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The Washington Post has laid
down a platform that appears to be
brief enough to satisfy the most
critical, and yet it embraces jitst those
principles for which every true Dem
ocrat in thi land contends, and which
arc unqualifiedly essential for the
5 safety, prosperity and perpetuity, of
free, republican institutions on this
vast continent. You cannot strike
out any one of the principles stated
without undermining the glorious"
fabric fashioned by the cunning,
master builders of . the last cen
tury. They' constitute, indeed,
the , -.fundamental principles the
foundation stones of our Govern
ment. It is in just the particulars
mentioned that we have those bul
warks that give safety and security
to the citizen, and that make the
Government of our forefathers the
. best, the wisest, and the most ingeni
ous that was ever devised by the wit
of man. "
The platform is not new; it is as
old ad the Federal Constitution. But
the principles have in part, at least,
been ignored or disregarded by .that
party which has had control of the
country for the last eighteen years.
The platform embraces but five prin
ciples, but they are fundamental, as
we have already said. ' They are:
'"Free speech, a free press, a free.bal-,
loLjhonest juries and au honest count.
Not one of. these precious guarantees
hut lias been more or less threatened
or invaded by the Republican party.
As the Post intimates, free speech
and free press have been menaced,
and are marked for the next objects
o! Republican aggression.
We copy a part of what our con
temporary says under each head...
"Fuek Speech. In all ages this funda
mental right of mankind has been the
champion of liberty and the foe of tyranny,
ifmay be -that no party in this country
will ever dare to assail it. But have we not i
seen it assailed under the pica of 'military
necessity ?' Have not hundreds of citizens,
in States where the civil power was domi
nant and the courts open, been thrust into
l-risun, denied the right of trial and kept in
confinement with the vilest felons, for no
other offence than free criticism of public
servants and otllcial acts ? Since the war
we have seen one after another of the peo
ple's rights , assailed and stricken, down;
have seen military substituted for civil
. power; have seen the minority triumphant
over the majority.
"A Free Press. We have seen in Ger
many, during the last few months, how
tyranny hates this right of freemen. We have
seen the suppression of hundreds of public
journals, and the impoverishing, of all of
tueni. And we have read the story of
Uriai'a chat with Bismtrck, in : which 'the
greatest living American,' the man who is
intend d fur the hed of the 'strong govern
ment' designed for us, smilingly approved
of Bismarck's repressive policy. The party
that has corrupted the jury system, - de
bauched the bailot and counted in a de
fend candidate for the Presidency, will
ui hesitate, if it ever has an opportunity, to
lay the mailed hand of tyranny on afiee
press when that right of freemen becomes
a men ace to its further aggression.
"A FitEE ballot, without which all other
righ'3 rtre worthless, is impossible while
the biyouel and the marshal and super
visor can be used by a partisan Adminis
tration to awe, intimidate and cprrupt.
The time has come when a free people
demand and will have the right to quietly
pot form the highest civil duty of the citi
zen, without interference from the military.
"Honest juries are not juries packed by
partisan officials of a Federal court. In
the Southern States, at this lime, the right
of trial by jury is practically denied. The
tender of the iron-clad oath excludes from
thij jury-box nearly all the men who are fit
. for such service,- and puts in their places
Uierude, ignorant negro, who knows no
more of law and the rules of evidence than
he knows of trigonometry. The lives,
liberty and property of citizens are at the
mercy of such men. i All the leading men
of the South such men as are lo-day in
the Cabinet, the Senate and the House
we disqualified for jury duty; but the
negroes, who do their menial service," are
qualified to sit in trial upon questions in
volviog their lives or liberty. : '
t"AN Honest Count. One false count
- a Presidential vote has been made. It
ssubmitted to for the sake of peace.
Uut from that hour to this a sense of im
measurable wrong, the outrage upon every
Principle of justice, has been swelling in
the inditrnant lip art nf tha incmlteri it.
frauded people. . There will be no second
"ituonest count.
The Pope declines tdf accept Arch
bishop Piircell's resignation , on ac
count of hisloi service tdjtheChurch.
VOL.10.
; ;gaiihikli)is ba k own.
The; great Garfield, in his first
speech on the Army Bill, took the
most ultra ground in opposition.
What he said wasj directly contrary
to what lie had declared near the close
of the last Congress. - Before the de--bate
had concluded he made another
speech, in which lw backd dowu
from his very advauced pom, and
became moderate a:id conciliatory.
This fact moves j the Philadelphia
Times to say: ' i i:
'.'Enthusiastic Republicans having sub
scribed for some two hundred thousand'
copies of Garfield's speech, will now have
to put on their spectacles and determine
which speech they will have the one in
which he started the revolution or . that of
last Fridav, in which he stuck a pin in his
own bubble and let the wind out. They
might cover the whole ground by printing
both speeches together in parallel columns.'
