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VP U t ' " ; We intended to have commented in few words on one of the points r jixed by Judge Black, lie spoke in term of-ridicule of the opinion ad vanced by ex-President Davis that ilieri' would have beeu no war if 1'rennient Buchanan had abandoned the South Carolina Forts. This opinion is not singular with Mr. Davit. Thousands of intelligent men in the South believe it Why should there have been war ? We doubt it.- Such fiieii as Mr. Greeley, the leader ..f At...r,ii....;.n.! iu;nfi.ij 4 liiv'll AUU -VJIOIl. " i, il I n Whirr f onnaorvnltva viouro i --' , were for letlini; the South withdraw - hi- !! - - h it had a light to dounder theConsli i utioii. .The New iEngland leaders Miat--Hiueii we may call some of them h:ui threatened secession often, and lii r.iiuseH - trivial an compared with ih.e that moved the Southern peo- i-i.-. Many of tFiti leaders held that ; -.IH ii accordance with the terms it-e o-nnpycL to c-.H-fd to ineel'llie withdraw when1 il ends in view. It became criminal only when the South it, r-aiened to resort io the same P rueful means of redress, ; 1 - VVe arc (-urprised that as able and pmloiind a lawyer as Judge Black Ih wmIi h full knowledge of the history ol t he formation of the Constitution in hid hands'. afl with that insirumen 1 en not see the matter jufet as the S luheru people saw it. It is another iiiKiaticM of judicial blindness. It is. the more remarkable because of the clearness with which i - he has dis- -utel the perversions and viola- ii iih ty the Iiepublican party of the Naured instrument. Our contempora ry, the Raleigh News Observer, thus views the opinion of Mr. Davis. It Kay:-; . J - ' ;(j :., i i .... "There was more liuth in what Mr. Davis says than one is now apt to imagine The feeling was bitter duriog tbe closiDg ilnys of Bucbaoao's administration, bat h-i.J be withdrawn the troopi from the ,S .nth and avoided hostilities, and left Lini. coin no legacy of a besieged fort, it la likely thii there would have been no hostilities, ml North Carolina and Virginia Dd the bonier States would probably not have withdrawn from tbe Unions and tbe South ern Confederacy would have speedily fallen through.?' . ' i - - ' Without uadertaking to say that this opinion ia correct in all particu lars we are very much inclined to the opinion that war would have been avoided in offle way. : .. A KBCENY 1LLCSTBATION 41 P A flHRIT PB1NCIPLB. The very foundation-stones of. tbe republican form of government set up by our patriotic and wise forefathers, was the independence of the States. Just in proportion as the reserved constitutional rights of tlie States are ignored or invaded lias, there been' mischief and danger! 5The -Star a hundred times has essayed' to make this plain to impress this fact ; ds The President of the United States for nearly nix weeks has been incapa. citated for work. There has been practically no President of the United f-itaies,and still there have been peace,' quiet, and an actual era of good feel ing. There has been: no friction," no conflicting of interests.' Eaoh State sovereign within itself, in the ex ercise of constitutional ' 'powers, has gone on - smoothly working oat its own problems, discharging its own great daties, contributing its share to the development and enrich ing of the great Union of which it is a part, and illustrating the truth o( that happy saying that the States of the Union are "distinct as the billows yet one as the sea. V : .U The Baltimore Gazette has been making a fresh bat brief study of the great fundamental doctrine of local .... , s , 1 1 - . : ' ' Ti" ' j !" - ' :" , v ' W T" yv '-r " w : " ; ''- ' "' - "t ' " -. . : 11 - . - . . - V . - 1 "- " v '- 1 i :v vSi - . , ,;,, .,.,,:,,.,. , , , i . , , ! r-i i 1 T. ' " T" t.p r- 1 vj .i '" 'j; iff- " jp'- -' r. j i Ulu. xn. i : WILMINGTON. N. O.." FRIDAY. AUGITTST 19. 18811 I ..