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A NRW POLITICAL SO AN U A L.
A letter in the New York Star
from Washington concerning Mr.
Tilden and tlie "unwritten history"
of 187G, will no doubt attract wide
attention and excite much comment.
TTTleclares that Mr. Tilden offered to
buy the electoral vote of South Caro
lina that two persons went from
that State- to New York and inter
viewed Mr. Tilde'n, telling him that
die' Republicans would give the elec
toral votes to Hayes unless he paid
30,000 that the money was actually
ent to Charleston, but that the
plan was changed because it was be
lieved that Florida and Louisiana had
leen secured, and South Carolina was
of but little consequence.
The account is long would fill
two columns of the Star, and we
have not space for it, even if we
thought it worthy of being copied in
full. Ve do no'; - know how much
truth there is in it. Possibly thorn is
none. The account appears to have
been prompted by Gen. Gary's at
tack oil Senator Hampton. We copy
one paragraph from the "futile dalli
ance" account : "
"This is a page of the hUtory of the fa
muud election of '70, which has never been
given to the public uulit now; and as Gen.
Marl Gary has been interviewed on a sub
ject which baa a direct, bearing ou what
was attempted to be done by Hanipum and
bis friends before the election, so now we
hive here in the foregoing facts ihu history
of what was attempted after the election.
It has been staled that Tilden lost his elec
tion through being counted out in Florid
mid South Carolina, and he lias been
charged with 'attempting to buy a vote in
Oregon, tie certainly attempted to par
ch ise the six votes of south Carolina by
. paying $30,000 for them, if the story as it
has been told to your correspondent be
true, and thu-rc is uo reason whatever to
-doubt it."
Without indorsing any of the state-
uuenls in the least, wc give the1 above
sih a part of the political gossip and
- mcandal of the day. It may be true,
but it is probably false. The Charles
ton Ifews and Courier has this to say
"Whatwc huve said about the alteinpt
ta&de by Governor Tilden to secure the
South Carolina electoral vote, by bribery or
purchase, is conurmeu. we find, by the
writer of an article published in the New
York Staroi Saturday. Tbere ib something
in it. The charge is made that Democrats
in South Carolina knew of the scheme and
had a hand in it. We do not believe it.
and we shall not attach any importance to
lUti. . ihrt lit anr nrtlnaa t Via Ifiin A vw nn
of the persons implicated are given so that J
IMia uait oi kuc Diui y uuicoo uk; uuu uaiuco I
ihey can speak for themselves.
MIiTl AIICK. AND GKEAT A 11.11 IKS.
Iii the -last numbers of the British
Quarterly and Westminster lievicics
there are elaborate papers on Prince
Bismarck. One is depreciatory to
some extent; the other appears to be
discriminating and fair. We gather,
lifter reading both, that great as the
Herman Chancellor is, his success has
iot been marked in directing the
affairs of the Empire since it was
formed. In other words, he is greater
as a war minister than as a peace
minister. He created literally the
Empire as much as Count Cavour,
probably the greatest statesman of
modern times, created Italian unity.
But Bismarck has made some capital
blunders afcpce the Franco Prussian
war, notably his financial schemes,
tho Falk laws, and his dealings with
Socialistic problems. His. greatest
blunder, it would seem, is his keeping
up such a heavy armament which
provokes other Powers to do like
wise, and which only embarrasses
and impoverishes.
We refer to these things because
recent intelligence from Germany
shows that the great minister is learn
ing by experience. It is certain that
he begins to realize that the arma
ment business bas been overdone and
is the real cause of the financial de
pression and socialistic agitation. We
VOL. XI.
say there are -indications which show
that Bismarck is awakening to a
sense of the Iheavy jburdens he has
piaceu upon nis own country by his
military'system. lie has s.i expressed
himself, and he wants the Powers to
disarm to give up their immense
war equipments and to come down
to a peace basis. He began the work
of arming and lie must set the exam
ple of disarming.! Fiance, Austria,
and the other Great Powers, will not
begin the good work until they see
Germany taking the initiative. As
the Baltimore American says:
"If Bismarck wishes to crown himself
prince of peace, as he has already prince of
war, he will lead Germany to take the ini
tiative hi this matter The other Powers
will be ouly too happy to follow."
ItlttKK A BOUT THK Mitt F ITS.
In the rtcent Georgia-Le'gislatte'
a speech was made by Mr. J. A. Aw-
try, in which he referred to cotton
manufacturing. He showed that the
cotton crop of the Stale was worth
$22,500,000. He said:
' "If we had converted this law material
into yarn and exported it in that, shape, it
would have added 100 per cent, to its value.
