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We had seen too many war graves not to know that it would be a luug time before men would reason rather than feel; in a word, before the two peoples could meet without hostile demonstrations. We still believe the day of general reconciliation to be distant, but we believe also that it is approaching. Uefore the day of reconciliation there must be an era of justice. Is it too much to hope that with a portion at least of our late enemies this era has already begun ? The disintegration of the dominant party and the installation of a new Federal Administration at Washing ton must precede any material change in the relations between the North and the South. The first has already be gun, and the second will follow in due time. There are men in Congress calling themselves Republicans whose fealty to their party is daily growing wt-aker. Of this fact no man can stay in Washington a week without being convinced. The impression thus made upon the ranks of the enemy is, in a great de gree, the plain and natural result of the alvent of a better class of men in Washington as representatives of the people of the South. Sa long as carpet-baggers and scallawags occupied seats in Congress there was no way for ns to gain the ear of the North. Then their press was closed against ns and our so-called representatives vied with eai-h other in maligning our motives and misrepresenting our actions. Now we have true men to represent us in CoDgress and the result of their daily contact with members from other Stales is so plain that no man can fail to see it. When the outraged South now rises to teil the story of her wrongs she is listened to with atten tion, and when men consent to hear they have at least begun to do justice. Among those who have thus been instrumental in breaking down the barrier between Northern and South ern representatives no one occupies a more prominent position than Colonel Lamar, of Mississippi. A secession ist who had alreadyacquired a national reputation in Congress before the war; a solilier during thewar; disfranchised and persecuted since the war; forbid den even to practice his profession in the courts whereby he might earn his bread; the special friend and confi dant, personal and otherwise, of Jef ferson Davis, and elected to his pres ent seat while still under the ban im posed upon him by the Howard Amend ment, there seemed little right and less reason to expect anything from him save vengeful passion and bitter denunciation. But, fortunately, Lamar was something more than this. He was a man of extraordinary breadth aud scope of intellect as well. By the force of his intellect and the power of Lis eloquence, gifts that his position as a member of the Committee on Elections gave him ample opportunity to display in the many contested cases before the House of Representatives, he at once placed himself in th front rank in that body and then, as before, he sought to gain the ear of such mem bers of the Radical party, if such there were, as had any fairness or honesty or justice in their natures. Just then died the man whose life tad done more perhaps thau that of any other man to drive asunder the American people, and it was meet that his death, if possible, should be made the occasion of bringing them together again. Colonel Lamar thought he saw in the death of Scmxer a possible opportunity to do great good to the South by gaining for them a great, though hitherto unattained, vantage ground from which to speak to the people of the North. It was for this reason that he delivared his famous eulogy on Charles Scmnei:, the life long enemy of the South. It was a jjeaco offering, that, coming from a man Southern by birth, by in stinct and by education, one who never had a heart-beat that was not true to the land of his birth aud to the people if his blood, could not but command the attention of our bitterest foe in ail the laud. Yet it was a peace offering that was full of peril to him who bore 't. Scar. Iy could Lee himself have Iken kindly words of Sumner, even though standing by his dead body, without the risk of suspicion and the certainty of disapproval. 'o one knew better than Lamar what danger there was of shaking the confi d u -e of the people of the South. No fne realized more thoroughly than he with what reason their confidence flight take easy alarm, and no one bet ter than he knew the impossibility of regaining that confidence if once lost. His best friends trembled for the re sult. But Lamar was not the man to permit the fear of personal consequen ts to deter him from the discharge of what he deemed to be a patriotic duty. The kindly words that had ever been Withheld from the living were given to the dead. That they were grandly given no one who knows Lamar needs be told. And with what result ? " the teStimony of men from all sec ous of the country and of every shade political opinion, is to be relied on, Jose kindly words then spoken have nie and wi!l continue to bear fruit, which a grateful South will in due U mate fitting return to her gallant ad gifted son. We deem it our duty to say this muc ' ln rc1?a-d to a speech that we greatly feared would accomplish noth ing save injury to the speaker, for the reason that a recent visit to Washing ton Las satisfied us that our fears were groundless. Whatever of doubt we may have entertained as to the propri ety of Colenel Lamab's course or S appSred h ?d 9na tte"from,d CoEl t fre left Washington. tdkfSSdt knows koto bow to toSSjfiP0 "Wk? behalf pf HOW CE!, PEITliatr.W WAS KILLED. One of his favorite soldiers told us the other day that it was on the retreat to Falling Waters, when the Yankee cavalry charged them, and they were sleeping with their blankets around them in the road, and he saw the Yankee that rode up to Qeu. Petti- grew aud shot mm dead with his pis tol. But that Yankee never lived, for he captured "Friday," a courier of Pettigrew's, arid foolishly put 'Friday" bein nd mm. "l-riday Bhot him through and through as he rode off with him. Gen. Heath was present at the time, and exclaiming, "Boys, save yourselves,' lie rode on at a gallop, ana the soldier says he has never seen him since. A Major Jones took charge of the command and got them out of the "fix. Jones of course was a tar heel. Raleigh Crescent. There are so manv errors in the above statement, and having been an eye-witness and participant in this un fortunate affair, I feel called upon to make corrections, as much injustice is done. When the army reached Hagerstown upon the retreat from Gettysburg, Pender's Division was temporarily consolidated with Heath's. General Pender having been wounded at Get tysburg, from which he died at Staun ton. Being the Adjutant General of Fender'3 Division, I was, by the con solidation, thrown upon the staff of Genera! Heth. About day light, when