The Democrat.
North Carolina New3 Items.
lxiicTiii;:T Agaixst Mr. ifoot. fob
Lip ei,. It will Le remembered that ex
United .Mates benator John root M'as in
dicted at the last 'Fall tenu of Buncombe
Court -for avif; JHietfed Hon. A. . Mem
moil, ,by circulating a defamatory publica-
tion ,pnlyr his franking privilege as a mem-
ber of Congress, bome time alter lie was
indicted, he was arretted, as we have been
.informed ; bt he Jailed to put la an appear
ance at the Spring term, as others charge!
v.itb crime are required to do. We learn,
howeye,r, that he did condescend to write a
iletU'iT to the prosecuting officer, stating in
Wtuuce that it was not convenient for
dmu to attend court tins Spring, and there-
;iipon tue case was conunueu. .Now we
.would ask, very respectfully, whr Mr. Pool
wfi not called out? Is he, in contempla
tion of law. entitled to any more considera
tion than other people? Certainly the law
has no l;iv'orite5, but the administrators
thereof may have, and this, we opine, is the
reaxou the ex-benator was not called out.
Asheville Lrjjositor.
N. C. Asylum. The Raleigh Sentinel
says: We learn from Dr. (Irissom, Super-
iiilemlcut of the Asylum lor the Insane,
that there are now on Jus files two hundred
applications for the admission of patients to
.hat institution, lhe Asylum is crowded
;to its utmost capacity and the only chance
for the admission of nw patients is in the
removal of home of those now there by
death, recovery or other cause.
Mkktivu ok thk Wkstekx X. C. Rail-
i:oai Commission'. Yesterday this Com
mission met in the Executive office accord
ing to adjournment. Of the Commission ou
the part of the State, Gov. Caldwell, Col.
W L Steele of Richmond couutv. aud J II
..... . .
ilson h,sq., ot Charlotte, were present.
The Directors of the Road were represented
by Dr. W 11 Howerton, Col. W A Eliason,
A 11 Shulord, hsq., J no I Shaver, Esq., and
Ik 4 sill it i rni
jv c aia wen, r.sq. ine meeting was
strictly a private one, aud nothing was
given for publication, but we are informed
that no definite plan of action was agreed
upon, though several propositions were dis-
cusseu. juuge .u r Jiauiy ot craven, a
member of the Commission, did not attend
the meeting. llaleijh Xeics, Wi inst.
jiEWAitu. uov. vaiuweii has issueu a
)roclainatiou ofiering a reward of 400 for
the arrest ami delivery of Adolphus L.
Stewart, of Catawba county, charged with
the murder of William I. Miller of said
.county on the 5th of May. (See advertise-
nient.)
Zd" Col. Geo. Little, the State Commis
sioner of Immigration, arrived m Raleigh
last week
ast week from Norfolk, in company with out ol the question to build the road by pri
piite a number of English and Scotch emi- vate enterprise alone. It is not however,
jraiits who propose to settle in our midst, we believe, proposed to ask for any direct
quit
Some twelve or fourteen stopped at Ridge-
way, lliey arrived in .Norfolk in company
Mini aooui eignt iiuutirea more iaiiseugers.
mostly emigrants, who will settle in the
Southern and Northwestern States. Hal
tt'ih At'tf.
Chkap Gas. The Yarbrough House was
lighted yesterdav, behiw and above, by gas
matle by the "Virginia Carbo-U vdrotren
Portable Gas Machine," now on exhibition
.there. 1 he light, even in broad daylight.
was brilliant aud steady, though, as we
were informed, considerably affected by the
uiriy pipes ana burners used in the com
bustion of the ordinary gas, through which
it passed. 1 he following qualities are claim
ed for this gas and machine: safely; it is
automatic, requiring no machine or weights:
clean, having no smell; simple; brilliant and
cheap, costing to the consumer not more
than 2.50 per 1,000 feet. The gas is gen-
crated iu a wooden tank and passes to a tin
gasometer, and is made instantaneously. It
is used in the pipes (where they happen to
uneu lur oruinary gas. it is composed
of iron, water and sulphuric acid, and can
be made by the simplest boy. The cost of
the entire apparatus is from $75 to $200,
.according to capacity. Kaleigh Sentinel.
WlIKKLEIt's HlSTOKY OF NoKTlI C.VCO-
A Xtw Edition We are glad to
learn that Col. Wheeler, who has been for
years back collecting materials tor a new
ami enlarged edition of his History of
Korth Carolina, has so nearly brought his
alors to a close. Perhaps no one appre
ciate the value of Col. Wheeler's History
more fully than Kditors, who have almost
aijy need to get accurate information in
relation to the Slate. We sincerely trust
that it will not be long ere we have the
benefit of Col. Wheeler's labors for the
last quarter of a century almost in the shape
of a new and enlarged edition. It will be
remembered that during the war Colonel
Wheeler ran the Blockade and went to
England, where he remained until the sur
render, engage.l iu examining the record-
of the old Colonial Office in Lon lor. HU
opportunities for acquiring veiy valuable
information were good, and we doubt not
that he made good use of them. Wilming
ton Journal.
