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As far as we can learn it has done this; it has caused some inferior grades of guano to be kept out of the market, and it has prompt ed some manufacturing companies ' to make a better fertilizer. But we utterly repudiate the po sition taken by the advocates of this expensive luxury, that the Agricul tural Department has had anything whatever to do in saving the people large sums by causing a reduction in the prices of fertilizers. We are quite persuaded that there is nothing whatever in this,- and we say this after having procured the necessary in formation to authorize us to form and express-an opinion concerning thu matter. We do not deny, mark you, that there has been a -reduction a great reduction iu some instances in the prices of fertilizers. Of course that is bo. No one will question it who knows anything about the subject. The point we make is that this im portant reduction has ; not been brought about by the Agricultural Department of the State. We do not believe it has really had any more to do in regulating prices than the sea gulls who fly along our At lantio coast, have in fixing the tides or in controlling the storms.' . You may ask, why this confident assertion ? The reply is, because we know that the reduction in the prices of fertilizers is just as great in South Carolina and Georgia as it is in North Carolina. It may . be urged by the friends of the Agricultural Department of North Carolina that so potent is its influence "for good that it not only regulates prices in this" State, and thus protects and benefits the farmer, but it goes be yond, reaches over tho border, and actually determines tue prices in two other important States ?of the Union. , The truth is guanos are much cheaper. The stringency : of the times the financial paralysis has brought down prices generally and fertilizers have tumbled also, v While we are writing about ferti lizers we will, add one other reflec tion. The' cry among the farmers just now is for cheap fertilizers. Meetings are being held in many sec tions in , which it is resolved that the prices heretofore paid Will not bo paid any longer. What Will be the probable result ? We think it will be found that poor fertilizers will be - introduced in spite of all precautions to keep' them out in order to meet the demand for low-priced articles.! No laws were ever yet framed that could catch al). lh rogues. No Agri cultural Department can shut out impure or inferior guanos when the people cry out for a cheap article, i We would not intentionally do in justice' to the Agricultural , Depart ment, Wo have doubted long the expediency and wisdom of Its organi sation. Jt has post, or will cost the State for the first two years $30,000, and we do not see what important Denents result irom this large expen diture. The money is greatly needed to pay the interest on the public debt, in educating the poor children of the State, and in many important directions. We would be glad to - know that $15,000 annually had been saved to the tax-payers of North Carolina. U .V' . M I V 1 CS' critical. Mi rr -i.v-jL-ijLJL u v v ii u' .a 11 ii a jl:::,,;;.;;;. ' r I RJ ' ' It II II 1 J " . V : 1 V- II 1. J i I I . 1 (3 IF . 1 1 J II ... t . . -., . . ' -.Hi ' II .. i- rx 11 . ft i . VOL.10. TIIKNKXTUOVSK. : It is'said, but with what truth we cannot now determine, that a consid erable number of the members of the 46th Congress, that will assemble in extra: session on ; March y j 8tht will either act j independently f all par ties or with the Nationals' tin tBe oV ganizationlol llie IIouseHi If the list is correct then the Democrats cannot organize the House, or cannot do so without the aid of a number of tho Independents or Nationals.' The following is the list of Independents and Nationals: Gilbert De La Mat jr, Indiana; F. H. Murch, Maine; Nioh olas Ford,l Missauri; General J.' B. Weaver, Iowa; E. H. Gillette, Iowa; Albert P. Forsyth,1 Illinois; Bradley 4-Barlow, Vermont; Wm. M. 4jowe, Alabama; Seth W. Slocura, Pennsyl vania; Daniel L. Russell, North Car olina; "George W. Jones, Texas; G. W. Ladd, Maine; James W. Single ton,' Illinois; A. E. Stephenson, Illi nois;,. Henry Speer, Georgia, and Henry Persons, Georgia. ( It is ; also said that Kelley jand Vyright, of Pennsylvania, and Felton,; of Geor gia, will act with the Nationals in certain contingencies. The Democrats claim to have 149 members, '.