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TUESDAY.
..APRIL 84.1877.
LOUISIANA.
At 12 m., to-day, the Federal troops
"iwill be formally withdrawn from the sup
port of the Packard infamy in Louisiana,
and this being done we may speedily ex-
pect to see Packard himself step down
and bat. . And thtw comes to a happy is
sue the long struggle between the Federal
.... government and the people of the Southern
States for the restoration of their liberties.
As the only State that was unsettled,
and the State against which, says -the
Brooklyn Eagle, in the name of politics,
the most and worst crimes have been com
mitted, passes into the hands of her own
people, the country has great reason to re
joice. A great wrong has been stopped.
' : Aesperate class of freebooters has been
dislodged from power. A system of the
most cruel and rapacious plunder has come
to an end. A people whose hopefulness,
patience, activity and address have been
beyond praise and parallel, now have the
rights and , privileges of the men and
women of the rest of the coun
try. A repriffaA which hasmade the
United States a hissing and a by-wdrd to
the limits of the earth has ceased. A
State whose resources are ras extensive as
they are indispensable and whose prosper
ity on that account should be pre-eminent,
emerges from bankruptcy and takes a po
sition to make her again one of the. rich
est, and most helpful members . of the
- Union. "Best of all, this brings disorde
and any excuse for business depression to
a period in this nation. The whole country
has a right now to put on all the signs of
enterprise and feel all the vigor of confi
dence in the present and the future.
RADICALISM IX SORTR CAROLISA.
Radicalism seems not to be flourishing
in North Carolina just now, in fact it
looks as if the vile weed was about being
pretty well cnoKea out.
It was only a few weeks ago that we
reprinted from the Roan Mountain Repub
lican certain sentiments that commanded
our approbation a rare thing for aRadi
cal organ to contain. Since then we have
reprinted from the Greensboro New North
State extracts from an article denouncing
John Pool, the chiefest of Radical apos
tles in this State, and also extract from
another article condemning other Radical
officials commonly called Revenue Raiders.
About the same time also we reprinted
from the Asheville Pioneer a letter to the
Secretary of War from Hon. O. II. Dock-
eey "my son 01iver"t-reflecting in the
severest terms upon tho conduct' of those
same conspicuous exponents of Radical
ism. and asking the Secretary not to send
Federal troops here as he had been re
quested to do.
His Honor, Judge Dick, too, about the
same time, was taken with one of his pe
rlodical attacks oi regard lor law, and
gave some beautiful advice to his deputy
marshals, , that if heeded, , would go far
toward the destruction of Radicalism, for
it lives only on lawlessness.
But perhaps the latest is the most sur
prising conversion of all. The Spirit of
the South, an enterprising weekly, pub
lished in Richmond county, has heretofore
been nothing, if not Radical Radical of
the deepest dye but even that Btaunchest
of staunch papers, is now considerably off
color. In its last issue, it boldly pro
claims to its readers and the rest of man
kind that it intends in the future to take a
new departure, giving therefor most
cogent reasons. It says :
Three-fourths of our patrons being Dem
ocrats of the "straightest sect," and the
National Administration having been vir
tually surrendered to the Democracy, it is
our purpose, in the future, to do all in our
power to make the Spirit far more accep-
table to our Democratic friends and patrons
than it has heretofore been. And those
who do not like our new departure may
"lump it." Henceforth the Spirit of the
South will be independent in deed and in
truth."
Now, that is what we call straight-forward
talk. But then, a paper with three
fourths of its subscribers dead against it,
with the national administration though
nominally of its own party, yet virtually
in the hands of the enemy, is really in an
awkward fix.
. is or must it be forgotten that "my son
Oliver" and the Spirit of the South both
breathe the air of Richmond county, and
it may be that is the reason both are down
with the same cdmplaint ; indeed, if three-
fourths of the readers of the Spirit of the
South are Democratic of the most
straightest sect, it sianas to reason
that Colonel Docksbt is in no better
plight in regard to his constituents; and
to say the least of it, a man is on ticklish
ground when three-fourths of his constit
uents are opposed to him politically.
But we are not in a bad humor over the
matter, and we have no other purpose in
referring to it than to suggest in a very
mild way that there does not appear to be
any special need just now to apprehend a
dissolution of the great Democratic-party
in North Carolina. It is the other party
that is about to collapse. But as we said,
we are not in a bad humor about it, for
"While the lamp holds oat to burs
The vilest sinner may return."
The New York Tribune has stopped
manufacturing "outrages," and jeers at the
petty efforts of the Radical newspapers to
rival its past achievements. . The Tribune
is not apt to do things by halves, and it
does not surprise us to see that it has gone
into business on the other side. 'In Geor
gia," it says in its latest issue, "a white
man has been sentenced to be hanged for
the murder of a negro. This, too, in a
State where the blacks were 'deserted' by
the "Federal Government ' several ' years
ago." A few months ago that paragraph
would have occupied at least three columns,
in which the sentenced man would have
been "a man and a brother" and instead of
being quietly taken back to jail for hang
ing In due course of law, he would have
been torn to pieces on the spot by ac infu
riated white mob. The world moves.
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Moldavia and Roumania (which includes
Moldavia) are the points; at present threat
ened. Buseo, in the first-named State,
is named as the probable? head-quarters of
the Russian army after it has crossed
ttiA Tmtli as St waa in thf nnpninir rfi.mVj
paign of the war of 1853-56. "V
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Moldavia is a small State in South
Eastern JMirope, its, area 18,435 square
miles, and its population; I;46O,O00rThese
consist of Moldavians proper, of the Wal
lach race Greeks, Armenians, Magyars,
'ranks and. Gypsies. . The donainant-re-
ligion is that of the Greek Church ; and
agriculture, horticulture, and ' grazing are
the principal ,occupatioBS. c Manuf actnres
and commerce amount' to nothing.4 Its
war record extends back of the first cen
tury. From thai time to this it has been
warring or. warred- about. . In December,
1861, Moldavia and Wallachia were united
under the title of . ,5 A 4 , S, I
Ror m asia, ' which just now occupies
that agreeable place known as between
the devil and the (deep sea. It is
bounded by Hungary, , Transylvania,
BuKowina, Bessarabia,! the Black Sea,
Bulgaria and Servia,. Roumania is
not , a province - of Turkey, but . Is
a tributary, paying .$1,82$, pe$ ajpum.