On Thursday evening a tornado
parsed over the belt of couniry between
Henderson and Ridgeway, on 'the line of
the Kaleigh and Gaston Railroad, doing
considerable damage to trees generally
Upon both sides of the road, for a distance
of three miles, from the effects of the wind,
the largest trees were uprooted, and in one
field hundreds of fruit trees were leveled
with the ground.
Bakx Bluxixg ix Halifax county.
Enfield, May 13. A barn on the farm of
Mr Nicholson, about 10 miles above here,
was discovered to be on fire between 10 and
1-2 o'clock last night. While they were en
deavoring to put that out and prevent its
extending to other buildings, another barn,
some three quarters of a mile distant, on
the same. farm, was seen to be on fire also.
Both barns wereeutirelv consumed, together
with large quantity o"f guano, farming im
plements, Ac. Loss estimated at $3,000.
No insurance. It is supposed to be the
work of au incendiary.
5F Jarvis H. Buxton, Esq., of Ashe-
villi-, ha l.--n ,i.,,inlo.l l.v V. . Canrilrr t Vv- V
S,.li,iu,rf .,, lV,h Di-triJl. his aSlj'X
The Atlantic and Gceat Western Canal.'
On the 20th instant the Governors of the
Southern and Western States have promisr
ed to meet in Atlanta to consider the ways
and means for perfecting a project for con
necting the Mississippi and the Atlantic
ocean by inland water communication.
The route which the Convention will be
called upon specially to considir, is thir
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Vx.i
teen hundred and thirty-three miles in
ten hundred and thirty-three of
which are b.y river and the remaining three
hundred by canal and slack water uaviga
ton. This route has already been surveyed
by distinguished officers of the Engineer
Corps of t he Lriiited States Array, and the
project declared to be feasible.
It begins at the mouth of the Ohio river,
following the Ohio to the Tennessee-; lip
the Tennessee, passing Muscle Shoals, to the
mouth of Short Creek, two miles and a half
below Guntersville, Alabama; from the
mouth of Short Creek, by canal and slack
water navigation, across Sand Mountain
and down the vallev of Well's Creek to its
junction with the Coosa, two miles and a
half below (radsden ; up the Uoosa to
Kome, Georgia ; from Home, by canal and
slackwater navigation, up the valley of the
Etowah and Little rivers, across the Chat
tahoochee plateau ; down the Yellow and
Ocmulgee rivers to Macon ; thence, continu
ing down the Ocmulgee to the Altamaha,
and down the Altamaha to the sea. Na
ture has alreadv, by magnificent rivers,
opened nearly twelve hundred miles of free
and uninterrupted navigation between the
city of St. Louis and the Atlantic ocean
along this line, and all that is now necessa
ry to complete this entire line is to connect
the Tennessee and Coosa, and the Coosa
aud Ocmulgee rivers by canals. We are
told iu the report of the chief engineer that
the former of these connections involves
the cutting of a canal thirty' miles in
length, and the latter a canal of one hun
dred and fifty-eight miles. We thus find
that the cutting of one hundred and eighty
eight miles of canal will at once open a line
of navigation between the city of St. Louis,
one ot the great centers ol the trade ol the
est, a distance of fifteen hundred miles to
the sea. The West now possesses about
thirty-five thousand miles of inland trans
portation ; more than half of this is water,
and all will be brought into direct connec
tion with the Atlantic ocean by this great
work. J he area ot country embracing this
vast system of railways and of navigation
is nearly two millions square miles, and
when the population of this extensive coun
try reaches an average of fifty persons to
the square mile, it will contain one hundred
million people, whose leading industry will
be agriculture.
The immediate object of the Convention
is to institute such measures as mav be
proper and necessary to bring the matter to
the attention of Congress. It is, of course,
appropriation or donation for this work
from Congress. All that it is intended to
ask, is simply that the Government shall
ce the interest upon a limited
amount of the bonds of a comuanv to be
formed for the purpose of constructing the
great work. The company is first to con
struct ten consecutive miles of the canal
and then to give this to the United States
as security for any risk the Government
may take in endorsing a guarantee for the
payment of interest upon a number of bonds
sufficient to build the next ten miles, and
so on until the work is completed.
