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The Weekly . Star. PUBLISHED AT , I N G T O N i tV 1 li M . AT A IBABi IN n. c sr.oo ADVANCE. ' . r ' i U UM . .r . V V M-V1 M VI II V ?4 y, Ci si rfiouoa, ft SSs88888S888SS88 SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS8 ssssssssssas'sggaii SSSSSSSSSSSSS8S88 SSSSSSSSSS2SSt!SS8 VOL. XX. WILMINGTON, N. 1 0.; FRIDAY; APRIL 5; 1889; NO. 22 siOUOK 8888S8S88888S8SS3 qiaojt v 8S888S8SS8S8S8888 asssssjjfisRKjssaa -.;--.JTH BBIGHT. U;-;, . With? the one exception of Mr,' Gladstone, the greatest mm England had in publio life was John Bright He was the most striking figure in the no pedigree for brain and" stamina, rfihatl Hiasissippu The last named is a man deuce, merchandise and artT Became I mooh .feroeJ : BiahoD Beokwith lfl a SSSV&SS raweluUonist.-He ibelieVedta descendants or these, two conlohwd ns-1 he ; rialive of this Slate. "ReV; Dr 88888888828888888 '800 Alt 8288SS82S88S88S8S a.a huu . . . . . vj.. ...i Dolitioal historv of Kneland id Ihe f to the too of everihinff.' u wTiSument 1 "g aod Kev. Dr. Falmer are proo last auarter of ;centnry after Disi ?liiftP 8S88888888S88SSS8 s i : i : t : : s Entered at the Post Office atTWQmlngtoii, N. C, as Second Class Matter. 1 SUBSCRIPTION rRIClS. The subscription price of theWBaxxT Star is as follows : Single Copy l year, postage paid, ' $1.00 " montns ; " " - .60 ' Smontht L : .80 reali and .Gladstone, r He was of the people and was an orator of noble gifts and moving eloquenoe. e was the great tribnne 'of the people and was a strong and earnest advocate of oommeroial refQrm in England. - In parliamentary eloquence he has held a very high place, and his character was one of dorio simplicity and strength and of singular purity. ' He has ranked high among British public men . for quite fifty years, tie was tors' of the Scotch-Irish, who came to 'this I country ror tne moat past about tne middle of the eishteenth oenlurr. were Dure blood ed Scotchmen. who" Tiad lived in Ireland about one hundred -and fifty years. ' Had thev intermarried with the Irish it is abso lutely oertaut tbat their Teligron would baTe been itomars uamolioend ' not jrreaoz terian. as it was. - The Irish is a eood race. and had the two races intermarried, their descendants might' haye ' been bettter than either, but I doubt it. However such was not the case. Or all 4he uropeaa races the Scandinavians have the most unmixed blood. The Italians -are. the most mixed. Which is the better racet Which makes the more desirable immigranUt" ' T , We think oar''correspondentr Is Southern . Presbyterians.'; Dr.! J ohn -A. Broadav ranks among the first of living Baptist' preachers. ! Rev. Dr. J. " L. M. Curry is another Baptist preabher.of'very fine gifts.' Among the MethoduVs'we do not know who ranks, among the foremost. Probably Dr. Rosertt Dr. John Hannon . and Bishop! Wilson would be of the 'select few.' Of the.iolber otfurohes we can not speak for want of information." THRPOKSlUN APPOINTIHKNT8. We feel this morning like taking it -all back. To Bend such an "ex treme partisan and professional hater as Wbitelaw Reid to France as Minister Plenipotentiary was bad, but Reid has a certain kind of ability. He teaches much' false : economy and is densely ignorant of the South, but . he has journalistic ability and has some other accom plishments. But when we read the announcement that .Boh Lincoln dad's own son, was the Minister to the greatest Court on Earth that of St. James that in the past was filled by the greatest of Americans, John Adams, Daniel Webster, Reverdy Johnson, Charles Francis Adams, John L. Motley, and James Russell Lowell and other men of fame and high abilities, we felt like laughing. Bob may be a fair law yer, but he is dull and plodding, and knows but little of the literature of the great people to whom he is ac credited. He is neither a man of letters nor a diplomatist; he is neither a great lawyer nor a distinguished statesman; he is simply a mediocre man with a good honest r record, and the son of a man who was wise and popular and an assassin's victim. President Harrison is certainly try ing to strengthen his stakes. His ap pointments are made with direct ref erence to his own future, success and frcm no desire or purpose to select the best men for the best places. Think of Fred Grant at the great court of St. Cloud, and Bob Lincoln at St. James. Think of Thorndyke Rice being Minister to Russia, whose chief distinction is that he is young, rich, an extreme Radical and the owner of an organ of the Republican party. He is not even the editor, for the work is done and has always been done by other persons, one of whom we once knew. There is no writing for the Review in the office. The editing consists in selecting themes, finding writers,and preparing the ar-. tides for the printer if any manipula tion is needed. There may be other appointments as rediculous as these. Murat Hal stead is a man of ability, but be is another enemy of the Southern peo ple and one of the most abusive edit ors the South has ever bad. ' He is ; : quite the rival of Reid, of the N. Y. The editorial crowd is favored by Harrison. We believe that five have ' received high favors at his hands. There is no objection surely to select ing editors when they are qualified but it is very unpatriotio to select them merely because they have ren- dered service as thick and thin advo cates of Radicalism. Fitness and other qualities are necessary in . considering the claims of men for place. The editors have done more than the professionals in nominating Presidents and in electing their men. If they have moral and intellectual qualities sufficient Jo meet the; de mands of high positions they, are more entitled to preferment than are the men who are made prominent often by the unwise, disingenuous praise of editors. Harrison is not great. . His Cabi net is not great His foreign 1 ap pointments are not great. It rather seems to be the day of small ' men. There were five times more ability in the first Harrison's Cabinet than in the present Harrison's Cabinet. We have no doubt a comparison of ' the foreign appointments of 1841 would present an equal contrast and all in favor of the grandfather. But the South dbea not care for these things. 