FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1S72.
FOR PBESID F.VT
HOEACE GKEELEY,
OF NEW TOKH.
FOj; YiCE-PltESlDENT :
R. TtATZ BROWN,
OF MISSOVKI.
Si ati: tl.iitrjOKAS. 'II liin.
fcTATi: at i.aijok.
THOMAS J..JARVIS, of Tyrrell.
E. W. rOTf, of Johnston.
FOI! TJIK IjISTHICTH.
st Oct avi rs Cokk, of Chowan.
2,1 .SvIFT GAT.I.OV.'AY, of Greene.
".1 T. C. Finn:, of Cumberland.
4th- 11. A. Loxuox, Ji
, of Chatham.
r.ili David F. Cam.wkix,
,of Guilford.
f;th W. L. STKf.r.K, of Tiichmond.
jj, v. 13. Mo'Dowiill, of Iredell.
yih Tnos. L. Johnston, of Ruucombe.
Fair of tlie Farmer' nl ?feclianle
Agricultural Association.
Goi.iioi:o X. Oct. 22 P. M.
(Sl'KCIAI. TO T1IK JOI'RNAI,.
Our Fair is a grand success. There are
over 1 0,0 0 e: it rios. ' F.
LATF.lt.
The Hist day of the Fair of the Fanners'
and Mechanics' Association passed off
pleasantly. Entries number neaily two
thousand. There are over three hundred
entries of stock alone. Floral Hall presents
a line appearance
Judges that have been
invited to all the Fairs of the Slate since
nee
the war unhesitatingly pronounce
ha iu i-1 . Vj
numbered
it
fiuest. The attendance to-day
Hon. A. S. Merriiuon delivers the address
to-morrow. A huge crowd is expected
from the special trains, which arrive da ly
in addition to the many regular trains.
Xew entiii'S continue to come in. Over
four hundred have been made since the
close of tlie Fair this afternoon.
W. 17. sj;. under?, the colored Greeley
orator from Slary land, arrived this after
noon and is announced to address the col
ored people to-morrow evening. W.
Si-KCAI. Ti TIIK .IOL i:n.i..
ftCCOHil )'.
GoT.ic-i:rr;o Oct. -':' P. M.
t n thi?, the second day of the Farmers'
and Mechanics' Agricultural Association
Fair, notwithstanding the itvk-meney oft
the weather, the attendance, v.' .is v.triou-ly
optima od at from 2, .f'O to )')('). About
:;.oou entries Lave been made in the dif
ferent departments, and tho exhibition is
in every way a grand success.
J Ion. A. S. Merrimoii delivered the an
nual addr.-'is, which was listened to with
the greatest attention by the large au-
t I AT ;
programm:: h.r to-morrow is very
a'. tractive ;au!,
1 ivKi at! oudam
tic weulncr permitting, a
i i expect"
B.
Ail JiHii'r;t;jl
WO p'.ibli-Ii i
Kails-oat: ICsit er:riso.
day
ti inleieitiMg com-
';rinicati''!i on tho subject of the improved
narrow g.tuge l ail road from Xo.fo'k to
Charleston. Wo are ;nV;iy.j giad to sec;
enterprises on foot, it seor.is that in
in ' rap: growth hi population and pro
ductions of our .seetion Ui-mo is work lor
dh M"i !;, this proposed road will open to
tl.-e terminal oil ies and to Wilmington new
I fertile districts, now without speedy
,: i-; iliiin routes of transport a! in.
We are glad t learn tlui
in the hands of live and
t tin i enterprise
substantial men.
IKri-m the J.tiiy .Journal L'Jd.j
Two weeks from ti;-il;iy t iie people of the
I'nite.I States will !e called upon to decide
but ween Greeley and Grant: in a woid,
between a Constitutional Government and
a military despotism.
Grant is the embodiment of all the
car-us that can affect a country. Greeley,
if iif)t the embodinent of all tho blessings
that we desire, i- certainly the representa
tive of a f;e press, free speech and free
government.
Grant stands before the country as the
mini-tor of never-dying hate, implacable
vmgeance, and eternal separation. Gree
ley is the apostle of peace, of reconcilia
tion and of reunion.
This is no exaggerated slat'-mont. It is
a plain, sober, every-day, homespun fact.
EVory honest man, in his soul, acknowl
edges this to be true. It is so plain that
li who runs may read.
People of Xoith Carolina! you cannot
hesitate about voting iu such an elec
tion as this ! Rut you must be reg
stered before the election, or you can
not vote. The registration books will be
closed on Idonday week, the 4th of No
vember. If you have not registered, do
so at once. Do not put it off another day.
If you were a registered voter in the elec
tion for Governor, you are a registered
voter now, unless you have changed your
residence to ano'her township. If you
have moved into another township, you
must register over again.
Rut there are a great many of our citi
zens who have never registered at all. Let
them register and vote, if they wish to see
Greeley elected and Grant defeated. The
Administration office-holders are rnakinc
great exert 'ons to re-elect General Grant,
and thereby to retain their hold on the i
Public Treasury. Every vote will count.!
One vote is .sometimes very important, j
In 170 throe Democratic Congressmen j
were gained iu Pennsy lvania, whose are- I
... . . " " i
laie majority was ouly July tnree roles. In
the same year, in ludiana, the Republicans
te-electe.l a Congressman by a majority cf
only four xole.i. These instances show
how important it Is for every man to vote.
There is no telling how important one vote
may be until the result of the election is
known. Let every man consider that the re
sult depends upon his vote, and register and
cvsL it right. All will then be well. We
' we no fear of the result if every citizen
v. ill do his whole duty.
It may bo that tho vote of North Carc
:na will crown us with success. It may
i that the vote of North Carolina will
overwhelm us with defeat. It may be that
tho vote of a single county, and indeed, it
may be that tho vote of a single township
will decide tho whole contest.
We repeat, let every man act as if the
whole result depended upon his vote alone.
Eet every man feel that he is responsible
to God and his Country for what he does
and for what he fails to do in the great
crisis through which we are now
pass i ng !
t'olouel WIdeIFa Speech.
We publish this morning as full
ex ti act 3 from Colonel Waddell's
admirable speech te the people of
Columbus county, as our space will permit.
Colonel Waddkll's arraignment of
President Grant and the Radical Party
cannot he sacccs-fully. impeached, sus
( ained as it is by facts and figures of indis
putable, authenticity, and his presentation
of the question at issue between Greeley
and Grant cannot fail to convince every
man whose mind is not wholly blinded by
ignorance or interest.