-.V self-eovernment in view of recent eventH. ' It points out very clearly a lesson iihst the hour teach ep. ! We re gard it of the first importance that American people haU: understand that goful Kvernraeiit and civil liber ty are united, and that these cannot be perpetuated unless the rights of Commonwealths ' are. preserved and respected. Says thel Gazette: t "We have sever hid a period when the Value of ale KOreruments was so positively established, and which' showj how very essential tbey are to tbe stability of affairs and tbe perpetuity of our whole system of government and lawj. We have lived under such a complete system, for all internal purposes, that no disturbances have been felt, and nA protection to rights either of persons or property has been obstructed or denied. Ia the nature of its birth and sphere of legislation the government of tbe United States is not competent to this end, and the most lamentable' roublea we Jhave ever known have priglnated In' doing vio lence to these well-defined lines of separate legislative duties. , The- Btates existed be fore the Federal. Up ion they were the par tiea bviog inherent sovereignty, and only delegated to th' general v government the few and. wet-denod powers for the com mon defence and welfare. It was io this spirit the Union was ebUblished, and if we intend to preserve the substance and the charters of our civil liberty it mast be bo reverenced tad administered.? , i cotton. . I Lin 1870 the South grew 3,011,357 bales of cotton. In 1 830 it grew 5,730,968 an increase of 2,722,011 bale, or 89.7 per cent. The increase ia population was 30 per cent. The ratio of increase of production of cotton is nearly three limes the in crease in population. This shows very tood work for the colored laborers. Whatbecomes of NorthernCl lies ? How did tne slaughtered and bulldcZwd negroes' ever do so much labor ? Oh, the fchameless, lying miscreants of Yankee doodle-dom ! But is this increase xt production the healthiest pecuniary sign ? What about other productions ? : Is the increase' in corn,' wheat, oata, bacon, etc in proportion to the ; increase in population? If not, .then is dot cotton raised at tbe expense of other productions? If this isa fact, and we have no doubt of it, cioii!, is it piudenf ,. in it ia.it judi tbe way to prosperity, and independence ? North Carolina in 1870. mada but 144,935 baltf in 1880 it made 389, 510 an increase rf . 168.7 "per. cent. No other cotton State' shows any such increase.' Arkansas omea near est, showing an increase of 144.8 per cent. South Carolina increased 132.8. Ml,ssisippi leads alt the ' States in production, giving 955,803. Georgia is next with 813,965. ; f The crop of 1870 was the smallest since the war, we believe. It brought almost as much money as; the crops that exceeded it by 1506,000 . bales. Inj 1870 a bale of eotton fetched i 100. What does it fetch now?. When the market is gltUted with cantaloupes you can buy, three, .for five .cents. When too much cotton' for the con sumption is grown . then -the - price drops.; The rule of demand and supply applies to all products. ' ; 4The Ves does not forget that these illiterate Republican voters are kept id the bondage of illiteracy because they are Re publicans." PA3ade?phia Press. Bep. , " There is no excuse for such igno rance. : There is less excuse for sucb falsifying. The Tress is becoming a a better paper. It ought to sloaglt off its; old Radical skin and become bet-' ter iuformt d as to the South' .and less malignant. Why does not the mighty, boastful, rich North educate the. ne groes after freeing them; and 'invest ing them with the franchise? , Why leave to the South it robbed of hun dreds of millions to provide schooling', for "the wards of the Nation ? ;. In point of fact the South is sharing its money equally between the' races for educational purposes. :Bat' this the ignorant iVtfss does not' know';' or; if it knowR, it is; too unfair to publish it; I The South has given' more than six times as much to educate the ne grocs since they were liberated as the total eoiitnbulions of the North-will amount to for all purposes in their behalf.- - - . We do not like much that wo- see In the, Philapelphia Aneric'an. . . Be-, ingj Iiepublican ' and Northern we do not expeot to agree witH; many of its opinions. We believe it tries to be fair and honest; Its locality . ia un fortunate for ' freedom from party blindness. ! We gtyecit) credit ion a; consistent' "dislikerof - 'Ihef Mahohe RepobUoan alliance ia Yirginia; ; It i,hus Tebuk'ef Its 'atf'i t omfiXQ" I -- rWe ibiok H BOtfliug )ess:4baa madness in those Republican leaders and ! newspa pers of the North, who wish : to ally : tbe party with the SoutbeiBlebemlea of social reform and public- hooetty. : It is - not the party we care for it is the nation: and for the sake of the nation we plead for-such. help to tsoatbera. schools as .will enable those States to meet and ' overcoma tbeh political danger." - DOGS KBrrjIiqitlGTO XflElR TO. r 01 IT. 1 i The Conservatives enter the fight in Virginia with a good ticket, with a ; good platform, and, with a : good conscience.'