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) THK SENATE DEB&TE.
Blaine made an ingenious dodge,
lie would not follow Garfield and
Conger and the rest in the coarse
they had taken in the discussion on
the Army bill. He is too sharp and
able to be caught in such a trap, so
he resorted to ridicule and sophisms,
as he did in his discussion last session
when Thuraian completely floored
him, concerning the influence of the
negro vote in the matter of Con
gresssional representation. No one
fails to accord Blaine great magnet
ism and power' as a debater. In his
last effort, whilst be made a popular,
liurrah sort of speech, he does not
appear to have reached his usual
standard. . He undertook to show
that the : cry of alarm about
the army on the part of the
South was not sincere that there
was no danger because the army was
m small. The truth is, he was only
"trying to make the best of a very
bad cause, and he felt it. But the
country is not blind, and people are
not fools. They know what has
happened may "happen again unless
Congress prevents it by timely aud
necessary legislation. They know
"preowely how unscrupulous are the
iiepubiicMii leaders, and how very
willing .they aie to trample under
foot! ail constitutional restraints and
ali questions of rights of States,
when party victory is to be attained,
and party supremacy uay, party
existence, is at stake. A thousand
Hiaiues, however ingenious, however
Ipiausible, however dexterous, can
um hoodwink them with sophistical
do Jges or declamatory rhetoric.
But Blaine did not attempt to
meet the questions at issue. lie did
. not rely on argument but ridicule, a
cheaper and sometimes a more effec
tive weapon.' lie could not reply,
to Mr. Tucker's argument if he were
to'live a thousand years, and had all
, of the ability of the British Parlia
ment in the days of Burke, and Fox
and Pitt. Bat the organs swear he
was grand that his speech was' a
great one and so on. If you were to
credit their partisan notices you
would suppose. he bad demolished all
that had been said, by Tucker, Car
lisle, Blackburn and the .other Demo
crats in the House. Bat he really
met no arguments and made no effort
to justify bayonet elections.
We fall back upon the Philadel
phia Times, . because it is not an
organ, for what followed: .
"Seoator Withers however, in his
humble way brushed away . the brilliant
Maine Senator's sophistry by showing that
it is a principle which is at stake, the pres
ence of troops at the polls, whether corn
pond's guard or a regiment, being con
trary to the spirit of free institutions and
liable to abuse which cannot be overesti
mated. A single soldier is a menace. It
is not the business of the army of the
United States to preserve the peace at the
polls, and this is the point that should be
insisted upon." ' j
Referring to Senator Wallace's ar
gument, it says: ' f( ' .
"He confined himBelf to a clear and ir
resistibly forcible presentation of the issues
involved io the bill under consideration,
which deal only with the question of free
elections, free, that is, from military me
nace. He also made an explicit statement
of the position of the Democrats as to the
respective powers of the legislative and ex
ecutive departments of the government in
a situation like the present. The temper of
this speech of Senator Wallace is admira
ble, and if the debate could be continued
in this way and kept in strict relevancy to
the main question, the atmosphere would
be a good deal clearer before the bill shall
reach the President. If talk is necessary
ei us naye more argument and less decla
mation, Messrs. Senators."
From the tone of certain Kepubli
can papers in Massachusetts and
Connecticut we should say that the
Down Easters are not disposed . to
take any of Grant "in thorn." '
Charlotte has a reading room
luiii is open to the public every night.
IE
VOL. 10.
OPINION ARODV 1880.
This is the agej of interviews. The'
"big AiailiBs are, never happy save
when I buy are able to publish a col
umn ui two wf real or bogus inter
views, lik? that Joncerniiig":AirVJef-)
ferson -Dav.iK, wliicti did not contain
one grain of truth. The last inter-,
view we have n!iieel i ne of ' a?
prominent jyjjutheru politiciaii,'' by
that very untruthful paper, the New
York lribune. jAcoording to the Ve-
port this "prominent Southern politi
cian" . thinks : tpat ...-everybody:5-;.; ui
wrong as to the
Democratic eandl
is not to be Tilden
date in 1880.
lit
or Hendricks
or Thurman oc Bayard,
. . t
but General Hancock.
He is report
ed as saying: i
"These -Northern Democrats hve got no
sense. Lhey don't see the way the tide is
drifting. Now we nuy be Rebels down
our .way, hot . we re not d d fools. We
sredy pofitia -etoswrpnis
tnnstll ulna f n tl t 'KTAm V li n t A.n nr.. on. n I "
much else to do. Now what do we see in
the piesent outlook? Why, it's plain to us
that the Confederate business has been
overdone. The old loyal element in the
North is bristling up, and if we go on in
this way it will clean us out again in 1880.