When men, wha' are essentially
demagogues, become aroused by par
tisan necessities, they are quite apt to
be betrayed into unwonted heat, and
to utter sentiments, that they readily
repudiate in cooler I moments . when
reflection follows j declamation In
the case of Garfield, we are disposed
to think, he merely! took the chances.
He possibly hoped what he said would
be received as a sort of political gos
pel, and that the Democrats would
not be able to puncture his own
blown-up reputation and record as
tbey did. At any! rate he did not
staud long by his extreme views. He
committed his party to a position not
only dangerous to the country,but de
structive to itself. No party can look
the American people equarely in the
face ; and insist upon maintaining
issues that arc subversive of every
principle ot genuine republicanism.
The wisest heads deplored Garfield's
blander, but the Congers, Robesons,
and men of their stripe j echoed the
notes of their leader, and thus opened
a way for a splendid victory, both in
the arena of debate and at the polls.
The New York &un referring to "the
first victory" of the Democrats, says,
pertinently and forcefully:
"After all the fiery uitcrauccs and threats
of a veto, De Qolyer Garfield at the close
surrendered the whole ground on which
his party was mede to stand, by declaring
in the face of the House and of the country
that he was ready and willing to help the
Democrats to expunge from the statute
book the - law authorizing the use of the
army at the polls. So that, in fact, the
whole opposition was ranged, not upon a
thing I of substance or a principle, but
soleras to a technioal form of legislation.
which, tbe KeDUWicaasJhAaiiiajna
extensively practiced, even to the extent f
depriving Andrew Johnson of his consti
tutional right as Commander-in-Chief of
the army. I . ! !
Ilierefore this excitement aud agitation.
by which the public business has been de
layed and the public mind disturbed, has
bad nothing to rest upon but a mere sham.
When driven into a corner from which
escape was impossible, i lue KepuDiican
leaders confessed the proposed legislation
was right in itself, and they were prepared
to vote for it separately, but tbey objected
to the method of the majority for carrying
it into effect!" i
I'H 8 XBADER OF THK NEW
BIO V KM EN T.
The llev. J. C. Enibree, of the Af
rican Methodist Church, is said to be
the leader in the nesro emigration
movement. He has been interviewed
recently, and he says that he it was
who first prompted Senator Windom,
of Minnesota, to introduce "the ex
plicit and exhaustive resolution" in
the Senate, as the parson describes it.
The "exhaustive" part referred, doubt
less, to the supposed effect it would
have upon the South. According to
this new leader of the new move
ment, the oVject of the emigration
scheme "is to get the negro element
out of politics and end their being
used for the ends of parties; of get
ting them better distributed, and
having them no longer bunched to
gether in Southern districts. This
would also aid the Introduction of
foreign labor in the South, and would
allow other elements to enter- into
the politics of the section, which are
necessary for the general good and
improvement. i
It will be seen that this benevolent
parson is a great friend of humanity.
He is a pure philanthropist. He has
no political schemes ' in ' view. ; Oh,
no, not the remotest. He la simply
moved: by a deep and consuming
compassion. Ho is only. getting the
negro out of polities, and - opening
up thejway for Chinese immigration
to the fertile sections of I the lower
Mississippi. All ; of which may be
believed by those who feel inolined.'
But he Boston Advertiser, a Re
publican paper of a mdderate type,
says, that in that city some months
ago & society was organized called
"The National Farmers' Assoeia
tion.' The North is immense on
"assocrations" and "isms." Te ob
ieot ofithis ne w society is to persuade
and encourage the . negroes to leave
the Sofith and to seek homes in the
Northern and Western States. There
I j ul: -fd ). t!l jl but.
I
WILMINGTON; i N, C.v FRIDAY,, APRIL. 18... 1879...
are other societies formed for similar
purposes, as we are. told. ,The way
they operate, is to 'circulate among J
the ; freed men political documents,
and this has been going 'on for about
two years. Boston has sent out the
most persuasive,, and, ; of course ,the.
most lying documents, and i has suc
ceeded in sowing the seeds of discon
tent in theminds of tens of thousands
of the colored ' people. The" colored
parson, from whom we have quoted,
8ays that many thousands went two
years ago to Kansas, and he admits
that they had- a- hard- time; The
Philadelphia 'Pimes, discussing this
movementsays of the part that Bos
ton has playetl: :,: , "
' The 'Farmers' saociat-ion' aimedcpar
ticularly at getting the emigrants into
Northern Texas, bnt thecurrent has started
the other way an4 Kansas ia now the Pro
mised Land of the deluded people,;. It is
all supposed to. be , a philanthropic move
ment otf the part of the Boston folks, of
course, though it is a little difficult at ' pre
sent to see exactly where the philanthropy
comes in."
