f)
1 HE WILMINGTON JOUKN AL
DAILY AND WEEKLY.
Ti;tnN OF KVB.M KIINIOM
TiiE DAILY JUl'KNAI. ' maile.i to rib
bers at Kight Hollars per .-iiiniin; ; Fein
DiLLAB9 for six months ;S kvkxtv-ki v k Oi-utp
per rnoat for a shorter period.
Tul. V-! Uy Jjunttl ai two it,,l!i.ri. ir ai -unm.onc
! il-r :' m .i.t'is, N -,!. na
tion re Jive It. tl.o W-fkly tor !es.- tl. in ei
moiitli-
lluar't
of Ciiui'iilimi for nitT
Con 11 t f.
vre publish below the (roctvJin
of the B'ard -'' Education ot P mb r
of thus
d reotly interested in thes-
?: ,.,u I i t r iilko ltef..m:e jst.' ti ir !
proctH'u'-'B"'
that the stii'rt of ie-dntious w!i h
vas i:Joj'f''i l-y tLe 13 'ii,d m"-v ,)e o:
geLerai intenst throughout the Stid,
jnasraneh as to. he r-M-lut-i m- tonci
npo;i a .pn-stion which ha- giver, e v. ry
Board murt or le-s trouble.
Or'fK'K HoAUP te EljI'f'ATIoN j
of l'KMKiv I'or.vrr,
'tu'iii Wa- icivi ios, Feb. 7. )
AL a rgo!ar meeting of the LSoaidot
EUicitioi! held this day, preetait .
H. French, Jbaii man; Ccanui.-sioiK i.
Murphy and Si.aw.
Ordered tliut John J. Moore, 1
Union town-h!,. In' uppoinH d a.
school eoninnttei ni m in place, of J
V. Wei!-, resigned.
Ordered '.h it i. VV. Cot belt, of Cas
well township, be appointed as tchooi
conmiitteem m '.h piiee oi W. 8.
Fridg'-n, resigned.
Ordered, on moi.on of C- 'in .nission
er Shaw, that the Secre-buy of tin:
Board of Eduea'ion b.' allotted to
be j;t: J out of the school fund, us coin
peiisuiioii fp Lis servic-s as Clerk of
the Board of Education, i'-ud that the
Clniirniun of the County Board of Ed
ueilioa bo authnriz d -;i;d dme'ed to
draw au order payable to the Seere
taiy. Oolered, on motion of Commls
Bio: er Shaw, that the public cliool
money .'hall, in iiocum , lie MiipropriaU d
tj ai'j' township or i.iitl upon thvorder
df m-Iiou! ciimmittw, uuti! the school
C:Uus of ch scliool district of the
towu-ihip is taken aud reported to thii
board as leq iired by law.
Oid r d tliat the Beeretary .f the
bnard of education register all t-chool
Btittirttics tvliich thull be report, d to
him ly school committees nud board
of county examiners, iu the book of
school records of Pend. r county.
Ordered that all orders to be paid
out of t-hrt public t-choo! money, bi' first
approved by the chairman and clerk
of the board of education, and that tne
county treasurer bf notified of tle
s mie.
Ordered that tho CJierk of this
Board publinfi by an nd vei ti.-cment
pouted on the Court House door, the
amount apportioned to the children of
each race of the several bchool districts
of each township in the county; and be
it further ordered that the Clerk fnr
uitdi the County Treasurer with the
amount thus npoortioned among the
several echool districts, and ah-o tlm
chairman of cmc!i hcIk ol ci mmitteo
of thestveral townshijis in the eo-unty.
Ordered that the npportioinnent of
the pubi c school money for ih county
of Pender, collected for the year ISTo,
and also the old school fund, now in
tln3 hands of the Treasurer of New
ILvnover county, b allotted as f diows:
(31) one dollar per eiroiti for ench
township iu the county, as reportttl
by the several school committees, be
as follows:
Ordered that all orders on the
County Treasurer for the payment of
teachers, for the purchase of sites
and for half the cost of building
school h uses, shall be piid from the
f Jud apportioned to the district of the
township in wmch the school is taught,
or iu which the site or school house is
situated, find that the County Treas
urer be notified of tho same.
Ordered tl) ut the foregoing Kcrit s o1
resolutions offered by Commis ioix r
Shaw in legard to the duties of the
Board of Education of Pender couniy
be and the same are lierebj' adep'ed.
Ordered that all orders upon the
County Treasurer for bcliool monet
for the payment of teachers in th"
various townships of Pender eo r.ity,
shall he upprovul by tho. School Com
mittee elected at the lait election for
the township iu which said soiiool is
taught.
The Board of Education adjourned
to meet at tLe call of the chairman.
C. H. Mannix, C erk.
'iiikt y riiiiiiiitiii)ii rs .
The Board of County Commissioners
mt t pursuant to avljournmciit.
I'resent j. E. Wagner, ('haiiman.
Commissioners D. Nixon and 8. Van
Ann inge.
Minutes of last meeting read and
approved.
The Board went info an elee;iou of
Constable fot Harnett township, to fd!
tLe vacaucy "caused by the resignation
of James A. IL-wlett.
Edward McCoy was put iti nomina
tion, who received three votes, and was
declared elected.
On motion it was ordered that the
fiuance committee be empowered to
liavc the prison of the county Work
House insured iu tome responsible
company.
On motion the Board rrsn'ved itself
into a Board of Education.
The following order was then passed:
Ordered bvth,' Board of Kducit on,
that the apportionment of school
funds, for the county of N.-w Hanover,
collected for the v. ar lKTo, ! allotted
as follows: 1 :tO"p.-r capita for each
township ii, the county, and th tt the
fvcrettry of this Bond l
County Trcapuier, and the
school committees of said
meet.
,t.fy tho
diVerent
ppoiiion-
The following is tlio apportionment
made according to townships:
WHlTKs.
Federal Point
Mason boro
122
no
ini
lC,r !)7
r.) xi
21 s or,
Cape Fair
Hornttt
Wilmington . . .
Total white.. .
. l,7r.3 2.3S1 30
. 2.154
Total
2,920 4t
COLORED.
Maqonboro C7
Federal Point 7.
Cape Fair U)0
Hraett 352
Wilmington 2,:;oi
Total, colored.. 2,985
77 52
Ktt PA)
'ice, r,r,
478 72
4,057 14
Aoiai amount...
r, 989 at
The Board then adjourned.
VOL. 32.
A hot In-r On tra.tr e ti n I i u I ) .
Fr tiu the l)apin lliy.'jr'l we pet the
following: V- learuthat auo her out
rage has beea perpetrated upon the
good people oi Duplin conrity by the
ec povcrnmeiit the v.or'd ever saw.'
A black negro WMSSei.t to Warsaw, an I
now a young lady, acceptable to t very
one in the community, has been turned
ut at Kt ! a'ivil;e, to muke room for
11. 11. Komegay. We said, concerning
li' appointment at Wumiw, that it
was, iu our opiuion, a 1 i tt -e, low, iu- an
'i;iiig iu tiic K .dic.il ol!ic: il-. to annoy
lii-itite.liigent rendu g jmblic with th'
appointment of obnoxious prrsoes to
ev ry little po.stollice through the coun
tiy We rep at what wc then said.
But tijtre is one :. solution; Hue's cuu
ducr, on the pait of Federal ollicials
and tl eir tniuiou: w'll biudour peop'e
tlo m- ii- firmly r-id c'Uii actly tr-geth-"r,
and wh' i; ;he ove throw OJ the
pit sent, administration c mos, a ; co'ine
t will, the ictoiy will be i no btteoter.
