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The fact that But ler was silent during the called ses sion of Congress and the first weeks in the regular session, and that now ho feels at liberty to speak, shows that the sagacious old fellow; thinks that the time has come for him '"to wade . in." lie" evidently believes that it ever war is to be made : on the rreaident it must be made now. We think tho bull-dozers will count with out their host,. aud if Mr. Haes ex hibits) that amiable obstinacy he is llie'ved to possess in ample: stores, he1 will prove too much for his assail ants, aud will secure the sympathy aud support of a large majority ef Lilt A murtAQti Tcarrl a Mr. Hayes does not stand alone in the fight with the irreconcilables. There is too much at stake for this to be the case, lie need not rely on any portion of his own party in Con gress' for sole support. The Demo crats cannot stand quietly by and be- hoM him SAnpifif.A(1 nn t.hfl nlt.ar rtf bitterness and sectionalism. Tbey ar6 fully committed to the great doc trine of reform. : At the St. Louis Cqnventioc when Mr. Tildeu was nominated, the platform, laid, down The great corruptions' in the offices of the country had long attracted the special attention f of the Democrats, and had drawn from them the most positive and emphatic condemnation. Mr. Tilden was held up as the great champion . Reformer. At St. Louis Gov. Dorsheime'r, -" th e special ' friend of Mr. Tilden, read the resolutions that were adopted. Here are some of. the words of the platform: ' v " 'Reform is necessary in the civil service. Experience proves that emcient economical conduct of the government business is not possible if its service be subject to change at every election, be a prize fought for at the ball-otbox, be a brief reward of party zeal, instead of .posts of honor assigned lot proved competency and held for fidelity in the public employ; that, the dispensing of. patronage should neither be a tax upon the time of all our public men nor the instru ment of their ambition;' and again: 'Offices are not a - private perquisite, but a public trust' " - j , : ' - ; Mr. Tilden and Gov. Hendricks, in their letters of acceptance, heartily indorsed the utterances of . the nomi nating convention. Mr. , Hayes is committed to the same doctrine. In New. York he attempted to carry it out. He proposed to remove certain incapable if not corrupt "officials. uouniur vuu&iiu eaiu ii. uiuhi. uui ue done. The Radical Senators voted with him, and enough Democrats came to his help to give him a vic tory over the President. As long as principles and pledges of reform; the Republican and Democratic Senators are compeuea to sustain ntm, pr give the he direct to their promised1 and professions in 1876, dnring' tbe cam- Haiorn Ifivmnaoo drill mfn iha' firrVlf I a - ia. u voa n A 1 & n .uu " & i .whilst waverings and yielding ; will only giye solidity J and impetup to'ttte factionists.. Every honest man is in terested in the triumph of Reform and pacmcation: '-rt -:mi,.,.t .;y.,.:., y uAi 'a Butler slanders the S6uth.Thefe are more outlawry and: murders i in. the North by", en fold than J in, th South, and crime is punished quite as readily in one iiectibn as in the 'other.' It is quite manifest, from what But ler says, that tho quarrel with Hayes is because he has been jus and kind to the 'SbaTWhiltvproifogV'Vi. believe his title all ' right; - he de nounces him, because he did hot main tain Packard and Chamberlain with the bayonets. . . ; : : 4 ' rtt- VOL. . '.It tinct ta.lha Old DominloiH i A t&4itlr?E?cobUQUed nregenerite ' and urif v. v AoliWWn. Vl !UIJdLristian ethics practically ObMfiBataos ,tT:-t products' such hten'as KeS tit: Ucir.iyr KaaddrpbxTuckif'rt'Jjt tarIy.JamesvA. SdMhalilimlP aa aacb, men as Kemper. aqdilciJidsy Arej called opon to ( fill the GnitrBit&-. riar coair?of that rei.oedhJ'o.J mohwetb. so rich An the f Ami Pf hit .1 The it tldfe8 of GTd iQAugarai auaress ot uovernor LJfi! j.;! t.. .. . . .Ti l. IbiiijjiJdwaaeliev nor and good: name of. Virginia are not safe in bis hands. . He will not do aught that will bring reproach upon the honored name of his mother, or fix a stain of repudiation. We wonld be glad to copy at large, but we can only give a few brief passages taken from, his impressive remarks upon the public debt of, Yirglnia. He says: "Why, then, should we not pay it? : The honor of a Btale is above price. It can not be measured by money. The character of a commonwealth marks her place among nations, and