near Falling Waters, after a very hard, all-night march from Hagerstown, General Heth was ordered to halt, form line of battle, and permit the troops time to cross the Potomac without molestation. Many of them were still in the rear. feet sore and worn down. The recent rains, which had swollen the river so much that it was impossible to ford it at Williamsport, had also left the roads in such condition as to mate the movement of artillery and wagons very difficult. Many of these were still behind. For their protection, as t was understood, the Cavalry Brigade of General Fitz. Lee had been sent to the rear. At least, just bafore we were halted, General Lee did pass to the rear with his command. General Heth placed his own com mand in line of battle upon the crest of a very high ridge, aud ordered me to hold Pender's Division iu readiness in the rear of his own. These orders having been executed, I dispatched a courier to collect together bundles of wheat, which were stacked up in the field in which we were, and had a bed made just in rear of General Fetti grew's Brigade, and near where Gen eral Heth had established his head quarters. General Pettigrew, Gen eral E. L. Thomas, of Georgia, and myself, dismounting, rested upon these bundles of wheat. After talking to gether for some time we fell asleep, and were waked by the shouts of men and the firing of pistols in our imme diate vicinity. Springing to our feet, we found that a detachment of Fed eral cavalry, number.ng not more than seventy-five, under the command of a Major, had ridden through our ranks, the men being mostly asleep and their arms stacked, and were between us and the men and in our rear. Unfor tunately for him, as the sequel showed, General Pettigrew rushed to his horse and mounted. General Thomas and myself attempted to do the same, but the enemy were between us and the place where our horses were tied. The Federal troops were not attempt ing to shoot us, but were firing at ran dom, yelling and crying out "surren der." We learned afterwards that they were informed that we were only a disorganized body of stragglers, and their idea was to capture us. General Pettigrew, having mounted, was riding towards his men, and when near General Thomas and myself was fired upon by a Federal soldier, the ball striking his horse. Riding up to General Pettigrew, who was disentang ling himself from his fallen horse, the soldier fired again, this time mortally wounding him. He was not shot dead, but died several days afterwards in Martinsburg. The man who killed General Petti grew, was not subsequently killed by "Friday," Genear Pettigrew's courier, but by troops of his brigade, who by this time had recovered their arms. I examined him, and I feel sure that his body was penetrated by more than a dozen bullets, and his horse by double that number. General Thomaa and myself were between our troops and the enemy's cavalry, who were entirely in our rear. Our troops fired not more than a few seconds after General Pettigrew was shot, immedi ately over our heads, we lying down to escape the fire of our own men. The soldier who had wounded Petti grew fell just by my side, and almost the entire detatchment of Federal cavalry, with their horses, were killed or wounded. A few may have escaped, but I saw only one, who took with him one of our soldiers, not a courier, and not on horse back, and our men would not fire on him, not willing to kill one of their fellow-soldiers. I am satisfied that General Heth gave no orders for the men to save themselves, and I know he did not "ride off at a gallop." He directed me to form line of battle just in rear of hia front line, in order that his Division might retire behind it. I did so with por tions of Lane's Brigade under com mand of Colonel Avery, of the 33d North Carolina, and portions of Scales' Brigade, under command of Colonel Lowrance, of the 34th North Carolina. General Heth's Division then passed to the rear, and were not engaged afterwards, but Pender's troops were engaged almost every foot of the way to the river, about three miles. Some of Lowrance's command swam the Potomac after the pontoon bridge was removed, myself and a courier swimming it with our horses. During the crossing the Federal troops fired upon us from the Maryland heights, and onr artillery from the Virginia heights, under the immediate , direction of General Lee, protected ns. Who was to blame for the surprise, I never knew. General Heth informed me that when the Federal cavalry ap peared in sight he supposed they were General Fitz Lee'a troops, and being mostly in their shirt sleeves, looked more like Confederate than Federal cavalry. It appeared that General Fitz Lee had gone up to WilUamsport, and crossed there, of which General Heth had not been advised. Why the informant of the Crescent never saw General Heth subsequent to this event, July, 1873, I cannot say, for he remained in command of his Division until the surrender at Appo mattox, and Pettigrew's Brigade, after wards Kirkland's and then McRae's, remained a part of his Division, and was deservedly a favorite Brigade of General Heth's, as I have often heard from his own hps. I have made this statement in behalf of the truth of history, believing that the reputation of North Carolina troops does not require reflection upon indi viduals or upon the soldiers from other States. And it is especially uner ice- flu for riorth Carolinians to do injus tice to General Heth, as he has ever shown, during and since the war, a disposition to do full justice to our troops. JosErn A. Engelhard. T It A ii H I V 1'OM !-SO.1IEB0nV in ic r . It is seldom that we enjoy any thing as thoroughly as we have the following editorial taken from the Raleigh Rc- publican. We publish it iu full that our readers may share with ni in the fun. It is n follows: THE i'.II ON MR. PTTKNELIj. That the Democracy fear and trem ble for tin- result between Messrs. Purnell and Pool is evident from the unscrupulous manner of their raid on him through their papers. Col. Pool sounded the key-note of "Ku-Klux;" immediately Ihe pack hungry after office, yelp "Ku-Klux," from one end of the State to the other. Mr. Purnell raises his finger, and looking them steadily in the face, tells them you lie! j Then they bark again and declare they can prove that Mr. Purnell did belong to the White Brotherhood. Vie think it more than probable they can com mand from their ranks willing wit nesses to prove anything they nmy as sert about a gentleman. But who will believe a Ku-Klux on his oath ? The decent portion of the Democratic party will not, and never did believe the evidence of a Ku-Klux before a court of justice. Have our people forgotten the hordes of Ku-Klux that have been before th-a Courts ? Have they forgotten hov many of the gang have been sent 1 o the Albany Penitentiary from North Carolina ? 