North Carolina Newspapers

WM. H. BERNARD, Editor -and Proprietor. lNGTpNti N, ,C!, ,I, ,-) j I x." LiKXixy j uuptciuut lutu, . io ci.; I ;.K,,Vr: TERMS TO CLUBS. -' i -1' "1-1 i ' ' 1 I 'T' rJTT? it is not required that Clubs be made Hp at one PoBt-Officc" The nranberis iali that is necessary to eecare the rates to those who constitute the Cinb, as tho paper will b directed to aa many different Post-. I nm.-ne ..).,)) itA6iA I mutt accompany every order. ;A copy of the paper will be furnished without charge to those who raise Clubs of 10 or more.' -' ' ' i-- j". " ', " PS;RemlttanteB must be made by Check, Draft,- "Postal Money Order,' or Begistered Letter. Poet- Masters will register letters when desired. ! 1 Mi..i.LA1.U-iii:. ' -lm i.; Alii -Li. . I the publisher. " v ..... . Specimen copies forwarded when desired. . I LET EVERY SUBSCRIBER TO THE WEEK LY STAR READ THIS. 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KTPKrTATIOV. .BlackibooiVs Magazine recently contained an article on the French army; wliich the English journals Tr.4;..f1 wonl1 fnnsft a rreat deal " :t ." - 0- , of excitement in France. The writer I who appeared to speak by authority, asserted that the French army is praclically useless for aggressive pur- poses, and must continue to be such under thd present system of recruit-, 1 tog how and organization. The article, ever,'did not attract the atten- ih it was supposed that it would,1 whic but the London Times has just pub- lished a letter on the' same snbiect from fa French correspondent which is even more important. xn3 limes claims that the French have not the hliglitest intention; of renewing the war with Ger Jermany during the present . They know - that they jjeneralion been thofouahlv beaten, and in the inent of 1 war the chances that they r ... I ...... J will be again beateu are' enormously Kreat;1 ;As tneir toretatners lid wnen lealen by Frederic the Great, and as the Prussians l. did after Jena, they have decided to wait for another gen- eration before trying the, fortune of war . over again. Thus thev have organized an army which is efficient for defence only,' and; have devoted themselves to rescuing the country from financial f difficulties, f r y . ' Heretofore the French have found their ' natioual.f;p3icyf ; in tMtiking rapid blows, in putting a hand raehly j into i, r ail,.: srls - or entvr prises.;;ijTli'ei r ' preHetit policy is ii; of - represxiVm, i and no politiciai s -and MtattHtmeti ii Franc f eel ibis more than the able and wroiigly-undersiood leaders - or tne-. extreme . Itepulu a i or Denio;ratic party., The states manship oftCxambelta in the con ve rue ' of that fjie endeavored to' carry out in I670.r. The difference is in the'-dif-ereut;. iiiuauon8.f ' All of . 'French conservatism 1 is 'not to? be - found in the Cohseryative party.r -The hope ,of leading French statesmen of all parties is to recuperate, during this generation, and prepare the next for a gigantic content with - Germany for - the primacy of ; Europe, , .Whether a ration 41; hope' or i not, the policy is , wiser than a more eager one. , . - : . A young man. in Catawba , county, it is surmised by" gome of 'rtne7;'West-:' r era papertiangedlh . ' limb of a; tree because -otherwise ho would, bave tojay poll tax. ;. Thjs iti fearCn li war ni u g to - the .'able arid ,H4nciwt;kkc(br:"not- ta 'hO tiki jjnportnnate. " j " i " A THEORY TAtGUT BY A JOKE. Philosophy ofteJurks in A'f'-8m.'Hhfdi8fninfai8ement of many thou-. A good jokertma yj be your wisest Uiail. A UW II 1 Now inUur reading on we mixed ana vexed ouestion d:vexed1 question tof the currency, we have "foundTnotfianK bet- icr man mis iiuie anecdote irom tne .local pmemalXh.,ltrtJfi . . SKftK-. -til ijfl il.Viilsrf.'ilti' iif i per. ot subjects bjr.the way:0-j 4dT ." ff Weli; bub,",repli"eu BijaU.ashefiUlied; haneimr ud the broom, "this currenev ones-' tion bothers many besides 'you; though it clear enough tome. You-see that twenty- nve cent. scriD.idon t vou rv.lhe bov. re- marked that he did, and Bijah placed it on tne winuow-sill, weighted it; aown wuni a peach-stone, and continued: i ibat bit pi paper ia marked io cents,' but 35 it twenty five cents ? Is it anything more. than a piece of paper jn' "UX dunho," solemnly re plied the boy.. "Has lhati bit of paper any real value bevond its beins- a -vnromiae to C1 T;41, i4(WI,.t UiiWtn "That 'ere twenty-five --"1 He 1 stopped mere. Dome one naa sneaeea up me aitey and slyly stolen both serin and peach-stone. "Never mind,'? condoled the boy, i: it liadn't any intrinsic value:", "It hadn't ehl" growled - the old janitor ; I "I justf Want to eaten tne won wuo aosoroea it : , , A FELLOW FICCBKSf. Some one with a .fondness for Bg ures thus states and works out the fi- of nancial problem : "We are drained specie, as it were. l i 10 redeem (),- 000,000 of paper currency, the United States liave less. than $80,00a?000 of com. loe paper t circulation orUie banks $350,000,000-1 is - backed -. lip with less than $250,000 per antium. Imports have been less than exports since 18C0. whenttneTabolitiion war began. We are paying gold 'interest; on $l,700,000,000jof our debt, neaf lyj L all of it 5 going .iiuto. ,. heiipoaketsipt! foreign bondholders,. ajiid aqded to this drain, Americans, whorhbld, th e' smallest proportion of our go d inter est- bond., residing abroad to: a great dejrreef and ''spent " tneirgoldiin4 oome for the 1 benefith ofifofcienlwl at.nnnmut nnvck tKt. Ull ilb1 . ' ... v . keeps the American nation in tbe- ViUr'"-!owpt;y condition of metallic 'i ' . . 1 M L i--1 - . : i. .4 ft a- mhef: TtiAnflfrnna rtAlhsirtna ihflt money or little moneys gold riioney or PaPer Unu",,sfeu-T tw a people Whose business is destroyed, r , j :7H V V J U 1 ' Money does not make business. . t. TIIK CONVESTION OF 1875 AND ITS PREDECESSORS. . . . . " , - : ! The. assembling on ; Monday: pf a popular Convention to : change the Constitution of North Carolina is an event of general ipublic Jinterest In . l ii i : . . . view oi mis u win De apuropriaie to review in briet the succiessiye hnuta tions in the history of, ouii organic; law. In the venerable town; of I ali- the first Constitution jof the Slate was framed by the Provincial Con-; . . ., -w- - ; i ! J, gress, as ine Jjegisiainre was in called, in 1 1 . 1,. it was proclaimed by the Congress as ratified, jnot iav- mg been submitted to lho people, as m aer umes: was touna , to oe Line most republican method. , l contam- u provismn. iui, amenumeui, by a convention or otherwise. Lender lhis Ponstitution the cUipehsjof orlh Carolina lived for jfifty-nine years. In 1834 ihe Legislature i submitted to J the people a call for. a restricted con- me organic I The people confirmed the call, and the Couvemiou was?iusld tin ti835. The Constitutioti adopted it was ratified by a popular majority of 5,000: I ; We come now perhaps toi the knost f ' . ' " - i . " important political event ttbat had f transpired in North Carolina wnce tne war or ine.uevpiution. An agi- I tation for : free j suffrage , which I commenoeda in' 1848 . culminated via j, 18o5 by that principle5 peing- liico'r I porated into the Constitution, jit was the work of Gov. David S. Reid I of Kockingham,'one of 'the leading J members of the present1 CdnventiQn ' On the 20th ofMay,'l861, the State seceded from the. United StatesJ ;;lts Constitution was continued' in force with only suchlchanges as-were ihad necessary by the tion. -. ne w,FederaI Vela On May 2, 1865,; William W Ilolden was appoiiited by i President Johnson, 'Provisional .' Governor "ii North-Carolina s Governor Ho den's first official act . was to proclaim the dissolution of the exisiing SaU gov eru raetit. 7 In vepteniber, j 8(15, 'povi Ilolden! calledt a State Conv ition which assembleV) at ; Kaleigh;iu the following December. No man 'was perinitted to y ote , whoj .was wo'i th $20,000 unless pardoned by the Pres ident.'. 'The excluded class numbered one-sixth ; of -, the .voting popul being a 'disfranchisement of 1 5, ulatioo,' 000 Of the most substantial citizens of the State:, put - of OOjoOO Jy4ter This Constitution was rejected by a, large majority.; ;'7.f The next attempt by popular Con vention to alter- -the-orgabic law was Uritttr It1 as5Woces8fuli-Tbe f,(5nf m,0ftc ,ftinujmftts lr fecirtd r by ti'ie ' Legs(aVii iro ' poaed on the people partly hd : f r of the National power and oartl v bv From that time there has "existed strong opposition . in the State to? 1 i many of the features of this Consti tution, and - various attempts at re form b&vebeeu'niada. IdbIraoVementl suited in defeat, lint the Legislature took the matter nnder consideration dance, with Constitutional provisions by, the people in Augustl73. f tion agitation is too recent to. require recapitulation at.tbis time, -i -;! ij'Amhntr'ihiR rrioat nnfahle men iri the body which i met Monday re ex-Gbv. David S. Ileid, of Rockinjgham coun- : ' .' .lL: , i i - ' "r ' ' P. J mmmm' '" ty; ex-oenator and uenerai .jliios. ju. Clingman, of. Buncombe; Hon. F. E. Shober," i of -Rowan; Hon; J ohn Man-? miog:, of Chatham;' Col.; It. T. Ben nett, !bf Anson; GefnRatui;'' BarrEii- ger, of Mecklenburg and Hon. Oliver H Dockery, of Richmond. -Besides these there are quite a number of gentlemen ' of) fine- abilities," every way worthy to frame a Constitution for the people of arobust and con servative old State. V J There are several