- To i I get this; number, Wright, of Penii., Felton, Speer and Persons, of Ga., Jones, of Texas, and Lowe, of jAla.,1 are included. We suppose these seven will vote with the Democrats in organizing. Ilf so, the way m open. Without them there are but 142 Democrats. If the Greenbackers and Independents were to act with the ' Radicals in organiz ing, then the latter j can get control That is to say, the Radicals will have 147 votes and the Democrats but 142. We do not expect, however, much difficulty. We cannot see how men who ran and were elected: as inde pendent Democrats can affiliate or cooperate with the Radicals. We may add that the Democrats. in the late Congress did not appear to apprehend any difficulty : in organ izing satisfactorily, A special in the Richmond Dispatcli, dated 4th, sajs: "Serious doubts have been ex pressed in some quarters as to the power ol the Democrats to! organize the next House without the aid of those members : elected as green- backers and independents.! Ono of the oldest and most experienced of the Democratic members, who has been making a careful inspection of the roll of members elect, says there can be no doubt! whatever that the straightbut Democrats have a clear working majority." I j THE VETO AND 'I'HB CHINESE. We are glad to see that so many of our' leading, Democratic exchanges have accorded the de facto President due credit for signing the much need ed tobacco bill, and I for vetoing the very objectionable Chinese restric tion bill. Ojur own bpinicnihas been expressed. The Chinese are not de sirable additions to j our population, but the way to get rid of them is not by acts of bad faith, and by; abroga ting at will solemn treaties. We do not doubt that the people of Cali fornia have grievances that ought to be remedied, but f it! should be done with a proper regard for the character of our government. If the ! United States can of its own accord break a solemn treaty j with China, why can it not also break a treaty with England or France? If it is known that the United States, as a great nation, has no regard: for its plighted word, and will unhesitatingly break treaties on occasion as self-interest may prompt, i howl long would it be before the nations of the world would - 1 '.. I.. cease to make treaties witn our country, and would regard us as without honor and without morality ? Doubtless most of us, if residing in California, would regard the matter Qf restricting the Chinese in immi grating to this country as the people of that State regard it, but we ought not to expect the ; U. S. Government to violate its pledges and endanger its reputation for honor and trustful ness among the nations of the earth. The way to get rid of the evil , is doubtless to hold a convention or meeting1 in -which -the -accredited representatives of j the United States and China shall discuss and arrange the matters in dispute, and by com mon consent either amend or repeal the existing treaty. ( t The Petersburg Index Appeal has some judicious remarks on the sub- iect of the veto, a portion of which we copy : . i j 1 "The veto of the bill prohibiting the im WILMINGTON, N. CV; FRIDAY, MARCH 14; 187&. migration of the Chinese was one of those exercises of the President's, constitutional power,, for which he deserves praise at the hands of right thinking people, cf all sec tions ana parties. The bill would never have become1 a law except for the supposed political exigencies of both parties with reference to ; the vote of California in the approaching Congressional, election.. Be yond doubt, many good men, alike "in ' the Senate and the House,' both Democrats and Republicans; supported the measure against ne protest or their consciences, and. . ber cause. they. remembered that; the ultimate responsibility of its becoming a law de volved On. the President.; ' The same vi cious course of argument saddled the fraudulent "pension arrears bill," so called. on the country; and the members of Con gress reauy Had no right , to elude the . dis charge oi a plain and palpable duty rest ing on themselves, by transferring the bur-' den to any other shoulders. . It has - hap pily happened,; in this case, that the Presi dent has been faithful to the obligation of his duty and to the distinct desire of nine tenths of the people." y JTIJDGK KBUtt'ft CHAttGBi The Charlotte Observer reported recently an outline of Judge Kerr's charge to the Grand Jury of Meck- enburg, in which he took strong ground for preserving the! purity and dignity of the Superior Courts. The good Judge appears to be perplexed by the act of the General Assembly in extending the jurisdiction of mag istrates. He had read the act and he was unable to tell what offences were cognizable by the grand jury. He said, and we quote from the Ob server: "They nppear to have taken from the jurisdiction of the Superior .Court every onebae except murder and a few others known M the higher crimes. He hardly knew whether or not to tell them to bring in a bill for larceny. The act referred to gives the magistrates jurisdiction over all except 'serious offenses.' Who should say what this term meant He considered it a Beripus offense 1 for a man to spit in another's face and curse and abuse him, but how could such, offense be punished by a magistrate ? On his last circuit a burly negro man was up before him for assault upon a lady of re finement and delicacy. The defendant met the lady in a country road and com manded her to stop. She was greatly alarmed and ran, and the negro pursued her almost to the door of the house of a neighbor. He sent the negro to jail for two years, and afterwards regretted that he hadn tmade it five. What sort of punish ment could have been