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nn MewS Kali HE eig-h V I XTTT- RALEIGH, N. O., SUNDAY MORNING, MAT 12, 1878. $5.00 PER ANNUM EUROPE. viojt e imuh. i Br CaWetothe News ) ;..r Mav 11. The 7i'W Vi- . . . .i I .Hit dll'C Lord Bx- iu his last luterview wun l -uut S-houva:oa, explained wun great p.-e.-iioti. 'he social Luglish interests .ncb tiUuJ wou'd, iu ail circuin s .tnces piottet. England as before, lays li e chief stress ou the European set tieraeut of the question, attaching wci Jit to the form ouly so far as it af fects the i tiuciple. The fact, therefore, that EngWrd is tutering iuto pur par tr, abvu: various point of tbe treaty cauuut be interpreted by Russia as showing a dispoiliou on the part of the British Cabir et to swerve from the line firt adapted; meanwhile tbe war party i:i St. Peteisburg is beginning to stir. C iiint Schouvaloff is thought to be too English in his view, and on bis arrival he will hud that a strong counter cur rent has set in against bis pt?rsou as well as his mission. His visit to Price U.smarck Icoks a if he saw hi danger, and wa intent upon secuiiug the co operation of the jGerrann Chancellor. The negotiations for the surreuder of fortresses and the withdrawal of the Hussion army from Constantinople are reported to be progressing favorably. A limit Belgrade despatch reports . Bosnia is iu a state of great aita ;,,.i. i he insurrection spreading, aud ihe unurents loice all the christians to in ihem or bu?n their villages. l"'ie Daily Td'graph annonuces that Vi ouut Sandoa is to bo admitted to a mU in the Cabinet. A Daily Stus special from Berlin, the tone of the pnss i- not alto ther confident. The cewb fn in Vienna is generally v ar-like, and se ms to indicate that Austria doe not regard her propeet uuprved by the peaceful turn of nego tiations between Euland and Russiv .4 Convict on Ilie Kmnpajje. hj Tetefrraph to ibe Ne-.ru Mkmpuis. Tenx.. Mav 11. At tbe i ; !-!. ' tel. sl.o U'.'O ... . . . T ) I ' .i:ial Lourt t-1av Judge Logwood ,-uced Mack Williams to the i-eni- ( i:y for two years for malicious! nvr in connection with assaults! orue negroes, on liii C ree k, in ' . I t:ns " 'uuty. A few moment after I-.'. ;He was pronounced, Williams da t- 1 to t'ie door and ran down Poplar f: Tuiee deputy sheriffs were s .. ti mounted and iu hot pursuit, aud ri ..-..!v vertook hira in the suburb and Li op a:iH. c t . a ti.. :: :ed tire on them with a revolver, i.T l eputy 5lcMahoii'rt ho; so, it ;nued tiring till brought down . r through the hij. and was ir: ied back to jail. He is also u: - r ud.ctm ut tor maroericg two c '. re1 men, and said yesterday if the J a !.; sentenced him to-day he would ki i "the Jude, bheritT and tha Altor iw -vt Lieral. Fori j-F.'l 111 uigre. B Telegraph to the News. ".vui.n".tos, M i y 11. Tue House y'.it the day in di-cnsiug the bill re-p-ited from the c rn nitteo on Com mer e. to i emulate m'er-State transpor tation on ra lruails, ami to prohibit dis cri nuiat;ou iu fieih's. No result was re t hed. No movemen' a n.atle iu regard to the contemplated movtmeut for an en q nry into the alleged Presidential lr ut K A Treasurer Hbort. By t!erii'Q to th New. 'rtUAGo. May 11. A. Uemaluron, a i r. uiiL.r;t coal dealer iu this city, aud a Uio-t reflected man. is short iu his ac- cuuts as Treasurer of the village of H-.t'.ePark. from ',000 to $70,000. He h.s leeu Tre-suier hve yeais, grd- uahy becoming rajie aud more involved iu easiness aiid iu investments so thai when his term expires, as it will in a ti-w Us. he will be unable to ectlle. UilliarUM. liy telegraph tothe2evrs. ( niCAGO. May 11. Two games of Ficiich Caiom, sixhuudred points each. w. . e nlaved between Jacob Schafer and lii' .luh h Heister. The first was won I v Heister, iu 10 innings. Tne highest n'.ns being 114214103. Schafer's t tal score was 2u2, and the best runs 74 In the second game fckhafer won in 11 innintrs. makin? a run of 442. Heister's total score w as 419, aud the highett run was 307. Memorial Day In Yieksburg. Ey telegraph to the News. VuKiBi'KO, May 11. Memoiial day was observed here yesterday by ex- L'niou aud ex Confederate sold;ers, and the graves of both were decorated with fl'.wrs. The blue and cray marched iu t'.u same proce-sion. I'eelrrul CViuettrie Iu Hie Nuuth. I j te-1 graph to the Nw9. C u. a .o, M v 11. 'ten. D.B. Sacket, Ius.-e-or General of tbe military divi- kiuu of the Missouri, has returned from a tur of infspectiou among the natioual oermeteries iu the South. He reports finding all the cemeteiics in liifet rate or Jer. A Call Tor a Convention. By telrriaph to the Niwj. Lew stows. Me,. May 11. The fcriittj Central Cjmtnittee of the Na tion! Gi-;uback party, has issued a call for a State Convention, to be held :n ih i city on Wednesday, June 5th. Ilauk Statement. liy teleg aph to inJ News. Ni.v Vnr.c. May 11. The bank b. it t ments sows th. following changes: 1.0AUS, increase 2,Uy4,oOU; fcpecie, de crease 2 5?I2.4U0: le-al teuders. in crease $2.l7o.7oi: deposits increase $1. ftt'ltoo; circulation iucrease 34,800; ieere decrease $U5,700. The bauks now hold $i6,C9i,oUO above legal u 'l lueuiculs. Letter rToni l'ltt. Ccvrspondence of the News. ( i hf.k.x vi lle. N. C. May 8tb, 1S73. On the 2'jtn of April Covenant Lodge, No. 17 I. O. O. F. celt brated the tiUy- nmeih Anmveisary of American Oddfel low hip. A lecture was delivered by liar i Skiuaer, Esq., ou the origin, aims aud progress