I'atii.'uc.-, friends, there v,ii5 b?1. a
.;:;ange we trin-t, at--r M iron liii, 177
-- only a iil'le v.-r a year.''
l.4jir llinidao.
From tho Ciiarioite (Jr'jsi n t f, which
- uoulil have re iched u.s Frid iv night
but which did not arrive until yes cr
day mortiing, wo learn that this geu
t!t'!n:i!i it cuivi d a p..iiil ill injury from
a fall, while walking to a friend' ho'.ist
iti (iii.lllotle Wednesday eveni! g
last.
: tm ly i'!:i;litrm ) r a (: I
ITtider tl.i.s hc.id the Charlotte (th J
'ft i g; Vera US tile following : 1
Tin! incident loses i.eiitiv all it.s
p-Mit by rea -on "f the fu-t th-.t yon
J ,i k-eow .'. l(o the gevtb-uie'i is,
t.i f-u-! are (! t tho other day a dur
li-'V appro. :ci''i o t-liiZ.MI oi cuarncter
and .s'.uid ti;; ind a-ke.' ijim if it wouhl
lie a v-ry gl'it aCr:ti . on his pirt to
ie.-ept an oil, -e, ;'Fur,'" continued the
ihirk y, 've niggers waiits some
body tor M tyor vii:it il let tie cow.--ra
1 ioo.se, what.'U lot do bar rooms stay
open on Sunday, nud whar'il b t de
gnnjbh-rs t iso h 1 every night, if dej
tv Hits to. and you is j:ist do mail la!
we wants." Our l'rieud uncovered
himself, and bowed his grateful
acknowledgement of the complim-'iit.
- .
It slit A I kiiin'tj's )Mim m-5is
for Ills Spri.-Jr Vi ii cm i itti.
ivinston March il'2
Holv Innocents, Lenoir Co., " 21
Newborn " 2(1
Beaufort "
SS. L'iiufsSwiftCreek Bridge, " 31
Ti ini! v Chinch, Be mfoxtCo., April 2
Blount s Creek ' 3
St. Joh'fn, Durham's fheek, ' 4
South Creek, Beaufort, Co., ' 0
Greenville " 9
St. John's. Pitt. Co " 11
Snow Hill " 13
J.fjir'borongi!, 1 itt c uuty,
(J(od Friday .. ' 11
Wilming'on. Eastet Sunday, ' Id
For ' lie Jiiiioi .
K t i i.i: or .io !i-:s ( i;t k.
hu.r.is'iTos, Pf.nim::: Co. N. ('., i
Feb. 9th, 1S7). )
Mksstis. FruToits Through a mis
tako iu the p iiiitnjr, the Wilmington
pip-eis, in publishing to-diy the pro
c t dn.-g.M of our c ntemial in( ;ting
held b-'-rc last S.iturdt'V, say it was iieid
in "lXo," wfer-'iis, a- y- u are aware,
this preparatory meeting was held
February 5rh, 7'5. .-. is-, iu t!ie hurry
oi preparing the procei'dings for pui.
liction I oiuitb ;1 t sny that our fc!-
low-ciliz 11, C p:a !l Joiiu A. Jones, of
this plac-, was put on the committee
to pre pate tho grounds. I j'cusc let
ti-iPKO correction.- be mada iu y,.;n
vvefr Id j' i. su.-.
T.'i'- ptopli. of I'en.ler are under re
newed obi g;tici:", to the Jouusatj for
the aid it is giving in making 'Lie pro
posed demonstration tu the 2Ch iust.,
or: t he old Moort-'s Creek b-ittle-gronrid,
a grand SiieC KS. We appeal to
the p.iper.-r t)i your city ami oi the
entire Cape Fear country to warm up
their columns and to siir up their
readers and oth rs upon (bis patriotic
t.nbject and aid mi in gat In ring to
gether a Luge crowd. Tho country
people, a 'i a general rule, will teke
their otvu ba- kei dinnci-? with them to
the Celebration, whiio i l.c Wilniington
comm tt-je are ex. cle-l to s--e toib that
propet refrtsbnioLt g np ou the
sb Miv.bo it
Let mo here appea' to the. eitiz -ns of
Pemler county to come out to the
CL'Ic br.-ti'.in. G )od peakers will en
it itain the crowd wi' h ability, patiiot
ism and ehuinence. Also, I call upon
the iii to aid by their cunt- ibnt i-ns in
making the ccuiot:iii.u a complete .-uo-ce;
-. T'uru out and g to the grounds,
ad did in vr paring them. The
c uniii ttte a)pointed to prepare t'.f
groii-.ds have been iioiitb. d, and they
:! earnestiy invoked to be at th.j
;.it a- 11 o'c ock on Saturday, the
i2Mi uist., and all others who ate. will
ing io aid wiii p!e;(M' attend theft abo
at that time. The time for proper
autioli is short.
Y' 'iirs i ruiy,
.Ias A. If. tr.tiiMAN-, Sec'y
- - -
Tin: cti'i: rr: a i ai.
!;ifl lie Ilstvv Anutlicr ii i'H
lil I li fit Oil?
flio above quest ion is asked iu the
Piidy N.'v-s ef the S"ate Fair.
A "met ting of i he Cit zeus was called
at llaileigh for Friday evening to
consider the p;o-tiou staled d.v;'.
viz: whether the State Fair, with ail it -new
Hfid elegant buildiugs, should
ever -again be he'd in lUleiph. After
au expenditure iu cash of forue "0,
000 that institution i so overwhelmed
with debt that it is calling on cue pro
o! of it i!eih t heli carrv it another
year. It' s.icli is the cas" tie re, with
Vs. . -i.o'o Si..t. io buek tit -m. mid with
e'eg wit and cotivenimt. grounds aed
buildings, what :-bnl! we o! t!ie tn'i'
i' e: - Fair say to the pe,.pieof Wdming
foi? Wc have li, re by subscription of our
own p.'..p!e, almost exclusively, added
t ) the net n c ipts rf I ho Fair
ehiired, grubbed and fenced the
rounds and erected -i 12,000 worth of
luiildiiifs thereon. The whole to day,
worth $15,000, which is rame than five
fines the amount of stock that ban
been paid in to secur.i the joint stock
organization, and that will be required
to pay for the property.
Now good people of Wilmington
shad we have another Fair ou the
banks of the Cape Fear ?
The question must bo answered by
the businesss men of Wilmington.
... ir,,i to let this institution
uan you oiw . . ,i
go down? Mail deafer czpcoalh,
arc infn rsted. E reply in the nega
tive It must bo sustained and the
citizens of tliis city must work hard
and build it up and help pay the next
iii!almeiit due on amount of its capi-
tUe StrtH of H.o Pair paid all
its Jfpen and p ud off promptly the
premium list, bat did not "net" eaoaRh
To pay for tlie buildings and grounds
It therefore bc-onies a question of
"ti importance to thia portion of the
State to f?nKt--vin, by small aid now, the
Cape Fear Fair Company. Only sixty
shares of stock, at 25 each, wanted to
do it. They want sixty shares of
stock subscribed and paid for during
the year, iu--say tbne instalments.
This will give SI, 500 more of capital
and will pay off the last but one instal
ment of the purchase money, aud put
the institution on a permanent footiug.