We are glad that Colonel Waui:i.l has
gone into the Presidential Campaign with
so much zeal and vigor. He is, we be
lieve, the only Congressman now taking
part in the canvass. The Conservatives of
the Third District will not soon forget his
generous services in behalf of their cause.1
AYliat Next T
It is said that " a prominent North Caro
lina politician who had jnst passed
through Washington reports a deep
laid plot on foot to deprive the people of
that State of their right to select a Untied
States Senator in the event of Grant's elec
tion. It is believed that Gov. Caldwell
will declare the entire Legislature just
Miacaii in rli!fti tlifirA ia n der-ided fmi.
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i servAtive. maiontv. io no iue?ai auu ecz me
j -- ' a
j Badical Supreme Judges to confirm this
! action. He will next proceed to appoint
j John
Pool or some other Radical to the
vacancy,
and let the election of a new
Legislature go over for one or two years.
By this means Pool will get and keep the
seat iu defiance of the popular will."
If this be true, and if we judge of
what Radicals will do by what they have
done we have no reason to doubt it, our
only hope is iu ihe defeat of Grant.
It Las been scarcely thirty days since the
Raleigh Era, tho Radical organ of the
State, advised Governor Caldwell to resist
the Legislature at tlie point of the bayonet
if that body should, in accordance with the
power vested in it by the Constitution, de
clare Judge Merrimon to be the duly
elected Governor of North Carolina.
It will be remembered, also, that shout
the same time the Era gave public warning
that Governor Caldwell might issue
a proclamation ordering an election for a
new Legislature.
If Grant shall be re-elected anarchy
and confusion and lawlessness await us.
If Greeley shall be elected peace and law
and good order will prevail.
The Difference.
According to Radical ideas of right and
wrong ami of justice it L all right to turn
Northern convicts out of the Penitentiary,
although they are gro n meu and notori
ous tl doves found guilty by a jury after a
fair t rial, but it is all wrong to turn out
young Southern boys of tender- ago who,
by promise of mild treatment, were induced
to plead guilty before a scoundrel like
Judge Bond without awy trial at all!
It is all right in Radical eyes to pardon
the Pennsy lvania thief, but it would be all
wrong to pardon tho North Carolina Ku
Klux, so-called.
The grown man Yerkes goes free.
The boy Ramseur is in a felon's cell.
Can North Caroliniaus reconcile it to
their manhood or to their consciences to
vote for ( i rant ? If Grp.nt Is 'beaten Radi
calism will die. If Grant is re-elected
Radicalism will live !
'i lie Kig Barbecue In Columbus Coun
ty Coloucl IVatldell.
The meeting at Iron Hill, in Columbus
county, on Saturday last, to hear lion. A.
M. Waddell speak on the issues of the
pending canvass, was a surprising success
The barbecue prepared tor the occasion
was said to be remarkable, both in the
quantity of food prepared and tlie manner
of its preparation. There were eisht
hundred people present, iucludiug about
one hundred and fifty ladies, and although
full justice was done to thebaibeeue, there
were barrels of food left untouched.
Beeves, hogs, lamb3, turkeys and chickens
were killed iu large numbers, and amongst
tho vegetables five bushels of rice was an
item.
Erief speeches were made by Colo
nel Memory and Captain Ellis, in which
these gentlemen (both of whom were suc
cessful candidates last August) returned
thanks to the people, and then Colonel
Waddell took the stand and spoke for
about au hour and a half. The speech
was listened to by the large audience with
deep interest and close attention, and theii
approval was manifested by those signifi
cant evidences of sympathy the riveted
gaze, the silent nod of assent, the quiet
laugh or watery eye, as the speaker would
enforce his argument by some humorous
or touching illustration. There was no
a' tempt to the eagle," no slaDg or
rough anecdotes, but an ordeily, well-con
sidered argument, addressed to the com
mon sense and the patriotic instincts of the
people. The siieech was full of facts taken
from official records, or the undisputed
history of the last four years. But we
refrain from any further comments on the
speech, as we have been promised a fuller
report of it than the information now in
our possession will enable us to make.
Colonel Wftddell did himself and the
cause he represented full justice, and we
bespeak for him throughout the District
equally attentive and appreciative audi
ences. The people of Columbus are all
right.
The Franking Privilege.
The creat crimes of the Radical party
are so numerous and so flagrant, that the
minor ones, such as lying, brazen impu-
j donee and hy pocrisy are apt to be over
looked by the much-suffering public. So
long 5is the liberties of the people remain
in danger men will not stop to consider
mere political humbugs. All this we know,
and yet we are tempted to call attention to
one matter not generally commented on by
the press, viz : The action of the Radicals
on the matter of the franking privilege. "
Attempts have been frequently made to
limit or abolish entirely the privilege which
Senators, Congressmen and Cabinet offi
cers enjoy of franking mail-matter, but
without success. At the last session of
Congress a bill was introduced to abolish
it, and the Democrats voted for it, but the
Radical majority in the Senate defeated it.
And yet, within a few weeks after Con
cress adiaurned. the Radical Convention
met iu Philadelphia, and itnblushingly in
serted m their platform of "principles ".a
declaration that the franking privilege
ouht to bo abolished ! And. ' since
that Convention adjourned the mails have
groaned under the weight of documents
franked not only by Radical Congressmen,
but even by subordinate office-holders,
such as Allan Rutherford, Third Auditor of
the Treasury the man who not only
voted, but presided over the polls at the
Fourth Ward cf this city, although he was
not a citizen of North Caiolina, and the
same man whose presence in Philadelphia
at the October election, attracted the at
tention and excited the suspicion of For
ney. If there was anything more brazenly im
pudent than the resolution jibout the
franking privilege in the Radical platform,
it was the resolution against land-grants.
It proclaimed that tlie Radicals were op
posed to giving away the public domain,
and yet the Radical Congress of the United
States gave away territory six times as big
as the State of Ohio.
We wouldn't be surprised if they actu
ally resolved that honesty and virtue were
good tilings !
Carl Sen arc.
Senator Schurz has been saying a good
many true things of late. Indeed, there
are few men in this country who can say
truer things or say them more handsomely
than our distinguished German Senator.
Southern men were not prepared for the
course that Carl Schurz has taken in
reference to American Politics. They
were specially surprised at the element of
Conservatism that his ac's since the war
have displayed. It has rarely happened
that men born and reared under other
forms of government have so soon come to
understand and appreciate in theory and
practice the principles upon which our own
was sought to be established. True Re
publicanism or Democracy is as far differ
ent from Red Republicanism and Radical
ism, as it is from Imperialism or Monarch
ism ; it is as far removed from the despot
ism of an individual as it is from that of a
mob ; iu a word, it is liberty regulated by
law.
It is generally exceedingly difficult for
one not habituated thereto from his in
fancy, to fully appreciate the machinery by
which our forefathers, in establishing the
Federal Government, thought they had
successfully solved the problem how best
to regulate liberty by law.
Too much law is as hsirtful to the citizen
as too much license is hurtful to the State.
