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. THE BLAIR BIIcTL IN CONGRESS.
- It is worth noting that on the mo
tion to rsfpr the Rlair bill to the La
bor Committee of. the House that
seven Democrats and two Republi
cans from New York voted against
it. Mr. Hewitt, the ablest Demo
crat in the New York delegation,
voted against it.
- There' is a point in ;a dispatch to
tue wew xorK itm.es mat we wouia
. 1 TLT T7" . 1 . . 1
call especial attention to. It shows
on which side the leading men of the
House are to be found. The corres
pondent telegraphs!
"Near!y"sery prominent man in the
House on both sides voted against the new
reference, except perhaps Messrs. Long,
Dingley, Ilitt, McKinley and Willis, the
opposition to the bill including Messrs.
Blnnd, Blount, Bragg; Butterworth. Can
non, He wilt. Hiscock, Holman, Kelley,
Morrison, Phelps, Randall, Reed, Scott,
Tucker and Wellborn."
The attempt to distribute the vast
stfm to be taken from the Treasury
upon a basis of illiteracy is very ob
jectionable in the estimation of even
some who favor general education by
the Government. They say that to
'.take illiterates of. all ages is wronsr,
and that the true basis is to divide
the money according to the illiterates
of school age, as no public system
can ever reach the men and women.
All that any scheme of universal ed
ncation, whether by State, where it
belongs, or by the General Govern
ment, which would be usurpation,
can eyer hope to accomplish is to par-
llnlliii.Ainnnf n fits. All..nn
The correspondent of the lime
says:
"A doubt has arisen as io the constitu
tionality of the bill or the -wisdom of un
dertaking to do something which the States
ought to do, and many Democrats, having
in view the possible bad ioipreaion that
the appropriation of so large a sum may
pftiidi' hsvp mtil?! n:ii-t hut pHrnAwt fpftrta
to prevea! h rep n t of the Srst bill infro-
, line. !." t . .. " -
li !;!.-- connection we wish u call
at enfion to the utterances of Sent
tow ivarls an i 15 Imunds. lu dis
cusing-he !Jlair bill Xhpy to k h'gh
ground - a-ivat;;;d position of
Republicans in regt.-'l to the (Jonsti
tution. These are vt?ry able mer,
aDd they give tlm Oorustitution the
construction that if adopted would
make Congresjs a despot of the first
order and would destroy the organic
law. Mr. Evarts does not believe in
limitations, but that Coagress can
raise money by taxation to educate
the negro. He said this:
"Tt ia rnnstitiiiional In dAvntA the lftst
dollar in the Treasury to this bill; and then
it is constitutional, by your next taxation,
to raise the money t supoly the void thus
created.'' .-.
Mr. Edmupdtook the ground that
it was competent for the Congress to
"devote money in .the Treasury to
whatever extent it chooses" whether
-for education or for even foreign
benevolence.
Tere are Democrats in the Senate
-and House who follow these revolu
tionists in their theories of the Con
stitution and the power of Congress.
Men of the- George and. Jackson
stripe talk almost as strongly for the
gutta-percha system of interpretation
as do the leaders of advanced Cen
; tralization.
Suppose Grant were alive and in
the Presidential Chair. Suppose he
felt it to the interest of his party to
dragonade afresh the South $4iot only
.1 1. . 1.1 -I ..t
tne Qtaies; ana men, suppose mat me
mteprt-taiion sought to be placed
upon the Constitution and the powers
of Congress by Evarts ' and Ed-
munds, by Jackson and George
and the remainder of the sweep
ing, wide-gauge v inlerpeters was
to be accepted and acted upon,
what a time the Southern people
would have of it, and what a grand
progress imperialism would make.
Give the Grant set free scope under
f he- latter-day theory of the "general
yelfare,'? and the ', Soutbecn; States
would be more effectually tied and
. throttled than despotism everaccom
plished in Modern Europe. There
would be no obstruction in the way
of the tyrant. Congress is all pow-
, jr vuw , -
' f doctrine of reserved rights to the
.States under the Constitution is for
ever "played out" is the cry; the
people can be taxed without limit
. for any ends the Congress may re
. eolve upon. Where then is the Re-
: public? Is not the 'Constitution a
bundle of straw? Have we not a
VOLiXIi: :
Nation among us? ; Mr TarttTBj.y8
the Congress can spend al! thVmbney,
in the Treasury tor , Faternai .reaa- t
gogy.and then keepaxing .tbe. peb'- T in May . next. . M swiir proba
ple from year to year for Uie same I bly sit for twenty days or more' It
end. Such Is Centralization 1 -x Such
is the dangerous India-rabbet theory i:
of constitutional iriternretation. " We
are persuaded more than ever that of j
all bills ever! introduced.' intbCon-
greea the Grab -lilt -H4h most dan
gerous" -
. While the! movement of Senator
Hoar in the .matter ,of the outrage
perpetrated at CarrolKoH," Miss., is
not germane to the Blair bill, there is
an underlying principle that illus
trates the trend of political aggres
sion under the sanction of Congres
sional I omnipotence. Senator Hoar
introduced ajbill,' to which the Stab
briefly referred; looking to - a Con-
gressionalnvestgatiejx. of .the awful
tragedy. ' The klllinsr occurred in a
supposed sovereign Commonwealth
where there are Courts of Justice and
where men are duly tried for . viola-
tions of law. But this does not suit
men of Republican proclivities and
who hold to the Strong Government
theory. - So Mr. Hoar proposes to go
into Mississippi with his Committee
and investigate. -
- -
The accomplished editor of the
Norfolk Landmark says ' of this
. -
movement to violate the rights of the
South: r
"Mr. Hoar's: bill i was in accord with the
doctrines held by the Republican party,
namely, that the states soutn or the foto-
mac and the Uhio are merely provinces and
that the local affairs of these States should
be under the supervision of the Federal Go
vernment Hoar : would do i away with
State rights altogether so far as the South
ern States are concerned, and the provisions
of his bill were intended to have that effect.