The North is getting fighting mad because
there are somaoy rebel brigadiers in Con
gress, and such a look of the old
Confederacy about) the Capital.' There
are a few howling idiots in the
South that have j made matters still
worse by ; printing war-whoops in , the
papers. Now ; what . have we got to do ?
Isn't it plain enough;? We must nominate
some Union soldier like Hancock, against
whose war record j nobody could say a
word. We can't carry Tilden through.
I'm rather fond of the old man myself;
think he's a statesman of the old school;
like to hear him talk about Jackson and
Madison, and all those old duffers; believe
he's shrewd, and a good organizer, too;
but he's not the sort of man to win when
the North is excited against the South.
Hendricks wouldn't do any better, either.
Why, I'm told he did jnothing during the
war but sit in the Senate and pick flaws in
all the war legislation. Thurman is an
other of those old Peace Democrats whom
you used to call Copperheads. He won't
do.' " -.. - r- - T
He says Bayard will not do. The
man for the hour is a fighting Demo
crat with a splendid warj record. He
says: !' ! 1
"We must put up a' man who was as good
a soMier as Grant, and as strong a Union
man, or we'll be as badly licked as we were
in 1868, when we ran Horatio Seymour.
We in the South prefer Bayard to any
o'her caudidate. After him most of us
would take Hendricks. Our people don't
fancy Tilden. but if he eouM win they recog
nize a logical fitness in nominating him.
What we want is to win. We don t care
much who the candidate is if he can be
erected." i J
He tays again that Hancock is the
mati. Democrats are not in the habit
of expressing their I views so very
frankly to Republican newspaper
men, but the report may be correct.
"There is enough of naturalness and
shrewdness iiij the remarks io give
them at least the air of genuineness.
The South has1 a proper appreciation
of Gen. Haiieock. It knows htm
i V i
to be the purest and noblest of
the Northern soldiers, and to have a
record that proves him to be sincere
ly attached to a genuine republican
form of govrument in which the mili
tary is to be . forever subordinate
to the civil ! authority. But the
South, as an abstract queslion,has no
fondness for ; military Presidents.
Its experiences have been such as to
make it something shy of such candi
dates. But if there is to be a soldier
in the Presidential Chair our people
know they can trust Hancock above
alf others. . Ye give what "a" promi
nent Southern' politician" has to say
i t I
of the outlook in 1880 as one of the
signs of the times as an evidence of
the drifting of public opinion.
BK AGO AND KTJSSKLL.
' Some of the most pronounced
Northern Republicans in the House
opposed Gen. Bragg's proposition to
abolish; the Claims Commission.
These are nice fellows. Only a little
while since they were accusing the
South of raiding upon the Treasury.
Here was a chance to get rid of the
whole thing and: they opposed it.
The Correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch gi vis the following:
'"Mr." Marlit (Republican), of North
Carolina, went nto a highfalutin defence
of the Union msn of the South, when Gen.
Ward, of Ohio, ! asked him if he proposed
to pay for prop irty which he as a Confed
erate soldier helped to destroy, and he re
plied, 'Yes; I was ! in the Confederate
army, and have no apology to make for it,
either.' The Republicans, who had been
applauding, seemed to . have , suddenly
swallowed something sour.
"After telling Baker & C: that his pur
pose was to stop the Radicals from issuing
campaign documents calling him a coad
jutor of those who robbed the treasury to
pay Southern war claims, Gen. Bragg went
for the North Carolina member, who he
said served in the Confederate army, then
in a Confederate Legislature, and finally
became a Confederate judge without ever
having graduated from a law office. (Great
applause on the Democratic side.) He
said ; that the i Republicans had played
this card of loyalty loBg eneughy and
it would win no longer."
The jSlateV correspondent says it
was Russettol North Carolina, and
he is probably oorrect, as we do not
think Martin was ever a J udge. The
State's special says : - .
"He sat down pretty heavily on Russell
of North Carolina, who took occasion to
enlotrizR eTtravaffantIv ' Southern Unidh
men. whose services and sacrifices ' the
T" t tfht 7?
-I J -!'. ,rr-.j.Ml v h "
illktS .'4
m-mm
WILMINGTON N,; j; EIDIXAPRIL: '2E : 1879,' : ' '
Government could never renav. BraVir f
said the Southern ninimv r!immiHBiiri tva I
uond ucted in .utter contempt of U known
rules of evidence a mei-e partisan tribunal,,
erected for partisan purposes. It bases its
judgment upon unsworn statements' of 'de
tectives employed by the : court UJ-secrctly
find out something, and the , victim new.
nothing' of it until ihe blow was struck..