War Preparations
Notwithstanding the millennial auguries
of the peace-loving prophets, the present
preparations of the crowned heads of the
earth -are not particularly assuring. In
Russia the Czar has enormously increased
his army withiu the year, and is now arm
ing his Cossacks with the most vicious
breech-loading short rifles. Armament of
all calibres is being procured and ports and
strongholds fortified. The British Govern-1
nient has appropriated more millions, this
year, than usual for the construction of sea
monsters of prodigious proportions and
frightful power, its army, too, has been
increased, and the most murderous of the
mitrailleuse, the Martini rifle, has been
ordered iu unstinted quantities. In France,
the Government have the workshops crowd
ed with men manufacturing the chassepot
and mitrailleuse. nihi. Mill"! flflV rVM
1 urkish Government, unable to do its own
manufacturing, has ordered a larfe suin.lv
of Henry rifles from Providence, ami work
is being pushed ou them with all dispatch.
The Germans, having discarded the needle
gun, uae nrnerei a million ot a new pat
t i ....
tern, much like the chassepot, aud it is es-
utnaicu mat at the end of the next twelve
months the world will have an average of
nine guns to every able-bodied man on the
globe. At home, our own Government is
making arrangements for the completion of
gunsas destructive and death-dealing as the
Gatling, and our navy is to be strength
ened to a considerable extent. Really
this does not seem like a prospective era of
peace.
Making thk Uxitko Status
a V
EXAL
Skttlemkxt. We are informed, through
a dispatch trom JJaltimore, that five Alge
rian chiefs, who had been tried in France
and sentenced to the penal colony of
Cayenne for life, had arrived iu that city,
having been released on the condition that
they would go to the United States. It
is an outrage of international comity for any
European or other foreign government to
send, even in such au iiidiiect manner, its
criminals to this country. True, these poor
Algerian chiefs were probably prisoners of
a political character, and such, when tl.ev
come voluntarily here, we do not object to"; j
for this has ever been the, land of refuge for j
uiu innominate ana oppressed. JJnt when
sent here as criminals by any government
it is another thing, and calls for protest.
The offence of the French government is
magnified bj the fact that these Algerians
were landed utterly destitute, and besides
the distress incident upon not heinw able to
Hilt when i l,
speak any language but their own, the
French Consul also refuses to provide for
them. Positive cruelty is thus added to
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' '""h ui ivjjv-wi, in ine i, muMi otates
our government will make proper
it ion of this case to France. A"
J Jftrald.
Clic (SkctrloUe cmocrat (SLHarl-oUe,
Cotton Claims and the Cotton Tax.
May 14. Many of the an-
of cotton, hav
;e been reported by the Treas-
miing within the prov isions of
- 4
urer as not coming
the act of Congress
It does not seem to
be understood among parties interested
that proceeds of sales of cotton unlawfully
fiiezea aiier ouin 01 june, ieoo, win not ue
restored where the parties by themselves or
authorized agents sold cotton to the Confed-
erate States and received therefor Confeder
ate notes, bonds or certificates or other
vuluable consideration. The published re
port that the Court of Claims has decided
.1 . .1 . . . . . . . . .
mat me coiiou lax is uucousiiiuiionai is
incorrect; the question of the constitution-
i: i .i... : ,.: t . .
amy 01 inc ia iniuwiug itti 011 tuiuui uas
... 1 X...4- .1.:. ti i. .
ueer et uceii uviuru iijis vuurt, aimougn
- Ml 1111 ! .1
it will probably be raised in the argument
ofacaseat the next term. This report
may have arisen Irom the tact that the
Court of Claims decided long ago and has
uniformly held m a number of cases since,
that the cotton tax was not a charge upon
the captured and abandoned property fund :
or m otner worus, mat the government
could not retain this tax from the proceeds
oi sales ol captured cotton.
I To the Editor of the N. Y. Daily Graphic
Startling Social Reform.
l7tat the Masssacntsetts Women Projiose.
It has been a subject of much interesting
comment nere.oi late years to aeeiue what
. A. 1. . . I 1 . 1 I
shall be done with the surplus female popu
iivii i initio VilU JL UUI
large manufacturing cities he is immediately
struck with the preponderance of the gent-
ler sex. lhey overflow our factories, fill
our stores, overrun our streets, and hasten
by the score to answer any advertisement
of an employee. Once, the energies of a
.Massachusetts girl were bent on securing a
iiusbantt; now they are given to getting a
living. Once the young men of the Old
Bay State turned their attention to agri
culture and trade at home, but nowadays
they sell out their farms as soon as the old
folks are dead, and go West to build rail
roads and concoct Credit Mobiliers. They
do not so much as take a wife with them,
but leave the maidens with whom they
went hand in hand to school, to live in sin
gle loneliness and earn their own living.
