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TheWeekly-Starr WH. H. BERNARD Editor and Prcp'r. wilmijvoton, n: c. FeIDAY,- r jNTpVKMBEB 18, 1881. BPtn'Titiilg to change fcrour address, always give former direction as well as fall particulars as where you wig your, paper t toe sent hereafter. Unless you da both changes can; not be made, l- - "Notices of Marriage or Deatbv Tributes of -Respect, Besolutiojis or TnaaK s, fcc. are ouareea tor h nwUnarv advertisements, but only ball for as ordinary advertisements, but only rotowiipn rmififfir htrifttlv in adtance. - At for strictly in1 adtance. - At this rate 50 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or Death. s r"'" -Eemlttan'des must be ma5e by Check,Iraft- Postal Money Order or Begistered letter.,: Post mastera'wyi register letters when desired.! , f t "Oaiy Vuch remittances will be at the risk t the publisher. . ., ,.v-....,,-i. : j!. tSjcimft copies forwarded when desired.' ' , AFTEB TH. BAfTTUBU : . : f : Some !of - the ''Republican .paper? th at denounced bravely the Repudia tion hobby in ."Virginia and depreca ted any;;; alliance liwithj Mahohe and his tiibe-(are; njow-- beginning tVfind, out i that the ? alliance i'vas not as bad as they; apprehended, and that circumstanced v justify !' departure no w and Jnen frpm.estblished usage, etc. These pers have 'discovered that itfip'lSp as they delight to call the debt-payers, are not much better tjhan the Read justee, and that it was no great po liticiui;ater ;?aU to wmbine within aemain'nn'eorto obtain "equat lpgitt -riwir jnegrb and a freetoauk' Now "all .such palaver after the ba .tle is nonsense. -' It is ; well known that the boss : ballot stuffers o f Vir- cinia were thisveritable ; Billy Ma s' .' ( ;, -ii-Ct'-)- ; i '-S..- 1 - -' hone and ; his, f 'peculiars'?; at Peters burg.1. 'It' iy wellKnown that in t&19, in a speech,1 Mahone 'favored a set tlement ofthirgia!;pubUc debt on agiven basis as just and honora ble, and that lit 1881 he.i favored re-. ' - ' . . . ; . . . . . ducinjr" this basis of settlement thir teen million dollars.. It is well known equally ..hat he sold 'out to the Re publicans f of a' certain consideration althoughtCby and declaring himself k- Democrat on the floor oft the. Senate.) In the face of these " f acts5 it' shows ' a very pliable conscience ;when editors' now speak approvingly of the alliance between Republicans" and Readjusters-upon a basis of practical ;repudiatidh, when before .the: election: they had only words of condemnation. ;JNo amount of blarnev or sophism - can alter the i plain, unbending facts! '1 .- : '-: I There is a very wide difference be t tweensthe professions and -principles 1 of thetwoparties. ;'.If Mahohe should 4 not "pent bisselfi and turn once more. upon his record, but this time in the right direction, and come out in favor of paying the amount favored by the yirginia;:Petn,ocrati(j JFunders that is, to pay two-thirds of the debt as agreed upon by ,! the 6rreditOrs-4hen he will play havoc with the rights of creditors ad tehthjorth auseful lessonto be learned id the - school jof repudiation Tte jiSadeiphia'2, Inderjerident, takes 'this' View of the matter andi there, is. .comfort in it for the feeditors 6f ;V1rg1nia or for those - who? Iiave at; heat tie ;. good name of ' a'Btate that '1afeVrHii8 honored atselt' hThe limes jsayst 4' t ' 'Mahone' the iMesent fietjudlation leaster? had favored the .original, Funding ' bill,1 wiuc.il proposea 10 pay sixperc on two-flurds bftiie TOhtr&oti. cent, interest ocratic partyTbecinise iifcr jyfeasitalSH mm, ana ne naa to una some ae isstie to make a party of his own. IJe found the neoDle noor andfeaavd listen to renudia- tion, and he raised the blaek flag and won tne btate two years ago, elected nunselfr ta the Senateelected Republican local Judges, through whom. Repudiation . Assessors were ; aprintedT.-ajad JlepudiatJoawas -.thus fastened apou the commonwealth, t ' The Supreme Caurt had maintained the. law and : the : sanctity.; of Jhe contract .be-; t ween i the creditora- and the State,: by rer; quiring the State to receive.the. .coupons oi the bouds in payment pf taxes, f- From that, decision Mahone appealed to ids rag, tag won. ;He will now.; readjust the Supreme Court, as the new Legislature will elect new Judges; the new Court will repudiate .both, the contract :and the judgment of the pre-, sent Oourfc ;and..lhe .solemn faith of. the Commonwealth- given ui.fa.'jcoinpromise linTlfi tn -r'ntdittr will Ko rTuiliot lirStV. the debt. This purpose. I was . boldlv de clared by Mahone ;,he is ; now able to carry! it out, apa lie wiu ao it, - lie will . readjust the Supreme Court, and make it repudiate the judicially .declared law to enable bun to Mntiill.tM.l.. -1 .1.4 . Ol.l. ff . . , i:.u SS ,. , ssi: -vrii, Jii i ""i-": A NEW I881TE. ' i - Some of our Jforth Carolina Demi- ocratic.exchnges airergingthe abor lition of ?the internal rvenue i systerti; The RaWgAlJMffiwert jsays:; 1 ' The iSsiie on Which the neit camriaieri in this State will turn will be the abolish- . I.' -X . - . .! uicui ui.iue jiuwjruai revenue ueparcment. We once, had occasion to say that when the