2 hey were all Democrats in good standing in their several lo calities. Have you forgotten the hang dog look of each of these criminals as they stood before the law to receive the just sentence due their crimes ? In mercy the government declines to punish many that ought now to be "pecking rock in the State prison. These are the witnesses Col. Pool and his friends would put on the stand to prove that Mr. Purnell did belong to th3 gang! Mr. Purnell points to them as liars,and their guilty hearts cease to pulsate for the mo ment, while their eyes, looking to the ground, tell too plainly that they feel the force of the charge that they are perjured wretches in the sight of high heaven, and unworthy of belief among their own kith and kin! Bring your witnesses to the front. Mr. Pool, out swear them not on the holy Bible! Let not the linger of a Ku-Klux touch the good book, if he proposes to tell of his own dark deeds, and thereby criminate another not of them! For it has been said of them that they have once sworn to tell a lie, if a lie were necessary to screen a fel low member! Many of them have con fessed as iiiueh. Talk about proving anything by a Kn-Klux ! You may prove it by their words, but the proof is not present, as it fails to establish guilt. We have a right to believe or disbelieve the as sertion of a violator of the laws of God and man. We are compelled to believe the assertion of a man who observes both tho laws of God and man. Then we would not believe a Ku-Klux on h;s oath, and we believe Mr. Purnell when he tells us they speak a lie in charging him with having been of their number. It is a sign of great weakness when a party descends into the ranks of mid night assassins for proof to bring against their opponents. We will not reflect upon the whole Democracy by saying there are not among them high toned gentlemen who detest as much as we do, these violators of the laws ; nor do we believe Mr. Pool, whom we know to be a gentleman, would be found hunting up, among these out casts, wretches to bear testimony against the good name of his opponent for the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. We do know that Mr. Pool was not himself a Ku-Klux, nor do we believe he was in sympathy with them. Such is not his character, and we hope for his own good reputa tion he will not allow himself to be led off by the vicious of his party into any position which can in the least detract from the good name of Stephen D. Pool. If by a fair canvass, you succeed in defeating Mr. Purnell, well. But ine people of Noith Carolina the Re publican party of the State, who have taken Mr. Purnell and his good name in their own keeping, will defend him and elect him, as the proper person to look after the educational interests of their children. remarks : 1. First, we desire to call attention to the tragic air of Tommy, as he raises his finger, and looking those terrible Ku Klux steadily in the face, says to them "you lie". Shade of Horace Greeley ! How terrible ! And yet those horrible Ku Klux neither trembled nor fled before Tommy nor his finger nor his eye, but impudently stood their ground and offered to prove that Tommy did belong to the White Brotherhood of the Ku Y-ivz Klan. Was it because Tommy was near two hundred miles off ? 2. " Who will believe a Ku Klux on oath f" This is easily answered. Judge Bond, Governor Caldwell and the packed juries in Bond's Courts be lieved Ku Klux on oath, or said they did, and upon such oath many Caroli nians were sent to Federal jails from those Courts. Ku Klux testimo ny was amply sufficient to convict Democrats in Bond's Court and send them to jail, but it is not good enough the Republican thinks to convict Rad ical Tommy when he will not have to go to jail for it. Rather thin logic we think. " -)0 . -v''"-- uHave our people forgotten the hordes of Ku-Klux that have been be fore the Courts f Have they forgot ten how many of the gang hare been sail to the Albany pvnilentary from North Carolina ?" We rather think they have not forgotten these things, and that they never will forget them so long as life shall last. Can hundreds and hundreds of citizens be arrested without warrant of law and dragged hundreds cf miles from their homes for trial before such tribunals as those presided over by Bond; can other hundreds bo driven into hiding and exile for fear of like treatment ; can men, with chains and irons oa them, be confined, in the heat of summer, in cages so small that they could scarce movo in them ; can men, "all Demo crats in good standing in their several localities," be convicted and sent to a jail in New York in irons from Judge Bond's courts, courts that a Federal Senator declared publicly from his seat in Congress it was more danger ous to an innocent man to I e tried in than to run the gauntlet of tho bullets of a squadron of Federal cavalry ; can these things be done, we say, and Democrats forget them ? People of Sampson have you forgotten these things ? Verily this generation will have to pass away before the crimes committed by Radicals upon Democrats, through the officials of both Federal and State government will be forgotten. A Radical judge, a Radical government attorney, a Radical marshal or sheriff, and a Rad ical grand jury had the power to put Democrats, although they were "iu good fctanding in their several local ities," in the prisoner's box and the felon's cell. How they exercised that power Democrats will by their vote in August next, show that they well remember. 5 " We woitl'l not believe a An Atu.r on his oath" says the AV publi can, it all Jvu Klux are liars, and it Tommy was a Kit Klux, then we ask, not what is Tomn.y, but how much is Tommy's denial worth ? It all comes back to the question was Tommy real ly a Ku Klux ? Mr. Mathes of the Winston Smfinel and others, sny Tommy was a Ku Klux, and Tommy with his finger raised and looking the whole Klan steadily in the face, says in the language of Horace Greeley, ''you lie you villiaus, you lie," or words to that effect. But Tommy is not exactly consistent in this matter of giving the lie. At Winston, Tommy's former home, where Mr. Mathes still lives and where it is charged T'mmy lived and moved and had his being as a Ku Klux, when he was asked whether or not he belonged to the order, Tommy was as dumb as an oyster. And it was not uutil he got to Newbern, at least one hundred and eighty mile3 distant, as the crow flies, that he raised his finger, steadied his gaze and gave the lie. Had he forgotten all that time that he was not a Ku Klux, or was it forgetfulness that caused his failure to answer Col. Tool at Winston, where Mr. Mathes and others could return his gaze ? " 11 c. do know that Mr. J'oul was not himself a Ku-KIuj; nor do ire bdierc he iras in sympathy with tin m. Such is not his character, and we hope for his own good reputation he will