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Taxation, far, heavier than it has ever been in Democratic hands, "oply served to swell the fortunes of county officials, of ringsand cliques, or of favored contractorsrCounties and cities Were alike sappedVof their wealth that such, ' might becomfich . AnheviUe Ojfai;ik-m;, Oiuxteeifted ' contempdraTi'its' hit the nail :on the bead. - Nearly, every comity under negrirfrule Suf fMed from a most censurable misap jili cation of funds. : Without- sucli" . misapplication it would have' been-"' almost impossible that so .much money wrung froni the hard earnings of the peopi with. should have been made v way When the Gen.:Canby -system ! of county government vas in operation the Radicals ; in - three years in the negro cQuhties alone managed v to make way with $1,304,343. When the iren. Canby , system had 'disappeared and the Democrats came .into ; -power with 'UieirpreBnVHem-'ofrCOunty: gov eminent that is' so 'very- offensive to the delicate nostrils --of , the Reve nue smellefs"ihexpeditriVes; iij the very same counties . fell ; to h $999,358. in the same niimber of; years, three. Here was an actual saving' in iwentyr eight counties bf $314594.; ? - ' -v"! - How Jdid - thKadicals manage: to got away vtita so much money? JCan ' there bcrbnt one answer? Vfzs it not' iloanv, a misanrjlieation of the funds collected' by taxation? Ho w',else could tiioy expend ' more - than thirteeen hundred thouahddollarst Years in twenty-eight coantaes.-f -And how did the' Democrats manage to so rediicejihe1 expenditures' '.m9 theT'first inuee years y.arter iiney; cameinio power? Can . there . ,be but one answer? . VVaa it not by - managirig the public finances wisyy prudently honestly, economidally? '. If not this then what?.:.;,".,;;- -ivy :-, , But please matk this in "addition. Not only did he;'emoerate reduce the expenditures fl 4,5 94 in .three. j ears, as eomparea wiiii,ne ivaaicai .expenses under :the Geri.; Canby bvs- tem for three years, but they. reduced the public iUhi $266',19: in the same . years. I lere is . a difference -between the Gen. Canb:8yetiBmpf rcou;nt jfgo- yernmentas administered by the Kad teals and the present? beneyolentahcl economical system of county govern iiciii, as atiminisierea oy ;tne jjemo- .u,lo liu wire y,ear oi- deduction in taxfeS;;. V. . V$314,504 Keduction in public indebtedness.; 266,198 Total reduction .......... , $580,702 .1 . This is shrely an adnHrablWfiicbTKi anA l ff nl honest tax v payer j and goocnznTails to see the jcast improvement arid the superiority or thej present system! of county go vernment over the -Gen. "Canby sys tem? j , - The Ashevilie Citizen refers; to 6iie of thd burdens Wakg county had to bear kinder the Canby system. It - says:"- Xlf- :::S:A "A case in point is theJ market house in Kalenrh. whiVli tnat fts nnn wti nave been dear at ; half - that price: a job n-.u jurur pouucai contractor. Schemes like these in manvof the rionntieB waste, dishonesty or reckless ignorance and Hismanao'ftmftTit. in all nf t,him loft iv;ni i O , T - 1M fcSVUA UU ourden of debt, dishonor and bankruptcy Which linvA rrnvvT fhft niiapa nf nkotnima fw i.v.u W I1UUK1C1 . alleeatlOns of cnmilar lnrov.' A-rrnonStinvAa mat have since been made by the Demo-! fet us give another illustration o e vice of the Canby system;" ' In Granjille county tneanmates'of the . county poor house' under the: Radi al ministration bf the1 Gdn Canby: 8ysteni cost some' $275ieach f6V their rl mnenance for ohe! year; We heard late Lunsford ! A. Paschall, Esq.; 0I!etof the oldest "Justices ' ot - that V'j. county; and anxceHebsine man j say that he could have boarded them at the Yarboro House,' Raleigh, fat a less sum ; ,The Granville pooir house is a nice .place. There is capital, farm and many, substantial brick buUdlngs -in a fine bat; grove. . iiunng tne . ijren. yanny system tne. man' jinT chai-gei cbnyedtinto regular inn for man -, and beast, and nearly lev erV leading ' Radical m : the county put up: there every court week-j and Vas ; entertained free of ' charge to him. but 5at ' the ' county expense.- Frorn six la dozen were thus erijer-' stained nightly. It' was known in those feculent day asthe Radical Hbtelt'OTo'S'ind of dollars of thfe; people's v money were, misapplied irt this and -other ingenious, ways.' We; think that three iadical isheffiiof: Granville 'were either defaulters !. or were so mvqivea n tneir. moneyed transactions that their sureties had to"; be resorted to f or indeisihity.. As it teas in Wake and Granvil in ariy; other, counties. so it wai It 'was peculation -...- 'v. saturnalia of crinie ind and "wastefulness.1 V .- - ' GARLAND'S 'ACaHITTAk Young Garland's acquittal was no doubt as it should have been. r Ad dison began the difficultyj showed a' willingness , o j conimue went m meet;Garland! fully f 'armed,' and afteF making double preparaUon a day. or -j two before, -and - .nredtne7 nrstshotr wburiding : his . adyersajyfT 7 But . few rencontres show more'justificatiori for the slaerijian the 'widely advertised ana saai trageay net ween uanana and Addison.1 In saying thj ye?