a valuable Christian influence upon the members of the families with whom wo are sojourning. A Committee is appointed to nomi nate other officers of the Convention. Three Vice-Presidents are elected, viz : Elder R. 11. Overby, Dr. T. J. Pitchford and Rev. G. W. Purefoy, D. D. Rev. N. B. Cobb is re-elected Secretary. John G. Williams, Esq., of lialeigh, is made Treasurer. The Committee on Order of Busi ness reports the order of last year, whieh is adopted. Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M. AFTEKNOOX SESSION. President Brooks in the Chair. The hymn, "Behold the Sure Foun dation Stone," is sung, and Elder E. L. Davis leads in prayer. Elder A. E. Owen, of Virginia, is invited to a seat. Mr. Charles Cooke, of Louisl.urg, is elected Assistant Secretary. Adjourned with singing, "O, for a Closer Walk with God," and prayer by Elder Hnynes Lennon. KIOlIT SESSION. The Church is densely packed with a fine audience to hear the Introduc tory Sermon, by Elder R. H. .Marsh, of Oxford. After a hymn by the choir, Elder Marsh rea is tho second chapter of Hebrews. He reads plainly, articula ting clearly. A little more animation. and a little more studv of the pauses ii , . . won; a improve uis rending. Llder Durham of Goldsboro offers a prayer. What a magnificent voice ! It is a good, sensible prayer. Now we have an an them by the choir and organ ; and (wonderful to tell) we can tell the words that they are singing, though we have no book ! We hardly ever heard it on this fashion. It is good music, and the singing is well done. The preacher is a yourer man. with light hair, and fair complexion. His text is Isaiah ix. f. The sernnii in written and read ; but it is well writ ten and honestly read. There is no at tempt to hide the manuscript. The person of Christ is fb st discussed. The thoughts are carefully elaborated ; the sentences are well formed ; the words are good ; the articulation is clear and accurate ; the enunciation is excellent. There is not much gesture, and there should not be, for ho is reading not speaking. The voice is clear, strong, and not harsh, though not specially musical. It rat Iter hicks variety, how ever. The life and character of Christ arc now presented. His love is especially dwelt upon, and His sufferings as il lustrating that love. The events of Christ's personal history during His life on earth are reviewed: and His wonderful character as set forth by those events. The description of the raising of the widow's son in Nain shows considerable power of a certain sort: but it is too elaborately drawn, and too wordy. There is no pathos in it. Turko does it better. There is originality and force in the treatment of tho Fcene between ' Christ and the thieves at the crucifixion. It is short, pithy, pointed, admirably expressed, and unusually suggestive.' In the de scription of the crucifixion itself the darkness, the language and conduct of the characters Hiere is a trifle too much of JI( adhiti),; but many people (we ale sorry for them) like Headley. The discourse concludes vi4h an ap peal to the audience to treat Christ aright. "What will yoil do with Christ?" asks the preacher. The preacher mut preach him. Tho pri vate Christian must work for him. The sinner must receive him, or else re spect him. Ho cannot determino to do nothing iu tho case. Pilate tried to escape the responsibility of do'ng anything; but he failed, 'and so will you. A decision is a necessity, and caunot be escaped. We cannot agree with the preacher in sayingr that tho ungodly arc "cruci fying Christ afresh, and p ittiug him to an open sic.rnv;" for ti e connection iu which the i.iiijuago i- used shows that it was intended to apply to those who had been c.nlighted, and had after wards apostatized. But'thc language is so commonly misapplied in our pulpits that irs meaning in its proper connection hfrs been well nigh lost sight of. Upon tin whole, the sermon is an unusual"" u od one. We only wish it had been t ; .