North Carolina Newspapers

The Carolina Watchman, ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR 18S2. PKICK, $1.60 IS ADVANCE. r. -r'" -i -"r CONTRACT ADVERTISIR G KATES. . A i , - 1 month tm" SnVB m's Urn's' I acnes tone for -irwo for Taree lor vnur for fl.W i f2.W J.00 4.W 4.50 S.00 .00 7.50 7.50 1 .75 H.M 115.75 i S6.25 p. 54 f Sfi.OO So, 6,28 J J. BO 7.60 1 11.00 ! 15.00 V.00 j 13.C0 18.00 11.85 ; ie.so as.uo 2.t0 25.MI 40.10 column forj - a i s JOM'SrHOTCHIlISOH; DEALER IX Italian ana Americailltlaitle Monuments, Tombs"' arid Gravestones, ur r. i . leing a practical marble-worker, U enable of executing any piece of work from th lie me i t ri mo elaberatein 'an article plameat W J "f f"..f : -..i flrt4 ' Tl " II.a mnal iTtolinvlilltrMI. I I fJall aM exfcalne ni Stock and pricw Be i ?fc.-iiif2-a TwiUWll at the very low- vt fricea. J $ , " iDcienn sno' estimates for any desired wort will be furni-Iied on application, at nexfTdoOf t.J.DrMcNeely'atore. y , S.lUbnry;NYe; March 4t 1SSL " R -R! CRAWFORD & GO. 'AUK SELI.IX0 !: PORTABLE FARM AHD FACTORY i-- STEAM EKGISEi " : -AI.SQ- w ' ii rm m and Caps.- t RIFLE PONDER i:il8.! tVt Of ": Oj our own and' Foreign make and cro;a the i'iaest iu the ?iii-apct. DnHtn.T OltnrnTitin T:Tnvrrnvfl 1 nu I m .Jn tttit i h n J-nT!- LDSIUUL- UUai&lUiJii -lU'jWDitk fiiors3 Bakes, &c. aliiiiurj, . Jan.-G, I . J... V. U. IjAI LhV. ; 154 ATT0SN .YS AND COUNSSLLGRS, CIIAftLOTTE, S. C. Prattle in 'Stipreiu. Court of the t'iritfd . Slated Supreme Court of 'onh Carolina, Kedtrrnl Conrli, and C'ouiitiis of Mvckleiihurg, Cabarrus Union, Gaston, Row an and David Mi. a tOrace, two' doors eafil of fndepen ' denceo tiurts. . tt:-if J. X.XCCOBKLR. .:: THEO. F. KI.UTTZ. McjDORBXE & KLUTT2, .ATTORNEYS AKp qySELORS,; ,A on. Couiutil Street, opposite the CuutiJHourte. ,,7;Cru EIttCRA10E, - ' L. H.CLEMENT. CRA1GE & CLE&1EKT, f F.l, SJL1SBCRY. N. C. 1SS1, J i33 0.' G2?.ITA!T, PActices n- the State and Federal iCoart, m. 12;0m j rAi? acipr ana Hesteei, Counselors. - r and Solicitors. .u-i-w-tJ 'i.tn S fa l. i DEFERRED ITEMS Pioneer Press. Extracts from Ex-Cove rner Hollens Address Tie- Carolina,! June issj, orpine llLaory of journal- uut iu iu ouie. - .. i . Hon. Ibllo White, IX. D, ras born In Wliltes- """H""" iii,,uiiJu,uH. Alter uucncun? a tew year In Utica, he removed to North Carolina, an i la 1S20 settled la Salisbury, and became; editor of the Western Carolinian. In l&W he was appointed navy afrent for the Pacific Station. Returning home on the nth or November, 1834, he established the Xnrth Carolina Standard In RaleUrh. and was elect I ed State printer. At taak.tlma. the-ttrateTDrinter . received a salary 'ot $900 pen yerf-whlrh covered ever"thlnp paper, toidleg'. strtclirnff and binding. iu ub uisposca oi me biasxant to J nomas uor- the navy, 'and held Ho was one ot the toundexs of " Racine college, and and State. the autlor of the system of plank roads, sin 1856 Racine College conferred on him the honorary de gree of doctor ot lavs. la 148 he waa consul at Hambnrp, Germany; and In 1853 he was i United States mfni-rter to the Republic of- Ecuador, la 1S5 he returned to his native place, Whltestown, where he still 11 res. la the 63 year of his agejcloslng happily and honorably a Ion? We devoted to bis country, to society, and to hosts of friends, i In lsaj he married Nancy It, Hampton, of Salisbury, His olJet child. Mary, was the nisi wife of Hon. John State. Several years ajro his first wife-died. . cms. aiierwarus luncre. una irovernor of the and as :lc Me, proof of las jraluulry and his Jove of domes! ie has recently married a second time : and irialnlnir years, and those of his excellent, consort. his re i are aevoieu to works ot benevolence and cnarity in his native town. - L Tle Uvcsofs-jch men as Philo Wblte and fedward Hale may Justly be regarded as benefactions to mankind ; and Ue real but modest tame whfloh en circles them, mellows and glows, more and mere, as they approach what men call death: E "Nor love thy. life, nor hate ;but what thou 111 