'Its own eminent and gifted sons are not in favor, and if it can escape the interference of hostile, partisan legislation and be allowed to build np its own fortunes and re gulate its own domestic affairs with out the assistance of the ignorant Paul Prys of the press and the war like flappers of the bloody-shirt, it .will get along well enough nntil 1893, when a new order -will begin. . . i AShMAAft nrs1 hta nm.ta tA tar All T.ftlr An I born; in 1811, and began ms puoiio . wm aWe and pnre and - - I it ooaivia 4 n wise " HA foan nrl Yt SI Cv y IB. I . career when but twenty years o.a as t--w well without any assistance,' arid so we have copied his own reflections. a reform agitator, and in 1839 became an active member of tne celebrated Anti-Corn-Law-League. H was ;a Tariff reformer f the - most perti nacious and vigorous kind. " We can not give even an outline of his long, honorable, distinguished career. He; has leen an honor to his country and has been wise In the -main in his ad vocacy of public .measures. As a platform' speaker he. was very im pressive and influential, and he has been identified with most of the great improvements that have been made in England in legislation and other reforms during the last half .century. No man has been more admired by his countrymen and no man has 'com manded more of the respect of Ihe people of other lands than this emi nent commoner of Great Britain. . The two great stains in his Career are bis strong hostility to the South in its war for Independence, and his steady opposition to Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Parnell in their efforts to se cure justice and fair dealing for Ire land. .Very great blemishes truly, and they are a blur upon any mem ory. Ha seemed to have leanings and sympathy with the oppressors, rather than with struggling and brave peoples in a fight against great odds. But with all his faults a great per sonality has disappeared, one of the foremost men of the last half of a teeming and most prolific century. He was a man of honor, of truth, of mental force, of great oratorical power, and he will be long held in high esteem by his countrymen. He died on 27th March, 1889. There have been seme wonderfully fine sermons published in the past. We number Bills for subscription toil the Wkbkxy Stab heretofore sent haye met with a generous response. There are still, however, some subscribers who have forgotten that they j re-; ceived the bills. We will be glad to hear from them, - J tf ABOHS IBB PREACHERS. . A friend writes us a letter marked "private" in which he critioises Rev. Dr. Talmage, the beet advertised preaoher in the world. If the test of greatness is publicity, then the Brooklyn preacher is the greatest man known to the Christian religion If having ' one's sermons published every week in perhaps a thousand newspapers is a true indication of pulpit'ability, learning, profoundly and originality then Talmage has no rival on earth. But we presume no critical mind accepts any such state ment nor pays any such ' worship. That he js a man of remarkable gifts no one will hardly deny. No com mon man could possibly do what he does, and no man "without a quick, fecund brain of much resource could bear the strain and produce the fruit age that he does. We have no pur pose or disposition to nnderste hint r- He does a great deal of good, for tens of thousands of persons read his sermons who would ; never read anv of the trreater sermons of 0 s- the world or indeed any other ser mons. He may violate logic or of fend taste, but he is a lively, brilliant speaker of marked interest. He is not eqoab to what Ward Beech er was when living, and by a very great deal, but he is none the less an at tractive, dashing, impressive sermon izer with much magnetism, and has a greater audience than any other man ever had before in the world's ' his tory. His hearers,' though the types, are counted by hundreds of thou sands. Oar intelligent correspondent writes us of his sermon on "All have trouble," arid quotes as follows: I "AmouR the tussele snd romp of 'reunion I tell you whose hand of welcome you bad belter first clasp and whose cheek is en titled to the first hiss. It is the hand and nheek of him without whom yon would never have got there at all, the Lord Jesus, the darline. of the skies, &c," j ' Our correspondent aBks: 1 . ; , "Is there not a want of reverence here? Is JeBUS Christ a good, clever fellow, whom we may slap on the back and call by a pet name or kisi on the cheek, or is he the Great and Almishty God t If the lat ter, no matter bow much we jsay love him we should reverence and stand in awe of him. No well reared man would have felt inclined to tussle and romp' in tbe pretence of the late BUhop Atkinson. Should we not have at least as much respect for the Almighty Saviourr -y? f This Is well taken. : The rebuke is deserved. Familiarity with things sacred and flippancy and irreverenoe in referring to the Lord Jeans Christ are out of keeping with a reverential ha.rt and the proprieties of the pulpit. ' - We quote farther from the inter esting letter. Our correspondent writes: ' , ' 'In the sermon on 'One Blood' there a miriglin of all the races Indiana. Chi nese Negroes and Caucasiansin order to make a better race la advocated. Intermar riage of families and intermarriage of na tions U depressing and crlppUng., ;Urriege outside of one's nationality toamightyisaini; What makes the Scotch-Irish seooad to English ' theological litetatbre aoouuas m puipu maBierpieuen. can mention but a small of the' great sermoriiaers Whose works, are a"" treasure-house . of learaipg, wisdom and eloquence. If you love the richest, best of sermons you can not overlook Barrow, 'Stillingfleet,n South, Jeremy Taylor, Robert' Hal).' Richard . Watson, John WBsfeyjy Spurgeon, Punshon, 'Robertson, MelviU, , Liddon, ; Ferrari f Dri Chalmers, MoLauren, Guthrie, and a score of others who could be narhed among our kin beyond seas." In this country we would refer to Storre, Beecher, Simpson, Stockton, as offer ing very able and even splendid specimens of pulpit ; oratory, in their published sermons.. While we have read ; very many single sermons by American preachers, " we are not well rip in tbe : published volumes. Our ac quaintance with this branch of let ters is much more extended ainong British authors than among our own. We have not referred to the great Continental preachers, but-of course their wcrks will not be neg lected by those seeking a general acauaintanoe ' with the masters. Luther, Bossuet, Masillon, Siurin, Fenelon, De Pressenoe, Vinet,'- Cal vin and many other famous and great men will not be overlooked. -We take leave to say this-as the result of ;pnr acquaintance with the British pulpit. The-greatest of all sermonizerS as a whole, we think, is Robert outh. His works are indeed a rich mine of thought," logc wiV prejudice tid learning.