administered in a magistrate's court for an 'offence of this sort? What sort of restraint is there on criminals when they know that they can only be imprisoned for thirty days? The protection of the innocent depended in a great manner upon the punishment of the guilty. What protection did the present law affuid to our daughters and mothers against the assaults of renegades? lhe dignity and purity of the Superior Courts should be preserved at any cost. Who ever saw anything valuable that was not costly? The very purity of pur courts had been purchased with oceans of blood, and now it was proposed that the protection which they afforded should be in a mea sure destroyed because tuey cos; some thing." We copy these remarks of Judge Kerr because of his age, experience, ability and elevation of character. What so eminent a gentleman may say about the changes made by the Legislature in regard tp the punish ment of crime and the jurisdiction of magistrates is worthy of attentive consideration, and as such we have made the reference and given the above extract. TIIaDEN AND 1880. The Democratic leaders in New York are represented as regarding the report ot the Potter Committee as being in the interest of Uncle Sammy Tilden. It is even said that the report will be circulated as a campaign document. . The New York politicians may regard it as as sured that the Democratic party will i renominate Mr. Tilden as its candi date for the Presidency, but it is possibly more important to know what the Democrats in the remaining thirty-seven States have to say about it. We have seen no developments of opinion that lead us to think that Mr. Tilden j is the favorite of auy Southern State for the caudidacy in 1880. We have no doubt that his chances have been much strengthen ed latterly. ; Two or three months ago he did not have the ghost of a chance to obtain a single Southern State. That he will have strog frinends in all of the . Southern States in the State conventions to be held is alto1 gether probable, but it does not ap pear certain as yet that there will be any delegation from any one South ern State that will be pronounced for him. But it is far too soon to specu late about such : matters. A vast deal will occur during the year to shape the destinies of men and to de termine who shall be the standard bearers of the Democracy in the great struggle of 1880. ; If it be possible, the right man should be chosen. The South should go for no man who has a record so vulnerable as to throw the Demo crats on the defensive. If they are wise, : it appears to us, they will vote in Convention for the man who can win the fight. To do this he must be as far as possible above reproach. Who that man is we do not under- take now ! to designate; That the Demoorat can elects their candidate we have no sort of doubt, provided , wisdom and harmony prevail. ' ' A correspondent of 1 thel Nashville American some weeks ago, writing frobi Washington, paid Senator Ran som a high and deserved tribute. Wei rioted at the time' one rema rk. He said that he ; Was not great at a set oration but a." fountain ot elo quence when an. occasion touches his heart &nd SDurs his brain to action,' Weh&ve never met with worse criti cism than this.' Gen. Ransom's forte lies in "set orations." - His famous speech delivered three or.Cour years ago in the feenate in defence ot tho-j South and in behalf of conciliation and peace between the sections, was a model of elaborate thought and fer vid eloquence. It was the efEort of his life. It attracted univer sal attention. It was complimented exceedingly and deservedly by men of all parties. The Republican Sena tor, from Vermont, Mr. Morrell, de clared it was one of the most elo quent efforts ever delivered in the Senate. The late Abram W. Venable pronounced it the most rhetorical speech that he had read in twenty years. ; . '. We have a recent book which con tains, no less than three extracts from that splendid effort. The speech is very long, ry eloquent, very ele vated in sentiment, very impressive and persuasive. Throughout there is a fine vein of lofty thought and ex pression. The sentiments are manly and noble. Of its kind the speech is simply and unquestionably a mas terpiece, as far above bis extempor ized efforts as it is possible to con ceive. There was onco in the British Par liament, in the days of Burke and Pitt, the younger, and Charles James Fox, a very gifted man who made- one speech that made him immortal. It was praised by every one. He never again raised hi voice in those famous halls of debate. He . has passed into history as "Single-speech Hamilton." If Gen. Ransom had never made another speech in the Senate he would have been long re membered because of the dignified, beautiful, rhetorical and brilliant ef fort to which we have referred. We do not deny him the gift of "touch ing the heart," or of readiness on the spur of the moment. The point we make is that he is great "at a set oration,?' and that he surpasses him self on such occasions. As Macau lay said of Warren Hastings "writ ing above