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; THE AB91V BILL.
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No one not immediately interested
doubts as to the wisdom and necessi
ty of cutting down the army. We
have no need for a larger standing
army than ten thousand men. It is
dangerous to have a larger force. A
large standing army is a perpetual
menace to the liberties of the people,
and the Stab has long favored a re
duction of the .present force. If
Grani,6r one of the bulldozers should
be elected in 1880, he would use the
'"army to pepetuate his hold upon of
fice and to continue the reign ot Rad
icalism indefinitely. .
That, thn hnoA st.aff of the Armv
0-
ehoald be reduced greatly there can
be no sort of doubt. It has been
stated that there are enough officers
now in the pay of the Government to
command an army ot an nnnarea ana
twenty-five thousand men. The diffi
culty appears to be in razeeing the
Htaff . in a satisfactory way. The
Army Bill now before Congress is
said to contain some capital defects.
If it is as represented it, should not
pass without some sharp and painful
surgery,! The . Washington corres
pondent of the Baltimore writes
on the 24th:' : i
"It is said among the staff officers that
General Sherman has already prepared a
list of ibe staff officers who are to be eacri-
. need in case of the passage of the bill, and
the list is not so much made np with a
' view to the interests and necessities of the
service as to throw overboard men who
are personally unpopular with the General
of the Army, aod to supply places for his
particular friends. The bill really makes
a supreme military despot of General Sher
man, renders him entirely independent of
the President, and in effect makes the Sec
retary of War his subordinate. An army
officer who has studied the bill with care
says that certain features of it would per
mit a civilian to be arrested at any time at
l. .. : ti m i i - rm. :
iiio uiu ui ui iue ueaerai. auib pru
- vision, it nothing else, would be sufficient
to kill the bilL" , .
Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, is very weary of
hearing and determining applications fer
pardons, and wants a board created to take
charge ef that business. A . better plan
would be to have no pardons, but in case
of new evidence coming to! light or any
facts materially changing the aspect of the
case in the prisoner's favor, to have him
sent back to his county for a new trial.
Washington Fast. '
We are glad to learn that there is
one Governor who is tired of j exer
cising his dangerous one-man power.
It is a great pity that all-of the other
Governors, who have been so strange
ly entrusted , with such supreme
powers over life and death, have not
grown 'weary of hearing and deter
mining applications for padons.,,
We cannot see, under the present
system, what time the Governor has
to attend to the other interests of the
people when so much of his time is
pre-occupied with the "hearing and
determining (granting rather) appli
cations for pardons." We are quite
disposed to help relieve the over
worked Governors of a part of the
burdens of office, and we are clearly
in favor of doing for North Carolina
what Gov. Bishop wishes done for
him to create a Board "to take
charge of the business.", '! ;
It is cruel to oppress and weary a
Governor with- so much work and so
much responsibility. ; Unless he is
fond ot 4a little brief authority ," and
rejoices that in his weak and fallible
hands are the issues of life and death.
he roust ibe glad at any movement
that promises to relieve him of the
stupendoue act of deciding whether
a criminal shall live or die.
The position of the Post is the
true one, and we hope that able and
influential paper will direct its artil
lery upon one of the most monstrous
and extraordinary features of State
governments. As we have often said.
there is no living man who ought to
be invested with such strange and
dangerous power. Onr State press
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VOL. 10.
appears (o be well Batiafiel wilb the
pardoning of criminals, and the exer
cise of that power by one man. - We
expect to fight u until the end. - - -
A Washington correspondent has
furnished an interesting pen-sketch
of sundry leading men in the Senate.
We give a few ;of the brief portraits,
including our own able Senators:
: "He recalled Blaise as the most unscru
pulous, but the most brilliant and Qnlncky
demagogue this generation has. produced;
Conkling as a Senator, with the head of
Apollo and the walk well, ' I won't" de
scribe k; Edmunds, whose Darwinian face
would entitle him to be Chief Justice In the
Gorilla country, but whose admirers say
lesembtaa the Apostle J Paul: Teller, of
Colorado, who, if the Senate were a pack
of cards. would be a tray of spades when
clnbs are trumps, and yet whom the Re
publicans were f oroed in their extremity to .