vest law well: hoar, loaz or short permit to heaven.1, a The labors tf Jlr. White for ten years as editor of mi: 4 the WtuUrn Curuiiuian, were arduous and incessant ite was preceaea oy air. Lemmuei Kingnam. jut. Xlngham and himself got-out the first publication deserving the name of newspaper in all that region of the State between Virginia and South Carolina, stretching westwardly iromrHHk-borougb; to the Tennessee line. ilr. White pervaded all this region In person or by ids Daner. diffusing licrbt and esiab- rUsulng mall routes for the Leneili of the people. m r. v mte inus concuiacs one ot lis rccuii icuers to mei ' ' ' I -ing obliged to leave Raleigh in 1837, to attend to my lather's landed latemt In the northi-west, I transXerreJdthes.'diidrttoTnoma.s lAring,ot whose management of the paper no one cau know more lhauyotirself. It was auioag the painful lucMemsof our lives, for raysulf -and family to be severed from our residence in the Stat e and from tiocial lnwr course with our many friends there ; and I may here be allowed to reiterate the llJe-long sentlhient of my heart, tliat 1 aliall ever cherish a deep affection fet tnegood old. North state. -my political foster mother, whose very soitl reverence, as within it the dearest objects that ever Mvettened lay existence and blessed my sojourn here on earth, lie entomb ed." - Speaking of Mr. Hale, Mr. White snyy; ('Edward J. Hale, our mutual and most-excellent friend, was contemporaneous with in;"lf s.s a louruallst, he always at Fayetievllle, aiic i -t SiUisbury hhd ltal eigh ; a.nl to ulni I must awarJ the honor jof being the piUUruh of journalism lu Nortn Carolina, for he was propnbi) longer continuously In the harness as printer, editor ana owner of one among the flrst cUs newspaptrs in the State, than any ojtlur maa now riving." j " - atih For the Watthman.' Mr. Editor: We had n Biiiftijlig mntfh nt St. VmiV ChuTth, last Saturday. The day was line and was -hailed. with He liyht by- many, a joyful heart. 7 The classes were filled with eaer de-s-iies and buoyed with the inspiring thought that each was hest.-f tluit each ! -would win laurels by their ihusical fal- 1 . .. j is: i. . i.i It . ... -m.. tiiiin x ;iijMiui4M, iimi ere the 'hour nf tdevt'ti, were dicJiiug to nu ovt irtawiiii; house the best music they eoiild uiake. Oak Grovechoif was. first introdttced by Mr. G. Erwhi,- proinpter, ami saug I hen. the te.Heui Chapel, Mt Tabor and St. Paul's also sans; three pieee.seach. Seven pteces were thus per formed by each choir. . An intei mission of an hour for d inner and sport came next. ' " At oVloek the ehoirs re -assembled, ar;d coutin-ied the exercise' until late in the evening, when "the. much .delighted crowd sej intcd. - ; I All sar remaiRablr weil and finally "wound up'" by all Kinging "hold youV head up like a nian." St. Paul's elniir can ied of the -laurel, fhe day passed nisf, phasjintly, exetptiiig at ntuu si tew wi'd boys, from iseaj- Tivatira did not behave as h,uV.iosiielyjai the occasion dcmaiided. - i Ii. "Ae wonder wiiy the law of bigamy is not enforced against negroes? Why this unjust discnimnaTion between blacks and whites ?J We ha' e heard of a miniber of negroes in this eotn Diludty wlo liave. Iseen married tjv or t!;iee" diC'erent times to d liferent husbands and wives, while, their for mer hnnbands and wives were still in the land of the living, and yet no ef fort litis been made to bring theni be fore tle bar of justice to answer for tlie .ins done in the body to the double charge of bigamy; and adultery. Are not jiegroes citizens of the Unit ed States and as "such Isubjeet to the ia?L"aurinburg -Enterprise. - . The "very frequency, of the crime W probably the i-ause of the non-enforcement of the law. The j colored peo ple during slavery lea recti the habit, and their old nias"ters were somctrmcs to blame for it. - It is riiore compas sion, for them than anything else that they are not prosecnted We have been told of sev for bigamy. eral instances of recent occurrence, whc,re illegal separations took