North Carolina Newspapers

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But this is not Hhe first lime Garfield one of the true Republican . representative men of the day has been caught falsifying. : The llSnies refreshes our: memory with the fol lowing'true statement of the case:. - It will be remembered that Garfield, when before Wilson's committee,' said he . . wished God were present inthe flesh; that he might attest his innocence of any ' con uection with the Credit Mobilier swindle, while, at the; same time, before Poland's committee, Oakes Ames produced the eri dence that the reverent Congressman held a large number of shares, both as fiduciary and in his own right. Now after this sad experience it would have; been thought be would not have dared to make a denial, which, though technically true can easily be proved to be worse than a mere quibble." .But he has been fairly caught this time. The original letter of . Mr. - Hayes cannot be procured, .but? ' gentleman in Washington is said to have a copy, and it will "doubtless be published. For a party that has as . much intelligence and wealth as the Republican party in the North has, it is certainly afflicted very sorely with dishonest, and disreputable men. m Blaine, Morton, Garfield, Jo Brad ley, Simon Cameron, Ben Butler, and .so on and so on what an array of villainy and cunning. '- And still ; the f f fti I i, ija, j m I to suspect that they are obeying the orders of regular political banditti, who would ruin the country to grat ify their ambition or hatreds. Boston is to hay e, new ; departure in the way of a newspaper , A colored man is to publish a paper to le called the New Departure and Colored rq gressive Democrat The editor; vi dentlv ' combrehend8: the situation much better than:, many ..white men who claim to be the superior, of the negro. , This new. organ will take the ground that,' its the ''progressive De mocrats" have - adopted the late araehdments to the Federal Constitu- tion.and are the authors of the policy now pnrsued by a Republican admin istration.! thev- -should receive1 due credft. . It will hold that this policy car! be most successfully execnted by them, and that the. liber ties and t fu ture welfare of the colored race will be more secure in. their hands than in those of 'I the f Republican now constituted. It will . advocate 1 union and peace between the racesf the South, an intelligent ballot, the education of the freedmen, and the - ---- - ' i. T 1 : 4 - : . - t imr.nrtor..o nf nrJnrad nitiy.flnS ; form- - - "..;: s ivr-'::, ag communiues, leaviug uB.irBf cities', .... . .i...A-i seiuinj? on m ..u.v.. ij. - .u" iir... a fak anA Ka. -uu. ui iuet? vu T coming skilled mechanics. . ? frit J . . J 1 1 L ine r resident is noun accuru w. to finances. He is heartily in favor of the' remohitization. of silver, .' A dispatch from Washington to -the" Baltimore Gazette savs: " "It will be remembeVed Unit the Legist lure of IllinoU recently passed a law making a'SSSMfe he ground, that it asianconsUtotional. veral gentteoea of the lUmotsgislaM inrA hurl a nnnionnu. ih tk fresmeni to-day. and this matter 5 being, mentionea w the course of theconversalioDthe Presi- -dent exnrftsfld derided reert that the 3overnor bad not allowed the:- bill to be como a law, as he believed it would fev ceen for the interests of traoe.3, rpswf It now- seems a settled fact "that Asheville will have the telegraph in opera- WR; ULADSTONE'S THREE POIR-jTS V :It is charged against MrGiadsieoe in En eland that be has atKreeltf. deaigiithat wilt makelhutt e Vjery, I .""" f ' ,"'f? I'tV:0 sent to thr tiew: York .Herald from tonon contains the - truj and nothing tut j the truth. He is credited with 1 ihui I programme: r i7:.n ak i.irv r . t : - t tiooal Cburcb of England, Just .'as Ithe Church of Ireland was reifloveU from State control, or, as has been said, from the qon trol of Ue.Staie.l"-'':?rrt;'ti-; I ".Second -A complete ieform; in the, ten- I mnrronitriro onT i?irhf af "ntbil. .nl ; - "Third PerhaDS. T the aholition orth nous ui reers na h noverain? nnnv ir i a. --tw -.T.iti-..r- T.vf? V nobility as well." - ,.; 1 : : I lhe last we . have ho idea has any j foundation in fact. He may possibly favor the " second, and .in thatch is not alone by a ereat deal in ihe Kin fr- dom. Man v able men favor the same I : Minn aKIo man fmrnr tkAsnmn r reform and abolition. , As to the first, Mr. Gladstone