The statesman who is a Democrat as well as
a patriot, finds himself compelled to tread in
a narrow path if he would encroach neither
upon liberty nor upon law, and would se
cure the greatest good both to the indi
vidual and to the State.
Southern men did not expect Senator
Schurz to appreciate the just relation and
the true line of separation between law and
liberty. Having sullered oppression in his
native land from despotism of ie kind, it
seemed not unnatural for him to fly to the
other extreme.
As has been so strongly said by Emilio
CAsrEr.ATt in a jjfeput paper on the Re
publican movematC in Europe, " a man
born in tho Bhadow of despotism, reared
among the terrors of his own family, and
the suspicions of arbitral y authority, edu
cated under the lash of a religious and
political dogmatism as goon as the idea
buds in his conscience, gagged by the cen
sorship as soon as the citizen character,
is developed by maturity, stretched on the
rack of slavery, with the spectacle always
before his eyes of the omnipotence of one
man, and the shame always in his heart of
his owu slavery, his own impotence, ham
pered by spies in his speech and writing,
and most intimate reunion.'?, apprehensive
unless seeing everything possible and easy
to a tyrant he crea'es in his silent soul a
fantastic idea which he loves with delirious
exultation.'
This was the estimate Southern men
had placed upon Carl Schurz. Nor was
there anything iu his course as an Abo
litionist or Black Republican, and in the
part be took iu the subjugation and en
slaving nine millions ot whites to give
freedom to three millions of blacks to con
vince them that they were wrong.
It was with great surprise, then, that
among the first, if not the very fu st, of the
maddened crowd, he was observed to
pause. Nor was it any the less pleasing,
because unexpected, that his voice was
heard giving warning that liberty and law,
the citizen and the State, were alike in
danger.
We live in strange times, and look upon
strange scenes. Not tlie least stranne
among these is that Carl Schurz, the man
whom, above all others, the conser
vatism of the South had looked upon
as its mortal enemy, should have proved
himself to be one of its earliest and most
persistent defenders ! Our people well re
member the surprise with which his first
utterances in behalf of liberty, regulated
by law, were received. It is no small
compliment to the even balance of his
mind, that with Ids antecedents of birth,
education auu habit, Carl Schurz, the
German exile, should be the first to cause
Americans, upon their own soil, to re
member that the despotism of numbers
was as hurtful as the despotism of aja in
dividual; that the despotism of an infuri
ated mob might be as pernicious as the
tyranny of a sole monarch !
Long may his voice be heard in defence
of lilertv and of law.
Tne New York Heraltl and Spain
An Ugly Quarrel.
There is a war cloud loom inc ud abov
the horizon. Will it burst in fury and vio
lence, or will it sink back into that infinity
oi space irom which it sprang? That Is
the question. And it is a serious one,
when we consider who are the parties thus
threatening the peace of mankind. j
If President Grant should utter hieh-
sounding words against any foreign gov
ernment, It would not occasion the slightest
apprehension. Every one would know at
once that it did not mean war, but that it
was intended simply to help the Radical
party to retain power, or to aid some of its
leaders in some speculation about bonds
r stocks. Our benign Federal Govern
ment believes in peace, peace at any price,
unless it knows that it can put in the field
about five times as many men as its adver
sary. Then our paternal Government
rushes out with great parade its "finest
army on the planet," and goes valliantly to
war. But unless it can fight with these
odds in its favor, the brave Yankee nation
most assiduously cultivates the arts of
peace, regardless ot profit or expanse.
We doubt if a respectable foreign power
could kick a fight out of poor, prudent
Brother Jonathan. But Mexico had better
be cautious. Mexico is respectable neithi r
in men nor munitions of war ; and she lies
very handy, and Brother Jonathan has a
wonderful skill iu the art of "knowing
whom to kick !"
Rut it is not iu the west that the war
cloud is looming up. Spain is the offend
ing power, and Cuba is and is
to be the scene of operations. England
brought Brother Jonathan to Lis knees
about the Alabama claims in short order,
and that, 'too, after much bluster
about bringing the British Lion to the
feet of the American Eagle. Spain
arrested tried and imprisoned Dr. Houard.
The United States Government demanded
his release on the ground that he was an
American citizen. Spain insolently re
fused to do so, and Brother Jonathan was
compelled f.o be satisfied with accepting as
a favor, contemptuously granted, what had
been demanded as a right f The great
Sherman, whose success in battle was
always in inverse proportion to the force
of the enemy in his front, the commanding
general of "the finest army on the
planet," on a late European tour, was
obliged to swallow in silence the slights and
contumely of the Prussian Government!
These things are not pleasant to write
about, to read about, or to think about ; it
is true that they concern us but little, and
that we of the South may well say, " it is
none of our funeral," but they are hu
miliating to us as American citizens for all
that;
But Spain is now dealing with an an
tagonist much more to be feared than is
Brother Jonathan, as represented by the
present Federal Government. It is one
thing to bully President Grant. It is quite
another to bully the New York Uerald.
The Herald is a live institution. It was
the Herald that explored tho Land of
the Lowrcys. It was the Jlcruld titnA first
told of the fall of Magdala. It was the
Herald that fiist discovered Livingstone.
The Herald people are to be found upon
every sea and iu every clime ; in every
countiy and under every flcg From Green
land's icy mountains to India's cflral strands,
from Land's End to Land's End, from the
North Pole to the South, all along and
above and below the Equator, everywhere
npon the surface of the globe, habitable or
unhabitable, where there is a spot upon
which a human being may creep or crawl
or cling to, men can be found ceaselessly
toiling for the nerald.
These men must be protected or they
cannot work. These men must work or
the Herald cannot live. But American
citizens may be outraged and insulted and
President Grant and his army of Radical
office-holders can still peacefidly and unin
terruptedly live upon the Tublic Treasury !
Foregn nations know this and govern
themselves accordingly !
When Spain arrested Dr. Houard, as he
was only an American citizen, it was many,
many months ere he was released, and
then it was done only as an act of clem
ency on the part of Spain ! How different
was it the other day when one Henderson,
a Uwttld correspondent, was arrested in
Cuba by Spanish authority: With light
ning speed the news of his arrest was fol
lowed by the news of his release ! Indeed,
so great is the fear inspired by the Herald
that the Spanish Cox set. Ge.nekal ask
ed that the outrage be not made known !
The Herald not only refused to grant the
request, but laid down the law to Spain in
regard to the treatment of the correspon
dent, in tho following terms terms that
Don Grant dam not use without bein
made to apologize for. The U' rald says
to Spain :
We make the Spanish nation responsi
ble for Mr. Henderson's safety for his
life and his freedom. He is on a mission
in which the whole American people have
an interest, and be will perform it faith
fully and fearlesslv. for vn know rmr ti:m
His business is legitimate, and bis conduct
will be honest and straightforward, lie
must not be molested.