These detectives are now' called ihvesll-
gatiBg agents, because ' that - OBDds: more-
respeclabie iU8t: as highwaymen na now
called rod agents. They had.been aptly 1
ucacnueu as ueau oouies mat lie at tne
bottom of the clear stream until1 the buoy
ancy of their putrefaction bring j ihem to
iMecSurface and the insufferable stepch they
elnit scatters consternation."
; j After sending the
cernine Brass and
paragraph con
Russell to the
piittter, we saw from both New York'
and Philadelphia papers that t Judge
Russell was the man
that Bragg took
very condensed
after. We give a
report from the New York -World:
"Mr. Russell (Nat., N. CJ.) protested that
the proposition was an insult to the Union'
men or tne aoutu. history might; , be
of the South.
searched m vain for an instance oi men
aVlne' suffered and endared so mutliloT
opinion s sake as they had done. The as
sertion that there had been no Union men
in the South was a slander on men who
were the equals of the gentleman from
Wisconsin or of any gentleman oa the floor.
L Applause on the Republican side."
, We will give an abstract of what
Gen. Bragg said in our next, j
UNIVERSITY NOBAIAI SCHOOL.
We have received" from the Super
intendent of Public Instruction a
circular, addressed "To Teachers of
the State, aud those wishing to be
come teachers," in which the scheme
of .instruction be pursued at the
next session of the University Nor
mal School is given. It appears to
be comprehensive and thorough. We
note that tuition is free; that dormi
tories will be free to male students,
who must furnish their own bedding;
that table board can be had at $10 a
month; that a cheaper rate can be
secured by messing; that transpor
tation will be at half fare; that stu
dents should purchase "commutation
tickets" of the railroads; that
pecuniary aid win be given to
those who are unable to pay their
own expenses, application for which
must be made to President Battle, at
Chapel Hill, before June 1st, to be
accompanied by a certificate from a
Judge, a Chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners, a Superior
Court Clerk, ; or a member of the
Legislature, vouching for the good
character of the applicant, and his
inability Xo pay his own expenses.
The Superintendent of Public In
struction requests us to copy the fol
lowing:
"The General Assembly having con
tinued the appropriation to the Normal
Schools, the State Board of Education
have organized the work for 1876. The
University Normal School will open Tues
day, June 17th, 1879, and continue six
weeks. A full corps of trained teachers
have been selected for the school, and the
work will be prosecuted with renewed in
terest. The Superintendent of Public In
struction has supplied the County School
Examiners with circulars, and the teachers
are requested to call on them for the same.
"Go to the University Normal School., Be
fat the opening and remain till the close.
1 , : '
There are fifty-odd cotton manu
facturing establishments in North
Carolina. Before five years elapse
we hope to hear that there are a hun
dred. There is no reason why every
little village should not have a cot
ton mill in all the counties in which
the great; staple is grown. , We
notice that at Westminster, S. C, a
very small cotton .mill has been
started that cost but $2,500. It is
run by eight hands. An exchange
.says:
"The capital was made up by a company
of farmers and one mill owner, who., fur
nished the water power. They i manufac
ture their own cotton from the seed, and
torn out about $25 worth of yarns per day
at present low prices.' They have a home
market for their farm products, and greatly
increase the value of their cotton." .-
The Republicans die hard. , , They
have had their chops stuck in the
Government kettle so long they will
not surrender office even when their
time is up. The Richmond State's
correspondent from Washington says:
! 'The Senate' clerks, notified i by Secre
tary . Burch that their : services were co
longer required, informed him that they
would' decline to surrender. Thereupon
Senator Wallace introduced a resolution
depriving the Tice President of the power
to control removals, and authorizing the
Secretary and Sergeant-at-arms to use their
j . ,, '
uuscreuou. , . .
Senator Vocrhees made a' charac
teristically able and eloquent speech
on the Army bill. Mr. Carlisle's argu
ment : is thought to have been very
able and unanswerable. The Dis
natch.1 s sneoial savs of lfc: f ; :i
4 rf
"I noticed that without oratory or orna
mentation of speech he still commanded the
undivided attention of both sides. While he
seemed not giving a thought to his language,
but only to his line of argument, the very
word seemed always toeome to; him. When
be referred to the Constitution to support
hia positions he had it at his, finger-ends.
and when interrupted always got the ad
vantage. And then when he drew upon the
law. no one seemed ready to contradict his
perfect accuracy.) f .' The closing1
of bis speech was eloquent, and was loudly
applauded.
