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THE WILMINGTON POST. W, P. CANADAY, Ed'r & PropVt , WILMINGTON. N. C. Sunday Mobhiwg. Jujtk27. 1880. OUR STATE " CON YENTION. On Wednesday the 7ib day of July next the Republicans of .Noi th Caro lina will assemble in Raleigh, and lock each other in the face t gain. To say that the circumstances under which PARTY FEALTY. THE CINCINNATI liOMIH A.I The North State i has an article on this The Democratic National Convenj subject.jnjggested by one of the ebulli- t'on has nominated JUta jf Genei al tiohs of the Raleigh correspondent of WinfieM Scott Hancock; of the regular the "M. V Time sinCfi the nomination armv as its candidate Tor the Presi- of Garfield and Arthur, which had in. it so much good sense so temperately FOR PRESIDENT, OF OHIO. ! dency. We now hare before U3 a can vass of the insincere and hypocritical sort, akin to that of the Greeley canvass in 182. ; The Democrats of thevsouth had then nothing in common with Mr. Greeley,' nor havethey any real liking fnrtlinpt nnwr'lt ia one of those farcical and unnatural things whose counterpart would be found (in the which come : sometimes, rying North Carolina is utterly gone, j northern Republicans nominating uen. from lone possession of power and hold- and the parly is dismayed, disorganized Joe Johnston, or even Wide Hampton. ing of offices. Adversity is a good and confounded. The election Gen. Hancock was born in 1824 in school in which to nurture the rentier will probably go by default. The re- "MontroBiery ; County." Pennsylvania, Wh n Judce Fowle found that he virtues of good , fellowship in parties, sentment against the false position ot graduated at West Point in 1811, and ;ynen t -. .k. v..th . .rr.15na TniiKliraris IHa TTpniriilipana nfihA rIaIa as set forth J served in the Mexican war. He had they meet i are auspicious, that the omens in the political sky are favorable, expressed, that we iake the occsion to is mild and unemDhatic language for comment on the subject. T A TVnnS A CrARFIELD the occasion. It is amoor the Repub- The dispatch to the lima which in- licans a period of hopefulness ana duced ihe JSorti Mate s article was uaieu boujancy. r There is "among them an at Raleigh, June 8th. It said, the era of good nature and gocd will to- disappointment over Grant's defeat is FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, wards each ether, and an absence of intensely mortifying. Alt hope of car- JUDGE BYNUM DECLINES. The County! Republican Convention of Graven having expressed their pre ference for ex-Judge W. P. Bynum, and Col. Lr J. Moore as chairman of that body having notifiedhim, he made the reply which is punted below. It will be seen that Judge Bynum declines all offers of official honors. JOHN SIIEltMAN T-- I The 'Wathingfohffivrld ha3, from the date of its first issue, now tnore than a year agolabored fa'rnestly:and conscN entiously to secure - the nomination of John Sherman for President, believing then, as we do now, that our country has n j name in whom there is greater strength; no purer and better man, no CHESTER A. ARTHUR i OF NEW YORK. Charlotte. June 21. TSSO one who by his great wisdom and firm- Jy.J.Mre,Jisq; . j ; , ' ness of purpose has contributed so My . Dear , sir: I - have seen - the --- Ir-TYi---.? resolutions of the Republican County largto.0.genera Convention of Craven, suggesting me whole country. From5 his early man- as a candidate of the party lor Governor, hood until the present,' lis has in some -and am also in receipt of yours of the Vav been connected with the liub lie at- 17th inst., asking if I would accept the " ; : i ? f . .1 ' j '1- 1 ' nominaiioD, ii lenuerea rae oy me ie publican State Convention. 1 I can only answer now, as I invari ably have done for the last several ernor he made a very gassy and inco- have had enough oi it, so that there by the votes, of the delegation at Chi- grown U Captain in:8-5. .He was hewA wrch in which he pledged has been generated amocg them a good cago, is at white heat, and cannot be one of the earlKBrigadiers of the war loctrinea of the Demo- share ol cnivainc ana unseinsn uevo- auayea. , me auuuue 01 uic xvcpuuii- uaviug uecu ptyivv raniA w9i n if npw hnrt hen received I Tnanripd r.ornn . . lie is one oi . tut. ii. . i ... i j . i ; t : himself to the doct cratic party. . Secretary Schurz decided to-day that (he pay of census enumerators shall be nf )ia rain of fortv cents per hour in- ganization. And while we are without bickerings and in a state of elevated serenity as a party, we look across the broad space which separates us from our opponents, fairs of our Government, and . in all of his career he has made ho mistakes by which any portion uf the 'people have suffered. He has been foremost in the uestion I .fv,rf. in putohiiah ihn t.pm of "free by others, that I am not and cannot be spools throughout . the country " has a candidate lor any omce upon the been untiring in his efforts for the state ticket. ' . down-trodden colored , man, has stood I UrUStlrig 1U the Wisdom of the nomi- chnnlrlor in Rhonlrtpr ' with Snmner hud nating convefition, J shall cordially rjiHrlinp-s in their hehalf and long siticG I . . u - i. ..'