We may again mention that, the
ablest colored man in this . country,.
Fred Douglass, who has had large ob
servation, and during his thirty or
forty years of freedom has had good
opportunities for learning moch con
cerning the manners, feelings and
prejudices of the two peoples
those of the North and those of the
South is very decidedly opposed
to this ; Embree-Windom-Chandler
scheme. Not only so, but the organ
of the colored people published at
Charleston, S. C, ' and called the
People's Watchman, evidently . re
gards the white people in their treat
ment of the colored people from a
standpoint quite different from that
occupied by parson Embree of the
African Methodist Church. That
paper says:
"Admitting that the colored people have
been and are subjected still to annoyance,
where do they seek for true friendship
when in need ? Why, to a Southern white
man, and, if he is worthy, he receives it.
Then it follows as a cosequeBe if his
presence was not wanted here,, those who.
really represent Southern sentiment would
not accord to him one particle of favor.
The restlessness of the colored man is
caused by extraneous influences (antago
nistic to his welfare), operating upon air
imaginative nature, and causing him to
fancy grievances where' none really exist."
Now here is a colored man's paper
that flatly contradicts the , slanders
and falsehoods of the Northern Rad
ical organs. It distinctly -declares that
theeff orts o f J, he. Northern n egroph i-
ists -the blatant demagogues who
would ruin a race or country to com
pass their villainous ends to entice
the colored people from their homes
in the South, make them "restless"
and cause them "Jo fancy grievances
xohere none really exist" are really
"antagonistic" to the true "welfare"
of the deluded and .misguided race.
There is au amount of meanness not
easily calculated in the conduct of
such designing and unscrupulous
agents and enemies.
INFIDELITY. :
Infidelity is by no means dead. Its
form is Protean. It is seen con
stantly lurking near the precincts of
pure and undented religion, seeking
to undermine and destroy the fair
and beautiful edifice in which it
abides. It was a great mistake to
suppose that infidelity was -entombed
with Hame, and Voliairoy and 5Vol-
ney, and Bolingbrokef, and poor con
temptible ; Tom Paine. It still lives,
perfect ,, Rosicrucian, breath
ing the same pestiferous air it
did of old, and dealing in the same
weapons of ridicule and sarcasm, of
irony and invective, of cobweb
sophisms and outspoken lies, of plau
sible inanities and dull1- or rfirgenious
argumentation. t. in iacv it is rauui-
form, and.mauy colored in its appear
ance, and untiring in its energy. Its
dogmas are promulgated, one while,
through an ehvehoin?d'' and venal
press, and then through' the flowing
periods and tropical platitudes . of.
some rampant but gifted deplaimer
tike Bob Ingersoll. Its! apostles are
to be met with in the crowded1 city,
in the rural village; and even upon
the plantation of farrersfckMe dis
ciple of Theodore Patker ill'preach
11 irom tne puipn in Bonorpu3, pejrujus
or declaim it in a lecture hall Whilst
Chapiri, in clarion tones, and with
eloquence worthy a higher1 theme and
a nobler cause, will enunciate its de
vastating tenets in" his
way
church, Kpt: before, . it-.maybe,, somej
'select audience in Hope chapel. You
will' meet with it J in' flippant but
oracular newspaper1 leaders', in i gos
siDDincr. readable l i mbhthlies;; " and
iq . jdainty', yotumes boun,' injraii-
tique" and printed on "hofcressed
velUm." In k college dOrmUbry, 6
the'famousf halls of 'finglUh 1 Oxford
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the :8ame indefatigable Infidelity, with
nnpinsnin enrontery, win narangne
ia language of idiomatic purity an
'nttditory bf studentsf burning with as
LJ'f -lJV -' i UK ; i -:. i i
when ltd first converts were secured
on. that fatal morning when our first
mother Vieided to the incantation of.
tfratj earliest pf 'ill inftdel discourses
which was preached1 by Satan to her
itchiniears' in the beautiful eardeu
RI1J
.i
This.bnsy and earnest seeker of un-
truth is eyer, working, an4,e.&ch year
finds its energies, exerted in some new
direction,. The sojdier, of, the Cross
qr ah ol enemy 'with new. face
every, few. months t the farthejat.