- The best of all criticisms upon him is by tbe. American,. Ed win P. Whipple, ' of Boston. 1 The most learned j the - most obscure, the most fanciful, the most beauti ful of all sermon writers was tbe gif: ted Jeremy Taylor. The two greatest specimens of oratory and mental oro e wekno w of in sermons are "Ro' bert Hall's twoT masterpieces on -Modern Infidelity and War. They:, are such productions as we suppose William Pitt, the Younger, would have delivered if he had been" a preaoher of the Gospel. Edmund Burke might be proud of them if his, but his own prodtiotions are more, splendid in their garniture of vworda and in imaginative display. Among living American preachers, Rev. Dr. Storrs produces the grandest,' we have no'doubt. His published works are well worth the attention of all students of ' literature. ' They are very impressive and -noble in sweep of thought and richness and fullness, of language. . He has delivered one oration which we said years ago in these columns was the finest among all similar American productions. The' late Col. D. E.' MoRae seeing what we wrote, borrowed 'our copy and returning it said r "It Is all that you say ft is. If one were to undertake to mark its excellent and splendid passages he must mark the beginning and the ending and include the whole." He went to New York soon after and upon returning said to true to -be 'caughtby the . Radical triok to try to revive the old Whig party. ; ' He was a very able leader of that old party' but he is a'wiee, true man.' - Hear him: " . ' r 1 ""It 'Is perfect hbn8e0ser to talk! about splitting the Democratic party of the' South so ions: as we are confronted by the negro in politics and the threat and danger of ne grorale. If the negro could be placed in the background ahd kept there the j white p0ple might divide, but to talk of a split now is simply idle dreaming. White men will occasionally desert the Democratic VartjMrt deference to their 'political; opin ions or in obedience to their personal am bitioiL. : Thcy hare been doing this ever since the war. but the South still stands solid forthe Democracy because it upholds the- White man's government.- The great msloritvof the while neonle in this State believe in the doctr.ioe of tariff for revenne only, arid the protection element is a very small pteee of the patty in this country. As to theioid-liue Witiits who have been Dem ocrats sicca the war, they will never the party to Join the Republicans, simply be cause they - were opposed 1 to Democracy away back in the forties and fifties." : us, "I went to the, publishers" and,. bought a copy, being anxious to own one." - : . ' ' . j ' We muBt out of place, refer more particularly to one English Episcopa lian who was onoe the. most jopular of all English preaohers and whose works were the delight of a Churches. We refer to Henry Melvill. v We do not know in the whole range of ser mon literature so readable, so inter-.. eating sermons.; Tbey have a pecu liar charm of their own and. have never beenlsuccesBfully imitated. We do not kno w who are the great- . est orators or ' preaohers ! now in this country by common agreement in the various ohurches.' The ' most ' dis tinguished among Epiaoopalfaus is,a Boston clergyman, whose name f just now escapes ns. " Talmage is one' of the most eminent among Northern Presbyterians. We do not know who ranks highest among Northern Bap" tists or Methodists, or indeed among other churches; In the Soath! the, most renowned i Episcopal preaohers is perhaps ki Bishop"5 Beckwitb, ! ''of Georgia, or Bishop Thompson, of BOARD OF ALDERM.ES, , . T Bleasksra Vtx . Qualify ' 1 ISayer Fwlcr nearly all tta OM City OSBelala Re-Bleet.d, The newly-elected members of the Board of Aldermen met at 10 o'clock yesterday morning at the City HalL The elerk, Mr. W. A, Willson. read the certificates of election,' showing that George I1 Morton and Elijah Lane were elected from the First Ward; Oscar Pearsall and Joseph D Smith from the Second; James F. Post, Jr., and Win. C. Craft from the Third; John- J. Fowler and R. W. Hieks from the Fourth, and Thomas J. Lossin and George Bell from the Eifth. : A question was raised by Mr. Smith as to whether Mr. Lossin, member elect from the Fifth Ward, was a citi zen. Upon explanations being made that Mr. Lossin was a naturHzed citizen but tbat his: naturalization papers were in 1 New ; York city, the matter was passed over, and all the certificates being read, the oath of of fice was administered to each mem ber of the Board by John Cowan, Esq. t On motion of Alderman Hicks, Al derman Jos.' D. Smith was elected Mayor pro tern. Alderman Pearsall moved that the Board go into an'election for Mayor. The motion was adopted. . 1 Alderman Bicks nominated Alder man'Jno.'J. Fowler." The motion was seconded by 'Alderman Pearsall. No other nominations were made and the Board proceeded to ballot. Ten votes' were1 east,' of which Jno. J. Fowler received seven; the three Re publican members bf the Board vot ing blank ballots. Qu Alderman. Fowler was deolared elected Mayor of "the eity and took the bath of office, being sworn in by J ustice-John Cowan. The Mayor ' then ' addressed the bard, thanking them for the honor conferred, etc. On taking the chair the Mayor an nounced that "the next matter was' the' election of a Clerk and Treasurer. "Alderman Hicks nominated Mr. W. A" Wlllson, Jthe former incumbent, Mr1. Willson received the unanimous yote of the ' Board and was deolared elected. ''For' Chief of 'Poliee, Alderman Hick nominated CoL E. D. HalL Alderman ' Lane nominated E. S. Hewlett t "A ballot being taken, Hall received seven "votes; Hewlett one; and CoL Hall was deolared elected. Foir Superintendent of Streets, Al derman Pearsall , nominated W. H. Sholar; Alderman Lossin nominated John HaafJr." Mr. Sholar received nine votes and Mr. Haar one. Mr. Sholar was'deolared elected. Nominations for City Attorney be ing In order, Alderman Pearsall nom inated D. B.. Cutlar, Esq. No other nomination being made, arid Mr. Cut lar having received "seven votes, he was deolared duly elected City At torney.,.;. :--"Alderman Hicks then moved to ad journ. . , ; " ; After debate the motion was with drawn,' arid npon motion of Alder man Pearsall the Board took a recess nntil 6.80pi m. - ; - The Democratic members of the Board were in caucus all the after noon, and the Board did not reassem ble until ten minutes past six o'clock. t Mayor Fowler, i on taking his seat, annooneed that the first business was theaeleoadn of a Chief the of Fire De partmeat and called for nominations. ' Alderman Hieks nominated Mr. Kartirir" Newman ; for the position. There was no' other nomination and a ballot being taken Mr.