The Herald has published its vUimatum ;
if it shall be accepted we will have peace ;
if not, then let Spain prepare for the dread
day when the Herald shall lead its columns
against her.
In olden times our people in foreign
lands proudly proclaimed themselves
American cit izens, confident of respect and
protection; now it is otherwise. The
simple note-book and pencil of a Herald
correspondent is far more respected than
the passport of Secretary Fish and Presi
dent Grant, stamped a!l over with Ameri
can Eagles ! Long live the Herald I Poor
Grant !
Cape Fear Agricultural Association.
We are glad to know that the Fairs held
and being held in the State, this year, have
met with good success. At Raleigh, Hen
derson and Salisbury, the people have
manifested much interest in their industrial
and social gatherings Our information is
that the Fairs at Charlotte and Goldsboro'
now in progress, are meeting with marked
success. This is as it should be.
We have noticed that in some respects
our Fairs are not what they ought to be, or
indeed what they have been in the past.
This may be accounted for in some degree
by the rapid iucrease iu the number of
Fairs, and the continued poverty of the
people. A great many of our citizens have
as much as they can do to make " buckle
and tongue " meet, to raise bread and meat
for their families, educate thefr children,
and above all, to pay the terrible taxes
which extravagance and corruption have
fastened on them by close and industrious
application at home. They cannot afford
the expenses incident to the Fairs. They
have neither time nor means to lay aside
the fruits of their labors for the annual
Expositions.
But as long as these Fairs are regarded
as in some degree indicating the resources
of a section, and abound ia social inter-
course and recreation, their annual return
will always awaken interest and pleasure in
the breasts of the people. They will always
be well attended and will alwavs attract
the offerings of a large number
Whhe we rejoioe in tha success of our
neighbor's Fairs, we are yet more interest
ed in the success of our own. As imper
fect as hare been the Fairs of the (Jape
Fear Agricultural Association, in exhibi
tion, in management, in attendance, and
in many other essentials of great industrial
exhibitions, they have, beyond dispute,
been far more successful than those held
at other points in the State. With less
endowment fcnd with advantages inferior
to most, the articles exhibited have been
greater, the premiums awarded have been
more liberal, and the management has
been so far successful as to keep its affairs
in a sound condition.
Much ol this success has been owing to
the liberality of a portion of the citizens of
Wilmington. The Association owes its
existence and much of its success to them.
Their kindness has becu peicnuial. Even
now, although preparations are in progress
for the Fourth Annual Fair, their interest
and lilerality has in no wise abated. ; Large J
subscriptions have been and are be:rg
made to enable the officers of the Associa
tion to offer superior inducements to ex
hibitois and visitors.
The Premium List has lieen very gen
erally distributed. It is the most liberal
ever offered in the State. We hope it will
bring out a generous response. The
Special Premiums, too, are numerous and
liberal. No department has been over
looked. Many attractions for the entertainment
and amusement of visitors are in course of
preparation and will be duly announced.
We look for a large turn out of the people,
and we do not believe we shall bo disap
pointed. Our friend "M.," writing us from Mt.
Olive, says :
"Allen Wilson, Haywood B-anch, and
Joseph Miusey, the three p:?rson3 impli
cated in the shooting of Mrs. Baison, and
injuring and burning her property in
Duplin county on last Tuesday night, have
been arrested and safely lodged in Duptin
Jail.
Wilson was caught near this place on
Wednesday evening, and Branch and
Minsey were caught 4 miles above Fay
etteville on Friday morning at 4 o'clock,
They were tried befoie A. S. Davis, Esq.
of Duplin, and committed to await Supe.
rior Courf. Their safe keeping is now
in the hands of au official who will look
well to his interest and the welfare of his
country. Our boys are wide awake and
will not allow such violators of the law to
escape justice, if in their power to prevent
it.
We have had several large frosts, and
anymoruing last week had considerable
ice.
Sui'KmoR Court. The October Term
of the Superior Court, for 8tw Hanover
county, convened here Monday moraiug.
The usual charge was delivered by llrs
Houor, Judge Russel, and the Grand
Jury were duly sworn; after which the
Court adjourned to meet again this morning-
The following comprise tha Grand
Jmw; W. A. dimming, Foreman; S. Pet
teway, Samuel Nixon, Dempsey Betts, W.
1. Gore, Andrew Moore, Oliver Boon, Jas.
P. Moore, Alexander Wells, Jr., Jesse
Bordeaux, John Thornton, Jacob Wrells,
Jr., Stokely Atkinson, Curtis Highsmith,
John Lillington, James M. Scott, M. J.
Hall and Alfred James.
Gov. CAT.mvEtx has ordered a special
term of Robeson Superior Court for the
first Monday in January, for closing up the
civil docket, and the Itobenonian learns
that the Board of County Commissioners
will ask fi r a term to follow immediately
upon the close of the other, for the trial of
causes on the criminal docket.
Reported for the Journal.
EXTRACTS
FROM THE SPEECH OF HON.
A . M. WADDELL, IN COL UMB J rS
COUNTY, OCTOBER 10, 172.
After some remarks in regard to loca
matters and the Congressional election in
August, and after alluding to the singular
condition of the politics of the
country ;i life-loag Democrat leading the
Radicals, and a life-long Republican lead
ing the Democrats Col. Waddell said
there was a moral sublimity hi the action
of the three million of Democrats who
sacrificed their prido ami prejudice in ac
cepting Horace Greeley as their candidate,
which was unparalleled in the histoiy of
our politics, and that a similar act of moral
heroism, in less degree, was exhibited by
those Republicans who had abandoned a
successful party from a sense of duty to aid
in rescuing the government from the dan
gers which menaced it, and then proceeded
as follows :
Fellow -cltiznis : 'flu; present administra
tion iias so utteily failed in its duty, there
ave so many reasons for its condemnation
that, in discussing it before an intelligent
audience, one is embarrassed by the verv
abundance of material at hand. There is
not a single Department of the Guverment
wnose operations nave not been character
ized either by corruption, illegality or in
competency sometimes by ali. As to the
Constitution, the fundamental law under
which we are supposed to live, the great,
charter by virtue of which the government
exists, I do not, in the least, exaggerate
whoo 1 say that an appeal to it by the
opponents of the party in power is generally
met by a sneer of derision. 1 have wit
nessed such a scene myself more than once
iu the House of Representatives. The
restraining authority of that instrument
seems to be regarded by the Radical party
(I use the words purposely) as a soil of
traditional fiction which has come down to
us from a former age, like some of the fic
tions of the Euglisli Common law, and
which is not to be allowed to stand in the
way cf their modern pi ogress the ptogress
in each case to be judged necessary and
measured by the exigencies of the paity, or
the ambition or cupidity of an individual.