Thelcunninsr destroyer coes down be-
the ponderous, plows 'of tpe bat-;
rates; his j energies, and swilt ly chang
ipg Jus form and shifting his tactics,
agai i. advances to the attack only
to be overthrown. In Germany
theri ! is ' now a large , school -of
mystics md rationalists, seeking to
topple in ruins that . grand edifice of
trutn in which centre the hopes and
rest he safety and happiness of the
chile ren 5f men. France had or has
itsRjenac and Auguste Comte,the one
trav styi lg the life of : Jesus; the
othe fu l of Quixotic vagaries and
dangerous theories; but both assid
uously st riving to destroy all tie sol
emn verities of the Bible, and all true
relig ous philosophy, and upon their
rains build up a philosophy !as chi
merical as ever emanated from the
seethjing brain of a crazed enthusiast,
and is baneful to the best interests
of man as mephitic exhalations are
to healthy or nitro glycerine is to hu
man Hue. In this country we have
infidelity hard at work under various
stud," seeking with the same intense
ardor to accomplish ruin here, that
characterized its efforts on the Conti
nent pr in England. One of its most
imposing and captivating forms is
Pantneisn , and it numbers among its
votaries the great names of Carlyle,
Baur land others.
In England there is a clique or co
terie composed of a score or so of
reallyj learned, able, and gifted men
and women, some of them endowed
i
with
very ' uncommon genius, who
have ho ; God and no hope in the
worldj, who repudiate the revealed
will of the Heavenly Father,and who
offer jio substitute for the religion
they would destroy. They are Posi
tivists disciples of Auguste Oomte,
and lipid that the testimony of the
sensevi only to be considered as the
principle of all certitude. Herbert
Speocjer, H uxley, Tindall, Richard A.
Proctor, George Eliot, Elizabeth
Powel Cobbe, are of this infidel set.
The lite John Stuart Mill and George
Henry Lewes were of the same co
terie, 'although the former left some
posthumous paper or papers that in
dicate! a belief in Almighty God. In
view of sueh facts there is greater
reasod, if possible, than ever before,
why the Bible should be every man's
daily jstady, for it not only is his
gulqe ;and fight to a purer and better
life be;yonj, hut is the actual key
stone hi alii national, greatness and all
trne piviuzation. . j
Wei regret exceedingly to learn of
the death of General Richard Taylor,
whose!
recent work"we have several
referred in terms of hearty
He " died in New York,
times j
praise
whither he had gone in search of
medicltl aid. He was a brilliant Con
federate soldier, and was a writer bf
ttnusiial eleganceyteraeness andlorce.
The South can ill spare such men of
superipp parts and of elevated char
acters i Ho, was a; ttue Southron, the
son of; a very ; distinguished soldier
and President of the: United States,
Gen.' Zachary TayTor, a hater of
sham's i a maii of solid merit, and of
unsuilied honor a'triie representative
of tru chivalry:'
"Constant in spirltswerving ,.,wth the
. ... ,,oioa;
Garuish'd And deck'd with modest compli-
i -m
, In .the Talmage 5 trial ! Mr. Crosby
s
testified one j wty ; and Mr. Talmage
flatlv contradicted him. ' He said in
reply to Crpsby:
' IwilHust tellotli1 brethren; that as
longSS; I live and carry on my style of
miuiftrV I shall be assaulted if it be to the
endof fhe WOrld, 4nd you will nave a trial
Of me1 every month from now until the day
of mV deatbif The' devil win e stirred up
all the time -and if you iatend i to be my
way
soal. hotUity.agaiastTalmage.!i.He
may have said -tbat-ftligpwas a
liar and1 sVpun4.ju.' i 1e i aA i -n0
personal feelings against him.
sponsors tin jtheie v matters au me
throuptt vou win have a verv big 300. "
jrosov Jiverrea tnat ne naa no per
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.33d 1.
Oraud Filhe-Aneiila i'adau'dce. i1'
"'A grand pinio wiH take pracit Croom'a
Bridge; in Pender CQPtlty, QPitae I9th rnW.;i
at which tim.Q prominent .speakers, from
Duplin and Pender will address the peo
pie. : The. affair has been arranged by citi
zena.of; the wo cduntfes 'named, 'by way of
' Ceiebratiug' the pasa'aof the bift for'the
; ebnstraction of the: lAngola Canal) by. the
'last Legislature, and .in furtheratieg o;i the
scheme, for building the jsaoxeupon
completion of. which sq much interest is
felt by many m the counffe3of liuptin and
Pender "U; 02ic -inii; i'i.U!i:t
: ' -Caipt"; 3isbyv of ihestaataer' GUMon'i has
offered, tgive. a free excureioq from Ot ms;
byslBluff, on j the Noreatj .River; -to.
Croom's Bridge, starting- attji3 o'cloek qh
Saturday,' the ldth inst.', f'rpm the bluff, and
stopping at the landing' bn the1 route, ' and
returning the same afternoda-ynu a V-J ''
' The eitiaena of tbecadjoUddoeountlea,!f
Snd the members of tfee.-jffcieiure.from,
Dupljn and. Psender esialytarejCQrdialyf
iavitkd to. be present. , , j
. 'A band Pf music wilt probably1 be pro-'
Vi'dea for the Wcsiotr;-tfrl;kn'in1fty fefel as
sured that an e&joyable time will be spent.