place on foolish and trivial jreixts two of which we will mention : In one ca.n tle wife's con duct displeased the husband, he flog ged her, ga ve her 1,5") j and ordered her to leavehich order hc obeyed. The otiier, the husband: had a little thmr in the house which he forbude his wife to use, and because she did use it they quarrelled and parted. Ii-JJ;apparrut that thei first reuletljr to be apjdicil to llie neg;roes,iuthig matter, is to put d stop, to the preva lent habit they have of sfpaTating otf triviat or ' ihsffieient causes. - Let them.utiderataiid that there is but one Avay t getdivtirctind that is, through t he Vurt''antt ' Ilia tf ail .'act's p the k iit contrary to law aviIij be p it u ishc by th e f u w. 1 REPLY TO "MV The Western N. C. Kailroad Compa nyTht Jiichmond and JJanritte ; Extension Company. Cor. of the ewa-Ob'erve j ' In your, issue of 'August 5. appears a long communication with reference devil" to sell. ,,. v! to the Western North Carolina Kail- On the 31st of May last, "the Itich road. - 2 J i niond syndicate" filed in the office of It is chiefly made up with the va- the Master in Chancery! of Jew. Jer rious agreements'eritered into between sey for the county of Hudson thefol MessrsJ Clyde, Logan and Bu ford, on ' lowing certificate of f incorporation of the one part, and Mr. W. J. liest on thetther. So far as these contracts are con cerned, what relations they" establish between the narties. and under what circumstances they were made, I shall leave to the courts of hjw; where pro- eeedings'are bow pending. s Kear the end of the communication the writer, who assumes the now, de plume of "M," asked a most pertinent qucstioiii I wish to answer it.- "And why," asks "M," "should North Carolinians prefer a Boston syndicate to a Kichmoud syndicate? ls is it not natural our neighdors should, by their contiguity and corn- m unity of interests,'be more entitled to our consideration than those whose i every interest is furthefoff?" ;Once a certain lawyer, wishing to justify" himself, asked our Saviour: "And who is my neighbor?" The ; parable of the man who fell among thieves was the answer given him. Let us consider the two syndicates. First the Richmond syndicate. About ten years since the Stale was startled through its length and breadth ky the sudden annoucement that tlie Richmond syndicate had leased for thirty years the North Carolina Rail road. . The dissatisfaction and alarm of "North Carolinians" were so great that the authorities were directed to take legal proceedings, which culmi nated iu a majority of the Supreme Court sustaiumg the lease, lhc best Jawyers of the State did not hesitate to express their disapprobation of and dieseiit" -from this opinion. At the first meeting of the Legislature there after held, a committee was appointed and instructed to look into the meth ods by which the lease was obtained The significant result of this investi gation was the refusal of the presi dent o the company who .made the lease to say w-heiticr money con.HKler tion had been paid for obtaining it, putting his refusal on the ground that the ansveimight criminate himself. -Safe' against the Courts and the Leg islature "our neighbors" immediately destroyed our home system of rail roads by changing the gauge of the road they had lease, thus rendering lhrouglixeonucctions for North Caro lina railroads a matter of difficulty if not an impossibility Sucii pott ions of the North Caroli na. Railroad as constitutes a ' part of the Richmond and Dauviiie line, re minds one of the handsome through lines of our richer u:;d nunc Northern btatci. Lj.te Gieeiisooro, however, coming east, aud von at once realize that you are in old-fashioned, dusdy NorthCarolina. Every road in the State which can be made subsidiary feeds the Rich mond, and- Danville iroad. It feeds nothing but Virginia, and its owners aud employee. "The. contiguity and community of interests of our neighbor" have con verted Charlotte into a depot, Raleigh into '.a .way-station aud Morehead City into a fishing