North Carolina Newspapers

tjefelg filar, ;WM.' H. BERNARD, Editor and Proprietor. i . WILMINGTON. N. C: " 'Friday, "Jtmuary 7th, 1881. ' 'tarifcUeea pf Marriage or Death. Tributes of Respect, Becolattona of Thanks, Ac , are charged " for as ordinary advertisements, bat only hall rates ' when paid for strictly in advance. At this rate 50 '- cents will pay for a simple announcement of Mar riage ox Death. " .' pf" Remittances nfost be nude by Check, Draft Postal Honey Order, or Keglstered Letter. - Post . . Masters willreelBter letters when desired. :-. W Only snch remittances will be at the risk the publisher. ! of spectmen copies forwarded when desirea. ." REPUBLICAN PANACEAS. , There is a paper ia the January number of Hhe Atlantic Monthly on the. way of dealing with -the South that is almost amusing in its effron- teiry,: although the writer evidently does not intend to be offensive or un Jmdf He ia simply one i of thatT class .of politicians whose "foresight" is 3ot as good as their hindsight," and - -who never understood' the Sooth and " will never understand it.. The writer wishes an end to all strife and pro scription," but he things , the South is the.sole' sinner; He does not favor a forcing process by harsh laws as it was a great failure "to- attempt to reform the South by act of Congress." Just so, and so it will ever be.- -Gag laws and force laws .'cannot make ; friends or "overturn the - laws'of na ' ture. - The plan of the Atlantic wH ter to buy up or conciliate or win overthe South to Republicanism is to distribute the offices. He : dis- - claims all purpose of bribery, but he thinks offices ought to be given to all men of high character jwho will I come i over and "help build up a new Republican party" in the South. We apprehend the new material will not be much better than the old, and will - fail as completely to secure) the favor or confidence of the white people as - those men failed who deserted the Southern people in "the days of car- ' j pet-baggery.' . ; ;'... v ; The failure of all proposed plans is guaranteed from the start, because the doctorf do not; understand the true condition of the patient. It is .painful to see1 the ignorance . and 3 blindness of those who attempt to : cure. If they comprehended the ao t thai state of affairs if they could . put themselves precisely .in the place of the Southern people they would be able to suggest a plan and it : would be very different from any that has been proposed. The'South- era people have cause to distrust the kindness of the Northland especially of the Republican party. The Re construction Laws adopted by them . were not only, oppressive but under some aspects horrible.' The South . his good cause to regard the Repub- lican party as its implacable, treach erous enemy, and the leaders of that party never do anything to allay fears or court confidence... A few men .in the South a dozen or. so in each -" State may be won over by a- fat 'office,butthey will lose their influence - with : the whites that moment they : sell out and identify themselves with ' their enemies. iThis is very natural; and it is just what the Radioals would do-under the same oircn instances.' f The South sees the Republican party standing up astha advocate of a: -"strong , government" as . gravi . tatiog constantly and unerringly to - a system that was not: tolerated id . the beginning and only becomes more i dangerous with time. ; They claim that the form of government , set up ' by; the Iframers has been changed '.completely bjr the fourteenth amend . meat to the Constitution, and the , decisions of a Radical Supremo Court ''give countenance and, support to - such a pretension.'. ;;Wheo the Northern people under ; stand that there is a far greater ques tion than mere party at the bottom i '-of thfr' Southern question they will ' ; bay e. learned much and have taken a -euro Btep in theright directron. That j question is not ? partisan but enters . . ; inW the yerv; ;Xram6 Work of "society. s As Gren Bradley .T Johnson' says in I ;his statesmanbke, admirable, and able ; letter written August 28, 1880, to the Dubuque Berald, it is a question with the South of. "social order, civiliza UOnropertyv education and pro- !gresevw; It is certain, therefore, that . the South'wili not agree to aqy plans of'conceBBion or surrender that in any w, ay shall demand, thejim perilling of Biviog apf . any fojEjLhese vital ihte ' 'rests" -conroLf atid tifiom control,' -and ,4ot ,thesyery, , reasons aligned? by; yen. Johnson. ;?We '"quote again If roWkwiairitaijl ' ' 1 '"I sajd the forces iitkkt eontrni a Slate are '"virtue,' intelligence; property and nanhaod, and that no device could, be invented.1 no ' constitutional ' atoendinent1 nor CoDgres- ional eo&ctment be applied, hlcb; could 'change tbia'orde?Qt nature. ;WhenJsoctety is left' to itself,- uncontrolled by exterior ;iorce;" mese vitarrorcet will direct; and goyernit.1 TberefbreM 4aid!the tegro ..'s'.T I.'