O Hara's bill, 1 which calls for a special
Federal investigation into : the Carroll
county case, is in principle as objectionable
to all patriotic people as the bill of the
Massachusetts Senator, v But the efforts to
start the outrage mill for 1888 will falLflat."
There is no occasion for such im
pertinent intermeddling such inva
sions of States, ine stab has con
demned .the awful murders, but it is
proper to add that politics had noth-
ing wnatever to ao wnn me outrage, i
Whv did not Hoar have the awful
outrages perpetrated upon the Chi
nese at Wyoming investigated? Ah,
the Chinese . "are not -voters. The
Southern papers the Mississippi pa
pers among them censure and de-
olore the murders, and oublio senti-
ment generally -condemns them. This
movement is j characteristic. - The
States are nothing; the Federal Go
vernment 18 every thing, l he crea
ture is now So'vereign; the creators
have become mere creature. Such
is latter-day S statesmanship such is
the tendency of the times. The South
surely has had enough of Federal op
pressions ana aggressions not to in-
vile any moite such by latitudiuarian
interpretation iud by adopting the
intraliKed idea of Government. The
South at b ast ought to know that its
i . i .. -
, ,. .it.- '
safely lies iri a; rigid, strict construc
tion of the organic law as understood
and expounded by the framers, and
not by the Gaifields and Edtnundses
and Hoars and Evanses of these de
generate days. !
Mrs. Mayard Bayard Clarke, relict
of the late Judge William J. Clarke,
died at New Bern on Wednesday
last, in her 58th year. She! was the
daughter of it'he late Thomas P, De-
vereux, of Raleigh, a man of wealth,
- i ; s .
a lawyer of j ability and a gentleman
of high personal worth. Mrs. Clarke
was a native' of Raleigh. She only
urvived her husband some month or
two. She was one of several sisters
who had superior minds. Mrs. Ed
munds, of i Scotland Neck, was es-
pecially a woman of excellent gifts
with the pen. Mrs. Clarke was dis-
tinguished amqng the women - of
North Carolina for her verse making
endowment., Others have) equalled
or surpassed her in prose -perhaps -
Miss Fisher and Mrs. Spencer for in
stancebut never equalled her as the
writer of graceful, flowing verse
that now and j then gave out some
flashes of beauty and originality that
lifted it almost, perhaps altogether,
to the plane pf poetry, .tier , verse
was imitative; or else we had spoken
of her as a genuine singerIan origi
nal voice. Her. volumes- published
at intervals were "Mosses from a
Rolling Stone;" "Wood 1 .Notes or
Carolina Carols," a collection of
home made; verse; "Clytie and Zeno
bia," and a drama called "Pocahon
tas.": She wrote many sketches and
criticisms. Which were clever and
sympathetic I ! Take her altogether
she was possibly the most gifted wo
man yet born in jNorin Carolina.
f The Washington correspondent of
the Richmond State thus gives a
bird's-eve view of Civil j Service in
Washington
and Senator Vance's
He
-i
says:
Tn anite of the stormv weather he had a
full gallery and he certainly had enthusi
aiirt listeners: I There are very few people
in Washington who believe in the Civil
Service law anyway, except those who have
ii.Aa And think that the Pendleton act
keens them ih.l , The speeches to fol
low promise to; be equally mterestmg irom
hnth aMea nt the auestion. It is understood
that Senators Voorhees and Blackburn will
ho hAcnt frAiri land that thev will asree with
Senator Vance. Quite a number of Re
publican Senators nave aireaujr juwiweu
tiiAmaoivpa An 'thla nueation. and Messrs.
Spooner and Ingalls have both stated in the
Senate that they believed in partisan poli
tics. .
; ; " .v
k ifThej CCo&ri't t
iScifteri? tfetpJEpiia
Church will meet - at -Kicbmond,
will
Ilia probable that hereafter, the Gene-
ral Conference, which "meets every
four vears. will sit at the Green
b"r White SalrAur iSpruiga and not
move -around tb be : dependent apon
the hospitality of oities, that iiave to
' call ; upon other denotaiQationsT for
help, ' -In the North theGeneral Con
ference meets': at .'atatbga je'be-'
lieve. . It is an excellent idea to qnit
the eleemosynary business and let the
churches pay the expenses of their
delegates. The time bocapied by
each session of the General Confer
ence is as 't follows: 1846wenty
three day s ; 1850, fourteen daysi
1854,, thirty-one d ay s 1 85 8,' thirty-
one . days : 1 866 tnirty aay; 4870,
tlfSrtryflWw
days; 1878,: twenty-four days; 1882,
t,wp.ntv.Ann davs. ' v . 1
j j
"The majority of" the Democrats in the
United States, and even in Mr. Vance's
own State, do not care a rush whether the
minor offices Under the Federal Govern
ment are held bv Democrats or Republicans
or by men of no party, so long as their du
ties are honestly and well perform eav iv.
X. 'limes. I v .
That is all the ablest Mugwump
paper knows about it. ' If the wise
man who wrote the above would
come bouth he would una mat tne
Republican party was kept alive in
North Carolina and other States
solely by the agency and influence
and zeal of those who held "the mi
nor offices under the Federal Govern
ment." They were the claquers and
fuglemen who! organized and kept
solid the negro vote. -
The Augusta Chronicle complains
that whilst most of the Republicans
in office in South Carolina have been
removed, that in tieorgia many re--
main. Having got rid of the "of
fensive partisans" in their own State
some of the South Carolina papers
have onlv denunciation for Demo-
crats like Senator Vance who demand
a ciean 8 weep.
Mr. T. V.; Powderly, of the.