himself," so Senator Ran som on a "set occasion" "speaks above himself." THE AGKICVLTUkAL DEPART MENT AGAIN. The Goldsboro Mail does not ap pear to have any more confidence in the practical utility of the Agricul tural Department than the Stab has. Last year the farmer had to pay a 450 pound bale. of cotton for a ton of guano. This year he must pay 475 pounds, or get a very inferior grade. There is no reduction it seems. The Jou'Jsays: "Comparatively little guano has been sold in this State in the last three years for money, but, on the contrary, 19-20ths has been exchanged for cotton, and if the price of cotton in 1870 made the net average in money realized $7.16 more than inU878, was it not rather the decline in cotton than anything the Agricultural Department did? Certainly so, we think. "In 1876 standard brands of guano were offered in exchange for cotton at the rate of 400 pounds lint cotton per ton, and if the Agricultural Department of the State has influenced the matter at all, we submit that before it can be claimed for it, the saving of $215,000 per annum, it should be able to explain the cause of the increased rate of exchange demanded by the guano compa nies now operating in the State. We be lieve that to establish the Agricultural De partment, the tax of $500 on each brand of fertilizers was levied. We believe this tax has placed the whole traffic of guano into the hands of a few rich com panies, and having driven small companies out of the market, they have been enabled to force more cotton by 50 to 100 pounds per ton out of the fields of planters than they could ever have done, out lor that tax. We sincerely believe that the guano tax has drawn already hundreds or thousands of dollars from the pockets oi planters." The editor of the Mail is a practi cal man of business, and is an old farmer' as well as legislator. We think his views sound and that they wilirbear the test of scrutiny. Wc hav0 before intimated wherein we think the : Agricultural Department has ' been beneficial. We do not think, we repeat, that it deserves any credit for reducing the prices of fer tilizers. - Two men named Smith and Evans hada8hooting affair at Petersburg on Friday, and nobody was hurt. Feannt Urwrk Aoeilou. The annual meeting of the Peanut Gro w0 era' Association was held at the Purcell House yesterday at 11 o'clock. An election was he'ld fur officers;' which resulted in the Choice :of the following i - President D. Tv Durham; . i . , Secretary It, R. : Bryan, 3r,'JU:l Committees were appointed in the differ ent townships in the peanut section to as certain the acreage, couditioa of the crop. &c., and to 'report the-same to the next meeting. ; From, the report , of , committees hereto fore appointed to ascertain the amount cf the crop still on hand, it was shown that there was of the Eocky Point crop.'...-. 10,500( bushels. Bound section. ... . . 7,000, Brunswick . estimated). . . 4,000 Onslowi... .I.. 3;000 it J.a hands of dealers, estima ted,-. ...,,.. . . 10,000 a;.. 14 . . Total oabaod. 33,500 " The Secretary was instructed to corres pond with planters in Virginia and Ten-, nessee, and report the acreage and condi tion of the crops in those States to the next meeting. ' The meeting then adjourned subject to tlfe call of the Chairman: Onpreme Court Decliton. The following decision will be of interest to people in this section. The opinion was rendered by Chief Justice Smith: City of Wilmington vs. Nutf. from New Hanover. Affirmed. Civil action heard on exception to refe ree's report, before McKoy, Judge, at De cember Term, 1878, New Hanover Supe rior Court. The defendant was surety on tue omciai uouu oi ; j. j. mann, iormer Superior Court Clerk of New Hanover, and subsequent to the execution of the bond the Legislature,by act of 1870,impoaed upon tne said uierit tne duty of issuing licenses to inspectors in Wilmington and collecting the tax thereon. The suit is for the taxes so collected and not paid over to plaintiff. The defendant resists the suit on the ground that the bond signed by him does not make him liable lor the default of the Clerk in the new duties imposed. The case was before this Court at January Term, 1878, on demurrer, and was decided against defendant: anu final -judgment hav ing been obtained against him, he again appeals and asks that the former decision be reviewed and reversed. Held, This Court sees no error in its for mer-decision. It is well settled that the official bond of parties undoubtedly covers not merely duties imposed by existing law, but those belonging to and naturally con nected with their office, or business im posed ny subsequent law, provided the new duties have some relation to or connection with such office or business, and are not disconnected from or foreign to both. (15th Wall. 123; State vs. Bradshaw, 10 Ired. 229; Cameron vs. Campbell. 