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In ormcr discussions we showed that the framers regarded our government as " Federal" in contradistinction to " National" that the latter word was expressly stricken out by a majority of the States in the Convention that formed the Constitution, and that the leading men of the Convention used the word "compact" in denning the kind of government that was set up. The Attorney General is candid enough to say: "Those who insist that the general go vernment is purely federal, and uut national in'ils character, me logically compelled to deny the right to remove any causes from a State to a Federal Court, and to declare the net of 1879, scctiou 20, unconstitutional, because if any right of removal exists it mu9t extend alike to civil and criminal causes, aud the extent to which, as well as ihe tune and manner in which, it shall be Xf rcbed, whenever federal laws or their x.-ouiioo is concerned, ia a question of ex pediency, and not of power." He plainly asserts that ' "if any right of removal exists" that it "must extend alike to civiP as well as to "criminal causes," and that the ques tion of "power" isnot involved at all, but of "expediency" only. i It will be seen from this, we take it, how little use there would be of State courts even in "civil causes" if the Stalwart theory of the Govern ment is to be adopted. The Supreme Court, as now composed, is evidently leaning to that construction of the Constitution so much deplored by Justice Field, and by all men through out the country who cling tenaciously and warmly to the interpretation of the Constitution as made by the wise men who framed it. SHERMAN Off THK SOUTH. Since the Ohio election and the Republican triumph John Sherman is not only in "high glee," but he is mouthing a great deal about the bad conduct of the South. According to this fellow, who was the chief manipu lator iu the Louisiana frauds of 1876, the South is pestilential and needs punishment. He says the Democratic party has no principles whatever. But this does not tally with those organs that abuse the Democrats soundly for maintaining the time- honored doctrine concerning the rights of the States. But it is the South John has taken in hand for special malediction. He declares it is utterly, unredeemably bad,' and is very intolerant. He says our people are "bullies" and will not do right any how. This is bad. Poor ; John, a nice fellow" to be abusing the aoutii alter rooming it. Liet us copy a little bit of his talk: "By its azgreBSiveness towards the North i: Iihs alienated the conservative element of the North, and will doubtless tramp it out altogether.- It has given such encourage ment and strength to the Stalwart element of the llepublican party that it will con tinue in power. The South will go On, no doubt, until it ia flat oo its back." 1 Now, how John would change his tune if the South would only accept the dogmas of the Radical party, agree to the eternal dominancy . of the set who have- ruled and ruined the country 'for fifteen years, and worship the golden calf set up in the Stalwart temple. Let the South vote the Republican ticket, and then the "badness" and the "bullyng, must J. M JHj VOL. XI. disappear quickly in Sherman's esti mation. ' . j j! John Sherman is an ill grained fel low. He is able but vicious. He would be a President of a faction if by any curse he could be chosen to the chair of the Chief Executive. He would, be meaner,' more spiteful, more unprincipled, more nectional, more partisan than .Grant ever was. A man who can abue a great section simply because it will not accept his financial and political theories and principles, is unfit to be the president of a debating society in one of the rural districts of Ohio. WHO IS THK M AN t The great, absorbing question for the country at large is, who shall be President after; Hayes? The great, important question for ,he . Demo cratic party of the j'TTniteU States" is, who shall be the nominee of that party? On the selection may depend the question of success. As we sad immediately after the news had been received from Ohio, so we repeat, no Western man can be nominated, for no Western man can carry those Eastern States that are absolutely essential to insure success. We take it that neitheri Thurman nor Hen dricks, nor any; Western man, has now any showing for the nomination. With very few exceptions that is the univocal voice: of the Democratic press. j : Who then shall be the choice of the party. In an importaut question like this the Stab can not be eov- erned by mere j personal preferences or prejudices. It wants the strongest man, who ever he is, for it will take the strongest mau to carry the eleo- tion. With the linhts now before tts we incline to the opinion that either Church, Hancock or Bayard will be the most available! If New York goes Democratic, as it would cer tainly go but for Kelly's defection, that State would be 'safe for either Church, Tildenj Bayard or Hancock. If it goes Republican 'now it need not be lost to the Democrats in 1880 if they are united and determined. Either of the persons named ought to be able to carrv it in 1880. for "Si" they are equally sound on the finan cial question, according to the pre vailing idea of soundness in the North. Nay, if it be accepted as true that the 'soft money heresy"' lost Ohio in the late election, they would be accept able to the Northwest as well as to the East. ! M Supposing then that either Churcb, Tilden, Bayard; or Hancock would be acceptable on the financial question to the entire - Northern Democracy, what then ? Let it be borne in mind that whoever shall be the Republican nominee whether Grant, or Sher man, or Blaine,! or Conkling he will be a hard-money candidate. The Democrats of Ohio or Indiana must choose between one of these and a Democrat who is true and tried; but who occupies the same position with the Republican candidate on the financial issue. We cannot suppose and j sincere Western that any loyal Democrat can hesitate for a moment in selecting between a Democrs t and a Republican candidate," both repre-' senting hard money -"honest money" as the phrase is. We repeat, what then? ' i We turn next to the South. Who is the man? Who can carry the 137 Southern votes in the electoral eol- lege? It does ern Democrat ook as if every South should be willing to bury all prefeiences and votB for the man who shall receive' the nomina tion in the National Democratic Con vention. But will this be the case? Say what you will, , one man is stronger with hia party than : another man. In the PreSMSBtTal contests of the past this .was.papparent.. Some candidates oannot brine out the strength of a j party' ' Abstractedly considered, it would, 'seem that one man would be as good as another man after he is nominated. But we all know that this is hot the case. It does look as; ' if every Democrat should vote for his; nominee, but this is not true when, reduced to practice. There are tens of thousands of voterB who are hot . partisans in the strict sense. They have 'party preferences; but they will jvote or not aooording to ciroumatanoes. !i We kibw too, that there are thousands who always J. . .Ji JAU.. " prefer to vote jon what they .poneider the winning Bide. iSo these ahd other points must bjsjpnjBfilAmaiaog a choice of candidates in 'determining I who shall be nominated. v V IHa Pf WILMINGTON, N. C, ijfllDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1879. Who is the strongest man! io the South among those spoken of as the probable candidate ? Is it Tilden, or Bayard, or Hancock ? Latterly sev eral very influential Southern papers have declared for Bayard, 'the dele gates to the Convention will, have a very delicate and difficult problem to solve. If they are wise they will in deavor to select the strongest man the man who can carry the entire j Southern vote, and with it New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, fijve in all This would make the Re and Indiana. If either of thv three publioansy,and 39 a majority with-, named above is the man let him be out David pavis, who is, by the way, seleoted. If it should be Justice Field, of California, or Judge David Davis, then let him lie the choice. The game is to win. a '-, j Louisiana, South Carolina and Flo rida are the only three Southern States about which there cad be any. reasonable doubt. Some Republicans are talking of North Carolina going Republican. This cannot be unless the Democrats consent to such ' a re sult. They have a registered majori ty of some forty thousand, and they can carry the State for any nominee if they pull together heartily and de terminedly. . ! What about South Carolina? The Charleston News and Courier is strong for Bayard because it thinks I he is the man who can bei elected, I and because he is an elevated, pure j and able