very, important amendments that could be made, but the peculiar condition of our political affairs I may; interfere1 ' with' a w hole- so pie and thorough amend men t of the very ueiccuve vUMiuuion wmun we have. - iThe progress1 of the -Convention will ; be wafthed '-narrowly and with some anxiety. If it shall lift burdens from tho sho aiders of the people its name will become honored in the. history of North Carolina. . The Convention, elected Dr. d- ward Ransom, of Tyrrell, Indepen dent President yesterday; the Con servatives supporting Ransom, as their nominee. j The, President was au - original WThig. . He carried his .county. .for W. N.. H. Smith for Congress j in 1860. Jn 1873 he was elected to the State Senate.' Last year he was fan independent Republican candidate for Congress. He was elected to the Constitutional- Convention as a lie- publican favoring amendment. PRISONERS OF WAR. . A correspondent of the Macon Tel egraph disposes, very summarily,; of the charge which certain Radical sheets have revived that .Mr. Davis and the Confederate officials general ly treated the Federal prisoners cruel ly;. This correspondent prints ihe following extract from the AVashing ton ZTniohy giving the result ofian investisatiou made in 1868.. The Union said: .- ! "In reply to a resolution of the House of Kepresentatives calling upon the Secretary of War for the number of prisoners of either side held, and that died during the war, be makes the following report: . Number of Union prisoners South, 260.940: died- 22. 595. ' Number of Confederate prisoners JMorl&, 200,000; died, 26.433." ! : Northern journals that make flip pant reference to "the horrors of Ap dersonville and Salisbury," would do well to remember that the world will place quite as much confidence in official reports as they do in the bowl ings of a partisan press. ORGANIZATION OF THE CONVEN- The dead lock in the election9 of presiding officer of the Constitutipna Conven'tioii -was broken yesterday, on the fourteenth ballot, by Dr. Ransom, the nominee , of. the Conservatives voting for himself.' Had he not done so there was little probability of an organizatibn before the election of a member from Orange tof fill .the vacancy existing there, and then only by the Conservative nominee remain ing out of the Convention pending a ballot. -:' 'f--' ; . " ' ' i'-: APPLES A PLENTY. The peach 'season coming toward its close, we i turn with open month to apples; -Fruit of all sorts was more or less iojnred in this State, apples not sulferiiig'as much as peaches, but nevertheless jtrijometOcalities being badly used up. Other States . were also loser8.fr Florida reports a full average crop; Texas ' also reports her trees are bearing more, than an aver age.; Peiiusylyania has but about two thirds of a crop; -New Jersey, , Mary laud and Delaware "are in about (the same position ;" M ai ne and Vermont report exceljentrpps. i New lrork will probably., produce a? little more than v ha If: a crop. -, Upon,, the ; whole,' as Maine and Vermont contribute so large a proportion of the supply, it is likely that the apple , crop will;,be a fair oue. . -, '. . '?. .. I A special Stab telegram' from Ral eigh announces that the nominees of the Conservativeparty. ff or . all the minor positions in the Convention were yesieruay eiectea,. . . Mi V,' The Rbbesbd coanir case came ton '.motion of JudgeJuxj'ou to 8P?V AP l Radical delegn refriTed W fl and proposed a number of alterations, t f nX! - -a lx jr l i iit Vi-" - 'l eBht of which were ratified in accor tea. i.iner matter -waa a?I.-HWTrir ,t;atitS-n.nd;ii Wnia ?Waikved F"fTJfT)jtttM.r " ' - ; 1 wro,,ge(j and deserted' liuhnii ''l ' " ' 4 H 'rdf ' f PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. A, correspondent of the Washing ton Star writes! from Saratoga; a full etter on the Presidential siuatton! in both. parties. Of be possible candi dates for the Democratic nomination next year. GovernorrTeidep,! of? New -t livery rftnar 'York diana .Governor itigersollj3o Connec ticut, and JohniW. Garrett have Ppmdays ataratpga4ttPUiers who an$ spoken, of , fpr tbo-nomijiation hay,iA the easaj of fthe. iRepabli-1 cans, Md flopkjBiWou notably ithe friends.of, Senator Bayard,-of Dela ware, .wbo-li ; updeood Ito, be jthe choice of the Manhattan ICHubj of NewfYpr .city, ,'tbe v'swallow-tails'J as: they are contra-distinguished from thei-pugh strata lot theupporters 'bf Tammany Hall, i Senator . f hunnan, by common consent, 13 counted out ,pf the race, this vcorrespondeni - asserts. Many of the i Repubiicans have also visited Saratoga during the iseason; ; 1 Of the? prPbabilities the Stpr writer says: -. ; -':fr, ... . v-.". : i.. The Democrats, 'throw