Instead of $22,500,000 we would have had
$45,000,000. If, after converting it into
yarns, we had made cloth of it, we would
have so increased its value that the crop
would have been nearly equal to $60,000,
000. As a matter of course I do not pre
tend to accuracy in this statement, but offer
it as an approximation merely to indicate
the very gieat increase iu value that results
from the manipulations of the manufac
turer. ! The most exten
sive cotton spinner iq New England,
perlups in the world, has traveled over the
iSoitih aud attentively considered our ad
vautaies, and he admitted that he could
spin cottou at from 5 to 7 percent, cheaper
ttinu he could in New; England. But the
liuln is we can spin cotton. Iroiu 10 to 12
per cent, chraper in Georgia than in New
Englaud. The expenses ou one hundred
pounds of cotton shipped from here to
Providence, Fall River or Lowell, will
amount to 12i per cent, on present prices.
This expense the spiuner can save, or very
nearly snve; this gives us in the item of
cost of raw material a clear advantage of 10
per cent. This of itself is a good profit
In addition to this we have great advan
tages in climate and water power."
We copy this mainly for the refer
ence to the advantages the South has
over the North in the facilities
offered. Latterly we have noticed in
several Northern papers that they
appreciate these advantages.
In legard to the experiments now
making iu this Slate in the nse of the
"Clement Attachment,1' we promised
to refer again, to the letter of Mr. C.
F. Harden. According to him tho
machinery used in liie factory at
Windsor, Bertie county, cost $4,338.
The Italeigh Observer takes his
figures as a basis ; of calculation, and
makes the total cost, including
houses, $7,500. ; His j cotton costs
$10,000, besides incidentals amount
ing to $1,000. Hand?, oil, repairs,
&c, $3,800. Interest: $1,000 total
expenses, $14,800. We do not know,
but we incline to the opinion that this
estimate is excessive, j
The- Observer next shows the profits,
which it places at $16,300 net pro
fit, after deducting expenses, $1,500.
We think it probable j that by good
management this mill cau make $2,
500 profits. If this ts correct, then
some fifteen per could be realized.
We coufess in this speculation we
are groping in the dark. - The West
minster mills experiment ' turned
out well. When l-jwe can get an
exact statement j of operations like
those published by the Georgia
mills, we can then speak more conn-
dently of the value of the small mills.
The subject is certainly very impor-
tant, and well worth the most care
ful and intelligent investigation.
If two things were done in North
Carolina the children would be much
more favored. If men were required
to pay tax on what they were worth,
and if no man were allowed to vote
who could not show his poll tax re
ceipt, then the revenues of the State
would be more than double what
they are now. It is evident that the
country at large is troubled with the
problem of how to collect taxes on
personal property, m We are satisfied
that not half of tho actual wealth of
the State is taxed. This makes, the
burden unequal, because it makes it
heavier and more; oppressive on those
who do fairly list their property,
Take the case of New York. We
copy from the Baltimore American:
"Since 1872 the collections iu that city
have fallen off from $8,906,343 to $5,036,
1)01. and the assessment from $306,949,422
to $197,532,075, and this in the face of the
fact that there has been a large actual in
crease in the amount of personal property
which is really liable to taxation. TheUif
ficulty seems to be that citizens take undue
advantage of the legal exemptions accept
able as excuses by the commissioners, and
by stretching their consciences a little swear
off entirely, ui lo.ozs persons on the com
missioners' lists but 1,899 acknowledged
that they had personal property subject to
taxation, while 6,219 swore that they owned
none that was taxable, and 8,505 paid no
attention whatever to the notice that -they
had been assessed. It will be seen that the
difficulty la this case is precisely that which
imoeded the collection of the income tax
tall swearing."
WILMINGTON, N. C, FJUPDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1879.
Mr. Lewis T Clement, the inven
tor of the "Clement. Attachment,,,
was born in 1803 in Rutherford
county, lennesseo. A sketch of him
in the Nashville American says:'
"On the iesloration of peace his patriotic
heart responded to the cry for help for the
impoverished South, by a more determined
renewal of an enterprise that he confidently
believed would place the cotton States On
their feet again; but his surroundings were
entirely new and embarrassing. Penniless,
he resumed In bis old age the trades of gin
wright and furniture maker, in order to eke
out a decent support for himself and invalid
wife, and it was only during short intervals;
of resp ite stolen time, I may say that he
could prosecute his work on his models.'
ma progress was necessarily slow, but he
'worked and waited a wearisome time, un
til his patent Was obtained, and those fa
miliar with his Ideas were convinced of
their ultimate triumph. Two or three of
nis mends then advanced means sufficient
to construct a small machine and put it in
operation. Jnt at this turning point in his
fortunoB, whilt on the road to 'Nashvilre to
look after sooM -tfiaue? connected with lus
invention, he 'was fatally injured by an ac
cident at Mill creek bridge, on the Mur
freeaboro & Nashville turnpike, and died
on the 22d September, 1879, in the 67th
year of his age."
