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THE RE PORTE R. JTTBPPKRTSII., | J. TTDAKLINQT*)^, EdUor. Afociatt Editor. "THURSDAY? DBUEMBER 6,1877 OOL. HUG BBS NSW PARTY THEORY Last week we published a letter from Col. S. M. Hughes, oa the subjeot of a new politioal organisation, to be known as "The Taxpayers' Party." The basis of this proposed party seems to be antagonistic to both of tha existing par ties, hostile to bondholders, and, in a positive sense, revolutionary and hurtful to all the interests of civil government- Being old friends, as Col. H. suggeets> "we oan surely agree to disagree on all wpb subjects." We take little interest in the discussion of this question, be cause if it has any weight or influence whatever it cannot be otherwise than dangerous and demoralising. Under oar form of government, history teaches that one section cannot be arrayed against another without involving the peace of both sections ; neither can one elass of our citizens oppress, persecute, or systematically oppose another class, without inflioting upon all classes the evil effects consequent thereto. There fore, it is with us a question whether or not we are serving a good purpose by commenting upon the propositions advanced by our friend, or if it would not be better to let "the taxpayers' party" in Stokes work out its own destiny. Again, we are fearful that a mistake has been made in the selection of Stokes eounty as the birth-place of a great na tional party destined to accomplish mir acles in the purification and reorganize, tion of American politics. If it should be a mistake, then, by treating this mat ter seriously, we would expose ourselves to the imputation of being vain and pre sumptuous, or designing and unreliable. However, we have yery little faith in the ultimate success of a third party in ibis country, wheresoever it may origi nate ; aud regard what we have heard a of k in Stokes simply as the feeble echo of tbe waitings of tbe political infant, borne to our ears from its Western oradle But, let tbe facts regarding its origin and strength be what they may, aud if tbe new party is really as pure as its friends represent it to be, the present is not the proper time for the introduction •f new measures and policies. For yean tbe Republican party has been prostitu. ting every interest of the oountry to its own base uses ; it has injected the virus of party corruption into every vein of tbe body politio in order to maintain its bold upon power; it has at times ignored and violated the most sacred and bind ing provisions of constitutional law in order to wrest tbe government from the people and make it an engine of seo tional persecution and general robbery. That party sent it nnprinoipled minions South to take possession of the Ststes, to throttle free government, to load onr people with chains and cast them into tengeoas, to incite domestio violence and emoarage bloodshed and arson, besides the committal of every other species of tyranny and crime that Satanio genius could suggest or concentrated villainy oould execute. In this way the Gov ernment of the people became a myth, and oppression usurped the place of pa triotic justice. But "there is a divinity tbat shapes our ends," and long ago tbe edict went forth: "The wicked shall not prosper !" Egyptian taskmasters flour ished forty years before retribution came to them, and the Philistine giant died tbe death of a dog when bis time came. And now tbe Radical party, the author of ail our political miseries, has read its dooas in characters on the wall Trne men all over the country have persist ently, yet patiently, labored to save to psaterity the birthright of civil liberty and American freedom. They have op poesd, harraaeed and thwarted Radical i*m so effeotually that it has torn its eelors from the dome of every Southern State eapitol, disbanded its pernicious organisations, and most of its leaders hive sought safety in flight "from the Wrath to come." A very slight hold npon tbe government is now all that re mains to the freebooters, and it taipay ers, workingmen and true men will per siM a few months longer in their warfare against them, they will be driven fro:n every stronghold ever occupied by them. Tbe glorious achievements, in this re speot, of tbe past few years, has been under tbe auspices and through the ot %lMitation of tbe Democratic party, but Wtth tbe assistance of many former WWp- Yet the viotory is still incom plete as long as a usurper and a fraud copies tbe position of President; and patriotism bids ua to persevere until 'Sad real ism is dethroned and buried be neath the weight of its own infamy. v With all possible reapeot to tbe judg ment of oar friend, Cel. H., we affirm that it would be suicidal to the every interact of bonesty, publio virtne, proe perity and eouu try, at this line to weaken the power, influence ted prestige of the Democratic party by eveu the agitation •f uny tbird partj scheme. The time may 4)uie When euch a departure m igbt