liter aside the ob jections I have mentioned, concede that tiov;-Tildea would be their strongest can didate in. the East on a "reform" platform; but if they. "go VV estTiipyernorliencncks, of Indiana,' naturally enough stands out In relief,: and I but repeat the best 'opinion in saying that as the, situation now looks lie is ahead iu the list of candidates'for the Democratic noininatiou. If he bomraits no blunder on the financial question- and he was very cautious while Iwre he will be the favorite of. the ;East. . Justice, Davis, General Sherman, Governor Gaston. John VV. Garrett, Senator Bayard.and others of equal note, are mentioned in certain con tingencies, and, wilt -.undoubtedly go into the Convention with complimentary votes.' as ine proDaounjr 01 ine iiJemocranc nomination-' going' West increases, that of the Itepublicans coming East als6 increases. If that quarter should be so fortunate as to secure the nomination, it is cooceded that ex-Speaker Blaine woutd be the candidate. He would be confessedly ; the strongest nominee if named now. ; i ,We give these views for what they are worth. . That may be , little or much. ' The objections to Tilden re late to his residence in a Stat which has had the lion's share of the parly nominations for the past twelve years. His thorough identification with the views of the . Contractionists ,will likewise probablywork hint harni. Tlie University. . 1 Raleigh News. 1 Forty-fonr students werej being ex- amined on Monday morning at Chap el Hill, and more known to be coming. Tho Fresh, Soph. and Junior: classes all represented. ;. - There will bo at least 05 or 70 by the reopening festival on the 15th. Brunswick TJndersronnd. For sevrral days past we have been a ware that Mr. M. Cronly, of the realjestate firm of Cronly fc Morris! was makioff some in vestigations on his nUrl property in Bruns wick county, but until yesterday our efforts to see him on the subject were unsuccess ful. We are now able to state hat an ef fort is making to see wbat the under side of the tract is made of. A shaft fifteen inches in diameter is being sunk through the marl-bed by means of an improved well-auger furnished ; for the purpose by Mr. Thomas Evans, of Messrs. I Blossom & Evans, this city. ;This shaft! had, up to yesterday, reacliedj.W total depth of 27 feet -of which depth about 2 feet j carried tho auger through the cover of earth, and tho remaining 25 feet is sunk in a continuous bed of marl. We have been shown sam pies brought up frtfm various depths and they seem to be very 'iniform in quality with that at the ' surface. Tliey all effer vesce strongly with' acids, thus indicating the presence of considerable quantities of lime and alkalies. J Wi learn that an esti mate has been made, by one fitted to judge, that the marl contains about 3J. pounds of potash to the ton. -. :. At all depths there are scattered shells in - a softened state, and . , . i i ! from a depth of 23 feet from tthe : surface the two shells of a bivalve were brought up with the space between them full of marl :The shells have the appearance of having once been the home of a fine fat oyster. As this curiosity came from a level nearly 60 feet below that of the surrounding land- the shaft having been bored at 'the bottom' of a deep ravine, of ; recent "; f ormation-f-we; were strongly reminded, while lookiag at it, of a text from a), oldest nboo in , al the Bible the book of Jobwbich reads: "The earth is of old; standing, out pf the water ana in tne . water. ;i t w no can ; tea now - - ' . - i i many ages it has taken to deposit thia mass of earthy, matter and shells sixty feet deep on the bed of Hie anca-ut sea ? But. inter. esting as the inqdiryjis,- we are reminded, . ' ' . - ' . .'''. . t - topic more directly, m: uaiiu;.. At 'Jne.pres ent bottom of l lief bore a mass of very hard substance has been struck. upm wlilch'the auger refuses & littk jhold i It! ,is not yet ascertained ' whei tier this is a stratum of rock uiiderlyingMhe marl or rhf reiy a" large nodosity contained 111 tne pea x ... 1 ne .latter would seeni mre probably thejeasei as it is 7 1 . 1 't -i - , ...... well known that as soon' as a; stratum of marl is penetrated water begin! to rise into the hole; but this has hot yet happened in the present case.' rVVe" learn that Mr.i Cronly has' put in bags and shipped toiLumberton, WadesboroL Rockingham, Mpnr)e, Char lotte. anrt we think, a few other points on the.Cv.C. Railway, quantities, jcif this marl raiKiug' iroin ten to nneen 40ns 10 eacn station, for free distribution to trial upon the nextcrops. -; ; farmers and Tbe Late Eipemnt. A! Correspondent at?' Meares"-Bluff in- forinsusthat on the bight of ihefith inst, quite'late, the people of the Bluff were snr prised to see landing from one pf tke Fa ettevIle boats the yodng negro and -white- wbrfian1 mentioned w an article headed Elopement Extra0oinary.,, jThe fioney vnrfin IkOilirpi .ttai ' Hmtn . Hf)1 moon ueibg over' Scipio Patrick-and hi of f 10,000,!wini wliite-'teonipaaioD'fiuned IhefrMway cro-U' r-'Mary Vi Heaiori HORB THIfiVE. Two; Penar Negroea Captufred jt ' KenintTille by StierlflT Walltf!e, Of InpliDTfae Horjcw Taktstfc With Them-A Confoaiilon. . j . From a corresnondent at Kenansville we V X -Ir- l4t- .LJLi.J!