-a Jie.d. Elder A. E. Owen, of Virginia, offers a short prayer. "Jesu3, I love thy churning name," is sweetly sung to the accompaniment of the organ, and we arc dismissed with the benediction. II. SECOND DAY. Wap.rkxtox, N. C, t Thursday, November 6th, 1873. S The Convention met at 9:30 A. M., the first half hour to be devoted to re ligious exercises, conducted by Rev. Dr. Wingate, President of Wake Forest College. A voluntary hymn is sung, " Tb. re is h tout. tain lillel with Muni," and Dr. Wingate announces " Jpsii, lover of my s-.mi., which is sung iu really rousing style by the delegates assembled. I 'l ayer is then offered by Elder U. It. Moody. Dr. Wingate then reads from the Scrip ture, containing the account of the scepticisms of the imprisoned Baptist, and of Christ's tribute to the character of John. Pertinent, though brief, comments are made by the reader, who is evidently a thoughtful student of the Bible. Some great preachers cannot lead a prayer-meeting, but Dr. Wingate is skilled in this direction. He is one of the most noticeable men among the Baptists of North Carolina. His face beams with intelligence and benevolence. He has very fine eyes. His voice is wonderfully rich and so norous, and his whole manner is the perfection of the natural. He is a man of dec ded originality, as those short, rich and suggestive comments he is making as he reads, clearly show. There is nothing strained, wild nor outre in any of them; but they strike one as true, anil just and forcible. That man can preach. There is no sort of doubt about it. Now he announces the hymn, "All hail tho ix.wcr of Jrtriis" n:!!!!!1. ., How that grand old tune the "coro nation" does ring. They sing it finely, only a. littje tap slow. Elder Milm, of Henderson, leads in prayer. He is an Englishman, a man of ability, evidently. That is a short, and re markably sweet prayer, if he does say "lov-cd " for loved, whieh wo wish he wouldn't say. Why did any sensible man, not to say jioct, ever conceive the horrible idea of calling his mother earth by that ugly name, a "tcrrctial ball? " And yet here it is in the grand old hymn, the "coronation," which we havo just sung.J ' Minutes of yesterday are read and approved. The report of the Board of Missions is read by Elder Hufham, the Corresponding Secretary of the Convention. Some 4,500 have been appropriated by the Board to sending the Gospel to destitute portions of North Carolina, and the missionaries have been abundant in labors, which labors have not been without sub stantial results. Elder E. L. Davis, of the Brown Creek Association, speaks on the report, giving some satements as to the destitution in his region of country. Elder Davis speaEs with plainness, earnestness and force. He is not a cultivated man, and makes no pretensions to style, but he has brain and a heart, and they are made to tell in his speech. Ho has the voieo of a whole camii-meetin":. He clasps his hard hands, and wo are rominded of the report of a mountain rifle. He earnestly utters tho Mace donian cry, "come over and help us." Ijite Andrew Jackson, lie says "pint (tor point. ) Llder IS. G. Covington, of tho East ern Association, follows, confirming the statements ot iiluer Davis. Mr. Covington is a sensible, educa ted man. He speaks with calmness and clearness, but he lacks animation and incisivenes3. He gives some en couraging statements about his field of labors in the Eastern Association. Elder R. H. Moody, of Morgan on. addresses the Convention on the con- litio'i of his field of labors. He tells i plain, unvarnished ta e ; says that various "isms Jiave been set afloat in his fie'd, but that lie has effectually destroyed them. Mr. Moody seems to be an earnest man, ana we believe he is a good worker ; but he has had little practice in speaking before such 'a body is this, and his speech is not eddying. Elder JS . P.. Cobb, of Lincolnton. tells us of the S'ate of affairs in that place, lie says ljineointon was named (Jong before the war) after a distin guished Revolutionary soldier. In that section of country the Baptists used to be regarded as a set of illite rate water-dogs ; but now there is reg ular Rjptist preaching there, and last year the Lutherans kindly offered them the use of their Churc h. The bad opinion entertained of Baptists thereabouts is largely