'$lW.v?i
J-W-
the t pooiv vsufftrinfr nfsroes -wnlf
have
been deceived a & aUuredf 1
heir homes,? and wjre no
from, their
lp suctr a suffering and dtatftutexofi-
di&itute'co
rtelgrlph
litiofa in Kansas.' Ourffelegrafthio.;
jdispatches of iy esterday 16? hfost
pitiful tale of the stiff em S of the
igBoraut and benighted. ftegr"J're'fii-
gees, as tho Radicals call?4heir vic
tinis. , The men who 'arBMulecerv-
ing and ruining the pooneolored
pie deserve' tic
manv strives
laies who,to trratif thelneaflest oas
sipus of depraved naturesJv?ould en
ta!il wretchedness "r'and '.i rfupon a,
confiding, ored o lotfi ah$ notan t
people. i:n., ; .; u.i : psnixiX
' The way these ' people fffi Beeja
dipe is really quitesho&ing The l
Sf -T"-ll.' n.ll!jn nn!nttt. wnl H-
Iished a circular . that has ( been dis
tributed largely in Mississippi and
Ijuisiana. It is dated from the office
of the Colored Colonization Society,
Topeka Kansas, February, 1, 1879,
and Is headed "Attention, Colored
menl" , ..
VYour brethren and friends throughout
the North have observed with painful
solicitude the outrages heaped upon you by
yeurrditl masters, and are doing all they can
to alleviate youp miseries and provide for
yonr future happiness and prosperity. Presi
dent Hayes, by fits tntquilous Southern policy,
has deserted you,: while the Democrats,
who now have control of Congress. wiUteek
to enslave you it you remain in the South,
and to protect tiou l 'torn Vmr actions the co
lonization society has been organized by
the government to provide land for each head
of a family, which will be given in bodies of 160 .
acres gratuitously. This land is located in
the,be8t portion or Kansas, inclose prox
imity to Topeka, and is very productive.
Here there are no distinctions in society ; all
are on an equality. Leave the land of op
pression and come to free Kansas. Lycun
gU8 P. Jones, President. Show this circu
lar to none but colored men, and keep its
contents a secret. "
Was there ever anything more
shameful? Is not such atrocity de
serting not only the stem condemna
tion of all true .humanitarians, but
the sharpest punishment? Here is
repeated on a grander- scale the de
ceptions practiced in reconstruction
days,' wjhen they were "fooled" with
the; promises of "forty acres and a
mule." Here we see the same class
of . rase aid that hood wioked them
years ago, that they might be used
as tools! in elections, practicing a sain
upon their easy credulity for politi
cal .purposes, and leading them "as
Iambs to the slaughter."
We do not believe, that the new
plan will succeed to any great ex
tent. If tens or hundreds of thou
sands of the negroes are tolled away.
the result will not be such as is hoped
for by the designing knaves. It will
be remembered that it was fully ex
pected ; hat the emancipation of the
slaves would forever ruin the South.
This has not been realized as yet. It
was believed by the Republican lead
ers that! when the suffrage was placed
in the hands of the recently emanci
pated n sgroes that it would enable
them to control the political fortunes
of the South for all time to come.
In this t they were egregiously mis
taken They now hope that they
can : eh luge the representation in
Congress from the South by persuad
ing the negroes to emigrate. This
will hot work out as they calculate.
Other labor will come in. So the
South will not be much damaged, if
the vile. plan were to succeed, and
only foJ a short time. Rascality and
hatred do not always succeed in their
plan. j
. The movement last year in the di
recpiOn of Liberia soon came to grief.
The only sufferer then was the. de
lude$ negro. The present movement
will probably collapse after , awhile,
for the only victim thus far is the
negro. When those who are now
suffering so greatly in Kansas are
heard from,and when they are forced
to labor' among a hardy, enterprising,
thrifty people, who can do more work
than they can do, and can then cheat
them out of what little tney may
earn, it 'will be discovered that the
"promised land" is not Kansas or any
portion
of the Northwest, bat the
cotton fields and savannas of the fair
South. :-: :
The New YorkzmJiaa penetrated
- I ,- i .... -
the designs of the unscrupulous fel
lows who are alluring the negroes to
their - ruin . It asks the question,
"Will the change be beneficial?, Will
the emigrants be better off in Kansas
than in their old homes?" It says
wisely in answer:
' We think not. : Personsof extraordina
ry energy and ability may gala by the
Change, but the masses will suffer from it.
