VOL. Vin. THIRD SERIES
SALISBURY. 17. C, OCTOBER, 11, 1877.
NO 51
YANKEE AND PIRATE.
Tliere lired many years ago,
on the
eastera shore of Mount Desert, a large Is
land off the coast of Maine, an Id fisher
rtnbv'the name of Jedediah Spinnet,
jljp owned a schooner of some hundred
torn harden, in which he, together with
four stout sons, was wont to go about
once a year to the Grand Jiank for the
purpose of catching codfish. The old man,
Jia,l five things about which he loved to
boast his schooner, Betsy Jenkins, and
his four sons.
The four sons weresall that their father
represented them to be, and no one ever
doubted his word when he said that their
nt tfl be found for fifty miles
around. The oldest was twenty-two,
while the youngest had reached bis six
teenth year and they answered" to the
names of Seth, Andrew, John and Samnel.
One raorninca stranger called upon Jed
ediah to engage him to take toJIavana
me iron machinery belonging to a steam
eurine for sugar plantations. The terms
ffere soon agreed upon, and the old man
and his sons immediately set about put
ting the machinery on board. That ac
complished, they set sail for Havana
with a fair wind, and for several days
proceeded on their journey without an
adventnre of any kind. One moruing,
however, a vessel w'as descried off the
larboard quarter, which, with some hesi
tation, the old man pronounced to be a
pirate.! There was not much time all-owed
them for doubting, tor the vessel soon
saluted them with not a very agreeable
vliizzing of an eighteen pound shot under
their stern.
. "That means for us to heave to," re
marked the old man.
"Then I guess we had better do it,
hadn't we !" said Seth.
"Of course?'
Accordingly the Betsy Jenkins was
brought up into the wind and her main
boom hauled over.the windward.
"Xow, hoys," said the old man, as soon
as the schooner eame to a' stand, "all we
eando is to be as cool as possible, and
trust to God. There is no way that lean
see now, but perhaps if we are civil, they
will take such stuff as they want and then
let us go. At any rate th"ie is no use
cryiacahout it, for it can't be helped.
Now get your pistols and see that they
" are surely loaded, and have your knives
ready, ut be sure to hide them, 6o that
the pirUtes sliall sea no signs of resis
tincce." . -
lna few moments all the arms that the
schooner afforded, with the exception; of
one or two old muskets, were secured
-about the persons of our Down Easters,
aud they quietly awaited the coming of
the schooner.
"One word more, boys," said the old
man, just as the pirate came round under
her Btern. "Now watch every motion I
make, and be ready to jump the moment
I speak,"
As Captain Spinnet ceased speaking
the pirate luffed up under the fisherman's j
lee-quarter, and in a moment more the
latter' deck was graced by the presence
of a dozen as savage-looking mortals as
eyes ever looked upon.
"Are you captain of this vessel ?" asked
the leader of the boarders as he approach
ed the old mau. -
"Yes, sir."
"What is your cargo t".
. "Machinery for steam engines."
. "Nothing else ?" asked the pirate, with
.a searching look.
At this moment Captain Spinnel's eye
caught what looked like a sail off to the
south'rd aud east'rd, but not a sign be
trayed the discovery, and while a brilliant
idea shot through his mind, he hesitating
replied ' . '
"Well, there is a little something else."
"Ha, and what is it ? "
hy, sir, p raps I hadn't ought to i '
tell," said Captain Spinnet, counterfeiting
the most extreme perturbation. "You
see it was given to me as a sort of trust,
an' it wouldn't be right for me to give it
up. You can take anything else you
please, for I can't help myself."
'"-You are an honest codger, at any rate,"
said the pirate "but if you would live
ten minifies longer, just ' tell me what
you've gjrt on board, and exactly the place
where jit'lays."
The sight of a cocked pistol brought the
old man to his senses, and in a deprecat
ing tone he uttered :
'MlrtnV nil c.;- A.-'i. . iMi .t
a u-..w.L .
11 c c s auit-j' luuuMiiiu silver UOl-
tars nailed up in boxes just for'ard o' the
cabin bulkhead; but Mr. Defoe didn't
Aspect that anybody would have thought
f looking for it there."