-j L1. 1. .(III..! nSaWrrlaTKtrbye Duplin' of twb "negtbes 'representibg their names to.' be; Henry! Wheeler: : ah aHenry Hail; upon'suspitioa of haying stolen Jiorses -which turned put-tpbo true,,f:tt j. ; .. '. .Sb.er.iff Wallace; received a dispatch J ate in the afternoon, frorh Burgaw, render county, to look'- out:f ofstole'tt horses; de scribing'the horses exactly,4 and signed;'Pe- tersonv??i.;i .k'-ih'--" ' .i?.?u!o'.ii of-': Both, negroes are .from Pender ounjy, but upon examihation .beforp Justice Car roll they both stated they, were from Samp son county, Lisbon township," and tia$been in the employ of Mr. Bronsoh.' After they were lodged jaiUthe confessed to the Sheriff tiii' thVpraeSj weWstoien and! gave ttie names of the parties that they belonged to Jesse Croom and" "Aarpn Peter son, bf Bladen county. : Both were fine 1 . t ' . . . '. TT. J. TT-ll norses anu in goou conumou. j.utury nun is ah ex-clerk of Casweirtownsbip Pender county and of. a bright copper color, j .The other Henry Wheeler, is as blaek as Ben. Bufler's character. They, are now in 'good hands,, and, it i 'presumed, will be; dealt with according to law at the next teim of Duplin Court. ; ? 1 : Later. --From gentlemen coming iri from Caswell ;tpwnshipK ,-. Pender.. county, last night, we learn that,, the names of Henry iaii - ana , iienry w neeier, given oy me thieves, were'merely assumed for the j occa sion,' and that their 'real nauoes those, at least,:by which they are knowri'iri Pender are SulIejvPxidgen sand Matthew. John son, respectively., Elopeoieut Extraordinary We learn that' an extraordinary case of elopement, for tUispart'of the "moral vine yard," occurred in .our sister county of Brunswick a '..few days since. The, femi nine- party to" the strange compact is a white woman, the wife pf a man employed at the Belyidiere plantation; aged about 26 years,' and her partner inv the transaction is a colored boy by the;, name of Scipio Patrick, aged about fl5 : years. It appears that the woman vwent to a colored church near Easy Hill, on the evening of Sunday before last, where sbe met tho boj-,' when they by "some mean's procured a ' team. went to her houserher husband being ab sent at the plantation took all the latter's clothing, what money.he had, , a bed, &c., and then drove to a point on the river known as "Iiiverside," where they succeed ed iri getting on board of one of the boats bound" to; Fayetteville. We withhold tbe name of the woman, out of respect to the feelings of l lie wronged and deserted hus band. ' ' Tb AVllmlioa Cotton JIIII. . And now our esteemed contemporary of the Norfolk Landmark, in its issue of; Sun dajT, iri printing a late article of ours on the above topic, presses upon the attention of the business community whose interests it represents, some remarks eminently worthy of consideration in that quarter and not less pregnant with cheer for us in the work already begun than with encouragement for them to beiriu in the newMndustry. We quote: ! "We have exerted our best energies to secure the establishment of a cotton factory in this city, and have not yet dispaircd o seeing one in operation. When that is done we shajll soon see others, arid then Norfolk will have made the longest stride towards wealth which she has taken since the end of the Revolutionary war. . The statistics which we have! compiled., and collected warrant us in this belief ; but, as example is better than precept, we bes our capital ists to read the extract elewhere matte from the Wilmington Star.' In lhe: article re ferred to we find there several facts' stated which are worth notice. First, the! mill-is to double its present number of looms ; sec ond, that the "problem of native labor" has been satisfactorily solved; and third,' that manufacturing Philadelphia has sent iri.au order for $10,000 Worth of cloth. All these facts are full of significance. The increase in the looms shows the increase of the business to be equal to one hundred per cent The employment- of girls and boys shows that a class of consumers have been: converted Into producers;' and the order from Philadelphia shows that a great market has. at once been opened to our en terprising friends; We congratulate them with all' our heart and feel assured that their success' is assured - to themV but in doing-this'; the question -should f suggest itself to our capitalists: In what. particular is WilmingtoiT superior to Norfolk? ' We have a cotton market unexcelled, we have an auipfe supply ''of water, we have trans piirtatiotr'l facilities North,- South',' East' and 5 West unsurpassed, and a large population .available for the wrk.