.s: i could z notr cbnti oTTfiy'T)15ftfdn'of iStr Southern States. Ibe weu" tbese States always nod under all circum- atances. not because they are white, but l saia unaer an ciruumBiauccu wa wm ic tain the coDtrol of society in the hands of the whites, because ail the forces of aoeiety tt . . , .... .., ... l - inhere in, and pertain to, the whites." i That is the truth, every wordof it. 'There is more truth more real polit- ical philosophy in these few lines from the pen of a Southerji man, than in Whole' volumes of "Congressional Re; j coids filled up with' the pariizan- i ship,' rant and hiuernessof Radical - members. It is certain that there, are "inherent, irresistible forces which control society, above ,. constitutions, laws or political arrangements.' The , history -oft everyv ; civilization" wili prove this. ;4 " -- ;:'!' - j The negroes were used to oppress and plunder the South.: The object of the Radical ; leaders is to use still the negroes, not to. benefit the South and help develop and enrich, but to aid them in keeping eternal contrpl of the power, patrpnage and pelf of the Government. ; The South will'jaever surrender, sell out, or prostitute it4 self before any party with suoh-are-T cord, whose gOBpel is hate, whose de f sire is revenge, whose' purposes are 'destructive, whose wish is to degrade the whites to the level of the .negro) Col. McClure. the able and fair- minded editor of the' Philadelphia Times, in one of his letters from the South, does not fail to understand what was our condition in .the past. He says, and with the utmost truth; that there iaao Republican party in the South of any consequence "solely because unscrupulous adventurers will allow no reputable man to be a Republican," and "what should be. a great party, South as well as North is simply a band of often-wrangling official plunderers and a disgusted folio wing of ignorant blacks." c There is not an ; intelligent, : truth-loving conscientious man- in the South, be h"e white or colored, Southern 'born 1 or Northern, ; who does not know that this js true. - CoL McClure is of the fixed opinion that the South will be controlled by the whites, "without regard to the occasional numericai preponderance of. the blacks, simply because superior intelligence and the domination that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary cannot be reversed without chaos." This view confirms Gen: Johnson's opinion, and is in accordance with the "eter--nal 1 fitness of things." There is no Northern r community, to-day that would agree to be governed by the- blacks, or by the Chinese, whose civilization is far in advance of the negro. ' --, - I : THE POPULATION. . We propose briefly to glance a some of the salient Doints of the cen sus of 1880.' North Carolina is the sixth in the list of percentage of in crease among the Southern States.: Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina Texas and West Virginia all lead oor State. Tho per centage of increase for North Carolina is 30.6 per cen. or 328,639. Tho average increase in the ; United States is 30.8.- Texas shows an increase of 5.1. The to tal population is' 50,152,559. -This win De BUDject to cnange upon a re vision of the returns. Every ; State andfferritory shows some increase.' The States north and east of the Fo tomao and Ohio do not come .tip to the general average throughout the country. In New England the in-- crease is very smair. in Maine it is but 3.5 per cent; in New Hampshire it; but 9.2; in Vermont, 9.5; in ConnectM cut, .16.8;, in Massachusetts, u222 In the latter, the : increase ,is rowing mainly to the foreign element! ' All the S tates an d 5 Territbri es in the South and those , west of the Mis sissippi show a large i increase. The total increase for ten years is 11,594, 188. A-like increase 'during the next ten years will bring the " popu- lation np to 67,000,000. The pe-' centage of increase is not, as great as it was before the war, when the aveiage increase was 5 per cent; If Virginiarhadpt3wen its population would- have . been .2,130,-; 896,- whioh would bave ' made rher sixth in size. As it is she is four-' teenthi ' Texas, has increased more in aetaal population. , than aoy.; other State, its - incjease .; being 778,30. -Texas and .Georgia and Missouri , in the South aloni'exceed Nor'tbrCaro una in ' increase.-. Georgia has increaaed . , 354,87. and . Missouri 47,796. . Marylaud shows but little inoreasepuideofjaltim IhV total for .the entire State : being l. 1 J After Texas Pennsylvania' shows the largest increase, : namely, 760,787 or! 21.3 per cent. J 'NewTork third, with 700,414 , or 16 iper. cent. ; Kansas; foartbwiiE.rXl eent-Illuoialf5;745 or 21.2 per cent.; Ohio iitb" with " jS; 538 or 19.9' per cenC New:York PettTisylf aniaTKe wJersSy7OhTo7lh5" diana and Illinois-all being nearly . ;i i - in a line from the Atlantic to the Mia- i ..i.tVni:. i:ti j. e L- -ss- tantBv This will do for six States,! .The Spates 'that may be classed aa Seaboard fetatea have a population of 26, 262i473. This inchiderew JJngi id, New'xor) New Jersey! Penn- lan Ivania, jDelaware Maryland-.Virt ginia, . -Nortn and pouthj Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis sippi, Louisiana I and Texas. . .The other States f have a jpopulationuf 23,890,086, so the 8tar;of Empire stilt shines on the Eastern slope , although j it is gradually n earing the Occident, : E the old basis of Kepre8eu,tatipn in Congress, obtains : the , following wjll be. the way in which the, various sections will be affected . by -. the e in ation, It is the cal- culatfpn of , the Philadelphia Times I8TOitt8J. Connecticut... 