proper tune should come we, would arIc Repubficans to' vote the. Democratic ticket, and we propose "to giye them good reasons. It is teiY certain ! that the Demb cratic . press will not ; be a i unit in a movement of this kind, which we are compelled-to regardoas junlortunate and urVef ke; from tie revenues of theieountry r aU Hhe moneys Uected'jfroto tobacoot andyiin ot'wflW1 lieve the .luxuries and tfien ex neo.!' e lay a heavy tax upon the neces saries, for 'money , faust be raised; It will spWthe Democmicparty, than any lailroad question caiievjrUljtem and thepeople, te, must'f ner split it, o insist upon a measure that places all support of the Government upon the duties derived frra a high pixrecuve -wnu. IXUbet? are; two things that deserve taxation, ! are wuacco auu vxMcjr;uuB-juuiUto t'ous editor of the Fayetteville J&t- owiner8ay8: . . -j i'lf we. were sure that the - contemplated revision of 'the tariff would be carried f or- ward on the principle , oL-fiO..jilstffljlifitMting tha 2." Z, irrS&L jection to abolishing or greatly reducingthe liiiinrwu reveuuc uiacb. : uu :u ouiuvw of revenue is to be given up4 in order to, create a pretext for readtustlng the tariff fn : the interest of the ' already much-proteettid manufacturers of the Middle and Eastern -States, then we should Drefer to adhere to the present plan of raising ;revepue hy ex- , In; this opinion he- expresses. tpej views of the Stb also. ', -,W,er wpuld? be lirlad; to.? see the internal Sieve-: nue .abolished V if- itf-could'be Moxtff witnouc taxing ,ne( (!neces&are ,off life; . ' Let the , luxuries be taxed andi i let the people have : the absolute ne cessaries as cheaply as possible;'; This; M our position. But it iibpgin,. to do, to .wiper m direct taxest byJ revenue to fall back uporian'mcrease of indirect taxation by Impost ' TWO NOTICKJLln.E CKANG1 -'i Tin ah v. One not controlled, bv Dar- ft tisan8hip-a kind of; independent out- ider who stands afar oil 'and views the field of conflicts-two tbinM'ittUTsiV appear, ,plaiiir.te, him in jc?nnectibnT, wita tne ngnt betreen senator v ance and ihe Big Buf ord Syndicate, J The two Ihingg are jthese, and are notice- able: First, , there -has been a most manuesi increase in w energyrwiiu-' capacity of the B. ;B. S. ! 'since Sena-; tor "ance took it in hanol. Figging zeal and a dilly-dallying, "spirit . have . yielded ;W prodigious go-ahead-rtive-ness and ' utmost 'pertinkdity a,nd de cfeioril ! If the same well oliecte'd; and', unflagging effort had been made, romr the. beginning of; the proprietorskipi (if that be the word) of the B. B. S., ' ii' li iL -J. Lii-a: li I-l il -rr'?Jli i j- H me wore wouia nv uwn ,suir,au vanced there would have.beeii no opr: casion'for an applicatioh . f or aa ex-i tension of time. No one can deny, it strikes, us, that J; lagging ' zea waa enanged into unceasing activity on the part of the B. B. S. by the vigor-! ous aptir ? that North' Carolina's favorite. Senator, applied id the sids of its...intentl . What friend ; of jthe Western-. North Carolina.! Railroad; will say that in this Senator Vance nas not : aeservea weu r i ne people; on the Ducktown line .should- feel. naught but ' gratitude-! ; towards Sen-i atorYance, " for ' whatever- prospect there is of a highway for them is, ljo : be attributed mainly;,to themgood ser-. yice8-bf.iheVgentlein been taught to abuse v . if. The second thing that must strike the outsider is that) the .Big' Buf ord t Syndicate is manifesting 4n authori ty very different from1 th'atf e'eroisedT fiw jideatog;nw;jingraj question of local : .freights. -Al blind man can almost see now ; that this B. B. S. is much more 'careful hot to'di?-" criminate , Jagauist o.ppl ltJjan it i was ; at i first, A blind man :cah jdiscerri k change too - in: ' the, willing- souses inai may nave, crept, j into t ita managementi -; We will not insinuate, that the abues iri tlm direbtidi Were of purpose' and; by authority. " rnas- tnriojhvs .lus is denied niLQ, .press 3be3 :pHit, j Cru; there has been a change ai i most' -salutary knd needed b'anfeelf1' It'ciiinbt De'denied that eaw- Vanc suStaine'iis1; of ; r discriminatioa against 1 the people of North' Carolina7 't lt oonnnr m avyv W4ia JTt'-rA un Si;' bn.,ibe rb under.the management of the B.;B. It is: easy to see, if one has a pair of eyes and; is dwposed Jo uie, themA that the whip, used by the . bold : Senator! has not been in Taih: -The licks fell on the rht ptacea and therults ar mosi tneficial, we ny , Relief j; 5 fBut te thing must not fstop? here. It 4s unfair io Cleave one tri-; 'many uvwvvvf iun uj.. ivovuxcv auu xuii ox pebplei to fight f theu battresii!. of i ithe , State alone. It f sr the dutvr of 'tne peopleiib see to !tiiafc such abuses1 as oenatpr .y anqe nasj, bgen j pghjUn and fighting .snceessully,i are iqt re- newed.o To? that end there i tnustbe judicions cilultious vbat I recessstrf legislation. T,fpepplerhojlld ,?iot shrink; from this-aJt jb-tlieir iiijfceresta hat require it,'; and ifaey should 5 the IisUJure who wilit gtijB thent in aifightainrtt aiiibrmjipf oppressions; whether, tls ;l?Gi man, is fit tolegisUWfof sa free people whw ia under! the' "infiueniif vwvvi wi pitsuges pi. 2k giant imr. faNomansoube legislator who is lot MentifiedvWithi f '; flght tweeii'T cessity take sides with the corpora tiorls. Let Stjie people protect their own jjteres's. In a struggle of this kind there i..