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Mr. Davidson prested a petition from
the citizens of Ashftville to prohibit the
running-, of trains on the Holy. Sabbath
day.
Mr. Leach presented a petition. of 'a
similar character.
By Mr. Henderson, from the citizens of
Blackwell township, a memorial -.asking1
for a stock law and a law for .the 'protec
tion of sheep.
By Mr. Everett, instructing the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections to ex
amine the charges against, and take'evi
dence in regard to the seat of, Jos. G.
Waldo, whose seat is claimed bv Samuel
'J'. Carrow. . -
By Mr. Mebaue, covering the State
debt;' To appoint a joint committee ou
the State debt, said committee be instruc
ted to inquire in the expediency of chang
ing X. C.-R. Jl. bonds for State bonds as
far as they will go', and make some ai
raugements for the balance of the debt.
liy Mr. Caldwell, a resolution of inquiry
requesting the Finance . Committee to in
quire into the practicability of taxing
boots and shoes, saddle, harness, stoves,
iron, vehicles. &c. manufactured out of
the State.
By Mr. Eppes, a Joint resolution relat-
iny to the 1 4-tIi amendment in flip f-rmsti-'
tntion of the United .States to inquire
whether this amendment was violated, at
the late election in the Second Senatorial
District.
By Mr. Merritt, a resolution in regard
to the public roads.
. By Mr. Everett, a bill to establish nor
mal schools at Trinity, Wake Forest and
Davidson Colleges. " t
By Mr. Redwine, a bill to repeal so
much of the 'Laws of 187G-77 as relates to
the election of County Commissioners and
Justices of the Peace they to be elected
as provided for in the Constitution before
it was amended.
Hill relating to the Senatorial contest in
the Second District between Waldo and
Carrow passed second reading and was re
ferred. V -
S, B. life, referring to the exemption
of personal property from sale. Passed its
third reading..
S, B. 29, to puuislt stealing. dead bodies.
Passed ts third reading, with, an amend
ment that the sheriffs, jailors and superin
tendents of penal " aud charitable institu
tions of. the State shall deliver to such
medical schools as have schools of dissec
tion the bodies of persons who may sutler
death at the hands of the officers of the
law, or die while undergoing a term of im
prisonment, provided such bodies shall not
be claimed by relatives or friends of .the
deceased. ' . -
Bill for jinpKoveincnt of the fish interest
passed. '- :
S. B. 39, iu relation to judgments on ap
peal from justices of the peace. 1 A substi
tute reported by the Judiciary Committee
was:accepted-and the bill passed.
'-.
HOUSE.
By Mr
Br)yn, of Mecklenburg,
peti
tion from the Trustees of Davidson Col
lege, asking the institution of Normal
Sehook in various sections of the State.
To the Committee on Education.
By Mr. MeTiaue, a petition from the cit-;
izens of Melville 'township, Alamance"
county, to prevent trains running Sunday.
Referred.
By Mr- Turner, resolution! to expel him
self. Propositions and Grievances.
By Mr.- Norment, bill to- prevent the
thereon'. Judiciary.
Bills to punish incest and make slan
der of women- indictable, and bill to punish
abduction of children under 18, referred.
Tli House branches of joint committees
were 'announced as jfolloiws;
The Deaf and. Dumb and the Blind
Messrs. Council. Mebane. Taylor. Coolie. I
Venable, Wheeler, Richardson of Wake,
Harrell. Jones. Binsrham, Christmas and
Ellison.
Public Iiaildin(jH and (rounds
Messfrs. .Richardson .of Wake, Foster. At
kinson, nolt and Ellison.
Library Messrs. Moore, Lamb, Hen
derson, Dixon and Hewitt.
ifnsurance Messrs. Covington, Bizell,
kjij) iiciuu. iruiiuif -ivu1-? ti;v
jwwai. ' ':'
' uewks and CVjr eN(v-M.essrs. Orchard,
BrowVof MecWetiburg, Leatherwood, 1 1
vis 0 Haywood, Burroughs, Leach, Foy,
Fors and Wynne.
jtfisane A sihtm. Messrs. York, Mc
, CorkTe, Foard, Lockhart, Bichardson of
AVake, Anderson, Barringer, Carson, lleid
vi iucioweii, v,ncK, warier 01 xancey,
Jonson, Lutterloh, McLean and Norment.
A message was received from the Senate
proposing to go into an election to fill va
cancies in the Board of Trustees of the
University on Thursday next, and to print
the report of W. L. Saunders, secretary of
Jthe Board. The House concurred in the
propositions. .
4.-,lho bill to amend the Ja.w 01 oivorce so
- "ih'a-t tlje unchastity pf the woman befo re
marriage shall be good grounds for divorce,
if unknown o the husband, was read the
- second time. 'The amendment proposed
by the Committee on Judiciary, providing
fthat the adultery of either party, should
be ground for divorce was adopted, and
UicTnll'passed a second time.