is the guide of the individual growth and destiny of her citizens. The law is a schoolmaster, and it will determine whether the citizen is to be vicious or virtuous. A generation or so of bad legis lation may change a people from a high minded and honorable race into depraved and dishonest men. Nothing so soon ac--complisbea this unhappy end as a disregard of solemn compacts. Upon their sanctity the whole frame-Work ofjaociety tests, from the sacred bund that ties the family to the" strong and subtle! cord which binds in har mony .otherwise ! jarring elements in the unity of government." - 1: ' f "Nor does it pay the debt to plead the war, save as toucking our ability.' That was of our choice, and I hear no ooe who engaged in it complain of its losses, though gptbld wealth was spent, and ao many Ii ves-lost that Virginia is a great battle-field and a great cemetery. . After four years' of bloody fighlieg the regret . was i to see the flag furled even in the midst of and in view of more dreadful ruin. No complaint then of loss of property; only hope of victory.' No complaint of jenlferiBg and' privation, though famine stared them in the face; only sorrow for the fall. ' Were we willing now to bear one hundredth part of what we then bore the debt would have been well high paid, and triumph equal to the vic tory of arms would have signalized the pa triotism and devotion of Our people.'? n MThere is and can be but one excuse for the non-payment Of an honest debt inabili-i ty-i-either f or the individual in the court of morals or for the State at the bar of public opinion." : , - ".There is no counting the loss which its discussion and unsettled condition has in flicted on our State. It has driven wealth and industry from our borders ; it has. cre ated false views of our j liabilities and- re sources. But, worse than all else, it. has lowered the grade of public morals, and conjured up spectres from .'which - are stretching the frightful fingers of commu- ii j WHAT WILL BflLiANP XlOv ; The New York World of January 1st contains, a very remarkable letter from the Earl ot Danrven, on Eng land and her poficyr'When we con sider its authorship an English Earl, a member of the. Liberal (Gladstone) party; its style, exhibiting a . fine literary faculty and; an admirable taste; its peculiar ' view taking a position in utter antagonism against the leaders of his party; its acute-' ness, its breadth, of vision, its high conception of England's duty and destiny, its manly eloquence, its graphic description when we con sider all this we may well- character ize the long cand elaborate and very entertaining communication as re markable. j The Earl'is clearly' for war. He thinks England has delayed too long and has already .submitted to too many indignities. ,He drawsa start ling picture of what England will be if she purchases peace at the price de manded by the Liberals. ! He believes that England mustifiglit in order that she may maintain hey position as a first-class power, or sink down to the small dimensions of a fourth-rate na- .. t : j . -' --',1 tion,' without dignity or 'influence. He thinks that tbe 'questibn of "Bri tish interests" 11 no ; longer j decide the question of . way or . peace-rrthai England mast fight of slink back into obscurity.' -The Englislt people, not the Cabinet,' will decidfe sihe question,5 as we said in thesblumns days ago.' So thinks the Ear-. i&jgays; t :-j ."The time has longaioce Jpassed away when, the personal feelings of .sovereigns or idiosyncrasies of Ministers ' determined tne main current, of 'EttgiaWfl Troucy. The will of the people, makes itself 60 istinctly and rapidly, aeard that thec is no; Idaoger; of miajnerpretation of ;the,,popular .vqbc'J t.-ni Again,: speaking of his; people,; be aavs: u WWhUM-tt?'. i : 'tThbugh subject w occasional bursts of eothtuiasm the English people are eminent ly practical? and they Wil decide upon the futute policy .jUiatr appears; most advaatar geous without suffering themselves to be Inflamed by emotional appeals to a morbid religious aentlnienC7TA7 ?" f , L He thinks vVrj . sensibly, ha$ Jt is England's great duty td take care: of herself and her dependencies: - f .has arigWto,be;sep aac,K, lcJpr.itsown rood as Ions as. cobtiQUeS Inireeenerate 'and un- peeplffciBglaiiAtihaAi wftHoot fa&sgdato a aUteof !byrin3tho-, , wdoncerBing the ,-194 ..JE&rr peaTfd ef After t&ehuFbtti B,(c!e& febrfPtee-i fk.,5Tl , .7 t . f .. ..I. t ...tn- . - -1 - . j 3 iv.o BcuuiB grandly ine iaea 01 a