Prof. Ledoux, the chemist of the
North Carolina Experimental Station
at Chapel Hill, attended the organi
zation of the American Agricnltural
Society in New York. He has writ
ten an account of what ho saw and
heard for the Raleigh Observer. We
give a paragraph or so:
"A Vice-President has been elected from
every State. The Vice-President for North
Carolina is Col. L. L. Polk, our Commis
sioner of Agriculture.
As a compliment to North Carolina, the
address which I had the honor of delivering
before the Association upon the quality of
American seeds was put down us the very
first on their programme. A letter from
Gov. Jarvis, endorsing the movement, was
read and received with tokens of pleasure,
and published in a prominent agricultural
journal of this city."
A CIUCDLAR concerning ira.tii
GHATION.
Col. L. L. Polk, of the State
Agricultural Department, has issued
a circular on the subject of immigra
tion. He desires tho people of North
Carolina to cooperate with the De
partment in its efforts to attract im
migration withiu our , borders. He
says ho is tecuring reduced rates on
various steamship lines from Euro
pean and English ports, and he hopes
to establish agencies at an early day
in Hiiiglanu, Scotland, : Holland,
Switzerland and other countries.
This is much to be desired. It seems
to us there is no other way "by which
a desirable class of immigrants can
be drawn to our wide State domain.
From time to time hundreds and
thousands of English immigrants
have found their way to Texas. In
Virginia there aro colonies of English,
and in some counties they are numer
ous. Wc are sure that North Carolina
can offer very genuine attractions, and
that too without overdrawing the
picture. There is no State that is
better watered or better diversified.
In many counties the lands arc un
commonly productive, and farming
is singularly remunerative. The Ra
leigh Observer well says:
"Immigrants will find here Scotch still
conversant with the . Gaelic, Germans who
preserve all the characteristics of the Vater
land, and Englishmen who live on the
same land granted to their English fathers
by old George the Third. They will find
us changed in the course of time, but close'
ly adhering to the old customs, faith and
traditions that still exist across the water.
North Carolina opens wide her arms to re
ceive all immigrants who hope to find with
us lovely homes, health, wealth and happi
ness;" . !
Suppose a large pamphlet contain
ing actual farming statistics were
published and sent to agencies in
Europe for distribution, what better
system or plan could be devised for
spreading information? If the results
of judicious cottou planting, rice
growing, sheep raising, tobacco grow
ing, fishing, mining, ruck! farming,
cotton manufacturing, grape grow
ing, fruit growing, &c . , were gath
ered aud sent abroad, people who are
thinking of homes in the -Far WeBt
would, have their attention thus di
rected to our admirablo State, where
there is so much to encourage tho in
telligent, industrious, persevering la
borer or the man of capital - seeking
investments.
It is because what North Carolina
has done and can do in the way of
farming that the Stab has delighted
in publishing-results of special labor
from time to time. We have even
tried to spread the facts beyond our
State, and to induce the large papers
to publish them for the benefit of all
concerned.
Col. Polk asks the farmers or land
owners who wish, to sell to offer their
lands through his office. We copy a
paragraph from bis circular which ex
plains itself: '- -rv
"Under sections 16 and 17 of the act
establishing this, Department, the Board is
authorized and required to keep a Land and
Mining Registry open in this office for the
sale or such lands as- our people may wisn
to sell.1 Accordingly, I have prepared the
necessary books, blanks, f orms,explanatory
circulars, &c, for operating the agency.
The agency thus established is essentially
different from any adopted hitherto by any
Southern State. It "fa operated by the De
partment of AgriculRV 8tate institution,
whose action is und(? fh direct supervi
sion of the General AsfetnVly, trad whose
powers are limited and Well dtAmS hj law,
thus . carefully guarding again in,
fluenceat, or even possibility, of speeviafion
a feature which moat &mmena it wooin
buyer and seller."