- Newman re ceived nine ;votes, and was declared ele'eted. . . . . .. . . ' : . ; Nominations for Assistant Chief of the FLre department were then called for. - Alderman Craft nominated Mr. Jno. M. Cazanx and Alderman Lane nominated Mr. Wm. Monroe, Cazanx reeeived six votes and Monroe three; and Mr. Cazanx was declared elected.. Dr. F. W. Potter was then nomi nated: for ' City . Physician and was elected by aeelamation. - CITY ELKGIIOX. , 8n pemerMil Tsri Jpnblf . .na csioaea for AldrmeB. ' " J The election Jn this city yesterday lor Aldermen was quiet and unevent ful, as elections generally are in Wil mmgtonV; interest, centered :in -tne First and Fifth Wards. 5 , wherejtbe Democrats t made . strong efforts to" carryyiese Republican .".stronghold, and succeeded in elect iog MriQe6.L: Morton in the First. The vote in each Ward.was as follows: , - ' ' -llFJrstiWard-Tbe candidates in this ward were George H. ; Morton, Demo-, erat; Elijah Lane, W.. .H. Howe, An drew; J.,, Walker, and; George - W. Price, Republicans., . Morton received 864, votes; : Lane, 321;: Howe, 80 Walker, 188; Price 115. . . . ' I v Second , Ward JosephT D.a Smith and '.Oscar . Pearsall . were the Demo cratic nominees.- There were no Ke publican ' candidates . . Pearsall . re- Third Ward Wm C, '. Craft and Jas -Fv Post, Jr., DriTporatic"2candi- dates. No Republican ticket Craft received 288 votes; Post," 288. J Fourth Ward Jno. J. Fowler and R. W. Hicks JDemocrats No Repub lican nominations. Hicks received 250 votes; Fowler 251. ; -v, f : Fifth Ward George Gafford and T. A. Montgomery were the . Democratic candidates; Trios.- j., Lossin and Georsre Bell Republicans. Lossin re ceived 241 votes; BelL 233; : Mont gomery, 211; and Q afford, 180. . . : To Kneonac flanarsetoret. ' 1 The bill to encourage manufactures by exempting new industries; from taxation for a term of ten years, was carried by popular vote at the elec tiori yesterday, receiving 1,822 of the 2.807 votes registered. The vote in detail was as follows: ': Sr ! First Ward Registered vote, 830; for subscription, 668. " - : Second Ward Registered vpte, 29ff: for subscription, 226. Third Ward Registered vote, 349; for subscription, 276. Fourth Ward Registered vote, 311: for subscription, 242. Fifth Ward Registered vote, 518; for subscription, 412. ; . Total registered vote. 2,307; ; total vote for subscription, 1,833.- WASHlNtHOS, The Ktxlab Family oi Cfcesterflcld, a. A - Maxton correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch gives the follow ing account of the passage through that place last Wednesday of Jim Henry Keziah and his two daughters, who were given into his custody here by order of Judge Meares, as reported at the time in the Star: Considerable excitement was cre ated here this afternoon on the arri val of the . passenger train from Wilmington. There was on board a very rough and tyrannical-looking countryman, who gave his name as Jim Henry Keziah and said he lived in Chesterfield county. S. C, just twenty-one miles from Cberaw. Keziah had !n bis charge his two young daughters, whom he Faid ran away from home last March. He started out in search of them last December without money or other means, and was consequently com pelled to travel almost entirely on foot He claims to have visited Char lotte, Salisbury, Greensboro, Dur ham, Raleigh, Goldsboro, and Wil mington, - where he found the two girls in a house of ill re pute. Tney naa oniy oeen in Wilmington a short time and went from Raleigh there. Keziah compelled his daughters to come with him, and was on his way home when he passed here. At every station the girls would make an effort to get away, and several times asked the conductor to help them to escape, saying their father was so cruel to them that they had rather die and be in torment than go home. The girls said their mother and four younger children had been compelled to leave home in the night in order to escape death at the hands of their father. Their tale was pitiful in the extreme, and their loud screams were fright ening When the train stopped here and they got- off to change cars the youngest girl crept on the rear end of a coach and it was necessary to put her off by force. The other nun inmned off and attempted to run. when her father caught her: and while the train was moving off she made frantic efforts to plunge be noath the wheels and be crushed. The rash act was prevented by the father, who held her tightly with both hands.- Considerable chasing was necessary to catch the ' younger it was necessary to lift both on the train and keep guard at the door. Citizens bought tickets for the nartvtoBennettsville, but both girls said they would kill themselves be fore they got home. A Colored man Browned A telegram was received here yes terday by Mr. George Linder from Captain S. W. Skinner, stating that Henry Loftin, a colored man of this city, in the employ of Captain Skin ner, in Florida, was drowned Thurs day last, near New Branford, in that State, and that Lof tin's body would be sent to his family here for inter ment Analyse, of Fertilisers. A communication-from H. B. Bat tie, Director of the N. C. Experiment Station, Raleigh, dated March 27th, says: -.: ' "Bulletin No. 62lis issued to day Tt contains, in addition to the fertil izer analvses nublished in No. 63, other analyses completed since that time. The list as rjrinted in 62i em braces with bnt few exceptions, all of the brands licensed for sale in the "Write for the Experiment Station Bulletin, No. 62i; this and the subse quent publications are seni iree on t INTERS TA TE COMM