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There is a great - fight progressing in England over) the opium iniquity; England lias had for scores ' of years a large revenue from the importation of opium into China, and it will re- - quire- a very '. stubborn fight ' to con vince John Bull ; that it is such a monstrous iniquity it must! be given; , up. - It is singular that a great peo ple capable- of great sacrifices, arid who have clone-so"!mu tion and the moral' progress of the " world, should tolerate a traffic that ' ough t to be h ateful to " every Eng lishman. .This is not the first time that philanthropists have striven to get rid of the opium iniquity. ". . No w. that , the war ' against U '" has reopened with new life and yigorit is altogether probable that, the ad vocates of the cessation of the opium trade will be triumphant. In Eng land within -this I century many and great practical reforms 1 have taken place, but it was only after a: persis-1 ' tent, earnest, . aggressive ; campaign' extending through a dozen or twenty years that, some of these were "se cured.-; It will be so with. the, effort to abolish the opium traffic. If its advocates are as full . of zeal and pluck and'energy 'as were those who f ought the slavej trade in the past the end cannot be uncertain . although it may be deferred. f According to the. New Vork' Sun, f the English newspapers and periodicals' have for. months given much space to the con-" troversy; a j great 4 society ' has been" organized to obtain the; 'prohibition of the opium commerce; Parliament has been repeatedly memorialized -'to that end; arid monster meetings have been held in London and Manchester,' like those over jwhichW"ilbWforca presided during1 the slave-trade agita tion." That the antipiumists .will triumph in the end we "doubt not, ""because their caiise : js right."i jiVTj . Th; Indian Treasury lias' received from this source within twenty years . $672,00O,pdQ.!' 1 The last -year gave t6 1 the BritishTrHsuryovej $42,000, : 000. - So. just in proportion as the revenue frorii ! this abomination l is large will : be the' difficulties to be overcome'in securingits repeal. It reminds us of the tenacity and S grip of the Northern monopolist. 'Just - as he counts his profits.because of the presen t t ariff by hundreds of thou sands, will the! intensity krid .fixedj ness of his opposition; to all repeal be increased. r V ! ,'-'".'", It: THE WORDS OF; A STATESMAN. '""""'.The fetter Mrf Tilderi wrote to the Jefferson Clnbj, ' of ' New Havener is one of the wisest, most? statesman like prodrictions 1 we have read iri a long time, v He shows. in all his po- iiucai .uueranoesinax ne .is-. a states man of , ; the "most : conservative . arid judicious sch6ot He ; understands thoroughly the furi3amerital princi ples of our civic institutions, md he is anxious tiiat tose principles shall be '-: perpetuated.' r Whilst ;:j certain Northern papers professedly' inde pendent jeer hi m and- others for in . sisting tipbii i sariding'by first.3 prm pies, yie government: instituted; by our fathers is f drifting, drifting out ' to a sea full of storm .and : calamity. It wthe duty of. all patriots to.' study the foundations upon which ; wise meri reared a grand - superstructure. It ia the duty of all true Southrons to study well the 'writings of 'Jeff ersdri, Madison, Calhoun and other leaders of political thought . that they may- have a. clear understanding of the pre -j-cise and complex form of goVern merit under which'they live, arid that they may the better , appreciate any de- Jr-.- - 1 'jit "TTvTntCl 1 i 4r VOL. XIII. partures from ' the principles of the cori8titut!o;The iiberties'of a fjfefc, people arej always in tdanger. r, Hence; it .? is that the,., axiom known of all mail "that iho f price 1 of liberty is eternal Vigilartce"--is - recognized 4 af wise and true. :-1''-';i-0--i:,i;' i ;Mr, ldnat the cfose1 of his ad-, mirable letter, says," arid, his words, are, to be pondered -5 ; : : ; . ik. "In a period when there 'seems to be little . respect i or the ijitnitations: of . power, pre scribed by . our written . .Constitution ; when' assumptions 01 ungranted autnonty are me ia all the departments f the u Federal Go-: yernment; when that Government is being, gradually changed into an elective despo tism, medQJing.in; everything Deionging to? the State or to individuals; when every new Assumption iOf , ungranted power creates new opportunities, new facilities, and new incentives to favoritism and jobbery; when the" civil service has .been converted into a balance of power to determine the. elections bypecumary and:.otuer: luegitimate innu- ences; when the perversion of, high trusts to .the private gain of the official is frequent ly committed, with - apparent . unconscious ness of wrong, and passes almost without rebuke, it is time ;that the. teachings and,' the example of Thomas Jefferson be in voked to keep alive the; glimmering spark of official virtue and public honor. TWO NORTH CAROLINA HUMOR- ISXS. Mr. Henry ! Watterson,: editor of