Thus, year by year, the roll of unmarried
women increases, and the prospect for hus
bands grows more gloomy. Girls that
might become radiant through motherhood,
grow selfish and soured in mind, and wither
and diappear like the leaves of November.
The native population of Massachusetts
higs far behind the foreign, and statisticians
grow appalled. But the fault is not with
the women, but is due to circumstances and
perhaps prejudice.
I use the word prejudice, because I un
derstand there is a movement on foot among
the women of Lowell to petition the Legis
lature or, strictly speaking, to present
their grievances on the subject of matri
mony. For some days there have been ru
mors of this matter flying around the com
munity, and I have been at some pains to
trace them out. In doing so, I have been
struck with the fact that men and women
speak freely now on topics that were tabooed
ten years ago. Even the most refined wo
men will talk interestedly and unreservedly
of marriage, love, social evil, and all the
questions which pertain to the relations of
the sexes, lhere seems to be a fermenta
tion beneath the surface which will break
out oeiore long in an open movement to
wards larger liberty for both man and wo
man. This is only my surmise : but that
it may not appear to be merely a piece of
guess work-, l semi you a copy of the docu
ment above mentioned. It is one of the
most remarkable papers of the period. It
comes, too, at a strange time, when Mor-
nionism seems to be yielding to monoganiic
pressure from without, and Salt Lake" City
is preparing to accept the higher civiliza
tion ol the East. Yet in this connection
it must not be forgotten that a work on
polygamy was published in Boston some
years ago, and was greeted with words of
approval by some of the most eminent men
of the seaboard States, including Mr. George
William Curtis, of vonr i-it.v Ti. c,i
j J .iiv v v
)PV
prepared for submission
Legislature :
Lowell, April, 1873.
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the Commonwealth of Massachu
setts :
1 he undersigned, citizens of the State, lespect
iu ly set fourth the grievances under which they
suiter as women who are not permitted to vote,
hold any and all offices, and
tions opened to men, and are otherwise restricted
in the opportunity of earning a living, and here
with beg yoor permission to suggest the remedy
for these evils, upon which they pray your honor
able body to act.
The law which now governs society. says, practi
cally, that women should be married, should en
gage in work at their own homes, and should look
to their husbands for support. On the other hand
the census shows that it is impossible to carry out
this unwritten but recognized law, for the reason
that there is a large excess of women in the com
monwealth, and many of the men of lawful age are
idle, vicious, incompetent or otherwise unlit to be
the heads of the households. Yet vour petitioners
hold that the matter is not without remedy. Preju
dice and custom have decided in favor of restrict
ing the husband to a single wife, yet without jus
tice or authority, as we believe. In the Book
which lies at the foundation of all law recognized
in this country, there is no injunction agatnst a
pluialityof wives, while there arc man v examples
therein recorded in its favor. Men's wives appear
to have increased in number in proportion with
their flocks and riches. Such a rule even now
holds in the laud from which the Christian nations
received their religion.
Your petitioners have no desire to interfere with
the regulations of any existing household, but
simply to present their claims to the marriage' state
for your respectful consideration. They deem it
their privilege and their duty to suggest the aboli
tion of the law against the marriage of a man to
more than one wife, in cases where it is evident
l. man 13 e 10 RUlP"rt lfae additional bur-
: upu uis resources. i ney are aware that
it may take years to remove prejudices, and that
those who take a second or third place in the house
hold mav be looked uoon with d
d m- a - -mm,, Willi-
:nt that their proposed action will ultimately do
away with much of the social evil that afflicts and
distresses all communities, they are willing to be
the first to engage in the work of tais reform Socie
ty, which now insist? that woman shall be married
and hok to her husband for sunnort will .ft
j mature reflection, countenance this etfort to' carry
j out its laws practically.
Lubin's Benzine,
Brown's Essence of Ginger, Beckwith's Pills just
receive,! W. It. BUIIWELL & CO.
then sown was a small one, but it appears to , ott'um nce happened, and everybody
have taken root, and circumstances have cls U.Ses. the water- . .
developed it into fruitage very quickly ls not a "superstition of ignorance
The following is a eonv nt'iiL Jfnn merely, for the parties thus deluded are
to the State
Neffro Superstition.
A singular instance of neerro superstition
1 n.' - - J -
which indicates tlieir natural tendency to
barbarism. A respectable gentleman iu Ca-
tawba county, N. C, had in his employ
nero man of more than ordinary intelli
eence and good character; he was a leader
among ins acquaintances ana a saooaiu
school superintendent, lhe gentleman also
had in his employ a young negro, a nephew
of the other, who had some misunderstand
ing with an old negro man living near by,
about raarrvuur his daughter. Shortly at
ter this the uncle and nephew imagined
they were poisoned by the old negro, and
so announced to Mr. b., and intormed hi in
I . n : .1 . i.:..
that an uie springs on me plantation were
I 1 rn .1 i . 1 1.1..
polSOIieu. AO convince ilieill OI ineir ueiu- u vaeiuiaii jvepuuncau vumcuuiauwii.
