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RALEIGH SETISEL-ESSIIS.
JKIXOSBlTIftY ASMt SPELxTIAN.
We are pleased to learn that Mo81"8
Theodore B. Kingsbury and J onu
Spelinan have once moreboc'me mem
bers of the editorial staff the Ral
eigh Sentinel. Those gentlemen are
too well known in North Carolina as ef
ficient workers in the "Press Gang"
for the public need any assurance
from us as fc their character and quali
fications. We cordially welcome both
of our old friends back to editorial
harness. Our only wonder is that two
nch good fellows could have kept out
bo long.
(iEXEHAL CL1SK.1IAPI S LETTER.
We call the attention of our readers
to the very interesting letter of Gen
eral Clingman to the editors of the
Asheville Expositor, to be found on
our second page this morning. The
proof of the existence of a people in
North Carolina superior to the Indian
race in arts and intelligence, if not
prior in point of time is indisputable.
Who they were, where they came from,
and how and when they disappeared,
v ill doubtless ever be unsolved ques
tions; but for all that, any thing relat
ing to these ancient Carolinians as we
may call them, for want of a better
name, will be interesting.
; " - - . -r still
V ' , ", small, compared
I .. . ious Terms in this County,
a moot of the cases belong to the
class of small, petty misdemeanors.
Indeed, we are pleased to record the
fact that the people of this County are
a law-and-order-abiding people, and
there is less violation now of the
criminal law in the County than at any
previous Term since the war, as careful
and unprejudiced observers inform U3.
Why is there such an unusual and
extraordinary number of our fellow
citizens taken from their productive
industries, at this season of planting,
to wait upon tlio Court and Grand
Jury for this week and perhaps
much of the next ? Is it neces
sary to subserve the real ends of
law and justice ? We think not.
We would be now, as in tiie past, the
last to advocate violation of the criminr l
law with impunity. No one will go
further than ourselves, to enforce obe
dience to law and to secure the punish
ment of criminals. But, in the name
of justice, in behalf of the farming
and other material interests of our
down-trodden and impoverished peo
ple now suffering unnumbered woes
we protest against dragging such un
precedented large numbers of our pro
ducers from their busy toils, especiJ
at this season, to hang arou" our
Court House, awaiting examination as
witnesses by the Grand "Pon
.petty cases instigate.'" "7 mauce or
rivtr nr rownw U? may SUOSCTVO the
interests of SoMitors, ii mey uuve a
CTeater rega or their fees than they
have for me good of the public, to per-
mit ais class oi petty, inning cases
to oe brought into Court, but it will be
far from promoting the interest of the
tax-payers. Nor will it tend vo subserve
the ends of public justice. Justice, is,
administered, and Grand Juries ure in
stituted, not for the benefit of the So
licitor so much as for the public good.
Something, too, is due to ihe dignity
of the Court.
Let the Grand Jury then, as
doubtless, they will, set the seal
of their condemnation upon this
unnecessary hardship inflicted upon
our pcojile, by dragging them from
their homes at the busiest scaon of
the year, to testify in cases beneath the
dignity of the Court and of the Jury.
We trust they will protest against this
most grievous nuisance in such a man
ner as will ever prevent it from being
used as a precedent hereafter.
It may suit the views of those who
live from the Courts r.nd tho misfor
tunes of our people, to niter different
sentiments, but as the friends of the
people, as well as the friends of law
and order, we are constrained to tay
that the act complained of is a griev
ance so 1 -ardeusome in its operation,
especially upon our fanners and labor
ers, that it is our duty to' call public
attention to it.
. 1
fta hours, i Mr;
-;.", j " accordingly imprisoned for
renty-four hours.
When the time for his liberation ar
rived he was greeted by an immense
crowd of citizens, who conducted him to
his home with every demonstrations
respect and regard. The New Orleans
Picayune, in commenting upon th8
case, says :
Our readers will perceive in the case
of Mr. Booth what those in this ' city,
who refuse to pay the license tax, may
expect to be appued to them. A Kel
logg judge orders hija to close his
place of business, and, if he does not
obey, he is to be imprisoned and fined
and to be again imprisoned and fined
indefinitely until he does obey.
L nder old tyrannies, it was supposed
enough if the tyrant himself oppressed
his victim ; but here is a system by
which the victim is made the instru
ment of his own oppression. He is to
be his own executioner. Even under
Christophe, the tyrant only seized and
appropriated the property of his vy
tim.
"Rut herp. tlio viVtim ia nr.-1ri tO
carry out his own destruction VS. dos
ing up himself his place o' business,
unless he will pay withe" process of
law such tribute money & 1110 usurp
ing despotism think proper to exact.
And if he fails t.Pa7 closo P, then
he is arrested antl imprisoned for
contempt o'cou.rt!
No one-3an mistake now the expedi
ent iovoltecting the Kellogg taxes.
Ief val to pay, will be followed by an
or&r of court to rrrest his avocation
in life : and unless he submits without
question of law, arbitrary imprison
ment is the offered destiny. We pre
sume some similar tyrannical proceed
ing, if this scheme for collecting the
taxes or license is permitted to prevail,
will be applied to all other taxes.
What course shall the people of
this city and of Louisiana pursue ?
Under the foulest of all despotisms,
and the most arbitrary of all tyrannies
that a free people were ever called
upon to submit to, it appears to us
that the matter has passed beyond the
counsels of the press. It is for the
people to determine and they alone
how to protect their property and vin
dicate their liberties. We never doubt
ed but that, in some shape or other,
the desiotism that has usurped au
thority over ns would attempt to en
force submission by foree. It is for
the people to answer it.
f tBiorebythefle same percent Yankee,
" Hitwety J and once more.' we believe, : carried to
IS
VOIITII C AltO LIN A RAILROAD
CHANGE OF GVAGE.
We learn by special telegram from
Raleigh on yesterday, that His Honor,
Judge Albcrtson, continued the in
junction restraining the Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company from
changing the guage of the North Car
olina road from Greensboro' to Char
lotte. A bond of fifty thousand dol
lars was required from the State, it
being the party in whose favor the
injunction was issued. It seems that
His Honor gave no opinion in refer
ence to the validity of the lease, and
none as to the right of the Company to
makf a change in the guage extending
over the whole of the North Carolina
Road. His opinion touches only the
right of the Richmond and Danville
Road to make the particular change pro
posed, to wit : To change the guage from
Greensboro' to Charlotte to the wide
guage, and to leave the guage from
Greensboro' to Goldsboro' as it now is.
The plain effect of this change
practically to make
ef what has here-
road, by compell-
bulk at Greensboro'.
We are not advised what further pro
ceedings will be had in the premises.
would
two
tofore
ing a
be
roads
been
break
one
in
XIIK IXIVEHSITV.