They will find no better opportunities of
employment in Kansas than in the States
i tirt.-.i
uisy leave. , vynatever iuch cjiycciaiioua,
and whatever Preferences are held out to
them, the people among whom they go will
peo-TTh
hit tobefbeatej Willi5 U.
Thev arsl S set of vil- f Vinooiinn . xf ..,i;.;.h ..a
' ?! '.r I'll :H 'o'- 4 f ' : - . I it , . ' : .- i
be leas ff iendy-.Itowaid them: than those
from whom they have departed ; while the
more" severe climate aad the more rigorous
ncoessity . for industry land thrift will .add
seriously to. their "difficuli its,. Their emi-.
gratlOn is a inUfOrtune- and not a blessing'
to the country and tv.themselve$."k.5.
The indications- njWi ar that the
f uext negro exodus, wLJeJfQ? Kan-
isks, bggestedjbj, fbeWashing-n
ton Post. , 1 :, . . -. :,.:..
; THE QVBSTIOh.
! Shall the: President control the
J ejections, or jjhall. the ' ballot be free?
pies." The fact now stands conspic
uously, before the eleciors-of the Utau
ted States, that whilst the Deniocrals
in Congress, are-: efdeavoriog Jt pro
tect the rights of freemen,-: abd give
them a full guarantee' tbat they shall
have the privilege to vote once and
for whom they please that 'the bal-
lot-box shall be free,1 and that no
bayonets shall hedge it around, the
Republicans, on the other hand are
resisting the attempts to their ut
most, and are the advocates of a sys
tem that originated in wrong, and
has been pursued in vindictiveness. y
There is a great and manifest dis
tinction and difference in the spirit
that animates and the principles that
control the two parties at this time.
They are as unlike as life and death,
light and darkness, liberty and tyran
ny, justice and oppression. - '
"The Democratic doctrine is that
the powers of the Federal Govern
ment are those conferred ' upon it by
the Constitution, and none other.
The Republioan party has denounced
this doctrine for years, declaring that
the Federal powers are such as the
Government sees fit to arrogate to
itself."
The Democrats are the defenders
of liberty, and the unwavering friends
of a genuine republican government.
The Republicans are the advocates of
a. system that can only end in the
subversion of liberty, the destruction
of a democratic form of government
a government that originated with
the people and is intended for the
people and the installation of im
perialism. I
In the discussion in the House Mr.
Kelley, of Pennsylvania, was pleased,
to warn the Democrats against "co
ercing" the President, whilst he ad
mitted that the principle they con
tended for was right. Now that is
refreshing impudence. Mr. Carlisle,
of Kentucky, one of the ablest men
in the House and a capital lawyer, ia
his reply gave out no uncertain
sound. He will bo sustained, and
every man in Congress will be sus
tained, who stands squarely and un
yieldingly by the declaration that the
oppressive election laws the bayonet
machinery of the Republicans "must
be repealed, and the power of the Ex
ecutive to control the elections of the
people's representatives, betaken-
dway.n That is the slogan that is
the voice of freemen who know; their
rights, and who dare maintain them.
In that sign Democracy will triumph.'
Senator Randolph's statement in
regard to Gov. Hampton's message
to Grant, when President, and his
unmannerly reply will surprise no
one. Gov. Hampton requested Grant
to withdraw his troops from the South
Carolina State House, in deference to
a decision of the Supreme and highest
Court of that State. The reply of
the bulldozer was characteristic eve
ry way. Tell him, "I won't withdraw
the troops; I don't regard the deci
sion of the Supreme Court, and if I
bad any message to send to Gov.
Hampton it would be that his mes
sage to me is an'TmpeTttnenc.a," This
was given in an angry, tone and un
civil manner. Tyrant and despot at
heart, the Illinois tanner had not for
gotten his bid manners. He is the
fellow that the Republicans wish to
place over the country.
Gen. Beauregard has been inter
viewed in St, Louis.' He says either
Thurman or Bayard would be most
acceptable to the South, but -that
Hendricks is very strong. As to
Tilden, "he is not a favorite, but the
South will accept any man for the
Presidency that the North proposes.'
We want a Democratic victory.'? 'As
to Hancock, he "is a military, man,
and the Democraoy dont't want mili
tary men : just : now. In Louisiana
Hancock is probably the most popu
lar man that has been mentioned for
the first place on the ticket; still I do
I not j-hink that he will be a candidate."