Resolution arranging for a committee
pf investigation of charitable institutions,
amended so as to instruct standing com
jnittees to investigate. Passed.
" On motion of Mr. York, the rules were
suspended, and the resolution to remove
obstructions in the Yadkin river was
taken up and adopted. This resolution
raigeg a : joint select committee to confer
ith'the' Ijegisfatitre of South Carolina,
and provide ineans for carrying out its
pbiects.l '
were suspended, aud the bill to prevent
ailtlAln P .... f-. . 11 1 .
v. yuuvng ui MiuuiB iiuiu iiieir vessels
as read and passed the second time. The
bill was read the third time.
Mr. Powers moved to amend so as to
tk aw gearal in its application
' amendment prevailed, and the bill
Pawed the third time. The bill makes it
: ;h-lS(ie,meanor punishable with $50 fine or
inirty days' imprisonment to entice sailors
away irom their ships or to harbor them.
-FriIty
. 1
4Not Is"oraiife, but Deviltry.
Xt York Herald Special.
. . .
Wasiii.(;to., Jan. 1G. Senator Win-
dom. illustrated
curious, ignoranct
once more to-day the
of pronxinerft Repub-
icans )i regard, to. the real condition of
regard.
the Southern blacks. He proposed that a
committee of Senators shall devise means
for the removal of the negroes from such
parts of the South where they are refused
their rights to other parts of the country
or to a reservation-, lie appears to be
ignorant of the welLknown fact that there
is, and Las
unimpeded
movement
stimulated
been forityea'rs, a constant and
migration of the blacks, a
which has been aided and
by organized femisration so
cieties of planters in such States as Louisr
iana and Arkansas, and by colored emigra
tion agents elsewhere acting as private
persons, giving intelligence concerning
la'tids, prices, wages, crops; etc. Hun
dreds of thousands of negroes have
emigrated from Southeastern to -Southwestern
States in the last half dozen. years,
and it would probably amaze Senator
Windom to know that Arkansas Louisiana
and Mississippi, have been favorite States
with industrious colored men seeking new
homes, and that in 1875. at the .very time
when Senator Morton Was vainly trying to
persuade the Northern public that no ne
gro's I if; was safe in Mississippi, hundreds
of, negro families removed thither from.
North Carolina. Georgia- and Tennessee,
attracted by the rich lands of the: Yazoo
Bottom, and laughing- at the ridiculous
stories of murder and intimidation which
they know from the reports of their friends
who had preceded them were false. If
leading Republican Senators would take
the trouble to travel through the Southern'
piaies ano investigate lairiy tne conumon
of the negroes they would not offer such
ridiculous resolutions, .which are evidently
based upon a siipposition that the South
ern blacks are serfs of the soil, unable to
leave the spot where they happen to be
fixed.
ItioVomeiit i tlie Alabamu Iegis-
lature.
1 Herald Wahhirtyton. Tdeyram.
The movement in the Alabama Legisla
ture to pass a law making the Presidential
electors hereafter elected not by the popu
lar vote but by the Legislature, after the
manner which originally obtained in many
of tlie States and .up to 1861 in South
Carolina, attracts much attention here.
Democrats, ilt fifst blush, think well of it
on the ground that it would prevent noC
only the partisan interference of United
States deputy marshals and supervisors in
the elections, but also all trouble with re
turning boards, bodies which have fallen
into suspicion with all decent people. Re
publicans suggest that the laws which
give federal Supervisinn of elections in
which federal officers are to be returned
would in such, case apply also to the elec
tion of members of the State Legislature,
and that the field of federal interference
wo.uld.be widened and not diminished.
Here. and there one finds a Republican
who prudently Jesires to see all the Federal
election laws repealed while it is yet time,
and the best Democrats whould gladly join
in such a movement, but it is very doubt
ful whether a majority of the Democrats
jn- either House; would now vote to repeal
hem. They see that these laws give
enormous power to the party which has
the administration of them, and the selec
tion of the deputy marshals and supervis
ors. They have seen and felt the effects
pf the gross misuse which the Republicans,
especially in the Southern States and in
the; city of New York, have made of these
laws, and they have. a mind to take their
own turn so'me day with them. The Re
publican politicians are fully aware of this
danger to themselves, and it is one of the
causes of their desperate efforts to retain
power
ntioiiul llilltm Association.
Yf York Herald ith.
The proceedings of the convention
of
tne National Mmtia Association, now in
session in this city, are likely to be of
much interest. They are the starting
point of. an important movement looking
to a uniform militia system in all the
States of the Union, under the constitu
tional power given to CongVcss to provide
for organizing, arming and disciplining the
militia. The scheme contemplates an an
nual appropriation by Congress fo- pro
rata distribution among the regu
larly organized and uniformed militia
of "thy several States for the pur
chase of arms, ammunition and othe? ord
nance and quartermasters' stores; a sys
tem of regulations for the militia, prepared
by a board of officers appointed by the
President, and based upon the regular
army system ; uniformity of uniforms and
rifle ranges; national prizes for rifle
matches, drill and discipline; ail annual in
spection by officers of the regular army on
the retired list, and the assignment by the
Secretary of war of officers from the re
tired or active list, of the army to act as
adjutants.; adjutant generals or chiefs of
staff of the militia, on application of the
militia commanders.