the Louisville i Courier-Journal, has a readable article in - th Century iot. April, entitled! "Oddities of Southern j Life." He considers the late-. John ston Hooper, although, he does not give his oame, as the best of the whole tribe, of Southern j humorists. .W riting of ''his old friend Captain Simon Suggs, of, the Tallapoosa Volunteers,' Mr. Watterspn saysr He is to the humor of the, South what Sam "Weller is to the hutoor of England,- and Sancho Panza to the humor of Spain. Ox course, he is. a sharper; and a philosp nher. But he stands out of the canvas . whfirfinn an ohsnnre " local "Riibens 'lias ; de- picted him as life-like and vivid as Gil Blaa This is doubtless true criticism. The only Southern book of the past that we would .. compare with it is; Judge Ingstreet'8"0eorgia;Scenes.yc, But Hooper s ,book required a . firmer grasp, and, possibly, a more inventive genius for the) humorous than the work of the Georgian! which is made up '. of separate, sketches, although! Ned Brace, a ;verya rich character,-; appears in several of them, v i ft i u ' Mr. ' "WatterSon mentions - Other; Southern humorists, but he omits the name of his ' favorite and 'the best that North Carolina , has produced thus far. . He refers , to .him as an "obscure local Rubens. " This is not exact. Mr. Hooper was as well known r as any . gentleman in Ala bama.1! He was a lawyer and a well educated gentleman of scholarly, tastes, i He was the son of the late Archibald .M. Hooper, and was born in Wilmington, a' town that has been the birth-place or the residence of many men of distinction in Nortb Carolina history. The father , was extremely fond : of communicating his thoughts both with tongue and pen. He was, when we ' knew him, an old man near . the gi-ave, but he was full of mental elasticity and was a living "chronicle of the past. ., From, him we first learned of many inter esting characters t ancLI events iji the Revolutionary times fin North Caro lina, and wre ; so ; riiucli; entertained by hini that in our. boyhood We took down some inniy or -more iooiscap pages of his reminiscences. We gave them to the ; Rev. ; Dr. Calvin 11. Wiley but they have been destroyed long ago, we suppose. 'If 'we ' had them now we would - have ' material for many an interesting sketch. f " Johnston Hooper had a cousin who wall a man to be remembered anibbg thousands. : We refer to Rev liam . Hooper, D. p., LL.D., at one time a. Professor in the University of North' Carolinav in -the'Uriiversity'bf South Carolina also we . believe," and President of Wake Forest , College. Dr. Hooper was one of the foremost scholars of the South, and a writer of very riaarkedxcellericeT. Take him all and in all we regard him as the oest Vmaisiter of ' sty e of ariy; native -North Caroliniari. His literary tad dresses are of high merit, llis 'Fifty YearstSirice',is' decidedly the most ex quisitely-humorous arid mostf charm- ingly; written address , ever delivered before an AriiencanfcbilegeaSj farris Ve have "read. I It is 1 "worthv pf the delicate and. spontaneoushumbrftlie chaste style, the delightful : pen sketching bfashing tori Irving.? W have thought for a long time that if ir. Hooper naa oeen oorn in xsoston he would hayg taken rank" with the most i acwiriplishei ,pj"pse?J writers ttf that sectioti; He had the native gifts, the high scholarship and , the", lite 'A WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JiPRnjli;,188. h-'J:f rary faculty .tha Would have' enabled mm to nave - Decome a conspicuous iteratus. Intheouthv heilajcked' he neeessryiriperijtiyea arid. jpar roundiiigs, .and his ready and grace- . L ...... t..,JV, ui pen was oxcer,cisea 3npot;OC"?ar? ; 8ional, themes andl in'preparirigd miraDie dui lugiuve aracies xpz tne i Hooper J jwas?1,les3 blassicalnd pure and more rollick- ing and'side-spitting; n; " hjunior- han the genial and quiet Dr; Hooper. pis brother, the ' distinguished,' rb-n 01 ancient . languages, -ai ' tne University,. DeBerriier Hobper,'has jvery superior abilities, out we believe he has ; but rarely taken-;ip" jts peril s jWhether or tiot he. has the hiwnor of. the, family we. caiinpt ay hut Jthis. we tnow: li e can - be very caustic and witty upon provocation, i svf a William HobperJ one of "!tho sigri-- ers 01 ;tne ::. ss ational JJeclaration of Independence frbn? orth and one of the tirst men . of. his. time, of Rev, Dr. Hooper.' . So it will be seen that Johnston Hooper f author ofi fCap tain Simbn Suggs," w a of a distitigriishd family and, by reason of his own .fine gilts, ,was.anyiningaDTic ooscure." x , A "DHf FICriUT PBOBLEM. It' Djei''io 6k suf; if the, ;JGflad- stone (rovernment--had met -with a It is now said i that it was afrailto ,come io a Snal vote on the cloture even after the-vie-tory inT theef eat of thej Harriott' amendmenti :The Go vernrilent relied5 confidently upon the; good .effects of. the Coercion act. : '-But Mr.yGladstbfie now admit that, matters are more dis- couragmg more ingir'IreJ and than : at any; time "within, fifty y.ears The. Government will be I: compelIed,to