-t one way to accom plish Jhis. " r " ' " OTlOrbEB IS, 1781. ' On to-morrow the centennial of the evacuation-"of Wilmington-by "the British occupf.Hfe, bl5ahTlt(?-&iy aste'i and ipractieed -tn of Mai Graham, jPavpf.thwiCity, who is unusually; - welUi informed r as f o - the e ventscop& Vt4' With -..the? jRevolu tionary history sof a NorthCarolina,; and particularly ,i of the -; tide-water , section.' y We suggest that it would ber .altogether., appropriate for -she people of; Wilmington i to 'mark the .daVxbY demonstration i of ; some kiAd.'1 J. Such" dates' in -rf lustbrio an nals; should be. celebrated. It would bejbOingiibiy.if, 'tbe 'military wbuld turn put and -after parade as semble )With the .citixens at the City Iall f pi; hjo,. purpose of indulging , in patriotic glonlicati on oyer -an event that was so important and auspicious to the; people . who dwelt on the Cape Fear, in 1781... We make the sugges tion and, leay.e the matter .with those 'cbncernedf,o, n ff THE C.REA1T FOBCSTft OF CAB. . ( 1 T Th. Stab, has. .urged j earnestly ee? yerai times that our people shall pro tect and, spare the. forests of North Carolina as far ssipossible. . Just in proportion i to.lthej;, scarcity in the ja arthwest,. of , trees is the ennancea value of jour forests, Not only should bur native forests be kept as a treas ure, bpt eyery farmer should make it a part of .Iiis business .to plant, so many hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of . trees. It, ; b great folly ,to sell off ,jat. prevailing low prices the ,. most. valuable trees, when it is certain they will fetch after a while pauch higher prices. . . t . . At present the Northern manufac turers are searching for walnut trees, and large quantities of forest lands in- i Western i North Carolina have been sold to , ; persons living beyond thV State. The Marion ' Lamp.Po9t says: r "'Jtrt ' Jos. . A. Irvine, from Columbia, Tennessee, has been in the range of moun tains aivKUng liortn Carolina irom lennes for the past two months looking after black ' walnut : timber, - Mr. .Irvine repre sentsme firmof A. S. llolsev & Co., of Columbia. Col. Holsey ja ihe-editor of the Columbia Herald and one ofTTennessee's ,wjde-awake editors. Mr. Irvine has pur chased some twelve -or -fifteen hundred black walnut trees already, which will ave rage 3 feet iu diameter, and his work isso Kuess work, for he eoes to the tree andmea- rsures it round, buys it as it stands and pays tor tt,f taxes Dul r or sale, ; name of parry: pwnsnrp, county and state, and leaves the iree unui caueu ior. rus trees range irom 1 to 17 feet in circumference. Mr. Irvine kindly showed us the dimensions of several . hundred trees and the prices paid for them. :and many farmers receive more for a few. waiaut trees tnan tney make on their entire farmsTJrices'ranjrine from two unto ten 1 dollars, per tree. . Mr. : Irvine has bought all t oTJiis .trees so tar in Unicoi and Carter counties, Tenn., and Buncombe, Haywood .and Yancey counties, N. C , and is just be ginning jn this and Mitchell counties. -. He has already more than, one hundred fancy curled walnuts which are so highly prized among' furniture manufacturers. " ' ' ' - Te tell ! Our readers ' that in a few years iat farthest walnut will fetch dbublef perhaps .treble, what it now ietqhes. Why such haste to sell. It is oiily witnin a yeayxtirothat the. The many 1 large., manufacturers . in that great section must have timber, and they :will have to - come into the South' in! tearcferiof Itefbrests bf,.JNortn Carolina are a great and un jdeveloped ,( source of riches if our people jdid , but ;know ,it.. Ash poplaris bickory walnut, and. several- j other kinds of"' woods are sQught already. " 'Aew.Tpr, firm has contracted recently" for 5,000,000 eet of tho woods named, in the three counties' of 'iladisbn. Buncombe and rHayyibl"'':any ;bf , the" trees in .We8terji Carolina are of - great 'size.' e see t mentioned that: Mr. , Irvine bought 24 walnut ' trees in McDowell : county that; measured ' from: & to 13 t feet in circumference..' 1 " ' ' Again let 'nj;repitifflxb bnght to be manufaotriretl! at home. Thfe real Pprbfit we 'repeat ' for the tenth pr twentieth lme, . lies in man- ax;turing,:the raw material. .But if ;yU will not manufacture do not sell ;your! trees now; Hold on for a' few "ybari and "ftM il'Bee:iiiewisdom;oxr SE& HERB!