& not enter upon tlie questions of re porti concerning Garland an jwhat he had said, norKdo i We -gbi into the question oi , tue nupruueiiue, uc, u. the - young- lady's letters", but after Addison , wrote his indorsement bf her first' letter fi to 'Garland and sent it to himthus 'bringlngimselfmtiS the matter and 'precipitating a per? sbnal difficulty, ; Ke 'had ' no', one to blame but himself for any desperate results. It is a very sad business" all" the way through. "" t Tk -i- ; It would be amusing to read some f the Solomonic utterances of .the 'big 'papers" in ' the North : over the trialy and their anxiety to have ; Gar--land hanged, but ; for the n justice of thewhole tirade and the melancholy features bf Itue case.; ; SomQ,'of these sheets say i that Virginia ' trials are only, intended , to , show how good a4 case can be got up to justify tnurder. If two men fight with pistols and one is killed, and it happens that it is the, man who ' began the difficulty and fired the first shot,' how could ' a sen sible Northern, jury make murder of it ? : We venture to. say 4 that in most ii . . i . o i - i n communities: m me oonin vrariana would1 have, been more easily acquit- ted especially when a Judge left the Bench for hire to prosecute him' in another court.- Such ' tragedies are very sad, - ana men s cause them.3 St J-- bad' passions if.. .vh ji''j -' Mrir Charles Jones, Radical con-; I vert, . and : self-appointed ; candidate for the United States Housb of Rep reseniaitiy,,..! tiune 4iouj,ft iopiii7 a' little more than two months ago-f- saia ftnis in tne paper no owns ana controls'1 of the -Radical Revenue t i ..a i .. . ti:. j ?Their (the Radicals) object in springing it at this time,- and placing, themselves in the attitude of especial: champions of the elective , iranchise." 4 to , array , the West against tthe iJfiast ori that jmesMo wlK the western counues-wjwsrt uieic umwo trollirig Vemerit of colored voters, the' 5 peer? pie would unquestionably prefer to elect their own magistrates, and have .submitted to he deprived of that right to save twenty five counties in the East from negrb . domi natiori. ' Were it not for this ; the people would notx have consented' "to the change,; and Ihe Legislature would not have at- tempxeu to mase uie cuaugu. ., : . ,.. .j j r And yet in the very teeth' of such; av .declaration - that is the simple truth this Radical 'candidate turns around and howls for the cbange,and rides ) booted and spurred' "with ' the? Radical , raiders in their . mean at 'tempti "to array the West against the East.''- , r. : - ' - Leach is mad with us because we referred to his bad "grammar., Well, his grammar is not perfect, but it, is much better than his" sense of de cency or his knowledge fr logic He is the great scatterer and he is . not particular what he throws. JThelate Chifi Jusjtice Pearson said he was a -"low I blackguard and demagogue," and if, his speeches are correctly re- -I ported he ' is both.- Pope : said. "A wari of decency is aVant of'sense." bowlings oyer a changen the present THE COLOBEDr XnOOPS REVOLT jv' There. are signs in thia Northern citigjth:Fed jginia in North Carolina,' in Mississip' jpjiitl itx. Jisjourv tbtnegrp: '.re-beebming restiv V-'iin:de'ie':;3' :8ygten ' of joting but inot thqhiing? officis. ' They are growihg exceedingr ; jly tiried pf playing thpart otfdu driven f cattle'.'-bf '' beirig sd-many "sheep?, with, the, tags', atteciMsdMaly fabelled.tNbtV allf are.f shbwirig'this spirit of':resistance,;of revolutioa,In fact, the numbers are yet Small com- iparauveiy oui j tuere ; are signs xo do seen iii the' political heavens that may berjeasily discerned from distance and inaViie interrreti;bv'.tbrt Rfdi. W wtiite soothsayers i ..,, iuw but:, uutuaicueH oi A'KBter to illustrate..' - Iq ' Mississippi an in fluential; and leading' colored voter has announced himself as a straight-, put Independent Radical candidate for the . TJ.- S.' House in the Second Pis'rict. ! Gen. v. Chalmers,! who - has been censured all through the N orth! for nearly twenty years : fbr the part te played in the slaughteringf of ne gra troops at Fort 'Pillow, and who hasjbeen almost ks cantank'erbus and at the hands of ' the " Democrats; did i usts.Ed wardsj .'of Granville, has' done -whipped over,flopped for griib auu guueu uonor; xxe ' expeevs ;iue true Republicans' who ! have1 served tbeir party in sunshirib arid iri storm, under - defeat: L and , wheal victorious through thb flafet veben yeays, tcr stand by j and : allow the Democratic deserter to bear off the trophies of the day. But this is not to be; '; Han nibal C.; Carter, colored1! will; jbear the Republican colors; t6 thb front' anoi will call up to rally around the old standard, j - ' . :f TKen,.again, look at the. declara tions of the colored ' men' assembled 1 in convention at Jefferson dity,rMls souri. Tliey ' resolved not to be the mere instruments of the whites any. longer to .'procure r; oflfices for tbeini- They resolve riot to be the personal property of any party, tut to act in- .dependently and each voter s' he pleases.' The party yoke, has clearly Called their necks and' they have thrown it