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THE WILMINGTON JOUENAL jT A. EiifOEMIARl), Editor and Prop. WHOM ALL LETTKK9 ON BUSINESS MUST BE ADDUKSSKD. I. mi'ti mi ni'i-nTlli k. . I JIA M. Xn fMW w Mmwmmtxmmm . . vrr One Square, one week $1 00 One Square, two weeks... 16 One Square, one month 2 CO One Square, three months 1 00 One Square, six months 23 09 Additional Squares at proportional rates. A Square is equal to ten solid Lliras Of Ad vertlsing type. Cash, Invariably In advance. 7 . . M0 xf.kms of srns( KiPTix: Till-- J)AlIiY JOURNAL is mailel to sub-- -ibers at Eight Dollatis per annum ; Foirn imli ARf for six months; Sevknty-five Cents ,., r month for :i shorter period. I1IH AVKKlihY JOUIiNAL at Two Pol , v!.s per mnniin ; One Dor.r.Ait fornix months. Sosubwription received to the Weekly for less "hMti mx months. (lalilraiiigfon lournal II f l I : 1 1 . '.1 .. t - - r .. .',. Vol. 28. WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1872. No. WBI.MIXUTOX, X. V. , I IMIUY, SKrTtMBEIl 18, 1872. ! -.forma' i:i to the liberal headepiartei s ;.. Washington City from Indiana sluws lim canvass in that State is being ,,,,s with a vigor quit it unparalleled ;.s political history. S earnest is the of Mo-ton and company to defeat ;i '::,!ti.ks foi Governor that a complete . .v 1' every election precinct in the -:C- has hoc; i mad-.', the result of which j,;,'S 1 1; L turn out to be very gratifying to j ';iniinatioimfs. More speakers, more :i..::-y, and more documents are called for. .-l-ix ha.5 ben implores! to enter actively :.:, the campaign. Secretary Boutwell j ;s been call-id to make speeches in sev :J portion of the State, and has decided .. respond. It appears that there is great i-f i'-tion among the (Jennau Itepub-j-.-ans. In Terra Haute alone :5U of them .ave joined a Greeley club. r.'ov'h ass-tl .S;:ti Carolina at fjouis villo. We suppose our home readers would ;.;.: to know by whom they are represent :! ia the so-called Democratic Convention j.oiisoviiie. we nave not yet tne iuu !;st of delegates, but the proceedings dis-,-i ..se the following names : )n the Committee of Credentials there is : . j . -ried, W. II. Trout, of North Carolina; T. P. Stokes, S -iith Carolina. On the ' on Orgin'zalion, C. W. Gas- ::. 2o:th Carolina; I-. 1'. Stokes, South Carolina. Committee on Resolution, S. i '. i'iourney, North Carolina; E. F. Stokes, South Carolina. Judge James Lyons, of Virginia, is Preside-i. of the Convention, and 1). L. Faggner, (Fagg'.')of Noith Carolina, and Edward Stokes, of South '.ui iina, are among the Vice Presidents. We do not know a" single one of the No;th irolina representatives, nor heard of any c pt the Iladieal Gassett, of Italeigh, nor ... we know the Stokes family of South ( ';in.lina. No greater fraud was ever perpetrated upon the Democratic party of these two States than such a representation in such a Convention. E'iie I.oaisviMe Convention. Tli is body has adjourned after a short, stormy ami incomplete session. Its work, 0 i.iT as it may exert any intluenee upon the destinies of the country, wiil be in jarious. We are not disposed to laugh at or de ri ! such men as Judge Lyons, Chauncey liarraa-l a few others who were collected at Louisville, or call O'Conor aud Adams u Jy nicknames. We regret to see men whom we have long regarded as able and iViciidly statesmen, lending character and ii.ilio nce to a movement conceived and nurtured by the Federal administration, and which can have no other eil'ect than help ') re-elect President Grant. Mr. O'Oonor's eminent ability as a l.iwyer, and his great purity of character as a nnm, have given him a national repu tation, but when he stoops now to discuss iio-;tions of tariii' and finance, he demon strates the act that he does not under--tand the wan!:; or the demands of the M.utilry. lie surely does not, appreciate the condition and vital interests of the S-.Tlih. His lirm lofitsal of the nomination, the ;;o'i-action of the Convention, the bitter denunciation of Mr. O'Conor, and the w ithdia-.val f the Louisiana delegates 'i.en-for, and his subsequent renomination by ;i Mas Meeting, destroys the regulari ty . unify and e'tarailer of the proceedings, 'e'.- are gj:ih at least, that so distinguished a .i.ime does not. head a movement so ques ' : .'..:!!.' i:i its motives and so pernicious '. ! Ill influences. .! b- people of no State will be cajoled .ilo lue support of the nominees, be they -v..;- -;ninent. A stem duty a fearful i .)niUi;jty, stages sis in the face. We itiuot stc;; io caress old favorites or quar withohl iii-eju-liees. The world moves, h we stand still wo will be run over and 1 oi.sh d. There is a political tide now .wing, which, if we take it at its llood, w ill o and prosperity. .i-anfs JJeof. ites-s ia our Ciistoin- England had her rotten boroughs. Wre . e our rotten custcrn houses. But there this dii'.i'i-enee, says the World, between laud a:.d ourselves, that when the ttwi-bi .rouh system di l prevail there was Tory in the land so brazen as to main i:i that the party upholding it were eco m.'ai or great leformers, while with us .e v ry uphoiueis or ttie rotten cmiom re traveling all ever the United ! ate. i e v c- t-j,()l-l)i'.i,' on every stump, vaunting iv new ""PP-r of their party, the ( terms th y liave inaugurated and ut.mv they imutico. Here is an v. ,:f"iiK-r rei'um. Aibemarle, in ( "aroli ia. is n ijort of entry a very The tc'tal foreign commerce dining Hie calendar year por! . 1 ina;l i eee " .' " .' .' .' ." .' .'. . . . . .... - -v ' inleud this foreign trade of amounting hi the aggregate to M-iaai ie rcquu ed the following ol- MaJfin, tietital est fur 18T1. $l,3!).l 5 1 ,000 00 . 1,400 00 ... 1,095 00 480 00 3Cj 00 ' 1 '-'1 i:c loi". 1 a!y colit" ' -- 1 i . I - '(-1a (or and clerk tor t .i-j.;tt i:o!Ieclor '-' i.Oill l:tll,!s -ltctor. . . To l. .