-You are sick; welV thew is'fustone remedy that will cure you be yond a possiDiiity of-aoiibt il it's Liver or Kldney trouble, Consumption, Dyspep sia, , peblUty,. Well' Health : Renewer is James IWKidgelyr since 1848 Grand Corw i responding and Reoordlnr Secretary of the .Orand Lodge of L O. 0:.P,. of the United v States, died in Baltimore yesterday, in his ' t3teaa.t--M-:riJp'B' s. ;-.. l-.. w .s - ; n, ' ' " . vt;",, DIGESTION" THE GREAT SECRET .10PI4FE. A good digestion secured by takin Simmons Llverdat-" ' ifrrItla tbei only tnedi Taster sjifCeriag five i years ; witti dyspesia, S.rAYBESi Delaplane 8U;;r Va.? rn, sick neaoacne and constipation. ir iWuuwe prepareu oniy oy i. H.'zeuin es .. . . For the Star-, Centennial of tne Evacuation of. Wil mington by the Brltlah gorece Oeen patlonf the Tewn by rdb -Jntjior- ford ana the North Carolina lop- : - ... ; . .... w- : : ; Xtevolo: lonary Gver -.ta and' xa cldeny j in October, 1781, the event of; the jyar .of .Qur Revolution next In ordery ,and of. most interest , to ,us ofv WiV xnington, was 1 the recovery just a month after oltowni ofjthe" town from British occupation, and the final expulsion of hostile forces from the isoil of North Carolina 'l The 18th of November,' 1781, .'was an eventful day in 'the . history; tf. -vv nmmgion. upon inat aaie it was evacuated by the British troops, who, under the command of Major Craig, had held possession of it since J Janu-. ary preceding, a period traugnt witn trial to the faithful few whose neces-' sities j compelled : - them to remain within the town during ' its occupa- tion, and of carnival to those who held with King Georgei i.Here Cornwall's found safe asylum in April,. 1781, af ter his fruitless victory if such it could be 'called--and retreat from Guilford Court i House, : and ffrom: there he legan, in- the latter part of tne same month, tne march north ward,! which eventually led him to his fate at Yorktown. From this safe covert Craig, wbb wasan active, energetic otficer, of much the.., same order as Tarleton and Ferguson, har ried the people of Eastern Carolina, and went out on numerous expedi tions of. maraud and pillage . one of which (Aug. 20) extended as, far as "Newbern, to the disconlf orture of the people of that old town, who were most I : effectually plundered. The town was completely sacked and sev- eral of the citizens killed among them I Alex. Gaston. Esq.. father of the late Judge Wm. Gaston, who. was shot dead in the presence of his family. Craig -: came . back in hot ha8te.from this foray, because of the rumored approach of "Mad Anthony Way ne who had 1 been sent by La fayette to take position temporarily at ; Halifax, to check any attempt Cornwallis might : make to retreat from jthe Virginia peninsula into Car olinaJ :, y . - The evacuation of ' Wilmington freed the State from British rule.r It was their last foothold, and during the short remainder of the Revolu tionary war North Carolina enjoyed uninterrupted quiet. - Craig and his command ; took, shipping down the Cape Fear and by sea to Charleston a much needed reinforcement to the troops there .pent up in narrow lim its, and stilT' smarting v from' their rough handling by ; Gen. Greene at Eutaw Springs in September previ ous. ; t - t V-'i,'"-,; '- -S'..- . Gen. Griffith Rutherf brdjof Rowati county, In command of the State forces operating against Wilmington a century ago, was an able, inflnen-. tial btate officer. ; r He was , captured' 'ty the lintish at Camden at the time of Gates defeat, where, it was said, he was est down after his surrender, and remained 'for a long time a pris oner of war, After his exchange in Ktxpnif ltoi, lie again cook mis neia, and the followinsr" extract from ' McRee's life; of James Iredell gives some account, of , his operations re sulting in the recovery of r; Wilming ton. Rutherford was an unlettered man, and was said to , have had but little I culture . of . mind or manners. He i seems to ' have had no. control over his troops, who were without discipline, and nk conduct was well calculated to excite the wrath of the! high spirited Archibald ; Maclaine, a man jof . refined, cultivated . taste, and an accomplished Shakespearean scholar. - 1 ' ' ' - As ' soon as the abduction, of Governor Burke became known, Gen. Rutherford, who had returned from his imprisonment in St.1, Augustine, raised a force in Mecklenburg, Rowan and Guilford. for the purpose of libe rating Wilmington, . He , moved .Jn the directidn of Fayetteville. ", ' ..,."" ' . ;.By the time he reached Drowning ureex (now jjumoer nver), xtobeson county, his numbers had increased to 1,400 men, of whom 350 were cavalry. 'After engagements with the Tories on October 15th, near Rock Fish Creek, and at the Kaft bwamp subsequently the army arrived at .. the ; Brown Marsh, in Bladen countv, where Gen. Bntler had had an. action with the' Tories some weeks before. Here Governor Martin reviewed and ad dressed the ; troops with. ! words i of encouragement and . commendation, . About the 25th of Octobery 178lJ after a' junction with the corps of Butler, Rutherford crossed the Cape Fear at Waddell's Ferry, intending to invest Wilmington on the north . side. A 'body of men was detached under CoL Smith to proceed down! the : river, "on : the 'southern , side,1 to ,a point opposite' the : .' town.; Smithy defeated a;: body of r To ries, at , Moore's plantation, ., but finding the - brick house, about two miles from Wilmington, garrisoned, protected by abattis and the doors and windows barricaded retired ; to , : Llvingstop ; Creek. Rutherford had 8 brisk skirmish with the British at the "Big Bridge,"ten miles from town. Col. Lee, passing i from headquarters to South Carolina,- broughtsthe, news of the surrender of Cornwallis, which was promptly celebrated by Rutherf ford by a general "eu 'de foU.