Knights of Labor, is of Irish stock
and was born, in Pennsylvania in
1849. He carries his head level.
Olore Railroad Racket.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Times-Democrat says that "Wm. L. Scott
and A. J. Cassattof Erie, N. Y.. have pur
chased the Carolina Central Kailroad, ex-
tending from Wilmington to Charlotte, N:
C. The New - York, Philadelphia and
Norfolk Railroad, ; controlled by the same
parties, cannot send its sleepers further
South than Weldon; over the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad, the Coast Line refusing
to receive them beyond that point, as it can
get seventy-five miles greater haul on the
coaches from the North via Richmond.- It
is Raid to be the intention of the New York,
Philadelphia and -Norfolk Company, by
building short stretches to run over existing
lints from Weldon to Wilmington, and
thus connect with!. the Carolina Central,
reaching Atlanta jand other prominent
Southern points in that way. This can be
done after June li when the gauges of
Southern li-.es will be made to conform to
those in the North "
Convlets from Brunswick.
Sheriff Taylor, of Brunswick county,
passed through Wilmington yesterday, en
route to Raleigh, with a quartette of con
victs for the State j penitentiary. He was
accompanied by .Deputy bnenn r. mc-
Keilhan. The prisoners were sentenced at
the recent term of Brunswick Superior
Court, as follows: Noah Gregory.larceny,
seven years; Dan. Adams, larceny, tnree
years; Robert Tolson, larceny, seven years;
John Pleasant, larceny, three years. -
Cotton and Naval Stores for Europe.
Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son shipped yes
terday, per German barquentine JBeeiAown,
to Havre, France, 825 bales of cotton
weighing 375.449 pounds, and valued at
$35,000. '!.
Messrs. Patterson, Downing & Co. ship
ped for Liverpool,! per Norwegian brig
Kimon, 2,217 barrels of rosin, valued at
$3,000. , a m
Tbe Cape Fear Freshet.
The highly colored waters of the Cape
Fear and quantities of driftwood coming
down Bhow plainly enough that a big fresh
et is on its way. There were no arrivals
from Fayetteville yesterday, the steamer
JIurt having been detained by the agents at
JFayetteyilJe. A private letter to Messrs.
-Woody & Currie from that place said that
the river had ri en fifty feet and was still
using.
A Spurt th Spirits,
Spirits of turpentine has taken an up-
' ward turn again. It is quoted in New
York as higher and feverish at 47 cents per
gallon. Transactions in Wilmington were
limited to offerings of a few barrels, which
. were readily taken at an advance on quo
tations; the absence of stock in sellers'
hands preventing further trading.
l HI Freshet. ...'
The Cape Fear river is booming. At
Fayetteville, yesterday forenoon, the water
had risen forty-two feet and was still rising.
There have been very heavy rains in the
up-country and ; from indications the pre
sent freshet will equal that of 1865 "the
Sherman freshet" as it is called.
Capt Nelson, of the schooner Cheru
bim, at Washington, N. C, reports that the
buoy at Beaufort bar, near: the northeast
ern point of the breakers, also the Hatteras
bar buoy, at the southwestern point of the
breakers, and at other points of the bar,
are all out of position and destitute of
paint, which render r navigation dangerous.
8chr. Florence N. Tower, Capt Wil
son, from Rockportj Jan. 7, via Boston for
Wilmington, N. C, was abandoned on
March 2, In lat. 35 N, long. 66 W. The
crew were rescued and have arrived at
Hamburg." . v .-.:
WILMINGTON, ' N. CFRIDAY, APRIL 9; 1886.
TA CrllB CeatraU t - r ' .-- it!
eolntoo since Tuesday last, before Judge A-1
C Avery, in chambers," wherein; the Carp-..
and the MassachuseUa .Conitructloo Xk.
dereadantSr-Meswj'S
and others for the defendants; and Messrs.
JfnllerBynum and others for the plsJutiff
was argued yesterday ad the 4y betor
The argument closed yesterday at 9 P- a V
and immsdiately thereafter the Judge reor
dered his decision. . He- dissolved the in-
juBCtion, : but in doing required jfhe
Massachusetts "Construction Co. to give
bond in fifty thousand dollars to securctthe
Carolina Central Kail road against damage
Mr. Frank Coxe, of Charlotte, was their
bondsman. - ,
By this decision, until the questions not
passed upon by this court are decided by a
higher court, the Massachusetts Construc
tion Co. are required to give bond against
any damage that may accrue to the Carolina
Central Railroad, and should a higher
court dacide in favor of the plaintiffs, all
the work done by 4hat Company TTilf tie
tost them.
Hon lb ly Export. .
The following is a statement of the for
eign exports from the port of Wilmington
for the month of March, as compiled
from the books in the Custom House: ;
Belgium 4,340 barrels of rosin, valued
at 1079. ;
Danish West Indies 140,000 feet of
lumber, valued at $3,167.
Germany 14,822 barrels of rosin, valued
at $14,967; 154,000 feet of lumber, valued
at $3,086. .
England 2,500 bales of cotton, valued
at $104,000: 9,337 barrels of rosin, valued
at $9,753.
Ireland 7,444 barrels of rosin, valued at
$7,336.
British West Indies 272,000 feet of lum
ber, , valued at $4,789 ; 40,000 shingles,
valued at $200. " I
Russia (on the Baltic) 1.200 bales of
cotton, valued at $51,000; 3,500 barrels of
rosin, valued at $3,865.
San Domingo 431,000 feet of lumber.
valued at $5,813. '
Total exports for the month 3,700 bales
of cotton, $155,000; 39,443 barrels of rosin,
$40,000; 997,000 feet of lumber, $15,855;
40,000 shingles, $200 $211,055.
Tbe Public BoUdlne meeting.
A meeting of the committee appointed to
memorafize Congress for an appropriation
for a public building in this city was held
yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce. Mr. D. O. Worth
stated the object of the meeting.
Col. F. ' W. Kerchner said that the me
morial had been presented to the members
of the Public Buildings committee of Con
gress; that tne senate uau passea a uui ior
an appropriation of $200,000, and that his
efforts had been directed to having the ap
propriation increased to $250,000 by the
House of Representatives.
There was a free interchange of opinion
in regard to the matter, remarks being
made by Mayor Hall, D. Q. Worth, Esq.,
.Eton. A. M.,WUdll, CoU F W-.rcfc&jwjrmdition is about
ner, Mr. J. a. uurne, mr.si nomas W
Strange, Dr. A. J. DeRosset, MrT'Don Mc"
Rae, Col. Roger Moore, Alderman Bear,
Mr. C. 13. Robinson and otbcis.