6!,.!,. 6 HIiwI. Tala4 .A Maine Tt- 6 13 4 .i iwwb - ni .iii.. . . -k - a r rm M8MchnatU..ia : j N. Hampshire.. 5r 1870J 1S80. 1 . . 1870. 1830l IndUri;.J.'.v.l'- -14 tPuylTnIai..S8' t- S3 New Jersey .. 9 . l . - . '- -4 KewYork.w...?5 83 1 'Totair:.'.r..ll0: vIOS Ohio, .i .ss ' mCTDRAt TOR OrWXBTXBH BTATEB r 1870,1830. ; j 1870. 1888. MiueaoU S t Nebraska 8 ,-!t:5 Wiscomin li) 10 Colorado... .3 h 8 Iowa..... T..... Hi I 11 Mlchlcaa Ill j- -la Touia. f.::: 69 F, vvrMiABtT itam AB vumifl an a mwm aiiavAWM ai it y j wm avu w - j- ' , ,1870. 1880.4 ,,1870. 80l Callforala ... : . . e 'h t Oregon . . 8 3 Hevada....... 8s JT-,$1 - - ,,.t , XIJtCTOBAI. VOn OX tUTI. BTATZ8. ( 1870. I860. 18T0. 1880; MUaoori .......15 -16 M. Carolina.. 10 10 8.' Carolina ... " TM ; 1 Tenaeaaee IS . .. 11 Trxas t 8 " IS Virginia 11 ! It Weit ; Virginia. 6 Alabama...; .10 9 Arkansaa... Delaware... Flo'ida;..., 6 -3 4 '11 13 - 8 . 8 ' 6 . S .""I'll: ....ia ueoreia .... Ken tacky , Maryland. L-eaisiana.. MitaUdppi... 8 Totals .138 '144 KECAPm7I.TIOir, I I 11870. 188X Low'. ... a 1 Gain;, New England States...'.. 40 17 - 3 Central mates. ..i...... 110 105 5 Western 1 States A.... j. 6: 77 racioc iflc Slates,. .L....J. 11 IS " re StajEes..si..v4;.'M8144 Li" i - ri-'- ' - : t o-i-i; a Slave The Stab a year or two since gave its opinion, relative to the unwisdom of having a uniformity of Text Books for the oommon schools of the StateJ It favored a local uniformity cnly-r4 uniformity in the books of cities. to wns, -.villages and diartricts. JBeybndj lais uoco uoi oeiieve li w wise iu go. The matter sbonia.not oe regu lated at '.Baleigh, ,but io the general; school districts by j the 'oounty boards, if yoa please. VVe believe on the score of eoonomy and utility that the boards shoald enforce and it - - -- . t - r i i. v i . v . -i ; . i. prescribe a uniform and well selected series, and that .the wnole matter should be left to local boards or com- mittees. The , Legislature should take thi6 subject in! hand and pass a law, as we believe, Relegating the so-; lection of school books to the local boards. We do not;tbink it is practi cable or desirable t6 have a State am formity of school test books. Jn, tbe North where the school system is f a more, advanced than, it is in the South,' there is a strong,' growing sentiment of hostility to a J general uniformity of text-books, as experiment .shows that such uniformity throughout the' state is very expensive, and in some instances inoperative and impraotu o.Kli .. : ... I Mr." W. B. Thompson, superintend ent of the fast mail service,' has just returned to .Washington from an ex-4 tended visit: through the South. He has been interviewed by the Po.rel ative . to . the shortcomings of the' fast mail. lie r tmngs , the, papers w W i - -. ; have been-somewhat unfair in their complaints and" censures.'- Be ' gives the following . good Masons for any failures ; J 1 "Well, in the first place. in the very start, the weather, has interfered with the trains being on lime, and hence annoying delays have Oecorred.: When trains are behind all over the coontrv. and have been for the past month, H la rather unreasona ble to expect that ini the South, where the! weather baa been most severe; (bey should run on schedule tlmeu ., v- , .. i He aays the, missing of mails will be remedied by thoolerks as soon as they get familiar with the new order of things, and thatthe fast mail is an assured , saoce'ss. The ,i ollowiDg is muoh to the point. . He says ; s ; ''Instead of making complaints, it would be more to the purpose if the people' along: me lines wonia 8Ubmit to a In tie lncon venience at first, as the fast mail ia a boon to any aection, and the people :need only .to .understand jta advantages to appreciate 'A .What borror8;dare contained in the ' aceohnt Of the burning Of - the tene iment house m Kew York ? ; 'No one can, realise the dreadf ulness dfaaoiTa spene, of jiUniay J alnduffeng jind death, whos does i not see it:;with the unsealed eye. It was indeed 'a dread fut holocaust,- s it " is described' in the dispatches where nine precious tiyea go pni araia soneKs ana names. .We have been hayia g for. some weeks a regular epidemio of : railroad abcir dents by -which a great many J have been kilfed and wounded, and it may ba that anfe'pidemio of ? fires is toilet in with., its .Jenuj5jbexed. and unim-; agirxed horrors.c- J -fo o-T - ' ilbram 8. Ditman. Waahlnar'ton Heights. 