ul iho older, ihe lecture was a flue one and did credit to its talented young author. On the 24ih of June next, the F. & A. M. wilihave V. G. Siair. President of W. F. College at Muifieekboto, to deliver a Maioioc address. Ou the 2Hih of the present month, Got. aLce u to deliver his lecture on the "Scattered Nation." So you see, we shall have enough speaking for a short while to kep ur faculties shar pened uutil the politicians begin to talk for the couutry." At the elections for Mayor and Com missioners on the oth, the Republicans carried the towu by about thirty ma jority. Crops are looking1 well. Weather is prettv aud farmers rejoicing. A Revival is iu Progress in the Bap tist Church here under Rev. Th s. -Car-rick, assisted by Revs. T. M. B.ibb, of Gates and Pitt man, of: Martin. Four penitents last evening. ; ATLANTA COX FEUEXCE. From our special K?porter. Atlanta, Ga., May 10th, 1S73. NINTH DAY. The Geueral Conference couvened to day at 9 a. m. Religious services con ducted by Rev. David Morton, of the Denver Conference. Bishop Karauaugb in the chair. B;shop Kavanaugh is full of humor, and makes remarks frequently that create much laughter. It seems that he just can't help it. He made several re marks tday that created continued laughter. He is betweeu 70 and 80 years of age, is large aud fleshy, and is plum full ot anecdotes. Dr. McFerrin asked the question of the chair to-day. '-Did the action of 'he Conference on vesterday settle ti e Damerou case?" The chair aus we rd, " Unquestionably it did," Seviial members asked and obtaii ed. leave of absence. Several new arrivals were reported. Several standing com mittees submitted report jo-day. CUANOE OK THE NAME OF THE t ill RCII. The committee ou changing the name of the church reported to-day, aud n. conimeided that the name of the church be not ch.u.gtd, which report was adopted by almost a unauiiuoiis vote, only one or two voting against it. It was pro posed by soma few to change the name of the church so as to get rid ot the word irouth, but it was clear from the action of tne Conference to day that no such chauge will or can be made. .W k.ll..Mlt 1J lilt. lAJIVllAlt.. It was proposed by some to remove ihe limit to tne pastorate and all w a u.imster to remaiu any length of time m a CLarge. ius v.ouiiuuiee on iuuu- . -i i . ,s ... I.:.. . raucy leporttu reconimenauig mat tue law remain as it now is, aud the rt port was adopted without a dissenting voice. The law, as it now is, allows a minister to remaiu in ote charge only four years consecutively. So the minds of the church may be at rest on t'.iat point. ill!' VOL' IN DEBT? A proposition to change the discipline I so as to ask every p:eaelifr, wiien ue joins conference, the question, " Are . . At you in neot so as to euiUana;s you c has been maile, referred to Committee O'J I iuerancy, and that committee ro- poittd favorably ou it to day. By a tuleof tbe conference this report uas to lay on the tabie one Jay uutil it can be published, ami then tbe conlereuce will act upou it, which action, when taken, I ili repoit. It is well iu the?o days of demoralization in regard to the payment of debts to keep the miuistr from falling into the too commou habit of not paying debts promptly. A resolutiou rtnuesiiug 1'r. 1 . J. Allen to address the Geueral C-ofereuct ou the missionary work iu Chiua, was adopted by the conference to-day. Dr. A lieu is a missionary to China trom tne Southern Methodist Church, and has lived in Chiua l'J vears. He is a distinguished speaker, aud will, no doubt, give us something of in terest in response to the request of the Geueral Conference. Several members who were abseut vesteidav when the Damerou ca.so wa decided, requested .to record their votes on that question, amoug whom was Dr. T. M. Junes, of North Carolina. Dr. Jones voted in Mr. Damcrou's fa vor. Dr. T. M. Finney presented the re port of the Commissioners, who met at Cape May in 1S70, and removed aiioo- stacles to fraternity between the North ern aud S iuihern Methodist Churches, which report was spread on the record, and a vote of thanks ordeied to the Commissioners (or the manner in which they discharged their duty. The proceedings to-day were not as exciting as on yesterday. Large crowas of visitors attend the Conference, and seem greatly interested in its pioceed- PERSONALS. Rev. T. W. Guthrie, of North Caro lina, anived in this city to-day to attend the General Conference. rl- Attempted Aftinatlou ot tne Germau Emperor. liy Cable to the News. Lonixn, May 11. A dispatch to Reuters Telegram Company from B r- lin, says, at 2::J0 p clock this afternoon, as iMnueror v imam was reiunuug iruni a drive with the Grand Duchess of Baden, several shots from a revolver were fired at him in the Avenue Enter den Linden, nobody was hurt, tbe nerson who fired the shots was ar- rested. i Notice to .MarlnerN. Ky Teleeraph to the News. asui.noton. Mav 11.