...II . I ' " o . " . . supjwiv me licjtcu il tuAii icwuimcuuc thev have crone; to . their rest, he has of some great and appalling public Brigadiers, and a Brevet Mjjor General, calamity," This fiendish language is of the regular army. His career during by no means the worst which was tele- the war was creditable, and without graphed to a great leading journal of having any other reputation thau that stead of $1 per day or two cents per name, as" provided in the Census bill. anj w;tncss disorder, and exacerbation, the country, as to what was the temper of a soldier, with the exception of a He holds, further, that the Census law has not been' properly construed, and that ho is empowered to adjust the sala- stats nu onger ears the saintly ries of enumerators in the interest of ment8 an(i manners, with which economy. , and bad passions, and cv'l way?. The Democratic party of these southern gar th ey enrobed themselves a few ycais age. It is certainly up-hill business Jug ging the Democratic ticket of this state. There is not the first gleam ot enthusi asm, so far as we have observed yet. If beginning of the selection of delegates, They have come down to a conscious ness that they are human as well as other people. They have their human infirmities, and altercations, and ha- ih ,tntion was laborious the narturi- t"ds and fights, and no longer soar in' till the decision of the Chicago Con ifon has been noiseless, uneventful, that aerial purity which they assumed vention. We are disposed to say as and without celebration. The little to themselves in that j halcyon era of little onthe difgraceful subject as pos- provincial journals are beseeching their 170. They have found out that there ible, with due regard to justice to the readers not to feel too badly, and tel- were some among them who could com- Republicans of the state. lino- them that it wasn't because, they I Dflit official and other erme, and mate j We copy a portion of what the North didn't like Jarvis that they supported political blunders, and they have: said Fowle; that they liked Jan is just as in plain language to each other, until well as they did anybody, and they they walk on the earth very much in wished everybody to vote for him. the character of ordinary mortals. lhey have piled up against themselves oi the Republicans of North Carolina slight fiasco in his civil administration on the result at Chicago. That it was at New Orleans, he comes before the as far from the truth as it was possible public as nearly without an expressed for the English language. to state it, opinion on any question of ' stateman everybody here kcows. Everybody ship, as possible. , here 1 knows that false statements re- The nomination .for Vice-Pet sident carding the attitude of North Carolina, is the Hon. William H. English of In- were aDnearincr in the Times from the diana. He was born in that state in Thanking you and the Craven County Convention for the confidence and good Will manifested toward me. I am, very truly yours, j W. P. Bynum. GENERAL COMMENTS. , 10, rights Some of these great journalists are.cit- ipg the case3 where one vote, or a very few votes, have turned the scale, and are warning the faithful to be n band to the very last man. Some of them are agitated because the Republicans are going to have a state convention in a few days, and see in it secret dangers, and insidious machinations. But no dimmikrat" 'has yet given the first "hooray." ''. ' long lists of official misdemeanors, so odious that they call each other bad names, and fling mud at each other, with as much recklessness as the rest of the world. And these things have come to be found out, and, talked about among the people. In other-words the relative positions of the two parties are not as our opponents thought they weie, or pretended they thought they were, when they began. We can, therefore, appeal to the people of the state on 'Ji' It is not to be denied that the Cin cinnati Convention was a very languid body. It was surrounded by so many on our si(jet Kimbarrassraents that it did, not see What we hope our friends will do at which way to turn. Bayard, Hendricks Raleigh is to put in the field as nearly