be in order, but at present it would be nothing more or less than positive treachery to the party now in exis tence that can secure to us the blessings of a better government, and at the same tittie extending hope and oomfort to our infamous enemies. But even should that time ever oome, do we want B tbird party whose founda tion IB Veritable Communism 1 Col. H. may talk about bondholders, monopolies, money powers, and other similar wrongs, growing out of fraud and corruption. — On questions of grievance we agree with him ; yet we warn him against any the ory that tends to excite prejudice—that will array workingmen against employ ers, the poor against the rich. We do not believe that this is his design, yet the legitimate and inevitable drift of his argument# can be in no other direction. In a country like this, where ignoranoe everywhere abounds and passions are easily inflamed, it might be difficult to make a great many understand that the wealthier class was more entitled to their broad fields and plethoric pocket-books than others are to their interest-bearing bonds. An equal distribution of all property waa ooce a sweet delusion fond ly nursed in thousands of bosoms in this country; and the hope is not yet so deeply buried but whut it might be res urrected. The man who seldom has a surplus dollar in his possession, readily imagines that five hundred dollars is a fortune aud its possessor, being wealthier than himself, belongs to the "moneyed aristocracy," and no better than a bond holder, or other oppressor of his class. Thus a feeling of envy and hatred springs up, which as in Pittsburg and other places last summer, always culmi nate in fire, blood, and ruin. The malcontents then imagined that tbey were oppressed by wealthy corporations and illiberal monopolies, and in order to reduce all to a common level, force was resorted to, pillage and robbery held high carnival, and what oould not be carried away was wantonly destroyed. Millions of dollars' worth of property was thus swept away by men who had beon taught to bate bondholders, dis trust the wealthy, and regard every man as a scoundrel who did not work as tbey worked, or pay tax as they did. So much for the proposed third party, as we understand it. Are we ready for it, or can our people endorse the move ment ? Gentlemen may disguise the objective point by fioe-epun theories, reference to the past, appeals to preju dice, or direct charges of want of fidel ity. We do not claim that the Demo cratic party is without spot or blemish, but that it is far better and pref erable to the Republican party, and never can prove itself so utterly perni cious, dangerous, revolutionary and trea sonable as any tbird party founded upon COMMUNISM. Wonto to the Point. At the meeting of the New York bond-holding anti-silver delegation with the Senate Finanoe Committee, Mr. Bland the author of toe silver bill, was present by invitation and spoke to the point. After alluding to the recent la bor strikes he said : "1 want to say now, with all due de fcrenoe, you had better aooept this prop osition, if I know the people I represent, and I think I do. Throughout all the West and South .we had a little exper ience of their feeling last summer, when there Was an uprising all through this Union, and promises were made that this finanoial matter should be attended to —that these men (meaning the striking laborers) went home, and are looking to Congress to-day. But I tell you if you put on the screws much further, and re duce these people yet further to necessi ties, when that uprising eoaies again there is no power in the Government to down, and instead of your bonds beiog paid iif gold, tbey will be wiped out as with it sponge. I stand heie as a conservative man when IKy to. lam willing to pay it as demanded in the bond, amd for wl)ieh the eontraot calls; and unless thie measure is adopted, you will see men in the next Congress that will plaoe you baok where you were in 1809, making your debt payable in pa per. t speak to you as a friend, and not as an enemy, as a friend to my ooontry; and I want you now, sinoerely and hon estly— and take care of U>e warning— you bad better not oppose this bilj." Albemarle Ti A drwnken man by the name of W- P. Bough man shot Mr. HaggaU, by mistake, at Uoasbel, Bertie county, on the ni«ht of the 3d inst. It is (eared that the wound will pirtive fatal ' 1 To Republicans. It is BOW probable that, unless the Democrats commit some suicidal folly— a thing which their past history render* quite likely—the election of 1880 will Rive ui a Democratio President by such an electoral majority that no device CM avail to set it aside. That party already hat a majority of the House of Repre sentatives, and appears likely soon to have a majority of the Senate, and thai' when a Democratio President is inaugu rated, the legislative and executive branches of the Government will be en tirely in the bauds of the Democrats. if the Democracy should thus come into power it will come to stay. The Republican party has now been in pos session of the Gevernment for mofe than sixteen years, and if the Democrats, after they get in should live up t« their profeeaions of strict fidelity to the Con stitution, eoouomy in administration, and hostility to all subsidies, sineoures, and corruptions, they may oount upon a long tenure. What, especially disables and ruins Republican party.at present is the Elec toral Conspiracy of last year and the fail that in their name a man who was not eleoted now exercises the office of Pres ident. It is the guilt of this sin whieh orushes the Republicans, and, unless tbey earnestly repent of it, brioging forth works meet for repentance, it will crush them for a long time to come.