-Notice is given by the ligh house board, that on and after Juue 13, 187tf, a fixed white light of the first order will bo shown from the light ;house on tne r owey rocks. ("Northern extremity of the Florida Reefs.) On aud after the exhibi tion o the hunt,! the huht now shown from Cane Florida liuht house will be discontinued. i Augustus C. Tliompson has been ap pointed acting assistant keeper of tho liuht house at Northwest, Point Shoal, South Carolina. Large Hale ofBonrts. !! Telegraph to the News. Nkw iohk, May U. Inquiry was made to-lay in ; regard to the reports that the syndicate was about to sub scribe for the Auuust option of four aud one half per teutum bond. The members of tbe Syndicate said that the sales of bonds had been very larue. and although no exact tiuures could be obtained, it was learned that l-eiween 821,000,000 and $2", 000,000 had alieady been disposed or. it was said mat a suuscxipuouui o.vw.wv ui i .. . i . f a, mm iiin the August option would probably be made to-day or Monday. Glaneea From tbe Burlington llavrkeje "When David said in his haste, "all men are liars," he was iu such a hurry h-i never thought of Mis. ulton. "Hennery the VIII," ,sid when ha taused a as the tramp the last hen tost he Tiai ed before daj break. Ol'U lVAMIIIXCiiTUX LETT Kit. Great Speech or lion. Uiu. .TI. llobblus. . Washington, May 10, 1S7S. I shall be with you in spirit to-day, when our men, women and children go out to the silent city of the dead, to off -r grateful honors to the memories of the noble heroes who p dd the tribute of their lives to the cause of Constitutional liberty. May the day never come when wo shall ccaso theso votive ob!ations at the shrine of patriotism and of valor ! The week past has not been specially prolific ot' event of interest in Congres sional ciiwles, though the progress that had beu made iu legislation warrants the belief that both Houses wili be iu readiness to adjourn on the 15th or 20th proximo. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill has gone to the Sanate, and both Houses have passed the Indian Appropriation bill. The Taiitf revision is eliciting daily speeches in the Houe, with no chance, however, I think, of any detiuite action at the present session. There is every prospect of a decbion, in a few days, by which the operations of the Bankiupt repearwili be: p stjxued until January, or at least September, next. And you have already been advised of the vote by which the House expressed its sense of the wisdom and propriety of the re duction of the tax on tobaccj. The re solution to that e fleet was introduced by Shelley, of Alabama, at the iustance of Mr. Bobbins, of our own State, and Mr. tucker, of Virginia neither of those geutlemen beiug able to obtain the floor for the purpose. The speech of Randolph Tucker on the Tariff bill was au elaborate effort of great power, delivered witli masterly elocutionary effectiveness. Mr. Tucker is a cogent logioiau, a profemud lawyer aud a scholar of cultiue. His speech commanded the clwe atteution of the House, during the two hours and a halt occupied in its delivery, and, at its close, he was the recipient of general congra tul itiou. Under ordinary circumstances, it would have been a great disidvaucage to s.icceeel Mr. Tucker on the same ques tion. A common obsei ver would have supposed the subject exhausted ami the field of thought fully gleaned. When it i stated, then, that t'ie Hon. William N. Hob -ins, who followed the elexpaent gentleman from Virginia, fully retained the attentiem which he had contrelled, and threw muc'i new arid original light upjti the issues on hand, it is stating a tiutU, which involves the highest pos sible compliment to the able Represen tative of tle Seventh District. Mr. R-.ibbins' .speech was carefully prepared and abounded in striking presentations of fact and deduction. '1 hose who have ever had the pleasure of heaiiug Mr Rohhins will know the earnest imp: es siveness of his delivery. The sjeeeh was .m tho general question of th " Tanffaud Reduction of Taxes," and the argument directed to tho establish ment of two loading propositions, the accomplishment ol which is the perfec tion t statesmanship, viz. : That a wise aud just system of Revenue must raise that amount of mouey which is neces sary for the purpose of the government; and that it must do s by imposing the lightest possible taxes on the people. I cannof, within the circumscribed com pass of a letter, follow the admirably spun thread of his disquisitions, but I am constrained to quot a few extrao'8. in which he so forcibly depicted the e !l"-ct of existing Revenue legislation upon the interssts of Noith Carolina : ' And iu thd late conflict of aims, by the judgmeut of all her sisters, no S'ate showed a greater capacity for wailike organization, a sterner persistency, or a more 1 itauic enemy than my owu gal lant old State of North Carolina. Out oT a w bite male population of only three hundred and fourteen thousand of all i . i ill ajes. sue sent more man one nunuieu thousand soldiers t ) the tented field, or about one iu three of all her white males. What Slate, what nation ever beat that ? And what kind of soldiers were they ? Let their reat commander- in-chief bear witness. W hen he arrayed them for battle the last time at Appo mattox, aud the serried battalious of North Carolina marched by him line. with bleeding feet, but still compact, still undaunted, with a tear in his eye he said, and it was his last words to them, 'God bless North Carolina, al ways faithful. W by does a Mate that is peopled by such men remain poor? Let me tell you. It is because she has been reduced to a skeleton by paying the perpetual tribute exacted from her by unequal aud unjust rederal legislation. Isatureand circumstances have made her heretofore an agricultural State. What interest of hers has ever been fostered by piotec tiou or promoted by your favors? ihe fishermen of New England have