and Tilderi had ugly rebords, and had ah unexceptionable a ticket'aslthe clr- to be dropped. Thurman was ; killed cumstancea admit of. We are not about 'by the- "Ohio idee." Seymour was at this late day and just on the eve of n,ani---i" auvi uwcftdy for the siato convention, to name men. be- lus funeral. They were outof avail- cause we have in our ranks enough able candidates. . So they picked up good men to select from, enough men two men who had no very well defined qualified for the positions for which opinions, and made a platform much they will be selected as candidates fit less ferocious than one ot liecksor to become official ! representatives of ... Slate says so temperately, which we have no deubt is the opinion of nearly every Republican of this state. We not only copy it-but endorse it: It would seem, however, that the super-serviceable Raleigh correspon dent of the New York Times has worked himself up to such a state of mind, that he threatens thatnot only himself, but also,a considerable body of the Repub licans, of this state will refuse to support the nominations made at Chicago. It is barely possible that this over-zealous correspondent may be able to speak for, himself, but we feel sure that he has n authority to speak for any considerablj part of the Republican party in making such an Assertion. Whatever others may see fii to do, no Grant roan can go back n his party. Whatever may 1822. He received an academical train- ing and was admitted to th practice of law. Hi held various minor cfiices until 1852, when he was elected to Con gress from Indiana. 'He was made Re gent of the Smithsonian Institute in 1854, and in the thirty-fifth Congress was chajnnau of the committee on! Post Offices and Post .Roads. He was aso electei to the thirty sixtjLi Congress. WHAT 11' SETTLED. The Hon. W. E. Chandler of New Hampshire who appeared at Chicago as a delegate from that state and was one of the most activt and sagacious supporters of Blaine, writes a commu nication to the M. Y. Tribmie, in which he sums up the rerults of. that remark able Convention in settling principles, as follows: (1) The perfect equality and individ ual freedom of all the delegates. nal It setuis that a Kedive has which a Sultan U bound to respect. Ismail Paiba Wiintod t visit Alexandria jut was refused, and tbenjhe wanted tb isend back to Egypt his Tarn ily and was refused. Then he telegraphed that he intended to go with his family to Constantinople, audwaiilformed that if he did he would be sent back straight rcay.'. ." .The longevity-of fish is longer than -mo&t people suppose. j Gold fish live to pO year and naa no r still been their best friend, and may be relied upon until their rights under the constitution are fully enjoyed. There is no mau known' to hi-tory in this, or any other country. I whose financial record is equal to that of, Mr-Sherman, and though he cannot at present be re warded bv his countrymen iwith the Presidency of the United States, there by securing the " permanency of hii financial policy, the people themselves will see to it that ; history will do hjni mstice. A quarter oLa century ot sucli pure. wise, and unselfish '' devotion to the best interests of all concerned will not be forgotten by a grateful country . Washington World. Henry Clay's Waycr In 1814,. when the Peace! Corumis sion, composed of Henry Clay, J ohn Quiucy' Adams, J. A. Bayard- and Al bert Gallatin on the part of the United aw, aud a pike lives indefinitely, Statesand Lord Gambiec; ud Mr. iaa no period of matnrity. ,' Goulbourn on the part of Great Britain, . . . . were endeavoring to come to an under j cerium ur hiiuimil l'yiuucian-. jiu- . . , . . - f 1 1 stinHincr nn the, lnaDortant auestiwns of liticinn c i ew ork, as appear, from of the Mis3issippi river ceria.u cre. coeHuem f J flnd the fi.herv privileges, the British f .1 i I . . A . aU I a M. -t a cost nut- $200,000 far 12). The right of every Ccngressk L . . . . . . I i i i r ' 1 . 1 " " i more fair term?, and with the advantage nave ueen nis preiereutes, uu ubium- 0f its own selection. Voorhees' speeches, took for their stock in trade an army hat, a blue coat with brass buttons and epaulettes, on ibe satno principle as they made poor old Gre'elev's white hat and cat" fashion- able nil over the south inj 18T2. The southern . Democrats are in a broad gutl'aw at the ridiculousness of their possition, jiist as they were in Greeley's time when they were seen holding their sides with both hands, and going across this people. But we desire to see a ticket, from the state officers down, who are from among our most unexception able citizens. If we go before the peo ple with such a ticket as we