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Wo are : reminded of this just now by the dis cussions in our exchanges as to the causes that led to the strike and riot ing. We have .thus far, noted some eight or ten "reasons why,! the latest of which is the introduction and im . niense multiplication of machinery. We have , heard plain North Carol) nians insist for twenty years that the tendency of .labor Raving, machinery is to displace human labor, and, there fore, to afflict mankind in the end. At the North the inventivo powers of ' man have been corstantly exercised, in every direction, and the result is that a hundred inventions have been made, each one of which has the , effect of superseding human help. .'.The North is the first to feel the blighting influ ences of too ranch invention. . That section has been . prodigiously great in the way of .railroads, steam ploughs, cultivators, -sewing ma chinep,'&e., and it is the first to wit ness scenes of wildest disorder, and .J to haver human devils in its midst burning, destroying,: rioting in plun der and blood.' The Augusta Chroil- tele and Constitutionalist savs: -' ! . i "The Springfield ' (Mass.) .Republican prints a formidable . array, of figures to . prove that machinery has indeed largely reduced the number of hands once em ployed. There is an increase., of produc tion largely disproportion to the number of laborers at work. - Under these circum stances, the laborer must either seek, some outlet of escape from overcrowded regions, attempt other kinds of work, or else use bis political power to - change a system of go vernment that used his muscle for destroy ing slavery in the South only to drag, him . down to' the worst sort of serfdom at the "North." J . - -T ; . We have no doubt that &-dozen. " distinct causes .must be enumerated amongst those that prompted thp Northern rebellion. Some of the causes can be traced to the late war. and to the causes that brought about that war.1 ' ONE CVKS6 WiTHHELD-NO FA H v ; INK. - I" The South has had many and great afflictions during , the last sixteen years. It has been laid waste by in---vading armies filled with the spirit of the Vandals And Visigoths; it ha had the plough-share of ruin and des olation driven ; deep into ; its oil; it has seen the torch applied to its mills; its farmhouses and its cities; tit. has been despoiledof " its property, and almost reduced -to poverty; it has seen an insolent ; and merciless con-l qneror, : not- coutent with; liberating the . slaves, . but actually, .investing them wiUi all the powers of citizen ship, except . intelligence ' and.' know ledge; it has had its ablest citizens and best soldiers disfranchised; it has been : maligned, persecuted, lied against without stint;'iti has had its : liberties prostrated 'under - the - iron heel of tyranny; it has seen the' cor-? poral Jot the guard assuming tho role of dictator, an4 a -President throi4 tling liberty in. the sacred balls of le-j gislation these and a thousand other ills it has seen and felt, and yet borne them all with a stoical resignation and an unmnrmarings fortitude that were as. rare as 'admirable. -Bat 'it ,,hw been spared amidst ,its - great; tri bulations . one ; corse," one test of suffering the curse of barrenness of blight, of starvation. The early IT 7 "1 v 1 - - .J Sj-tt .'In. J 1 . 1 . ' i I VOL. 8. . A3 and the latter rains have fallen, and the earth has not . forgotten to . brincr 'forth its rich, teeming harvests 'in due season. From no Southern State has there gone up lo heaven the' cry r famine. ,In ho f section t of Conr Southland have the people been smit ten 'withv pestilence i produced tby j a want ( .food. - Surely, God has ieen merciful in spite 1 of all -we liaVe borne ! Surely,1 there is cause; for sin cere j . thanksgiving to Almighky Father that his mercies have uot been withheld, and that . bread .has. not failed to come to the sower. nv tvi Wheu we readlhe accounts of the famine in some districts in China, and in t India, we can but think that in.having food our people ' have es capei an awful visitation.1 vTIio newi from' Chink recently. is morfr encour agiog. j: Ihere havct bqen good raina; out from India the news is alarming. The j prospect grows more 1 gloomy, and J.he ' JLnghsh Government now fearsl a terrible mortality will be pro daced either by actual famine, or by severe - epidemics : that are superin duced by a scarcity of food. Remote as we are iu is bard to realize any thing of r the terrible , sufferings of j a people when the. food supply is utter ly inadequate, and ..when,;. famine and pestilence Btalk through a vast coun try destroying by day and by night. THE SOUTH IN SCOTLAND, j In the recent Pan-Preubyterian Council, held at Edinburgh, America seems to have .had the boquet for eloquence, The ' Northern : Presby terians were