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Williamson, Upchurch & Thomas, has expressed his determina tion to adopt the ten hour system. We surrender a lame part of our local space in thi3 issue to the opinion of the Supreme Court, reafiirming the Consti tutionality of tbe Homestead law of this State, which will be found in another column. The Typographical Excursion to Kit trells on the. 4th prox., promises to b( a -gay .affair."" Every effort is being made by the Managers to make it a success. TioL'oTii -f V r o 1 it r ir uml (rontlflniiin SC." single ticket $3. There will be a called meeting of Wm. G. Hill Lodge No. 218 this (Fri day) evening at 8:30 o'clock, lor work in the Master's Degree, Brethren will take due notice. Transient brethren tie respectfully invited. Called Meeting of the City Com missioners. The Board ofCity Com missioners held a meeting yesterday to take into consideration the subject ol taxation. Messrs. Bittle, Gorman, Johnson, Prairie and Upchurch, Commissioners, were present, and Mayor Whitaker pre sided. On motion ot Mr. Johnson, it was ordered that the general tax be the same on all subjects as that of last year, and that the special tax be faxed atone iourth of the general tax. Mr. Battle moved that the clerk be ordered, to prepare a list ot the names or the owners of dogs in the city, and present the same at the next meeting or the Board. air. untie oliereu the following reso lution, which was adopted : Jiesulced, It appearing that the name ot the Chatham Railroad Company has been changed to that of the ''Augusta Air Line Railroad. Company," the Mayor "is authorized to obtain a new certificate, in the new name, for the stock owned by the city in that company. On motion of Mr. Gorman, the meet ing adjourned to meet again on the 25th instant. PlC-NlC AT HALIFAX. It WaS OUr Drivileiro to be in atter.denee upon a pic-nic given in the Grove at Halifax on Wednesday. It was a most delightful filtair and was well attended. I i:e young people udjourned to a hop at the irouth . tm Hotel at night. VVe me under special obligations to Messrs. William 1 Purnell aui J. fl. Fenner, of the Managing Corps, lor es pecial eourtes-ies shown us. Next Tuesday. Our Masonic fi i ends will linni. ;n :,i i, T.mo.l.m nn y i '"-Hi 1 u 1U1UU IU4V tU 1 UTOWt I " Wl Tuscarora Lodge and other Lodges celebrate the anniversary ot Si. John the Baptist at the Orphan Asylum at Oxlord, and all are invited to bt pres ent. See notice ol the exeicises in. our advertising column. The North Cakolina Homestead Again Declared Constitutional In t he case of Garrett vs. Cheshire, from Chowan county, the following opinion was filed by Mr. Justice Reade of our Supreme Court on Wednesday last. It; will be seen that the opinion' sustains the constitutionality the North Caro lina -.Homestead Law. Chief Justice Pearson and Justice Boyden of our Su preme Court were not present when the decision was rendered : The compiaiut alleges, that on the 3d of June, 1371, the plaintiff "was the owner and in possession of one by horse and oiyj black mule, of the value of $300. That on that day the defendant unlawfully took the same from his pos session and converted them to his own use." There is nothing else alleged in the complaint. The answer, after objecting to the want of a summons, "denies all the alle gations in the complaint." There is nothing else in the auswer. The case states that the property in controversy had been allotted to the plaintiff, as his personal property ex emption as against certain executions which were issued against him from Chowan Superior Court, on debts con tracted since the ratification of the Constitution ; and thereupon the execu tions were returned to Court, endorsed, 'nothing to be found," This is of no im portance in the case, and we suppose it was stated only to explain why the al lotment had been made. It is further stated as follows : "On the 20th of May, 1871, the same proper ty was sold onder an executionrom the U. S. Circuit Court at Raleigh, for a debt contracted and due in 1867. at which sale, the defendant purchased,and j was placed in possession by the Mar shal." It is further stated that, "upon tbe trial, the defendant asked the Court to' charge that the property in controversy washable to the execution from the L. S. Circuit Court, and the seizure and sale by the Marshal under which he claimed were valid." The Court refused so to charge. The Jury found the issues for the plaintiff, and the defendant appealed. Having only appellate jurisdiction, it is plain that