- They ought to mn. The purer portion of the : Northern Re publicans cannot look V with favor npoa the proposed amalganiation of their party in Virginia with the mon grel repudiation faction bossed1 by Billy Mahone. A" letter from U. S. Senator Mitchell, favoring " the coali tion, was published a week 'or two ago. His course is censured by some of the better journals of his party that prefer principle to plunder, and think it not in accordance with hon esty for a party " that insists upon debt-paying out of Virginia to favor repudiation m 'Virginia. Mitohell pretends ' that his reason lor favoring the unholy alliance is that .it will secure" the negroes their rights. In . Virginia,. as in i; North Carolina, the negroes enjoy so much of liberty that it - notfun frequently borders upon license. It is late in the day to say otherwise. We are sur prised to see such a paper as the Philadelphia American referring to North Carolina as a State where the negroes do not enjoy their rights. Such ignorance is inexcusable. Such a statement is false unqualifiedly. -t We have not seen Mitchell's letter, but it is of the old sort if we can credit a comment in the American upon it, in which that paper says: " .."We especially regret Mr. Mitchell's ill" considered utterance, as he is what we may call an Administration' Senator, and his words may help to revive the passions which too long have divided North and South. Just at present we are having one ot those lulls in political excitement which will do more for the welfare of the nation than all the coalitions that ever were de vised. The country is united In feelings of sympathy for the wounded President. North and South have got nearer to each other than at any time in the last thirty years. Antagonisms are losing their edge. An era of at leaBt comparative good feel-' ing seems to be. cementing anew the ties of national sympathy. But 'like a discord in the strain is tbe cry of a set of Kepubli can Senato. i.and editors i who seem to think it ; the chu i end of the Government to 'break: up the Solid South' by any means, foul or fair, which may be at band. Mr. Mitchell baa done the country no good ser vice by hi i letter." f jV, ;;; : ; . The i. tab long ago said that if a half dozen Northern : bloody-shirt flap doodlers could die and a half dozen Southern impracticables could go to a better world, that peace would prevail and lying., and . bulldozing cease to be a political factor as be tween the sections. Kf.. .,, ' . The South - in various- ways has shown itself anxious for reconcilia tion and friendship. Its latest uni versal, spontaneous offering was when the assassin shot down the President. Ifv for vile political purposes the' Southern people are ' again assaulted by a slanderous, corrupt Northern press and by mouthing demagogues, we hope the South will place itB hand behind its back and forever ref use to shake hands with its defa mers. We write thus plainly because daily we see that it is only a part of the North that trusts the South even now. The Republican party as an. entirety is no more friendly now than it jwas six months ago. Its? organs cannot forgo for aJ month to make false and slanderous statements cW cernihg the South. ' If the South is not trusted fully now then we say let the North "rip," and let the true people of the 'entire South be as a wall of adamant, united, determined and strong. ;;:vi;V " TUB DTJTV VV THBt ROBTn TO THE NBCBO. ' ; iWe can pick up scarcely a Nertu ern exchange that is not discussing the South. It is either the revival of prosperity,' or the value of negro labor, or : education, 1 or some other topie :that concerns opr : people- that constitutes the theme.- Oar readers know that the Sxab has been insist-' ing that the rich North, that liberated the slaves, should now educate them' $ that as they gave them the Tight of suffrage when they had - not the ' first qualification for its exercisej 'Ihey .should now give them all the educa tional privileges possible to qualify tie'm as eleciorsj The, 1$ well j(Mas-i saohusetis) Mail , and Bqston Adver tiser, both Republican oapers, fay or. the aid of "the Nation' in thirn-J portant direction The Boston JPost,, ? V h'!"li'i i.'i''-'W CiAViiO r, , j i f ii J Democratic, opposes . ; z. uppn L the. ground that Jit lis inconsistent i!with "the old-fashioned doctrine that' each State ' should; be left1 to manage its domestio conceniBl.itswwayl'' As the North has enjoyed so much benefit from the labors of the South' all through the. ; century, and as the North, by Uberating the negroes,5 de prived the South of hundreds of mil- . . . . , , - . . . 