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NORTHERN OPINION OP UAVIS'S
BOOK
Since wo wrote our editorial of
Sunday on Mr. Jefferson Davis's im
portant work, we havebeen gratified
to see iuai f ume u - mo
Northern papers are reviewing "The
Rise I and Fall of the Confederate
Government" with care and candor.
They! take as fair and just a view of
Hne a Die wont. ujr wumuoiuw
Scoald expect. We cannot copy at
length what is ' said, but we give a
lentenoeor two from each that our
leaders may see the drift of the most
!i i: . . A XT n.iVi.n nnhlin nnininn.
. . -i . i
f UllgUteueu nunuuu J""""
he New York Herald says: j
"Ravond auestion the book that ia the
LSult of Mr. Davis's work I will be accept-
ri a i tin standard, ol autnoruy ior me
Southern side of the Btruggle, and the very
causes that combine to make it Bupreme
among the sympathizers with the rebellion
wil tend more or less to give it weight
with the world at large, sit Is, therefore,
worthy of the attention of intelligent pep.
rjle everywhere." :::"-- -'J-"''"
I The editor of the New York Sun
was Assistant Secretary of War
daring the great Btruggle, and his
4ejw of the character of the Southern
ork js interesting. The following
shows a commendable spirit:
I " We' may add th'M no reader of this book;
Whatever his personal convictions or predi
lictions,can fail to be profoundly impressed
With the breadth and quality of the intel
lctual force displayed in this defence of a
lust cauBe. There is exhibited in the pre,
ljninary discussion of principles with which
tie narrative of events is introduced an ex
haustive acquaintance with constitutional
law and the facts bearing on the intentions
of the framersof the Constitution for which
vie could find a parallel only in the foremost
rink of American statesmen. Nor have we
reason, upon the whole, to complain of the
spirit in! which the writer Bets forth the de
tails of the struggle which turned on the dis
puted right ;of secession from the Union."
1 The Philadelphia Times has quite
an elaborate discussion j of the book
Which is well worth reading. It aims
evidently to be fair and careful, but
i does Mr. Davis some injustice in
measuring his character. He is not
al forgetful of his friends and as cold
njatured as he is represented to be,we
think. , The article in question is
written from a Northern standing
pint, with Northern bias and igno
rancejof many things that ought to
be known to the best informed jour
nalists of that section. . We must
content ourselveswith a paragraph
or! bo. It says :' . ;
I Mr. Davis' book is, on the whole, a
rtny, and it certainly is an- important,
contribution to the controversy. If it does
nothing more it settles forever its writer's
place in history, i It is a revelation of the
sirngth and weakness of Mr. Davis, and
though there is a well-formed and definitely-conceived
opinion of the ex-Presi
dent of the Confederacy it is chiefly an
errjmeona one. In the South there are men
who weigh Mr. Davis justly, but they are
aetther his friends nor bis enemies and
thejr jadgment is not accepted as correct,
bo fhat Mr. Davis was very likely to go
down to posterity theobject of undue ado
ratfpn'by those who took the Southern view
of is character and capacity, and of nndne
detestation by those who had - inherited or
acquired the Northern view. His book will
correct this. Those who read it fairly,
recollecting all tbe time that Mr. Davis is a
truthful man and that all that he Bays of
things her must have personally known
about ib to be taken without question, will
reafczs that Mr. Davis is not a hateful crimi
nal! delighting in murder for .the satisfac
tion of his own ambition, nor is he the great
anof wise statesman to whose shrine pilgrim
aged will ibe made. : - Mr. Davis,
hof ever, Is a strong man, if he is not a
great man; Moreover, he ia not a bad man,
although be must be held responsible for
much misery, for many desolated homes,
forthe ruin of thousands of families and
vai regions of the part of tbe country
whch he loves so well, for the sudden put
ting out of many promising lives. This is.
one ot the penalties be must pay for his
prominence in the Btruggle. He shows
clearly by his book that he did not desire
ibft prominence. It will: be nothing but
flagrant injustice to longer insist that Mr.
Davis sought through secession to gratify
nil personal ambition." i ' .
1 f
jThere is a good deal of the long
article we would dissent from very
decidedly if we were to" enter upon a
refutation. We are satisfied to repro
djice hese opinions upon a work that
will do more to place the cause of the
South before the world in a proper
light than all the other books that
have been written. The English
men of letters will read it and think
ovent and write about it. The Eng
lish-speaking s world will " . become
familiar for the first time with the
high and unanswerable argument in
favor of secession. Whilst such able
.and convincing works as Bledsoe's
HWas Jefferson 1 Davis a Traitor?
and Alexander Stephens's "The War
of the States," are but little, if
at. all, known among our kin
toeyood , seas, the ' work .of the
ex-President of the Southern Goo
federaey will , be studied with care
a$ many lands. No one can read
laifiy -trnrernrrtmirj
Stephens and DaVls withottfc b'dtning
to the conclusion that pnorA to tbo,
war of 18Cl-'65 jsecesslofJ Was; a con
stitutionat light. ; The! arguments in
favor of tbo Southern side.of Mbe
great question for the first time will
be known to the trans-Atlantic peo
ples. In that, way good to the cause
of truth will be done. I he nations
of the earth will learn that tbe South
ern people did not enter upon a' tre
mendous conflict without the" great
est oausej and they will learn farther
how they bore themselves In. the war
of four years. It is to behoped that
in a second edition AMr.': Davis. will
correct any errors into which he ha9
fallen. " Some important ones -have
been pointed out already.