111.,' says: I bave always fbund ! "readyi aalefarlAJ.S Tv Oov''iTiDnedhbealthBv! take, the lead ia children's shoes - and mv! f I ftuatpnvrs wyihaye poptherar n' ij Conkirirgrrrie-ir'Newrrdfr regard the Garfield independence,' as foreshadowed by ther Tribune? but little It-sh than' a formal affront-to LordRofrco'e.i Conkling hasa bank- in g. friend-i.be .had intended ta pat in the Treasury Department but Gar field will, spoil .all? his calcufations. . delphiai JLfidger-lhm. jeUr p, Conkf liug and hie. tribe s'.-r -j if-1. - " ' ,"Alr. Conklihe's ptide baa been.wound- edaDd, as everybody knows he-ii as .vul nerable I here 'ks-AcbiHea ws in bis" heel. which bta; motaeit.4trcotHo' dip Utu'the Styx,. H ia not aurprisins that bis friends should be' already indalginp in o mucn queruUKts criHciem tf Hbe lo-be new AO mJnistratioo. even ifiore the President. jelect "has laken the with i office.' On ibe Qtber 1i and, lhtf.feelinE among Republicans tbat do not lollow the senators leau ia mat whatever else Mr. Hayes' successor may or may not dey one thing, is certain sthe start, and that ia. be is determined to own bim? aelfafed ii aoticoing to-oake say salaam tojrew-Xork ictatprsbtpv. n ft' 38 The Cbristlancy scandal progresses; i ue vv asniugion jrost papiisuea sever raFtioIa'rrins' of 1 letters,vvery affection- ate and -etideaTing,v from some one signing bersel t f Lillie. and Vritien tb-Id.l ifoi1 'Th'ep' are pubfisued as froaf MrsV'O?, and if genuine fastens guilt ""upon l"her hn'erririgly. "'Her lawyer 'says Giro is ' miserable, per- tured scoundrel.1 Blood declares that Qto told r Mrs; ehristian'cy th'at1 he ha'd' been' offered $2,000' to testify for $3,000. He alsoays Giro5 con-2 fessed to him th'at he took a woman to Washing'.ou tfo personate " ' Mrsi Chri8tiahcy,and then threatened to ram her reputation nnlesB she pro mised jLo marry him after the divorce." The hotel Lclerfc, "Holdschuh, says ho was'offered $500 lo tell the story to '-'. J, " ' 'r.t i . nil tne "onrisuancy siae. if T The British Parliament assembles on to-day: It is al most important session. Very gr 4 ve errors have been perpetrated in the past and the most jadioioua i and1 prudent . course must be adopted lor tneiuture. : Tne ew York letter to ; the Philadelphi Ledger of the Sdinsi, says i! of the erisisin 'Ireland: ? "j- h-tliVJiiriol -; r.'Leitera received by .the English mail f to-day, from. private and .well inforued aouTCes, ' represent the Land ' League everywhere . gaining igrouod, and the spirit of the people is. such now that nothing abort of legislative independence will be accepted aa a proper measure of concilia tioo. Aa for the coercion abd threatened Suspension of the fto&eas corpus, both have been, so Jong aotici pated. aa matters of course, that they , have now ceased to have any terrors jortnem.w :. ... . j .The New York ; Jribune says it is authorised to . make the , following statement with reference to Garfield's administration ; , , ., ."It ia not to be used aa a make-weight. in pending Senatorial contests, whether in New York or elsewhere. . It ia proper to aay, further, that the iocoming administra tion will see (Q U thai the men' from New Yoik and from other States, who ' bad the courage at Chicago to- obey the wishes of tbeir districts to the balloting ror.r resident. and who thus finally, voted for- Garfield, shall not suffer for it, nor lose by it." Referring to what- the Stab said concerng " Virginia Peerage,'. thev Kiohmond JJispatcu , says i ' . i,TVLet bim own tbat ; Washington, Jeffer-" soa, the Lees, the Randolphs, se. , did con atiiute a peerage as good aa any the world ever aaw.",... ... ..... ..., t True every word, 4,brother .Drink-: ard" ;uThey:i were the peers' of any,' " Even to the .dullest peasant atandiog by,' Who laslen'd on them a wondering eye, They eem'd the master. spirits of . the land. More ' people,"'over one hundred. years old die and are' buried in the obituary columns of the Philadelphia Ledger than in all the world besides thetio poetry that 1 graces the 'Veobrd besides. Altogether it is wonderful. Eyioe of Wtiamtaatwa Bnerpraa. r The Bchrs. Benjamin F.? Lee and Edith j. aewara nave recently aauea ipr oaiu- mbre from this port,; taking out about 350i,-l 000 feet of lumber sa we by Messrs. Ji W.; Taylor andi Jahn Cblyille for a guano fac torr and aeidV chamber; buildings .for .the Chesapeake Oaano Company of Baltimore, the framing of which was all done, to the: minutest detail, ty David Sadgwar, One of our colored carpenters, while', all of the iron work' for thettaeid T chamber, fur nacea was cast at the f on ndry .of c Meaars Hart, Bailey & .Cd.jn thia citj.j AU the wqrk. which was executed, under the. 8upervieion of Col. C." Jj- QraJHin.'