hamlet, while com plaints of unjust discriminations, ex cessive. tariffs and tiukind treatment (whether well or ill - founded I leave to the "honest and just public") vex .1 ! II ' me ears oi an inquirers. I take it for granted that"M." ob tained his precise information touch ing the contract set forth iu his arti cle, from the report of the Senate committee of last winter. If he had favored us with further extracts from that document, the "honest and jut public" to which he appeals would have been able to see that at the time the Richmond syndicate came into North Carolina, it owned -188 miles of railroad between Richmond and Greensboro, made up of the Piedmont road, which, according to Col. 13u ford's statement, can pay its debt iu two hundred and fifty years, and the Kichmoud and Danville road, which was aud is mortgaged for the full cost of its construction. To state the mat ter more pointedly, at that time Rich mond and Danville stock sold at from tw;o 10 ten cents in the dollar. After using the North Carolina Railroad for ten years the syndicate claims that its slock is above par, and, as I shall now show yen, announces Us mien tion to constuct, improve aud equip railroads; canals and ail other con ceivable ways, to say nothing of fac tories," mi lis, etc. Wher? the im agination : becomes' , confounded iu the Statts of New" York, IVnnsylva uia, Delaware," Mary la ml, District of CoIumliiiij .Virginia, West - Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, l . t' t l mt.- . jyouisiaua, icxas, arKansa?, .Missou ri, Tennessee, Kcutucky, Kansas, Col- orado, California, and the Territories of Arizona, jS".ew Mexit4,tthe Indian Territory and the Republic of Mexico. . I cannot repress a recollection I of our old friend, Mr. Dtlyi who, ith t he World, the Herald and the Tribune under his arm. proclaimed, that he had "the world, the flef h and the the Kichmoud and Dauviiie Extension Company ; UICHMOND AND DANTILI.E EXTEN- T SION COMPAYL ' . -I t - Certificate of the Organization of tTht Richmond and Ddnvitttilteimon Company." ; f , ;- This is to certify thatWrn. P. Clyde, 0eo. W. l'er kins, Thos. M. Ijogan, Geo. Zubriske ami Ilenryv W. Perkins do hereby associate oUrselvesi into a company, under and byj virtue of the provisions of an act of the Iegislature of the State of New Jer.-ey, entitled "An act concernihg corporations," approved. April 7, 187a, and the acts amendatory of and supplementory to the same, for the purpose hereinafter mentioned, ancf to that :eud we do by this certificate set forth: 1st. The name of the said company shall 6e "The Ilichmoi d and Dan- ville Extension Company." zii. i nai tne places in this btate' where the business of said company with this State is to be transacted are all of the counties of this State. The principal part of the btiissiness of said company within, thisj Stale is to be transacted in the city of Newark, in the county of Essex. The business of said company is also to be conduct ed outside of the Stale of New Jersey, and within the following States, Dis tricts, Territories and llepublics: The States of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, the States of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkan sas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kcntnekj-, Kansas, Colorado, California, and the Territories of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, the Indian Territory, and the ltepublic of Mexico. The objects for which the company isformed are to construct, improve ana equip rail roads, turnpikes and other roads and canals, ferries and all other works for the transportation of person and pro perty, whether by land or water, or partly by land and partly by water, and lines of telegraph iu. connection therewith. Also bridge, tunnels, piers aud all other structures or things ap propriate to any of the aforesaid ob- Ijects; also to construct, improve, fur nibh and equip hotels and restaurants, grain and other elevators, compresses, stock yards, slaughter houses and workshops, in connection