na- ftid4f ataodiofi till rtWdTlhayxpfl: liothmg to do jriti tbi . worlds ; iro- fftKiatoaiAostipeffaicidifs fUaeTrIa 4nfcnB exiala no aach thins M reDoaeu , Noth-. "uui supiiur vu lsieciur fuiapeiL iaw. Growth and decay are universal, There is nq escape. There can be no exception in favor of aDy nation; when 'it ceases to spread aboad its branches its leaves begin to fade and fall. The flood tide is quickly followed by the ebb, and it cannot float for a moment placidly on the quiet ' waters of still content" .. England has her --part to perform still in the world's ' great drama. "There can be no sitting down with folded hands to rest! , To live, a . na tiofi must assert itself; to . fall back in the race is to die." Bat if Eng land will not fight, what then ? What will the "peace-at-ahyprice" "policy bring ? Here is the summing up, and it! must be acknowledged that ..the result is startling and most serious. i:j . : 'What a terrible list of casualties we have to contemplate 1 loss of prestige and the many evils consequent upon it;, a sease of .national disgrace and the demoralization following upon : a loss 'of ' respect; the abandonment of India; a severance of con nection with the colonies; the restoration to original proprietors of various pieces of property throughout the world; a fall from the position of a first-class power to that of a third or fourth rate State, and a total collapse of trade. It may be objected that I am discounting the future too liberally, but it is not so. In a case of this kind it is right to calculate theoasemeaeea-M far as possible ahead. Besides," Have DM 4be j advantages to Britain of bar Eastern do minion been seriously called in question of iter . . " . ' p5ut we have no room for farther, extracts. 1 iThe whole letter is: mark ed with vigorous thinking and is well written. He believes that the Lib1 ral; party must abandon its peace policy, or lose its influence. He says it! has abandoned its true, its former positions, And that there will be large defection - unless the : "peace-at-any-price policy" is cast aside and repudi ated ' -: ' ' j In this connection we .may remind the reader pf the conduct of England daring the last few ? years, ' It may give some indication of her probable action in - regard to the war now rat ging in the East. If we are to judge of its course now by its course dunpg the last decade or ka, wen moat ponelade tbatthere will be no war on the part of England, however impressive and incisive Are the argunients and rhetoric-ot Earl Dunrayen . and all who sympathize with his. views. W can Only refr to. two or three ! iostanoea in iUnstra tion, although there are' k half dot eh instances or more that might be cited. JHow did England act when Russia availed itself of the results of . the Franco-German .war to revise the Treaty of Paris? ' England submitted although her interests were damaged. All she had gained by the Crimean war was lost by Russia's action, and England quietly sabmitted , to the wrong, if wrong it was. : The same line of conduct was pursued ia her delicate intercourse with Germany. It wilt be remembered that Germany sunk four English colliers. "TEflsi people cried out for reparation, but, some of the leaders said no 'wrong had been Perpetrated. Prince Bismarck, faow i ever, thought otherwise and ; apolcP-' gizeu. . ou wuu xt.aisicii kua juan ui Derby said jlha.t ngland ;.woufd, n"ot interfere unless .to preye.nt Constanti- I, noble from falling into tbeiiands iof Rqsaia. Bat Germartyi was allowed A I aiJ.timesooJ iltlffecttbSM'Vi . hotate and .she has enough to do berafeff and1 thcoitteaiJ: visMiU 1B Jlbo:J VM 0 kn vest; capttokhd fold iPlf J!' Zx f .m k j v!ni;.r.; K.nfr ,!..., l.Queen'victOriai Ithasi some merit, Miiuiw; thW?m'.g3&a&&?& be aocompii8heiit MWumt WiQW RriRaift t.n hold Cftrifttantttttiblflf tiRrrlil porariljfor the same prpos;) Eng-1 land has , Abo wn ; ,olearly,AS :3eeiald, f'ihU 'Otberiday thatebeJjisK not: igoi vertrea oy sentimental statesman snip.- sUuceSveni1 toJwaV Wan Yn& W m principle w nen sue ngnts now it 19 purely; to, nphold.uAnddef endjxf r. ipterests.. :s f-J m: . Lv.e .!..-,! nunl .