Xaleenae Fees
There seems to be considerable diver
gence of opinion in many localities as
regards the amount of money a merchant
or trader has to pay in order to procure a
lieense to do business. In some counties,
Sheriffs and Registers of Deeds demand
that 75 cents shall be paid for a'business
license, and business men dispute it. The
best solution of the matter will probably be
found . by reference to the Revenue Law!
Section 28 of that instrument requires li
cense to be taken; 'section 29 prescribes the
form of license, and section 30 fixes the
fees at 25 cents to : Sheriff and Register
each, thus: "No license issued by the
Sheriff shall be valid until the same shall
have been exhibited to and countersigned
by the Register of Deeds of the county,
who shall receive for the services imposed
on him by this act in reference to license,
a fee of twenty-five cents from every per
son licensed. And the Sheriff shall be al
owed a fee of twenty-five cents for issuing
icense under this act: Provided, that said
fees shall be paid only once a year by mer
chants and others who make returns to the
Register of Deeds semi-annually!"
Prisoners Kscaped.
We learn that three of the prisoners con
fined at the County Work House, or House
of Correction, succeeded in making their
escape on Friday night last and are still at
arge. The names of the parties are A.
-Dunmore, Peter Coleman and Recco Jack
son, all colored. These same prisoners, it
will be remembered, joined in a plot to
escape during the latter part of last month,
but only one 'Peter Coleman) succeeded in
getting off, and he was captured a day or
two afterwards and returned to his old
quarters. Coleman and Dunmore were sen
tenced for larceny, and Jackson for muti
lating records in the Register, of Deeds'
office. They are no doubt desperate and
determined fellows, but it is hoped that
they will soon be recaptured through the
efforts which will doubtless be made by the
Superintendent.
The Boiler Explosion.
We have already published the fact that
Mr. J. B. Timberlake was killed by the
explosion of a boiler in the foundry of
W. P. Kornegay & Co., at GoldsbOro. He
was, for seven years previous to locating
in Goldsboro, employed; in the shops of the
W. & W. R. R., in the moulding depart
ment He is remembered by many of our
people and pleasantly, and bis family en
joy their sympathy most fully.
We understand that Mr. Timberlake
must have been killed instantly, an exami
nation of the body disclosing the fact that
his neck, shoulder and arm were fractured,
and his bead badly crushed. '
Fire In Kocklnsnam. :
From a passenger on the Carolina Cea- j
tral Railway, last evening, we learn that
the residence of Col. Walter L, Steele, at
Rockingham, narrowly , escaped destruc
tion by fire on last Wednesday night, the
kitchen, situated in about twenty1 feet :
of the bouse, caught fire and was entirely
consumed; but by the almost superhuman
efforts of the citizens the dwelling was
saved.;: . '.;- - -v..-,-.., I
KpIZOOtT. ji:
We regret to learn that . epizooty has
made its appearance on the plantation of .
Hon. D. L. Russell, in Brunswick county,
and but a short distance from this city.
He bus already lost two horses from the -disease,
, one of them as. fine an animal as.
there was in the county; and all the remain
der bf : his horses but one, and all of his
mules, are now suffering from this dangeir
ous distemper.: n : ' y-'-
Some of the farmers in this
kyicinity infpHa's'thair ; paeii.crpp has
probably been materially injured it being
their opinion that When' warm eatmsr sets
in the most of them .win drop off the trees
No Galn !-'.::'''-'.'
..;,' , LWash. Post, Dem. ;
Rhode Island, ' Wisconsin " and
Michigan are the BepubUcan': States
thus far in the present campaign.
Phil. Horth American. Burttiero
is no gain there, brethien All three
of these States,; have ; adorned- the
Radical colump for the .last, twenty
years.; " Wp admit, hAweveiy that
there are indications that Wiacorikin
will soon part company: with her erf
tng sisters. r. . .-.::-'.x
""'.'' ; f A bio aat IfluenMal : ovlj
'..' ".J ! ; INewton Enterprise, os md;.