has manifested some jnr,o ii1. i,i.w i, 1- M f.fi o - I in defence of the English Establish J ment in his work entitled "Church and State," and which fared so badly V r "?u".vt -"iajr We think it quite certain that Mr. Gladstone wields a greater Influence than any man in England. Although in retirement that is to say, he' is out of office, as thev call it h is a greater force than his great, rival, Disraeli (Earl : Beaconsfieldl. Just now Gladstone is meeting with tre mendouB manifestations of approval. He . has won a victory in securing peace to England, and the j people honor : and : applaud him. .The late Charles Sumner regarded him as the ablest statesman ' England ever had. We do not believe that this is the judgment of the leading men of the jsntisn isles, out he is regarded as a very able and accompliahed.raan, pos sessing a very rich . and imposing style. He is an old man, land ex tremely industrious.. His literary work alone is enough to tax the ener gies and occupy, the time of a man of ordinary zeal and. energy. .. , TO BE 8ETTLED. Now th at the Sou th Carolin a Le gislature has agreed upon a plan for the payment of the interest due on the consolidated debt of the State, it Is to be hoped that those of the North who have been-so rampant in their abuse will tone down and be satis fied. Some of our Northern ex changes have shown a due apprecia tion of the true condition of affairs in the South, and. in : South Carolina .particularly.-"" uneoi mem, uie rnu adelphia Record, an independent pa- per, says: - ; . -.;:- - "The disposition shown to scrutinize the legality of the bonded -indebtedness of the State, though it is probably too late to cure any of toe evil wotk tuat nas oeen aone, is an action not at all- inconsistent with ' an honest desire to pay honest debts. It s very hard lor a people so Duraenea witn taxation as the people of South Carolina: are to pay year after "year the accumulat ing interest on indebtedness the proceeds of which were recKiessiy distributed to a cane of - robbers who- only governed the state in oraer mat tney mignt roo n. ;, Accordine to the predictions of entomol ogists, this is the-year lor . the appearance of the cicada, or seventeen-year locust, in Connecticut, New York,. Hew; Jersey and Virginia. , This particular brood has a re cord extending Dacs as iar as me year In this State its ravages date from mo, re currine every seventeen" years until ' 1860. . The incursion wilt be mainly confined, as i it has heretofore been, to the area between the Susauebacna and Delaware rivers in this State, but the Whole breadth of New Jersey Is included in the" field of its former visitations. rnuaaetvMa iteeora. These visitors have been making music for weeks in the northern part of this 'State, and in ; the section Jt On1jtM lhn nnnat inn'n AW tVo Bocieues i, c- wr . u yvu? tromana,wnereuou.ey g eiaim lua u.y - by boring holes and that they remain A.. UiAAat. Anrnct f ha lrtncr nonon l'"uo """ . --"te.I . I nf HAventeen vears. It is a sort . of 1: "IT.' .. j ' . resurrection wan- mem wnen uey f- ,.:.t.::.J,;;r,:...,,r,fi ? I come iorvu. ; : f c - y :-. .. -i -nMn f I aliveb amimIFOR:BIQBB. r lilVER ASKIMCl FOR MQRE. My on Oliver" is an applicant for Comn Generalship to London- "milk in the cocoannt.' :; Ho w Jmpor- tant and unselfish was that fetter-on the situation which "my son Oliver- wrote ?ome tune ago, vv e sBpeu he had his eye fired uoa some. piaoo! , wrote some time ago. we snspecxea Well, if a scatawag w to oe lavor. we ;w6uld: as soon see iJocKery; npv 1 ""J .. . , - . i has intelligence ana KnowBiUow nrtn.ni . oAnpl.fti Oliver look wise. TTnsiftrd Booker v-tb at does have a big sound. ! But will he get it ? .. A weak-minded woman named Jane Chambers ommittftl IP4: 3ex - t LMINGTON; iValdes are fihtiftkinW hiore and more tKrArtiKft tate especially Ut is 1 Very noticeable. i Btaieat inat although; the .yalvie of reaj estajte property has diminished so creatlv "there has nwrinfu tAon cities are now Sndiiifr oit tn f thfi- r r -, - i .