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WHAT IS SAID lif WA8HIRQTOR.
The Veto Message is of course all
the talk in Congressional circles.
V U A L- " ' J " t--'
muuti liauuuoiug way nuw ue ei-
pected. . Whether the ; Democrats
will vote supplies until the regular
session and then renew the fieht. or
refuse to yield one inch, is yet to be
determined. Many opinions of prom
inent members have found their way
already in the papers. Morrison's
opinion is thus given in the special to
tho Ilichmond State : i
"Morrison, one of the shrewdest of
Democratic politicians, says the veto could
livb IICAW 1 U 1UILU U1ULO OUIC IV UUIIV
the Democrats' and strengthen their resolu
tiou to fight out the battle against centrali
zaliou and repression of the popular will at
the ballot-box The President has reduced
it to a square fight upon the issue of elec
tions free, or elections controlled by Federal
authority, with - all its machinery of an
army and marshals with their deputies."
Atkins, of Tennessee, who was
thought to be. rather weak-kneed, is
out strongly against all compromise.
llo says Hayes now crouches at the
rt of- Conkling, and that his mes
sage "will hand him down in history
as a complete imbecile and political
taratilu cringing. at the feet of the
most, corrupt element, or me rvepuD
iicaii party." ,
Other Senators and Representa
tives talk in the same strain. Thur-
inaii id Mciigiiieu witn ine lurn
affairs has taken.-" He-6ays the ma
jority will go on as they have begun
aud camp in Washington until the
odious laws are repealed.
Senator Wallace, Chairman of the
Senate Democratic caucus, says the
President has furnished sufficient
reasons upon which the Democrats
may stand where they are.
The Republicans are gratified of
course, but criticise the de acid's
roundabout way. His details weaken
him they think. , ,
The House yesterday again -passed
the army bill by a vote of 120 to 110,
but this availed nothing of course, as
it requires a two-thirds majority to
override . the veto of the President..
Nine Greeubackers voted with the
Republicans, and only three with the
Democrats.'
Col. Walter L. Steele is not only
appreciated at home but abroad.
The most cordial recognition of his
abilities we have seen was in papers
published in distant portions of the
Union. Wefind, for instance, copied
into the Washington letter to the
Raleigh JVetcs, the . following from
the Kansas City Times'.
"Out of the great number f speeches
deliyered in the House ou the, two Appro
priation bills, that made by Steele, of
North Carolina, was the best of any mem
ber from the , South. It ought to be read
by every woman, man and , child. North,
South, East and West. It was bold and
manly; . courteously sarcastic, cutting
whereever it touched like a polished blade
of the "sharpest steel. The vindication of
hia State was truly patriotic and statesman
ly. Since the: retirement of Martin I.
Towuseod from Congress, Steele wears the
belt fur wit and bumor. lie is one. of the
most popular members in the House', every
body likes him personally, even the most
bitter Radicals admire his open, blunt and
candid manner.' And closes by saying, be
is the head of his delegation." .
Senator Bayard has hosts of ad
mirers all through the South. He
was recently at Charlottesville, Va.,
when be was serenaded by a large
crowd of students from tho Univer
sity of Virginia Dick Taylor thought
him the purest of living politicians.
Many others hold a similar opinion
Business iin New York is only
ao4erate. 1 The jobbing trade is re
ported dull. A letter of the 30th
wit. saysVv,
"Cotton goods remain firm and in fair
requests Prints in moderate demand and
firm, with an upward teadencv. Chester's.
Unmony'gand Freeman's are advanced to
i cents - Moo's wear woollens in slightly
improved demand."-
AU of the very bid people in th e
aJDitca States die in North Carolina,
- i-J i, i n... i ' - ' ' :
10.
BtyONKr, AT KLKdtlOKs
i Mr. Hayes put forward as a plea
why he should hot approve of ' the
Army, bill,! that it was proposed ftO
deny to the Hutted States even ! the
ueoessary vil authority to 'protect
Uio National el ectio iisl V( sh owed
yesterday tljiati thre" ivas o,6 suebi.
thing as, a National flection io . the:
sense in which it is used by! the cUi
facto. We refer to the matter now
to say that no onqf proposed to deny
to the United Staies the right to, reg-?
ulate jthe times, places, and ruanner,
of holding elections for Senators and
Representatives." This is guaranteed
by the Constitution- lp the clause we.
quoted yesterday. Mr., ". Hayes, io
his effort to make a case' io I justify
bis partisan bias and, action, falls into
1
the error of. supposing himself the-.