with such railroads, and other transportation lines and work : also to construct, improve, repair, purchase, sell, lease and hire locomotive or-othcr engines, car3 and rolling stock of all descrip tions, boats, stages, machinery and all other means or instruments of transportation of persons and proper ty as aforesaid ; also to erect store houshes, mills and factories on or in the vicinity of (he said lines of trans portation, and ' to hold, possess, pur chase, lease, sell and convey such real aud personal estate and property as the purposes aforesaid of the com pany may require, and to mortgage the same, ami issue bonds, to be se cured by a mortgage or mortgages upon the properly aud franchises of the company. The portion of the business of said com nan v which is to be carried on out of jthis State in the States, District and Territories, and Republic hereinbefore mention, is the construction, equipment and improve ment of property located outside of this State, which will be carried on in the places where such property is located. It is not intended that the said company shall possess the right of taking and condemning lands by reason of its organization under this CI . certificate. Third. The total amount of the caprlai stock of said company is five millions of dollars; the number of shares into which the same is divided is fifty thousand; the par value of each share is one hundred dollars, aud the amount with which said com pany will commence business is five thousand dollars; the number of shares into which the same is divided i fifty, and thelpar value of each share is one hundred dollars. Fourth. The names and residences of the stockholders and the number of shares held by each are as foM lovs: . William P. Clyde, New York city, one share. " . ! Geo. W. Perkins, New York city, forty-six shares. Thomas M. Lrgan, Richmond, Va., oue share. . -, - . George Zabriskc, Jyrscy City; one share. ' " " ' " : ' "'"' ; . ' Henry V. PeVkius, New York city, one share. j XlFifthhe i period at which such' goes il ? a 'ciJ'M 7it be throwS" company shall commence is thetwen-I??? Ven Mr.,,,;w. Set another? If ty-eightfiday of May, 1881, and the I " 7 Wl" we ,osc- . c pcrh4 at which : it shall terminate is I JJedVw!,ere V fiuJ North the twenty-eighth day of Mav. 1881. I an witness whereof we have here- with., set our hands tweutv-ei G. Z A BRISK E, ! - H.; W. Peukiss. .fx. 8.1 Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of J. A. Romeyn. r.'-.-Y ,J:'n UbUOb), I . .TP A T V np IV T.1IT I nrf. 1 C3 . .. X -r . ., County of Hudson. ( ss. irhth dav of Mav. -cernea, i ask an honest, just public" rtlHI BCUIS, 11113 : . . ... . i . - Wm. P. Clydd, u sji1 9. nYCJyas neighbor to Geo. W. Perkixs, fc: s." lm - m amonS tl,e thieves ? T. M. Iogax. rL. s ! X.Y. : . Be it remembered , that on this j Treasurer $520,000 irj six per cent, inort-twenty-eighth day, o! May, eighteen eafi boiida, being nombers 1 to 520 in hundred , and . eighty-one," personally j fbasire, of $1,000. These are so deposited appeared before me James A. Koaieyn, f itt Accordance with '(Aaiaci; tw provide a master of the Court of Chancery of ltnT tlM5 e f t!, Scate' iuterest in the the State of New Jersey, William P. 5 Western North Carolina Railroad, and for Clyde, Geo. W.'Perkins, Thomas M. , other purposes," ratified March i9, I860. Ixgan, Get. 2abriske and Henry W. ftt th special aessiob. They are delir- l'er kins, who, I am satisfied arc the persous named in and who executed the ; foregoing certificate, aud I hav ing j first made known to theru the contents , thereof they did each "ac knowledge that they signed, sealed and delivered the same as their vol untary act aud deed. . (Signed) J. A. Romeyn, Master in Chancery in New Jersey, Recorded May 31, 1881. Wm. A. Smith, Clerk. The "honest and just public? will he dazzled to learn from the forego ing certificate that the Richmoud and Danville Extension Company propo ses to have at some time in the future a capital of $5,000,000, and some what astonished to see that that com