Mrs; Ishani Kattlrank-!
ioton, is dead.
III
NO. .26.
The
Boreatv., and Onslow Kallrod
company
This new! cbmpany. under
Charier ob
tiioed at the last -Legfelatare.LwilF hold
theic first meeting at Jaeksofi'yir.e on Mon
day of Superior; Court for Opsl.iw. it being
.tie 13th, of May. A pVUc, ; meeting in
jf ivor of pushing op . the. scheme will bp
tnSld on that occasion' at' Jacksonville, and
aarge attendance is'expeCted'. We learn
that Pender, Onslow and other sections Wre
wjarrjalyiD favor of this enterprize v We
i'oel assured tut Wilmington, always fully
aHve to every, judicious l public work, will,
di her duly ip the premises and all , along
J jt Ln f-.. t-T.i'.,:
aa the'Work -progresses. The corporators
will- nd doubi 'fhst ' ofdef a survey to be
madd aDdr-booka; of ; subsedptioo to be
evened. With Burlaw as one terminus
and the best point iru paslow as She other,,
this road Will greatly add to the prosperity
arid' material wealth of the counties mainly
lnterestea,' una fte success is confiitently
expected. It will be about fort? miles long,
we r .informed, when completed, and
Wiil bealpag'. needed inlet and pullet I'or
.LQijslQW cpunty.- Pomjnv::t speakers are
I expcctebt'io address' this iilroad meeticg
on the 13th of May. j -' " '
Tlte JLarirlBbnre: Tragedy.
A communication has been received
fifom" C," the oulhoV of the Laurinburg
special in the Stab, giving an account of
the late homicide at that place, in which he
takes exceptions to the indirect denial of
some of his assertions by our correspond
ent "F," in a communication which ap
peared in Thursday's issue, land says he
can bring proof to sustain all that was said
in the special referred to. We cannot give
space to the entire letter, and must now
insist that further discussion of .the matter,
through our columns, cease. .
Steamer Bttwecn WIIailDKtou and
: Beaurort. 'j ,
Our citizens will be glad to learn that
Ca$t. George W. Charlotte, of BeaUfortin
thi4 State, as we are reliably informed, will
run a steamer between that.place and WiK
mins:tondurinz the aDoroachine summer
season, for theueneiit of excursionists The
steamer is one aundxed ana: seventceu; feet
long,' thirty-one feet it. breadth of beam,
will accommodate throe hunured ; passe a-r
gers, and runs at the rate ef about thirteen.
knots per hour., ahe will extend ber trips
to Washington, Elizabeth City, Edenton
and Plymouth. - Capt. (Jharlotte is well
known to excursionists who are in tue nauii
of visiting 4 Beaufort, with whom be has
made himself, very popular. ;
. a ava
Cnfederatloa of States."
: , . . l.W'ashington Post.J
, : Senator Blaine took Senator Eaton
to task for having said that Daniel
Webster had - frequently! spoken' of
the United States as a Confederacy
and a confederation of States. Blaine
read from one of Webster's speeches
a declaration that the confederation
was superceded by the Constitution,
etc. Mr. Eaton asked. if the. Senator
from Maine undertook to! deny that
Webster had often used the " terms.
Mr. Blaine finally said Webster might
haije said so, but, if he did, it was a
lapsus littguce. - Mr. Eaton replied
that at the proper timej he would
show that Webster had repeatedly
spoken of the confederation of States.
He maintained his point with his
usual firmness and aggressiveness,
and he is at least one man in the Sen
ate that Mr, Blaine never attacks
with any glory to himself.!
i A Locky Trio of Printers.
New York World..
The Louisiana State Lottery, wheel
of fortune.' has again : smiled upon
New York. It will not be forgotten
that - Judge i 2achariah Voorhies, of
Brooklyn, won only last December
$50,000 in the semi-annual grand dis
tribution,! and now three humble
priiiters have been paid $15,000 for
ticket No, 65,923, which they held in
common', and which drew one-half of
the capital prize an Class D of the
fegtlar monthly drawing held on
April 8 at; New Orleans. The names
of the fortunate winners ire John B.
Jackson, publisher of the Good Tern
plars "Gem (the official organ of the
new Tetnplarl -order in this city);
Wiljiam Heauey and Patrick J..
O'Brien, jhey all three yioxk. in, the
job printing office pf Macgowan &
Slipper, 30 Beekman street, of which
Jackson is foreman, and O'Brien has
charge of the Spanish copy.
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Personal Tlie Presidential Outlook.
. Wash. Cor. ltichmond Dispatch.