3 Hawks 285; cited and approved.) The duty imposed upon the said clerk by the act of 1870 is not so. repugnant to the office and its functions as to lose the security of the official bond, nor is it with out precedent in being annexed to an ex isting omce and in the responsibility im posed upon the incumbent. The Superior Court clerks are by law required to collect the tax imposed on mortgages and deeds ; the clerk of this Court receives and ac counts for the tax on attorneys' license; and sheriffs are sometimes charged with the collection of taxas levied by municipal corporations. Southern Railway and Steamnhip Association. A meeting of the committee on rates of the Southern Railway and Steamship As sociation is now in progress in Charleston. Among the members in attendance wc no tice the name of Col. A. Pope, of the W. & W. and W. C. & A. Railroads. A num ber of changes have been adopted in the classifications promulgated at the beginning of the year, the general effect of which will be to lower classifications, involving a pro portionate lowering of rates to the Southern interior from commercial centres. Threatening Lite, &e. A colored man by the name of William Nutt, who lives in Brunswick, was brought here yesterday, under a commitment from Justice Prioleau, of that county, charged with threatening the life of one Moses Chisholm, the latter also stating in his affidavit that he was shot at on a certain occasion, and he has reason to believe that it was by the said William Nutt. The prisoner was sent to Smithyille to be con fined in the county jail at that place unti the next term of the Superior Court. Up atit,at. - The steamer North East poked her nose out of the water yesterday and looked like she was ashamed of herself for lying abed so long. It was suggested tltat she could very properly be recorded as among the arrivals fromjbelow. Captain Dick Pad dison was present when she made her ap pearance. The work of raising her will be completed to-day, We understand. The Newbern Uui SlieU has the follow ing in reference to : the wreck of the schooner Mnilem, already mentioned in the Star: "On Monday last the schooner Em- blem, from Hyde county, laden with corn, went ashore on Harbor Island bar, near Hunting Quarters, and was totally wreck ed. The Emblem was owned by Sheriff J D. and Mr. H. J. Davis, of Beaufort. The cargo was got out of the doomed vesse before she went down, but about one-half of it was badly damaged. The Emblem was bound for this port, where she was an old acquaintance. A New Hampshire Republi can recently boasted that the Jfede ral government did not let the Re publican cause suffer in that state. Of money from that source, he said thev had plenty, and "it was used to buy voters," said he. "We buy them there like sheep, just as you used to buy slaves in the South. That is the way we do in New Hampshire." Yes, and in Maine and Vermont and Mas sachusetts, and Rhode Island and Connecticut. And yet the sleek Ed mands is heard sobbing over the "cor ruption" in the Southern States. Louisville Courier-JSitrnal, Dem. NO. 20. INTEKBSTlNGNBWHVKOn WASH , INGTON. . Vacancies lu the Extra Sesalon-Or- eanlzatlon of the New (Souse the Secretary and the Sliver Dollars Aleck Stephens "Ashamed ot the Eorty-FIfthstere" Oiher matters. j M ! .Special to Richmond State. : Washington, March 6. At the extra session there will be 6ix vacan cies California four, New Yerk one, Texas one and the important ques-. tion will arise, what number shall constitute a quorum? Shall it be a majority of those on the roil or a majority of the number of members t$ which the House is entitled? The answer will make a difference ot four votes to the Democrats. There wilt baDemdcraticcaucus on the 15th instant to provide for the organization ot -tne senate, mere are about a hundred and twenty at taches of the Senate, and numerous applicants for every place. The Re- puoiican cierKs will lose about eight months' salary by the calling of Con gress to meet so soon. During the last session 1,036 bills and joint resolutions were introduced in the Senate, and 6,826 in the House. Comparatively few important bills passed both Houses. Secretary Sherman has about made up his mind to reduce the pile of sil ver dollars accumulating in the Treasury at the average rate of a million and a half per month, by pay ing a percentage of salaries and cur rent expenses of the Government la silver dollars. The production of standard dollars goes on at two mil- tons per month, while the average demand is about $450,000. Probably a third of the memoers of Congress will not leave Washing ton. They are only entitled to mileage for two sessions of one Con gress, and will not be entitled to any allowance for stationary, unless they vote it for themselves, as they did at the Jast extra session. Alexander H. Stephens says he is ashamed of the Forty-fifth Congress. "When we met it was heralded abroad that we would find relief for the people, but instead of that we have been a burden, and the Forty fifth Congress adjourned iu .deeper disgrace than any Congress in the history of the government. He hopes for better things from the next Congress. The Clerk of the House has re ceived more than two-thirds oi the certificates of election of members of the Forty-sixth