whole United States. If fu is not
the "United States:" then there is no
such purpose as he declares to exist,
for Congress does not propose to in
terfere with the right of "the United
States" in the exeroise of the neces
sary "civil
authority to proteot" the
elections held for Senators and Re
presentatives. As we have said, the
Constitution empowers -Congress
not the President,) mark; you with
the right to regulate "the times,
places aiiid raauuer : of .holding
elections,"'! and ' as the Congress
is not composed of either fools or
"revolutionists'! it can hardly be true
that they propose to . rob themselves
of a Constitutional power. It is,
therefore, the duty of the Congress to
protect themselves, and to see to it
that the Constitutional provisions are
not invaded by an ambitious arid ag
gressive Executive. It has according
ly framed a bill the actual design of
which was io prevent an improper in
terference with their rights and pri
vileges. It has passed' a bill the ob
ject and intent of which is to keep
free and pure the ballot, so that
the Executive shall not unconstitu
tionally interfere with the duly qual
ified electors of tho country,and shall
not in any improper way coutrol or
influence the election of its own
members. That is all it has pro
posed that is all it has done. .
Has it not the power to do this?
Do ndttlitwo" Houses 7epreeent
"the United States" quite as muoh as
Hayes does, who holds his place
through well established fraud? The
people of "the United States" have a
right to be heard in this matter.
Through their chosen Representatives
they have declared in emphatic tones
that it is a great outrage upon their
rights and liberties for the President
to station troops at the polls to over
awe and influence their votes.: They
have declared through their Repre
sentatives that the ballot-box should
be sacred, and that it is "the right of
citizens of the United1 States to vdtew
and that this sacred "right" "should
not be denied or1 abridged" With
armed soldiers at the polls this "right
is seriously! menaced if not destroyed
is seriously "abridged" if not al
together "denied." The conservative
New 'York Journal of .Commerce
viewing protest of the people
says::; - !' ' ," " "...
"If there is no ground for their apare-
hcDsion, no harm is done by renderiBg tcb
a menace illegal, and, thus securing to all a
lull and tree exercise or the, elective fran
chise. But the pretense that because the
President is of one political party and the
majority in Congress are of another, ka is
me united states, and they, by the exercise
of . their legitimate powers, t are denying
Bomeuung to tue united (slates, is a paeat
offensive and unwarrantable assumption
that ought not to paea without severe
rebuke."
The action of the -joint caucus of
the Democratic members of Congress
is known to our readers, j They pro
pose next to te8tthe President's sin
cerity. He professed to have vetoed
the Army bill "because of its alleged
abridgement of the powers of ctu7
officers." They; say . very truly, as we
have shown above, that "in reality
this was not toe intentien, and would
not be the effect of the bill as hereto
fore passed." But in order that the
President shall not be allowed to evade
"the main issue," they now propose
to give him "an opportunity pass
upon a bill 'which shall present to him
the sole question, whether or not the
army or any portion of it should be
used to keep the peace at - the polls."
We will then Befewjnuch sincerity
and bonesty there Uin llayea'a reason
for his veto. ' i
There is one part of the " message
that shdul.b-refiBd. io.Mfi Hayes
insists that; there are already in. the
provisions of thd : Revised Statutes
enough guards to 'jiinifft
military interference. He says that
; WILMINGrT0N, N. CM gUroAY,
there is, therefore, iio r any necessity
for the sixth sectipn jbf lie Armytbill,
The Democrats, as our telegrams ;.of
yesterday informed our reader,, will
so change this sixth section as to
make it apply only to officers of the
army, and navy, and 1 hot ' to' United
Utes.otyil officers,. t This, is j ust as, it I
should ,be, , .Let a naked question of i
sen ted to the efe facto. Let hrm have
no dodge or quibblei-give'ph!m? no
Opportunity for evasion. , , ;
j But .what rightl.has the Jxcutiye
to sav that no further prevention
as neeesaary-' to restrain- the1 army
within proper limits f Is it a fact
that the provisions of the Revised
Statutes, to which he refers so con
fidently, have been found sufficient to
prevent military interference ? Is It
not a notorious fact that tho army
has interfered in! spite of the provi
sions of the Reyised Statutes ? ' If
so, then are not other, provisions and
safe-guards necessary ? , The Phila
delphia Ledger is a moderate Repub
lican paper; Its proprietor is the
special friend of Gen. Grant. That
paper thinks other precautions are
necessary, and says:
"Every precaution within the limits of
the Constitution should be provided,
against army ' interference with elections'.
apt the tact that some such are provided is
no argument why others should, not be, if
the unguarded points present openings and
temptations to unscrupulous 'partisans,
either in the army offices or the Executive
Department of the Government, in times
ol high political excitement, 'lhe logical
nierence is lust In the opposite direction
to that taken by the President, for nothing
is more repugnant to the instincts of the
American people than the intervention of
the military arm of the Government at
election times. Hence all that portion of
the message could have been left out
greatly to the advantage of the rest." ;
It thinks the President has serious
ly blundered just here in his argu
ment. - It says:
"Furthermore, it leads him into an argu
ment in favor of the policy of retaining
the clause permitting Lhe use of troops at
the polls an argument that commits him'
against the repeal oi that portion of the
law, whether it comes to him in the form
of an amem-iuent to an appropriation bill
or as an independent measure. This is a
fatal error of policy, that puts him at cross
purposes with that influential and able
aection of the Republican membership in
congress who bad already expressed their
wuiiDguf-vs to favor the repeal, if presented
in a separate act."