Every fair but one has pid a profit,
which has been applied to the bui.d
ings aud other impioveme ot . making
the property wortli now 315,000 that
i.llJS as of bind with fences and
buildings ihereon, all within one m ie
of Wilmington.
It is for you. geu'.lemen, to say if
this Fair shall be sustaiu. d. Five or
six g -ntlemeu have now carried it for
three years by means of oard woi k and
hard begging for aid, mad they do not
propose- to run it alone any longer. It
you do not want the Fair, ph ase ca'.l
a public meeting and say so over your
own signatures r otherwise.
If you do want it, com forward and
subscribe the sixty shares of ztnc'i and
it can be carried on and made atncws
liuaucially as well as by mat. riaily
aiding the farming aud mechanical in
terests of the 8tato.
This property once lost cannot l
obtaiur (jagaiii for double the mark.-:
v alue of it to-day. Less than 3,0; t i
worth of capital stock for a property
wo-tu 315.C00. -
It has been heretofore shown that
it will pay dividends of 12 to 15 pi r
cent. A FuiiSMJ tl thk Fail;.
Ftom the N. Y. Herald wo make tho
following extract:
The suits brought by Virginia C.
Burke agaisnt Ira C (lardnei and oth
ers, which will go down to posterity
amng the liat of eaaae.H veleJtres iu our
legal rtcords, was, after n i'.rly tlaee
weeks' continuance bt fore Judge Van
llo.sen, of the Court of Commo.i
Pleas, was brought yesterd iy to a con
clusion. Mrs. Burke, the sole surviv
ing cii Id and executrix of Captain
John Alexander, brought the puifc to
rt cover 00,0(X). whioh she claimed
was in her father's possession at, the
time of his death, which occurred in
March, I8f9, at the residence of the j
Gardners, iu Harlem. Mrs. Burke
had only one counsel, ex-Congiest man
Andrew II. H. Bawsou, while the de
fendants hail fix, including ex -Judge
iJ.-ebe. Mr. Dawson made nn able
and eio juent summing up ol the case.
Iu his remarks be told a rather
singular story explanatory of hi- z;ai)
for his ciieut. A good many years ago,
in a lower saloon of a Mississippi
steamboat, a party of men engaged in
playing draw poker. Among ho par
ticipiiutsiu the game was a cripple,
who bet boldly and showed that he
had a large sum of mouey. A voting
nvtn stood outside the circle of tin
table wat. .hiug with interest tin pro
gress of the game. He saw that th
cripple was a noviuee and his compan
ions were evidently professional gam
blers S -eing that the cripple was
losing heavily this young man winched
the game v ith increastd i;ifeio-t and
with the closest scrutiny. He shortly
disc vered the gamsters were dealing
to themselves six cards each, ami their
un-uspe -ting companion only five
c trds. The betting become h- avy
The cripple kept raising nd going bet -ter
mid his opponents did i he same.
Til table were covered w.th bills
aud piles of go;d. The) cripple lost,
and as one of the gamesters was about
raking in the p.iie that young mau who
had been so intentlv watching the
g:imo suddenly thrust, tho blade of a
sharp-pointed bowie kuife through the
bill.i, saying, "Notoneof youguniblers
shall have this money. It belongs to
him (poiri-iug to the cipple), your I
would-be victim." "Wuat right have j
yon to interfere wii.h this game?"'
asked the infuriated (ramblers. "Bv I
this right," answered the young man, j
pulling out a revolver, and oecause
you have been cheating this mau. The
first man who attempts to touch a dol
lar of that money I will blow his brains
ut." i'm; cripple took the money,
and that brief experience was a life
long less in to him. That young mau,
genth mau of the jury, wis myself. I
was congratulated for my courage.
One get tlemen, a uoble speci neri of
tiue houtoeru chivairy, shook mo
iy the hand warmly. "I like you
for your courage," said this gen
tlemen. "I have a beautiful and ac
complished daughter, aud you may
marry her if you will." That gentle
man was Captain Alexander, and I
s'oodby heriu her seven years' incesseut
warefare to help her nearer what
rightfully belongs to her, and I shall
fight the battle until I get a verdict for
her. ITo occupied several hours in
his summing up -tpeech. The opposing
counsel occupied nearly as much time
combating in seriatim each point
raised for the plaintiff aud presenting
the case in tne strongest possible light
for the defendant. A clear and lucid
charge was made by Judge Van
Hoetan, leaving it entirely to the jury
to give tneir verdict according to the
testimony, aud on'y explaining to them
the various points of law applicable to
the case. The jury, after about au
hours absence, brought in a eerdu-t for
Mrs. Burke far he full amount claimed,
being $00,000, with interest. Tim op
posing counsel moved to set aside the
verdict on the ground that it was not
in accordance with the evidence. It
being late Judge Van lloesen said he
would hear the argument ou this mo
tion next Friday morniug.
The Khedive of Egypt has legislated
th Mohammed n calendar out of his
dominions, and adopted instead the
Gregorian time, in common with the
larger portion of Christendom The
Fgvpi.ans changed all their dates on
toe iirst of ,'anu rv last.
Jolin tluincy Adam' HloUicr :i
!Vorth esLroliiu.n.
Iu an "Old Stager's Reminiscences
of 1 bt inguisb d Americans" we find
the followiug fii.aoh wln'ah fhows lhat
the mother of John Qnincy Adams was
a North Carolinian:
'I doubt if there are fifty persons in
the United States who knows ihatJohti
)u nry Adams and Ilob. rt Rim well
lihett were cousins. These two men,
representing the extreme Northern and
ex! rente Southern doctrines, aud who
hated each other with extreme bitter-ii.-sh.
torn near relxtives, as I shall
now show. Tho Ilhetts, or South
Carolina, having become extinct, their
relations, the Smiths, of Beaufort,
South Cu-olina, took the name of
llh. -It in the j ear IS.'G. These Smiths
were from Worth uarounn. a no
brothers, James Henry, Hubert P.-irn-well
aud Albert, changed the name to
Bhett as I h ve stated. The cousin,
Abigil Smith, of North Carolina, mar
ried John Atlams aud was the mot her
of John Quincy Adams."
Brignoli is the father of twins, and
has had other trials during his long
...ir-.r but, he never knew what real
trouble is until ho picked up a New
York paper the other morning anu
fonud himself referred toastho silver-
nose tenor."
The man who pays more for shop
rent thau for advertising tlon't uneler
stand his business, said Horace Gree
ley.
The number of hogs slaughtered to
date at Cincinnati is 519,776 against
500,637 the same lime last year.
WILMINGTON,
cz-Y TELSCRAPH.J
WASIIISVT0X.
Washington, Feb. 7. Senate.
Capt i ton of W st Virginia intro
duced a bill to aid the Washington
and Ohio Railroad Company in con
structing its road to the Ohio river
li- f erred to committee on railroads.
The commit tee on pensions reported
a pension for the widow of Gen. L. II.
H r.n an.
The library committee was dis
charged from further consideration of
the nn ni'irjal of Admiral Chas. tjhikes.
lhe bill extei ding the time for the
completion of the Northern Pacific
road was passed.
The centennial appropriation bill
wa resumed, aud iSor.tood spoke in
opposii ioa. So vote was reached
Morii The Speaker presented a
memorial Pom c tizens cf Louisiana
praying relief against certaiu political
evils existing iu hat Slate.
The appropi iation bill was resumed.