Wo publish in another column a
letter from Judge James Grant, of
Davenport, Iowa, to the Tarboro'
J 'nquirer, in response to an article in
that paper calling upon the Alumni of
the University to do something in its
behalf. Judge Grant is a native of
North Carolina, and a graduate of the
University, and though a resident of
another State, still feels a great inter
est in the fortunes of his Alma Mater.
We sincerely trust that some material
aid to the University, as well as pleas
ure to the Alumni, may come about
from their proposed meeting, in June
next.
Wc do not know the precise
plan by which it is proposed to bring
i.bout the restoration of the University,
though Judge Grant's letter indicates
u wish to see the control of the affairs
transferred entirely to the Alumni.
kj nuer me constitution ot our
fitato as it now stands this cannot
be done, nor can it be done
under the Constitution as it will stand
if the proposed amendments shall be
adopted in August next. If the amend
ments shall be ratified by the people,
the University will be controlled by
trustees to be elected from time to
time by tho Legislature. As the
amendment in relation to the Univer
sity received the assentjof the Repre
sentatives of both parties in the Leg
islature, we presume there will be no
objection made to it at the polls, and
iio difficulty, in effecting a reorgan
ization upon a basis that will
prove satisfactory to all right minded
men, no matter to what party they
may belong.
PJI1I.AUELPI1IA-I1AU:C li.iSTO
II,EISIIIATEI.
The Philadelphia A;e announces
that Mr. Dana, of the Incv.' York ,s'r,n,
has refused to deliver an duress in
Philadelphia in the interest of the
Centennial Celebration, "on the ground
of his peculiar e::perifnce in tlv.it eirv."
The Age justifies this course ou the
part of Mr. Dana, and says :
While passing through it in tho cars
to Washington, he was waylaid smd
arrested on a charge of libel for a pub
lication made in New York. Relieving
that he stood as much eii ince of f;iir
play as a shipwrecked mariner in the
Cannibal Islands, he forfeited the bail
exacted of him .': it of Jicc thou
sand dollars ! We blush to own it;
but the proceedings in the Mara trial,
and in the case of Mr. Taylor, of the
Press, compel us to admit th;;t in this
our native city, whose honor we would
glady defend, Mr. Dapa eould have
had no chance for justice. For a
friendless stranger to have attempted
to unveil the secrets of the "Ring" in
the Court of Quarter Sessions, would
have been alike hopeless and foolhardy.
In that, its stronghold, "the Ring"
like the Modocs in their "lava beds"
successfully defy the indignation of all
decent men. And though wo espect to
see them driven out by public opinion
and the law, we confess that now they
can plunder a solitary traveler with
entire imjranity. Mr. Dana paid them
five thousand dollars tribute money
for passing through tieir territory,
and thus saved his scalp, ami h.3 v. isely
refrained from putting it again in peril
by accepting the invitation of the
ladies of the Centennial to address
their meeting on Saturday. In l'iiila
delphia, the "Ring" have r.ow got the
sword of the law in tiieir clutch, and
find it a handier weapon than the re
volver and the black-jack which
they used on John C. Nolen and
Detective Rrooks. This is the condition
of our city, which no' man who prizes
its honor ought to deny or palliate;
for it is the truth that can alone bring
about that revolution which shall re
deem Philadelphia from ijie rule of the
foul crew who plunder alike our own
people and "the stranger that is with
in our gates." "Riug:' rule was over
thrown in New York and it will yet
meet the same fate in Philadelphia.
We will yet suoke out our Modocs ;
but we cannot wonder j.hat quiet peo
ple fear them, and that travel:, shun
the region they infest.
By their fruits shall ye know them.
Tried by this test what is Radicalism ?
Let the Credit Mobilier frauds, the In
dian massacres, tlusMpdoc tragedy and
the bloody conflict in Louisiana answer!
EDWARD CASfWEIX,
HE A POET J
This being Term time of New Hano
ver Court and the Grand Jury being
in session, it might be imprudent to
charge a gentleman with so grave an
oiTenee as that of being a poet without
giving the reasons for our belief. We
propose, therefore, this morning, to
glance briefly at the salient points in
the life of the gentleman whose name
heads this article. Our argument will
be somewhat similar to that by which
the ohl negro satisfied himself that his
dog was a good 'possum dog. Said he :
" Old Massa made every ting for some
good, I hab trictl dat dorg for every
ting in the world 'cept 'possums, and
he aint wuf a cent, you know den, boss,
he's bound to be good for "possum."
Let U3 see whether a like process of
exclusion will show that Mr. Cant well
has or has not a genius for poesy.
Mr. Cantwell went to Mexico and
fought the Greasers but, according to
the latest dispatches, the Greasers have
continued to indulge in their favorite
recreation of robbing and murder, ax
parently in blissful ignorance of his ex
istence. Failure No. 1. He became a
lawyer. Failure No. 2.
He became an author, having writ
ten a OooK caiic-ti t-aniwen s justice,
that had the honor, for a time, to sup-
p'y the place of one written by the dis
tinguished "Judge " Olds, the distin
guished son-in-law of the distinguished
Holden. Everybody, doubtless, has a
pretty clear idea of what sort of a thing
Cantwell's Justice must have been.
-Failure No. 3.
He edited a newspaper, but the con
cern got top heavy and became failure
No. i, probably because of the short
ness of the subscription list and the
length of the editorials.
The great war of Secession ap
proached; and Mr. Cantwell, snuffing
the battle from afar, before even a
breath of the. first gale that brought to
our ears the clash of resounding urms,
mounted a red cockade ; a glorious,
luscious, refulgent, blood-red cockade.
How well we remember the solain
awe with which we beheld the magnifi
cence of that resplendent rcd cockade.
Alas ! Alas ! He wears it no longer.
Wo presume that even
deny that his cockade
failure No. 5.
But -Mr. Cantwell Whs act a man to
keep out of the fray. He went into
the army, and in due time was put in
uommand of the Provost Guard, or in
other position that gave him
prison It may - seem strange mat,
having once had him, they should
lake htm again. Yet so it was. : Pos-
they "did not recognise him.
Piflallv. however, our hero returned
home and ; delivered a lecture upon
the life of one Ben Franklin, in wh'-h
he made a brilliant dash in the old
centaur style upon the "solid men of
Boston." No money in that. Failure
No. 8.
Our hero then turned his attention
from the "solid men of Boston, " to the
colored men of North Carolina, and
was nominated for Solicitor in the
Raleigh District. But time was short
and the story goes that Hawk Ros1"8'
a distinguished character ffW carried
the droppings of Cop''1-sation3 over
heard at hotels slreet corners to
Governor zroMen, secreted some
ticket m3 thereby caused his defeat.
He tl'n came to Wilmington and took
a prer seat in his saddle upon the
oack of his colored brother. But his
course here is so well known to our
readers that it is useless to refer to it
in detail.
