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Mr. Randall is charged with haviug clearly defined .his position on both , sides of the great Soathoro scheme for building a railroad to the Pacific ocean. We do not know how true this is. We know lie made au excellent presidiug offi cer. , Mr. Sayler, another, prominent candidate, is said to be 'a leetlewtoo 'fond of bis cops to be relied upon 1 with safety, in so important a posi . tion.' As we said some 'time ago, the South can coutrol the. election. If she so determines her candidate can be elected, whether he hails from one . section or another. , But the question is one of policy would it be wise to select a man from the South at this time ? We are not sufficiently in -formed to say with certainty that the Southern Democratic delegation will be "united-. anddeteTmined'as to. the demands to be made for governmental aid in building the Southern Pacific Haiiroad. : Our,- people do not . like the idea of the Government bestow-. ' ing subsidies upon enterprises and projects that belong to private, indi vidual adventure, or to companies organized to advance private ends. Our. politicians and press have here tofore made .a vigorous war upon all . governmental subsidies, and, even in the ' last Congress, if we remember , aright, the Democrats refused to con tinue certain subsidies that. a Repub lican Congress had granted. -- We are not satisfied as tolthe ex act character of the proposed Pacific . Railway.:-We are, of course, inclined to the" belief that it will benefit the South, and is so intended, but we do . , not forget that there have been grave charges that it was a selfish scheme of the great railroad king, Tom Scott, of.Pennsylvania, to benefit him and ' ' his road, and to save them from hope , less bknkrupicy. The road ought to be bnilt if it will beuefit the South, for upoh the prosperity of the South depends to, a great extent as we, re cently urged " in , thesei 'columns, the general - prosperity of . tbe country,- and especially .of the Eastern States. Don Piatt is brilliant but unsafe in much that he contends fqr, in his pa-v per, ;The Capital. " We give an ex tract from one of his editorials, io which there is, matter; for reflection and no little Iratb: ,--.ja,i'.-;-,?.-4-.-" 4,Now, while the South is Democratic and favors borne role, it is also for the old - flag and an appropriation.' We do not blame obr erdnc sisters,, or rather, to .use tbe phraseology , of, the . day, our, erring . uroiuera, t fur : Juein . tnus moved. . YY line . I ihey were fighting for their principles the ' - North, in possession of tbe . Government. j was emptying tbe Treasury in behalf of in ; ternal improvements of . its, own locality. iTbe Sutbr impoverished by .the war feels 'keenly ibe sense of injustice .that leaves ihem wUhoul aid, from , the Government. Tbey are opposed, on principle to subsidies and internal improvements at tbe expense or. he uoyernrnen t, but una uiemseives in tbe situation of tbe Reverend Mr. Robeson, - father, we believe, of . tbe .late Secretary, who nreacbed to a little conerecation in the Lord, known as wreckers, on tbe coast of. ricw Jersey.. - Tbe good man was much opposed, on religious principles, to the practice of wrecking.. One stormy day, when ..holding; forth on,, ibis snbiect. a wreck was announced as on their immedit ate coast. The congregation started to iliir feet. , , ''Hold, brethren,? shouted . tbe . good man, apd bis startled bearers paused. . wbiie .their pastor. .. descending tbe put pit, made bis way to the door,,- Gaining that he ciieoViVNow let'a start (air.'! j The South only wants to start fair, and when she has equalized the plunder she will re-, turn, to. the good old ;Jcffersonian Demo cratic doctrine." ,.' ;,',!. t,,n We may add, that Mr Randall is conceded to be much teiJstrobgest 'Vii .ir t VOL. ,8. candidate in the field. It i asserted block in his way:Thal removed and he will in all probability be the next Speaker.' .11 5-, NEW : W4Vi T: I V JOtD' i I ; " . , DKBT" : r i , f ll Whiskey has Hs" in Virginia.'The Aloffett bell punch IdFd the thing- f It is now in operation in1 Richmond and other cities, and the couseqnence is that bibulous' gentlemen and 'others who frequent bar-rooms have to. pay fifty per cent.;,additional fori heating their :,"iutoarda" and "wetting : their whistles." i- The Richmond r State i "The Dlan. adooted bv the linnnrlWa to lay tbe tax on the consumer seems to be uniform : as - to alcoholic compounds in every - case that came' to - our notice the price per drink being raised from ten to fif- teen '.cents, or twenty-five cents for two drinks. This, 'arrangement pays tbe two and a half cents to the State and leaves a ' margin to the bar room to pay for a regis-; ter clerk, if one Shall be needed.