"Perhaps so," chuckled the pirate, while
r his eyes sparkled with delight. And then
turning to his own vessel, he ordered all
tout three of his men to jump ou. board
ttoe Yankee.
la a few minutes the pirates laid taken
off the hatches, and, in their haste to get
at the "silver dollars," they forgot all
W, but not so with Spinnet. He had,
lU wifa at work, and no sooner had the
tost of the villians disappeared below the
toak'hwav than bprtnriuwt fnhUhov.
!X9W boys, for your fives. Seth, you clap
?ur knife across the fore-thmatsind neak
Nyardg, and you, John, cut the main,
f quick, now, an' the moment you have
it iumn aboard the a-i
Jt jump aboard the pirate. Andrew
S.m J-0? off the pirate's grap-
pling, and then you jump then well
walk into them 'three chaps aboard the
clipper. Now for it.
No sooner were the last words out of the
old man's mouth than his sons did exact
ly as they were directed. The? fore and
mam halyards were cut, and the two
grapplings cast off at the same instant,
and as the heavy gaffs came rattling down
our heroes leaped on board the pirate.
The moment the clipper felt at liberty
her head swung off, and before the aston
ished buccaneers could gain theldeck of
the fisherman their own vessel was nearly
half a cable's length to the leeward, sweep
ing gracefully away before the wind while
the three men who had been left in charge
were easily secured.
"Hallo, there !" shouted Captain Spin
net, as the luckless pirates crowded
around tue leegangway or tneirpj-jase
"when you, get them ere -ilver dollars,
just let n know, will you?" -
Half a dozen pistol shots was all the
answer the old man got, but they did no
harm ; aud crowding on all sail, he made
for the vessel he had discovered, which
lay dead to the leeward of him, and which
he now made out to be a large ship. .The
clipper cut through the water like a dol
phin, and in a short space of time Spinnet
I a tied up under the ships stern, and ex
plained all that had happened. The ship
proved to be an East ludianman, bound for
Charleston, having thirty men on board,
a portion of whom jumped on board the
clipper and offered their services in help
ing to take the pirates.
Before dark Captain Spinnet was once
more within hailing distance of his own
vessel, and raising a trumpet to his mouth,
he shouted "
"Scboouer, ahoy ! Will you quietly
surrender yourselves prisoners if we come
on board T"
"Come and try if!" returned the pirate
captain, as he brandished his .cutlass
above his head in averv threatening man
ner, which seemed to indicate that he
would fight till the last.
But this was hi schist moment, for Seth was
crouched below Hflie bulwarks, taking de-
liberate aim along the barrel of a heavy
ride, and the hltiody villian was in the act
of turning to liis men when the sharp crack j
of Seth Spinnet's weapon rang his death 1
peal, and the next moment the pirate j
captain fell back in the arms of his mate
with a bullet through his heart. -
"Now," said the old man, as he levelled
the long pivot gun and seized a lighted
match, "I'll .give you just five minutes to
decide in, aud if you don't surrender I'll
blow every one of you into the other
world."
The death of their captain brought the
pirates to their senses, and they threw down
their weapons.
In two days -from that time Captain
Spinnet delivered his cargo safely in
Havana, gave the pirates into the hands
of the civil authorities, and-delivered the.
clipper up to the government, in return
for which he received a sum of money
sufficieut for independence for the remain
der of his life,' as well as a very handsome
medal from the Governor. "
THE NOBLE REVENGE.
The coffin was a plain one a poor,
miserable pine coffin. No flowers on its
top, no lining of rose-white satin for the
pale brow; no smooth ribbousabout the
coarse shroud. The brown hair was Laid
decently back, but there was no crimped j
cap, with its neat tie beneath the chin.
The sufferer from cruel poverty' smiled
in her sleep.
"I waut to""see my mother," sobbed a
poor child, as the city undertaker screwed
down the top.
"You can't get out of the way, boy!
.why don't somebodr take the brat." j
"0nlyr let mo see her one minute-," cried
the hapless, homeless orphan, clutching
the side of the charity box, aud as he
gazed into that rough face, anguish tears
'streamed rapidly down the cheek on
which no childish bloom ever lingered.