off. , ; How far this insubor-'. dination will 'extend, wo maV not tito ' antiwpate. WUhin; the last three. - months there' "have been se veral sucb signs of kicking : but of ; party traces on the parfc of the color-' ea yoterein certain , sections, j? or fifteen years they have voted at the bidding of Vfewst wjfe'nienr;Ho'; Ibng i they i willobey f the - lash ? and rally at the blowing of the horn re- i ' -i So 1. J - Will :felytriumplLat jast? begins to look, as if 'there (mighjrbe soinethirig of importance ; $0 the world in his alleged discovery.1 "A Phila aelpnia eourt appomiea jxir. v uiiam Boekel, upon a pbtitioh of stbckhold ers, to investigate, and he, reports to thecburt that wliile he! rmly'be Haves that fr. Keely has discovered new arid . .woriderf jllV1 powerful . the invention to explain them to the cotiffcf ' He saya,'J tbprbfore,; thf the stockholders'-' should noti, force. J Mr. Kbely to applyiforfai patent at ohce. he MibhiganPeriibcrats i haye juH. heii j a State tjJCbriveritionv tf iThr adopted a strong: platforiri of; princi-, pies, w e give -iia ; Dnei r;QUTiine .''in "The platform adopted, recognizes the neoole as the source of nolitieal nower and the constitution as, the 'fundamental law of k the lana ; declares in favor of . home rule. the hne bounding State '. and, national au thority being clearly denned and needs only to jbe strictly 1 followed vto7- conserve the broadest liberty - to the ' neonle: . TheW- jUst,-unequal and 5 Iniquitous ' system 'Of taxation called a nrotective tariff which on- preBses the fanner and laborer; destroys the' mercnant luariue, Dreeaa ana enncues mo nopolies and impoverishes" the poor meets with, unalterable - opposition.' The tradi tional policy and principles - of the Demo cratic party are on the side of complete commercial freedom, and an immediate and aggressive revenue reform 1 in the direction of if ree trade is demanded, subject to a tariff only sufficient to raise the - necessary revenue for i governmental 1 expenditures economically aunuuisierea. , : , o Miss Blair's Recent death by suicide. brings out the following depressing family record inTthe Columbia (S.C.) Register of the 25th ;inst.': .;f "The jffreat-grandfather was hanged, the grandfather committed suicide, .the father, L- W.' R. Blair, was tried for trarder and escaped only -to fall in a: personal rencontre with Cantaitf Haile a; short time since. One of his natural sons is now in the State nenitentiarv servinff out a life " term for murder, and now a young daughter, one of the i most interesting ana Deiovea oi tne present generation, iaiis by herwn hands; Truly It is a sad recora abusive a speaker as Jim Iieach,;be-" cause he could, not cet the reelection force; yet bet (Boekel) ! does- not yet iuffibteritlr5 uriderstari Jthbdetajfis. ot. TIIM. SMITIIVII'Lfi ,pilO WN- fyi; ; Further Partieulmr of the Saf Aiafalr ! xhe Bodies not Iteeovered. ; t' ?. ; . Capt. A. Garrason, formerly the popular comnumdef of ,he steamer, p, Mwrchixm, jbuV now . a merchant of JettCTjlle, Vhp Imade such.ft nbw j on Wednesday 'evening last," oft Smithyple. iarrlTed here onthfi;S(gamwJta8p Iterday'afternoon, and was gladly welcomed, jancl cordially congmttdated - by his. numer- 'ous friends on his escape. '"'i.i::Cr j We leam that the .bodies o$ thq jifi f or jtunate Itlian Caseletta, and iMnrray,' th( colored , waiter , of the ; Hotel Brunswick, who were drowned, had not been recover-; ed0 up J. tOr tbe, tune ; )tlie. ; Passport left Smfthvnle yea pomp think., as Jthere .was. f Strpng ; ebbtide at the tune, that they dm tedou to sea, with the current., The boat waa recovered and was found at the very spot where she 1 went down. rSheu had sunk; trafil1 lb faejboV &owner-sails all set and i shes, Jnade Toney rCaseletta,.the Italian harper, was only about 20 or 21 years of age, and leaves. i wife in this city. and one chikL . - j, h ,r Capt. Ganrason, when rescued,' was un isonscipus, and it; was ;at first thought that. e had shared the fate.of his . companions, n was finally resuscitated.. a r:-i&)l The only cause assigned for thn. accident is given ,by CbpL . parjason, who isays there. . Iras some deficiency ioi the, arrangements, for letting go the sheets, and when the boat capsized the heavy iron ballast immediately, sunkher.,- .-..i - v bi 'u nl zsU. I Later.-A. dispatch received through the Signal ofilce last.night' states that the body of Toney Caseletta rose to . the surfacernear tne wharf of the steamer Blanche yesterday afternoon, and..was .at once seen ; and se cured The body of the unfortunate colored boy, Ben Murray,- had not been recovered ate last ,nit;ht.-.