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We knew that he had fallen far below the plane be moved on when he was blowing his bugle-blasts in 1869, and laying bare with his claymore the festering sores of the Radical leaders; I but we did not know he had fallen so low as to be taken up by the remains of the moribund parly, and made the chosen champion of Radicalism of Radi calism that had destroyed and dese crated and pillaged the old State, ana uad put t urner nimseu ; in jau amid murderers and vermin.! In our limp thnrn hiia VitAti no sl p.h fall. In ibis instance it is like the fall of Luci fer son of the morning, "never to rise again." f It is the strangest alliance that ' was ever entered into. It shows that the ! lladical leaders have no self-re spect, and Turner no principles. They take up their ancient enemy as the proper tool with which to five .1... t.- : .''-. J 13 Turner, in his lust i for oflioe,'. and in hi 4ad . demoralization, willingly allows himself to be thusj used, a needy pick-thanks ! only too glad to get a crumb of comfort. I . , The Radical Delilah enticing the blind Samson after he is shorn of .his Htrengtb (bis moral principle) to at tempt to tear down the Democratic temple in which bis party friends find refuge and safety, and not to turn and destroy his old enemies who put out his political and civil eyes, bound him band and foot, and cast him into prison, is a' pitiable and humiliating sight. - ' ' - . j We might resort to ancient my thol ogy for illustrations to Sisyphus and liiu avarloatinrr alnna tt Tantfilnil with his eternal thirst and eternal disappointments to Iion and his ever-turning wheel -to the cunning' Promotheus chained to the rock with the vulture eating eternally his liver. Bat to resort to classical literature to find comparisons for Jo Turner would be really ridiculous, for he seems to be made out of very common clay, and homespun illustrations will suit bis case best. It is quite true that the fables referred to fit him in some particulars; for instance, he has been rolling that same old stone (editorial about "rings") up tho hill for many years, out it oniy rons uowu again, he is consumed with an. undying thirst for office, but he can never get the refreshing and coveted waters to his lip (Jo is dying to be Senator, or Governor, or Congress man); or he is forced by an unhappy fate to be forever turning the wheel of disappointed ambition; or he is ' chained to his eternal rock . awaiting iu agony, forever deliverance from that ravenous vulture (greed for ' Of fice) that is eating away his happi ness, rnntpntmont. rpnntat.inn 'and life; but these are too fine spun, smack toomuch' of classical&ess for Jo; we turn to his own abundant stores of plantation illustrations, and take the one he use4 to rub on the sore places of Lassiter and Dick and Hargrove, and Quenten Busbee and lleade and others, as peculiarly ap plicable to; himself that he wants Radical bread.'' -- V:v:' Bat Jo will not get the pone.. He is too late. Some men are ( always doomed to be just in time to be too late.! lie comes to the table after the feast of fat things has been devoured. Only a few old stale morsels are left. I Deweese,: and Laflip, and i Holderi J and Uarrow, and the rest got theii baskets full in 1865-1 8 jro, wllen $p was calling them all manner of pameA, and swearing they were thieves and scoandrels. And rfw when hei comes: with w him pering voice to his old ene-j mies and cries out .111 suppliant tones i"Give me i office, or I perisn',--the; comes in vain. The sceptre hafr e-: parted from H olden, arid New and better men every; way. have Kne into their places, and Jq is too late. He ought to have joinetl the icals in the time of!' their; aomi-i power! nancy. : lie would have been a theo among tbenajiHj j!i;,'jhu i " If We are hot altogether 'mistaken Jo will come out the, liito hdjof the; Congressional hprn, aad yelypapi he will get will be his per diem, as a; member of the North Carolina louse from Q range county, that still pities him in bis-wide departure from the old ways in which he so long walked. We do not write just to be severe. We well know that jTurner has many good traits that he is not all selfish ness. We are not forgetful pf the past; of what be has done' for North Carolina when he was the boldest and most untiring assailant 1; of the worst elements of Radicalising It is be- cause he has deliberately turned his back upon his past 'record that he has so stultified himself