Supreme Cour.lt
Italeigh iVtrs. " '
Court met at 10 o'clofck on yesterday.
Present, Chief Jnstice Smith, and Justice
Dillaub Justice Ashe absent on account
of illness. ,
.Call of appeals from tire 4th District
was begun.
F. C. Bowman vs. C. E. Turner, from
Harnett; appeal withdrawn at cost of
plaintiff.- ;
State vs. Aaron Covington, from Rich
mond; appeal dismissed, c
F. W. Kcrchner vs. Henry Fairley ,et al
from Richmond- argued. Hinsdale
Devcreux. Dowd Walker for plaintiff, and
J. D. Shaw for defendant.
W. Rogers, Executor, yg Robert Mc
Ken'zie et al, from Robeson; continued un
.(le r former order. '
; Henry Yan Glahn et al vs, A. J. De
Rosset, from Brunswick; argued, W. S
A: D. J. Devane, and D. L. Russell for
plaintiff, and Stedman fc Latimer, and
George Davis for defendan ts.
Court adjourned until to-day at io
o'clock.
. nn nma tirAi
mine in Chesterfield county, about twenty
':i . f 1 I..."1 .rl
niiiua cast ui luia iuce lias uetn ic-ujiy(icu
by a Northern Mining Company,
'WILMINGTON, N.
Virginia on Federal Relations.
Richmond, Ya., Jan. 18. The Senate
special committee and House Committee
on Federal Relations acting promptly to
day, submitted a lengthy report and a
series of resolutions in regard to alleged
usurpation of State rights by federal Judge
Rives, ofcthe Western District of Yirginfa.
The resolutions are as follows :
First. That, the Constitution of the
United States is in as full force and vigor
as when adopted and ratified.
Second. That Yirginia in re-entering
the Union' after the civil war, resumed all
her relations to the government on perfect
equality with every other State, and i? en
titled to the same rightj and powers and
bound by the same duties and obligations
as each other State, and her citizens art
equal in every respect under the Consti
tution with all other citizens of the United
States. .
. Third., That the United States can orilyj
exercise the powers delegated to them in
the Constitution. Within the scope of
these powers the government is supreme;
beyond them it has no existence.
Fourth. That the preservation of these
States and . maintenance of their govern
ments is as much within the design and
care of the' Constitution as the 'preserva
tion of the Union and maintenance of the
federal government and a separate and in
dependent autonomy of the States is neces.
saryito the Union, under the Constitution
Fifth, That the essential and fundamen
tal right reserved by the people of the
Btaties is to organize each State as a sep
erate and distinct political society to con
stitute such government -as will best suit
their will and pleasure and to change the
same whenever their convenience requires
it subject only to the constitution of the
United State and the laws and treaties
made in pursuance thereof.
Sixth, That the necessary interest and
condition thus reserved in the right of
self government is the right duty of every
State,' to protect life, liberty and property
within her jurisdiction, by laws of her own
creation, and by officers of her own selec
tion. - Seventh. That the Constitution qf the
United States grants certain powers, and
imposes consequent duties upon the United
States, "which they are bound to execute
and perform, and that rights reserved by
States impose on them certain other func
tions and duties vrhicb. they .are equally
bouhd to execute and perfoVm. and the
United State can no more rightfully inter
fere with and attempt to execute her pow
ers and perform functions of States, than
the States can' those Of the United States,
and any attempt of either to interfere with
the rights of the other will be unconstitu
tional and void.
Eighth. That the United States have
ilya r'ght to prevent the exercise by
01
States of the powers prohibited them by
Ithe Constitution, by pronouncing such for
bidden action void through judicial power,
but in no case can the United States under
take to perform any duty which a State
should perform.
Ninth. That therefore all acts of Con
gress, particularly the civil rights bill and
enforcement act, which attempt to provide
for the performance by the United States
of duties belonging to States are unconsti
tutional and void.
Tenth. That" therefore the actioli of the
Judge of the District Court of the United
States for the Western District, of Yir
ginia in assuming jurisdiction of the cases
of Lee Reynolds and Burwell Re3Tnolds,
parties chargetl. with crime against this
Commonwealth aiid held to answer there
for, is an attempt to execute; the laws of
this Commonwealth and regulate her in
ternal policy in the courts and by officers
of the United States is unwarranted by the
Constitution, destructive of the rights of
the people of each State to' protect liberty
and property in their own way by their
own courts and officers", and ought at once
to be remedied by proper judicial action,
and recurrence of the same prevented by
appropriate legislation.