suggest,! we believe our success is certain. We of course are not unaware of the ob stacies wnicn we i have to overcome. But we have faith in the good sense the people, and believe that a grea majority of the voters of the state ar ter what reasons he may have had for these preferences, the. mere fact" that the man of his choice was not nomi nated will not justify him in bolting from the ranks of the party. Senator Conkimg's resolution, wbile it is obli gatory en every man in the Convention or who was represented there, binds the friends of Gen. Grant to the support of tuo tlrket by.jtito. whli.li MDubt be broken. Whoever deserts from the ranks in the coming contest, the Grant men must ! stahd by the Republican colors to the last, either to bear hem in triumph to victory, or to tall beneath their folds with their backs to the field and th eir, faces to the foe. We shall need eyery vote we can get; we cannot spare one. i But ii the jiaieign corres delegates ddent ac (3) The rotation oi PrcsfdentA ac cording to the theory and racliee of the natior; not to be violate by a third term of Geceral Grant. In elaborating these idea he says: Fortunately, delegates representing unvarying majorities of oyer seventy were "determined that however they might differ as to caudidatfs, no such suprtrm folly as the nomination of Gen. Grant, by the methods in which alone it could be effected, should! be accom plished in the National Convention of 1880; aisd the persistency of men of in telligent convictiou triumphed over the obstinacy; of infatuated and enraged egotists and their unreasoning and de luded southern follower?: and thereby ardh- ; iv.es. wrote by under-ground railroad to Jefl". Davis all about the riots wTaich were about to tccur in New York. "Ten or fifteen thousand men will have to be withdrawn from the Army of the Potomac to pfil down ihee riotf. T&en f will be your time to adyauce and cap ture Washington." In this, letter he said that Gov. Seymour would so ar range thingithat no state troops would be available to , suppress these riets. These same papers coutaiu full sets of the 'papers relating l,- the ' Ivuights of tne G jkleii Circle," of.Iudiana, a dis loyal organic ttiou of ' which. Mr. Hend " rick seems to 'have been a prominent officer. If cither of those men are nominated at Cincinnati the lotig con cealed documents will make interesting reading. . I,is i.uiv stated that rafter a confer ence wiiu General uartiem toeaator Don Cameron has decided to accept the Chairmanship of the National Republi can Committee..- GoyJ Coruell of iSew York has saved the party may survive the sad separa tion lots, to get where they could curse their Kjiggusted at the manner in which ou ticket and not oe heard, lhey went affairs have been managed. The peo to faring guns all , over the south. pie of the state want prosperity, au in In ha nnrann f "fipn W. P. Rob- trCaSe Ol popuiailUU UUU WWIHII, HU 4 .. i I . u - r l.: l rts,". the onlv new man on- the Jarvis 1 w uiure iur u persou.w success in Dusuiess man lie uoes lor at- ihnfr wherewith to elevate its dreomnf? ienuaiea pqmicai meories. we nave spirits. Having succeeded in getting had more than ten years of Democratic into the Confederate army at the age of pondent of the New York Times Ts bent the Republican party has been saved on leaving us, we venture to hope that to control and. bless the country. Sherman, and Washburn controlled the Convention from thef start, never yielded control for a single moment cr on any one vote, and at last selected a candidate on whom all could unite and go on to victory. The personal disap pointment of the friends of .each of these candidates largely disappears in view of the general success of all in vindi cating and establishing ! fundamental principles of inestimable value. Hp savs further that while the anti 19, "his record as a soldier is written in characters of blood and fire on the bat-tle-fiold." &c Ac. "He was a lieuten ant six months, captain three months, major three months, colonel three months, and in 18G5 he became a brig adiir Genera1." The News firmly be lieves that this hitherto unheard of Roberts, was tire youngest brigadier general iu the whole history of the world. But he was great also in peace, Vnd (to use the exact language or the .Vew')t"he had personal knowledge of the evils of negro rule." He had the good fortune to reside in the county of Gates which usually gives about 200 or 000 Democratic majority, and did not 'quietly submit' to the "evils of negro rule." Nevertheless having engaged in the reform ot Gates county "with (he same courage and . energy Jthat had mi management, and have seen no pros perity as a stale, and will not