take one of. two courses;: - iu give buo icsciib uiuoauici) yi pressionf altogether, release all "sus-: pects,,r, imprave ., the Land act,, and, yield gracefully to the -pressure of. circumstances . and, the convictions! ofj the age that -Ireland is misgoverned and should have horiiei0rnle2iThe other, points granted without this last will ' pnly serve tb protract tlagbriy; without curing Ule evil, j The wayjis, to give Ireland a chance, T Let that country have .' the ; same rrights; and privileges that Scotland has, and in ten years' Ireland- will be a source of. strength instead of positive weakness The other plan open is' to dragon-' nade Ireland something after the style of Elizabeth and Cromwell, and if not so severe'at least harsh enough to create terror1 : and dismay. -Tho latter is the policy , favored by the Tories,- and even by a1 wing"; of the Liberal party. The New-York ' Sun says of the feeling, among "the .Lib erals as to stern repressive measures: "Thev are ashamed to own that the pre- facing of remedial legislation by coercion was a blunder and the imprisonment of Parnell a fruitless iniquity; and, ' smarting under the sense 01 their own aiscomnture; they are assuming a spiteful and vindictive attitude' X The feeling of such Liberals was revealed in a meeting at the , Reform ; Club on Tuesaay; wnen tne -conviction was ex- f)ressed that a new Chief Secretary for Ire and was required, and that Mr Gladstone should take -stronger ' measures. ' To the same effect is the : assertion made by tlie Daily News that 'Mr.' Forster's administra- lion 01. mc r f oicunuu uui ia um a -suiuuicut safeirnard a'srainst crime.' and that the time has come for the Government to strike, 'and strike hard."' ' '; . -V. ; ;v ; -1 c The problem Mr. Gladstone has to solve is a most 'difficult, one. He .. is kriowri to be anything else than stern ana persecuting .nwwpeaxt? is known to be the'i most advanced ref prriier airipng; the, le42iriaBntish statesmen, lie - may - lekri strongly towarda grantirigj land, but ; ho may be powerless to effect it: IIis official tenure may; def pend upon a different policy.; What will be, the outcome no man may ,'tell as yet. Rlsrlit Hand Cut Off. 1 : One ' Jpsiah 'Robinsoncolorederaptoyed iri.theterii.mill bfosh'i!1! Sidney, Cblumbris county, got "his fight hand cut off; by the Saw, -i on r; Wednesday mbrninff lastiwhile crossirie the saw frames So- we are informed byp Messrs. uWright & Spivey,- of that place, . t i:r Insane Patient. , , . ,; -. : ' u.-. -The Sheriff of ' Robeson1 county arrived here yesterday morning with an insane colored woman named Sarah Moore, whom he was" takimr to the Asvlum at GoldsboTOf. She was lodged in jail here for. safe-keep ing; until ready ,to, jaKe the train . rpe! British ' brig ' 'Zingu,. Capt. Burns, was cleared;, f romthis port or JBridgetown,; JbAdoeStv est ., indiesi :yes terdav bv Messrs. iFd ward. Kidder & Son, wiUi 193,045 .feet i of , lumber, .-yalued. at $4,113 Titi! schooner AJffinneri vCapt.' JFrve. was cleared -.from T this port for . -St. Gebrefe. Grenada. , vesterdav. by Messrs. Northrop & Gumming; with 148,610 feet of lumber and 7,ow Rmngies,-vaiuea,.ai 184.98. : .1 V IjlJ ' 1 TCI 7"T 1 IrlT lH" AVl A Great worlc. 4 , r ', .-v I Through our old friend J, J. Robinson, of New Berne, who; has been . in ,the city,. or a day or jtwfl pastw Xearnthat there has been" a most ' extraordinary. -.revival of reTigfiin in'tliat plaCTTwhich has 'extended' to 'i several! , of I cujandii ,-?,till in j progress j.T&s.cqnunenceai inr, tne ;,iaptist church, where its effects were most marked an(Lrnuraging; but v bids; ,fahajaow;to be'euany .oijuciiye ofgobd results in the en4jt.jChri liev,; Dru Burkhead.' i A v large number 2 of h0; most prominent-citizens, including several pf -the oldest pf, 'Jho, qpttMhim .residents,7 are aniong those wh( iiave made, a prpfes:, pibn of religion. 11. kisayl i ; .a fi Jiii '.ft t flnimlnsta lftntnalHnttnranee nanv. A Jhfi;annual meeting, of this cjpriipany a lield tii Wednesday ,, night, oihai following L J . - -.- . Board5 of Directors was - elected i WJ A. Heide, 3i U. Freeman, H,' iybnGlahn, R.; (dder.' W.'P. Oldham, -'.L?Bo'-jden, R. S,' Radcliffe,' Col. John McRae. ." t saXk, vita A .4f rencu was elected; president sand Mr. 'Samuel N.: Cannon was elected Secretary- f Millft C The affairs of the company are represent-' ed to be in a very healthy conQUtion.iil hi A 'party just arrived here; from - More- head City reports that the1 Norf olk1; Wreck-" ing Company got the steam-tug . BlanJ7i4np. ; with but very little difficulty, nd she J was: expected to ariive here yesterday or too-day. It wjllbe , MinembeKd thatthej JSZonc went around to assist the Norwegian- barque ; Mrwwd.'ash'ore' inside ibf -Beaufort Bar. ' with a cargo; of steel rails for ffii. Midland; Railroad, and got ; a hole punched, in. her. bottom, by 'C' colliding ! with- the barque's anchor, when an attempt was made to beach her, .but she sunk iu seven feet of, .water. The injuries to the tug are slight, of course. - Death from Paralysis; iu 'H l i 'Mr. 