-in ttime- of crowd and hurry.: As to beer and malt beverages generally, two plans : seem now to be tried, some ' lager ' sellers increasing tbe price of a glass of beer to six cents, and others, wiser and more far seeing, re ducing tbe size of the glass." If this ew law, that brings the State two and a half cents for!everv drink," can only ' be ' taith' fully;' exe cuted it will prove a great source of revenue, whilst it may not reduce the number of drinks' taken," It will help the tax-payers if it does not help the temperance cause. "' - --i , The result of the first week's ope rations in , Richmond is encouraging. The tax, as we . have said, is 2 J cents on every drink of alcoholic stimulant; and $ cent on every drink of' malt liquor, In. teas than a week a little over six days the . sum - received in Richmond : alone in- taxes from these sources amounted to $318 53. This is from only twenty-five saloons, or one-sixteenth of the whole number, for there are four hundred working by the Moffett Register in that city.' In one week the revenue drawn from this new and original source of reve nue will amount to about $2,000. In one year the receipts from the sale of ' spirituous and- malt liquors in Rich mond alone, a city of some seventy ihousand people,will not fall mucll below $100,000, if the law continues : . : - - ,1 - , -i i . . to be executed with fidelity. This will give a magnificent in come to the whole -State. ,; Let this ingenious way of paying off the State debt be rigidly enforced, and - Vir ginia will soon be relieved of the bur dens of taxation. No man who drinks regards his whiskey bill as a tax. He loves Iq pay it.' So whilst be grati fies his own appetite; he also lifts a small burden from tie bosom of his old mother every time1 be crooks his arm and lifts his glass to his anxious tips. We prophesied, when the' bill passed the Legislature, that it could be made to subserve an excellent and important end, and could be enforced to a considerable extent .In 'spitepf cheating and trickery. : It would not, surprise us to learn that from - this simpte source alone a million or more dollars, were, raised jn one year. ' From this experiment in our sister State great and Important results1' to the country may follow. It may1' be that a revolution in the t whole .sys tem of taxation may take ; place and that instead 1 of- raising revenue in the old way"' it may' be raised by simply taxing men s appetites.. Wpy. bhauld. not this be; .done?.n Every man who smokes a ten cent' cigar, pays' at least two cents'in the way of iax ior nie privilege. ,(av Buy rate, the , Virginia experiment will; be anxiously ' watched by the Legislators 'of the land; and if it works as well as Dr. Moffett,' its ' authorV and .other friends, think, then other States will 'adopt iu It is too soon to prophesy ;now "what will happen in Virginia in fallibly,) but a simitar, law in lsfdrth Carolina . would . probably. bring t in enough: revenue to pay off every bent of our state' debt within tbe next twenty years, and the credit of North Carolina would be . restored and ber good name preserved.;. -1 An effort ia being made by a Lon- don publisher to compete f with the cheap unwholesome literature of tbe day jb'yV the repubu'eation, of good, healthV books at a cheap price. One of; thesei i Bunyan's Pilgrim's Pro gress,'' has already ;r appeared jf and may be 'obtained.' complete for one penny.',, jTheV.book ,.is? in pamphlet form, and consists of 64 pages, fairly printed. ' arid with numerous wood cuts,' which, if .not' highlyfinished ' are quaintly suggestive. . : h.'t in Washington that, there are Jour r he,Kriian pays its respects to wbof-whilat -cultivating his swelling Democrats -who "wijl not voto for the xr. ln neJpaftiIaV we are acreslhadmot neglected the i gTace Randall it he is the' nominee o the agreed, in the i poor opinion "we enfjfuUelds;of literature; where he has caucus. , t This is the chief stumbling terao of ieacjh.otherV articles.' -roamed at will arid "gathered anosev Til ltd V.: . ..V--Vr;:,ll'M Ira I S- WILMINGTONj N.!q.; PRID AY; SEPTEMBER .28; 1877. THE HOUFOLK TIBGINUR. have; never read: any. j productiona lrom'au intelligent source that are so destitute of forte and"; plaiisibility.--An. 'intelligent " bov of fifteen, can oart strawsat ten paces through the. verbal. uobwebs,. called; byjeFtr; ginioA in the plentitude: of its 1 self omplacenay 'inexorable and invin cible logic." '; ' 1 . 