- Immediately after; the fail of Torki town Gen. Washington dispatched South the J brigades of Wayne; ; and Gist, under tbe command of Geh. St.. Clair; these troops were - how draw--' : ingnear;1iemmed in bythe; jNorth. CaroIinians,and alarmed by the march pf the. Continentals, Ma jj Craig evac uated Wilmincrtojii sailing November ; ; 1 8tb. i t Bef or the' enemy were fairly m,oi signi;, tutner?ora., enterea tne town. The, militia ,did mot j deport themsel ves:. with much moderation' and propriety; they seemed to regard the"T43ce" a,:r;one Tarried by storm, a fair heat':e for plunder and: Jor. the dftpls of ; the worst passions ..A Jii.j'-. T UA : Long crushed ' by fFreas irercf theCor fention abonded exactions - of Mijop-" 'h?$t rfc )mmeildf J ttat he Sive a sens now experieied,.i25f i.1.!00;-- i ,1 "' the mer Jlesa JUraig, the citizens now expef brutality, outrage and sooliation at ' the hands of their own countrymen; all -who had ' guiltyxconscienceSjall obnoxipusv -as Torieej had. fled under heityoT lhe ferkisV fTag. Much of 4be property irr the- towrrbelongedter v nigs wnonaa nea upon lis capiure, or had been afterwards ; expelled or paroled, . The streetSj tor days? wrc the 'scenes of . f riot and debauchery j highly respectable - gentlemen ! were srowdedi into - a pen coarselyj con structed , in ' the main r thoroughfare, -and subjected to jeers and contume ; lies ;' houses'; andsf ores Were ravaged 'the law- books of ;Maclaine r were7 i stolen; and the beds of the patriotic Hooper v xipped' PenT feathers scattered to the winds, and the tick ing "abstracted. (When Rutherford .'withdrew, his wagons left laden with fealt, an ; article; ithen of great value," Jtaken from the-disaffected.?') ,Tt is no matter of surprise that the choler ic r Maclaine denounced the Genera as a "petty ; scoundrel f ! ri Governor. Burke was : captured at Hillsboro in September, 1781,. by the notorious tory, Col. Fanning, who baffled all attempts at ' his recapture and brought His Excellency to Wil mington, n whence1 he !;wa8.'sent"j to ; Charleston, as a "prisoner of State." He was succeeded by , Martin as Go vernor ex officio. '' ' ' ' . ': ' Among the officers serving with ' Col. Robert Smith, sent by Ruther ford to operate on j the South (west) side of the , Cape Fear, was. Major Joseph Graham, father of Gov. Wm. A. Graham, in command of a bat talion of dragoons'. - He scouted ; the whole of Brunswick v county . thor oughly, "and successfully engaged 'the tory, '" Cot Gainey, of South Carolina, in i the ; f neighborhood of Ijockwood s'l? oily, near the State lines of .North f Carolina and South yaroima major , iiranam wrote a very interesting history of his cam paisrns, and' his account of 'the be-' hay ior of the troops and others after Rutherford's occupation of Wilmirig-. ton timers .maxenaiiy irom. mat oi McRee It is as follows: ' "The day after Col. Lee " fLight Horse Harry, - the father of ; General Robert E. LeeT "gave the information of the surrender of Yorktown, several gentlemen came to smith's quarters and said the ! British were about to evacuate Wilmington. Next day we moved down to bhaw's plantation within four miles of the town; heard tbat the whole of the j British forces were on board and the vessel falling down the river. Two -boats 4 were procuredi and we went down the river from Shaw's to town. The ene my's vessels were in, sight lying near a place called The? Flats.5":- On: the wind rising they soon .moved out of sight. Gen. Rutherford . and part of his troops had arrived an hour before and took up headquarters at "Mr. Hill's, the only active Whig,and who had suffered more by the enemy than any person then in town.. Guards were . placed out; an "officer - of police appointed; ' and to "such bf . the inhabitants as : applied,- officers or respectable privates were . sent to quarter, with them .as safeguards. What public stores were left by the enemy were taken possession of. . By the second day :, it was reported that ;the enemy had left the coast and - all was; tranqnil in the town.! The wagons; -which hauled for Gen. Rutherford's troops were ordered down , from the bridg'e over the North East river and loaded with salt left by, i the British. To make out. . loads for ..the. whole, some was taken from the , disaffected and hauled on to the West," j r ' G. 1). Fir Our community will be Bbocked to learn pf j the, suddendeath' of-, this well-known gentleman, which'' occurred at Ms father's residence last night at about 6 o'clock , tie had been complahiing since Wednesday last of what he and the family thought was .a severe ttack of .neuralgia in the head. " He had taken sedatives in moderate doses during several days,. . and on Sunday rdght took la pill administered by a physician. - He went to sleep about 12 o'clock that night and ap peared to rest wefl. Wheri bis room was entered by one of the family on yesterday horning; after 9 o'clock, he . was found to be in' au .unconscious. Btate, from which hie .never rallied, .although he received every possible attention: from bis ; relatives, and. several skilful physicians1 "His death was caused by apoplexy: ' He was ' born: in 'August; 1841: andj was therefore in the 41st year of ; bis age.