nt allow himself to be led off by the vicious of his party into any jtosition which can in the least detract from the good net me of St e pi ten I), footsie." Was there ever a more piteous ap peal for mercy and for silence ? Colonel Pool we know is a kind hearted man, but he was a school master too long not to know that there are socio boys upon whom mercy is thrown away, and who must be punished, aud we rather think Tommy will find himself in that class. Poor Tommy! Is anybody hurt ? it. r. ;icaiv, jij., i:si. This weeks' issue of the Clinton lleprjrter comes to us with the an nouncement of the retirement of its re cent editor, Mr. Edwin W. Kerr, on account of tho pressure of his profes sional engagements, and the salutato ry of Mr. B. F. Giady, Jr., his suc cessor. We know Mr. Grady well. He is a gentleman of the highest cul ture and one whose political course has been without a shadow of turning. As with Colonel Liles whose entrance into the Editorial fraternity, we noticed on yesterday, our acquain tance with Mr. Grady began at the University, since which time ho has devoted himself entirely to literary pursuits. We know of no man who brings to his new calling better quali fications than does Mr. Grady and we congratulate the press of the State that he has come among us. COL. K. 1C. LILES. In the last number of the Wades boro Argus, Col. Liles was announced as one of the Editors. We offer our most cordial congratulations lo the A rgus and its readers upon so valua ble an addition to its editorial staff and to Colonel Liles a most hearty wel come into the fraternity. Our ac quaintance with Col. Liles is of no re cent date, in fact, it began in the good old days of the University and we are truly glad that by his advent into tho "Press Gang" he has added an other to the many friendly bonds al ready between us. Col. Liles is a strong, vigorous, for cible writer, and, withal, full of fun and humor, and will make for himself an enviable reputation as a journalist. Ho has our best wishes. SOCIAL K ail AI.IT V IN AS-DOLPII-CAN IX BE THl'E ! The Fayetteviile Gazette says: We have been told that at a public gathering in Randolph the other day, a dinner was given, where white and black men ate together. The leading Radical of the affair, Sheriff McMas ters, we think, would go out and make proclamation for ten whites and ten negroes to come in to dinner, the ac commodations being insufficient for all at a time. This is but a beginning of what we shall see from the Radical party throughout the South. - V .", CHEAP TKASSPOIJTATIOX. It is too late iu the day to argue about the necessity of cheaper and more abundant facilities for transpor tation of freights. If we desire to bring tL? States into closer union and to frr.ternize their people there is no means surer to accomplish the end than cheap transportation. If, upon general principles, we set out with the determination to do the greatest good to the greatest number how better can we carry out our pospose than by fur nishing to consumers articles of neces sary consumption at the lowest pos ;i ble cost of transportation as well as production ? The force of these remarks will be the most readily understood when it is stated that eight States ia the North west produced 800,000,000 bushels of cereals iu 1872 eighty bushels for every man, woman and child of its population, and enough, properly dis tributed, to feed the whole 49,000,000, of the nation while the East has not grain enough to l ist her more than three months of the year, and the four Southeastern States of South Car olina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida required 50,000,000 bushels more grain than they grew. The question of transportation as our readers know, is attracting very general attention in every section of the country, each section trying to se cure for itself the great profits inciden tal to the handling of the enormous freights to and from tho West. Of course each rection approaches the question with selfish intent. The Middle and South Atlantic States are endeavoring to accomplish their wish by means of the water ways that nature seems to have provided for the purpose of giving an outlet to the grain grown upon the lands lying on the waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries. The Northeast, New York City and its outlying towns and cities, at first con tented with ridicnliug the pretensions of competing lines further south, are now making strenuous efforts to con tinue the monopoly cf the Western business. It i but natural that New York should make a big fight for the prize, and it not to be denied that she has greatodds in her favor. The last project is "to bnild a road, having four or more tracks, from New York to some convenient ponit in Ohio or Indiana, and from thenco one branch is to di verge lo Chicago and another to St. Loui. Tho Company is to have the privilege oi extending the road lrom Chicago to any point on the Mississippi river above St. Louis. The road is to be commenced within two years, and finished within twelve yei'.rs from tho enactment of the bill. The rates for transportation of passengers and freight are to bo fixed by a commission composed of three persons, appointed by the President of the United Slates, oue person by the Governor of each State through which the road shall pass, and three persons by the corporation, but char ges shall not exceed ten cents per bushel of grain by car load, bulk freight, and thirty-six cents per barrel of llour from Chicago or Sr. Louis to Jersey City." A bill to incorporate a company for this purpose is now pending in the United States Senate. It in needless to say that this is not the cheap trans portation the South wants. What we want is to establish lines of communi cation whore eastern termini shall b-i upon the Southern Atlantic Coast. We can fue no reason why freights from Chicago for Wilmington should go all the way areund by New York. Yet so it is, and so it will be, if the legislation of the country continues to be shaped ami controlled in the inter est of New York City. i t t: f i ui: r c a n a i j a i i . n. If we were making up a political al manac we should say "look out for independent candidates about this time." It is true we know of not more than one in our own party in this sec tion of the State, but if tho months of June and July pass away without others having made their appearance, it will be as old Governor Swain used Sivy, "a remarkable fact" worthy of record. Just now the independent candi date disease seems to be spending its force in the radical camp, where it is raging like the big measles in a regi ment of new soldiers. We need not, however, expect to escape the con tagion, but whether we have inde pendent candidates or not we are op posed to them. Nor are we alone in this opinion The Democratic-Conservative Execu tive