- j S4natof; Jobflsoh ; presided in the
Senate to-day, and seemed perfectly
at home in the chair. Governor
Hampton says te-Testedj betteriast
night .than he has for a month, and
to-night looks ; as if Washington
agreed with him. Secretary: Sher
man's friends, en the Btrength of his
big financial operation, to-night says
he is a bigger : man than ! old Grant,
and talk pf him for President.
' Mr. Stockton, of New Jersey, Wil
liam Scott,' of Pennsylvania, and
othef prominent friends of Mr. Til
den, are heie to confer with his
f rienfU in Oongress, I jjeaf, oo Presi
dential matters,. Barnum and others
are ex
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t ;f ; LReidsyille Times. . , ..' . '
ThejWUmington Stak is in its
twenty-fourth volume. ' Never ; a
cloud has lowered o'er its sky yet. . It
is always fall np to the Standard of a
first-class t ' daily v newspaper. . : Mr.
Kingsbury, the editor,' is j known as ,
among the mosttaiented! writers' in
the South: Mivejkd3tpMprie
tor,"is a newspaper inan trained and
thorough. ' " :r .
5 Bishop at ' Atkinson :: confirmed
seven persons at Elizabeth City. On Thurs
day, the 10th Inst, he consecrated "St.
Joseph's Church, at Jonesboro.
The "people's ticket" waselec t
ed at Elizabeth Citjr by a majontj- .f 123.r .
Mr. Cobb was elected Mayor.
, The Journal says Jishu vilU'Iias
spent $200,000 in "five "years 'on builufiiKs,
$76,000 Of which has been epept by Mr.13.
T. Clemmons. i Many, new buildings aro
now going up 1 , ,
The Asheville Journal tells of
a four-year old boy iwallowi;e a toy Isaut. -mer
1J inches lung, with a tinni! Uoa
handle. 'No damage resulted arid ihe boy'
is doing well, j . - . -
Statesville Landmark. It . baa
been mooted that business generally will bo
suspended here on the - 30: h of -May, -mid
the j'ounger portion of tbw populalicii Will
repair to a grand picuic t i3uffalu Shoals,
on the Catawba river. . .'. - t :
; Kiasloa.Journah We are glad ;
io report that the peaches are not all killed. .
If no other cold snap occurs we may expect
a medium. erop. r: Oo last. Monday'
Qeceral Ransom gve a pleasaut excursion '
ob the steamer Undine to a lew inviied '
guests from on? Tillage and ffom Newberu ,
andGoldsboroH"
i Wilson Advance: We learn that
several oesroes were aP wyrk ia the field of
JiCfOb II, Barnes, Esq , near Toisoot, last
week, when a storm arose, and. just as ihe'y"
were leaving their work to seek shelter, 4
lightning struck in their midst.kiiling Hay
Wood Battle Instantly and stunning Iaac
and Charles Barnes,who were standing uear
hbu ; -.
: Goldsboro Mail: Mr. Jno. D.
Kerr has been appointed Chief Marshal of
the Sampson County Agricultural Fair.
-The many friends of Colonel L W.
Humphrey will regret to- learn that hois-
lying very ill at bis residence. Two
prisoners,-Vanh and Cain, from Sampson
county, charged with "shoving the queer,"
passed through : tbn place on p riday, m
charge of a marshll, for Kaleigh.
' Elizabeth City conomist: Sha
dric Brite, living near South Mllls.in Cam
den county, committed suicide by hanging
on the 8th in at Colonel Alexander
Smith, an old and respected citizen of Cur
rituck county, formerly Chairman of the
Board of County Oommissioners.died at his
residence on Knott's Island, of heart dis-
ease, , on the 3d inst. Herrings are
more plentiful, selling at $3 per thousand.
Shad 20 and 24 cents a pair. The steam
barge Scribner, Captain Quigles, was sunk
in Albemarle Sound off the mouth of Big
Flatty Creek, Thursday. The seas swept
over ber carrying away the hatches, when
she filled and sunk. Her cargo was coal,
ice; and guano, j
'r Pittsboro .Record: Mr. Wesley
Hanks, of this place, died on the 11th inst.
He removed here from Hillsboro in the
year 1826, and at the time of his death he
was the only survivor of' those who then
inhabited our village. He was born on the
31st day of December, 1800. Mr. J.
Boroughs, of Bear Creek Township,- has
returned home after an absence of two or
three years, during which time he travelled
through several of the Western States, and
has come back satisfied that after all there
is no such place as our good old county.