- ; - . axe ; reaping the legitimate, fruits of flash times' and their' natu ral co n com itant, extravagance? Tbe question- inow Id be s considered la how I to I the necessary revenue1 upojj value a that have shrunken f rom fifty . mi ' -.t ' .s w.Muauanurea per ceni. jlho-jn orin nas naa a good time or it since 1861.' But it is now grunting under. the def pression, , and; at.: learntlthat .the South -)mustvbr'fo8tedn4t84h"dtis'' tries if. the TTnioir would 'thri'vel'.' ' - " "'" " """J""M' J . THE JLABOU QTJESTIOir. The Southern white man. is-well satisfied that , the colored laborer ia me- Desi xor our people, remove him fr?m the sPhere of politics, And let himt remain on a farm and there is no better : laborer. He is docile. obedient, and as industrious as men in our plimate are expected to be. fit is the qoty of the white people to do all they can to foster and. preserve the colored race, to keep them from deterioration physically and mentally,' and to .give : them eyery aid possible that will tend to their, intellectual and moral growth. : There is a slow but gradual change taking place in the Southern mind in 6 the dignity of labor. , Men are not! looked down upon now as mere i'clod-hoppers" . because they cultivate farms and work with their own hands for their bread and bacon. . j - .. . AH ovr Southland there are men who to-jday will sweat and toil who never did a day's good work before the wait. Men are no longer ashamed to worki The lazy, loitering, loafing fellow who eats his parents' bread and spends his useless life without benefitting any one, is the one who is regardejd with contempt. Honest labor isi beginning at last to be re- spectedi. It is a good sign, and speaks Well for the final redemption of the bean tiful land we all love. , We should not neglect to encour age immigration of the right kind. The Soiith is a vast country, not more than one-third of which is cultivated. It needs skilled, reliable, intelligent white laborers men who have been .If enured i to toil and hardship, who have character and pride, and who wish to J help make the land of their adoption all that it should be. Intel ligent, industrious men from other States or lands can come to the South and grow gradually rich' under the great advantages offered. ' A New Jersey farmer who settled in Halifax some few years ago,, was carried jaway ; by the prospect. ' He said he pould work outdoors eleven months :out of the twelve,' and that he felt he was bound to prosper. - A contemporary, Southern Indus tries, as! it is called, says of the objec tions and advantages offered: 'In every instance, without an excep tion, in which Northern people have come South and gone back, the expression -has been : am perfectly well 5 pleased with the climate, but miss so many other things that I cannot consent to do without.'. . "Thevldo not stop to consider that they would become dissatisfied from' the same cause, let! them go among strangers, in any countrv. Those who settle. down here,, to stay, and! go to Work to help build up the institutions they love, almost invariably are contented and satisfied, u : ; : ..".Let those who come caouin.ana wno are strenuous! upon the matter of society, come as much as nossible in iaree numbers, or settle in'khose sections where Northern number Give the devil his due. . It is not certain that Garfield lied .' when he pronbunted.: the letter purporting to. be from in every President Hayes"a forgery word and line." The facts these: Three ' months apr' " oftr Pri,1flnt Haves had written to I r'T - P. i-.v: J-7- - i -.- I Garfield A. M.J Gibson1-Washington correspondent of the N.;Y Sttn, sent a Jetterqsigned fR.EB.r Hayes,1 p?e, lrT T" the! remark that ' the letter appeared in the:following oii-no " i TTn - how '. savs" 'he 'merely mA. .., fiav that it embbdied Hhe onlnflV f ftf whr wflW written , p, m .neantto. deceive, as I e-jn'tiialFofiowinif BhapeV.dd notUok any 8Qoh i008e construction embod?incr the; substance;" They i meaui w uuuvpy vuowo. w I Haves wrote- was preciselyas it ap4 1 " - , 7 . : . peared in the Sun. : Can a woman be real happy with out i a; bird?i?affa CoimrcdZ. Wel lVvVes. Wfi ; think - bo -witb 5 two birds. - iTheproiect'of 'it pew National Union party -appears to have: a'ireal foundation. Professional ' politicians and wire-pullers . fight abypf the subject in fear of losinsohe hold" on patronage "Without securing an-. outer. Confidently, however, :some of ; the most sagacious admit that a judicious flia-r knuuiioa oi patronage in inextonn on. me same plan that Mr; Hayes has pursued iti the South would attract to! his standard a large following from the Democratic ranks. With the masses the'idea of a new party is unmistakably: popular; TheJmpression-. prevails that the course. .purBued-by ithe President in the Southern States is just,ahd that lie should be endorsed without regard to former par ties.