?ut at the head of the Blaine' committee.;
'human, the bestjspecimen of an Ameri
can statesman far ; eitherbody, w ho .does
not uesuaie u uiks pari id any aeoate, ana
who is always ready to answer successfully
the prepared speeches of the Radical lead
era; Bayard, as the polished, incorruptible,
and accomplished Senator; Lamar, who
adds to oratory and culture a broad states
manship; Ransom, who is as powerful in
debate as be was brave in war; Merrimon,
bis colleague, who knows enough law to be
on the Supreme Bench of the United States,
and who never speaks ; without speaking
well aod to the point; Butler, who is wor
thy of the honored name he bears, who is
cool when others ire excited, and who is
not only a strong debater, but can be as
eloquent as Demosthenes when he pleases;
Uordon.wno is tne soul ol gallantry and hon
or, and whose Senatorial career has shown
that he is as successful a statesman as he was
gallant as a general; Voorhees, who is the
most brilliant orator in
either body, and
who never fails to come
to the aid of the
South when his services are needed; Ran
dolph, whose political faith is as fixed as
the creed of a Covenanter, and who never
speaks without giving the Senate accurate
information and a strong presentation of
bis aide of the question;! Hill, of -Georgia,
who is one of lue most brilliant men in
either body who is often immense, and
who at other times makes striking failures."
FRORl LIBERIA.
Witness after witness: testifies to
the exceeding hardships and disap
pointment of those who are beguiled
from their homes to test what it is to
live in Africa. ! The; latest evidence
upon the subject comes from an intel
ligent and educated colored man who
writes from Monrovia, Liberia, Octo
ber 20th, 1878, to the Macedonian
Baptist Church (c'ojored), at Barn
well, S. C. . The whole letter is inter-
esting and well written, and is evi
dently the production of a trusting,
intelligent professing Christian, who
meets his disappointment with a stoat
heattr-'Hef e ia atfcgMtirat'' parTof
the letter: s . II V V .
"Please allow me to say something about
my crossing the ocean, and my trials since
I left the United States; for they have been
many; bat the Lord has been with me until
now. I started! with twenty-two in my
family, but I lost two at eea, my baby and
grand-child, and! on my arrival lost three
more. Hose Stephens 1 lost two or his
children, and my mother-in -law, Liddy,
died June 81th. i She said she was not
afraid to die. . i
"Provisions are now plentiful, but they
are not what we used to eat It went hard
at first, but we have got used to it now.
Coffee is plentiful, and so is sugar, and so
are yams, but meat we hardly ever eat, ex
cept on Sundays, when we have roast mon
key Tor dinner, j it's mighty dry eating,
andneeds lard, but that you can't get for
love or money." j .!.
It must be acknowledged that the
piotnre this correspondent, William
Johnson, draws is not a bright or en
couraging one. To one Dot reared on
such diet as "roast ' monkey" it must
seem indeed "mighty dry eating"
without "lard. which cannot be "got
S i i. .
for love or money."
Immigrant life in that part of the
world is full of trial and disaster.
Sickness, starvation, disappointment,
death, appear to be the portion ofall.
One year of civilization and content
ment and plenty to
"cycle" in Africa.'
eat, is worth a
Remain where
you are, and do your duty as men and
good citizens, j Pay; your taxes, be
honest, and vole the Democratic
ticket. :', 'I
We sincerely wish well to all who
have gone to! Liberia. . They have
been victimized and badly deceived
every way. We trust - that a kind
Providence will smile mercifully and
propitiously , upon them, and that
William Johnson, and those of his
household who! survive, may live long
in Ibe distant land they now dwell m,
add be prosperous and happy
Senator . Merrimon made a point
upon Blaine that will be appreciated
in the Sonth. j Referring to the pur
pose of Radicals ' to ' disfranchise the
negro if they cannot control his vote,
he said : j i
"I tell that Senator that this is easier said
than done . The South will never consent
to this, and in opposing any movement of
that kind, he will certainly find the white
men and lha colored men standing' solidly
together. The white I men of the South
will never see the colored men despoiled of
their rights in that respect. Neverl never!"
A man in Washington went to the
Treasury to cash eight thousand dol
lars worth of coupons. Gold was
tendered, but he said, no thank you,
greenbacks are good enough.
!r , Scarlet fever and measles pre
vail at Warren ton.;
WILMINGTON,
; I THB CONTEST AH8AD.
Whilst there is a great v deal of
talk among Radicals as to the claims
of Grant, Sherman, Blaine,' Conkling
and Evarts to the nomination for the,
Presidency, the' Democrats " are 'riot
d ist urbi n g t b e msel vea '. with prema-
tnre ! discussions as
to the8 merits tcif
their,, own men.
They ; are biding)
tbeir time, and at the right moment
t
will select the proper person, we must j
hope, who will be etrongienought4ft
win.- The' Democrats will doubtless
be jable to ' unite haiiridnfotsSiy' and
every' element of strength" will' be
fused ipto an opposition that; will be
victorious. :.