We will soon see whether Hayes is
for armed intervention at the polls or
Hfor a free election as he pxetemiR.. t ,::
jXUB WASHINGTON VIJTtOOK.
Up to Friday afternoon the vari
ous opinions were crystalizing into a
shape somewhat different from that
which the more extreme men favored.
The Star's midnight dispatch of the
2nd stated that it was believed that
the House caucus had rejected the
report of the . Joint Committee that
aucused secretly on that day. We
avail . ourselves ot the . Richmond
Stab's correspondent for an account
of what was done in the secret Joint
Caucus. It seems that enough has
leaked out to gratify curiosity. They
looked the danger in the face, sur
veyed the whole field, including 1880,
and then concluded that it would
not do io adjourn Congress wittout
making appropriations There is no
anger of the Army Appropriation
bill being introduced out of time
because it is in the Jiands of a dis
creet committee, and no individual
member can introduce it. -
Jt was decided by this Joint Caucus
that a new bill should be drawn by
Senator Eaton andRepresenstves
Carlisle and Chalmers (one Northern
and two Southern,) "providing for
the repeal of the law authorizing the
use of the military at the 'polls,1 but
leaving t,o the , United States civil
authorities the power - to keep the
peace at the polls,' add Vttjai it should
be introduced, in the"Htrse at once
and passed, . if possible, without
debate." It was believed that Hayes
would sign such a bill. The corres
pondent says : : -
fTbe President is ' represented to have
said to a prominent member ot the Heme:
since his veto message was published,' that
he did not believe there could exist in limes
of peace any .circumstances to warrant the
President in using troops to interfere with
eleelioas,.butbe did mailt that the hands
of the President, ought net in time ei war
to be tied by any lav, .recalling the fact
that the use of military to protect the polls
during the earlier yean of the war was all
that prevented Maryland, Kentucky and
Missouri' from leaving the Union. The
committee -will also recommend that the
Senate proceed to' pass the Legislative?
Appropriation bill, including the political
clauses, and give the President a chance to
approve or veto. ' In the event of a veto
they may then separate ' the objectionable
sections and pass tbem in a modified form;
but they think it will be time enough to
consider a compromise on that when he
shall have vetoed the Legislative bill.n
- The Democrats are soothing them-
selves with one view that really has
po little comfort in it It is thai a
Democratic Senate adHouse will
' count the electoral yotes, and ;wfeefe
states are Carried -i by military 'Inter
ference
nee their votes wiu be thrown
-.I
ut. , This u beats Jars, . Winslow's
Southing j Syrup , immensely. They
eveh say that elections will be tainted
where the! deputy marshal law is used
corrptly.t Is it a boemerang or a
backVction sword ?
Thd Baltimore Surfs special from
Washftiston of 1st , says that the
emocrats are eniovins a feeliue of
perfectWbfaotionv nit says: j
1"From the ' uiterancea f of Democratic
adera t4-dav vour corxespoadeot feels
rderfectly justirled in stating that nothing
vteiy areaut will happen wuetuer there
are more vuoos xJr hot; and that the Dem
ocrats most certainly do not consider that
they. will have placed themselves at a dis
advantage when everything - if over; On
the contrary, they . believe- that they will
.occupy the . point .of - vantage before the
cpuntry. The arm) will net , be starved,
neither will the Uaited States courts be
compelled to shut up' frwant ' of 1 funds.
The appropriations proper -and necessary
ffcr the support of the army and to defray
tie legitimate expenses of the administra
tion of Justice will be-, made, and all the
necessary expenses of the executive branch
of the government will ( be made. -But if
the President is determined to hang on te
tie machinery and appliances of the odious
election laws the agents seleoted lb carry
on the work will have U labor for love." . .
j The House will mike no more ap
propriations for election supervisors
-and d deputy marshals. The Depart
ment of Justice willhavo no funds
with which to terrorize and bulldoze
the voters of the.' country. The
special says: !