pany sets out upon its irruption of grand enterprises with a subscribed capital of $5,000, to what extent paid in we are not informed. We come now to the Boston syndi cate ; A number of gentleman, resi dents of Boston, New York, Balti more and Washington, having been induced to believe that the re-cstab-lishmeut of an east and west line of railroads in North Carolina, connec ting in the west with the Tennessee roads, and in the east with ocean steamers, touching at Morehead City, would result in profit to such persons as might be able to effect it, met in Boston during last May and organiz ed themselves into a company with a paid up capital of 500,000, as has been! certified to the State autorities of North Carolina by the proper authorities in Massachusetts. Shortly after organization, several of these gentlemen, of known wealth, and character, visited Raleigh to confer-with the Governor and officers of the State for the purpose of learning to what extent they could depend upon the assistance 'and support of those officers and the people ' at large. This conference resulted in a writ ten i memorandum of agreement. whereby it was engaged that the de sired support and assistance should be g ven, when these gentlemen should do three things, to-wit : First, deposit "ith the commissioners of the Western North Carolina Railroad $250,000 with which to reimburse Messrs. Clyde Logan and Bnford for any assistance rendered to Mr. Best by them ; second, obtain the lease of the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail rod, and secure its conditions with a deposit of 85,000 ; and, third, berii active work on a line of new railroad betwecu Goldsboro and Sal isbury. Of these conditions, the first two have deen already and literally com plied; with. As to the last, large and expensive engineering corps, have been jiu the field since the last of Juue and iare now prosecuting with vigr the Work they have in charge. Of course the begiuning of actual con struction must be controlled by the engineers. But' certainly all that could be done, or was expected to be done, has been done. No man can predict with certainty an event wnich lies in "the future; but the promptness with which the "Boston syndicate" deposited with the "Com missioners $250,000 and with the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail road $85,000, together with their activity in surveying the new line, naturally encourages us to believe in the ability and intention of that syn dicate to carry their enterprise to mccess. It may fail. All human ef fort is liable to failure. By the barest possibility the Richmond and Danville Extension Company, with its sub scribed capital of $5,000, may fail to build railroads, canals, mills aud fac tories in mosl of the States and Ter ritories of the United States and in the Republic "f Mexico! Of course when i failure comes we must sub mit. : . "Fortana nianens me gaudcl ; Sal si celeres pensas quikt" why we stand it th best we can. So far as an east and - west line is ; oonctrned, all. North Caroliuiaus will agree ;it was what we want. . , So j far as the proposition of' the "Boston syndicate to give it to us troian who would then like to jt FHeu it.- j T,le Westerii North Carolina Railroad. 1 . . i K . . -! I Ml M II . M .1 .. i . .... . . 1 wi. n. u. llJlllcnB, prCSiaCDI OI til iS 1 rond, yesterday depoaitea with the State creu 10 Uie reoaoreij in accordance with ectional2 and24 of j chapter 2G, laws of special Session. 