After tins briet glance into the his
tory of our hero, we appeal to an in
dulgent public, or if need be to an im
partial Grand Jury, to say whether
admitting the validity of the argument
"by exclusion," we are not justified in
thinking that our ex-Chief Judicial,
&.c. , has missed his true vocation, and
that some day, long after Cantwell's
Justice and Cantwell's Libels shall
have been forgotten, "Cantwell's Canti
cles" will be household words in every
colored man's cabin in the land
Long live Poet Cantwell '
From1h Arivllle Erpoaltor.
Trom the Magnolia Advertiser.
". ; : -' ':"y ' - ; EIRE E. "'"
The persistent efforts of Solicitor
Cantwell have at length been, success
ful in getting an indictment through
against the editors of the Wilmington
JornixAL. It is not given as a matter
of ncW:i but for the purpose ox" nMkinj?
ntofr'3Ifime, I can now, before
nallv oaanffiS within the last eentnrv fl i
Formally the doctrine obtained
Mxssss.
; w Asheville, April P
Cabteb & , V
repiy 10 your
Gentlemen
VeferCnce to the mica .
de-
From the Enquirer.
Xbe Universitr of ZVortla Carolina.
Messrs. Editors : Your editorial of
22d March ha3 been sent to me.
The survivors of the graduating
class of June 1831, composed of four
teen persons, had a meeting at Mem
phis on the 5th of March, after a sepa
ration of over forty years ; five of the
nine, known survivors, were present.
Mr. James M. Williamson, who
proposed the meeting, conceived
the laudable idea of reviving the
University. His plan was not ma
tured, but is to be discussed and agreed
upon at another meeting of the class at
my house in Davenport, Iowa, on the
10th of June next. T this meeting I
invite all the Alumni of Chapel Hill.
Tho project of revival is entirelv Mr.
Williamson's, and, if successful, the
credit shall be his.
His opinion is that the Legislature
of North Carolina should entrust the
government of the University, the
appointment of its professors, and
financial affairs to the whole body of
the Alumni as trustees, and that tbiy
should educate their sons there. The
subject of endowment by its members
was discussed but nothing more. My
own opinion, probably originating yi
tho practical plans "of my adopted
State, is that the Legislature should
make an annual appropriation for the
support of the College, until endow
ment by the State or the Alumni shall
dispense with its necessity. One thing
I do know, that if the buildincs now
at Ch ipel Hill were in my State, nu
merous as our schools and Colleges
are, they would not be without occu
pants many months.
There is not a religious denomina
tion in Iowa tbat, with mch opportu
nities, as are now going to decay at
Chapel Hal, would not have a first
class institution of learning nnder full
headway in twelve months.
Ye, who are voluntary exiles, claim
no right to censure for the past or dic
tate for the fnture. We have grateful
memories for the past of North Caro
lina and good will and hope for the
future.
The nuiet which now reicus at
unapei
deat.i.
! A
the truth of any hbeV'a?e.rous
statement; rather & imir 7.
greater ihe truth fe &re,ater ie h,bel;
This riila -aS drawn from England
where it f7 remains unshaken, and
h.er th evidence of the truth of any
jjoeius f.peech or publication is inad
missible. But in this country of free press and
free institutions, after exhaustive and
laborious discussion, it seems to be
definitely settled that the jury has a
right to determine the fact as to the
words charged as libelous. The Con
stitutions of several States make spe
cial provisions in favor of giving the
truth in evidence in public prosecu
tions for libel; and where this is not
the case, the tide of public opinion is
strong not only in favor of breaking
down all previous opposition against
publications, but also for removing all
impediments to a free discussion of the
truth. The Legislature of Pennsyl
vania enacted that no person should
be indicted for a publication on the
official conduct of men in public trust.
It is certainly a prerogative of the
press to discuss and freely criticise the
conduct of men in official station, and
where their conduct both public and
private is flagitious, it is its duty to
hold them up to reprobation. All that
is necessary for the editors of the
Joubnai. to do in this extraordinary
case, is to place some of the good citi
zens of Baltimore on the witness stand,
and the Solicitor will not handle the
fee usual on conviction.
Hill is the dark shadow of
Your ob't serv't,
JamesGrant,
Davenport, Iowa.
he will
episode
riot
was
some
Vienna is building six new theatres,
j amuse visitors to the exposition.
The first Protestant Easter service
ever held on the shore of Cuba took
h'lace in the Episcopal Church at
lllavana recently.
The Spotswood Hotel lot and three
djoining lot, in Richmond, Virginia,
atve been sold at auction, for the
lggrcgate amount rt $38,794, to
Lionel Carrington, the proprietor of
IhcTachaDge,
AFFAIRS IX EOiaslAXA.
Mr. .EJward Booth, who is also a
Senator and tn active supporter of the
McEnery government, Li a wholesale
dealer, corner of Gravier and Magazine
streets in New Orleans. An act of the
Legislature of Louisiana forbids any
one to carry oa any trade or occupa
tion without paying license tax. Mr.
Booth refused to pay taxes to the
Kellogg government, and suit was
accordingly brought against him in
the name of the State and an injunc
tion was also issued restraining him
from carrying on his business until
the license tax was paid. The injunc
tion was served on Mr. Booth in
person, but he refused to obey and
still carried on his business.
The Attorney-General, after the ser
vice of this injunction upon Mr. Booth,
filed a rule for contempt, alleging that
he had violated, and was still violating,
aaid injunction by carrying on his
business. Upon the presentation of
this rule theCourt ordered that de
fsnclanfr.Edward ooth, show cause
on Friday, the 18th, why he should not
be punished for a contempt by fine
and imprisonment.
On the 18th, the cause having been
heard, the motion to discharge the rule
some charge of tho city of Norfolk,
tho exact nature of which we cannot
state with certainty. If we mistake
not, however, ho was wont, in those
halcyon days of war, to describe him
self as the "Military Governor of
Norfolk" the only instance, so far as
we know, which a Confederate
officer was ever designated as a
"Military Governor" on Confederate
soil. Alas ! Alas ! for the dreams of
ambition and the hopes of glory. Our
friends, the enemy, concluded they
needed Norfolk for their own use, and
one fine day tok possession of it ; not,
however, until the Military Governor
had " vamosed the ranehe. iailure
No. 6.
He next joined a " creetnr company"
regiment, JoJ became a Lieutenant
Colonel of cavalry, ene. oi your gay
and dashing fcllows one ti $cur
festive youths a perfect centaur.
Alas ! Alas ! The paths of glory
lead geuc:il3y to jail or the grave,
orsomeother ' iemnii;n.4i5agreeable"
place, and ere long our hero found him
self in prison at Johnson's Island, where
lie remained more than a twelve
month, wo think, on eieedingly short
commons and ia close quarters. We
i i
presume tne cavalry episoae may
safely be set down as failuro No, 7-
After his return from prison our
hero no longer shot Yankees at the
front, but having been assigned to
duty on a Military Com t, shot an oc
casional Confederate, in tho xzux.
While thus engaged, the spirit moved
lum one bright SAbbath day in April
to leave fair Petersburg's bustling
streets and seek a rural retreat. On
that' eventful occasion several "solitary
horsemen might have been seen slowly
wending their way" toward the lovely
Liils of Appomattox. Alas ! Alas !
