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THE GREAT FBAl'D.
Va'orittf Report of the rotter Jnresti-
"a f ftwf Presidential Thefl
lri ")u Vrui'en-Tfie Great DangefoJ '7-
I i f . ' tji0arJ$ and- Federal Trwtpt at
Ivims Aof, Sheruta and Other
t -i titVrMiuiratonTilden and
tDVmfi fi Declared the Ileal Choice of the
eoiie4other favor to dc, dc.
L Wasiuxotoxi March 2. On Saturday
1 the Chairman of the Potter Inyestigating. counted, nnless the two Houses of Coii
f buuiuiitjee Bubuiittwl the, Kcport which . sluill otherwi'se agree. I h
'i' i,e bad frepjired to the Committee, and it xhe Report then argues that ths action
"I. Mi's adotetl by -a vote of six - Democrats f the Canvansing Board was not only
to i-tli-reej Kupubliraiis, 31 r. isutier oviug
V !
sWiit.
The three HepuidirniiH preiit, Menurs.
)liscxrkCox and will pn-pare a
nliMntf rcprt. - . 1
MrvHllcrwlrlrlp ii separate
f Mate(ncrt, giviiig his. views in reference (
j'- o the b:rjpiins;wifh" the Hayes party, by-;
! wliirh thr lemcrat recoveitnl the Stiites
I Hit .Soiith Carolina and Ionuiana.
Mr. Stinger, lieiiiocrat, u member of'
lLtli Coniittee, who was ehainnau of the
I tub-coin iu it tee which sat in Louisiana,
lias aW prepared a Ircport. :
I r t' lotfjr'i. Rpnort is nocti.ssiiiilv linr.
j ,ui, " . -. , '
I lis it deals .with all the Kiuts tliat have
beeti befoi-e the j Committee, except the
' cipher dispatches, 'which will be mady
tiie subject of a separate report, and prc
t seated to the Committee to-morrow.
i Mr. potter rejiorfc is regardel by the
Peinm-nits wlio hiive ionised it as siugii
ilrlv nil partial and judicial. It is entire-
v devoid both ot riieuHicai ornuineuta-
Stjoii and Jvitiipevative denunciation, and
.1
derives i t foii-e lely From a close logical
dediictioiof the rscts-pi-cscnted ly the
I Connuitti?. Some of .the Deuucnits re-
giird it as wauHug in color, or not sooniccis held the grossest power Over the
Isfrongly oppressed as, the facts warrant
iiid it is pot uulike1y. sonic member of
the Committee belonging to the party
Will prewjit an .additional expression of
tvh views more vigorously,
i 'Vl.u l.'rwii-h iiwn ivifli sm i ntriu1iif !in
which set fin tli what was proper for
doi)gieso investigate, and whatnot,
ami the: dfili nil ties of conducting an in
vestigation into criispirucics which have
bk'ii snccL'ssfuUy; carried out, while the
iRaecessUii,: pariy reuiains in power, it
admits that the; confessions of the con
Hpirators.. who have- become dissatisded
ahionnt to but little but ioiiits to the
f.i-t, not ghiernlly uuderslootl, thatalout
'tfte essential fta tares' of the election and
canvas i Florida and Louisiana there
kiio suksfautial dispute before theXom
mittee tin; Republicans having called
no witnessc's in' Flowda atNalI, and but
far in Loaisi;ina, except as to the conduct
jof the visif in g statesmen, sind incideutal
11 aWTit intimidation.
It dismisses entirely the testimony of
Anderson, Jcnks, Mrs. Jenks, Weber,
afld liht i class of witnesses, and deals
with tliccasu unon the creucral confrolliiur
alone, ' ' ; i
Thff Report is divided into three parts,
I the iirst f which refers to Florida, Hie
;e'cond to Ltuisiana,lind the third to the
I aljege J nrjed election certificates.
ginuiiig with Florida, it cites the
I laW dirtijiig electors to be appointed by
the voies cast, and the Returning Board
to can rass the Votes cast, and claims that
tlic Tilden electors, having received a
inftjority jf the votes east in the State,
thereby necessarily entitled to be
dttlaied elected ; and that the.Cauvass
ing Hoardtby rejecting, without warraut
f'-;ortipni of Hie votes, so as to
Khow tlienuijority for' Hayes, unlawfully
counted llldeu out;' The Cauvassiuir
lnrd, it recites, delayednhis announce-
WtUt Ulitl tliH mnraiiiff nf tli ilnr n
ich tli electors were to meet aud vote,
" iat, although action was instantly
t!jeu jo oiis t the Hayes electors by the
Tide.n.ecJors, 'decision, could lw luul
til the Hayes electors had met that
same nftenuHHi and voted.