TKfl TAmAAVAf a . Kena foil a1 i
learn wisdom from the lessons of the
late elections. 5.. Eui for trie want '5f
necessary organization they would
have carried several States in which
Radicals made gains of members of
Congress. The Greenback mania
was used successfully in many dis
tricts by the Radicals, and many De
mocrats were inveigled into a coop
eration with them that did them no
good and strengthened the enemy, i
We feel assured that in the great
fight of 1880, and it will be a great
fight;, that the overwhelming opposi
tion now known to exist to the Radi
cal party, will be to a, very great ex
tent solidified, and that a patiiot and
statesman will be chosen by the suf
frages of the people to the chair of
the Chief Executive of the Uuion.
Whether he will, come from the
North or Northwest it is now idle to
speculate. That he will be an able
and pure man we cannot doubt, and
that! be will be elected by a large
majority we hope and believe.
In saying this we are not forgetful
of the various sources of strength
upon which Radicalism relies. The
Democrats will have in all probabili
ty the prestige of Grant, backed up
by a bant! red thousand hungry office
holders, by the money power, by a
subsidized and venal press, by the
Federal authority used for unlawful
purposes, by tens of thousands of
sub-marshals and other bulldozers, by
fraud and trickery and rascality made
iiespejr&te Jby,. poverty these and-
other devil ish agencies will! all have
to be met and overcome. The battle,
therefore, must be fierce and sharp,
and there must be unity of purpose
and the utmost harmony of action.
With good leadership we can win the
day.
The legislation of Congress may
have a great deal to do in either
strengthening or weakening our
chances. Jf oar representatives are
wary and prudent, they can give an
immense impetus to the cause of
peace and reform and offer a guaran
tee of success. Whilst Democrats in
various sections may differ on many
minor points, they are . agreed that
civil liberty, the peace and prosperity
of the country, and the conservation
of republican institutions, all depend
upon the driving of Radicalism from
power. In this knowledge and agree
ment they (will .unite for viotory,
leaving for other times the settlement
of questions of finance and tariff, and
great projects of improvement. , I ;
Without boastf ulnessj after survey
ing the whole field; after seeing that
Radicalism has a majority at this
i t
time in but nine of the thirty-eight
States, we may claim that the chances
are altogether in favor of the Demo
crats. With a hearty purpose to push
on io victory, led by ' men of broad
views and high resolve-', we can enter
the campaign with more , confidence
of success than we did in 1876, when
the; 'Democratic candidates were
elected by nearly three hundred thou
and majority of the popular vote,
and by more than twenty electoral
majority. But there - must be good
organization and a plenty of down
right hard work. It must not be a
holiday campaign in which windy
speeches and sonorous rhetoric are to
be the chief reliance. Speeches and
editorial discussions are good in their
place, but judicious, thorough discip
line and welt directed efforts are ab
solutely essential to success.
The Washington correspondent j of
the Baltimore Sun reports that Sen
ator Bayard says if he is nominated
bv the Democrats it must be a free-
will offering, as he will not lift a fin
get to secure it. Let as now. hear
from Thurman, Hendricks,t Hancock
and any ; other Batkises who "are
willing." We are fast gravitating to
the good old custom rhen'the office
seeks the man. That is to gay, if the
men will not seek the office, of which
we will see more hereafter.
N-1 C, FRIDAY, JANUiiHY 3.
.::;;.vJAlIB:UBA'rO!V.'
IBIU ite-Ai-reat m.mA Coaficemeni
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Ota. hJ nlt'iJayi,.
Jamea Hetatoo, who pad been arrested and
committed for frtaFon the charge of em-
bezi Jemeaff sucWded' in making his
esci pe from theiotintymtylnd ltwasf
then apposed thit ab would: hardly ever
venture, hack .to thlapity.; It seems;; how
eve, hat,: theref wis an, attractioa jheie,
Whiph .be ;coull not reaistT-ksome , say he
4i
must have drank rather, ireeiy pi iwck
fitting water!) "A? any ; rate' Sheriff "Maui1
aing received information Christmas night
than be was at the boose of one ilary Rat-
tffel on Brunawitl&? between; Fourth and!
Pifth .streets, whereuppn, abputp, o'clock .
that! night, accompanied by Daniel Howard,
Jalltr, Deputy Soerlff T. CC Muierj''
geaAt J. H. Savage; tod Office Atteny
Waiklns and Gio.1 WP5 Davls.;oof ? the
titoTce ariZT Messrs. - & -Petteway
ahd W H- James, he wept toLhe house
id' question and .demanded admittance,
which was denied by one of the women
whd came to the door. She was" then in
formed that if she did not open the door it
would be broken open, and, as the Sheriff
and j his pom were still refused admittance,
both the front and rear doors were simul
taneously burst open, and the party en
tered. They then, proceeded to the room
which they learned Heaton was occupying,
when he was found on the bed fast asleep.