-lZiIflfeyrfa.vL 3 v : The papers throughout (he forth are expending a considerable amount of pencil and paper and printer's ink '' -'" ' ' i.i '1. il: in discussing new parties and how Hayes is gradually disintegrating the. Democratic party.' V We ha ye h otmet with a single man whobported Til- den who i so dissatisfied with his party as to affiliate with the Republi-: cans and to seek oflice under Hayes. Why, Postmaster': General. Key, a Southern man went through 'North Carolina a few days ago on a trip of observation,3 and not one man asked him for office. C' . : -, ? The formation of a hew party,-; out of the old Whig party, the Republi can party, and a few Democrats who are so hungry for the swill that they will bolt and. take, is a dream a myth a humbug. : It has no foun dation in fact.' The Democratic party is the only party in ihe country ..that upholds the laws and ther -Constitution, v. Mr. Hayes has acted admira bly since he was inducted into office because he has adopted the platform of the Democratic party. -' He has done just asfwell as Mr. Tilden could have done under the circumstances, or in restoring , the autonomy of South Carolina . and Louisiana, and beginning the great .work of civil ser vice, reform, j he is doing precisely what Mr. Tildeh would have done.; Why should a Democrat desert his party, when the government is now, run upon the principles of his party ? Why turn Republican when that paity is in a state of decay, of dis integration, of death ? The Democrats know very well what Republicanism means, what it has done, and what it will do if it should be perpetuated in the Govern ment. There is nothing good in that party. It has been . tried tried for a long time, and found wanting in every element of true greatness in all that makes a party glorious and honorable. It had a great oppor tunity, and it lost it by abuse, by corruption, by usurpation, by stupidi ty. It is folly for a Democrat to think of uniting with such a decay ing trunk. : Of course it is not difficult to dis- i . - cover the ' purposes of ' Republican leaders to divide the Democratic party and thus conquer thus restore to something of life the party that is dying of feculence and prosperity. If they r can succeed by ': artfully splitting the Democratic vote in the South, they will have" no trouble in electing Grant Or some other Repub lican candidate in .1880. They know they cannot j count any - longer on controlling the negro vote as an en tirety; they know that the bayonet cannot again with saf6ty.be made ah important factor in electing a Presi dent; they know that the frauds in South Carolina, Florida and Louisi ana cannot again be repeated without a big row. What then is to be done? Morton understands the game. " It is to unite, to solidify,' the; Worth to make it a compact body so that every State I; can be ? carried - easily for the Republican candid ate. His let ter cannot deceive the South, and it ought not to deoeive the North.- Its venom ia somewhat sheathed, but it is none ihe - less the old - venom He does" not commit himself to' Hayes' policy, ikying it is only on trial- " At the right . time to subserve1 his enda hoi will ' bring: out the Old lred rag, an4 :- with his crutches flourishing about '.his .bead will fight the battles ijveyagaip, -- - '' The South has only to lie prudent and firm to win the victory at last. The North has been' brought too near the ragged edge of ruin by the mismanagement of the Hepublicap paHy to be galled intp complete unification i The Demoiratip part in the North that survived the forma tion'of the Repubiiean party iii'i 858, stiil lives, ' and .will again dqiatUe for reform, economy and. peace for the enforcement of" the laws and the: preservation Of .the Oonstitutibn.' :i 1 Ben. Butler as a satirist is not much on tho.Wayne. ; At " least : we jjudge. so from the Veagb he writes. " :& icahs favor Ithe idea'bfihe 'demonetization 'p ver Jdpliarr informer,-tliat'jthey: tnay checkmate the Democrats of : .that State. who' are very t much snjitjten e greenback fever. 