Eleventh. That proper legal provisions
ought to be made for prompt and effective
supervisionby the Supreme Court of the
United States of all proceedings of the
Juderes of the Inferior Courts of the
United States.
Twelfth. That the ' Government is in
structed to direct the Attorney General to'
institute proceedings in the name of this
commonwealth before the United States
Suprerne Court and demand such protec
tion ond redress as that tribunal can afiord
in lift premises.
A Kan Iter Arrested,
Saratoga, N. Y., Jan. 18. An order
of arrest was issued for the arrest of J.
H. Farrington, director and business part
ner of J. S. Lake, cashier of the First
National bank, on complaint of a woman
of whom he obtained a large sum of money
a few days be fore, the bank stopped. The
claim is said to be worth 40,000.
Cincinnati Exposition.
Cincinnati, Jan. 18. The call for ten
' per cent, of the subscriptions to the Ex-
! position tund had the etlect-ot bringing,
in some cases-, entire subscriptions, anu
many cases 25 to 50 per cent, so that there
now seems no doubt of the completion of
the building and opening of the Exposi
tion in
August next.
Convicted ou His Own C hild's Ev
idence. Louisville, Ivy., Jan. 18. Robert An
derson, who was on trial for the murder of
his wife, was found guilty and sentenced to
be hung. He was convicted on the evi
dence of his little son, who was present at
the time of the murder. . '
Nominating a Senator.
Milwaukee, Jan. 18. -The Democrats
yesterday nominated Chief Justice Ryan,
as their candidate for the United States
Senate.
The Lancaster Review learns that a man
who established a liquor shop near the line
of Chesterfield aud Union counties, during
the Christmas holidays has suddenly disap
peared. It is believed in that county that
he has been "murdered, as he had some
money about him (four or five hundred
dollars.)
Xpw Vnrk AVirs - There can hardly
I Hp mr WiVwt iViat hf Were iuci'ease of
both private residences and public edinces
nf crront altitrirte has deVelOtKHl heart
e-
disease among those who frequent them.
C, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1879.
I ' ' M
EAELY AND MIDNIGHT REPORTS.
OVER THE ATiLAXTIC CABLE.
AT THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
Washington, January 18. House
The House resumed as the regular order
of business the consideration of the Geneva
award bill. '
After considerable debate at half past
five the bill was passed by a vote of yeas
113, .nays 93. The bill as passed revives
ad continues the court of commissioners
of Alabama claims fixes the number of
Judges at three and limits their existence
to eighteen months.
.The first-class claims will be for dam-'
ages directly done by Confederate cruisers
on tlie high seas, although within four
miles of shore. In cases of whaling ves
sels, ten per cent, will be allowed in lieu
of freight, and the same alloMauce will be
made, with six per cent, interest, on fo:v
mer judgments heretofore rendered it: fa
vor of whaling vessels.
The second-class claims will be for addi
tional interest on former judgments; on
all judgments hereafter rendered the in
terest allowed will be six per cent.
The third-class claims will be for the
payment of premiums for war risks, the
deductions to be made of any sums paid
back in diminution of such premiums,
so that only the actual loss shall be al
lowed. The Secretary of the Treasury is direct
ed to pay (without further adjudication
by any court) the ten per cent, upon
whaling vessels and their outfit. (with six
per cent, interest), and on awards hereto
fore made, and also to pay two per cent,
additional interest on all judgments here
tofore made. Judgments rendered in first
class will be paid first ; then second-class.
If the money is not sufficient to pay all of
the second-class, they will be puklao
rata', and a like rule will also apply to
third-class. No foreign born person will
be excluded if he has been residiug or
doing business in the United Stutes or
'was sailing under the United States flag.
The act shall not be construed as re.
newmir
or continuing any of the commis
sions of judges or officers of former courts.
Any balance remaining shall be reserved
as a fund, from which Congress may here
after authorize the payment of "other
claims thereon.
The House Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures has decided to pre
pare a bill for the reductiou of the trade
dollar at par and to prohibit further circu
j latton in the United States, but has noi
not
decided whether coinage for exports shall
be permitted in the future. Mr. Yance
was authorized to report thecomming bill
for the redemption in legal tender of sub
sidiary silver, and for reissue thereof.
The House Committee on Foreign Af
fairs, held an informal conversation on the
Japanees indemnity fund bill heretofore
reported. The committee will press the
passage of the bill .
The House Committee on printing,
agreed to report with a favorable recom
mendation, a bill to reduce the expenses
on public printing and binding. The bill
provides that the regular documents to be
printed shall comprise the Journal of the
two Houses, Presidents messages, annual
reports aud. proper heads of departments,
together with such condensed statements
as are absolutely necessary to explain the
amc. ';
It was stated in the Senate on Thursday
that Senator Rankin had been called awav
that day by sickness in his family.