The following is the order of Judge
Shipp refusing' to grant the mo janp
tion prayed for; by the wholesaleli
quor dealers of Charlotte; - It will be
observed that the Judge substantially
agrees with the petitioners in the
opinion that the Charlotte ordinances
are. void, and refuses the injunction,
apparently, because-the petitioners
have "a full and adeqnate remedy at
law:"
"In this case the plaintiffs ask for an in
junction to restrain the detenaani irom.
proceeding in any manner to emorce cer
lain ordinances passed by defendant City
of Charlotte. It is asserted that - the said
ordinances are void. Without expressing
any definite opinion upon the validity of
the ordinances in question, though lam in
clined to concur : with the plantiffa, yet I
am of opinion that they have a full ana
adequate remedy at law and that there can
be no necessity for resorting to the equita
ble jurisdiction of this court. The injunc
tion . prayed for - is refused. Let the same
judgment be rendered in the case of Rob
ert former against me eame aeienaani.
. W. M. tJHIPP.v: ;.
Judge of the 6th District.",
TUB WASHINGTON TRiGEDY.
Mr. James Y. Christmas, of War-
renton, N. C, who married the only
daughter, of. Mrs. General . Gaines,
shot and killed bis wife's brother in
Washington City on Saturday after
noon, in self-defence." Mr. -W. G.
Whitney, his brother-in-law, -had
published a card on Saturday morn
ing that was -ery . "offensive to Mr.
Christmas, as follows: : jr J j i -
BSFTCauttoji: This is to infobm
the public that J. Y. Christmas . is
not allowed, under any circumstances,
to collect any bills for the firm of
Wm. G. Whitney & Co., and now
H. A. Linger & Co., 1117 19th St.. .
Very respectfully,
Wm. G. Whitnet. .
There had been previous bad feel
tog. Mr. unristmas naa peen warnea
of threats of Whitney and had armed
himself. He was going down to din
ner haying in charge an elderly lady,
Mrs. Wheat, when he was assaulted
by Whitney. Christmas retreated
and when he saw Whitney! following
him up with his band in his hip
pocket, he drew .a five-shooter and
firing killed him. Mr. Christmas sent
for an officer, gave himself up and
went to prison. The Post says:
"It is stated that Mr. Whitney was
subject to epileptic fits, and on Tues
day night had a most severe attack,
remaining; unconscious for several
hours. : For some days "thereafter he
was irritable and fretful, and had for
the past few days been drinking, but
not to any great extent, q '.-.n-;!
"Mrs. Gaines last night- sent down
word to Mr. Christmas at the station
that she was confident that her son
was -in the wrong, and she would see
that he received justice at the hands
of the law. ' - i.-Jj.: .:
"The mansion in which the trage
dy took place is one famous io the
annals Of Washington. Without the
stories of its being haunted,etc,which
had long before been current, its oc
cupation by the Russian 'Minister,
Catacazy, and his.famous consort, has
made it a marked place." , , V:f ; V-
:', Mr. Christmas is not a malicious or
dangerous man, but " rather amiable
than otherwise. The wife of Mr;
Christmas died about a year since,
leaving three children. The affair is
no doubt regretted most jdeeply by
Mr. C. and his friends' and! relatives,
' It is stated that some of the corn imported
into the South from Western States Is kill
ing farm stock largely. In Tennessee many
mules have died from diseases engendered
by eating corn brought from western
States. Charlotte Democrat. "
ftIs it not a. great absurdity for
States like Tennessee and South Caro
lina to rely upon tho West; for their
corn ? As long as the Southern agri
culturist relies upon the West for
hog and hominy ha will -be in-the
hands of the merchant who runs his
farm for him, he acting merely as an
overseer. '- .--"- - , -;
The address of the Republican
State CommitUee, about which there
has - been so much discussion, is
I . m
printed in the Stab to-day.1'
1 The Hnmia Htlr. i .
. HOW TO PBESKEyE AND BEAUTIE? IT.-.
Many persons abuse this delicate and
beautiful ornament by burning it with al
coholie washes and plastering A with grease.
which haB no BfBnity f or ; the skin, and is
not absorbed. Burnett'b Cocoadie, a
compound of Cocoanat Oil, etc.. is unrival
led. as a dressing for the hair ia readilv
absorbed, and ia peculiarly adapted to its
various conditions, preventing its railing
off and promoting its healthful growth. .
f -, HoHsekeepers should insist upon obtain
ing Burnett's Pulvorino) Extbacts,ot
mey are uie oesi.
tn'18ttd North Carolina mads 145,-
000 bales of cotton. The very next
yiar It doubled nearly, it being 275,
000 baletv In ; 1871 the production
again .dropped; off immensely, Xho
crop being bdt 1 75,000 bales.? But
in 1873 it -was again up, this year
there being produced: 26570O0aIeBV'
Since then there has been steady" in
crease, save one year. In 1874 it was
273,000, 8nd then each year it was as
follows: 290,000 340,000,. 370,000,'
340,000, 390,516. This State ranks
as eighth among the cotton:producing
States. The ' following table is' in
structive. Wo copy it from the New
York Bulletin : '
Bales,.