before the public, that we feel disappointed and mortified, and that we are led to use a cautery when we might apply " a Balve. . THOSE AWVVL CLllins; The first thing to be noticed! in re gard to the "Rebel Claims" spook is the wide difference in the statements of the Radicals. No two are agreed as to the. amount of these claims. They vary from one hundred million to one thousand million! of dollars. The New York Tribune- very un scrupulous organ of Radicalism has varied a half dozen times in its esti mates of the amount! it has various ly Stated the sum to j be from ?100, 000,000 to. $350,000,000. In Thurs day's Stab we gave an extract from the Philadelphia JPress, ic which the stupendous falsehood was told that the "claims amount to note less than a thousand million do lars." But this does not agree j by j, long shot with the statement made by the Chicago Inter-Ocean, one ofj the ablest of Radical papers, and a genu ine exponent of the most pugnacious and hateful elements in the North. In the same column of the Stab an extract is given from a recent num ber of the Inter- Ocefin , in which it is asserted that the "rebel claims now before - Congress aggregate about $200,000,000." j j If there' was any! substantial 1 r - j basis of truth for the declarations of these papers, there j could hot be such a wide difference in the magnitude of the Unless men wish fied with liars and sum at to It j be stake, elassi- 8landerers they should be more agreed among them selves as to what- accusations they shall bring. When' one Radical slanderer charges that: the 'South stands resolved to make a raid upon the publio treasury to the amot nt of one hundred million, and another bull-dozer swears that it lis noi one one hundred but one thousand mil lion, how. much , confidence can be reposed in such wild falsifying? We cannot suppose that such greedy Munchausens expect to be believed. They could not so expect unless they take all men to be foolsl So much 'for the disagreement among themselves as to the amount involved. Mr. Davis, in his able and impressive speech, states that he had added up the figures in the list of claims as presented by Representative Hanna, of Indiana, who is . a very unscrupu lous .Radical, and that j the Awhole amount is not one hundred or one thousand million of dollars, but only $5,000,107.06 five million onej hun dred and seven dollars and six dents. The next point is the number of the claims now before Congress. This Mr. Hanna, who appears to be a first- class fraud every way, made a speech on the war claims, in which he wan tonly and wickedly falsified .the re cord, and misrepresented! and slan dered the people of the South." Here is an extract from his speech,m yhicb he boldly charges that theSouth meditates a raid upon IheXlreasury of the Government andthat the evi- dence is abnndai "cumulative": rmet since the su ession of tbe;rebel- afaW - lion the persistence w 01 claims has been nres&a"ttbbo'lli tion or (Jtttr4a -tetti8hed - well-j .te aBBiuhetuduMvilasifiscttaildaBiM defense of our nationalltx- JJach buc-ceedlng- year fardfenfe's camul5tive'JleVI- iuuacuoopiroLiDe. cuon pi.inat part jj or a;nme tne-approaclres to tHe T) were Gaiitloae.nwal irtadaii id W) siujMe tOvaecive Mb. iUOsacaecpfe41'i i NoXSfeirow wIid wbhlaWMw sachra'bMfcharg agnWife dantly fortified with fcu. Iba Ajpght ; to be vieryi c ar ef ninth at all , bisfacU are strdli as w'rll" IhSx tire" tesrte olosest; scrutiny iBnt anionnfiaifly Mr. Dar ia'tiad m ilb huxlhU.' char acter is foo rfdp 'nWS&it and his slahdefdusaccusationsf Mi'i Davis1 quotes the following from Ilanna's speech : , . . "' " . - "I have carefully examined thirty-seven hundred and ten of the bills introduced and ; the abstract of the character stated of those referred to the Committee on War Claims, I will, by leave of the House, print as part of my remarks." This Mr. Hanna had the impudence to head the list as 1 follows: "Ab stract of war-claim bills introduced in the Forty-fifth .Congress." Now no one would suppose it possible for any man not even a Radical of the meanest type to get up in the United States House of Representatives and deliberately parade a list of war-: claims as a true "abstract" f of - those: that had been j actually "introduced in the Forty-fiith Congress,'j! when only a small part had actually been "introduced."