'V''i 1 Th6 article" selected I by the Vr '- ffinian for comment, was our second Ipng article. : We have since writteii a. third. We are quite ..contented to leaveithe mattery where it is, The peopleof North Carolina ife not quite as sta'pid as they aref thought MO be by some "magnificent - Virginians, ajd they, too, understand '"the Origi nal issue.' They know . that for fif- ( teen years the soldiers of this State have j been systematically misrepre sented by certain Virginia writers,' and that Colonel Taylor, in his article in ihej Times quite deliberately glori fied bis own people at the expense of Northj . Carolinians. . This has been abundantly shown in three editorials Of thelSTAB. - , r i-i j The compliments of the Virginian w our soiaiers wouia oe mqre becom ing if they did , pot . emanate from a paper jthat upholds Colonel Taylor in all he has written, and that persists in reiterating an unfair and i erroneous account of the battle. -' ' 1 ! j The; Virginian is mistaken. in suj- posing that we have "caught" , from another paper a certain "contagion." We had written - articles concerning the injustice done' ourNort Caro;- Una boys at Gettysburg long before the Observer was thought -of. : Col. Taylor is not the first Virginia writer whose incorrectness and unfairness WO have punctured- We prepared Our first article in review of his gross errors two or : three days before the first Observer article appeared. We confess we cannot read ' with much patienee systematic misrepresenta tions of facts byf which North Caro lina soldiersare insulted s and .slan dered. If some of v our North Caro lina ' papers have 1 been silent under Such' treatment the ' Virginian ' need hot take the flattering unotion to its soul that they do not .censure, all efforts! to reflect upon our soldiers or o ' rob ' them of their - well-earned laurels. " We hope' that when that j'book? of Col. Taylor's comes out, will be shelled along the whole pne iT jit contains the gross and un warranted reflections upon the North Carolinians who fought on, the third ,1 ay, which are to be found -in his etter to the Philadelphia ' Times. There man be no greater insult offered o brave men who have done their ,1., .'. . ,' t-s. ..... . .. .. - . - duty than to.be placed in the atti tude assigned them by the last his forian from Virginia. ' ' : - ' 1 We will publish in our next the evidence we promised some days'ago, a part jof which first appeared in Our Lvoina and Our Dead aud all, ..of which (was. copied, - intoj tbe Raleigh observer. That" will probably close all wefwiil have to'.'offer'-iiutil that f(bbok is1 forthcoming." THK WELDON FAIB. We are pleased to notice that the j Weldon News speaks so. .hopefully of the approaching fair at1. Weldon. ! It expects ten1 thousand people-" to be present when our popular, and versa- jtlie woveruor wmi vbu.iuo gwu(c.v: pie what "he knows about farming.' We can testify Chat he knows h6w to speak on .such occasions, if . he is "a shade iarmer,'; as - hVt'callsl the.,nm-. brella fellowsri Some! ten -year a. ago !of more, he made an agricultural ad; areas si unnvme, y a., auu i ww ceuenti it is true ue uiu now . coumub himself very closelyi to Iris text,;but he nevertheless'' talked - Wisely and well.J The Richmond ng-tiiVr copied it witUjine remarK .inai i.ougnt to, be published in every .newspaper in the Soiith. ' '""".i J - p-; If py one; thinkTi.lRoyyance is not a iarmer aa well ias f Ji'ellowiof infinite! jest, only read the 'following unique: recommendation of art etcel- lent agricultural monthly ij Mi.til , j 4,I read tbe Planter and Farmer from CQ7. ver to cover, and find it. abounding ' in, the. most interesting matter. . ' Like Payne, 'the author Of 'Home, Sweet Home,' who, it i said, had no home, I, who have no .farnv am most intensely interested : in -all;farm, literature, and dream dreams fit some day retiring to such a' haven or old age, 'sbow-r ing, I suspect, that agriculture, is the natuw ral occupation of .man.: .It: was a;!eelin strong in that, old reprobate, Falstaffforin? his dying hour., flame. QuickC teljs ns,Jiex 'babbled of green fields.' "4 i , 4 J. V could have -written that ? A farmer,: 'of .observations' as ftbey- grew,': as :'!mw Lnufl T.t! tin! rnV iollv;if Sv n... ) 4ku J rf J .14 V IIV. . - uui,u . A If. UUr. Advice to al.l is to go to- the ? Weldon Fair, for - the crowd will be-there and the feast of good things, ' f i THE, SO CTH ERN, CRDEKWBI. , ,TKBsi ASSOCIATION'. ". " The people and 4he I press : ; areMri-- terested. injth.e uncovering ot, the transactions of the Raleigh Southern Jiriderwriters' A88Qciat.Qn.f,JPrbn,the rst it-was believed 5 in Raleigh' and other places to bo' a regular A'wild, cat? -concern; that had no "substantial t r. 4- , . . - pasis, . ana i an at aiaoj;;. mtena Lto transact business in accordance with; the recognized principles of well reg ulated fire insurance companjes. , This common rumor l prompted ..the then Secretary of State to inquire ioto the matter. The .President, Armistead Jones,' insisted that the company