Congress. lhe appropriations at the last ses sion of Congress were in the aggre gate about five times greater than for any year before the war when the Government was not oppressed with great debt, and business was prosperous. Secretary Sherman laugh ingly remarked to-day that Congress must have had an exalted idea of his financial ability to suppose that he could pay these sums without means. He thought no Congress had ever given a Secretary of the Treasury so much power as the last gave him. For instance, the Sundry Civil bill gives him power to lease all the public property in the United States. As to arrears of pensions, he may pay them as fast as there is money iu the Treasury, but he is not dispos ed to draw upon the reserve fund set apart to secure resumption. Ten or tf elve millions a year will probably be paid 6n account of back pensions, at which rate the burden may be borne without much trouble. A member of the Cabinet said to day that if the Democrats persist in the attempt to 'repeal the election laws, Congress will be in session for twelve months. This means that the Republicans are firm in their pur pose to resist, and that the President is in accord with the party leaders, on this subject at least. ' The Special session Elephant. I Washington Dispatch to IheN. Y. Herald. There is a growing suspicion among the Democratic Representatives and Senators who remain here that they have drawn an elephant in the extra session which they allowed some of their extreme men to force. When Congress assembles they will frame and pass laws repealing the objec tionable sections oi the revised stat utes. If they repeal each of these statutes by -a separate act it is very possible that the President will sign those repealing the test oaths and the clause allowing, troops to bo kept at the polls, but it is thought he will veto a bill , repealing the Supervisor and Marshal laws. This is the more likely because it is known that not all the whites in the Southern States desire the repeal of the laws. Con servative Democrats in Louisiana and South Carolina and Independents in other States are not averse to hav ing them kept on the statute books. If the Press could be believed, Senator Butler, of South Carolina, escaped conviction and execution for murder because a rifle club or two that would have "come trooping over from Georgia," made President Grant, Secretary Cameron, the Fed eral army, Governor Ubamberiain, the South Carolina militia, the local constabulary and a Republican Judge, District Attorney and jury flee from the temple of justice and allow a red-handed murderer to sit in the Senate instead of swinging from the callows. Unfortunately, however, nobody believes the JPress. and it would be adding the imputa tion: of utter imbecility to falsehood to assume that the Press believes itself. But organs must be organs. ; Phil, limes, Jna. Revenue receipts in the Fifth District lor the' week ending on 22J Fe-S- umary, were f 17,940 24. Mr. George D. Pool, a very prominent citizen of Pasquotank couuty, is dead, in his Sixty-third year. The residence of -Mr. Elias, at "ranklin, Macon county, was burnt: loss $4,000. Supposed to be incendiary woik. Thre was a great stir at Wash ington on the first day of Lent when the bell rang early in the morning. People thought it was a fire. The Danbury Reporter savs of Col. A. M. Waddell: He is not only no' earnest worker in Congress, but keenly alive tp the interests and necessities of-'the people. " ' Elder C. B. Hassel is wiitimr a history of the Kehukee Association . Ud to this time 1,450 copies have been sub scribed for. It is expected that 3,000 copies will be taken. Shelby Aurora: One Henrv Jenkins, colored, was arrested and jailed in this place. ' last Pridav nieht. charged with threatening to burn Shelby and oth erwise injure the people of this section. Elizabeth City Carolinian: The rkst instalment of arms for the Vance Ri fles has arrived. - The hands have left for the Sound fisheries. ' A number of steamers were in our port the past week. Wadesborof " TTeratih Th no. groes in one of the jail rooms almost ef fected their escape one ' night last week. They succeeded in unhinging the iron door of the room, but fortunate! the wood en door was secure. Raleigh Hews: There is some prospect of Kae CUxion coming here, af ter all. The revival in progress at the Salisbury Street Baptist church continues nightly, and interest in it is on the ic crease. Ab many as a dozen persons have been converted, and the good work is not yet ended. s Newbern Nut Shell: Mr. Thomas Taylor commences his walk of 48 hours this evening at 7 o clock. A very large number of citizens attended the funeral yesterday of our late estimable young townsman, Wm. A . Drowning. The while military, officers of the Fire Depart ment and the Newbern Siiver Cornet Band escorted the remains to the cemetery. Mr. C. W. McLean leaves Newbern this morning for Raleigh for the purpose of " asking the Legislature to appropriate a sufficient sum for the publication, in the Dutch language, of a descriptive book of