'B. pMorrell, who . was. -stricken" with paralysis a few . days ago," mention! of, which was made in the Stab, died, yester- day.tnprning, "about o'clock, ;at -his resi dence in thff city.'., Mr, Morrell was . a na:, tive of Massachusetts, but" had; resided! in this county 'and Brunswick for the' iast' thirty-five or forty ; years, He. built the Court . House ; at Smith ville,., was ; ,at -one time. Deputy -. Sheriff' of - Brunswick and served the county one term iri theIjegisla turc.i , Latterly hq bas been .'devoting .his: entire time to bis business of contractor and builder,; - Beceased,' who ' was " between- 60 and 70 years of age had many friends who will regret to hear of his dcatb. t (The steamer -Lisbonii Cap t; Phillips returned a day, or twOifigQ ' f rom. c trip to Lislton, Sariipon "county, "being the' first time that a steamer had been to that place. Lisbon, is ' a - viliage T on ' the Big Coharie,- about two or three ; miles' above where it empties into the Black River at. the riiouth of Six Runs, and about , one1 hundred arid thirty or thirty-five miles above this city? The Black River .for a considerable .idis" tance, as well as its tributary, was pretty badly, obstructed, and the Lisbon has been busy for the past two months in cleaning it out and improving its navigation, ; until now it is said to be in a pretty ' fair condi. tiori. ;The XwJow took up about two" hun dred sacks of guano ; and. brought , down three hundred barrels of naval stores, and it is now intended to make a regular trip . about once a week. -" t1 -rf 1 . ; The steam-tug Blanche, of this port, heretofore alluded to as having been sunk near Morehead City- a week or so ago by coming in collision with the anchor oft the Norwegian barque. Quffiringa, by which a hole was stove in her bottom, arrived here yesterday , at ,'4' P."M., ' arid will go iipon Capt. Skinner's Marine Railway to-day for repairs. ' She was raised, . .as previously. stated, by the Baker. Salvage Company of Norfolk, 'and sustained '..but ".very 'little damage." r Capt. J. T. , Jacobs, . commander of the. tug, " expresses himself as being under great4 obligations' to', the -people of 3Iorehead.and .the.ipUot'i of Beaufort, for assistance rendered binf,c knS also to Capt AppletoW Oaksmith,' whose kindness IwiH not soon.be; forgotten,, and .he desires us thus publicly to return his thanks to all for the services r'eridered with so much prompt ness and cordiality. ',.;.'., ;, r , , Tne Alleged Homicide at Fayette vllle. In referring to the assault of Sam. White upon Joseph: Andrews, -in-Fayetteville on Monday last,' we stated that the latter died the. same night.. .S.uchwas the cpmmpn re port on Tuesday morning, and the Examin er, issued on Thursday after the'-difllctiily, stated the same. We now Jearri, . however, that up7 to f F-r4day- morning, wheri the steamer JIrcS lefCFyetteyille, he was not dead, though i fieVas Yery low-and,, riqt able to recognize j members . of . his lown familyl jbut jt is thought he may ultimately recoverillam.' "White' ' was" .'arrested and lodeedjn jail, but has since, been released on bail. I I rilci-ii.ri--i s: Sincej writing the above we have receiyed a ' 'postal' f f rom. i Fayetteville; , which, states that Andrews is -rapidly recovering. 1 C. F.-arYi V. Railroad Canedo Not Heard From. '. i J-otu A correspondent "writing .'us4 from Fay etteville, under 1?if86mfdo did riot put in an ' appearancetandiiothing further . was -heard - from1' hirii.-1 The old BoardjjLPirectors 4 was" ' re-elected, except Capt. Hurt, who. declined a. re-election:. W. A. Guthrie, Esq;!, was substituted for him. The reports ot the Secretary and (Treasurer show an increase, of $JO,0OO in thegrpss rev ceipts for the 'past . year. T MrGray ex presses the confident conviction- that 1 the . .4.. I road will be built- within a short time.! V.;,!f. .V. .7. tj-.i. n"3 -: j '; T- Si r;.mp,:-;v .1 i " cotton movement: 1 ' Statement of the National Cotton Ex- i;fy;.r;:,;changei-l- ';f J. VpfyJTplegra W Hew Obleaks; Aprilo. Thie'followinir is ft statement of the National CpttonlEx-I change,, showing the cotton movement of, tKe United States from September Istf, 1881 ,to the close of March; 1882 r;ffft- 'jV. Port receipts this year, . 4.272.272: last year 5,058,444i ' Total overland: this tear-- 4 .oiujiwa; last year, -03,1m.. ur wnicn..tor mills, : 393,067; last year,. 402,630: to ports, this year. 417.156: last' vear. 351114. in transit; this yeai 5,964 j. last yearj l,655i To ' Canada: 1 tbisl tear1. 43.912 f ijlast peaf:' 18,616. -f' Eiports to-Great-Britain.""' this year "'1094,635 last-I'yealfJ-2,113,382 "' to tne ' ChanBeLthisyeari-- 40638r" last "year, 26,390; to "France, 'this h-yeariliM aw-, last year, - 4as, 6W rw the uonti- nent, h this . year,'i645,163;.last t year, :837,- oi. ; Atr sea, between ports, i this year , 16,260;' last year; 13,653: "Total taken by-Noi1tern-itnms,i -:thi vyear, eli845,256rlast year, 1,376,681. Stock at ports atth&close ; 01 joarcn, ims year, eoy,iv; iast year, ouy, - 353., itr fJ 'wait ..