due to the con duct of the Baptists themselves, who have not been what they ought to have been. Fifty dollars a year is a big salary for a Baptist preacher to receive in that country, and many of the peo ple r.pom to think that religion consists in going to church and being mad-3 to "feelgood." Elder Cobb says that the preachers of our denomination give at least one-half of all the money that is given to the objects of this Convention. Elder Cobb speaks well, i and is one of the most effective minis ters in the Convention. j iiuer . u. tiauitney, .j .iuock.s ville, speaks as to the condition oi things in Mocksville, in Salisbury and in StateKville. He is encouraged in his field, and asks the aid of fhe Con vention in getting men and money for the occupation of important points in his section. Elder F. IT. Jones makes some state ments touching the work in IheBeulah Association. Elder (. N. Webb, of King's Moun tain Association, next addresses us. H- says that he is laboring in a coun try where nearly all the people men, women and children, are "members of the (Munch." They generally believe in the "sacramental theology," hold ing that the Lord's Sr.pper prepares them for Heaven. Th'v are taught by their preachers that the read ng of the Scriptures is not very essential; but that if they will learn 'their cate chism and come to the "Sacrament" they will be saved. Some of the people, however, are waking up and are read ing the Bible. Elder G. W. Newell speaks on the btate of the Tar River Association. With 30 Churches thii Association has 9 ministers. In soiue 11 counties in Eastern North Carolina there is au almost utter destitution of Baptist preaching. In Edgecombe county, with 3,)00 pcopl", there are not more than 500 pr fessiug Christians. This state of affairs is attributed to the fatalistic notions inculcated from the pulpits of this region. Elder S. W. Wescott. of Newborn, speaks of tho need of preaching in tho country around him. Dr. Pritchard, of Raleigh, speaks of the general need of Missionary effort iu the State at large, and of the neces sity for sustaining the h'tate Board, and furnishing the means for sending out the men to evangelise the State. We could now employ 50 luis.-ionaries in important fields in North Carolina if we had the means to Mistain them. Elder Hufham follow.?. He says there are three large sections of the State in which the Baptists are almost unknown. West of the Blue Ridge t le people are largely Baptists. Elder Hufham's speech is encouraging. He says, how ever, that we are failing to reach the masses of our people with any appeals to their liberality. Still, this year has been a year of work and of growth among our people. We must trust aud stand by our Board of Missions. It is doing effective work for the Mas ter. Elder Hufham is a noble man. He speaks well, and is listened to with at tention and respect. The Report is laid on the table, to be taken up and discussed to-night in mass meeting. Tho Report of the Treasurer of the Hoard of Church Extensions is read by Eider Hideu, Chairman, who recom mends the abolition of the Board, and ilic transfer of it functions to the Board of Missions. The Report is adopted. Adjourn. P. M. Al TfKXDOX d t( o'clock, si'SS'ON. President Br s in the chair. The motion to abolish the Churuh Exten sion Board and to commit its work to the Board of .Missions in Raleigh, wat adopted. The Report ot the Sutidny School Board is read by Elder J. B. Boone, of Charlotte. The Board has raised and expended some $700 or $800 dur ing the year. Dr. Pritchard, of Raleigh, speaks on the Report, and speaks well. He is one of the best speakers in the body: but he clap his hands too loud at point intended to be emphatic. Elder Boone follows i:i an effective and sensible speech. Elder Cobb explains the plan upon which the Board is operating. He tells us of the old woman, who "got hap py" at the camp-meeting, and thought she could fly; but found that she " couldn't git the right flop." (Great laughter.) Elder Cobb's speech is excellent. Elder Haynes Leniion, of the Cape Fear Association, next tells of the work in his region, and Eider