- ; She'oeither' - fafeht j the- ' United States because of thV Afabknri bfaltos,' jui -it-it Jisi-kaeLffcl'i'-jii nor. urermany m , ueuait wi x?rauve,. ink navigation deqided , against her. She is at, brave as. any nathniQnder Edwin M. StAntonM' , , 1 ,-u j ,p;il'iouf ?J ii 3rf.ln$ mm Jm (djeWierAtic 9 WW ji, dlasa of watery pn, thg Annhhand i fWVWWglt. '.5001 lrok,tl)atgodrlike wear awj.?l IvpafieaioroAwda ty-jm, tions ,: that stand ry jtPa iti, otbfera thrciatuponUit pcr rMn& 'occasions,' sA s. hifH'riht !'i'W hbnafta ha . TnAian Slit r -a ava I- reaujtierionsjYienaangerejLi svfwiu -figt?f.oJny 'oT : tbe ablest men have shown ly ; arguments .of great weight that at present there is no 'peril in that direction, f K :; - ' - W e believe England, will promptly; enter upon war if the Suez Canal or gypt is seriously, threatened by Russia. If. when the terms of , peace ArBto be considered Russia thould dare to .take Egypt, within ;.ils capa-. ciofis maw, ithfP there will be a stir ring time in the Mediterranean, and the guns of England will again waken the! Nile with their mighty echoes. Th Czar, it is thought, will be mod erate in his demands. He may re tain what he has captured in Asia and there will be no . war. But he cannot water his horses in the Bos phrus, retain Constantinople, inter fere with tho free navigation of the Suez Canal, or lay his hands of con quest on Egypt, the most fruitful country and . most delightful clime under the heavens, without measuring his strength with Britannia that "still rules thewavesL;" 4 . The President has pardoned, "on account of ill health," A. W. Hower toq, the youth who was sentenced in this State last October to twelve mop tbs' imprisonment in the Albany penitentiary, for embezzling from the jhails. Riley Bowman, of this State, baa also been pardoned. He was sen- L tenced in April,! 677, to two years' im- prisbnmentjf or illicit distilling. These pardons ' nnry?. be All- WMl-iJt; the pardoning business has about grown into a mania. : Either the . courts do not dispense justice, or the pardoning power is exercised far tod freely That queer did fellow,' Jndge Cloudwears that the three things that are ruining Hhe) country and prevebting men from being bonestj are i bad public roads, the abuse "of tbe 'pardoning pwer,' and Battle's ReviaaT. Drunkenness among the New. York "fashionables" is , increasing. p J 1 . mi xney Are sometimes seen on th e streets in a maudlin pondition. One of. the 'ef-. fedts of the Northern" custom of it!;:'' making LNew, Year's calls is the ln aueement8 offered to. dissipation. The men imbibe freely, and even tne fe nlales , are, learning to "crook their arms.!' , The following we take from thej New York letter in tbe Washing ton CitjFost: . r' ':f"J i. ' 'TTc-day the ladies made their New Tear's call and there were several shock ing sight of intoxication among the gen tler; sex. iTwo fashionably-dressed young women of respectable families were unable to stand up on Broadway, near Fulton this afternoon, and they were! sent home in a carriage by a charitable gentleman who wM pasting." ' -. a ' J amuel Ferguson, aji Irish ' barris ter! of prominence, in 1832 wrote bis famous poem "The Forging1 of the Anchor," whioh has taken A high rank among that class of poems of whidb Schiller's "Song of the BelPis perhaps the best. Ferguson's poem appeared in the June series df the ad mirable Nodes AmbrosiancBybt which Kit Nortb; (Jobn Wilson; editor bf Blackwood) was the chiefcontribu tbr. In the December number of Jiiachjoood there is another poem by ,the Irisn lawyer, entitled The Wid lnt it ia. vastly ; infeno to bis other. ppfetiOf exercise- , . r, ,..f. . r r 'ir.ii 1 ! Sdme of uthr papW'get1 'their rhetoric' mixed iipstahcerthO Memphis L4oi wished p jsayi something fine about 3 Senator, Gordon; of. Georgia, and it did it by Asserting; . that tie has a jdhastefled inspiration for;. ha fame pf a purely . in tellectuar prowess." That is simply' , TKe"Xew, xork Etinr is oiamdfing for tbe impeachment' -of 0 President J34ye8.''1 The i U'bertihnly fmpla- toild'injty hatreds' as' its editrj Was fw&eh 'Assistant Secretary of Wan I- - ----- -,! . - . .. - - ? !lt;is,wltfc4ep regjet tha3ltw iarftcaed 4 Ptqenvtnat neiei Master jcrnest iuugnt, son nortatibji)rnb, W. W1& WlVD'lfit'i tice in the machine shops, and was up on a J taohe of the wheels of the main shaft, it beii&WttewAeeiVaD'ff0 ba4' which w tevolvmg, twheo1 ' tbi beh i - . wL ft L L il..-' sleejrej became "entaagljeil)Sn, tb4: khatiag lvine shafts which , was makbig at the rate, of. aboot eighty evolutions to the mbipte.,;Attba first revoMron hia feet strtCB: th eeilmgf lta' sMaAto1ttHp' mistaatso mfnutesVtime the maohidery wasioppedi J wben.it was found necessary, to. at.the beltmg loose in order to extricate him from its folds. The horribly mangled form of the unfortunate young man was then placed on a door shutter and conveyed tothe res!