- ,:'.?'h ' ui) ha m 1 -. . n, The Oxford Orphan Aiylam. ' ' ' I While we were'satisfied that thisHnstitu- iiok had done, much' good, we nirist ' corifess tiave Were not preparea' to 'hear br f read' such an encouraging1 statement as is fur-' nishediis by a strong friend of the Asylum residing in this cif says: ;4J -to ' 1 "There, has been .connected with 'the. in-7 stitution since it was opened six: hundred and forty-sit orphahsV and of this number. fari a" can;j be vestimated, twelve Were" from New Hanover county. iA In this num- her those , children who remainea f only a rtWdays at the. asylum' are, not included. Many of these orphans have -been adopted" by childless couples. -. A- large majority i of the discharged orphans Are now prospeious as citizens and useful to the State, " A large bnck building for the special use r of the boys Is nearly ready .for occupancy, and we learn that the chairman of the asylum com- , taittee of St. John's Lodge No. 1 of Masons, of this city;1 has under considerations the admission of three more orphans from' this county, , who will doubtless enter shortly; as those who know him know, that he can never refuse anything for an orphan s good and comfort." , ' -' ; The Grass Worm. jWe learn that the destructive woTm,here-. tofore alluded to by us, has got -among the grass In the Rocky Point section of Pender county, and is making a pretty . clean sweep of it. An .old farmer of that section says he has examined carefully, .and that tip to this time they have not touched the cotton,' and but slightly interfered with the peanut vnes 'but the planters are as a mat ter of course quite uneasy. , He does not think' they are what is commonly known as Uie armyworm,", ,for'orie reason, because t they do not , move in, compact bodies like that serious enemy of the f armers, but scat- tef about promiscuously... . It is to be hoped Hiat they will hot "get into the cotton, as they might do senou damage... . Interred at Smlthville. .,,vj We learn by passengers on thg steamei; 'Passport, yesterday afternoon, that the body. of i the unfortunate Toney. Castella,,. the, Italian musician,. who(M.was accidentally idrowned off SmyUe,,, on Wednesday boatiinthe harbor. ! Was buried vestorday at "th4t place,' instead of being brbright to thi .dttr; as was expected. " : is The body of Ben. Murray,, the notel waiter, had not yet been recovered! It First Sale North Carolina Cotton. V ''Tha "fl Tao7" A-f wnw'. vwf txri'T tm turn in North ; Carolina 1 thk season s was 'received' yesterday and sold at; . auction on Change at cents pei? pbund'.? Itllwasf! raised fby( jftr. M. M. jM.cJS.mnon, or ljaunnDurg. con-1 sie-bed to Mr. --C. 3i" Bmith.--weiehed 58 mounds, and was purchased by Mr. A lr iGreene.'fj Mr. GeorgevH.. .elley. waat the 1 1 f 'i 1"" H First pis otth foronsiow. 1 0 ! A pemocratic,mass meetingwasr held at Catharine Lake, Onslow countyJ on Satur day Iast,fy the!'19thr irist1 'A correspondent infbrms us that quite' a large crowd was present and that speeches were . made by Hon. J. W. Shackelford, Dr. C. Thompson and others.' '"Much good; he' thinks, was accomplished by the meeting;. n:Wi-.K v- -J-? The Austrian barque ; :Jster, Papt. Xigga, was clearedfrom this port f ot Trieste Austria, yesterday, by Messrs Paterson, Downing & Col J with 250 'casks spirits turpentine ana 3,004 : Darreis Tosm, valued at $10,253L 68... r.A : Hon. Clement Dowd, .of ''Char- lotte, present jKepreseuwuiyt-, was renomi inated by the District Democratic Conven tion, at Wadesbofo, Wednesday, as can-' , JJ Jt' was reported -'.tihat' ? one , John Howard, an alleged inurclereri. had been ar1 rested at Magnolia ' and. . that' he would be brought to this city for confinementbut we learn from Jailor Howard that he has noli arrivea nere. it ntllnef Blr.Slerrtelc'a a.reament f or Ie!. -P-ropeeutlon: in the; Star. Bonte ! 'Case: ' '- ' -7 . ' t. ' , t s iOByTelejcraphtd the MornlnR Star.l ! ' 1 iWASHTNGTONi; August 24 Mr. Jaerrick; of counsel for the Government' in the Star. Route i cases,' i begad his argument to-day.J ; Af tec referring to, the, change of ton6 of the; iUtterances of. the counsel .for the defend jahts, 5.slfjce the topenin'g' bf the: 'case -a -jchange from a, -defiant bMster; to a plea torn mercy on a basis of, a probable doubts-Mr. Mernck said it was not his Intention to "dis-, fcnss in detail the facts" pf: th 'case.. since J however; present a. number of legal propo sitions, to. which. he invited tho attention ik vuo vuiut&uu juxj. v must; propositions, without the argument by. wbichMr.. Merrick5 supported .them were in substance as fol lows Mrs. that when conspiracy' is' Charge, ito be a criminal act; and various: means are alleged, if any of the means are proved it is sufficient to establish the gen eral charge, . Second, -that, in ; order to constitute a conspiracy it j3 ; hot necessary, for two orriiore persons to.' meet and enter,: intb'Vfexplicit and format; agreement Jto do, : an unlawful act If in any manner., or through any contrJIvance they . explicitly or ' tacitly come to mutual understanding ;to accomplish such purDbse it is a eonsmracv. and such a conepiracy could' extend . across $ Whole continent. '. Third,, that a conspira cy can seldom ? be proved by . direct testi mony, hut if itbe shpwn that a 'number of persons cbmbriied 'to "I gain'a profit f rbm contracts by ; ineans ' which" lanit : forbids. . that is enough -to' prove ,;the conspiracy. Fourth, that -if.. -the jury believed that Brady and his . co-defendants or (any bf " them were ' engaged ; hi a com bination fo 'bbtain'faU s increase lri ! ex pedition on the Star Route, and that Bradv was ' paid