Overby spoke of Sunday School operations in the Ghiwan Association. He is fol lowed by Elder W. T. Farrow, of Chapel Hill, and other-. - Report adopted- liev. Dr. Sumner, Corresponding Secretary of the Domestic and Indian and Sunday School Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention, is invi- ted to address the body to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Adjourned with prayer by Elder l'ctty, of lrginia. KIGHT SESSION. The Church 13 densely packed with people in a mass meeting for Missions. Report on State missions is takon from the table end read. Elder C. Durham, of Goldsboro, ad dresses tho meeting. Ho is a hand some man; has a fine voice, and speaks with fluency and force. He says "Gospir igv i'Gospel," and is not over-carcful with his grammar. Elder A. E. Owen, of Portsmouth, Va., next speaks. He is not hind some. His voice is harsh; but ho has fine powers of declamation, and is lis tened to with more than ordinary at tention, lie is evident y a practiced speaker. Hymn, "Jesus paid it all." Dr. Pritchard speaks with his usual ease and grace. A collection is taken, ami we ad journ. H. LOCAL. ' Carolina, Central Kail-n ay. The Charlotte Observer says: This enterprise is being pushed rapidly ahead, despite the panic and the scar city of money ; the financial embar rassments have necessitated the dis charge of several civil engineers. No reduction has, however, been made in the wages of the laborers. County Commissioner. The Board were in session again yet-terday morning. It was ordered that the Chairman of the Board be authorized to advertise for bids for keeping the County Work House for tw. Ive months, from Janu ary 1st, 1874. John Rogers, a cripple, was ordered 4 a month for his support. Bonds of E. E. Burruss. County Treasurer, for 810,000 and SG0,(KX), respectively, with E. Murray as surety, were received and ordered registered and filed. Adjourned to meet again next Tues day morning, 11th inst, at 10 o'clock. THE HOMIEST VET I Oaring- Slobbery of Sol. Hear A. IJro-.' YVIio!ej.jtle EKtabiisiimcnt. Early Sr. liday morning bet ween 1 and I o cl- en, one ot the boldest rob-berie- ever committed here, was per petrated in the very heart of the city. Ihe A ho.esale clothing and drv goods establishment of Messrs. Sol. Bear !v Bros.. on Market street, between Front ami Watt r, wan the seeno of the rob bery ; and a rich haul was made by the thieves, i:i the face of the fact that the block upon which this store is sit uated has as largo an apportionment of 2olice as any in the city. Hie entrance was effected from the publiealleyin rear of the store, through a strong iron door well riveted and se cured by two iron bars, 2i inches in thickness. It must have taken fully three-quarters of an hour to effect this entrance, which required the use of a crow bar and, appearances also indi cate, a good cold chisel. The door, at any rate, bears evidences of laborious manipulation, and the operation could not have been accomplished without considerable nois?. This naturally suggests the question as to where was the policemen upon that immediate bear? The thieves after entering must have at once proceeded to extinguish the lights, invariably left burning in the store, and under cover of the dark ness, no doubt rapidly gathered their plunder. From the money drawer small change amounting to over $10 was taken, also from the stock some thirty pairs of fine doeskin pants, a quantity of the best hose and under wear for gentlemen, also a number of scarfs and overcoats, besides silks and other dry goods. The goods stolen amounted to considerably more than 500 the thieves taking, no doubt, as much as they could carry. To accom plish all this they must have bsen a full half hour in the store. The robbery was first discovered by the policeman of the beat, who was led to au examinatioa of the rear of the store by noticing that the lights had been extinguished. This was about 4 o'clock. The stolen goods, it is thought, wrro taken off by way of the river, near the foot of the alley. There is something bold and singular about this robbery the very difficult char acter of tho cntrauce