I begin my discussion w ith the inaugura
tion of the President. He entered .upon
his duties with that utterance so pleasant
to the people of this war-wasted laud, "Let
us have peace,"kand to-day, after neaily
four yeais of his administration, the lead
ing meu of the party which elected him
the brain and heart of that party are
earnestly appealing to the American peo
ple to remove him from the Presidency,
because, amone other offences. h ba
waged a quasi war upon a portion of the
people and stands to-day bofore the coun
try us iue representative or tlie party of
hate and discord.
lie declared at the outset that he would
have no policy to enforce against the will
of the people, thereby proclaiming iu ad
vance his intention to make his adminis
tration a striking contrast to what he sup
posed Andrew Johnson's administration
was regarded, and thus giving a iual kick
to, that hated predecessor, and yet in the
face not only of a decided public opinion,
but in open defiance of the Senate he un
dertook and persistently prosecuted with
an imperial air the San Domingo "job," as
it is termed, one oft.be most flaoratif vi.ia
tions of the Constitution, and one of the
grossest usurpations of the war-power of
this government ever perpetrated. He de
clared in his inaugural address, with a
confidence never before expressed, and
which shocked all Sense of rtrnnritf r a-tsl
shook all faith in his competency, that he
assumed the immense responsibilities of the
Presidential office withont the least mis
givings; and one of his verj first acts was
to appoint A. T. Stewart, one of Ids bene
factors, Secretary of the Treasury, in vio
lation of the law, and, when informed of
his mistake, deliberately asked Congress to
repeal the law which stood between him
auu ma wisnes.
His whole conduct shows that he w'as
in earnest in his declaration and did actu
ally assume his duties with sublime confi
dence in himself, but with very little in
the laws or in anybody else. He 'seemed
to think his election to the Presidency but
another step in the line of regular promo
tion, and he confidently assumed com
mand, expecting to manage the civil affaiis
of fortv millions of rnrl
principles, which were the only principles
of government with which he was ac
quainted. Ue has never abandoned that idea and
seems incapable ot understanding how any
other can be made sueeenufnl. Wi
in negotiating the San Domingo treaty
agent
"o" uamc wiiu me tiue "Aia-de-Camp
to the President of the United
States," a title and office unknown either
to the laws or usages of this country ; and
for the first time in our history, we see a
military familv amnml tho PncMnt
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through whom he is communicated with.
!
Indeed, the military spirit has so predom
inated in all the surroundings of the Fresi-
tieiiL. nis fmvnriiiriAiit i.a
a personal government; that the best men f
iif all i-i- I..-. Zm. i I
. c. JU ii"- country are justly
alarined. Having been bred a soldier, and,
even during tlie ; peri6d of ' his re irement
trom the army, . never having taken any
interest in civil affairs, it was not to be ex
pected that he would suddenly develop
into a statesman; but it was expected
nay, it was demanded by his oath of office
that be would make an honest ellbrt to
administer the duties of the Presidency
not according to his caprice, but according
to the Constitution and laws, and
ir i ? ,est, i,lt!ltlsts of the people.
lut his declaration accompanying the
very first act of his administration
was that he "selected his Cabinet
to please himself and nobody else," and
referred to them as his "family;' in the old
military style. He sent his official com
munications signed "By order of the Presi
dent. Hoiaco Porfor T!..nr, T:.i;-
General Secretary," and the same Brevet
Lngadier General delivers his messages to
Cm gress. The three Brigadier Generals
who. are his Secretaries hold those offices
in direct violation of law. Although one
of the fundamental principles of our Gov
ernmejit is the supremacy of the civil over
the military authority, he attempted to
subordinate the Secretaiy of War, a civil
officer, to the General of the Army and un
dertook to have the duties of the Secretary
of the Navy, another civil officer, perform
ed by Admiral Porter. He also attempted
to absorb the Indian Bureau, a part of the
civil service, into the War Department.
Long before the Ku-Klux bill was passed
ha had used the army to interfere with
elections and aid in executing the Revenue
Law to such an extent that Gen. Halleck
and Gen. Sherman were compelled for de
cency's sake to protest against it. In the
teeth of his earliest declaration already
mer Joned, viz; that he would have no
policy CDntrary to the will of the people,
and that he should execute every law of
Congress, whether he approved it or not,
he not only, as I have already stated, de
manded the repeal of the old law establish
ing the Treasury Department so as to get
in A. T. Stewart as Secretary, but he early
demanded the repeal of the .Tenure of Office
Act, and his organ in Washington openly an
nounced that be would not send iu any nom
inations until Congress acted upon that sub
ject, upon which it was declared the
President "felt strongly." In other words,
he insolently announced that Congress, a
co-ordinate, br inch of the Government,
must legislate i s he directed, or he would
not appoint men to fill public offices. One
of his most important office-holders, the
collector of the port of New York, gave as
a reason for hi3 determination to control a
State Convention in that distant State
"that it was the President's wish that he
was the head of the Republican party, and
should be authority on the subject." If
these acts, and the numberless others which
might be named, had been perpetrated by
him as the head of a party and for the pur
pose of maintaining the supremacy of that
party, they would have been revolutionary
and outrageous, but would have found
some semblance of excuse, however inade
quate, in the diseased condition of our
politics. But not even this poor apology
can be offered. He has not and never had
any special sympathy with the Republican
party, and was not elected by them because
of bis devotion to their principles. They
chose him for hi3 availability, and he ac
cepted the office as part of the debt which
he considered due to him from the people,
a part having already been received in
houses and stocks from those whose wealth
he claimed to have saved by successfully
ending the war. And, ever since bis Ad
ministration commenced, not only the-welfare
ot the country, but the interests of his
party have been subordinated to his per
sonal pretensions and the attainment of
his personal aims. Allegiance to him and
loyalty to his personal interests are the
passports to public position aud favor. He
seems to regard his office as a means
whereby bis personal fortunes and those of
his family are to be advanced a conve
nience and comfort to be enjoyed aud !
profited by as much as possible rather I
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man irusL io ue uuigentiy and laith
fully executed for the good of the people.
Need I specify the acts upon which this
assertion is based ? Are they not noto
riously the shame, and reproach of the
American people?
1 prefer, not only as a matter of taste,
but iu deference to the instincts of citizen
ship, not to dwell upon the reckless man
ner i.M which the President has provided
for his relatives, and has rewarded his
pecuniary benefactors with public offices.
It is not only more in accordance with iny
taste, but it is vastly mor- important to
me, to you. aud to the American people, to
consider his disregard of those other an 1
higher obligations of his office 411 the faith
ful peiformance of which are involved, to
a large extent, the liberties of the people
his violations of the laws and the Constitu
tion of the country, and his substitution
instead thereof of a personal government,
an anomalous despotism, a Caesarism,
without Caesar's brains.