Our unf oKuiiiie ijero, who was one of
this numerous baud of solitary h.cirsp
men, never reached his destination,
but was taken in out of the wet once
The Eibcrty of the I'reww.
The notorious Cantwell, the Solicitor
of the fourth Judicial District of the
State, by persistent offorts in the vari
ous counties of his district, finally got
a grand jury in Duplin, to rind a true
bill of indictment against the editors
of the Wilmington Journal, for alleged
libel upon Judgre Bond. He was moved
to do this, evidently, by personal spite
and malice, as the Jotknal had for
some time, been engaged in showing
up Cantwell's true character ; his in
capacity, ignorance and abuse of office.
The .Tockxal, in criticising thecourse
of Judge Bond, performed but a duty,
inseparable from true journalism a
fearless attack upon malfeasance and
corruption in public offices, no matter
t!i result.
We learn that our esteemed eouutv-
man and distinguished lawyer, Edward ! personal vengeanco and
Comgland, Esq., has volunteered to
defend the editors of the Joitbxal in
this prosecution, which partakes so
strongly of a persecution. Ilnficld
Times. i
From the Raleigh News.
Freedom of the Press
When several ineffectual efforts were
made by Solicitor Cantwell last Fall,
to indict the Journal for libel, at New
Hanover Superior Court, the Raleigh
News sounded the tocsin of alarm, and
denounced the effort to cripple and
muzzle the influence of the press in
strong, unmeasured terms.
Not because tho editors of the Wil
mington J ocbnal are personal friends
not becauso the Jocenal itself is a
Conservative newspaper not because
Cantwell is a Radical Solicitor, nor
because Russell is a Radical Judge,
but with a sincere purpose to vindicate
the freedom of press, to uphold one
of the chief palladiums of Republican
liberty, to preserve and protect the
rights, privileges and immunities of
the Fourth Estate from the sacreligious
hands that would strike down its
power, its usefulness and its indepen
dence, we have protested from the first
against this persecution conceived, as
we believe it to be, in the bitterness of
party spirit, and carried on with the
malignancy and unscmpulousucss of
political hatred and venom.
The editors of the Wilmington
Journal are gentlemen of character
and of the highest respectability. They
are known throughout the State as
men of high honor and integrity. We
do not believe this prosecution will
detract one iota from their well-earned
reputations. But it is not in the light
of any injury that may result to them
personally and pecuniarily from the
issue of this trial for libel, that should
so much influence the press of North
Carolina to denonnce this outrage on
the freedom of the press which has
been perpetrated by a Radical So
licitor, aided and abetted by the official
power and personal influence of a
Radical Judge.
If it be the purpose of these two
partisan officials to cripple or impair
the influence of the Jot.'rxal, or to
damage it in its business, they will fail
most signally. The very means by
which they would injure it will tend to
build it up to advance its prosperity,
by adding to its subscription lists and
enlisting the sympathy and efforts of
its friends in its behalf.
If it be the purpose of these two
partisan officials to break down the
Journal because it is a Conservative
newspaper, and because it has the
boldneM and independence to speak
out plainly and fearlessly, and to give
forth no uncertain sound in criticising
the conduct of corrupt and unworthy
officials, then the effort will be equally
futile and abortive.
If it be the purpose of these two
partisan officials to crush tho spirit of
a free press, the effort will prove a
sillv and unprofitable undertaking,
and will recoil upon the heads of the
weak and short-sighted individuals
who have the vanity to imagine their
puny arms can 6trike down one of the
strongest bulwarks of civil liberty
one of the proudest monuments of
true Republican Government.
I he voice of a free press cannot be
drowned by judicial tyranny or intimi
dation. The spirit of party hat, malice and
viudictiveness cannot extincruish it.
Neither political fury and madness, nor
spite, nor the
Xhe Law of Eibel.
In our last issue we took occasion to
speak of an indictment for libel found
against the editors of the Wilmington
Journal in Bladen county Sujerior
Court. Though a Grand Jury may
have found it to be a "true bill," we
feel confident that -when the matter is
brought to trial our cotemporary will
be triumphantly vindicated and sus-
of the public press is to mould and
lead public opinion, as well as to con
vey instruction and general intelli
gence. It is called the bulwark of our
liberties, ana, unless tms is a mean
ingless title, the legitimate newspapers
should have the fullest protection' of
our organic, statutory and common
law, just as it is bound to secure the
love and respect of the people who are
enlightened by it.
The press strengthens the arm of the
law, and cares only for the common
weal, and so every protection should
be afforded, and no attempt to belittle
its influence should be tolerated. Our
present libel law is not comprehensive
enough by any meami, and we" think it
ought to be modified and materially
amplified. It should bo general in its
provisions and bearing and ought to
be the very soul of equity itself. It
shenkj be a good defense in libel suits
to show the Uuu eristenre of malice,
absence of mercenary motives, and
the truth of the statement published.
Nor should decent criticism of public
men and measures be deemed libelous.
The press should never be muzzled in
that w:ay, ana ii ip the duty of every
honest and law-abiding cuueii sus
tain every legitimate newspaper in its
acts of exposing to the public gaze the
I corruption of persons in official station.
lue ieopu3 (Xffi easily ,u.icerii me
honest editors who are Working on the
tide of truth, justice aiid wisdom.
Goldsboro Mt,aSQnfjcr,
An Iowa minister, convicted of stea!
ing Bibles, amuses himself in jail by
butting his head against the wall and
beathig himself with a club.
The decision of the United States
Supremo Court has revealed tho faoi,
that except the Chief Justice, no mem
bejf of that bench is inclined to favor
the woman' right movement.
The New York Sun says that iht. fa
mous Watkins Glen, near the head of
Lake Seneca, Ko'S' York, which less
than three years ago was paralysed
for 825,000, has just been sold to a
Philadsh-mia firm for S100.000. Ten
years agb the property could
been purchased for 3,Q0Oi .
raaiieii nana oi military power, can
destroy its influence or trample down
its spirit.
Assaulted it will return to plague
its assailants. Crushed it will rise
again. Silenced for a brief period
it will, in the end, reassert its power
and majesty. It will spring forth into
life again, with new vigor and courage
unawed by threats unintimidated by
violence unharmed by abuse unhurt
by malice.
So long as wo have freedom of
thought and of speech, wo feel there
is some hope for the preservation of
the people s liberties. But without a
pure, fearless, incorruptible, unpur
chasable public press, Republican
Governments cannot long flourish or
exist. They will become a prey to
corrupt rulers and tyrants and will
perish miserably at the hands of their
own citizens.
Special to the Richmond Enquirer.
LOSTREET AT CETXVSBI RO.