Gen. Gary, of South. Carolina, says
ho has no personal opposition to Sen
ator Hampton, bat what he has said
is a conscientions difference of opin
ion. As the quarrel for controversy
has assumed a personal and even bit
ter tone, and as we have given some
thing of the dispute, we copy a para
graph from the CharneKW and
Courier's Columbia, letter, In which
the Edgefield Senator is interviewed.
Gen. Gary is represented as saying:
"Senator Hampton took the initial step
in the opposition, and I propose to strike
back when I'm struck. A conflict of ideas
is like any other conflict. You've got to
fight to win it. I always haver and will,
repel opposition with opposition, i desire
the unity of the Democratic party as heart-
ly as any man, and as a man of She parly
submitted to be gagged in 1870, and to be
dictated to by Hampton where and when I
should and shouldn't speak, add if I ever
received courtesy from him, or those asso
ciated with him, I don't know it. I am
willing to retire from public life if it
is necessary for the unity of the party,
but 1 am not to be driven out or it by
anybody. I know I am charged by Sen
ator Hampton with writing articles
that I didn't write, but my fight has been
open and not a secret ODe. I'm not that
kind of man. I use neither muffled dagger
nor stilletto. I am willing to meet him or
any other man in open political contest, if
it is necessary. Even the interview pub-
isbed in the Herald was not a deliberate at
tack on Hampton or designed to do him in
justice, my only idea being to do Tilden
ustice. My idea was to give full justice to
f ilden. though I'm no champion of hip.
You can say now that I regard him as a
great leader of the Democracy, and think
he deserves consideration at my hands, and
Hampton's bands, too. 1 am willing to give
him his dues. He has done more for the
party than any man in America."
Senator Ransom's speech on the
negro exodus made a fine impression
evidently, if we may credit tho re
ports from Washington. We have
only room for a portion of the Rich
mond DispataWs account, which ap
pears in its Washington letter of the
18th. The correspondent says:
"The Senate to-day considered the reso
lution of Mr. Voorhees to investigate the
negro exodus from North Carolina to In
diana, aud it gave Senator Ransom an Op
portunity to pay a splendid tribute to the
white people of the State of North Carolina
for the liberality and kindness with which
they had treated the colored people. There
was not a bitter word in his speecn.nor a sen
timent that was not American and national.
He was listened to with profound attention
bv Senators of both parties, and when be
alluded to the people of the North he called
them my Northern fellow-countrymen. Al
though one of the most influential Senators,
General Ransom rarely speaks; bat when
he does, his utterances have great weight
with the Senate. He told Mr. Windom,
who has advocated the exodus of the ne
groes, that North Carolina is dotted over
with schools for their education, and
churches, in which they worship. She has
given them asylums for their deaf and
dumb, and is erecting one for their insane."
Representative Martin, of the First
District, a Republican, introduced a
bill in the House, which has for its
object tho advancement of American
interests on the ocean by establishing
a steamship service between the prin
cipal ports of the United States and
tho principal ports of the world
& a. A
abroad., The text of the bill is very
long. Wo do not know whether it
! I
contains any subsidy features or not,
as we have not read it. The Wash
ington Post likes it, and says Mr.
Martin is on the Tight track, as it is a
movement for foreign trade and
American shipping. It regards it as
a "practical etep..towards an Ameri
can navy and merchant marine."
The Baltimore Sun says it is a huge
subsidy scheme.
The best informed Republicans in
Maine admit that Gov. Garoolon and
Council have obeyed the letter of the
law most rigidly. They do . not see
what can be done. A dispatch from
Portland, dated the 1 7th, to the
Washington Post, says:
"In the eastern counties, where the Stal
wart Republican element is strongest, there
is talk of capturing the State House by
force at the beginning of the year or of set
ting up a rival Legislature to 'Dr. Garce
lons legislature.' The Democrats
are exultant over the " application of the
rigid constitutional principles to the official
canvass of the vote. Gov. Garcelon and
his Council have certainly followed the let
ter of the law in their action, whatever un
fairness that action 'may have wrought.
The fact seems to be that the chronic
looseness with which the election laws
have been observed during Republican
supremacy in the State has given Gov.
Garcelon and his astute adviser, Hon. Eben
F. Pillsbury, a chance to reverse the Re
publican majority in the Legislature simply
by obeying these requirements of the con
stitution for the first time in many years "
The Richmond State has a good
theatrical critic. He gives Miss Agnes
Herndon great praise, and even
prophecies that she will equal if not
surpass any tragedienne now on the
stage or who has preceded' her.
Well, if she comes this way, we will
see for ourselves whether she has the
material in her ont of which to fash
ion a Janauschek, a Cushman, or a
Mary Anderson.