we are connneu to the record ; and that we can know no fact winch is not statei, and can 'decide no point w hich is not raised, and must sus tain his Honor unless error is snown. The only error alleged is the refusal of his Honor to charge, that the property in controversy was liable to the execu tion trom the United States Curt, and that the sale by the Marshal Xvas valid. His Honor must be sustained unless'we can see that the execution and sale were regular and valid. Now, if there can be such a thing as an invalid execution, we are to-take it .that this was invalid. It is true that it is stated that it issued upon a debt due in 1807, and it we as sume, what is not stated, that it was a debt due from the plaintiff, still it is not stated that there ever was any judgment upon -the debt, in any Court,, at any time. And it. there was a judgment, it is not stated whether it was alive or dormant ; or whether it was against the plaintiff or some other person ; or whether it was issued to the Marsiial ; or. what was its form or substance ; or whether the levy and sale were regular. Surely we cannot say, upon such a skil fully observed state of facts, that the defendant was entitled to the charges asked for. And his Homr could not assume that there was a regular judgment and exe cution, without assuming what ought to be improbable, that an interior U. S. court, sitting in North Carolina, would subject the property of its citizens to sale, when the highest couir in tne State had repeatedly decided it was nut subject to sale. It was stated at the bar by the coun- sei on ootn si ties mar, a receni uecision of the Supreme Court, Guun vs. B rry, whieh went up Irom Georgia, was supposed to be in conflict with . HilL vs. Kessler, G3 N. C. II., and several subsequent cases in this Court, in regard to our Homestead Uws: and that it i3 of great importance to the public, as well as to those parties, that this Court should reconsider Hill and Kessler. If it were true that the United States Supreme Court had deci ded the principles laid down in Hill vs. Kessler contrarvwise thereto, we should make haste to conform our decisions to the decision of the Uuitod States Su preme Court, because in all cases within its jurisdiction, that is the highcBt Court, and the proper administration ol justice, and-the true principles ot our Govern met t', and the good order ot society and the comity of courts, "require subordination. We have not been furnislied with tin authentica ted copy of the opinion in the case of Gunn and Barry ,and have seen onVy-the -newspaper report winch we, presume to be correct, liiave considered it cirreiully; and I do not think it is in conflict with Hill and Kessler. or with any other de cision of this Court. Ou the contrary, it is in exact contormity with our de cisions. If there is 'any thing seem ingly in conflict it is only a dictum, which biuds neither that Court nor us. The facts in Gunn and Barry were, that at the time when the Georgia h-mie. stead laws were passed Gunn not only had a debt against his debtor, but h;.d sued him, -and obtained a judgment auaiupt him, which judgment -was a lien upou the debtor's land; and then -4 'y Gunn had a vested right m the land, which the homestead laws could not divest. And therefore, the U.S. Sti .prtme Court, in its opinion, well says: "The effect of the Act in question (he Georgia, homestead Act) un der -thw circumstances of this judg ment, does indcedy not merely impair," it annihilates the remedy. There is none lest. But the Act goes still further. It withdraws the land from the lien ol the judgment, and thus destroys a vested right ot property, which the cr ditor had acquired in the pursuit of the remedy to which he was entitled" by the law as it stood when the judgment was recovered. It i9, in efket, taking one person's property and giving it to another without compensation." This principle was expressly conceded by us in Hill vs. Kessler; and was expressly dte'ded by us in Wheat'hen vs. Terry, 64 N. O.K.,-p. 25, and was the only point in that case. And subsequently we decided that where there was the lien of a trust deed the homestead law did not operate. , It is true that it is not . nn'.y decided in Gunn v. Barry that vested rights were effected in that case, but it is also s ud, that the Georgia homestead laws impair the obligation of contracts, and there fore void. It is also conceded in Hill v. Kessler, and in all the cases in our Court, that if our homestead laws impair the obligations of contracts, they are Void, but oar cases are all put upon the ground that our homestead laws do not ijipair the obligations of contracts. And it may very well be that the Geor gia homestead laws lo impair con tracts, while North Carolina homestead laws do not.