statesman. It pays Mr. I Bayard a very handsome land de served eulosrv in its last issue. It speaks, too, in high terms jof Gen. . Hancock, but it does not regard him. as available as Bayard. We give no opinion or the correctness; of this judgment because we do not feel as sured in our minds. Either would be acceptable, we have no doubt, to the entire Southern Democracy because 1 v -m m i . I whose records are without any stain, and who have shown that they were devoted to the highest interests of the country. - j The News and Courier takes strong ground against Mr. Tilden. i It does not believe he can carry all of the Southern States. It does not believe he can carry South Carolina. The well known ability and influence of that paper entitle it to a bearing. What it says should be considered by those who have power in determining the choice of a candidate. . We copy. what it says on the proposed candi dacy of Mr. Tilden: "Mr. Tilden cannot be elected because he cannot secure the vote of the Solid South. The argument is that! the local necessities of the Southern people will im- eel them to vote for the Democratic candi date, whoever he may be. Thisj is plausi ble where local needs come into play and the vote for Presidential electors is com bined with the vote for State and county officers. It is futile in South i Carolina, where a citizen must cast two votes in different places, if he would give his suDDort to Mr. Tilden. Under the Act of March 23. 1878. there must, at Congressional and Presidential elections, be two ballot boxes rot each pre cinct, which boxes must be kept "separate and aDart and not in the same apartment." In .one box are deposited the ballots for i Congressmen and Presidential iiaectorg, ana in me otner oox me oanois iorowie, vircun and County officers. Now there is as much public spirit and as much loyalty to the Na tional Democracy in south uaroiina as in any other State, but MrTilden is regarded as a chronic sneak ana constitutmonai cow ard, and neither the mandates of conventions nor the anDeals of the press will mauce the people to put themselves to any trouble to vote for his Electors. To nominate Mr, Tilden is to throw away the electoral vote1 of South Carolina, and to lose two or three Consressmen. Can .the National Dem ocratic party afford it ? Nor is the evil con fined to South uarolina. -mere win oe trouble with both Florida and -Louisiana, if the candidate be Mr. Tilden. i To speak plainly, while the South, wielding enormous power, is not disposed to dictate wno snau be nominated, it has already said mat me nominee shall not be Mr. lilden." We cannot say how truly this re presents the feeling of South Caro lina. If what is said is true if it is a just reflection of public sentiment in South Carolirrantoeu 4t will be the part of wisdom for the Democrats to look well before: they make -. up an irreversible judgment before they say who shall be the nomfnee of the party. The Senate at present stands 4i: Democrats. 34 Republicans; 1 Inde- pendent. The term . of , twenty-five - ' T . t . Senators will close on March 4, 1881. Of the vacancies that will occur it is believed the Republicans will be certain to elect twelire Senators from the following States: California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigabin- nesota, Nebraska, Nevada," Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Ver- mont and Wisconsin, which would make the Republican strength in the next Senaie 35, or one more than it now is in the Forty-sixth CongressV The Democrats will elect nine Sena - tors from the following States: Dela ware, Florida, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas , Virginia mm and West Virginia, which would make their number 36. This calcu lation leaves out, as doubtful, Con necticut. Indiana. (New Jersev and New York. - , It Will be seen hbw important the Bhcoesa of the Democrats in these States is. A revofutioo.' aud four mora Republican Senators would take their soils! : This would 21 ve theRe- publican a gain ok four; One will ;be gainel as abov shown, making ait ' to vote y with th -Democrats. With Davis aod with a Democrat in place of Kenogg"e'Demdcrat8 will we a ma on "even though they should lose the ur States classed as loubtful. .... .. A CA8B M JPINT. Southern meaWojEthatthVNorth- en people have no accurate knowl edge of the negro character. They. know also that tie Northern people tpink they know all about