It is not my purpose to do more than
glance at the large majority of these acts,
bo far as the San Domingo affair is con
cerned, I shall merely sy, iu the language
of Mr. Sumner, that it involved an open
violatiou of the Constitution in more than
one essential requirement open violation
of international law iu more tluiu one of
its most beautiful principles flagrant in
sult, with a menace of war, to the Haytien
government lawless assumption of" terri
torial sovereignty in a foreign jurisdiction;
employment ot the navy to sustain a usur
per," &c.; about as formidable an
accumulation of charges as could well be
extracted from any single enterprise of the
Executive; but every one of them is true,
and thev make out a ease fa Hia cn.m
Senator truthfully said) "more reprehensi-
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ble, as also plainly -more unconstitutional
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and more illegal than anything alleged !
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merit. !
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Indeed, so flagrant was his conduct in '
tins matter that he was elmraMAri,! !
the floor of the Sen ite as th hd f o I
powerful and costly ku-klux operating 1
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.'"'1 111 ULlldllLC 111 I I M t I I 1 M I INITIO! I Q of 1 . 1
tne constitution of the United States"
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1 his was the way, in the early days of his j
administration, that he usurped Ihe war j
nower anil p.xeieisd it oi...i !
the same time his military offioor m mm. f
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ly and
r Con- j
lit that I
mauu 01 nie ocate 01 ueorgia, opeul
contemptuously violated a. law ,.r
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trress. then reront.1v na ci ;
w y j X wv"" -i0 tUAb
jju.iLnui.ir wse, auu not oniy was that olli-
cer, instead of being sent to the peniteu-
tiary as the law provided, not reprimand- '
ed or punished, but the oiilv notice evpr 1
paiLicuiur case, ana not only was that ofh- i
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ed or punished, but the ouly notice ever
taken of his conduct was by a Committee
n f 1 1 in Vnnafn 1 . 1 . . 1 1 1.1 .
iiauu, ucaucu uy .camunus, of
Vermont, a strong friend of the President.
, ciiuuiit,, a uuug iiienu oi tne l resident !
who resolved, in th mildpct 0r, !
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they felt constrained to say that the ac- j
them
Jill . J mil t D3SS nn Irk mottom ,
nearly touching us here in North Carolina.
a n.au occasion as your representative in
Congress, to comment upon the conduct of
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while savagely executing the infamous and
unconstitutional K-Klux act aamSt all '
suspected persons, he allowed military on t !
rages upon innocent citizens and even an
armed invasion of the State to co ununn '
ished and nnrebuk-erh l nua 7 " i
iu x lesiueni rowaros us. 1 showed hnw
to his policy of rewarding all the indicted i
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and convicted crimina's who, fleeing from
iuumufnc nere, sought consolation at his
bands in Washington. I denounced" the
misrepresentation contained in his message
and the report of the Secretary of War in
regard to the temper ami the conduct of
our people, and showed that it was
plainly his intention, by a system of ter
rorism exercised over them, to paralyze
tne increasing strength of the opposition
to lus re-election, and thus secure the
electoral vote of the State this Fall. You
all remember the visit of Attorney-General
Ackerman to this State before th Conven-
v "'"lci was contrary to law, and i .-v .umcsu at meir patient, ( -" "j noc uuui uooi auu conet ieu,
that was the end of it! Now, wha. do ! Ploduing, unwearied industry that never ' auti wore an air of courage anu determina
you suppose was the act? Why, it was i ,osfc lieart never inteimitted, broughtacrop 1 tio- 11 was rumored that one of the par
the issuing of an order nrohihitinr i of corn and another of eotton that are t hn ties labored under the influence of honor.
men who had been elected to theLegisla-' atImiration of dittenden county, p, is j uut this was afterwards emphatically de
ture, from taking their seats, and ordering ' visited a,ul gazed at as a wonder of skill, j niea- A urifcf pause ensued after the prin
others to be seated, notwithstanding Gen lnlustry ar'd success. j cipals took their places. Mr. W., the second
Meade had certified to the electionof the . Anotlier wonder was that Ah Maun and lllon whom devolved the duty of git iny;
former, and Congress had passed an a"t ' l.us eu not nly knew no such word as 11 "! word, hesitated, but finally he said:
making ; it a felony punishable by imprison- but lLy knew no such English as 1 " Aro vou wady, gcntleinen An aflinua-
ment in the penitentiary to inte'rfeie with i "Siclf'" Well they were and well they re- i tivo rply was given, and he then called
them! That was all: nMiiin i main through beat, and rcAA nmi im., out "One. two. Hupp " iWrarttinr in i.;
tion election last year, and his speech at
...ww,., ,n wiucn ne plainly intimated not
only the high displeasure of the President,
but the ; actual interposition of military
lorce if the people of North Carolina
Should. Ill lh pvnn.ion r.e .
change their Constitution, by lawful aud
peaceful means, cast their votes in a par
ticular way. You know that a common,
and perhaps the most effective argument
addressed to a large portion of our tieoplc
in our l ite elections has beeu the intima
tion of Federal military interference,
l ou kiimv that while details and reliefs
from the Cabinet and the departments of
Washington have been sent here and
elsewhere to advocate the re-plec(ion of
the President, tho army of mirshals and
revenue officers, and spies and detectives,
has becu heavily recruited for tho same
sorvice.
You know that the key-note of. this
campaign was struck at Greensboro' by
the Secretary of the Treasury when he
protested against the humane appeal of
Horace Greeley to his countrymen to
"shake hands across the bloody chasm.''
You know that Senator-Chandler wants
one hundred Southern men taken out be
fore breakfast every morning aud shot,
and that Wendell Phillips wants General
Grant to be President until every nuwi hi
the South over forty years old is dead aud
buried.
You know the pitiful story of your
fellow-citizens arrested without process,
jailed without commitment, convicted
without evidence, and punished without
mercy. You know that the great writ of
liberty has been susjiended without au
thority or justification, and the freedom of
tha citizen has thus been made the plaything
of one man. Yen know that, although the
alarm was sounded and the Ku-Klux law
was at an end, a religious congrega
tion, professing the same faith as a ma
jority of this audience, was recently
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broken nn in O oira tm, .tr
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armed baud of soldiers, who picketed the
woods leading to the place of the assem-
uiage, aim naiteu women ana children at
the pistol's mouth. You know that even
(.lift Itatlipil! 'IWnMrnf H.n Kt.t 1...
a . utwu.. is.. jh ixu utatv ucto uj
fered to testify to similar outrages in
another county. You know the Pitt county
outrage recently perpetrated. You know
the infamous vandalism which occurred
the other day in Raleigh, w hen the Sen
tinel office was blown up by gunpowder.