'This nil with the greenback fever.' party at uaoernaioruu eiecuan is senoasiy uiw ened by the same old issue that defeated Governor Noyes in' 1873,' arid came' very near defeating .President'. Hyes inIiS76.i The Republicans are now preparing to but- y 1 . - . . t .t 1 i ' 1 . L. - - flank ?the Democrats Inf the coming -tam- paign by demanding the remonetizatio i of the silver dollar, and the most strent ous efforts ?wUl be made 4 to induce President Hayes to say that ha favors such- a. .meas ure.'" - ' - '.'1 V:j SJS? Hard wiolce who commanded' tho.Lee ' battery from Ly nebb u rg, during tne wr died in Richmond Thursday morning. Capt. Hardwicke was an ' honorable igentlemah and a' gallant'soldier; and it saddens- the 'heart of the -writer, who- was his - intimate associate in boyhood's days, to feel that he is -no more. . In all the relation! of lif fr-j-as husband; father, son: and ' friend he showed the highest type of manhood. A truer or abetter - man never drew sword in defence of liberty. ? r. Wayne McVeagh, after that letter of Butler's must feel like a licked postage stamp N, JT Herald And Butler, after that letter of McVeagh's,1 mnst feel like a cancelled postage stamp.. , ..-I - . 1' i. Opinion in an Important Ininranee Caie-A New Trial Granted. The insuraace case of Brink vs. The Un derwriter's Agency of Insurance, of the city' of New York, has just been decided against the plaintiff; CoL E. R. Brink, of this cijy. It will be remembered that Col. Brink was merchandising at Lexington, Davidson coiiBty, in this State, when the property was destroyed by fire which gave rise ito his suit for the recoVery of the ; insurance This Case has. been prosecuted through all the branches of the Supreme Court of New, York at a heavy expense, judgment having been rendered by a jury," in favor of ; the plaintiff three different times. About twelve years has been consumed in the ' case, the expressed object of the companies, ! as" we are informed, being to force the plaintiff to a compromiae. Tb-naoal aroIvd Ht 133,000, which must fall heavy upon the plaintiff, Col. Brink, when the amount of costs, fees, &c, are taken into considera" tion, provided the present aspeet of the case should be maintained. The . Court, how ever, granted a new trial, which, we understand,-will be accepted and prosecuted with vigor, and, we ' hope, with ultimate success." - .'v-. ' - ' This Case was argued in the Court of Ap peals March 27th, and the'opinion, asabov set forth has just been handed down. The Favettevllle Mall, i ; ! -i ; . Messrs. Melke & Jotfes, mail contractors between Lumberton and Fayetteville, have promptly changed their schedule so as to make close connections with the trains do the Carolina Central Railway. And, more-' over, they have quickened their run5 be tween Lumberton and Fayette vilie Beverkl: hours, their hack now reaching: the' latter point at about 7:30 A.:M This wffl prote a great convenience to the people of elteville, and Messrs. Melke & Jones serve credit for the "accommodating spirit they have shown J Our business men should bear la mind that the mail for Fayetteville' now closes at 5 P. Mr.:.;i. : . r r I 'Ttteliirowned'llln.':!A:KalnIa" -3- .-.The body .of the drowned, man, reported. in our paper of ; Wednesday last as haying been found drifting in the riveiabout twe: ty miles: this side ,of Fayetteville, on the downward trip of the steamer Gov. northl On the previous Monday was subsequently taken from the water and an ' inquest held over the same. It is now underatood . th$tj me remains are oeiieyeaio nave Deen jnose; of a .white man. A .watch found on the person of deceased had the name of McLean engraved upon it ' i i Reduction of paiiencervand .Rlatl . SCUCHUlCt ...;": .-.; - - - . . - j Commencing with' to-day the" Cireat Af- lantic Jbaat Line, of Railways via Macpri, .WUmington and Richmond; reduces its passenger and . inail schedule. ..betweek Southern cities and Kewor" to'ttoi lowing indicated tiiflei'From NeWOrfeafai 63 hours: Mobile, 56 hours; Montgomery; 9 noun; ijoiumpus, a inoors; uacou,.' hours'; Augusta; JS45hb honrst Charleston. 34i hours: Columbia. 31 hours: WHtoingtoh hours.' Arriving si work AMidaila iordng fa 'iia ' pitrhs ajijeafn erv and a full daTfoxhnsinesatinvposeK "I Exenmen tt.tue qoi vine.; vois "cuValpft, which was followed c by dancihgi 'reftesh-s iCWM9, Ufa, AU. VI. MJ 11U1UID UUlUlUg) At a subsequent meeting'- on' board -of th steamer, over Which Mr. James J9. rMoer presided, Mr. J , P-. Murphy ac.ting as Secret tary, resolutions pf . thanks f were -voted td Capt R. C. Renry for the great pleasure af forded them, and also to - Mr."'French"f6 the accommodation i furnished for &o.T-f-.lirXWi Tj BanhermalmOrH Pi Murnhv addressed themeetioe.'and .snoke in very complimentary- terms of ; Captain' Henry," proDaoiy explain tne position recequy a8sine4 to Vne President iTnal umore mertcan, gooa rvepuuitau, Js-.