Carolina, to be distributed in Holland from his office at Amsterdam. : Goldsboro Messenger: Mr. Ru- fus C. Monk, a well known citizen of the Newton Grove section, Sampson county, and brother of tho late Dr. Monk, died in -the 2l8t inst. The Governor has is sued commissions to the Beaufort Light In fantry, a fine compaany recently organized, at Beaufort, with George W. Charlotte as Captain. The gin house and gin be longing to Mr. Samuel Hudson ,t at Pol locksvUle, Jones county, were destroyed by fire on Wednesday of last week. Loss about $1,200; no insurance. A tele graphic dispatch from Senator Ransom, re ceived by the editor of this paper Tuesday, soon after the adjournment of Congress, brings us the gratifying intelligence that the appropriatien for Neuse river has been increased to $45,000, and there is also an ' appropriation of $7,000 for the Trent. The Raleigh News savs that Watt Sewell, who was killed iu Moore county, by a man named N. B. Taylor, was in charge of some wagons, loaded with Taylor's stills, that had been captured. It gives this account of the killing: "After supper there seemed to be s me one in the woods near the wagon, and one.of the men with the wagon came up and told Sewell that he thought Taylor was near.and Sewell. going down to the road where the wagon was, was fired upon by I ay lor without the shot taking effect. Then Sewell called out. "shoot again," which Taylor did, the ball taking effect in his bowels, causing his death next day. After shooting Sewell, Taylor sent word to Sewell's father that he had shot bis' son and left him in an old house on Mr. Harrington's lot,; Tken Tay lor recaptured his stills and ordered the dnvers to take them home, which they did, and on Sunday last there were one hundred men hunting Taylor and in their route cap tured his stills, running on Sunday. Tay- lor is still at large, and we understand the Commissioners of Moore county have of fered a reward of two hundred dollars for his arrest. Tarboro Southerner: While Mr. Edward Zoeller, the efficient Deputy Col lector of the Second District, was returning from Sparta on Thursday evening last. whither he had been on business connected with his office, a most cowardly and das tardly attempt was made upon his life. His business detained him in Sparta until after nightfall. When on his way home, and while passing through a dark piece of woods, near the farm of Col. E. Cromwell, about six miles from this place, he was fired upon by some would-be assassiD, who was secreted in the darkness, near the roadside. Mr. Zoeller hailed the party, or rather the direction from whence came the report of the pistol, and was answered by another shot, this time coming so near. that he heard the whizz of the ball, whereupon be drew his revolver and fired four suc cessive shots in return, but his horse be came unmanageable and he was unable to make any investigation. Your cor respondent attended Nash court one day only, the day set apart for the trial of B. F. Pitt. . A good many were very much surprised when the Judge bound him in a bond of only $500 for his appearance at August court. Charlotte Observer : Yesterday morning, Messrs. James and Walter Pharr, with a neighbor, Mr. McKee.were covering a barn on the premises of the former.about three miles from the city, when the scaffold on which they were standing gave way and Mr. James Pharr and Mr. McKee fell to ground. They had a drop of fifteen feet and both were painfully injured. Peo ple came 'from Columbia, S. C, from Dau ville, Va., and from Lincoluton to hear Wilhemj's fiddle last night. The Air Line Railroad advertises for Bale twenty two mules unclaimed freight. -When a freight train on the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad.coming north, stopped a few days ago at the water tank on the outskirts of this city, nine pedestrian tourists disembarked from one of the cars. Bushyhead, the chief of the Cherokee Indians, was in the city yesterday. .- He is on the WBy to Raleigh and thence to Wash ington to look after some claims due his tribe from the government. The chief is now quite an old man, probably sixty or seventy, and walks with a halt in his gait, caused by a wound which he received in the late war at the head of his regiment, which did some firat-rate service. He dresses plainly, but Wears a silk hat of the style which prevailed seven or eight years ago. The old man is really Rev. Busby head, being a Baptist preacher. He talks tolerable English, and is extremely digni fied and sedate in manners. States-t ville .has improved wonderfully within the past year. Many new buildings have gone up, many are now going up, and the cry is still for more, as nearly all are filled. There are more distilleries in Iredell now than ever before in its history. This is ess pecially true of the northern part of the county, where a large number of persons have taken out license within -the past few months for the manufacture of whiskey. m illy V. im 4 't'r m lit-! m . ml m VI m 1 vv ' it..- -:iy; ml M a iV ' I t-Zt -ml m m 1$ Si. I m Lit WM IB; ii si