$5,791 00 These figures are official, and the above ':i 'n.liture was actually incurred during 'Nl to take care of a total commerce aaiounting tc U;:5:iO. Now, we simply Jisk who should be more ashamed a whole p-:ople fur being subjected to such a rotten Ku i:i.:i,., or lul Administration that boasts oi reform and economy, allowing it to go "'i for the three years that they are in I'ovver '.' Tlie l'oliticul Outlook. -p.yr since the North Carolina election there Juss been a lull in the political world, ike result in this State, while it was not ill that the Liberals hoped for, was a bit ter disappointment to the Administration parly. The Vermont election had no po litical significance and created little or no interest. The contest in Maine, though conducted hy the friend3 of Mr. Gukki.kv with much and increasing interest, can result only in a Radical triumph, probably hj a reduced majority, and with a gain of two and, pos sibly, of three members of Congress for the Democracy. We see it stated that Senator Trumbull, who has just returned from a canvass of Maine, expresses the opinion that the election there on Monday next will be very close, with the chances in favor of the election of the Radical candidate for Gov ernor. In Indiana and Pennsylvania all the in dications are that the Democrats and Liberal Republicans will he successful in the October elections. Ohio is doubtful, with the prospect of very large gains in the representatives to Congrees. It is, how ever, too soon to gather much definite information from these States. After the Maine election both parties will turn their entire attention to these three great States, and it is more than probable that the Presidential election will be virtually de cided in this great preliminary battle. The friends of Mr. Gueeley very rea sonably, we think, claim as certain for him the States of New York, Missouri, Vii ginia, Marjland, Kentucky, Texas, Ten nessee and Georgia, giving a total of one hundred and ten electoral votes, fifty -two less than the requisite number. West Vir ginia, Alabama, Delaware, Connecticut and Indiana, casting thirty-seven votes, are almost certain for Gkeelev, while his chances iu New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Illinois are better than those of Grant. There yet remains Louisiana, Arkansas, Ohio and Florida as debateahle ground, to say noth ing of Wisconsin, Nebraska, California and Oregon, from which our advices are not so definite, but in which the Liberal movement is making much headway. We have much to hope for. Har monious action and enthusiastic work will achieve a glorious victory for the future peace and prosperity of the county. Our Allies '1 Sie Liberal Kepuulicailur. We are not of that class of men who think that the action of the Cincinnati and Baltimore onventions, in uniting upon Mr. Greeley as a candidate for the Presi dency brought about such a fusion of Lib erals and Democrats as to destroy their identity and individuality as members of separate and distinct organizations. According to our understanding of the matter, the theory upon which the Liberal Republicans and the Democrats are now acting together, is a very different one, and a brief reference to the. facts will, we think, prove the correctness of our view. Democrats took no part in the Cincin nati Convention. Liberal Republicans took no part in the Baltimore Convention. Each party continues to operate through its own organizations and its own ofiicers. We have both State and National Execu tive Committees, representing, on the one hand, the Democratic and on the other the Liberal Republican party. In North Carolina, Hon. 1). M. Barringer is the Chairman of the on, w hile W. S. Mason is at the head ot the other. It is true that thise committees are working together in the most harmonious manner, but this is the result of an alliance and not of a fusion. General Barringer is stiil a Democrat, and Mr. Mason is still a Republican. This is a mat ter of far more importance, in some respects, at the North than it is at the South, for the reason that the number of Liberal Republicans, properly so-called, is quite small in the South. In fact, it may be safely said that many, if not all the prominent members of the Liberal Repub lican organization in North Carolina have, for several years, voted w ith the Demo cratic Party. Indeed, we consider tlie action of the Democratic Party in thus formally recognizing the existence of the Liberal Republican organization in North Carolina as the result of a magnanimous and generous determination on the part of Democrats to carry out, in both letter and spirit, the alliance entered into with the peopli ut the North. Had it been other wise, or had there been a fusion instead of an alliance, Messrs. Mason and Goodloe, aud the half dozen other gentlemen who inaugurated the Liberal movement iu North Carolina, would have been swal lowed up and lost sight o'i with their few hundicd followers in the ninety odd thousands of Democrats in the State. But it is a habit of Southern men, not only to do gracious things, but to do them graciously. The Southern people, therefore, would not dim the splendor of the offering they had made when, with one consent, laying, as a propitiatory sacrifice upon the altar of a grief-stricken country, the lives, the hopes and the sorrows, as well as the hates, the bitter prejudices and the baser pas sions of their heart of hearts, they pro posed to unite in bonds cf friendship with men whom they had lean.ed to look upon as the deadliest enemies of them selves and of their country 1 Southern men were not little enough to mar the magnifi cence of a spectacle such as the world had never before witnessed, by higgling about the details of its exhibition. And we are free to confess that we have lost nothing by our magnanimity ; for un less the signs of the times deceive us, we shall receive for our candidate the votes of a sufficient number of men who would not have voted for a man supported by Demo crats alone, to turn the scale i-i jMoixu Carolina in November, even supposing the nominal majority of Caldwell to be a real one. But tbc question that troubles many good men at the South is, will the election of Mr. Greeley be a blessing to the South at all commensurate with the sacrifice we made iu Ms nomination ? Upon this point we entertain not a par ticle of doubt. The Baltimore Convention nominated Mr. Greeley because the Cincinnati Con vention had nominated him. The Cincin nati Convention nominated him because he was the strongest representative man of the necessities that had given birth to the Party it represented. What, then, were these necessities of the country, so imperative in their character that they demanded, and obtained, the disruption of a party that for twelve years had ruled , with absolute sway ? We ans"ver that they were a necessity for civil service reform, a necessity for a stricter regard for the rights and liberties of the citizen, and a necessity for a return to Constitutional Government. We do not assert, nor do we believe, that the Lil eral Republican movement owes its inception or its early success to auy friendly or fraternal feeling on the part of Northern men for Southern men. The necessities that Northern men felt were not the necessities of the South, but of themselves. It was not because the civil service was a by-word and a reproach to humauity, in its corruption In the South, that Northern men became Liberal