-. Let ', us study and .follow, the example -.of our sister city." .. The Goarquciiion.' .;.'.'''' "-' '". V ; t''." ! On thid 8u6jecthejast'2) Cmirier says:. "The Wilmington Star of the 1st inst. j comments on the feats pf Prof. .Rob bins' equestrian goat, but in the next issue brings out MK Fiiz'gerald's goat ahead of Prof. Rs in point Of usef ulriess. i We cbr -. tend that Robbins is still ahead; for the mother .of Miss Centennial or the Eques trian goat is only. 23 months old,,, and gives never less than a half gallon of.milk per day,- and sometimes .three quarts. Miss Centennial, by the time she gets as old as Mr. 'Fitzgerald's, will not only excel in equestrian exploits, hut will be able to at tend to all. Pf the business in Rbbbins' rrie nagene. . . . .; - Coautr JCpnmllojner.; ty ; jThe . Board . of. Coupty , .Com mi ssionera jnet an 8eptember;8tb, at o'clooW. :. uM?niher, .present ; Johiw O-'? Wagnerf Stacy Van AnarSngp and Ai H Moniii jj -; . James Heaton tendered bisiofficial bond as Clerk' pf the Superior Caurt Iri the ohi Hrin. DanM L. RusseH and a sureties! f;f Tfip ame -.a,: T,i ..ibwj i:,r. J COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. "wl'Eactraci from-tbe Preceding. 1 tThe Bpard of County Commissioners met iriregular annuab (and monthly) session, yesterday " at 11 o'clock "A. M.; present, James Wilson,Chairman, j and Com'mis sionere J. G. Wagner; A. Ilr Morris,' Stacey. VanAmringe and DelawaretNixorf. J -. Morris explained the law requiring .tho Board Jo, re-prganize ( at their annual meeting; whereupon the body pro- 't-i -rf'4!i. sViil1 1 ' .c ' i: -r MHAWtl 4 r Alait 0 i hAivwYor tho Anoiiinrr vCCUCU iu vitt a vuauuiau iui tug cuouiug fCorarriissibrier! VaWAmfihgepla'ced -J inj nomination jJ;G.' Wagnerif hat 3 Jj'Commissioner jLorris was appointed Tel ler. t- The Board then proceeded , to ballot, re '.itr ) sulting Iri J. G Wagner's' receiving 3 votes and James 'Wilson 'zywhereupon Com mis-: siorierUWagner ' was declared duly elected Chairman, and took. the. seat yacatedhy . Mr. Wilson. ... , s - , , '- Commissioner Wilson tendered his res- ignation, which waS, on motion, received arid Ordered ori file. f ' -!'' 'lS"V?r 'H Corririii8sioner'Morri3 offered the folldw- ihgf resolrifion.'.whichrwas' urianirriously adopted: 1 ;':;.;;'.;,-r;; ). . --l' Vum Whereas, The Honorable James. Wil son having seen it proper to tender to' this Board bis resignation:, and feeling the loss ofjSo prorhinent. a member of the. Board, as well as so prominent a citizen, and feel ing that his resignation is regretted both by this Board, and the citizens generally; Be it ' Resolved, By this Board, that we tender to him our thanks for the manly- and up right course pursued, by him, and the cour tesies that he extended' to each member' of this. Board while: Chairman. And be,: it further j , , ' llcsolied, That a copy of this preamble and these resolutions be forwarded to the Honorable James Wilson. It was ordered that James Heatoii ibierk of the Superior 'Court,'' be1 allowed Until Monday the 13th day of September, 1S75, to renew: his official bond. - ''. : .v , The Board then took , a recess until. 3 pi ; . f Lf'f .:, :rf..' "f : f ' AFi'EUNOON SESSION, ' The Board reasenibled at 3 P. M., pursu ant to adjournment. .: The Board proceeded to receive bonds as renewed' forthV PnUirigyear.' " Three several'bonosyaggregating $28,000, with Sarah M; -'JIarinirg,-; Daniel L; -Russell and W. P.: Canaday as sureties, as pre sented by S. II.' Manning, Sheriff, were, on motion, received, approved and ordered on file! ' . . V" f . :, ' : On motion, the bond of Elijah : Hewlett, County Treasurer, for $70,000, with the Same sureties as giving last year, was re ceived, approved, arid ordered on file. -I ', . The bond of t Geo. W. Bordeaux, Regis ter of Deeds, for f-5,000, with James. Wil son and Fannie J; Sampson' as sureties was received, approved and ordered on file. Mr. James Wilson reported to the effect that he had received from Messrs. Jones & Jones, Attorneys at! Law, at, Raleigh,- on account of the New Hanover insane in the asylum at that place, and had , turned the same over to the County Treasurer,. f , : On motion, the bond of Daniel