- of the Navasia Qompany, of Wilmingtoo wa done ; in a workmablfke manner and kt pricea, we are told, entirely satisfactory to the purchasers. This affords a striking proof pf n What ogr; .mechanicaare cftpablf ' of doing, and ..is nuite a pleasant evidence. of.,tbe 8pirit;. of enterpriae in our miasu i We learn tbarihe 'acid chamber' above referred 1o ia to be one of 4b largekt the TJntted Stateai0 11 T&I it, noijocfe The" Prohibition MoVementl ' : V The object of those who' iare 'taking' an ' active intii'est in the prohibRlon-movement to this city, as ;well aa elsewherej -ai we BBderstan it, ia to, bays; a law passed by the. Ifegislatore submitting the. question 1 of prohibition to tbe.yote of ihe, people ot t.be I Btate. It is a matter of sortie .importance ubtb uig uibc iivpctijr uuuersiuou, some being nndertbe impreaaionj"tfcal; itida the design of b&. friends of the movement to urge me passage or tne prohtnitory law 3ritooytXferj-lBg ii to.the vote'uictbfl peoj rvl a , , Everybody, should, note t)a fact that Abe heat remedy known lor Coughs, Colds", etc., to Dr. Bull's Cough t Syrup. -Price 0niyE5 fiftnXi a. bottle,. v!rr ; , Thia venerabte" and eminent prelate of the Episcopal Church died at his residence J in this city, last night at about 9 o'clock, af ter a Qn.tna: illness. - He was aboOC7 yeara of ne ud w.g born in Virginia! Hal was eiecteii uisuopjot the JfipiscopaLUbarcal in North Carolina about 1853, but. we are unable-to give the date,' as we have access IoTdo) 8UtjsicJ tY hour we write. He Waut4aj;t-;vti.olhaurcba.ah--more-attbe-timeo.bia electiou tCMbv Epis copate. ..- BUrlyy dt yeir , be became seri ously ill and from a complication of, disr oruera uuui rtcei.uv Ilia re ations iioned for thtFbf at; bur 'within ia'YeV "dilya piori alarming ayniptoma'manifeBied! themeelvea 'and. the most aerioea resulla ere feared. W' voL luMmteJbQweveriH thatcaia immediue ieatb was looked for, but it ma V I.". I . . T . L I . .. f. . ? u uuiy tuav-uia uuuu(iioo waB regarded 8 more bopefebs. llii 'dtath"wiH be a crreat shock turns tnausaDfN of ."(riep'ds through out nortu uaroitna, Virginia 'ana Marylaqd where he war bal kuown and tnoit hrghly hertehed. .tWovT ,i miitl Bishop AikinsoD was a.man of rteat oui rlty Of Hfe and if biocere Tplety ?wif have! never ,B,oowaia0viaUer type-yi maobood Those who kuuw'him most intimately t" .were those who beld bna ia the -highest rever4 ence and 8teem.and. love;,.. We :ahaU:'at4 tempi uu ol ytmr ot btia' elevated and noble Character at ualiour.'OtberpeDa Willed tnat wotk ot :hve aud duiywitb greater skill abd tnsitii Wild precision than wexjouJd opto tur tqut t Nor tli: we eesa to porl Way Mi fmeJlectual chracterg ; jV'eJ.Jea.ye that to tliuse who have bad the largest .ii'p-t ponsuiuua lor auroang acorrbel eattffitftebf fais.meotal powers.. s We mav sav.; without i-esorilug to'lhe wtfrm' lerms of ' eulogium which,, a; siocei-e tneadaMu;.' miuht-well prompt, that -be was tBdo wed .. with- a na tural UQderstaudiog tbat bad beenWeltdis-f cipitned by etuay andi had -been steadU developed tnrough a loon, .useful' and Uis4 -.ii. ...;.: i- . ,r- it; r.' I iioguiBuen inc.- nis learning was verycon-. aiderabl.rr Uia" readintr was 1rirer rand' thorough m tbe departmeuta of theology! and ' ! cognate atudiea. Qia ' -reasoniiiK: powers were acute, precise and vigorous.! He wn truly an admirable preacher one of the best we ! sincere! v- believe. : ' t bat "the Epi8Ct pal Cburchf the United Statesf has: ever bad.; Eirnesperauasivc.-iueid logii cat, nis puipit aaaresees wiieB3 be ' was at bia best Were f uniiual eXeeilence:': He; was ' not ' a treat orator but" at masterly! preacher and a capital speaker ' in delibera4 tive bodies. ' His life waa pure and his end; peace. great man fits Tallen tn- Is rael. V"'. 'Jit-' '. : . V'-- ' l - Biabop Atkinson leavea'an aged, devoted j wife to mourn because pf the .jBad eepara- uon wDicu in tne course or yeara cannot be long, and aa affectionate daughter and two sons to sorrow over the death of one of the purest ' of men 'abd the "best of fathers. .There are grandchildren 'and other kin in three States who . will weep at , the loss which tbey have' sustained1. The' Church over which he-; presided; with so .muck df dignity, and which he aerved wilb aomUcb otzeaf and uaefulntaa, haa : loat "one of ita most, faithful, devoted, able vteacbera, whilst the State is deprived for all time of ooa of ita most upright; exemplary; and tn- nuentiat ettizena. t r -M va 'iilZfiV. pr?Ji PBOHiniTIO!? PBOCBSDINGS "OP'THK MEETING HELD AT THE OPERA HOUSE BESOLUTIONS :i- ADOPTED, - a JA .r;u; .NotwithstandioK the inclement weather last night, the meeting at the Opera House to inaugurate a movement for the enact ment of a prohibitory liquor law by the State Legislature was well attended, many prominent and " leading citizens being present. ' - p' ' - The meeting was opened wiih prayer by Rev. T, M Ambler. , . On motion of Rev. J. B. Taylor, Dr.. A. J. DeRosset was" called to the chair, and the following gentlemen were elected Vice Presidents : Messrs D." Q. Worfb, W. M. Parker; B. F. Mitchell and J F Divine. Mesirs. C H. Rjbinson and H. M. Bow- den were elected secretaries On taking the chair Dr; DeRosse ad dressed the meeting, stating, the object, for which it bad been called, pointing