Republicans. It was not because Southern men were arrested and imprisoned and tortured and hung that Northern men became Liberal Repub licans. It was not because the unlawful usurpation of powers not delegated to it by the States or by the people, enabled the Federal Government to disregard and abolish States'lines and States' rights in the South, that Northern men became Liberal Republicans. Not at all. What operated upon Northern heaits was the danger that menaced Northern homes. And it is for this very reason that we have so much hope and confidence in its strength, solidity and permanence. And, indeed, the movement did not begin a day too soon. The stench of the Custom House Frauds in New i'ork had reached the whole civil ized world. Colonel Grosvenor, a prominent citi zen, had been shot down and killed while in the peaceful pursuit of his lawful business, upon the public streets of the city of Chicago, by troops unlawfully raised and acting under orders from Lieutenant General Sheridan, him self in unlawful military occupation of the city. And Sheridan's conduct had been endorsed and officially commended, in public orders, by the General commanding the army of the United States ! In three States, at least, in New York, in Pennsylvania, and in Illinois, in de fiance of their Governors and in utter dis regard cf their rights and of the rights of the people thereof, Federal troops had openly exercised usurped functions. These were the necessities that impe'led thinking men, who loved themselves, their personal liberty and the rights of their States more than they loved the Radical party, to sever themselves from it and to inaugurate the Liberal Republican move ment. Such are the men with whom we have fjimed an alliance, and such are the objects aimed at. .If, by our united efforts, we can attain them, no man will deny that the fruits of Mr. Greeley's election will be fully commensurate . with the sac ilfice made in his nomination. The South asks nomoie. Will reeleys Election Benefit Us? It has been so long since we enjoyed the benefits of a free government, that we can scarcely appreciate in its fullest extent the change in our affairs that the election of Mr. Greeley will bring about. We have been so long accustomed to official inter ference with our liberties as citizens and in so many ways ; we have been so long ac customed to official plunder of our proper ty, and in so many ways, and all without remedy or redress, that if an era of free constitutional government should all at once return, wo would doubtless feed like men who had just waked up in some for eign l.md of such strange beaut' and sur passing brightness, as to make them doubt the evidence of even their waking sense.'.: ! It wiil indeed be a strange sensation, but iwhh the less pleasing, when a North Car olinan can once more tread the sail upon which he was born, and in which lie the bones of his ancestors, and feel that he is a free man ; that the government under which he lives is organized, that the laws are framed, and that justice is administer ed for the protection of the weak and the innocent, and not for their oppression. It will indeed be a strange sight when we can enter our courts of justice and once more see upon the bench men like Gaston, and Manly, and Ruflin, and Badger, instead of 'men like Tourgee, and Watts, and Logan, and Henry, and Rod man, and Peason, and Reade, who are an offence and a stench in th nostrils of all who honor North Carolina, and look with shame upon her judicial ermine, dragged in the mire of partizan strife or disgraced by corruption, cowardice, drunkenness or ignorance. It will be a rare feelieg of relief to know that the horde of vultures, calling them selves Revenue officers, wlii have so long preyed upon the very vitals of the State, have forever taken their flight ; to know that the foul brood of spies no longer in fests the land, catching up men's words aud dogging their paths ; to know that Deputy United States Marshals no longer roam over the land their pockets filled with blank warrants and clothed with power to arrest and imprison innocent -aien and young children and delicate women ! It will be a safe feeling, that will possess a man, when he realizes that the writ of Habeas Uorjnis cannot be suspended ; that the rule of the statute book has taken the place of the rule of the bayonet ! WThen all these things come to pass, the times will indeed seem strange. That they are benefits no man will deny, but will the election of Mr. Greeley biing them about? This is the great question for us cf the South to decide ; for if they are to follow Mr. Greeley's election it will plainly be our duty to vote for him regardless of old pei sonal or partizan prejudice. These great blessings, of which even the anticipated possession makes the future look so bright and hopeful to us, can be summed up in a single word almost, peace and constitutional government! Is Mr. Greeley pledged to these things? Let the following noble utterances at Vicks burg, in 1S70, answer: "I hope that the time may come when the whole American people, North as well as South, may take a pride in the military achievements of Lee and Stonewall Jack son." And the following, from hi3 letter ac cepting the nomination for the Presidency : " In thi3 faith,and with the distinct un derstanding that if elected, I shall be the President, not of a party, but of the whole people. I accept your nomination in the confident trust that the masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm, which Las too long divided them, forgetting that they I ave been enemies, in the joyful consciousness that they are, and must henceforth remain, brethren. And following from his recent Portland speech : " From those who support me in the South, I have heard but one demand justice ; but one desire reconciliation. They wish to be heartily reunited and at peace with the North, on any terms which do not involve the surrender of their man hood. They ask thatThey shall be regarded and treated by any federal authority as citizens not culprits so long as they obey and uphold every law consistent with equality and right. They desire a rule which, alike for white and black, shall encourage indust.y and thrift, and discour courage rapacity and villainy. They cherish a joyful hope, in which 1 fully con. cur, that between the 5th of November and the 4th of Marsh next, quite a number of Governors and other dignitaries, who, in the absurd name of Republicanism and loyalty, have for years been piling debts and taxes upon their war-wasted States, and follow the wholesome example of Bul lock, of Georgia, and seek the shades of private