- Thev are not at all alike. In order to show that the Geor gia homestead laws do impair the obli gation of contracts, the learned Judge in his opinion, copies the Georgia ex emption laws prior to the present home stead laws, toshow that they were very small land not exceeding 200 in value, and personal property of small amount, and then he copies the home stead exemptions to show that they are very large $2,000 land in fee sim ple, with. all subsequent improvements in addition, and 1,000 personal prop erty. And then the learned Judge says, "No one can cast his eyes over the the former and later exemptions with out being struck bf the greatly increas ed magnitude ot the latter." And thence the inference is, that the object of the later exemptions was not the se curinjj of necessaries to men and their families, but to defeat debts. Now compare our former exemption laws and our present homestead laws with those of Georgia. Our Act of 1856 Rev. C. exempt personal property, arti cles by name, which may be of the value of several hundred dollars, more Or less. according to the circumstances ot the debtor's lamily. And in 1SG0-07, prior to tbe existence of the debt in the case before us, an act was passed exempting "all necessary farming and mechanical tools, one work-horse, one yoke of oxen, one cart or wngon, one milch cow and calf, fifteen bead of hogs, 500 lbs of" pork or bacon, 50 bushel of corn. 20 busnels ol wheat, household and kitchen furniture nut 'exceeding 200 in value. The libraries of attorneys at law, prac ticing physicians and ministers of the gospel, and the instruments of burgeons ur.d dentists, . used in their profession. Acts '06-7 ch. 61. It is apparent that an allotment of those articles approximate 1,000, and in many cases would exceed that sum m value. And the same Act allows a home homestead of 100 acres without restriction'- as to value, wh:ch in many cases would-be worth, -with tiieimnrove ments, many thousand. In 1863 our Constitution was adopt ed, and in that, our present homestead law is limited to $1,000 realty, not in fee simple, but for a limited time, and personalty to the value of $500. Can it be said of our Homestead law, as the learned Judge said of the Georgia law, that any one in casting his eye over them, as compared with former exemp tions, would be struck by the magni tude of the increase? Our homestead law is not an increase, but a restriction. upon former exemptions. A nd they were not made to defeat deots, but to secure necessaries and comforts to our citizens. From this explanation it will be seen that the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Georgia case, conflicts in nothing with our own decis ions ; but they are in exact conformity. The Georgia case decides two points : first, that in that particular case, the plaintiff had obtained a judgment on his debt, befoie the homestead iaws were passed, and that, in Georgia, that judg ment was a lien upon the debtor s prop erty, whieh he had at its rendition; and that thereby the plaintiff h id a vetted right, a property, which c mid not be destroyed, or taken lrom one person and given to another. We distinctly con ceded this principle in ilill vs. Kessler ; and We expressly decided it in Mc Keathen vs.- Terry. There is then no conflict upon this first point. There is however this difference between the law ot Georgia as stated in the Georgi t case, &nd the law in North Carolina : a judg ment in North Carolina prior to the Code has never . been held to be such a hen upon property as to create a vested right, or property in thy plaintiff, Or to divest the property out of the defendant, or to invent in th officer. The only fo:ce of the lieu has been to prevent the debtor from selling it. It requires not only a judgment, but a levy to change the property. Lndd vs. Adams, 60 N. C R., 164, Norton Mc Call, fd. 150.. The second point decided .in Gunn cs Barrv i.-, that the Georgia homestead laws impair ihe obligations of c--utraeis. We conceded iu Hill vs. 'Ki tsler, that any law which had tn it tliVct was void. We said : "We 'concede" that if thi.-; ex emption impairs the obligation of en tracts, either expressly ot by impbea tion, it is against the Constitution of the United St.it-.