the negro, and could do great things for him time and opportunity offering. Northern men are never satisfied un til they make the experiment, and then they discover how ignorant they hafe. A correspondent in Kentucky of the Richmond Religious Herald dives a case ia point. It shows the difference between theory and prao tioe. A Baptist iniiuster of middle age kme to Kentucky to take charge of a church. He-of course had his notions asiothe best Way to manage "the colored man and brother." We quote: Vile-thought tie wnites Kept tnem too uck.at a distance, and did :not try to in- siife' the freedoen with self-respect and lf-confidence. Were he at the South, be would show tlum that respect and confi dence which wjuld arouse., their, ambkion 1$ be worthy ol respect, and only regretted ilal ii ia urciurni at tin; .cwm uiu uwi uu W 4l.A UnlK AiA tint mf This was Ihe way ; he viewed the matter before he came. Arriving, hired t negro man to do some Work, and it"onoe"began to carry his theory intc practice, and with a re sult altogether unlooked for on his part. He talked with him freely and was famiKar and confidential. We ouoto agtin : ; : i "Just rwo days beiore me wors was ended the freedman came in the morning with a sad countenance and the piteous tale that his wife had been confined, and was so very sick they had to send for a doctor, wno aemanaea six aoiiara casa ior nis at tention. Now, if the good white brother could find it in his heart to help a poor ffeedman in distrtss, by lending him six dollars, bis confidence and kindness would be held in lasting remembrance, and he vould pay him batk with the first money he might make hemafter." The money ws forthcoming. The next day the colored brother came with another arpeal. His child was dead, and he tad no money with fhicb to buy a coffin. The white brother "forkei over" two dollars lore. We quote again : I "The freedman eame back and worked la two. days, which left him in debt six briars'lo the brother. As be was about' to ltave. -he looked at a nice mowing blade in the yard, and said, I know where 1 can et a lob of mowlne of six or seven days. f you will lend me this blade, I can go and rfewm it in a week and pay you the money I owe you. , '(Jertainly,' said the connding rother: 'take it along,' with a conscious ffeeling that he Vas doing good missionary work among the ireedmen." Weeks passed and nothing was fieHtx oir heard of the "colored bro tper." The missionary went in search df him. He did not find him, but he fbund he had beerrvictimked through M ...... - 'out there had been no birth, ho death, no sickness The. six dollars and, the mowing .blade were gone, clean cone, and forever. We quote I again from the communication: "The truth flashed Upon the confiding Other's mind that b!a confidence had been iapdaced, and that hirfavorite theory had oved a failure, the nrst time be put it in practice. He now thinks it quite possible tpc brethren of the North do not knew bet ter how to get along with the freedmen than do those of the South; and that i-.'- 'For ways that are dark, a J And tricks that are vain, the. heathen Chinee' is .not the only man mat is peculiar, . . . j ... "He has not been able to get sight of the fjreedman'iirice." ' s ' One day of good honest ex perience i i Worth a century of ,; theory di essed qp in the colore of the rainbow. Here isan ipfficial announcement.; I The" St: Louis Colored Refugee 'Re- j lief Society has made a report. It fs oat of funds, and ia heavily in debt, It jsays: "About twenty per oent. of the refugees are still destitute, and in some1 Cases siok superahuated and J even blind, requiring constant help." I This is a good,' showing for a oold I winter.0 BuVitJw such ,a good thing I to die "in the land of promife." Who r would riot rathfrfevzi,to-T3eath in 1 Indiana or Arkansas than to have hog and ny in ,lhe! e South ? "And still the villain pursues" the IT.) poor, credulous darkey. The Favetteville Gazette. Greensr boro JPatriofand Mt. Airy Visitor keep 8tirring the matter pf the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad If that important project :is not a suV 8S it 'will not be the falult of these papers, that have rendered sucn con stant and efficient service. the Greensboro Beacon, just started, is also helping on the good work. The people at the "other, end Of the work appear to be wide-awake and earnest in behalf of this road. What does Wilmington propose to do? The Visitor has asked several times this question, and we have not been able to answer, Wilmington is certainly interested in the completion of this highway of travel and transportation, and our. people should manifest it by ikorlcs. Will they do nothing? What the Gazette, says of Fayetteville ap; plies equally to our own little city. we quote:: :.