--.;vif1-,lii-, : I . MISSISSIPPI LEVMES V ; v ; ifHSi&i i-smjsdtd'L. - teueus tt&xju'if. Opinion of tnoGoveraors .0$ Xonlsl- ana, UUsslMlppl And Arkansas as. io . ' tne Repair of Damages Canted, by tne Oferflow'" ai ' ' ifTp-ci jf . .';( ' tBy Telegraph to lbs Morhine StarJ ;' - NBW.ToiuvApril B.Tt&Eerdtd pub lishes replies from' the Governors' of Louisi ana,. Mississippi and Arkansas, to inquiries which it addressed to them as to what they' considered should be: ' done: ; by the i seVerai : State governments affected by .the floods, - and also, by the Federal ' authorities, :,to! meet the (present; emergency and prevent; further disaster, such as at present: , . .r f Gov McJinrv" intimated that the losses of the people of Louisiana will be so large as j to r preclude ; ,-the possibility of .rais ing the half a'million dollars necessary to' rebuild the broken leveciS4 - He - shows that nearly 170,0upersona,jwilLsuBtain pecu niary damage in consequence, of the over- flow, and considers it ' perfectly legal and proper that the uU1 S. Gverament shalU undertake, to make .allrequisite repairs. ; -, me liovernor 01 ArKansas.rto'a'Ereat extent, : coincides , with; jthe ' Executive of Louisiana., He sees no reasons, why the Federal Government cannot take charge of the entire levees,- F. .::n;t ; rn'' ; Governor Lowryt states, that before the. war a splendid -system of levees was In ex-' istence, but bythe time:the -reat conflict was over it was' completely wrecked. It has never been replacedf and tiie damage now. is so overwhelming that it is, he says, be-: yorid the power of the State:tp repair it. f . f Petersbnrs's OCobaceo Trade Deatn of tne Librarian of the State " TJnl Verslty. i,;ti tJ-Sik. .rtsst..ftj.' Petersbubg, April 7. The semi-annual report of .tobacco, inspectors .laf this city shows sales of loose tobacco from different warehouses from' October 1st, 1881,' to. April 1st,,; 1882: to have ? been 4245,816 pounds,, an excess of ,1,037,706 pounds oyer the sales of last yean - This tobacco sold at an averagte price, of f5,50H per" hundred' weieht. 1 0 .. 'r - t. ....... . UUARLOTTE&VILI.K, April 7. W m. Wes- ton baker, who was appointed by tiThomas" Jefferson as Secretary of the Faculty ancL Librarian of the Dniversily.of-Yirginia,-" in, the year 1825, and who has fined that office ever since, died last night 'at his' residence in the 85 th year of?! hisj age. c His appoint? mcnt to office began in the year of the es-' tablishment of the University by Jefferson, and he filled the position with great fidelity and universal satisfaction. : , SOUTH CAROLINA'S MOSES. Another . ITletlm of : JBIlsplaeed Confi- j , , u t dence.( , . - . . j i ByTeleffraphiothe"tfornliieStar. . ' , i New Yobk, April 7.- The case of Frank lin J. Moses, ex-Governor of South GaroU na, indicted for obtaining money by false pretences, was on Recorder Smith's calen dar in the General Sessions ; Court : yesteri day. "When counsel.for the . accused "asked for an adjournment of. the case, Assistant District t Attorney!? Fellows said that he Would willingly consent, "f .'Tj don't think, your Honor," said Col. Fellows, "that I could try this case impartially, as 1 myself arii one of . the victims - of misplaced confi dence in Moses. Under the circumstances" I think the case should be transferred to another part of the court." S The papers were then sent before -Judgs Cowing", and the case was set down .for trial on the 14th inst. ' ' ' -"'- B USINESS FAIL UBES. mercantile Acency Reports for tne ..Pat Weelc. .' - -TlTew - Yobk,- April v7-RG.Dun-;& Co.'s mercantile: .agency Teports.f. failures throughout the country for the week at 127. .Eastern States contribute 18; .Western, 35; Southern,' 39; Middle, 20; Pacific Xoast 8, and New York city 1 7. ; - This "is about . the same as last week, so far as numbers- are concerned. " ' The failures in New York city were insignificant, : no ' - representative houses in - any line of , business : having failed. , . , . . . WEST VIRGINIA. ' 5 ,.!:', ;. o .. ....(.' , M:.r..'i..:. .. . ;-. .ijj! j : f - A Negro Hunt; lor Rape by a'Mob. i t . . j' a i m . a 1- .. ; i men captured the steamer Sallie Freeze, at Raymond City, last night,' went to Win- neid.' tooicvtne negro Joseph snutft out oi jail and hanged rhim to a tree, early this morning; lie , had committed an outrage on the wife-of a section hand on the Chesa peake fe 'Chits' ' Railroad? The shock was so great that the: woman was "reported dy ing, last, night. Smith acknowledged his j !i ..t. NEW. ORLEANS. Confederate j ; memorial -y Ceremonles-- i Tributes from the Grand Army of the j BepoLblle Demand :for i "Labor , for l: Plantlns-4-si. U- : ;; .'"New Oble Ass,! April 7T The graves of the Confederate deadlwere-ecpratedryes-terday, and interesting ceremonies were held at the Confederate monument, an a Green wood . Gemetery..' Three bandsome floral offerinss were- bvii General .Badger.P Capt. Woodward , and ..others, Lonf behalf !:o jtixe .Grand Army of the : Republic--pne to the Iiadies'iMonumental Association, One to. the Washington Artillery, and one to the Army of Northern Virginia. - At ! The miHshere'hav&eeased crushing cot ton seed eh account of the demand for labor :for :planting.., r.j.jL,.,..,. ,-.'j "r j- ': .' " " .. awS: ... , ... .1 f.. "-'-The striking mil"; operatives' at, Lawrence, iMassc, have deterriiined; jQot. ;to return to nvork .