The; Wilmington Stai; h as entered,
nppn Its twenty-fourth t half-yearly
yoiume.' The', Stab' is an ably con
ducted, influential paper. ' ''
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Pealdetitlal IdtqlnatlonB A. Norfn
..Carolinian on the Llii-WTi Mti
' ters-intioancement or Hoane Com
. . nilttee Appolritnaent r Hevenne
Ifl J By Teleerapa to the Morning Star.
jii WASirrNGTqdsr, April it. "the following
are me .Chairmen ..oL all the Committees of
ihe House, announced, by the Speaker this
of the;m.ojt. important commiUees:.:; . - i
1 Elieetions Springer of IUs. . .
jm. T.-.The oAher inembers are Tucteer,
GibsOo, Phelps, Morrison,, Mills, Carlisle,
Fejn',i Garfield. Keiley,' Conger, Frye and
DunNlla proY -;-. in,, :u:i-i
! Appropriations Atkins of Tenxi. ..The
othet iaemberS' are1 Blbunt,i; Singleton of
Misjj, jClymfif,.! Blackburn, Welldi, ,Uo;bb
Pornjey, McJIahon, Baker, Monroe, Maw
ley, Hab6H, Cannon and Hiscock: " 1
Banking; fad Currency rBuckner of Mo.
Tk joiher members are Davis of N. C,
xoungtof lenn.j t.ewis, JJoUnsberyt Ladd,
ChTttfendep, Fprtr Price and Crapo. '
i l Pacific Ra1lrbsds--McLahe tif Md."
Qliims-rBnghtiof.TeDs; i Jl " -l
iCopimer9e Reagan of Texas.
!(,. Public lAnds--Converse of Ohio:- ' '
Post Qffica Money of Miss.,
' District pf Colombia Uuutpn of Va
; JudtoiaryKnotrbf Eyi '"J- -
Wardaims-rBragg of. Miss,
Public Expenditures Finley of Ohio.
; Private Land Claims-Gunthcr of Ark.
Manufactures Wise of Penn.
Agriculture Covert of New York.
,, Indian Affairs 8calea of N. C.
Military Affairs Sparks of Illinois.
-Militia Ross or N. J.
Naval Affairs Whitthorne of Tenn.
Foreign Affairs Cox of New York.
Territories Muldow of Miss.
Revolutionary Pensions Whitaker of
Oregbn. ! , .. .
Invalid Pecsiehs Coffroth of Peun.
Railways and Canals Cabell of Va. :
Mines and Mining Stevenson of Illinois.
;. Education and Labor-Goode of Va.
Revision of Laws Harris of Va.
Coinage Stephens of Ga.
. Patents Vance of N. C.
Public Buildings Cook of Ga.
Accounts Henry of Md.
MiIeage-i-43obb of Ind. -
Expeuditures in State Department
Qlymer of Pa.
Expenditures in Treasury Department
Morrisea of Ills. ,.
Expenditures "in War Department
Blackburn of Kyi '
Expenditures in Navy Department
Tewhsend of Ills'. ' 1
Expenditures in Postofflce Department
Laid of Me4 . :
Expenditures in' Interior Department
Muller of If. Y..
' Expenditures on Public Buildings
Denster of Wis. ' '
- Expenditures ia Department of Justice
Blouot of Q&. !
Mi$srs8ippi Levees Robertson of La.
Rules- The Speaker.
Reform in Civil Service--Hostetter. of
Ind. ! - '-;:
Law as to Presidential Elections Bick
nell of Ind. '".; i
Ventilation of Hal! Kimmeli of Md.
; Depression of Labor Wright of Pa.
Epidemic Diseases Young,of Tena .
' Printing Singleton, of Miss.
Enrolled Bills Kennaof West Virgiuia.
Linrary Geddes of Ohio. '
Cessna Cox of New York. ' i . -
The President to-day nominated Robert
P. Wilson, of ; Pennsylvania, to be TJ. S.
Consul' at i Moscow, and i W. El well, of
Goldsboro, N. 0., to be Consul at Amoy.
Th Secretary r,i the Navy hai ordered
the Jamestown, now at Mare Island, to be
fitted out for sea as speedily as i possible.
She vtill be sent to Sitka to take the place
of the Alaska. The Jamestown is a sloop
of about 900 tons, and will have a crew of
180 men. She will carry twelve guns on
her gun deck, besides howitzers and Gat
lings, ! and wili be provided with two large
steam; launches to be used in patrolling the
Alaskan coast and makiDg surveys of the
inland channels. Her -officers have not
yet been designated. . . !- . ,
A. T. Roherson, John Garrell, - S. 8.
Grant and Chas. C. Cansey have been ap
pointed Revenue Storekeepers and Gangers
for the Fifth District of North Carolina.
Thd Cabinet to-day considered the re
ports bt a threatened outbreak at Samoa,
and also of the troubles at Tapaterea, one
of the' South Sea. islands. An . American
vessel! will visit both places for the protec
tion of American interests.
Tbe Cabinet ' also discussed the Indian
problem in its various phases, involving
our relation . with Canada in case Sitting
Bull assumes hbstiltties-.-The-ease'Of -Moses
and other important .Indian, affairs is now
uader consideration by the Department.
spenilns HoaeTmoen In the Peni
i : tentlary.
j f i iRichmpnd (Va.) Dispatch.J.