-s, Mid therefore void. We concede also that a con tract must be understood with reterenca to existing Uw for .its . untoici mnt." Aud we saio, also, tl.at the State cannot "atolij-"h or injuriously change the remedy. It is not the de cision tJ U. S. Su. iemc O. ur . und c-ur decisions, that me in eo Ibct, but it is the G'.;or:-'ia homestead iiws hind ai c Nor'h Caiohua homestead fiws that unlike as has been aireadyshown I know ih:sl we cannot always look to the hardship ol cases to uide- our defisiou.s they are, the quicksand ot the law, but still it is proper to look to the effect of . our decisions to enable us 'to. - see whether we are carrying out the purno.ses ot leg islation. What is the purpose of ex emption legislation? !-- it, to delect debts? We have repeatedly said that this vas not the object of our exemption laws. But that the : purpose ws to secure necessaries and comforts for our citizens. Th's is not leit to iufcrence, but our laws have themselves declaied this to be the purpose. Rev. C, chap. 45, s. 8. And this is paramount to all debts. The Supreme Court of the United States in a date case, Van Hoffman vs. the city of- Qaincy, 4 Wal. 535, in speaking of exemptions which the State may make, says : "They may also exempt from sale under execution the necessary implements of agriculture, the too's of a mechanic, and articles of necessity in household furniture. It is said regula tions of this description have always been considered in every civilized com munity as properly belonging' to the remedy, tobe exercised by every sover eignty according to its own. views of policy and humanity." And in a former case, Bronson vs. Kinzee, 1 How. 311, TaneyrC. J , said the same thing, adding that: "It must reside in every State to enable it to secure its citizens from unjust and harassing litigation, and to protect them in those pursuits which are necessary to the ex istence audjWell being of every com munity." And in Planters Bank vs. Sharpe, 6 How. 301., Mr. Justice Wood burry, in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court, enumera ted exemption laws among the examples of legislation which might be constitu tionally applied to existing contract. The purpose of our legislation being to i secure its citizens the "necessaries and comforts" of life, and this having been ; decided lo be a legitimate purpose, and paramount to all debts, let us see in what condition our people would be if ourdiomestead laws are declared to be void. Our homestead and personal property exemption act, repeals all other laws upon the subject. Therefore our debtor class are to be left without any exemption whatever! Not even a bed or a crust ! Nor is there any relief in bankruptcy ; because a large poition of the debtors have no; the means to pay the expenses, nor are their debt3 large enough to bring them under the bankrupt law. . And furthermore, the late amendment of the bankrupt law allows such exemp tions in each State as the State law makes ; aud North Carolina exempts nothing. And then we have it, that exemption laws, which repeal former and larger exemption laws, and whidi are there tore better, for the creditor, are declared void because they are too large, and impair contracts! And here it is to be considered, if necessary exemptions are constitutional' and unhecssary ones are unconstitutional,who is to judge of what is necessary ? It would seem that the Legislature is the proper body. Legis latures have heretofore done it, and the Legislature of every State in the Union has done it. And in no single case has a' Court ever done it. The nearest a Court has ever come to it is in the Georgia case, in which the Court says, that where there was.au- exemption ot $200 worth of land, and it was increased to $ 200U, the "magniture of the in crease" was palpable, and made it void. Suppose this case : A widow is allowed a year's support, say $100, and the legis lature altera the law from $100 to $200, would the Courts undertake to say that it was unreasonable or unnecessary, and therefore void ? If from $100 to $1000 it would be palpable. Or suppose the same as to a debtor. I suppose the in crease would have to be striklng,md the want of necessity palpable. It would be verging on the ridiculous to say that the Supreme Court of the U. S , or any other Court, better knows the details of what is necessary fcr the "comfort and support" of the citizens of North Carolina than the Legislature -of. the State, or that it is a question of la.v, unless in palpable cases. And it would be-inhumanity to say, that, because the Legislature repealed one exemption law, and substituted another, and a lesser