IfllPOKTANT VIBWS NOT
GBNB-
RiLLTKNOWN.
We ask the readers of the St Ait to
consider well the extract fronj a Very
important speech Which wo will pta-'
Benlly give. It is the opinion if j a
verjr eminent panne man and shouiq
bo read and preserved. '''"'
If the folio winga8sage were to '
car in a speecli op&iato HilPV
9f
in a paMW .Mdf2Wfcf Gen. - Bob
ToombsXw&k
plam constructrfj s5eCrp " R
every Republican ftf 4S4 of Coft
gress. Here is the extract i i I
TsAa i'a L,., ' it
torce id iai quesuoB. not sumcienuv at- i
lenuea to. u is mis. vutt eoci iWM pob- l
. . -r. ... ' , . -
BKBSlSH 1M ITSKLJ.' THK FULL POWERS OF GO- I
VBBNMKNT 0811 W once, m A stKOTraVR I
tor thenpreservvtion of Tfrs right
. ln,
tempt to establish a tyranny. Vie peopUsY
can only .dtfend tkemsOoes fy a tumulr
withoiitpnnrprtopniftn.ihiithnKiimprii
clothed with the forms of legal authority, j
t.u uiuyivj uio luivw ULiua Dtaio .u ou y-
have time or opportunity to eive system to
their opposition. With us Vie case is widely
different. Eeach State has a government com- I
pletely organized in itself; and can at once
kntkb into a reqular plan of defencs I
nuu iud iuruca ui lucuumuiuuiiy akibauuui
mand; it can immediately form connections
wun its neign oors, or even with foreign
POWERS TP NECESSARY."
If that passage were found in Mr.
Stephens's "War of the States," or
Albert Taylor Bledsoe's very able
work, "Is Jeff Davis a Traitor, or
was Secession a Constitutional Right
prior to 1861," would any one, North
or South, fail to( comprehend at. a
glance its drift? ' We think not. It
would be even regarded, specially in
the North, as verv foolish and dism- i
genuous to deny that the passaze
favored States Rights and justified
I
what the South attempted to do but
failed. But be that as it may, the
passage is remarkable, and occurs in
a SDeech bv a verv famous man. I
The words were spoken bv the sreat
man who is supposed to have repre
sented the most advanced ideas in
favor of a strong, centralized govern
ment. If the reader will refer to "Select
American Speeches," by J. C. Car
penter, published in 1815, by J. W.
Campbell, Philadelphia, vol. 1, page
479, he will find them. They occur
in the speech delivered in the Assem
bly of New York, on February 18th,
1787, "when the impost was under
consideration." The speaker was Al-1
exander Hamilton.
WHIT A COLORED EDITOR saits.
The colored Republican editors are
exhibiting far more intelligence and
humanitv than the white Stalwarts.
tt . . , iL
"oua' "
opinions of two North Carolina co-
lored editors upon the exodus of some
of their race under the manipulations
of bad, designing men. It is gratify
ing to reproduce apart of an editorial
in the Washington City -drM5,whose
editor is a colored man of evident
sense. He heads his discussion of the
exodus "A Great Shame," thus show
ing at tho outset that he appreciates
and measures the cruel outrage now
being perpetrated against so many
flolndpd nerrroes. We have onlv space
o
for a part of what he says so point
edly: "We cannot believe that the President or
Secretary had any hand in this matter; we
know them to be honorable men and not
accustomed to being used as tools, and
therefore we do not refer to them when we
say that those men who influenced these
people to come to Washington, on the pro-
. r . . - . . T 1 1 1
mtae mat tneir expenses to xnuiana wouiu
be paid by the Bociety, were paid tools of
8-HaTWash with refu-
gees from South Carolina, Mississippi or
Louisiana, it would have been no more than
could bave been expected. But to leave
North Carolina for Indiana is a shame and
disgrace to those engaged in it.
"The colored people in North Carolina
are better treated than., in any other State
in the 8outh. .They have not since 1869
been bulldozed in any part of that Stale.
They have always"been allowed to vote as
they pleased, and for the work they have
performed they have been as well paid as
any other class of laborers. Of course
the wages are small the times are hard
but no one ever saw a negro begging bread
in the "Old North State." There are more
beggars in Indianapolis alone than in the
whole State of North Carolina.
'To carry these people to Indiana for
political purposes is a shame; next year,
after the election is over, they will be
begging for money to return to their old
homes.
"Why Indiana is the worse Slate for
colored people north of Mason and Dixon's
line! ,
"They have always been treated badly.