Ib8).
699,676
: 601,223
64 977
I 813 695 .
17.000
1.367
C03.44S
955,808
18.7S8
V 889.516
62i,643
830,624
'801,140
11.0JO
UleB,
1870.
429,483
; 347,963
89,789
. 473,934
V,030
850,832
564.938
1.946
144,935
334,500
181,843
360,68
- 183 '
States. 7
Alabama..
' - Bales.
Inc. 270,094
Inc.. 859,855
Inc.. 15.188
. Inc.. 889,761
Inc.. 17,000
" Inc.; SOT
Inc.. 157,610
.Inc.. 890.870
Inc.. 18.487
Inc.. 344 681
t Ine..S99,048
Inc.. 148,78
"Inc.. 450,818
'inc.. 10,817
Arkansas..
Florida. Georgia.. i
I.' Ter'tr'jr.
Kentucky..
Louisiana.
UlSBl'lP'L.
MIssonrl..
N. CWUna
S. Car'Una
Tennessee
Texas.....
Virginia;.'!
Totals. . . 6,732.969 3,011,857 - r
, The speculation :of the Financial
Chronicle of last week as to the crop
of 1881 is that it will show an in
crease of acreage of 6-10 ths. of one
per cent. ' We had supposed from
what 'the papers have : been saying
that there, wasa much larger iucrease
of acreage than this, and we still in
cline to ' that opinion. Tho acreage
for 1881 is placed at 14,523,116,
against 14,432,008 of 1880. Tho
Jane report of the crop thus far
shows 6 per cent, below that of last
year for June. But: this figure may
be changed within the next thirty
days. " V'"' ";'' ::"-: f:
t The same day we prepared the
above the Chronicle of the 25th iust.
came to hand. We find its ngures
revised. It gives the actual acreage
of 1880 at 16,123,000; of 1881, at
16,851,000 increase of 4.51 per cent.
When in one week its figures as to
acreage vary over 1,500,000, it may
well cause an inquirer to stop and in
perplexity ask "how is this?? ; i
We have had a good deal to say
of . the coBt of producing this very
large crop, and of the unwisdom of
cultivating one crop at the expense
ot all other crops. . The more " the
question of diversifying crops is in
quired into the greater the folly ap
pears.: me gambler that risks ail on
one card is not more reckless than the
planter who places his success
only on one crop. ; At the Cotton
Planters Association of the South,
to which we have referred before,
there was a long discussion of the
question of cultivating more than
one crop. It was estimated that the
South paid 1150,000,000 for its grain
alone.; This is bought to sustain the
people while they make cotton and
tpbacco. We suppose, that $75,000,
000 would not be an extravagant es
timate for the amount- of fertilizers
consumed, if Georgia alone expends
$8,000,000 in that direction, as is said
to be the case. ; ; , - , .-.
?Here we have $225,000,000 to be
paid out for r the growing orop of
1881. - Then there must be added the
immense quantities of bacon, pork,
hay, agricultural implements, horses
and mules, taxes and wages , for. la
bor, etc. : What is left for the farmer?
Can he meet expenses? Can .he do
all this with cotton at 1 or 8 cents?'
The amount of adulteration ' going
on in this country in the articles of
food is alarming certainly. Every
few days we see some statements in
the papers about this or that kind of
adulteration. ' Bary tes ' is now 'used
extensively; ' There is a 1 mine near
White Stone, in Virginia, that is be
ing worked extensively.'r;The Rich
mond Christian Advocate says; , ,
'ljarge shipments are made. It is ground
Into powder, in Lynchburg and Bent North
ward. , It is then, distributed in baking
powders, cream candy,' pulverized sugar,
and many other articles for the stomach.
Barytea is a pure while rock, " and when
crushed under the burrs makes a' beautiful,
smooth flour of clean dirt. It sella for leas
than a cent a pound, but we buy it back at
twenty cents as a luxury"."- : .. r-. :i .i '--.
: , But in this connection we may say
oleomagarine is making new friends
and its consumption is on the in
crease. It is said that there is oleo
margarine made you cannot distin
guish from butter. We have not
chanced. to. taste that kind: . .With us
thd -'difficulty 'was to tell it from
melted beef fat.; The following we
clip from a Southern exohanges
; uCol.,Waring, when - here, stated that at
a Dairyman's Association . Fair first-class
oleomargarine could not be detected from
first-class butter. Large rewards were of
fered for successful detection, and some of
the'- highest prizes were bestowed in no
cently upon tbe artificial butter." . . - - '
MEADE & BAKER'S CARBOLIC
WASH is a fragrant and delightful loilet
Artide, which has, by its intrinsio merits'
been introduced. It arrests and destroys
the! offensive -odor caused by decaying
and Imparts a fragrant odor to the
breath. Used as a remedy it will speedily
heal all Bleeding, Spongy, - Ulcerated and Re
ceding Chums. It is unsurpassed as a rem
edy for Sore Throat, and has been used at
Sea with entire success for the cure of Spa
Sfcknw. It is used and prescribed, by tbe
best physicians. " price 60 cents a bottle.