EB CE. An Order Coneernlns Railroads in tbe - : . goutb. " ' IB? Talesrapa to tbe Morning Star. Washington. March 80 In the Inter State Commerce Commission an opinion u ta-fU. fllf d bv Commissioner Walker, Mnt.inins rranlti reached in resDect to'the investigation of tariffs and classifications of miirneria nner&tlne in the Southern States, which was held by the Commission in De cember last The order of the Commission is that the carriers named in tne oraer oi nniiM rminlT viih the statute in the particulars and respects pointed out, with delav. and make report to th. nnmrnisninn nt their ' action - in the premises. If the action -so reported shall seem to fall ehort of what is reqcirea ny law farther action will be taken. ; The National Alumni Association of the University or Virginia will. mee in waou- ington, D, U , April ota ana in. A North Carolinian - Appointed Co lei Clerk in Pcnalon Bnr.an Appoint ment, in iu, i-o.tm Betvico. - t- .Waehsgtos, Morch 28. A VST. Fisher. of North Carolina, present ; Assistant Chief Clerk of the f ension Bureau, baa been ap pointed Chief Clerk, vice W. F. Brock. re sigoed , Mr. Fisher is a Republican, and served as Chief Ulerx under Commissioner Dudley. - ' - ,: , Washthgtoh, March 28. First iAssii- tant Postmaster General. Clarkson - wss questioned to-day concerning certain news paper criticism directed against hi policy In the appointment of fourth class; pos - masters. In answer; he said that practical ly all of the changes tbus , far have been made for other than political reasons. A lares number of the appointments made during the: last administration wera noto riously oad. A considerable number bad been found to be delinquent in their ac counts. Other changes -had bsan made In order to secure betteaJocatiohs for offices, and in many cases jtfWintments bad been made with a vie wJfo tbe removal of offices from the vicinity of v saloons. . la 'every case of removal - there had been good and sufficient- cause therefor. "Perhaps," he added, it is not generally known that my predecessor, within a month or. six weeks prior. to the 4th etf Match, made pvers thousahd appointments, 'for the purpose, apparently, of forcing them upon this ad ministration. This coarse had nerer been pursued; to my knowledge, by any previ ous administration. Daring the l&st several weeks of President Arthur's term ; not a single , fourth class postmaster was ap pointed except in rare instances where tbe exigencies of the service, demanded -it; and when Postmaster General - Hstton re signed there were more than 8,000 resigna tions - on file in his office. The commis sions of tbe thouwnd appointees of my predecessor were ot course withheld and these vacancies with others asp now" being filled as rapidly aa possible. - - WAaHrsoTOH. March 29 The President sent the following nominations to the Sen ate to-day: Robert Adams, Jr., of 1 Pa., to be , Envoy Extraordinary and - Minister Plenipetentiary of the United States to Bra zil; Lant-ing B. Mizner, of CaiifornUj to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary of the United States to the Cen tral American States; Wm. L. Scruggs, of Georgia., to be Envoy . Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of tbe United States to Venezuela; Wm. O. Bradley, of Kentucky, to be Minister Resident and Cocsul General of the United States to Cores i. Geo Chandler; v of Kansas, to be First Aesiitiut Secretary of tbe Interior; Sion A Darnel), of Georgia, to be United States Attorney for tbe Northern District of Georgia; Wm. 8. Tipton, of Tenhessee, to be united states Marsnai lor tne isastern District of Tennessee. - -j - George L. Shoup, to be Governor of Idaho; Edward J. Curtis. Secretary of Idaho. -. Wikche iTEit, March 29.-Inter-8tate Commerce Commissioner Walker to-day placed his resignation in the bands of the President, to take effect April 1st next Be will leave Washington for Chicago next week, to assume his new position as chair man of the Executive Board of the Inter State Commerce Kailway-a.SOciatipn . It. is not necessary that the new appointment be made at once in commissioner Walker's place, as the law provides that no vacancy in tbe commission shall impair the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all the posers of the commission. - Washihgtoh, March 80. The Secretary of the Interior to-day issued the following important order respecting removals: "Beads of bureaus and other officers of this department will not call for resignations ex cept by direction .of the Secretary, and in making recommendations for dismissal of employes will please state specifically the reasons therefor,, and must- slate whether tbere has been due examination of all papers on file in the appointment division, and there must be transmitted to the Secre tary all papers bearing on the subject and recommendations" The executive session of the Senate lasted two hour?, being devoted almost exclusively for the third time to tbe case oi jnurai nai- stead, nominated to be minister to Ger many. Sherman, Haw ley and Blair spoke in f aver of bis. confirmation, the two last named being listened to with especially close attention. At the close of their rc marks a vote was taken on tbe motion to reconsider the vote by which tbe nomina tion was rejected Thursday. The mo tion was lost by a vote of 25 to 19. Erarts, Ingalis, Plumb and Teller voted with the Democrats in the negative, and Blackburn and Call with tbe Republi cans in the affirmative. The - Republicans named exDlained their votes on the roll call, saying that tbey had no personal feel ing in the matter, no antagonism against Halstead, but thought it right to defend tbe Senate against such attacks as had been made upon its cnaracter Dy nim innis paper. 1 Tne senate nas coenrmea tne ionowing nominations": John Hicks, Minister to Peru: Georee B. Loring. Minister to Por tugal; Robert T. Lincoln, Minister to Great Britain; Allen Tnorouyae Jt&tce, minister to Russia: Thomas Ryan, Minister to Mexico; Patrick Egan. Minister to Chili; Kobert Auams, Jr., minister to Brazil ; LBUsnia B. Misener, Minister to Central America; W. 8. Scruggs. Minister to Vene zuela: W. O. Bradley, Minister and Consul General to CoreajW. 