- And yet-such is the faot. And, mind you, this Mr. Hanna, all the way from Indiana, starts out with the declaration that "it is the determined purpose of the Democratic party to compel ihe Government to assume and pay all losses and damages re sulting from the prosecution of the war" that "each succeeding year furnishes cumulative evidence in support of the truth of the charge," although they had been "for a time" duly f'cautiou", guarded and gradual" in their "approaches to the Treasury" That -tWia "cumulative- f-"evkkBce ' should be made perfectly plain, this great man from Indiana had "care fully examined" mark his language had "carefully examined thirty seven hundred and ten of the bills (3,710) introduced." Now to make good this charge, two things roust appear: ! First. That the 3,710 bills have really been "introduced.in the Forty Fifth Congress." " ! Second. TJiat they were introduced by Southern Rebels. j ' If Northern Radicals, Or Northern Democrats, or Southern Union men, "introduced" them, then j his charge falls to the ground, and he is a gross and wilful slanderer and liar. If, too, it should turn out that he has magnified the record to suit his own vile and despicable ends, then he stands before the country as a com mon falsifier, without truth or hon esty of motive. s Let us now turn to Mr. Davis's speech and see how he answers the Indiana blatherskite. Mr. Davis said: "I have taken pains to count the list,andl find the number to be six hundred and thirty-one. To make this terrible array of long columns six pages in the Record 1 find that bill No. 415, introduced by my friend from Tennessee Mr. Dibrell, has been re peated just fifty-tour times; bill No. 582,by T . i- . mjr; t r ii .. me genuemau irom oussouri .Dir. iruien den, four times; No. 878, by Mr. House, twenty-four limes; No. 955, by my friend, Mr. Nance, eigbt times; No. 1025, by Mr. Turner, six times; No. 1030V by -Mr. Cars lisle, twenty-nine times; No. 1049, by Mr. Atkins, forty-nine times; no. lvaa, by Mr. Giddinga, nineteen limes; N6. 25B8, by Mr. Williams, eigbt times, and ; No. 2780, by Mr. Carlisle, seventeen times. , , , "Of course I will not do the gentleman the injustice to charge that this was done for the purpose of misleading anybody, but it does make the array look imposing, and then, too, it shows' how careful was the 'examination.' But it so happens, as I am informed by my friend from Kentucky, Mr. Caldwell, that bill 1019, introduced by Mr. Atkins, and which is divided by the gentleman from Indiana, Mr. Hanna, into forty-nine parts, was reported back to the House from the Committee on War Claims, and the same bill, appropriating $24,257.31, is charged again in the list to Mr. Caldwell, thus not only doubling the num ber many times, but doubling the amount. Now it seems to me that a little careful ex amination could have sufficed to show not only that Mr.. Caldwell was reporting a substitute, but that the names of the par ties were the same. ; ' How,, many more er rors there are in the gentleman's 'carefully prepared ' statement'. I am . unable to say. but I have added up the figures, and I find the whole to amount to $5,000,107 067 One would infer, naturally, from the gentle" man's speech that all those were Southern wardaims 'rebel claims,, as gentlemen call them which the 'controlling element of the Democratic party; tbis is bis lann guage, not mine intended to 'extort' from the people by a 'raid upon the Treasury.' " This will do for to-day. . J ! Col. Armfield's prospects in Ashe county are represented as very encouraging. fMfctaitblBte thetnseltftft6t'injary . to I watch well the couraft tW lladical party iiNothCaroUrta. iThe Radical lead er by'dividingi wtw&JvtbMbratmtp&ttv. ; - Thev.mean MMirthhback 1 clubs f if they can, and 4&entie aa? many un- suspectipg-epiocraa; possible .WlraEB' have set i,ne game.is to vote tpr any so-called; Independent to defeat the nominee; of the Democratia Dartv." whether'. ;EWfirq$wi Greien-I 4MRkeoifl "Deraberat or what not. I tWWsvBugtion of the New! okSficy ej:1Jfyir"H(.o5i m'a; ? I i 'tje (0IWShcl, party , continues lo! grow in strength there aU be three Presi-, Cwitfcl cifidktatffl ISSOt atfo" tie Section I .may be thrown into the House. , The; Graphic recommends, in "every intance where a Republican Congressional nomi-! nee has no chance of success, that the Re publicans unite on Ihe Oreenbacker to defeat the Democrat" . , The Berlin Treaty is beginning to fail already. Austria has not been able yet to perform the part assigned her. It is said that Gortschakoff foresaw this, arid hence yielded to much that was done in the