Oh, it was pitiful to hear him cry,
"Only once ; let me see mymother only
once !" -
Quickly and brutally the bard-hearted
monster struck the boy awaj', so he reeled
with the blow. For a moment the boy
stood panting with grief and rage; his
blue eyes distended, his lips sprang apart,
' a fire glittering through his tears, as he
,..,:.i k;, r n .i tcJm, o mt nn.
A l 1 Ol. 1 (1 1C9 WUU 1 UllUi J V . u v 1 ' v
childish accent screamed, "when I'm a
man, I'll killyou for that!"
There was a coffin and a heap of earth
between the mother and the poor
forsa-
ken child, and a monument stronger than
granite built in the 003-'s heart to the
memory of a heartless deed.
" -' - r
The Court-IIou8e was crowded to suf
focation. -
"Does any one appear as this man's
counsel J" asked the judge.
There was a silence when he finished,
until with his lips tightly pressed together,
a look of strange intelligence, blended
with haughty reserve upon his haudsome
features, a you ng man stepped forward
with a firm tread and kindling eye, to
plead for the erring and the friendless.
He was a stranger, but from his first sen-
tence there was a silence.
i The splendor cf his genius entranced
"and convinced. The man who could not
tw1 friend was acouitted .
1 "May God bless yon, sir, I cannot."
"I want no thanks," replied the stran
ger, with icy coldness, "vt fc
"I I believe yon are unknown to
jne."
"Man I I will refresh your memory.
Twenty years ago you struck a broken
hearted boy away from his mother's poor
coffin. I was that poor, miserable boy."
The man turned livid.
"Have you rescued me, then, to take
my life V1
"No, I have a sweeter revenge; I have
saved the life of a man whose brutal deed
has rankled in m v breast for twenty years,
Go! and remember the tears of a friend
less child."
The man bowed his head in shame, and
went out from the presence of a magna
nimity as grand to him as incomprehen
sible, d ti uu1a young lawyer felt
uou a smile in tua soul. , r1 '-
SENSATION JOURNALISM.
From the Printeis Circular.,
tnE PAPER DIED.
When the Morning Ledger was started
says Sam Davis in the Argonaut. Dan
O'Connell, Jessop and myself were em
ployed on the local staff. Harry George
was manager of the concern, and had an
iJ.I - 4. . 1 . V .1
idea that poetry (origiual poetry) was the
main thing to catch the Sunday readers
In this we all concurred, and somebody
suggested that the poems should be illus
trated. I agreed to furnish the engrav
ings, and the next day called on Alex
Badlam, whom I knew had the facilities.
and he loaned me about a bushel of old
wood-cuts which had seen service in Sac
ramento on some illustrated newspaper
venture of his own years ago. The draw
ings were by Nahl, and the engraving
very good. When the basket was brought
in, Mr. George sat down and legan to
paw over the blocks, distributing them
among the staff, remarking as he handed
O'Connell a square foot of boxwood. "Here
Dan, is a woman watching for a ship at
sea. Dish up half a column of poetry on
it, entitled 'Waiting.'" Dan took the
block and surveyed it carefully as he
observed : "It strikes me this is meant for
a washerwoman, and she's waiting to see
if the little nigger on the wharf is going
to make a raid on the clothes basket."
"In that case," replied Mr. George, "we
can saw off the nigger and the wharf; that
will leave the sea aud beach on the right,
and it's just the thing." A handsaw was
brought iuto requisition and the block
was sa wed in two. "Now, Dan, start
that right up; the printers are waiting
for copy. Aud, Sam, tack a few verses
on the nigger, and then we'll have two
first-class cuts and two pieces of original
poetry." The next cut he picked up was
a woman sitting on a rock watching some
mules, but by sawing off the mules and
gouging a club out of the woman's hand
with a chisel, Jessop was enabled to built
upon it a poem entitled "Deserted," and
calculated to bring tears to the eyes of
a Mills-Seminary girl by the time the sixth
verse was reached. Sometimes Mr. George
would wavv up a big engraving into three
pieces aud divide it between us. In ad
dition to our regular salaries, we got $6
a column for these verses, and the car
pentering work at the head was sometimes
couutedinto the measurement as a spe-
cial tribute to meritorious eudeavor.