The! Sheriff then ordered one of the officers
to take charge of bis two revolvers which
were lying on a table, and, also, that his
clothiDg. be searched for any weapon that
he might possibly have concealed in the
pockets thereof, after which the "irre
pressible" was awakened, and con
fronted with the- startling reality that
he iwas once' more a prisoner. Two
or three times, in a fit of desperation,
he swore he would not be taken alive,
and once be seized a lighted lamp as if he
would hurl it at the Sheriff or one of the
men who were with him in the room, but
he was finally quieted down by the assu
rance that no matter bow desperate his ef
forts,provision bad been made to .overcome
them; and when he ascertained how many
men constituted the posse, the most of them
havjng remained iu the ball adjoining,
ready for an emergency when called upon,
he submitted as, gracefully as ne couiu,
when he was taken to the county jail and
placed in one of the cells, whence there
will be no possibility of his making his
escape, and where be will await a hearing
in the severai cases against him at the
February term Of the Criminal Court, '
Tta tfaardarer' Btfy.
Wednesday's Charlotte Observer says:
The body of Jule Davidson, the negto who
murdered and robbed Mr. Fowler, at
Mooresville, was still dangling from the
limb to which he was hung last Saturday
nigit, when. the train passed by the spot,
two' miles above Mooresville, - yesterday
afternoon. Coroner Burke, however, came
?owd on the train and expected to take it
down before dark and hold the inquest. It
is a little singular, by the way, that this has
hot been done before.
The train stopped to get wood near the
place where the body is or was, aod sev
eral gentlemen went out to see it. From
one of them it is learned that the face of
the negro looks "perfectly natural," the
cold weather having prevented purifica
tion. r
It is also learned that it was the inten
tion of the crowd of men who took David
son from the hands of the officers, to hang
Gillespie, bis companion in the crime, but
the officer by stragetio movement escaped
withhis prisoner. The. people are still
greatly incensed against Gillespie, whom
they consider equally guilty, and some are
yet; favoring the idea of taking him from
the State8ville jail and hanging ' him also.
It is not likely, however, judging - from : all
we jean gather, that this will be done, j
important Pui Rvllnza.
The Postmaster General has issued an
order to the" effect that after January 1st
every description of matter produced by
the type writer, the electric pen or papyrd
graph process, shall be cbargedpetter rates
of postage. .- First-class matter is held to
embrace manuscript and fac similes of the
same, except lithographs and photographs.
The term "printed matter" is held to mean
impressions from movable types.
It Is also ordered that hereafter packages
Of any description of matter of the! third
class, except: transient newspapers, must
be hiailed at post offices. Postalcar clerks,
route agents, local agents,' mail route mes
sengers and way messengers are prohibited
from receiving packages of third-class mat
ter,; except, transient newspapers. This
order will prevent unmailable aod insuffi
ciently prepared matter, which would . be
refised at a postoffice, from being forced
inte the mails on the postal cars. The lack
of such an order has made itself felt upon
the postal revenues. - , -
Christmas at Warsaw.
A correspondent at Warsaw, Duplin
county, intimates. that Christmas was pret
ty lively 4n that place., ( By, 10 o'clock A.
M. he counted about forty or fifty drunken
men on the streets; and at about 2 P. M
difficulty - occurred between a drunken
white man and a drunken negro. The
row. became general, and sticks, knives and
fisticuffs became the order of the day. No
one was seriously .hurt however. A few
beads were cracked, one white man was
slightly tut - with a'kaife, and one eolored
man was fired noon, the effect of the shot
beine unknown, as the man ran off.; ' Oar
correspondent says there wad only one ar
rest, ana mat was ao louiienBiTB ceioreu
individual who bad nothing to do with the
fight : : '' -
- The weather Friday sight was
intensely cold and ice , was pleniifnl every
where yesterday : morning. .:ven milk in
pitchers froze in some instances, the likeo
which has not been known in this partlcn
lar latitude for the a number of years.
Hill
covktTt com Mission krs - ;
batraet rPraeeelBK ta Adjotprned
, (Tid Board met in idjoarned sesfeloriyea
terdjay, at 2 P. M.; present, W. Li Smitbj!
'tJhairmap,,, yand. j Conjssioners yB G.
Wbfth, H. A. Buz. A. J. Grady and Jas.