; lie jlenort then recites the indirmeut
Jf the Supreme Court, which subsequent-
'3 ieciuea that the Haves electors were
iH eiecteaj;nor ! entitled to vote for the-1
fetate and that the Tildeii electors were ;
the judginent of the Court in the
action bro,t by Drew, the Democratic
adidate Governor, toobtain a re
auTasaere the Court directed a re-
won .,ss ami decided that the Returning
d, in refusinc t count th nitM m
Iiad defraifded Drew, and unlawfully
4xcatc&is.; ,-The Legislature of the
tetheieKn du-ected a recan vass of
m electond vote in acconlauce witii this
fyiV1 the rSupreme Court, the
JnfSes of uhich were Republicans, and
t he recau vais showed the Tilden electors
chosen. j The Govemir then issued his
ceif ificate to the Tilden electors, as the
ue elector, but the Electoral Connnis
J"j refund: to consider the Judgment of
the Court t!i e xi r .
- i : i 'i' -huh vi me xiegisiniure,
me certificates giveu by the Gov
ernor in favor of tlie Tilden electors, and
I V'. : . W
r ic could not tako notice of any
7t u D pe State after the 6th of De-
wiuuer. ,i . :u.
i. ti - ii ; -s v !
., V ttcporirtws, attention to the fact
Hi -11 a ronS miglit be repeated in
flnJotate. a BW jii.!.!...!.! .i ... "
ibv M i. J iMwiuciiuni eiecuon,
V Jie canvassers withholding their an
rccnJent of the rosnlf f lft
: l5X:Uie m fixed for the meeting of ll.i
t ectoral College, and then
" ".ucver oeen yoiea tor at an,
to be electors, .when, according ,to tliis.cast' notwithstanding, ntileli.
Iwieion, tliey i would be entitled . irrevo -
cau,y st vote 01 me rjLare. ac,
therefore, recommends -a taw providing
that wnere there was a diapute as(to who
were the real electors, the gndgment of
Court of J last' resort, if certiHed to
Congress before, the meeting of the two
Congress before, the meeting of th
Houses of Congress to receive and count '
the electoral vote, shall be conclusive as
to the right of the disputing electors, and i
(f whic vote ! from the i State shall be
ivgt tnt fnuululeuf, arid cites the in-
Totc
on unwarrantably' tf rounds, aim
refused to reject fraud ulljut lJep
voti, as illustrating thisJ V
ublican
irdeals at length wltli jtheclaim of the
limblicans that they were eutitletl to
tlio' vito of the Sratejithe face of the ;
retnrus. by reason of thej'Driggcrfi-aud, j
I by which a bogus return from Baker
county
was furnished tle Canvassing
Board, which they at first rejected, but
which, after they were oMiered tolcouut
the vote us cast,.-Jliey:i fraudulently ac
cepted iu place of the true! return.
r It then deals with the conduct of the
visitiug statesmen,-and particularly with
that of Mr. Noyes," as contrasted ' witld
that of Geueraf Francis C! Barlow, whose
integrity, iudepcndeiice aud fidelity to all
his obligations, and at the, same time his
justice, fairness and truth, the Report
esjecially commends. ; U !