Berlin dongress. ( At this time over 200,000 Austrians are in Bosnia and Herze govina, and they; are unable to estab lish the authority of their country. ; A starving policy is to be adopted. That is to say, this large force will not be aggressive but will play the watching and waiting game. According to the Philadelphia Times: v j "The moral of the whole business.to dale, is: A single Coneress of the Powers may lead the people of Bosnia to ihe o'vecflowing well of Austrian authority, but an army of Austrians two hundred thousand strong cannot make the people of Bosnia drink." Murch, the Greenbacker, ' who de feated little Eugene Hale, in Maine, can neither read nor write, it is said. He boasts that he has never been to gohool. The Republicans claim that he will vote, with them save on the financial questions. Sitting Ball, at the head of a thou sand warriors, is said to be on. the war path again. Look out Howard. But that is premature Sitting Bull Will have to use tbo telegraph "orel ephone if he finds the hero of the Freed man's Bureau. ' War Utile. j There has drifted into our possession a relic of the past.which no doubt will recall many pleasant recollections, mingled with a shade of sadness, j to the minds of those survivors of the gallant 18th North Caro lina Regiment who may see this notice, and serve to remind them of a happy epi sode in the camp life of their regiment, j It is no less than a programme of a musical entertainment given at Camp Stephens,! S. C. in January, 1862, by members of the regiment, and we give with pleasure transcript of the whole programme. On the first page is written : Camp Stevens, S. C.," January 1st, 1862. VWe Come with Songs to Greet You I" "Let those now laugh who never laughed I! before ! "And those who always laughed now laugh " the more 1" ; 1 J "A Happy New Year to All." The Southern Harmonians will, by uni versal request, give one more Urand i Ethiopian Concert to-night at the Camp of the 18th i Kegt,N.U Vols. On the next page: PROGRAMME. ' FART I. Overture Medley), by the Company. ! I . Opening Chorus, "Down the River," by the Company. ' "Cora Lee," by Mr. Tentler, Co. I. I f J'Melinda May," by Mr. M. Stevenson, Co. G. ; , ': i ''Lynchburg Town," by Mr. A. D. Lip pitt, Co. G. VCottage by the Sea," by Mr. J. I. Melts, CO. L : Vy ' - 'I '; - : , j ! 'Farm Yard," by Mr. Tentler, Co. I. ; "I've wandered by the Huteide," by Mr. R. C. Dudley, Co. L I VirginU Rosebud," by Mr. J. I. Melts, Co. 1. ! i "Coon Hunt," by Mr. Tentler, Co. I. i'IjiI XI Viaa tllm fnr Wia Mrithor " ho Mr. J. I. Metts,.Co. 1. , '.'Ladies' Delight," by the Company. ! fast n. "Old North State." by the Company. "Dry Goods Clerk," by Mr. A. D. Lippitt, Co. G. H ' "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming," by Messrs. J.D. Barry, R. C. Dudley, Tent ler and Metts.' n "When I Was in the Army," by Mr. M.' Stevenson. ! i 1 "Pompey's Music Lesson," by Messrs. Williams, Co. Ir and Lippitt, Co. G. 1 "Wake Lady, Wake," by Mr. Stevenson, Co: G. ".'-;f "Comic Statue Dance," by the Company. : ''What Are the Wild Waves Saying," by Me8srs.Metts, Barry.Tentler and Stevenson. 'VThe Daguerreau Gallery," by Messrs. Metts, Dudley; and Duncan Cruise. iVCarolina Boys Are Ready," by the Corns pany. : . ! Performance to begin at 6i P. M. -1 Front seats reserved for ladies of Gra hamville. '.; j. ; , This, with frolic and song, as we learn from some who were present, passed a very agreeable evening beneath the pine trees of South Carolina, on the banks of the Coosa hatchie the first evening of a year whose close found many who ..had . joined in the festivities of that occasion filling a soldier's grave, for whom a comrade could have an swered. "Died upon the field of battle." Boys of the "Bloody 18th," do you recol lect that concern I i J i" vis. o-.: fr2 i 1 A Sftert Ston f .Wlnf anlBalD . Tk Win of a, New, BBllatasTam- : .0nc of thfieverest storms1 that has- pre-' ,vailed here in. a long time, takibg into con-; Videration iVe rmmense' rainfall, comm'enced uu fi cuueauay evening, coniinning an night ikT all ay 'yesterdayj . ; At Intervals; duriog Wednesday . night ibe rain came down hi torrents, accompanied by a. severe, southeast ; gale, and the same was the case; during yesterday. Market ' street,' yester-; terday morning, between 8 and 9 "o'clock,! waB literally flooded,' the pavement on the souilv side of the stteetkbeing completely i submerged and. tbe water threatening to; enter tbe.stores. :' Aa immense volume of