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I 5 T tar,' WM. H BERNARD, tCditor and , Proprietor. T-rr WILMINGTON, N. C.5 "Friday, September 21st," 1877: J3T Remittances, must be made by Check, Draft, Postal Money Order,. or Registered Letter, iiPoafc. Masters will register letters when desired..: , ; t - Only such remittances wljl be at the 8k.p the publisher.' j , 1 ,' ) ? . i Specimen copies forwarded when aemrea DBMOCIlaTlO TKOIIBLEJ f p There was never laid a greater re : sponsibility wpoV'any , party than.was laid upon the 'Pemocrats , of s North Carolina: wheit they, came into power. The Radical party ,bad controlled the State so long,' and had (done so much to injure the prosperity of the' people and the, reputation u of ,j-the State abroad, that there was every reason to prompt the opposition to be un- "commonly circumspect, faithful - and honest whenever, theygot. control ot ' the government, - ' The --. credit . of the'. State ad; sunk so, low, that Gov. -Vance vonce said it was not equal to the purchase of one minlgu lep on 3Vall street, without the cash. The venality, the peculation, the mal feasance in office, had ,.1een " so tlgreat under Radical rule, ,that it was abso lutely necessary that there should be a change, and that bonest, capable, and attentive officials should ,be sue- CeSsfuLi M 'fj-1 Hi., : -r c :.i , ut" the ' performance, in every instance has not .been equal to the requirements 'or, tile expectations." There have been - manifest blunders, and, in 8ome: cases,, manifest '"cor-, ruption.-"' The j officials- have not air ways been such as they should be. There are so many hungry, vociferous aspirants who want place and pelf, that the selections have not been al - ways ' the Best.- There mnt be a : change in .this-r-rthere must ., be more ments Men mast be ; selected for office ' who have unblemished char, acters ' and - decided capability. If this is not done,, then there will be great loss to, the people, and a foul stigma placed upon the Democratic party by corrupt and ignorant officials;- ' '- : 'i ... Last year we were , pained by the misfortunes of a Democratic State officer, who acted very unwisely and unfortunately, but not, as we believe, . with criminal intenU Then a. Demo cratic sheriff in Pitt gave leg bail the other day after robbing the peo ple. The other - day too, Judge Strong,v of Raleigh, "was believed to have, overcharged . for his salary. It turns out that he acted under the ad vice of the? Attorney General, "V who thought him entitled to pay for per forming the duties prescribed, with out reference to date of qualification. ' We confess we agree with the Hews j in this opinion: , , t ' , . "The act ! provides 'expressly that the Judge of t the Criminal Court shall not practice law while 'Judge. Now from the 10th of March to the 5th of May be was - either a Judge or-not a Judge. If he was Judge, he infringed the act by practicing . his profession during that time. . If. he was not Judge, then .for what services did he draw the $330 , . . , No One '.who , is 'acquainted with Judge Strong will believe for : a mo ment that, he1 Js capable of doing what he believes to be wrong or cor rupt. For some weeks we have been : hearing of trouble among the officials ot uie cny government ; oi liaieign. The Regi8teti'Bome "ten days ago, in : timated that there was much irregu larity, if (not; worse. 5 The Raleigh NewSf Oi Sunday, ays: ,V .l,-; . "It is useless tor conceal the fact' that there is a deep seated and wide spread dis' irnst in mis community at the state of af ' fairs at the City Hall. An examination - was lately had and the Examining commit , tee reported that for the year ending May ; 1, 1877, Geo, H. Williams, City Collector, was in arrears $7,100.92; J.' W. Lee, Chief of Police, was behind $470.33; Jos. A. Har iris, Clerk of the Market, $1,345.70; J. T. Parham,5; Clerk of the Market, $96.75; and J. W. Tant, City Weigher, . $73.40. -' . Though ; this use ;bf . public ; money- by officers for their,- individual purposes was admitted on all .iiands, only one, Jos. A. Harris, was removed from ofSce. . The gist of the offence is the defalcation. the use of public money for private pur poses. Tb powers , that be seem not to see it in that light, and claim that it ia square because alj have made good the . snms except Harris, Parham and Tant, the first of ,whom they dismissed. ; If they see matters in that light, we cau assure them - that the public do not.. If a more satisfac- - tory statement of this matter is not put be- it is now necessary, for Democratic Daners - and leaders to; ooenlv.exDress their disan. proval of such conduct, or we shall snrelv v see this city : pass out of Democratic con- iroi at tne.next election." .tn j , Stanley,' the Africin ' explorer has been heard from after r a . silence ' of Y?r.i!y8r'Sia success' has 'been completer What real value attaches to his explorations Ve are ' unable 'to determine now He has the spirit of , adventure' largely developed! but how , much he has added , to what is al ready known remains, to bp seeri We would like ! for an ' American to win honors that would entitle him to rank with those great African travelfers Bartb, Grant, Livingstone, Bakerand others. ' - ft ; 'i jjruteitin 12 ha ii Tim oTii::s : The Norfolk I Virginian it is proper to say, has copied the; re joinder of the Raleigh' Observer to its own comments on lie third day at Gettysburg. In the .same .paper M eaeribin his Wn division . (Pick not . only insists that Col. Walter , . ... . . , . .. twpnlw m , - : i. si u-. u. i :a f 1 iayior is ngui m wuat uu H.u oar North Carolina troops.' bat that , - ' ,r-r J "TL" 1 i U V' v ' 1 -v. . . v. L' TLthe dayjBtasjiiirsJ!l-Bat3 ust ihen, Uiol"qrung bjother?conf essis be is tally sustained, ruen. ,te;s, Report. No one! believes-that .Geo. Lee would have done injustice- to North Carolina if he had livedjana . , . , ... had written' his own bemoinf of tte war. . We do not. believe that Col.s Taylor would havepublishedr in, the Philadelphia Times hiaversioa oMhe fight, if Gen.