- Be was a gentleman of intelligence, of . great decision and-ind&- pendnce of r character, of highpersonal courage and honest convictions. He served his native North Carolina most faithfully in the late war," receiving two-severe wounds and losing "one of his arms. -: He was at one tune on , General Wk: R , Cox's staff i and served with distmguishedLgallantry as Adjutant jo,: the.tThirdi Korth; .Carolina... one' of the best of the many,,-regiments our State sent to the war.; His death will be lamented "by all of his surviving" com rades, who appreciated his high soldierly qualities. At the time of his death he was associaW editor of the Weening R&dew, with Which he had been connected ; during the last five, years. In his death North Caro lina loses a courageous and devoted1 son!. and : the , press a conscientious, - intelligent aou ouispo&en gournaust. . x Second Crop of Rlee. ; r , r , v.-sWe, saw yesterday a , sample of second crop iic Jf rbm the fields' 'of Mr. W. MI Hankbs;earthisicii fully ma tured;: the heads being heavy and the grains perfect. .He has about jthirty or. thirty-five acres, ;which he expects to commence cut ting next week; Other planters, we learn, who cut their first crop early, are also' pre paring to reap the benefits of a second crott i Two crops ft vear wfll do orettv Well for this latitude: The sample referred to is 1 on exnioinon at tne store of mr. JS. Jacobi: '; It U useless to groan , with' rheumatism when a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil will cure it; as everybody knows. -Cbmiw (OhtyikbVy lemtM or Theodore Callto n James. -Captlst State- Convention f Winston Leader. . " The committee i i wuom was re- Terrec the"'3ropriety of making the Ureas irercf tneUor fention a bonded a Ther'resident announced the fol lowing committees: - ' .1 v-- On Presidents J- -E.-' CartercAi. C. Dixorft Oliver, J.r Kr Faulkner,. C. A. Jenkins. J U A 1 U .To Nominate Board of -Mission&-r4 C T. Bailey, J.t A- Steadier. K.i Frost,! J. B. Richardson,. Theodore J Whitfield. - ' " . , ' To Nominate S. S. Board J.'M. Heck, T. G. .Woody F. .P -Hobgood, D. GT Woodson.,,,;'; .-ot-rj f:.- f; j. To Nominate Board of Education ; C. F,. Taylor, liP." A;' Dunp; J.; Ai Munday; Ai G. McMunnaway;' 'i ' l' u: On i Obituaries-Tfaeodore 1 Whiti field,, F. R Jones, .E. .L. Davis E. Dodson, R, A. Patterson. , I ti. : Items from the report of the Sun4 day schobl 'board Sixty-seven new schools have been organized during the year; Number of schools at last report,- 650; , present number, i 092 "number, of -attendants, 48,000; com tributionR to' this ' work'' in various ways, $7,360.61; ! ; ' ! 1 u . There was pledged f or State Mis4. sions 3,400, and with this there will "be raised, by associations . enough to make this amount 'about $10,000.' : ' ' :. The committee to nominate preach4 , ers f oij the next session reported as follows : 1 1ntroductory sermon, C. A J enkins ; IL A. Brown, alternate. Missionary sermon, r J; E. Carter; Jl "B. Boone, alternate J J ji I , , THIED PAT.-' 'i-i . t - , The report on education was read, being the special order for the hour. The . report was full of facts and figures, -f From 1830 Jo 1840 the.ar- erage.number aided annually by the board Jwas two. now there- are twen-i ty-threel JThe receipts of the board for tne year amounted to $3,465 63. This is in advance Of anything that has ever been done by the Baptists of .North Carolina in a single year. Fifty-seven new school hous.es have been erected in one county in the past twelve months: Report adopted: ; i The; committee appointed to con sider the report of the Sunday School Board recommended that the board raise sufficient capital "during the coming year to purchase and keep on band a supply of Sunday, ochool lite rature books, maps, papers, fcc.j re commended that churches ' take ' up stated! collections in behalf of their ounaay ocnooi Doardi ine evenmg session was spent , in the discussion of uiis suujeci, .une xnousana .aoiiars was raised for this board, and report adopted; "tU" ;tlKi.iiipu ;.4:'Uy4' i Better than putting ons Dollar out at ..rn t.' Compound interest, is the sending it to Dr. C W. . Benson, Baltimore, Md., for two l. 1. . rf-it - 1 m.: i. nni.i- uuira ui. uis vveiery ; sou vyiiamomue jruis, which cure nervous disease; quiet the mind, bring on. refreshing sleep and prevent paralysis. ' : .. THE if AMES QF THE ST A TES, New York Times. 1 Hon. . . Hamilton B. . Staples The read a paper at the annual meeting oi ine jamencan Aniiquanan Bociety in Worcester, on the : 21st ult., in! which he discussed the origin of i thfi. names ot several of the States. . His conclusions were as J follows : New Hampshire gets its naine from Hamp-I shire, England, h Massachusetts is de4 rived from an Indian name, first given to the bay, . signifying ."near, the great, nms." xinoae island nas an obscure brigin,(the Island ,bf Rhbdes, the "Island i of the ; Roads"'iand; a Dutch j origin, ; "Red. Island, were? mentioned, the. first seeming to .have the best bistorical support Connecti-ll Iand on a long tidal riverj New; YorkNeWfJereey,?! Pennsylvania,! Delaware, and MarylandjWere passed over. 