7 , - -7 ' 1 r . r , i ) -j - r ' 1 : ' lions'of property and credit, we are inclined to take' all we can get from ;"the Nation." But Upon "principle, we are with the Josf. j There:, is too much disposition in the North to disre gard Constitutional limitatione.- That great instrument the Charter q( our Liberties is set asidequite toojoften for safety, and is looked upon in the North too much - as O mere lope of saud. The Stab thiiks the North, as a great bection, ' should raise the needed funds with wweb. to educate the negroes. It is tkeir r duty, both as citizen?, as patriots: and as Chris--tians.' When ' they '-'enfranchised' a million negroes they did a hazardous' thing according to their own t,heory, that intelligence and virtue are the basis of good, safe, republican go vernment. It is their' imperative duty to correct the evil aa fast as pos sible in seme way. ; Tgeyyay eduea (ion is the great antidote. So -be it. Then let the North do its duty.? "The Nation" has nothing to do with it, and the Boston Post is correct in its position. j The Northern Republican papers regard a sincere devotion to the Con stitution and the maintenance oi the reserved rights guaranteed therein to the State as a "mere hobby." (The truth is, the - Northern Republican knows nothing of the Constitution. To him it is- a dead letter a . mere tissue of nothings words, idle words.' The "Nation" can disregard it at will.' In the meanwhile liberty is slaugh tered and the laws are a nullity. GREAT SAVING AND FINK PRO- ' KITS. ' .' ' j ' I It is estimated that if the cotton .4 - . ii crop of the South was manufactured is .' i ... T - at home ' there would be an actual saving of fifty million dollars to the planters besides ' the profit on the manufacturing. 1 Mark that. - If this be bo it will be something to marvel at if within the next ten years there is not an immense stride taken in the Lsouth in the direction 2 of -bringing I . ' . . . li the mills to the' cotton. The Spring- field (M.&SS.) Manufacturer and In- 'dustrial Gazette has this to say, and iwe ask the capitalists of North Caro lina to consider what it says: 1 f-j- , ;'Tbey (the South) have tbe advantage of cotton location,- and, when they have se cured Bew and improved machinery, will do an unrivalled business. ' They can save freights, buy cheaper and hire cheaper la bcr. They save buyer's commission, and warehouse delivery and cartage, sampling, classing, pressing, shipping, maiine risks, and freight and cartage to interior towns, which amounts in all to some seven dollars per bale. The Northern mills also lose from receiving cotton poorly ginned, con taining a good deal of leaf and Band, which is computed at six per cent, of the entire cotton crop.. The difference between the cost of a bale sent to Fall River, Mass., and a bale sent to Columbus, Ga., is eight dol lars and- six cents. This makes a tax: of eighteen per cent.', which Fall River pays in competition with Columbus. It is esti mated that, if the planters conld manufac ture, their cotton near home, they would save 150,000,000 in transportation." . 1 lit will not be long before the vast advantages over Old or New Eng land' offered by the South willjbe "understood in the ' North and beyond j .1 seas. In this connection let ns J turn to ' our , little South era ' city, Augusta, (Georgia. 1 It is j "well known that ( Georgia 1 is ;very greatly in advance of any of her Southern sisterhood in the race of, progress, and' especially- of cotton manufacturing. In Augusta, with some 27,000 inhabitants, we believe, there are three mills, with a capital of 1,6 00,000. These employ 1,700 operatives, who receive $390, 000" annually in wages. . Within four years three .mills have. paid to their operatives 11,560,000.'. " '' ':IT: Look at these figures, men of Wil mington and 'Charlotte and IRaleigh What vast benefit to -i Wilmington would three such mills bring ?; They would add largely to the population 1 Look at the large sum that would be distributed -among 1 ,700 W working people.! Ail this, or; the most of it, would be expended. in our midst. As it is,, the millions paid to operatives are expended. in the North.;! Oh, the South, the South, how. blind you :are. Whatinf atuation besets you ? ; Why land1 delve fori others? ! Why: nbi manufacture everything at h ome an 4 for javaseli:m :dri'r;.;ziii&t VBat: did: these: three Linilla pay? That is thee important question a.fter all4 tet ua look at the figures as ub- .lished by the Augusta., Constitution lW have seen how much more money was: paid to ;. the operatives! The 1 stockholders ; during .the J four years received in dividends $540,Q0O, They, expended ,15,673,680. Ofle of the mills paid so well .it is being en larged, the'Sibley, And will soon employ- 1,000 persons, paying., them an nually $225,000. w ouch tacts , j are woTth! considering. "Since writing the above we notide that another mill, ibejEnterprise, has declared a dividend of ten per cent, for 1880, after passing a large sum to. the surplus I fund. The factory will bp onlargedlgreatly - at once.: ' It is proposed to increase. their 'spindles from 13,800 no between 33,00 and 34,000, making their looms ' 600 building; jin fine,' a factory.' with greater capacity than jany -in practi cal operation in Georgia. Turn now to South Carolina. In Aiken county alone there are 44,480 spindles, 1,224 looms, 1,080 opera- tives, and 17,848 bales of- cotton are consumed, annually.; One of i these, the Langley, has earned $457,218.27, in eight years, as we learn from the Aiken JourriaV irhi ks- theprofils.; It should be? remembered that South Carolina was passing through a ter rible trialat vkast--4 out years of the eight. - ! Tj - "''v V: t-h:kiii'-iAi ? Wo learn from the Augusta Con stitutionalist that the Augusta Fao tory (a third one) alone pays $175,000 to its operatives yearly, In a short time Augusta will have-125,000 spin dles. They ; are even talking of giving' the Sibley Mills such an in crease as to make it have 500,000 spindles. If I cotton manufacturing does not pay in Georgia why all this outlay? If it pays in Augusta why not id Wilmington ? f The irrepressible Hammond is out in a letter against Dr. Bliss and t the other physicians! who have attended' the President, i He excepts Drs. Ag new and Hamilton from his bill' of indictment, which consists of seven counts, all of which occurred within forty-eight hours after the shooting. We find in the Baltimore Sun the summary as follws : i VNeglect to make a thorough ex ploration of the track of the wound and to locate the position of the bullet; neglect to remove the frag ments of clothing and of bone which afterwards caused such great suffer ing; neglect to extract the ball while the strength of the patient was at its maximum and before the , track had been partially closed by the swelling of the soft parts; treating the case from the first from the standpoint of guesswork, instead of from actual., facts gained by thorough and intelli gent exploration ; neglect to give exit to pus that had collected and to pieces of fractured ribs till the con sulting surgeons I had arrived from Philadelphia and New York, and Dr. Agnew did what was proper; being from the first overweighted with a sense of responsibility, owing to the fact that the patient was the Presi dent of the United States.7 I Our readers know that our admira tion for - Massachusetts is great. It has such fecundity in the production of "isms," is such a good hater, de lights 1 so - much j in taking ; care ' of number one, has such a hankering to get 'its thumb in other people's pie, and knows so well how to disqualify voters under educational and other dodges,5 that we cannot help from admiring it. But it has still another claim to Our 'confidence and admiration.1- With such a showing as it makes in the divorce line, how can any man1' withhold his applause ? With a population of less than 1,800, 000 Massachusetts had more than six hundred j divorces in 1878, white England, with over 24,000,000 people, had drily eight hundred legal separa .tioris' during the same period. This wilt do tot the "model State." .;. Cameron met Daniel but once, and now" he is "cowed." s He failed to come to time at the second appoint ment. He is better pluck than that. We prophecy he "will die game." He has some. North Carolina blood in him, you seel 41 '-"Tar-Heels" have no better sense' than to stick. Vide all of the t battlefields ? in1 v irginia and sundry reports of sundry Generals. The South Carolina colored Bap tists are well pleased with the admin istration of Gov. Hagood. A church at I' Su mmer ville! ha r. passed resolu tions congratulating! him on his wis dom andyokingja-blessing onVhis labors The Charleston Al'eios & Cou rier rays. this 4ifs Ithe .'. only colored church in that State that has mani fested a lively interest' and sympathy, fori the stricken Presidents .,1 The editorial sbusiness is getting'to be dangerous. Another one of the uillmen has been assassinated; This time it is in ' Massachusetts, and the nnfortnnate -victira-Tr-Charles- M." Murpny;r ,editor ;of ;the; Deer Creek Advance; The assassin is supposed to be one James Thomasl X We' hope James will dangle. ,N0.42. 