and the noise necessitated in effecting it, renders tho fact iudoed strange that tho atten tion of the watchman should not have been attracted. Tbo fact, we think, requires investigation. Where is the necessity of a police force if such rob beries are to be perpetrated under the very nose of tho policemen ? Wc are glad to learn that tho Mayor has ex pressed a determination to have the matter thoroughly inquired into and the first step in the matter was taken yesterday by the arrest of John Statue, the officer who was on duty at that beat. Kostcr of A'ortli Carolina Troop). Our li ving and Our Dead is now engaged in the publication of a roster of the North Carolina troops, so far as they can be obtained from the docu ments ou file in the Adjutant General's Office at Raleigh. From the list al ready published we clip the following record of the original organization of the gallant old Third Regiment. This was almost exclusively a Cape Fear regiment, and the names of those in the roster, so many of whom, alas, fell in the struggle, will ever be dear to the people of this section : TIIIK UriilMEXT NOUTII CWKCLINA TKOOP3, TlIIEl) STATE T ROOTS, INFANTRY. Gaston Meares, Colonel : Robert H Cowan, Lieutenant Colonel : William L. DeRosst t, Major. Company A Robert II. Drvfdale, Caption : Ifetiry H. Best, 1st Lieuten ant ; James II. Alhritton, Yiliiam G. Williams. "Jiid Lieutenant s. B Stephen 1). Thru-ton. Capraiu ; John B. Brown, 1st Lieutenant ; L'ho:nas Cowan, George W. Ward, 2:n Lieutei ants. C Peter Mallett, Captain; Edward Spearman, 1st Lieutenact. ; Henry W. Home, Charles I. Mallett, Had Lieu tenants. D Edward Savage, Captain : W A Cnmrni :g. Adjt., 1st Lieutenant. ; J F S VanBokkeleii, Edward G Meares, 2ud Lieutenant-. E M L Fayette Redd, C.-pbiin : Wibiam T Ennett, 1st Lieutenant ; Leander Moore, Elisha Porter, 2nd Lieutenants. F William M Tarsley, Captain ; Hardy B Willis, 1st Lieutenant ; Rob l S Radcliffe, John W Ruueiniiui, Hud Lieutenant.-.. G -Edward II Rhodes, Captain; Sol omon Qornto, 1st Lieutenant ; Wil liam n Qninc?, Robert N Bell, 2nd Lieutenants. H Theodore M Sikes, Captain ; Dtiucan E McNair, 1st Lieutenant ; Swift Galloway, Armand L DeRosset, 2nd Lieutenants. " I John R Carmer, Captain; Samuel B, Walter?, 1st Lieutenant; Archibald Crrig, William Gaylord, 2nd Lienten ats. K David Williams, Captain; Thos. E Armstrong, 1st Lieutenant; Alex W Bannerman, John P Hand, 2nd Lieutenants. NO. 44 WuAiiKGTON, N. C, 7th Nov., 1873. (. TJ m. L. Dcliotsct, fresidenf of the Chamber of Commerce Sir: The public work at New In T . t- f . .. " , T, , ei iui luipivvui-; xnc iiaroor was visited by your Committee on Wed nesday last, the oth instant, in the company of Col. Craighill and Capt 1'nillips, (Chief and Assistant En gineers of the work,) on board tho tug u j.. jiuluu, u:tpi. .uarper. Since our visit "on tho 9th of .Tulv last, (reported on tiie 11th,) embracing a period ot seventeen weeks, nineteen cribs havo been placed in position and filled with stone up to low water line, making twenty iu all, and extending about four hundred and thirty'-five (435) feet on tho lino of the new breakwater from Federal Point, in nearly a south west direccion. No time has been de voted as yet, to finishing this work above the high water line, as it is con sidered of more importance to push forward rapidly with the foundation cribs, to prevent as much as possible undermining of them by the currents. Moreover, the high tides flowing over tuo worir, more readily brings up and deposites the sand by the side of it. than if it swept by from being slmt off entirely .before the general current has been changed. We find the beach making up rap idly on and around tho point, and the sand is following the breakwater out, and shoaling very perceptibly on both sides of it. We therefore consider the work progressing satisfactorily. The boisterous weather of late and high tides has had rather-a happy effect than otherwise upon the old break water in sweeping over a portion of it, unnging tnousands ot tons of sand, which has been deposited on both sides aud even on the top of it. The breakwater we consider safe