- Led ero 'now living Wo do; not believe;' that Gen; Lee and his Adjutant General; he)d the same view of the. day s fight. We do not for one m6raent believe that en Lee. wascapabioi flf t.treat- diers is "riddled v by 1 inexorable a'nd irresistible logic. ' t .would ' have been better ,W have. aid,"riddle! by the most pertinacious ' misrepre- s'entation and TOilk and water1 soph-1 isms, vv e nave never seen any oau cause sustained , with more special pleading'nd'a greater array of con- traductions. . The witnesses for North Carolina are not allo wed to tell their own.' story, bat a "few lines here and a few lines there are deftly woven into a fabric like bo - many' threads, f and then the cloth is spread out, and, we arfr invited to behold tho war map in colors and cloth of the ' third day V rhemo'rable fight. ' ' i i - " '. m i i Here is a specimen or two of "the inexorable and ' irresistible .- logic" This from the , Virginian : ji . , ' -v j I "First of all, General Lee states precise- ly the same facts in his report that the left gave way' and the right after penetrat ing the works ot the enemy, was -assailed on both flanks (bow could it be assailed on the left flank, if the left division was still there?) and compelled to retire.'" , ; .iV- 1 Here we see that Gen. Lee is qub- l . . i . . ... ... I , i . ; , ted to sustain the .bold assertion. J.hat Pickett's- men were left ',' alone,' there I being no troops to the left, "the left having given way." t There was ,no' ydi vision" on the "left." It had been compelled to retire." " 4 ! 1 " ' j JS ow mark, 1'ickett s . men are tn the enemy's works,' "having penetra ted'! them, and they aie whoUy un supported, for all the troops to their left" had "given way," according to Col. Taylor had been "compelled to retire." Of course Pickett r had no -.- .,- '.-..-,-f :. ,. :. r - ..,,v-- - ' .'!. supports to the right, as . Pickett's command constituted the right! wing in the charge.' So they stood 'alone on all that fields and CoL Taylor says, "Pickett's division was the only organized, podyof troops .that 'en tered the works of the enemy.? ' This b the statement so confidently relied nnon. We a note farther from the I X. . . . . (-'ur. i , I Vtrgmian:, -, .:i . ,; ... i "This statement of CapL Young, With his additional , assertion that, JPeUurrttB't brigade did not retire until it did so nmnlla- neouuy with the whole line u given bp LoL iayior ta nu book, as was clearly stated by us in our last' article.", . ; j i ,' , . . i f ' i , , . The Virginian accepts as' true the statement Carolinians) did not ? retire until it I did so simultaneously with the Whole I ; , in ouuo, tuatyui. ijr 1 lor nas given tne same account--- j made the same , statement Jcm his I ftooki" 14 Now hoW can fJatit. TTonniy I T ' , W P V "unSl J . ! . . .. t , ;.r.t ... Jl :. -,-.. I statement if it be truest as friven in our first extract above, that Pickett's 1 Division had no supports as the "left had ohen toayJl of J which Petti grew's Brigade? was an important - - - . - . part ? Tho two 'statements do not agree. They are eternally antago nistic. The Virginian's own wit ness, CoL '.Taylor says' thatPetti: grew's brigade'1 did not retire until Pickett did. - And yet an inexorable , , "v" men the only heroes at Gettysburg. aim inviTiriTMO - m "a it on in cmv v 'a t oricngelbard, tjapt. Mclntire, Lieut. White and Capt. , Shotwelt Lieut. : White and - Cant. sustain the statement of Capt. Young, that North Carolinians went' With the farthest and did their part as well as any others: ' i v,""-"' 'V11 1:'try' ' The Virginian i quotes - from; Capt. Sbotwell with approval. ,lt says:c'i . I "He proves, first that Pickett's command reached the works, that he (Capt. Shotwell) ran back, when he had to 'choose between that and capture; that he halted in the road to see tbe effect of Pettigrew'a assault that a 'portion tf he 'division did , not' go further man tne road; being terribly' cut up and man uv roaa; oemg lernoiy- cut up and scattered bv a severe flanking fir tht w thouwnd Jtorth Darwinians and2tnne - !SrSSS! L vt vButiivuu - vr. x uuuii i rauier. uuiu van or u usl went ud lo den oft by aTennesseeanshowlnghowtbe, selfta'mW'e;veryanch of him, when States were mixed up In the frayi' and that j"- a-'4nt,i r . 