4 ihell(e-8tTlDK Stattou. A cam. : Mr. Daniel Slimson, a cleVer and enter prising gentleman of New Bef ne hss,' con tracted to furnish the material and erect the neccsjory buildings for the Lite Saving Station on our coast. He was in tbe city yesterday, haying just returned, with Lieut. Shoemaker, from Smith's Island, whero the station' is ' to be located. " Mr." Slimson is now fitting up the frames of tbe buildings at h s mill iu. New h Berne, : and will take them : around to the station : , in vesse a when completed. He expects, ta have the, lumber i on 'tthe'. ground' Tin abouii 1 three weeks and will ;then 'com mence the work of erection at once. Should' no unfortunate circumstance prevent he ex pects to have tbe entire work completed and the station ready for service in about sixty days.! 1 - - , ' ! The exact location of the station will be well out on Cape Fear Point, and about three ixmles from the light house. The Oronsbc and tbe CroDa. ' 1 I A, yeek or two ago we were deploring the bad effects "of tbe . loog-continaed drougnt In the Western part of the State and portioai Qf-Spuths.QaXoHna, and at the' same - rime givrog vest - to oar satisfaction at the fact that.we in this section had been blessed with generous seasons and bad be fore us a prospect of good crops. Now the scene has somewhat changed, so far as this sectionj is concerned, as we are informed that the crops in the Town Creek section, in Brunswick county, which were looking so finely ten days ago, now present quite a discouraging appearance ; and the same may be said of the lower part of Brunswick and - the neighborhood of Little - River, South Carolina. To add to the trouble, tbe wells are drying up and it is. difficult to get sufficient water to supply .the stock.' Unless this section of the State ia visited by pretty general rains very shortly the result will be very disastrous. - -: - -- m a m - ' Shipments of Vanilla. ' We mentioned a few days since that the vanilla plant had become quite an article of. export' from this city, and instanced t ho fact thati seventy-five bales had ; been shipped during the past week. Referring to. the same subject, Mr. A. C. Powell, of Teachey's, Duplin county, writes us that from that tittle town, on the Wilmington & Weldon! Railroad, the agent of Root and Herb Company claims to have bought and shipped one hundred bales in tbe last thirty days, and expects to ship one hundred and fifty bales j in : the next thirty days.; He ships to Baltimore. ; M MAN'S TRBiriERDUCS SIONKBir ' j POVEK. The Doctrine of ICvolntlon Treated ' j Scientifically. : Richmond Christian Advocale, The doctrine of evolution is that all organic forms --vegetable and ani mal,' including man himself are lineally descended from one micro scopic i mote of . matter. They all have one! ancestry all ; akin 4 We are told that the time was when life did not exist on this planet. Away back in geological ages,' by chance, a viewless particle ooze somehow cre ated itself! a thing of life. Dead mat terdeath begets life! This marvel lous atom! of sea slime had progenity, like unto itself, of invisible molecules of mud. In the countless sons (for the Evolutionists care as little for a million of j years as a loafer does for seconds of time) these infinitesimal forefathers of men and pumpkins grew, multiplied and. waxed fat. After awhile well, in the : course of a fewj billions of years these sires from - the slush ; of the strand were big enough to be seen, if .there had been anybody there or any high-power glass. . Unfortunate ly for historical accuracy, the race was ihen in posse, and eye-witness and .affidavit were imp9ssible. At any rate, (there was gradual improve ment in the breed. The runts begat thoroughbreds. 'And the thorough breds became the ancestors of ".a bet ter 'stock, . called the Monera. The Monera were not quite large enough to.be examined by human vision, but' they were an advance upon the old mud-sill fellows.' The Monera was a colorless liquid (an organism without organs), of the size of a pin's point, that : could move itself, a .little.; - It was next to nothing, yet a step ahead of its 'federal head.". To make a long story short, it is "supposed" that there was a progression from this minute mass of mucus up to Man. We believe it is admitted that neither observation nor experiment, has discovered a single instance to brace up this doctrine. The giraffe was once 'an aquatic animal, by the rules of j Evolution. He swam by a vibratile tail, , How ; his: caudal pro peller got; changed, into a fly-flapper is brie of puzzle to Darwin. , There is no hint m tradition or record of the gradualj conversion of this. Tear: ap pendage from a - sculling oar. into a brush - toy drive away .annoying in sects. It is hard to' guess how the sturgeon became a cameleopard. Mr. ! Darwin "sees no difficulty irva race of bears rendered : by. natural selec tion a race like a whale.,. How the whale would get a tail from the short nub of Bruin is a "difficulty" to us. ;" . (,(Man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a-tail and pointed . ears, probably, arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant" of the old World."