Its area is 46,708 square miles, and its
population about 4,50O;000, mainly Rod
mans, but including 150,000 Jew and
200,000 Gypsies. Abdut 90 per cent of
t.h nnrmlalinn he1on?t6 the Greek church.
The soil is very fertile, land the production
of corn and wine, flax,' hemp and tobacco
is large. Its imports in 1872 were $16,
400,000, and its export chiefly grain and
flour, $30,700,000. Us principal ports
are Galatz and Braila, and in 1873 the ar
rivals were 13,003, thej clearances 12,772.
Its government is a limited monarchy, the
head of which bears the title of Prince,
with male successibn. The stand-
ins army in time oi peace num
bers 60,000; on the War footing 95,000;
including the militia 150,000. The an
nual expenses are about $20000,000, and
the public debt about $40,000,000. There
are two Universities at Bucharest and
Jassy, each with faculties of philosophy
and literature, law, medicine, and mathe-
. i . i .
maucai ana natural sciences, i uerc
are
also nine theological seminaries,
town schools, and 1,975 rural
O A1ft
schools.
Their present Prmce w Charles I, of the
Hohenzollern family,, who was elected by
the people April 14, 1866, 1 confirmed by
the Legislature on May 12, and in July
took the oath of fidelity to the Constitu
tion, lie and his people are friendly to
the -Russians, and i will . doubtless side
with Russia in j the fight! The
latest dispatches say that on the
day the Pruth is crossed, Roumania will
publish a manifesto announcing its alliance
With Russia. And thus the Russian ad
vance will be unimpeded to the Danube,
nay, assisted by all
the
means which
people can give to an army
operating in a
strange country.
Of troops in this neighborhood, at latest
intelligence, there were 8,000Rusaian cav-
airy at Kischeneff, afid about 120,000 in
fantry, with 432 guns, while in all, nearly
800,000 men and guns are between the
Crimea and the Austrian frontier:- The
nearest v crossing on ; the Danube
at Silistna, wherei the Turks have
18,000 men, and thekext nearest at Rust
chuk, where there are 10,000 Turks, while
in and around "Widdin, where " the Rou
maniana believe that-the' Russians intend
to cross, are 55,000 Turks, with 144 guns.
It is estimated that the entire Turkish force
now in Bulgaria amounts to 115,000 infan
try, 3,000 artillery, 1216 guns, and 5,000
gunners in the lortresses or the Danube
It will thus be seen that the Turkish first
I
line of defence, that ;of the Danube, is but
poorly manned against a Russian advance
which can be made to include at least 200,
000 men and 600 gups, and which appears
to have begun. i . ' 'X
Thb . South ; Carolina ; Legislaturer; will
meet to-day in Columbia in special session,
in pursuance of a rJroclamation of Gover
nor Hampton.'
It. H. Gleaves, i lored, the Republican
contestant for the office of Lieutenant
Governor," has formally signified to his
Democratic opponent. Colonel W. D.
Simpson, his desiref to surrender his office
quietly and with the usual formalities upon
the assembling of Ithe.Legislature .The
Lieutenant-Governor is ex officio President
of the Senate, and G leaves has filled both
positions during the successive administra
tions of Governors Moses and Chamber-lain.-
; r Mmr:
' The Republican 3tate Executive Com
mittee has been in session at Columbia. A
thorough investigation of the party forces,
under the leadership of Chamberlain and
Other well known politicians iias been de
termined upon, and all indications point to
a stormy Bession of ttfe coming: Legislature,'
the Democrats havjing a majority of only
two on joint ballotj. . r ;
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i ne vnariesion papers are camng upon
the Democrats to perfect their organization
also, and by means of caucus nominations to
concentrate all their strength upon the
candidates. It is 'especially important that
the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court should be properly filled.
- Ant one looking at the map will at once
discover why the! Russian army gees ; to
Galatz. f With thd Danube infront, a near
river on either flaikj ana' an open road to
Russia behind, it ; is a very strong defen
sive position. If ere, probably, twill be
established the depot for the base of oper
ations to be adopted by the Russians, and
if i the advancing army should meet with
reverse U will fall
back On this" line to its
depot behind the Danube.
Thkkk is little oabt of the existence of
a : treaty between Russia and Xassr-ed
Din, the Persian' sonarch, providing for
Persia's aid in the;ltruggle with s Turkey.
Th Persian army has 4 been 'unacr' the
tutelage of Gen. Butler, a French officer,
and Gen. Adrienne, ' an Italian, and has
recently fceen protided with needle guns
and mitrailleuseij f 1 " " ; v-" i '
PURITAN CUSTOMS.
Waonib and his brutal revenue raiders,
it would, seem, who go -about Western
JTorth Caroamtxeatu?; women," hae
only transferred a New 1 England habit 6
our uthern; country. , The Springfield
(Mass..Eifptt3fii says that Ihe Kicking
and pounding vof Vlves tolhe point - of
death is getting, almost as common in New
England and New l'oi u aa it is in the more
Lbrntal districts of Engnd-TiWmp"BthnlAnnHted for the paiposeTbisis -.-a nota-
itisgetting very common indeed. The Re-1
pubhean sayshere iaclassof; menu thelo-
calitie8 indicated with low instincts andpas-
8ions, wha assuageeveiy disappointment,
of whatever kindj with a beastly intoxica
tion and a violent assault, upon their part
ners The woman gets a blow in reply to
some of her bitter repinings at her lot.