was .11 - .V e 1 - an rignt, ana inviiea a "tnorougn in vestigation." ;The Raleigh JMews I "Secretary Howerlon professed to' have ipade the examination, and certified, that be found the Southern Underwriters Asso ciation 'do'iDfr business upon sound princi ples, within the provisions of Hs charter and in 3 compliance . with the laws' of the fjtate of North Carolina,' : and that it had the securities set forth in the statement set out below; and further that, in bis opinion, tbey were 'entirely worthy the confidence 3f tbe Insuring public The certificate of le Secretary of Bute had the effect of al laying suspicion with tbe public .generally, thongh many were not satisfied, setting lit tle store by1 William H. Howerton's certifi cate, and the Association went on - with its. operations until tbe collapse in the spring of the present year."' -r I The' company professed to have as sets to the amount of 1)152,379.13,' and yet it is said a loss of $15,000 paused it to burst, and those insured nave had to whistle for their money.' There is something' very4 mysterious about the whole thing: ' How could it break if it had those assets ?' What ias' become of the one . hundred and ifty-two thousand. dollars they pro ess to have' bad ? .Wetrust. the ivhole. matter will be diligently and 1 icrutinizingly . inquired into, and jj if raud has been , attempted, upon the )ublic, that those guilty will be prose-. :uted and punished,-if- that be possi-f le. ; Thisisthevr8t time in the his ory of our, State that a company, has een organized "that was suspected of oul play from the startl - The News .hnscommeots:;; ., - ... t ii "The conduct of the Association subse laent to its suspension or withdrawal ap ears inexcusable. We have waited in vain or some good reason to be shown for. the ecent action of tbo corporation in first, ts suspension or withdrawal from business without notice or a statement to the public or to its own policy holders; second, its fail- H fire to verify tbe last annual statement 01 be condition of the company, required by burlaw to oe made to tbe secretary 01 elate; third, its failure to pay up. its losses; ourtb, its stout resistance to tbe efforts be- ngmade to discover tbe whereabouts of its assets. 1 For the course of this association a respect of these points, we see no Justin- fcaftoa or excuse." The death rate of the colored peo ple in the South is probably fifty per jcent. greater than that of the whites.' For instance, - in ; Charlotte, we re- ember that the ' vital- statistics bowed twice the deaths among' the olOred that were among the ' whites ccordiner td boDulation and this case is not exceptional. : The New York j:7?i, the leading : Republican par per ot the oountry, is discussing the large death rate among that race so much greater than it was iu the days of slavery. It saysr 'X . 4 1 1 1 . .'The causes which lead to the terrible death, rate among the colored people need Jnot long.be sought for. .; They are only too. iappaient to those who are conversant with itue modes or lite or tne, negroes 01 me cot jton States; Jhey, neglect or starve their off spring, abandon the sick to their own re sources, indulge every animal, passion, to lexceBs, and when they . have money spend -their nitrhta in the most diserustine and de- ibilltaUrjg debauches; ah 'these facts natur-' ally lead (9 tbe questions,, are tne negroes, 'going the way of the ; Indian f Are they , being civilized 1 from off tbe ; face of- the earUift" , .. ; ; liJrf A correspondent of the New York Siitf makes this mournful announce ment: "Haves has done mofe toward destroying the Republidan party ihatai any man living'or deadi1- All hisre4 forms 'have 'been "stabs' iff' itfr vitat i parts.';The truth is beginning toforco- itself tipoa the minds :oflhe 'thinking portion of the party Jthat jthe organi zation will noV survive; his adminis tration.. I( The party,onQe,had the pow' r. to rid itself of - the incubus, but, it ia now too ,late ilThey have nestled the serpent too long in their bosom, toj eject him with.- saety.r ; , !' It is supposed a good many Demo-- ' ifratid members' of Congress will !( af teVfre:er4;rade and Bay ler's rights; ' j iH",(t '--m.i. ..... j".,is rr-Tfi? -Mobbtpstq. Stab was ten , years old Saturday. - . , , . -1 'l 1 4, f5 j ' COlJtlW GORIRilSSIONBUS. ' V , I,,-. . , . ... , v, : . I : Abstract of Proceeding, r The Board of County . Commissioners met in special session yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock j present, J. .J Wagner, Chair man, and Commissioners B. G. Worth, J S.v8anders and Duncan Holmes. : -( ! It was ordered thatl C W. Idham-be granted until the next regulariifieeting t6 give his bond as constable of Federal Point township.' ? : --.' 1 :l ;-,.