!Ar.' Montgomery. '
' The irrhintes'tfhe previous Meeting
wert read ad ippt'oVefiJ SlMadoi?V.
n .Mpv& irfliL Ma Hriae rafadJRtD.Haili I
maastnu ref erted ack,- not boingjom
Commissioner Worth reported that he
had completed the arrangements for cook-"4
oof Housftarili foirbig thfe4tpe;i-r ni
Cimmiaioraggeijhat be;ba4c
J wsi ordered1 iivbe' 'Boar d''' that! ihe
Sheriff be retired to rtpoti 4o eDoardi'1
lilt 4f gm iftoperty'old toihe Water-4
taxes since he has been io office, n't
Ordered,' that all magistrates who have
failed to report to this Board, according to
ah order issued Pec 18th, 1878, of their
official acts, by this, the next regular meet-
ng ,of this Board, the penally of the law
will be enforced against them. -V
The following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
Board the Criminal Court, as' now estabo
ished for the county of New Hanover, and
two terms of the Superior Court, appointed
for the 13th Monday alter the 1st Monday
in March and September of each -year,' are
sufficient to transact and dispose of all civil
and criminal causes arising in said county.
Besoltm, secondly, That the County At
torney be instructed to prepare a memorial
to the next General Assembly, prayiog that
honorable body to enact a law repealing so
much of the statute now in lores as pro
vides for the holding of another term of the
Superior Court for said county, and spe
cialty providing that there shall not be held
any term of said Superior Court in the
months of January and . June. .
It was ordered by the Board that the
Hon. Judge McKoy be notified, that the
Board have been legally advised that the
holding of the January term of the Supe
rior Court is not in conformity with the pre
sent law of the State and an unnecessary
expense entailed on the county, and the
Board therefore respectfully: request that
said term shall not be held.
It was ordered that sealed proposals be
received for keeping the .poor and insane at
the County Poor House for one year from
January, 1879, to be determined at the reg
ular meeting of the Board to be held Jan
uary 6ln, 1879, on the basis of the contract
now in force, or without the .use ; of! the
cleared land. . i
Ordered that sealed proposals will be re
ceived and acted on at the regular meeting
of the Board, to be held January 6ib, 1879,
for taking charge of the criminals sentenced
to taeWo1fBous
coals of court, with the use of the, cleared
land attached io the Poor House premises,
Ordered that the office of Constable for
Cape Fear Township be declared vacant,
the official holding the same having failed
io renew his bond.
Commissioner Grady put in nomination
Mr. Edward Schriever to fill said vacancy,
and he was. on motion, unanimously de
clared the Constable of the Township.
It was ordered that the Auditing Com
mittee meetia regular meeting on the first
Wednesday in every month, and on next
Wednesday at 7i P. M.
The reports of Justices J. N- Maffitt and
Stephen Keyes were received and ordered
spread on the recorda of official reports.
Petition of J. A. Ashe, to have his poll
tax remitted, was not granted. :
In appearing the ' satisfaction., of the
Board that the delinquent tax in the name
of Catharine A. Maxwell, for the year 1878,
is iacorrect, the same property being listed
in the name of Mrs. F. A. Keith and the
tax paid by her, the same is hereby remitted.
On motion, the Board adjourned to meet
on Monday, January 6th, 1879, in regular
monthly session.
Tbtn Joaniea aadBli TWiiein Soatb
; : Carolina. , ;
' Sheriff Manning has received a letter
from Mr: G. W. Sessions, of Nixonville,'
Horry county, S. C; who slates that there
is a strange colored man In that !ceighbor-
hood who answers to the description of
Tom Johnson, as be had seen it in the Stab.
Mr, S. says that this man has a woman
with him whom he calls ' his wife; and that
she is a small, black woman; and looks to
be not more than 18 years of ase. He is
satisfied that the man is Tom Johnson.. A
party arrested him a . f e w . days ago, and
while be was under surveillance they que
tioied his wife far enough to be convinced
that he was none other than lee notorious
outlaw. The Sheriff of ' Horry ;county,
however, contended that he had no' autho
rity to pat him in jail, and he was there
fore turned loose: Mr. S. says be is a des
peiate fellow and well armed! He writes
to know what crime he is charged with, or
why he was outlawed, and if a person in
South Carolina would be justifiable in kill
ing him if he were to resist arrest.1 He
thinks that Johnson can be taken at any
6mei Sheriff Man ning has written to Bir.
Sessions to arrest the man and hold him
for'jidentiflcation,,.but inrorming him that
the outlawry against Johnson will not apply
to any pout outside of bur own State.