For sale by Druggists. - - ap 29 ?m eog. -
Mr. J. V.r Christmas Is in fail, the
coroner's jury having found him re
sponsible for; Whitney's" deatb'. j1 He
is represented as beibgentirely oom-
; posed.; The evidence made i'.sa clear
case oi senueienoe. -- i ne vv asDiug
ton Post says:
"Ilis little son cats a with him,, and,
seemed mueh worried over 1 his fathers
position, " He" was not "old enough;to
fully comprehend the situation of his
father. . He, however,. :by hia -boyish
prattle did much to .while away.ithe
hours, that must have seemed ddys to
the unfortunate man.-; Many friends
from the boarding hoasV on I-street
also called and were allowed , to see?
the prisoner -for a." nhort time, ''Nor
did the friends corifiue themselves to:
oalls, but duficg the entire' day bas
kets containing solids and fruits were
sent as a reminder of their friendship.
Among them was a basket -from Mrs.:
Gaines, his mother-in-law. , At (4
o'clock, wheu J the JLieutenant', was',
officially informed 5 of the verdict of
the coroner's jury, he sent to police'
headquarters, for tbe , ambulance in
which to take Air.-Christmas to jail.
'Acoompanied by . bis two sons "and
Lieut.. Arnold, the '. prisoner, entered
the ambulance and was driven to the
jail. The scene at parting with the
b&ys was most affecting, i Mr, Christ
mas remained calm,wI)ut the younger
boy, in kissing his1; father good-by,
could not contain his pen tap feelings,
and burst into tears." - ..v
: , We believe thereis close- relation
ship between Senator Ransom . and
Mr.:ChristmaB4 ' - ;, v
TUB MASSACHDSBTrS IUANf TH L
ORY VP8BT,
i It will be remembered that .quite
recently the Stab took issue with Mr.
Atkinson,, the Boston writer on cot
ton, whose views were unfavorable as
to the South being adapted - to cot
ton manufacturing. . We have no
doubt that he is honest in his codvic
tions, but he is not io a -poeiiioo to
give an unbiased opinion, as we
showed. . We v have referred to the
marked success that had attended the
cotton milling experiments1 io Geor
gia as a full reply to all he bad said.
I We are pleased to find ihjt what
the Stab said is confirmed fully by
the statements of Mr. Felix Fontaine,
the Georgia Commissioner of Land
and Immigration. He believes, as we
do, that of all lands the South is the
most favored for cotton manufactur
ing and on the largest scale possible
Not only ; so, but he thinks the
South specially favorable . to ' . large
mills, and, we know from statis
tics, that it is well adapted to the
smallest mills. He gives the statis
tics of two mills at Columbus, and
he says their profits were greater than
those of any New England mills, ac
cording to the statements made by
all of the mills concerned. The Co
lumbus mills worked 1,800 opera
tives, all white and nearly all natives
of that section. These mills, as well
as those of Augusta, have done a
most profitable business. Mr. Fon
taine writes: ,
"It is an undisputed fact that no mill in
New England can show equal profits with
those earned by mills in . Georgia, all of
them, except a few small mills, being situ
ated in the 'cotton country proper.' "
iThis contradicts flatly the opinion
and theory of Mr. Atkinson, of Mas
sachusetts. V Mr. Fontaine says it is
absurd to question setiously the su
perior advantages the Southern mills
have over New . Engfand. fie says
in ; cotton the South has an ad vantage
of 1.9-10 cents per pound over New
England. He calculates that a mill
with 1,600 looms, will save in raw
material 9 per cenU on the entire cap
ital, or $120,099 eaoh year. With
such advantages it is ridioulous to
argue that the Southern manufacto
ries cannot sell to Mexico and other
countries as well as to' our own peo
ple at home and throughout the
Union goods, cheaper really than
New England can afford to Bell them.
The Charleston News and .Courier
-'gnjes the fpllowing: "; ''i'i ;
VMr. Fontaine estimates that a crop of
6,500,000 bales would require the work of
2,166,666 farm laborers, and he believes,
that this vast army of workers will at no
distant day be clothed with goods made
almost exclusively in the cotton . coup try
proper. 'The Southern mills have, accord
ing to the Georgia commissioner, been selU
ing beavy sheetings at 6f cents per yard,
shirting9at 6f cents, and eight-ounce osna
burgs of fine finiaji at 9 cents, ; making
money at a tfme when no Northern mill
could do -iu In the construction of "their
mills, tbe Georgia companies have in their
favpr a difference of 33 per cent in the coat
of brick, and of 66 per cent, in that of lum
ber, while tbe raw material can be bought
$10 per bale cheaper than the Northern and
Eogllah manufacturers can buy It. After
making his argument, Mr. Fontaine con
cludes by assertibg that, as in New Eng
land, large factories -pay best in Georgia."