"Care will now be taken thatno sueh
d scretion can be exercsed, as every item
of appropriation for (be Department of
JpBtice will be made so.speciflc that it can
nbt be diverted to any ither purpose."
j 4 The New York Herald's Washing
ton special says thai "the Appropri
ation bills will be pissed at this ses
sion in regular orer, without the
riders, if that is nude necessary by
vetoes, and that if this is not done by
the Democrats as a body, it will be
done by Democratic and Republican,
vptes together. It follows that the
cry of "revolution" need not be heed
ed Iby anybody. 1 is an evidence
teat the Republicais would like to
carry the next election on a false
s i
issue, and that is all.
The Philadelphia Times is of the
opinion that CapL Kitchin is a mem
ber of the Pickwick Club. It. has
some fun over what occurred when
the Captain went for Russell so vigo
rously, pronouncing his speech "infa
snfoH&ly false and slaodoroag," an(j ac
casing him of "violating every mlc
of decency and propriety," and that
too after he had said "lb at he meant
to say nothing personal." It is anx
ious to see when Russell gets back
whether he too "is worthy of mem
bership in the Congressional Pick
wickian Club.w
Evarts is happy. He Bays the Pre
sident ! and Cabinet ''now Btand in
thorough accord with the party that
placed them in power." Only a few
weeks ago this same Mr. Evarts, and
ether members of the Cabinet, "dis-
4ipctly conveyed the impression to
Democrats that the President would
meet them half-way' in a compromise
as to tho election laws. It was partly
dte to that fact, mentioned in the
Democratic caucus, that many Demo
crats, yielded to their personal judg
ment and followed the lead of Thur-
man and the .Northern Demoorats in
the course that has led to the present
predicament.7 ;
, jThis we learn from the State's
pare fnl correspondent.
iLord Falmouth, whose horse beat
Xiorillard'sUncas, is a very successful
racer. He has won the New York
world says, $800,000. tie never
bet but one sixpence in his life. He
oves racing for its sake and indulges
itj1 The World says he would havo
won ten times more thau he has if
his horses had been running in the
cqlors of betting men. It adds :
?'lt is all the more gratifying to reflect
thit eves on the English turf of the present
day a nobleman may indulge his love for
rating and take. all the highest honors of
the course year - alter year witneut having
to plunge, or plan startling coups with more
utstiuaucBa sou puiicnco iuiu uoaBt,y.
: The j Khedive of Egypt is a ' very;
obstinate fellow. He is thoroughly
bankrupt, but; he steadfastly refuses
to assent to the demand of Franca
and England that foreigners should
bdappfciritexl as his Ministers of Fi-r
nance ana x-uDiic vv or&B. u
tTom Evans tells of a clever cHi-;
sees of Reidsville.who was inveigled io New
York uader a bogus commission seat from
.Washington making him a detective in
cotnterf eit monev.aad offering him f 10.000
to work the thing right for the Gavern
ment. : tie was next aavisea to go at once
to xiew fx ork and stop at a certain hotel,
also eivine the rendezvous of the sharnera
and to Watch his cerks and try and get the
droo on them. He did go. Said clever
citizen returned, sainua $560. . He was not
'clever" in the English sense. ,
i Mr. Haves wrote : the veto mes
sage returning the Army Appropriation bill
lent of his own head and without consulta
tion with Mr. Rogers, or any other member
ox the uabinet, says tner. x. irvmne.
Jj.
MAY 9.; 1879:
T7 't
Tli; in all Hobberr-Prltmnrv; j
minauon or ueorce uiTir
Tha case kt GeerliiH1,!tfii bdlored
train liandj charged with steaiiB a mail
pouch from a car on lhe W X It,
mention of which , has already been made
io the Star, was called 'before tjT.'b. Coin-'
nkissioner. E. II. McCga 'hifBce;
i Aaron .Godbolt. was tke. main witness.
lie' tfestiued that minielfanil George Davis,
lmieMi Geoige bavls, I
the accused, were
VT., C.&. A RRlbateth mait o the
night; traina go through inaehargb: of a.
inductor, and. is placediBjjbage.
ckr; that between ,fjem,iogtop and, Whil
vlle, oii 1 a 'certain night, futjl arch last, t
iter
the
accused topk a bag'of mailt and concealed
ili in an-iCe-box iu one of the'taTsi' thaV-l
after arriving ia Cblriestaa'aad the bag
gage had been di&trjbuted Day.ia, ook ou.
ike mail-bag, cut it opentook oju the mail,
apd rifled it in the presence'of the witness;
that Llavls then buried the mail matter in a
8 warn p, he (witness) going with liim !at bill
request, and then filled the bag with Tnud
and sunk it in a creek uader trestle.
about three-quarters of a mile from the
depot, on the railroad.
i The officer who had been employed in
the case testified as to the' finding of the
mail and pouch in the - places indicated,
being accompanied by Aaron God bolt as
guide, ' j
At the conclusion of the testimony the
defendant, George Davis, was ordered to
give a justified bond in the sum of (1,600
for his appearance at the approaching term
of the U. S3.' District Court, in default of
which he was committed to jail. . ji
The witness, Godbolt, was also required
to give bond in the sum of $200 for his
appearance, which was furnished.