-u It was ordered that . the. school claim in the bands of .Samuel Bear be, referred to tiie County' Attorney, to collect- (he same from the school funds of Caswell township, Pender county. ' ,1 - j On motion it was ordered that the Stan- dard Keeper be allowed' to store his weights and' measures in . the ofSce of . the Kegister of Deeds. . r . s $ ':. ' . j On motion of Commissioner Worth tbe tax.' books of Cape Fear, Federal Point, Harnett and' Masonboro' townships were received andV ordered to "be" turned over to the, Sheriff , -with instructions to proceed to collect the same, f -.4 ' ':,'r, i( j It was ordered that the clerk of the Board draw off a duplicate list from the' jury list already made, for the, use of the - Commis sioners." ' " v ' hd - V-1 ; 'i'' ' I. On motion of Commissioner Sanders a committee of 1 one - carpenter was 'ordered appointed t examine , Smith : Cceekj bridge and submit a report to tbe next meeting of the Board. - , t f Ordered that the Clerk furnish the Board with a list of the Overseers of Public Roads in the County of New Hanover at their next meeting. ' J . j A communication having: been received from the Township School Committee with regard to the Peabody Fund, it was or dered that the late School Committee fur nish the Board of County Education' with an - itemized 'Btatement of the Peabody Fund during their term' of office, j - : . -I Ob motion, the Board adjourned: i School Blatters la Haraett Tawnihlp. ; The School Committee of Harnett town ship met Wednesday and. organized by tbe election of D. C.,; Davis as Chairman and Capt Lewis Pierce as Clerk. It was de- J . 1" it44 .-.f.iC ,1. few ' i. : .. i. cided to proceed at once to take the school Census of the district, after which the Board adjourned to Saturday' of next week,' when a report will be made and some definite un. derstanding arrived at in connection with school matters. " a. Care for Dlplitberla. 1 1 1 As anyBUggestion of a remedy for this1 lerrible disease, which has proved - fatal la 60 many instances ' in" different portions of be State, not!excepling our own -city, must be of interest io tbe general public. We give the followiagtr-wbich ia credited ta 'a cor respondent of a Victorian. papet"s I v jt I ."Should any 0 your family be attacked With tbe diphtheria do not be alarmed; as it Is usually and speedily : cured without a doctor i When it was raging in England, a few years ago, I accompanied Dr. Fields bn his rounds to witness the so-called 'wpn 'derful cures' he performed, while the pa tients of others were dropping on allr sides. The remedy, to be so. rapid, must be sim- pie. All he took with him was powdered sulphur and a quill, and with these be cured every patient without exception. He put a teaspoonf ul of flour of brimstone into a wine glass of water and stirred it with his finger instead of a spoon, as the sulphur does not readily amalgate with water. When the sulphur was well mixed he gave it aa a gar? L gle, and in ten minutes the patient was out, of danger. . .Brimstone KUisevery. species jof fungus in man, beast and plant in a few minutes. Instead of spitting out the gargle, She recommended tbe swallowing of it. ; In .extreme cases, in which be had been called lust in tbe nick of time, when (he fungus was too nearly closing to allow the gargling; he blew the-sulpbate through a' quill into khe throat,' and after the fungus bad shrunk to allo w of it, then tbe gargling- He never lost a patient from diphtheria. "I j "If a patient cannot gargle, ' take ;'a live coal, put it on a shovel, and sprinkle a spoonful or two of flour of brimstone at a time upon it; let the sufferer inhale it, hold-1 jing the head over it, and thef fungus will die. If plentifully used the wboleToom imay be filled almost to suffocation, and the patient can walk about in it, inhaling the fames, wun doors ana windows - eiosea. jThe mode of fumigating a roomTwith sul phur has often cured moBt violent attacks of cold in the head, chest, etc., at anytime, and is recommended in cases of consump tion and asthma,. ,h (f f ui.t'KlJVi - 1 '"New steam Brake. Vv':-- -' -1 j r Cumberland Civilian. n . . - , ' Somo interesting experiments were biade yesterday ,ini(.tbej yardjof , the .Baltimore and Ohio railroad with a 'new steam brake constructed bVthe company at Its Motttit' Clare iWOrks. The brakes were attached, to a regu-t Oar passenfweMney and--a distance jof pne-ten th of a mile-run. ;o .a down graae ot twenty leet to. tn,e mue. ,.at the first trial, at a speed "of twenty- six miles per hour, a stop was made1 in the distance of two hundred! and ninety-four feet, the brakes being ap plied tothe drivers of ,the engine.' In"the second'experiment, at a 'speed of !