represented iu the field of oratory by Dr. Hall, Dr. Adams, Dr. Crosby and Dr. Paxton, of New York, but they did not make the imp pression upon either' professors or preachers that two: of the. Southern representatives made, or the crreat French preacher)r. Godet, ot Nent- chatel. i From - what we have been able to .gather from correspondents and Edinburgh papers, - we feel snret that there . were, no j nner orators among the able three hundred than Dr. Stuart Robinson, of . Xonisvill, Kyi, and Dr. Moses Hoge of Rich mond, Va.: A correspondent of ; the Cincinnati .Commercial writes from Edinburgh July 14th. Of Drv Rob inson he say 8: . " There are divers opinions . as to the country . which. ' merits the palm uof elo- qaence. j It Is easy to see that, the popular, suffrage .would . go in ; favor, of America. The popular delight, the ecstacy, almost, with, which the -American preachers Ate welcomed . and applauded, is something memorable. , Whenever Dr. Stuart Bobin son rises you can hear a pin fall; then pres ently there is such an ebullition of applause or such a roar ot laughter that you. can hardly hear what the speaker says." r " ; , The Edinburgh Daily Meview, not the great quarterly, but a newspaper, of July 5, says of(Rev. Dr.:' Hoge: v "Exceptional interest was excited by the appearance of the next speaker, Dr. ' Hoge, of Richmond. , He stepped upon the plat forma Ull, spare, muscular man,, of a military type- of.physique, .and, features bronzed by exposure to the blazing beat of a southern sun.' ? commencing with a grace ful compliment to the chairman, admirable in its spirit and perfect in manner,, he dallied for a little with bis subject :ia a lively and almost ; gay : humor; and thri, miogung pathos with numor with the hap piest ease, he set iortb. . with dignity, and breadth of view not inconsistent with great intensity; and t emotional excitement,, the leading points of his many-sided subjectH- the simplicity ana scriptural - character or Presbyterianism, its f expansiveness and adaptation, and its friendly aspect to other churches. ; The military ring oi ir. Hoge'B speech left the house strung up. almost to battle fever." , . " I Both of these , able .and eloquent men are natives of Virginia, a iStat that is singularly prolific in men ; of high mark, in all fields of intellectual exertion-in science, ' in oratory," in statesmanship, in military exploits. We are glad the South still produces fiucn able ana accomplished j men to upuoiu uer , auuieiib reuuwii. t trnth isy "blood will tell." i TUB BOI7TII BEGINNING TO BB " " 'VI APPnECIATED. 1 ''r5 There is i no doubt that; the outh ern people behaved admirably daring the .late riots. . Their -conduct was in strikingreontrast: to;, their Nortb4 era neighbors, who are so prone to boast of iheiriaaperiorj. .education their higher -civilization, ' their lofty moral ideas'-Wo . have already at tempted to show some of the causes of the strike in the North, and why the South remained calm and un moved, ..The truth is,-our people are law-abiding, God-fearing, and peace ably inclined ' If they had not beep, the provocations .J of. ; the last few years wonld have -driven them 'to desperation, and such scenes of 1 tu mult and reckless daring as would have marked their course have not been witnessed on this - continent. The Southern peppluJiaveborne' ills and submitted . to persecutions and in-; salts as no' brave"' people ever 4id be fore. By their long-suffering and 3 v ,:'T 'h 7 t WILMINGTON, , N;. C. - FHID AX .-3-ff forbearance they, -have made a naAie for history. In estimating them f ajr-ly-it ''is: hard to'say ;which is'mojre worthy of the world's bighest admi- tion -their inyincib,e, hardy, tconi;ajge iu uaivic, vc j.H4ur, jprntuae na. man liness . u nd er . si ander, insult' and : c pf pression.1 - ''ii'WA.'i' -.Uha-'uI ' We are glad thai' Wany ortileU' papers appreciate the conduct of o ir people d.n ring j jibe recent Northern' rebellion The ifeir iTork Jfbttrmil qfiCotnmerce has this to say of our "well-behaved section s 1 "The Southern naners do'not ; nraiaa Oii orderly aud i law-obeyingi faonduct of ' Se southern working men (during : the recent strikes a whit too highly. ; It may be said that poverty and suffering are not so conn mon among' the laboring classes 1 of me South as among those at the 5 North ahd WeBt, and therefore, the former had not the the motives for an nprisies which actuated. great jnasscs of thoughtless-and passionate ' men in other sections. It is itrue that ; the cities oi me couth are not- as crowded pB those of the North with men who cannot Sit work, or tramps, or dissatisfied laborers, ut the real reason for the quiet -of the UUUU1 w UCI1. BU Ul UlUCr fJIUUI Ut UIV ; cciim- try were overran by mobs, was the peace ful disposition of her people. If the poorer whites of the Soath had felt