I. . - . . ill .1 1 P 1 ' 1 1 .
sion he went with them to the spring ana
periment was treated lightly, and
was told that it would only poison those
whom the old negro intended it
The next day fcund the nephew in
and the uncle excited from watching and
sleeplessness. Harvest came on and Mr. S.
remonstrated severel)r with them, but was
now told that the old negro had poisoned
the paths they walked in, and it had come
up through their shoes, and their legs were
full ot little snakes and lizards, that they
could feel them crawling, also that their
enemy had succeeded iu poisoning the well
too. The nephew's mother was now involv
ed in the delusion, and refused to drink the
water or to wash with it, and for a week
-a ... . .
frltM,d w" lelt whout servants or help,
lhe "n became almost delirious from
eoiiMiant waicning io warn on evil, ana re
fused to sleep or drink. A rain now came
and these deluded negroes caught all the
water they could and carefully concealed it
to prevent the old negro from conjuring it,
and m this way they obtained temporary
reliet. fiut our lnend was not yet rehev
eu nigni, came, anu in ine sun nours, tne
.i .1 .i . mi i .i
uncle came softly to the hall door and call
ed Mr. S., and told him that all was over,
that the old negro had been there and re
newed all his conjuriugs, and that he was
on the watch to save his lile. JUr. S. got
vexed and severely reprimanded the pooi
negro, but was soon moved by his piteous
appeals, and pretending to give credence to
his tale, enjoined on him to keep strict
watch the remainder of the night, which
he faithfully did, as his inflamed eyes and
nervous trembling next morning indicated
3lr. S.. now humored the strano-e infatua
tion and asked how they knew the old man
was coming that night: immediately the
uncle invited him to an old out house, and
on entering it the negro took from its place
of deposit some roots of the "trailino- mim.v
sa," around which was wrapped retf woolen
strings, by one of these the bunch was sus-
pended. Now, says he, notice! Til ask it
if Jack was here last night. Mr. S. looked
intently, hardly suppressing a laugh. The
bunch of roots vibrated towards the negro,
"see that, Mr. S." said he, in a most myste-
up lor an approv
ing assent, "don't you see it shakes for ves!"
-r o j .i . ii.i
Jir. o. woon uiKcovereu mat an tne neo-rons
had roots and strings, and that they had all
indicated the same ominous warninc. and
the whole negro family were in the deepest
distress and work in field and kitchen had
ceased. Mr. S. was in desnair. harvest
ripe and his helps all "bewitched," but for
tunately an idea struck the uncle late in
he had heard of another old
negro who was able to take oft'the spell and
cure the poison, so he proposed to visit him
at once, though he was thirty miles distant.
vjuv irienci was ready tor any experiment,
and allowed the uncle to start immediately
on his best mule, as time was precious and
ou ine negro went, and rode all night to
1. .I'll 1 T
reacu ine o:u conjure doctor, imagine our
friend's relief when next day the negro
came back smiling, saying he was cured.
and had powders for the nephew and moth
er, which were speedily administered and
the next morning the harvesting began ;
the two men worked heroically to recover
lost lime.
They sav all is cured now except the poi
son in the springs, which they still refuse
to use, though it has been six months since
quite intelligent negroes, and of first-rate
character, having been brought up by in
telligent owners It is but a development
of natural superstition of the race, and
shows how little progress they are really
making towards civilization and the quali
fications that constitute citizenship, and
this instance is but one of hundreds more
ridiculous and absurd than this. Lincoln
rogress.
Sold heb Husband. The following
story, though it has never been iu print, is
nevertheless true and can be substantiated
nn i- i . . " .. ..
Aneie uvea in the gold mining regions of
Uurke county, a colored woman by the
name of Nancy Boyce. Xow Xaucv was
what was commonly known as a "free nig
ger" before the war. She was very indus
trious and had accumulated a little fortune
of seven or eight hundred dollars. Nancy
was married and her husband was a slave.
Nancy's husband was not worth much as he
was about fifty years old, so when she pro
posed to buy him of his master, the trade
was 3oon made. Nancy did not emanci
pate him. No! she was too shrewd for
that, she took a bill of sale for him. Jack,
Nancy's husband, was no sooner the pro
perty of his wife than he turned a perfect
sot. He not only would not work but mis
treated his wife and mistress. Nancy bore
it as long as she could, made no threats but
when endurance ceased to be a virtue she
came down to 3Iorgauton one morning and
sold her husband to the negro traders.