'J'-f ' 4 i'"1 farther on the left Lane's arid Scales' bri- and ; wherever, tried. In?uwar,he Hueui oriuvaruuuiauB wereairuggiing not discernable from the point he occu- pied. . v ' - j Note first: CapC Shot well, of the 8th Virginia regiment, says that Vabout one thousand, JTdrth ( Carping lans and Tennesseeans swept over'thb road and up to the enemy's toorte Sec- ond, be says that aN orth Carolina Col nel (Marshall) fell within dfew feet ofthfTYajilw layoneiSf1 "ahcTTthif d, that he ttaughtV'the North Carolin iar3 hid sect"- JI a lodgment the er 7t.n., by8j in apart of histeai rr' av nt t Quoted bv thft Virainiav . in " - J n!lceRo( the-works.when IW'thonMit fearfal, volkyioto A m v:,of . uaara J m I , TT k. . sttnctiQn.f-.iIIeithen says. that-Armia . tMJt ivi8ion) awept tQ n he .uaya the. .orth Carolinians, Tennesseeana '4idyfbrhe.uaeethe8amelangaage oon, themW?thov Bweptitip ; jnetoyworVgnd tl)Skt Armi8 ad , fell doad ; iA tbe diicW? jaaa M. ,8,tempting;, t0:,jamp. upon a wbrk8.r..IIe next .save. that, iust tiven Armistead'a Mxen with soma .of "clambered, atop breastworks sand seemed to have. But it was: mo- entary, , for be adds, fat -this a, long gne of j'bayonets t (Yankee) rushed idwn.ffoia lhe rear of.) tho artillery d yevehin&.oeniito"nieces:ilv as a retreat of the (-'brigade.'itf i i: j ow. w submit,'ifirst, that accord a, tosCapL Shbtwelloaly a part of iiekett'a taieriArmiBtead brigade; ind .omft' of my own regiment," ever to j , the u.enemyB - works,"- and therefore it ia uhlrae, as Col. Taylor $veri "that Pickett's- division was he-' onlyi'OTgaBbsed-ljody of -.troopa mac enierc iayand; yy-' Capti"- that entered the works of the 'ene- secondly,'- ihat according ;Shot well's " evidence ' the Nbrtb Carolinians- Went' up to the5 rorKs kjou luarsnaii ' DemgKinea ithin sj few feet bf'the 'Yankee bay-- nets and thai he thought" 'that the orth1 Carolinians T had ! secured ; a dgment 'on tnecresL" After all this. ief got a mdsket, ; and proposed to do What ? 'Vile says his own command bat is only portion of Picketts di Tision that reached the crest or works, to wit; "Armisteard's' brigddi and some Of my 1 Mglmerit' StWhad been scattered had 'gon'e- f'toft' pieces"-1- auu inavjoiertiw, ne seizea a rousKei and started to join "the North' Caro- Gaians"i that he thn "thought'-had secured' a lodge on the crest.1 f That is to eay Capt.' Sbbtwelli an intelli gent witness ' approved" by the Vir ginian, ' and a Captain ' of the . 8th Virginia Regiment, Pickett's : Divis ion says after his division had ''gone to pieces," he 'then ' picked up a mns ket to join 'the North Carolinians who were still on ' the crest-r-in the very works ' of , ,tho ',. enemy. , That is his; testimony. This agrees 1 with Alaj., t Engelhkrd's statement Vthat Pickett's men and two brigades of xietn a division were swept from tbe PeuigreW's, Scales's i . ' ( ; ; - and.Lano s North Carolina brigade t- ,ri chAi had .ceued to fight.'.-'apt.1' Shotwejl says: "Farther to the left Lane's and Scales's Drjgades of !!NoirthJ Carotin :ans were struggling for the- heights." Mind you, "he explicitly', affirms that this wis after - his own' division, or been swept 4 away. Maj Trimble,' of Maryland," In ' his 'letter puunsueu ill Jawing . uytq iyrr i?eq,giyes74his decided testimony; "Thus 1 am sure that my command vpcJe8a a JLne'S Kortb .Carolina tmr )tardes)e37fitt ite contest tome, time after J 1 , i.r..,i: lL.,,f 1 . . . V" . : t . A I fi" I 3 So . Trimble-En crelhard and , Shot- well are all agreed in this matter. In I bwt next We will give extracts from I the North Carolina1 Wit.rimwp.R- TSpar 1 i - . : . fn mind we are not saying a word' in disparagement of Virginiansbut only Tindicatmg Nprth Carolina. , , , 1 ' r' hahptoN iir Illinois. ! j Gov. Hampton has made a 'great lmnrpRsinn on mn rMorLnnrn m no. ahown imgeJf wige in I speech in time 'of J peace1 as , he! was j action .ft -aV:.From ' ' ihe tim6 he b to rdire(;t hia fit I U' ruT: ' ''y ; " ksJ 1L State until the prcsehty bd has exhib ited prudebcel' prescience," judgment, and ; a true ; , patriotism, ; :The , great victory in South Carolina t'last i year wall ? 0 win e ' ' to ' his ' v enerVv. f. 1 tact iigh sense 'pt ' rigntkrid invincible vilt'f But for tinijthe carpet-baggers vouldi nowi be preying upon tbe vitals of South Carolina. ?rr '" ir J"- 'lie' has 1 'riiade'' niorq' national repu- 1 tatlon ihan inv mn in I thn Snnth TOoni HW?irPJ t-Wn j?n,,?P. .WHJ 1 sincelher-wan endedip Lamar is hisr onlr rival; Hambtbn has shown him was , a . leader . ot -marked . peraona magnetism 5 and daah.' In peace, he has been in,the.j(mf4hose who are J for progress tecqnciliation and pros- j penty. m L . ai r -His speeches i are" manly, clearpa4 j triotic,! V Thepe r js , no ,'gush,"( about f him. , He . does;nat ?get- down on Iiis knees and errgygen xhe"" interesting or General i mov.wc, r nmu : ( Dual u . . ..: 1; stick."; "Head his speech at'Rockford," Illinois, spoken to a vast crowd,' the greater part of Which was composed of intense Republisans who! elie'ved in the Gospel of hata, andtobo had held up the hands of Grant wherf be stood upon the mount of Terrorism and bnlMozod tl S,,th. - Therej u'fjno confessions no plays. ing th e i sy coph an t or th e 1 i eked puppy, in that' speech. JIt iVaV no, apologies ir uie past, no exircuit" views, uu criminations, no!'clinging "ttO defunct polioicsi no wringing; but it is digni-f fjed,'( calm, t self-respecting,- maply, We are glad that-it was 1sof well ap- preciajteu- mac