How he
General
bile.
r-ot the flattie What
I'cndlcton Said at TIo-
Mobile, At-a., April 22. In his lec
ture delivered in this city for the Lee
Memorial Fund, General Pendleton
solemnly arraigned General James
Longstreet, that tireless fighter and
proven hard-hitter, and to his delay he
attributed the lost opportunity at Get
tysburg. The lecturer said that, to his per
sonal knowledge, derived from General
Lee's own lips, Longstreet had, the
night before the battle, received from
General Lee in person, orders to ad
vance at the dawn of the next merit
ing. That he (General Pendletcn,)
had made a reconnoisanee in person.
ami declared to General Lee the per
fect practicability of immediate as
sault npon the then unprepared enpmy.
How be had waited ' imjSatiently until
twelve o'clock. How' liohgstxeet at
that hour rode up to lus side, and 6at
upon Lirf hQrse useless and inactive
until four otelopd p. rn. Then when
the head of his column dij go in, the
prodigies of valor his men performed
were f utile against the now massed and
concentrated enemy, and still Robert
E. Lee (General Pendleton said) re
fused to lay the blame upon the shoul
ders of the man who had fought so
often ft4 gfl WP' for him.
nve
The polonaises will remain in favor
as an article of feminine wear during
the serine;,
A city editor of a journal offered to
send his girl the paper regularly, but
she replied in swept innocence, that
her "ma did'nt allow her to wear 'em.
The poor girl only knew one use for a
pap.r.
qnmesk of State and
ons for
leaving
town, only present vou a brief state
ment.
The old Cherokee Indians, living in
some of the western counties, used to
speak of a tradition coming down in
their tribe, that long ago companies of
white men came on mules from the
south, worked during the summer, and
carried off a white metal with them.
The remains of some old works in
Cherokee county seem to give counte
nance to this report, and, atxtne place
at least, presents the appearance of hav
ing been excavated by persons skilled
in mining. The fact that they were
abandoned before much work was done
would rather imply that they were
mere tests, which had proved unsuc
cessful. There are, however, in other locali
ties, numerous remains of old excava
tions, some of which are much more
extensive, and which fere done in a
different formation. In the year 1867,
and in the early part of 1868 I exam
ined several of these localities in the
counties of Cleaveland and Rutherford
and Burke, on the east side of the Blue
Ridge, andinMitchelhYanceyandBun
combe. In most instances the work had
been slight, showing that it had been
done as a mere experiment, which had
not proven satisfactory. In several lo
calities, however, it was very manifest
that the operators had met with such
success as to cause them to extend
their working greatly. In every case
I examined, the outcrop of the veins
was so similar as to leave nodoubfebut
that the parties had found at certain
localite. fonie mineral of value to
them, ami bat wherever they observed
like indications they had made tests.
Again, from the fact that they never
worked in hard ground that is, where
the work required blasting it was ev
ident that they were not provided with
the means of blasting.
At every one of the places I exam
ined mica was abundant in veins com
posed chiefly of felspar and quartz,
the former generally predominating.
The mica left among the debris was
generally in small flakes, except at Mr.
Garrett Ray's, on the waters of Bo
lin's Creek, where a number of large
sheets had been left. This last men
tioned fact seemed to indicate that the
mica itself had not been the object of
the exploration.
The most extensive of all the exca
vations was that on the land of Mr.
Wm. Silvers, in Mitchell county, near
tne roaa irom JJurnsville to Bakers
ville. From the appearances there it
would seem that a large number of
miners had been at work for years at
that place. In the excavations, ex
tending for about 400 yards, they had
at intervals left bars 'across as if to
prevent the earth at the sides from
falling in making thus a succession of
openings fifty or sixty feet in extent,
separated by narrow ridges of earth.
Timber which I examined, that had
grown on the earth thrown out, had
been growing as long a3 three hundred
years. Near one of tho workings, not
far from this place, I also saw a slab
of stone that had evidentlv been
marked by blows of. a metallic tool,
and which had, from the appearances
alKut it, been most probably intended
to mark the localitv.
As tho manner in which the work
had been done at Mr. Silvers' resem
bled that sometimes practiced by the
Mexicans, it seemed possible that a
party of Spaniards about the time
when Cortes was in Mexico, and De
Soto was in Florida, might have
rambled up into this region and, by
employing the Indians as laborers, in
the course of a few years have caused
such explorations to be made. On
examining the material about tho
place, I found fragments that had been
thrown out verv like in their appear
ance some of the best Mexican silver
ores. Several Western miners, to
whom the specimens were shown in
New York, prior to any assay, express
ed great confidence that they would go
to two or three hundred 'dollars in
silver per ton. An assay, however,
seemed to show only three dollars per
ton. 1 caused it to be repeated, and had
the same reply. This would seem to in
dicate that these were bits discarded be
cause too poor, but that the work had
perhaps been prosecuted for silver. I
caused therefore a shaft to be sunTc.
and two tunnels to be carried entirely
below the old excavations, and become
satisfied that there was no workable
silver ore to be found there. Large
mica of good quality was abundant.
It seemed certain that this work had
all been don; for mica. But the ques
tion more difficult to answer presented
itseii, by wnom could tins work have
been execnted ? The Norsemen were
on our coast as far back as six or seven
centuries ago ; they might have pene
trated into the interior, and by em
ploying the natives have caused these
w orks to be executed, and carried tho
mica away to be used as window
lights for their huts, as the inhabitants
of the Arctic regions are said some
times to do. But on the other hand I
have been informed that mica has
been found with other old Indian orna
ments and implements in certain caves
in Tennessee, and perhaps elsewhere.
It does not therefore soera improbable
that a former race of Indians possi
bly the "Moundbuilders," who used
copper tools made these excavations
for the purpose of procuring the mica.
xnese veins are iounawim the gneiss
and mica slate strata, which constitute
the greater portion of the rocks of this
region. The elements of their compo
sition are identical with those
of these strata, and even of clay
slate. The difference is wholly in the
structure of the veins, and not in their
elements. In the veins the felspar,
which mually predominates, exists
tolerably pure, the quartz in lumps or
large masses, and the mica in chrvstals
of various sizes, sometimes weighing
several nundred pounds. Aear the
surface the felspar, converted bv at
mospheric action into kaolin, presents
chalky looking belts, with quartz lying
in lumps oi ainerenc sizes, and more
or less mica scattered around.
As almost all the rocky strata of this
and the adjoining counties consist in
part of mica, persons must expect to
find it everywhere. For commercial
purposes, it is to be sought therefore
where it exists in plates of some size,
is sufficiently transparent, and is free
from such contortions and flaws as
rrovent its beinnr plit into tbiu sheets.
Xhoucrh the sizes of the chrvstals will
vary in different part of the vein, they
are likely to be largo at the surface as
deeper down. That found at the sur
face, however, is usaally injured by
exposure to weather, which in time de
composes it, and is also disfigured by
ine ciay carnea into its seams. Un
less within a few feet of the surface
some mica of fair size is found, there
would not seem to be encouragement
to expend much labor in explorations.