and secure ; a very small portion of it now remains uncovered in front by beach formation, while flats in its rear and shoals iu front, extend almost unbro ken from the starting point on Smith Island beach, to its terminus on Zeke's Island. As far as we had opportunity for seeing, the brush fences and grass have done and are dting all that was promised for them. Upon a letrospect of the general plan and operations, we have to report a very satisfactory progress under the many embarrassing circumstances un der which this work has labored from its very incipiency, and thus far with the most satisfactory result:--. We beg to call your attention to tho frequent changes of lato in fhe channel of entrance through the New Inlet, which at this time is very crooked and difficult and must bii more or less haz ardous. We would suggest that its use be discouraged except for small vessels. And again, we beg to call attention to the fact that six months or more have elapsed since the new channel out by bald head, known as the Seward channel, was plainly defined and bouyed, by order and under direc tion of the U. S. coast survey after a careful and elaborate survey, as contain ing about nine feet of water at low tide, pretty straight, plain and open, since which time outsiders have reported ten to ten and a-half feet, and strange to say, up to this time we have heard of no vessel being piloted through it. Our pilots from some unknown cause refuse to use it. Respectful 1 y ubmittcd, H. Nvtt, Chairman. Ai.ex. Spkcjct, Geo. Haeetss, Committee. Baittiiiiore (Oct. 4) Corresromlej-es Cincinnati Commercial VUnKItZOOT-tiOSS. ot trie A Iteitia.riinb!e Chapter In Crime. The trial of W. E. Udder: murder, which commenced 27th inst., at Westchester, Pa, ses to unfold one of the most 300k on for the , promi-remark- able criminal oases of the age a case involving more of mystery, startling incident, greed for gain, and heartless butchery than was ever conjured up in the brain of the most sensational writer of modem fiction , The plot of this dark tragedy, its scenes and inci dents, as disclosed beforo the courts, a coroner's jury, and unearthed by shrewd detectives, may bo summed up as follows : act nusr. " A wooden tcnemeni in the suburbs ! of Baltimore, occupied by one W. S. Goss, who is ostensibly engaged in ex perimenting on a substitute for rub ber, for which ho proposes securing a patent. He has a partner, one W. E. Udderzook, who Las put $200 (ob tained from his mother) into the com mon purse, the object being not to perfect a patent, but to defraud live insurance companies out of $25,000. Goss is a married man, and these poli cies are on his life, one of $10,000 be ing in tho Traveler's (accident) Com pany. Udderzoot procures a corpse from some comctery or dissecting room and places it in tho build ing. Then, ail being in readiness for the final coup, Udderzoot and Goss start one morning for this building, purchasing on the way a pint of whiskey aud a gullon of coal oil. They also borrowed an axe of a neigh bor, who accompanies them. With the axe a quantity of kindling is cut, and at dark a futile effort is made to light a coal oil lamp. Udderzoot then goes away with the neighbor, ostensi bly for the purpose of procuring an other lamp. They had not been gone long before the buildinsr was in flames. Gyss had piled tl e kind'irg wood on tne body, drenched it with coal oil, and set fire to the pile. He then ran down the lane, got into a buggy which his brother, A. C. Goss, hnd procured and held in waitinr, and drove to the Philadelphia depot. He then took, a train northward, to become a volun tary wanderer, a homeiess outeast. I. de.eizoos and ms Ciiffii:ill'!)l! g budding. i'it:d. and t hastened back to tin- b'az ! Tne !! icLbor-, ga -.! at iii. fi ( stand m tn g.ar' era::! fieml LliliU' hail i flames. Not. li: done its worst d to thosi- iuoroid YiiVi;: ot in--ut'oi; that Goss was iu failed f o create a the building. rl i. s sensation, however as several hud seen a man run down the then lire broke out, a d bceu no explosion. ALT SKCONl. The United States ('ire Room, Baltimore. The Goss had claimed of tho