On motion of Mayor Hajl it was resolved
to present a n.t m xi-l to. our Sr.natois and
Representativ i-i (3 . asking them to
secure an appni.-iri.iii.iij ,f ai , n-t $200,000
for a public bu'.ltiing.x.i Irs sini woulfi not
be sufficient to -r- t such a huildisg as the
city of vViln!U(t;i"n u eniiUcil to, or as
would give ilie u;;om'U'Hlaiion required
by the variou gov rnmeni offices located
here.
Naval Stores movements.
The annual statement of the movement
of naval stores at this port for the year end
ing March 31st, 1886, shows a falling-off in
receipts and exports as compared with the
previous year. ; The statement is tabulated
by Col. John L. Cantwell, Secretary of the
Produce Exchange, and makes the follow
ing exhibit:
RECEIPTS.
For 1886 Spirits turpentine, 60,738 bar
rels; rosin, 289,164; tar, 67,043; crude tur
pentine, 32,358.
For 1885 Spirits turpentine, 70,012 bar
rels; rosin, 344,713; tar, 65,874; crude tur
pentine. 43,701.
BXPOKTS.
For 1886 Spirits turpentine, 63,580;
rosin, 3a4,U4sr tar, otf.iua; cruae turpen
tine, 35.290.
For 1885 Spirits turpentine, 71,154 bar
rels; rosin, 310,808; tar, 70,530; crude tur
pentine, 45,966. ! . i
Harbor master's Report. '
Capt. Price, Harbor Master, reports the
following arrivals at this port for the month
of March: ; r
V AMERICAN.
Steamers 5 4,527 tonnage.
Schooners 16 5,229 "
Total American. ...21 9,756 "
FOREIGN.
Schooners..... V 1 122 "
Barques..... i 4 1,782 "
Brigs 3 808
Total foreign. ..... 8 2,712
Grand total 29 vessels; 12,468 tons.
The f ollowing is the latest report of the
pilots of the soundings at low water:
Bald Head Bar ..... .13 feet,' 0 inches.
Western Bar. 11 ". 0 "
Rip 5- " 0 "
Cotton Receipts.
The receipts of cotton at this port for the
. month ended March 31st, 1886, foot up
4,775 bales, as against 1,348, bales for the
corresponding month in 1885, an increase of
8,427 bales.
The crop receipts up to April 1st, 1886,
foot up 95,883 bales, as against 93,254 bales
for the corresponding period last year, an
increase of .2,629 bales. "
Duuee by the Storm In Btontgomery
Connty.
A correspondent of the Stab, writing
from Wadeville, Montgomery county, N.
C, says that the storm in that section on
Tuesday night last was the heaviest wit
nessed in many years. Much damage was
done to farms, roads and fences; the low
lands on creeks and branches were washed
off to the clay, and fences were swept
awav bv the rapidly swollen streams. The
damage is great to farms, as most of them
were freshly ploughed up and in planting
order.
. Messrs. K Kidder & Son cleared
the schooner NeUie Shaw, for St. John,
Antigda, with 121,442 feet of lumber and
119,850 shingles, valued at $2,250.79.
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. TE2CA8.
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A Condemaei ainrderer WbUe on tne
Gallows Take Up a Collection to
; Defray tola Funeral Expenses.
Galveston. Anril 1. A sneol&r f mm
Murtin sayst At noon yesterday Washing-
ion uryan. colored,, was executed here, in
the presence of five thousand persons, for
the murder of Willis Durden, a year ago.,
The condemned man confessed his guilt on
the" scaffold and it was right that he should
be hanged. He stated that he was instiga
ted to commit the crime by Eph. Durden, a
half-brother of bis victim. Eph.. Durden
was immediately arrested on the strength of
Washington's confession, Washington ex
hibited great nerve. He rode on his coffin
from the jail to the grave, near the edge of
townri where the scaffold was erected.
After admonishing his large audience of
colored people to avoid the pitfalls which
brought him to the scaffold, he said he
wanted his body , to be buried in the
adjoining; county, and passed his bat
around for contributions to defray the ex
pense of transporting his bodv. He gath
ered $22, for which he heartily thanked the
uonors. lie toot bis place on the scaffold.
the noose was adjusted, add in a moment
nis nectt was broKen. The body was given
in charge of his friends for burial. :
NEWJTORK.
Ex-Alderman ; Watte Arrested bv In
spector Byrnes Consternation f In
. and Aronnd. lbe Cltv. . .
: Nkw Yobk, j April 1. Ex-Alderman
Charles B. Waitehas been arrested. At 9
o'clock this morning Inspector Byrnes,
armed with a warrant issued by Judge
Corning, was. in company with Detective
Philip Reily, of the District Detectives'
office, in waiting at the Grand Central
I, depot for . Waite, When the train on which
the ex-Alderman had come from .Essex, on
Lake Champlain, drew into the depot the
Inspector stepped up to him and said, "Mr.
j Waite, I want to see yon." The ex Alder
man, who was not in the least disconcerted,
seemed to understand the purport of their
mission, even before the warrant was pro
duced and he was informed that he was
'under arrest It is generally believed that
Waite is the man who -wrote the much-talked-of
letter to Judge Gildersleeve. The
arrest created consternation in and around
the City Hall, and it is said that detectives
.are on the track of every' one of the 1884
Aldermen,- and should any attempt to leave
the city they will at once be arrested.
THE CAROLINA CENTRAL
Judge Avery Dissolves tbo Injunction
Against tbe Rl. de 8. Construction:
.Company.' '- "'
CHAKiiOTTE, N. C, April 1. At Lincoln-!
ton to-day Judge Avery, presiding over the!
Superior Court, dissolved tbe injunction'
sued out by the Carolina Central Railroad'
Company against the Massachusetts &
Southern Construction Company. Both!