-under the reduction r of Swages iin- lposedVrfN'otwith8tariding this the mills will 'start "up - Monday, and it is. believed that at least, half: of the strikers will return to , ...... ..... r.- ,!,,.,,.,..,. ,J.o. ............ , worK. -;:; :-Mi'-s ' 11 A H1" s?NO.;24 TORNADOES. Terrible Storms In Iowa and BUehl- gan Many Persons' Killed' and' In-' Jared and Houses Demollsned. 5 i I'hi fi tBy Tejegrapli to the Mornlna; Star.lr .... i tjBoottliirADiCA sriecmr.to J)t''7iM,8ay's; ,A temfic; to-,' nado swept , through the townshin of TTsU Janp, Eaton cpupty,-. last. , nighty . .doing im- Siense damage, and killing alargo quantity f.live stocky'. Several 'lives are "reported lost and: many persons are said to have been Snjured, f JThe place is remote from travel f i Latev advices: say that in Oakland county land Mrs. .Henry V Tyler were killed.' K' ittteaufchterrf Mr; Tyler had her - arrit feo. badly cmghed that amputation : was ne-J cessary. juiss uora wara was also injured;. The debris of the house had the appearance of having been torn up by, a explosion, everything being ground to "atoms: ' A ihorse was blown out f a barn'and found In a distant , field covered all over with :mud; vr An " idiot T sister 6P "Mr. Horace- Sherman,! of Kal&rno,'al kflled ;Mis aunt's lee was broken, his wife's law -was dialo-, cated, and the "whole family wereJ carried a distance Of i fifty -rods by the storm, and; thrpwBjnto.awamp,.badly bpised.; .;;v-j . East Saginaw. Mich.. April '7. At' 6 jo'clocklast evening a tornado ; swept over mlrripry..nprtneast otjmaiand village, twenty jniles-west of here, dbing ebrisidera" ble damage. The residence 'of E: Walton was: lifted; up: and capsized, tearing. it, tar pieces. The wreck took fire "from a stove and burned up. ' The, family" Were tall in-; ed-ij aiirf yiJ-Jn V - ' A EastSaginaw.l Mich.. April 7.-News- comes of a terrible hurricane passing near Highland. Station on . the - Fhnt r Biter & Marqpette Railroad, south of HoUy,arly last evening. .The extent of the damage is not yet known :f the "telegraph, line was blown down, arid, the railroad agent walked to Clyde and sends what was learned when' he left. The dwelling of a man .named Crandall was blown down, killing Crandall andi one I child ' and severely iniuring an other child.;:, A lady , named .Taylor,, of 'ontiac. was also killed, and "several other' persons more or - lcSs : injured.: The hurri-; cane covered an area o less than half , a mile wide, but: it " is' reported to have levelled everything in its path a o j j r ; f u 'iQu; A ; Iowa CrrvJowA;iApril.7. -The tornado ast night; moved in a northerly direction. and prostrated telegraph ' poles when-- it- crossed the oanta ire Kailroad track. , j ohn- Wilson's house was blown down, and Mrs. Wilson killed and a Mrs: Baker 'fatally ia- ured.. -- Several other - larec and .stronjrfy built houses were! demolished in the heigh- borhood.l-' sfi:'i-Uif -; Y4nmo ;Prbceedinff northward: the storm : struck the new and thriving town of Chase, de molishing twenty Out of twenty-four; build ings in the place, ! and throwing cars from the track. Mr. Reed, hotel keeporwas killed and his ..wife : fatally injured, i ; An other woman and a child were also killed .r At about the same tame iri the .evening a small coclyne - passed.: through the eastern art. of tne county, but it did hut little amage' It was accompanied by rain.' :i; ' iln some; places: the wma," sucked all the water pu,of .-the wells, .As the cloud ap proached'' Chase-' it-'was ! iri'the shap'ef a' tunnel, whirung and twisting -with tearnu velocity, j All the inhabitants of Chase wercniore orjess injure Jmtfew, escaping without a hurt oif some kind j . The people, are living in boxcarsrand many families art in ailpsHtiitArtTMlitinTi -Ctr' '; i . i. LOUISIANA. Desperate situation at morgan City Tne .Streets Navigable 'for Boats Everybody "Leaylns tne Place. 1' ' ' i New- OBMaftAprit 7.i-The KTimes- Democrafs Morgan ..City, f special -says the situation here, is fast becoming desperate. The water continues'? to nsei slowly, and a current flows through the streets of Morgan City of at least five miles an hour." In many places it is difficult to manage a boat JA large schooner is now anchored on Second street. The water , front the swamps fis coming in through the . rear of the city in a perfect torrent, and, everybody that can get away is doing so. ;.The:Mercerv tookt over one , hundred persons ' to-day ; she went: to Plaquemlne , to . connect, with the New Or leans Pacific road;'":" - . ,' VIRGINIA. Double Murder In Surry County ,by 1 -Poison.'' J' . 'ft - V rBy Telegraph to the Morning Star. ; i : s PE-raRSBtrBGL ApriLS. -Information has just been received here that a double mur der was committed iri Surry county y ester day,', by I tha administration.of 'poisoni in coffee. 