It says that South Carolina has
had an experience Tike that of Georgia.
It says, and the testimony -ia impor
tant: H' y-i ipki ii''"'v;f;v
' "The profits of (he cotton mills are hand
some, and there is a healthy cotton-mill re
vival in the State. Curiously enough, how
ever, the highest rate of profit last year was
from a very small mill, working ' with the
Clement attachment.' Every mill in the
Stale recently erected and well equipped is
dojngwell.", . ; ; - - : v
X Jf bur own Oo.mmissioner of Agri
culture cotld get some reliable sta
tistics 1 from North Carolina cotton
mills of all sizes showing precisely
what has been done . it would proba
bly be enoouraging to others." Most
of the North' Carolina miljs keep to
themselves what they are doing. All
we know ia that some men haVe grown
rich out of Aheir factories. - There
are between 'fifty and sixty mills in
tbe State, and some of them ouhcto
be willing to give the pnblii the
benefit of their experience. -r , .
The "Dudley Observatory computes
the diameter of the comet at. 1.500
miles. Its sight. is -most toeraorable.
It is thus described: p,,,.:;
- j'fTbe , obmet ,stretehed-"out across
the heavens nearlys 40 -degrees, ; and.
the tail spread out into 'two well-defined
branches, enveloping the north
star inl'a flood ;tf ftilkyvlightii' i The
eastward rbranch-jrajny opy passing
about 2 'degrees. .east- of ' the north;
star, and shooting", up t toward ."the
zenith: Th is-7 stretch -?'was followed'
for fully 40degreeVheViho other
branch shot-.up ion-.the;rwe8t1for at'
least 3$ degrees, being abfuV 55 dev
grees astronomical ly sou th w est vof .
'the pole star. - As seen rthroUgri' the
13-inch refrabtor,! the general ap
pearance was that of ; a broad faa of
ostrich plumes, the jbandle being di-.
rected away fromthe sun."V. "
Emory Speer; the'; young -Georgia
Representative -who is said to be vain
of bis ; good looks, is willing to play
the- Mahone part in Georgia, it is
said, and will vote with tbe Republi
cans in the organization of. the next
nouse: Let him id a it, rAu'opea foe
is to ' be preferred always ' to one of
your nait-and-uait sort.i x; V
........
The punning, genial .John G. Saxe,
whose verses,, were BOr popular once,
is in his old'age a hopeless hypochoo
dnac. He pas been the Democratic
candidate for Governor ;of .Vermont
several times. He is sixty-five, and
is a broken,! melancholy, pitiable old
man.
i Why is at that negro orators are
the leading itinerants .on the Prohi
bition side? . It iallev. "Mr." Price
and "Mr." (why not Hon.?) William
son who seem to be f 'taking the wind
out of the sails? of jeven the Hon.
Augustus S. Mer rim on. 'There seems
to have been a great change recently.
But, who knows how manyTTnde
pendents" there may! be J in the next
Legislature?
The New York 7Vi6une, unreliable
Radical' organ, says the Conkling
crowd are at locrsrerheads ; amontr
themselves.
Piatt - and Arthur are
looking cross-eyed at each other. Put
a'chip on "me too Piatt's" shoulder
and dare Arthur to knock it off.
- , ,1 . . . i i " . u
. I Tbe Naval Observatory at Wash
ington comforts the perturbed-spirits
with the assurance' that the comet
is 27,000,000 miles away and going
it "like blazes." It is approaching the
sun. Whenjfire meets' fire then j.bere
will be a rousing blaze. "Whose
afeered, any way ?" '; j; ; ,;; .
.. . ... ,- r 1 T--!;
Our fiiends will! please take notice
that the 'Star has no authorized
travelling agents.
Griscom afterburning the thirtieth
day avowed. that he wis "ravenously
hungry.". , -4 Ijrt.fj ;v-' '
Tire in Brnniwlckt f
A tremendous volume of black smoke
"V ' L ! I '
started up over ia Brunswick county yes
terday afternoon, apparently, from very
nearly the direction of Capt. A. W. liieger'a
place,: and continued 'to pass over .this city
until after the shower of rain at a late houf
in the - afternoon.-1 Some "were under tbe 1
impresaioa at first that j Capt. Bieger'a
houses, barns, etc., were being swept away
but the smoke indicated at a later hour that
the; flames were too widespread fo be con
fined to ono particular locality;-and then
the opinion gained ground jlhat the fire was
among the turpentine trees in that" part of
the' county and doing a great deal of dam
age; At last accounts nothiDg definite was
known here in regard to the nature or ex-
tenj of the fire. L
Antl-Problbltlon IVeetlnK In Fender.
" A mass meeting of the citizens of Cain
tucK . and Caswell townships, . in Pender
county. Opposed to - prohibition," met pur--suant
to. notice at Point Caswell on Saturr
day, the 25th ipst, l 1 o'clock. Mr. J. G,
Parker was called to the chair, and Mr.
Frank Mai pass was requested to act as sec
retary. ' -:.'; -:--tr .