riioney; or other valuable con sideration,, for such, an , increase, they are justified in finding guilty , of .conspiracy all who 'participated : m.; sdeh a transaction. Fifth, that if Brady purposdy-aUowedfor any expedition a Greater sum than accord- . ihg to the testiriiony befbre hlm was neces-' sary, sucn a tact-, strongly tends to prove a-1 corrupt motive on. hisf part, , Sixth, that, the filing of : any paper on an officer of the government; with the intent to influence the: decision . of any government ofllcer, is a crime under the lawif J :?J ,:'; -Sf, Before, Mr, Merrick; .concluded his .argu ment the Court. adjourned. x :"r qi ,'. WAsniirGTbS.1 AuirustM----lh' the Star Route casesT to-day Mil M erricfc continued i his argument and cited, a number.. of au thorities m Support ' of th6 legal proposi tions laid down, by him ; vesterdav. He ten took up the Dorseys, and endeavored to show that J. W. Dorsey, whom the" de fence called a' "Christian gentleman." had been guilty of" most flagrant acts of per jury. . w. Dorsey had: been the . central ngure and principal Supporter of the eon- piraey;'althbugh be kept 'MmselF as far as possible concealed and did business tbtise the words , of. witness Boonee-k."on grave yird principles. , Mr. Merrick reviewed in .detail the history of the relations of these Brady and. withr one another, to show that all bad a common .interest and .worked, to gether -to, defraud tho Government. 4 An, incidental reference by Mr. Merrick to the fact; that only one; of Ihe defendants had been,; put ,on ;;the .stand ; io . self-defence,' was . the. occasion of a sharp controversy .between the Court and counsel as to the admissibility of such remarks. Mr. Merrick was nnaily admonished, .but he would argue the question at' tha proper ;time. Continuing his review, ne said the conspiracy did. not end when these' men divided up the routes between them; because it had been shown that they interchangedrouies.and acted, for one another as circumstances required, . He read letters from Dorsey tb Anthony Joseph,; requesting the latter to get up petitions is a variety (pf handwritings for expedition, and said they showed fraudulent jntent, Mr. . Merrick then dwelt upon the ; necessity of reardrnff productiveness a& a nrimarv oon- flideration in thef expedition of . star i.rbutes,' ana said that , Brady had persistently disre garded4t: - He insisted with'emphasis thaf the expedition of the f service on the 'Ojo Calient route was a patent fraud on its race, for which the officer .who ordered it should be sent to the penitentiary. ' . ; i v ; '-; At o clock. - pending a conclusion of Mr. ujMerrick's; argument,' 1-the - Court ad1 journed. :;.,;,,.;.-'.:.i.K-." ' JU:i,, "ix,-;.. rThe Garlajad rmal!:ciosedTh Frl- i Jiii JTOnerAcqolttedi ...iafy, LTOtomjB& (X H.p August- at-Capt McKinney, of Farmville, Va.i made the. closing argument- for the defence in the Garland murder trials at Lunenburg V. H. Va.. yesterday.'s and Judge JUntonof re tersburg, closed for,the prosecution. '. At 5 o'clock the case "was given to the jury, who retired to their room', and after an absence of fifteen- minutes .came into court with a verdict of , "not guilty..'? r Aa soon, i as, the verdict had been announced the crowd left the1 court room, cheering, 'while the prison er wasinwarmly t. congratulated by his rafWift XiMM uitr'joAi MJXf-y&fM Xiyo Republican Candidates for" Con gress in me secona jrastnet. ; '; Knoxvixle. Aug. 5 24. Two factions of the Republican party of the Second .Con-rj i T-v . . I m . ' . , gressionai jjisirict 01 1 Tennessee ,mei . iiere to-day in separate Conventions to nominate candidates for Congress, n One Convention' renominated L.? C. Hauck; present Reprefr TtnlAu?l-PhanftstA1'. TSbth' Tonvnlnnn wete regdarly 'OrMni23d.Jiand each' claims' to ! he, s the , Jegal Convention of - the party;! m " rt 111 ii -1 . 1.-1 J I each of the elevcncbuhties i of the .District. WO - LyUUVCU LIU LU3 llUVtJ UKCVL . , ilBlU 1X1 One by Mr. - Hauck s supporters and the other i by MxD Rule's friends; sending sen-; araie ueiegaiions to j.utj you veu uuu whiujj. mes io-uay.v ,, . , ; ,'- ., .. : ' The Democrats will Prbbablv hot"' nbmi nate a i candidate, and Mry Rulb expects ,theu support. ;: . ; .iunT : r XjLLABAMA, A Negro Hnny for TEtape and ianrder. tt .pyTelecraph to Zh6 Kornlng Star.1 ' ; jIoNTcroMEBTj Ala., August 38Aine giro named Inardt!oker, who committed an outrage on a womatb named -Catherine Hanes, and then, .murdered !her -last Monw daVk about; thirty miles east of this : place. on the Western R. R.. was captured yester day afternoon? .He. confessed the crime,' as evidence of his guilt was overwhelming, a portion bf his clothing being found near the scene .of the outrage, . 'and he ' bad .been with her several times on theday of the kill ing. A crowd of whites and ; blacks, were "engaged in the search for him, and when ha was captured he was carried to the spot where he murdered his victim, aud hung to a tree until he was dead. Jeagues, ,: and itheir argument istbbdlikb rocks on the shore of a sea. - He .would? i. i jWera X.ynehedfor JKHrderlns the Ex.t ;"f jiress Messensjer. ,. ; r-' ,, -. j . '.' rBv Telegraph to theliorning Star.X ' , 1 i Tubsoir, ' August ' B5; A ispatch; corP' erning the robbery f and' murder .of Andy -' Hall and Dr Vail, savs: C. B. Hawlev and' JivV. 