-sixteen miles per hdurj it 'stopped in two hundred and thirty f pet At twentyseveh miles per. hour, a stop; was made4n -fi ve bu ndred anl-eighty- two feet; A final trial-at thirty-three -miles per hour, using-steam .on the. "unver orascs anu air on ine veuuer, the stop 1 was made - in five" hqndred a"nd ieiffhtv-threa 1 feet. .This Ja .ref carded 1 aa. the best result : ever, ob-. laineq wuq a wraice. j. nis mveuuou Jwiine applied td'alf passenger eri-. gines rtrrimng -on1 the'-heavy grades ana is esumsiea mat a win be stdpped by theril in its own length. ; r.7-T,Baby? is. a .spanking drama.r-ti jjosum J.V81. wun. sparKiing coii-qui :in every ticVCineirinati-OmmerciaL'ThiX'a phid Pres&i The ? die appears to' he ' cast that it's? acradle toofigood' a play- uponi TroTtix- Boston JBiiUetitmii tt r&tmi't 61U . - An unio-iJemocrauapaper says the : Pennsvlvania T Democratic nlatform "'was aDDarentlv ' the work of an. idiot. I &na yet -some persons say , tnai a weiao- cratic editor canf tell the trutfe-, .As ' ' - J:nJ ''K,;!:N0.48. fbe Brave Army pf JVortheru. Virginia L&en;; JLrHeth, C, 8: A, in the Peiladelphia I ,v:;- V,2 .Weekly Tmes..!,,".. v.. . I Co'nside'r what' the Army of North arn' Vlrcrinift had in one JVear annom roVe that drmy to-'-helter under its guqWatsFollo wingVup .this success; aiter a erieB j ,01 engagements, i ope wa driven across the Potomac Then fjollowed the J battle .; of SharpBburg; Antietam), when, possibly the figh t ing capacity of the Army of Northern, Virginian, never shone .brighter . te umbers reduced by fighting, fatigue and hard marching to less than forty' tlhensancf sttongit 'gained' a drawn battl(againsti its - adversaryi iw'ho numbered j very . .near, s if not ) quite, One 1 hundred ; thousand men. i Then came Fredericksburg, " where, with its ranks :"Tecu'perated r tdy seventy eight thousand," it hurled across 'the Rappahannock ; river an, adversary who had, crossed. with one, hundred and ten thousand men. Then follows' that most daring and wonderful bat tle,;, Chancellorsvillej where .it, again triamphed, fifty thousand -strong against its "adversary numbering one hundred" and thirty-two, thousand, compelling him ;jto seek shelter .be-' hind the Rappahannock. - After such 4 series of successes 'with .'aoh-'-'dis-parity jof. .numbers," is it wonderful that the Army of Northern . Virginia, ind its-great leader should have be lieved it capable of ' accomplishing: anything in the power of an army to accomplish? " r . " SS . ' " The' New Jersey Convention. . ' Teenton, Septi 19. The: Democratic State Convention met to-day. Ex-Chancellor William-, son was elected Chairman. " A series of . resolutions . were presented "by fjudge Ashbel Green, and were unan imously adopted.: -They are : five in umber. '- 'I be hrst c reafhrms : the 4 innciple8 of the St.' Louis platform, nd denounces the frauds by which the; ' President and , r3Vice President Were installed in their positions.: The Second, congratulates" the ' supporters of free goverument"!tnat President tT.. ml- ' 't 3 1 " T . ' ' ' xxayes nas auopteu - iue zjLemocraiic bolicy of -local self-government -in he Southern States.'. 'The- third op pOBes speciaHegislation,and expresses iompathy f or the workingmen.f The fourth demands a radical reduction of til salaries, fees and 'costs.'' The fifth alls (or a reduction of the slegal in- lerest in the .State to .six per! cent, While the first ballot was under way Gen. George B. McCIellau was placed in " nomination.- llis name L- aroused 1 . 1 . t .. i .1 it ireai enmusiasm, ana wnen xne .oai ot was declared it was found that he s nominated The "vbte stood: oC&llan, 804: .Carter, 21 : Abbott, 56; St09kton, .p'f The -vote imraeJ leaiaieiy was maae unanimous t tOt-L -v.:-! ': Judae Strene. ,y, . t : ;m, . r f Wilson Advance. , . , Tlie act of Judge Strong, in receiv ing pay as' 'Judge, from the date of pis election in March instead of May, the ?ay he qualified as Judge, is be ing severely censnred;by some of the lapers of - the State... We have "no dea that Judge Strong had any cor rupt motive' in receiving this money in fact he may have been justifia le, strictly speaking in law, in doing bo; still we think it was unfortunate, it . not wrong, as tne services ior which he "drew ' pay had ! riot been actually rendered for that timejuThe jvery doubt existing on . his mind, and jwhich caused, him to consult others las to his! right. !o draw tbe money, should have restrained him " from re beiving it, notwithstanding the opin ion of the Attorney General and oth ers in favor of his claim. In matters jof this kind, where ' there are dpubts, teither as to the propriety or - legality jot the acfiris alwaysbesto be on khe safe side " -f -' ' 'V : - I - ' A Cbanee for Yankee' Doodle.' ' tBoston Herald.1 i'-1 It is with feelings 'of pride that an merican .should