re ceived bounties ; the cotton-spinuers of Massachusetts, the iron-workers of Pennsylvania, the sheep-raisers of Ohio and Vermont, the hemp-growers of Kentucky aud Missouri, even the sugar- planters of Louisiana, all these have had protection extended to their several in dustries, thereby increasing ihe value of their products and increasing also the price which North Carolina has to pay lor nearly everything she buys abroad. You have donated millions of acres of the public domain to the new States of the West for railroads, tor schools, ana for other improvements, and thereby made those States great and rich. " As for North Caiolina you give her nothing : you take everything from her She is an agricultural Slate, and you are the representatives of a country whose real superiority among the nations ori ginates lrom its vast agricultural re sources ; anu yet you tax the fruit tuat grows ou her trees ; you tax tbe grain that waves in her fields : you have taxed vhe cotton that whitened her plains ; you have taxed aud are still taxing from 100 to 1,000 per cent, the tobacco that would otbeiwn?e be one ot her great mouey making crops. "No citizen of hers has been President of this Republic, yet three Presidents were born within her borders, and they owed their success to the great qualities which they iuherited from the sturdy stock of their native State. Other losses she rouht endure, but when you tax her to impoverishment and drive out her people to other States, like Jacob she exclaims, 'If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved "In spite of all the losses and misfor tunes and injustice she has suffered, North Carolina, by the bountifuluess of her resources and the energy of her people, is yet a great and magnificent State. She is yet sixth in rank of Ihe old thirteen. Let those who speak of her slow progress remember tbe many States that have grown great and waxed fat by feeding ou her vitals ''By my voice, as one of her delegation, she asks now f jr justice ; she demands reform in the revenue system ; she asks to be protected from the protectionists and from the impositions and oppres sions of the internal tax-gatherer. Robin Hood, the freebooter of Sherwood Fores, robbed the rich to help the poor; yet he was only an outlaw. What shall be said of those who rob the poor to favor the rich and call it protection ? I appeal to this House to adopt the very moderate and conservative measures our committee have reported. Modify the high tariff duties levied for the bent fit of long-favored classes; reduce the exorbitant taxes now imposed upon the products of the field ; aud, in the race for wealth and prosperity, give a more even chance to the agriculiurUt and the agricultural States." The leading speeches iu opposition to the new Tariff bill have been made by Ranks, of Massachusetts, and Kelly, of Pennsylvania, the special advocates of the monopolist! and of that system of class Protection, which has fattened the irou, manufacturing and commercial in terests, at the expense of the agricul tural iuterest of the country. Iu the Senate, both Judge Merrimon and Gen. Ransom have preseuted nume rous memorials loolking to the abroga tion of the tax on the issues ot State banks, the former Senator accom panying the presentation with the state ment that au overwhelming majority of the people were in favor of such repeal. As yet, no steps have been taken looking to an investigation of the Elec toral frauds, but they may be taken at any moment. The necessity of moving with due caution in the premises is fully recognized, and when the initia tive occurs it will be based upon a care ful survey of the surroundings, and a tern determination to make the inquisi tion thorough. As I have heretofore intimated, there is no serious thouuht or expectation of upsetting the "title ' (so-called) of Mr. Hayes, but a firm purpose toexp se the infamous outrages upon Americau suffrage and the popular will that placed him, fraudulently, iu the seat of the people's choice. The Secretary of the Labor Exchange here has sent a letter to the Vine Growers' Committee on Southern Emi gration, itSKiu i lie iu iui a icpoii. ui a recent inspectiu tour to the South. A public meeting, to receive the report, is to be held on Tuesday evening next, and the Hon. R. 11. Vance, amjug o hers, will deliver an add i ess A largo and elaborately ornaoaent d fire and buruiar-proof safe hasjust been placed iu the Statuary Hall of the Capi tol. It has beeu placed there by au thority, at the request aud at the ex peuse of Mrs. C. F. Deihm, of '23 Union quare. New 1 ork City, seconded by the recommendation of such . men as Chief Justice Waite, Peter Cooper, Governor Ik.