In regard to Louisiana, the Report be
gins with a 'reference to the "power pos---sessed
by tlie Returning Board, which,lit
says; never beforu existed elsewhere.;
Under it the electors and the returning
rtceiviug aim couuiiug oi lie votes. ! un
der the pretext that the color line divided
the political parties, thejr had nsel this
power to fraudulently coniit the State for
the Republican, and had jbeeu exposed
by the Republican Com mittee of the
Fftrty-thiitl Ctmgress, which had leported
that the whites and blacks of the State,
being eaual,-uiMl some of the blacks aud
all the whites having voted fr the Dem
ocrats in 1874, the State his necessarily
beeii carrietl by tliem) although counted
for the Republicans. 'here,upon the
Republicans twt t about a false ceusus, in
which tliey f made it appear that there
were 25,000 more" black j voters in the
Stsite than white, aud. as illustrating the
fraudulent nature of this ceusus, the Re
port refers to the fact that, while this
dMisus reported but 57,000 ccdored men,
women and children in New Orleans, it
made out of them nearly 25,000 colored
voters. It then instances the fraudulent
rcgistratiou that was based npou this
fraudulent census, whereby it was made
to appear that the registered Republican
voters exceeded the white voters- in the
State more than 25,000, while actually
there were no more, and, the refusal of
the authorities to correct this false" regis
tration in the cases where; its. falseness
was poiuted out. J.
From this the Report ; proceeds to touch
upon the directions given by the Repub
lican Campaign Committee to the elec
tion officers, requiring them to return the
votes according to the census, - that is,
stating that the colored vote by that cen
sus in a certain parish was so much,! and
that they were expected to return a Re
publican vote corresponding to that, if
they were over to have any reward or
preferment. j
Notwithstanding "this organized fraud,
says the Report, when the elections were
over the Democrats had a majority, as
returned by the Republican election offi
cers, of some ten thousand, the vote
polled Wing the largest ever polled in the
State, and larger in proportion to tho
population than that of other States.
The Republican officers made returns of
the voteaccordingly, aud ; declared! that
the election was perfectly pcacefulj and
fair. Tlie conspirators, in order over
throw tlds majority, usurped powers uot
giveu to them.
Tlie Report then deals with the ques
tion of intimidation, and endeavors to
show how- it. was utterly impossible for
the-Democrats to gain anything b' it.
because the Returning, Board had been
created on purpose to neutralize auy
such action, Jby ; throwing out votes iu
localities where it should prevail.
As to tho conspiracy in East Feliceiua
Parish, the Report states 'that after thei
Democrats had got control of the negro
vote there, Kellogg and Auderson, j who
tircre the supervisors, f wanted td have no
election, and Anderson fraudulently ran
away with that view, meaning thereby to
tiirow the parish out, as Grand.1 Parish
had heeu thrown out, by tlje Supervisor
of Registration abscutiug himself on elec-,
tiondayj, notwithstanding that the 1 other
officers held the election and. made! due
retufii'of the Totei Tho ' Democrats in
East Feliceiua, knowing that they had
captnred the negro vote, hired Anderson'
to go back ami hold the election. The
Republicans then hit upon a new plan,'
and directed their friends in the parish
not to vote. They sent outl word to them
not to come to the polls, and refused to
permit buy tickets to be printed or issued
for them, and exercised their influence to
withhold their own vote, entirely.
Eighteen thousaud registered rotes were
4,500 Anderson Lad prevented from being
poueu, i maae auonc a,uw ueniocruuc
votes whereas the whole Tote of the
parish at previous elections, on both
sides, had not exceeded 25,000. ,The
Republicans witltheld from casting any
Tote at all. and subseqnently made a
claim that such was the State of terrorism
existing at the time of the election that
none on their side could vote.
The Report refers very briefly to
the alleged bargain by which Hayes, who
bad 3,000 votes less thau Packard, could
count in, while Packard went out, and
mentions Mr. Sherman's effort to prove
intimidation, pointing out that the evi
dence was not produced whenever the
Committee offered to receive it; how re
peatedly it had been offered, and how re
pcatedly they were met by some excuse
fur not producing it Cffiftr theyt "had ex
vanjind many of the witnesses that were
befire the Retumiug Board, who, in
almost every instance recanted and ex-
plained how they came to make their false
affidavit in the first place, and bow such
statements as they made before the Re
turning Board were totally unfounded.
It then refers to the Sherman letter iu
regard to which it simply states the facts
as they stand, attempting to show that the
letter was actually written and largely j
influenced political action in Louisiana,
and drawing attention to the attempt on
tho part of Mrs. Jenks, whoso husband
and brother are employes of the Treasury
Department, to induce the Committee to
produce a forged letter iu Hie interest of
Mr. Sherman.