Besides the valuable mines now being
operated on' in " the counties of
Michell and Yancey, I have seen
from two localities "in ib southern
part of this county (Buncombe)
mica pf fine size and good quality.
Such is also found in the ponntis of
Haywood, Jackson and Macon to the
west, and as far east as Lincoln and
Catawba. There seems to be no doubt
but there is a tract of country of more
man one nundred and htty miles in
extent capable of producing good mica.
in quantities sufficient to supply a very
large demand, biiould that demand
continue, these mines might be. worked
profitably to the depth of a thousand
feet or more, and for centuries to come.
No other mineral of much commer
cial value has yet been found in the
mica veins, but it is to be hoped that
at some point or other the beryls found
may occur in the form of emeralds. I
one or two transparent white
flftmryjF j oavnral small annama-
riprvl dna several small aquama-
..,. "Bomtj of which I had cut.
This last mineral, though used as a
gem, is in fact worth little more than
the cost of cutting it. As however the
emerald owes its fine green color to
the presence of less than one per cent,
of the oxyd of chromium, and as
chrome ore is widely dispersed through
out this section, we may hope that at
some point emeralds may be found. I
need scarcely remind you, that the
emerald ranks next in value to the
rubv and the diamond.
ours. vc..
Clingman.
'Very respectfun.c
From the Southern Cultivator.
iieep nnsix;.
niata for Mf grimier.
A correspondent, writing from
Spring Hill, in Tennessee, says :
My experience in sheep-husbandry
is recent, extending only over five or
six years. Tho suggestions I propose
to offer, therefore, are intended chiefly
for beginners.
WHAT BREED TO SELECT.
The intelligent farmer will compre
hend that this depends upon locality,
soil, &c, quite as much as the question
whether to plant cotton, wheat or po
tatoes. The three classes of sheep are
acknowledged by all fair-minded
breeders to have three distinctive ex
cellences and defects a failure to con
sider which may entail much loss at
the outset. It may be well to reca
pitulate some of these :
1. Tho Merinos are small, hardy,
active sheep, yielding good weights of
fine wool, and thriving better in large
flocks than the English breeds. They
are not so prolific as the latter and are
apt to be careless mothers. They
arrive slowly at maturity, but make
good mutton when grown."
2. The South-down is below either
the Cotswold or IMerino, in weight of
wool. As a mutton sheep, he is un
equalled as is much more hardy than
the Cotswold and more prolific than the
Merino. Flock of several hundred do
well together. They mature early and
the lambs are much sought after by
butchers.
3. Tho Cotswold may lie taken as
the representative of tho Long Wool
tye the Leicester being nearly, or
quite, identical the Lincolns as yet
little known. They are large, quiet
sheep with heavy fleeces of long, loose
wool, which do not protect the body
from rain and cold quite so well as the
shorter and closer "fleeces of the two
preceding breeds. In thi3 latitude,
they seem only moderately prolific and
the lambs "are rather tender. From
their size, they require rich pastures.
The same cause, however, makes them
excel t he other breeds in yield per head.
If the beginner is on a Railroad or
within reach of a city, he will find
early lambs very profitable. Other
wise, he will turn his attention chiefly
to wool.
In either case, it would be injudi
cious to buy a pure-blood flock to" be
gin with. Let him select good, large
native ii.wes, well covered with wool.
Above all, they must bo young. An
old sheep is dear at anv price. Then
foreverv forty Ewes, let him buy a
thorough-bred ram of the breed he
prefers. If he gets several, it is better
they should be of at least two different
strains of blood, so as to cross each
with the other's progeny.
In buying rams, do not take inferior
animals because they are to be crossed
with scrubs and nevrr use a grade
ram or a cross-bred one. A grade ram
may be verv handsome, but his lambs
are as likely to breed back to the na
tive as to the thorough bred type. In
using a cross-bred mm, you "sacrifice
that "prepotency" of blood which en
ables the thorough-bred to stamp
almost all its characteristics on the
first cross from a Mongrel.
In buying rams, choose yearlings or
two-year olds. Ram lambs should not
be used for breeding. There is but
one safe mode of buvincr namelv. ao-
ply to a reliable breeder, tell him what
you want and leave the selection to
him. Not all noted breeders are re
liable, by-tbe-bye. As for "ram -peddlers"
avoid them and their "thorough
bred" sheep.
Begin with a small flock, well select
ed, and take good care of them. Fifty
choice native Ewes well fed, will give
more wool and raise lambs of more
value, than double the number of
average animals badlv eared for.
Valuable Fertilizer.
In the eeeond books of Kings, fUh
chapter and 25th verse, is a remarka
ble record :
"And thre was a great famine in
Samaria, and behold they beseiged it
until an ass' head was sold for four
score pieces of silver, and the fourth
part of a cab of doves' dung Tor five
pieces i silver.
It has been a question what peculiar
properties that last mentioned materi
al possessed to have been so highly
prized at that remote period in historv.
Through the extended valley of tne
Nile, as far as the first cataract are an
immense number of rough, shabby
towers, principally made of naud and
dura etaiks around the villages. They
are usually of two stories, the upper
one being wholly of earthen pots, piled
one above another, horizontally, with
their open end turned outward. In the
interstices sticks project and the rude
structure is a collossal dove-cote, the
sticks being resting places for the
birds. Thousands of birds are thus
housed not for their flesh, feathers or
eggs, but exclusively for their drop
pings. Frequent scraping of the pots
furnishes the best qualitv. and under
the roosts the next best. Fellah wo
men are the principal managers. The
manure is gathered in small bags and
carried to the river, where there is al
ways a ready market with passing boat- j
men. no precious is it as a manure, a
very little being sufficient, no one-could
think of raising rich, luscious melons
STATENEWS.
The Goldsboro' Messenger talks
about snow last Friday night.
The Humphrey House, in Golds
boro', was opened last Saturday.
James McCosh, D. D., LL. D.,
President of Princeton College, is in
Raleigh.
Mr. Edwin Fuller's new novel will
soon be out. It is now in the publish
er's hands.
The Baptist Sabbath School of Ral
eigh will pic-nic it at Haywood, Chat
ham county, on May Day.
It is now authoritatively stated that
W. D. Haywood, Esq., will be an in
dependent candidate for Mayor of
Raleigh.
Henry J. Taiutor, Private Secre
tary of Gov. Jewell, of Connecticut,
has been appointed Commissioner of
Deeds for this State, resident at Hart
ford. Hon. Thonias S. Ashe, member of
Congress from the Sixth District, has
given his cadetship in the West Point
Military Academy to William R. Hill,
son of Gen. D. H. Hill, of Charlotte.
Dr. H. J. Menninger, late Secretary
of State, has entered the drug busi
ness and is located on the corner of
Thirty-Sixth street and Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
From the 1st of September, '72, to
the 1st of March, '73, there were 11,935
bales of cotton shipped South from
Charlotte over the C. C. & A. R. R.