quarrelsome. either toward the rich railroad companies or inaiviauais, or toward the colored race, they would not have failed to. show their teeth during the late riots. . That they went through all that week of crisis and kept the Sace in Richmond, Charleston; Bavannah, obile, New Orleans, and other large cities of the South, where there were few regular ur vutuDieer soiaiera on nana io Keep oraer, is a test proof of their williaeness to, obev the laws, to work for a living, and to dwell in amity with all men." - I South " Carolina is well prepared with military companies. It hasta brigade composed of three full regi ments and a battalion of monntefd rifles. The brigade staff is as folio wi: Brieadier-General. B. H. Rutleee: Maior Jennings W. Perry, Ad jutant-Qeneral ; Ma jor Fred. Blake, Inspector-General; Major Charles Kerriaon, Jr., Quartermaster-Gen-eral; Major C. H. Rivers, Commissary General; Major Henry H. DeSaussure, Surgeon-General; Maior Albert H. Mowrjr, Ordinance Officer; - Hajor Beoj. 'Rhett; Aide-de-Camp. : if. The first regiment is commanded by Lieut. George Tapper; second by Col. J. J, Fox; third by Col. ! Wm. Stokes. The battalion , of mounted rifles, five companies, is commanded by Major John C. MinottJ The bri gade is composed of thirty-five comj panies, and numbers over 2,000 men. OVBCLIS4TE. j The climate of -Wilmington" horn January to January is the finest we know. We venture the opinion, sus tained by figures, that the. average temperature is better in Wilmingtoji than in any other town in the State. During the recent : heated term, ac cording to the report of - the -Signal Office; the highest heat was 97 do- .1 . T. 1 I. greee. uunng tne monto , oi juiy the average range of the . thermome ter was 80 degrees. For the month of June the average, was ?G degrees and a fraction. " ' 4 I In December the highest tempera ture was 66 degrees, the lowest ' was 15 degrees above zero, and the .ave rage was 51. . In January,, the hignr est was 74, the lowest 17, the average 57 degrees. In February, the high-jest was 71. the lowest was 23. the ' 3 average was 43. It must be borne- in mind that last winter, was -colder - . - - - ; i in Wilmington, than it baa ; been Jcnown to be . in twenty . years, i .This summer has been the hottest knowik to bur "oldest inhabitant."- What other town can show as mild a record? ftantralizeri crovernmect is more dodu lar ; to-day than it was a ' week ago. St, Louis Globe-Democrat; . . ' - I The army should be increased to 25,000 men. Uhicago irunine. And so we go.: Both:: of . these papers are Republican. The former would no doubt berglad to have a strong government, and wants Grant for : President, who, took the editor out of -the, penitentiary, , Thq latter paper is moderate. -The New - York Graphip demands ll 00,000 1 men, bni the Tribune will put dprwith 25,OOol We copy these utterances s merely as a ' sign of the times as a straw to indicate the. way i.Republican j waters are flowing, y The current will 1 soon get broader,: deeper and . strpnger. Wait until October,, and jpu will se we . are i correct jh . this ; vThe 4 Philaf deJphia;7Jress,v-a'notherv;RepuW , ' - ' T . 1 v-! "Ultra-economical Democrats are begins ning to wonder If a lUtlftless liberty and a little more ' standing army might not be a 4ilMk1a ohanm oftop all " ' - ----- (, i'; - . A far as we have seen a proposed increase comes .only from Republican sources, hlna putting such a r wish in the mouths of Democrats the JVesi gives only another instance of the truth of. Wordsworth's line- 'TTie; wish is father, to the(thoaght.'f 1 ,7J I A party who arrived from Pen der .county I yesterday reports the offlcial majority for Burgaw as the county site. lo be 218. Mr. G.'A: Mler,' a ' native North Carolinian, and fofmereditor' of 'the Columbus ' (Ga.) Sun,. wrote - a very ihlerestinc nccrV.ncf the late'Peter Stewart Ne,' s- ie years ago. ' It nas' recently reapp c . r ed in th e Savanhkh' JCMW.Tiiu T.'shmond Slate ;will 'please' note the f-ctl '.MtJ. Miller read law 'under ? Chi i " Ja&tice "Pearson, of the fexhauste(3 Judiciary, and knew Mr. ' Ney intim tely.; 'He' thus -"de suriuua uiui u i j appeareu -in loao; Tbe venerable id dignified deportment of Mr; Ney, his ir- -erial air, his great learn-, ing and unexamf i scholarship, his per fect acquaintance ..lib the Greek and Latin .classics, the modern languages and espte- lution, and every articular; in relation to the personal, civil and military ..career -of the Great Napoleoa; t: "se qualities of mind and person, united to f - irpenelrable mys tery which clung around his own history- a mystery which nothing could surprise or remove attracted every one like the secret properties of . the magnet. - There was. a something about the maa which, onceseens seemed to say, 'I dare you to forget me. It stamped itself on the brain