8. Tipton, United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Tennessee: Tvre Glenn. Marshal for the Western District oi Worth uaroiina; Mar cus Erwin, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ueorgia; ueorge . Chandler, of Kansas, First Assistant Sec retary of the Interior: Andrew D. Cowles, Postmaster at btatesvuie, u.kj. , ' : In this latter case tbe report from tne Committee on Post Offices, which recom mended tbe confirmation, stated that there wss no charge affecting the personal or official character of W. G. Lewis, who had been removed. Washington, March 80. The President sent tbe following nominations to me Senate to day, Jno TV Abbott of Hew Hampshire, to be Envoy jsxtraorainary anu Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Columbia; Edwin H. Terrell, of Texas, to be juovoy jsxiraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary oi the United States to Belgium; to be dele gates to the conference between tbe United States of America and the Republic of Mexi co. Central and South America. - Hay ti, San Domingo, and the Empireof Brazil, to be held in Washington in iooh, joun a- Hen derson, of Missouri, Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York, Wm. Pinckney Whyte. of Maryland. Clement Biuaeeaser, oi inniaua, T. Jefferson Coohdee, of Massachusetts, Wm- Henry Treecott. of South Carolina, Anderson Carnegie, of i ennsylvania, Jno. R. G. Pittkin, of Louisiana, Morris M. Rstee. of California, J. JU. uarson, oi Georgia; Harvey J. . Cooper, postmaster Tamps, Florida. , - Warhihgton. March 80. By the dew struction of the American fleet at Apia, the Navy Department nnds iTseii comrontea with a serious propiem, onon oi mo vuiua station, where there is a small fleet of old wooden vessels, at least one of which can never hope to successfully cross the Pacific, there are almost no American vessel worthy of the name in the Pacific ocean which can be sent immediately to Samoa, it wouia not bo wise policy to allow events there to drift along without the presence of one or more American naval vessels. The hostile armed factions on the Islands are no longer under the restraining influence of a man-of-war representing any civilized nation, and the property rights at least might be insecure, if life was not In jeopardy. ; The Monongahela, -an old store ship, carrying a couple of howitzers, sailed with stores for Samoa from Mare's Island, Cali fornia, February 21, and should arrive in a week or two unless she encounters bad weather. The Dolphin ; dispatch boat, which is formidable through the possession of one : great gun, ' might ; be ordered from China, or the old Mohican, now at Panama, might be sent to Samoa ; but this about completes the list ot available ships,' and none of them would worthily represent the authority of the United States. ; By dint of extra .work the Charleston, now building at San Francisco, might be gotten ready to sail in about three weeks, bat her batteries would not be cosple'e, and the government would be at great ex penae, as Ihe contractors would probably insist upon a remission of tbe penalties already accrued for delay in the socstruc tion of the vessel, as a condition precedent to accelerating ibe wort ' BASK BOBBERY. Tbe Boldest and fllo.t Successful Sver Perpetrated Twenty-One Tboiuad. Dollar carried Off.. ,-; " ? ; ' -";' : Br Telegraph tcr the Horning Star. .a ,. ; - s Debvbb, Coz. , March 29. The ' toldcs and most sucoessf ul bank robbery ever re ported in. the West was perpetrated -upon the ' First National Bank at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The robber succeeded in get ting away v with $21,000. Tbe cashier of the bank pives tbe following account of the affair: Yesterday morning, immediately after tbe ? opening of the back, a well dressed mn, with a light mouBtacbe and complexion and of medium height, walked into the back and asked the assistant cashier, Ross Lewen, where he could Eee Mr. Moffatt, President of the bank. Levzen informed him that he could see Moffatt who is also President of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at the President's offlco. in the Cheeem an block; Nothing more was seen or heard of the stranger until this, morning about 10 o'clock, when he entered the railroad office and asked ro sco Moffatt. Ha was admitted to his . private room, and briefly stated that he bad discovered a con- spiracy whereby the First National, Bask was to be robbed of a large sum of money. Moffatt told the man he was very busy at that moment, but would be pleased to see him at his private office in the bank at 1 o'clock. With this the man left the build ing. A few minutes after the hour ap- poiniea ne canea at me bar k nr. d was shown into the Preeident's office. While remaining , stanciog he inquired if Csehier S. N. Wood was in, and was told that he was at lunch. He then asked for a bank check, for the purpose of showing how the robbery was to be perpetrated. A J check was handed him and he laid it upon the 'desk in front of Moffatt, and said: VI will have to do this mybeif," and pulling a large -revolver from his coat, placed it at Moffatt's head, and in a very earnest but unexctted manner said : "I want $21,000 and am going to have it. I have considered this matter, and the chances i am running and the consequences if I fail and am ar rested. . I am a penniless and desperate man, and have been driven daring the past week to that point where I have considered suicide as the only means of escape from the poverty and misery in which I exist. Yon have millions. I am determined to. have what I have asked for. If you make a noise, call a , man or ring a bell, I will blow your brains out and then blow tip the building and myself with this bottle of elv oerine (which "he at that moment pulled out of another pocket); now take your choice." Moffatt started to argue with the man, but was stopped with the informalicu that it was useless, and tbat he had but two minutes in which to nil out tbe check be fcrejhim for $21,000 if he desired to live. Moffatt seeing no other alternative, filled out the check, and was then ordered to take it to the paying teller and get it cash ed.. Moffatt left his office and. with the man behind him with the revolver partially concealed under his overcoat and with the muzzle almost against Mcff att's back, marched him behind the counter and up to the paying teller, : Kcely, wich the re quest that the .check . be imme diately cached. They then remarched into Moffatt's office without