-die and others. For what purpose. think yon? Ttie idea of the lady is curious and crocnety : out interesting withal. She desires to present, in a lastiug form, a memorial of the men of ... i - i r our country, at tuis peculiar periou oi its history, and to that end, has pro jected a series of National Autographic, Photographic and State eal Albums ; the photographic albums to contain the portraits of the men of the time pro minent iu all the departments of profes sional or public life ; the autographic to contain signatures, aud the State Saal album to contain the grand seals of the States aud Municipalities, with tbe au tographs of Governors, Lieut. Gover nors, Mayors, etc. "In the autographic albums (in one of which, by the way, I have just inscribed a bounding specimen of my calligraphy,) after your siguature is a blauk space of several lines, so as to leave space for your nearest of kin tn the Xutional Centennial ot VJ,b'. In a le mouths the safe will be closed, to be re-onened a hundred vears hence, and to remain in the Capitol meanwhile The fancy of the lady-originator of this idea is. at least, the result of (fisintcreftea motives, as she can hardly expect to be present " at the otening, and receive the cotemnoraneous admiration . that will be lavished upon her plan, when hinges, creaking with the corrosure of a century, snail turn tue memorial eou tents to the light of day. I wonder that it did not occur to Mrs. Deihm to place in the safe rolls of phonographic foil, imnressed with tha vocal utterances of leading orators or divines, so that, though deal, they might still speak words of patriotism or exhortation, in their own voices, to the teeming mi lions that will throng (if the future of this Republic i equal to the promise of to-day."! the American shores in the great 'climactric of the Twentieth Cen tury ! .-. HALIFAX COUNTY. Weltlon Rioter Kecorerlng Kadlcal Kale The Court l'olltlcal. Correspondence f the News. Halifax, May 10th 1878. Court is progressing quietly. The negro who was wounded so badly in the Weldon not is improving, anu is e peeled to recover. THE KADICAT, BOARD OF COUNT T OFFI CIALS. The Radical Board of County Com missioners stand indicted in eight bills, and will be tried at the next term of our Inferior Court. A prominent citi- fn vesterdav oithilv .remarked, "the taxes of this county seem to be levied 101 - . : - . . . , , the sole benefit of the county officials. The Board of Radical County Commis sioners, for instance, last year allowed their chairmau a bonus or gratuity of 8()0 out of the county funds, and the ShArirT a likfl rrratuitv of 41G00. Ex uno dite.e omnes. Ihe people look longiugiy for the entrance of a Democratic Board of Commissioners, who will be electee by the Magistrates next Fall uuder the new act for County uoverumtnt. THE INFERIOR COURT. Appeals from the Inferior Court are not very successful. A negro who was sentenced by the interior court to inree years in the penitentiary, and appealed to thi3 Court, was upon his conviction here, re-sentenced by Judge Seymour to ten vears. This will have the effect to deter anneals except where there is un doubted grounds to hope for acquittal. POLITICAL. Gov. Vance is verv popular here, aud the News being recognised as his friend is more popular than ever. Our people have no use lor politicians or papers that trivi out an uncertain sound or hesitate to express their sentiments. it "Jonah," remarks the theological student of the Buffalo Express, "was obliged to pay rent." Oh no, but he was "evicted" all the same. A callow poet sings, "Come where the sunbeams dance on the clover," and get sunstruck ? Go to; make it the ice cream saloon, and we'll talk to you. THE NATIONAL PARTY. That form Adopted at the PbiU adelphta t'onventiou, Jlay ?Hh. The linked States, by reason of its vast territory, fertile soil, varied pro ductions, rich minerals aud temperate climate, could, wisely governed, sus tain in comfort, and even luxury, a population ten-fold greater thau that at present occupying it. Nevertheless, with an enterprising, industrious peo ple, after a series of abundant harvests manufactories are idle, business pros trate, labor unemployed and starvation impending. This condition of affairs has been produced ; by the control of the producing interests of the couutry by the non-producers, and by legislation in favor of non-productive capital, and against the interests of tho laborers of the country. The policy adopted has reduced the value of property, public and private, over one half, whilst Na tional, State, Municipal aud ' private debts, nominally the same, have been by reason of such reduction, practically doubled. From such policy, bankrupt cy of the producing interests has bene the natural and inevitable - result. For such control both the Republican and Democratic parties are responsible, as the wisdom of such policy has been af firmed by the Republicans at Cin cinnati and the Democrats at St. Louis, aud by both parties in the State plat forms adopted in Pennsylvania. Wis dom would dictate as the remedy for the existing evils, not only the re peal of the pernicious laws aud the es tablishment of a wise ad judicious fin ancial system, formed iu the interest of the productive law of the country, but also the condemnation by the people, manifested at the ballot-bax, of the Democratic and Republican parties, by whom the producing interests of the country havo been betrayed: therefore it is Hesolced, That neither the Democratic nor the Republican party of the country is entitled to the confidence of the peo ple or worthy of their support, aud that their records iu the past havo been such as to render auy pledge they may make in the fu'ure unreliable and unworthy of credit, to be regarded as pledges made under fear of public wrath, to be unredeemed if by reason of such pledges public indignation is allayed. Hesolced, That we reaffirm and in doise the platform of principles adopted by the Toledo .National Convention on the 22d day of February, 1S7S. JiiSohed, That as the power to create mouev is the highest prerogative ot gov ernment, and as upon the regulation of the volume and