water swept through the drains on either' ti'ijrt -.r i . i ,jt . .1-,. f side pf the street," in the direction r of " the- VivervUkragrwilh'it good a bbiea anu4 every-i tuiug vito vri n vuujoui nnutciun uouro 1U i ita wayil A nsinber of boysknoanted ne me numerous Bpeciaiors or toe sport, it colored itfdTVdii' Yrbtorulml.W tricts, who rejoiced inhe possession ;of'a! big basket of potatoes and green corn, i put it down on the edge of the pavement near the market bouse for a few moments, and the next thing he knew ' his basket was adrift on the "fast rolling tide." Discover ing the accident the poor fellow shouted, "Save my Haters!" but he was too late; the basket was overturned, and, together with its contents, was swept on in its resistless course until it reached Market dock. . Several trees were uprooted and fences prostrated in various sections of tne city, but the only damage of special importance, so far as we were able to discover, was the falling of the wall of thenew(brick building on the west side of Front, between Market and Princess streets, which was being erect ed for lr. Donald MacRae. The acci dent is supposed to have! been caused mainly by the frequent heavy rains that have prevailed recently, preventing the mortar from drying, together with the lack Of the proper ' support, which would have been given it by the iron front but for the delay in receiving it and getting it into po sition. Fortunately no one was hurt, those Who had been at work on the building haw ing taken refuge in the porch of the W. U. Telegraph office from the storm of wind and rain. It was the wall on the south side of the building that fell,' and the dam age will probably not exceed five or six hundred dollars. ' j - . ( We learn from Signal Officer Ralston that the rainfall here from Wednesday morning up to 4.30 P. M. yesterday amounted to 4.53 inches, and during the eight hours yesterday from 7.30 A. M. to S.30P." it-i es5i ass kicbes,. . . : The gale at Smithville - was very severe, the velocity of the wind yesterday, Ser geant Ralston informs us. being at the rate of forty-eight miles, per hour. No damage was reported, however, Sergeant seyboth. in charge of the office there, stating - that everything was snug and safe. The pilot boats came in as soon as the storm signal was displayed, and the tugs took refuge under the lea of Battery Island. i The signal officer at Sloop Point re ported the gale there to have1 been one of the most fearful ever known. We learn from - Masonboro Sound, by telephone, that the storm was very severe there, but no damage had ensued, except the washing away of a few gangways Morning Star, 13ft inst. j ! Discovery of the Body of a Drowned ITIau Tbelnqneat. Yesterday .morning the body of a drowned man suddenly rose to the surface of the river nearly opposite the foot of Princess street. It was secured and towed into the Princess street dock, when Coro nor Hewlett was notified. An inquest was soon afterwards held over! the remains, which proved to be those of a colored man, when the body was identified by Larry Low and Robert Terry, two colored ben, as that of one March Freeman, aged be tween 50 and 55 years. Larry Low keeps an eating house somewhere on Water street, and deceased boarded with him. He origin ally hailed from Georgia, but had been staying in Newbern for some time past Upon returning to this city a week or so ago be complained that somebody had taken his wifejaway fromjhim. After this be appeared to be in a very despondent mood, and acted at times as: if he was not exactly in his right mind. On Tuesday last he told Low that he was going to the City Hospital to see if they would admit him there, as he did not feel well. He returned late in the evening, but soon went ont again, since which time nothing had been seen or heard of him until his body was found in the river. A verdict was re turned in accordance with the facts. We regret to learn, through advices by the steamer D. Murehison, which ar rived here Friday night, that there are indi cations of a heavy freshet in the Cape Fear.. Capt. Garrason states that the river had risen at least twenty-five feet in the twenty-four hours, preceding his departure from Fayetteville Friday morning, the recent rains having been very "heavy above Fay etteville.' The water was still rising rapid ly when ho left, and it was thought proba ble that all the low lands ; along the line of the Cape Fear would be overflowed, and the crops to a great extent destroyed. At