During the days of slavery when other
States were receiving fugitives, that State
..-. nnnn ViAi- cat ot n a Yinrklrn that lift.
S,a,r -
"The result of this wholesale emigration
will be the re-enactment of that law."
Mr. Parnell, M. P., the eloquent
Irish defender, is to have a rousing
reception in New York on his arrival
on the 28th inst.
Talmage defeated his enemies by a
vote of twenty-six to thirteen.. He
said if he had done anything wrong,
he would apologize.
, 1
-NO. 9.J
We have published our .owfl -view
of tho Maine affair in our leader of
to-day. Since we read the proof, t:
type we have met with the foilowirig
paragraph in the Washington letter
of the Richmond State:
. t. ."Northern Democrats do not very heart
ily approve of the action of the Democratic
Governor and council in 'countiog. oqi'
the Republican legislative majority,
merely technical eronnd. " They fear lit
will have: a bad effect upon the vote" In
doubtful Northern States. Most of the Jfe-'
trablteamr whose opinions have bfte-iulv-
E Ul;-"t 0nl advise thai no - forcibfe mel-
9X9 re taken to regain control of th State
s3ib.urv wra -executive macninery, -ib-
lowcl by .a Hhoroueh awakening of ale5
roW" feteete of -the outrns'
nnM m.Mti,.b .n;v.vn
'w.twjpw iviuiiviwo avTar xiuiwiiu
ftntflrl-;r utt. 7ir.atLi fFa k
msatlw trnrthnprl Okant nr ,hd PrP,
demialjftMsS- TEr i&3nW
dCt 0 the Democrats." I
ur waders will see that our fears
as to the effect are justified by the
above. Ihe Democrats will lose
more than they can gain.
General Sheridan, it is thought,
will accompany General Grant in his
. , . , . , . ! .
tour through Mexico and Cuba
Thev are "verv thick."
Hayes has been invited by the
obituary poet of the world, Mr. G.
W. Childs. of Philadelphia, to visit
Gen. Grant whilst his guest.
Alleu 3Iatbla Ibe murderer,
purine tor Ilia Doom.
Fre-
Allen Mathis, colored, who was sentenced
at the late term of the Superior Court for
this county to be executed for the murder
Of one Reuben Herring, of Pender, on Fri
day, the 9th of January ensuing, begins to
realize the near approach of his almost in
evitable doom. First along he seemed lo
I I
be buoved ud to some extent with the idea
lhatJf fatnce would ;be com;
mntofi nut Va 10 rrvannnllt? lAQinnr his rrn
dence iQ chaQce of e9cape from lhe
naiter. His appetite continues excellent,
but in manner, to use the words of the
iailor. he is becoming quite week. One or
more of lhe colored clergy call to see him
every uay, sua seem iu uu uuiag lueir uesi
to prepare him spiritually for the great
change awaiting him in the near future.
It seems to be understood that the execu
tion will be private, the gallows to be
erected in the yard back of the ia.il, and a
high fence built on the East so as lo obstruct
the view from Fourth street.
Anoiber Teat of the lee RIacuiue.
Yesterday, by invitation, we witnessed a
test of the new ice machine indented by D.
J. E. Winants. The engine was started and
a current of cold air pumped into a box at-
tached lo the machine, and in a very short
8pace of time the temperature was reduced
I from about sixty to twenty four degrees,
and the Doctor informed us that it bad been
I reduced, in a former trial, when more time
J wa9 devoted to the experiment, to ! ten de-
J grees below zero. In a half hour from the
"tmg ot me engine a very tmcK irosi
I had formed on the pipe leading into
the b0X and a cake of ice: had also
formed in the bottom of the box. The
question of the capacity of the machine to
I reduce the temperature to a freezing point
being thus settled beyond "dispute, it seems
that there can be no room for doubt that
ice can be successfully manufactured by
this process. Several of our prominent
citizens were present during the progress
of the experiment.
Pender superior Court.
This tribunal adjourned for the term
J Friday evening, at 8 o'clock, after doing a
J good week's work, mostly on the Criminal
I AJ0CKe1,
I mu r rr. cr
xiits case ui viiyci ixojcii, wjiuicu,
charged with burglary, and with assault
and battery with intent to commit rape, was
continued until the next terra of the Court,
the defendant to be confined in our county
jail in the meantime, without benefit of
bail
The case of- Dock - Mathis, colored.
charged with placing obstructions upon the
I Wilmington & Weldon Railroad,1 was con-
tinned until next term, the defendant to
I give a justified bond m the sum of $500
for hi3 appearance.