Companies are building a road from Shelby
to Rutherfordton, and the Carolina Central
claimed the right' of way under an old
charter of the Legislature. The Massa-j
cbusetts & Southern Company denied the
Carolina Central's claim to the right of
way, on the ground that it had been for
feited by lapse of time, .and began laying
its track side by side with the track of the
Carolina Central Tbe injunction was then
issued. The Carolina Central and the
Massachusetts Southern tracks will npw be
laid side by side from Qhclbv to Ruther-i
fordton, twentyvfour miles.
WASHINGTON.
Secretary ' iriannlns's Condition Un
changedCaucus of Republican Sen
ators.
Washington, April 1. Inquiry at Sec4
retary Mannings house, at noon today,
elicits the information that the Secretary's
ftadition is about the same as at last re
port. ' ' i
The Republican Senators held a caucus
this morning and filled the committee places
made vacant by tbe death of Senator Miller;
They then proceeded to consider what to
do about tbe collectors of internal revenue
who are being favorably reported by the
Senate Committee on Finance. " They
reached no conclusion and will caucus again
to-morrow. :
Washtkgtoh, April 2 Republican Sen
ators caucussed from noon till 3 p. m.
There was a general interchange of opinion
regarding the policy to he pursued in coni
sidering the nominations, but uo action was
taken. Incidental to the discussion more
than a majority expressed themselves in
favor of open executive sessions. jj'
Washthgton, April 3 Secretary Man
ning continues to convalesce slowly, but
steadily, and there feeems no longer to be
apprehension of a fatal terminus of his Ill
ness Tbe only members of his family now
with him are bis wife and two daughters.
His son and other relatives who came here
when he was first taken sick, have returned
to their homes. ' ; . I
Washington, April 3. The Ways and
Means Committee to day took up Mr. Hew
itt's Customs bill, as agreed upon at yes
terday's meeting, and added to it the free
list of the Morrison bill, so far as it applies
to lumber, fish, salt, flax and hemp, wool
was also added to the free list Under tbe
head of dutiable goods the chemical and
cotton schedules of the Morrison bill .were
added, with amendments relating to fine
qualities of cotton goods and sugar. Duties
were reduced ten per cent.
TENNESSEE. ."
The Flood at ChatMnoosa-Gai ana
Water-Works , Innndated Business
Suspended No Trains Runnlne Tbe
Damage Caused at Other Points Tery.
Great.
Chattanooga, April 2 A colored man
was drowned at 10 a. m. to day,
Both gas works are inundated and there
will be no gas to-night. - The water works
are also under water, and the supply in tbe
reservoirs will be expended in twenty-four
hours.- r
The river is fifty-one feet and rising.
The water at 9 a. m. reached Market and
Eighth streets. Business is entirely sus
pended. Keliei committees cave been or
ganized and homes and goods are supplied
to an tne neeoy. ' , r
Tne damage to tne railroads is very great.
No trains are running, and none are ex
pected to move before Sunday. Telegraph
communication is cut off in many direc
tions. The rivers above are slowly falling,
Floods are general throughout East and
Middle Tennessee, North Georgia and
North Alabama. Rome, Ga., and Gads
den, Ala., have suffered great damage,
The river at Chattanooga at noon was
four feet and two inches lower' than the
highest point of 1875 and rising an inch
per hour. Local rains are indicated. At
10 a. m. backwater reached the street gut
ter in front of the Times office.
A telegram from Hot Springs, Ark., re
ports that Judge John Baxter of the Sixth
TT. S. Circuit Court, is seriously ill and hot
expected to live twenty four hours. -
FOREIGN.
The Pall ' nail Gazette Predicts Mr.
" - Gladstone's Fall. .
London. April 2. "Mr. Gladstone is
riding straight for a fall", the Pall Hall
Gazette declares this afternoon. - "He re
fuses," says the ; Qatette, ."to modify i his
Irish scheme, and the result will be that
the country will have neither home rule in
Ireland nor Gladstone." ; The Pali Mall
Gazette announced in the same way precise
ly that Lord ; Salisbury would "ride for a
fail" at the very time the Tory Premier was
arranging lor his own-Cefeat. Tne declara
tion at the time was. generally hooted by
other English papers, but- the uaum ytw
entirely accurate then. It is thought the
editor has special knowledge that Mr. Glad
stone, being convinced of the absolute1 jus
tice and eood nohev of his Irish proposals.
and at the same time convinced that Tory
and Radical politicians have determined to
defeat him, means to force - the : issue and
-bring about a defeat as . soon as possible,
content to sacrifice power in his final effort
at pacincation.
AR,
THE NAIL
DRIVEN
- ' 71--:
HOME.
A Colloauy that Punctures the Arrant
Unmbng. :
From Senator Vance's Speech Against the
' Civil Service Law.
A Republican who shrieks out this
cry in defense of , his own spoils is
entitled to some respect; however.for
he but obeys the ordinary dictates of
a very natural selfishness. ' But what
should be said, what can bo said; in
defense of a Democrat, who, having
secured his coveted office, and having
secured it, too, by the extremest
spoils-partisan methods, , turns upon
the men through whom he got it, his
fellow-Democrats, and besmirches
them as spoilsmen I because they ex
hibit a very natural desire to reap the
iruits or the ; very same victory by
which he was benefited ? - " -;
Conceive of an old-fashioned, fight
ing Democrat, who for forty years
bad stood by his party through good
and evil report, because he believed
in its principles;- who' battled for it
when it had no offices to give; many
times when it was buried beneath
such vast majorities as left scarce a
prospect of earthly resurrection; of
ten oppressed by a weight of odium
sufficient to cow the bravest spirit,
under the influence : of which" the
faithful became even as ' the "fevf
names in Sardis, who had not defiled
their garments" wheu the very name
of: Democrat became a convertible
term with that of copperhead, rebel,
and traitor fancy his unoonquered
and undismayed soul still working
for his principles, still watching for
the dawn, still waiting with prayer
fulness for the hope of his political
Israel, thanking God for each town,
township, or county victory which
showed that his principles still lived
in the hearts, of .his countrymen,
and were crowing, because thev
were immortal quicker and quicker
throbs his heart, higher and higher
gner anonigner
tronghold after
rises bis joy as s
stronghold is carried, as State after
State is captured in spite of unconsti
tutional laws and governmental in
terference, in spite of bayonets glit
tering at the polls,1 in spite of that
gross and unblushing fraud which is
the supplement of despair; and, last
ly, imagine if you can the hot tide of
triumphant joy with which he saw in
.November, 1884, tbe banners of De
mocracy full high advanced and suc
cessful over all the Union, and his
party once more in control of the
great destinies of his country.' When
the hope of his soul had thus been
at last realized, and his old eyes had
been permitted to behold the great
salvation, when the bonfires kindled
in a thousand cities and hamlets had
'burned down, and the feasting had
ended, and the-oratory and all the
elements of rejoicing had. subsided,
and the new administration had be
gun its career amid; the prayers and
blessings of all Democratic hearts,
imagine, I say, this old, faithful, and
honest man of principle coming to
Washington, in the simplicity of his
heart, briqgine certificates from his
neighbors 'af his ' character1 and ser
vices, and modestly asking for a. po
sition, naturally supposing that the
king in making up his jewels would
remember his faithful servants. But
imagine that old gentleman's disap
pointment when something like the
following occurs between him and
the Government's representative:
Old Democrat. " 'I have come to
make application for some position
under the Government which I am
compentent to fill."