She is knocked down, and heavy boot-heels
perform a literal dance of death on hef j
prostrate form.. The Republican thinks
that hanging is too good for such wretches,
as it is; but it , says, they always "set re
ligion" and go off the stage with more
credit than might have attended their exit
in their beds.
IETTEB FUOAf. HASH
COTJHT1T.
IVasb Democracy Boeky JTIount
jUall Crop ana County if ewtu
Correspondence of The Obsebveb.
. Cast alia, N. C, April 16, 1877.
Messes. Editors : I will try to tell your
readers something about our good and glo
rious old county or jNash, which is always
foremost in battling and struggling for
democracy and economical county govern
ment. Nash was formerly Edgecombe,
and is separated from it on the east by the
vviimington ana vveiaon rtauroaa. xvocsy
Mount gets two-thirds Of the whole trade
of the county, Battleboro. Whitakers and
Wilson eettinz the other third. Nash has
a well and ably edited newspaper pub
lished at Rocky Mount by Messrs. W. II.
& II. D. Avera, which has a large circula
tion, not only in Nash but in many adjoin
ing counties in Eastern Carolina. Long
may.it wave. "v-
JSashviue, its capital, is a smau du. not
finished town, twelve miles west of Rocky
Mount, high and beautifully located in the
centre of? the county, has several stores, a
flourishing Male Academy, conducted by
E. W. Wilcox, Esq., a gentleman well qual
ified and of much experience as a teacher,
two hotels by Messrs. R- B. Griffin and
Orren Cobb, and a law omce Dy vv . &
John W. 21ount, Esqs., N3n:P8nrell
pleased with her Magistrates, and it is
thought by many that the Inferior Courts
will be established, while others differ. If
jthey are established I will give you the
names oi the wormy ana weu Known gen
tlemen candidates for the office of Solicitor:
Capt. J. II. Thorp, Jacob Battle and John
W. Blount, and Hon. T. Braswell is
prominently mentioned as chairman. . .
The rich Eldorado Gold Mines, well
known as the Mann Mines, are about ' six
miles from here, owned by Messrs. Coke
& Co. They are Northern gentlemen, and
are working it with indomitable energy and
skill, and with abundant success." I am
proud to state that the farming class in this
section are turning their attention to the
interest of stock raising more and more
every year, and candidly believe there are
more hogs and sheep than have ever been
known since the war. Most of the farmers
killed enough meat for their home con
sumption, and have on hand hogs for the
next crop. There will be a great deal
more guano used on cotton this season
than was once anticipated, and nearly all
of it will have to be paid for by the first
of November in lint 1 cotton, which is in
deed making the farmers poorer and
poorer, and the guano companies richer
and richer every year. The continued
heavy rains are causing the farmers to look
somewhat " dispirited, and many think
that the coming season will be as gloomy
as that of 1867, and all their guanos prove
profitless. 7 Castalia is a small town, incor
porated by the Legislature of 1872, has
several stores doing a good trade,
a number of shops, a Primitive Baptist
Church, services every first Sunday by
Rev Cooper Pitt, of Kocky Mount, and a
well conducted Male Academy by W. J.
King, Esq. Cotton planting will be de
layed owing to the recent rains. Fruit is
sur posed not to be killed, though we are
having cold nights and frosty mornings-
Plain Tost.
LETTER FnWI FA IETTEV1 L, L.E.
Abont FayetteTllle A Fromlne of
Bettn 'fhlnito Come.
Correspondence of The Obsbktkb.)
' Fayettevillb, N. C, April 23, '77.
Messes. Editors: I reached this old
hospitable town on Saturday and am so
well pleased with the good people and the
quiet manner in which they do things that
1 propose to tarry here and In the neigh
borhood for some time, and remembering
my promise to drop you a line or too occa
sionally,' I hope I shall have ample time to
do to. , You know all about Fayetteville
and its location, its beautiful streets, hand
some public buildings, numerous store
houses and1 kind and honest people, and
you know all about Cross Creek and
BlounVI Creeki two noble streams of pare
water, fed from living sand hill springs
in the neighborhood, which in dry weath
er, as well as in wet, never ' fail to pour a
large volume into the Cape Fear at a place
called "the mouth of the Creek," a few
hundred yards above the Clarendon Bridge.
On these two creeks, with'n the limits of
the corporation, are a half dozen or more
eligible sites for the erection of turning
for manufacturing , purposes ; indeed be
fore the war there were on these streams
four extensive cotton mills, which Sheri
man, in his love for the dear people,
thought proper to burn down, and which
they have been unable thus far to rebuild f
but I hope the time Is not distant when
the hum of the spindle will again ' be heard
on the banks of these classic streams, and
the old town resume her character as a
manufacturing place. I propose to-mor4
row or the next day to visit the cotton
mills on Rock Fish Creek and Beaver
Creek, and will endeavor to collect somo
material for another letter for The Ob
beeves, which I am glad to learn is
appreciated among your o!! frienda.
fuIy
Psxxstlvajtia Coal Thadk. The
quantity of coal sent from all the regions
for the week was : I Anthracite, Af). 923
tons; bituminous, 76,913 tons; total; 500,
838 tons, against 403,323 tons anthracite
and 75,036 tons bituminous; total, 478,359
tons for the same week of last year; in
crease of anthratita, 26,600 tons; increase
of bituminous, 1,877. tons total Increase,
23,477 tons. The quantity, sent from all
the regions for the year was : Anthracite,
4,759,823 tons; bituminous, 775,087 tons;
total, 5,534,910 tons, against 3,637493
tons anthracite and 827,867 tons bitumin
ous; total, 4,415,060 tons for the corres
ponding period of last year; increase of an
thracite, 1,172,630 tens; decrease of bituminous,-
52,780 tons. PoUttiOt i (Pa.)