— But repentance and reform ought not to be a difficult task. The mssses of the j Republican party are honest and patri otic men, and were led into tbe Fraud through politioal desperation and through a party zeal that in its essence was pat riotic ; but, now that they can look at'-it coolly and see it io all its enormity, they should make haste to olear themselves of all lot and all part therein. There is another reason of an impera tive nature which should weigh upon ev ery hooest Republican : Tbe Democrats are apparently bound to come iota power, and then there is always a likelihood that in their turn they will become so corrupt and so odious that the people will finally riaa up against them and en deavor to turn them oat and put others in their places. Rather than go out, tbey may attempt to repeat the Repub lican Fraud of 1876. They may falsify the votes of the people, and through Returning Boards established for tbe porpoise, create, in their own "interestf"' electors of President and Vice-President. They may gather troops at Washington to overawe the nouses of Congress, threatening revolution and bloodshed against any stir of opposition to their scheme ; and, finally, by an unconstitu tional Electoral Commission, they may declare the beaten candidate eleoted, and install as President a man who bas been rejected, both at the polls and in the electoral colleges All this may here after be done by Democrats, unless the Republicans now join in suoh a condem nation and such a political punishment of the crime of 1876, that the most reck less of politicians will never dare to think of renewing it. In this oase love of country and love of their party diotate to Republicans the same course of action.— New York Sun. Tbe Issue Sprung. Ia the remonetization of silver and the repeal of the resumption act the issue has been sprung between tbe bond-holding, interest-drawing elass and the wealth-producing, tax-paying peo ple. ft is a question of vital importance and one that demands and will fnroe at tention. Heretofore the money-power has been mighty and almost omnipotent^py, Congress. It rsn conventions, nominated and elected under false issues the men whom it afterwards manipulated as its interests dictated. The legislation on financrs has been entirely in tbeir interests for years and nothing they asked was refused, for where tbey met with seeming or teal opposition their bribes were successful. As s remarkable faet, in part illustrative of what we say, the great bulk of the vote io Congress against the repeal of the resumption act cams from the mem bers (of both politioal parties) repre senting large oities, beoause in tbe cities the rings snd bond-holders centre.— The supporters of that measure tame, with a few exceptions, from d>e 9 8outh and the West —a very significant fact. The Soath and the Wast sre agricul tural ebieftly. Tbeir fields of gtai*, cotton and produoe praotically the wealth, and praotically speaking they pay the taxes and support tbe government. The bonds representing the debt of the nation on whioh hundreds of mil lions sre paid annually in interest are exempt from taxation, while every in dustry of the land is dirsotly or indi rectly taxed to downright oppression if not absolute destruction. Uatil within lbs past few years the Bouth had no voioe in the halls of Con gress, and the West was led by the party managers from the East. She, however, has deolared her independence and begun to think and act for herself. The coniequence is a unity of sentiment between the South and the West on tbe money questions, and an exhibition of strength before which in the lower House of Congress the bond holders are powerless. The dependence of the lat ter is still on the Senate which they may yet control, or the President whom they may influence to veto measures ob jeotionable to them. This however, should it be so, will only be a temporary victory, or a short postponement of the result which is bound to come. The next Senate will be unquestionably Democratio, with an almost absolute certainty of a Democratio President elected on a platform emphatic on this point. Then it will be a one-sided question, whose settlement will be in the irresistible power of ihe South and West and the Eastern Democrats in sympathy with them. The ball has opened and it will not close until the people are relieved from these crushing burdens, and a financial system just to them and to tbe creditors uf tbe natiou alike is demised ; in other words until there is no discriminstion between the stamped paper aud stamped metal of the government, and no dis crimination between the money of the people and the money of the bond holder—one and a uniform currenoy for all. That's patriotism, that's statesman ship, that's justioe.