The shipment over the N. C. R. R.
for the same period was heavier.
Tho Goldsboro' Messenger says :
We learn that a man named Noah
Bundy, residing near Farmville, in
this State, attempted to commit sui
cide by hanging himself a few days
ago, but was cut down by some of his
neighbors and restored to conscious
ness. Domestic troubles are said to
have been his excuse.
The Charlotte Observer says : W.
P. Anthony, of Cleaveland county,
arrived in Charlotte last evening. He
was convicted about sixteen months
ago of conspiracy, and sentenced to
eight years in the Albany penitentiary
where he has been confined since his
convietion until Thursday last, when
he was pardoned by the President and
released.
The Goldsboro' Messenger says:
The religious revival at the Methodist
church, under the ministration of
Rev. J. E. Mann, is still in progress
and 2G persons connected themselves
with the church yesterday. Almost
an equal number are still penitents.
It is the most powerful awakening
that has occurred in the church for
many years.
The Raleigh News says : On Friday,
at a meeting of the Board of Direc
tors of the North Carolina Railroad,
at Company Shops, Hon. W. A. Smith
resigned his position as President of
the road, giving as his reason for so
doing pressing private affairs. A i
meeting of tho Board of Directors j
will be held on the 14th proximo, at j
Salisbury, to elect his successor. i
The Statesville Intelligencer says:
We learned recently that a company
of capitalists from Baltimore have
lately purchased the Ore Knob Cop
per Mine, which is near the dividing
line between Ashe and Alleghany coun
ties, and that they have commenced
operations on a " large scale. They
Propose to employ some two hundred
hands at the business of digging out
and smelting the rich copper ore which
is to be found there. Thirty-five are
already at work.
The Southern Home savs: The
j fruit reports from different portions of
inis section oi tne btate are very con
flicting. We believe, however, that the
damage is not so great as once believed
to le. The most successful peach
raiser in Mecklenburg, Mr. J. S. P.
Caldwell, of Pineville, reports the
Tillotson and York killed; "the Hale's
Early and Chinese Cling uninjured.
He thinks that he will have a pretty
fair crop. " j
The Raleigh Sentinel savs : It is
thought that the vote in regard to the
county's subscription of $100,000 to
the proposeel railroad from Clarksville
to Oxford, will result in an- over
whelming majority in favor of the
project. We learn that the colored
people are very generally "in favor of
it, and as they out-vote the whites, and
the measure is popular with hundLreds
of the latter, it may be readily be
lieved that the appropriation will be
made. If the road is built to Oxford,
it is only a question of time as to its
extension to some point on the North !
Carolina Railroad, or to Raleigh. '
The Raleigh Sentinel says: The fol- i
lowing Ministers and Laymen have I
been appointed by the Board of Mis-
sions to attend the Southern Baptist I
Convention that meets in Mobile, Ala. , !
FROM
RALEIGH
JUDGE ALBERTSON Dl f
CONTINUE it.
Ot .50.r 1:1.,-.
RTECIAk TO THE -'Of I-. ,L ;
Baleigit, N. C, April l T; ' j.
or, JudgeAlbertM.il, vnwi.wu s'-i
Danville Railroad Coniftav
to a change of trnflcre on' tl...
IT,
-enisi
he:
ri,
Carolina Railroad between (
T nt. 1 t i , . -
anu inanoite, nut requires ,i
ortn (via t i, c!j.i- i
j?ju,sws uum inn oiaie to Itiiio,
sa d Company for damages t..lT "
be sustained on or ln-fore tC"j " '
May. If the bond is not given lv"Vi"i
time the injunction is to be dis"'. f
Neither the validity f i '" '"
. ,7 v. till J i-1 I.
Tin TioTit fn rift antra i.ta m " Ul)t
e"ae overtL,
partial change was held to be unlawful
Both parties have given notice of
appeal to the Supreme Court a"
GOTHAM.
THE TRAIN LUNACY
GATION.
INVEST!.
FEMALES
REQUESTED
TIRE.
TO KE-
ONE OF THE STRONG-MINDFT
REFUSES TO LEAVE.
SHE SAYS THAT THE.EVJnPv
WOULD NOT HURT HER
MORALS.
RECORDER
HACKETT
ENED.
THREAT.
INJUNCTION PRAYED FOR.
T? Tf "C CI T rV 4 'V-v'n-v.-r
COUNTERFEITER.
NewYokk, April 23 Noon. Durin-r
the Train lunacy investigation, Judge
Dally requested the females present to
retire, as the evidence about to he
given was unfit for them to hear. Mrs
Brooker, sister of Victoria Woodhull
refused to leave, saying that the evi
dence would not hurt her morals.
Judge Dally ordered the officers to
clear the Court, and both male aitd
female auditors were obliged to dis
part. The Bull's Head Bank 1 las reopened.
Of the million dollars due the depoail
tors, three-quarters of a million have
been paid.
The President of the Union Pacific
Railroad says its financial condition
requires the abrogation of the free- pass
system.
At a meeting last night, W. A. Gar
sey, of the Bricklayer' Union, rained
a storm by saying, although he be
longed to a Union he did not believe
in the principle, and the 60,000 men
who walked the street in idleness last
Winter, owed it to the Unions.
New Yobx, April 23 Nicht Re
corder Hackett produced in the Court
of General Sessions this morning, a
letter he had received through the
mail threatening him with death iu
case he again sentences prisoners to
long terms of imprisonment, for what,
in the judgment of the senders of the
letter, are light crimes. The letter
states that a body of men have leagued
together and are bound by oath to be
avenged on the Recorder by killing
him or some member of his "family in
case he does not heed this warning.
C. Cadle, Jr. , Receiver of the First
National Bank of Selma, Ala., has
brought suit in the United States Cir
cuit Court to enjoin Benford A. Tracy
and others, from continuing suit to ob
tain possession of $16,12831 which had
been deposited by the Bank of Selma
in the Ocean National Bank of this
citv. and which had been attached bv
Tracy. The suit of Cadle was based
on tne lact that the Uank of Selma
owed the United States Government
$250,000 for which judgment had been
recovered, thus giving the United
States a lien on the money in t he Ocean
Bank, which Cadle prayed might be
paid over to him to partly satisfy the
judgment obtained by the Government.
Judge Blatchford to-day granted an in
junction, but the question as to how
much money shall be paid to Cadle
is reserved for argument.
Eli Brown, said to be one of the
most dangerons counterfeiters in the
Northwest, was arrested at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel to-day.
An advance of 10 cents per ton on
the whole line of coal is announced.
TIIE WAR TS TIIE WEST.
MORE FIGHTING WITH
MODOCS.
THE
on tne Pta ot Alay, viz:
W. M. Wingate, J. H. Mills, A. F.
Redd, R. G. Lewis, A. D. Blackwood,
C. Durham, Wm. Hooper, S. W. Wes
cott, B. Oliver, W. M. Kennedv, J. C.