'From what can be learned it seems that a Mrs. ;: Gray, her husband, and a'Mr. Jones, ; jail .living; bn- thq M: same farm m; the ' above county ate breakfast 5 togeth er yesterday morning. Mrs. - Gray arid Mr; J ones drank coffee, while Mf . 4 GrayJ took milk: A few hours after breakfast both Mrs. Gray and Mr. Jones'were- taken sud denly Jill, exhibiting signs of ' bein g poi soned. . and after -. intense.'' Suffering - both died within a short time of each other. The supposition is that arsenic was placed in the coffee by a servant girl employed by the family.: Mrs.-Gray.was a highly respected lady, and in "Company with her ' husband came here from tne J ortn;; - Mr. i ones was a former resident of. this city.-; 1 SOUTH CAROLINA? 1 The Election Prosecutions in tne TJ!. 8. Court at Cbarleston. - Chableston. April 8. In the U. & Cir cuit Courts Judge ,J3ond presiding,. ; the Court overruled tne motion to quasatne information ' filed by ithe . District Attorney in .the Selection cases,.- holding, that ithe Offenses With which the parties are charged are most infamous, and consequently not I? be proceeded agaist by indictment only. . : The District Attorney then moved to be allowed to amend! the information filed iri the Richland cases,by adding the charge of conspiracy, under section 0,440. 01 tne u. S. Revised Statutes. ' The Court overruled this motion. ..The District Attorney then stated that he would announce on Monday whether or not ' he wottld proceed with the trial of the Richland cases on . criminal in formation, or ask-leave to -file a new one. FINANCIAL. New Yorfc' Stoelc " market Weak, and hi'ii4i'J'i 'Jo"I.wr. J i. i L New ! Yobk. . April" 8, 11 A. M.-4The stock, market bpened weak -"and per iUCUU lVTVCi uiou luutouaj o vivciug tions, Colorado ' Coal a and Louisville ' & Nashville being the most prominent", in the "decline.! In the early dealings, after. a frac tional decline, . the...market . sold up iHt per cent. , N. JV Central," - Missouri Pacific, "Denver '& Rio" Grande. Wabash, preferred 1 and Northern Pacific-Preferred being con- S spicnous ,in the advance.-:.: This; was" fol-i; lowed by ..a reaction of .il percenti the ! latter: for Lake - Shore, while Reading fell 1 off. If per cent -to 60 but subsequently re-' covereu per ceui r.. jrr SpiritsTurpentinei x V11son AitMncef Aitei' a long delay thedirectomof the cotton mills have - HioseuarSite .for the location of the factory.- . Kew Bems Mft Shell: Eiirhtv-' five thousand tons "of "fertilizers were sold : u uus outui uui year -. : ;.-",:: f Durhara ir.--Judge Graves - bpened Orange court Tuesday.' He was one ' pay behiridnd there was much cdriaplaint " bri-accounVthereof:i:: f: Bimniorisi sold orit yesterday' one hundred rind eight5'Hne sackjf of corn from his plan- tatiOtt'in Jones- -county rfd "'eichty-seven bents per bushel in sacks. ".This is one' cent'.: mgherthaa.-Hyde.eo,unty qrn.brings.il ... f - -f3 ihstbrtleTiWUdrti : f & firfi ftt r'Rallino' Hl'ftfifein-.tThia'ijintv..''. : (Monday: night,ibut--have -rnot i heard .the " SparUculaM-'-TheMessi-s. - Field. -who "were ' "burned out; had some insurance." ' We re pleased to note that Dr. II: 1 "J,' Hyal t l . ias presented'the Methodist- chift-ch In this 1 dace; with an elecant communion - service and baptismal -bowl. s jlmzt s.yi -HOupoui3ff;friendHifoJo!sepliris jpaniels,: local .editor of the. Wilson Itfeawe. (is tho publisher of the Kiristen Fret Press. ithe first number of which has been received. - ffllessrs, C. ,W. Howard and"C. C. Daniels. ate the editors' " Term 2a vear;fThe first " nuinbet is well supplied with editorials and llocal new- It starts off well and wc hone , i will be well sustained.' i'J . 1 gret to rtpoitthe death; ?f 1 Mrs. . Joseph aauui, iiii;u iiuuurreu iieur .vioru oil jasi j Sunday" night. lJ'" ' The serious -af tempts" j ' fcj rcripple itheh Inferior,, Court on: Monday s : last signally failed. A inajority of all the Justices in the'-county' voted to sustain it. . rjjThe Baptists ofr Roxboro have called t i the Rev. F H. Jorie -of ' Yanceyville,"as: 1 their j pastor, ' and" we mnderstand: ha has' accepted. vfetfr 'T-rC v.i ?L --S.i.j r-Greerisboro, State: The com-. 1 mencement exercises' Of Greensboro Female 1 Ctolle&o will be held ia May next. '.The fol- lowing named citizens, .of j this , . State have " , been secured to "assist" in1 the 'cerembniesP ., Rev: iSolomon Pool, .of 'Caryirf will deliver the sermon before tne Graduating Class "on : Sunday morning, May 21st: ReV J. J: Rerinfc of the. N. C,: Conference." v the - ser- roon before, the Missionary, Societies, the : evening- of the -same day.1 CapL Fabius HJjBusbee,- of Raleigh, vthe Literary , ad-. dress on Thursday, May, 25th, at -12 M. 1 The College has had a prosperous yeat. i! :t Charlotte !Gen. Scales, hlisvbeeriiic6nfined' to his room 'forf who: several;; pecks' with; rheumatism was-able' to . ont yesterdar, "and was in his seat"jni" the; flouse.1 j HFour.d6gs, all supposed to be suffering' from ' hydrophobia, were . killed:' within T the corporate., limits of the city lyesterdayV ' '. --Mr. John Phelan, wMlci: passing along' the: sidewalfcby the- Uates building, on College street, yesterday. was knocked down "and hurt' by being struck with a bag of cotton, iwhich . was thrown from a window in the second story" , areglad to state, is not of (a. yery -serfpus, characten . ;- :.i-:.i ; -r - :ij'-' V-rf '.