it mei ;(wnu ,?uuu a cordial reception. Every one seerried pleased, and to echo the noble senti ments of the representative Southron. it did'ius' good;' it did' the country' goo(l!' It will make the North better Understand the ssoutn. VY e ' quoie rom ine ieaaing uepumican paper ot the North west, the Chicago Tribune. It remarks: -' - - Wade Hampton iroes inta an old hot-bed of Abolitionism like Rockford,; is received with open arms by the people, and responds t& their reception in words made eloquent uy i,ue.eTiueu aiuueriiy ui . una tpeaKer(iu looks as though reconciliation were almost Ufattaooompli: We certainly ap prove:Ot uen. 4uampton's itocKiora a qress, not merely as a brilliant piece of ora tory,: but as being well considered, in good taste, and the right temper. Though it was an address before tho County Agricultural Society, on the occasion of an 1 agricultural fair, the public appearance of Wade Hamp ton, of Boulh Carolina; before an Bscm: blage of Illinois people merely to talk about agricultural matters, would have been a disappointment ' Something else Was ex pected; of him, and he knew iU; - ' .-. To impartial person who has, read hisad drcss'can' deny that he' walked over'th?s darjgcrooa ground in a manly fashion His address was no where tinged with partisan ship, nor did he show .the slightest rancor either as against bis former enemies on tbe battle-field nor, .the later enemies who helped to plunder his State after the War. Iu grasping the band or fellowship that was extended to him. there was a manlv asser tion of self-respect -in - justifying ihe sin cerity oi, the, motives, which actuated him and others like him in the war ot the Ke bellion, while ' conceding- equal purity of purpose to those wbo were opposed to him. The spirit ' and tone of his address recall a remark recently made, by Gen. Joe Haw ley, who said, "I find no trouble iu getting alone with confederate soldiers," and added, ?' When we find men who live np lo their ideas of honor and right, we shouldn't expect them to get down on their knees nor ask them lo take back anything." ,n.i. i iTiprn can he little doubt that men like Wade Hampton in the South' have de veloped a stronger sentiment ot nationality than ever existed in that section before the war, and that" their ; struggle ot late years has been for local self-government against carpet baggers who had plundered them, and not against the Union, - the Constitu tion or Its amendments." i - ' SOMETHING TODCniNO. j The surviving members of Hood's famous Texas brigade passed resolu tions of praise and sympathy when the dashing General Custer fell at the head of his men' in his desperate! at tack upon Sitting BulL They sent a copy of these resolutions to the j wi dow of the brave and unfortunate of ficer.! 1 That lady has replied ' in ' the following letter, which is a model of taste and is highly , honorable to her self;) "i ' ' t " ff f J1B. JSUBNS Dear bin 1, regret ( very much that so long a time has passed with out my acknowledgment and thanks for Vie Deauuiui resoiuiiuua uiiieuijr oux vivors of "Gen. Hootl's Texas Brigade." I I could have asked friends to answer your letter for me during my ilmess, but I felt anxious to write xor myscu ana assure tbe Confederate soldiers who so touchingly remembered my husband . in , words of. praise, that I most sincerely appreciate their kindness. 4 ' . -.,1 I I am glad lo tell you how much admira tion Ucn. Uuster fell ior tne courage ana endurance of the Southern armyw ; ni ilt seems to prove the higher and better ature of men when soldiers can admire the gallantry and heroism of each other,' even wncn unxenng iu Benumem ; auu w lief. '!' : ' ' --. i We had . the privilege of i becomings - per- sonally acquainted with Gen. Hood in 1865, and it seems to me a matter of congratula tion when men v can serve, .under such a soldier and gentleman. ( . ,; . j M' : ' "; VeryTespectfnllv, yours, ' I j-i.f!ii r,;, Elizabeth JB. Ctjstkr..ki i 122 Madison avenue, New York, City, August 28. 4 - 1 3 1 That Fait Ban. . j From a party Who was on the train- on the Wilmington- & Weldon ltailroad, dun ring the fast run between WHrnington. ab Weldon, on Monday last, we learn that he timed the train between Wilson and Tols- not'and'she made the' distance' 6f elghi miles in exactly 7 minutes; and ' also ! be tween Wilson and Reeky Mount, 18 miles, which was made in 20 miaules A fat man who was among the passengers on tbe train as he left it at Weldon," remarked that he would never ride over that road aeain when tiie train1 was behind time, "for," said he lo the crowd "it might do very well 1 for you" lean people to be caught in a smash-up, but l wouia oe masnea an 10 innnaer ri ., ? Qalelc Time. .uv , :. -. r 1 The mail train on the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, being behind time yes terday' morning) made the time between tiis'city and Weldoa in 4 tiours and I mi nute, being the quickest time; on record. Mr. Charles Divine, son of Superintendent 1 Pivinei was at the engine, 'V i : . - ... j w The Hon Walter L. Steele ar rived yesterday. - He brought his breech loaf with him, and will make war on the marsh hens. - It is generally supposed, the ammunition -will suffer more than the marsh hens. We will Call for an offlcia report-"'- r " '- ' J J TT- TheJist. or jurors drawn for, thf approaching' term of the Criminal ; Cour must all bo present on the firsj day of the term. There- are no separate lists' for firs! ind second 'weeks, as would appear from the published proceedings of the Board Of Commissioners in reference to this matter. iThe.JBendersonville Qourier ap 1 pears n a nev and becoming jqutfll. v , , fiui1 i AL tract f Preeeedlug The Bcrjd of County Commissioners v. . . : met at h8 ; past f o'clock P. 1. yesterday; nresent.