Blaine made his speech ou finance
in the form of printed notes. Eveiy
-eut was filhd. Without concluding
tho bill the committee rose and the
i House adjourmd.
The Texas riuds committee heard
A'ljutanl General Steele of Texas, and
l Lieutenant Budd, of tho regular army,
t ommahiling on the border. The tes
timony of th so gentlemen confirm the
vtorst features of the information al
ready before the committee. Geu. Ord
will iv h.-ard to mo row.
Tlie Elections Committee will de
cide the case of Brombtrg vs. Haral
son o Monday, aud take up the case
of F inlay vs. Wall, from Florida. The
committee has adopt d ths rule of the
last Congress to hear contests from
the States is theycoiue alphabetically.
This ph.c.s Plu't" vs. Goode, from
V:git.i.i, 's.st on the docket, but there
are i.eurui:ces that the Crises will be
n iH'.'i! d this MjfSiou. This arrange
ment of the docket v, as supported by
the li--public.ins on lhe committee, and
th assertion that Judge Harris, who
is chair man, is holding b-ck the case
of I'iutto vs. G oode is uufouuded in
fact.
The territorial committee of the Sen
ate will repoif- ui,..ibniouTy i-: favor
of New M.-xieo as a State.
The upprop. i at ion committee of tlie
House heard Biitow tins morning.
Tho Home committee on foreign
affairs h ive called on the Secretary of
State for th:-correspondence regarding
Minister Shenck' connection with
tin Emma nine
xnd M .c'iiido claims,
on public buihling-
The Committa
are a! tout ta inve.slig it .-vre'iinect .iui-
.1.
lett's connection with the ailegi d Chi
cago cu-'tom house frauds.
The Al ibama ll-;.ublican delegation
is head -d by t-x-Goy. Smith. They
represent that their object is simply
to endeavor to raise tho mora e of
their party in Alabor.a and not to con
test Sp- neer's seat. They s;iy the
party there' is brok n up into frag
ments for persona, ends.
Secretary Bristow has explained the
deiici ncy eif ;? ! !',(Hi0 in tho appropria
tion I'. ntrraving and printing. He
- ays t h first estimates were too low,
lii-.l the Sec .nd estimates Congress cut
down md imposed additional work.
IB slid the deticiel.i'V should be made
go-;d, but if il, v. ;ia no, he had Inon y
enough to run iin- bureau until next
March, i.fter which, if no provision
was made for its support, he would
close it up anil discharge i very person
connected with it.
The Senate to-day confirmed iJil
liners as district judge b r Louisi na.
Blaine, in commencing his .-psech
on finance, said : Tho honor of the
nasionai government: and tin- prosperi
ty of the American p- opl- are men
aced by tho-e vi-.o demand the per
petuation of an irre-l,; mable paper
'urreu.y. He seyi unlil this question
is definitely adjusted it is idle to ex
peet a full measure of prosperit" " id
accuses a i-reat section of the ivemo
critii party, possibly its controlling
: o-v ei, of stun. ling stnbbornU- in the
v.-.sy.of .-uou adjustm -at. He gives a
fr.il hi.fory of ra-'U- tary events. Al
luding to the resump'toii in 1870 act
be says it lixes a day out gives no ade
qna e pri cess. In !e?gislatiou to that
end, unless we move tu hatmony with
the great business iutere.-ts of the
country, we. shad assured ly fail.
Private le ers from Havana up to
the loth of Pecembes, f-tate that the
receipts of tne treasury are not equal
to the: demand- male upon it. Iu
const qnenee of th-s tho troox"s in the
ilold had not rec- ived their pay for
October. The troops in the garrison
and the civil service we.re only par
tially paid to July and the contractors
i r military supplies had received
nvt'dng, and had epresenteel to Coiide
de Yalmas-.tla, that they should cease
to fnruisii provisions unless they were
soon paid. Lt is also represented that
the crowded hospitals tvero in a slate
of penury and aliao-t of abandon
ment, aud that the. condition of the
treasury was such by reason of a waul
of mat hue! and order and of dishon-
stv of the public service. Tho letters
further state that extreme discourages
mout prevails at Havana.
Wasumuon-. Feb. 11. Senate
Johnston of Virginia introduced a bill
to reopen the State and settle the
laans of the several States against
ih - United States for advances made
in the war of 1S12. liaforred to com
mittee ou claim.
Nni'ierou- petit-tons for tho repeal of
the bankrupt law were presented.
Petitions lor pension tor Mexican
vet rans were also pitsunted.
Biyaid lulled up the joint- rule for
CO mting the vote tor Xicsieleut and
V'.ce President.
Edmunds wi-hed the matter referred
- i
to the committee on privileges and
!' ions. After a desultory eliseus-
iou Edmunds moved to amend the
concurrent resolution so that it should
be a simple resolution, instead of a
concurrent one, and that the commit
tee on privileges aud elections con
sider tn- roatteT. instead of tho con- .
roittee on rules, o that it should rvd:
,l12cuh'crt. That the committee on i
privileges and elections be, and they
m hereby, mstructea io enmiue auu
report wh"t ?! any an.l what 'legisla
tion is expedient in regard to the mat
ter eousidere I in the twenty-second
joint rule ol the last session.
Adopted.
ihe centennial appropriation bill
was resume 1. Tho hill fim.lly passed
by a vote of 41 to 15. The Kepnbli
eans voting nay were: Alcorn, Ham
ilton, Wadietgh and Howe. The Dem
ocrats voting aye were: Bayard, Caper -ton,
Dennis, Jones of Florida, Kelly,
M ixcy, McDonakl, Randolph, Ransom.
HOUSE The consideration of the
diplomatic appropriation bill was re
sumed. The diplomatic bureau is co -tinned
by' the bill. Morey's amend
ments were rejected, and eome other
uuimportant ones adopted, after which
the bill passed. It appropriates 914,
000, a reduction of l$170,000 f ro n last
year.
Thurman, Holraan, Mormon and
others addressed the caucus last night,
the result of which, though not defi
nite, was satisfactory. The question
was referred to a committee of con
sultation without any instructions be
yond that intimated by the speakers.
A negative policy will not answer; the
seveuty-nine resumption bill must be
repealed, and in its steael measures
adopted looking to future presumtiou
N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 1876.
brought about by tangible and reason
able preliminary processes. The con
sultation committee will report on
Thursday, to which day the caucus, at
midnight, adjourned.
Judge Billings opens the disLrict
court at New Orleans on tho third
Monday in February.
Tho Pies dent has requested Sen i
tor Bruce to call on him to day. He
desires a consultation about the rup
ture between himself and Senator
Bruce, which culminateei in the speech
iu the secret session 3f tLe S--uute.
yesterday.
it is stated that Bruce declines the
Presidential invitatior for consulta
tion with tho President. There is
much excitement over these mutters.
It is stated that Bruce undoubtedly de
nouLCeel Grant aud the carpet baggers
bitterly in yesterday's executive
session.
Geu. Burke, Col. J. J. McLemone,
Judge J. V. McDaffee, Wm. Smith,
colored, of the opposition Repub ican
committee of Alabama, are here. Some
of the committee had au interview
to-day with Senators Morton and
Ooukling concerning Alabama affairs,
the result of which is not, known.
Geu. John T. Morgan, app am ted ' y
Gov. Houston, under a joiut resolution
of tho Alabama Legislature to prose
cute the case against Spe-ueer, arrived
to ilny and presented credei tials to the
Senate committee on privileges and
elections. The committee will elecide
on Tuesday upon a course of action.