Minerf Journal 8 . : : " 4 ; ' . ; ,
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' Davidson College. Rev. Wm. Flinn,
D. D., now resident of Tennessee, ; has
been invited to deliver the annual address
before the Alumni Association of Davidson
College at the commencement in June;
Mr. Flinn was the first honor-man in the
first class that ever graduated at Davidson
College, and is a man of splendid talents
andccomplishmeuts.---Carfc?r05?frrT;
NEW TOIfKr COnilESPOXDEXCE. I
Dr. XI oil and tils Clmrch Uni
Tenitr (innalM af tlnM of ISIS I
0- ' ww ww?m, iA WurV AH WwE WWUK w I
vwi yyrr ana terminer, t . H
-'. iCorrespondence of Tmi Obskkvekj
2 y '-i New ToEKTApra 21, 1877.
j .In one of my late letters I i mentioned
having heard the Rev. Dr. John Hall on the
proposed payment of the debt hanging over
bis great church. I see by" this morning's
paper that the object has been accom-
pusuea, iglVd.UUU havmff- been con-
i1" "'"Xs" A"lre.
people well known. 5 vii T rV Lr and Jl
Stuart. the ereat suear refiners Robert
; "publisher of "' the Ledger, and
owner, of lundreda ! of thousands of dol
lars worth of fast horses, and "William
Sloane7: the carrot-house man. . Then there
wcie uvewiiinuuuoiis oi $o,ui-jeacu, one
of them, another Sloane, and still another
of that namefor $1,000. - Certainly the
rich people here occasionally do tvery lib
eral things, and "lay up treasure in
heaven." It is mentioned as a curious
fact, that Dr. HaU, was called to this
church some ten years ago by cable tele
gram, to Ireland, and accepted the call bv
similar telegram, without -a4 word being
aids on either side as to salary. 1 suppose
the Dr.' was Satisfied that he would fare
in that congregation as a Rev. Dr. in our
own State did some years ago, and proba
bly does still. The Episcopal Convention
of North Carolina having required of the
vestries of the churches to report the sala
ries promised and the salaries paid to their
uiiuiaiens luc eiuv'iieui treasurer vi one oi
the parishes filled in the sum by the word,
"enough," at once testifying to the liber
ality of,, the congregation and the unselfish
character of their minister. In another
parish, the" report was, if I recollect aright,
nothing.' ot . coure that minister, was
8tarvedouL f
i ou mentioned . jn .1 he obsebveb re
cently that three graduates Of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, of the class of 1820,
had met in church in Raleigh, viz.: lion.
Wm. H. Battle, W. II. Hardin. Esq., and
lion. K. r . Moore. 1 spent last evening
with one of the clas& of 1818, of whom four
are yet living, viz : Gen. E. J. Mallett, of
this citv. Hon. llusrh : VVaddelL of Wil-
mington, Rt. Rev. Bishop Green, of Mis
sissippi, CoL Walter F. Leak, of Richmond
county. It is remarkable that there are
still surviving so many as four out of a
class which numbered twenty-eight fifty-
nine years ago. This was the class of
President Polk. ; ; :: . ;
"The Tweed exposure has made prodi
erious sensation all over this citv and State.
It strikes at many public characters, some
of whom, though not free from suspicion,
have heretofore escaped exposure. They
are generally publishing denials, but what
will these avail if 1 weed has, as he says,
documents, checks,. &c to prove his
Charges ? It is to be lioped that it -will
serve as a lesson to office holding thieves,
who may be A sure "their sins will find
them out." .
Ti l am remmdea oy this exposure or a
snrat 'ring," of a remarkable5 trial for
traud on the State of North Carolina some
eighty years ago, of which I heard for tne
first and only time from the late Judge
Duncan Cameron. He said that in 179o,
(I think it was,) a special Court of Oyer
and 1 erminer was convened in ltaleigh,
then the newly selected capital of the
State, to try a number of persons, some
of them high officials, for frauds en
the State ia land grants. The Court re
mained in session some weeks and con
victed the ringleader, but postponed the
trial of the others, who were never after-
wards brought to trial. Out of a large
party of gentlemen dining with Judge
Cameron, and : some' of them lawyers of
high standing, not one of them had ever
before heard of this Court of Oyer and
Terminer ; and it had only been brought
t notice by Gov. Graham. jWhen the
capitol was destroyed by fire in 1831, a
mass oi documents were saveo, wmcn
Gov, Graham found lying in a heap when
he became Governor some nftecn years
afterwards-i With lite customary habit of
method and order, - he proceeded to ex
amine and arrange this mass, and in the
course of his explorations found a large
package carefully done up and labelled,
"Records of the Court of Oyer and
Terminer, held in the city of
Raleigh, on the day: of , 1798.
By Duncan Cameron, clerk." This en
dorsement was made in a full round hand,
so unlike that of Judge Cameron in later
life when a nervous affection made his
writing, though wonderfully neat to look
at, almost unreadable, that Gov. Graham
asked him what Duncan Cameron it was
who had been clerk of that court? Of
course the Judge, who forgot nothing, gave
an account of the trial, and how he, being
attracted to lialelgh by the interest of the
trial, and having nothing to. do,. had been
asked to act as clerk of the court. I do
not remember the names of the judges or
the culprits with sufficient certainty to ven
ture to state them, and suppose that few
people now living are wiser than myself in
that regard, probably none from other than
hearsay evidence.
This great Tweed swindle is but "his
tory repeating itself" on a large scale, in
deed, as might be expected in this fast age.