Red Cloud arrived from Fort Robinson
last night. The Ogallas request that all
women and children, now widows and or
phans, held as prisoners, be turned over to
them to take them to their homes and care
for them. The request is to be granted
The United States Ship Constitution, is
leaking 3 inches of water per hour. Her
hull will be examined on Monday. A con
siderable quantity ot the chain cable had
to be moved before she floated
1 he Secret Service arrested at Fanwood,
N. J., Charles Merrick and Henry Cole,
who issued counterfeits of the Tamagua
and Hanover, Pennsylvania banks.
The Middlesboro, Rosedale and ' Ferry
Hill Iron Company, have failed. Liabili
ties 28,000, asserts .350 00.
Coming to Light after Two Years. (
New York. Jan. 18. Among the bonds
stolen at the Northampton Bank robbery
in 18TG were- six Missouri Pacific mort
gage bonds, Coupons belonging to these
bonds were yesterday presented for pay
ment to the Missouri Pacific Company in
this city. The company had been notified
that these bonds were stolen, and sent
word to the owner. The owner attempted
to prevent the payment, but the holders,
a reputable, banking firm, demanded pay
ment at once, and threatened to protest
the coupons. The company paid the
amount by its check. The payment of the
check was this niorning enjoined by Judge
Barrett on application, and the right
to the coupons as proceeds will be liti
gated. The Coupons were stamped on the
back witfh the name of Uampertz. Frank
fort on the Main, and came to this country
through a highly respectable firm. They
are supposeu to De part oi tne fcivu.uuu
stolen securities the said robbers nego
tiated in Purope.
The Reno Enquiry.
Chicago, Jan. 18. Scout Girard in the
Reno enquiry gave a long account this
morning of the troops on the day of the
Custer massacre and the situation of the
battlefield, and mentioned various orders
given. .He believed the fighting force of
the Indians was from 2,500 to 3;000. He
also states that he heard several volleys
from fifty to a hundred shots each on the
other side of the village about the time
the order was given, every man to his horse.
Reno's force at that word left the woods
where thev were stationed and in ten or
fifteen minutes saw Custer's command or
what was believed to be that command.
.He thought the force of 150 men ought
to ha-e held the Indians in check for some
time.
The Sheriff of
haye settled taxes
Sampson and Yadkin
Sheriff Barefoot rea-
ders for Sampson
this: Public' tax
536 66. special
tax $2,095.15. Total S4,-
631.81.
Over the Atlantic Cable.
Rome, Jan. 18. In the Italian Chamber
of Deputies yesterday; Siguor Depretis,
President of the Council, in reply to the
interrogation by feignor Ercole regarding
the disappearance of Colonel Gola, and
what steps the Government had taken in
the matter ? recapitulated the facts that
Colonel Gola, Italian member of the Ser
vian boundary commission, went from Bel
grade to' Bucharest with Major Wilson, of
tlie same commission. The' latter left
Bucharest on the 3d of December and was
to rejoin Colonel Gola at Rustchak, when
they were to proceed together to Constan
tinople, but Major Wilson has never seen'
Colonel Gola since he left him in Buchar
rest, and no trace has been found of him,
though ofnciol inquiries have been made
in every direction. .
Signor DePretis stated that notwith
standing the most diligent efforts of the
Italian government and 'its agents, nothing
bad been ascertained throwing any light
ou the mystery. He said he trusted that
the Roumanian government would not fail
inj the duty incumbent upon it. of making
a I searching inquiry in the case. Signor
Ercole was dissatisfied with the reply. He
.insisted 'that the Roumauiaii government
was responsible for, the disappearance of
Col. Gala, and declared that if the Italian
government did not make itself respected
in i m- urn icr anu lahe sucu steps as ap
peared to him sufficient, he should mdve a
vote of. want ot confidence in the govern
ment.
London, Jan. 1.8. The United States
Ship Constitution, apparently uninjured,
and with no damage to her cargo, will sail
in a tew days for New York,
i Weston started from the Roval Ex
change in London, five minutes after mid
night, on a 2,000 mile walk ever the coun
try roads of England, having undertaken
to walk this distance and deliver fifty lec
tures in 1,000 hours. His first davs iour-
hey is to Folkestone, a distance of 81 miles.
1 he judges travel" in. a conveyance. A
Jsicyclist is also with the party. W eston
passed through Chatham at 8:30 o'clock a.
in., when it was snowincr heavily. Ear v
mi tf
this morning a rain fell, which as the at-
fmbsphere became colder, turned to half
irozeu, sleet, and about 9 o clock this gave
place to snow, which continued falling
jheavny throughout the, morning. Traffic
in the stretts is greatly impeded.
London, Jan. 18. The coroner's jury
find that the late Edward Matthew Ward,
painter, cut his throat while temporarily
insane from ill-health.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 18. The Agence
Russe says the proposal to extend the
functions of the commission for the organ
ization of Eastern Roumelia, has received
the assent of all the powers, and that such
jprolongation does not constitute a viola
tion ot the treaty ot JJerlin. ihe Kus
siau administration of the government of
Eastern Roumelia is thus prolonged until
the labors of the organization of the com
mission is concluded.