, .Among recent arrivals at the peni
tentiarv were Edward Kinhev f col
ored) landMary S. Half (white), of
Hanovpr county, convicted of viola
tion of ; the State law forbidding
intermarriage o -persons of different
races, and sentenced to : five years'
imprisohmeut.' "This is the first con
viction under the1 decision of the
Supreme Court of Virginia, atStaun-
ton, ln.we.Mcllinney. case. Finney
and tpe woman had, been , unlawfully
living tPgether,' and in October, last
sonre prosecution was' threatened, as
is claimed, whereupon the two -went
to Washington, and were there united
in marriage according to the Jaws of
the District ! of . Columbia, i After
marriage and return to Hanover they
were indicted and tried together for
violation of. the law mentioned, and
with the result stated. It is under
stood that a ' strpng petition from
tnose oest acquainted, witn ine merits
of the; case swill ; be presented ? to the
Goveiinprj asking ;fpr; their pardon t
theyi tio jeave the State forever. ,,.
. Crqvii SrlEbter -with Year.
4 v. JHlshoro Recorder.! (
' The Wilmington" Stae has just en
tered npon'its twenty -fifth year, and
like, the planets 1 whose brilliancy we
greet every mght with fresh delight,
the Stap glows brighter and brighter
aa it grows in yars. Long may its
effulgent beams guide and en
ighten
us.
V ' Fayette ville Gazette: We are
nlsased to 'leaTntfhatt Dr: H'en'fV ! Walter
Lilly, who has i receiyed hia diplohm from
the Nek York iedical College, with full
hnnAPa 1 Wad 1 KaAM !'anntM( art . rKwOl ntW at
the wbik. house, , hospital,. New : Xork city,
--t-At a meetfnW "of the directors of the
railroad fast treek, all Uhe officers and em
ployes ! Ojf the. , .company were retained,
witbbiit change. Mr. James C. McRae,
who has served the -company so ably and
efficiently, was re-eleqted as, aftprney.- .
in Milton w to have "a lejeeraph
line; the man to put , it up is expected daily.. ;
The people are talking of a tuni-
pike from Rrogwood,' Halifax, county j
ucmuu. .
i The Southerner thus eonimeiits-
on our report of Cant. SDrBgeins' misfor ¬
tune in pulling off the wooden leg: "The
passenger was a gentleman- of Cork, elau :
he wooden ware one."
: Christian Advocate: Rev. 1. L.
Nash, in a private letter, dated Greenville.
N.'C, March 25th. savs: "We are irfitintr
along well on- my work. Will' finish two
fine churches this year, I think, nnd com
mence another." ' - .s." ' '
The Fede'rar Court met at
Greensboro Tuesday. he PafnVrf says thert'1 ,?
are cm the docket 47 criminal. 5 libel and
85 civil cases ' There are some sixty .r.
seventy DHrties bound over to' this trm -
Theije are no cases nf special interest to the
public.
i Charlotte Observer: The follow-1
ine ;new nostoffices were eslabliahed irv ."
North Carolina during the vweek ending
April 'gth: Stony Creek, Caswell county;
Colfix, Guilford county. Pacolet Falls.
Polk county. The following changes of
name were made: Martin's Lime Kiln.
Stokes county, toi Jewell: Fort Mountain.
M itchcll county, to Cloudlaud. .
Themonthlv statement' of the
Orphan Asylum for March has been nub-
lished. Amount received ia easii 1S2 32.
There were small contributions in kind.
The (Superintendent says: Tbe month
closes upon the orphans still grateful
for'tse continuance of excellent health.
vigorously prosecuting their studies, plant .
ing' the garden, and enclosing additional
land (for cultivation i" ,
: Washington special to Baltimore
Gazette: The contested election case from
the Second Noiih Carolina District, O'Hara
against mtchin, will probably not be much
of a case, as the fact will be established bv
Kitctyin'a counsel that O'Hara was not at
the tane of the election a naturalized citi
zen of the United States. In his allegation
of contest be docs not charge Kitchin with
irauq m the election.
H Wilson Advance: Rev. T. T.
Eatos, pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Petersburg, has accepted the invitation
tendered him by Prof. Brewer, to deliver
the annual address before the vouns ladies
of thB Wilson Collegiate 8eminarv at the
approaching commencement on the 11th of
June, , There-is but one expression of
opinipn in our community as to the'merit
of Col. McRae's two lectures, and that is
that they could not have been improved.