one, therefore the debtor sli iuld not have any exemption at all. And this too, at a time, when, owiug to peculiar circumstances, proba blv one-halt ot the debtor class aie owing more vhl debts than they can pay ! Nor is this view irrelevant ; because, as 1 have already shown in the quotations made from United States Supreme Court decisions, exemption laws are based upon "policy and humanity ;" and they do not impair, but are paianiount to, debts. It under our cireumstai ces our people are to be left without any ex em pt ions, the policy ot christian civiliza tion is lost siyhtot. and we miiiht almost as well return to the inhumanity of the Twelve Tallies of the Roman law : It the-debtor be iusolvent to sev eral creditors, let his ' boiy -be cut in pieces on the thud market day. It m ly be cut into more or fewer pieces, with impunity : or, ii his creditors consent to it, let him be "sold to foreigners beyond the Tiber." Coopers Justinian, 665, Aon. This at least might not involve his wife aud children in his suffering; and beside?, as long as the creditor chose to keep him in custody under the Roman law, he was obliged to allow him "pound ot meal a day.". But, it our ex emptions are declared void, then both the debtor and his family uo without even his "pouud of meal." The opinion in Hill aud Kessler, the leading case in our Court, was prepared with care, after, much .rtlhiction and lu- vestiiration : I lis conclusion arrived at was against my former impressions and pr indices, and against my peeumaty interest, but I was satisfied tnon, as. 1 am now, that the decision was right Ami it will be upheld as the law ill North Carolina,' unless and until the Supreme Court ol the United States I shnli decide, tl'.-tt the homestead daw- o! I jyitrth Cindirm ut'e void. i There i - no e? rov atiirmed. Heap. .1. ' MAititiiiD At "limiy -'Church, Tar boio', NrC by the Rev. J. B. Cheshire, Robert M. Fur'man, Esq., editor of the Asheville Citizen,, to Miss Mollie E. Matthewson, ot Trboro (Wc had a beautiful selection of poetry thvt, would come in just here, but Syme loaned the book to a young lady.) " ' State of tub Thermometer. The Thermometer yesterday was as follows at Branson's Book Store.: - At 9 a. m ."."82 At 12 m... 87 At 3 p. m.... .... . ... 90 At 0 p. m.. .i2 The Late Disturbances on Pat- ETTEVILLE STREET THE TrOLBLJ 8 Among the Workinqmen. Late on Wednesday afternooD, a crowd collected around the premises on Fayetteville street, on which Messrs. Williamson, Upchurch & Thomas are now erecting their new store. These gentlemen have contracted with Mr. O'Neill to build their structure. Mr. O'Neil has in his employ a number of mechauics and aborers whom he' brought from Salis bury to do the work. " The cause for the collection of the crowd at the point above specified was because of the re- usal ot O'Neill's hands to : conform to the eleven, hour system, adopted by the uaieigh mechanics, and the attempt by some of the latter to force a compliance with these rules. These open demon strations made against the O'Neill men caused considerable excitement and re sulted in a suspension of the work for the time being. . ' . . :- ?.-' The appearance of tlie crowd on the street, blocking up the pavemenl to a considerable distance, resembled an ex cited mob and attracted considerable attention. Notwithstanding we were assured by the Mayor one hour before this scene oc curred, that should an attempt be made to interfere with Mr. ONeills' men he would order out his full police force, and it necessary would call out the citi zens to maintain law and order; and notwithstanding the disturbance took place"immediately in view of his office, yet we saw no attempt made by his Honor at the time to protect the threa tened mechanics, or to Jdisperse the crowd, or in anv maner to preserve the peace and dignity of the city. We condemn the conduct of certain aborers in threatening certain other aborers because the former exercised their undoubted rights ot free citizens of the State to work the number ot hours per day which they contracted to work. This is a free country. Men are., free to work on such terms, not contrary to the laws ot the land, as they may see fit, without any hindrance or terror from any source whatever; and no man, and no 6et ot men . have any earthly right to interfere by violence or intim idation. We believe in Mechanics Associa tions, for their protection and interest, and we will support and defend them in all reasonable and proper demands ;; but we will not countenance nor defend lawlessness