? ..In vain has been the search for the skeleton of 'speechless origi nal man," whose brute howlings were changed to, : articulate . speech, , and whose consciousness was developed. The. progenitor remains unknown, ex cept to the scientists. - It vexes them that the ancestral "hairy ; quadruped" left no trace in the. earth. Haeckel, however, has been equal to the emer gencies and exigencies of his theory. He says the fossil, remains ,jofJ our monkey 'progenitor must (be .. in .the bed of the Indian Ocean on that sub merged j continent ! A ; - ut. Sciencel - SaTem Press: Ilefreahint? tains vuuuoj. - uucbiuuui win tie iieuiy. Il is to be hoped the oak rnast' will hlto be abundant. U . iO i L- -n i Ji ii .. 1 ( John Varnell was knboked Vlbwn aod seriously injured" by Frank WeM ,"uie jatter usiog bis gun: f k'a v lein, rn the Toisuot Home. , j I liouisburg Times: -Mrs., Emma W. Williams, rebel of the late. W. P. Wll- i liams, died at her home in this? pUce -oo Friday morning last. ; . ,,; t . f-; Durham. Plant: -i Hilleboro,- on hearing ne tfesultr of sthe county cltctiuo,' -telesapbed ; to: Dm ham, 't saying: ?. -VYeP, -yijiu have got tbe new county and h-vt'i sense enough to run it:'' . - - j Charlotto Observer: The third i annual Mropened at Poplar- Tent Thurs- day moroipg..and closed yesterday vemt)g. The exhibition jn. some respects ' perhaps ' fell short 'of that of last season, but whenl. the extremely hot and dry season is consid ered, the fair compared favorably with any that baa been held heretofore at this place. ) .'New. York Jribune: The third meeting of the Kitty Hawk" Bay Sports-',, men's'.Club was held st the' house ot - Mr. ; Dominick, No. 23 WeBt 'Fifty-first atreet, last evening.' It was decided to offer for sale three additional, shares- at. f 2,000 .a 1 share, tbe original ehares having, ajl -been tBken.J -Messrs. 'Henry Sampson, D. G.": Elliot and Judge Munger; the legal adviser ' of the club, were appointed a committee to-, gc to North Carolina to view the new pro-' il Goldsboro Messenger : The Golds ' boro graded school is now a fixed fact. The -next in order will be a cotton factory. K We learn that Mr. C. C. Whortoo. of Pam-- Hicp cponty, kihed-a rattlesnake measuring 7 feet in length, inches in diameter and , . 9J incheB in circumference, with '15 rattles.' ' The Goldsboro Library Association has -received its first installments of books for J ' the, circulating library, some 800 volumes. A good beginning. . The Reading Club will .; ' resume its weekly meetings the first Mon- ,' dayin September," -f;i;''fA -4---f-- I rr-.Charlotte Observer'. Cadet Mid shipman Z. B. Vance, Jr., leaves the city , today to join the flag' ship "liancaster," which . Bails for the : Mediterranean from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. -It is said that only one drummer in about every ' twenty who stops in Charlotte attempts. to ; sell any goods here. The others lay over while working the country trade.' ' The " dry weather makes one atonement. ? It has -nbt left the mosquitoes their hiding and batching places. There are fewer for this"' time of year than known for a long time, -The manager of the. Charlotte Opera House has already booked twenty-five com-' panics for the coming season. The first date is the 12th of September. : Most of the engagements are for November, Janu- ary and February. Among those who will appear are John E. Owens, Gus Williams ' and Miss Annie Pixley. ' : m , :. - . , i ' Jloxbora Herald : C. S.