We regret to lenrn that the store of Hack
ney & Ward, ner Mt. Pleasaut Church, was
burnt up on the night of the 13th inst. ' It
wa4 evidently the work of an incendiary.
-r- Goldsboro Messenger: Thephy
sicians of this county .some sixteen in num
ber, met on Tuesday, with Major Hook?,
Chairman of our. County .Commissioners,
and Mayor Griswold, for the purpose of
carrying out the duties imposed by the act
Creating the Board of Heahh. An auxiliaty
board was organized, with Dr. S. B. Flow
ers as President, and Dr. W. A. Faison as
Secretary, and. Dr. M. E. Robinson was
chosen Superintendent of , Health for the
county, to serve : the ensuing two years.
- The town of Oxford has voted to issue
$30; 000 in bonds for the railroad. That
looks like business.: Goldsboro could readily
afford to subscribe $15,000 each, to the pro
posed 'Greenville road and to the Harnett R
R. '- Duplin county items: Mr. Thos.
Phillips, Jr., a very worthy man, died sudt
denly last Thursday, of heart disease.
The fruit crop is alu-ost destroyed, all ex
cept late varieties. The Brief Mention,
a new paper, edited by J. N. Stallings,
makes its appearance this week. "Old Rip"
will wake up after awhile Democratic, of
course. '
Tarboro Southerner: Capt. E.
R. Page, deputy collector for this district,
informs us that he captured in Ball's
Swamp, Lenoir county, last week, one
illicit distillery," four prisoners and one'
thousand gallons of beer. We learn
that a young white man named Jerre
Smith, while under the influence of liquor,
got Into a difficulty with a negro and cut his
throat in Nashville, Nash county, on Mon
day. The jugular vein' was severed and
the negro is net expected to live."
Col. C. B. Killebrew informs us that the
peach crop is greatly damaged, but apples, ;
pears, cherries and. plums are safe.
A little stealing is a dangerous thing,
Filch a million and your fame will ring.
A negro was killed near To'rsnot one
day last week by lightning. Died, in
Rocky Mount,, on the 12th instant, Mrs.
Margaret H. Garvey, consort of Mr. James
H.Garvey,in the 50th year of her age.
A white woman living near Easonville, in
Nash county, tried to poison another,' one
day last week. Jealousy, the cause. :
Farmers, notwithstanding their indignation
meeting, are hauling a great deal of guano.
'Washington item: On Friday last, as
the Southern bound train on the W. & J.
R. R was within four miles of town, the
passenger and baggage car jumped the
track, capsized and were mashed up badly.
A negro boy, aged 16, who was sitting on
the platform, was thrown against the cross
ties With such force as to break his neck
and kill him almost instantly.
'I Greensboro Patriot: ' Dr. R. K.
Gregory has recently invented a little con
trivance for registering the beating of the
pulse. It ia much simpler and cheaper
than Instruments for that purpose now in
use. --The Odd Fellows of this town
and county will celebrate their Anniversary
in Benbow Halloa the evening of .the 26th
inst. ? The address will be delivered by
Mr. John N. Staples. Miss. Lizzie
Weir, an amiable young lady, died, at the
residence of her mother, after a protracted
illness, last Saturday . night. Neil
Ellington has been, by the board of direc
tors, appointed Assistant Cashier of the Na
tional Bank with full power to act at Cashier;
There seems to be a revival In the
blockade whiskey business. The j revenue
men captured a few barrels entering town
last night. - Mr. John A.Barrtnger has
accepted the invitation to deliver the Me morial
address attbe Confederate Cemeter.
ry on the 10th of May. ' Col. Jas, T. More
bead wyi act as Chief Marshal on that oc-.
casion .. ; The party of engineers under
Mr. Morrison arrived here last night, and
will at once begin the survey , of the. Pay-,
etteville road at this end. When the suryey
is made the work of grading will begin.
There are no less than twelve iaventors
living here.each one of whom has invented
and patented one or more practical, useful
things. Among them . we might mention
at a hasty glance as the more . important
the Jones ping tobacco machine, the Allen :
brick machine,, the Kendall shingle ma
chine, and the Sergeant head block, for saw .
mills. -There have been sixteen con
viction a during the present term . of ..the
Federal Court, for violations of the Inter
nal Revenue laws; and one acquittal. Two
eases have been dismissed.: Forty-four
new bills have been found by "the grand
jury, which is still io session. - The United:
States vs. J, B. Law, of , Wentworth, N. C,
for violation of Postal laws, has attracted
public attention for several days. ;ri. i
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