1880.1 We. learn that n! the Western road trains will run to wjthin two ami one half-miles ot Marshall this week. By the 1st of ; October the road will be in run ning order to witbinj two miles of the Warm Sprjngs. At that point the French Broad will be crossed at a very pictures qne spot by an iron bridge of 240 feet In a siiiglejspan. It wiH be the longest sin gle span bridge in this State, and will spring from a butment of . solid stone, partly natural, partljf artificial, 6n either bank. . Work on thif$ bridge will go for ward rapidly. .Yftrand Observer. The Pledge of the Nihilist. I i ? j Ilartruanu, the Rasgian now in Xew York, tells us that when entering upou the work to which Tie is still devoted and for the furtherance ojf which he has come ocr here, he enterfd into a league with certain parties, thej words of which are as follows : "Yon are from this moment a niemler of the Executive Committee. Give us your word of hono that you accept the programme and the statutes' of the com mittee, as read ; that you will act by them to the letter ; jthat -you will obey unconditionally all commands of the Council ; give ns yor wj-ord of honor that you will nerer for one moment hesitate to give up your owuj life if it be necessary for our common vaufw ; that yon under stand fully and truly that you from this moment belong body and soul, with all your will, all your ideas, faculties aud energies to the cause of revolution." "1 understand all this fully," I answer ed, "and give my j word of houor to be true to our cause to the last."" Can there be a j worse, more danger ous and more destructive tyranny thttu the oiio to which (his man thn sold him self! A Dangerous! Counterfeit. - A Chi cago special of the 30th ult., says: A dry goods house of this city to-day sent to the Sub-Treasui-y a silver dollar which is pronounced the best counterfeit coin ever seen. It if beautifully made and has a slight iron appearance which is often fouud iu the genuine standard dollar. It is silver plated and acid does not affect it unless the surface is scratched up. The weight is the marvelous point in the de ception. The counterfeit as it stands, would pass in Mze easily, and its weight would not bj detected on any hat a small scale. It weigns93 per cent, of the gen uine, while the averago good counterfeit does not weigh more than 75 or '80 per cent. The ring is excellent and the silver-plating has obviated the usual greasy feeling in counterfeit silver dollars. The coin is almost perfect, and will undoubt edly create much trouble in business cir cles. Th datn of the coin is Ic7d, al though that may be chauged iu the fu ture by the makers. There is reason to believe, from careful examination of this piece; that the counterfeiters nre prepar ing to 6hove these coins extensively. The experts at the Sub-Treasury pronounced it the most dangerous counterfeit dollar that has ever appeared. Sfxator Vakce as A Whitcr. We have for many years regarded Senator Vance as one of the best of living North Carolina xcriteis. His addresses ou vari ous occasions on Geu. Lee, at tho Uni versity, at Wake Forest College, before the Southern Historical Society, at Kins ton, as well as his sketches .of Western North Carolina, hare satisiied us that he has what Very few public men of our Stato duriug the last twenty year can be said to have a style. He writes with clear uessTwith force, with simplify, with a certain scholarly grace aud finish, and at times with real eloquence. We do him simple justice in say iug thU. We could cull from his published writings soinc ex cellent tpcci&icua of rhetoric and of elo quence. IViiming ton Star. The deposit of half a million of the bonds of ; tha Western North Carolina Railroad' Company 'by that company tn th 'Treasnrr of the 'State ia in pursuance of the oit-act of Side to Mr. i Best. 3 Wc- understand,' however, that Mri Beat claims to be presidcut o the company and repudiates this par - Hcular istte of bonds. -Xetc aud Ob- tcrrcr. .,.i . t t - uomnionv fairness 10 x mn. - miscellaneous: Colcmbls, Ga., Angtut C-Tire bale, or new cotton Were received her vt. day from Georgia. Albnma and VUnUU. - Four road worL-fra Si. t--,u. ' ; V s- all whu.t were unwj ij- j-v. ning. Ang. 4th, Ten other- 1j injured. ! Hartmann, the Nihili.t, arrived in tl i. ci y last week.! He i8 appoint v j, fellow a representative makeWn thoir doctrines abroad.-.!, r Sentry. Smith Ml out of a four,!, storyn'ow of No. 59 E:lt IT... -.. ... . evening: and as he tfruck on the fhould er of Mrs., LaaHiga tfJQ hansekcepfr. who at the time was sweeping th0udt walk escaped: with sligfat injuries.