life the darker and deeper those shades, the better for themselves and for mankind. The hope that my election may hasten the much desired hiegira of thieving carpet-baggers, has reconciled to the neces sity of supporting me many who would otherwise have hesitated and probably re fused." If any doubts, let him think of these things, and then what Grant has done and said ! LOCAL. Premium List. The Premium List of the Cape Fear Agricultural Association for its Fourth Annual Fair, to be held in No vember next, has been issued from the Jotjknax Steam Power Presses and will be distributed by the General Secretary in a few daj's. The premiums are liberal and the inducements to exhibitors unusually attractive. We are pleased to see so large an amount of special premiums offered by bur merchants and other citizens. Board of Education. The Board of County Commissioners met yesterday morning at the Court House and organized themselves into a Board of Education. The Chairman, Commissioner Lowrey and N. G. Sampson were appointed a committee to suggest localities for build ing school houses iu the township of Wil mington, and the propriety of building one or two houses. Communication in regard to re-opening Free School, No. 1, on Campbell square, was received and ordered on file. Tne Board then adjourned, subject to the call of the chairman . Trustees of the University. At a meeting of the Board of Education held on the 4th instant, iu Raleigh, as we learn from the Era, one Trustee was appointed from each county in the State for the de funct University. The following are those from this section and some other couniies directly connected with us, viz : Thomas D McDoweil, Bladen ; John A Mavdtsby, Columbus; li P Buxton, Cumberland f W R Kenan, Duplin; W S Battle, Edgecombe; It H Smith, Halifax; Rev N McKay, Harnett ; James G Scott, Ons low ; O II Dockery, Richmond ; Archibald Purcell, Robeson; C M T MeAuley, Union; W T Faircloth, Wayne; Rev Wm Hooper, Wilson; Dixon Ingram, Anson; D L Rus sell, Bruuswick; Robert F Lehman, Cra ven; E W Pou, Johnston ; R W King, Le noii; J C Abbott, New Hanover ; Dr J (J Monk, Sampson. County Fiusinces. Abstract of County Treasurer's Account of Receipts and Disbursements for the Fiscal Year ending August 31st, 1872. Balance from last year S 2.2G0 00 RECEIPTS From State lor care of lunatics S 577 16 Fiom ltegister marriage licences.... VJ5 90 From Clerk Superior Court,for tac, duty, deeds and mortgages &36 92 From redemption of land 51 From bhc-rill', on account of taxes 05,828 15 Total receipts 721 61 DISBURSEMENTS FOB DEBTS. Paid notes and bills payable.815.4S9 13 .Paid W. & V. It. 11., tax col lected erroneously, under decision Jsuiireme Court, U. S 3,042 12 Paid lor $G,0G0 six per cent, county bonds, purchased at 85 per cent., due May, 1871 5,100 00 Total debts paid $23,631 25 COUNTY EXPENSES. Paid witness & jury tickets.S 8,393 11 Paid on account of bridges. 1,4J5 00 Paid orders from Commifi rioners 27,538 83 Paid Treasurer's commis sions 1,242 77 Total current expenses. INTEREST 533,049 76 Due Sept. 1st, 1871, March, 1872, and Sept.. 1872... Balance on hand S 5,119 99 2,320 64 $09,721 64 The current expenses and interest amount, for past year, to !4j,7C9 75. For the Hscal year ending September 1st, 1873, the resources ars as follows, viz : Due from the taxes of 1872, by Maj. J. W. Schenck, Sheriff, about.net $ 5,000 CO Listed taxes, to be collected by Tax Collector, will yield, net 30,000 00 Special taxes schedule B and O, Oc tober, 1872, January, April aud Juiy, 1873, estimate 10,000 00 S45,000 00 . 2,320 64 Balance from last year... 847,320 64 The estimated disbursements are : Ordinary and extraordinary expenses. $35,000 00 Interest, March and September 3.5O0 00 $38,500 00 Leaving to be appropriated to pay ment ot funded debt S 8,820 64 847,320 64 In addition to the above there is a delinquent tax list of 1871, in the hands of the Sherift', which ought to yield $1,000 to S1.500, aid may be counted in its resources. By the legislation of the General Assembly, session 1S71 and 1872, the schedule B tax was very much reduced, ana it is hardly to be ex pected that it will yield more than the estimate, viz: $10,000. It will be observed that the debt of the county has been lessened by payments of its notes and bonds to the extent of $24,531 25. With the exception of $6,000 in bonds, nearly all the debt bore interest at the rate of eighteen per cent, per annum. By these payments an annual expense in interest of $3,000 is saved. Silas N. Martin, Ch'mn Board County Commissioners. A benefit festival for the exiled monks of Guatemala has been held ii Ualifornia, yielding $25,000 in gold. ADOG IN CHURCH. AN AMUSLSG SCENE. He was a little flustered on first entering the chapel so many people there, and all sitting so quiet. In this there was some thing awesome for Our Dog, and when out of this unnatural quiet they rose suddenly to sing. Our Dog was frightened, and would have run out of doors, only the doors were closed. He soon recovered himself. They were only folks after all such as he saw every day in street and house. He began to recognize one after another. He tried to get up a little sociability with them, but they took little or no notice of him. Everybody seemed strangely con strained and altered. Our Dog is a pet, and this cut him. But his is a self-reliance, recuperative nature, so he threw himself on his own resources for amusement, lie was delightfully ignorant of the properties of church or church service. The choir is separated from the congregation only by a slightly-raised platform. On this walked Our Dog. Again there was singing. He smelt first ot the organ ; he then smelt of the organist aud wagged his tail at him. The organist looked with an amused and kindly eye, but he could not stop. Our Dog then smelt of the basso profundo ; he smelt of the tenor; he smelt then first on one side and then on the other. Then he went back and re smelt them all over again ; also the organ. That was a little curious. There might be a chorus of dogs inside, and that man at the keys tormenting them. To him, at any rate, it was not melody. He walked around it, and smelt at eveiy crack and corner to get the mystery. He tried to coax a little familiarity out of that choir. They seemed to be having a good time ; of course he wanted a hand or a paw in it himself. It was of no use. He stood and looked, and wagged his white, bushy tail at them as hard as he could, but, selfishly, they kept all their pleasure to themselves. So he left the choir, and came down again among the congregation. There, sure enough, were two little girls on the back seat. He knew