Paris, Jan. 18. At a meeting of the
Republicans of the Left, numbering 242
imembers, they again discussed the minis
terial programme, declaring it unaccept
able, adding, however, that it would wait
for the Government's explanation to the
Chamber before pronouncing its final de
cision.
Stockholm, Jan. 18. The branch office
of the Gattenberger Commercial Company
has suspended payment.
: Xew Phase oi the Florida Case."
Jacksonville, Fla., Jaji. 18. Noble
A, Hull, Lieut. Governor-of "Florida, has
been indicted by the United State3 grand
jury for conspiracy with others in obtaih
taining false returns of elections in Bre
vard county. Hull was the Democratic
candidate for Congress at the late election
from the second district, and holds a certifi
cate of election from the Governor. He
is president of the State " Senate . now
sitting at Taflahasse, and has telegraphed
that he will be here to-morrow, without
being served with a warrant.
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Conviction for Election Interier
anee.r Baltimore. Md., Jan. 1-8.--1 n the U. S.
Circuit Courts Judge Bond presiding,
Wmr A. Farevood and Thomas Cook,
judges of election in the election held for
member of Congress in November last,
;was toundtenilty of obstructing, hindering
and interfering' with the United States
Supervisor and United States Deputy
Marshal in the performance of their duty,
and sentenced to pay a fine of five dollars
cash and costs, amounting to one hundred
and fifty dollars.
From the Frontier..
Fort Robissox, Jan. 18. A courier,
just arrived, reports that the savages as
sumed the mast inaccessible position of
any of the many from which they recently
held our troops at bay. Five soldiers, in
trying to ascertain the Indians' position,
igot within short range of the Indians, and
one soldier was killed. Capt. Wessels,
l believing that the Indians cannot be dis
lodged without great loss, sent Red Cloud
to the Aerencv for a dozen Sioux scouts.
The Teller Committee.
! New Orleans, Jan. 18. In the Teller
Committee on -motion of Mr. Garland.it
rwas ordered tnat united states commis
sioner Lane take the testimouy of witnesses
subpoenaed, but not examined ; that Nor
ris marks represent the majority and B. F.
Jonah the' minority af the committee, and
that the testimony so taken be forwarded
to. the chairman of the .committee. The
committee leaves this morning.
Business Failure in Xew York
New York. Jan. 18. S. M. Mills & Co.,
brokers, have failed. Their loss will not
be over $50,000.
Shorter Telegrams.
The Mobile & Montgomery Railroad
have declared a dividend of 2- per cent
The ice gorge was broken at Richmond
Va., this morning by the steames,Vjanoke.
At Flushing, L. I., Fowler, the pedes
trian, completed 312 miles, twenty miles
behind his time. . . . r t
Governor Hampton has received a rLiit
from ; Gen.: Kjrby Smith, and has -.driven
oht on at)nggy ride.
The Northern Methodist Conference of
North Carolina convenes in Greensboro,
January SOtU, Bishop Fee k presiding.
SENATOR EDMUNDS.
A STRIKING PORTRAIT.
The Expouent or the Xew Eug.
land Idea Face or St. Je
rome and Braiu or
St. Just.
.4. C. Buell in Xetr Orleanx Dtmocrat.
That Senator Edmunds is one of the
most remarkable mental and moral phe
nomena, developed bv the rrnrnQ r
Radicalism during its epoch of power is
probably a, proposition that nobody will
seriously combat. He is certainly by
large odds the most interesting character
on that side of the Senate, if not in the
whole body, and one of the most inviting
subjects of study and criticism furnished
by American public life, past or present.
He belongs to a class of public men a
large class, presenting considerable variety
of type, but all bearing unmistakable
generic marks of identity which the pe
culiar state of things in the last quarter
of a century raised to the surface and to
commanding eminence in our country. For
general convenience the class may be
uusiguaieu uy uie name ot the section in
which it has had its-origin and of which
some of its most perfect types are now the
representatives the class of
XKW KNOLANI) RADICAL POLITICIANS.
it would be a mistake lo call Senator
Edmunds a statesman in the Food
English sense of
mat term, lor he is not
. . - .
one. He is, however, a
very highest class.
politician of the
Of course it is not my intention to iin
.pugn the personal integrity, the individual
respectability or the representative charac
terof Mr. Edmunds. On the other hand
whether viewing him in respect to his
mental qualifications, his moral quality or
me record ot ins acts, kis bitterest enetnv
wouldhave to admit the Spartan purity of
nis me so iar as all tne grosser short-corn
ings ot public men are concerned. Bat it
is thi
very
STATUS OK PKRSOXAL
REai'ECTABILITr
that makes him, in his
character of politi
cian, so formidable, not to
say, so danger
ous.