. I have had the pleasure of meeting,
besides many of our Southern merchants.
Maj. Engelhard, Secretary of State, and
Maj. Jas. C. McRae, of Fayetteville, the
latter here on legal business of the Western
Kailroad. II
LETTEH FROia WlOIlNGTOX.
Jelinston's Wire of
V- again.
Iiouialana"
, i Correspondence of The Obsebves.
; Wilmington,' April 21, 1877.
Messes. Editobs : Your correspondent.
"N,w from Sanford, (whom I recognize as
an old friend) in correcting the story of
"Johnston's Wife of Louisiana," as well
as the orthography of that name, which he
says was Johnw and not Johnston, falls
into error in several respects. .......
Josiah Stoddard Johnston, whose por
trait and signature are now before me. was
born on the Z5th Nov., 1784, at Salisbury.
Conn., being the son of Dr. John Johnston
and Mary Stoddard. ; When six years old
his father moved to a farm near Washing
ton, Kentucky, where he lived until his
dpRth in and tfw hov nffpr m1nr tn.
school in Connecticut for some t!r.
I a J a. TT a 1 a 1 J m -m
turned to Kentucky, entered Transylvania
Mr. Nicholas, moved to Natchez, Miss.;
in 1805, and thence removed to Alexan
dria, La., where he lived until his death in
1833. Lie served as a representative in
Congress from 1821 to 1823, when he was
elected to the Senate to fill an unexpired
term. He was re-elected to the Senate in
nuui ug nsa
1825 and affain in 1831. TT
drowned atWashinffton but wm hlnwn nn
iu uic lime steamer juumess, on itea nveron
the 18th May, 1833, his only son, 17 years
of age, being his companion and escaoin?
with iniuries. while the father wm rirram.
ed. - Mr. Johnston was on the way to
Aaicnitocnes to see ms iather-m-Iaw. Drl
Sibley. Mr. Johnston had married Mit
hibley not lonir after the battle of New Or-
iuigMujei- in ume j ana ms wire
was almost as aistinemished an himaoir
throughout his long public career. I sup-
yuec iuj menu vol . otoaoara Johnston,
Secretary of 8tate of Kentucky, must be
, ,cueu..so mm: aiinough 1 never
asKea mm apout it. . . . i - W.
Pl"S"rr COUKTBT TO TbAVIX I,,
A Pennsylvania company has built a bullet-proof
passenger car for use on a Cuban
railroad.; ; ;
Ynment and Fntnre off Hew Orleans.
Editorial Correspondence of .ne Tribone.
New Obleaks, April 13. It is very
mach the fashion in all parts of the coon-
try, to speak or JSew Orleans m a pitying
way. as inomm sue cau iauen uao a nope-
less declineand were chiefly interesting on
account or memnes Of her past prosperity.
I do not 8hare, ,th6sessombre Opimdns. The
business streets have' a brlghterand a more
lively look than I anticipated, and the
levee, covered with cotton bales and hogs
heads of sugar arid molasses, and fringed
with a line of 'steamboats crowded in side
by side, with their noses to the shore.
leaves o 'room to doubt that the city is
still Ending an unfailing source of wealth
in the great staples of her commerce, :"r
The statistics of the trade of New Or
leans tell the story of her present condition
better than any surface generalizations.
Last year she handled 1,424, 000 bales" of
cotton, net that is exclusive ot what
came . here , from other delivery ports a
larger amount than in any year of her his
tory except I860,' which was the phenom
enal cotton year all through the South.
This velar it is expected that she :will
handle 1,400,000 bales. Taking the ave
rage of the past five or six years, it ap
pears that more cotton is .coming to this
port annually than came ia any similar
period prior to i860. The per centage or
the whole crop of the country that is hand
led here is not as great as it was before the
war, the completion of railroads all through
the cotton belt and .the great reduction in
jthe price of rail transportation having di
verted the product of large districts from
the old river channels of carriage to take
It directly to eastern ports. KorfolK nas
profited most notably by this change, and
has run up her receipts from 80,000 bales
in 1867 to 500,000 in 1876. With the
completion of the work of deepening the
channel at the mouth of the Mississippi,
New Orleans will no doubt . regain some
thing oi this i' i verted trade. The chief
source of her wealth in the ante-war times
is, however, still unimpaired. She re
ceives and exports as much cotton as ever,
and thus it appears that all predictions of
her decline based on the loss of the cotton
trade are without facts to go upon.
The flour and gram trade has fallen off
materially," not as compared with years be
fore the war, however, for the decline has
been very recent, beginning in 1873. Here
again the railroads are responsible. 1 The
remedy will be found in the opening of
roads from this city to Texas, connecting
with the lines from Kansas through the
Indian Territory, " and in securing "deep
water at the mouth of the river. Already
there is a marked upward movement in
the grain receipts, the grain thus far this
year over lost reaching 200,000 bushels.
The only serious trade loss sunered by
New Orleans is in the grocery and pro
vision line. r i ormerly all of . Louisiana,
Texas, andoArkansas, and most - of Mis
sissippi, and parts of Tennessee and Ala
bama, came 'here to buy . plantation sup
plies, which were brought to this market
by sea or river ; but now. St. Louis, Cin
cinnati and Louisville reach out their long
railroad arms, and grasp the lion s .share
of thU" profitable Ijusiness. "The planter
who sends his cotton used to order of his
factor his yearly supply of ' provisions, but
now, the chances are that he il Bupplied
from one of .the threes rival cities named.
Much of the dry goods tfnd hardware trade
follows in the same track. I he changed
labor system has been in some respects un
favorable in its influence on JNew Orleans'
business, instead of the planters coming
down tho river once or twice a year. and
taking back! with them the stores and
clothing required by' thalr laborers, the
wants of the freedmea are now supplied
by a multitude of little villages and cross
roads stores scattered all over the country,
and whose proprietors, Jews for the most
part, get their stocks in Northern cities.