Great was Jack's astonishment on the fol
lowing day, when he was seized and carried
off to the Southern slave market. Pied
mont Press.
VaUey Chief Mower and Reaper,
AND
Darden's Cotton Chopper,
On exhibition and for sale at the
at i, . MECKLENBURG IRON WORKS.
3Iay 12, 18 , d. 4wr Joux Wilkes.
Use Home Stomach Bitters.
For sale by W. II II. HOUSTON & CO.
3Iay 12, 183.
The Wonderful Career 01 non. uan auuu
I Oil Saturday, Senator Carl Scharz
1CCAI1 l"J CQllpi 1 with his laraiiv in me
' I . . . 1 ; .-v
KtJV-lVUIXa m
JJeulschtand tor a summer pleasure
Europe. The Senator had been quietly
a stopping in this city lor a
- his many friends and adni
mirers, who, with
lew uays amuug
music and cannon and the waving of band- transferred to the United States cL
kerchiefs as the steamship cast her moor- Court, under the authority of the 5!?
Seua'tor intends to visit the principal Euro-
pean cities, particularly those of the father
land. Carl Schurz was born in Liblar, near
Cologne. March 2, 1829, and studied at
the collegiate institution in Cologne,
aud afterward at the University of Bonn.
I tr,. ... r . u TTn;..:lr ,1 .o m!irf
11c weui. noiu me uimciouj utiaimug
I fy jy 1.1: i..r..,l XT
uecame tne eauor 01 a noerai newspaper.
to Switzerland, thenoe to Paris and London.
in London he was a teacher ana corres
pondent for three years.
jieantime tne i russian government ex
iled him for life, and the decree was that
if found on-German territory he should be
shot. His favorite professor in the Univer
sity of Bonn had been meantime imprison
ed for hie, and young Schurz resolved to
liberate him.
A certain German air was
the great
m played
favorite of both, which they often played
and sang together. A London organ maker
nrJ, -i hand oro-an for vonno- Sr-hnr
among the German and Italian airs
which
it played was the professors favorite. Then
1 V mm
disguising himseii as an Italian peasant
and secreting a coil ot rope and several
skeleton keys in his clothes he went to the
fort and was admitted. He played awhile
tor the officers, and was then admitted to
the prison to play to the political prisoners.
Striking up the favorite tune, he had the
pleasure ot seeing his professor s face at a
rrntiiirr I n niun thnf coll ivith n ulr.1
ton key was the work of a moment, and be
m... " vj'v. ,..mv ii 4 fail naiii.-
fore they were discovered the professor and
young Schurz were on the parapet. They
lowered themselves on the rope and ran to
a small pateh of wood, where two fleet
horses were concealed.
They escaped to
Loudon
In 1852, Mr. Schurz immigrated to this
country. Jle naturally became a consoicu-
ous mem her ot the genuine Kepublican
party, lie was a delegate to the Chicago
Convention in 1860, taking a leading part
in us proceeaings, ana was selected bv
1 resident Lincoln in 1861 as Minister to
lmin- When the war broke out he resigned
anJ returned, and was appointed a briga-
-generai ot volunteers, lie participated
in the second battle of Bull Run and in th.
battles of Chancellorsville. Gettysburg and
Chattanooga. He wa3 the President of the
Chicago Convention of 1868 which nominat
ed General Grant, and was elected to the
United States Senate as a Republican, to
succeed John 15. Henderson, of Missouri,
and took his seat March 4th, 1869. A few
years ago, through the influence of Prince
Bismarck, the German Government remov
ed his disability, and iu recognition of his
genius extended an invitation to him to re
visit his native laud. The whole American
people, without distinction of party, will
isn mm measure and n. hnnnv rotum
Correspondence New York Sun, 28th ult.
Piedmont Air-Line Railway.
Richmond c- Duntille Railway, (X. C. Ditision,) and
North Western JV. C. Railway,
CONDENSED TIME TABLE.
In effect on aud after Sunday, May 11th, 1873.
GOING NORTH.
Stations.
Mail.
7.10 P. M.
9.50 "
1.40 A. M.
4.32 "
9.44 "
12.45 P. 31.
Express,
G.25 A. 31.
8.34 "
11.10 "
152 P. 31.
6.40 "
9.30 "
Leave Charlotte,
Salisbury,
Greensboro,
Danville,
Burkville,
Arrive at Richmond,
GOING
Stations.
SOUTH.
Mail.
2.30 P. H.
5.34 "
10.41 "
2.15 A. 31.
457 "
7.20 "
ExrnEss.