William Murphy, convicted of larceny
and sentenced to imprisonment at hard
labor for five years in the State Peni
tentiary, craved an appeal to the Supreme
Court, through his counsel, aud was ordered
to give a justified bond in the sum of $400
for his appearance.
The case of Thomas Croom, colored.
charged with burning his own barn, was
continued until the next term, the defend
ant giving the necessary bond fur his ap
pearance.
In the case of Nick Baker, col,;, charged
with killing another colored man at Rock
Quarry some months ago, the Grand Jury
found a true bill for manslaughter, but the
defendant was let off on the payment of
costs, the evidence tending to show that the
killing was accidental.
The Grand Jury failed to find a true bill
in the case of Buck Walker, charged with
I kiliins a colored man named Frank
Oliver Hargett, Dock Mathis and Wm
Murphy were brought to this city yesterday
by Deputy Sheriff tland, and lodged in the
county jau.
military Matters.
We learn from Gen. M. P. Taylor that
the commissioned officers of the First Regi
ment, N. O. 8.-G., will meet at Newbern,
those of the Second Regiment at Wilming
ton, those of the Fourth Battalion (colored)
at Raleigh, and thqse of the Fifth Battalion
(colored) at Fayetleville, on the 13th of
January next, for the purpose of electing
field officers for the ensuing year.
j ' Rockingham 'Sjpfrif-? We tret
t if urn of the soddeb deat&ittfc. Mr. .Tohn-
l Covmgtonrf MnM:ral SpruBfiuwDPhip,
wliicU.tt?carred a, few days agr.;,,
1 Asheborofdwfer:' &Zr were
1. toarrjtfgelieen'ges isuti -in-l-d h h
tht jhe yeaK ending' December Is?, lfcTS,
ver?i was not a good year a-rrosryirig,
rS0- &&F " We have
'JUeen:!xhrmed that the dwelling house of
Mr. Miles Creckman, on Durban)' Creek;
'was burned Jast w?eW, bsSn'g.evi'ryibiniJ
1 herein.' V " ; ' -
-rtSaturday'.Jar misrepreseiitiifw
wouid like To in form h r 5&r"tm.iWW-Vi
has a bank, and that it:is in- itfafroua
way. : Please make a note t ,ifr,--rj$m
Advance. We wrote WeldorJ;- JfoT bew
.Wilson' had. one. SnowHnteort-
pceirt of -the Wilson w4tftwnfe;Tto In diana
feverjs quite an epidemic among iho
negroes dl this Beet ion, since one old darkey
i w bo went thett'l nwn Green: county, vera l
dn;awrU Jck that hbd a iw-
1 $torj kouae'and was riving ofTjfihj tt tf
olinaacc;de4hiri,!8hip toblbco to Caw
Town, Afrlct. 4- -i-sthe Dlslrfel, Port,
flijger 4icge jici.aw a good ueal'ttf. bn-
-wiTlratirrtheprewaVffeK:
Brown, wo reside one miM9 from
teraville;'irt.liiia eouotv. Ltito-AMlttT ..ri.ct
Mllbat rtJimfs Jo. th'.1t-WHi
of nine children, and only iwiliailishhv
er
e
occurred in his house since 1880, being bin
grand-mother and a sisier in-law. lie ha
always paid for his paper in advance
Winston Leader: The Nissi-n
Wagon Works, at Waughlon, near Salem,
13 an old institution, and is TavnraMv
"tnown far and wide. Their wat-ons are
generally ueil ihu.ugh this section, an:!
frequently do we see five or six new wi
f their make go out of town an a ir
gnns
ram.
Liule Blanche Martin, of Chanel Hill.
swaliowed a needle recently. It lodnt:i ih
her throat, and worked its way through the
dsck ot ner neck. Dr. Harris cut it out.
Blanche is doing well. We get this from
tne l.eager. Mr. 1. W. Durham is now
at work upon a memorial slab of Dr. W.
M. Wingate. for the new buiidirmat VVuk-:
Forest. It will be a neat niece of woik
wnen completed.