-Ai l'fs;;ij:"'. : mji'iW&-j&?J!3;i anthOnlyY-aaYa:;,?,.:-; ! thh sttccess 'of Hie ; party at" the' next" Our Pender'f rfends h&d a delightful eiy H few xlaysirsinfee; yp& thtf jMw 'j 'rK. IThnlil.ha linixilrAp' 7nltfift.. IBHjlAifll r- HienAfAh ' to ! the Philadelphia J ;. Washington Junes 31 The flat denial by. General Garfield of tHeJ letter published a 'i few'days ao . hichpurported v to haveben writteniy iMnri Hayes : to --him was' npKj surprising i to man Jt hereof who have read his denials of previous al-l tegatibna affecting JhimselfJ11ie; foP, lUfllUU DvaiClUgU LUUllOUVU . 1U l)HOV Washington '&aiefte to-day,1 puts the QepeTal in.rftther. a bad light; -i'The .letter recentlyrpublished ; is a3v,true L copv or v tne. one recenwv sent idv,i President Hayls to General1 Garfield,' I, the Ohio Senatorial, can vasa.-f . Wh,ile probably -not. verbatim, it isaimps.t entif ely v' the ' text 'of r the oricrinat, ana no aeniai oi warneia or -any ope else can make it otherwise. ! r Gdelral the night upon which he. received the letter he toojk it to the office correspondent of the Cihciii 4tt (ta' zefle and asked bim: to.' telegraph is jbo his paperi i General Boynton read jit and advised Garheld, not to makei it public, inasmuch as there were pas- sages in x wnicn wquui provoae, un favorable newsparer comment against Hayes for wriUng ii.-' Subsequently at : Garfield's- own house, he allowed, the correspondent. -of the .Chicagp Inter- Ocean to make a copy of iit, and while he was thus copying' it Che correspondent of the - New York limes called ana was also shown the letter. . The latter prevailed upon Garfield not to make it. publicj, and the Inter' Ocean corresfjorident ; was requested to isay nothing about' It.' .The concurrent testimony of the ve-' racious gentlemen who.have read the original text is that, the publication, is so hear an exact copy of it that they cannot ; see. how Garfield can make such a sweeping denial of its genuine ness, unless, indeed, be meant to de liberately pervert the truth." Nortnerner's Impreaalona of Re deemed Soatta Carolina.' E. y,. Smalley's Metier to the- New York f; , . . TnDune.J , - ' - Columbia S. C. May 22. It is now two months since the United Stales troops marched out of the State House " and the " Hampton Government.! None of the evil cori- sequenoea prophesied . by the beaten party as : certain to result from the change of authority have come about. All, the good effects 'predicted "by the Othor eda .that oouldl b PTtpoetAot t-o ' show themselves in so short a time are already observable. Perfect peace and '' tranquility prevail in. all. parts of the ', State. Nobody is hein g op pressed on, account of political opin ions nobody ; has been driven" away. The rights of " the colored people are Detter respected tnan at any time since emancipation,: and the.; feeling between the two races is more friend ly than ever before; the expenses1' of me otate -urovernment nave oeen ret duced . one-half, and those of the counties cut down 16 an almost equal' extent. . ,. Nothing of , efficiency- ap pears to have been sacrificed by this trenchant economy. ' The State "and epuntiea perform all their proper functions, more effectively, in fact, than in the time of high taxation and extravagant expenditure. . The total tax levy for the present year will be one cent on the dollar, and the whole amount saved on the cost of running the government will reach pearly a uuuuu uviiaio. . . j ' A wholesale change is ;noticeafcle ip audi about the legislative ' halls. Everythiogls clean,- orderly and bu-' sipeas-fiKe. , ? ss o. crowds oi , lciie pirty negroes i nf estthe lobbies and pas sages,' and .the whole Capitol build ing has an unwonted air of reepecta- bujty i 'lhere are. few.loungers ipf any color,, ,; The work of legislation goesC forward quietly and methodi- callydirected by hien' of intelligeoc and honesty T in the senate about a third, of the -members' are -black, but there is no color, linet in the arrange ment ot tne seats. , ; Tne Frenen Tofneeb Contract Award ed. .A cablet telegram, was- received, in this ' cityTyesterday .from Paris, ap- nouuciug me reauiu ot tuo aujuuicai Uoa of theFrenctf tobacco,', which 6ch opirred at noon: yesterdays The. con- tract rwas awarded in, two' parts, the successful bidders being" Messrs, Huffier Gov and Weber Co.? both lot Paris, -oThe former house is repre-l sented.here by: Messrs.. vl';rayj3c Co.) and the. latter, by Messrs. E. Oy Noltihg & Cbj The whple amount of ;Virgihia tobacco rcontr acted :for is 2,000,000 kildgrammes, or nearly 4, fiOftOOOy-f pounds. JitcAmondi Dis . 