Committee for tho State is of the same way of thinking. At its last meeting, held not long ago at Raieigh, the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, 7'haf ire earnestly rec commend to the members of the Democratic-Conservative party to discour age independent candidates and all other eli sorganizcrs, and that eil I sup port be prompt1. withdrawn from every aspirant for office who shall oppose the regular nominees of our conventions." This is the " true doctrine. Inde pendent candidates and bolters are worse thau the mumps or the measles big or little, and can make nothing save harm to the party. Down with them! asotiiku'lhttek fiiom ::-';-eical colsto.v. Again we have the pleasure of pre senting to onr readers one of General Colston's interesting letters. A CIA1I. We are indebted to a friend for a large clnb of subscribers at Bladen boro', Bladen county. The interest which the people ore showing in the campaign, so agreeably demonstrated to us by accessions to our subscription lists, speaks well for the success of our candidates iu the approaching election. A very lively effervescence seems to have arisen, of late, between the white and black Radicals in Alabama upon the occasion of public meetings to ini tia' the campaign. In all the import ant towns of the State these meetings have frothed over and burst off the lid of the pot. Either blacks or whites have seceded, and the Democratic prints seem to think that they will not amalgamate any more. From the Raleigh lira. TH E OLD WfHUS. CoJ. S. D. Pool, the Democratic candidate for Superintendent of Pub lie Iustruction, was an old Whicr. Gen. M. W. Ransom, the Democrat ic U. S. Senator from North Carolina, was an old Whig. Gov. Vance, the regular nominee of the .Democrats for United States Sen ate, was an old Whig. Judge Merrimon, late Democratic candidate for Governor, was an old Whig. Maj. Jesse J. Yeates. tho Democrat ic candidate for Congress in the First District, was an old W hig. Col. Alfred M. Waddell, the Dem ocratic candidate for Congress iu the Tnird JJistnct, was an old Whig. Capt. Joseph J. Davis, Democratic candidate for Congress m the Fourth District, was an old Whig. Hon. Thomaa S. Ashe, the Demo cratic candidate for Congress in the Sixth District, was an old Whig. Maj. W. M. Robbins, the probable Democratic candidate for Congress in the Seventh District, was an old Whig. Gen. R. B. Vance, the Democratic cantlidate for Congress in the Eighth .District, was an old Whig. Capt. Mills L. Eure, the Democratic candidate for Judge m the First Dis trict, was an old Whig. Bartholomew Fuller, Esq., the Dem ocratic candidate for Judge in I he Fay etteviile District, was an old Whig. Hon. John Kerr, the Democratic candidate for Judge in the Greensboro District, was an old Whig. Thomas J. Wilson, Esq., the Dem ocratic candidate for Judge in the Salem District, was an old Whig. The only old Democrats who have succeeded in obtaining nominations from the present Democratic party are Col. A. A. McKoy forjudge iu the Wilmington District and Gen. Scales for Congress iu the Greer sboro Dis trict. Verily tho Crescent vas speaking truly when it said the old Democrats are only "hewers of wood and drawers of water for the old Whigs." KEMATtKS. While it is an undeniable fact that tho lion'd share of honors and emolu ments have fallen to the lot of the "old line Whig" portion of the Democratic-Conservative party in North Carolina, we beg leave to assure our Radical Raleigh cotempoiary that it need not hope to take any advantage therefrom. The devotion of the old line Democrats to the cause of good government, the rights of the States and the liberty of tho citizen is not to be gnaged by tho measure of spoils that falls to their lot. Their political action springs from a s- use of duty and if it happens that a greater share of the honors and emoluments falls to their old liue Whig brethren than to themselves they will none the less do their duty. Our Radical friends will take noth ing from their attempts to create dis satisfaction in our ranks by appeals to the selfishness of "old line Democrats." The Washington correspondent of tho New York World say?: Mr. Lamar, of Mississippi, again distinguished himself to-daj- as an able and eloquent representative of the Seutli and a real statesman by deliver ing a prepared speech on the present political condition of the South. It was the first full and fair statement of the altitude of the white people of the South towards the General Govern ment anil also the State governments of tho South that haa been made upon the floor of Congress. With admirable clearness he brushes1 r.way all tho sophistry with which In;? question of reconstruction has been surrounded, aud, beginning by showing the abso lute loj-alty and submission of the people of the South at the end of the war, he traced the history of recon struction, showing how wholly help less and severely afflicted his people were under the reconstruction legisla tion, lie showed how the machinery of the Federal Government had been used to inflict evils greater thau con fiscation upon the South, and declared that although there might be State governments there, there were no States. The question he put to the Republicans was whether they had not gone far enough with their policy towards the South. Tho speech was a sequel to Mr. Lamar's oration on Sumner, aud was listened to by every member of the House present. .ifssrs. lii'rr mitt Mrnriu it U. The Greensboro Patriot says : The nomination of Hon. John Kerr is a fit recognition of one of tho truest men and unswerviug citizens in the com monwealth. Decided in his views, and uncompromising in his struggle against what ho deemed wrong, he always stood iu the front defending the right, denouncing the wrong. His firmness was tested when Holden let loose the dogs of war and opened his dungeons to the men he hated, but he ntood erect and looked as indignantly defiant when surrounded with bayo nets as when iu the forum ho lashed with his withering eloquence the cor rupt horde who preyed upon the mis fortunes of his people and the upstart tyrants who conspired toopprossthem. He is a pure man, an orator with few peers, learned in tho law, and of in tegrity unbending. He will honor the position he is called to fill. Mr. Strudwick, nominee for Solici tor, is a lawyer of ability, has repre sented his county in the Legislature with distinction, and will make a good officer. There is no question as to the election of any of these gentlemen, it is simply a question of numbers, and our effort should bo to make the ma jority for them overwhelming. A good specimen of the sort of leg islation the Kellogg regime turn out iu Louisiana is found in a I nv passed by the last Legislature. It postpones the time of holding the city election in New Orleans two years, giving the present Governor the