'and Cicero Grimes havb made a full" confession. - Hawley and Li.V Grimes-did-all the work. " Cicero Grimes was to share In the proceeds, 'and. consented to- assist" in" the robbery.. He went .to the ;sumnu of . ;iue raouniain, met ine express and rode jahead of it for some distance, -.: making signs to Hawley and- L.-Vr-Grimes, who JwereiocjKUsneaT, thRtealt'i;W:heirihe express arrived at the spot they.commenced firing, tb scare : off the '. rhessehger and riiaU, riders The .maQ ridef,(Fprter)r ran -joff to get a gun, while Cicero Grimes rode Into town; -" Messenger Halt had ; arifld jtvithbut cartridges and a pistol with a belt of cartridges. He hid himself, andyoung jLinmes and uawley 'broke open! the box and secured $5,000m;golcL eThey, started; awav With it n W. TP. Vailbn his wav to hk'mine, rode to the 'scene of Ahe" robbery : poon, after, it.. had-been,, .committed,:, and , irhile looking around for the trail the gHiard cama back aod not knowing Vail shot - it him.i Vail thinkiBg he v was.attacked. y 'one of the robbers rode on and over ook i the :-arobbers;i tThevftvpretendedi tti be friendly and. saidthe were 1 going to town, and ' Vail being "afraid ' went ' with --a ttiem about . -half a o mde, b' when ' thev shot him three timss in the hlr TTa died sobh after.! They were8" dVertakeri by1 nieewt;ugtr: .au wnoiipretenoeanev naa been shot at by - Indians, and wanted pro; tection to get into town: ' He'- wenf withJ tiiem some distance,, carrying 'a'-pistol in his hand all the time. V They c got Hall be tween : them and "Hawley' shot him' in", the ' back, , -,HaU, shot fivej tunes a8 them and then they riddled him .with bullets. The mob - which""assembled ! after1 the' robbers' er, arrested hanged Bawlpy . adVsLV.I (primes, but the offlcers got Cicero Grimes away.;i--'.-SKH,fc ...a FLORIDA. t f -.: wo Negro Murderers Shot. to Death jhy a Mob at , nTadl8onAVrk. of the Iiiind and Improvement Co. ? ' ', ... j t';$7. Teiejrraph to the Morning Star j W , I jACKBONvriiLE,. August r 23 r As a train containing twq colored iprisopers,) named bavage.. and J ames, .reached Madison this . morning, it was. met by about one hundred' persons, .twelve pr fifteen -of : whonrushedV into ,the train and riddled the,, prisoners; with bullets.;.;,The-Tagent.i.of the railroad. did not suspect any: violence until a short:.' time before the arrival of the train., when Jae attempted 1 to -telegraph ;cach way; but iuna tne wires cut.Jie then ran, up the track and1 signalled the" conductor not to sopj but some one had-j hoarded'? the train -ahd uncoupled i the .two . rear, cars.;qThe, prisoners had ' ben cphvicte'd of the mur der of ranfc Jratterson; wmch' occurred oii the 8th of February, 181, at Madison, jn, a rbom' wherb testimony Was being' 'takeri In the contested i election case of Bisbee vs. ; Ilnlev.', Anew trial bad .been granted by tij,e' Supreme -Court and they "were being conveyed -v from, -; Tallahassee tc Jasper to undergo that trial, .iriien thev were mur- -dred as detailed abover Tlwra'i&ex-' citement in iffladison oyer tuejoutragej : -Jrj 1 iWm Rrvrnit who was sentenced to be hanged, to-day at Madison, for the murder : o Mr. Jiioore, has t obtained a writ or error and the hanging has been 'adjourned with out date. : (i ' " ; :sa -n Uacksonvtlle, August 25.-A dispatch froni Capt. F. A Verdry, dated Kickpoick- ett August 23rd, arid Fort' Myers,- the 25th;T says that the, lorida liand j improvement i uompany s canal has mst oeen completed tol Laka Kiokoocket. a large' lake - within' thjree miles of Lake Okeechobee,. and . an , immense body of water js pouring down the Caloosahatcheeriver amid great re joicihgr '-t The completiotfbf this work-will' bring into cultivation the finest sugar lands of Florida. " t XtX u x "Cl I .i THE WAR IN, EGTJPT.t Fartlenlars '- of i Thursday's - Engage ment at Ismallia .Tne Ejryptlan lioss Estimated at 400 Movement, of Bri tish Troops Positions 'Occupied Fri day Weak Beslstatce ; , and :i Poor. Fighting by Arabt's Troops. X U'i Trmat.ta. Aupiist 26. The' enemy's loss m the fight pn Thursday wjth Gep. Wolse-l ley is estimated by some as high as 400. - ;" clined to come to close quarters. SjThe.Bri-r tish troops behaved well; they were all dayr without water -or rood; barter marching ten miles tiirough- heavy ; sandfr .T cavalry swept around the .eritisn i?gnt flank, Jbut did'1 not x6me:Jwithm striking Jdiatance. The Egyptian , fire was,, top hot for the' Rifle" Guards to cross the opening towards them. .The British infantry passed the day lying down behind, banks, and in; ditches. '' After the engagement' oh Thurs-' day Gen. Wolseley rode into Ismailia and returned late in the-evemng, ,JKemtorcer mepis ( , arriveu uuriu-. ulv 1115111., j uuv.,wc guns, hot Until early,. the- next juprning, having had great difficulty: to 'get through tne sanu. uaj'ugin. ,iv, , waa,, luuuu,. 