Whenevvr the saloou keeper, next door,
saw the Sunday issue pretty well filled
with original poetry, he would contem-
plate a heavy run of costum on pay-day,
aud view the score on the slate with more
cheerfulness than duobt.
perance poem, penned
One day a teni
by Jessop, got
mixed up with a picture iutended to rep-
j resent a widow weeping over her lover's
grave, by Dan, and the poem O'Connell
wrote got under the picture that, had been
carefully sawed and trimmed for Jessop.
Thet:hange looked peculiar, but no one
ever noticed it. On one occasion, after
an elaborate poem had been written by a
combination effort of all three of us, the
cut was mislaid just as the paper was
going to press. An old Vinegar Bitters
cut was put in, however, and then a bill
for advertising was sent the agents of the
bitters.
He paid it cheerfully.
The paper died.
As Wonderful as True.X Masonic
lodge in Indiana was presided over by a
Master who had an exaggerated notion
of discipline. One night he met Ins lodge
- -
in called meeting (not a member absent)
to instruct them in the work. Teaching
them the use of the gavel, he had just
1 called them up with three knocks, when
he leaued too far back, tell through a
window to the ground four stories and
broke his neck. Picked up next morning,
he was buried decently, but not a Mason
came to the funeral. More strange still,
not a Mason appeared any mere in that
village. It was inexplicable. Forty wo
men left widows, 220 children left orphans,
eiglrty-four merchants left in the lurch ground, who confessed, that while prowl
with unpaid bills. Twenty years after ing about the fieldj for the purpose of
that somebody went up into the founh gtealing corn, he had Rtepped upon and
stor3", broke upon the door and behold
the lodge, a lodge of skeletons ! Strange
but true, they had strictly obeyed the or
ders of the W; M. and waiting, for the
knocks to seat them, starved to death.
Each was standing in an attitude of re-
respectful attention, "lookmg to the east,
and had no pitying citizens taken them
down they would have been standing
there sail. St. Josepn mo.) ueraia.
POINTING OFFICE SECRETS.
A properly conducted printing office is
as much a secret as a Masonic Lodge.
The printers are not under oath of secrecy,
but always feel themselves as truly in
honor bound to keep office secrets as
though triple oathed. Any employe in a,
printing office who willingly disregards
this rule in relation to printing office se
crets would not only be scorned by his
brethren of the craft, but would lose his
position at once. We make this state
ment beeanse it sometimes happens that
a communication appears in newspaper
under an assumed signature which excites
comment, and) various parties try to find
oat who is the author. Let all be saved
the trouble of questioning the employee of
the printing office. They areknownoth
iugs on such point aa the- On such
matters they " nave eyes ami ears, bo
mouth, and if any fail to observe this rule,
let them be put down as dishonorable
members of the craft. It is the same in
job printing. If anything is to be printed
and kept secret, let proper notice be given
of the desire for secrecy, and you might
as well question the Sphynx as one of the
priuters, so that even the secret books for
lodges are printed without fear.
KEEP STRAIGHT AHEAD.
Pay no attentian to slanders and gos
sip mongers. Keep straight on in your
course, and let their back biting die the
death of neglect. What is the use of ly
iug awake at night, brooding over the re
mark ot some talse tnend, that runs
through your brain like lightning f What
is the use of getting into a worry and fret
over gossip that has been set afloat to
your disadvantage, by some meddlesome
busybody who has more time than char
acter T , The things cannot possibly injure
youy unless, indeed you take notice of them
and in- combating them give them stun
diujr and character. If what is said about
3' on is trne, set 3-ourself right; if it is false,
let it go for what it wjll fetch. If a bee
sting you, would you go to the hive to de
8troj' it 7 Would not a thousand come
upon 3-on f It is wisdom to say little re
specting the injuries 3'ou have received.