power of ap pointing the necessary officers when the present inenmbeuts' time has ex pired. Gov. Kellogg has not signed the bill, as he is not obliged to do so until tho next Legislature meets, if he does not choose to, and he has given the Democrat majority to understand that he will not sign it at all if they will nominate the kind of men he wants. The Governor has evidently taken his ideas of a Republican form of government from the conduct of his superiors and supporters iu Washing ton. The reform in woman's dress pro posed by some of the advancing wo men of New England is the use of an undersuit that will keep the entire body warm, and the weight of which will be supported entirely by the shoulders. Senator Matt Ransom's family are at Kittrella for the summer. i - . Hdqks. Central Ex. Committee! New Hanover County, ' WanscTo.N-, N. C, June 11, 1874. ) The Conservative Township Com mittees of New Hanover county are requested to meet and organize imme diately for the campaign. If any Township has no such Com mittee, the member of the Central Committee from such Township is re quested to appoint one, consisting of five members, and to aid them in the work of organization. Township Committees should ap point such sub-committees,challengers. Sec, as may be deemed advisable; and untler no circumstances should the ap pointment of challengers for the day of election be neglected. Wm. H. Beunabi, D&W2t Chairman. Supreme Court. The Court met at the usual hour, all tne Justices present. Appeals from the fifth District were heard as follows: John McLendon, vs. Commissioners of Anson, from Anson. Placed at the end of the docket. B. A. and John B. Green vs. Geo. J. Green, (two cases) from Union. Wilson & Son for the plaintiffs, Battle fc bon and JUcCorkle A; Bailey for the defendant. Ccrtiorara ordered for time; appeal was taken by the plaintiff. The following cases were place at tho ena oi the docket: V. Manning et al., vs. Commission ers ot Montgomery, from Montgom ery, (two cases.) The case of the State vs. Shack Manuel, from Cumberland, was con tinued. K. Mnrchison, Guardian, vs. J. H. Williams, et. al., from Harnett. Ar gued. Busbee & Bnsbee for the plaintiff, and Neil McKay and B. Ful ler tor the defendants. John A. Long vs. A. T. Cole, et. al., from Richmond. Argued. No counsel for the plaintiff. J. W. Cole and Giles Leitch for the defendants. A. A. KcKeithan vs. David A. Ray, et. al., from Cumberland. W. A. Guthrie for the plaintiff, and N. W. Ray and B. Fuller for the defendants. In the United States Court the ar gument in the case of Greenfield Blae and wife, et. al., vs. Assignees of I. P. J'evereaux, bankrupt, was re sumed, and occupied the entire ses sion of the Court. Raleigh News. Tn!fl'II in ."Moore. TliA V:l Toi f Avill .' ft -t " line r ortr. iitg news from Moore county. The iirrc;i"tot2 nrft nnw fliof ATrT- Trill iln oven more for Waddell than she did last election. She is iu earnest, this time. Cuii!iil!ee ou ICeforni. The "Committee on Reform" of the Eejjublicaus here, or, in other words, those who propose to repudiate the doings of last Satnrelay's Convention, have published an address to the Radicals in this county, denouncing the action of the "so-called" Conven tion and calling on all good Republi cans to unite with them in their ef forts at "Reform." The Committee denounce the nominees for the county offices and representatives in the General Assembly as "incompetent and entirely unfit for these important trusts, and who, if elected, will bring upon the Republican party disgrace and defeat." They claim that the meeting of June 0th "did not repre sent the sentiments of the party, but was managed in the interest of u few persistent office-seekers" and that "its action is repudiated by a largo ma jority of the party." They therefore think that it is "time to unload" and that "the iovers of law and order, of political integrity and fair conventions must do it." We cordially endorse them in the following extract, but must remind the Committee, at the same time, that they are taking Democratic thunder to work with when they say that "the county officials levy the taxes, disburse the revenue and enforce the laws. Men of un doubted integrity and of business ca pacity should be selected. Their duties come home to every man's door. The poor man does not escape the penalty of bad government for, at last, the consumer of every article that enters into tlaily life, pays large taxes in their increased cost. Tho Representatives in tho General Assembly make the revenue acts, and to them is confided the prosperity and advancement of the State and its counties. If incompetent or dishonest men are sent there, then the people suffer; none can be so hum ble as io escape. The warnings be fore us in tho other States warn us of the danger of bad legislation. The largest county in the State, in point of wealth and population, should have men of ability to insure success and exercise the influence to which it is entitled in the councils of the State." They invite the co-operation of "every Republican who desires good government", and the signatures ap pended to the address are: Silas N MartiD, Chairman; Geo W Price, Jr, L E Rice, J H Whitemau, Jas II Chadbonrn, Geo L Mabsou, W II Banks, W I Cannday, Anthony Howe, J J Cassidev, T M Gardner, Owen Birney, ClmsFoy, W H Wad dell, Delaware Nixon, II E Scott, Samuel Norton, W II Gerkeii. Wm McLaurin, G 1 Rourk, John Bell. Tlie linloii ill I'otitl" Injunc tion Case. In regard to this case, the object of which wo have already published, the Clinton Reporter gives us the fol lowing particulars in reference to it at Sampson Court this week: Judge Buxton having refused to grant an injunction in the "mill" case which our readers have often heard of, the grand jurors for Sampson county, after two or three days patient investigation, passed a bill of indict ment against 5lrs. J. C. Williams and Mr. John Jones, on last Thursday, for keeping up a "common nuisance" in the vicinity of Clinton to the damage of the health of the town. Immediately, thereupon, the case was put on trial, and on Monday night of this week a verdict of "guilty" was rendered by tbe petit jury. Tho trial was long and tedious. Many medical gentlemen were examined ou the witness stand and the proceedings were high ly interesting and instructive to the large and patient crowd of lis teners who thronged the Court-room. Drs. Satehwell and Wood, of Wilming ton; Dr. Kirby, of Goldsboro; Dr. II. W. Faison, of Faison; Drs. Bizzell, Lee, Faison.Murphy.Hillamd nolmes, of Clinton, and Drs. Monk, Darden, Hobbs, Moseley, Thompson, Sloan and Pearsall, of Sampson county, were examined. Mr. Stewart and the Messrs. Devane appeared for the State and Mr. Rich ardson for the defendants. Tho judgment of the Court was sus pended on payment of the costs; and we .'ire gratified to learn