-' American Sentry. 1 . That portion of the gallery of the Fiwt Presbyteriaa charch whiel. is oepied by the choir, wts yesterdy draped, mourning, hung in graceful festoons of black and white, in respect to Mr7 Hnt tio Busbee, who died on the 4th Inst., and who has been for couMderable titn a meralier of that church and its choir. Xewt and Obserrer. Good Doctor Bliss writes every day - A brief, expressive letter, i ..m. C,i1,e ,tkc$ n Pi"t Mr ; 1 he President i better.n Ninr, if he prospers at the rate Declared in each epistle, . , , In course of time he'UXlesa the Cite That brought.lhe famous iniseile. - ' Frankfort 1'ebmon.' The New England Slatei do not make a very fat showing iiuhr lit of State contributions tl the Fed eral Treasury for internal revenue., J he Southern States put $20,793, 493.51 into thd contribution . box last year, and the New England States put in $3,842,774. Leonidas Robertson, a well-to-do farmer residing near Madison, Indi ana, arrayed himself in his wife's clothes and sunbennet ami Imng him self on Tuesday night. No canse known for the singular act. He was as sane iu the afternoon, as he had been all his life. Our cnterprWnj tiu. k farmer, Mr. Jwe Harrison, was iu our office ugniu yeMcrdsy. with moreoftliOKC curious cWtrrcd cali bage. He tcft farce with us, wUUh counted up thirty head. Thews abbssr do not grow from sprouts; . where thettatk nave oeen cut vti. hut head upfrom thc plant, in clusters or from ten to sixteen head, averaging in size the circumference nf a base ball. We have never seeu anythinir similar to I hi curious erdwth of rn.l and many of our citizen, who have far more experience in such untter than our selves, express theiu.clve iu a like manner. Xut Sled. . Evidence of miracle: Dr. Lonia, nf New Orleans, who in something of. wag, called on a cohered Miiniater nnd propoutul ed a few puzzling questions. "Vhv Ult. said he, "diat you are; not able to do the miracles that; the apostles' did f They were protected against all poison-Md all kinds of jierilM ; how i ir that y.ui are not protected in the same way!" Tim colored brother responded promptly: "Don't know about that, doctor; I s'pect I is. IVe taken a mighty sight of troitir I medicine from you and I is alive et." Xew Orleans Times. Sr.VEN Laborers Killkd. Rich mond, Va., August 11. A telegram from Lexington, Va., savs that seven negroes were killed yesterday nftcr noon by a slide in a cut upon which they were at work on the Richmond & Alleghany; Railroad, tix mi lea from that town. . Six of the negroes, were ctnvicls. - ' ' A despatch from Dublin aaVi, Mr. John Dill iou hap I ecu released from Kit mankain jail. Tlie same despatch says a pastoral by AichJ-BUbop MeCabe wa i'nI ill nil llin i-ijitm-1i nf tliw nrr-hl.o. ccses of Dublin im Sunday, in which the" Arch-Bishop says v "We intnt raise oor voice, even at the ik of being misun dcrtood by fiieuds itnd misrepresen ted by enemies, nnd warn lhe eopIt against an alarming, impending danger. Some months ago when an nlliniue l tween Ireland and tho infidela of Palis was conrted by unauthorized ageut,oMr Catholic instiiH'U recoiled from the dis honoring uuiou. r Similar attempts -r still being made. The pastoral addrts states that secret societies are deadly enemies of domestic pcate and nathwiai proieiity. Something New is Stiktungs. "Sil ken hosiery is all tire rage iu Paris jut now.' fco says a fashion paper,"and we opine that male hnmauity is apt to spec ulate as to what "ailken hosiery" U. lUxt there is soiucthiriiC odd following thU tin nounccnient, nnd it i this : The hu-dery is ornamented with insertion f por traits and wcdallions in iMMiit lae-. or ttcrhaps photographs of loving awaiiu are inserted hele and 'there into the i!eu tlinitiJ Th! 1jltir i iwivt-l x least, ti na uw inerni oi oniuiiill V, eveu if it is silly. Attimcs it might be awkward, for it won hp lie Mmewhat au- noying fora fellow to.Wk at his lady love's -i(Krkings aud find ajuother fellow' portrait giiuniug at hlnahronh the bat s. Moutieal Star.