Besides, the planters no longer come here
to lavish their year's profits in gayety and
dissipation, as In the "good old time.
and thus the city is cut off , from a large
revenue once obtained by ministering to
the pleasures of the wealthy classes of a
large portion of the South.
The most important source of "weal tlx
for the Crescent City lies within her easy
grasp ana cannot oe tatcen away from
her I mean the products of the rich soil
of Louisiana, which must always seek her
markets. The magnitude of this source
may be understood from the following
statistics oi the chief staple crops of the
State in 1875: Cotton, 425,000 bales, val
ued at 27,800,000; sugar, 163,000,000
pounds, valued at $ 12, 100,000; mola?9cs,
11,000,000 gallons, valued at $6,200,000:
rice, 40,000,000 pounds, valued at $ 1,796,-
000. Here were nearly $48,000,000 brought
into the State and distributed among its
people in payment for the year's yield of
tne cotton ana nee plant s -and the sugar
cane. A settled Government "and amica
ble relations between the white and black
races will operate to increase the product
of these staples.
If no improvements were made in her
commercial facilities, I think New Orleans
would hold her own as the metropolis Af
the: region immediately dependent upon
her, and the outlet of much of the Missis
sippi trade, but she has opportunities of
greatly enlarging her business in three di
rections, which her men of enterprise com
prehend and are eager to embrace. The
first is the increase of the cotton and grain
trade, which can be accomplisued by a lit
tle effort, if it does not accomplish itself
as soon as a permanent deep-water channel
is secured at the mouth of the river. The
second is the Texas trade, which can in
large part be made tributary to this city by
the building of railroads to Jefferson and
Shreveport, connecting with the system of
Texas roads already constructed., The
third direction from which the city will in
the near future draw new sources of wealth
is the Gulf trade. Her geographical posi
tion gives her the power to control the
commerce of the wide sweep of continent
and islands circling around the Gulf MeX'
ico, Central America, New Grenada. Yen-,
ezuela, and the West Indies. I believe the
time will come when she will be the ack
nowledged commercial capital of those vast
and fruitful regions their monetary ex
change, their market for the sale f their
varied productions and the purchase of the
manufactures of the North and the grain of
the Mississippi Valley. E. V. S.
Uood Adtice to- Fabmess. The for.
eign war calls forth the folio win ? rood ad-
V1C iron
vies irom ur. janes, the commissioner of
Agriculture for Georgia :
I - TnA
fo (i : j A
v- s . . s u
increase their areas in provision crops. It
is not yet too late to increase the area in
corn, even if it has to be done by reducing
urea 111 cotton, juet iarmers plant
enough corn to insure an ample supply for
the ensuing vear. " Let' them- r.lnt imm
I r mr"
IOT DOS iorce mem lorward to secure,
M nearly is possible, a supplref bacon for
I home coflsamption. Let them plant liber.
dly in German millet and field peas to sud-
f"-"" m ecuing stoca, in or-
tnat more of their corn mayrbe used
'or bread. " " . " . . "
I II the war should be a verted of which
I there at Present httle probability we
I P uhyc iob. nouung uy me aoove policy
1 " not, we will have provided aeainst the
possibility of loss or suffering. - In either
I C "v"U6 w nuup uiuse
I u not may ue compeuea to tnirchaM
provisions a ruinously nign prices, and
pay for them "with cotton at prices even
ueiuw tue cost 01 proa nation.
"KEcox3TBT;cnos.'--After twelve years
vi cuwi. auu laiiure toe xtaaicai recon-
strusuon poucy nas proved a hm t,.
teoops will no longer support it, and it will
be laid away among the political curiosities
of the past, : Reconstruction has been a
cusiiy expenmenu - :
Tne nan wno First If ominatedXIayea
( From the Danboiy News.
One of our Danbury lawyers was in his
office Saturday reading the political news
from Cincinnati, when a visitor entered.
The new comer was a cadaverous person
m dilapidated attire.
" WelL what do you want?" inquired
the lesral rent in a testy tone.
"1 would like to Dorrow a quarter irom
vou to eet something to eat " said the visi-
tor. in a sepulchral voice.
4l'ye got no monsy.to throw- away on i
tramps." ' -
Tramps!" exclaimed the stranger, in
dignantly.' "I ain't no tramp. 1 Perhaps I
you don't know who I am?"
jno. i uon t, ana i aon - care.
"You don't care, eh? Let me tell you,
sir. that the party; you address is not the I
party you think you address." i , :
"An l" said the lawyer, derisively.
"No, sir" said the stranger.! "I am the
man," he added, drawing himself up with
impressive dignity, "who first nominated
Mr. Haves for the Presidency." ?
The word was scarcely out ox his moutn
when he became aware of being seized by
the collar, turned around and propelled
out of the room by - vigorous kicks, while
an indignant voice was shouting in his
ear.: -. , ... -... ... ;v :,.:;- ,;. " i :
"Oh. vou are the scoundrel that did the
infernal act, are you? ; TaRe that, ana
that, and that r v , .
Picking himself up at the foot of the
stairs, the stranger was , heard to gloomily
soliloquize
"Why they told me that old rooster was
a red-hot ltepuDlican, the cussed liars. ,
.NEW ADRTISEMENTS.
AXXUA17 STATE EMT,
For the :
: year ending December Slat, lsts, of the
elal condition of CONNECTICUT FIRE
flnanci;
INSURANCE COMPANY, of Hartford, Conn.,
uiaae 10 too secretary oi &uue or JNortn Car
olina. - - ; ;
Preatdent. M. Benaett. Jr.. Secretary. Charted
is., nun, mncipai umce, iiaruora, Connecticut.