Government Representative. "You
are too old; under tbe laws or the
Republic men over forty-five years
old are not permitted to take office."
U. D. "Hut 1 see men in places
here who are sixty years old."
G. K. "Oh, they were in when the
law was enacted, and it does not op
erate on them, . !
O. D. "Well, if such bo the law I
submit; it may be that I am too old.
But here is my boy; he is young and
active and well educated; give him
a position. v 1 1 !-
O. K. "We cannot do it; there is
no vacancy."
O. D. "No vacancy? Well, make
one. there is a xan& Republican
Tht man has been our bitterest ene
my. He has -denounced me and my
party as traitors to our party again
and again. Turn him- out and put
in my son or my neighbor's son."
rat. Js. 'rlt-cannot be, sir. The law
forbids at. And, besides, if there
were a vacancy vour son could not
get the place nnless he stood an ex
amination by the board of Civil Ser
vice Commissioners, and secured the
favor of that board over many oth
ers."
O. D, 'Well ! well Did all those
Republicans in there have to stand
suoh an examination and get their
places in the same way? If so, and
they were smarter than tne Demo
crats, again I say, I will have to sub
mit."
O. K. "Uh, no, my dear sir, no.
You see they were all in when the
law was enacted. 'They got in by.
that old corrupt method which we
call 'the spoil' system. But being
in, you see they had a sort of vested
right to their places, and the law
does not disturb vested rights, that
is Republican rights, except for very
serious cause." j
O. D. "Then, it seems tQ me there
is nothing here for we or mine, and
all that talk during . the campaign
about corruption in office and 'turn
ing the rascals out was a trick and a
he. it appears that there were no
rascals in, or if there were, you like
rascals better than ;you do honest
men, and so keep them."
G. R. "Old man, you had better
so home; you are behind the times.
This' is an age of. Civil Service re
form. Men can . no longer, be re
warded by office for party work; that
is, humble men: like you and i your
son. The big ones may be paid that
way; for that is "true: reform, p. But
when such men as you confess that
they want office they are spoilsmen,
and that is what yqn are. I am
ashamed of you 1 Away with you!"
: This final rand . insulting; reply is
the iron which enters1 his soul, and
he retires crushed and -wounded be
yond recovery. ' The sense of disap
pointment, of injustice, of humilia
tion, the ingratitude: of, those for
whom he labored, are too ' much for
him to endure, and the enthusiasm
NO. 23
of his life is quenched forever. The
man who calls him -a spoilsman, and
charges that he served hia party-for
the-sake xf office only, foully In-KfM a
better roan than' him self. ., r
This, Mr. President, is no fancied
picture. ' There: are 'thousands and
thousands of just such men," and we
meet them or hear from them everv
day.;. They are the strength of the
Democratic party to-day; they have
been its refuge and Us - shield in the
past; they preserved ; it f rom anni
hilation in its darkest hours. : I am
not-quite sure that, they: will con
tinue its champions in the future. I
can. well see that thev -might be
willing tb concede any fair and im
partial distribution of the places un
der the Government on principle of
merit or anything else that patriot
ism) might demand of - tbero, - but
they will not - submit to the dis-
franchisement of themselves and i
their children. v Mark what I sav !
And you wilL not improve the mat
ter jby impeaching the purity of their
motives and bestowing epithets upon
them. They will 'not fight to win
great Democratic victories "for Re
publican benefit. , They will not con
tinue to rally to the bugles of the
parjty and win hard-fought battles
merely that their enemies may re
main in possession of the field. They
will not preserve the ; discipline aud
organization of their splendid line of
battle and charge with their ancient
courage if the epaulets and honors
which they win are to be bestowed
upon their adversaries, or the cow
ards. who skulked in the rear, or the
mercenaries who hung upon the
flanks of the contending parties, al
ternately firing upon each host. The
mass of the people on both sides de
mand an open hght and upright and
downright dealing after the fight.
They believe, too, in the common
virtues of humanity, among the most
nobie of which is reckoned gratitude,
An;d so do I. They believe that if a
friends take him up and
enable him after a great struggle to
arrive at the point coveted by his
ambition he owes something to them.
Arid so do I. They believe that,
other things being equal, in the be--stbwal
of favors that man should
giye preference to hisfriends over
hii enemies. And- so do I? They
believe that the man who is lacking
in tne ordinary sentiment of grati
tude may be likewise wanting in
other Kindred and cardinal virtues.
And so do I.
iAnd yet, Mr. President, I believe
in reiorm such reform as the peo
ple want and have been wanting for
ten years or more. Between those
who call me a spoilsmau and. myself
there is perhaps only a difference of
definition, ibey believe that "re
form" consists in a Democratic ad-i.
ministration operated by Republican'
agents; 1 do not. lhey believe in
keeping Republicans in office, by law
after the people have declared thev
shall go out; I do not. They believe
inj ignoring the people and their
representatives a far as. possible in
tne selection of, officials; 1 do not.