till we have a change in our local government. CONFUSION If HALIFAX. e nave received wnat purports to be a report of the county Republican convention of Halifax county, signed by J. E. O'HaAi,. chairman, and II. Davis and John H. Ilammon, secreta ries, in whicli it is recited that r the convention was regularly organized and among other things passed resolutions endorsing O'Hara for Congress. By the same mail we have received a communication from Mr. Robert Parker, who claims to be the chairman of the county committee of Halifj addressing the "delegates of the 2nd Congressional District Convention and THIS NEW JEjEKEY COLORED KK j PUBLICANS The Colorea Republican State Cen tral Committee have issued a call for a state convention of thecolored people to take into consideration questions af- J fecting their rights as citizens. The call savt: "The present campaign . is fraught Grant eleinentpf tfce Contention gained with issues of' vital importance to the nothing in yetes by istainipg the colored voter,and upon the settlement of which depends fhe political future of our pcople. i, The recent amendments to the Constitution of the United States guarantee to us fall ihe rights and im munities I of American citizen?;- but tjie hostile attitude of the southern Democ racy, and the swerving fidelity of dis loyal Republicans, whom we have hon- principle of the fights of-disiricts, they did secure "a sacred pr&ciple, that. of aisuici represeniKiioii, soever vioiaieu before 1380, was in nriliand the liiaiae and Sherman men deteriiued to snve and vindicate it for theij jgeneral good ot the party, aunougn icjuiignt oe loi ored by elevation to offices of high lowed by the defeat of their candidates trust, tell us that the time has not yet come for us to disband asa united peo ple. The conciliatory policy of the present 'Administration has been effec tive in destroying the Republican party in the south, and through it the colored element of that section has been elimi nated from both national and state pol itics. At the close of the J?ortyrthird Qongress we had seven representatives in the pepular branch of the national legislature, now We have not one. . . urine the past 10 yean we have pre erved au unbroken column in the van guard of the Republican ranks, and to day we stand ready, to march to victory, abreast with "the gsand old party of the voters of the 2nd .Congressional freedom, but we demand of the candi- District," relating in detail that O'Hara arled his former life" "the work of finding that J . F. Rey nolds had a ma- cight yeats was complete,' and he was elected to the legislature. We shall expect to hear great things from this voung man, who is now 48 years old.j FARE OF DELEQATisS TO STATK CONVENTION. In answer to an. inquiry addressed by us to Col. Whitford, President of the Atlantic & N. C. Railroad Co., we - have' received the follewing reply which 'we print for the information of delegates-living along that line. .:; X . Newbern, N. C, June 21, 1880. V. P. Canaday, Esq., Wilmington, N.-C:-' Dear Sir: In accordant e with your request of 18th inst., to Col). Whitferd, President, orders have been issued to --agents at the several stations on the road tosell tickets to delegates attetid ing Republican State Convention at jority over him,ia the county conven tion, bolted with wliat. Fppirter.9 he had and Organized as the real converts tion of the county. , The proceedings of the O'Hara con vention are gravely "ordered to be sent to all the Republican papers in the state,' f course to be printed, and Mr. Robert Parker, who appears to be the real ' chairman of the county com mittee of Halifax, earnestly requests us to publish his explanation. Both ot inese requests we respect fully decline to comply with. The wrangles of our friends in Halifax are net sufficiently interestinlg to the gene- dates whom we support pledges to pro tect us in every right conferred by the constitution." There are certainly some ciear heads among the colored people of New Jer sey,. 'fkY know lint they are entitled to certain right i;,y; rdance with the amendments to the co3stitjutin; Eat the question will these rights be ac corded them. That is the real question, with both black and whites in the south. ' !'