them ; he had enjoyed many a romp with them. Just the thing ! Up he jumped with hb paws on that back seat ; yet even they were in no humor for play. They pushed him away, aud looked at each other as if to say, " Did you ever see such conduct in church ?" It was rebuff everywhere. Our Dog would look closer iuto this matter. The congregation were all standing up. So we walked to the open end of the pew, jumped on it and behind the people's backs, and walked to get in front of t he little girls that he might have an explanation with them. Just then the hymn ceased. Everybody on that bench came near sittiug on Our Dog. It was a terrible scramble to get out. Still he kept employed. There was a line of chairs in the aisle. In one of these deliberately sat Our Dog. If everybody would do nothing but sit still and look at that man in the pulpit, so would he. But somehow ha moved one hind leg inad vertently. It slipped over the chair's edge. Our Dog slipped over with it, and came as near tumbling as a being with four legs can. All this made a noise aud attracted attention. Little boys and girh and big boys and girls snickered and snorted and strained, as only people can snicker, snort, and strain where they ought i;ot to. Even some of the elders made queer faces. The sexton then tried to put Our Dog out. But he had no idea of going. He had come with our folks, and he was not goiug until they went. The strange man grabbed for him, and he dodged him time and again with all his native grace and agility. This was some thing like; it was fun. The sexton gave up the chase; it was ruining the sermon. Our Dog was sorry to see him go and sit down; he stood at a distance and lookeel at him, as if to saj', ' Well, aint you going to try it again !" No; no more of that. Nobody was do ing anything save that man in the putpit. Our Dog would go and see what all that was about. So he marched up the main aisle, and as he did so he waved in a ma jestic and patiouiziug sort c f way his bushy tail, auel it seemecd to say, "Well, you can sit here, glum and silent, if you've a mind to. I do no such thing. I'm a dog; 1 need none of your preaching; I'm superior to all that. Things go easy enough with me, without coming here once a week to sit silent, sad. melancholy, and stupid, and be scolded at by a man whom you pay for it." Then, iu an innocent and touching ig norance that he was violating all the pro prieties of time aud place, Our Dog went boldly up on the pulpit-stairs while our minister was preaching, and stood and sur veyed the congregation. Indeed, he ap propriated much of that congregation's at tention to himself. He stood there and surveyed that audience with a confidence and assurance which, to a nervous aud in experienced speaker, would be better than gold or diamonds. He didn't care, lie smelt of the minister. He thought he'd try and see if the latter were in a mood for any sociability. No; he was busier than any of the rest. The stupidity and silence of all this crowd of people who sat there and looked at him puzzled Our Dog. He could see no sense in it. Some little boys and girls did smile as he stood there; seemingly those smiles were for him. But so soon as he reciprocated the apparent at tention, so soon as he made for them, the smiles would vanish, the faces become sol emn. And so, at last, with a yawn, Our Dog flung himself on the aisle floor, laid his head on his fore paws, and counted over the beef bones he had buried during ! the last week. Not a word of the sermon touched him; it went clear over his head. From our Monthly Gossip in LipphictlCs Magazine for March. The Change in the Wind. Grant's Intemperance. WHAT WENDELL PHILLIPS KNOWS ABOUT IT. Mr. Senator Wilson lraving told what he knows about President Grant's temperate habits, it is now in order for Mr. Wilson's colleague in the Grant party Mr. Wendell Phillips, to tell what he knows. The fol lowing is quoted from a speech by that gentleman in Boston : " We will have the ballot for the negro by agitation soon." A voice " How do you propose to do it ?" Mr. Phillips " I propose to do it just as Christianity oecupietl the throne of the Caisars. Loud cheei-s. I propose to do it by telling you just what God tells me. I will do what the temperance societies, which are as h:de-bound as the churches, dare not dc examine a Republican can li at for the Presidency the most popular nuu in America, who cannot stand up before a glass of liquor without falling down. Great silence, succeeded by applause. i will do it by opposing the Republican party, when it bids me 'be silent'about Ne gro Suffrage North, it will hurt our party. Be silent about Gen. Grant's drinking, it will hurt our chances. I reply, God bids me speak what you bid me forbear. I will speak, aud let the dead bury their dead, whether they bury him in the White House or not." A Greensboro' correspondent of the New York Tribune predicts a large vote for Greeley among the Quakers of North Car olina. A correspondent of the New York Tri bune, writing from Charlotte, N. C, knows of but one Conservative or Democrat in the county of Mecklenburg that refuses to rote for Greeley. There are signs of a break among the negroes in favor of Greeley and Brown. Meetings are now held in various parts of tne otate, ana efforts are on foot to secure the services of an able speaker of color to labor among their own people. The in dustry of the Administration party is un tiring, and the methods they employ to keep the colored people in doubt, and solid fbr Grant, show that the situation is viewed as critical in the extreme. An intelligent colored man from one of the thickly popu lated counties reports that in many neigh borhoods clubs are formed, and readers are engaged to read for the people from the leading Conservative papers in the State. v OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE III lis bo ro' Chief Justice Baffin Paul Cameron-Grace and Besntj Tne Stage Journey over the Moun tains Humors of the Trip The Driver, Ac, Ac Westekn Nobth Carolina, ) September 5th, 1872. $ Dear Journal : I closed my last letter with a promise that I would give you my views of Asheville and its surroundings, and also some of the incidents of my jour ney to the Western part of the State. 