We are general losers in the end, if we
stop to refute all the backbiting aud gos
siping we may hear by the way. They
are annoying, it is true, but not danger
ous, long as we do not stop to expostu
late and scold. Our characters are form
ed and sustained by ourselves, by our
own actions and purposes, and not by
others. Let us always bear in mind that
"calumniators may usually be trusted to
time and the slow but stead3r justice of
public opinion."
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Just after the strike, when Solomon
closed the discussion ly telling the slug
gard to go to the ant, the sluggard re
plied with a knowing wink that he had a
much softer thing thau that. "As how t"
inquired the proverbial monarch. "I
will start a savings bank," replied the
man of inertia. The monarch nodded
slowly, twice or thrice, and went awa3
to jjret shaved. The next time he met the
sluggard, that deliberate individual was
riding in a gold-mounted carriage, with
coachman and footman iu livery,"and in
reply to the monarch's nod, he just pulled
up to say that he was going over to Eu-
rope for a little while till the flurry blew
over. And Solomon went back to his
sanctum and wrote : "Better is an hand-
ful with quietness than a bank book as
big as a Bible with travial and vexation
of spirit."
"Why," asked Plato of Socrates, as
they languid rose from the sjmposiuru
and walked uptbe'Appian way "why is
a lazy dog like a shet of paper?" Soc
rates thoughtfully nibbed his ear and
said, "Seems to me I've heard that some
where." "Well, old anthropos, guess it,"
ille rcspondit quickly. Socrates made
seven futile attempts, turning the pun on
the words "tale," "write," "canis," etc.,
when Plato became, impatient and told
him, "Because it's a slow pup." "Yes,"
said Soc., "I've heard it before, but I
don't tumble to it now, some way. How's
a sheet of paper a slow pup ?" Plato smil
ed and remarked, "You'd better swap off
that puukin head of yours; a sheet of pa
per is an ink-lined plane, isn't it! and
an inclined plane is a slope up, perhaps
you see!" Then they walked slowly to the
Keller, and Socrates remarked in a pen
sive tone, "Zwei !"
Retributive Justice. At about 12 o'clock
last Wednesday night, Mr. John H. Haz
zleton, liviug in the lower end of Beau
fort county, was awakened by the agon
izing screams of some one iu bis corn field
near b3. Upon repairing to the spot
from whenee the screams came, he found
a negro of notoriously bad character,
named Noah Lisbon writhing upon the
been bitten on the ankle by a snake ; he
was much swollen and seemed to be in
terrible pain. Upon search being made.
a large rattlesnake, with eleven rattles
was found and killed onlv a few feet away,
Lisbon was removed to the premises of
Mr. Hazzleton, where he died in great
agony on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock.
Our informant states that the nesr was
swollen beyond recognition. Xewbernian.
President Hayes will find he is mistak
en if he supposes for one moment that the
next Congress will agree to increase the
army to 40,000 men. We hope no South
ern Democrat will vote for its increase
even to the amount of one corporal, for
we all remember what an important part
an insignificant fellow of that rank play
ed in South Carolina not many months ago.
No, no, Mr. Hayes, no increase of the ty
rants' power, if you please. The Southern
Democrats who vote for an increase may
prepare to enter upon an inglorious and
perpetual retirement.- Raleigh New.
"Them's our sentiments" and we be
lieve they are of ninety-nine out of a
hundred of Southern men. We want no
more hectoring, meddling troops in the
land,
Views ofBecretary -ftt-arfs.--Secretary
Evarts said in conversation to-night, in
speaking of the action of the New York
Republican Convention, that he regretted
that the party should be divided as in
1871. Ever since leaving the Whig party
he had belonged to the Republican party,
and not to any of the cliques of that parr
ty. He was very sorry that the Conven
tion had not ailed itself of the grand
opportunity to place itself on the record
in support of that policy which met the
universal acquiescence of the people. The
omission of the Republican Convention
left to the New York Democratic Conven
tion the opportunity to indorse the policy
ef peace. He refrained from any allusion
to Mr. Conkling except by indirection.
NEEDLESSLY UNHAPPY.