— Greentboro Patriot How They Drink in the Hills. TCRRIBLS SCENES IN A MINING TOWN—THREE MEN MAD WITU RUM. At an early hour one morning last week Wm. Paxton, City Marshal, who had just retired, was aroused by a wild, haggard-looking man, hatless, coatless, bootless, with hair disheveled and eyes rolling in mad frenzy. He was armed with a revolver, and said that a party of fonr men and two women had driven to his house in a wagon and had attempted to rob him, and that in self defense he killed one of the men, wheu the others tumbled the dead body into the wagon aud rapidly drove away. His object was be iaid, to give tiiinsell up to the au thoritics for the killing Paxton soon discovered that the unfortunate mat) was in the mental storm and suffering the full tormenu of that most terrible of all diseases, the delirium tremens, and lo pacify him went with him to the scene of tbe conflict to see the tracks left by the wagon. It is almost needless to say that tbe said tracks were in the red hot imagination of the horror-racked man, and of course the City Marshal failed to see them. Paxton then went home, and soon the man had auother paroxism and went careering down Main street, shout ing, "Murder !" at every leap, and rushed into Bill James' meat Market in mortal fear, with an unseen foe close at his heels. Bob dandy, who was attending shop, seeing the crazed condition of the man, very coolly and properly disarmed him to prevent his doing harm. Tbe little cabin where this man lived, and whence he emerged in bis delirium, bad oontained two others also in the agonies of mania-a potu. The last seen of one of these be was running down the val ley road, bare-footed aud hair on end, tbe night previous, yelling like a demon, with a back of grinning, hissing blue devils close in hiswak:. A man gal loping past on a horse was hailed by the ufHicted one, who requested to ho allowed ,tbe privilege ot grasping the horse's tail, saying that he could uot travel fast enough to get out of the way of the pursuing fiends. He is no doubt lying dead somewhere down the valley, if he did not iiud a watery graze in the Boise. Whilst hell was thus holding back its lurid curtain to give these two fitful glimpses of its horrid panorama, the third and last remaining man in the house, too weak to escape the frightful picture by flight, struggled against the imaginary pandemonium as be lay be tween tbe blankets of bis humble oouch ; and as the oandle flickered out in its sooket at about six o'elock yesterday so, too, went his life ; for io one of tbe many fearful convulsions with whieh he had wrestled during the night b«t died—died a victim to an unoontrol (able sppetite for aieohol, Aud he died a most horrible death. Meeting him in the street ten days sinoe, we asked him how loog, should be persist io bis pre sent course, he expeeted to live He re plied that it mattered not when the end same, that be had no desire to live. We whispered words of cheer and hope; but be was lost, utterly lost, in the depths of black despair; lost beyond reformation on this earth. Thus perished one who possessed the warmest and most generous of hearts, and who, but for the one thing, was a useful and respeetcd member of society Siooe writing tbo above we are in formed that the dead body of Miohael Murry, one of the three occupants of the cabin in a back alley who were af flieted with the delirium tremens, and who was last seen running down the valley for dear life, has been found in' the Payette Valley. Whether the re port is true we do not know, but it is highly probable.— ldaho City World. Ail Awkward Bridegroom. HOW 118 RKSENTED A REPROOF AND ABAN DONED HIS BRIDE AT THE ALTAR The guests st a recent expected mar riage in a certain churoh of the West Side were treated to a singular and rathe • startling sensation at the very moment when the connubial knot was to be lied. The bride and groom were a young cou ple, and had made all the necessary prep arations for the anticipated happy event that was to unite them as one, and it was thought by the respective friends of the pair that the course of true love had run quite smoothly with them, and a genuine mutual afieotion existed Detween them. The invited oompany had entered the bouse of worship, and the attendants on the couple had taken their places around the altar, while the minister remained in waiting to perform the ceremony. Tho bride, attired in all the gorgeous tiaery customary on suoh occasions, alighted froui the carriage, and the