attracting' the at-, tention of tbe fifteen or. twenty clerks, who were busy at work within two feet of where they passed. After they had re mained in the private office three or four minutes the robber informed Moffatt that they were wasting time, and that he had better step to the door and motion his teller to come to bim, which be did. Moffatt in structed him to bring the-money into his office, and as the teller turned to go away the robber told him he wanted ona thousand dollar bills to the . number of twenty and a thousand dollars in gold coin. The money was brought in and handed over to the gentleman, who for n few brief mo ments had owned the bank, and waiting until the teller had reached his desk, he backed to the front door, making Moffatt remain standing in his door until he reached the curbstone. He then raised his hat and walked around the corner nd has not yet been heard of. - Mr. Moffatt is completely prostrated with the shock. ' Detectives are out after the man, but no trace of bim has been found OKLAHOMA. Rrjolelnc In Soutb.rn Kansas over v tbe - Opens nc Proclamation Excen ' slve Preparations for Enterlne tbe Country. ' Chicago. March 28 A dispatch from Wichita, Kansas, says: The proclamation for the opening of Oklahoma was receivad here with demonstrations of great joy;, flags were hung from buildings, cannons were fired, and bonfires built. The- same enthusiasm welcomed the news all over the south of Kansas. Extensive preparations are belng'made f or entering tbe country and some ot the towns of Southern Kansas will almost be depopulated. Boomers have been encamped along the line and ate making ready to move. Cattlemen are hurrying on to Oklahoma to get their cattle, as they fear violence from the boomers. i Spmts .Turpentine. f : Winston paily: Then ' yrAB meeting yesterday in this city of stock holders of tbe Roanoke and Construction Company to discuss and s perfect arrange ments to push the . work ot construction from Walnut Cove to Martinville, Ya. Much interest was manifested and it was resolved that the work should be pushed as ' rapidly and vigorously as possible. - ' i Lamberton Hobesonian i Rev. Dr. Mangum, of tbe University, is still im- ' proving. He thinks he will ere long re sume the work of ; his Professorship, . Three hundred men mostly young men of Charlotte, have petitioned the Rev. J. Y. Fair not to vacate his pastorate of the . Second Prebyterian Church. - The peti tions . represent alt denominations. Mr. ' Fair baa not decided yet . what he win do. ' vRev. O. P. Meeks has received and accepted a call to the Baptist Church at Clinton. He will supply other churches round about also. : -.v . - Editor Latham ; in Washington Gazettg . Heaved bless Raleigh 1 Instead of the disagreeable, repugnant and conceit- -ed city we had imagined it to be, it is one ' or the most- cnarming piaces wimin our. knowledge- Sixty days experience there led us to realize that the noblest men and grandest women on earth make up her peo ple. , Raleigh's publio institutions, and private enterprises, her intellectual vigor, and the renewed push, vim and activity of the new Raleigh, so ' fast superseding the old f ogylsm of that city years ago, is moBt striking. " : : - - ' ';.. -. ; - -4 Clinton Caucasian; The Wil mington Stab was 21 J years old Monday. . We are glad to know that its circulation is larger now than ever before. Right Rev. Bishop Watson, of the Eastern Dio cese of North Carolina, 'filled tbe pulpit of Paul's Church last Sabbath, preaching two learned sermons. Mr, J. H. Turlington sustained a painful Injury while at work at his saw mill last Thursday. He , was sharpening the saw when some bands v engaged in putting a log upon the carriage pushed the latter along snd caught his leg between it and the saw. He was badly cut and bTuised but fortunately the bone was . not broken. . - , ALABAMA. - A Robber Killed by an Express Agent at Rlocton. Birmingham, March 23 A special from Blocton reports nn attempt to rob the Southern Express Company's office at tbat point. Last night abou J10 o'clock e man named John Warren, disguised as a negro, opened the express office door, and with a pistol in hia hand ordered tha agent, B. M. Huey, Jr., to surrender. Huey did not do it, and the man fired at bim twice, one ball striking him on the breast, glancing and breaking one of his arms. By this time Huev had seized his own pUtol and fired three shots at the robber, who-was found shortly afterwards one hundred feet from the office dead. One of Huey's bullets had hit him in the breast, and the man had bled to death. ; , TWINKLINGS. This is good weather to stick to yonr winter clothes, even though the sun shines brightly. The pneumonia fiend is abroad. Boston Herald. : ; "We print an advertisement this morning for a lost umbrella. Brethren, if we bad the faith of that advertiser we could die satisfied. Iribune of Rome, (Ga ) ; "Worriting and fretting over trouble," writes Uacte Cornelius to the Boston Herald, ''is like trying to care a bile with a curry-comb," which is true as gospel. Fhil. Record. Tbe coal man he whistled a melody gay, As he fixed up the scales in a fanciful way. And he nodded and smiled while he ca rolled this lay : - "As we journey through life let us live by the weieb." ' - Merchant TrawUer, .; From Ash Wednesdaytf Easter :: She ponders upon it: -j While be scrapes aroundT To raise cash for that bonnet! . '"" ;;, . Puck.. , An editor of true independence will not accept an office nor wear a collar, and hence tbere is no harm done the pub lic when a thick-and-thin party organ grinder h taken out of his chair and placed on a Government payroll. Neva York World. . . . . 