O'Connor, Standard Keeper, for $1,000, !was received, approved and ordered on file; ' ! ' On motion, the bond of E.' Di Hewlett, Coronor, for $1,0001, with C. Schriver, J. J. Forrest and Daniel O'Conner as sureties,was received, approved; ana ordered on file. Communication from Gen. S. H. Man ning, Sheriff of New ' Hanover County, slating that he has received no public fund3 for the year ending Aug. 31st, 1875, was received and ordered on file. Communication j from Duncan Holmes, colored, applying for the vacancy on the Board caused by the resignation of Com missioner James j Wilson, ' grounding his claims on the fact that the colored people "do the voting;" and further staling that if tht ir claims are not now regarded they will be in August-next,! was referred to the next meeting of the Board.., -A , , ; - Application of Robert H. Martin for the position of iapitor of the Court House, was referred to the next meeting of the Board. It was ordered (that the Clerk of the Board notify the foreman bf each fire com pany to : furnish the Board with a list of their membership. . ; , Application of John C. Smith for the po sition of Janitor of the Court House, was .... . ; . .j , . . . ..... . . ': -. referred to the next meeting' ' f u Application of Johri Evangelist, present incumbentfor the 'same position, was re ferred to the next meeting, : ..m u A large number; of petitions, &c., . in re gard to the matter of taxes, were referred to the Finance Committee for reports. ' ' ; ' The Board took a' recess until Monday morning next, at 10 o'clock. : ''- ! Federal Point Townblt. ' ' The Board of Trustees of Federal Point Township met and Organized on Satarday laBt; b ;electing.,T. M, Gardner,. Esq.,: as Chairman. The Schooj Committee. for the township were duly qualified as was, also the Constable, Balaam Wade, w ho present ed a justified bond in Ihe sum' of $o00 as a renewal of his former bond.' he having been re-electtnl.. ' The tJlerk was granted fbrther time in whiph, to .prepare.-, his londj-;The . Buard Uieu al j-urued, . autlj...t, to a call of the Chairman. I Frelsht Kalt-ii. OH I'oilou. - J;w.- . From the OSserser-we leum that "a meet ing of quiteta number of railroad magnates was held Sapirday at the. Central. Hotels "Charlotte.5 Tlie'riieelinr' was for the' pur-; pose of establishing standard 'rates' on cot ton by three of the- readtngltnes running: out from M hat dty, to.be in force' during the coming f season. j jThe Charlotte,: Co lumbia & Augusta Railroad and its cou sec tions was represented by Mj. A. Pope the Richmond & Danville and its connections by Capt, John R. Macmurdo, arid the" Car.' oJin --Central arid- - -its j" connections H by Capt.F. W' Clart : The.meeting, beforeit adjourned, established the, f following, schef dule of rates, which went .into effect Mon dayV jVpin Char'l ptte to "WU mi n gtoin j $ 1. 60 per bale; frpiri Cliarlotfe to Rfchrrioria, to Norfolk; $3 25; to Charleston; $1 75.' -:' It will be boliced by those interested that the rate of freight jfrpm Charlotte to :WiK tningtoii Is considerably . less than to any ther point on.t.ide-water. It will he well shU.pprft t"omke- R$9 A GROWING PLACE POLKTOlN. i ICofresporiience "of the $Ut.T"i i Of 'thermany. ;gVowfng places along the i line of the Carolina Central Road none have ' made so great a progress as Polkton. But I two shcftt years ago dt -could boast of but i one house a dwelling while now it is an j incorporated village of enterprising citizens ! with sisf" stores all doing 'a good business, i two steaniaw mills, a first-class hotel with ; goodbeds .and n. well supplied . table, ;i drugstore; a large and flourishing school, ! with many comfortable and tasty dwellings. ; There are irr course-" of "erection three new Stores and twolarge' jcbiircbes-one a Bap-1 list ad the other, a :Ietb0disC Tho An gonial ; is t published here andHs well-pa-tronizea. rjniere.were abo'at two thousand bules-of cotton hauled here last year and aa increase is expected this Season. The mer chants-; are.alr;dping business on a safi-; nasis, and are good friends and patrons of Wilmington and the Morning Star. CoL Polk. Ihe founder of the place and for whom it is named; is -one of the most: genial and pleasant gentleman it has ever; Deen..our pleasure -to - meet; ;welcoming all ! with? a; pleasant smile' and; cordial shake who stop here." Heis stilliofferinff his lots pheag 40 all enterprising," settlers,, and I Know. or ;no place osering greater induce-' ments to business .men :who wish to locate. It is high amongthe.hills, perfectly healihy, with- more good -water and less whiskey i man any oiner pi ace m me 01 ate. jvery-! pody: works hard,, lives .