It is easy enough to dispose of a thief or
an -ass in public life; for that, whenever
such a person assails , any great public in
terest or ranges nimselt on the baneful side
of any public question, an epithet or a
sneer is sufficient to suppress him. But
Edmunds is neither a thief to be crushed
by an epithet, nor an ass to be annihilated
with a sneer. On the other hand he is a
tremendous battery of intellectual power,
mental, culture anil moral exactitude en
trenched in an impregnable redoubt of per
sonal integrity, whence he delivers the
most terrible sorties against the constitu
tion aijd lays the most insidious mines un
derneath the peace and welfare of the
country, to blow them up on occasion.
In the country of the blind, a one-eyed
man may be king. So in a nation full of
John Sherman's Garfield and Bill Tweeds,
above ground or under it, Edmunds be
comes a saint.
IX political life,
as the representative of a school, the,- ex
ponent of an idea and the advocate of a
policy or principle, Senator Edmunds is
simply an attorney retained by' a party
organization to support its fortunes and
promote its cause through thick and thm.
That isto.say.be is a partisan, with no
thought beyond the success of the party
which employs him and no ,'aspiratiou for
the country at large save through the tn
gineery of the caucus. . To him the 44,
000,000 of American people are subjects;
the Republican organization the power
destined by Divine Right to rule. To him
the constitution is an instrument, not lor
the conservation of popular rights inalien
able as to the whole bedy politic, but for
the perpetuation of the sovereignty of the
sovereignty of the Republican party.
Whenever strict canstruction enures to the
temporary benefit of Radicalism, as at
one stage of the electoral count,, then Ed
munds is a strict constructionist, even to
the point of extreme State rights. ' But
when it is necessary to stretch the
theory or strain the application of
the venerable instrument to subserve the
ends of Radicalism, then Edmunds is lati-
InrJinnriiin pnniiorh to nut to blush the
memory of Alexander Hamilton and Wil
liam II. Seward. And through every
varying phase of his constitutional tergiv
ersation Edmunds manages, sometimes by
skill in the turning of phrases, and? some
times by an ingenuity of sophistry that is
miraculous, to have the law and the-proph-ets
on his side. Haviner inflexibly pre
determined to do a partisan act, Edmunds
will proceed in an elaborate argument to
convince himself that he ought to do it.
Then he will exhaust the text-books of
logic to prove that he ought not to refrain
fron doing it. And finally he will ransack
the treasuries of dialectics to show that he
ought never to have entertained any other
intention than the one which he is about
to execute. Finally, when he acts he has
done nothing more nor less than his pri
mary prejudice had irrevocably jromptea
him to do.
St. Just was the lawyer of the "Moun
tain" in the French Directory that invoked
the reign of terror. There wa3 no crime
against person or property, no cruelty, no
vengeance, no outrage upon the laws or
God, imaginable or conceivable by that
infernal conclave, that St. Just could not
find law and reason for. His mission was
to find verdicts of guilty against whomso
ever Barere, Marat and Danton might take
it into their heads to butcher. ' It made
little difference whether St. Just's verdicts
of o-niltv preceded the execations of the
virtims of his coDarceners or were ex post
facto, so loner as thev were found and ren-
notion of iustice in 1789
was satisfied. Edmunds is
THE ST. JUST OF THE RADICAL PARTY,
in our time. And as I have heretofore
observed, he plays that role masked in the
countenance and external cnaracier ui
Jerome. ,
His last performance ia exactly n Keep-
mg wan me logic vi ins caiccu VT "n
with an apostrophe to peace, good will
and the beautiful sunshine, he offers a
resolution recitiBg that the awendments
to the constitution have been adopted in
good faith and are to be observed m good
spirit now and forever. That's U well
enough, bit people who are well ca!l.nl:
edwith him instinctively inquire : wnai
5 Cents a Copy
the devil is Edmunds up to now ? What
design is behind his benign front ? if 0I
lngersoll were to rise with a proposition
declaring the Xew Testament a legiti
mate! part and parcel of the Scriptures,
every Christian would admit the fact, but
QlStrnSt Bob's mntlVP in tnnlrino- ci'i.l. .
flank) movement So. whc,n Edmunds
elongates himself to affirm the validity of
any particular clause in the constitution,
every patriots want to know '
WHAT XEW RADICAL. DKV1LMF.XT
is brewing now.; Possibly this resolution,
like the electoral bill, as describe hv V.
munds himself
1 . 9 ww v.t V VIIV Ot
.us uonsuiaents, tinder date of Jauuar
y
ip is designed to "get the
Republi
can cause out of the valley of the shadow
of death." A, C. 11.
Note Xorth Carollutaii.
The Greensboro law sebool is flourish
ing, i
A new liverv stLlo i (miner ni in I iin
isburg. b ; b 1
Three attempts at hoiine-breaki
reported irt-the Greenboro Xorth State.