t read, of the gor-t geous t; raetamorpnoses wnicn . our oung people who go aDroau to study lrisic nnderffo'' To see a plain-: Mis Rice after six months in Italy,change fcer cereal surname .for Jthat of j Mile. Ricci, and. thus show foreign t snobs rhat an American girl can do, is su remely' satisfying to ourv national ride, n Blanche 1 Tucker, 0 who -i need ot. have been ashamed of her name, for Bhe is of no kin to that namesake Iwho sang for his supper, now appears an her home paper as Blanche - Kosi- pel la, i w ni le iuary i n m Die, aaugnter ibf our, late consul at Milan, is utterly felorious in the name; of ..Beatrice Amote., Go abroad,'dear old Yankee name f or ihat resplendent one Tor Uuan IL.Pudik j n'ij- ! , S, k 'l. , . 'mmmmm-mm-mmmmamm i i 1 ' j -1 'Dimift .Dene by the cyelone; ' 1 v; I HousN'TiccTSept. 20.- t "iJTbe -following f ia, ; the,, estimated (damage by.tha late cyclone., around; tl-lnlvaatrm 'I ha rrnuorn monf mmmvlra 'in Bolivar. channel, iricInding!-asrpoiv itiori Of thO 'floetit $745,000 the I GaU j vestop, iHonston and - Henderson f ail ! road,, loss of track . and the i bay f bridge, $20,000 ; the Gulf, Colorado ana sapta r e rauroap, toss or tracs ,$13,50P -A I iarcompleted buildings , in ; the citVj, , $9,500 j .bath . houses on the bach, ldo' ; twenty small schoor' ! riefs7 cap siied 1 loss $5,000' ; - private buildings and property!'$10,00Q,; & r-,vc- -it 'ii What ia the difference between , trarap and a feather' bed t There4 is llfl A (4)U V a inaterial di5erence.rj One is hard un and' L the, othe; is soft own.Jorrianon Jlerald. . f-it -fir u. 3 ' '"; f Milton Chronicle:. Send . along . ' attacked the i Federal: arrays lOO.OQO j yWmoney, f r iendslf Voa Aare due anyi' stroner, and rafter seven days fighting 1 thing Sot this DaDer. and "doa'l be afraid.. : j Spirits Turpentine. J I "That yarn 'aboot? Henry Berry . Xiuwery ueiug uuvu lit eaiu iu auucsuu iu lio-a hogo "snake story." . ' Asheville, Citizen; As far as we l' have learned, the tobacco crop of this sec-r " tion will, be a good, one. TA large number of farmers have -from one to ten acres in . tobacco, i while' some ; few have planted -5 much more largely. r .1. .- " . s. j Statesvillo American: A couple. Of colored men came" to Btalesville '- last t Saturday, with a. view .of Addressing the . v people of that race upon emigratinj to Africa, but not meeting with a sufflcieuVj . J i . . 1 . .-4. qrowu, ueierreu uie maiierioa luiure umc. The idea that it costs nothing to publish a newspaper is an awful mistake, although J. t pubhsbere; -msy live on . the wind. . -Don't throw stones if you live in a glass r house,' -and should you be pot" you belter '4 be a little cautions bow you charge' "kettld" j ith being black. . This will, apply aa well ip politics as morals, and we commend it ' - tbnpthousa politicians, r ,r ,.J. j ---7 Raleigh Hegisteri: We hear it V4 . on the streets that Mr. W, H. Hicks, Bon-' r in-law of Judge' Strong, and Col, Waller Glark. one of the stockholders of the Hews 's . publishing Company, went out of this city "; yesterday for the purpose of settling difn-rjvy -cullies which arose out of the publication ' ih the Newstat the charges against Judge lJf trong relative to hi salary. lloth parlies ; qamejback unhurt Whether they lought r settled matters without an encounter we have not been able to find put t - v,r ", "t; j r-" Burke J5Zacfe;..We have had plcuty of rain -during the past week. . -' Somebody bring us a load of wood at once, on subscription.- Tis too cold to do with: r ; " qnt. We know that in that falal f charge, Pettigrew's North Carolina brigade " lost more men killed and wounded, than ? Pickett's whole division, and we do not be- ; leve any man would have dared to reflect pon the Tar Heels, as Col. Taylor. has v ' done, if Gee. Lee was living. - ' J -Tarboro rSocmcrrlait Lt. J. ' 44. Bridgers, Jr., of the Edgecombe Guards, has been appointed .Assistant Quartermaa- -ter of the 1st Battalion N.-C State Guard: "t I 4- We are informed by C Thomas, Esq., , that he will commence the publication of a iewspaper in the town of Greenville, . Pitt County, N. C, on or about the 10th of Oc- ; tober next, to be called The OrenviUe Ex-A resa.1, - A negro man on Dr. Garrett's"1 r plantation can completely imitate with his ' : mouth the sound, notes, &e of any tune played on a banjo. - ' ; . i .-. Salisbury Watchman ; Lieut.' . Theodore Parker is. in the city on a fur- ... lough, visiting relatives and friends. He ,s t graduated at West Point last June. , He is ;? ' waiting orders to loin his comoan v in Ari- yiona Territory, : The old darkeys are beginning to bring in 'possums. They say : it is time to pull 'em now.