-Goldsboro, Messenger: There is
a diversity of opinion as to whether the
fruit crop in this section has been seriously
damaged by the recent1 cold snap, some'
holding that it has been altogether ruined,
and others that the damage will not reach
half the crop. According to announce
ment Colonel Cheek, Master of the Stale
Grange P. of.H.. addressed a larS c.mwA
of our farmers, in the courthouse, on Tues
day last. His address was highly practical
and Interesting, replete with good and
wholesome talk to the farmers, and the
Grangers in particular.
Raleigh Observer: W.H. Ham
ilton,! Sergeant of Company E, 4th Regi
ment. N. C. S. T.. who lost an eve in the
battle of Williamsburg, in May, 1862, ap-
pearell before the Probate Judge. Sheriff
and County Commissioners Wednesday,
and made application for the pension
granted by the recent act of Assembly. It
was allowed. 1 he commencement of
Yadkin College takes place June 5th. Rev.
Alexander Clark, D. D., of Pennsylvania,
author of "Summer Rambles iu Europe."
The;Go8pel in the Trees." &c. &c. will
deliver the literary address. The Salisbury
brass band No. 2 will be on hand to furnish
the -music.
' . . ..-
IGoldsboro Mail: The actual cir
culation pf the this week is 1,200, an
inerease ot luU since last issue. On
account of the illness of Judge Seymour
Courtiw&s adjourned from Tuesday until
Friday. ; The i great, revival at the
Aietnqaist uriurcn Hbs closed alter pro
gressing for over two weeks.' About 125
persoss have professed faith in Christ, 40
of wliom joined the Methodist Church last
Sabbath. The trial for murder .of
James; K. Butts, charged with the killing
of Jack Smith, is set for Tuesdayjnext, and
that of Duncan Jones, for manslaughter,
on Monday. Seventeen colored per
sons t?ere baptized in Neuse river last
Sunday. .
pharlotte Observer: Tuesday
afternoon, about sundown, when on their
way home from Monroe, and when about
three (miles from the town, a difficulty
sprang up between Leander Stack and
Robert Parker, in the progress of which
the latter shot the former, the ball entering
about; three inches above the left nipple
and ringing down towards and probably
entering the heart, producing death in a
very Bhort time. V After the shot was fired
Stack staggered along the road for about
twenty steps and fell forward on his face.
In the-meantime his slayer, being' already
onhisjhorse, left at full speed, and has, no'
doubt j taken refuge in South - Carolina.
Parkcf and his victim were 'neighbors and
lived Within two miles of the State line,
and about twelve miles south of Monroe.
Charlotte Observer: , The committee-of
invitation of the: 20th - of May
celebration held a meeting yesterday after
noon and decided to extend a general invi
tation jto the citizens of North Carolina and
of adjacent States to visit Charlotte and
participate in the festivities of that occas
sion. -All organizations, whether military
or civic.will be welcomed. A corress
pondent writes us from Tioutmaa'B, on
the Charlotte & Statesville Railroad, that
the dwelling and put-houses of a man
named! Marrow, near that place, were com
pletely destroyed by fire last Saturday. Mr.
Morrow was absent from home, and his
two daughters, the only occupants of the
house, were unable to save the furniture.
Hon. .Horatio 0. Burchard, director
of the United States mints, was in tbe city
yesterday and made an inspection of tbe
mint property here. ; It is stated that
trains began to run to the top of tbe moun
tain on the Western North Carolina Rail
road lajBt Friday. y.:u ::. . .v
- iveid on News: We : learn that
en Sunday. )ast the new dwelling house and
kitce$ of Mr.. Newett Grant,-son of J.
W. Grant, of Northampton county, waa ;
burned tp the ground, Loss $1,200.. , No.
insurance. -, We learn that a little son
of Mr. Miles Bobbitt, living near Ililliards- .
ton, Nash county, caught on fire one day.
this week and was so badly burned that he
died the. flowing night. ; - Mr. War
ren Dickens, who. lives ceir here, is about
sixty-eight years bf age, and who for. many
years has not bad a tooth in his head, is
cutting a new set One has come entirely
through and ; the others are coming.
He ' says he will bite something yet.
We, were shown last week a liver ta
ken from a chicken of ordinary size. It
weighed ; 10i ;: ounces, ; an d occupied. . the
whole cavity of ; the chicken. One
day , last f?feekv the residence of iW,. R.
Branch, heretofore known as the "Spears"
place, was destroyed by fire. The ' house
was a large two-story frame building, and
the loss was severe on Mr.-Branch. - No'
insurance. Mr. Ed. Pender,-of .Scot,
land Neck; had' been hunting, and crossed
the river er a canoe; and, en getting but, fee
caught bold "of the chain attached; to the
boat to. draw 1t ashore. ' His gun, was lay-'
:tng on the chain, and i the hammers were
caught iu soma way. discharging, the con
tents of both barrels into his leg, shooting'
away the entire calf :' ' - v.:
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