The Florida imrtion' of the Report is
followed by a list of all the persons con
nected with the election who have been
upiiointed to ollice, and tho Louisiana por
tion by a. still longer list of the persons in
that state appointed to office.
The third part of the Report deals with
the forged electoral certificate, and at
tempts to show how the Republicans, be
lieving a uew electoral certificate was ne
cessary, and how defective the first certifi
cate was under the constitution, and
which the Vice President refused, secretly
manufactured auothcr, and how they ante
dated it, and made it iu the paper and
printing to resemble tho one previously
made; how they had very little time to pre
iwre it, aud how it was impossible to get
all tho electors iu New Orleans to sign it
within that time; that, therefore, it became
a necessity to forge two signatures to the
triplicate papers; that there were eighteen
forged signatures, which were attached on
December 21), in a small upper room iu
the Senate building in charge of Conquest
Clarke; how tho making of this second
certificate was concealed until it was pro
duced before Congress; how, when it was
referred to the Commission, it was not
read, but ordered to be printed, and the
printer who changed, and the Electoral
Commission were served with two copies
of the forged "certificate, perfect in form,
and no copy of the genuine defective cer
tificate; how after the Commission ' luul
decided, the record of the Commission
was changed so that the forged certificate,
which really was before the Commission,
was suppressed, aud the record made to
show as if the real defectiyo certificate
had been considered aud passed upon.
. The Report theu recites how all the per
sons connected with the business have
beeii appointed to office, and the suspici
ous circumstances connected with the ap
pointment of some particularly pointing
out that Kellogg, aud Clark, his private
secretary,: were privy to the forgeries,
and that the latter is now clerk in the
Treasury.;
The Report winds up with a refereuce
to the danger of Returning Boards, and
yet greater danger of controlling elections
and protecting Canvassing Boards by Fed
eral troops; and, above all, to the! danger
with which the country is threatened by
reason of the enormous patronage centred
iu the. Presidency j which makes the Pres
idential office a prize so great that, in order
to control it, the grossest violations of
the law and frauds may be expected on
the part of those who desire to profit by
that patronage.
! It coueludes with the statement that
that' the' full effect was not given to
the.' electoral, votes of Florida and
Louisiana; that Noyes, Sherman and
others eucouraged this result ; that the
second certincate irom Louisiana was
forged as to two of its names; Kel
logg and Clark being privy to it ; that
Tilden and Hendricks received a true
majority of the electoral vote, aud were
the real choice of the People of the United
States at the last Presidential election.
'; SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS.
' Special to tlie Richmond Dispatch, 1st.
Washington, Feb. 28. The committee
finished the legislative appropriation bill
to-night, and . the Senate will have an
animated dissuasion over the supervi
sors', amendment. 'All the Democrats
will advocate it, and the vote will be a
party one. j Its defeat may be regarded
as certain. ; Your, correspondent cannot
see how the Democrats of the House, even
after a conference report, can yield in their
determination to Tote for it. On the other
hand, many persons here of experience
andjudgmfot, say they will back down
in order to prevent an extra session. A
few days will decide it,
STATE DEBT TROUBLE.
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Some of our friends are agood deal dis
turbed about the State debt Someimong
WVJIUlVUib
them are shocked at the idea of offering
to pay fifteen cents f for eEch dollar that'i
they think the State honkly owes, and !
know that she does owelt They don't )
like repudiation. Otheri who think that i
the debt to the Northern; bond-holders is
no debt at all,: dislike the notion of ac
knowledging tlie debt, nottiaying it, and
thereby becoming liable tojthe charge of
repudiation. Others, agaii, look only to
the practical results in the shape of taxa
tion. These fears are all probably heed
less. The debt will Je paidj to the North
ern bondholders ; there will be neither
repudiation nor taxation. We do j hot
mean that the Legislature will adopt the
rlnn nf fliA Senator frnm Trivilfll fur it lii
rejecte4itr-Tb lsaaolhl
Some time since a distinguished citizen
of Charlotte was in 'New York, and in
conversation With a rather pompous
bondholding banker be was asked by the
i . t xT..i. ri: ' . 1.1
liioci 11 ui voiviiuar nvuiu A'aJr
her debt. l i
"Yes," was the reply ; 'sho is able to
pay it, and she is going to do it."