I ho Wilson Presbvterian
ladies have
church free-
just held a festival in aid of
tion.
v. rpsCf cts for a large attendance at Lon
lsburg Female College are .good, says the
Times.
I' . ' -Thp
ice gorge, following a heavy rain
carried away Cane JCreek bridire. and in
commoded Bakersvillc.
The Advance estih us to think that the
burnt district in Wilson will be built
soon in much handsomer style.
up
High Point wants to be a court-house
town nf a nom rM.r4n C 1 . , r a 1. -
V.UUUIJI luiiura 1)1 BUUIII
western Guilford, and parts of Davidson
and Randolph. -
Orj Thursday, we regret to see by the
Rtcard, Gen. Scales, Col. Waddell and
Maj.jYeates were confined to their rooms in
Washington by illness.
Petitions are being circulated in Guil
ford bounty for signers praying the legis
lature to pass a similar fence law for Guil
ford bounty that is now in force in Meck
lenburg. Petitions are now iii circulation in
Greensboro, looking toward the establish-,
medt of the "Moffit Bell Punch" rw, and
also to uphold the present-.prohibition law
in the whiskey trade.
Louisburg Times : Mr. J. D. Terrill.a,
farmer living about six miles from town,
while; unhitching his horse on last Thurs
day, received a kick in th short ribs by
the animal, which inflictedia very painful
wound. He is not expected to recover.
Kins ton Journal: The nejrro, - Robin
Warters, killed by Levy Dawson of Pitt
county, in self defence, last week, is the
same one that was tried at the first term
of our. Inferior Court, April 1878, and by
mistrial, recognized for appearance at Fall
Term 1878, and then ran away.
The Board of Health meet in Raleigh
Monday to present their report through
the Governor to the Legislature. The fol
lowing" physicians compose the Board: Dr.
S. S, Satchwell, President, Pender: Dr.
Thomas F. Wood, Secretary, Wilmington;
rt 1 T1 - A ITT i T 'I
ir. ueorge a. r ooie, arreuuju; nr. vuas.
Duffy, INewbern; Dr. P. .E Hines, Raleighj
Dr. Joseph Graham, Charlotte.
Greensboro North State: An em
ploye lof the North Carolina Railroad,
named Rowe, was yesterday killed a short
distance this side of Haw River bridge, as
w learn by a passenger who arrivei.here
by lastjnight'B train. The man was on a
hand eir, passing on the road, and by some
means a part of his clothing caught in the
crank dfthe turning gear of the car, and
him to Tall off.
Wilson Advance : On last Monday
eveniogjhile one Dave Byuum, col., who
lives a flSort distance from town, was care
lessly handling an old pistol accidentally
discharged the same, the ball passing
through the right hand and lodging in the
left hand of .another negro named Jerry
Barnes,; who was standing near by, and in
flicted ,a very severe wound. . Accident
No. 2 within a week from careless hand
ling of pistols.
Murat Halstead is going in strong for
John Sherman in 1880
Charles Fecbter, the actor, has Bued
Colonel A. K. McClure, of the i'hilalel-
phia Times, for libel.
Ex-President Millard Fillmore's broth.
er, Calvin, died at his home, in Ann Arbor,
Mich.oo Wednesday.
Crow' Breast, chief of the Gros Ventres,
.1 i rTV.oo1u7 tViat tip -wilt "not rie
UCXJilltJ uvo-; - .
awhiteinan" until bis treaty enpjiorting
him for twenty' years shall expire.
The Catskill Recorder commits the fol
lowing :; "The -first newspaper advertise
ment appeared in 1652. John A. Dix
advertised for the return of his lost peti
tion for a government office."
A London correspondent licars that it
is in contemplation to send a special in
vitation: to the Governor of Virginia to
attend I the International 'Agricultural
Exhibition, which i to be held in London
during the ensuing year.
mi p;cfl Knnn.mii" u the title of
m 4.5-t. -it ;aaiA Victor Uueo intends
poem
Aki;ci,;b. tnwarda the end oi uuujr-
Towards the end of February he poet will
according to bis promise. vMish two more
volumes, entUled '4Toute Lyre.
The oil pincers have fc-J?.
Waul UJ ' ' , noTWrtAtlOa
coepanies.
i:r-d about sometflingor muwiucr,
r . . . -u.
?"C, to fieht their battle, throogb.
Tbey h tn tMr niU nmlS m
the courta-
Vew lYork World. rth- Professor
Tice the much abused weather prophet,
baa had fery good luck thus far with hia
decidedlV unpleaant meteorological pre
dicUons for January. Yesterday we got
the eastern end of tne storm . he set down
for the 14th1ajd 15th. Let na hope that
ih Keer Iwill have lesa lock with his vati-
cinanations concerning UwpJ" wild storms"
between the 17tn and 2lstnd "biizzarus
between the 22d and 23th. Blizzards, in
deed !