value ot such mouey by wise and iudicious legislation depends the prosperity aud welfare of the nation. such power should be zealously guai cieci and controlled, and no power to regu late either the volume or value of money should be given to banks or other mooied corporations, who, by means of such power, could subserve private ends, and at will contract or expand the curreucy of the country, aud thus hokl all the producing and laboring interests iu absolute bondage. Jitsolced. That the present National banking system is not only burdensome to the people by reason of the substitu tion of au inferior currency for mouey, at a heavy expense to the couutry, in the useless payment of interest on bonds, but by reasou of the power in them such banks are obtaining perma nent control of the Government, and are becoming the absolute masters of all the business interests of the couutry ; and that iu the interests of tho manu facturer, farmer, mechauic and laborer, the National bank currency should be withdrawn from circulation and free legal-tender money substituted by the irovernmeut in lieu thereof. JUsolted, mat as tne weaitu or ine nation is founded on labor, the laborer should be protected in his jutt rights. It is desirable that the hours ot labor should be so limited as to afford the la borer an opportunity to cultivate his mental faculties aud enjoy rational, so cial intercourse with his friends; to earu such reasouable wages as may be an equitable proportion of the profits of his industry, and this so tnat ho may ameliorate his condition and obtain the comforts and luxuries of life, and thus, br increasing consumption, open new avenues for industry aud new fields for labor; to educate his children, and thus, through universal education, elevate la bor and the character of the laborer. For the purpose of attaining these ends, Resolved That the prison contract sys tem should be prohibited ; tnat tne Federal and State governments and muuicipal corporations should limit tho hours of labor; that the manufacturing, mining, farming and laboring interests of the country be protected: T Bv lowerinir the rate ot interest on money, ana to euecb luis oy iuo i a ir i. ii i i. Government issuing free legal-tender money sufficient lor the wants of trade, aud regulating its value and its volume by wise and judicious legislation. TI. lv tho protection oi American industries by the enactment of a tariff, - j based ou constitutional limits, lor reve nue, but with discriminatious for pro tection to the labor of the farmer, the miner, the manufacturer, anu the pro ducing interest. in. ijv holding public lanos lor tne use of tho actual settler, aud not to be granted as subsidies. To hold such corporations to a strict accountability, and when the terms of the graut have not been complied with, to reclaim such lauds as haviug beeu torfeited, and as having reverted to the Government. IV. By openiug new fields for labor iu the construction of works of National importance, cither directly by the Gov ernment itself, or by rendering assist ance ; in no case to be in the form ot subsidies, but all outlays of tbe Govern ment to be adequately secured. V. By eucouragiug our ship-buildiu interests and the carrying of American products in American ships, and to reu tier such aid, under proper guarantees against frauds, as will euablo Americau steamships to compete with foreign - x ones. VI. To afford a safe depository for money, and to protect the people agatust the fraud and loss occasioned by sav iugs banks and trust companies. A postal depository system should be es tablished, from which, upon money be ing deposited, certificates of deposit bearing a low rate of interest should be issued, which certificates should be pay able on demand in full legal-tender Government money. Resolved, That we demand the repeal by the Siate Government of all charters and special privileges inconsistent with the present Constitution of the State, the damage, if any, when judicially ascertained, to be paid by tbe State. Resolved, That we demand the pas sage and enforcement of such laws as will prevent all combinations, discrimi nations, or granting ot rebates Dy trans portation companies, and compelling the common carrier to furnish the same facilities and perform the same service for the same price to all men. Resolved That we demand the imme diate repeal of the Resumption Act of 19 ta. Resolved, That we demand an eaual and just taxation of all property what soever, except that used by the Fed eral Government and used or held for Government purposes. Resolved, 1 uat we demand tha pay ment ot Government bonds according to the original contract, in the lawful monevof the Nation. Rrsulced, That to significantly des ignate our State organization, designed to secure fiuauc:al and labor reform, we adopt the name of National Greenback- Labor Party of Pennsylvania. ihe iollowiug resolution was also adopted, and ordered to be inserted iu the platform : Whereas, The struggles of seven cen turies for civil liberty have, iu this country, culminated in securing to all an equal right to the ballot; and, Whereas, S e believe the intelligent aud honest exercise of this privilege, ju diciously directed to the nuances of the country, will seem e general prosperity, through a more e quitable distribution of the products of laboT; therefore, Resolved, 1 uat. this convention con demns all lawlessness, violence or dis