'lYsrginia the Carolinas, and Georgia have a roVai origin." .Maine! was named from the fact that it was supposed to conta1n-th-nayW?por-f tion!' bf NwvIgidrmAt nas no especial question, except 1 that it is claimed toj have: first 1 been ah! alias W ew Connecticut. . alias Ver mont. , j Kentucky popularly . signifies ' A;i .JufAx.. . uij"' r... i v cimw a, . . uiu& aiiu. uitwuji gruuUUj or "a bloody! " rive'f but Jits 'origin5 signifieaijfthet head of Ea rriver,: or "the long v river Jr.-j Tennessee , comes from its river, the name being ( de rived from the name of an! Indian' village! on the river Tanasee.'r Ohio isinamed: after an ? Indian name, : an . accent J of x admiration. ; Indiana ' comes from the name 'of v anl early land compaayU ' 'flUnoiscotnes 3 from the Indian--the- name i of. a! tribe. Michigan is ; claimed i to ; mean ;.?lake country'; it probably came from the name "bfMhe flake, '"Great Lakcy which bore this name before the land adjacent was named. ni Louisiana vis from thp French. '. Arkansas and Mis souri are , Indian, , the former, . being doubtful; the latter is claimed to mean in" its original ;Mmuddy water,", which describes the rivers; ;' Iowa is also Indian with doubtful meaning., Teias is ' popularly supposed to be In dian, but may be Spanish. Florida is Spanish,.a flowery larid.'' Oregon ' naa a uvuicubt-aif;urimn."Tjrxt'.:lS itro-. bably Indian, but a Spanish origin is ; ciaimecu .yauiornia comes from 1 a Spanish; romance of 1510..1 Nevada takes its name - from; the Mountains," who geli theirs from a resemblance to the Nevadas of:,South America,: Min nesota is Lidianky-tinted water.'' Nebraska is variously1 rendered "shaJ low water" and flat kkmntrfj'1 Kan sas is from an? Indian: root. Kawi cor. rupted by the -French, .s Mississippi is "great . iwater," r or : "whole river." Alabama is 'Indian! "thehame ! of fortress and a tribo,' signifying as is claimed! j'hereiwerestjjtjKnMai': . The Door sufferer tliat; Hast fm a himself with, so-called Troches and thereby upset his stomach without - curing the troublesome cough; should take our advice and use at once far;, : JJqfl'g Oouh: gyrpup and get well. .. . -.. . - 1 entaniB;,.: GreeAville' 56 stores in Pitt cdbntv outside of fJrm.. ville. There are' twenty-two cotton buyers in Greenville. , -rMr, t R, War ren, besides supeiintendrng Mr! Wm4 Whitehead's large farm near Marlboro, has made on the farm this .yesr, with three of his children; 'aged eight; ten, 'ami twelve - ; years respectively 20 bales of cotton, 135 barrels of tiorn; and 100 bushels , of sweet potatoes. He repaid ronly -$r.82 forJured abor on the whole crop. During the Sractice.for the tournament vat the Tarboro 'air ' on-: Monday, we learn .from Capt Styron that Doc Dawson, -brother of Mr! A. i Dawson, of r. Tarboro, . -was thrown against--a post-'by: his horse and his nose knocked oil. one side of "his face complete ly torn off and all bis teeth broken out. No hopes of hia recovery; were-: entertained at last accounts.-' -.J,ry ' . 1 . r r- Charlotte Observer: Major W. WJ Flemmingrwho has been active1 as the attorney for the Teutonia Colonization So ciety, of Pennsylvaniat and is negotiatino for, lands in Western North Carolina which . thef Society- desires tor- settle" with immi grants, reports that he - fears the sale of a large body, of land in - Henderson county will fail on account of difficulty in making title. At the 'Mayor's court yesterday morning John Neal, colored, was fined two : dollars and fifty cents and costs for swear ing5 on the streets and twenty-five dollars and costs for , unmercifully driving and beating a horse of Mr.: John . Wads worth. r-At the. congregational meeting of the Second Presbyterian church Sunday it was determined to tender; a formal call to Dr. Woods, of Galveston, who preached in the Second church.- two .Sundays , ago. - . . It da thought that Dri Woods will accept. " ..-Charlotte' Observer: There are in North Carolina 228 Presbyterian churches and between 18,000 and 19,000 members. Charlotte is interested in everything touching the completion of the North Csfv lina Midland, hence it will be of interest to know that the: Xjunty Commissioners ef Iredell, as is learned from, the Statesvillc landmark, have issued, for Coddle Creek township',' of which the enterprising burg . of Mooresville is the capital, a subscription of $10,000 to that road. There are 181 travelling ministers belonging to the North Carolina Methodist Conference and the whole membership of that Church in the conference is 1 37,295. The member ship pf the Baptist Church in .North Caro lina is 191,812, and the number of churches is 1,910. Of the total members 87,810 are colored, with 886 churches. , : -.Greensboro Patriot: The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley read is graded 23 miles from Greensboro r One hundred and twenty-three convicts are now employed on the work. Superintendent Stamps, who was in : town 'last-Week,r reports them in food condition. .He intimated that it might e