ouV the evils . resulting t from intemperence,: and acggeatlng a remedy' in the : enactment of a law by the State Legislature for tbejtotal prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors within the 3tafe Rev: Dr. Yates offered the: 'aubjoihed reaolutiooa and addressed the meeting in their aupport.v And after addresses by Rev. Dr.' Jba ; RMYilsonfJp gB-ty-j lor, CoC Boger Mooie, and; K,: F. Thomp- aon, they were unanimously adopted n iv i ,v WnBEAgJt may rightfully be assumed tbat all good citizens ate in lavar of What ever may be conducive to the development ot a purer civilization and a sounder moral ity: and Whereas,' the manufacture.' sale. and osd of intoxicatiogliquoraa i beverage tenua to tne increase or, poyerty dq crime, and therefore lto ' the' degradation' and wretchedness of ithe peoplej and twhereu, the efficient working and . great blessing of prohibitory liquor laws in other States Of this IJQion .seem to indicate this as- the remedy, in part, for Ithe evils under which our people auffer;-and whereas, a call has been iasued for a convention to aasemble lit the city of Raleigh, on the 19th of January, 1881, foMhe purpose of draf ling a petition to the Legislature of North Carolina for the passage of a prohibitory liquor law, Ihere iore,: v,'; f,-vj -eiJjsip iasiij;3ii ? ,j- vBetohedj That thuv meeting hearlileo dorsea the movement, and hereby expresses its sympathy with the measure8 propoaed. ! A letter was received from Rev. 'Mark 8. Gross, and read to the meeting;, stating that a severe: cold andi. the inclement; weather prevented his attendance, and . expressing bis entire sympathy with the movement, and.' bia hearty approbation of the holy crusade against the gfeat evil of thVday. '1 ''-"On motion of ; 'Mr. " John Mctaurin:-the following resolution waa adopted? -;; t: f&glveZ. That the paatora of the churches of this city.with the cbairmao of this meet ing, be aeleptedas delegates to represent the friends of prohibition in the approach ing State Convention at Raleigh; and that, furthermore; the xhairman be 'authorised and requested to aelect, aa aoOD(.a$cpracti cable, ten additional delegates, and to an nounce tbeir names in the secular press of - ' Cq motion the meetlhr adiourned J1 'r2 f-.f- ?'r-" r, -,-xi-,- rt-,-.- f-fi'f A Xanuat Olrl IS Seareb riier, Hata f( V" -ri' (t.f! nt r.-f . A young white girL,haUing.ifronln South Carolina, - arrived here 'on ' elbe? Southern .train from Florence yesterdayjShe give's he name of Margaret rfStricilaDd ..and says Jtboat nprlo; yeara old.and jritbout means farther than was required to bring betp this cityrhe.appTTed at tbe CTty Hall for asaiataoce In her search 4 ot bar' Telalivea, iSnd Chief of Police Brock iaent apUcman: Iwltb fcer to $ry;an discover irthieifl wherte- abouts. OOCRTIT COMUHSIOKEBS. : , Atraet.of tProe. idlafta in RtKOUr the Board of Court v Commissioners met ioiegulaf8tfssioo' yesterday afternoon, ajl gj Jo'clcfck; presenjDol. W L Smilhl cbairmaD, and Commissioners B. Q. Worth; H. A. Bagg, E. L. Penrce, and James A3. Montgomery. TV , T() IL"! ..VTftil. I Tt Pi. h'sn "p"ri.tk- Whu.b.a,ve no rraAde their ( regular, rportp auali do vam at v, the next ' meettoat 'of14 Itib f ?John EL' lavage tendered hiaofflciafbopf aa. keeper of: .the Foor Houaewitb Messrs- John H.13tran88,! Wra. LarKins and Soto R.' Melton as sureties, which waa. accepted. He also tendered; , bis Jbond as eaperiBDi- deat of ftbS House- Of X5oWecH67-fwiliii('rbte same sureties', which was HkVwIse accepted. Mr, Savage was. thenVduly sworn Uibjfibe J cb airman, w, nrf u i ? r. 'ot eiaij t The Treasurer Report 'turtiiASmhM f December waareceiyed as foilowil j Generajl Fund, showing . a;bajan'ce of j 338:2S'; Educational Fund; balance due $3,743 684 una, ijoaiappg.aue 5oa y a? surrendered sthree bonds, of : $500 each, purchased by the Fi'nance;tfommUt five coupona of ($3 eacb, which we'e burned ia the presence o4he:Boardwdijq mxf f i 1 John : Wii Dunbarnilerk-of Cr imfaai Court; tendered; his, annuat report,' , f T-'h; Ma-mnam 17ania(A r9 : Tl r. . . . 1 ...... : :dered nia report of 3 eea received from mar rlaelicedsea for the inohlh'of Dece'cberj euiuuiug receipts tor ao ou paiu Qver the. Treasurer,,, - iMkCfUit: The Chairman reports haying - collecte fromHhe county of ' Anson f 15 52,! whichf aa'piidoverMhe'Treasurer'1 :Joha DTario, JJ IP4 'reptts9 aaEvtegj cpUected fromj tbe, county f (Pender tbe ; Application of D. O 'Connor, K.f ; V - - !...ii.J(-. ''-I. ffTantf1 : k 1 iiJ.ShaTple8S,"cobst t 4 jjear. tuwoauip, leuuerm tuaj umctai uouu, whicb. was accepted. R'Trt '.jpt; arrt i ' jThe Finance Committee i were inslxucuid to review. ibe revenue law andtreport aibe next meeting. . y- y-t', i "--:'. i i .A communication from, the' New' Han ver. County feo'arcf of Heaith i in 'fegard to Jhe eStablishrneotOf a PuBi16 Hospital,' was i referred to Commissioners. Smith and. Bagg, Wboarela meet a aimilat committea apw poicted by. the Board of.Aidermeo 4 , w. j. m.iuia waa etecteu siaoaaru Keeper -for the ensuing two years. I 4 : -The Board then proceeded to draw a?v- nire.oJaryrs. Jo February .term of the i;nmieaLJoqn with the fou lowing ..result :; Harvey ..Webb, iSaaauel Davis, J W.. 8C George, Jno. Jtf. Robin son, Hardjng'Jobnson, Jno. W..' King,. W. "S. Hewlett, J.' M.; Branch, 'Qua. bvls T. J. WifBoibaBtt; W. H.JTuriingron!;!S; .iCnrrie,:A. O. Craig? 