- J-J "What are we doina-Oiere: at our end of 1 me line, we wno nave almost iuree w one of Greensboro's population? I 'Tis true, we are buying our thousands of bales or cotton, and selling our hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods. But what are we doing for the material and substantial ad vancement of the community? : i . t "What town or community has such resources in manufacturing resources Which a hearty and concerted effort would utilize and make available to the prosperity of every class ? ; i "As to the anal completion or the uape Pear & Yadkin Valley Railway, we look upon that as almost an assured fact. The State is pledged to its appropriation, and the individual subscription will be almost sufficient to carry the work on. The great West of North Carolina must respond to the interests of of this chief State work of Internal Improvements, and see to it that we join hands with Mount Airy and the Blue Ridge by the Walnut Cove route." Ben Hill has gone home. He went twice to New York to try to recon cile matters, but failed. He appears disgusted no little at the selfishness of John Kelly He is reported as saying of the bolters that the destruc tion of the Democratic j party is a matter of perfect indifference to them, so long as they can control a good share of the municipal govern ment of New York city,; and fatten off the public crib. They were a spe cies of political bandits and outlaws." The official vote of Ohio has been ascertained. Foster's exact majority over Ewing is 17,129. The total vote for Governor was 698,667, thus di vided: Foster, Rep., 336,61; Ewing, Dem., 319,132; Stewart, i Prohib., 4,i- 145; Pratt, Nat., 9,129. j Old Capt. Rinders, the leading Tammany manipulator of thirty years ago, is out for Robinson. Hooray! Oll n tUe Troubled Waters." We find the following in the scientific column of the New York Ledger, being condensed from an article .in Qhaniberf Journal, to which it was contributed by Alex. Sprunt, Esq., British Vice Consul at this port. Mr. Sprunt'a reason for sending the paper to Mr Chambers ? was the fact that he had already broached the subject in his columns: i ' "The British Vice Consul at Wilmington, N. C, has sent to Mr. William Chambers, of Edinburgh, the deposition of a ' sea cap tain, tending to confirm thej view that oil may be . advantageously employed. to calm a stormy sea. and thus avert shipwrek. , In April last the brigantine Oen, brSackville, New Brunswick, Richardson, master, en countered a heavy gale about one degree ekst of Bermuda, ft blew a hurricane from the northwest about thirty-six .hourj, with a cross sea: so that the hatch was stove in the 1 Uy-s boats received much . injury, and me sail was. blown away.- As the sea rose higher the captain resolved to resort to the oil experiment.: B!e had a canvass bag pr spared holding a small qu&B tity of . kero sene oil, and trailed it in the tea to wind ward, with a rope six faworas long.. 'The oil Jeaking through .the canvass,' says the deposition, 'greatly broke the topping sea, and made matter's much, more favorable fbr'.the ship, The 'ntewo. had hlmaelf liahed to the rigging during the whole of is watch, believed, with the captain, that e resort to the oil saved the ship. . The ost extraordinary part of this story Is that only about three quarts of '(iil are said to h'ave' beetf usel,; 'lihcl Ihalf this quantity dould have produced, any appreciable ef feet 4s marvelloua Indeed. I According to Mr. Chambers, bowever, KM waves are not lessened in size by-the action of the oil, but are prevented from-oreaKlng." leaib. of col. Dearias;. i The Milledgeville (Oa.) Union and Be eorder contains the announcement 9f the death", at Sah Bernardino, California, on thelstinst., of Coi. St. Clair Dearlng, a gentlenlan formerly well known ia this city where be was engaged in; the insurance business. He had been ju $an Bernardino about six months, where hhad been, seni by the Government in cohnection' with the Indian1 Agericy. Gol. nasagradu-( ate of WestTomtj nJofflcef in the .TTnited States Army, attached: to