- 3. CI: .-Warner. Chairman, and r - " Commissioners 31. G. Worth, L B. Granger, . a. sanaers ana uuncan uoimcs. . , The Board being called to order the bond of T. 0 (Bunting, as Constable of Wil teingio'n TdVnshij, for 1,'000, with S. H. FishbTatp '"IT" GT FlanneV an(fc B"F.r,Hali astsurewuB, was preBcuicu, auu, uu uiutum of Commissioner Bolmck, 1 accepted' and ordered recorded and placed on file.1 "-; ': : The Board - then) -proceeded i to elect a Constable for. Federal Ppinti TpwoshipC. W. Oldham being the. unanimous choice of the Board.- 1 lit.' Oldham's bond was fixed at $1,0661 ' The bond of Jos. Smith, as Constable of Harnett-Township, ior $500, was accepted; ana praereq recoruea ana piacea on jite. n On motion of Commissioner ; panders,: it was ordered that the overseer of the -old IjTewberri road' and t Mr. A. R. Black - be requested to meet : With thd5Bdard at' its next session; tind state- if there--be ady ob-- jedtion Wthe opening of a Certainiroad' to' the Sound, petiliQned.for by tho citizens, pf Harnett Township, ..,;") ,M 5 On motion of Commissioner Grainger, )t was ordered that the Special Committee of Tax PaycrVof 'the county of New Hanoveiy cbhsisting of CoL' W. L. DeRosseV Ed ward Kidder and Henry Null; be requested to Superintend the Issuing of lho bonds for the county indebtedness, ; . ,t.f ; ! Tho Board then took a recess until Satur- dav next, the 22nd insL i " 8 1 i -f Arrest el m Clerk , In tUm Pootofflee at i I i Mag-Moila for Tampenns wltl the fllall4 l i It-It I A. suspicion bad: been 'aroused-, fur soma time past. Jhat a youngmao-by the name:of Charles Lawton, occupying, the position of ai clerk in the postofflce at Magnolia, Duplin county, had leen iam'pe'rlngwitb'the mails Finally Col: R RBrink, Our Worthy Pj M." at this places determined to try , an experi ment to see it be could find out jf the Jionag man was really guilty of the supposed. derer Hction;" With this object in view lie pre pared a decoy ' letterj containing 50.13 in greenbacks, one of the bills being of the de nomination; of $20 and theJ others srnalt bills, the oiimber ; and description of eaelL bill beingbkeu down so that they could be easily detected. He hen had the letter reg istered and mailed at Magnolia. This was done Saturday evening: The letter, which as aaaressea to crime Qoutn,'"was - tasen out by Col. Brink at this ofl3co and exani-t ibedon Sunday ,-eyenipg,, when ituwas. dis covered that the twenty dollar bill Bad been taken out, leaving only $10 13 in tbe letter. n Monday morning' Cot Brink went- to e office of U. S. Commissioner Van Am' rnge and procured a warrant for the arrest of young Lawton, which was placed in the hands of TJ. 8,, Deputy Marshal , Van Soe len, who, accompanied by CoL: Brink, took the early train for Magnolia, , It happened that' the train : was considerably behind time, so that when they arrived a Magno lia they only had three minutes to spam in -Order to catch the return train.? . Lawton came out to the tram the moment.it stopped to get the mail, when Col. B. told the offi cer to take charge of the young man and put him on the ' other train ' at once. Lawtan wanted to know ; what ' was-' to be- come of the mail, when ColJ R informed' him that be would attend to that; The thing was done so quietly that very few - if any of the persons in and about the trains knew what had happened )'4 i . ? . Soon after ; the train ! bad , steamed out from the depot, CoL Brink remarked to young Lawton that before anything more was done about the matter he might as well cliver up the twenty dollar bill which "be had abstracted from the letter, at the same time taking out , the registered, package which ho (Lawton) had j himself fixed up, upon seeing, which he immediately took out his pocket book and handedover the iden tical note which had been taken fronV the letter, remarking that there was no use in trying to conceal the fact that he tooW.it Arriving at .Wilmlagton young, Lawton I as taken before U. S. Commissioner Van mringe at half past 1 o'clock, when the young man' submitted the case1 and was re quired to enter liito a justified bond in the sum of $500 for his appearance, at the . next term' of the TJ..,S,:Di8trict Court, which convenes in this city on the 81st of October, in default of which be was committed to faiL j Charles Lawtonf,' Who resided 'with 'his father at Magnolia; is only about 21 years of age, and is a young man of very reapec-t table appearance j He remarked to . CoL: Brink, as an excuse for what he had done, that he was getting a very small salary as a clerk in the postofficb and in .'consequence of thia'fact he could ndt'j resist the tempta tion vwhen be Saw that the letter contained money, to appropriate a portion of. it to his own use. , - , t ' - . . 