5.10 A. 31.
8.28 "
Leave Itichmond.
Burkville,
Danville,
Greensboro,
Salisbury,
12.57 P. 31.
4.00 "
6.22 "
8.30 "
Arrive at Charlotte,
GOING EAST.
Stations. 3Iail.
Express.
Leave Greensboro. 1.45 A M
11.10 A. 31.
company Shops, 3.36
1 Ilillsboro, 4.5:j
1 Kaleigh, - 8.0,i
Arrive 12.20 P. 31,
Arrive at Goldsboro, 11.05
it
GOING WEST.
Stations.
31 AIL.
Express.
Leave Goldsboro.
4.00 p. 3r.
7.45 "
10.21 "
12.05 A. 31. 2.15 P. 31.
1-30 " 3.:U)
Raleigh,
Ilillsboro,
Com p. Shons.
Arrive at Greensboro,
Passenger train leaving Raleigh at 7 45 P 31
connects at Greensboro with Northern bound train
p?Sinfff ,tlmckest time all Northern cities.'
1 V 1 lckcts -s;ne as via other routes.
Trains to and from points East of Greensboro
connect at Greensboro with 3Iail Trains too! from
points North or South.
Mail trains daily, both ways, over entire length
of road. Express daily beUveen Company Shorn
and Charlotte (Sunday excepted.) P
CharloVTaPfilTre,Carsn, a1-1 niht trains bet
Charlotte and Richmond, (without change.)
' t-r-i
North Western N. C. Railroad.
(Salem Branch.)
Leave Greensboro, - . 3 40 P M
Arrive at Kernersvillc, . 5 10 u
Leave Kernersvillc, - . 9 00 A. 31
Arrive at Greensboro, - ia30 "
Tun t?' 11 ALLEN, Gcnl. Ticket Agent.
l 31. R. Talcott. Eng. & Gen. Sup't
SrS1' Col;,& Augusta R. R., )
Slpt. Offick, Columbia, Sept. 21, 1872.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
followSin?4f,tfSllndv the 22d of September, the
loiiowmg Schedule will be run on this Road :
A 31.' aU Train n,th) leT Charlotte at 8
6.m2MMail Tfain North) arrives t Charlotte at
8:20 1 P.Fight Exlre CSouth) leaves Charlotte at
at 6 ?43TExprcss Traiu Xortl1) arrives at Charlotte
lltt2',vTSF.reisLt Train (South lcavcs Charlotte at
at ?Sop7 5fSl,t Train (Xorth) ar"ves at Charlotte
E. P. ALEXANDER, Gen'l Supt.
Mr. S. tual hostilities near the vear 1848. Aban- peanug from the transcript of the record
13 CV- I itv IUjbCltU illC ICIVIUblVIJIil T Sfe At. I - VVUUVV. 11 ,
for doning his editorial chair, he joined the the Superior Court ot that county, that it
ranks ol the revolutionists, taking part in uaa jurisdiction in tne matter. M tr..
bed. the defence of Kastadt. Defeated, lie tied next term, last November, Judge
Lee Dunlap's Case.
of
After Dunlap was granted a new trit,.
our Supreme Court on aceount of tv . ,J
i 1 14foonl I nino I rr,tn 1 i
1 . - '
ii: , 1 6 7 57 ! ue aae n affid.vr
that he could not get justice in our Stau
and a Republican, and asked that hi. T.01.1
vwmiD,ui:atwuiii.wuHueingacolorei
J udge Logan allowed thU W
was taken to th s., 'DBl
an appeal was
Court which decided that, under th n- .
Rights Bill, Dunlap had a right fc?Sa
i"u" bci iui iu uy iitui, io nave the
. - . wuii. in com in
to this detemination the Court said su
result was deeply to be regretted W
i - if lthf law n-un u'rittpn Tn tUa 4": .
xyiruun IJon
a I ltt. Juno in fhi f!itv Af Cf1 . ur
xc 1 - "varuucK bled
I .m AiAn 5 i mt ilnn. Anl.ti... . 1 . .1 m
n aoMi.g iuai tue cause L
refused the motion to remand, whereat
Mr Starbuck, on the part of the
uiaic, luwjv nil appeal iu IUQ OOnr
rea
vuuii ui uie u ii neu oiaies.
The Supreme Court, as we anticmafiui :
would do, has dismissed the appeal on u
grounu mat ine appeal was taken pTeinv
turely, as appeals to that Court in crimin.i
1 .1 i '
cases only lie from final judgments. TW
lap will therefore be tried at the June tpm.
?f the Circuit Court, and after trial and
Jment in the Circuit Court, an .pp
,,f " ' , , r "U iaiC8 Bul,re,a
.! iew.
