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" 1.00 u . tl g ( 11 it FOUNDATION 1IINCIP1.ES. .50 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 ... .7.., ....... -jU -Lr II dl 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 V w it- HIO.I 1 .'i j ' ; -iUi ' .'JiUl .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. ' '' KB 11 r 1. i JK'' ,,iNO,;.25. . Wa.SBriRGTON. 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.: i . 7 SI vi4 fir i . 3 4 if 1 is

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