Averasboro, twenty-five miles above Fay etteville, the rain fell in torrents on Thurs day, and a party who arrived, at Fayette ville from that place on' Thursday evening said the indications there were that the freshet:; would be a r tremendous one. The steamer Tfas was to go up the river above 1 Fayetteville, upon: her arrival, for freight, and some apprehension is now felt that the river may rise to such an extent that she will be unable to get under the bridge upon her return. The farmers along the river, who received information from Capt Garrason of the approaching flood, hurried their preparations to save as much as possible of their crops before the de structive torret should reach them. - The Proapeeu tor the Fall and Wla- fal Feellnc &e. : . . , . .. , ! ''v:;;.'i" ;j- .. " "'" " v' ! i jBfftjrjrJoWTTiA3JEr" , Tie 1161116 present-point svery decidedly to ubhsual activity in the cotton; basioess1 this season n A - variety of causes are, .reasonably expected, to . combine in' bringing about this . resolt.lamonia: , which may be meotioped, firs.t, the greatly' i'ni-. pnTcu xtiwiunes ior preparing, me staple; for shipment, as-by : the" !tima the season ! fully ppens : there will be thwflrsC-class cotton . compresses ready or;; operation, capable of "compressing all the ;cot.Qi that uibj uo uiuugui io mis luarnei wup mei quickest 'possible i dispatch; 'secondly ,' tfiei increased ! facilities for 'shipping' dlreet to ihe European markets; Foreierf .vessels We j au-eay;crpwdingour.diarbohiand ajjaat! jftftyor; sixty mora are ,now pn the . way here,' whipb, with ethers that easy clear for this port from time Jto time, wift Wkmply lthiad AnaHflsute' prouiAt' Idetivery Ion I&ibi otaer side?;; oft the v watery .Thefa thareijar.tjtb ijfct., Jthay.thejijipre lence of that terriblescourge, yellow fever, in most of the towns and cities of the South west, will cause a great deal of tb$ cotton which usually goes in that direction to seek an outlet through their more' fortunate sis ter cities of the South Atlantic coast, and though some of the other ports may get the largest portion, it is but reasonable to sup pose that Wilmington will get her share. The receipts at this port for the year end ing August 31st, 1878, footed up 123,374! bales. Some of our leading cotton dealers predict that the receipts for the year com mencing September 1st, 1878, will amount to fully 200,000 bales, if they do not exceed that number. We were subject to draw backs last season which cannot possibly in tervene this season, and with all the lights before us we have every reason to be en couraged at the prospect. DBY GOODS, GROCERIES, C. : - The almost universal opinion among the leading dry goods merchants! and grocery dealers is that there will be a very decided improvement in trade this season over that: of the last, and in - fact several that have! preceded it One of pur ' prominent dry goods merchants, in reply to a question fromj us as to the prospects of business for the fan and winter, remarked, with a consider-, able degree of enthusiasm, They are . just as good as can be f and one pf our promi nent grooerymen, in answer! to the same interrogatory, exclaimed "Very good, sir; very good !" And this seems to be the feeling very generally in all classes of busi ness, though all are not so enthusiastically confided in its expression as the gentlemen: ICfOiiuvl tu. ' AlllUIJg tu. AiuuuE tire Tanuua caubca assigned for this cheerful view of the busi ness outlook are the probable large increase in cotton receipts, the fact that the farmers have received less advances on their crops than for several years past, and will conse quently have more ready money; and the decreased expenses for fertilizers.'. Our merchants generally have evinced their confidence in the business prospects ahead by their determination to lay in largely ini creased stocks, in which they are influ enced by the anticipation of a greatly in creased demand for their goods and wares, and the fact that the indications from the very dawning of the season have pointed lo an increased volume of business for the fall and winter. j GENERAL BUSINESS. The improvementin the leading branches of trade will, as a matter of course, have its effect upon all the minor interests, and inure to the benefit of all classes of busi ness, the mechanics, workipgmen and la borers coming in for their share in the general prosperity. The number of build ings now going up, including stores, dwell ings, &c., is