- aWin stead of Person county, sold at Danville, Va., ont August the 2nd, one two horse load of tobacco for the nice little sum of $561.86. ; -? A! negro by the name of Rom Lawson, on election day at Allensville, in this coun ty, rate the following meal : . li quarter ' mutton; ' 18 biscuits, 1 pound candy, 2 half grown Chickens, 5 herrings, 1 loaf corn bread, and a piece ' of shoat, supposed to -, weigh about 1 pound, drank 3 .quarts of water; and said he had'nt eat half enough. He then offered to bet he could throw any man, or lift more with a hand-stick than any map on the ground. In order to show his strength be took a man that ; weighed about 200 pounds, and carried him about over the ground in his tectb. He then went up to another table and called for a 25 ; cent snack.. Burglaries are common iu Person county. ' V - i Vf urham Plant : Died,' on last -Tuesday, Mr. Andrew Turner, of apoplexy. Mr. Turner was one. of our oldest, best and most esteemed citizens. - Capt. O. R. , Smith has punched a deeper hole intb . earth than any other man in the State. He has the management of the artesian well at ' this piece and has bored; it over thirteen hundred feet. ; . An interesting revival ; . is progressiug at Hopkin's Grove, about . seven miles north of .Durham. The ' Board of County Commissioners' yesterday granted; retail liquor license to the following ; gentlemen: Messrs. -Rhodes Vickers. V. D. Lawrence, John T- Mallory, Wm. Mani gum, 8. B. Carrington & Bro., and Christ- -mas. At their first meeting in May, it will ' be remembered, the Board refused to grant license owing to the large number of peti tions presented asking them not to grant . -any license for the retail of .liquor in Dur- ' ham county. - But since the election the : people have said emphatically they want . . no prohibition ia theirs by a majority -of -over fifteen hundred, and the Board being willingj that such a. majority' should be heard, granted licenser ';" ' "" . J Toisnot Home : .Rev. " W. ,L. Caningglm is conducting an Jnteresting revivalof religion at Mt. Zion M. E. church, -in Nash county - ; We learn-that a to bacco factory is being erected at Sharps-. burg, f -In Nash county, -near Whita- ker'a mill, on last Sunday morning, Mrs. B,,,. FJ Drake departed this life. Mr. J. F. Bridgers, who lives about six miles east of ' this place, attempted to be let down in his ; well, on .Wednesday last, by means of a bucket and rope - attached to 4 windlass ; After getting in the bucket and having bis . weight fully thereon, the rdpe broke and he fell about twenty feet to tbe bottom of the well. He was drawn out immediately and was found to be very badly injured, ' but we rejoice to learn that he is improving. The revival at the Methodist church ia this place, closed on last Tuesday night, after, a very successful meeting of nearly threek weeks. . There have been fourteen new members added to the church during the meeting; and . two young men were : baptized, by, immersion. - Joe Petta way, colored, employed at the saw mill of Mr. T. H. Bridgers, of this county, was ; caught in the mill gear, on Wednesday last . and completely stripped of all his clothing. He was also right badly injured. . We learn from the Tarboro Southerner , that . several attempts have been made recently " to wreck the train on the Tarboro. Branch road, jand that a few evenings ago .a. piece of iron was hurled through the car window, , passing between Mr. B.' H. Bonn of Rocky -Mount and a gentleman from; Tarboro. vlt ' came very neat striking Mr. Bunn. . -; - Jasper Rhodes, an employe of Dallas Taylor, Esq. of Nash county, was thrown. v. from a wagon on the road near Wilson, on last Friday, and seriously injured.- The wheels of the. wagon passed over hia body. , From Mrl B. IL Ve'ster, ef Nash coun- ' ty, we learn that the senior Rev. Mr. Par nell ii conducting a very interesting revival, of religion at Francis ; Rackley's mill," in ' ' 'Nashville township. The meeting. has been v in progress about two weeks and there have . been bear forty converts, eleven' of whom' " have connected themselves with the church aad were baptised on last Sunday. A new church bas been organized at that place; and at an early day they propose W . erect fa church building. At present the meetings are held i in an old (icrog-hop;J We are informed by Mn W. J. Mor-i ria, engineer on the southern bound last mail, that on last Sunday evening, just as' -' 'r he gave the signal before entering this towni he was struck io the face with a .. rock. : Mr. Morris was unable to tell Who Mu:: it was as it was getting quite dark. . r.f' Mr.; James Vivrett, of Nash county, inform- "" , .Kr ed us this week that he bad -lost 27 fine - -bogs and about 90 chickens,-during the last 0 ,, two months,' with cholera.?. J. L. '. ,' Horn; who lives near this - place,- we learn $ shipped a lots of peaches last week, for which he received about $1 00 per dczsn. There were two crates in this lot. . . ti t it I 1