- A committee of six; consisting of Messrs.;
David Glisson,A.D. Ward, C. D. Bliz
zard, Frank Hunt, Capt, W. . Sherman and
John Newkhk, jwas appointed, , to which
the chairman was added, with power to act
'and confer with other committees from now
until the day of election' ia aiding and ad
vancing the cause of anti-prohibition.
Suitable resolutions were passed, and du
ring the absence of the committee to draft
the same Mr. Parker, the' chairman, ad
dressed the meeting and 'explained , the in
justice of the bill. "
The proceedings of the 1 meeting in full
are too long for our columns.-. : ;- -.j - r ;
sadden Death ot a Brnniwlck man."
Alelter .from Mr. '. John: Dcckett, of
Chapel Hill, informs us that : Mr. ; J. M.
Whltehurst, a teacher from Brunswick
county, died there! suddenly Monday
morning, and it was supposed ; that - the
body would fee interred there? the same
day. He was aged 28 and was unmarried.
Foreittn Bxpnr!'.'-jV?JfiTHo .i
; Toe uerman - brig; Jmma. : was cleared
from this port for Wolgalst; yesterday,: by
Mr. Henri Kraeft, wjth 185,013 feet of
lumber; and the Nprwegian'brig fiwaraii,
for Antwerp, by Messrs.: Pskerson,; Down
ing Co , with 1.500 casks spirits turpen
tine ind 700 barrels of rosinii
TERRIBLE liOSS'QF I4FE. Miliions
of rata, mice, cats, beg-bugs, roaches lose
their; Hyes by collision with '"Rough on
Rata '" Sold by druggists, 15c.; r - f ; .
The Rev TbomsB taarbonnel, a French
Protestant Minister from Sherbrooke, Pro
vince of- Qaebec, Canada, but a native of
the South of France, is on a visit : to this
city; and is the guest of Mr. Alexander
Sprunt, British Vice Consul.. Mr. Char
bonnel, who ia a gentleman of the highest
standing and influence ia lhe community
from which be' Comes,' represents a large
number of French : ' Canadians, English,
Irish, Scotch and natives of France, and
bis purpose is to interest particularly the
merchants, plaoters and - others in estab
lishing an association in Wilmington, to be
known as the Immigrant Protective Socie
ty',f or the purpose of befriending immigrants
desirous of settling in this State, in so far
as to see that the proper selection of l'ands'
in the most favorable localities, with good
titles and. at reasonable prices, are made
And right here we would stale, as a very
encouraging' indication to begin with, that
one gentleman of this city hasundertaken
to provide for fifty-families.'-'!! ':' J
i .fWhile it is not proposed to cart upon our
citizens for any large, enms of money in this
connection,, it will of course be necessary
:ibai the needful, expenses for advertising;
etc 1 be provided forjiere. l 1 I
i W would state that our information! is
to the ! effect 'that Mr. Charbonnel is' a
thorough business man, as well as one
deeply interested In the spiritual welfare of
the people,' and lo furtherance of the object
of his mission has travelled on both sides
pf the Air-line in.the Carolinas and from
Charlotte to the sea-coast in our own State.
He i has no pecuniary ' interest to serve in
the matter and is acting Bolely for jihe
benefit of the' people .'whom he represents,
paying his own;' travelling" and, other ; ex-t
pensea, intending in lime, if a goodly num
ber of his people eball establish themselves
hereabouts, where the climate is said to be
particularly suited to tbem, lo settle among
them and become identified with them in
weir Huupiea nome. ue .nas met with a
yery cordial reception .from Messrs Ti E.
Bond, of the Wiimingtonand New York
steamship line, and F. Yv Clark, of the
Carolina Central Railroad, both largely in
"terested in immigration. ? h i ': .- j
IThis iB a
matter of great importance; to
our people. There is an abundance of
available land in our State, only waiting
for the sturdy and intelligent immigrant to
bring it into cultivation, and to be had iat
reasonable; prices,. .It is for our people
hfere and elsewhere in the State to bestir
themselves in a matter,, so pregnant with
importance, and to use every means possi
ble to promote tbe success of the movement
now to be so prominently brought to their
attention. :f;; '';!S!:---!'V';v r--'"':V' f
; jThere are already several families tempo
rarily located at Gaston, in this State, where
they are earning . a comfortable subsist
tence, being: the. advance-guard of others
who are expected to follow. . These pro
spective immigrants are all of ; some
little means, and none of them are in any
wise paupers. ! Quite a number of them,
Mr. Charbonnel remarked to lis, are bachel
ors, and we have no doubt will be reasona
bly susceptible to the charms of the fair
sex, in which case it is more than likely
that alliances may be formed which may
go a great way toward strengthening the
lies which it is desired to establish between
them and our people.' ; I
: Quite a number of our merchants and
other business men met at the office of
Messrs. Alex. Sprunt Son j yesterday
morning,, at U o'clock, to confer with Rerp
Mr. Charbonnel, of Canada, on the subject
ofj immigration from that country to this
section, and to take the preliminary steps
towards organizing an Immigration Friend
Society. ' The meeting was called to order
by requesting Mr. B, G, Worth to act as'
chairman.,! .!i.?!, , ...;iV 't -4H
Mr. Charbonnel was then afforded an
opportunity to enter upon a detailed stated
meut of his views in regard to the proposed
immigration from Canada, which he did at
some length, "during which bespoke of the
fact that a large, number of .. the people
there probablyifrom fifty to one hundred!