in letter never to be blotted out,- ti am not booked on the roS of common men. He appeared to others what we often heard him sav in re gard to Napoleonrlthat he was the only mortal ne could never look full in the eye.' " We have seenNMr. ; Ney under ; all eir- cumstances. We Niave seen his courage tested and his face never blanched, nor his nerves never trembled.We have seen him when the saying of Horace 'in vino est writasf could be best verified; We have seenhim at midnight, courting and recording the inspiration of the Muses. We have seen bira kiss ;the portrait of Josephine, while the tears of. affection and (the memories of the dead past rolled in big drops down his furrowed and bronzed - cheeks. We have heard him tell, with remarkable particular ity, the exploits of the Great Captain, M the French Eagles were borne in triumph as well amid the sands of Egypt as the snows of Russia yet in all places, and un der all circumstances, the mystery of his own life was untold he still grasped the key to the secrets of his past, and no 'open sessame, whether of friendship or convivial ity, could ever persuade hkn to reveal the lights and shadows of bis own checkered existence. As he lived, so he died, -and like the writer of the Letters of Junius, his secret who he was ? died with him." $ Mr. Miller t examined his papers left with Mr. 0. Ford, and says: t , "We found any quantity of poetry and rose on all subjects, but nothing to throw ight on the subject of our search his own life. The longest and most labored pro duction of his mind was a 1 History of the French Revolution written in cyphers, (of his own invention) which we could not un derstand, bat in part was 'explained to Us oy ur. Matthew Xjocke, one or his former pupils. Mr. Ford told us that a night lor two before he died, he destroyed all of his more private correspondence, . and among them some ship letters lately received from France, which contained valuables." He does not think he was Marshal Ney. ' He gives some good reasons. We" copy two: 1 ; j "Marshal Ney. like nearly all of Na poleon's Marshals, was not classically edu cated P. S. Ney was a scholar without any doubt. - It may be replied that the Marshal may have learned to write and speak Scotch, French, Italian, English arid Rus sian in his intercourse with these nations, when in the 'Grand Army.' If so, is there an instance on record of the Greek, Latin and Hebrew having been learned perfectly, after years of maturity ? Such a task would overmatch the powers of even Elihu Bur- ritt, the 'Learned Blacksmith and the greatest of modern self-taught linguists. . r 'Could Marshal Ney have escaped . the doom pronounced by the Allies, after his defection, when .Napoleon escaped from Elba, in the manner related by the Phaniz correspondent?. We think not, from the form of military executions we have , wit nessed, and the great and supposed danger ous character of the Intended victim." , I i SPELLING UBFOUII. "' j ' This is the age of reform-f civil service reform, of railroad reform, ofc reform in pronouncing the dead lan guages, of reform' in spelling our ow J language. , Noah Webster publishe a pamphlet in 1805 or 1806, which was intended to be an improvement upon the English way of spelling the language of Shakespeare, and Milton; Ho was an innovator, and no one can read, that pamphlet, or rather attempt to read it, without wishing in his heart that the Yankee had never been born. Noah Webster has done more injury to our language than the . able editors of his big Dictionary have been able to do good daring the last twenty-five years. The present Spel ling Reform Association of tho North is the legitimate child of Noah Web ter, as his pamphlet will attest. - The Association referred to h aye. net! skeem for spelling," by which tbey hope to improve the prevailing " or- thografy' by f onetio skeemz and new sistems." 1 Last year: at the Centen nial Celebration, Professor Haldeman thus set forth the, object of the -Asj sociation. r We give a literal extract i iThe questions which the convention ii called to : discus , at oy great, importansi They Lav exersized strong mindz ovfoloso fens and filanthrbpists for a long time past; Therar meny difScuQiz in the-way of a re iiinn ot our -orthoerafv more itban superficial observer wud suppoze,. Upou What pasis snau we onu our bjhujui.uv nptu-t ling? ' Shall we find out the original powers ov, the letterz so far az we can, and endeavor to bring the spelling intu. harmony with those powerz?, as 'what shal thez comhinal tionz spel?' Taae, ior instance, me sounq otic, What is it in uther languajezr ' Grant has gone 1 to -Italy. ; - - The! ! Courier- Journal says Lhe should cer tainly visit his1 Holiness .Pope -Piasi fX.!, and have a taik witb ;him ibou the school question' in the i United States from ' a Republican stand- point." ' ' - T' " -W-.MI 71, 11" !""