1 Col. Brink deserves much credit' for 'his manyt and uniformly, successful efforts, in ferreting oQt such cases as the above, j . -' m mm ' -T ?? ilclcnesa at Beaafort, N. C. ; . ; 1.'. j A gentleman jnst from Beaufort informs us that' tor the past two: months quite 'an epidemic has revailed among !khe natives of this: 'Usually :bealthy - town j .-the (disease being hemorrhage of the bowels, or aggra vated dysentery,. Nearly, every family .in tjie place has been more or less afflicted with the disease, and a number of deaths have occurred,' among' whom may be men tioned W. Oi King; 'brethei1 of Dr. J.4 Fran- cis and Edward King, of this city, auwelln to-do farmer; Belcher Fuller, an old and prominent citizen; P.- W.: Wheeler,'' a-sdn of Revi Jos. H. ,Wlieclef,of the N. a Oonr ference, who.has been teaching; school in Beaufort; David W. Wharton, an,old and prominent farmer, aged, about .74- years; Jos. D. Davis, a prominent and benevolent citfcen'anci f f or ? many ' years' postm8ten JLewis, J, s JJajtis, ataon ottne late, no.rt C- Davta, who waain bis day one of ' tho leading citizens of the, county, and ' several oiaer prominent ciuens, wnose names can not now be remembered.;; Stcango-i to Bay none of the 'visitors have been attacked by m irliaonan iTV t-o 'A. his ifcrly Crait bu'ilie Coui-tue - tteTenna Ciller Col. x Sent, to . ... t-olt ' .tter "Ilei -Her 1 Character, , Th i com 'autity waf 'considerably exer- cised yesterday by a rtport that reached nere to the effect mat a mysterious vessel had been seen off our, coast,' supposed to be a piratical craft, or in the hands ol'mu- noon (ihtst ;Captj' Joseph urriss,, pilots 1 wuh his son, ,.wero ' cruising : outside, . off Tabb's Inlet,; between Lockwood'ir Folly n'd' ; Shallot le. ; when1 they, fell in? wit j ihe suspicidus Jopking craft ; alluded 10, wiiiU had the appearance of being the old st-Xtt: 'Jonas Stflffli's which "has been to this'poli hiu wianione ocyasiou eince jUie jyar, aou wbick was soldi somo years - goU parties- in Turks Island: 5 !ner hull for'SOme'di tance,'aboVe-.the waleH line' was4 rcovered . : u 1 .. 1 j 1 . . wivii;uaj unices auuv grata, uip ia iter giving her the appe-rance at' first glance1 of efng painted ? green.' f "There were' a n iim ber5 of men; pn deck allj qr,.whomr. iookea ,10 be colored men butonflj and iomeof tlielformer acted -toahtrktemte1r3 TKeVtatAd thn't'lli vessel was' from JJostpn n ,'bou'nd (q Sa-- v&nnah, G itht.a general cargo, ; and . that she1 was sixteen days out;1 To all ap earan'ces thej:cbl6redimen"h,a'd possession ' 1 of the vessel, the solitary .white man having nothing to say,; and from the appearaneeof the vessel there was' no ijoubt'sbe: 'ad ben out muelP .longer "than reported; : besides which, the tails were- badly-split,:' one jib , being the only whole sail on the Vessel;. Tbey displayed, the most jenlire. ignorance of their whereabouts, and wanted to know of the p ilols lhe' 'Way"15'8a'van naTj. j 1 J f The above' facts' wets Tepdrted to the of ficers of y ihef s Revenue Cotter fColfdx' which.; vessel- Marled . . iout . on Sunday morning in' .eqarcb.ofthe, suspicious craft. She returned, to Sm'uhville yesterday, "as wc icmu iiuiu u(i. uuaawicx, .01 uie spam iVLg Aljdl aiid reported that Ihe mysterious 'Stranger was overhauled "a'nd . proved to be -tbe I schoeoe? Jonas t SrAiiA, , fjom Boston to Savannah; wilb a cargo! of ite, and that she had been nearly two; mpnths Out from the' former porjL. Sha is owned and commanded by' colored men; but has ' ' thrCC or four white meri'amook' her "crewlJ TheVe'waj 'nbf one-ion board Uhal under stood1 navigation and tbe; vessel i Could hot oeat of a single nautical instrumeni.' .She . bad- carried, away her pailan(a tsquajJ. and ad been unable to get them, repaired! Otherwise the Cutter reported her alL right '- and 'she was allowed' to 'proceed on her eventful voykgeto her long sohghtdesti- riatibn.1 Her -'cargo t will probably bo in anything but an icp. -condition by the time "sjie reaches porti. ..,7 ; , (j. .j lt I It should ha,vje been stated in.the proper place that the white intt -was reported by the pilot, as we understand, to have been' seen- beckoning to them ta Telura afte'r they had gotten some distance from the - vessel? There was a good . deal of .interest fand anxiety at Smithville in regard .to tbe, mys terious vessel and it began to be fearecj be fore the Cutter returned that she was an armed vessel and the" Colfai bad 'fallen a nrey to the suspicious strange. "" " ' j Since .writing the above we have received the following fjom: Sergeant ;Sey both, . )he ' Signal Officer at Smithville: ,. t r5.d t I Editor Star: The mysterious vessel, that has caused so much speculation here, for a' few. days back, and which the revenue cut ter Colfax went in search of yesterday morning, was-found att$ P.- M: yesterday, off! Cape Romain. ; She was boarded bv Lieut Rhodes with a boat's' crew from the cutter. He reports her to be the schooner Jonas Smith, of Port Jefferson, from Bos- a : 1 ' . ' y . L v , - - , . . iuu uuuuu iu isaviuiu&u, wiiu a . cargo 01 ice, thirty-five days out! 