the Artillery ser vice, but WfieiT-mi' war between 'the North aha South broke out be. resigned tils' com-; n At . mission, came ppuiaf ajaa jjoineo,; me uon federate sertiee iB which; he was made Colonel, and in ' which he received the Wound that ultinlately caused his : death, He was highly respected by-all who knew him. T j Rumored Railroad Change.. . The Charlotte Observer gives publicity to the following: ''There is an apparently well-founded rumorafoot to the effect that T. D. Kline, E9q., Superintendent of the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad, will very soon resign to accept the same position on the Wilmington, Columbia ess Augusta road. CoL J. P. Divine, Superin tendent of the Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta and of the Wilmington & Weldon, finds his duties too onerous, and desiring to be rid of the management of the former; h order that he may give his entire time to me latter, has resigned the Superintendency of the first named, and this creates the vacancy which it is proposed to fill with Mr. Kline, who, by-the-by, bears the repu tation of a highly capable railroad man. Several names are mentioned in connection with the succession, among these, those of Mr. Thos. Anderson. Capt. W.- -H. Green and Mr. Thos. J. fumner." We. have reliable information to the effect that the above is a draft upon the imagina tion of some one, and that our- usually ae rate contemporary has for once been im sedapbni vTheVrumor?fiia, .entirely, un r- .y- fit Arrest of an Ecaped"ConTlct.' An escaped convict-from the State peal- fentianr hv the nnmfl of Jeremiah Johnson. r J J " I vr as arrestea at Myrtle ureve pouna, on t.: j 'a i -l,! . :,.. .-J .u . i "L . Tt f! IU tu i;uuUly ju vuC BUi0 CvCii.uB. oouu- son is a white man, and was convicted and I sentenced at the August term of the Crimi- I nal Court in 1878 on the charge of stealing some pieces of timber from Mr. L. H 2owden, of this city, his term of imprison ent being fixed at four years. He says he effected his escape about two months ago, and that sixteen other convicts got away at the same time he did, including Joe Chance, a well known colored man of this city, who was convicted of Btealing chickens.and sentenced to two years' impri sonment at the same term with Johnson. H says he was crippled in one arm so that he cpuld not perform much work, so he was let off, with light duties, such as going to tjie spring after water. He alleges that his attention was called to the opportunity which this afforded him to make bis escape, and he finally availed himself of it. He appears to be perfectly indifferent in regard to his re-arrest, saying that be only wanted to see his people, who reside on Myrtle Grove Sound. ( Johnson, in charge of an officer, will take his departure for Raleigh on Monday, and it is presumed that he will not have such a good opportunity for making his escape any more. The "Boom.' September 25th, one month ago yester day, spirits turpentine was quoted in this market at 25i cents, rosin at 9695 cents for strained and good strained, tar at 97 cents, crude turpentine at $1 10 for hard and $ 1 70 for soft, and cotton on a basis of 9f cents for middling. Yesterday the quo tations were: Spirits turpentine 38 cents, rosin $1 40 for strained and good strained, tar $1 25, crude turpentine $1 50 for hard and $2 50 for soft, and cotton 10$ cents for middling. ' During the past week spirits terpentine has advanced at the rate of more than one cent a day. Alleged Aasanlt on the HIgu Seas. 1 Mr. J. J. Adkins, one of the Cape Fear Bar pilots, in a communication to us, states that Captain Strong, of the schooner O. B. JfoFarland, which 'cleared from this port for Bath, Me., on the 19th instant, made an unprovoked assault upon him on Wednes day last, after the vessel had cleared the bar. Mr. Adkins says the captain refused to pay his pilot charges, abused him and called htm a liar repeatedly, and, while he was seated at a table in the cabin, attempt ing, to write a receipt, -struck him. He ose and grappled with bis assailant, and dnrine the stfuffele was struck two severe ii-rLL . j u- v, the second mate. Being on the "high seas," alone and unassisted, be very properly concluded IhatVdiscreUon was the better part of valer," Under the circumstances, and so left toe yeBsei. THE WBIiDOJt FAIR. The Sndfoik Gray Capture ihe Prize r : Flag. j (.Special Dispatch to Raleigh News. I Weldon. October 