or violence, nor do we be lieve that such a course will in the end prove beneficial to the interests of work ing men Nor are they the true friends of the working men who counsel them such a suicidal policy. A lawful pur pose may be jeopardized by unlawful means. The threats agaiust O Neilrs mechanics because they work a longer number of hours than are allowed by the rules of oue Societv in this city, cannot be justified in law.or morals, es pecially as O Neills men are not mem bers ot that Society, and are unaer no obligations to be guided by its regula tions. We do not know to what extent the persons who caused the excitement on the public stroets on; Wednesday after noon have made themselves liable lor indictment for conspiracy by the Grand Jury ot Wake county ; but as the disor derly scenes took place in sight or the Mayor's office, and right under the nose of that functionary, without any special effort to suppress the disturbance, when it was at its height, we must say that Mayor Whitaker is guilty of dereliction of duty in not acting with-greater firm ness and discretion and efficiency as a peace officer. The Raleigh News is no apologist for disturbers of the public peace neither will it by its silence or in any manner, give aid or encouragement to lawlessness and intimidation. ' We repeat, this is a free country, in which each citizen is free to act, free to think and free to work. Every man has a right to pursue his own true and substantial happiness by lawhil means and do other men or set of men have a right to molest or make him alraid, or to coerse him into any system of labor agaiust his wishes and judgment. We are. informed by the Chief ot Po lice that his entire police torce was ready to pracect O'Neill's tiieu yester day morning. " We have heard the naniesfci none of the leading white mecbahi! ttal eigh in connection with this disgrace fill affair, and we do nyt believe it re "ceiyes their approval or endorsement. Supreme ' Counf.' This Court met vesterda'v at the usual hour. Chief Justice Pearson tnd Justice i yden were absent, on Necount of confined in disposition. . ' ' The following cases were argued : R N. Green Exr. Vs. J. M. Green, Chathaii.' John Marning, for plaintiff, and Ralph Gorrcll for the defendant. Wm. Ferrell et al vs. E A. Fcnell, Caswell. William AGraham for plain tiff and W. H. Baily for defendant. J.-R. Haskins vs. F. A. Roy&ter, Perr son. W. II. Bailev and W. A. Graham for the nlaintilf ' t:o connstl for delen- - - L . dan. . ! J. R. Norwood, "g'dn. vs. Williams, Person. W. A. Graham, for plaictdt and Jones fe Jones for delendant. The, Court ndiourncd to meet 'his - - - u morning at 9 o'cioek. ' OBITUARY. Ti.r-. in tliis M.mslv near V'ftlie I'o; f ;;t College, on 1 lie mnrolng nftlie fcij.iiasiki., 4 MIS .1AKY Al. fF.RXBU, nnc Ol .3. . i nell, Ksq , aged i years. For im.iv ih.in i months previous to her dv-ath sne bad been coiitinut to Ikt bed b paint' nl sickness, which she lore witn s;reat patiences. Sue died calmly, tailing asleep in J sus. Eai .y in life she professed to love the Saviour and her life wa consistent with he'- profes sion. As a wife, mother, neighbor and friend she conducted herself in a most ex emplary manner. J. V. Jr. C ONSTANTL Y PEC EIV IN G fresh supplies o' first-class Goods which we warrant to please. WYATT, OKEKX A CO., aprl 9-tf - No i, South Hide Market. "yy, a N T, b i) . A Vrcond Hand Fonr-Seat Rocka wft v ti. Ar. HLACKNALL, jn ls-:U Yarhoro House. TEL, E GrRjl JPjaZC JVEJTS. Washington News. ' Washington, June 19. The Presi dent, accompanied by General Babcock, arrived here early this morning. .... He will return to Long Branch by Friday night's train. It is not supposed there will be any formal Cabinet meeting in the meantime, although tbe heads of Departments w ill call on him for the transaction of busiuess of a routine character. . Among the early callers on the President this forenoon were Messrs. Robb, Savage and Osborne, the Commissioners appointed to in quire into outrages and depredations on the Rio Grande. Although the visit was mainly of courtesy, there was some incidental conversation relative to the results of . the inquiry. -The President expressed his satisfaction with the la bors of the commission, and remarked that he would do all in his power to af ford the required relief to those. who had so severely suffered by the raids. . It was stated several days ago there would be about twenty changes in the consulates for the benefit of the Presi dent's Southern political friend?: Several such changes have already been made. The latest being the ap pointment of Henry R. Myers, of Ala bama, consul at Hamilton, Ontario, in place of Blake, suspended. The Presi- dentdias also appointed aa Internal Rev enue Collectors, Josiah Andrews, for the Second District of Michigan, ar.d Adam Nase for the 3rd Illinois. Also William S. Defrees. of New Mexico. Agent for the Indians of the Maqutties Pueblo agency, io place of Caroth&rs, resigned. FROM NEW YORK. Custom House Irregularities The Italian Slave Trade. New York, June 19. The Custom officers have shawls imported via Mexi co at a thousand per cent below value. 