'Her sails are much tow and she is very foul, but otherwise, in a seaworthy ' condition.' - The 'captain bad become "gallied," that is," lost his' course," and the mysterious beckonlngs were for a pilot to take her to ber destination. Lieut. Rhodes famished him the"'necessary ' in formation and sent the' vessel 'on ber course ' to Savannahs -11 - r- . i .i"-- li i-tj I, . i 5 www.. i 4 . . t ... : , . t..i.t.ll. f, j Some three . or four ; weeks ago we men- uuueu iue laci inai ionsojuiri anas xaoa. Johnson, who 'was2 sentenced : 1y! Judge Mearea, of the Criminal'. Court, to confinio-t meat in, the penitentiary for the period pf teat years, -.for 'larceny, had .succeeded .-in t effecting his escape .from that institution alnd was then at Jarge, sf nee which time it has been currently 'reported on' our streets that he has been : seen on two different oc casions id J the ' vicinity of , Wilmington,' once ; at the Jtock ; Quarry and knce. at or near Hilton, the party who. saw I him: at the bitter place stating that he was armed with 4 rifle and a hatchet, and that he had been heard to make9 threats 'that he would be' avenged on certain persons ru' Wilmington fpr the1 part they had taken inf the prosecu tion against .him; and then he; would leave this,, part of, the country. ,-We, b.aye ,re-, trained from, mentioning, these reports aereiotore trom prudential reasons, but qow we uave a siaieraeni 10 me - eneci that . a -;welt ;kn'own . white ."'cilizeri , of this -placed saw him in Xj bouse Jin; this city, yesterday morning; aiuMalkedt with hint. The pafty alluded to knows him well and cannot be mistaken as lo iia identity;. uence we uijua mai.io persist any longer in. keeping the facts from the public f wonkl h not be consistent" with 'our. duty as a. foof-' . n . . .11 .i ..- t . ',1-1 nanst DomeBteps anouia ue taken atfunce to arrest this escaped convict' whose'eorii iuc'tr before and since bis IncalfcefaliOu In' tiie penitentiary has stamped him A a'-dea-, fjerado of the first watcri wbo-rwould hesi tate at nothing, whereby , he, , migh be. able u grauiy nu revenge. it. a. XestlmaBlal.J , -H l. t 1 An intereatlngi ceremony took ; place at St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church on Sundav evenincr. ' at 'the close- of tliflVr- vices,' ihe'occasion bcihglthepreseniing of a handsome and valuable gold Wa"tch; on behalf of ! thei consrreEration.' to Revf. Fi'P: Cook, 'rhosoably and aceeptaTifjr'.Berved .fteii jepple of tlhat cbargedurlng. the, ab-. sence ot tneir. pastor, atevj lr, iiernbeim, On his recent trip to, Europe neat pre sentation . speech jVf aa . made by, Drf Bern,- aeim and touchingly responded to by Rev. air, cwk, wjQoecmstO-Jiavecen taken mtirely py surprise, Th watch .was. pur :hased'by voluntary suVscripVioh by mem- 'era o tue cnurcttn I nut i Spirits Turpentine.. 1 KobeionidM-iit. John Bi Mc Neill, of Richmond county, and brother of Frank McNeilUEsq.,4of , this, (awn killed wo deer at one shot last week. ; j Cabarrik' con h ly : ltal "valua tion of all taxable' propertyr2,208,607.00i T'l.n .m.iunh At ,,...a..1 iJ.l ... . - a..' G9.28; special Stale $3,312 4)1; school tax! ;3,fl33.28; counly tax $16,327.45. :,'rBunc6mle county Total valua- lion "of taxable property $1,994,739 00: cen- Tai oiaie ins. j,vjo us; special Cilale tax or the support of Stale institutions $2 - .a iu;scr.oor lax vo; coantv lax rr Judge Mclvoy refused to crant- 'the high and extraordinary writ of probi-t innou ; 8Kea ior. nv mat lovelv toniwrn" nown now tbronehour- North Carolina .he Raleigh. Southt-rn Underwriters Association.- We suppose, the corrupt and bank- tupt cinciy:o will bo thoroughly examined 1, Monnte 'J'J'n'quirer i .We were leased to; have a' call from Mr. Hamilton IcMillan, on last .Thursday,; who was in tu ;low working iu-the interest1 of the Carolina Farmer, of wbich he is the accom plished and able associate editor. j . Keidsville Times : ,Vo have noWn editors to be accused of being un- -sound in politics, and various other mean tilings, but tbe meanest thing we ever knew 4n editor to be guilty of was putting the Circulation of . his paper at 1,700 in Pettin gill's Newspaper Directory, when the liiHi. . est numoer nervver sends, out as 530.f i fl- rteYist-iL milted JfiSfi, . - - - cn -meeting in the wilderness wilt be held near IuhTn and- remain," 00 Chandler's "Mill : road, four miles from Ruflln and three miles .from Pellmm. commeDciuff on Fri- day, Sept.i,21sf, and ..continuing ntil the' 301. , rr We regret '.lo learn hat one of : uie pecuuu iiuuus uu iuc xkuuiu UITISIOQ OI the1 railroad has died from injuries reeeived from falling and being-rutr overbya"hand darSatyiay.eyenimj,. 9U tlrf , Monroe JZcpresss We learn that ihe dwelling house of -Mr; W. LHull. wlm f lives seven .miles west of .Monroe, was set -. . vn lire uu juuuuiiy msiiit vj an lncen diaryw..-, -The . , fire, ; when.,,diseovered, , wss aining headway; but was extinguished runout 'entailing any loss.'