grafon) step ped blithely and lightly after her and upon her long trail. As he did so the fair lady uttered a low cry, and exclaimed sharply. ''Ob, dear; bow awkward you are!" j The young man's face colored as he stumbled off the rich garments, and he gave his arm to the lady while laboring under a confused miud. The pair walk ed into the church and down the aisle to the ult.r, AH eyes rested upon their movements, and a murmur of voices arose as they came in and took their po sitions before the minister. The cere mony proceeded, the minister asked the bride if she would accept the grooin for her wedded husliand, and received the usual affirmative answer, and was about to interrogate the young man, when the latter impulsively and unexpectedly said to tlie brid> : "Oh, dear ; how awkward you are !" and quickly turning ou In* heel walked out of the edifice without another word of explanation, leaving the astonished bride standing at the al lar in mute bewilderment, and the min istcr and guests in blank amusement — The young man went his way in a car riage, and the disappointed bride and Ibe maids who sought to comfort her left the church for their homes. The oocurrence was an actuul one, and has created no small amonot of gossip in the vicinity where the church is situated hie ijo Timet NEWS OF TILE WEEK. BTATE NEWS Tom Black, a "cullud citizen" living near Charlotte, hurled a brick at his wife, who was rocking him, and broke her Bkull. It U thought that she will die. The young man High who tried to kill his father and mother in Columbus county last week, was pursued and enp tured in Greenville, S. C., a requisition abtained from Gov. Vanoe, and he was returued and lodged in jail at White ville. Washington Prctt: We learn ftvm the Tarboro Southerner that the ele phant belonging to the circus that vis ited that place last week, on his way to Halifax met an old lady on the road in a cart, aud ran his snnut under the cart, turning it over aud breakidg the back ot the old lady. Bruce Yount aud A. Kale, up in Ca tawba oounty, were discussiug whethera pistol in tho hands of one was loaded or not. He Oho maintained the negative held up his han't, pointed the pistol, pulled the trigger. A bullet in the band uf one and tt\e neck of the other decided the matter in the affirmative. A colored women fell in attempting to get on an excursion train at Hickory last Sunday and had her leg iso badly orushed as to require amputation. When tt>ken to the family where she had been em ployed it vai found that she had a quan tity of jewelry which she had stolen from the lady of the family, and whieh had not before been missed. GENERAL NEWS. Kjjrnor hath it that Beecber, Tilton and Elizabeth are about to proclaim "grace, mercy and peace." a A Pole has bssn arrested in Berlin on suspieion of intending to asaasaio ate the Emperor William and Prince Bfcmsrk. Austin (Tex.) Gazette: £1 Paso is the theater of oontinued disturbanee The Mexioan population have organised and claim the right to govern by mob law*. They refuse obedisnse to the oivil authorities and threaten resistance should attempt be made to control them. The Roanoke Valley, published in Mecklenburg county, Vs., remarking on the bill for a survey of Dan river, says : Should it be parsed, the good it will do this country is inestimable. Lexington (Va.;) Gazette About fifty members of the oolored Baptist charoh in this place, were dropped from the roll at their ohureh meeting on Tuesday night last for attending the cireua. A wife murdered Asa Magwo*,- has received a singular sentence in Vermont. He is to be confined 18 months at hard labor in the penitentiary and then to 6 months solitary oon6nement nod then to be hanged in Nov., 1879. POLITICAL NEWS. Republicans Senators frequently refer to Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold bnt Patterson and Conover says the Haltimoro Gazette,, continues to vote with the Democrats in the discussion on the Butler case. Wc rather think our Washington con temporary, the Nativnal Republican, has about Btruck the nail on the hMd. Instead of speaking of certain event* as events that happened during President Qrant's administration, it refers to them as events that happened "before Presi dent Hayes was invented is the Execu tive of the nation " ''lnvented" is a good word : we rather like it; but we scarcely expected to find it in the Re publican—at least BO soon. The wtwlo history of the invention will oome out after awhile. DANBURY Female Institute. MISS M. E. DARLINGTON. Principal. 6DP*RI.tT*SD*KTI», A. B. JOYCE, ESQ., N. Jl. PEPPER. Rates of Tuition per Session. Primary English Studies, - -97 BO Advanced " " jq OO French, at reasonable rates. Music, I'iano, Gnitar, etc., per month, 8 OO Use uf instrument $3 per session. THE FIRST SESSION OF THIS INSTI TUTE will commence on MONDAY, the 13th of Angnst, and will continue for Twenty weeks thereafter, the Scholastic year being divided into Two Sessions. 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