22. There was si lro-fl nvnwd in attendance to-dav: .l . : j ' Sn -:-:ui .i u . ii I.I1H HI III I W MM Ml, 111 VIMI III'. LIIUUII L Was clear Overhead. The exhibition is really Jvery good. i! The military made a most credit able display. The prfee flag was won by the uffolis drays. : i The main attraction this afternoon seemed to be the races. : :l. " The Weldon Falrt . j ISpecial to Richmond Dispatch. ij Wjeedon, Oipt. 21. The morning dawned dtk and rainy, but the skies cleared laberr: in the day; ; If otwith- standinef 4e:tbreatemng weather x cursidn trains brought great crowds. The,: Wilmington as W14on tram was so badly crowded that it had to run by some stations and make a sec - J . . .... ond trip. ! i Thej traob was heavy to-daVj bob the racing was spirited. . . ; . : . f - ,Y The Sallabarr Reunion. ; Special Dispatch to Raleigh Observer. j ' j SaijsbtjBiT, October 23. -rr-The re nnion was an immense success. Six thousand people were present. Gov. Jarvis, Senator Vance, Judge Fowle, GenBarringer. Gen. Scales, Major nauocK, j. a. jx., or mionigan, vapw Murrillj of Mississippi 'Hon; W. M. Bobbins and Hon. J.M. Leach made iexbelleiil and'patriotio Speeches? '''Gen? Robert Ransom was a splehded Chief Marshal. ' :: '' Spirits Turpentine. The Farmer & Mechanic says Dr. Qriasom talks to some of bis friends as if no amount of money would induce him to canvass the Slate as a political cniiiii date. His tastes and ambition tun his profession. Raleigh Observer: The lot at the corner of Wilmineton aod Hbrucit streets, 29x16 feet, no building of any kind on u, waa sold by H. Smith to J. N. Bunt ing, Bnsbee & Busbee, the attorneys, to be particular, for $3,300. At this rue hh acre would sell for $313,500. Greensboro Patriot : The at tendance at Orange Presbyjtery, in Air.- -mance, has been very large. The add rets of Rev. C. H. Wiley last'Saturduy was very interesting, giving a history of Alamauce from ita earliest period. We understand the address will be published in pamphlet rorm. Elizabeth City Economist: The cotton and pea crops are turning out better than was expected at one time. Mau rice Baum, a respected citizen of Davie county, had a fit while at his landing, fell overboard and drowned. Aged . about 50 years. . There are' some cases of diph theria in town. Federal Court in ses sion this week, Judge Brooks presiding. Wilson Advance: A telegram was received in this place this week, an nouncing the sudden death of Mrs. Cornie Brewer, at her home, in Enfield. Mrs. Brewer .was standing in the garden, and wunout any premonition whatever the dread messenger came, and she fell dead in her tracks. The increase of f reieht consigned to Wilmington speaks well for tae- business prosperity of our little city. I Raleigh Visitor: Last niaht concluded the sales of the different articles .donated to the Agricultural Society. k Koltt returned, from the Weldon Fair last night ' Heaxsibe Fair was a suecess Kin every respect in f act,ahe best thev have ever. held. Mr.; W. J. Hicka took -twenty-eight prisoners from (he penitentiary 7 e"B BUB lo "ora w commence TOorlr on thf? Hcnrinrsnn ,Xr. f Ixfnrrl lfall i toad. IT. Tarboro Southerners On Fri y o week th() 8her5ff Qf Edgecombet Battle Brvan. and his iailer. James fom- Well, colored, were tried and convicted, ufader section 37, chapter 32, Battle's Re visal, for the escape of Asbury Thornel colored, awaiting sentence for arson of Sharp & Weatherbee's gin house. We again ask why isn't somebody indicted ;f or carrying concealed weapons ? Mr. ijayior planted a piece of ground, ordinary piney-woods land, seventy-five yards long by twenty-five wide, a little over one-third of an acre, in sorghum this year, which yielded him sixty gallons. The rows were four feet apatt.- Only ten days have been required in preparing the land, cultivating tae crop and savme the syrup. Mr. Tay lor very readily sells his syrup for fifty cnt8 per gallon. Sixty gallons of syrup at fifty cents per gallon brings thirty dollars. At this rate an acre would yield nearly a hundred dollars. ; Goldsboro Mail: Died, in Golds- bpro, N. C, on Wednesday nieht. Oct. 14. at the residence of R. E. Jones, his son-in- law, Thomas G. Richardson, Esq., of Saint Sartins, West Indies. The' Board of irectors of the Colored Insane Asylum met here on Monday night. They appear to be zealous in looking after the business entrusted to their suspicion. They have shown good sense in