fare -when there had lit Court-, widow of insurance companies the amount of the policies on her husband's life, and rayment had been refused on the ground that Goss was not dead. The widow maintained that her husband had perished in the flames, and she brought suit. Then the remains found in the ruins were disinterred ami examinee! by medical experts. The defense urged that the teeth were unlike the fine set Goss was known to have possessed; that the hair exhibited was not the color of his, and so a war was waged over these charred frag ments of humanity, which resulted in a victory for the plaintiff. The average juror has no bowels of compassion for corporations or cormorants. An appeal followed, of course. Tho insurance companies were dissatisfied with the verdict, and no wonder. Indeed, it is asserted that prior to this trial over ttirfu bad been made to the insurance gents on the part of Goss, 0 a RATES OF ABTtStCWMattMB ua aauini dsb weei : u.nU- no Square, two treeka....... One Sqnsxe, one moath "3 60 One Square, three months. : 7 OB rTIAflflTiaKA a!. MA.41.. MM Additional Squares at proportional rates. A Square is equal to -m lOLmunicCid rertifingtype. Cash, Inrariably taadTSnee. ready to givo himself up for a sum of money and irimunity from criminal prosecution for all concerned in tho plot. A-rr third. In this wc seo tho wanderer, driven from placoto place, embarrassed pe cuniarily, given over to drink, now in Canada, then in Tennessee, then iu Pennsylvania, and for a time in New Jersey. All this time ho is in commu nication with his fellow-conspirators, receives moaoy and letters from them, and on ono occasion is risked bv his brother and Udderzoot. He has as sumed au alias; is, A. . L Wilson, a single man, and in this -character is attentive to and endeavors to persuade into an elopement a girl in tho humblo walks of life. Finally the sinews of war become exhausted; it was not foreseen that tho insuranco companies would hold on to their greenbacks so tenaciously; and ioono of the conspira tors, at least, a murder seems to afford the only way to escape detection and punishment for a lesser crime. ACT FOUBTU is laid in Pennsylvania. Udderzoot and Goss arrive in Chester county to gether. Goss is left at a tavern in Jeunersvillo, while Udderzoot visits his brother in-law hard by, a uo'er-do-well named Rhodes. He endeavors v secure Rhodes as an accommieA in t.ti r rerned jated crime by arousing his cupidity. He tells him the stranger has 81,000 in his possession, and more may be had. Rhodes refuses, and warns Udderzoot. if we mav credit t,Ii statements of the former, and Udder zoot then resolves to do the deed him- seit. ne procures a horso and buggy, and invites Goss to ride, with him The two start out together, but ono returns. The remains of the other are found ten days later, where tho mur derer's hands had laid them. Tho deed was done under cover of the darkness. Tho buggy was halted by the roadside, at the edge of a wood. The murderer's-, left arm was placed around the drugged ami half-couscious -victim, while the right hand inflicted three deadly stabs with a dirk. Then the body was forced back against tho fcuggv top, breaking the b-jw, aud the throat cut. In taking the corpse from tho vehicle, the step was broken and the dash board bent. The lifeless re mains were taken into tha woods. The bloody blankets were thrown out of tho buggy, the oil cloth removed from the floor of the vehicle, and it was washed iu a stream near by, and re turned to its owner i i IVn jingtonville just before midnight. Wi.h all these precautions a ring, afterward identi fied as one worn by Goss. and a bono stud which belonged to Udderzoot, were found in the buggy, and later examinations detected blood-stains. The vehicle had abo been injured in the struggle, which did not escape no tice at the time, but Udderzoot's ex planations were deemed satisfactory, and he paid for the damage done and for the loss of the blankets. Tho bug gy having baen thus disposed of, tho murderer returned to complete his fearful night's work. He stripped the body of its clothing, save the shoes and stockings, cut