Whole amount of doint stock, or
frnaranteed capital authorized. S 1.000.000 to
w noie auiuum oi capiuu actuaur
paid np in cash,'
ASSETS :
1,000,000 00 i
t 22,STt 93
Cash on hand and In Banks,
Cash In hands of Agents in course
oi transmission. ......
30,461 90
Amount loaned en mortgages ' of
real estate
Amount loaned on collaterals,
Stocks and bonds, market value,
OT.500 00
137,804 00 I
809,506 00 !
Total assets, -
LIABILITIKS.
$ !,S62,R1S 83 j
Losses nnadjustedn suspense
resisted by the company,
Net surplus,
or
I 10,479 00 1
. 1,342,363 S3 '
Total iiaWlities,' "
; INCOME.
- fl,M,1S43 83
Total net cash income from ure-
cash Income from
miums. . tssT.ssft '
Total net cash income from interest "
aiTiaends and rents, i - 65,801 66 1
Total Income,
i ' : expend vnni KS.
$3S3,6SS it I
Total net amount paid during the
year for losses.
Total pay account, salaries, etc.,
133.S24 ? I
etc.
16,760 no i
65.900 01 I
Total miscellaheoas expenditures,
Dividends, , . ,
190,000 00
$ 404,275 67
Total expenditures," " " '
8TATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
. orncs of sbcbrtart of stats,
, j Insurance Department,
! RALKIQH, April I, 1877.
in compliance with section eiarht of "an act
concerning Insurance," ratified March 19th, 1877,
I certify that the above is a true extract from the
sworn statement or the Connecticut Firs Insur
ance uorapany to .December sist, 1S75, now on
me in this department, and the statement la
nereoy approved. JUS. a. KNQKLU a RD,
-j-.- " r !-; '.i-i ,V Secretary! State,
AUAL STATIIEWT,
For the year ending December 81st, 1876, of the
unanciai conamonoi tne jnukih CAKOLINA
HOME FIKB INSURANCE COMPANY, of
Raleigh, made to the Secretary of Bute of
North Carolina. . -' ,
President, R. H. Battle Jr.: Setffetarv. Seatan
uaies, ri iuoipai ouioe, naieigu, n. v.
I 'capital.
Whole amount of Joint tock. or
guaranteed capital authorized,
(Indefinite.)
Whole amount of ranital artnallr
paid no in cash. 4 ' S ii.ss on
Whole amount 'of capital actually-
laid up in cash dividends, , . 33,795 00
I .. A88KTS. : . . .. '
Cash on hand and in banks.
8,746 63
Cah in hands of agents hi course
oi transmission,
Amount loaned on mortgages of real
estate,
Amount loaned on collaterals.
Stocks and bonds, market value,
Stock notes,
Bills receivable for premiums,
5,453 49
29,858 03
9,665 00
10,650 00
104,490 00
,87 75
Total assets,
LIABILITIES. ,
$169,537 89
150,900 00
Capital stock,
Bills payable,
Re-Insurance reserve,
Net surplus,
800 00
17,947 98
' 690 66
169.637 89
Totalliabilities, . '
- . I if com k.
Total net cash income from pre
miums. -. ---
93,874 05
. 3,823 63.
18,994,03
Total net cash income from inter
est, dividends and rents.
Cash received from renewals,
Total income,
51,691 70
k ,. KxrxNnnTBis. ' w:.--
Total net amount raid durinz the :
year for losses, 83.033 66
Total pay account, for salaries, 6,803 84
Total miscellaneous expenditures, 4,574 60
xotai expenanures lor commissions, 7,681,07
Total expenditures,
$ 5M93 07
- " STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Officb of Skcbbtakt of St ATI,
- Inturanee Department,
" BaLBIGH. ADril 12th. 18T7.
In compliance with Section 8. of "An Act Con
cerning Insurance," ratified March 12th, 1877, 1
certify that the above is a true extract from the
sworn statement of . the North Carolina Home
Fire Insurance Company to December 81st,
1876, now on file in this department, and the
statement is nereDy approved. -
4 OS. A. JfNQKLHARD.
Secretary of State.
ANNUA 1 STATILTIETT,
E For the !
the year ending December 81st, 1876 of the
lancUl condition U. S. Branch) of THE
LNCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPA-
financL
LANCASHIRE FIRE rNSTTRANflE COMPAQ
NT, of Manchester, England, made to the Sec
retary 01 ttate 01 Aorta Carolina.
Chairman. N. Shelmerdive. vicA.Chirm
John Knowies, General Manager, Geo. Stewart!
' ASSIT8.
V; : on nana ana in banks.
Cash on band and In banks.
t 13,49 17
. .
1 casn in sands of Agents in coarse
w wT&Bsniigsion, - r -h j
Stocks and bonds, market value,
U.S. 6-20 and Funded Debt 1881, I
'TotalassetaV.;. '-V"." .
1 UABILITIXS.
8i,u as
V 430,600 00
$ 490,109 49
Losses ad justed, whether due or not.
Losses unadjusted, in suspense, or
6,041 83
44,518 63
iiduku wj utc wuipany, ,
Total liabilities, ' . v ; '; - "
IXCOMK. ,. .
Total net cash Income from prem-
Total net cash Income from inter.
4W,660 15
' 6,535 94
est, dividends and rents,
Total income,
$ 505,19. 09
; 1 xxm:nmtcbe8.
1 Total net amonnt rM dnrnir tt,
I -n1 ,or Josses, - . ; $
0t,75T 15
49,225 49
19,(99 90
1 lowu iaxes and Assessments,
Total expenditures,
443,009 67
8TATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
OFFICB OF BECK FT ART OF ST ATX,
I nt trance Department,
! ; ; , ' RALSion, April 12,1377.