The cammittee faileil to secure an iD.
terview with the President yesterday.
Collector Webster of Chicigo, is
here, consulting over further whisky
prosecutions.
Geu. Ord hd au informal interview
with Congressmen Sliecher, Throck
morton, Hancock, Judge Paichal and
other prom uetit men from the South
west, and will testify before the Texas
railroad committee to-morrow.
The Southern Claims Commission
will commence ou Monday to investi
gate the clnoges of subornation, pur
jury, and ef codusion with attorneys,
Arc, while -ptcial commissioners to
i he court, which charges are made by
Chas. p. Benjamin, clerk to the com
mission Tlie Secretary of the Interior asks
an appropriation of 35,000 for the ex
penses of tlie R-d Cioud aud Bu.ck
HilU commissions. The department
d'd not know when the commissions
were organized. They were in viola
tion of law.
The President said, in Cabinet meet
ing to-day, that he hail received the
interrogatories upon which his evi
dence is required iu the IJabcock trial.
His deposition will be made before
Chief JusttC;! Waite to-morrow. Mr.
Eaton, oi the counsel for the govern
ment, who brought hither the ques
tions, celled at the Department of Jns
ti j to-day to pay his respects to the
Attorney General. Tho session of the
Cabinet lasted over two hours to-day,
but there was no business nnder con
sie'eration of unusual importance.
TheDcmpart-mcntof Ju-t-icu building
has 11 igs at half mast in respect to the
late Reverdy Johnson.
It lias at length transpired that the
President and Senator Bruce are mu
taiidiy and equally inditlareut about
seeing each other. Bruce will repeat
his speech iu open s. ssion.
Dr. J. Hamilton has resigned the
clerkship of the ways aud means com
mittee. Washington, Feb. 12 The Texas
Pacific railroad committees of the
lloiis- is discussing the report of iU
snb-cammittee iu favor of the? Atkins
bill.
The Senators appoiuted on the
Democratic Congressional Executive
Commit ee. ait : Steveuaon, Wallace,
Whyte, Gordon, Davis ana Eaton.
Tho Virginia Midland railroad has
perfected au arrangement with the
Baltimore Ar. Potomac railroad for
running its trains unbroken through
Washington tt and from Ba.timore.
By this arrangcaient the Baltimore and
New Orleans sleepers leave SVashing
too as well as Baltimore eliily and run
through to their tlcstiu'ttiou without
change, thus making the only uubroken
all rail line from the nation's capital to
the Gulf of Mexico aud the Crescent
City.
The President's evidence in the
Babcaek case, taken before Judge
Wade iu the Executive Mansion, was
stnt to St. Louis by a special messen
ger. Tim Secietary of the Treasury has
furlonghed all bauds iu the bureau of
printing and engraving ou account of
having no money.
In the Texas Pacific railroad com
mittee Luttreii. from the sub-com-mittee,
opposed the report in a written
speecii. Je was iu favor of allowing
any one to ouild the road, who would
do lt without subsidy. Garlield, also
of the sub-committee, opposed the
subsidy ou financial grounds. A num
ber of committee . think the vote will
bo close, especially ou tho feature en
dorsing the boLils of the branch roads.
Tho committee, without action, ad
;,ourueet to Wednesday.
Col.G. W. Alexander, of the Sun
day Gazette, has bien dleied one
thousand dollars for tne original letter
of Mr. Davis to Lyons.
Geu. Ord, commander of the mili
ary depaitmeat of Texas, was ex
ami .ed to -el ay as a witness before the
sei jet committee of tho .'louse ou the
Texas frontier troubles, ami gave to
the committee a very full and intelli
gent account of tno cattle raids to
which the ranchers on the American
side of the Rio Grande, for 500 mihs
along the river and for 150 miles back
from it, are subjected, as well as of
the remedy which he would recom
mend for them. According to the Gen
eral's statement the country which is
the t-ceiic of these bonier forays is
i r.. ... .1. . - 1 . . ........ .
separaieei iioiu t us inw oj. u. vki-
tensive belt of undergrowth forest
chapparel which form a screen and
shelter for the t attle thieves Mho live
by plunder a-.d which rentiers it next
to uupostdble for military patrols or
military posty to interfere with them.
There .rt two classes of Mexicans liv
ing on the Texas -tide, one consisting
of intelligent, honest rauohoros who
ar us much omtoaed to these raids &
the American portion of th s population 1
.i ji- . no.. .. '
iUj Hie lefr, COUSlSllUg Ol WUriUlCDB
fcilows, many of tuein outlaws or
tleserters from the Mexic-an army, who
woik occasionally ou the ranches and
who act as spies audiuformers for their
cousins or companions ein tho other
side when they cross tlie river on their
cattie stealing expeJition. It is the
intelligence which they receive from
these fellows which enables them to
avoid the routes by which they might
be intercepted on their return with
their booty. On their own side of the
river these bands, which sometimes
number from 101 ta J50 men, are in
league with the local authorities, the;r
recognized e'uief being Cortina, so that
all facilities are given to them fo"
disposing of their plunder, and such
a thing as restoration of the stolen
cattle is never thought of. The national
gevornnient of Mexico is not to be
blamed, iu Geu. Ord's opinion, for
this state of things, first, because the
ivsteai of the government to let eich
State take c ue of its owji affairs, and
second, because the Mexican soldiers
have a strong tendency, whenever
they get near enough to tho border, to
desert their colors and cross into
Texas. The Mexioui government is
therefore powerless in the matter,
and the State government of Tamau
lipa seems to regard these frontier
forays as a part of the established or
der of things and essential for the
good of the community. The only
remedy, therefore, for the evil is, and
it is one which the General is urgiDg
on the War Department, to increase
the cavalrv force on the Rio Grande
and give him authority when his
trooj s come on the trail of one of these
thieving bands to let the pursuit be
continued to the Mexican side of the
river, an I let the troops deal out
summary punishment on the robbers,
He thinks that whatever opposition
the local authorities might make to
such a praeticel course the general
government of Mexico would not make
any. He says that row in one of the
more northern States, Chihuahua,
himself and the Mexican commandant
have a mutual agreement by which
Indian expeditions are followed ou
either side of the river, and that on
s me oec isic iis tlie American and
Mexican troops have co operated in
their mov ments ngaiust the Indians.
Rations are being supplied by his or
ders to the Mexicans. General Ol d i -
confident that the only feasible mod s
of putting down these troubles on the
forays is by following up the robber
in the way he recommends.
MAKTLAND.
Baltimore, Feb. 11 Noon. Rev
erdy Juhnsi n had argued a case in
court, and was uuusually brilliant at
dinner with Governor Carroll, whose
guest he was. Ho took one glass of
Madeira during dinner and after
diuuer went to the parlor, while Gov
ernor Carroll and the other guests
went to another room to smoke. It
was supposed Mr. Johnson was taking
hij habitual sleep after dinner. Pres
ently a servaut beckoned the Governor
who found that Mr. Johnson had fallen
to the carriage-way which passes under
the porch of the mansion. Ho was
dead and was bleeding profusely from
a wound on the right side of his head
and face; his skull was Iractured, a
tinger dislocated and there were
bruises and cuts on his arms and legs.
Mr. Johnson was born in 1790.
Annapolis, Feb. 11 Noon. So
Midden aud unexpected was the death
o Mr. Johnson, after his appeArance
in the State library a d about the State
House Thursday while the Legislature
was iu session, aud apparently in full
health, that the community has
not yet rcC-ivered from the shock.