- '! TO- iv. 7-1 ''! TO- AUGUST , 10, 1877. i . .. Colonel Pred HolIidayV one' of " the prominent candidates for nomination for Governor of Virginia, is no friend bfTepudIation.rHearvhim: J'.'' X - iBut the road to prosperity is not through the door of repudiation that is the' road to her doom. And I would not beckon her in that direction for all the honor -any- tffice she may have an. confer. i;ndeed,rwhat would the office be worth, when won 1 1 It would oe a 'Darren 'jsceptrenr not a dis graceful.prize.'ir; - f j u .These be manly sentiments worthy of, . a t,rue r nd honorable . Virginianv Mr. Daniel, i who at; present leads slightly in the canyass, states his po sition thus tersely,! s.fj ; VI "I I am opposed to repudiations . : : I respect the decisions of the courts. I uphold the sanctity ox contracts." Fatal Aeeiaewt Im 1Am. ' , ' . - :$' TA - correspondent, at Clarkton, laden county, under date of August lit, informs us of aj fatal aecident that occiii?4-ti Clarkton steam saw and planing mills, 'of, which Messrs: Wilkinson & Fore are pro prietors. . It seems that John Burnett, col ored, hailing from Ahbottsburg, 4hije try ing to fit a belt in the pomp -shaft was. ac cidentally caught .in , the. belt and. wound around the shaft, breaking' both arms and legs and otherwise' bruising him, causing instant death. . -" ' f ' H 1 Deceased was formerly a resident of this place, having come herefrom Hillsboro, where he was raised.' " He was between 85 and 40 years of age, and is represented to have been a very worthy and industrious man', having some years since received a fine piece of land from, the Cape t Fear Building Company, at Abbottsburg, for serr4 vices rendered at the Tisk of his own life io saving property of the company from destruction by fire at that place. ' "" j ' Xle Conniy Insane. . - ;,j . Dr. J. F. King, Dr. W. , W. Lane, aid Justices W W. Barriss and S. VanAm ringe, visited the county hospital, ' at the Poor " House, yesterday afternoon io ac cordance with the law governing in such cases, to examine the insane patients there in confined, preparatory to the issuance pf the necessary certificates for the amount due this county by' the State for providing for her insane. They found sixteen' pa tients in the hospital, ' thirteen 'of whom were pronounced insane... Of the remaining three, one is to be sent to her home in Co- ...... . . , , lumbus county and the other two are yet held under advisement. The certificates, when prepared and signed by the 'physi cians and magistrates alluded to, will 1)9 sent to Raleigh, when1 the amount allowed the county for the past year, will be for warded, r " l Anataar JtaatSLaa aniakaartf. f ICapLrL R: Harding; of the w'reckiqg Bchr : Wave, of this place, which was lying at anchor in Masonboro' Sound, died . sud- -denly on board of his vessel on Wednes- day. The report is that he was taken sud denly ill and dropped to the deck of the vessel, upon which he was standing. Aiding a severe wound upon his head, messenger. was immediately, sent : to thjs city for a . physician, - but intelligence reached here this morning that he. died the same evening he was attacked." The gen eral impression was that he died of 1 heart disease. Coroner Hewlett went down yes- terday for the purpose of , holding, an. in quest over the body. 1 ... CapL Harding, who. was about 50 years of age, was a native of Providence, Rhode Island, where he has a dantrhter livincr. " , . C3 o- -. Tlte Klecilaa la Par Csaair, After one of the most exciting and hotly contested campaigns that ' we have known in this section ' for a long time, the' long mooted question of the permanent location of the county site of JPender has; at last been settled and. victory ; perches npon.the banner of Burgaw, The , places voted fo at the election on Thursday were Lilling ton. Rocky Point, Burgaw and South Washington, . the latter the' county seat as at present located. Tn , order to t niove & from that place it was necessary that some other point should receive a majority of a) the votes cast, - including those polled for each of the . other places. We have beei t kindly furnished with' the vote by majori ties for the two most prominent points, 'as follows: . - -, ' ' Burgaw. Rocky Point..!;.'. 65 Point Caswell... .a 127 Lincoln township. 96 , Holden township. . - 71 Holly .township. v. .71 .. Grant township. .'. 00 . Columbia township" 00 Union township , v,. 00 - 8Wathingtok W; ,00.'y 00 . 