getting the counsel of Col. Fremont in the planning and prosecu tion of the work. We are advertised that Captain T. W. Battle, of Edgecombe, had his gin house, gins, engines, &c, with about one hundred and fifty bales of cot ton, burned on Saturday night last. Extent of total loss not reported. A smaU child of Mr. and; Mrs. Wm. M. Sullivan. drank a draught of dissolved concentrated lye, on Saturday night last, and, after two days of intense suffering, died on Monday night of this week. Fayetteville Gazette: .Col. Wm. JohnstOD, of Charlotte, has been invited to deliver the annual address at our Fair, and hfes accepted the invitation. The chufa crop in this eounty. Sampson and Bladen, so far as we have heard, is very fine this season, the general opinion seems to be that it is the crop for piney woods . wire grass land. The oldest Baptist Church now in existence in North Carolina is the church at Shiloh, in Camden cpunty, which was organized in 1727, with illder tf&m Maimer as pastor. The church now numbers several hundred communi cants, and has sent off many colonies to start olner cnurcnes in northeastern .North Carolina and southeastern Virginia. Collier Cobb, a student at Wake Forest College, from Fayetteville, has been award ed by the North Carolina State Agricultuial society a gold medal, a silver medal, and $3 00 in cash, for preparing the best school map of North Carolina fur nished by any teacher or pupil in the State. We regret very much to learn that Mr. W. H. Tomlinson. Sr.. met with a painful accident on Monday afternoon.' He was adjusting the needle cotton gin of Mr. David Jones, when his hand was caught in the machinery and fearfully ' mangled and torn. The physicians state, however, we are glad to say, that he will not lose the I member, and at Tast'accounts he was doing I welL Ai friend who has taken the trouble to collect the facts, . hands us in a likt Of the' old men of Fayetteville, from which it appears that we have in our town eight men whose combined ages reach the snm of 681 years, giving an average age of 8p$, . We are tempted to give their names and ages separately, but one of them, 86 ybars old, suggested to our friend that it njight offend some of them, as they might wish to get married again. The oldest on the list is 90 years of age, and the youngest is82. .. j I Charlotte Observer:The Synod .of North Carolina met in the Presbyterian I church at Statesville Wednesday evening I A farmer from Providence townshio. I T . ia the city yesterday, acknowledged that his cotton was turning out excellently, and that his crops of all sorts, this year had been first rate. What is true of his cotton is me wise no doubt true of all that in the county which was properly worked . Mr. Worth, in' charge of the fish hatchery at Morganton, received a short time ago 300,000 salmon eggs from California, and expected ' to be able to stock a number of the streams in Western North Carolina,but , he will lose about forty per cent, of the egg?! This ie the day for the great reunion of Confederate and Federal soldiers at Salis bury. If the'weather is not exceedingly disagreeable, a very large crowd wit be in attendance. The people of Salisbury are calculating on a crowd" of from 15,000 to 20,000. r Capt; "Jas.. O. Moore, chief engineer of the Winston and Salem & Mooresville Railroad, went' up the Rich mond & Danville Railroad yesterday morn- 1 ing, to meet Mr. Garrett, of the Baltimore I cl. rti.-j - M i r : & Ohio Railroad Company, and Receiver Barbour, of the Virginia Midland, for the purpose of conferring with, them wi,th a view ta inducing" them to utilize the road bed of his road, as much thereof as is com pleted, in their prpposed extension of the Virginia Mhilahd from Danville through ? arts of this State.; About 22 miles of the Winston and Salem & Mooresville Railroad are already graded, and Captain Moore re ports haripg on hand aol attainable a sufficient ,. amount to -grade the road to a point between Mooresville and Winston 'fifty-five miles in all. . The idea , proposed would cause a deflection of the proposed' extension before it reached Statesville, 'making Mooresville the . objective point on the Atlantic," Tennessee' &' Ohio Railroad, ' and the people of Statesville . will no doubt exert themselves to nullify su,cb a. pro gramme ' ' ' ' " i - X - -1- "J i ii . 5 -'t '.ii 'VI .1 if ' "I li'l I M 1 t I : ft-' ;.1 1 't 4 "J f v 4l 'f s: . v., IK - 9. "'