Dr. Lewis Steiner, State Senator
froia Frederick county, a distinguished
phv-aeian and chief inspector of tho
iiinitoy comni'ssiou m the army of
the Potomac during the late war, who
examined the body shortly after it was
iound, gives the following as his theo
ry of the cause of his death: Mr.
JohusOL either stumbled over a piece
of coal or wan seized with vertigo or
incipient .symptoms of apoplexy, and,
striving to save himself, movael to
ward tlie west, staggering aloug by
the northerly side of the executive
mansion, at each step his body gaining
additional momentum, so that having
reached the door leading into the
basement he swayed around to the
right and fell, striking his head against
the sharp corner of the granite base
of the house, which gave him the
lirst wound on the head ; re cluug tho
pavement, which is made of rough
cobble fctoue, a second woiiud was re
ceived in the front of the first; at this
instant, probably, the bones of his
nose were fractured and one joint of
the second fiuger of tho right hand
vas dislocated, which, after his .strug
gles, account- for the abrasions on the
kne ar.el duger-i of the left hand. It
cannot be positively ascertained, al
though it is probable, tho wounds on
the scalp were accompanied with the
fractures of the external bones of tl
cranium, accompanied with a proba
ble rupture of some of the arteries at
the base. His ele.ath must have re
sulted almost instantly. Mr. Gwynn,
attorney -geue"rl of the State, and son-in-law
of Mr. Johnson, is of the
opinion that he was seized with vertigo
and fili, as he had a similar attack
listing three hours while attetitling
trials in South Carolina several years
since.
MISSOURI.
St. Louis, Feb. 12 Night The di -trict
attorney presented Douglass with
an atli-lavit purporting to be charges
preferred iu 1873 by Lindsav Mnrdock,
a collector of internal revenue iu South
west Missouri. Tho charges were
ngiinst John A. Joyce aud John
McDonald respectively, revenue ngem
and supervisor. The envelope wa
indorsed by C. C. Snippen, the Presi
dent's private secretary, showiug that
it had been receivetl at the Executive
Haus.ou. aud referred to the Treasury
Department.' I Another indors ment
showed that it. had been referred to
the Commisfioner of Internal Rev
ennet. Mr. Douglass could not testify
that he had seen the tflidavit in his
office. The district attorney said he
proposed to read the affidavit showing
that iu 1873 the charges against Joyce
and McDonald had been sent to the
Executive Mansion and hael gone
through the department named. The
court only allowed the witness to testi
fy t lint the indorsement showed that
such charges had bee-n received and
tiled. They w.ere not re::d. Nearly the
entire morning session was taken up
in trying to trace through the tele
graph clerks of this city mid Washing
ton nud also by the door keeper aud
messengers of the Executive Mans on
certaiu telegrams, no yet admitted, to
prove lhat they were received and
seut back and forth between Joyo
and McDonald here, and Gen. Bab--..ck
in Washiug ou. Finally the de
fense waived this xroof as to one elis
pitch and allowed the fo' lowing, ad
mitted to be iu G.m. B dieock's hanel
writing, tube read:
" HaxhtHtjvn. It ( tec 13. 1874
G n. John McDonald, Sr. L-.uis,
Mo : 1 sueoe'edeal. They will not g i.
I will writ you. Sylph."
Before this was read Judge Porter
vanouL'ced that they proposed to make
a lengthy legal argument against the
admission of the other telegrams, and
nei haos they might wish to ioduile
tbi Sylph" dispatch io those object
ed to; The defense wished to reserve
that point.
NEW YORK.
New York, Feb. 12 John Henry
Bush, the assistant foreman of No. 30
engine, who was injured at the Broad -wav
lire, is death
The following is the bank statement:
Loans increase $625,000, specie in
crease 1, 000,000, legal tenders in
eaease$50u,000, deposits increase $1,
000,000, reserve increase 81.250,000
Itfiioa. Feb. 12. The York calendar
clock factory has been burned. Loss
$50,000.
Hudson Depot. Feb. 12. Fears
that the Hudson river ice crop will be
another failure iucrwase hourly. Con
trary to reports not much ico is left
over from last year. The extraor
dinary mild weather has agaiu started
the ice in many places between here
and Poughkeepsie. All the ferry boats
are running. Not otoit 100,000 tons
has been gathered thus far. The
average crop is over two millions.
CALIFORNIA.
San Fbancisco, Feb. 12 Noon
In the suit of Simonton against Alta,
Judge McKee denied the motion of
tne aeienaant to strike out that por
tion of thft cnmnlaint ralativA tn ta
Bank of California, holding that it was
proper that the plaintiff should prove
the falsity of the statement that he
had caused the failure of the bank by
showing that the failure arose from
tne acts or tne omocrs oi tne baufc.
MISSISSIPPI."
Memphis, Feb.-12 Night A Jack-
sou special says the committee of
investigation find Cardozi, the State
superintendent of education, guilty
on ten counts, including perjury,
iorgery, bribery and embezzlement.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, Feb. 12 Noon The
ticket agents' convention resolved.
with four dissenting votes, not to tol
erate transportation companies of in
dividuals or firms who issue tickets in
their own names. It is understood the
resolution refers to tourists' agencies.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston. Feb. 12 Noon. It was
definitely ascertained tha. Winslow in
London to-day aud be has probably
een arrested before night as Minister
chenck was telegraphed.
FOREIGN.
St. Etiennk, February 12. Noon.
The Aben mine continues to burn. No
more bodies have been recovered.
Losdov, February 12 Noon. The
great powers are negotiating with
Herzegovina for a suspension of hos
tilities.
The Morning Post's Berlin special
snys Turkey has refused permission to
Dr. Schliemann to pursue any further
excavations in the Troad .
A Berlin correspondent of the Times
telegraphs that the ministerial crisis
at Vienna is not ended.
Tho Pall Mall Gazette's Berlin
special says to days's papers state that
Count Von Arnim has petitioned the
Lmperor for permission to come to
Berlin, without being liable to arrst,
in order to be with his son during his
serious i'lness.
Tho Carle8reuper Zeituog learns
that the Sultan has agreed to amnesty.
the insurgents nnbmittingimmediately
and that Austria will thereupon with
draw the subvention granted to Tur
kish refugees and order them to leave
Austria aud return horr.e.
Thb Hague, Feb. 12 Night. The
authorities here are ignorant about the
arrival or arrest of Winslow a ias
Clifton the Boston, forger.
1
STATE 1SILWS.
Tho Fayetteville Wide Awake re
grets to learn that Mr. Patterson, at
Swann's station, the gentleman whom
that paper alluded to in its last issue
as having been severely hurt by falling
from a wagon, died ou Saturday last
from the injuries he received.
They have a social club of gentle
man in Salisbury that they call the
"Pie Eiters."
The Salisbury Watchman says that
Mr. P. Ha inch caught a fox iu that
county which gave his dogs a run of
thirty miles, lie must have been an
"old red."
That paper also says that Mr. Wm.
Murdock, who has been trareling in
Floritla with his grand-son. Willie
Wiley, for the benefit of the hitter's
health has returned home. Mr. M.
states that there are not as many visit
ors in Florida this winter as were last,
owing, as it is supposed, to the com
parative mildness of the winter North,
and tb the stress in money matters.