10 i me great disappointment ur our meri, " that - the" main bbdy of the enemy ' had withdrawn. The 'Egyptian artillery fought well and fired more accurately than' at jKafr-el-Dwar. i The infantry ,wer6 c6h-. temptible and the cavalry .little better." Many? of both those arms Were observed breaking from the ranks and dispersing un der our fire of shell, .-mll Jl . o l . AT.ir.YATmnTA, August f;26The boat's, crew of the Austrian frigate. Nautilus, whp 4 were' captured byV the Egyptians have been liberated, arid arrived here thi morning. . r :Ux. Two Tunis merchants who escaped from T?afr-el-Dwar have arrived here. .They de-i clare that the . country generally, is tho.-. rougmy aisconusnwsu wiui maui j- bbuo,huu is anxious for peace,; KThia appUes particuk lariy to Cairo.;. . . .. 5 . r. -. v. iThe Life Guards' captured eight prison ers who ,were dressed as ordinary peasants but carried arms; two of them had long Arab' muzzle-loaders, the bthers carrying1 Remuigton rifles. , 1 Thet enemy's .: scouts displayed great boldness. " The't enemy was mucn - Btronger tuau - we a.ytr ed; they had a number. . of , cavalry and were " spread ,out in a semincircle. We sbbri, discovered train after train' of re inforcements arriving. Our ., guns , . com menced firing at 11 o'clock. At first our fire; was; very, weakly responded toj but in the afternoon the rebels threw si shots to ourl one, They produced, however, very little effect: The enemy's fire, though fairly good for amateurs, was not correct. ,; Alto-, rether our meri and horses withstood the heat of the sun. fairly yreli. launch has hnen sent nr tbk -canal with two guns. "A siee-a train .will nrobablv "be ready to-mor row, with' 40-pounders. I The Thirteenth Bengal Cavalry will land to-mOrrow. j London, August 28, Tke DaUf Newst V.oa tVd -fllrtmjTin- 1icrriotyK' V7n7JliZi.' An- gUSt 2fl.--Ramses and' Berketel-Mohsmeh were occupied- yesterday "by the British. The losses were small on both sides." The enemy retreated to. Lake Moxama." Who is theHori:WrP. Rbade; of'iEersbhr.cmmtv. And vttktt ha " I he jever done. tA?ii ?.rUtt&te$.-ivt- --Elizabeth City jBwndmteteCrons i w good corn th best in ten years. It Is reported that Kenneth Raynerwill spealrtn. the political canvass in this- District nmnJ :.' : time in October.:: r- Every Liberal Re pubucan assistant candidate; in North Caro ' lina; especially in the "Old FirsVf; should. : carry a banner, oh 'which banner should be-V inscribed this one word-r-"Rations!" ; j Poorbld Leach tOld.weary and wornwititr : j: political service, in the sear and yellow leaf : of life, he falls at last into the arms of his r X ; enemies, blots out the record of a long po- t litical service, and departs under a cloud. , " j WeldQn iVtw.v' The young man 1 -Saunders, i." son bf Mr.;rSaunders; of this1 iplace, 'died in jail on Sunday last. He had t ueeu, insane pr suuia ,vuue .- tt. liOO lOW- And, when near the Burfacehe rope broke, i -iThe Hon. Mark Alexander, of Virgiid? 5a, the oldest , ex-Congressman, lives with aiis son-in-law, Norfleet Smith, - Escr.,' rn I -fcT 1- TT! ... .'j . . . uuuuuu xtcua,. vials ueaitn is.remarKaDiy "good. He , broke his hip by a fall some I time ago,4 from which - he Jias not yet re- - COVered. ; :;.--.--:iV-.i.r,s r.,v -v , ::-;: XX; ( :. Near EUerbe Springs, Rich mond county, ; Mrsr"Katherine : McRae, : . relict of the late' Daniel McRae, died on the ' 19th of August, m ;ber 93year. She was born in the Isle of Skye. - She was sun osed to bq'tLe oldest jpersori in the county, ler-vmother diedfin 1854, aged 96." Her f ast 6ickne6swa3 all 'she ' ever had during ler long life. V She was -very Vigorous, and " not many rnonths ,'betore - Bhe died she f ol- 1 owed some surveyors all day as they were" rurining-some lines of her farm,' and show'S ed but little fatigue.-Her first; husband, Daniel McDonald. Was a soldier of the war . ) -HTarbbr0 Soit, ( terl'.Of the en-;" tire white vote . bf , this countylJarvis re-. " ceivfid 9Cper 'pentr.r.of it ; the; Tads have VI. S bout 5 per cent, bf it,and about 1 per cent. ;' -0 riot vote.' Franklin is the only county m the State that makes as good a showihg. ;. j-Fbr' the last two weeks Tarboro has ; . been ; on--ita-v jnuscle.- - About - eight- fights base occurred, snotwithstandingLCPurt ,was x in session one-half ,the time. rThe -a,verag taxation- per capita, for every man, wqman and f child, in- North , Carolina, is t , forty cents annually for State expenditures, ' , and about sixty-five cents for county purj pOSeS.' i , ;.;.! , nT,t''. '.' , v. Raleiffb News-Observer: . Tho .. other dav.' when he' and Price were sneak-' irig, and Leach was going it like the beau- f tlfulMaud'8., hurling out. oratory. like a regular Gatling gun, his mind curiously" ' ' enough got mixed up with that old speech,' audi turning towards Major. jtTlce, withr 7 vehement gestures and tremendous voice, - he exclaimed, as was his wont in 1880: "An'' Ethiopian cannot change his color ? nor a ' leopard his skin, but my God 1 fellow-citi- - zens, how quicK a white man-becomes a - nigger when he joins-the : Radical- party." M Price was at ' once detplv grieved, and JJeach instantly fell upon Price's neck 'and wept. rabieaurl : ; , fXh fJ ' - t-r yyarrenton Jlqme JournpUs.Oini -all tie bwris inNorth Carolina Oxford mav '' ,be most-justly-noted for- the beauty of its srrjpunduigSy the salubrity of its situation. (V he " elegance of its modern style and excel- jent . taste 01 its private residences tne enter-: ' prise of its citizens and the cultivated tone, , -, of its society. Oxford enjoys a high repu-' itatibU as an "educational points?;'- From .