1 he papers characterize the Custom House as implicated as heavily and therefore responsible. Consul General Lucca, of Italy, pub lishes a card asserting that the suffering of Italian "children brought here as slaves, has not been exagerated in the least, but so far from his being to blame in the matter, he has ,been doing his utmost to s'op the inhuman traffic. As one result, the Italian parliament has just passed an act making trading in children a felony and severely punishing not only those who employ them, but parents who consent to their employ ment. New York Fire Underwriters. New York, June 19. At a meeting of the New Yoik Board ot Underwri ters, Mr. Howard called- attention to peril by fire inAtlanta, where the Town Council have just declared that they will not provide a supply of water. This matter was referred to the Executive Committee. - The Cholera iu Nashville. Nashville, June 19. The cholera is unabating.. Three draymen were at tacked on the street. There were 30 deaths yesterday; 8 white and 22 black. The Modocs Endeavor to Escape. Yreka, June 19. Curly Headed Jack shot himself. Several Modocs had filed their shackles, but the escape was pre vented. The Cholera In Cincinnati. - Cincinnati, June 18.- There were two death.9 to day from cholera syinp oms. The Railroad Life Insurance Con vention. St. Louis, June 19 The Railroad Life Insurance Convention meets next year in Richmond, Va. iHlINltUT DISPATCHES. Railroad Accident. St. Louis, June 19. -While a train with two engines attache J belonging to the Missouri, Kansas aud Texas Rail road, and a train with 1 engine belonging to the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railroad were running as one train on the Hannibal and ift. Jo seph Railr a 1, a lew miles lrom Kansas C ty ou Fa urday last, tl ey collided with a train running west, and four lo comotives were almost destroyed. Sev eraL stock cars were smashed. The lour engineers were more or less injured . No Cholera Here. Knoxville, June 19 A statement published in, the Nashville Banner yes terd y morning that the cholera pre vailed here and that a perfect'panic and th it thousands were fleeing to the mountains, is incorrect. There is no rateii disease here, nor has not been up to last 5 Uia.dertakeis'repoit fewer deaths tin- ostsent time commencing the weeks, tli an w i n ter. any one week during the Higamy. Nkw Yokk, June 19. Geo. P. Evans was arrested lor bigamy and also on a civil Fuit '.rought by P. R. Barnwell for 10.000 diniMes, and lodged in the tombs, lie is charged with having three wives living, viz : Aimira Davis, daugh ter ot wealthy Boston parents ; a daugh ter of Dnvid N. Badg'-r, of Boston, and al?-.o h daughter d Mr. Barnwell, the prosecutor. . He was about eloping with another yiuiiir lady wlun overhauled. Weather Probabilities. Waiiin(;ton,. - Ju Souihein Sttes east ic 18 For tlie ,i' the Mississippi on 'Friday, light to I'i lrom the Southwest a (rail WK1US Iliosil , nd Nortiiwest and very :eneraliy weather. clear or partly cloudy Washington News, i -, Washington, June 18. Grant nd Belknap are here. No formal Cabinet appointment!. Henry Ray Myers, of AJib aula, has been appointed Consul to Ontario, Canada The Fordham Races. . FonDllAM, June 19. The first race was won by John Boulger, in 2 minute-; the second by Joe D miels, in 1;441. New York Items. , New York, June 19. Great excite r ment at the police headquarters, owing to the report that the Commissioners were about to appoint 25 colored men on the police force as patrolmen. Com missioner Russell says he supposes the rumor arose from a resolution yesterday to appoint 2o colored men a3 street sweepers. Wall street markets continue duil with speculative shares, contrary to the general expectations heavy and - lower. In Southern State bonds the business amounted to twenty-four thousand. dol lars, with prices steady. More 1 the Polaris. Washington,. June ll)th. Robeson has made his statement