families among whom he had lived and
labored as a minister for ! the last thirty
years, were ! anxious; to exchange the ex
treme cold climate of that region for the
more genial and healthful one of this State,
and these only await a favorable report
from him iu, regard to the facilities for pur
chasing lands to determine them , in their
purpose of settling among us. , He alluded
to the tendency of immigration to the great
Westand the suggestion of the late Horace
Greeley to that end, but said that he had
told his people that they would fare much
better and find themselves more on an equal
footing among the residents of this section
than among the intensely sharp people of
the West. ' V ;'v!;'C-t!.,-' ;
' Several qther gentlemen addressed the
meeting, including, Messrs, Henry Kutt,
L, DeRosset, F. W. Clarke, B. F. Hall,
Robert McDougald, Alex. Sprunt and
others, after which a committee of three,
consisting of Col. W. L. DeRosset, Messrs.
Alex. Sprunt and -T. E. Bond,! was ap
pointed to draw up a constitution for the
proposed Immigration Society, to be laid
before an adjourned meeting to he held at
the I same - place to-morrow , (Thursday)
morning, at 11 o'clock. a v
j.- It is desired to make this a more general
meeting than that of yesterday, and our
merchants on' the wharf ' and elsewhere,
and our business men . generally, are ear
nestly, requested to be present and partici
pateia (he proceedings. ) f t
, Ope feature of this immigration move
ment ia that there is less theory about it and
more practical sense and s determination
to accomplish something, than about most
of the schemes which have heretofore been
broached. , Mr. Charbonnel and those he
represents evidently mean business, and if
they meet with proper encouragement, of
which there is now; every Indication, the
movement is bound to prove a success;
and should those who are already prepared
to find homes among as in-ease of a favor
able report, be pleased with their reception
and the inducements held out to them,
many others will follow. : ' '--r
We take this occasion to remark that we
were not altogether correct in the remark
that Mr. Charbonnel was paying all- of his
own expenses. He has been kindly fur
nished with passes over the various roads
on " which he has found it necessary . to
travel in the furtherance of his mission, and
oqly Intended us to understand that be was
not supplied With funds as a paid agent.
'i'X'i-l V J't".'V'r" ''
GyejtnBtantaneous relferf St. i: Jscobs
Oil (Neuralgia r Prof. Tlce.-. J Louts
Post Dispatch. t .. . v.i' t .
Spirits flTurpenune
The State" Fair will meet iH
Raleigh on October- 10th 11th, 12th lS.h
14th, 15th. - '
' ' Superintendent 'MillSj .' of the
Oxford Orphan. Asylum, has a level head
about many things and about titles as well
as other things. - Hi9 card reads "J. f
HdlsNot Rev., nor Prof., nor Dr., nor
Col." i We suppose he is 'Squire nr
Msjah" or General.
'Raleigh' " Visitor : Dr. Willis
Alston, of Littleton, has just drawn $10,000
in a lottery company,, and has received'ui3
money. - While taking a morning ride
early yesterday morning, and wheblomiog
the corner of Blount and Martin streets, the
horse fell and tn falling throwed Mr. Willie
T. McGee under him, breaking his collar
bone and otherwise bruising hiru.
Roxboro Herald: J We admit
' that a considerable number nf the teachers
;inthiSr county are receiving even more,
than they are worth, and for this reason we
; insist that Ibe superintendent raise as high
as possible the excellence and; require ap
plicants for certificates to come up to the
full measure, and that school committees
then pay what the law allows and Uieu the
best teachers will be induced to offer their
services i "I
-A physician who heard Dr. J.
;F. Long's address before the State Medical
Society writes to the Goldsboro Messenger:
"The Star does not -overrate Dr. Long, i
felt prouder of my profeeaioo than ever be
fore after hearing Dr. Long. He ia one of
the brightest stars that shine in the medical
horizon of the South.; His genius is of a
high order,- and North Carolina Bhould be.
proud of this eminent physician aud ut.t.le
son." "ir. . ; i .
' SaleW Pressv We . agree with
our contemporary that the Piedmont Air
Line should not obstruct this movement, as
theyehould know there is a growing dis
trust to their "gobbling up" all the railroads
in North Carolina, and . they may rest as
sured that the inhabitants of the Old North
State will not support for office hereafter
any political candidate who baa even the
suspicion of being a minion of this power
ful corporation. We say success to Best. .
; Goldsboro Messenger: We learn
that Master Thomas Washington, son of
Col. J. A. Washington, baa been appointed
by M.i. Hubbs, the member pf Congress for
tbia ' district, to a cadetehip at the Naval
Acaaemy. r; rne many rrienaa or Kev.