- dence of bis father, corner of "Front-arid Red Cross streets, where several, physicians soon arrived.. Upon examination- it was found that his left rm bad been crushed' above the elbow andbroketf above the wrist? ! the bone protruding through, the .skin in se- veral places, that : both' legs werefbroken in the fleshy part of . the lhigbi and that his right knee was broken, t In the1 condition, he was in at tbe time the physicians could perform no operation, and therefore had to content themselves with doibg what they could to relieve his -sufferings '-and wait for some reaction to take place. v - The youthful sufferer, wbj . was sur rounded by his grief-stricken parents and friends, manifested remarkable patience and' fortitude. He was for about two hours entirely conscious, and endeavored to console and enconrage his rather and mother in their distress. At about 6 . o'clock he commenced sinking, when all hope of his j ultimate recovery was .banished from the minds of the anxious watchers at his bedside, and at about a quarter' to -II o'clock' the spirit of the poor young man left, its shattered and mangled casket for a world of peace and jy above. i '; tieceased was about 16 years of age, and few young men of, hit ae was esteemed Tnoie highly amon? his fellows pr by the conimunity at large.' All whb'kneWlm loved him for' his many good qualities aad will sincerely mourn his untimely end; 'Tho sorely afllicted ; parBts; have j tej befatfelt sympatljyj pi eotire coajniunUy. hi then; ternuie miaioriune. . 1 - Xli e Cotton Traf-W41mlajxfai-t After copying an item from tbe Stb in reference, to tbe .receipts and exports; pf cotton at this port for the month of Decem ber, and the stock ia yard and on shipboard,' the Tlnrkv Mnnnt ifnH bavb; ! ,;3incethe pine forests of.North Carelina7 and that' part of South Carolina" contiguous1 to . Wilmington have been' pretty weH worked np in tuTpeatine,aaa the production of naval stores in consequence been greatly decreased,, and as a natural consequence greatly reduced the naval stores receipts in Wilmington which1 has , had' ihe effect of turning more attention to tne handling of cotton by the merchants of that city, a'ad while lbs Wilmington daval store trade baa been reduced, the volume. of( ler. cpUqn trade has beeqjgreatly increased, . and we cannot see , what is to. keep Wilmingtpn froip becoming the. great 'cotton cenire ibr' Nbrth Carbnna,' Boutb Carolina $to4 in'-ach of Alabama and Georgia. i' '.'if' , ; ."It ia now said to Jbej one of the very.b4st grocery markets of; the Soatb. Let .her merchants see to it that cotton shall ne as mueh shipped to them as to other places, out of tbe State, and Our word for it her conimerce will whiten the .waters-of Old' Ocean with the' products !o our people ia transitu to foreign porta fox sale, taking In exchange, goods, wares and., merchandise from .abroad, instead of all the while paying tribute to middfo'men in New York arid' other places, and leaving them to niake J all ourjexports and imports- for-its instead of lis1 being done by bur own merchants. in tbe mutual interest both DlJ hemselyes and the people of our Stftte,",,- ( ut f. .js':" WllawlnKtn anacbafwu-ovoTti.-r. ,,.- j At the "an aual meeting of thjei Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte, held QniThurs day afternoon last, which waa closed ith a grand banquet; saveral ' letters; were read from invited guests, among which was one from A. H. TanBokkeftri; Esq.'i President of the Chamber of Commerce of, this cltyt which is as follbrs l,i L-ihrntli & ,v ': t tWaiaKGT05,CfJan.jl, ChM. R Jones Mq,t Secretary 1 iGhar " latte Chamber of Commerce' : . K5J ' .; Dbab Bib a younrof tiiellb of, Decem- f her tendering, me an invitation in "behalf of SfWSSif' the, Charlotte utramt lfreaeni at their aoniversarV'. f dinner on Thursday eveningnexL was duly received; made;beforf,ltareceipl!t8j to. enable f me4p be toresent, but am compelled to forego that Weasare;YonwUl ple9xpres8 mntb President apd, ?,membarj cj, my thanks for the . compliment exwnaea through me to -toe rjusiness -commuaiiy 01 fi.trhAn von rav 'bOTil(f cretnr ,$iea, tmnWrcialHntsreBI aliti l&irtecprideV ciAteA and acted aprtrxpwoul4ada mnca..tdi loTfeif . th&gdod cWKorUj 8tetififwerM I !Tbe Kational;fiovarnnienttlMl .WuinJgtos fyffmbspfiitol titile of restoration td Its briginarcdnaitidnV so 'as to admit large class ships, and has nndertakeq i;jthfi ;Work.v- Wbat . has . been : done up.io ,tbf presen jime, giyea.evidence " that, our fondest 4opes wUl.be fully realized kt(9nf!Cmpreases .have , been erected, land jar w oDeratine: others will be add ed before another crop is made,aod every- utug uwvvoaai j tv giro ng - fat. 101 Acaaiatijr . with as little xpettse ara'ny' sWpplng Ort, win :ije.Aooei .,!, ajt .tci' - ; t vi'Np inland city has a bfightef future than I Crif feet baioeS men will pot forth wieir teirijiv.janu aeveiofl ,er ; faHiues; ; and. 