Warrants were issued"1 yesterday for the
arrest of two colored boys, named Jim
Davis and Charles Williams, on the con
fession of the former, who is now in jail
awaiting trial on the charge of larceny,;
that he and Williams bad robbed a mail
pouch in Charleston, S. O. Williams was
lacked up with his alleged companion ia
iniquity to await a hearing before Commis
sioner McQuigg, at 10 o'clock this morn
ing, at which time some idea may be formed
as to the amount of reliance to be placed in
the "confession" alluded to.
The Ftei of Conntr Offlctri.
The General Assembly.at its last session,
passed a bill entitled "An act to regulate
the fees of certain county officers in Pitt
county," the popular Construction of which
was that it had universal application and
was so intended. The effect of the provi
sions of this law.as generally applied, would
be to cut down the fees of such county
officers as Sheriff, Clerks of Court and
Register of Deeds to a very insignificant
amount, none of whom would be able to
live on their salaries, besides reducing ifa
pay of tales jurors to fifty cents a day. The
Raleigh Observer published the act, and
gave an opinion in its editorial columns
sustaining the view of its construction as
above set forth; which 'had the effect to
still more firmly impress the people of the
State with the idea that its application
would be universal. Solicitor Moore, Of
our Criminal Court, however, took a differ
entview of the matler.his opinion being that
it could be made applicable to Pitt county
only. In other words', that the law was to be
construed tn accordance with its title, and.
therefore, advised the County Commis
sioners of New Hanover- to go on in the
old way, regardless of the law, which ; he
was clearly of the opinion had no appli
cation to our county officers.
.Upoa this construction1 of the statute the
members of the Wilmington 1 Bar differed
in opinion. Solictor Moore, however, took
the opinion of the Attorney General, and
that official concurred with the , Solicitor,
aa will be seen by the following,' a copy of
which we obtained upon application tb one
of the interested parlies at, the Court
yesterday: , v . .
"Statb of North Caiiolina,'.
"Office of Attokkey Gkjtebal,
v. - "RAiaiUfi: April '391879.
rMv Dear Sir: The wHi. referred to in
your letter ia in Chap. 293, Laws 1379, ami
I think, by its title, 19 to be taken as only
applicable to "Pitt county.' It Is entitled
An Act to Regulate the Fees of Certain-
Officers in PitttJDunrjr-
- I . . -"Yours truly, s . : hn i
1 , "Thos. S. Eetan.
? B. R Moore, Esq., Solicitor for the State."
This settles the question of the construc
tion of the statute until it is decided ia tha
Courts; and Solicitor Moore deserves a
great deal of credit for thus promptly bring
ing it to an issue. The result ia undoubted
ly very satisfactory to tne various county
officers throughout the State, among whom
it was creating quite a stir and a great deal
of indignant oomment. . -l ;t, V
criminal Ctoart. o:'""5 -f'aq
We learn that Judge Me a" res has deter
mined to call an extra session of tue Crimi
nal Court, to commence on the last Mon-
day in May, the 26th insC in order to avoid
lnterienng wiui tue regular term pr Dec?u
perior Court, which is to convene here en
the first Monday in June: : Accordingto
this arrangement the Criminal Court will
only meet one week earlier . than ii would1
Dlteontlnnanee of Rondar Train. .
The Sunday trara on the" W. & "W.' Rail'
road, which arrives here aV8:16 A. L, ha9
been discontinued,7 as" akfo the one leaving
Wilmington every Sunday at 920 P. M.
On the W.7-tf.XTf&, the Sunday
trains arriving at 9 Pi'M.'ana depaitlng at
No change in other tralna. : s U ': d
' t baa latterly become so very difficult. to
hang offenders, that we are jUniost opposed
to capital punlshmerit hot that we think it
is wrong far from it but because we
thipk that crime Is deteri not tto 'much
bv the magnitude, as by the certainty of
punishment. Let - punishment be certain
and speedy, and criminals win beware,
Lumbertm Mobeatodan.' . ! 1 Us 11
ill- v'
!
28.