a favorable indication, and on all sides much may be seen to encourage those who feel an interest in onr "city by the sea." the future of The storm In Pender Accident. A correspondent at Burgaw gives a very graphic account of the storm at Burgaw. Yesterday morning, just before the arrival of the Northern train, the new house be longing to Mr. L H. Brown,1 Register of Deeds, was blown to the ground. Three persons, Mr. Joseph Dupree, Mr. A. M. Allen and Capt Sharp's son, i were caught in the house when it fell. : Their cries soon brought the citizens to their rescue, and after considerable difficulty the parties were all gotten out Mr. Dupree was bad ly hurt, the whole of the weatherboarding on one side of the house having fallen upon him. It is hoped, however, that his inju ries are not serious. . The other two fortu- natelv fell or jumped into the! hole in the floor 'left for the chimney, and were-not seriously hurt I 't Much sympathy is felt for Mr. Brown in the severe loss he has sustained, and the good citizens of Burgaw have manifested the same by subscribing $150 to assist him in rebuilding. ; Mr. B.,P. Hand will be in Wilmington in a few days, when he will receive any subscriptions any of our citi zens may wish to make towards assisting Mr. Brown in his trouble .rStar, IZth inst. serious cnarces ; W. C. , Cowan, colored, of Masonboro' Township, will have a bearing before Jus tice Wagner on Friday next, at 11 o'clock, In two cases of alleged attempts at rape. The other cases against him, including as sault and battery, &c, have been settled. We stated yesterday that all the cases had been compromised, but since find that our informant was mistaken. j. ; Raleigh News: Many; of the ReJ Bublicans here consider: the action of the district Executive Committee of their party in endorsing Turner, as being somewhat of a bull-dozing character, and say they don't intend to let their claims for some voice in the selection of a candidate pass unnoticed. Spirits, tffqrpentine. iKinstonis talking of a Light Horse Company. . . KHaHfars has sent $70.30 to the Southern sufferers. 'TfcV 'cohered ueot)re in1 Raleifflr ratsed; floorer-the; Southern- sufferer. xiooiy. oone. - - adfiJxerr -wiH hear the Gran ville oounryi jaandanvi8( suit at Uxrord on the 28th na& tVt , Judjret iMerriiOori made an ad dress on Friiv on "The InfloenM f Christianity jd KaBkind." jfe. The Raleierh Calliobean Min strels crave ai ; ntftrtinmpht in aiil'of Uih fever sufferers, which netted $58, , , jThe Charlotte ladies have held bazar for tbe benefit of the Southern sufferers." It Was quite Successful. have sent 12.50 to tba Sonthei-a kuffnro r The citizeus have contributed $66 in addi tion. - - :'" Mr. Alfred Baoin. omploved in the Newbern cotton factory, had bis arm and hand terribly mancled in the pin T. fingers -were amputated, j t: TJie v Chowan Gazette notes a heavy! storm on Monday eyeoing.of last Week- A Wnrp)iDIl)U ivninir frnnt troon and fences were demolished in Edenton. Raleish nObserikri , The, Radi- ls f ,tbe yifth CongrMiuonaipistrict will uum a touvenuun at vrranam on me loin 4ne(.,Uy nominate a Candidate for Congress. u Jahtes Moore a 'colored boy of Newbern,wa run over by a horse and dray ana lniurea. I hfl f Olfirpfl drnvmnn nnmp.l Edward .Barbara, did not stop but drove oh . wtjiuoui ,guu3ce or sympaxB JA frrute r- "Rev. J ohn Rice, a distlhguished Presby te- near.Memphw,. or yellow fever, is report ed: 'He waa another of MrsMrH Lacy, of the Peace Institute. i t i r Oxford Free. Lance: Mr. Jas. B. Hobgood lost a few days since three barns ot tobacco while curing, covered we understand, by insurance. Mr. Zack Daniel also met a similar misfortune, losing one barn no insurance. Out of the whole number of Radical county officers elected in Beaufort in the recent election, it is not believed that a single one will be able to give bond. The office of clerk of the Superior Court has already been declared vacant from this cause.: . The ladies of Charlotte were rewarded witb a grand success in their efforts to raise money by a bazar in behalf of the Southern sufferers. The Observer re ports in all $550, exclusive of $150 raised otherwise. This puts Charlotte's contribu tions thus far over $1,800. Raleigh Observer: Last night the Raleigh Typographical Union met and or dered its Secretary to forward $10, tbe first installment of assistance,' in answer to an appeal. - A letter was received yester. day at the Executive Department enclosing $26 18, contributed by citizens of Kinston for the yellow . fever sufferers.