from, evidence of rescued Polaris crew, he dosu't know whether Capt. Hall died a natural death or not. He thinks the abandonment of a part of the crew on the floe of ice as accidental. Foreign. Madrid, June 19. A majority of the finance committee of the Cortes are in favor of abolishing the low grading of pensions to members of the cabinet, and placing them upon the same footing with other functionaries. Fire in Iowa. ' Burlington, Iowa, June 19. The Opera house, courthouse and other prominent buildings burned to-day. Loss $400,000. - COMMERCIAL. REPOUTV , New York Markets. New York, June l'J. Cotton, net receipts 150 bales ; gross 1,200. Sal es of cotton for future delivery to-day 17,000 bales, as follows: June 204a20 ; July 20Uatf) 11-16; August !i0a20 11-10; September Wya ; November Cotton qulet,.nominal ; sales 271 bales; middlings 21. . Flour quiet and favors buyers. Whlskey shade easier at 'JS14. Wheat closed quiet ; most grade lower. Rice quiet at 7aS. Uorn 1 cent rower, white western 67. Foi ls, weak at hj.85ajfl7. Lard weak 15-ldal). Navals steady. Freights quiet. Money easy at 4a6. Sterling steady. Gold LTKalDU. Governments rather heavy. State nomiuii. vmv Foreign Markets. - , ... .. - - ... Li ndof, June la ioon. uonsois Fives J. Paris, June 19-Nooa. Rentes 55 and 95. Liverpool.. June 19 Noon. Cotton opened steady ; mdauds SJut) ; Orleans 9 i lattr uoiton quiet anu swauy; saiea 10,000 bales; speculation and export 2,000. Evening Cotton closed quiet; sales American 5,";00. . .. .... .... Wilmington Markets, Wilmington, M. C, June 19. Spirits tur pentine firm at 41. Rosin quiet at $2.H0 tor No, 2. Crude turpentine steady; Si.tO for hard ; : fo.OO ior vellow dip and virgin. Tar quiet, at 5.00. Cotton Markets. Savannah, June 19. Cotton firm ; mid dlings 1S ; iow middlings 17; good ordi nary 16. ,.' Wilmington, June 19. Cotton firm ; middlings 18. Mobile, June 19. Cotton firm, oflerinpc light; good ordinary 10 ; low middlings IS; middlings 19. Charleston, June 19. Cotton quiet; mid dlings 18al8 ; low middlings 17 ; ordi nary n4aia. Baltimore, June 19. Cotton firm ; dlings 20. Norfolk, June 19. Cotton linn middlings 19. Boston, June 19. Cotton steady ; dlings 21. ; Memphis, June 19. Cotton tinner 'middlings ISaln1,. mid low mid ; low NEW ADVEltTlSEMUlNTS, A T S AND viFaT 0 500 Bushels lie ivy Virginia Oat. 100 Hales I'rime ,N. O. Hay. ju 19-tl R. F. JONES & CO, JjAMSiND BREAKFAST JUC )N. Superior Canvassed Hams. Breaklast Strips ju 19-tf dt, F. JONKS-& C A. V IRG1NIA TOBACCO Blaekwell Orange Brand. Travis' round C.iv?wiii!'!Vb-icer. j u 19-tf K; F. JONES Jr Co. J0AI hOAP, SOAP, SOAlVbOAP, .30 BoaVs of Fowler pany, Honey oap. ju 19-tl iV 0; nd ., Salem, 'arU eont "May Fiower T! let K. F. JONES A Co L O U R A N I) M' 15 A L 00 Sacks N. !. Sup. and Family Fiour. ;50 Barrels Baltimore Flour various grad.-K in iji.autities to suit purohHsoi , 150 Liuslu-ls 1- re-li Cum ..'.Mead at lowest market rates. B. F. JONES it C ' Wiimiiigfon.-'liet! i pji'iio ju ltt-tf . ; XTkju-t Sqiiii-ie. N L' T T .U K b. I) A V Tusca:oiii L'ge and other Loils wi!i elebrute the 'iu of .luu -at 4di Oi'phaii A sy in a i.. jMine: will he prepared ly; ! iercii . Addesss will !j Ue:ivered by U-y. ;i. ;a veu, l.. D.. of Trinity College, HeV. Ocii;r; I'alter.-on, ot W'iimiiiglo.i, lion. it.hert l. Vance, o Kuncoiinw. ioi'. M. V. Il mom, of Ni'i I ham pi'n, and n'litT tisi inu-irsh- il sprakes. The cvt.it ' nii.spor'a U .n w i! 1 bi as fo.io .v : From Ka:;gh to Oxf.-rd and h-vk, ' ? 4 ?" " Fort-itvi"lr U '" " ' .'i 1 ' h'rankliu!t:t ii . " Itldgeway to " ' " 2 (" Warn nton lo ' " " laeon to - " Eittlt ii U " w " Oastia ir " 4 l. 4 VV tldo i to " ' 1 7. The Norin t sir Una Uo;d, uml. the AVii millijloll PllCl V't lilon lli'.nd. wdi sdl re tii in t;e-t ;or:,nt- !i't i f.uv. v.Kiitiis i:,ny h-iVf ivtlxixh o Vtdlon on. thn Moiidt iiiKi nii'tj :ai , r I he Viiiid i -vei.i(!if Fi-'jiiji, and . ai:ii oxford oi tim- i'or in..- t-x(-rj!M:?y U'u;.' nir.g, they may ta xe tr dn hi He-id r u oa 'i ;; ;s ven iu. t.Uougli th:- ticrti t will iv u-'o il they Sll.lli I 1 Iff l !"--!-.: i ': j-i it id i .!. H. MILi-S. i : i u li it a: tie.t- in t :t "jor.i di. imxt'S lor fuiuiy s,:il for s 1 U: at. t'-AUMI-.U'S i june 17 d"2w. Miir.;ef. . .i'llSi l', i n' -'i l l vu jn. sroitE. L. K C 11 BROS & M ILLS .r s: ir it v is jt .r, c. liatir.g just computed our ww Mrick Warehouse and Wharf, we are pr. j -a red to handle Cotton. Corn, Rice, Peas, Oats, A-c,, Vc. with a Mreat advantflse. ' A la rue s'oek of co UN constantly on hand. feb.il-2m