off the arms at the chest, tried to cut off the legs at the knee, but could not discover the joints, so cat them off at the thigh. Tho body he buried in one place, tho dismembered limbs in another, and the clothing and the blankets taken from the buggy in a third place, all so marked that he could readily find them if he desired. Coolness Jand calcula tion appear to have marked all the murderer's movements. The buzzards disclosed the bnrial place of the murdered man, an inquest was held, and a verdict found against W. E. Udderzoot. He was arrested in Baltimore, and taken to West Chester jail to await his trial. Rhodes his brother-in-law, was afterward arrested as an accomplice in the murder, and A. C. Gons was also arrested in a charge of conspiracy and jierjury made by the insurance companies. ACT FIFTH. Tho court room at West Chester, Pennsylvania, where W. E. Udder zoot is to be tried for his life. These are mere outlines, meagre notes of a chapter of incident ! in tho criminal annals of this country, on which those insatiate of horrors will soon ba fed to the full. . Clearly tho brothers Goss, tho widdow and W. E. Udderzoot were in tho plot to defraud the insuranco companies. How many more were concerned in it must be left to conjecture for the prebcut. Think of these conspirators, a wife and a brother among them, swearing to the identity of remains which they knew to bo those of au unknown person critically examining and testifying upon teeth, and hair, aud distorted features. When tho remains wero dis covered "in Pcuusylvavia, they mani fested no feeling or interest regarding them. Were tho wife and brother in the confidence of the murderer ? Ono is led to inquire, what jxirt of tho plot had Rhodes '.' May lie not have been the murderer, the principal, and not tho accomplice ? All this, and more, has to be unraveled and revealed in the court room. The evidence against Udderzoot is purely circumstantial, but it is terribly direct. There is even now a belief in some quarters that Goss really perished in the flames, a:i alleged. YVho, thou, was the man mur dered 11! vania? cut to pieces in Pennsyl- The latest marvel in telegraphy is an invention, recently exhibited at tho French Academy of Sciences, by tho aid of which maps and plans may bo sent by telegraph, without necessita ting it special drawing for tho purpose. Over the map already made is laid a semi-circular plate of g!-s, tho cireuni ferehce of which, is grade a ted. At the centre is an alidade, also graduated, which ca.-i :es, on a slide, a piece of mica markf d with a V'a le point. Tho !a:ter, bv its own mo'. : ment along the .lM-i.l.i n!mi bv- tl-!iT. ot the ikh- and rtiso dad, itse'f, can be brong- b upon rcle. e verv point ;. t ee triads senile in-t bv.ore tii i.late is a lived eye pi--!-,-. ! - :' l:irr 'l-rouh this, the b!:;;'k il.;. i.-: e:ii!:;d successively OVCT ail the- p. ints of ilia p!.i!i to bo repro duced :'..-,d the poiar co-ordinates of each noted. The nuuioen thus ob tained r.re transmitted by telegraph. The receiving device is analagous to that just described, but a simple poiut is substituted for the mica dot, and by it, the designated positions on tho glass are successively marked. ;tiaiM not Hie L'-rcinciit of Sea JiirdM. The long received opinion that guano is the deposit of myriaels if sea birels, accumulating through long ages, is rendered untenable by tho recent in vestigations of Dr. Habel. After treat ing the guano with an acid, microscop ical and chemical examination revealed that the insoluble residue was compo sed of fopsil sponges and other marine animals and plants precisely in consti tution to r.ucii as still exist in those seas. Tho fact that the anchors o ships in the neighborhood of the guano islands often bring up guano f om the bottom of the ocean, is quite in oppo sition to the prevalent belief. J)r Habel therefore considers that th dev posit of guano must fc tu9 result of, the accumolation of fossil plants and, animals whoso organic matter has been transformed into nitrogenous buq- Btanee, the mmreal portion, remaining iatactt
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