'James A. HeIfetf, Jho. .G.'rNdrwood,iNathao Mayer, Srli, Meredith, A. . G..Hankins,, f Maurice,.. Bear, Johnson . Elpppej', ..L. Flanagan, W,,L., Jar cobs, Robert McDougald, C. E. Burr, Jno. '0. Heyer, D. A. Smith", JnoJ E. Grow, H. H.' Gerhardt, Jno, C." Springer,' Wra. E. -Davia." v r-f-f?);":.:5.' a .The following- persons were granted' li censes to retail spirituous liquors for three months,: R. J, Scarborough, W. F'encken, Jno. D. Doecher, Jas. M. McGowan, W. M. Otercon, J. O.ixon," A. B. Cook.1":'; The Board then adjourned to Wednes day, the 12th insiaht, at 2J o'clock P. M.' n 5 j : bo ABD OF EDUCATloii. " '' '5 ' ? The Board of : County I Commissioners then resolved; themselves into a Board of Ed.ucation, when .the following proceedings were had it ,The Board proceeded to make a distribu tion of ' the ' School Fund to the various Districts as follows, the per capita ;be ng $1.75.;;,- -' ' f Nov 1 White thildrett 980; amount lll&Vj Colored : children 1,559;; amount J ;No;; 2 WhHeshildren 916 amount ii,6Q3i Colored;- children ,46a;amount JMOV :(3White, ychUdren; 74; amount $129.60;' Colored children 91; -t amount 'ieB09 ".. .HiU r: v.. iittotitiiS'$ No: j-WhiUchildren 12Uamount $211; Colored; children 97ij amount U 2iTo. Whita childS230?fanio:uht if4tja.S)f Ciolor !toWh,irchiren 39 (-amount 2KloiColoredhilen j 44atiiJ6;unt ; sosalrnite children 2-3fRTotalcolered mildn 4,010a .Total amount for diatribu .0001114.5, olBnli' g Tbe ajrdotEducation thenadjourne. Tne Wstd arnaaiae. j 5Th- article of cwood, . which is one that bas been in, very general demand, since the present "'somewhat ""remarkable winter set btin continues' Wry scarce and high In this? markYesterday bitek f jack5 was selling at & 80 per cord from flats and asb at $5 per cord, or $6 25 and $7 25 deliver ed In CharloCte it haa. been as high as from jlO to $12 per'cord, and m Raleigh at $9 'per'ib6rd.' c In the latter city, owing to' tbe clamor'' raised In .! regard lo" the': extortion Claimed 10 4e exercised -by dealertf.tbe uaualrate of $4 per cord is now being made to vPrev all nd n thet, JSTetps -Ofyerv&tt fay a 'there is hearty and loud condemnation ol any raising or me price.'; f 'rjae Jamine seemsE'aIso toprevaiiiln SalisHury, aa'lne "Waitkmcm says sbnje oenerolent tllMSk hayejtrranged, to have five7 flat-car. loads of ' firewood- brought down the Western Road for IheTelief' of the" pobr'.'and destitute." her i no doubtmuch: suffering, among the poorer .classes in this community in coesequence of the scarcity and- high price, of wood, and we. should, no glad to see some steps taken to ease theressure in this par ticulars ceaJ UlqGX niOiiicijiii a rmwSm-Wiitiaimmi" " 'vW--,,m l lriAiasrchant of this fcUy?who has: lately Jteen Oa a busineasrvisit toCeldmbuR cetinty, Of theerryat W place, made on eiglft resiiiriai aaogewmifiiifnm tifl of 3eottdh5 ,we1ghiWfj nuadi'ed pda"leachyndot4lihed949bputc4$43Qt Thjsyjonjpiderefl fxAarkagoMierep ',TtaaAceldeni"n"iha "r. cfc wl Ran. ,ttviw 4 noal&liioDal (bfiif ma tron of importance to.-add t(,ibe brief ac count in oxrr tefet of Ahe ttcldeni to ibefaat mail frain "b ilieTWlInangioa Jfc .Weldon load Tuefday-nightT-Tiie atcideot took plaCtfirft"'iibW"s3dVjf MaiSuliL and "a, f iLa.!?D 1 fued by a broken wheel nujJer.B mafl car whwh threw the &ara'ff'3btrackifeojr distaoce this side ttf.tietrelc.TheeooBd' 1P8 coach was 'MW:n;oj.-"Jd-aid:aligbUy damaged. ?.b? Aw;3plitcae waa coeaiderably dm ad ft a? ral W8. The sleep pr wasiroagel C fnjrideraoly aboiit the end -Which tTUckbe tnibankmeDt, but utber-. wise li tojtirjjUtt'ltHi? I bete Were twenty passeDgeraBnthf ara at ithe Ume. ieven ot hwn:tbnteper.- A--Ndoe iUHhe sletperwere ii-jured except a Mrs Brown, ' pf tfiladelp'hia. bote collarbone wa oia iocated; aBd-jetapeceiyed an" ugly scalp wonnen berforebead,-and the porter of the car; who- waa slightly Jiurt. The;!ady is at tie Purcell House, a here she is re ceiving proper medical .attention, and we learn that her injuries ate not considered io any :wi0er4eri6us.: 'Five or six uf the other passeogeis wet.e. eligbtly hurt none oi-iueu riwuiy,ivvi,: a- x u( uccupieu a berth in tb sleeper 3mmad1k(ly opposite Mra.1 BrowbWd fecjeled" rici ir jury, which Is raUritutediqhlaVe Browning, the conductor, who was in the secobdlats far at the time if tbn acctdeut, whs very slibilj- injured - Wf-'X'-1: it JFii.f j4oregoaiaiaed:J by ;:tb-. raiirwad Cilmpaiy tb rough: -lbe: accident cannot Le at this jtiuie conectly estimated, but it la ibougbtWatTrnTnot bmouoTto any -cor-tidcrable s una. The bridge timbei8 are all vVjtoiiiiifabtili&fiytuutffiUiii can be iua agaiiu JsTlie Mack w Hit; prutaMybe