..' " - It is a curiom fact brought but - in the statistics of insurance experts that in all of the greatjeities of the civilized world the death rata is gceasiug. The science of right living causes 3 increased longevity. From 1873 to 1 57S tVlO flnrreoso ill ttlO Tytnrlan nasUi ral public to require Jheif publicity J rate compared with the preceding aim we cannoi auoru io eucumoer our six years, was four per cent. columns with their, details. The Re- Raleigh on the 7th of July next, at 3 publicans of the rest of the state were cenu per mile eachway-6 cents per 8Ufficiently disgusted with proceedings mile the round trip. Tickets to be . o-j':n:f.!. t A, T v good until July 10th inclusive.. Very respectfully. J. Fulford, G. B. K. in the 2nd District at the last canvass to induce them to let them severely alone this time. "Beware of a nominal, acquiescence in certain alleged truths ; because you have been taught them in your infancy, or because they j are ihe established opinions of thoso with whom you are connected. Abercrombie. i' ! and the selection of a new man. The violated principle was, after much de lay for the report of the Credentials Committee, forever established by that report and the decisionlbf the Conven tion admitting the Illinois and Alabama contestants. In the iiext National ConyeBtmn up, -Cppgr'j&sioiial district will be attempttfi t.o deprived by state action of repre8tnauon by dele gates of its tn f ee chbice." I ' . . ' .' .-, . . As Secretary Shernuh has said, the country nas ueen iafeu from great peril, and it had been autckiy aud well j . f i . ' . uoue. xiua ih may uRre uj well re marked that while no a Kempt had been made by either Mr. tiherman or Mr. Blaine to control theamon of the Con vention over those teriible telecranhic wires which so much troubled Seuator Conkling, yet befre te last crisis oc curred both telegraphd their friends not to adhere to their personal interests at; te risk ef the f&ijfl--nomination of general U-anF? W fpupport promptly the bet and most afile 'Romjnee on whom an pouija iznne. ; it was a Galored nrtacher who said to his fl ck : MVe have a-colteptjon to mak this morniDg, and, for de irlory ob neaben, wnicnever ot you stole Mr. Jones s turkeys, don't; put anything on the p'ate." One whd was there savs. "Every blessed niggah in de church cam? 4Pwo jyith.the rx)cks."r There is some difference between cheek and brass. Cheek asks for any thing an time without the j sign of a blush. Brass comes up and takes it without asking, i President Chadjourne o jlHama Colljege lias resolved to deny college aia to apy gtmiept vbo is caught 8Jfkiog. j plenipotentiaries sought to alarm the Americans by informing them of the invincible army which . was moying on New Orleans, supported by a power! ul fleet. ' They dwelt on the. gallantry and darjog f rackeiiham, laid much stress on the superb character of his troop3, whicli they truthfully declared . were the flower of the British army veterans of the victorious Peninsular campaign and Lord Gambler gleefully .-"New Orleans will soon be in our possession, and the free navisation of the Miss issippi assured to. us." i This greatly nettled Mr. Claywho had determined never to concede the point as to the great Hver, which, with prophetic eye, lie saw must one uay uecoiuc iuu giimu est commercial highway on the dc-be, and si, with tte --instinct of the true Keituckiau, he at once oirered to j'ager Lord Oambier that the British tinny would never capture New Orleans, ami that Packeuham would be disastrously defeated. Tor," said he, am in formed that Geu. Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, has gone to New Or leans,,and I have the most implicit faith in his ability to cope vvith your nvmn" T.rl' A 3 O Tin Ki Q lrtw4"llllr HP. to the state ove; u million' dollars by V"c, """-""f the rout of the British army at Chal- mette and of the death of Packenham was receivedan Europe Lord Gambler apprpached Mr. Clay at a grand ball given we-belicye, in' honor of the suc cess of the negotiations at Ghent and handing him the hundred guineas, said: 'Mr. Clay, I believe there, are three kinds of beings under the special Care and protection of Divine Providence lunatics, drunkards and the' American people." N. O. Democrat. his vetoes of appropriation bilis. ExrGov. Horatio Seyuwur writes, under cjate of January 1'J, 1S30, to Dr. Geo. I7-MTilIcr. editor of the Omaha " r . , i. . Herald, aud an old friend, "it irritates me to be talked about for an oilice when I am thickinsr about -mv will and fune ral. , If. I had to choose between a fu neral; or a nomination, I would take the first." It is most incredible Ian" gunge for a man like Horatio Sey mour, to say the least. ; . - Gen. Arthur, our Reublican nomi nee for yiccf President was removed from the" ofc of (Jolleptor of Customs of Kew Yoili, wiihout any charge of ofii.cial misconduet, but because the Hayes 'administration hud new views as to thyJ c mduet of -that great port of entry. .. . .ONSLUW AM) SHACKELFORD, A correspondent:writing from Onslow, gives a remiuisence of 1S73 which docs no.t show Mr. Shackelford to be very, popular in his .own' county: ) hi giving. a boost to Mr. thackel ford, it may not be amiss to relate what took place two years ;:o in connection with that gentleman. Then the Demo cratic Convention met at Jacksonville, recommended Mr. Shackelford for the Stale Senate, and probably pledged jt seif to sustain him if uominated by the District Senatorial Convention. ; -Well. Mr-. Shackelfufd was nominated for the Senate, after having been endorsed by his own county. One of his nearest Democratic, neighbors, Mr. James Har vey Toy. made a run against the nomi nee, and in Onslow defeated him by about four j hundred voles, and would have teen j triumphantly elected, had not Carteret a.ndiJone come to Mr. Shackelford's assistance. As it was he made a narrow' et-cape. I His majority was yej-y snialj. . r, The J2,500,000 which George Pea body left to establish homes for thc poor of London had 1 grown to over 3,500,000 lasV December, through ad fitjons of rent and interest money to the principal. .The trustees of the fund have already housed 0,005 persons in 2,355 separate dwellings, and haye made arrangements to buy nine acres of land in Glasshouse street, near the mint ; Whitecro33 street, fit. Luke's; Bedfordbury; Great Wild street, .Drtiry Lane ; Pear-tree court, Clerkenwell ; and Old Pye street, Westminister. To cover these sites with buildings, the trustees have obtained a loan of $1,500,7 OOOlromtbe fund, in yearly install ments of 500,000, and oa the condition that the wholes shall be repaid in 15 yearsl They calculate that this sum will provide homes for 10,000 persons.1 The average weekly ; earnings of the head ot each "family in the Pcabody Duuamgs last, year was about th-e average rent of each dwelling aboutfl j and of each roo;n about 0 cents. i ' " ' i m ' Work of the Session cx Congress Just Terminated. j -Duiing the session that terminated on the 10th inst., 1,107 bills and joint resolutions were introduced in - the Senate and 4,2SS bills and jeint reso- lutiofns in the i;-House of Kepresenta t:.ves. The numbers introduced durincr the first Cpr "extra") session were re spectively' TJS--andj. 2,526? making a grand total.cf 8,784 bills and Joint ies-. olutions introduced thus far during the present congress. , yvsiae iroin ine reg ular annual appropriation bills the fol lowing are the more important, public measures that have passed both houses and become laws during the present session of Congress : " j- An act to provide for celebratiuc: the one h u n d red t h an n i versary of th e t cea -ty of fieace and- the recognition- of American independence, by holding an international exhibition of arts, manu factures and the products of, the soil and mine, in the city of New York in , subject to the supervu'on and un der the auspices of the government of the united fctates. ; SAn set to amend the internal revenue laws in regard to distilleries (khown as the "Carlisle bill.") ' An act authorizing an allowauce for loss ' by leaka'ce or casualty f spirits withdrawn from distillery warehonses for. exportation. '.t -:vX'.- An act for the relief of settlers en public lands, allowing their rights t6 relate back to the date ot their settle- ment, the same as if they had settled under the pre-emption laws.': An act to abolish all tolls at the Louisville and Portland Canal. ' - 1 ' ' i. A. L t - 1 1 ! " . ' i.u act to proyiae s ior toe consiruc tion oi a marine hospital" all Memphis, ' 1 1 .. r ....... ... . . J: tfnj.riv liua,, av wsii noli Ci-CetUlUg dO,UOO. t Au act io provide a building for the use of. the United States Circuit and district courts, Custom House and Post - Oflicii5 at Pittsburg, Pa., at exceeding $750,000. . An act appropriating the purpose of acquiring sites and the erection of suitable posU for the pro- t tec'tion of the Bio Graude frontier. Au act appropriating $50,000 to com plete the survey of the Gettysburg battle field and to provide for the compilation , and' preservation - of data sbowing.the -various positions' and movements of troops at that battle, illustrated by diagrams., ; , t . An act to provide for the Yoiktown centennial celebration. J i r An act-providing for negotiation with certain foreign governments relative to the importation of tobacco into their d6iuiuiou ' . ' , - Ar.lact for the conslructionof a pub- .j lie building at Toledo, Ohio. v ; - An act to increase the pensiecs of . wholly disabled soldiers and sailors. An act to ratify and carry into effect the agreement with the lTte Indians. An act to amendihe statutes.. in re gard to iiL mediate transpbrtatiou of dutiable gpodit . An. act relating-to. timber trespasses, committed prior to March 1, 1870, re lieving the trespassers from prosecution 'upon payment of the price of the tim ber. -..