They believe there can be no sincere
reform unless , Republicans are the
chief beneficiaries thereof: I do. And
laBtly, I believe that as good material
fqr'all civil officials is to bo found in
the Democratic party as i n any other,
and that it is the right and duty of a
Democratic administration to select
that material and none other as the
implements of reform; they do not.
GEORGIA. "
Cuttlns . Affray at Augusta Tbe
Freshet Subsiding.
Br Telegraph to the Mornlnjc Star.
Augusta, April 2. During a ball at the
Vigilant engine house here last night, Tom
Kice cut W. T. Archer seven times, seri
ously, wounding him. Returning to the
ball room, shots were exchanged without
effect. The dispute was about positions in
a quadrille.
Augusta had a narrow escape from a dis
astrous' freshet. Very little damage was
done here. The waters are receding from
the city. ,
VIRGINIA.
The Flood Subsiding Great Damage
to Property.
: By Telegraph to tbe Horning Star. '
Staunton, April 2. The waters are
subsiding and by tomorrow will reach
their normal condition. The destruction of
property - is great, although the loss is not
as heavy as it was lu 1877, owing to the
crops not being in the ground.
NEW ORK.
Indictments Against the Aldermen
' Charged with Bribery.
- (By Telegraph to tbe Moraine etnj.t
Nbw Yobk, April 2. When the grand
lury entered the court to-day Judge Cow
ing was on the Dencn and tne District At
torney and his assistants were present. The
foreman handed up severa' indictments.
One of the indictments was against Wm.
P. Kirk, charging him with bribery.
It is similar to the one against Jaehne
Judge Cowing fixed Jurks bail at
$25,000 and Andrew Martin and ex-uoro-
ner Wm. n. ienney offered themselves as
bondsmen. Later, tbe grand jury appear
ed in court and, presented more indict
ments. Among them was one against ex-
Alderman Pearson. Inspector Byrnes short
ly afterwards entered the District Attor
ney's office with Pearson. The list of
arrested aldermen is now raised to three
Jaehne, Kirk and Pearson and rumor be
came busier than ever whispering the names
of others to follow.
ALABAMA.
The Flood at Selma A Large Portion
of the City Under Water Great De
struction of Property.
(By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Sklma, April 3. The river at this point
has ceased to rise, after rising two feet
higher than at any time within the recol
lection of the oldest inhabitants. The de
struction of property has been great all
alone the river, and many lives have bean
lost. The entire eastern portion of this city
is under water, including two compresses.
the East Tennessee, Virginia as Ueorgia
Railroad deoot and shops, the gas works,
Union iron works foundry and about three
hundred dwelling houses. Citizen's relief
committees have been organized and have
gone rapidly to work, and parties have
been diSDatched wun provisions in an di
rections. -: 1- -' " - -:-
The steamer Carrier, in the employ of
citizens, has brought in about sou people,
mainly negroes, picxea up irom nouseiops
and tree-tons in overflowed districts.
: A fire broke out in the gas works to day
and consumed two of the outhouses, causing
damace of SI. 500. . -: t .--r:-;
It will be two weeks before the city will
again have gas i:,WV.:,:v
- Pitt county sent five criminals
to the renitentiarv. One was white Mack
Everet, for breaking into a store.- He got
five years, as we learn from the Greenville
JKepeetor.
Spirits T urpentine.
L The gauge of 960 miles.of raili
way in North Carolina is to be changed. .
- Gov. Scales has pardoned John
McLarty, a negro, who at the last term of
Union county court was; convicted of lar
ceny and sent to the penitentiary. Ue ii
dying of consumption, and the Governor's
pardon restores him to his family for but '
a few weeks at most.- -e - i
Greenville Melector: We -regret
to learn of the death of Mr.-' Stanley
juuuic, n uixuij raicciutu ciliacu Ul 11118
township.- It is amusing to note tha s '
way some papers will -manipulate local
items from' other: papers aod pass them off
nnon their readers as nntii-pl v nricrinul . - ' .
: A Statesville correspondent of
the Winston J&pitblican saya that J'Mr. R. -Z.
Lenny, of Alexander, has declared him-
self a candidate for Congress; that he will -
accept the nomination from the Democrats
if tendered him. If not, he will run as an
independent, free liquor, tariff Democrat '
Monroe Enqutrer-Express: Mr., '
J. O. Ritch, who moved from this county
to Tate's factory, while at work at tho
Rock Island Mills on Tuesday last, fell
from a scaffold and received injuries which
proved fatal after two or three days.' He '
leaves a wife and several children.
Wheat and oats are coming out surprising
ly where a stand is left, the farmer's re
port i The prospect of a sufficient
fruit crop is not so discouraging as som?
have recently foreboded. ; :
Wbntworth, N. C, March 31.
Andrew Roberts, a : well-' known young,,
man of Rocky Springs, made a visit to bis
sister here, ' where he fell deeply in love
with his pretty niece. - Not regarding the
law against the marriage of persons within
the third degree of kindred the couple ap
peared before 'Squire. Henderson and wero
made one. They were arrested next day -for
Incest " The husband was placed in
1afl and the wife released, -She begged,
however, to be allowed to remain with him,
but her entreaties were not listened to.
Charlotte Observer: A new '
iron bridge is to be built over Coddle
Creek, on the Richmond & Danville road
in April. Mr. Robinson, who some
time since secured the electric lighting '
privilege for this city, will have the lights
in operation here by May 20th. There
isn't likely to be a strike on the Richmond
& Danville Railroad, at least so far as the
engineers are concerned, for the engine
men on the Richmond & Danville road are
now receiving higher wages than at any
previous time in the history of the road.