1 stopped over one day at the town of Hillsboro', around which cluster so many historic incidents, dear to the hearts of North Carolinians, and not without interest to the whole country. It is now the dwel ling place of some, of our most honored citizens, and there reposes all that is mor tal of the late Chief Justice Ruflin, whose life was marked by the practice of every virtue, and who was, in the opinion of some of our ablest men, the greatest common-law lawyer that ever graced the Bench in the United States. The town proper is in a lamentable state of decay ; like most of our other old in terior towns, its prosperity seems to have departed. Nevertheless it is considered the healthiest place in the State, between the sea-shore and the Blue Ridge, and is surrounded by many beautiful private resi dences, among which that of Paul Came ron, Esq., takes precedence, giving evi dence not only of the wealth of the pro prietor, but also of a highly cultivated taste, antl recalling the descriptions we sometimes meet with of the parks belong ing to noble houses iu England. During my short stay at Hillsboro, 1 met with some dearly cherished friends, now sojourning there, made some highly valued and agreeable acquaintances, and had ocular demonstration that, if it is the healthiest place between the sea-shore and the Blue liidge, neither can it be surpassed within the same boundaries, in the grace and beauty of many of its fair residents. Envious tongues, however, might say that, tor some of these, it is indebted to loca tions further East. At any rate I left the old town with a feeling of genuine regret, and a wish that it were iu my power often to repeat the visit. On the lUth inst., at 1 o'clock P. M., I reached "Old Fort," the present Western terminus of the radroad, almost at the base cf the Blue Ridge. Soon I w as, with ten others, on one of the Clemens' line of stages, and started for Asheville, a distance of twenty-five miles, which it took us nine hours to accomplish, although we had three span of good horses in making the ascent of the mouutain. The crowded vehicle, the hot weather, the bad road, and the tedious journey, so worried, wearied and jade el me that all the beauties of the far-famed Swananowagap, through which we crossed were entirely lost upon me ; indead, I felt, as I got down at the hotel, that I would not underergo the same fatigue again for the attractions of the mountain section. A day or two of rest, however, dissipated this feeling, aud elevated my mind to a just ap preciation of the magnificent scenery by which I was surrounded. TLe asceut of the mouutain is, in many places fearful, to the unpractised eye, aud the descent of the eastern slope ciually so. One cannot help feeling, at times, a little uncomfortable, and, as the wheels get in rather close proximity to some " frightful chasm " the passenger may be pardoned an inward wish that he were safely "landed." Nor is the journey always without its hu morous incidents. A coloreel girl, a ser vant, riding on the outside, alarineei by the occasional jolting of the stasre, near the edge of some yawning precipice would ex claim, " Oh, if I was only prepared to die." This i.ieus ejaculation was always met by the driver with an objurgation of a di rectly reverse character, usually ending with, "what in the are you afraid of ; don't I hold the reins." Well a man can not be great In anything without implicit confieleuce in his own powers, and this is, undoubtedly, a great driver. In de scending the mountain on my return, I had the honor of being alongside of him on the box, aud in places when I could not keep my seat w.thoat some difficulty, he handled his six horses with the utmost ease, skill and dexterity, and wThen it seemed to me that we had no means of egress save through a mountain looming up terribly in the darkness, he would thread his way as if lighted to his bed chamber, and he is retained by the stage proprietors for this especial service, and he well repays their confidence. I regret that I cannot give you his name, for it certainly deserves hon orable mention. I wiil reserve for another letter what 1 have to say as to Asheville and its vicinity. North St atb. Plowing Twice for Wheat. A correspondent writes: If any one will break his ground deeply and thoroughly two or three times during the spring and summer, the extra amount of wheat per acre will pay for plowing and leave a hand some profit besieles. I have tested this practice several times with the most satis factory results. In 1S69 I had a field of sixteen acres of like fertility. I expected to plant half the field in corn, but for some reason I did not. In the half that had been plowed for corn after the grounel had been broken the weeds grew more rapidly. Consequently I broke it again the 20th of June. On the first of September following I plowed the entire field and sowed in wheat. The result was as follows : The half which had only received a single plowing yielded per acre thirteen bushels j and eighteen pounds; the half that receiv- ty-three bushels and forty pounds, which made a difference of more than ten bush els per acre. At one dollar per bushel this would pay for the extra plowing and leave a net profit of six dollars per acre besides. Narkow G.vl'.k We learn that the Rail: : n.t tiag at Liucolnton on the 27th elected A. U. Davega, of Chester, President, with a full Board of Directors. Tho entire stock has been subscribeel to complete the road from Hickory Tavern toYorkville. We give a list of the Direc tors : A. H. Davega, B. T. Wheeler, J. F. Smyer, W.U. Motz, and O. G Foard. Charlotte Southern Uome. The Newbern Times says: The con tentedj election for the Sheriffalty of Jones county, between Joseph A. Smith (Demo crat,) xs. Thomas E. Pritchett, (Republi can,) was decided in favor of Pritchett by the Board of County Commissioners, on Thursday last. Pritchett tendered his official bond, which was accepted, and he was duty installed into office by taking the oath required by law. A called meeting of the W. N. C. R. R. will take place at Marion, Monday, Sep tember 16th. TIIE WIND SHIFTING IN NEW YORK. Richard F. Smith, Republican Super visor of the town of Lysander, Onondaga county, in 1868, has declared for Greeley. Chas. n. Weed, Republican member of Assembly from Cayuga county iu 1803 and 18C9, has declared for Greeley and Brown. Robert Loughran, Republican member of the Assembly from Ulster county, N. Y., in 1SG1, and again last winter, has de clared for Greeley and Brown. George Williams, Republican member of the Assembly from Oneida county in 1800, is one of the delegates to the Liberal Re publican State Convention. Julien T. Willi.ims. tlpnnhlimn mrtTvilnvr of Assembly from Chautauqua county in i 1864, is od-j of a Greeley and Brown club . 