that the phy sicians of Clinton will prove no wit ness tickets nor charge the expert fee of 820 allowed by the Ccurt, and that the witnesses for the prosecution will follow their example. Mr. Jones will turn off the water from the pond ia a ehort time, j - --r x ! STATE NEWS. The Conservatives of Davie county have nominated Charles Anderson, Esq., for the House, as we learn from the Salem Press. J. H. Headen, of Chatham, was nominated for Congress by tho Radi cals of the Fourth district, at Frank linton, on Friday. Tho house of Taylor Barrow, in Greene county, was recently destroyed by fire. Nearly everytning of provis ions, furniture, clothing, Arc, was lost. The Davidson correspondent of the Winston Sentinel says: Tho fruit crop will be cut short; oats will bo injured by the dry weather; wheat is looking well; corn is small and looks bad; tobacco plants are not to bo had. The Fayetteviile Gazetto says: At the Convention of the Conservatives of Moore county, held at Carthage last Saturday, 6th inst., K. H. Worthy was nominated for tho Senate, Capt. A. A. Mclver for tho Commons, J. M. Monger for Sheriff, and tho present incumbents for the rest of the county offices, j, Tho Clinton Reporter says: The case oJ John E. Powell, indicted for parricide, was put on trial Tuesday morning in our Superior Court, and at 111 o'clock, P. M., the jury return ed a verdict of "not guilty." Solicitor A. R. McDonald for tiio State and Messrs. Stewart and Kerr for the pris oner. The Raleigh News says : During the storm of Wednesday evening, Hamilton Bridges, a colored man, was instantly killed by lightning on the Tarboro road, about live miles from this city. The mule that ho was driv ing was also killed by the same stroke. Both were found in tho road about sun set. The Salisbury Watchman says: Last Sunday night a colored gentleman, be lieving, no doubt, that the civil rights bill had become a law, walked into the Methodist Church aud deliberately seated himself among the whites. He was finally prevailed upon to leave in asmuch as the civil rights bill is not a law. He did so, though very re luctantly. The Tarboro Enquirer-Southerner says : Dr. Jos. II. Baker has brought to our oliico a stalk ot oats 51 feet tall, its head is 25 inches long. Also a stalk of timothy 5 feet high, with a head Wl inches long. ho can beat it ? These stalks were grown upon Dr. B's lot and contradict the theory that small grain aud grass do not nourish in Edgecombe. The Wilson Plaindealer says: Straw berry season is about over. A friend informs us that Messrs. Westbrook, of the Wilson Nursery, have shipped nine thousand quarts of strawberries this season besides supplying the home market at Wilson with about one hunelred quarts per day during the time. These were raised on about four acres of ground. The Fayetteviile Gazette says: A very prominent citizen of Moore county, who visited Fayetteviile last Monday evening, brought us the wel come information that Moore is more all right than ever. He is confident that Wadd ell's majority will be as large this election as last he is of the opinion it will be a good deal larger. Fuller will leave Moore with a rousing majority. The Wilson Advance says: Notwith standing the unfavorable start, the farmers of this section are now in fine spirits in regard to the prospects for a good crox of both corn and cotton. The cotton crop especially looks prom ising for the season, and as a general thing, is in good condition. The staud of corn is not very good, but the recent rain and favorable weather have given it in impetus that will se cure an average crop if no disaster oc curs iu the future. The Greensboro' Patriot says: A re port conies to us from Greene township that R. P. Shaw, a man aged about seventy, well thought of in the com munity where he lived, a beacon light in Mr. Welker's church, and a promi nent Radical, left wife and family, taking to his bosom a thirty-five year old wiclow, named Jane Greeson, with whom ho departed last week for parts unknown. There is no telling what will become of a man before he dies who belongs to the Radical party. The Charlotte Observer says: Mr. John Smith, whoso postoflice is nick ory Grove, York county, S. C. . was in Charlotte yesterday, ancl he tells a re marablo story. Before tho war he owned 120 negroes, and up to this day thoso negroes are living with and working for him, not one having left after tho surrender. They express themselves as satisfied, and say they don't want to live any where else. This state of things is creditable to tho good sense of the negroes, and shows that Mr. Smith is a kind and good master. The Raleigh News says : We learn that Judge Watts has appointed next Monday, (the loth inst., ) to hear the application of the Directors of the North Carolina Railroad Company for dissolution or modification of the preliminary injuction obtained by Thomas Branch, of Virginia, for him self and oth-r stockholders, against the purcliaso of the Western North Carolina Railroad, and against carry ing out the "Consolidation Scheme" generally. Jos. J. Batchelor and Kemp 1. Battle for plainiiff ; Smith & Strong for defendants. Judge Watts has designated Frauklinton as the place of hearing of the argument, but an effort will be made to induce him to change to Raleigh. The Raleigh Crescent says : One of Gen. Pettigrew's favorite soldiers told us the other day that it was on the re treat to Falling Waters, when the Yankee cavalry charged them, and they were sleeping with their blankets around them in tho road, and he saw the yankee that rode up to Gen. Petti grew and shot him dead with his pis tol. But that yankee never lived, for he captured "Friday", a carrier of Pettigrew's, and foolishly put Friday behind him. Friday shot him thtough and through as he rode off with him. Gen. Heath was present at tho time, an.l exclaiming, "Boj's, save your selves," he rode off at a ;a!lop,and the soldier says lie has never seen him since. A Major Jones took charge of the command and got them out of the "fix." Jouop, of course, was a tar heel. The Milton Chronicle says: Oby Thompson, colored, and a friend, are represented to have repaired to a pond of water up the river a short dis- j tance, on Sunelay last for, the purpose of cooling their carcasses by bathing. Oby bid his friends adieu when he left home, but they mistrusted him not. Getting into the pond Oby went out into deep water and went under, but his friend pulled him out and got him in shallow water. He then locked his hands behind his neck and threw himself backwards under the water. Again his friend rescued him, and again Oby repeated the performance with another rescue by his friend. Oby now assured his friend that there was no danger of Lis drowning, and again plunging backwards into water over his head with, his hands locked behind his neck he weat down and. quit eatiaero --el , . r VOL, WADDELL'S CAlTVASr-' i Hon. A. M. Waddell, cuuUOata fer COBgNH, will address hia fellow-citizens at tbe foilvwiag times and places: . k ; -Uf; June 15th, Monday Klchlands, Onalow Cfe June 16th, Tuesday Jacksonville, Oaafeww' j -, : - .