"What I will she pay tbe whole debt,
old aud new at par Tn
Yes,w replietl the Carolinian.
"How V inquired tlie bondholder.
"She will pay it,M was the reply, "in
negroes, valued at $1,000 each."
"Oh J but we have freed your negroes,"
was the respouse of the banker.
"But," retorted tlie North Carolinian,
"we have got your money for our bonds."
Not a few think this is about the ouly
way in which there will be a settlement.
We. are very heavy losers by it, but
would be willing to call it square. io.
Observer.
JEFF DAVIS TO BE PENSIONED.
Special to the Richmond Dinpatch, 1st.
Washington, Feds 28. To-night, ou
motion of General Shields, the Senate
amended the House arrearages tiension
bill so as to give any one who. served iu
the Mexican war a pension from date,
thus placing on au equality the Mexicau
war soldiers with the soldiers of the
wars of 1812 and 18G1. The bill -then
passed-j-ay es, 33 ; noes, 20 and leading
members of the house say it will also pats
that body. While it was a surprise to
mauyvSciiators, I know, twenty States
had instructed Iu favor - of doing justice
to the gallant men who served iu Mexico.
The first declaration of the Republicans
was, "Why it will give Jefl'erson Davis
and leading Confederate Generals pen
sions." Buiuside voted for it, and Morrill
declared it would increase the iensiou
appropriation twenty millions and what
of that, when nearly a hundred millions
have recently been voted northern sol
diers t Some Senators who voted for the
ameudiuent did not think it would pass.
Senator Windom gave notice that he will
move to reconsider tho vote by which the
arrearages peusiou bill passed a little
while ago. This means that an effort is
to be made to defeat the pensions to the
Mexican veterans, but they are stronger
thau the extreme Radicals imagine in the
Semite. '
The intelligent and trustworthy Wash
ington correspondent of the Richmond
State tells how jScnator Eustis, of Louisi
ana, showed up Blaine's inconsistency :
"After awhile Senator Eustis, of Louis
iana, took advantage of it and so com
pletely demolished Blaine that he did not
attempt a reply, although he was special
ly referred to and asked again and again
to reconcile the fact that throughout the
debate he had denounced the Chinese and
declared that the two races could not live
together in peace without the interposi
tion of force, yet whenever he had occa
sion to speak of race troubles in the South
he always dononnced the white race and
sought to force them to live iu peace with
the blacks. Eustis was in favor of the
bill becatise he would avoid nice troubles.
Whenever races so distinct as the blacks
and whites, or Chinese and whites, live
together there will some timo be violence
and bloodshed. ; These tliiugs sometimes
happened in Lonisiana, yet Blaine always
denounced the white people for a couditiou
of affairs! that his own logic proved to be
inevitable. This line of remark was pur
sued at much length and with great ef
fect ; then he skillfully drew a parallel be
tween the condition of the Chinese and
the negroes, and affairs iu California and
Louisiana. There the Chiuese came into
competition with white laborers, and did
not seek jor exercise political power, while
in the South the negroes, withont a histo
ry, vHthojut civilization, and without ed
ucation, were made citizens and placed
in power iover the white people."
Tliey do things witfr dispatch in Texas
A man in! a certain neighborhood who
had lost a valuable mare received the fol
lowing teegram : "Mare here. Come get
her. ' Thief hung."
Josh Billings asks and answers as fol
lows: "What is au editor? An editor's
bisncss is to write out ) editorials, grind
out poetry, sort manu cripts, keep a mighj
ty big waste basket, steal matter, lite
other people's battle's, take white beans
and apple sass for pay when be can get
it, work nineteen hours out of twenty
four, and be scolded by everybody."