1 -Sunday Sohool teacher Now, Bobby, he a good boy, and some day when yon grow Superintendent what vou are going What? i Bobby An an' .be , another Wanamaker." - . . - - Tbe Pennsylvania Steel Works, st Har risburg, have made a reduction of five and ten per cent, in wages, to take effect to morrow. - - Raleigh Nevis Observer: 'Col. -Dockery was thought to be dated for Lon don; but he didn't get it," says -the North State woefully. A. W. Fisher, else where referred to, should by no means be credited to North Carolina, any more . than he shouid have been kept in office by Dem ocrats at Washington. He was here during the carpet-bag regime, a carpet-bagger of the carpetrbaggers, but he is in no sense a North Carolinian. A private telegram received here yesterday evening from a party in Washington stated that Mr. Nich-. ols was in the lead in the- contest for the public printing, and that his friends expect him to win. ; . .v Weldon News'. ' . The , heavy rains have been very extensive in this sec tion of the State and as a consequence the work of preparing land for. the crops has bee very much- retarded. Mr. J. D. ' t arris, who 1 has been employed s by the laboard and Roanoke railroad for a sum- , her Of years as telegraph operator st Garjs " burg, .died at his residence in- that place -last Sunday night at 9 SO o'clock. En field is still improving in the way of bul ld -ing, and the well painted houses and neat . yards have a look of thrift Which is pleas ant to see. We have been informed that steps are being taken preliminary to the establishment of a cotton seed oil mill at Halifax. , . V : Charlotte News: Key. Jas. Y, . Fair will go to Richmond.. He came to that conclusion yesterday afternoon, and notified the officers of the Second Presby terian Church to that effect ; Rev. Dr! Pritchard's address at the Y. M. C. A. hall last night was listened to by one of the largest audiences ever assembled there. The doctor made an entertaining talk. A colored man named John Gordon, was out shooting robins on- Irwin's creek, near the cemetery yesterday afternoon. He was armed with a single-barrelled shotgun, the deadliest of weapons, and the gun bar rel exploded near the breech. The thumb of Gordon's left hand was blown entirely away, and the three fingers were lacerated, . the flesh of one of them being laid open to the bone. - .. . r f ' New Bern Journal:,.. C. H. Fowler raised last year five 510 pound bales of cotton on ' five acres of common land with no extra pains or manuring either. The dead body of an unknown colored man waa found floating in Trent river yes terday just below tbe railroad bridge. The keeper of the bridge- discovered - the body, tied it to the bridge and sent for Coroner Oden. The Coroner summoned a jury and after examination agreed upon a verdict that the man came to his death by blows from the hands of soma unknown person. The neck bone was broken and the body terribly u bruised in several places. The man was adjudged to be about twenty-five or thirty years old, aud was supposed to have been dead about one month. He could not be identified by any one. " Asheville Citizen :.VCs'pt. B. A. Newland told a Citizen reporter yesterday afternoon that he had sold two hundred and forty-five emigrant tickets during the day to parties bound for points in Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi. - JThe hotels continue to be crowded with ' Northern and Western visitors. Such a season hss never been known in the history ot , Asheville. Tbe North Carolina boys came out well to the lront. in the race for honors at the recent commencement of theVander bilt and Nashville College Medical Depart ments. In these.two j institutions there are about 250 young men, of whom between 75 and 100 graduated at the recent Commence ment, March 6th. 1 There were 18 medals awarded in the institutions and though North Carolina has scarcely a half dozen in 250 students, they took 6 medals. Charlotte - Chronicler Samuel W. Wilson, of Paw Creek township, yes terday brought bis wife to this city and had her confined in the county jail. Mrs. Wil son is violently insane, and she was placed in the jail to await a reply in regard to her admission to the . asylum" in Morganton. She tried on several occasions to kill her children and her - husband. " She would of ten take her youngest child,- an infant, and wander off into the woods in the mid dle of the night. - Rev. R. G. Pear son's efforts in Columbia, S. O., have not been crowned with the success Mr. Pear son's friends had reason to expect; nor has Mr. Pearson received the ' encouragement and the united aid of the different denomi nations be anticipated. Very much to the surprise of the people of Columbia, he Bud. denly determined to bring to a close his labors in that place, and on Tuesday night, he held his last meeting in the Opera House; The Register of . yesterday says : 'Bis reasons for his somewhat abrupt de termination of his labors here for the spirit ual awakening of the people as stated by him, are that the local clergy, and, more especially local Christians, failed to cooper ate with him in bis work. ' Mr. - Pearson goes from Columbia this morning to Ashe ville, N, 0., where he will take a rest until next Thursday. His next engagement is in Bhrevepoit, La., where he is due on the Sunday following.' . , . Fayetteville Observer'.' The Observer notes with pleasure that steps are to be taken to secure the formation of a society of the "Sons of the Revolution" in . North Carolina. The latest rumor is to the effect that the Presbyterian Orphan age for North Carolina is to Deiocateaai Floral College, in the adjoining county of Robeson. Mr. Harry Smith, ropte agent between Washington and Wilming ton, has been promoted from a third to a second class clerkship in the Railway Mall service, and his salary increased from $900 to $1150, Rev. T. P. Barclay, of Princeton, Ky.i has written a letter to the committee in charge, formally accepting tbe call, recently extended him, to the pas torate of the Presbyterian church ot this city. News reached this place of a fatal affair at or near Franklinton. A posse of men were in pursuit of a notorious negro named Lyon, who was wanted for some crane, out who reiustmo oa arrest ed, saying he would die first. : The officers remonstrated with him, but finally were forced to shoot hiai down in self-defence. We have just been shown an auto graph letter from the pen-of ex-President Davis to Col. Wharton J. Green, of tbis I No--crrin nrp rnr thn wrv. bosom friends up you mayioe a , oana ay ccnooi i vrr "r "i. 71 ,( with a and Bobby I know assing v,ui. U1K" r jn, treatment of Union soldiers at Boanose . Island during the late war between tne States. ..v In this letter Mr. Davis stated that he is "at present compiling some facts ana history to appear in a jwmphlet tomtom, on the treatment of Union soldiers at tne time, and place above mentioned. , .4 A-v Mi" 3- V ' .sw-.""- .7-- it I. s . I. 1 I 1 .'t - f '' HI 1 f 7 I . lr It'-: - ' i i : ''. 1 ---r i m 1 - ' l'i ' ' I 1 t 5 X r f