1I . i t ttb XJ Ulltt.ll a. I. Henry W. Taylor, Republican county Judge of Ontario .county iu 1857, repudi ates Grant, and is taking an active part in the campaign for Greeley. John Hallock Drake, Republican District Attorney of Orange county from 18G5 to 1869, repudiates Grant, and is actively sup porting Greeley and Brown. Wm. C. Hanna, fr several years the nominee of the Republicans for member of Assembly in the Eighth Ward of this city, repudiates Grant aud supports Greeley. One hundred and ninety-two Republi cans, of Middletown, Orange county, have joined the Greeley and Brown club in that town. Hiram Smith, 2d, Republican member of Assembly from Chautauqua county in 1861, is making Greeley and Brown speech es in that county. George P. Bradford, twice the candidate of the Republicans for Assembly in the 2'd ward of this city, supports Greeley ar.d Brown. Dr. E. E. D. Skinner, of Green port, member of the Grant Suffolk county com mittee, has- resigned that position aud an nounced his intention to support Greeley and Brown. Daniel D. Conover, Republican Reform Alderman, elected last fall, aud for years a prominent member of the Republican Cen tral committee of New l oik city, has de clared for Greeley and Brown. Wm. R. Stewart, for several years Re publican Supervisor in New York city, three years member of the Republican State Central committee, repudiates Grant and has declared for Greeley and Brown. Christopher Pullman, who has been sev eral times elected to positions by the Ro publicans of New Yoik city, anel held up by the organs of that party as the model of honesty, is disgusteel with the Grant party, and supports Greeley and Brown. II. S. Swift, Republican Supervisor of the town of Cameron, Steuben county, N. Y., in 1808, repudiates Grant, and is working for the election of Greeley and JJrown. Robert M. llasbrouck, Republican mem ber of the Assembly from Rensselaer county in 1S05, was a member of the recent (Tree ley Republican County Convention of that county. George M. Taylor, Republican Super visor of the Third Ward of Troy in 18G8, repudiates Grant, aud is a member cf the Greeley Republican Committee in his As sembly district. Lyman Truman, three times elected to the N. Y. State Senate from the Broome and Tiega district, repudiates Grant, and is a delegate to the Liberal Republican State Convention. Elias C. Holt, Republican member of the Assembly from Wyoming county in 1859, repudiates Grant, and is one of the delegates from that county te the Liberal State Convention at Syracuse. W. C. Thompson, Republican County Judge of Jefferson county from lbol to 1800, repudiates Grant and presided ut the Greeley Republican Convention he-Id in his Assembly district a few days since. The Young Democracy of the town and city of Youkers have organized a "Von:.::; Men's Democratic Greeley and Brown Club," with Henry T. Smith, editor of'tli3 Herald, as the President. The four representatives of the Twenty secontl Senatorial District in the ( -oiibiii u- j tional Convention of IfcOT were RepubK- j cans, and all now support Greeley ami Brown anel oppose Grant's election. Three of the officials elected in West chester comity last fall hy the Republicans are delegates to the Liberal Republican State Convention. They aio Vv". W. Niie.6-, Silas D. Gilford, and I). C. Briggs. S. C. Cleveland, Republican candidate! for State Senator in tho Yates district lait fall, is a delegate to the Greeley Rexubli can State Convention. Last year he was a delegate to the Grant State Convention. William II. Chapman, Republican me m ber cf the Assembly from Oneida county in 1S0S, repudiates Grant and is chairman of the Greeley Republican Assembly Dis trict Committee cf the First District cf Oneida. Wi.liam II. Richarelson, Republican member of the Assembly from Essex coun ty iu 1S04, '65 and '00, has declared for Greeley and Brown, anel is a delegate to the Syracuse Liberal Republican Stale Convention. James Johnson, Republican county clerk from 1806 to 1870, and Republican member of Assembly from Jef'terson coun ty in 1871, has declared for Greeley, and is a delegate to the Liberal Republican State Convention. M hat Unspeakable Itelief is afforded to tlie burning and throbbing Ht-sli by a fcingte application of that unequaled balsam for hu man oi brute suffer in g, Mexican Muttang I;n ment. The tormenting and plcep-dcstroyii g pains of rheumatism, gout and neuralgia, aic completely banished by its ue ; Mtiifnt-FS of the joints and painiul swellings, quickly yield to its emollient influence ; it hcala bruises, cuts, scalds, etc., with astonishing rapidity. For strains, spring halt, scratches, hf.ddlc, collir and harness gall:-, as well as the more serioe 8 external maladies of the horse, it is a swii't anel thorough remedy. Symptoms d Liver Couiulaiut awl of Some of tlie Iiseae lroIucel hy it. A sallow or yellow color of skin, or yehowiMi brown speta on the face and ether parts of tlie body; dullness and d;owsiin-M with fieiient headache; dizziness, bitter or bad tasi3 in month, dryness of throat ami internal heat ; palpitation, in mny casesa dry, teasing cough, with sore throat ; unsteady appetite, a raising of food, and a choking sensation in throat ; dis tress, heaviness, or bloated or full feeling at out 8tomach and sides, pain in siUef", back or brca.-t and about shoulders; cole pain and soreness through bowels, with hc..t ; constipation; alter nating with frequent -a 'acka of diarrhea ; piles, flatulence, nervoe !iB, coldncns of ex tremities ; rush of blood bead, v. ith Fymp" toms of apop -exy, numbness of limbs, eupecl il ly at night ; cold . chills iiiterua'.iug with Lot flashes, kidney and urinary difficulties ; female weakness and Irregularities, with dull?ie?s, low spirits, unsociability and gloomy foreboding . Only a few of the above symptoms arc like'y to be present In any case at one time. All who use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for liver complaint and its complications are loud in its praise. Sold by all druggists everywhere, sept 7 293-dlwood&wlt Of the many Poles emigrating to this country it is remarked that a very large per centage are journeyman tailors. This is doubtless owing to the mutual attraction between the needle and the Pole. How about Andy Johnson.J South Carolina Items. A colored man, hunting in the Santee swamp, a few dnys ago, killed a bear weighing some 000 pounds. The Abbeville Medium states that the Hon. I). L. Wardlaw, was struck with par alysis of the right arm aud leg. The dis- ease is only partial, and strong -Lopes are entertained of the Judge's speedy recovery. Gen. John 15. Hood has accepted, the invitation to deliver the annual address be fore the Survivors' Association At Colma bia in November next, during the State Fair in that city. Several substantial vessels arc now up at Bremen f.r Charleston, and about five hundreel passengers will come in them, ael ding many valuable citizens to