J. T. Bagwell in this community were
greatly shocked at the sad intelligence re
ceived! here Friday of . the death of his
daughter, ; Anna Viols, who died at the
Methodist parsonsge in Charlotte on the
morning of the 23rd inst-, after an illness of
a few days from typhoid fever. Anna had
just entered her 13th year. ! j - j
Judge Taylor, 'of Nash county,
offers to fight chickens at" Weldtn for a
thousand dollars.' Cannot the Major and
the Colonel give the Judge a fight. Sdds
title limes. - So the dispatch was. Bigned.
Shake not thy. gory locks this way oh,
Thomas. By the-way, a lady in town says
that "sure enough Honorables," in order to
distinguish genuine from bogus, should be
written like the English do "Right Hon."
We object. In six weeks another font of
type would have to be ordered by all of tbe
N. C papers. Now they. pnly keep "H'b,"
but it would be ruinous to keep "R'a" also.
V faleigh News- Observer r We
learn that the commissioners to inspect the
Western North Carolina Railroad, having
made an examination, were favorably, im
pressed with the condition of the work, and
that Gov. Jar vis and Treasurer Worth, a
majority of the commission, agreed to ex
tend the time for the completion of the
Paint . Rock branch four;' months. Jl is
understood that by the first of November
the road will be completed toSPaint Rock
and Pigeon River. Under the contract the
contractors have four years to finish the
Ducktown branch, which it is now under
stood tbey propose to' compk-te-wiihiu, that
time. ' - . i
- JVlorganton Blade: The anti
Prohibitionials of Burke county will hold a
mass meeting at the courthouse in Mor
ganton about the 1st of July for the pur
pose of organizing for the campaigp.
Special Deputy R. A. Cobb, made a rai l
last week, in McDowell county, in com
pany with - Deputy Marshals C. C. Cobb
and J. S. Elliott. . iWitb two guards they
captured and destroyed four distilleries,
with, two stills and fixtures; with thirty
seven hundred gallons of beer, one hundred
gallons low . wines, fifty gallons.singliDgs,
' Raleigh . News- Observer: Of
all the tributes which have been paid by
Southerners to Northern' soldiers, living nr
dead, none was ever more generous in iu
conception or graceful in its execu'iou than
that paid the late Col. Joseph I. Baker, late
commander of the Fourth Massachusetts
Cavalry in 1 this city, on Sunday last. A
resident of the city for not quite -three,
years, he bad for a large portion; of that
time been harassed by both sickness and
adversity.; Sheriff Ward, of Pender,
yesterday placed five prisoners in the peni
tentiary ; We are informed . that from
the 19thj to the 26th there : were in this city
eleven deaths. : . r : ; ;
-. ' Statesville American: Last Fri
day a couple of young men (supposed to be
the villains that robbed James Thompson
and murdered his daughter), about 8 o'clock
in the afternoon, went to tbe residence of
Mr. Rustus Redman, who resides in New
Hope to wnship, Iredellg armed with pistols,
and finding him not' at home and only an
old colored woman ' in charge, ; demanded
of her to know where Mr. Redman kept hia
money, j She not being able to inform them
they proceeded: to search the house and
literally lore it to nieces before thev suc
ceeded, obtaining $100, which bad been
eecretedi under the Btair-etens. The thievi s
remained a couple of hours and said that
should' Mr. - Redman appear' it was their
lutuuuu w am ujiuj,-wuicu uuu utlctsa i lie j
would have doners 1 7 f ;? !'! v';-;-, '
'-7- Raleigh News-Observer : Cotton
is v growing;, finely. Governor and
Mrs Jarvis are at Morchead. The Gov- ;
ernor is not at all well. Mr. W. 8.
.n.nn.inn . n It . 1 1 . . 1. ; t , 1.1 . 1
Farrie, late of this city, has been elected
captain pf the Vance County Guards,; the
new company at Henderson. - Peaches
are being shipped North from points on the
uaieign liaston Kailroad. But few have
been Seen here yet. . - North Carolina
can boast of having produced . twenty-five
out of fifty-five of all the gems known, or
nearlv half. . Mnat nf tha
State have; been accidental finds on the
surface of the ground. .. . - Hillary- Har
rison, the negro who set fire to tbe- stables
of Mr. John; Weir, after stealing therefrom
sent ; to 4 jail in defaultXof $1,000 bail.
Jobr4 H.! Smythe, a North Carolina dar
key, who is the Minister to. Liberia, is to be
recalled,! and it is said that a California n'e-
ffTO ia tr lalrn hio n1oii. VuoionliD
we met a eeatleman. whose name ia ' W il-
liam Batterham, and who.with his wife and
nve cbildren.bas come to make his hnme in
-North Carolina. He lived at Wisebeacb.
in England,- and was induced io immigrate
here by the late Mr. Fail.. His last duty in
jungianu was to go lo Welnngboro to attend
Mr. Fail's funeral. He says.; that the at
tendance at the funeral was verv laree. the
deceased; being widely known and greatly
esieemea. ne was ouneq in a beautiful
cemetery in Welhngboro. His wife and five
children.
and bis veserable
mother, aged
82 years,
were at the grave.
CATARRH OF THE A BLADDER.
8tingiDg-, smarting, irritation ot the urinary
passages, diseased discharger, cured by Bu-
cnupaioa., uruggs. Depot J. C. Munds,
WUmmgton, N. C. . . , 't -