;.f
Anoibcr raae'oV 'nmil1 itabbery Pre-
s i Jas. Davis and Chas. Williams, 4he two
syoung coioVea meffaimdeefid iiuour last'
.as having been', arrested the charge of
:rbbbfn tlie'naaTiIs.'ihe fdrhicr beiBg already
ia jinjieiytk
before; UkSrf aoa-aaisaioner (McQaig yes-
terdV -mrin Ml -if'rhfe1 h rosfiriAion relied
ebfnbfpsjrfpu;df; tfiin pxvie '
1CsaiaruHeiitQii,tinall for- oostsr : which.was
tO the'effcitnai bimself and Chkrles ff
)r4bjbe4,j:a- po.ucbof maii J 'at J CharlstoB,(
white! Itwas'-beiag traaBfcrred; and1 look it
te ro&bcf : vaisj 'bbtrt half mj!e from
a ueppij tiii uare tuey ssoppejj, spu irieu
unlock. ihs poucbwiLb 4 key Jn ithe pos
eissiew of onW of fhehi.but faileo?tb accom-
usumeurpurppse wnereupon ipeyippea
w open; cwlth a ,'ksifes :.i Theyioply . secured d
fifty 'dollars 4tf money- from' the-pouch.
hlcajiSafl' iiividdd'betweeu ;ihem.? I
Jfre the arrest of George Davis for mail
rebbery.-Oi , .: . j
j Williams,, who is implicated 10 the;robs
bery by. his alleged confrere, Jim Davis,
Btfoutly denies any knowledge of tue .trans
action; stales that he1 bus -not been to;
Charleston1 for many months, and that he
can. - prove' an alibi when it comes to the
push. : -j
At the conclusion of the testimony the
Commissioner announced that he would
hold the prisoners' subject to the directions
of the Judge, as it was evident that the
case could not be tried in This district from
the fact that it was committed at Charles
ton, where it must be transferred. He
tlen ordered . defendants to give bond in
the sum of $500 each for their appearance
"a court, and they were remanded to jail..
Mr. J. I. Macks appeared Tor the United
States, the prisoners haying no counsel.
It should be mentioned that this is ah
entirely different case from the one in
which .George ; Davis, the; colored ..train
hand,-is alleged to have' figured, and who
had a preliminary examination on Thurs
day, j
jThero is a slight suspicion that Jim Davis
has trumped up-this confession in rder to
take a trip lo Albany in preference to going
td Raleigh, and thence on lhe railroad, as
hfe is to be tried at lhe approaching t erm of
the Criminal Court on the charge of larceny.
It is probable, however, that the bottom
facts will be arrived at when the case comes
up for final adjudication if not before..
. f " - . .
'tne Kew TtrK San on JTadse Kaell
j Daniel L. Russ'ell, off North Caro
lina, .who was elected a Judge of the
Superior Court of that State (or six
years by the Republicans, without
ever having graduated in the legal
profcBoioU on'd wli v-rrao--'tlcotcvll to
the present Congress, by a coalition
.between the Republicans and the
Greenbackers in the WilmiBgton
district, was a Confederate soldier,
and a large slaveholder at the out
break of the rebellion. Upon quitting
the army he changed his views, con
sorted with the negroes and carpet
baggers, and thus was accepted as a
lecal Republican" leader. 1 He be
Jngs to a class who have contribu
ted largely to bring ruin and desola
tion on what was left of the South
'after the; civil war was over. ' ,
iTbis small 'demagogue is now seek
g to secure the support of the men
whom he persecuted when he had
the power, and here is the manner
'Which he tases to, commend mmseit
to ihei jlepabljoans of the North, and
;t'the' ex-Confederates of. his dis
trict,' in a" speech -delivered in the
jEtouse:of Rej)reBetative8:
1 i (I am not afraid 'to say that Ihopo
the timo. will. cme when the poor
Confederate soldier, hobbling on bis
Iciutches. will be pensioned hy this
government.' ; It any' man wants to
take that up qp this floor l am. ready
to discuss it, and4 to take the, full je
Bponsibility of what I say."
If that declaration had been made
i 1
by a Democrat, how j the changes
would have beea rang upon it by the
Patriotic party organs. But as it
crfieslfrom: a Republican, of course
it wiu ,oe passeu uyin sneuce. ,
Tlie Cape JPear and Ifodkln Valley
! ! Uallroad.
. I Greensboro Central Protestant.
I Two hundred hands I will, soon be
employed on the (Jape Jtf ear cs 1 ad
km Valley Railroad t)ne hundred at
this find, working in the direction of
4&ypt- .Barracks: will be on the JJis
tifiery lot, near th depot.-J it if ill be
determined first aV what j point to
make the crossirig of Buffalo, and the
engineer is now engaged in thecal
Onlatioa. 1 Portable, sleeping quarters
will be provided, so as to facilitate the
wprK 01 removal irom point, to point.