'North, .Carolina. will furnish the best of the'weed.but it willo abroad stamped,,'Yirgm vtil cawanlee-ln New.-X'orte.; -.-;.; JWithrheariyr2,000,0ba tons of uc j'iti i-a"ii L-'iii! -ri--i-tr--ii iceTcompaiius eibujodantlyf' pre-j in ineir wareiiousesi iuir nuw xur par eo. .10; assiss : .u : uoivingw vue u pro blehillpw! to keep cool." -The price of : ieSlr jijhusfiajly, Ipaiid the pips Ipectsff ojchea merr last year ico sold for t f 8 a to - wholesale,' 6r to? ekfehsiVe.feohsumers. 'retatllriehlf pnc1taire4iy ton tor large quantiues ana so.centf a hundredr vreight ' for; family con The closing exercises; of . KinsA-- top Collegiate.Institute.begini on Thursday, th.e 28th inst. . H..F. Maury, JJsq., of Wil son, delivers the annual address, an&F. A Woodatd.Jlsq the address before the Lit-;' erary Debating Society., ,.; . t . - .. 7"; Concord yS'Mnj- Genl' Leach has been the victim of much newspaper abuse , for little cause,' and we think it about time for Democratic lournals to-ston their use- k less gas aboit this geatlemao.and tnrntheir- auention 10 something of more importance to "their readers; ' ; "-.;' -V. . w-'" Statesville 2kiw?warA:... Lenoir has a new firev-engine,J and the b-hoYs"-have : been ; experimenting. .; - Spring fights are in 'Vogue at Lenoir two ministers : recently xhad it rough sand tumble j-- ; ' '- The crops; generally in. Burke county are 5 good. Everything has an animated color: , and tbere:'?-.iiiije iess replanting than usual. r. Rareigh Observer : The Rich- ! " vaqnd Whig speaks of a copy pi the J&ami ; . ver puDiisued in mat city io47.. In re- " tiiovine the old Senriel nkateria I from a - wwnug nu& viu buildiDg.which has hoen constantly used in ' - luus viyr no a . piiuuug uiuce biuga i iOU a . piece of manuscript copy was found of an i " advertisement oetk not t'- trust a man's . - Observer;. . At a meeting of the " : ! ?6ard of Trustees of the-University in con- , ; unction with the faculty; the degree of L. ? j.'D. was conferred :- on - the Hon. John . : Kerr of Caswell, ; and Rev." Dr. 0. F. ; ; - Deems. aef JMew York Citv.. Thedeffrte of - Doctor o Divinity ..was conferred ou the Jttev.ij u.maen, pt; South Carolina, and f.Kv. ixcu. jrauerson,; or, v? ummgion. , Ajoncora sum : vv e: team that a t - little three year old child of -Mk Chiarlev Walters, living in the neighborhood of Mill v Hill, was very badly burned, last Thursdav. ' It-was left to itself In the kitchen, and as :l there wa$ fire only in the stove it was sup- I posed thatno harm.would come .to it, but '1 its mother was shortly afterwards' attracted ' by its screams, and when help arrived the ' ouild was seriously; burned. : "t - i?; Macon Advance; One day .last week a nartv were survevine in the Smokev Mountains, when a difilculty oacurred, re-: ' sultingin the deatluof J. J. Calhoun.caused by a knife in the hands Of PlTilip Jenkins. '-: Of the origin, or particulars of this unfortu- nate.an;air we. are not informed, and do t not pretend to fix the blame upon any one. . We learn, however,; that it was a bloody affair. .. Jenkins is in jail inS wain county. . Capt. Woodson writes from Chapel Hill on J une 6th . to the Raleigh Observer: "We have no idea the number of visitors already on the ground, but ; this ' we do snow, tne Hotels and private board- -ing houses are full, and double the number are expected to-day and to-morrow. : We have met here with prominent men , from every section or the Stated and the univer sal expression is, 'I am glad that I came.' " Goldsboro Messenger : The Stak beams forth every day,- not wasting with age, but brighter and more refulgent as it "twinkles f or all'!. It is a good news paper, and we .are glad to learn that Mr. Bernard has succeeded in, making arrange ments hy which the STARrwili be delivered to subscribers anywhere in- town immedi- ately upon the arrival or the morning train from Wilmington, 10:01 AM., and at the low price of fifteen cents per week - :S --Concord Sun: It is generally unknown that within a mile of the Gourt -House, there is a graveyard over 100 years - old, grown up with bushes, trees neglected. . it 13 the first burial place of .the .Baptists, and is now marked by a thick growth of shrubbery in the middle of a field of cot tony -on the land now. owned by Capt. Henry Dowd.. Over one hundred graves only a lew can be distmguisned. : Ihe in scriptions on the tomb-s.tones are ail, save a few, disfigured by time and cannot easily be read. :-' '-' v '. . 