In compliance with section' eight of uan act
concerning insurance," ratified March 12th, 1877
I certify that the above is a true extract from th
worn statement of the Lancashire Fire Insur
ance Company Decembei 81st, 1878, now on nle
in this department, and the statement is herebv
approved.. .. ,.;,JOS. A. ENGELHARD, .
- Secretary of State.
L . ... .NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Edward J. BArdls. Jofca G. B. GrtmH,
HAEDffl & GKS,
OROCE RS ,
:,i:f;;v;..i;.:;,,vJ..
PA YET.TE VILLE' STBEET,
NEXT TO CITIZENS' BANK.
Have Just opened a foil and handsome stout
of STAPLE nd f AXSY CZOCUIES and pr0Y.
SI8XS I as fresh, having been purchased within
the last twenty days, and offered at rcry low
fJt - . ...
prices. Their stock of Btaple goods la very com
plete, embracing a large and choice! assortmeut
T ,E'A s
carefully selected la person, and worth theai
tention of ah who want good TEA at a fair pricy
(samples and' prices cheerfnlly furnished ufon
application). ' ;
GREEX AXD BOASTED COFFEES.
Blocha, Choice u4ld mandolin
Java, HXaracaibo and Prime
and Common Bios.
8UOAIIH.
SUGARS of erery description,; from ci"T
LOAF doMrn. Cat Loaf and Granulated in hall
barrels. ' , :' "'!'.
i ...
Choice NEW . ORLEANS aqd DEMEKAItA
Molasses, and Syrups of Yariousgrades.
of all qualities G RAH AM
FLOUR and OAT
MEAT. : j . . i
VIROINIA and TZ&Vt
York: city cured
HAMS; SHOULDERS and SIDESt FULTON
MARKET BEEF, TONGUES, PICKLED
- SALMON, CHOICE TSOS I SHORE
MACKEREL, CHEAPER FISH,
..' . - Ac, ic., AC
: NKXT DOOR TO trnZkKS' BANK.3V
Canned goods In great , variety McMurray's
"White: Heath Clings f and Yellow Peaches,
known in every market as. the best of their kind.
California Apricots, Fears, Greea Gages, Egu
Plums, Choice Brands of Corn and Toma
toes, Fresh Salmon, Lobsters, Clams.
. ' " ' Oysters, c, Ac. Acj l
Crosse Blackwell'i and Lea & PerrinH' Pickles,
Catsups and Sauces; Yarmouth Bloaters,
! Potted Meats, 'Salad Dressing, Olive Oil,
- Coleman's Mustard, Prepared Must
. tard, Pine Apple, Edam and
Cream Cheese, Baker's, Mall-
lard's and German Sweet
V i Chocolates, -Albert)
. ? ' Biscuit," Turkish j "
. .' ' Prunes, '" '
Cheap, for cooking, French ; Prune . lu jars and
-. - by the pound, t
MACCARONI.I i I
VERMICELLI, 1 '
BARLEY, '
r AC., &C. Ac.
HARDIN d GRIMES.
(KXXT DOOK TO CITtZINS'.BANK.J
In Jellies, Preserves and Brandy Peaches, we
offer a fine assortment of the celebrated goods
Of Messrs. Gordon k DU worth, equal in purity
and flavor to those made by the most accom
plished housekeeper. Also cheaper Preserves of
good quality. Olives, packed by Gordon k Dil-
worth, French Brandy Peaches Prunes and
Plums; Gordon k Dil worth's Blackberry Brandy,
a pure and reliable article. Pineapples in glau
and Un i Cranberry Sauce ; Fresh Nuts, Oranges
and Lemons ; Sardines in quartet and half boxes
of fine quality and very cheap, Ac, Ac.
II A RBI IT &;GBIM:E,
NSXT DOOK TO CITIZENS' BANK.l
A choice selection of WTMKS. '"jhn.
embracing
xvi too yreoeut, only , -. j
CHAMPAGNES of approved and genuine
brands, in quarts, pints and half pints (the lat
ter convenient for invaUds.y I
CLARETS, good 'to tery choice; - .
; Fine SKESZSES ia the original casks. .
CLD C8CSA8 (Planat A Co.,) in the original
cask, very choice.-'; - n ! T ;- - " ;if-
Bass' and Youngers Alls and ." Guinness'
STS8T; CHACPACXE CIS ES m glass (very nice).
CI5EX by measure j botued LACES IEE8.
Honour giiimes,
- MBXT TO CmZENS' BANE. '
, rfy i-a:K.('',;;"T:r..I;.l -We
ask the attention of smokers to our stock 0
MiortBi iiM' DoiiMc Oitars. ;
--.' . - - - v j - - -
! Imported Cigars of sundry brands. "Domestic
Cigars of every grade and price. ; The ' SAFA
ESSA is a good Clgar, Havana Filler, for S
cents. We offer it to meet the growing wan
lor a decent cigar at a reasonable price, and will
guarantee its quality. ."., . ... t'
- ..',;l' ' ' j : 4 ' ' . " -. '
HARDIN & GRIMES,
NKXT DOOB TO CITIZENS' BAXK. ,
, We keep also SSAPS and STASSXES Omporteo
ffKin CASTILE 13AP,) KEZZSEXE OIL, H
degrees and 130 degrees test. -
IIi4ms, llackets, macttlnar and
Shoe ilrnfehes, Concentrated
Xye, Csurb. Soda, Paper and
Cotton Twine, Deml
1 ' Jobita and Bottle. '
And everything else appertaining to the . , .
CUOCCR1' TRADE.
We raarantea fair and honest dealing, and
Idfrie
respectfully ask the support of our old friends
as many new ones aa we can make. 1
11 An Din cniriEC
apr S-tf
J I