The New York Time is unhappy over
the action of its Republican convention at
Rochester. It declares that "most of its
members returned to their homes with
the melancholy consciousness that their
great (Mr. Conkling) leader had made a
fool of himself, and that in blindly allow
ing him to take the lead their own folly
was hardly less than his." Even the
New York Commercial Advertiser, which
has be regarded as Mr. Conkling's organ,
is disgusted with the exhibition which
the Senator made of himself. It character
izes his attack upon Mr. Hayes' civil ser
vice policy as a "vulgar war upon the
National Administration," and says
"in the judgment of some of his best
friends he made a great mistake which
may lose him. a return to the United
States Senate." No one need be unhappy
about the matter, however, for the people
take no stock in Mr. Conkling's proceed
ings, Republicans or otherwise. Wilming
ton Star. y
We called attention recently to the large
mortuary record of the colored people as
compared with the whites. We pointed
to Charlotte as an illustration. The vital
statistics of Memphis, Ten., show that in
1876 there were 652 deaths among the
whites, and 601 among the colored. This
rate, when the population is considered,
indicates 3J colored to 1 white. In July
and August the colored "mortality was
over live times irreater than it was
nmong the whites. These instances un
fortunately are exceptional. Neglect of
the laws of health, and the want of prop
er food and attention in sickness are the
chief causes no doubt 01 the excessive
mortality. Wilmington Star.
Tweed on the Stand.
Philadelphia Times.
Tweed is still making New York howl
with his revelations, and every time he
goes upon the stand he sits down on a
tender spot. On Saturdaj- that noble Re
publican reformer, ex-Police Commission
er Disbecker, got a centre shot in connec
tion with .Apgar, Deputy Secretary of the
State of New York. The former was one
of those truly good men who came into
place on the downfall of Tweed, but pre
vious to the decline of the ring he was
not above receiviug fifty dollars a month
from it for doing nothing. Mr. Apgar was
on a small salary as a stump speaker.
The old man detailed at considerable
length his mode of Securing the support
of the Albany newspapers, and repeated
what was generally known in 1870, that
the members of the ring corrected the
proofs of the articles which were to ap
pear in the Republican orgau, the Journal
and they were printed as corrected. The
most important portion of the testimony
of Saturday was that which gave to
Tweed, Hall and Sweeny the authorship
of the telegram to which Samuel J. Til
den's name was attached, that was sent
to the countr3' districts in 1863, asking
that the probable results of the election
in those districts be telegraphed to New
York at the close of the polls and before
the vote had been counted. Hostile or
gans have never missed an opportunhy to
put the entire responsibi.ity of this upon
Mr. Tilden, but he is thus happily clear
ed of a charge which few who knew any
thing about Irim believed.
'A Perilous Ride. A tramp concealed
himself yesterday under the coach of the
mail train of the W. W. R. R. aud
succeeded in evading the vigilance of the
conductor for at least fifty miles. The
tramp staddled an iron bar between the
i axle and bottom of the car holding hi en-
self in position by bracing against the air
; brake. It is yet to be ascertained how
' he wedged himself in between the axle
and car and
why it is lie did not fall off
Eeriev.
Wilmington
BRIEFS.
The Patent Office Fire Incendiary.
Washixgtox, Oct. U The committee
of inquiry conducting- the investigation as
to the origin of the "recent Patent Office
fire will, it is alleged, report that it was
the work of incendiaries.
"The following is all the space given iu
a Texas newspaper to a lynchiug: "Dud
ley Hansford was hanged by a mob of forty
men this morning, near his home, two
miles from Perry, in this county. Too
much cattle."
Hillsboro Recorder: The Rer. A. W.
Mangum, now Professor in the Universi
ty of North Carolina, is among those spo
ken of to succeed tlie Rer. Mr. Duncan,
deceased, late President of Randolph Ma-
. fWucWUlfi we admit the appro
priateness of sucii 1iiiiunaent, vre can ill
spare Mr. MuSgum from bis own distin
guished sphere of duties,
Mr. Blaine's Bangor Whig extends aid
and comfort to Conkling in this manner;
"It is enough now to know that the Re
publican convention of the Empire Stale
has emulated the 'stalwartness' of Maine
I and Iowa, and refused to hoist the 'Stars
and Bars' above the nag of the Union to
'conciliate' the gentlemanly White Leag
ues and Rifle Clubs of the South,"
Specials to the Philadelphia Times.