-'. . : 1 -: : h ':. ' Act to amend certain sections pf the Leviscd Statutes concerning mineral lands, allowing agents of j non-residents -to' make the allidavits - necessary to ob tain patents. " - ' -' Act fur the payment of the awards ofr the Southern Claims Commission. Act to provide for Ihe settlement of all outstanding claims against the Dis trict of Columbia. - ' : Act to constitute a jeint commission' for carrying into effect the French claims treaty of January 15,18S0r f Act to provide'for the repayment of fees, purchase money and commissions paid on void entries of public Janda.: Joint resolution for the relief of nar- ties who have made contracts to deliver cut hoop iron prior to a certain date in " respect of the duties imposed. ' The amount appropriated during the present session f Congress included in the regular annuaf appropriatiou bills, ' the Iliver aud Harbor bill, the Deli- ' ciency Dins ana miscellaneous appro priations aggregates about $186,000,000. 4 Wnat Princess Louise Thinlvs. J Louise, Princess j of Eoglaud and Marchioness of Lome is quoted as say ing to a reForler at Chicago that she and her .brother were much entertained and delightejd at the proceedings of the convention. ( " We were, she said, glad ff an opportunity to ee the primary gathering of gentlemen who select your ruler. I can hardly describa how a few men (for they are but a few of your vast population) were having a deba ting society that j was makinsr vcur VJi is tbe opinjpnpf many shrewd and tuler. " You know it is so different lrom far-seeing r Democrats of Onslow that vhat' w'e bm been accijstoiVd to. My Mr, Shackelford was put in the ring by 1!5H0ID3 8e.rdc2i Fere 1conflic,02 .. ,. .. .. 0 . and I have thought much and will the layeUeviiJc uonvention, as small think long upon what I saw. This Re- boys do uiaibles to be knocked out. public is certainly a remarkable insti- There is a great fear in many and a tution No man has any right to the great hope ihsome that he will not sit or the throne or the chair. It . , ti -t '.-" open to everybody. And yet I am told in the House oi Representatives exempt that all the feeling subsides, and eveVy in fee gallery. That is the light in member of the ..party works 'to elect ihi whieh the noiiii nation :a rer'.irdpd Kv I neminee. . r p-.. 1 1 ... t,i. : ,.i ml. i ,o d.:h'f. hot. th( Mr. Sh.cV.lfovL,1 w uy jranKun, nas iuy.asv ; volume defeat ca'n- be accomplished notwith- which number is exceeded only by the standipg able editors, primaries, and UDc Library of Boston, ( which has all the other adjuncts and supporU of jVolumesu VThe: Mercantile of t)e pPmoati " 'f,. ' h" W 3. ;an1 ;thaTA,tor a. Wake Forest Student Who Cut Ilia ' Way Tbrouffli. . ' y Uf idsville Times. - ' ' ' ' ' ;.- " A stfidefit named pa vis fponr'up i Cherokee county graduated' this session at Wake-Forest. ' Five year3 ago-he went to that college with five cent, in pocket ail his money. They told him1 he'd better go back,, but he vcwed he'd stay aroucd there and live on the wind but what he would go through. And sti'.k he 'did. He cut wood about I ft the citizens and finally all the Profec sors gave him the contract to cut up their winter wood. Professor Rova 1 1 L was' in the Chapef one morning and neara a terrible racket outside, like a cannon touched ff. and itvwas DavH who had fiuished all of a pile of wood split by powder dollars out of yaod durfog' Jii tefb and graduaicd only twentyrfive dolUp in debt f r the .whole five years," II o learned to . sing and taught singing school iu the country during his spare Saturdays. That made, him! sonie money. He graduated with honor, and the subject of his commencement speech was "Hewo the line let the chips fall where they may,!' He has got his aie with hinrand intends Jo label it: ."WiU this I ctft my way-thr6ngh.,,f He has already been offered a Professorship id ome co jlegd. Go it Davis. V-. .. j GencralxTackson was pnee v'isiticga Kentucky town where, among the gen tlemen presented to him, was Mnjor Lewisjjhodesired to impress ack3cnj and his adhTirers witbjhis own i"ndcren"j dence. Taking a dignified attitude, bp said, "Well,J3eneral, I have all my life been voting against vou. '. Jackion courteously bowed to him, and said, good-humoredly, "Wellj Major Lewi?, l have all my life , been fighting the uAiutra oi ray country in order you might enjoy that privilege.'.' - uarheld and .Arthur both taught j,cnooi ac iNortn Pownal, Benningto County, Vermont. Garfield is 4 an The. first coal fieldsf worked ih A nie r ? , ica were the bituminous fields of Rich. ton d ft ffona, va;i diapoyeredia
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