.' A large -umber pf persons com; this, place attended s lie Protestant "camo raeelinf at Antinoh eleven :miies north of here, on last Sunday. We learn that lbe meeting was nnusuallv -successful this veaf. , ' - , , -- , 1 correspondent of the Raleigh Obscrter writes concernincr the late eminent itnd amiable. Chief Justice Henderson of Oranville': The grave of Chief Justice Henderson lies unmarked- by marble shaft or even humbler granite, ip the old family grave yard 'of ' Montpelier, near Williams- boro; It is one or tne enaractertsucs of the family not to emblazon the deeds of their proudest sons ' themselves ' 'on monuments. Then, let North Carolina do it . j . Chief Jus-: uce Henderson deserves it. t , j XVeldon'iys: Mr. L. Emry has ''near herd a -model ' farm ! of 80 acres -ff-om which he ba sold during the present jear ,1,500 dollar? worth of hay. On the same' place he has thirty acres in corn from which he exoecta ten barrels oer acre. He - has four acres in golden millet from wh ih he cuts 2.000 pounds to. the acre." - Al. ' P. Purneil haa pn jiis farm, six miles from this place, a , grape vine. - senpnernong, which he planted tbirly years ago. It covers aj space of - ground . 130 feet square, t Has , only one stem ten inches in .diameter. . , j I --Oxford Jree'JOance: During the . past Week information has reached us of tbe loss by fire of a number of tobacco barns in the county. On Saturday night Messrs. Bryan & Knott1 lost,' on the North Fork faun, three barns filled' with tobacco. .' In- surea f iw on eacu oarn. earn u arris aiso Ipst a barn oii 'the ' Frfday : preceding-i-we - have not iearnea-wuetner insured . or not. Qn the same evening Mr;. Simpson Adcock, i ib Walnut Grove township, also had a,barn ! Of very .fine tobacco; destroyed from the ,4 same cause, ilr. Adcock had just returned from sellrog a portion tt his last year's cup 5 in Durham, some of which brought him as high as $300 per hundred. . ' s Charlotte Southern Home: The 61th ' session of the Syhod of North Caro lina Will; meet in.lhi. city oh the. 24th of. Uext month, at 7 o'clock'P. M., in the Sec- . and Church edifice." A" very large atteu-' dance is expected. -r-t- The Fayetteville, t Ark., Democrat of -a recent date contains ud acconntof 'the reception -accorded- Gen. v BIill on ibis arrival at, that place. - He was serenaded by the .citizens and made them a oner speecn. xne .pnry misnap mat naa -befallen him on the way was the loss of his cjarpet-bag. This was advertised in the paper. --u- The officers of the! Southern Underwriters Association, at Kaleigh, have . been indicted by the grand jury of Chowan cpanty for obtaining 'money under false pretences.-tFrom r all accounts, this, must . have been a huge swindle, 'for since the, bubble . his bnsted.J nothing can be found ' ' tb show that it ever had any real existence as aa insurance company ' ' 1 I ' Raleigh' .Register'. On - Sunday rjight the dwelling house Of Mr: !W. W. Per kiuson, tn tbe old. Western ward,- was de- -atroyed by fire. .Loss about $2,300; insured . ib the North1 Carolina Home Company for $1.500. -,H ia thought that, the bouse.waa set on fire, as there were 'shavings , under- . one side of it." We sincerely regret to ' learn from the Wilmington foit that ex - , Mayor Canadays eldest daughter Irene BeU-rdied on last Saturday.) Only one child is now left to brighten the household . of ' Mr.'Canaday and wife. The Inferior" .Court ot Beaufort county is made up thus- ' ly & Thomas sparrow. Chairman ; . , W . jj. v. 1 4 rr li rrf 1 t a "J . Campbell and O. ff.'P. Tankard,' Associate Justices; O, -. A. Sparrow, 'Solicitor.;, No . Clerk was elected. - Messrs. J.. W. Bul la, J. S.' Worth, T.' ' d'Somers, R.' L, Sur- ' ratt and Peter Hughes, have been appointed -revenue gauge rs for, the Greensboro district Of this State.' A Mr. Mooring has been appointed Sheriff of Pitt county in place of Wilson, the defaulter and absconder. Charlotte 'Observer'. , Rev. E. F. Rockwell" 'formerly professor of Greek L and Latin ai' Davidson College, ' and now. pastor of Fifth .Creek and other xresbytc- nan cnurcues ia xreueu cuuuiy, is engageu ib writings book in which he will endeavor 1 tb establish tho fact that the late much dis- " ! ' .. : ( . . ' . 'T I." L ... . - . . 1 I .. cusseu Jreier Diewark itey was mo veriiauie Marshal Nev.' In'. Sunday's 'Observer 'it was stated that city Marshal Alexander. ,Uad received a letter from' the Chief of the ,vnaiieaiunii.uiicu; . lnqoirurg it liuie i-iu va riance was wanted, here aud asking, for a rhidQte description of hiaL - This descrip tion Iwas forwarded : by. BaUirday: evening's mail, and yesterday afternoon Lieut Boger, Jf the Charleston police; 'arrived here With, ' lowranee. ; rrrriThe winsome mosquito is : just now at thu very height of bis muscu lar deVeiopmeni.',,l5y-treason1 of - the re dent cool, spell . '"his cyet 3. not dimmed, . nor his "naluraT strength abated." : rue rresiaeDt ana party nave oeen in vited by tbe .Mayor to make a stop at Char lotte on their Southern lour. - Nearly 411 the merchants are increasing their forces -Of clerks. ; 'Many new facesare seen behind ie counters id the' different stores.' r- club las' recently been, formed ? in this City which bears, tho, myslerious name of i tkr i4tt ..; -j-! Ll i,f iyj. v. A4, in couipuseu vi uicuiucia - . oth sexes. itw Statesvillo correspondent: ha ArinA fmit ffaYa ia nnpnin rr mit And idding fait to assume 'larger proportions isnever. , 'XUi& ana the .root, ana ucru ade. the lalterpf . which. is conducted . on. verv larce scaie uv- jtiessrs. iy auace jmw-i are sourcesof, considerable revenue to the-. people of (redell and, tbe more mountaiaoua. qounUea7Aj .,j , a ;;i, .,t ,!..' - V.
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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