'no "city by, the sea" would advance morp lapUlly thad WUrjUngt-iD, if -the pfeo-. MiNqrtii earplina sent their , ahippise 4thrqueh her port instead of others, to be crediSearto adjoining tntesj-Ull .U'J ''Miextensipq pf ouRUrqads tC; connect wHli others ' making a -direct' line lto the Nor hwestt-i -would' - greatly benefit n both. 'eltSes. For -sjjch connection we mus put ioftb ouif Junttd?fe!neride8.Tj : Wishing all a good tirne' at their anniversary -gathering, J am. deamsir." t Yonrs traiv. Preaifledt Chamber of. Oommeroet a XX. T All uv&AJUiJUA, ill - i Wilmington, JS. C. Killed Jy a, tiUtllrcad Train. n - 1 il&rllfr 71 ncjuun xwiiiroaa was pastiug a poim ue tween Teaehey's and -Duplin Roads yester day; evening, about a quarter to firelock, a colqred man,; apparentlyTrery-inuch-intoxi-cated,. was nqtijediWalkiDg -tnitbej- track some distance a.headj of the engine. The engineer, V:-. soon as he discovered him, blew ms Whistle of "Warning,' whW the maa left the track; but continue! Lowalk by the ude. of it, and finally 1 staggered baccton it, only a. few paces ahead; of the eng)ne. when be was caught by . the cow catcher and thrown a distance of1 about seyen feet from the track into a ditch by the sicfe: of the road. The train was stop- . j t pe ped and the unfortunate man, who was found to be dead,, was placed in one of the car and. -taken o Duplin Roads, where tbejbody'was let'in the charge of friends. JDeeeased, whose name was Calvin was apparently a man of about 35 or 10. yea rs of age.and was a resident of Teaehey 's Du lin county. .-..7 . ; - I. BeV. pr. Bark bead. ' ' ' ': ; This' popul&r' and talented divibe, who has beeny sent By . the North Carolina (An nual Conference as Presiding Elder of the Wi mington District for the present year anc wh'o is now holding his first latterly met tint? at ttie Front Street Church;' ii n straDger -to our people, - as about, thirty years ago he had cBarge of the Fifth Street Church; in 1865 be, was pastor of the Front Str-ie Church; in 1866 to 1869r "inclusive, hewai Presiding Elder 1 of the Wilmington District, and now; after serving upon other large stations and important positions for a numoer or years, no is retnrnea to laoor with his old friends, who love to welcome -!"1J. . . . and honor mm. . Has a'Solo TllroasrtabU Head. V Jii '. C!harlotta)bsewer.l,!ifr-u i .! 3C Auitrainpr piioter with a hole tnrbugb his headland .Wearing ashlitJ the color 01 'a guano sack, has , been wiijn us ior a lew-aays, ana nas just left. ! Witb'a feeling of pardonable pride he exhibits to less migratory compositors he' evidences of a mus keti ball having once passed through and through his skull. The hole where" it entered -cad be seen and felt high lib ion hia if oreheadi as can also the place in the .back - of hia head from. WDBnce it emergea aiter making a pOgrimage arourid of ' Over and' tHitough a' part o"f his brain; "It laid meiup for A) good. While" aaid the pe dsjtrianYand I tbongbt several Jimes that would peter out, but I pulled thr jugn' all right, as you can see for yot rtdf;' and now you want - to give a xj larger to one of the wonders of the wp 'l&rZi; He is as smiling and as hap? Py as man need be, and says the only iqc jnveriience he experiences from a buQe't thtottgh ! b -brain is that he can't drink whiskey i witb apy x satis-? fsjcjtuojit, ajll. .. A single drink makes jum as crazy as a shot cat, ' and he aintbimself for three' weeks' after imbibibga tablesptfonful. j Tbb Old Saemr .ln South Carolina ''1 said to be Beoraanlzlne. ' ;-;:; ' 1 Special to the jqurnal ' of Commerce. J a.-.. I s!!n-.mt'i-..7oNai'YoiiJa0ii;2. n:ilH!psfr' Waahingtori Vspecial says: .'Advices received from soutb CaMiti rePre8ent that the Kepubli cads throughout Hbe State bave :der termmed to reviytheir party prgan-t izations, ana. not to let.tne ptate pass hopelesslyahrtothe.' hands of the, De- molcrals. c In two or! three counties Hsi 3;tbey turned . out t the lo cal elections' and elected th eir tickets. Thfeir success has encouraged Repub licans id other 00 ah ties and meetings bave been called to 'perfect their or ganization." f: '! " . JLwi inttanec rreldent In . Limbo. 