You know that to-day hundreds of your
fellow-citizens are afraid to exercise their
right ol suttrage m the way they desire,
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because they wil be persecuted by the
blood-honnds nf tlio m n ct( n .,,!
blood-hOUIlds of the. adminitrt rn ami
may be sent to the penitentiary on the evi
dence of perjured w itnesses. You know
these things , aud a thousand others like
them, and you know that almost every
man iu the Southern States capable of un
derstanding the situation, and who is not
or does not expect to be an office-holder,
regards with the gravest apprehensions
the possibility of Gen. Grant's re-election.
Col. Waddell then, after dwelling on the
robbery of the Southern States by consent
of the President, proceeded to prove his
assertion that every Department of the
Government was characterized by illegality,
incompetency or corruption sometimes by
all. He dwelt particularly on the finances,
which he said was what the Administra
tion prided itself on, and showed the im
becility, extravagance and corruption in
the Treasury, War and Navy Departments.
&c, &c. He 'then made an appeal for
Greeley and Brown, in substance as fol
lows :
I have taken occasion more than once to
say that I2jdo not acknowledge the possi
bility of reconciling political dishonesty
and personal integrity in the same man. I
shall not, therefore, pretend to have always
befen an admirer of Horace Greeley. On
the contrary I cheerfully acknowledge that
at one time my sentiments towards him
were anything but those of admiration.
But I should not be honest if I did not now
declare that the speeches he has made this
Fall have won my heart, have excited my
astonishment and forced my profound re
spect. He is a great man, and is, hi my
opinion, animated by a noble desire to
benefit us, his former enemies. He is our
friend and we should be his. But men
are nothing in this contest. We arc strug
gling for life and liberty, and Horace Gree
ley, backed by the best part of the North
ern people, oilers us help. Shall we re
fuse it ? I understand the majority
of you are Baptists. Now, suppose your
house was on fire and a stranger was 'try
ing to extinguish the flames would you
stop him and refuse, to let him proceed
umu ne count suticiy you ol Ins laitli iu
the doctrine of immersion 2
I hat is our
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situation. Our house is on fire, and
Horace Greeley is trying to put it out.
Shall we refuse his assistance because,
when slavejy existed, he was an aboli
tionist lie could very easily have contin
tied
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leader m the Radical party, ami ; ties separated, no pleasant feeliri"s e-
might now be lending his powerful" infiu
ence to persecute us as they are doing.
Shall we be angry with him because he !
refuses to do so, and appeals for justice to
us, and denounces our oppressors '.'
The concluding portion of the speech
was au appeal for North Carolina and the
principle of local self-government.
Tlie Ifeutlien Oil nee
as n Cotton
1'laulrr.
I From tlie Memphis Appeal.
Two years ago a number of Chinese ar
rived at our wharf and were objects of
great curiosity. The negroes especially
gazed at them with wondering eyes, de
claring: "Dem's niggers, an' a mighty
small sort. Dey looks as ef swamp fever
was bail where dem folks come from."
Some of these men settled near here, and
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among mem a small colony found homes
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and cotton nickinc in the nein-hi.nilirtrwi
Marion, Arkansas, some ni ne'er ten miles
7 imiu vi LUll 1UU?3
from this city. Among them was Ah
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Mann wlm inn,! 1 n
-.i, nuu I'luiuu uv a vmnese oi
education gathered up some know ledge of
"gnsu rapuuy, Decame popular, and was
called by tho country people John Orrnond. i
Ue set lP work at onc3, j
Tli first Anv liia untlnn a..1
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10 iweniy-iwo pounds. 'Iho negroes '
iau8,iea at the small speci
unuer n:3 nat
on the plantation
,ou to the S1" house as Ah Maun. Ah
a 1. 1 a ...
ir a J - .'ioiin. 4X11
Mau" tok his triumph quietly, and kept i
h!s Ipularity. Last spring, he and six of
uis tehow-countrymen rented a piee of !
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"ear .uanon. iwentv acres thev i
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6 , irci" .'ituiuu. x w
p.ut m co,' a"d forty in
f hues-was the ground ploi
Wits ia complete order fo
'uuiti ujiii. aim i in.v in enTrmi. 7vn i
r for armn Vi nt ir I
bit Of crass was obliterated. I ,
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exterminated, every fence corner ma. in I
,-"1 xmsmts meu nan appointed An
Maun " boss." aud Ah Man
clean. The five men had annomted a i. !
aun allowed no i
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s,oveDly ways. Early morning and dewy j
j togs and chilly mornings. When picking
i j a tv aiij 1 F
Tiro rt
i time came Ah Maun hired four more of i
i his compatriots, and all iho vptr iia i
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A Kllnir ....... mi . . 1
j 413 aius. vii i nursaay tney sent
iwo uaie oi cotton to tne rilv. If wa re
i ? , ',& C? a"",1 M'' Ked Savs
ettPr balea of well-grown, cleanly
f?r Ct0n Le has n,ot ,8een u
A.!,,Maun 9 fnf"ry skill, and that cf
nis,uard;working companions, is admired,
and we hear it said that if the eroup choose
ceived by Keel & Co.. anil Wv. I . fir 1 1 a otto
W - VP nex. , sPriuc takig new farms
and ifnninrr trim 1.... , i i ., ...
will be liberally jdded, and such money
and supplies as may be necessary will not
be withheld. Ah Maun is triumphant.
The white folks regard him as a prodigy,
but the negroes are not sure that there is
not "a little ob de debil in him."
ii v " n'ni new nanus, tney
From the New York South.
AW AJL.I.V FOR COTTOW.
The cable informs us the jute crop of
India has been destroyed by a cyclone. In
India jute has taken the place of cotton as
an agricultural product, India exports
yearly $2.o.000,000 worth of jute iu a raw
-i4C4reu mate. The Imnorta
tious of raw and manufactured jute bv ill
United States in 1871 amounted to $,,:)"
.rs. l or some strange reason jut 1,"',,
not become to any extent one bf our a"ri
cultural products. Much of the laud on
which cotton grows is suitable for the en'
tivation of jute. It is raised for about one
eighth of the cost of cotton, and at preset
sells for one-quarter of its price a profit of
one hundred percent. Its yield is large
than that 01 cotton-. In India iute u
driving out cotton as a proJuet. 'ihere U
no possibility of its being cultivated at the
Soulh in place of cotton, but there is erea'
feasibility of its beine accepted by South"
ern planters as an ally for that great staple
and an ally supplying in some jejpects what
U lacks as a great industry.
r A,,r,it6r hl th,e "Agricultural Report"
lor 187 , very truly says that if the plant,
ers ot the cotton States divert "from the
cultivation of cotton a force sufficient t
produce half a million of bales of jute that
crop will be nearly a dear acquisition! Umt
will save a large outlay for freight, lale
cloth and compression of cotton." i0
further adds that "its cull i vat ion w ill sava
several millions - of dollars sent out of thr
cotton Slates every year to purchase "unnv
cloth," and that jute would suppry the
female labor of the South, which retires
from the cotton field under the system f
free labor." The "hands" might 1k t-iu-ployed
iu picking it when driven from UK
fields by inclement weather.