00 ' oo";.v 74 46V 80 420 200 200 7 - '220 ' v.Tho oflicial vote,-;whichiwiU t be an- oounced to-day, may -vary be result slightf iy irom the aDove, euuerae wa prme Other, hut the difference .will be verytri- i- Now that the great contest has been hap pily: endedi we "hope that - the bad - blooc which was; engendered; during thet cam paign. fmay speedily sink into the seajpf forgetfulness;. that Pender may jbuildfjUPr flourishing little town at feurgaw, and tha peace, pnjapcriiy nuu guuu wm way ucre after reign in all her borders. VL's o-:p $ :" . . . . . -I i f Juntas Mbseley1, colored; charged "wllbj burglary; was brought here yesterday, from Pender county, andlodged iniaiL Hewaa sent) under; a commitment .Iron), Justice Nixon, who had ordered him to give a Jas4 tified bond.in the sum of flUOlor bis an pearanoe at the next term of the Saperfof uourt ior mat county, in wnicn ne ianeo .. - Anerustin Dalv. the cTeat tbea tfe manatrer.'in New York. Is a North Car olinian by birth, though of Irish extraction. I .TT-'f t '( HTllBiIacton-.aBa NorfolK Comp ara- ; tivesiaiement, dee. r-;, t . We are indebted to . the officials at the Custom House in this city for the following comparative statement, as between7 Wil mington ; and "Norfolk, ! of the business transactions at each port,' respectively; flu- ring the mcaTyear endTngTTune 30th, 187G, wim fdrelgtipprtsr i;ri : - U-i Xmport.-Wilmington, Valuer; $93,883j Norfolk, value, 121,415..;.',,, ; : t.A I r. rpcr. WilmingLoD, value, 13,411,450; Norfolk," value. $7,053,841;, ? j American vessels, entered from foreign ports. Wilmington, 17 tons, ' 2,945; men,'' 116. Norfolk, 9; tons, 4,719; men, 103. ; a;: d American vessels cleared for foreign poria,- Wilmington. - 48: tons. 10.190: men. ',387: Norfolk, 66; tons, 32,415; menR 68$.-.; j . Jfbieign vessels entered from foreign porQ- Wumington,'197i tons, 59.135 ; men," l;9bu.. Norfolk, 21; tons," 13,212 men,"29ir I.- Foreign vessels': cleared for foreign portA iWilmuigtoo, 202j tons, 60,256; men'l,9$rj Norfolk, 42; tons, .29,035; men, 6C3.,,;; Particular attention is called to the large difference In the matter of the direct trade of the' two ports, as .shown by the :boye statement; in favw of Wilmington.? f 1 In ' the . matter -of exports, . Wilmington could no doubt make a much better show ing by including her. indirect . shipmentsfin the statement; by which we mean the arti cles' shipped North from this port.Plit ultimately destined for foreign porta, jn the above; statement, however, Wilmington lis simply credited with her direef shipments: From the same source as above we hays the following, statement ot. the business transactions in the District of Wilmington, N. C., during the fiscal year ending Juse 30th, 1877. x - :". P ; Imports Value,-$98,409. " ' - ' 1 Exports Value, 4,251,743. " " ' ' ' " American vessels -entered i from foreign ports, 18; tons, 4,945: men; 145. "' f l J4 American'- vessels cleared for foreiln ports, 63; tons, 15,191; men,: 454v . 1 i Foreign (vessels entered from foreign ports, 203; tons, 66,059; men, 1,964. 1 - Foreign vessels cleared for foreign ports; 224; tons, 71,228; men, 2,152 ' ni-nu i It will be seen that the increase in tie value of imports over the' last fiscal Vekr has been f 4,526, and that of exports $84oU 293i' . , ,1 ' Not having the necessary statistics at' hand, no ' comparative statement of - te business of Wilmington and Norfolk 'for the fiscal year ending June ; 30tb. 1877, could be made. . - s ' :, - . - iHBiiaen iieim or capi. utrainf . The evidence before the coroner's jury in the case of CapL L S, Harding, of the wrecking Bcbooner Wave, mention of which was made in the last issue of our paper, was to the following effect: Some slight re pairs were needed by the vessel, and it was at first intended, to ' haul her upon the ma riae ..railway of Messrs. J Cassidey & Ross and have the. work done .before leaving hfere.' Capt Harding, however, was - in p hurry to accomplish some work he had in view and finally concluded to await a more favorable opportunity to have the repairs made.' v : After; the : arrival of the' schooner oil Masonboro', where some wrecking was being done, it was suggested that: the first spare time they had . the vessel should be J.1-"l T !i' I.i.i.'ls.'',"i--.t'-.--r t iUKGuius iBvurauie puuiiion on me peacn mstae Of the inlet and her, bottom scraped and painted, and this suggestion was being carried ,out when - the,.. sad calamity ocf- currea. L.uapt uaraing was suoject to at tacks of heart disease, which always trouj bled him a good deal whenever he became updnly excited, and on, Wednesday after noon he had '- been -. considerably worried with one of hfs men and had talked prettr harshly to him; . There were five men cdn-r hected with. Ibe "vesser besides himself three white and two colored. Shortly aftej: the dispute alluded to had occurred, four of the men - feeinsr 'outside, en'eaeed :ia scraping the bottom of the vessel, the cpoki who was i engaged in preparing supper! qame upon deck for , some purpose! pwhen he' discovered' Captain Harding lying prostrate upon the deck; He imme diately gave the alarm and- the other- mejk rushed on deck, when' it waa found that Capt." HL when