For the better information of our friends
in South Carolina, as to the identity of the
outlaw, we give a description of him, as
follows: Alonzo Blri alias Thomas J ohn
aon, is aged about 29 or B0 year j about
five feet seven inches high; weighs about
one hundred and sixty or one hoodrel and
seventy pounds; color no .pare black hot
.1.11.4 Ann nl-. m a tfYift . I. a filMII it
muscular man; was shot through hlsrirfit
thigh by Jailor: Howard, ; while ; trying, to
effect his escann heifnm he was, taken to
thn PonitflBtinrv. nd 'm Hnnhl fitilt beftTS
the scar; speaks very quick and short tries
to be tery choice 19 , the selection et hto
words, and poUte withal, and has a veiy
small foot for a man of his size. Tnertis
a reward of $160 offered by the "Stale for
bis osplure.
NQ, i 10,
Pofsoaetft by Eailos Baaaboa Berrlftn
'jW. H Moore, colored, formerly Republi
can Sesator from this counly, , but now
farming at Masonboro' Sound, was troubled
with! soine disease of the eye on'Thursday
eveaiog last,' when his wife went ; out into
the Woods and got a lot of bamboo' berries'
to make a pouluce for it. Upon her return,
aodibafore.the herrien hal hppn nsprt tar.
)he purpose for which they had .been gath
ered, one of Moore's children, aged about
8e7eb;,vearsi ate- a ; ooant ifv of tbfem.';m'-
rr" . . .
taedjately after which he was taken vloleift
!ysckiaBddied j&alFtH ay morning, his
deathv, having, evidently been .caused .by
ajiig 'lhe berries referred lo.
Jui nnta H, W flb-rnnoranH if P
disob, the latter of the steamer flbrth. East,
which was destroyed by, . fire on Tuesday
morning laajl, have pnrxsbased the steamer
j.ws,, companion 01 we sieamer nave,,
and fwirfthoTcrtTtrhlV 'oTerhanl ' ; Vriah-' ' in A
ftiftnT 'heraTter:ifh1tn7fn " about four'
weeks.' ahe will be put regularly on the line
between this city and Poiat Caswell ;
EDUCATION IN WISCONSIN.
J Correspondence of the Star.
r 'Madisox, Wis., Dec. 17, 1S7S.
My Dear Sib: , Knowing how
deeply you sympathise in every effort
to advance the cause of Literature,
and in the hope of stimulating you
and others in our goodly old State in
that behalfr I avail myself of a leisure
moment to write vou in regard to
what ! has been accomplished in that
behalf m this far-off, new State of
Wisconsin. '
The Territory of that name was
organized in 1S36, with only 30,945
inhabitants, and the Stale was admit
ted into the Union in 1S48. In 1875
it contained a population of 1,236,729,
and in 1S76 tne people paid taxes
State, county and town to the enor
mous figure of $8,097,435, of which
12,132,000 was for the support of
schools. The assessed value of pro
perty, real and personal, was $364,
729o29, which, as usual, is from one
half Lo one-third less than the real
value.
But it is not to these evidences of
material development that I propose
to call your attention!. , It is to the
progress made in education and lite
ratures an idea 01 which can be
formed, however,', from the above
statement, of the taxes paid for school
purposes. The University is endowed,
and has about 450 students male
and female for there is a female
department, adjacent to the male,
anq the girls attend the lectures in
common with the" boys. There : has
been a good deal of discussion on this
possessions are against ine innovation.
The State normal schools have endow
.. r ' . - .- -
ments of nearly, a million dollars and
various other institutions of benevo
lence are well provided for. But
these schools are chiefly indebted for
their endowment to grants of the
public lands by Congress; and it is,
or has been the folly of the old States,
especially those of the South, that
they are not now enjoying the benefits
of similar donations.
The State Historical Society, how
ever, owes its e;reat achievements to
individual efforts, aided by the liber
alitiy of the Legislature. It has al
ways been under the voluntary man
agement of the Society, brt has re
ceived liberal patronage from the
State Legislature, and is now in effect
thel State Library. It has received,
up ito the close of the fiscal year 1S77,
$136,275.99 in donations from the
Sta'te, and it contained, including
pamphlets, 76,702 volumes. Hon;
Lytnan C. Draper, whose name is fa
miliar to many of our intelligent citi
zeds, hai been the Corresponding Se
cretary 'for a quarter of a century,
and has perhaps done more to build
up the Historical Society Hhan any
other, man. The Library ' contains
perhaps the most complete collection
of Revolutionary and ante-Revolu
tionary newspaper volames to be
found in the country, unless it may
be in the Library 'ot Congress. . And
I will add, that I know no man who
is more familiar with Revolutionary
men and events than Mr. Draper
himself.' Indeed, it would be difficult
to find a Carolinian, NOrth or South,
who is more thoroughly read in our
Revolutionary history than he. He
has written a history; of GeD. Sump
teft Gen. Rutherford, of Daniel
Boone, and : of the whole Mecklen-
buter party.' whose names are con
nected with the Revolutionary move
mentsiu that county in 1775. He
has pre'pared,and ready for. the press,
a complete history of those events,
and arrives at the conclusion that the
Resolutions of the 31st May, 1775,
constitute the real Declaration that
was made.