'y J 'f'jfm' Washington Post. phomV04le,5jf New1 x drk:. city, : . begins ; tne ; new year under' sentence.' of ? five.. ; years' rim-. prisonment in! the - State '' prison-, - he Mim coHv1otfad .of .awearing taisely to the annual r reports ot tne defunct, American Popular , Life Io-s starance" Comjpany." qF which he was Preslden 5 Wbe itis f considered tbat.hQ is a highly fed aiated, (refined and 'accomplished msny r approaching old aee. Jand.has hitherto lived in the esteem of, bis" felfo w-citizens and as tne idol sof 'an InMestrne1 family and a oevoiea,wiiej,ne ' iun seventy -oi bis pdnishinent xwillrbe appreciated 1 n...m,.-AJt .J.1.;u M1 r . ft. laoor aunng tne Tterm 01 nis lmprt '-nnienin:Bnttb'eilmisM MstPbriei'f admayin4uoe other re- awmuters w pause: i jiiteir F?rei,ft.j.pAiaerJ r.!0 h .'HehryilfffelloV has been elected, f sv cerroaramdunr vniembev of A ft " ( new iVi-t- WuBoniXJlaanc: The warehouse of the Wilmington & W eldon -' Railroad, at this place, just flaished, l3 one hi the largest and most-convenient estab lishments of the kind in the State.-- It Is' a -r - -hands-me brick edifice hvgeBd;cunfiTs dious, 145x82 feet, and ail the.departments r are well arrangedjfbf the convenience, and' j' J comforts of the patrous 6f tbe road. .'- The Battle House will be; opened by Mrs. " -' J. A. Han8iey, next week,' who. w ill be pre- tl pared to accommodate boarderSii-i ' mi ' 4- Favettetilt b&MkOii .On'4 'the-'e evenine bf Saturdav!: December 52nd.Ma1"? lett Graham, a white man, tenant of Mr."5 '' Ale. SykeSj'B ; few r mitea tmrth f J4owtt,i IrilldH M.nKSii.lJni.ftfal-a ninl.Hn x- - The bfflcers kl the llrtati6aaIBafcki have called our attention 6Hl new cimnter feit ndtd an thee Fbt;N&iH9B4? Baak of.JT Hanoyer,,Pa.-,,The paper is very thin and. the color TdarK. On ' the back the word? '-J !a&'ftr8jtIWiiv? has been corrected; 1"nV andithe word "thousand" is spelled "thou- On rhursd ay last Deputy ColkdorrM6ore, t h w Kane and Cumminga. and Special Deputy -- .. , Maithal Wnx. Durham, white oil an inspect-J f- ing tour through. Uaion: county, N4 C.rdls-f ; covircd a wagon containing eight boxes of . tobdedff ati the residence i ot Trial justicer : T JL .1 n I i I r -fc.v :1 ' a WT 1 BeEuwiBci4isiguf(icBrpixijnipai t ne) stamps oeing unvarnisnea ana itnprcr- f tbe fvagjjii; itseonUiats; an. tbis feala ieery: seizea. , J.ne owner 01 tne wagon, a ped dler, named &. 1 G.: IlilL ffom Uickry'fJa taWba cquntyjiN, XX was. next arrested d another house, and upon bia were found: Aft Af Uf an- trnsoccessfHt attemnt. to conceal' . i the Stamps, the two. prisoners were hand- 3,UJti- cutrea, and tne party startea ror Bpartan burg, four miles distant At West's Store, howjever, they came Upon a rifle company. Some of the men were armed and .some ; . mpqnted; and about twenty-five were Uni formed. These surrounded -the revenue offlqers and their charge, and, after a long , wrangle, compelled them, . by dint , of threats,cursihg and various demonstrations, -.' : to remove -the handcuffs, and release, the ' prisoners and the property and stamps. VjreensDoro state: , Unite a number of ladies and gentlemen; members : of tbe church.and congregation, met at the , Methodist Parsonage in this town, ou Christmas eve, to present the pastor and his -family 'with their Christmas greetings aud , . donations. - Turkey and pigeon shoot ing eems to! be: the rage now. ;- Charley Clarke has been keDt busy for a week- sui plying things to be shot for. We are told ' mat over jjuu lurseys,- ou geese, several hogs and soma beef were carried off by the sue- r cessful marksmen. The stockholders -1 of the Greensboro Bank met in this, town on Wednesday last, ,, The election of pfflr- r cera was held and resulted in tbe selection' of ilessrs.: Jesse II. Lindsay, . Lyhdbn Swiim, Jed, H, Lindsay, J. M. Winstead, W. i: Armfield and W. 8. Hill as the Board of ' ' - Directors. The Directors then, elected ell '.: the sold omcers of tbe bank, as follows President, Jesse H. Lindsay; Vica-Presi 1 denjt, Lyndon Swaim ; Cashier, Julius , A I 'i v Gray ; Teller, . Neil Ellington. ThisBank " nusiness has oeen quite a succession one. la jhe past six months: it has : earned- five and a-half per cent on its capital four per cent, of which the Directors declared-as a dividend to its stockholders, one per cent. . . waa uaeu iu iue premiumrTVUQi, aau one-. half per cent, carried to the reserve fund i i . ni ' t . -. . , . vyuaiiutto ,suovrucr . xjusi niguv,i as the passenger train ODfthe . Richmond . aad Danville Railroad " arrived at a point about two miles ttiis side of Reidsville, the enctne struck ah obstruction onlha track. which came in an ace of wrecking the en- tirejtrain. me engineer stopped as soon as possible, and found that a cross-tie had. been placed on top of the rails and fastened there by ropes. ; Night before last Mr. J i; J. 3. Wilhamstott fell from the - second . ; story window of . the Holt Building on Col- " lege street, and broke one of bis legs.; The accident occurred some time in the middle ortbe night,; and being stannedrby the fall xia May iui buius time vu tug wiu . giuuuu before lie was' vdiscovered. . - - At the . ' toufnament at Gastohia, day before yester dayidtrring the delivery of the : address to the Knights by George F. Bason Esq., the . platform on which he was standing gave way, and in falling to the ground caught, ' and broke the leg of a small boy, who was . . standing close to it six more deluded North Carolinians joined the army of emi grants for Texas on yesterday, and left at aofljn on the Air Line train. The num- " berjof boarding bouses in Charlotte are on : fheaocrease ; The cotton , trade is re- . Covering from the effects of . the' Christmas holidays, . -f Our amateur actors are or- ' ganizing for the presentation- o- that Jfour'' ' act piay. , .4- Raleigh Observer: There were received at the Department ot Agriculture yesjerday from Prof. '. C. D.. Smith, of Franklin, Macon county,1 sixteen : different specimens of native-niarble . taken from various quarries in the trans montane coun ties ' The Professor also seat three- boxes of mineral ores. 'and specimens Of timber. ;Tha latter will also be properly dressed for ' exqioiuon in me museum. uxiora correspondent: ' Imagine the consternation of Our people on yesterday morning, Jan. 2d, When about 8 o'clock the cry . rang through the town that the Oxford Orphan Asylum was on fire. : Happily the flames ', were soon extinguished - after burning a hole . in the -floor . up stairs, and some -bed clothes, &c, of not much . value. -Today at about the same hour the cry is heard again that the Asylum is on fire, . For thej second time the noble hook and ladder . -. conipany and our citizens rush to the scene, but the, fire s extinguished before iheir arrival The fire to-day was In the fourth I story, adjoining the floor-that was on fire. ,; yesterday. No serious damage from either " flrei i Fyetteville correspondent: "A . flrei broke out this morning, about 5 oclock. . in an unoccupied dwelling on the Bouth side of Personstreottf the second building below the half-way bridge, belonging to. James E. SmStb formerly to J. W. Phillips, and on the; site of the Jersey old bake house, known as such to many of our old citizens. . The . house was destroyed. '.-' i; 7-r Wadesboroj . Merald: Yf e n are r sorry to learn that Mr., Patrick Seagb lost, two of his children last week.; h Their death -was caused by. diphtheria, ; ' -We learn , that the bridge over Big Jones creek , was carried away bythe' recent' heavy rains. There will be a grand ball and sapper at the Huntley Hotel, in this place, on the evening of the 10tb,: -tinder the auspices of : the, Anson Veterans, and. in , honor, of the : election of otficefs of the Second Regiment N. 0.i:8. GP -Ben Burns formerly a slave 9f Benton; Burns,, -of this place., was -drowned inXittle Buffalo oh last Saturday, and his-oodyitvas not ibtfnd until Monday. . 4-We learn that ope day week be fore last a;Cplored child,' on the 'plantation of Ben j. Ingram, fell into a barrel of hot water) that' ! ' was fixed for sealdiag hogs, and died from the effects in a" few . hours. ' The Christmas trees of tbe Baptist, Methodist, Epfscopal and Presbyterian Sunday Schools , .were a success. - M. IX Smith, foun der of the OaroUna 'Argii$ of Cheaurfteld, the Argy and Observer of Cheraw, and the . Hyperion of Chesterfield proposes to issue his paper in this place under the ; name- of -the (Arclim Argv&u-.-rr- Rev., Mr. Wiley, Agent for the American 1 Bible Society, or gaaized the Anson County Bible Society of -thiB place on Sunday evening last, with the following officers: President;! Drr ErA;' Covingtonv Vice! Presidents,. Ministers of the different denominations ia and around Wadesboro: Secretary and Treasurer, Dr4 Henry Robinson; Executive Committee, H; A.! Crawford, Gen. W..L. T. Prince G. W. , Htntiey and CaplLJno. M: Little. J .ai:i''ii t .(:i ii 7 71