attacked.with his old disi order, as he evidently must have been, haa fallen in such a way that his head had istruck upon a coil of chainjust at 'a poini where there were some projecting links ani ends of boards sticking out -: He had re ceived a severe cot on the temple by his fall and was totally nnconscious,. A messenger was immediately dispatched for a physician but within a half hour after the v messenger left the unfortunate : man bad breathed his last, not having spoken a word or shown any signs of consciousness , after t. be had been discovered'. It may be proper to state that me man with whom he had ' the mis understanding was not on board of the Vest sel at the time the unfortunate affair oe curred. . , f i.t" i- v ir j'.'u ...The jury returned a verdict that dece came to his death from .wounds : received from a supposed fall onboard of his vessel sjfc ar wmwiiuvtv auitiM . j CapL Hard!ng: js! represented to have been a very industrious and worthy gentle men, and. was esteemed very highly by al who knew him, including those, who were in bis employ., . He leaves two t dangbtera and a son', the former residing at' Provi-j dence; R.' L, and the son also believed be at the same r place - ; r -' T-rr 'I t.s Ca area "af the Pars. :;' 5 " The duties' on Imports received at the CnVj tom House ia this city daring ! the mohlhi ... .T..1 .'. i ... M Its 111! The hospital dues, in. currency.; looted u $74,19, the tonnage dues 893 60. and th steamboat inspection fees, $50 90; making ibe 'total receipt 3,8Tf 57.. The .value ,ol loreigu exports ior. me same penoq amounted to 23 1,837, ' - ;,Sr-rit3.Tir-rr)c:ilmo. . ' Kaleigh Hews: Adjutant Gen eral Jones has received a letter frorn Chas. nation as Lieutenant Colonel of the Second battalion ' of the Ncrih Carolina State ' Guard. . CoL Haigh is induced to take this ' step in-order to meet the demands of his. business engagements.. , - i . i : oapt. ; v. a,,' xo.civer, aiea sua- . denly at his home in Moore county 31st nit. ; The Fayetteville Gazette says: CapL Mc Iver was a native of Robeson county ; he was a gallant soldier during tte war, and :. was commanding officer Of the Scotch ' Boys, who formed part of Gen. MatL Ran- ,r som's splendid brigade. - He -was a - mem ber , of - the- Legislature of 1874-75. and ' . served his people there faithfully; he mar-1-ried an estimable lady, daughter of Mt, IT- R. ! Bryan, whom : he .leaves with two Or vurec Kiieresung cnnaren$ io mourn tneir loss. In his death the community has iost a good man and a valuable citizen." - . -. Salisbury : Watchman. A.: jciti- 1 zen wants to tax baby -carriages, .and had . the audacity to ask us to advocate the meas- ' ure- r-Dick Wallace, a neprn. fumnna . for his activity in radical electioneering, bas r come to erief. He is now in Hftn;msnnrt 1 . rr.i.m . ... . . . nas oeen dealing extensivelv m. iron and steel; - We are clad to see that the shops (the round bouse,) belonging to the V -Western Road, which were destroyed by ' Stoneman's raiders are being rebuilt. - i " : The MT(ir la rtllttintr nnmsn - u nroll ao ' ..- men in the chain gang. This is exactly i righL ' 1 '? - - . "r, t. - Charlotte Observer: It ' is a fact that on day . before yesterday, about noon! there were within . a soace . of fortv r -;' yards on Tryon street, seven wagonsloaded " - with peaches, four filled with watermelons, :: two of grapes, and two containing flour and meaL.and they did not all disrjose of- L their loads in five minutes. , Yesterday a citizen rode into town on "a - mule,- and ': when he reached the main streeL the aai- mal struck. - Yes. refused! to work. There - was no disposition on the part of the mule ; -: -; to intertere.with; other mules .and drsvs: ' and other vehicles bearine rjassen?era and . freight were allowed' to move on regular schedule time. , Elizabeth City JSconomist: Jesse r Brickhonse left Tyrellr a few weeks since.'; '. aoanaoaing a wite and three children in needy and destitute circumstances. .. It ' ' is reported that the light-house, at Whale's : uead station, was Btruck by lightning on Sunday and three lives lost. Dr. Ru- ; : 'v tus K. Speed was admitted, by baptism, to the communion of the Baotist Church.- on. ' - Tuesday evening, Rev. J. M. C, Luke ofll- ciating. We learn that Mrs. Monteiro, J : ? the mother of Mrs. Latham, is the most ac- : complished whist player at Nags Head, ? and further, that Major Gilliam iano match tor her. . - jyghty-nine is Camden's old- - - . est man. , He lives in the juniper , water sec 1 tion. -.-. , morning Jack Brawley, a negro man who ; - drives Mr. H. Butler's drar. lumoed from the vehicle, while it was in motion, V near the Air Line depot, and broke his leg ? between the knee and ankle. 