-"- . :i k'r"?' .Lewis r; Tayior and Bandy Asne, charged with arson, -were, tried jat Warren Court on a change of venue e it. t m 1 :..!n.j ' lrum iui3 couniy. , xayior was . acquiiu.'u. On.jMoriday the Clerk of Warren Court; -prelentedra . bill ,to: the- Board of - Commisv 1 sioners of this county for $825.' "This is ra- : ther Expensive-'' justice,s but it 'tcannot be helped. rarTT;Died on;fThuTsday,f .Ji"uarch -S0th,i at her'residene'e iuthis place." after a ' protracted illness of consumption, Mra:Mat-r tieTurpin, in. .the. 23th year, of ho ago,, r -The Scptland.Neek Railroad has. been completed' to within about; ono mile of the i terminus and the, smoke of, the. locomotive 1 can be seen from the town:' y : t i :i 1 ..-v J : tdy of a-coLared roari-was,..-found in, the , old Rock -Iaand Factory. v The deceased i was lderittfied as Frank Dow- from Geor gia, who had resided here some two years. 1 : The body of Mr. Thomas Baskins was f found- on the1 place of -"-Mr."Secrest-vriear ; Matthews.. Last "December Mr, Baskins suddenly disappearedV after a visit to Mon- roe, and his 'friends ; made dilisnt search for him' at that.time'Failing to find an y trace of his body they concluded that ho 1. harm had t befallen1 him, and that he had i left the country and Would eventually re turn It is supposed that the young man 1 was frozen to death, as snow was on the 1 ground at the time,' and the' weather was t very(iokl. -There: -remained nothing but i his bones arid clothing, with, a few articles : in the pockets; -Vi-'"fatfJ-3-" '. ' 1 !ll Toisriot : Home: The Rev.' Dr: . Clbss, we are sorry to state,, is very little, if 1 any better - than he was. a few days ago. : Maj. J. ! J. Thomas, of Nash county, . 1 while On his way to visit his son in Alaba-r ma, ia few days ago, had his pocket robbed of $100 in gold.v The Key Mr. Huf hami preached a most - excellent sermon ; in , the Baptist church at Rocky Mount." There t have been Several new members received into I, the , church-; this week. r Nash 1 county items: The crops are as 'Well ad vanced as could be - expected at this season i of .the. year. Wheat is looking very fine 1 -The Anti-Prohibitionists expect a gala j day in .Nashville on the first Monday in i Mai, as they propose .to meet and: discuss - ; politics," &c, and; to 5 organize themselves for the 'coming " campaign. ; They inyite ? the citizens of Wilson and Franklin to: at- ?n -"iivH-:-r.-.'A' "''y-'''- V" -"'--..I i Ihrf Greensborq Patriot: ' A gentle- 1 mari who has recently traveled . oyer, this 1 county says that nine tenths of the, farms are riot enclosed by a lawful .fence. Robinson, the newly-appointed District At- torney for this State 1 was,' tt ; few years ago, r a postal clerk on ihe Wilnungton & Web 1 don Railroad. Boys, there's room on top. : 4 The Greensboro Female College is ad- ; vertisedtobesold, on the .1st: Monday -in ; May.' It is believed that" the sale will be deferred one month in order -not;' to inter fere! with the present scholastic term, which ; closes June lstT The property is to be sold 1 to satisfy a judginent in favor Of the North Carolina Railroad Company for $30,000. , The author of the Estes canard is one r Cabel Campbell,- of Patrick,'; county, V a. The . festive , "Virginian happened in the ieighborhood of Danbury and heard the re- : port whichhe wired to the Danville Eegister.. ' v-fi Charlotte oercr.: Tourists in the mountains this summer will be glad to i learn that a line, of hacks, hi charge of Mr. A. B Fortune will "be run during the sea- son from the present terminus of the Duck-: town branch of the Western North Caro- ' "Una! Railroad, at Pigeon river, no sWaynes viUe,sthe county seat of .Haywood county, the very heart of the mountainous -region oi the 'Switzerland' of American -An .. .Observer correspondent learns that trains on ' 3ie Paint Rock extension fromAsheville, inow -run through to ithe- Tennessee line regularly, all the bridges on the road having -been' completed. Only one bridge- just . "Over the Une on the Tennessee side, "and which is being built by the Cincinnati, : Charleston & Cumberland Gap1 Railroad -Company remains unfinished, - and still makes a gap between Asheville and Mor ristown. : It is expected that this ' bridge Will be completed within - the next, few weeks. ,.',..- . -Y . RUSSIA. 'Anbtber Dynamite mine Discovered v ' h Arrest .of Suspected Parties. , .:, J Berlin,". April 8. Another " dynamite rinirie lhasubeen discovered' beneath - the .Nichaloi Railroad, at the , fourth station -from Moscow. Many. persons have been: arrested on- suspicion of. being implicated in the plot, r,;,. ?r t;. ; i f