JOHN E. BROWN.
i
Attorney at Law,
U11AKL.O ITE, Pi. U.,
Will practice in the Counties of. Mecklenbnrtr r.
harrus, llowan, Davie, Union, Lincoln and Gaston.
"Will give special attention to cases iu BaukruDtcr
Grand Display of
MILLINERY,
Fancy and Staple Dry Goods,
B. KOOPMANN'S.
I take crreat pleasure in informing the miblicth.t
I have in store and am daily receiving the fint
and cheapest stock of the above goods ever brought
io mis niaiKei ana can saieiy say tbat tue kimxU
are the best, and selected with the creatpst c.im n,l
will he sold at such rates as to defy comuetition. Yun
willfiud each and every department complete: and
to make my Millinery Department more complete
"avu
FIKST CLASS MILLINERS,
One of whom is recently from Baltimore.
I respectfully invite the public to call and exam.
ine my stock and prices.
Another oue of my specialities is the BARGAIN
COUNTER. On it will be found Goods at tko
most reduced prices.
tW My Motto is Quick Sales and Small Profits,
e BEST GOODS at the Lowest Prices.
the
To Wholesale Buyers.
I have the largest SUck of Trimmed Hat In tha
StJite, and will sell as low as they can be bouzht
in Northern 3Iarkets. R. KOOP3IANN.
May 12, 1873. Charlotte. N. C.
Just Received,
200 CASES 1IOME STOMACH BITTERS.
W. II. II. HOUSTON & CO.
May 12, 1873.
NOTICE.
By virtue of two mortgages .made to the Fintt
Building and Loan Association of Charlotte by
Samuel Pearce, Trustee, James 31. Turreutine and
Annie B. V. Turrentine, registered in Book 6, pago
887, and Book 7, page 503, to secure the amount (hw
naid Association, I will sell for cash, to the highest
bidder, at the (Join t House door in Charlotte, on
Thursday the 22d inst., the LOT upon whicb the
said Turrentine lives, at the intersection of 9th anil
Myers streets, fronting 270 feet on 3Iyer8 utrcct,
upon which there is a comfortable Dwelling House,
&c. - p. II. DEWEY, Secy and Tret.
Jxo. E. Buowx, Attorney.
May 12, 1873. 2w
For Sale.
The 3Iecklenburg Building and Loan Association
will sell at public auction, at the Court House door
in the City of Charlotte, on 31onday the 26th of
3Iay, the property of R. J. Jamison, consisting of
a House and Lot, situated in the third Ward of
said City, adjoining the property of S. N. Jamison
and others to satisfy a mortgage made to the said
association. F. H. DEWEY,
3Iay 12, 1873. 2w Sec'y and Treas.
MRS. QUERY
Has the Handsomest and Cheapest Stock of Jlilli
nery Trimmings and Fancy Goods in the eity. Tba
Ladies are requested to call and examine the Beau
tiful 3Iillinery and aH the Latest Novelties in Fan
cy Goods at very Low Prices.
Hair Goods a Specialty at
May 12, 1873. 3IRS. QUERY'S.
Go To
B. N. S3IITII for your Vegetable. Also, Fine Jot
of Hay, 6,000 Good Union county Shingles. For
B. N. SMITH'S.
May 12, 1873
L. W. SAXDEKS. J. E. OATES. W. C. BLACKWOOD.
SANDERS, OATES & CO,
Grocers, Provision Dealers,
Commission Merchants and Cotton Iiuyert,
Corner of Trade and College Streets,
CHARLOTTE, X. C,
A large and well selected stock of Staple Gro
ceries on hand to which we invite the attention o
Wholesale Buyers.
Strict personal attention triven to orders for pur
chase or sale of Cotton, Grain or other Produc.
in an instances prompt and accurate returns aw
made.
Advances made on Cotton consigned to or stored
with us. or shinned tn nv nnrt ti rair order. Or
ders tor purchase or sale of Cotton for future de
liver', faithfully o
a House in New York of known responsibility WJ
uiiegruy.
tW We are Arrent for tht rplt-hmtod "WlX-
SHIP GIN," to which we call the attention ol
those who consider and annreciate anantity
quality of work. Sample Gin on hand for inapec
tion.
For further information apply to or address os.
SANDERS, OATES & CO..
3Iay 5, 1873. Charlotte, .
Home
Stomach Bitters,
w. ii. ii. Houston & ca
For sale by
IMPORTANT.
For the benefit of our retail trade, the prices oft
Goods have been reduced. Call on us.
3Iay 5, 1873. BRE3I, BROWN
W. R. BURWELL & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Druggists
Springs Corner,
CHARLOTTE K. C.
April 28, 1873.