'A Mr. . somebody, from Shoe Heel, conveys to us on a postal card the highly interesting 'facts that he proposes to run an excursion train -xrnm; M : - r i i. ... '. w i uiuiugwu. xm nuuiuiuio uixu ueuer taste bad he sent an- advertisement Pub--'- lishers can't afford to advertise for nothing. Air; John ttailey, or. this city. who - . has been in Washington for the last two months, looking around for some vacant - -chair, has at last a good, comfortable seat -: in the Agricultural Department under Gen.- i Le Duc with a salary of $1,200 a year. f . Ashevule Citizen: some excite ment was created on our streets, Monday, over the statement that Mr. Rollins, Presi- dent of the Western Division W. N. C. R. i R., had compromised ihe Littlefleld debt, i and had received some thousands in Florida i bonds. ' Also that Governor-Vance r had " -. formally notified Mr. Rollins that he- had no official existence, .and that if he had in ;. -his possession any funds belonging to said. . road that they must be tarned over to the ; - -authorities now controlling the Eastern Di vision; proper, buL - as Gov. Vance claims ;: . the proper, authorities of the W. N. C. R. R " Col. T. D. Carter has put in an appear- : ..j ...ji.. .1.- nuce buuucuijr uiu - uue&pcuitsuijr Ha iub - , Vowner" of a majority of the stock of said ' , road, and therefore the proprietor of any.; 'f nnds thereunto belonging." - ; Wilson - Advance : Mr. Alex; - n , . . 1 . J . i- A .. . : - vs . - ureen-amveu. last Daiuruayin cnarge oi 53,000 young shad from Massachusetts, '- which were deposited at Barefoot's mill the . same day. - Woodson says he Vmingled "-. in shaded spots, out doors," last babbatb, -f with church members who could not attend : ..: church on occount of the heat; bat says be , -, had seen the same members, under Robin son's show canvass when the thermometer ' stood at 98. . CapL A. Branch, of this ' county, has sent an Irish potato to CoL Polk : that weighed two pounds and five ounces. .-; Who can beat itt The papers are pub- ' . ' lishing what they deem a remarkable story ; Of a beautiful young lady,- who had become blind, recovering her eye-sight after mar-' p riage. That is nothing uncommon. People often have their eyes open ;by matrimony, s The tallest specimen of corn in this k section has been raised by Msj. .A. B. T Fslmeh " The stalk on exhibition at the : -. hardware store measures in length sixteen ; '. and a half feet, and hai three well developed v ears..'- - rT- ' - . ' ' !- Rocky Mount Mail : The crop n prospects in the neighborhood of Ring wood , , Halifax county, were perhaps never better . than this year. The village is located in . ; the centre of a fine iarming section, and -. t within two miles of the great vineyard and , . wine manufactory of Garrett, who we heard -- . . i i siii ii nun niiw fin imn i iivtr iikmhhi itmiiiiiih in - . fine grape wine, and whose weekly sales ' amounted to 1.000 to 1.500 callOns. r , The iron mine in Johnston known as the i rost mine was worsed aoout uity years . ago. -. .The iron ore was said to-have been Very rich, and the quality of iron forged . very superior, in fact we have heard from ; persons living at that time, and who U6ed -s-the iron, that it was quite equal to the best ! Swedish iron for all farming purposes. Whittaker's Mills correspondent: Our farm- : ; . ers are still hard at work, and from appear- . ance of crops now expect a goodly yield : ?-. and a plentiful harvest. Mr. Moses Moore, - one oi out nest neignoors, narvesiea irom . -four bushels wheat seeded on improved land ninety-six bushels good a No. 1 wbeaL j i - Raleigh Observer: t As will be seen by reference to the order of the Com missioner. Geo. M, Smedes, Esq., in pur . ' advertising columns of to-day, the credi- - tors and bill holders of the Bank of Claren- v don " are ' notified ' to . present- and .make l proof of their . claims before him , at his ofilce, in this city, before thr first day of r . October, 1877.- All persons interested will take due notice of the time and place. . The Commissioner of Agriculture on yes-' terday received a letter from Mr. J. W. ! Lang, of Brooks, Maine,- asking for an , official report from bis department of such j . lands in North Carolina as were purchasable ' 'and suitable for the immediate establishment ' - of a colony1 for his people. "He desires to : hay in one tract, ot near enough together , ; that they may have a society of their own ' in the event the reports are true concern ing the ostracism of Northern people in : the 8onth. .The colony Mr. Lang proposes . to establish will be composed almost ex clusively of practical farmers, there being only a few mechanics and artisans among c them. J There are eighty-seven Insu- - i ranee companies, fire and life, doing busi.- ness ia this Statei Mr. C. B. Edwards 'I of this city, caught in half clay's fishing, at Beaufort, this week, 119 blue fish and 5 . -Spanish mackerel. The-124 -averaged in : weight 2i lbs. each.