- His Excellency, tbe Governor, yesterday made a requisition upon the Governor of Virginia for a fugitive from justice from this State. Name withheld for prudential reasons. Durham Plant'. The physicians report a case of yellow fever in the north era part of Orange,' i near Cedar Qrove. Jasper Hally, a resident of Memphis, left there after the yellow jack commenced its ravages, and came to Orange county, where he had relatives. After he bad been in Orange about a week he was taken sick, and the physicians have pronounced it a case of . yellow fever. When last heard from he was Convalescent, and it was not thoughttbere was any danger of it spread- lug. Goldsboro Messenger : Our Israelite citizens have extended Governor Vance a pressing invitation to deliver his celebrated lecture on "The Scattered Na tion," in Goldsboro, the proceeds to be de voted to the relief of the yellow fever suf ferers. I His Honor, Judge McKoy, requests us to call the attention of our Greene county readers to ' the fact that Greene Superior Court convenes on Mon day, the 30th instant, and not the 23d, as is stated on the . Court chart published at Raleigh. Pitt Court holds two weeks. . Raleigh Observer: Duplin is the banner county at the University of tbe State, i It has ten students there, good ones at that This does not ' equal Edgecombe of a year ago, when it had thirteen. Edge combe has now seven, one more expected. Pressly Mangum, convicted and sen tenced at the present term of the Criminal Court to five years in the penitentiary and appealed to the Supreme Court, gave bail yesterday and was released from jail. Mr. John A. McDonald, the husband of the lady dismissed from the Graded School as teacher, is a native Republican, while CoL Shaffer, the man doing the dismissing, is a carpet-bagger of the first water. A negro in a fit of jealousy or anger took the life of another negro in Caswell County. The Danville (Va.) New tells the story : Sunday afternoon two gen tlemen of color and as many dusky maidens were engaged in a usual Sunday flirtation, When a third gentleman oi color joined the party, i This obtrusion was objected to and one of the party took a gun and, in a play ful scuffle, presented it at the intruder. The gun was soon laid aside, when it was taken from the rack by gentleman number three, who cocked it, presented it at the darkey who had just been playing with it, took deliberate aim and fired. The whole load entered the lower part of the breast bone, tearing away a . portion of the lung and liver, and perforating the transverse colon and stomach. The result was death within six hours after tbe wound was in flicted.; ; Charlotte Observer: Day before yesterday a party .of revenue officials made a raid in Gaston county, and, as tbe result of one day's search, discovered fire liquor distilleries operated by moonshiners, which were destroyed, and this was in a part of tbe county where it was said very few dis tilleries were operated. me corner-. stone of the Wilberforce College, an insti tution founded by the Episcopal Church, was laid in Morgan ton Saturday evening witb appropriate and interesting ceremo nies, Bishop Atkinson officiating. Highly interesting addresses were delivered by the' n tt rr v. i. iisnop ana oy viov. v iau. a us cuurvu has had such an institution in contempla tion for several years, but until recently no steps have been taken further than the se lection of the location. - Col. T. M. R. Talcott has been appointed general super intendent of the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad; Capt J. R. Macmurdo has been appointed general passenger agent; and Sol. Haas, general freight agent Dr. Daniel Asbury's recently patented invention for drying fruittobacco, lumber, &c, has been thoroughly tested in Danville within the last few days, and he writes that it has exceeded his own expectations and has created quite a stir among the tobacco raisers of that region. A whole barn of to bacco was dried by the process in an incred ibly short time.tnrning out the leaf as bright as that cured by the sun. Cunningham Boyle, the apostle of the Truelights, who professes inspiration, spoke at two places in the eastern part of the county, yesterday, and had at one time an audience of three hundred persons. A citizen of Char lotte contributed the handsome sum of $100 to the yellow fever fnnd, but will not allow his name to be mentioned in connection with it .