President Gray will be a' live factor
in! the work of" building this i impor
tant xoad. As to the location of the
Mount Airy nd of the road,, nothing
01! little ls bbsittvely known. In the
nature of things It is evident that the
road: will take the most direct way to
Mjotint AJry, pr 4efleQtto the right or
left according to the weight of sub
scriptions assured in furtherance of
the work from this side or that.
The Virginia plau, brflgs the jury5 from'
abroad to the prisoner;' The North Caro
lina plau takes 'the prisoner abroad ' to the
iipry. r(Both arexpeBsive. i But Whether it
is more so 4a ! bu mmon citizens ' ot 'other
couatiea to tte' eourt first hating juriadic
itlon of a case or ttf transfer the case to a
- other county;, with the. attendant inevitable
expenses of postponement, additional 'cost
for witnesses,' jail fees, &c.,ia a matter that
Will bear.intestigation The Virginia plan
seems the most summary, and therefore the
most satisfactory. BiBwOT-o Recorder. '
f-'Lord Beaponsfield never owned
'a watch er an umbrella;
I SpirAte urutm)
' TheGoldsboro Mail, says that
it haa j.liPOi weekly , subscribers; jQ lad to ,
hear it. ' ,;. . . j .. .
I Tak ial9Trjtil,thjerg fet
ter weekly paper in the State thau iue
Salisbury. W&tthmanf: ..' Mi
; i . Tho Stat?. pnnlH - havn i pu!Ia1
ira subscripiibft ''within the lit iwi viU if -
f Jerry Claton, a clored tuf n,
was drowned at a dun genius d1ht u .
Neude river, fifteen miles 1mm Nt-w4i.in.
dalled Fitch Kettle. !
iloinU: Y)1. Tl. Kit. I
shilDl' iilitir liarwell against H. A FcMtr.
eklitor of the. .Vltarreiiton, Gasefte, U lS tl-t !l
riol. crossed at Fran tfln 'Court. '" I
'p1 Wilson 1 iic?wanc:"' We 'learn
that the trial, of the tiwepson chc, at ibia .
iern.1; 01 f ranKlin superior. Uourl, whs ,
rjostpened irulfr 'Friday,' in consequence f-f 1
leading, counsel for the prosecution. 1
i : oansoury nawnmani Amission
meeting has been" eice on in 8L' Xinkes
Episcopal cUurcb for about tub days, con
(lucted ,by the Rector, assisted by Rev.
jr. dyuot,"iwv,. air.-uurirt ana liev. l)t.
utUjnt. The attendance has.beea good.i
I Winston Sentinel' Th Mfmti...
spun uimette Ulub, of Boston, will lake
tiari rn toe seventy-nfth anniversary of tho
Salem Female Academy on the ICth iust. .
-r ;iae uanoury Aleruorial AssuciaUun '
wiHJooBerve tne iota tit aihv. nod . a ..
Glenn, Jq .-Jjas been, invited to deliver -the
oration. r- ':'.' ' '
XT I ... .Tl
een. a colored, roan, who had--b;en em-
ployed as brakemao on the A. & If. U. 11.
R-, died at his house in this city, Friday, :
ahd if the information, obtained by us be
true the cause or his death will bear look-
lSg into. It u thought he was poisoned by
mean whiskey. .
I IT C1UUU XTCM0. Xfcb. XVCV. JJID11-
op Atkinson preached in Halifax last Fri
day and Saturday, four persona were bap- .
tfeed and the rite of confirmation admin
istered to four. '-Cspt. W. H. Kitchin
was born ip Lauderdale county, Alabama,
TA I rtt. .J oorv IT : . . J
ncucmuei uu, ioo. xais parea.a rcmuveu
1$ that county from thi3 State and moved
back to North.CaTolina in 1841. -Jus-ttee
Wm. Breham, living in the neighbor
hood of Areola, this county; lost bis bouse
UL.-A..... r .1 - j . s
uy lire, a lew uuyg a2u auu uu ouspicioil
arested Frank Skenna.
i Raleigh News: The people of
Qhapel .Hill are very much interested! in
tic speedy commencement of the work,
l'he business men prefer to have the road
tap the Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line Rail
road at Apex or Carey. The charter grants
the privilege of making a connection; at
any point from Lockvitle to Hillsboro. j If
the road is laid to Durham it is thought an
extension will be made from that point
nbrtheast to Henderson, and later on a still
farther extension from Chapel IIill south
west to the Coalfield. It requires a sub
scription of $10,000 capital to start this
read and a majority of the subscription
can decide Upon' the location of the con
necting point. A meeting will be held at
Chapel Hill on the 17th of May to organ-,
iae and begin operations. . j
Winston Leader: Th-e Win
ston Light Infantry have received - their
new flag. It is a beauty. It is made! of
pbrple and red silk, with heavy gold fringe.