And here I wish to call your atten
tion to the very interesting fact, that
th$ Appendix to Mr. Draper's book
will .contain four important letters
frojm Governor Swain on the subject.
the author of the Field ' Book of the
ReVolutioni ta Mr. RandaTl.the biog-
fapher bfMr. Jefferson, and to Mr.
Banorof U d Governor S wain places
himself squarely on ' the platform of
the fxlesoiutions of May 31st,, ana
tosSood of light ion the . whole
Jbiect.,?; He states, as a tact wiinm
m owmknowledge, that the original
unno coov of sne eo-oauea jeoiara-
tXlofi of May 20th contained tne cer-
I tiScale of John McKnitt . Alexander
to the fact that he, Alexander,' wrote
the Declaration Mb : the year -1800,
fr&rh memory. '-trre original ! having
yVM uestroyea -oy nie six munius
nrtiilAlo Vaiim f : ' -
' ' ! ; D. R. G.
we learn that there is
snow in the Warren section.- ;
- State news Will be scarce for
some days,' owing to theQjoliday taken by
ouriexchangas generally. t -, i . (
-p-The Warren ton papers pay feel
ing and well. deserved .Uibu'es to tiie laic
excellent Dr. George Field. .
--Hickory Press i . Mr. George 13.
informs us that an old iady in ! this couu-y,
Mrs, Hodges, has 372 children and grar.d
cbjjren. . . ,.4-A writer 'in' the7 Lincoln ton Xetcs
sufeieslahe proprietor Uceneing the eala
of aime novels and appJyiDg tU p!u
ceesr to paying the county 'lax.
. . ,-r- Hendersonvilld (Courier: Tho
firstshipruent f .oysters for the Oyster Club
arrived., Tuesday morning. They were
.8hidped from Newbern the day before.
, 4- About this time look out for the
reappearance of ;, the "Honorable" tBiie--'
maq who is elected to the next LngiJiiuie.
Our! Legislators reauire as manT hextra
i asa Hinelish cockuev . . . ;
Some articles , copied from the
Wa: rentoa News were unintentionally cie
diteti td fta neighbor, the Gazette. AccU
dents will happen-in the best regulated
families and newspaper offices.
. . . 'Shelby 'Aurora: There is a lady
jivJgaHhis: county 110 years old. She
hbver.9 eraod-chlldren, aud,she can
,cpUHt her great grand rchildreu4' to tbi:
fom ill generaii6n. We refer to" Mif.. Per-'
Tcelli Sanders. . . .; . , '
- ;Ashevillti Pioneer-. The first
sess on of Prof. Venable's Male Schoul
closed on Thursday last. " This institutioo
is now a permanent fixture in this commu
nity, and the School will Open its session on
the $th of January, with additional teacher.
and flattering prospects.
4Th
A RnhAsnninn hxta that rticuil
ils mnlh volume. , Wo Congratulate its edi
lor upon the success he has achieved. We
trust that the Robesonian will continue lo
grow in popularity and usefulness. It will
begin the publication in January of a storv
entitled MACuree and a Cross," by Miss
Dickson.
Winston Oxnlinei'. Judge Cloud
eft for Florida on last Monday, where he
proposes to snend the winter. -Prof .
Hartley, the elocutionist, couldn't raise au
audience to read to on Fridavnicht.
Philip Eaton, a respected and prominent
: : e t- : . i ? . , . .
tinzjcu 01 iavie uouuiy, uieu 01 pneumo
ma,:near D'lemmgton.on Tuesday ni.2ht,lbe
19th inst., after a short illness.
Mr. E. J. Funderburk tella the
Monroe Enquirer that he went out a few
days ago to buy a milch cow, and came
across one belonging to Mr. S. N. Stilwell,
which now has. by her side her twenty-
third calf. This one not, suiting Mr. F.,
Mr. Stilwell spoke of havinz another
"heifer" which was younger, but she beins
aboat seventeen years old, he decided to
buy-elsewhere;
-K Concord Register: ': Wtn. Nichol
son and John Meacham broke lail and es
caped Friday morning. They were both
in the cage, and with a piece of gas pipe
they drew the staple, opened the door, and
reached the roof through the scuttle, and
witq a rope made of their blankets.reached
the ground. : Nicholson was - charged with
murder, and Meacham with fraud and ob
taicing money under false pretenses.