There was one frost in Florida this
winter which nipped the orange blos
soms, but did no serious harm. The
State is filling up, many of tho,e who
go aiming to plant orauga groves,
which, jast now, is regarded as the
most profitable business a man can
enter on. Jacksonville, and other
towns on tho maiu line of travel, look
flourishing, and bid fair to become
large cities.
The Courier says: On Saturtlay last
a negro boy called at the residence of
Peter Tharriugtou in Sandy Creek
Township, while Mr. Tharringtou was
away from home, and demanded of
Mrs. Tharrington tho money in the
house, she refused, the scamp then
began the search of the house, telling
Mrs. T. that if she made any "alarm he
would kill her. He broke e pen their
chests, and found fonr dollars, whiih
ho appropriated to his own use.
The Raleigh Sentinel informs us that
thh roster ot North Carolina soldiers
in the revolutionary war, lo6t for m my
years, has been discovered among th
archives of the auditor s olnoe.
From the Fayetteville Gazette:
There was quite a lively exhibition
of interest ou the subject tf the Fay
etteville " & Florence Railroad last
Monday and Tuesday. Several citizens
of Robeson county, who have entered
heartily into the work of constructing
this road, were on a visit tw Fayet'e
ville. There wai a meeting of the di
rectors, which, so far as we have
learued, was harmonious and satisfac
tory, and the work bids fair to go vig
orously on. Capt. A. P. Hurt was
chosen director in place of Col. Kc
Kay, resigned.
The Western Expositor says that the
negro who broke iuto Peter Eplv's
house in McDowell county and stole
from a bureau the sum eif 8100, to
gether with pocket-bexk, papers fec.
having been arresteel iu Salisbury, was
taken back to McDoweb, and, after a
full examination of the testimony, was
committed to jail to answer the charge
of burglary lbe negro gave his nam
as Robert Austin, thoucrh he had
called himself Randall Caldwell.
The Pee Dee Courier says that Col.
Leak 'detect.! ths son of the Rev.
Frank Covmtoo, colored, in the act of
robtiog the money drawer io the store
of Leak, Eventt & Co. in Rocking
ham. The thief , was committed to
jail.'
The "tfewbern." Journal of Commerce ,
savs: '"- '" j
"i he Board of Aldermen oa Monday I
night last gave the Atlantic Railroad
the right of way down Hast r tout or
South Front streets to Union Poiut.
Tho company now proposes to lease
the city property on the point for a
term of years and construct theieon
such warehouses, tracks, wharves,
etc., as may be neces-ary to enable
the trains to take freight directly from
vessels lying in the docks to be built.
The estimated cost of this work is
$10,000. It will be of great advantage
to the road, for it can then command
certain heavy freights which now go
by -way of Wilmington and Norfolk.
The mercantile interests of the city
will also be benefitted by the change
The Franklin Courier states that
Congressman J. I. Davis arrived at bis
home in Louisburg on Friday, the 4th,
and remained on a visit to his family
until Wednesday, the 91 hu He was in
excellent health ax.d spirits.
NO. 7
FERGUSON'S AYENGERS.
1 Story of Partisan Days.
This for gallant Ferguson I
The forgoing five words had insti
tuted a reign of terror in one of the
lovuest districts of the Palmetto State,
a district watered by the Catawba
and Facolet rivers, and their gentle
tributaries.
In the month of September, 1780,
Oornwallis detached the notorious
Col. Ferguson to the frontiers of
North Carolina, for the ostensible pur
pose of encouraging the tories of that
region to take up arms for the kiner
Ferguson's force consisted in part of
tne most profligate and abandoned
characters of tVie partisan days, nud
his march was marked by atrocities
oi the most shocking description.
The hardy men of the Carolinas. Ken
tucky, and Virginia, rose against the
marauders, and, led by Boone and
other back oods worthies, gave them
a decisive defeat at King's Mountain.
Ferguson was slain in battle, and his
fellow foragers, numbering about one
thousand, were nearly all captured or
Killed.
We shall have rest now, the patriots
said, after the battle. Ferguson, the
dreaded, is dead, and the few tories
who escaped with their wretched lives
are not strong enough to do us harm.
But the settlements were soon to
learn that the viotory of King's Mount
ain had nerved the arm of a foe more
terrible thau any which they had
hitherto known.
The existence of the new terror was
discovered by a boy one . morning
about a fortnight after the battle. He
found the family of Archibald Mettson
murdered in their own house, and to
the corpses had been pinned a pape
bearing these words:
This for the gallant Ferguson !
This terrible atrocity aroused the
country, and the excitement was
quickly heightened by the finding of
the body of another murdered patriot.
On the cold breast, which had been
pierced by pistol balls, was the palid
paper and its words of terrible import,
and the country knew that a fearful
vengeance would be taken for King's
Mountain.
During the week that followed the
discoveries I have mentioned, the work
of the Avengers was terrible. They
fell upon patriot houses at the dead of
night, and left on the bosom of their
victims the five words which had
already terrorized the country. It was
in vain that the patriots summoned
their cunning aud energy for the cap
ture of the band of demons, which, as
it Lad been. discovered, numbered six
men, masked and mounted on black
horses. They came and went like
ghosts, but always left behind the ter
rible sentence which had made their
existence execrable. At times they fell
upon the hunters, and left them by the
roadside marked with the sign of
vengeance.
Fear began to paralyze the Caroli
nians; many abandoned their homes
for the sake of their families; and it is
probable that the entire district would
have been depopulated in a short time,
had it not been for the courage of one
woman.
Her name was Alice Beauchampe.
It was a dark night in the last week
of November, when the heroine of my
story left the house of a friend. Her
own house which had been deserted
for several days, was not far away, and
she had determined to return to it for
the purpose of securing an article of
apparel she had left behind iu her re
cent flight.
She could enter the old house
through the kitchen, in the rear, find
the garment without a light, and then
return safely to her friends.
The path she had often traversed
was barely disoernable; but she made
good headway, and reached her home
without incident. The silence of the
grave hung about the forsaken place,
and the lifting of the latch sent a chill
of terror to the young girl's heart.
Through the kitchen, across the de
serted parlor, and up the stairs, she
crept to the room where she had left
the object of her nocturnal quest. The
drawer of the old bureau yielded with
out noise, and Alice was drawing forth
the garment when voices of meu fell
upon her ears. j
She started, dropped her prize, and
with her heart in her throat, crept to
the window that overlooked the porch
in the front of the house.
She could see nothing, for the night j
was too dark; but the voices of men, j
mingled with the champing of bits,
continued to salute her ears.
This is old Beauchampe's house,
said one. It has been deserted for sev
eral days. The daughter, frightened
by the manner iu which we treated her
father, has fled somewhere for protec
tion. These words drove every vestige of
color from the listener's face; they told
her who the men below were, though
she could not see even the outlines of
their persons. One week prior to her
visit, herfaihei, one of the King's
Mountain heroes, was found dead in a
palmetto grove, and the words of Fer
guson's Avengers lay on his breast.
Then she had . deserted her home,
knowing that the hand that struck the
father would certainly not spare the
daughter.
Well might the lone girl tremble
when she found herself so near the
dreaded scourges of the country, and
she did not move until she heard the
front door opened by a kick, and
heavily booted feet in the room below.
Then a calm thought of her situation
drove fear from her heart, and Alice
Beauchampe prepared to perform one
of the most daring deeds of the great
Revolutionary War.
The noise in the house increased,
and oaths and rude jests preceded
and followed the lighting of a fire on
the hearth.