- In old times, j when a man was able, be had a negro to r drive for him. . Now-a-daysi-- when you see ; a negro and a white man in the same buggy,, i ( the white man is generally driving. H We 7. . can't understand why but it is so. r ' Newberh Nutshell: The Board u 6f Dir Directors of . the A.' & NV C. Ttailrnnrl . pompany met in the railroad office, in this J tity, yesterday, and re-elected Major John , Hughes President; W, H. Oliver, Secretary 4nf Treasurer; William Dunn, Ticket and "; Freight Agent; John A. Richardson, Con- ' ductor, and James B. Hanks, Master M a- Chinist. William P. Metis was "elected Road Master, vice Hugh Murdock; Chad- v wick Davis; Agent at Morebead City, -vice'' John A.- Duncan; George W.-Collier, Agent St Goldsboro,' vice J. M. jaollowell; J. H. Kibier, Agent at La Grange,-.' vice 3. W. 5 Morris... i . V - Raleigh Observers: In .our issue ' . f yesterday we published some remarks concerning the Farmville. Insurance and -Banking Company relative to certain losses Sustained by said company in Enfield seve- - . ral month ago.--- We iiave, since thapub-. hcation of tha remarks, alludcdj to been : ' Jissured that the delay in payment of the "t - -osses referred to was not caused by any - inability on" the part; of the company to 1 meet the same, hut is simply owing to the disagreement on the part -of the company's - ' -adjuster and the insured as to tbe proper value of the : property, a question which.. ill of course be settled by tbe suit which the insured have brought in the matter. Rockingham Spirif: It is not .m yet known when trains will begin running regularly to Hamlet, the terminus of the , ' Air Line Railroad. Mr John P: Co- - yington has returned from Texas; and now he solemnly assures us that he is going to -, ' -remain here, having gotten Quite enough pf Texas. Sensible young man. - K ; jvery- great - quantity- of rain has fallen In - this section during the past few days, and j ' jhe weather has been quite cool for the , ' Reason, the thermometer, on Thursday last,.; : betting down to 57 degrees. We regret . - -. -o hear that diphtheria has again made its : appearance in this-section, . there: beings fiuite a number of cases reported. - As yet gve have" heard of but one death resulting From it, and so presume that it is of a mild ; " type. , , , j , I Washington State:' It is really ! fencoaraging to note that the Commissioners bf the county and the citizens generally are v Staking more than ordinary efforts. to build ' -p the educational interests of the county I $ Dr. McDonald amputated the foot, of . . a colored man by tbe nams of Grady, on " -last Saturday. He 'was -brought in town - with his foot cut entirely through, with an axer causea oy tne axe supping when cut- mg wood near his home, a few miles in f. - ie country.. A very handsome me- . orial tablet has recently, been -placed in- . be Presbyterian Church, to the memory - . i ine laie oamnei u j? owie, wno was one ; f the founders of the church, and for many ' ears a ruling Elder.; Placed there bv a'- r' ongregation who loved him .for his many " -hristian virtues. - , ' ,r- Charlotte Democrat: Some men. ' rho are elected ; as' Demrtrrn'ta th Ink It n - jgreat crime for a Democratic paper to crit- - ,: -icisethehr conduct in any respect.' 'All-' ' - we ask is fair treatment for our merchants ;" r and farmers in the way of . freight charges. ' W e have been a true and useful .friend to ;- - railroads, and have never cooperated in the ' s , jfoolish agrarian cry against VcorporationaJ' ' ! " but we Intend to demand' justice and fair." dealing from all railroads and corporations .; 1 . zenerally.no matter Whom it-displeases.- ' tr-tWithin the past month ' one firm in ' ; iickory has shipped North 160,000 pounds ' . ' f. dried ftuit, . and 250,00a pounds have ! , ee.ri shipped from High Point .within the" . ame timet and shipments of dried fruit ' ' lave yet Scarcely begun from North Caro-1 , . ina;'f The First National Bank of thia : jcity, within the past week; has paid out , $10,000 to parties purchasing beef cattle in ' . the western counties of this State for the 5 (Baltimore market. The cattle are purchased ' ao Haywood, Mitchell,' Watauga and other" mountain counties, and then driven to Hen- -1 Iry'sand puton the Weslejrn N.C. road and !S tipped North via ISchmoBcU -f v 3 -' -Bishop. Thos.-Tj;; Dudley, (Protes- I . jtant'Episcopal) of 'Kentucky,' wbo is ', jaa e:Confederate,i4aarched in the- " Iranks jof the . ex-Confederates who welcomed. President Hayes to Lou- - . jisville. v In a meeting to organize tbe ; ' lex-Confederates for tbe reception tbo' . , iBishop said . that the President' "bad 'commended himself to the respect of J 'all good - citizens by- his , manly firm- - . ne8in honestly jadhering.to the very; , . .letter 6f his promises.w, . - . : n 1 ' 4 r - 4 4 I