The South could maniifacaira as Welt as
grow the article, and have it leave fheii
hand3 only In a manufactured state. The
writer from whom wo have before quoted,
says that "the simple machinery used in'
Kentucky for spinning and weaving hemp
might be applied to jute." We hope
to hear soon that some of our large plant
ers have taken steps to add the culture of
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juiE iu IU4L. ui euLtuii, uiereov suuseivni"
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1 uieir u u imeresis as wen as inaugural he
; Pn important branch of industry'for the
Southern States 3
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At a mectius of the stock-bohtora r
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,yncbburg and Danville (Va.) railroad,
held in Lynchburg, on Tuesday the pro
position of consolidation made by tho di
rectors of tho Orange, Alexandria and Ma
nassas Railroad Company was accepted,
ami the contract signed by the representa
tives of both roads. The basis of consoli
dation is that the shares of thacoiisolidaiod
. juiiiliij Min i ue oi me iar vain ia ru
each, the stockholders of the Orange and
i ,.' . , . "" oc alul
company shall be of the par value of $To
Alexandria Company receiving share for
share, and in the other receiving two
shares tor each bhare so held, the preset! t
par value of the Lynchburg and Danville
shares being $10u.
The chief engineer of the Lvnchburg an.)
Danville road reported the work on the
road progressing rapidly ; that tlie work
i upon the first division, extending from
Lynchburg south, a distance of thirty-thiee
miles, will be finished during next month,
with the except ion of the tunnel in Lynch
burg and the masonry of ft t union river
bridge. The former, tinder favorable cir
cumstances, can be completed before the
closvi of viiuter. 'lha second division will
te finished by the end of the year.
This extension of the Orance & Alexan
dria railroad will unite at Danville with the
road to Greensborough, N. C, although ot
a different guage, which i amities through
all the Southern States. It is contemplated
in the same interest to build a road to
Statesville that will give even better advanta
ges to tho increased trade of Baltimoie.
The latter link of fhe one gauge in the sys
lei n of roads will give from Baltimore au
additional continuous line of rail piereiru'
the very centres of the Carolina, traversing
through Georgia and to the coast, all feci'
ers of the main line has its nearest eastern
terminal at this city. Ualtimore Sun.
. IlTKI, IN ATI.AHiTA.
The Atlanta Herald contains a Jong and
graphic account of a duel which occurred
between two young gentlemen of that
place on last Friday. We condense from
the account, the following particular of
the causes which led to the duel, ami oi
the encounter itself:
It appears '.hat on Monday evening la-t,
while at the Episcopal Bazaar iu Atlanta,
Mr. Wallace Haskell, of that city, in a
playful manner slightly pinched the aim
of a young lady, well known and verv
popular iu Atlanta society. The youn
lady was very indignant at this act, which'
was certainly reprehensible, and at once
informed a gentleman of her acquaintance
that she had been insulted, 'ihe gentle
man immediately sought Mr. Haskell and
demanded an apology. Mr. Haskell as
serts fll.'lf 111. Illlllll flu) atUilnm. nn. I
! posed the matter hail been satisfactorily
1 rt - . 1 Tm i r . m .
aiiaiiyru. a ne story oi tne insult, how
ever, reached the ear of Mr. H. T. Force,
who was affianced to the young ladv, and
he at once sought Haskell and look him
A 1 . an mm mm
io i ask ior i ne auronl. When tho tar-
lsted between them, ami t.u Tinm.
day morning, about ten o'clock, Force
met Haskell on Whitehall street, and as
saulted him with a stick while he held a
revolver In the other hand. This led to a
challenge from Haskell, which was sent by
the bauds of his friend, Mr. J. II. Town
send. Mr. J. B. Hart. retrettnf in.' Mi
Force, declined to receive the challenge on
tne ground that Haskell was not a gentle
man, but declared that his principal was
ready to give Townsend any satisfaction
he might demand. Townsend declared
his readiness to take the place of Haskell,
and soon afterwards sent Force a letter by
a friend. Hart Force's friend declined
to leeeivc the c allonge from the gentle
man, and Haskell immediately o.sted
Force "as a miserable scoundrel and iol
troon." Col. W. S. Townsend, father of
Mr. J. II. Townsend, h?ul all the parties
concerned, including his .on, bound over
to keep the peace. Supposing that the
matter was now ended, he gave hims'!f
but little further trouble about it. ft. :m.
pcars, however, that the parties were ill-
a ivieu, aim air. townsend and Mr. Force.
on 1'iday morning met in an office, to-
gether with their respective friends, and
eomnlet.d arraiiiminanl. Vii a .l...a. .,!-,
1 - -..S.UVJIW .VI t& Ulll i L(l Ld&t.
, ,
I"aLe 111 w,c evening
selected lor the meeting was in fioiit
o " - " . v.-
1,,tJ cemetery gate, within the limits of
l,,'G Mv- JIl,llf- heing indisposed, Mr.
a gentleman temporarily sojourning iu
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" "-a, iuhschhju w act as lr. f oiees
C .,.,m.l nr.. WT . i
"-vwiiu, ruim; 1111, ii .. ui y at ia. amipmeti
in the w.iioe rutuiMi v f. Ih t.. ...... ....i
Oil reaching the Place of tneetiiK'. t lio snr-
COOIl Who accompanied lb milv nde:iv-
. - - " I -J -
ored to effect a reconcilial ion lftiv-ti
Force aud Townsend. but bis etr.iH ueic
1,1 Vam', The proper distance was inea-
iv " '
sured oil, and the principals placed in poti-
agitation to use the word the. whirl, sl.r.i.ld
have been spoken befoie the numerals. Mr.
Force levrled his guu aird fired. Mr.
Tovvmend failed to turn iu time. He was
Just. m the act of turning when he received
three of the ei ilit buck-shot in his left rl
bow and jnst ben ,a?h his left shouleVi
blade. lie, however, turned completely
round and hie. I, itfetinclkely, but w ildlv ,
as he fell to the gi , ,Und, seriously wounded.
As soon as Townsend fell, Force ran to
him, and a reconciliation 'took place
betvv een the two. Mr. Townsend declared
himself satisfied w ith the manner in which
his opponent acted, while Mr. Force ex
pressed the deepest regret at having been
CJtrpelled to fight hiia."
Mr. Townsend wa3 carried to his father's
house in Atlanta. At eiht o'clock Friday
night he was delirious, and seemed t.
sutler much pain. The physicians, how
ever, weie hopefu! of his recovery. A
warrant was issued for the arrest of Force,
but up to midnight Friday he had notbeim
found. Mr. Townsend aud Mr. Force are
both well known lawyeia of Atlanta.
Augusta Constitutionalist.