Hiden, H. Lennon, W. G. Hill, W.
McDaniel, Wm Burnt, S. G. Mason,
John Kerr, J. . Richardson. J. B.
! THE COUNTRY IN A FERMENT.
THE ROADS UNSAFE.
Lava Beds, Scxdat, April 20th.
A pack train, with 21 men, was at
tacked to-day. The escort coming
from Mason's camp to protect the
Boone, Wade Hill, Wm. Turner, J. B. j triu "was attacked at the head of Long
; ave. a ne men sheltered themselves
i behind the rocks. One person was
killed and one wounded. The train
I was fired into upon entering the lava
beds and again when it returned. The
Modocs crept within eight hundred
rods and fired at the pickets and sent
a volley through the camp. Major
soldier, stationed at this place. whUe : A.uoma;? 8enI a sneii among them wnen
in a state of intoxication, had fallen I "T dispersed. liere were elevee
upon the track between the depot and ! J"aiana " the attacking party. The
water tank and gone to sleep; when ! ft. HP"f? Indians will start to
the train started out, he was run over tmn; l.he Modocs, but they are ecat
bv the enenne and rpvpiviI r rH n terpl small parties.
fearfullv mutilated. One foot out ! The roads are not safe to Yreka.
off, a thigh torn to pieces, a hand and 1
arm oroiten ana nis iicaa niasnea by a
Justice, D. B. Nelson. John Mitchell
T. J. Knapp, C. T. Bailey, P.. H.
Marsh, T. J. Horner, G. W. Purifov.
and J. B. Marsh.
The Charlotte Observer says : A
fatal accident occurred last evening as
the Southern bound Express train left
the depot at 8:30 o'clock. A Federal '
if it could not be had. In all the es
sential properties of a powerful fertili
zer, it rivals Peruvian guano. That is
why it is so much sought. A thousand
years before the Christian era its repu
tation all over the land of Canaan was
quite as high as in Egypt. There is
much ammonia in it, perhaps the ef
fect of climate in those hot regions.
Seeds fed with doves' dung and water,
there germinate, bud and blossom al
most like the rod of Aaron. Probably,
therefore, in the dreadful sufferings
for food in tho siege, the reason why a
quart of this manure brought five J
pieces of silver (SI 32) was because
with it vegetables could be quickly
grown to meet the urgent demands of !
a starving multitude. j
Promising coal discoveries have been
made in Iron county , Utah.
A single saw-mill at Muskegon,
Michigan, cut 21,124,959 feet of lum
ber last season.
A I V. ..T.J 1
BiiKKti uu uemg uixcu ly 1118 I
teacher how he should flog him, re- j
plied, "if you please, sir, I should like i
to have it Upon tho Italian system of i
penmansnip, ineneayy strotes upward,
and the down ones light,"
An Indiana lawyer lately defended a
man for keeping his saloon open after
10 o'clock at night. He made the plea
that it was 10 o'clock until it was 11,
and won his case.
The latest fashionable kink is poo-
corn parties, It is claimed that they
not only keep young men from another
kind of corned parties, but are very
suggestive of a question they ought to
pop.
brake rod. As soon as the accident
j was discovered, the engineer stopped
J the train and got off, and the man was
j taken up. He was put on a stretcher
j and carried at once to the barracks.
The last information we could obtain
' showed liim to be still alive, but there
is no hope of his recovery, and he is
doubtless dead ere this. The name of
the unfortunate victicm of this sad
occurrence is Mike Roach. He is a
young man, perhaps 23 or 21 years of
age.
The Charlotte Democrat says: We
are very anxious to get a copy of the
Democrat of the latter part of May,
1857, containg a full account of the
able Address of the Rev. Dr. Hawks
on the occasion, as it is the only form
in which that celebrated historical and
useful Address was ever printed. Our
file of Democrats containing that
paper was burnt. We would be highly
gratified and very thankful if some
friend could furnish us the paper
mentioned. Some of our oldest sub
scribers will please look oxer their old
papers. '
Speaking of that occasion recalls: to
The conntrv is in a ferment.
Searfaced Charlie was not killed.
It is thought that small parties of
the Modocs will raid around the coun
try to secure good horses, while a
sufficient force will remain in the lava
beds to keep the troops employed.
The cavalry has returned, but failed
I to find the trail. Col. Perry traveled
! eighty miles, making a circuit round
! the lava beds.
HEADQUAIITERS.
THE TIEDMONT RAILROAD.
A clergyman of Worcester, Mass,,
recently had an old coffin, w hich had
evidently done service underground,
and a shroud left in front of his resi
dence, accompanied by a note recog
nizing his labors in behalf of temper
ance in terms of doubtful compliments.
Massachusetts always was a notorious
State for Ku-EJux operations.
our memory some pleasant reminis
cences. The Address was delivered
on the 20th of May, 1857, and on the
morning of the 21st we published it in
full together with a full account of the
prucetMuugs iuu uay. as wa8 CIOUC
in thi3way: E.. J. Hale, Esq. ? then
editor of ' the Fayetteville Observer,
(now of New York,) was here on a
visit, and he volunteered his services
to help do the work. The editor of the
Democrat and Mr. Hale worked all
night, and he (Mr. H.) being one of
the fastest compositors in the State.
(as well as the best editor of a news. )
paper. the work was oromntlv dnno '
By such energy und industry as that
displayed by our good friend Edward
J. Hale, is the only way any printer
ever was or ever can be successful ;
nnd had it not been for Sherman's
orders to burn Mr. Hale's property in
Fayetteville, in 18G5, he would now
have been one of the richest men in
the State instead of having to work in
New York dealing in books, stationery,
tc. But such is often the fate of the
very best men like Mr. Hale.
PROCEEDINGS AGALNST IT BY
THE GOVERNMENT FOR
MALLY ABANDONED.
Washington, April 23 Noon. Le
gal proceedings have for some time
been pending in the courts against -the
Piedmont Railroad from Greensboro'
to Danville, on a mortgage. Applica
tion was made to the Attorney-General
to seize the road under the act of 1861,
on the pround that it was confiscated
to this government, having been con
structed and used' m" the interests' of
the .rebellion. The Attorney-General
luw just decided that the President's
proclamation of pardon of 1868 ope
rated so as to restore to the eorjKjra
tors or stockholders, all their rights,
and therefore tho right of the govern
ment to seize the rorvd is barred. The,
District-Attorney has been directed to
discontinue the proceedings and to
foreclose the mortgage given to tho
Confederate goyernment, oil the ground
that the contract is a nullity. All pre
ceedings against the road were drop
ped. The interests at issue were
"bout a million and a half of dollara.
GREAT BRITAIN.
INCREASE OF CABLE TOLLS.
London, April 23 Noon. Cable
tells are to be increased to 1 50 (gold)
per word, commencing May 1st. ihe
cause is from the failure of the French
cable.
The weather is favorable to crops.
Tree planting in Kansas amounts to
an epidemic.