-well and are asi clever and hospitable a;: people as can be found,' and vpith the same progress in fu ture as in the past two years, it is deMim-u! to become a formidable rival of botn I Wadesboro aod Monroe.- : V'- ';'. ; : ' " OjT THE' WlNG. . ! BREAKING JAIL. .-5 ? Eeape of Elfflit Prisoner from tbe! - Co a n t y Jail Tbe Jallo r O ver p o w e r-! ed by Two of tbe PrIoner-Keep-. tnre bf Flve Two SuVronndea Ih h Swouap, ie. Yesterday afternoon, about a quarter: to 4,p'cloTck,' the jCounty. Jaaory .Danii-1 Howard, colored went to the jail for the purpose of bringing out one Tamer Gard ner, who wished to take the insolvent oath, and had stopped inside. the .room or corridor in which a number of the priron-j ers were congregated", when just-ns lie lia-!; called to the Turnkey, a boy, to ;- n Uh ! door, he was suddenly seized by Levi P,j t- and Jesse, Nixon, j two powerful men,- aiidj in the., struggle 2. that ; ensued eight of; the prisoners, including the two men ! tioncd, dashed out at the door. Wellin-i ton Howard, one of 'the prisoners; was cap-) tnred by the jailor just as he was mounting; the steps to a platform on the east sid.: of the jail,; from . which , the remainder suc ceeded in reaching the fence, only a fewv feetf;off, over which they jumped ami: effected their escape. The jailer mounUtl a horse arid quickly started in pursuit of tlie fngitives, followed soon after by Deputy Sheriff. Morris odd others. j Charles Gaston ran in the direction of Chestiut street -and was captured by Ci Robert McKen'zie bf the police force, in a f ew( minutes after his escape. Jesse Nixon, one .of the party who as saulted lhe: jailor, - was captured in the woods near the toll house, after being run down by Messrs. Thos. H. Johnson and Thos. H. Howard; who gave chase ou horseback. ' ' iienry iiangston was capturea uy a coi ored man by the name pf Nathan Jones. .Ben Jones, was captured while 'making his way through the premises of Capt. II! D. Gilbert, on Fifth, between Dock nnil Orange streets, by a colored man named Johri Gibson, who held his man, who is a desperate, fellow, until officers U. xl. blroiic. and J: W. Whitney arrived and took Jiini in charge. Here a case of mistaken iden-" tity occurred, Whitney, taking Gibson t o be the prisoner, and quite a struggle ensued between them before the matter was fully explained and understood. . 1 This completes the list of captured m far, but at' last accounts Deputy Sheriff Morris had two more of them surrounded in a swamp in the rear of Mr. . Wm, A. iniguis 4iuuc just east -oi iuc cuy. Deputy Sheriff M,prris and Jailor Howard displayed much zeal and energy in their efforts to re-capture the runaways, return i ug from the chase just at twilight. The names of . the prisoners who either escaped or attempted to escape are as fol lows: Levi Pope, from Pender county t Jesse Nixon, Samuel Jones, Samuel Johjif son, Charfes Gaston, Washington Joy (tf Pender county . .Thomas Nichols, Henry Lapgston, Wellington Howard,. j The followingwere recaptured: Chak Gasion, Jesse" Nixon, Ben Jones, Henry Langston and Wellington Howard. i The prisoners were all confined on tlie charge of larceny and ere all colored men.;' ): .-r : - - ! - -i - '-':' V Prlncelr Salaries. j . Probably some of our ambitious American ; citizens, .who either hold or aspire to pffiee, and making tip their modest official compensatioi - uy oriug in - JUU5 ami in u. stealings, have in their; miud's -H.-the salaries rof .the different monau -1 of Europe when ; they . are tlHs ei -gagedi "Tbejr doubtless think thJ.r aerviot'S are worth as' much as that, some tof th. nselessmoriarchs. T salaries 1 . which. ;they L, compare i' anil thus breed dissatisfaction will. 111 themselves, are" given as follows Im I, $9,152,000, or $25,000 a day; AImI Aair.. , $9,000,000. or f $ 1 8.000 a d:J Francis Joseph, $4,000,000, or $lf, 050 a day; Frederick William II. tj; -O0OV00-: or $8210 a? day ; Vinj. . Emanuel, $2,400,000, or $6,840 a .d:J. . .Vietpra, $2,200,000, of $6,270 a d k ; Leopold, $600,000, or $1,043 a h. Iri 'addition' '. to' this 1 salary eacli f these individuals is furnished wit i dozen pr more ; first-class houses 1 : live without a n-y, charge of rent. The Democratio victory . in Cal -fornia gives that party a maioritv !' States in the next Conb-fess. and !s .insures the election of . tbeir man ' t President in the very improbable con tingency of there being no choice by the ofAeSpriiigfield JRepublicnt :1 Raleigh News ' of : Wednesday : "And, dis is what Ike Young Young bnpi dem tar barrels fur, is it?" gruffly remark ed a leading darkey politician as he mH'- his way front the gallery of the Conven r yesterday on .the , annoithcement of It .u- som s eliction.