-;;; .nine iatn. 1 nur.uin.v warri'x uuia nuin. county. V. dune 20th, Saturday Chfoqoepin, Dapua. v?- June 22J, Monday KcnansvlUe. Dislla Co. !' June 23d. Tuesdav Warsaw. Dnnlln Cits. ' i1 oune 4in, Wednesday Falson's Dnpim CO. f June 25th, Thursday Clinton, 8ampaoa Co June 2Gth, Friday McDaniel'S X Boftds, :R Sampson county. -. , ' ."A.' J une 27th, Satm Jay Taylor's Bridgo, StJBp-V. J une 2ath, Monday FayetteTillc, Cuabw i-? land county. - - . June 30th, Tuesday Manchester, Cumber- - land county. ' 'C , t : July 2d, Thursday Jonesboro, Moore Co. Jnly 3d, Friday Carthage. Moore Co. " .'.' July 4th, Saturday Carter's Mills, Meore ' county. : .j July Cth, Monday Harrington P. O., Har nett countv. July 7th, Tuesday mungton, Harnett Co.' July th, Wednesday Avers boro, Harnett county. ' ' , , J uly nth, Saturday "The Hollow," Bladen - county. July 13th, Monday Elizabethtown, BtaAen county. July 14th, Tuesday Dal ton, Bladen county' J uly 13th, Wednesday Brinkley's.Branswiek county. ' July 16th, Thuriay Whlteyille, Columbus couty. July 17th, Friday Cerro Gordo, Columbus. July 20th, Monday Iron Hill, Columbus Co. , July 2lst, Tuesday Cook's Store, Colombo. July 22.1, Wednesday Shailotte, Brunswick county. Other appointments, as desired, wiU be ben alter made. D&Wtf. - ' The Newbern Journal of Commerce says : At the term of Carteret county ' . court, last week, the suit of Amos Wade against the city for violation of the Union Point market house con tract, was decided in favor of the plaintiff, he being awarded $1,800 damages. The Kinston Gazette Bays: We are not given to over-boasting, but we cannot refrain from mentioning with true parental pride, that the pet of our ' household, our little Laura, not yet 5 years old, has a bed quilt, every stitch in which was placed there by her own tiny lingers. How many little giris of : her age in the State can say as much? The Rockingham Spirit of the South says : William Pickett, a colored man, whilst carelessly handling a pis- tol, a few days ago in this town, re ceived an ugly wound in the hand by the premature discharge of the weap- " f on. The ball did not pass entirely through the hand, but lodged on the opposite side from where it entered,. V and had to be cut out, which was done - j by Dr. Stansill. . L " The Goldsboro Messenger says: The i " Stockholders meeting of the A. & N. . C. Kailroad takes place on the 25th ' instant. In this connection we learn . that the Board of Directors have ' agreed that private stockholders and their immediate families may enjoy a . ' free ride over the road to Morehead .". City and return at any time daring the week commencing Monday, the ; 22dinst. . - r - A terrific rain storm was experienced 1 ' . in Greene county on last Thursday, " and great damage done. We learn of several mills being broken in various parts of the county and great damage done to the crops, fences and timber., V Many small bridges were washed ' away, and other injuries done. The oldest inhabitants pronounce it the severest storm and rain that has visit ed that county in fifty years, and the . ''r ram only lasted tour hours, says the Kinston Gazette. . The Raleigh News says: We learn that a number of the penitentiary convicts were stricken down with sun stroke while at work in the quarry, on Tuesday, but as yet, have not learned ; -how many proved fatal. We learn also that two oi the hands of Mr. J. P. Wier, working on the walls of the National Cemetery, also received sun strokes on tne same clay. Eleven cases ; in all MTere reported, on Tuesday. - ; Yesterday the weather was not so ':.'- warm, and a3 yet, we have heard of no :. additional cases. . : Iu a late number of the Chicaeo ' Times we find the following with re gard to the negro, which is worthy ef perusal and consideration : . 4 "bo far from the negro being the " - coming planter of tho South, he is the . coming barbarian. Leave this animal to himself, take away from him the civilizing and restraining influences of the Caucasian race, and he will relapse, in a generation, to a condition like that of his fetish-worshipping brother in Central Africa. Let the whites ' withdraw from tho South; place every appliauce iu the hands of the negroes to assist their advancement; and then, ; if left to themselves, the whole South in fifty years would be a jungle from which would be effaced every vestige of civilization. Under no circumstan ces save where ho has been guided by and held inferior to the white has , the negro ever accomplished anything, -He is valuable as a servant, but use less as a master." The Grasshoppers or locusts have - ' ' made their arpearance in immense numbers in Northern Minnesota and ':. Manitoba. In some places the ground is covered with them, and thev are destroying grass, trrain aud eardeu - vegetables. . . Sixteen joint stock companies, forty- . four banks, thirty-six industrial com-! . :. panies, eighteen uuilding societies, one insurance company and one transit company became bankrupt by the fi-. " n.incial crisis in lenna last May. Hereafter thoso who go to Europe for business or pleasure will have to - - pay a fee of five dollars each for their . passports. It is expected that the tax -will yield forty or fifty thousand dol lars. Pasigraphy is the name of a new sys tem of writing by numbers, which, it is asserted, may be used universally, '. and thus obviate the difficulty of com- muuication between nations of differ- ' cnt languages. It is expected to cut ---.; quite a figure. Mr. Throckmorton, one of the Cali- ; fornia Fish Commissioners, declares -that tho experiment of transplanting ' - Eastern oysters on the Pacific coast has proved a failure. The oysters be como very fat and die in about a year. Elections in England are not models r , of fairness and decorum, and indeed are a great deal worse than our own; but then the injustice done at the -: polls ia often redressed on petition. ; ;.. Thirteen members of the present -'1 House of Commons have already been . - : unseated for malpractices at the last general election one for bribery, one for corruption, oue for i ntim-iifatinj " . aud five for "treatin" and there axe others to hear from. That is the way thay do things under a monarchical f despotism. In our free and glorious : - J lountry a gentleman who gets into 'i Congress by false certificates or xe-. :' turns of imaginary majorities is likely to stay there as long as he ean keep ; on good terms with the rarty inpower. ur ii ins case is aiwgeuier uk rragrans ,- T : A. 1 A-1 .A . Al - - i .- no ia Beat uuuuj gouuy wia cuu as. V": th Muwinn. with n larm niwiw .-'v " 77 -ow 1 n r 5""