Goldeboro Mailv Mr. R. J. Gre
gory has sold his interest in the Humphrey
House to Mr. Howard Bain, and the latter
gentjeman will associate himself with Mr.
Freiman in the management pt this widely
known house on the first dav of January.
1879. Our best wishes for the enterprise..
Mr. Howard Bain shot himself through
the middle finger Of his left hand on Tues-
JlayThew6uhd" '.was fnfi'ictrd with ah air-" "
gun;
4-The 'Richmond State pays the
following compliment to a Charlotte girl:
Miss Annie Vogel, of Charlotte, N. C,
who has been studyins music in this city
for three years, under Prof. Jacob Rein
bardt. left for home Thursday night, hav
ing become an accomplished performer.
She played several times at the Mozart, and
her rendition of classic works was highly
creditable, and much enjoyed by the lis
leners."
liobesonian: A little daughter
of Mr. W. Q. Warwick, of Wisbart's town
ship, was fatally burneglast Thursday.
She! is still alive, but her recovery is doubt
ful.; The paslorof the Baptist Church .
here took up a collection for the Orphan
Asyjunx last Sunday. We regret to
learn that this devoted minister (Rev. F.
M. Jordan) of the gospel has been com
pelled to cease hia labors for the present,
on account, probably, of overwork. We
are Informed that Mr. Jordan has, within
the last five year3,preached. fifteen hundred
sermons, and has averaged one accession lo
the church for each sermon .
Greensboro Patriot: N. C. R .
R. Stock, sold by be trustees of Wilson &
ttbober at public sale, last Friday, averaged
nounce the death of Prof. F. J. Hahr, Pro-
feasor of Music at Greensboro Female Col
lege. He had been ill for some time of
dropsy and died last Sunday night. He
leaves five children, who are now mother
less and fatherless, their mother havingdied
about two years ago. One of the me
chanics employed in S. Steele's sash and
blind factory has kept a record of the num
ber of lights made by himself, which foots .
up 42,095 since the beginning of 1874.
-i- ReidsviHe Twines: Among those
who have suffered from the diphtheria are
Mri .Aired who lost four children, all he
had. Iverson Oliver lost one or two, Quint
Anderson lost one or two, Geo. Pinnix-lost
onei and . two or iniee of his neighbors,
names forgotten, the same. Richard Miles
lost one,-and Albeit Page, of the Camp '
Spring section, lost five, Bell, a little
negro at Mr. R. H-'Wray'a fell into an ice
house on Monday,- tumbling down about
sixteen feet and striking her head against a
ladder. It cut a hole in ber bead about an
inch deep. . Not : seriously hurt though.
As Mr. Joseph Plyler, who 'lives in
Buford township, jp Ibis county, was leav
ing Monroe for his home on Tuesday eve-j
ning last, his horse ran away with him and
the h breaking he foil or was thrown off,
receiving some very .painful injuries about
trie' face and head.
- Salem Press: Six mountain, wa
gons were disposing of apples on the streets
Monday. The prices ranged from 60 cents u
to $1 perbnshel. West End's big hog,
the property of Preston Jones, : weighed
517, pounds. Another weighed 468 pounds.
- Henry L Norman, of East End, killed
three bogs, eighteen months old, weighing.
430, 416, and 407$ pounds. Average 416
pounds. ' Ed. Day, colored, died sud
denly in Winston Saturday..: He was well
known and apparently in good health a few
bottrs before his , death, which, it is sup
posed, resulted from the drinking of poi
sonedf liquor, as examination ' : . showed
slTjchnine in a bottle of liquor from which
he had been drinking. '. Lewis Yokely,
a pepitenUary convict fi'om : this coubiy.
escaped several weeks since while at work
on jthe W, N. C; Railroad. . He returned to
his. home 'in Tadkln county, procured bis
clothing, and left for parts unknown'- -
mm'. . s-tn x . . . .... n . f
Annrsaay, jcevenue umceis martin, ftupe
and Kellogg, with others, made , a raid in .
Old Richmond township, this county, cap
turing 3 horses, 2' wagons, and about 150 r
gallons of whiskey, the property of a man "
named Welch and. a . couple of partners; .;
- In November:31 distilleries and fix-; '
tares, 4rju sianas, anu sx,wv gallons: or :
beer and a lot 01 Whiskey were capt ured
by revenue oSBcers in Iredell