A baby imagines that he can sleep
all day and cry all night, and still be
the 'darling of the household." On
this rock jwe split,
- Ebjkty Tears Historical TIeW
Fashionable people, as well as states
a- v I I -
r . i :-
men, like the excitement ' of politics; In
" " F 1'.' ' ' I i
vul "w,u couotr a 8,n,P,, rresioent is a
8Jddaniler "odd visitors and Spec
nUti'? dcnt8. president ' Jefferson,
mo 80 .years ? ago, grossly 'out
r!lged I??lte iet J V rilxxmg . to con-
4 r " uu lcUi1 V)J receptions j
and everybody remembers how be offend
ed tbe ladies,' when Washington ' had not
i f f!uPif
lnV?Siefenlion,
in uiuuuy wools aiter. xuey naa caned ;to
see him. Madison fidlbweU hinv wit his
jolly Dolly,, who established
a1 sort of
dangerous sentiineut , in ber receptions.
Tlie next Presiden,4 Monroe was as cold
as an iceburgtff John Quincy Adamsjwas
the. embodiment of , nnrcspousive i New
1828-12U, and although: by no means a
ladies man, wrecked bis first cabinet ou
account of Mrs. Timberlake. Mr. Van
Buren succeeded him, and made a Knick
erbocker society in the White House ; but
he was so genial that- even his nanghty
sou John could not extemporize a scandal
for him. Then we had General Harrison.
who died before bis regime was a month
old, giving way to Johu Tyler, with; his
airy son, Robert, and they went on in a
row with the Whigs, so neglected because
they had no party of their own, that no
body seemed to care if they were baii or
good. James K. Polk aud Mrs. Polk
came iu 1846. At last we had a real
lady in the White House stately, south
ern aud sate ; nothing could be more
attractive. All their four years' reijrn
was socially blameless and respectable.
They were followed by General Taylor ;
his household, Colonel Bliss and his
handsome wife. But as old Zach died at
the end of his first year, that dream was
soon over, leaving Mr. Fillmore to eke
out the term ; cold, conservative and
telush. Along came dashing Frank
Pierce, but his wife was au invalid, and
his ouly sou was killed in a railroad ac
cident a month before his father was in
stalled ; that administration, like nearly
all the rest, was conducted almost without
a woman. When Frank Pierce left,
James Buchanan came in with his niece,
Miss Harriet Lane, as mistress of the
White House. Nothing could have been
more cheeriug ; her reigu was one of
roses, aud she was immensely esteemed.
She lives to-day, much loved as the
handsome wife of a Baltimore banker.
Mr. Lincoln succeeded, but the rebellion
turned the White House into a semi
military barrack, aud his administration
closed with his assassination, leaving
Mrs. Lincoln, his widow, a liviug ruin.
The accidency that rose ou his grave
made no social mark, though nothing
could have been more reputable than the
ladies of A. Johnsou's family. General
Grant, of all his predecessors, seems to
have been most fortunate iu his wife and
children. He had eight years of civil
and domestic comfort. His successor,
Mr. Hayes, is having an equally pleasant
experience.
Such is the brief domestic record of the
Presidency since the door of tlie nine
teenth century was opened. The first
and second chief magistrates, Washing
ton and Johu Adams, had no special do
mestic happiness to exempt them from
the rule. The retrospect .is curious and
interesting. During these 80 years the
Old World has beeu drenched iu blood to
maintaiu its several governments. Eng
land alone has held her sway without
alteration. Frauce, Germany, Italy, Aus
tria, Belgium, and Holland have all been
the alternate prey of revolution and
anarchy. All have been swept by war or
subjected to change. The social element
has suffered conspicuously. Queens have
beeu deposed with their kings. Courtiers
have fled for refuge to foreign lands.
Aasassiuations have preceded and snpjjc-
mcutcd great wars. Fashions have passed
away with dynasties. But through all
there is oue profound truth, that mankind
is happier in the mass in the sunset of
the century than it was in the dawn.
Certainly, the most stable government is
the Anglo Saxon. Where the Eng
lish language is spoken, and English
laws administered, there has been a great
aggregate of hnnian happiness. Such
is the retrospect of 80 years, or rather
since the election of George . Washington
iu J789. The aggregate is before the
world, aud there is no place where it cau
be more profitably studied than in the
city of Washington, and no page of it is
more interesting than that which records
the inner life of over sixteen Presidents.