ajl tight agairi byllw8 vei.ii.g or-t-mut- ,fow mori.iDu. aBd, iu.ibe meantime, traqs- poriaUoi will be uniultrrupVed, as freight and pAfcktngers will betianteir-d a that point, i , -? . ' , - .it : The train at 'the time" of Hie accident was 'running at:iTie rate of about thirty mitea u hour1, the sualfCbedufe time". Uad it beeu -uatui e. laeivr .u is ihouxht it -would hav .ppeui t .all ligUi, i$uteriu eudeut D: - vine, baa Coiitiuufu at the aceue ,f the ac- -eidebt ppfahing for w aid the wtk of qlca, ing tijej track aBd'geititin ii in pioer order at'tbe eai liest possible moment.' - a iKii Liav l; urpiir.iii.?; 'f Philadelphia Press, Uep. : Quite . uumbeV Of "cbloieb! people, mostly waah erwpmeu, nave, left Indiana for their ld home in North Carolina. They give aa a rea son that they would rather face the Ku JClox than suffer from . the climate of jbe Hoosier State. . Oxford Friend: A great revival in Tarboro! The religion is of the right kind., : i No .counterfeit about ii 1 . The cou verts at the. firtt collection alter their ad "missioa; put ib,' doe six thousand, and au--other two thousand . dollars to build a " church, This reminds us of Zaccheus wbc, when converted, gave half. bUeooda to feed the poor.. ;i 3.. iu, .4j.-v : .;:?. Charlotte Observer'. The distri bution of the 100 corda of wood brought to the city from the line of the Air-Line waa completed yesterday morning- A lei- . egramjlrom Statpsville was received here', last night announcing the death of Crf. Andrew C. Cow lea, of Yadkin couuiy, at" bis residence in Hamptonville yeiciu. Col. Cowlea was for many yeara a leadiu-g spirit io Western North: Carobna, baviu served for several terms in the North Cam lina Legislature, both io the House and the Bena:e ..-; ,.r L-.. f..:.'. -. j i :.. . . -' Raleigh i Visitor : 57,091 02 was the; amount of revenue collections (iu this, the'4'.b district) for the month ending Decernlier 31st.: - We see an article iu the papers about boy inventors;,. We hope they wIl invent a boy who wouldn't whis tle through hia flngersjand yell on the streets right io a fellow's face, , W teceived a notice on Saturday evening last, of a de structive fire which occurred in Durham on . the morning : of that .day. which destroyed pr&perty ' amounting to upwards of $25. 00. 0 Incendiary work. 1 --There weie fifty seven .deeds recorded in the Register of Deeds, office during lbe month . of De cember, and twelve lien bonds registered for the month. ; ij ;, n , , ,f . . :-7- liaieigh; .JTews-Observer : The .Supreme Court met at 10 o'clock yesterday. Chief Justice Smith and Associate Justices Asbeaad Dillard on the bench. ,The mar shal, R H. Bradley, SaqVopennd court in due form. .The day was consumed 10 the examination of .the applicants, for license, ytwenty--seven of j whom presented tbem rselvesj ' The examination will probably be .completed to day. rTT-TrDied, in this; cKy, of, consumption, ; January 2dt ; 1831 at .8 P. M. fl Mrs. Cornelia A.. Fendt, ,wif. of Henry JJ'endt. v.Tbe Ada Gray Tbealri cal Company will be jiere ,on .the 10th and ;tbiTi j- -But. whenjrweoofer ove Uh names of, the- members .and consider that the, assembJy:.wili be exceptidnaUy atroog, not only in hard,, aenpe, but in , talent and ability t we feel assured tbat all public ques- tiona. will be bandledr iwith thoroughneaa, ' and tbAt the outcome will be to adyance the people of the State and ' promote their highestj' interests.. S1. ;-: : . writes us that the trial of Merritt, of -Weli don, for killiogHicks.coBt the county $1,200, caused by wbiakey both the killing aod ineffectual trial-of. the murderer -Ex Gov. Holden read. a. poetic review, of the Ban day -School Lessons for last year,' at the exhibition of the First Church's .Christmas Grove fn Tucker HalU on the 23d, and Dr. Skihner made a speech 'on the influence of Sunday schools. iTr-Bro. J, C Ellington, of Cl'aytont in the goodness of hia heart, tenders to the ' Second: Baptist Church, of thia cityf six corda of woody and; ten care loads of outsidea from hia aaw mill, for th poor of the city, who are very much in need. r-iWe are glad to hear .that the good work continuea' in Durham.' The pastor baptizes 'every Bunday. Chapel 1 Hill has twn preparatory schools lor boya and girls, one taught by Rev; Mr.' Heitman, of ihe Methodist, , Conference, and the other by- our brother Locke Craig, in the Baptist Academy. ' -7 i'At 'Jerusalem, eight by baDtism, and two for baptism at Farming- ' were received. tM;: - Tbe Leamamp FarnleV, Irbm" Or- , Jeans f or Reyel, is reported sloat t oa,4be coast of Denmark. Bales of- cptton -and; boats noArkedFarbiey of Newcastle," One hoa containing . wodead, bediea bayebeea Jrashed ashore. The Farnley belonga. to hti port afNewcastle. ' -She iwas iaaf ft- pprtedi iiocencjaisarmputftirom - Savancab, on her way. 10 xtevei. US "liff' 'y 7 :-iaii''p''Sia' t r-r-'-"--v 9UHQESFA7JID'S .ACID1PHQ3PHATS like its effecta very much: especiilKJo malarai prosfriU8n. J G. Ms iZZLWZlnP MJ?MVB?Wborrlftelu!,ln(n vVTr jr,t