More Conspirators Against the Government
Arraigned.
Washington, Oct. 1. To-day, in the
Criminal Court, the case of Julius Wit
owski, Aaron Brummer, James T. Elliott,
Henry Fetterberg, James S. Oegley, Lew
is Pick and David C.Stewart, for couspir
acy to defraud the government b3T means
of a fraudlent claimed for $20,705 for tim
ber, alleged to have been furnished the
government in October, 1862, was called
Stewart and Brummer plead guilty and a
motiou was filed to quash the indictment
as to Witowski, the one of the parties
present besides Stewart and Brummer,
which was overruled. The case of Wit
owski was then proceeded with and the
jury selected.
Tltc Ohio ClerJis Told to go Home.
Washington, Oct. 1. Au order was
read in the Executive Departments to-day
to all whom it concerned, that all the Ohio
clerks in the departments could hare ten
days leave to go home to voto and that
pay for that time would not be deducted.
As no secret was made of the readiug of
the document it can hardly be possible
that it could be promulgated without the
consent of the Presidents Its dictum is
in flat contradiction of the position taken
by Secretary Schurz.
The Election in Connecticut.
Hartford, Oct. 1. The Hartford Dem
ocrats elected the entire ticket to-day by
majorities ranging from 250 to 500. There
are charges of extensive fraud in several
wards. By the new law minority repre
sentation is secured in wards of Select
men and Assesor. The vote in the State
on the two constitutional amendments
was light, but both are probably carried.
The first prohibited extra compensation to
public officers and the second prohibited
town aid to railroads.
Equinoctial. A letter from a gentleman
in Edenton, N. C, to a friend in this city,
dated October 1st, says :
"We had a terrible visitation in the
equinoctial gale just passed. Every pub
lic bridge, and ever3 water-mill in the
counties of Gates, Chowan, 'Perquimons,
Bertie, TjTrell and Washington are de
stroyed. The fisheries on the sound are
ereatlv damaged. The loss is immense."
Raleigh News.
The Preside nVs Vietcs of the Southern Peo
pie.
Washington, October 2. The Presi
dent, in the conrse of an interview, with
Hon. J. E. Leonard, Republican member
of Congress from Louisiana, this mora in
remarked that troin what he had seen
during his late trip to the South, he be
lieved that the whites of that section were
really anxious to accord to the colored
people their full civil and political rights,
and that his trip had strengthened him in
the conviction that his Southern policy
would redound greatly to the iuterest Of
the blacks, aud in whose welfare he had
always felt and should continue to fee
the deepest interest. The President also
stated that he had lately received renew
ed assurances from leading republicans o:
their support of his Southern policy.
Fears of a Coup T Etat in France.
London, Oct. 2. The Paris correspon-H
dent of the 17m telegraphs : It was ru
mored last niht that the Duke de Breglie
and M. Bert ban t had resigned from the
French Cabinet. This report, for the
present at least, is unfounded, but the
alarm which it created was ver3T remark
able. The apprehension of a forcible coup
d'etat by the government is so great here
that the resignation of the DukedeBrelie
and certain of bis colleagues who are
known to be opposed to such measures,
would be considered as a preface to a vio
lation of law, though it is hard to tell in
whose interest such a violation would be.
I know from a perferctly trust worry source
that the Empress disapproves of the gov- -Utm ft if Mf tho owner of
erument's course since the 16th of MayL... . 1
.
jnare expressed a similar disap-
Iproral.
This item is significant. Romish Priests
brget America is not Spain : ; v
"Chicago, Sept. 13. When the train
on the Illinois Central railroad arrived
ast evening, an officer-was at the depot
to arrest Fathert5rognn, who, according
to the story of the conductor and passen
gers, had without provocation thrown
from thenar windows during the trip two
t:i.i 1 j i At.-- 1 ' 1
Diuirs (iiaceu 111 wie racKH uy religious
Societies. He explained to the police au
thorities that he did so on account of the
obscene sketches which he found on the
fly-leaves, wid was released without bail."
Why didn't he tear out the fly-leaves
and throw them out the window t
A Tenacious ConstituencuMore of the
Railroad Fraud.