Qn one side is the seal of North Carolina, .
abdon the ether an eagle holding in his
talons the olive. branch and arrows. The
boys have cause to be proud of it. '
Mr. D. A. Bripkley, of Lewisville Town
ship, has left in our office a specimen of that
ujineral that was recently found in digging
a well in that townthip. . The' rock jin
which the mineral is imbeded is of a hard
flinty substance, and appears to be suscep
tible of a high polish. If valuable for
nothing else it will make beautiful base for
monuments, staluwYY. &c. Mr.' B. says'
sfrae of tbeore was trici in a crucible, and
ajsubslance something like silver was pro
duced. We tender our cotjjatulations
t Mayor -A. B. Gorrell upon hw recent
promotion, which was to Lieutenant
Colonel of the 2d battalion N. C. State
Guards. The other day we umntens
tonally discovered a young man with his
arm around a very sweet young lady, and
IHU UCAb UUXC7 CQH 11 1 111 IUCUI1UUCU
hfm tha,t he must have been embracing
gblden opportunity. '"No,' he said, 'I
aa making glad the waist places." . - -"
. Charlotte-Observer: Mr. J.AV.
cLure, of this county, a eection master
j the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta
Railroad, i has invented what be calls a
lborsaving trackabar, to be used for the
purpose of bringing the track to a solid
iqvel. We learn, through a busi
ness letter from Hickory, that there is a
s&onger probability, just at. present, of the
bpilding of the braccn railroad from Lin
cilnton to Hiekoryv connecting the Caro
lina uentr&l and western isortu Carolina
Uroad8 than there has ever been before.
As it is certain that the- Western .
brth Carolina and Spartanburg & Ashe-
ville i&allroads will compete quite Strongly
for the summer travel to the mountains of
rth Carolina, it may be expected that
fares.will be low, to mountain touristsJflt
is stated . that the season will be introduced
th tickets at $10 from Charlotte to Ashe-
vBle and return, including stage fares. -
e x orkville Enquirer notes the fact that
the Supreme Court of South Carolina has
just rendered a decision in the well known
case of Steele vs. the Charlotte, Columbia
Augusta Kaiiroaa, wnicu was an action
bv the claintill aeainst the defendant for
$15,000 damages for injarie's" austained by
blra by the. falling in of the railroad bridge "
and cars at. the south fork of Fishing Creek,
inj York county, in November, 1877.
- Raleigh Farmer & Mechanic:'
e fine old mansion at the Cherokee Iron
tyarka, occupied by Capts Fred; - Latham,
was burned on the 11th inst. ' Loss $d,009.
-4, The Catholics of Hillsboro have been
donated fifteen acres of land, as a site for a
church, school and cemetery. Strenuous
efforts will be made to build the church
tws summer. The Chatham- Gold
Mining Company after twelve months' ex
perience with simple appliances : ia testing
thjeir mines, have just completed a $10,000
teb-stamp battery, with all the modern ims
I pfovements. " The firm of - Herman
iJnr dcuov, or iew xorx, nave bought
the Buck Creek Coruadum Mine, ia Clay
r4ii nto fur (! Hf0 a nl irn nronurlnn I..
fullv develeo it..-- - It iseaid that Ckl.
JdhnIX Caaoeron will remove the Hilieboro -
pdrt denied. -Rumor also whispers of a
new paper at Durham. ; N. T. WH-
li.rns nf fnnan ennntr a1it in .rtnrliam
On the. 22ad of April, five grades of
tobacco . that (averaged $65. 18 per cwt.
Dr. A. R LedOux and bis assistant
uoeautiu,' oxetwa. TvaraecKe anu rniniDB,
i ti . : . ' -m nr.. m 1-t . 1 1
ri nnw t
work upon the fertilizers, and we under- ;
atltheyery latest Gen. W' R. Cox
bap kindly promised us nn article for next
wek, giving incidents of LeeV aurresder
and the "Last charge at Appomattox. f
Tfo car-loads, o i.walnutf iamber, 'from
western North Carolina, went northwest
nana lbbx liipv nnnn in nntcn n .i una 1 at
iq 'fv.Bf w vd ;vju tci itru ibid iuiuiiuic
ana hrought, back to rn -r($lr, Joseph
Liinsford, of Person, sold at Durham the
.'tobacco grown on a single acre, and 200 '
pouads additional, $477. Rather better
thin ' rt?i-n that f ' Mi"T TSIalnnb- !,.f 3
Orange, sold the product of -1.100 hiila
(lets than quarter acre) for $140 . There .
are about 1,100 convictj9ejo.ngjngto the
State Penitentiary "about-7 twothirds lor
whom are judiciously employed : en the '
several lines of. railroads now in proceea o(
construction. . j