Raleigh Observer: There are
over 2,800 while members of the churcbi-s
m this city. Died, at the Hospital of
St. John's Guild, on Thursday,. December
lSlh, 1879, Charles W. Walkius, iu the 04th
year of hia age. Some of the negro
drivers beat their horses in a shameful man
ner. Yesterday a drunken negro lashed
his horses with a heavy whip for fully fifteen
minute?. It is a great pity that we have no
I JBergh here to regulate such matters.
u'iJsltu cioewutsic pnuieu luiorma us
a . ; . i. l 1 - . i :r
that on yesterday the Governor of the Stale,
accompanied by a number of citizens,
passed through the mountain tunnel, and
made the first trip by rail across the moun
tains into the valley of western North Caro
lina. - Oxford lorchlight: Ten pris
oners are now in the county jail, a larger
number than has been in the past three
years, larceny, torgery, and house-burn
ing are the principal offences. A no-
gro baby was fished up out of a well in
tiendersoc a few days ago. suspicion was
aroused that something was "rotten in Dec
mark," when baby garmentswere drawn up
with the water, lhe perpetrators of this
fiendish act are suspected. Quick and
steady is the march of improvement. The
result of the carpentei's hammer is seen in
every portion of Oxford. The two mam
moth warehouses, with all the modern facili
ties, will be ready for the auctioneer by the
first of January. Mr. Robert R. Bur-
well, lownssville, has again been the object
oTsome incendiary's malice. During the
night of December 1st the torch was ap
plied to three oat and two hay stacks.
situated within ten feel of the spot where
he lost, in like manner, twelve months ag.
last April, his eutire crop of long forage.
The Charlotte Observer of the
18 Lh contains a long account of lhe killiug
of a noted negro desperado named Bub
Fharr, at that place, by policeman llil!.
Pharr had murdered his wife and another
person, tie was round in the bed-room 01
a sraau bouse, lie refused lo surrender,
said he would diesrirst, tried twice to shoot
Mr. John Urr, when he was killed bya shot
in the head fired by policeman Hili. He
died instantly. There were four men try
ing to capture him. The Observer says:
Pharr has been long known to the police
as a most daring and reckless criminal.
Their first encounter with him occurred
about two months ago, when an attempt
was made to arrest him in a negro bouse in
the First Ward. On this occasion thm?
members of Ibe force surrounded the house.
Discovering their presence, he leaped from
the window, firing several shots from Inn
pistol as he went, and, after being shot at
himself three or four times by members of
the force, and a long race, he escaped. A
few months prior to this occurrence he es
caped from Lincoln jail and liberated four
J other prisoners, by shooting Sheriff Robin-
son with the pistol which he snatched from
the Sheriff's hands. -
PittBboro Record: Mr. C. W.
Bynum informs us that he recently caught
on his fish-trap in Haw river an eel that
was 36 inches long, eight inches in circum
ferences and weighed 8 pounds. Mr.
Burwell Ellington, of this county, was
found dead in a turkey "blind," on the 16ih
inst. He was quite a noted huntsman, and
had gone that morning to a "bliud"that he
had prepared . for wild turkeys, and it U
supposed that while watching there he died
from heart-disease. The Baltimore
drummer, Jacob Weil, who was so severely
injured by the cars at Sanford last winter,
brought suit for damages against the rail
road company. The suit was tried in the
Federal Court at Raleigh, and was decided
against the plaintiff, as it was through his
own negligence that he received lhe injury.
We very much regret to hear that Mr
John Harrington, a most worthy citizen of
Oakland township, in this county, receutly
met with a fatal and rather peculiar acci
dent. He was hauling a load of wood in
his wagon, when one of hi3 logs fell off,
and one end catching in the wheel 'caused
the other end to fly up and violently strike
Mr. Harrington on the neck and shoulder?,
from the effects of which blow he died in
a few days.
Tarboro Southerner: Mr. Wm.
J.' Weslbrook, of Grantham's township,
caught an eagle in a steel trap a fewdaya-
fc ...
of Grantham's township, died on the 13th
inst., in the 82d year of his age.
-Dr.
McDonald, of Washington, this State, has
a three year old colt named H, W. Beecher,
that trots a mile in two minutes and fifty
seconds. Among the exodusters who
left here Tuesday, was an old blind darkt y,
named Peter Kennedy, from Lenoir count .
Air. VV. U. eulton, who farms in
Duplin, near the Wayne line, last year.
made 10 bales of cotton on as many acres.
The present year he did even better, having
increased his crop lo 18 bales off of 17 acres.
ile never .buys manipulated guanos, but
composts heavily with proper chemicals and
home-made manures. The, James vi lie
& Washington Railroad and Lumber Com
pany, composed of foreign capitalists, hold
title to about 40,000 acres of land, and we
are pleased to learn are doing much to dc
velope and build up the resources in that
section. They bave built a railroad twenty
two miles in length, from Washington to
Jamesville, on the Roanoke, and they have
also a handsome steamer, the Oriole, plying
between Plymouth and Hamilton, and con
necting with cars at Jamesville.