7- The Charlotte Observer b&js of the barytes mines near Black's station: Formerly the mineral has been used sole ly for the 'adulteration of white lead, but" the mineral now obtained is of such supe rior quality that it can take the place; of white lead 1 n the manufacture of cheap paints. Chadwick & ' Co. state that tbe mineral is found near Black's in larger quantities and of a better quality,- than anywhere else in this country, or Europe. Mr. Waddell now employs a large number Of workmen." v . ' - -v : - Charlotte Observer: On Thurs day night the Methodist Church of Mon-. roe, a small building, -was burned to the ground by one of the contending factions . . in the - church. The ' story that reacnes here is that there was a split some time ago on the question of retaining the minister, -Who ihas been guilty of some gross viola- : tion of the moral law. The dissenters or prohibitionists if you please went off and secured another shepherd who was invited .to come on and take charge of the flock yesterday. The church was burned on the night before:' : ' : q - -; ;v ; -v. ; : :: -r-Winston Sentinel: " A difficulty took place on last Saturday evening at Con rad's store, in Yadkin county, between Cos Butner and Sid Matthews, which resulted -in the death of the former from a cut in the thigh that severed ' the temporal : artery. Butner had knocked 'Matthews down and was kicking him-when lie - was cut. One . report gives it that he was cut byMatthews while he was down, and another says that ' Butner - had the knife open in. his pocket, and that in raising his leg . for the purpose . -of kicking he drove the knife into his thigh '. and killed. himselfUS 'i t : t- 4if i;. ; A. .correspondent of the: Salis bury JVatchman writes : Leaving. Cumber- '' land county, -vje dined in Harnett, and were soon in Moore.;; The -first noticeable " place in this county was Cameron, a village on the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad only two -or three years eld, hut promising soon to -be a place of considerable size. -It is be- -coming the centre of a large country trade, distant about thirty miles from Fayetteville and ten from Carthage. Next comes Car-' thage, the ; county . seat of Moore.' t Three churches, five or six stores,, several . grog : shops, four hundred .inhabitants, a few. pretty residences, about make up the place.., p The great question at Goldsboro just now is, "Whose cow gives tbe most milk ?" , Mr. T. B; Parker writes the Mes senger: "1 have a cow that gave last month (May) over 100 gallons of milk, and I made : from her 33 pounds of , as good, butter as '; goes to your market ' .The most she gave ' in one day was 4 gallons.-' I will say that She. has no calf, as I killed it in April; be sides she has a very poor pasture." A. very good milker. We have known that beaten -often. We can prove by Ed Woodson that JudyFiannigan's cow at Warrenton used to give never less than seven gallons a day, , and generally eight gallons.-. He told us he sold $375 worth of milk' and butter in one year, after supplying his family. ; v ; j: Raleigb ivew: t A few nights ago a negro named Jim Rhodes burglarized -the house of Mr. John Redister in this f amnty, about fifteen miles below Raleigh, and stole therefrom -one gun one .pair. of pants, a shirr, a pair of shoes, &c. The police of this city have received infor mation that.one night last week a negro named Paul Lewis '.burglariously entered Dayisstore, atBlue WingonithHGranr ville and Person line, and jstole" therefrom f 130 in money aad a -suit of broadcloth. p, Yesterday afternoon a male inmate of the asylum for the deaf and dumb and the blindC fell down a flight of steps at that, -institution and, broke a limb, besides in- flictmg upon bimself senoua internal inju ries. it is feared fatal, -': j his injuries may provej ;: i-i J" 7. v- - -i -. y t ; won in a tew weeks. ; - - $t&te87iiie Jgst ". .'" '- x - .