Forney 't Progress.
TOBACCO PROSPECTS AT WASH
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Special to the Bichmond Dispatch, 1st. :
Washington, Feb. 23. This morning
Messrs. Tucker, Cabell, Robbins, Beaje,
Scales, Harris, Boone, Davis of North
Carolina, Banning and others represen
ting tobacco districts, called on Mr. Hayes
and showed him how important it is to
the interests of the country that the bill
reducing the tobacco tax should become
a law. In a proper spirit they used the
arguments calculated to place the subject
before him in its true light and while he
nntl.i'nir frt indiVnfo 1 what he will do
' Jt was evidenfcihat the delegation made! a
good, impression. Others will call s and
see him. . The tobacco men have not dis
continued their work, not will they until
the biU.is signed and has become a law of
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'.The IIljner Cfrilizcd."'
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sS.jThe.young man whcommitted.the
highWay robbery , in Fifth - Avenue,
Newj York hy robbi ng a lady "of be
diond;ar-ring in ' hroad dayI(ght
a w&k?orlw1a
MnfoBsraAn jtq
twenty; years imprisonmeut. . lie hadH
recently served a term of two - and, a
half jears in the penitep Jiary for grandj
larceny The caseJV.ilInarkaiie1
at the trial, who applauded "the pris
oner's counsel whenever he assured
the Jury that if Mrs. Debary had not
been a lady of position in society no
such efforts would have been made to
arrest and punish his client. Kvery
Juror was challenged and asked the
unusual qnestious'Areyoii married?"
"Does you wife wear jewelry in the
streets?" After two hours twelve men
were found whose wives do not wear
jewelry in the streets. After being
sentenced the prisoner was taken to
the Tombs, "surrounded by a crowd
of his friends, who seemed to regard
him iu the light of a conquering hero."
Wiiat a population this is, where men
dare thus' to manifest their sympathy
and respect for a felon ! H. in Ral
eigh Observer.
From the Charlotte Obs Tver.
Darwinism not Philosophical
nor to be Dreaded. The opera
tions of nature iu her history are not
evolutive but segrative aud aggrega
tive. The end of Darwiuism is, there
fore, but a collection of singulars and
not philosophy. It may, however,
serve the purpose of promoting inves
tigation and add to our knowledge of
facts, .and so far prove to be useful ;
but beyond that it reminds me of the
disappointment of dogs who run a
trail made by the dragging of a dead
fox's tail. ' They find the lifeless tail,
but no fox.
The four English scientists, Tyu
dall, Huxley, Spencer and Darwin,
have doubtless demonstrated them
selves to be magnificent sensationalists
but the intelligent physiognomist mar
vels that such faces should outcrop the
brain of the profound phislosopher. Let
us, hovever, wait for the end indeed of
their labors. Nature lias freaks ; she
sometimes introduces monstrosities to
variasrate tiresome uniformity. Let
Tyndall pursue his atoms, Huxley his
protoplasm, Silencer his hetcrogenity
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and homoirenitv. aim uarwin ms
monkey; these pnrsnits were fasliir n
able more than two thousand, years
ai'O, vet the banner of the cross waves
iu triumph ov-r the remains of those
who introduced them. "It is the eye
of childhood" that dreads a fiction.
J. F. G.'Mittaq.
Josh Billings on the Weather.
When roosters are observed before
daylite-in the mornin, soreing amung
the klouds, and uttering lamenta
shuns, then look out for some sunden
weather.
When you see 13 geese, walking
injun file and toeing in you kan de-
liberately bet your last surviving
dollar n a hard wintar, and a great
flnctuoitsness during the next season
in the price of cowhide boots..
When spiders are seen climbing up
the wall backwards, and frogs cough
as the they had the hickups, look out
for rain ; this is also a sure sign that
children will have the measles light.
If bees hang around their hives,
and mules are seen in a brown study,
a storm of sum kind is cooking, and
you will notis the market for herring
is very; shifty. ,
Jis before a heavy snow storm, ov
3 three foot deep, chimbly swallows
are uncommon skarse, and in the
moral world there is great laziness
in' the agitashun ov the tempeiauce
question.