Alice, who had longed for a sight of
tlie dreaded six, crept to a spot near
the bureau where there was a crack in
the floor. Then applying her eye te
the peepr hole she saw six wild look
ing men directly beneath her.
Tuey were beyond elonbt, the aven
gers of Ferguson's death, for se vernl
masks lay on the table, along with
three or fonr bottles of wine which
they had taken from some patriot's
cellar. Tall and rough look.ng fol
lows they were, armed with pistols,
earbioea. and sabres, the kind of roan
who never oonrt the mei cy or listen to
the pleading of innocence. Just sach
fellows as tf ey wwre. Ah bad sup
posed tbem to b, for she-bad seen
many of the prS"nes t&en at jvmg s
Mouotaiu, and sua longed lor toe pres
ence of a iMiud of- patriots. There
were true men in South Carolina at
that time who wocld bava given their
right arm for a chance to exterminate
the Avengers, and Alice knew where a
little party of patriot- lay, but ala-
they were not very near
We'll rest here and finish that wine !
said one of the leaders of the band.
whose face told that already he had
imbibed freely. Bring iu the poultry,
and on old Beauchampe's hearth we
will prepare a fost.
At his command, oue of the nv nleft
the house, but soon returned, bearing
with him a duck and several chickens,
from whose freshly wrung necks the
warm blood was dripping.
How's the horses ? asked one of the
Avengers, as the man flung the poul
try ou the table.
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Standing like rocks, was the reply.
Such horses as they are don't need
watching, aud besides, there isn't a
rebel within ten miles of thia accursed
place.
Why, there is the Widow Hartzell.
I didn't think of her, was the reply.
How bitterly old Hartzell hated ns,
but we caught him at last.
And presented him with a breast
pin I Ha 1 ha !
And the laugh went round the room.
Alice Beauchampe did not wait until
the laugh was ended; while yet it filled
the house with its devilish echoes, she
glided across the room to a window
that looked out upon the dark palmetto
grove behind the building.
There was no sash in the window.
For a moment she tried to pieroe the
darkness beneath, but, failing in her
endeavors, she crept over the sill, re
solved to trust to fortune for success.
The distance to the ground was not
great, and the daring girl alighted
without injury.
Now she was free to make her escape
to the friends she had lately left; but
immediate flight in that direction was
not her intention.
Heaven aid me ! she murmured, as
she glided around the old house and
approached the horses whioh the tories
had left tethered to the small trees a
few yards from the door.
A glance into the room revealed the
forms of the Avengers discussing the
wine with oath and jest, or watching
the roasting of the fowls. They did
not fear danger, for their horrible
deeds had completely terrorized the
oountry, and under the sway of their
lawlessness it was fast becoming a
desert.'
Alice counted tnem beiore she
a 1 Mm
touched a single rein; and then in a
brief period of time she loosened the
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copse, sue struck them with a whip
which she had found beneath a saddle.
It was a sharp blow that she admi lit
tered, and the horses started forw ard
and disappeared in an instant.
lhus in a few moments Ferguson s
Avengers had been deprived of their,
horses. '
Flushed with triumph, Alice Biau-
cbampe returned to the house, and
again looked in upon its hilarione I ., :
tenants.
She now held a pistol in her hand
a weapon which a holster had granted
her, and sho orept to the edge of the
porch before she halted. There was a
flash of vengencein the dark eyes of the
partisan girl while she gazed upon the
party beyond the threshold. Once or
twice she raised the weapon, but low
ered it again, as if playing with the
life of the leader of the six, whose
burly form was revealed by the light
of the fire.
She saw the fowls, smoking and
well browned, placed on the table and
watched the greedy men crowding
around for their shares. Their tongues
and movements told her that stolen
liquor was doing its accustomed work
ou all save the giant, who had superin
tended the cooking of the late repast.
This man appeared to be perfectly so
ber, and the angry glances which he
often cast at his comrades told that he
did not sanction their bacchanalian
conduct.
Come! enough of this! he suddenly
cried, rising from the table, which had
been dragged to the centre cf the
room. Get up, boys, and let's be going.
I told you at Wiley's that you had wine
enough, but you must bring some
here and drink yourselves stupid. Tom
Scott, and you, . Blakerson, I am
ashamed of you! What would we do
if a gang of rebels should catch us in
this condition? Yon know the mercy
we would et, and yet you sit there as
careless as statues drunk as old Bac
chus himself.
Then an expression of contempt
passed over the man's face; and stop
ping, he oried:
Up! up! the rebels are coming!
But this cry of alarm did not in
fuse much life into the men at the ta
ble. One or two heads were raised,
but the drunken leer that made the
faces hideous was enough to provoke
a smile, even from the mad tory.
The next moment, with an oath on
his lips, he strode to the door, which
be lerked open, and stepped upon the
porch.
Curse such dogs as 1 lead, he hissed.
I suppose I must lead the horses up,
and tie each fool in the saddle.
He was stepping from the porcu for
the purpose of attending to the horses
which he supposed were still tethered
at the trees, wheu a form rose before
him and he started back with a gasp
of terror.
Who in the mischief
Alice Beauchampe ! ws the inter
ruption of the apparition. The daugh
ter of the old mau basely murdered by
your hands ! Down on your misera
ble knees, Godfrey Liang, and beg for
the mercy whioh you have never
granted to others ! Down, I say !
Perhaps the shadow of the window
sash did not permit him to see the
pistol that was clutched in the hands
of the fearless girl, else his rashness
might perhaps have been curlMd.
Kneel to you ? Never ! he replied.
The weapon which he raised drop
ped before the flaf h that followed his
last words, and with a groan of pain
he staggered back, to drop dead among
his drunken comrades.
Alice Beauchampe, amazed at her
own courage, stood silent amidst the
smoke of her own pistol. She saw the
bacchantes try to shake off their tor
per at sight of their stricken leader,
and one rose to his feet to fall as soon
as he needed support.
Now for the swamp, shj oried, with
triumph, and the next minute rushed
from the disgusting sight.
An hour passed awav, and the
drunken tories began to recover; their
chief, who had dropped to the floor,
seemed to sober them with his cold .
face aud stariDg eyes, and when tbey
had almost recovered their scatter"
wits, the foe they dreaded wm- P. - -
. .- . -r -w has! r"""!-
Alice jofjonouujo . -
the hearts of a patriot ono Jgr
geance. On her way to , a BWrSfl.
she had enoountered.tadirtisaiisWiiVri.v';"
had captared one fif the flying horses,
anr2 were following the traiLr7
The five avengers weremaae prison
ers, and sued like eowarda for the
mercy they l ad Jiver granted to a
liTing being.
The vengeance of the patriots was as
o mplte as terrible, and when the
glorious sun again rose, the dreauea
men of the lovely district had ceased
to frighten people with their name.
Alice Beauchampe, whose courage
had led to the extermination of the
avenging band, became the heroine of
tlie day, and after the termination of
hostilities wedded a lientenant of
Marion's men. Her heroism is "er
ated, and her gallant exploit narrated
daily by hundreds of her descendenta
in the Palmetto 8tate.
Geo. W. Fletcher, for the murder of
William Hauley, was sentenced to
death at Philadelphia yesterday. Ha
received the sentence without emotion.
"WhatT that dog barking St," said
a f on whose boots were more polished
than his ideas. "Why," said a by-'
stander, "he sees another puppy in
your boots." -i
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