necessary to : send a part of the force to the Western North Carolina Railroad.' We also learned from Mr,. Stamps that the num- . ber pf convicts in the State is 950. Of this number 450 are employed on ; the Western North Carolina Railroad, "and of . this num ber only 400 are available hands. The road is entitled to. 500 able-bodied convicts. Mr. Stamps said the general condition of the convicts was good. He also remarked that the falling off in the" number of convictions in the State since his connection with the penitentiary board was 35 per cent. 1 ; : , -4--Winston Za?er.' From there- : . .1 - . . m the Mission, Sunday School and Educa tional Boards of the North Carolina Bap tist State Convention, now in session at this place, we gather the : following . items: There are in the ' State of . North Carolina 67 associations, composed bf 1,910 churches and 191,812 church members. Of these, 31 associations, - contaming 866; "churches, 88,810 members, are colored;which leaves 36 associations, 1,044 churches and 103,002 ouiuug UC ITUliCS..' 1CU Ul uit.it; white associations, containing 250 rfinrc.ltfs with 17,002 members, are in the Western North Carolina Baptist Convention, which lies beypud the Blue Ride, and abont 3,000 are members of churches which lie along ' ine -Doruers 01- tne- tate, -and co-operate South Carolina and Tennessee. So the Convention now in session at Winston! rep resents 26 associations, 794 churches, and 83,000 members, all which are white and he east bf the Blue Ridge mountains. ri -j? 14. Statesville ; - JjandmarJc: , . Tlie wheat that is up is represented as beautiful. A farmer from the lower part of Concord " says some of the . Wheat in his neighborhood is as high and as green as it is in the spring time. ' The so-called drought of this' year has been a God-send to the people who , don't want to pay. their debts. , John Fisher, of Salisbury,' a: colored 1 em- nu uuhc vuuicuuuna ui . V irgiuia, X J v V- u ... yj Ult -WW IU4U IWUIT - road CompaHy, had a hand badly mashed ' whilst rtnTlt,nap.vMiio af . tfiai 1nTw.4'nt,'1.f .i olaccL ' Prirlav of Inst wivlr vn.-ViitA juuMi ui uio iiiuiic ui iiAunxa got one 01 his legs , entangled in i the machinery of Bar ringer's cotton gin in this place, and '.very narrowly escaped the loss Of the limb. As it was, it j was. a good deal J-taanglei " Dr. Hill dressed the wound, r As if . there were no more hands to be worked ' on,, the' gins have gone to work on people's legs,' ; Mr. J., C. Scarborough, State Superinten dent of -PubKc Instruction arrived here last Friday morning but was too-unwell to ful- fill hfe appointment . to speak " that day at Amity. ' That night however; ne delivered a very excellent address in the presence: of an attentive audience at the court house in -this place: - He! was ' introduced JbV ' Hon. W m. M. Kohbins, . and said that he desired to address the people of Statesville more particularly" in the interest : of the 1 ctaded school system. , : .,. ; m is ; i v . .' nr-! Phi8boro Jessenger: "We are S leased to learn that Rev. Geo. W; Dame, son of Rev: Dr.-Damei - of Danville,'1 Va., and a very, talented young minister and a most pleasant '.affable gentfeman, has wpw eau! to , ine- nectorsnip 01 til. Steohen's Church in this nitre nnH will anna enter upon his new charge. The con struction force of ? the -'Midland j Railway about ten miles from this city; but the ad vance force are some three miles farther, at x Holt's Mill, clearing the right of way.:. The bridge across Little river," is nearly, ' completed, and-: a large. force cof laborers1 are eneraeed in irettinsr out cross ties. l he case of Arrington vs. Arrington, from Nash , county, the parties: in which have gamed such , notoriety .through nearly, the ; whole ; State, : was ,n called '-up '' last Thursdavmornine- ed. Both the plaintiff, Mr, William H. Arrington, and the defendantsMrs.' P. D. B; Arrington, .. together with ; their . many witnesses, wereon hand, and also the five children, four eirls and a bo vr; for the !dos- session of whom this action- is bmticrht hv. s- jut. - Amngton. 1 ne evidence showed a , most woeful state .'of domestic hannin?s. blighted, but we will not go mto particulars. -The trial was brought to' a close, Friday evening, and On Saturday ' tootning Judge Shipp gave his decision The mother is to have the children' for twelve mnntTis nnnn. hergiving a bond . of $2,000'f or their pro-' ductkm twelve months hence at Nash county Court, and for their remaining in the- State" 'till that .time? the Judge basine his decision. : upon the ground that the children are- now too young to be taken from ' their mother. years, pi reene county, pjea on 'kve , aay, 'Moyemtier-, ux-i. ' r.-f1-" - Women that have been enven un bv": their t aearest tnenda as beyond heln. have been permanently cured by the use of ' Lydia E J ' ! 4Jmham; Yegetable Compound. i It, is ft , : positive cure for- all female complaints.. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 233 West- ' ern Avenue, LynnfMass.,for pamphlets t . i Spirits Trap -! i 1.1
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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