If ptgs squeal in the night, and
erass-hoppers cum pph ov theirroost,
and mingle in free fight yu may hope
for high winds in a few weeks, and
also the typhus fever in your uabor-
hood. ;-m- -i
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IMrs, ilsadore -Middled -4
aumurwvraan, ana one nf ih
P11 P4nl certainly -test8 of IKa 1 ?!
dsscssion pf as mncherveand'feii 1 H
r: wum;c1ja arc, oiten Vntii-
saed tQnny bf her sei.ta lhh-
F !1 " s e was in ber bond tor
Ittfiur avavsoniArTr7rf tilL
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pos itionaibrary:- lam d 'that va. f - !
Jjutning upon i chair InJ the "back part w
of ihe roonihad s thrown I npoathe 1
Prn?t :d,irV;f :- hifl feetihe ' -i
shw of imknhrj;wIscTonchine "I" - j
WCM inrvl -Tner mom? :.tf&3iJSm
She also remarked that the ODen
hand of the shadow had but two fin
gers, and remembered that several
desperate burglaries had recently been
committed ?n the neighborhood,5 $up
poitiously by a negro desperado, who
was notorious as having lost two fin
gers of his right hand.
Mr. Middleton wasibsent from the
city, and besides herself in the house,
there was but a single maid-servant.
Instead offalnting with fear, or shriek
ing; for help, the brave lady sealed
herself at very table underneath
which the piiscreant was concealed
and rang for the servant. - i v
"Maud me the writing materials.
Bridget," said she, with perfect'calm
nesfe, "I want you to take a note this
nstantto Mr. Forfa r, the ieweler.
and have him send ybu back with
my j diamond necklace I aud eardrops
which I left there fin repairs several
days ago. Bring them with you, no
matter if fully repaired or not. They
are by twenty-fold the most valuable
articles of jewelry that I possess, and
I do not wish to pass another night
without having them in a bureau
drawer." I
The note was at once written and
dispatched, but instead of being, in
the tenor that she had signified, (on
purpose for tlie couceared robber to
overhear, for she had no jewelry un
der repair,) it was a hasty notelolthe
jeweler, an intimate friend, in which
she succinctly stated herterrible posi
tion and urged him to hasten to her
relief, with the requisite police : assis
tance, immediately on receipt of the
missive. 1
j The agonies which that refined and
delicate woman underwent when left
alone in the house with the conscious
ness of the presedce of that desperate
robber, perhaps assassin as .well,
crouched under the very table upon
which she leaned, and perhaps touch
led by her skjrts, can only bc!eiYt(
the reader's imagination ; but her iron
per ve sustained her through the vor
ileal. She yawned, huminedan oper
atic air, turned over the leaves of a
novel, and in other ways lulled -the
hirker into a -sense of perfect '-security-,
and expectancy, and waited, Waited,
with a wildly beating heart, and her
eyes fastened upon the- hand : of her
little ormulu clock with a greedy,
feverish gazej .
At last, hdwever-, came, tlie prayed
for.relief. There was a ring at the
door bell, and she strolled carelessly
into the hall and down Stairs to open
it. The ruse had been a success. She
not only admitted Bridget, but also
Mr. ST-orfair and' three stalwart pd
licemcn. The latter passed stealthily
Up stairs on tlie boudoir, where they7
suddenly pou heed upon the concealed
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burglar so unexpectedly as to secure
Him rith hardly ;a struggle. r
The prisoner proved foJe a negro
criminal nam&l .Clapman, but mostly,
known as 'Two Fingered Jetty who
yas in great request about that time"
for several robberies committed in the
neighborhood
ia short time before.
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and he is now
sentence in the Alabama State pri-
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j Wilmingtoii Siarx The father and
grandfather of Secretary McCrary, of
tlie Wfar Denarlmenti'ere born in
Ii-edeilcoanty
the Secretary- is quite
proud of his North Carolina blood;
Soapsuds water is an excellent
liquid manure
for some garden crops,
especially for
eel ery," and if appl ied
every 'other day during its growing
season, the stocks will be crisp and
of a mammoth size. fi4 t
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