the State. They are expected to reach Charleston at an early date. A line eif steamships has been establish ed between Charleston and Boston, tho first since the war, ami ihe steamship Mer cedita, the pioneer of (he line, will leave Charleston to -morrow. The Charleston iW irj s iys: The steam ship agents mention as a curious fact that many of tho carpet-baggers are besieging them with requests for fiee tickets to the North. Th-; applications are expected to increase after Octeiber 10th. The Aiken Journal s ijs : "The barbe cue at Graniteviile, em Saturday last, was decidedly the most largely attended of the many which have taken place in this por tion of the State during tlie season. It is estimated that there were fully three thou sand people present, many being there who attended from the remotest sections of the county." The Sumter Ncir says: Our farmers brought iu bad reports f rom the crops on Sale-day. The veritable army worm, has made its appearance in seveial neighbor hoods, and his attacked the cotton crop with its iiMial eiesfrtielive energy. Fortu nately for the planters, their crops. are so far advanced, that they will not suflersuch heavy disaster, as they would have done, had they been as backward as usual, at this time (if tlie year. More than half of the cotton is now open, ready for picking. Tne Columbia Xon!h Carolinian says: A friend ihfoims us of a very unusual op eration lately performed by that distintin-jmishe-d dentist, Dr. Patrick, of Charles ton. Jn extracting a tooth for a patient it became nece. sary by the overlapping of a small tooth to remove it, and both teeth, were accordingly drawn. The sound tooth was then thoroughly cleansed, some of tho rough patts of the roots removed and the tooth replaced iu iis original position, and our informant states, has formally adhered iu its socket and is as comfortable aud ap parently as healthy aller several weeks as any other tooth. AtliivZt I'pon ix Journalist. Tlie telegraph from Washington yester day, briefly announced the fact of au at tack by Judge Dent, brother of Mrs. Pres ident Grant, upon Mr. Reed, one of the editors of the Capital. Judge Dent visited the office of the Capital, s iys the Wash ington Star, and calling Mr. Reed's atten tion to an article iu yes.erday's Capital, ho asked who the author was. Mr. Reed re plied that he was responsible for it ; whereupon Judge Dent pronounced it f'alae, and called upon Mr. Reed to defend himself. Thru raising a walking stick, he strm k -Mr. Reed several times over the head, breaking the cane. Mr. Reeel by ibis time was on his feet, and seizing the Judge, a ;;e;ili!.j endued lor the possession of the cane, or the lemnant of it iu the hands of the lat'er. At this juncture some efthe t.!all'of tbepapdV who were down st;i.is, hearing the! noiseof the scufile, came up and .M-parated the coiiibatautu. Officer Roderick being n-a'- at, hand was called in and to k flies assailant h:t o custody, and tiled information in the police court charg ing Mr. Dent with assault aud battery n Lb-nry Reed. The hearing wa-j pubtpou- tl until to-morrow. Mr. Dent entering ii:t p; -r.-:-: i al reeo;.-.;.ian in tht sum of $200 for liio iij.p".tr.r.iee to answer. Mr. Reed received t v.o.se t p wounds and a cut near tlie i: t'l eye, whicn i oiii; . Jial tiiuiseii, (!.f u ound being pr babJy made v the sphnh re-1 end of to-.-cane after it wis broken. M: A ;orl his friends assert the as- ink, v, ';: i iu:r! ,"-.t'., ! Ir; ipr s to ih -: -. ii.hout :uiy expLnatiuu in re-k-'d by Judge Dent, iiiiiily ( f ilx paper for wii it it had printed. After Mr. Reed had answered Judge in!,t,s intei rogatory iu the r.ffinnative. ho averts that the Judge? se i .id his (Mr. Reed's) hickory "cane lying on the t.ibl.-, and, without a word of ex planation, bengu to belabor him with it over the head. Mr. Reed further says that Judge I), did not er.!l upon him to defend himself, b: t a r'uked him as he was silting with hi- f t cramped under the table, and that f r a moment or two lie was unable to (.her any resistance to tho blows bho'ir-rod upon him. Tin: AltTI , i; that CAUSED THE Al'TCAV. The f"lov, i;i-' is the article in the Cap ital that led to th that ojtic- : vi-iit of Judge Dent to li.ouvst i for i:r. J. Ryi :.. Ne lhun J. Ft: i mad.; in the New York Sun !. Willity, banker, of Port Yrrk. It appeals that Wil i.'l received from President flrant th a; j o'o'in'-' t. as consul at Callao, iii e-u:isid ration for which lie paid in cash to li'f.iL Dent, a ,b;-f ' !: -r-pidaw of Ceneral (liiu.t, 1 wo tl.ou'aiid fix : h'U.dred dollars, and to ;ei,or:d j-'. V. Deot, til so a brother-in-law of the J'icl! .:. t, one thousand dol 1 ir.-. Af ;r,v,rd .Mr. Parruod n 'gotiated furthe-r with ti J i, 1 bmt J.cr-in-law for the a-it-.oiiilnii-i.t of Mr. Withcy a com uiicsiour to settle the claims of citizens of tlie United .'vab-s against Peru, for which he l aid to (;-:!': ::1 T. Dent, brother-iu-1-v.v as nforer-aid, l! e. sum of three thou s mil dollars in cash at the Astor House in New Yoik. it appears, however, that although the, bargain was completed aud the consideration paid, the o'licc was given t' another, ::n-.i Fa i rand ar;d Withey lost the opportunity (fplayinginf o each other's hands which it. would have ttl'jred. Upon this ti.e Sun -ays : Now the unseuth.d question on which iofoimaiion has beu hoped from Mr. Withey i: r. ,t wh.ther Oerieral Cranllg biolhei-m-l.iw t,oM these appointments for money, for th it point is already established and admitted : but whether the three thou sand dollars paid to Dent ior Withey's ap pointment as e onnui.;sloot r was really tho money ed' Withey or : he money of Farrand. On this quest ion Mr. Withey might cast a good eleal of light, and v. o trust he will not e-ontinue to withhold i!."' All of which Judge Dent neiiies. Trasc'y at 5;alison, X. J. Michael fcandfonl, proprietor c f tho Wa verly Hour-e, at Madi.son, N. J., was shot and fatally injured at 11 o'clock on Wed nesday evening by his ton, Melville iSaud ford. Mr. rxiiah'ord came home intoxica ted, and had scarcely got within the door when he cominen-(-d quarreling with his wife, and Unall v knocking her down and bet ng her as she lay upon the lloor. His son Melville entered at this juncture, and atcmc ure w hi: revolver and fired. Tho ball lodged in Mr. fciandfurd'a abdomen and fsavered3au artery. He is not expected to live. Young jandford surrendered him self and was locked up. The Marquis do Kemingam, nephew of the Princess of Talmont, and a young man twenty-three years old, has become a Alonk of La Trappo because of the d.ath of a sweetheart.
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