London-, Oct. 3rd. John Bennett twice
elected Alderman and each, time rejected ,
y the court of AliMM-.Mfci4t. ai.,
.t.i.g.iha duties of that position, has -
again been elected to that office.
A Derby correspondent of Leads "Mer
cury says Midland is the railway defraud
ed, fraud has been system atically carried
on for some time by some of its officers,
holding positions of responsibility, in
whom the utmost eonfidenee was placed.
Theprinclpal means by which the com
pany has been defrauded, has been by
persons erecting private dwelling houses
and other buildings, both for themselves
and other people, with material aud men
belonging to the compauy. Several of
the delinquents are, it is said, in prison.
It is rumored that others will be arrested
shortly.
THE SOUTH OF THE FUTURE,
Baltimore Sun. ,
That the South is coming once more
into position, andiu a spirit and temper
which will givo her as much influence as
she ever possessed, is becoming an agree
able fact to all but sectional, soured and
discontented partisans. She has learned
b3r calamity and Buffering such wisdom as
prosperity does not teach, and is never
likely to lose b- indiscretion and rashness
the power and political eminence she is
about to attain. The immense advanta
ges she has gained by Mr. llajes' policy
will be turned to no trivial account. The
St. Louis Republican remarks that Gov
Hampton, recognized as the most popular
man in the South, and the most faithful
and fearless representative of Southern
inion, should have made a speech be-
ore a ISorthern Illinois auuieuce that
evoked repeated and hearty outbursts of
applause, and that, if spoken at Augusta,
Charleston or New Orleans, would have
been equally applauded this itself is an
illustration of that remarkable address
and discernment which are bringing the
South agaiu into prominence and influ
ence iu nationlal politics. And, the Re
publican adds, "there is 110 help for it
even if there ought to be."
TAX COLLECTION BY MACHINERY.
The State of Virginia has adopted a ma
chine to make barkeepers and liquor sel
lers honest and to prevent their evading
the revenue tax on liquor sold at retail.
The apparatus which now must by law
decorate every Virginian bar is simply a
registering dial combined with mechanism
which whenever the index is moved ahead
sounds a bell. The dial indicates up to a
million drinks. Tarn peiiiir with it is pre
vented ly the peculiar seal, which consists
of a miniature tongue of brass that perfo
rates a bit of paper carefully fitted into
the lock. After this toutfue is in place,
the paper bears only a single perforation.
Au3' attempt to violate the seal will result
in defacing and tearing the paper, and this
will be sufficient to subject the saloon
keeper to prosecution under ther'r&w.
Two results have followed the introduc
tion of the invention, which might easHy -have
been anticipated. The tirst is that
the liquor men have raised the price of "
their beverages so as to cover the amount
which the3' are nowobliged to pa3' iu
taxes, and the t-ecoud is the production-of
devices to swindle the machine. Already
one enterprising individual lias begun us
ing a bell behind his counter having pre
cisely the same sound of the gong in the
machine. lie went through all the mo
tions of operating the latter, and the false
bell sounding made it seem asif the drink
had been properly registeretL-
A Curious Still. Seeing in our paper a
week or teu days ago, something aboo
very singular still in Lincoln count
friend is moved to tell us of one nea:
Troutmau's depot, on the Statesville rail
road which is made altogether of wood,
even to the worm. There is neither cop
per, brass nor iron about it, and it is said
4hat the brandy which is turned out from
it is the best that has ever beu made ;
men will pay fifty cents more 011 the gal
lon for it and the children in the neigh
borhood cry for it. We are told, further,
that the owner of it rups it iodepcndenfly
of the revenue officers, Dr. Mott having
said that the brandy made by it is not li
able to seizure though found unstamped,
since the internal revenue laws 011I3 cp.y
er brand3' made in copper or brass stills,
We guess, though, there is a mistake
about this; we hardly think: the construc
tion of the still of wood would warraut
such a construction of the revenue law :
I I II IK. I'lirillllH I'ilf: I 11 Vllffiff -F Ilin k M SI I f ir
tune before the law can be changed or
competition arise. Charlotte Obserrer.