-S our Ridgeway letter you will find that oyer, SOO't'ons bf fruit have been shipped frbm that place dunng . tne present .seasons , 'i ne i t fruit production of Warren r will compete -with almost ariy' courity in' the State, and' ' has proven to be a very profitable business,- -SJ-!;ai-'3i'. Ward was handlihg a pistbl Monday,' when -' 1 .i iisuu toil ttnuo. iiity nvuu it accidentally went off and wounded J alia , ? Gray, colored.' ; Only a flesh wound in the arm -!ti General Leach was "welcomed' c-"-totWilsou.' with a large banner, stretched across Nash street with the following words bn itV "Iri 1880 Gen Leach saidt J An Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor ,. , r a leopard his spots : but my. God I f ellow- ciiizens,fhoW quick a-whitemaribecoriiesa'' nigger.when he ioins the Radical party.' Hs speech reminded us of a donkey bray,- mg ot'a lunaracrsididoes orine- Indian war'-' dance, We hardly .know , whicbrbut rather-. rt tnmK. iwas an 01 inem, compinea. tie said that he was telling the truth. We arc , glad he told - us, for had he not we would have believed the reverse,- but now we have. his word, and we believe so still. JNew Jiserne uowrrwu;: rxissmg , race oti Wednesday riight between a' young ' ' T lady and gentlenaan at a sociable at ttttk .n n on Middle street. .The iady wonr,scoring , 498 to 496.i '"Honey in the gourde - To-day(25th) is the anmversary of .the bat- p. tleofiteams's Stationt which occurred on J the 25th : of 'August, 1864 : In this battiO 'W Cooke's, Lane's and McRae's . North Caro-. v. , , lina brigades' highly distinguished 'them'-'"' ' selves; . The coolness: with . which: ;theyi- j rushed upon th . enemy s strongfortifica-. tioii'bri that day has been justly regarded " as one pf the - most brilliant oasnes 01 tne r;-.u war. - -Onslow dots: .Mr. Lot Gregory, ,t is ahead on snakes - he - killed si x rattle- snakes in;Onevweekr s.One bf them had six- " teen rattles, was six feet long andr as large ; fV round as a' 25-jionrid white lead keg. l i An-'-: ' other. man-rI forget the name-r-killed one ; with two Gats and three fox squirrels, one ; large rabbit and a tame cat inside of him.' Jong account ;bf the recent'discussion at that -, tn place , between mr. j?'. ti. jsuspqe ana Messrs: Leach and Price,' Republic ; As-1 sistants.fjWe glean a few. passages..Ul.i.. the, flatulent and profane Leach it said: His speech throughout 'abounded inidemagog-'1''' J' isnit; Latin and French quotations, ,and slang phrases in. endless ; number.- We speak the sentiment of those who heard, huriwheii wb 'say his speech - made no im- ' pressipp and was i regarded by- the -entire ; ' corpmunity as the speech ot a wen SKuiea, 'experienced :old demagogue. -Mr. Busbee -is thus ref errsd to in part :( As late as June .. . ? ; Mr Leach had said in the presence of more 1 . ' than one gentleman that he had no idea' of "s leaving the white man's party, and.te-day i;, . joe S was stumping.; .ine-- otate against tnat . party..; '; Mr. Busbee was particularly forces ' fuliin his.reriiarks on! Leach's -prohibition- .. record and showed that during the agita-"' . . tion. of the question he had not opened Jiis' i mouth against it and had said that "there t was hot money enough in North -Carolina ' to make ;5him i open 5 his mouth against j-, the bill." " Now that it has been finally. . settled -:-Leach was :' very -; blatant ' in -' his i advocacy, of anti-prohibition.? :i There f -is . no kind - of "doubt but . that Mr. Leach felt hacked and realized, that he had ni: been, worsted .in theencounter as -was . .. evinced in his rejoinder, which was mark- , ed, if possible, with more bitterness than ' his first effort.- , His ; arraignment ; of - the . . press' and his abuse ofthe purposes, to x. which editors lent i their columns; was ithe most bitter- and malignant we have? ever ,. heard.'. The North Carolina State press was stigmatized as purchaseable, licentious, - subsidized and perverted. - Nothing seemed . , to be too bad to say about the newspapers . . in the State. 5 Price-bore himself, nruch more decently. Of him the Advance says ; Mr. j Price Spoke considerably over an hour. !ser, colored while diggmg a well near Mid way ast week, had his leg broken.. He was being drawn from the well at the time. to a caim, coiiectea. aigninea manner, ana , his speech -was 'marked almost uniformly ,-. ' with moderation and- what he seemed to . think was honest candors He said he was, ' 't . he supposed, a Liberal, but in no sense a y. Republican and that if the ' Republican;' party "endorsed the candidates of his party,.; 1 that he had : nothing to do with that It ' ' was a matter for the Republicans. . X X - ' .1 xt:X tf X,f it - - h : t -';.;f'. - t f 'V i H V