: Goldsboro Argus: Out. towns- -man,
Gen. W. G.. Lewis, State civil errgN -neer,
left here Monday night to join a party
of Northern gentlemen who are now pro
specting the swamp lands of the State in
the Cape Fear section with a view to pur
chasing. K Sheriff Grantham yesterday
received a letter fom the sheriff of Pender
county, asking if our jail can accommodate
the prisoners of that county, - which has of
late been uBing the Wilmington jail. The '
jail in this city is quite full, and while It
could contain more than its present large
number of occupants, it is already too full
for either comfort or health. -. -' '.
J Raleigh News- Observer: c Died,
at his residence in Gates ville, N. C., Fri- 7
day, theSthinst.P. H. Riddick. apromi- f
nent citizen of Gates county, in the 39th '
year of his age. , Rev. P. T. Penick,
pastor j of the Presbyterian Church at
Mooresville, died Monday afternoon at 3.15.
The sad news of Jus sudden illness reached ;
here at 2 p. m. aud at 5 p. m. the hews of
his death. - There were fourteen con- -victs
brought to the penitentiary yesterday.
as iohows: jrour oy snenn . t. Man
ning, of New Hanover; six by sheriff M. .
W. King, of Pitt; four by deputy sheriff J. ,
F. Leeper, of Gaston.
Charlotte Observer: A visit to -';
uimn at the nrlvntn nlnrlina nf thta Irif.v i
would surprise those who are unacquainted "
2.1- .1 . , . . . , rt , x -
wiui uie progress oi an ia - uuanotie.
Among those who have gained some prem-,
inence as artists, and. whose work has beea
very highly complimented at home and
abroad, may be mentioned Miss Anna
Springs, Miss Anna Irwin (neice of Mrs. J.
E. Brown, the artist), Misses Lola Spencer,
Mamie Zimmerman, Adnie Tates, Louise
Morehead, Minnie Cochrane, Mamie Os
borne and Mrs. L. W. Sanders. Dr.
E.G.Elliott, proprietor of the Sparkling
Catawba Springs, has just completed a new
building three stories high an-1 185 feet
long, with a capacity for housing 500 guests.
Rockingham Socket: Last week
we gave an .account of the .robbery of
Messrs. Currie & Currie's storejrt Hoffman.
and stated that the burglars escaped into a
swamp after being shot at several times by
the pursuers. But recent developments
prove that one of them, at least, got "water-logged"
before going far. Our infor
mation is as follows! While a party of men,
were fighting fire last Friday just at the
point where the thieves were fired upon as
they entered the swamp, the body of a ne
gro was found, with four bullet holes in hia
back. The remains were those of a stranger
and supposed to be . one of the thieves who
robbed Currie & Currie's store. i
;JV. U. Presbyterian: Thirteen
young persons, between the ages of eleven
and sixteen, made a puouc proiession or
their faith in Christ in tbe Second Presby
terian church, Charlotte,1 on the third Sun--.
day in March. During the last eleven
years Rev. P. H. Dalton has been preach
ing at new nope cnurcn, urange county,
N. C. To do this he has travelled eighteen
thousand miles mostly, of course, on the
railroad at a cost of nearly X500. During
this time he has failed to meet only one
appointment through sickness or any other
cause. When he commenced his labors at
this Church there were fifty members;
there are now one hundred and six.
Winston Hepublican: On Mon-
day evening a coiorea man, wmie piowiug -in
a garden on the east end of Third street, .
. , f I.H. 1
unearthed tne remains or an miant, wrap
ped in a large coat, supposed to.be that of a
colored child. A colored man by the
name of Charles Hill, in Belews's Creek
township, drank three quarts of whiskey
from last Friday night untu tsaturaay noon.
He laid down town to rest and- dozed into
the sleep that knows no waking. Win
ston continues to grow, more buildings go
ing up this season than at any season in her
history. we are mrormea mat tne
little branch road of ours to Greensboro
cleared $11,000 durin the month of Febru
ary, f JPeter Deurarr, a young wnite
man confined in our county jail fer carry- .
ing concealed weapons, and with but a
short time yet to serve, effected his escape
Friday night by cutting a hole through tne
iron bars, plans partition and tne ouner
brick wall. - ;' '! -"
--Goldsboro Messenger: A Scottish
colonization company wants a tract of ten
to twenty thousand acres in Eastern Caro
lina, and another tract in tbe Western part
of the State. We hope to hear soon again
from the manager. Duplin county
dots:: On Friday morning last Mrs. Boyette,
wife of our townsman, NedBoyette.depart
ed this life. Reports of forest fires come
to us almost daily. The sufferers so far as
we have learned are D. L Woodward. 180
oannels of fence; E. J. Hill, considerable -woodland
burned ;.W.-L. HDL 100 acres
of turpentine pines destroyed; R. J. Wil- -liams
15,000 or 20,000 ruils and a body nf
as fine timber as there was in the county;
Dr. Moore, several thousand rails and con
siderable timber. They have had a most
disastrous fire in lower Sampson and Dup
lin, but we cannot give sufficient informa
tion to maxe a report. .
Henderson Gold Leaf: The ;
fire apparatus recently purchased by the
town or Henderson has arnvep . me out
fit consis s of one large hand engine, hose -reel
and hook and ladder truck. - Died,
in Vance county, N. C, on the 19th off
March, 1886, Mr. C. M. Hargrove, in the'
eighty-second year of his age. Mr. Har
grove was a noble man in every relation of
life.?:- John M. rascnaii, coiorea, or
this connty, at one time a member of the
Legislature, died last Thursday night. De
ceased was a very respectable and intelli
gent colored man. j The series of
meetings at tne tsapust unurca; conaucteu
by Rev. Dr. Nelson, pastorof the Second
Baptist unurcn in itaieigo, grows in in
terest They; have been going on . lor a
week and a half,. and will be continued
through this week. " Up to this writing 15
persons have professed faith in Christ
Some days ago Mr. Drury S. Marrow of
this county, received! a telegram irom a ;
gentleman in Meridian; Miss., stating that
his son Alfred Marrow had been acciden
tally shot there on the 16th inst., and was
not expected to live through the day. Next
day a telegram came conveying the sad in
telligence of the death of the young man.
He was worn- Vance county anu was
years old. i