order to accomplish its ends, believing that the happiness of the whole people can only bo pormaneutlv secured through the ballot. A IAUD. Rai.kkui, N. C, May llh, 1878. To the Editor of the Hews : I enclose communication "To the Public" of a personal nature, which you will please publish iu the News. And oblige, C. D. Rice. To llicl'ublic. On Mot day night, last, Mr. Geo. C. Jordan informed me that he heard that Mr. 1'. M. Hale had been preseut ed with a board bill. by Jesse C. Jacocks. proprietor ot the d ode House, Nor folk, a., against t fie Observer news paper, which board bill had been made by me. aud by my uirectiou charged to the Observer. This was the first time I heard of the matter, r rom other sources I learned that Mr. Hale had circulated the report freely at the Yai borough House and on the streets. About 10 o'clock Monday night, I Mr. Hale, at addressing him matiner, said : Hale;" He replied, Mr. Hale was oc called to see his office, and iu a courteous "Good evening, Mr. good evening, sir cupied at the time I saluted him; after he had finished the business in which he was engaged, I told him I had called to ask him about the board bitl charged to the Observer by Mr. Jacocks of the Goode House, alleging that I had au thorized it. lie replied, "that such a bill had been presented to him; that he (Mr. Hale), hud writttm to Mr. Jacocks, that it must be a mistake; that I was not employed by the Observer, but by another paper; that Mr. Jacocks replied that it was not a mistake; that I had made the bill, and that 1 had directed it to be charged to the Observer." Mr. Hale further stated that he believed I had done so; I asked him to show me the bill and letter of Mr. Jacocks, which he declined to do; I turned to leave the office, and as I reached the door Mr. Hale said, "Dr. Rice, I would have told you of this matter, but you have been talking about me all over the country; you can do this as much as you please; but I do not intend to pay your hotel bills." I turned around, approached Mr. Hale and said, "I am responsible for what I sav," aud loft the office. On Tuesday I took the train for Nor folk to investigate the matter, and fouuei thit the misunderstanding grew out of a simple mistake ou me part oi tue clerk of the hotel, in having charged the board bill to the Observer instead of to the News, as he should have done, which error ho acknowledges in his owu hand on the transcripts from the Hotel Ledger, accompanying Mr. Jacocks let ter to myself, which letter, together with a copy of one from Messrs. Hale & Saunders, are published below. C. 1). Rich. copv. "Raleigh Ohserver Office, 1 Raleigh, April 29, 1878. ) Mr. J. C. Jacocks, Norfolk, Va : Dkar Sir : In Statement of our ac count, given Gen L. S Baker, you have us charged with 7i days board for 4C. D. Rice, 14.o0 ; we don t understand it. C. D. Rice is not in our employ ment, and never has been please let us know what it means. (Signed.) Yours truly, Hale & Saunderr, per T." The above is a correct copy of a let- letter received from Hale & Sauuders, April 20th, 1878 Jesse C. Jacocks. copy. Goode House, Corner Commerce and Main Streets, Jesse C. Jacocks, Proprietor, Norfolk, Va., May 8, 1878. Dr. C. D. Rice : Dear Sir : It having been shown me that your board bill was charged to the (jbserver instead of the Raleigh News, as it suouiii nave ueen, i wui tea you how it camo to be done. When you first came to my house, W. S. WThedbee was my ( 'erk, and your bill wascharged to the News. The second time I had changed Clerks, and Mr. Whitehead, (my present Cleik) asked me after you left, if you did not represent a rtaleigh paper, and being told such was the fact, he turned to my Ledger and charged your bill by mistake to the Observer. I have known you as the News Agent ever since I opened my house last Sep tember, and am very sorry the mistake was made in tending the bill to the wrong piper. The correction has been made ou my Ledger, as will more fully appear from transcripts enclosed, aud I trust you will hold me excused for any inconven ience or misunderstanding which it may have occasioned you. 1 am very truly, Jesse C. Jacocks. Accepting: n Reduction. By Cable to the Newi. Ixwpox, May 11. The dispute in Macclesfield cotton trade has ended, by the hands agreeing to accept five per oent. reduction, and working four days a week. The "Baby's Best Friend" is Dr. Rull's Baby Syrup, since it maintains the Baby's health by keeping it free from Colic. Diarrhoea, etc. Price 25 cents per bottle. ORANGE COUNTY. The Primary Election Froject-Independeuts-Canipalf n Tac ticsAssaulting their Lead ers. Correspondence ot the News. You have seen from our county papers that the primary election resolutions met with small favor with our Execu tive Committee ; and this is what every one expected, tbe mover of the plan himself not exceoted., But it has servod his purpose, aud Orange is again to be afflicted with independent candidates, perhaps a whole ticket. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATKS. The writer of this remembers, when quite a boy, hearing a speech of Roger A. Pryor, iu which he said aiu indepen dent candidate was not one who was dependent upon nobody, but one upou whom nobody could depend ; aud this , little quif, though then merely a smart play upon words, has lost none of it truth with the lapse of time. Row long ere the people shall learn to put a true estimate upon such men ? How long before they shall discover the very small difference between the expressed Re publican and the Iudepeudent Damo- crat? Independent indeed! Why of all men he is the most dependent. A disorganized party, a Radical affiliation. and the mischievo.is boon of persoual popularity, constitute the sum of his dependencies. IS THERE DANGER OK DISRCPTION ? If it be true that thoro is daii"er of a partial disruption of the party by tho innovation of the priniarv election scheme, it only goes to confirm that old Thomas Jefferson, with all his ori. ness, never gave speech to a greater thought than " the price of libertv is eternal vigilance." The Dfmom party stands to-day the custodian of that liberty, and if it would perpet uate it, let it iook wen to tne portcullis, the draw bridge aud the moat Let no one enter the councils with specious n'.auH of d- tence uutil h has won his spurs. Give no one a charge who has not first han dled a pike or mauued a culvenu. And most of all, beware of him who, reeking with the slaughter ol his countrvinmi'! and (as the English said of the Bruce after the battle of Falkirkl bavins gorged himself on his owu blood, comes iu aud asks lor high honors at their bauds. History gives no record of the stronger power comimr t irrief when they rightly estimated the streugth of the adversary ; and herein lies our most imminent peril now. CAMl'AION TACTICS. If it were given me to order the cam paign and tactics of tho Democracy for the elections of seventy-eight, I would draw for a type the English snua.es. the Iron Duke marshalled arouud him at La Haye Saiutee. By their firmness, through discipline and devotion, they tnere saved ii,uropo a convulsion, that would have shaken the recent establish ment of things to the core, and sent war and waste over the entire theatre of recent desolation. I would bring forth the old standard uuder which they achieved the liberties of their country. inscribe thereon the victories they won, bid them take them, call up all the fond recollections incident thereto, and renew the fight. Like Wellington's squares, offering no salient to the enemv. but patiently await his coming and then overwhelm him with irretrievable dis aster. THE ASSAULTS UPON OUR OWN LEADERS. If thus Democrats who are engaged in the ill-timed attacks upon some of the trusted and leading men of the party could be induced to fire towards the enemy, they would save the people some uneasiness and themselves much ri diculous ostentation. -If they could ouly be persuaded, how tiufortunate in deed the rauk aud lile of the Demo cratic party would bo in having no juster exponent oi popular sentiment an l party zeal, they would cease their indecent assaults and puerile attempts at fore stalling, and patiently await the expres sion ot those they are itching so badly to instruct. nit: (jOLD.MIUIlO OK NTS. idi;ii:- The j Appeal to me Jury of the I'UDllC. Correspondence of the News. Goldsboro, N. C, May 8, 1878. Your paper being widely read iu this section, aud being shut out from the columns of our town paper, we ask room for the following remark, not in vindi cation of our action, but that we may be set right among our friends who have no means of knowing the true state of the affair The Messenger, in an extra, published May 4ih, and again iu its issue of the Oth, attempts to icad us out of the Democratic party,to hold us up to the public gaze as traitors and dis organizes, the dupes of Grant, Smith, Humphrey &, Co. We do not deny the editor of tue Messenger the right to use every honest effort to maiutaiu the unity of the Democratic party, (our action had that very object in view) but to cast reilectious upou us, and oar friends, who comprise some of our best citizens, and to write us down as Radicals aud friends of Radicalism, is an ouirage to which we cauuot submit. The facts are as follows : We sought no nomina tion at the Convention, and found out as soon as it met that we need seek none for our friends, a ticket haviug already been agreed ou, pledged to a certain party, hence the folly of voting for caudidates. The convention amounted to a farce, and the feeling of reseatment wan s j strong that we were asked to allow our names to be used as Iudepeudent Democrats, opposed to ring nominations, not as ws proclaimed by the Radicals, but by as good Democrats as exist. vVe were called ou iu au Extra to withdraw, that we were disorgauiz jrs, eo , &j. Tuis Extra has doue m re to benefit the Radicals thau all the Independents in the field, as to denounce us as Radicals is to call radical every man who thinks that nominations ought to be made by the people, and not iu tho back room of an office. Some of us are grey headed in the cause of Democracy, never voted any other ticket, and iu a close couuty like this it is a dangerous thing, politi cally, to call every man a Radical who objects to the nominations beiug made before the conventions of the people meet. We pay taxes, and the iuterest of good government is our iuterest. Wo would not ace so as to injure our selves. To braud the assertion that we are or have been iu the slightest de gree favorable to Radicalism as false, is the object of this letter. Thankful fov space, fcc, we are youts truly, J. J. Baker, R. E. Jokes, W. S. Keaton. The last heard of the Iowa editorial excursion it was at Hot Springs, wait ing for "remittances from home." 9
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