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WEDNESDAY..
.AUGUST 8. 1ST7.
, STRANGE THINGS.
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Strange things have been happening ever
since Adam woke up and found Eve with
him, a circumstance that by the way must
' have been quite astonishing to his weak
understanding as doubtless he was not ex
pecting company that morning; that is to
say, not ladies. Strange things have been
happening we say ever since the world
began, have happened , indeed until men
have no right to call any thirig strange.
Solomon even in his day declared there
was nothing newj under the sun. Not a
thousand Eves would have astonished
him. i i ; ; . .
But in spite of the many multiplied ex
periences from our own and former ages that
the unexpected thing is the one that will
surely happen, mm continue to be surpris
ed and women to wonder. Nil adjrtirari is
an easy thing to preach but a most difficult
one to practice. In these latter times, es
pecially, when we have seen good men go
to the bad and bad men go to the good side
. with almost equal facility ; when the only
really strange political sight is a Radical
woman we ought not to . be "surprised at
anything, j But we have been, however,
somewhat taken aback to find one of the
most outspoken and staunchest defenders
of the South in that Iiitherto vile and vio
lent sheet, the Administration organ at
Washingtdn City. In season and out ol
season, if that be possible, The National
'''Republican, a paper that has hitherto found
no denunciation too bitter, no slander too
gross, no oppression too grjnding. no ty
ranny too j galliDg for the people of the
South, now constantly and loudly sounds
', our praise:?. Whence only a few months
ago came only curses loud and deep and
bitter too, now come words as soft as butter
and as sweet as Jioney and earnest protests
against that narrow and uncharitable view
of the sentiments of the people of the
j-krath which charges thern with secretly
entertaining treasonable designs and hating
the nation.
. And we arc glad that this is thus. We
like to see "the brethren," as good brother
Bailey says, and the sisters too, dwell to
gether in unity and harmony. And say
what we will and do what we will, our
friends the enemy across Mason and
Dixon's line are our brethren anjl must re
main so. It cannot now, be Otherwise.
-Tiia-pwwperity of the North' cannot le
affected without also affecting the
prosperity) of the South, and we
trust that the. day will not be long
first j whej-n the honor Jof the North
cannot be affected without our feeling that
the honor of tlic South also is affected.. We
arc not disposed, therefore, to throw back
into their ! faces the kindly words of our
Northern ! brethren, -nor even to ridicule
them: ';. .;, ' 1 '
: It is a splendid thing for our northern
brethren to rret into the habit of praising
the South!. It will come a little awkward
: at first, tut practice will soon make per
fect, and It may be that the day is not very
distant When the loudest laudations of the
s Lost Cause will come from northern lips.
Stranger things have happened.
We tMst, then, that the fashion will
grow, and continue to arrow until n. outi.
anil her principles and her practices shall
be the admiration of the whole country.
. V
o un n An king s ys tkm.
J The evils of the national banking sys
tem continue to attract attention, and we
are glad to say to provoke discussion in
North Carolina. The press of the State
has taken the matter in hand, and doubt
less will hot let it drop until our members
of Congress, including even Governor
BkoooeN, shall be a unit in demanding re
lief front; Congress for it is frAm Congress
only that we can get relief. Our State
Legislature i3 perfectly powerless.
We shall have much more to say 6n this
subject from time to time hereafter, so
that our Readers may understand the ques-
tiori. Wo cannot hopo to do much in the
way of; rflaterial advancement in our pover
ty stricken condition so long as our people
have to nay the money lenders 12 and 18
per centf interest. There isno profit in
that sort jof thing for any one . except the
money lender. .
The ;atitempt to change the present bank
ing system is, however, no child's play.
The National Banks are a- power in Con
gress, and represent moneyed men at' the
North without regard to politics. That
. power must be stricken down before the
South can be restored to her former pros
jttrity. Can it be . done ? We shall see.
"Xlje solid South will be equal .to almost
anything it shall undertake in the Federal
Congress. .
But it! was not to express our own views
so much as to call attention to those of our
esteemed otemporary, the Concord Sun,
that we refer to the subject this morning.
It says r i
, The fact is, that carefully collected
and compiled statistics from all parts
of the country show that the aver
age annual increase of all wealth ex
cept thp j bonded and banking interest
is only three per cent., while the lat
ter interest is shown by thoroughly relia
ble statements to average annually 18 per
cent. Thus the bond-holding bankers are
increasing six time3 faster in profits than
the productive industry of the country.
It is only a question of time and a short
time how long it will be until all the
other interests of the country have been
; swallowed up. If these extraordinary
profits of ' the ' bankers were due to their
superior enterprise, there would be no just
ground of complaint, but this is not so ;! it
, is due to special legislation in their behalf.
The National Legislature has exhausted all
its' efforts in protecting and fostering
that particular interest, which, of all
others, is best able to protect itself.
But . these legislative f efforts . do . not
cease here. They rob yes, rob is the
name for it labor, industry and every
other species of property for the benefit of
these banking corporations. It. would be
impossible to discuss Uus question iu do-
tail in an editorial, but a simple illustration
ought; to make it clear in its material points
to all sensible men. Let us suppose that
gold alone is a legal tender and standard
of value, that there is but $1,000 of it in
Cabarrus county and no means of getting
any from outside. Now under these cir
cumstances'what would all the property m
Cabarrus Gounty be worth in money? What
would be the cash value ' of all the
houses and lands, live slock, farming
implements, produce, labor, ,.&c. ? The
f 1,000 in gold would measure all this other
value at its extreme price, though, in fact,
it would all be worth no more than the
portion of the $1,000 that the man or the
few men who held it might choose to put
in circulation. Enlarge Cabarrus county.
to the United States and you have exactly
the present situation- Is it surprising
that there is wfrnt of employment, suffer
ing for bread aMd desperation among the
poorer classes and the near prospect of
bankruptcy and ruin for those who are
some better off but are not government
creditors?
Probably the worst feature in the case is
that two-thirds of the gold interest on the
bonds is paid abroad. Thus the five hun
dred millions of the 5-20 bonds were prin
cipally taken up by the Rothschilds, who
bought them at an average of CO cents on
the dollar. ' What profits did these foreign
bondholders make ?
Amount of bonds,
Interest at 6 per cent, componmletl
SL-rm-anuually for ten years,
$500,000,000
403,09C,132
Total,
Cost of londs,
$y03,(l6,132
300,000,000
Net proiit In ten years (in gold), $003,09, 132
It is not surprising that the money pow
er, that has all to make, clamors for re
sumption ; it is not surprising that the
people, who have all to pay, are goaded
beyond endurance. Events fresh Within
the past week show us the volcano upon
wJiich we are standing. Fortunate it was
(or was it unfortunate ?) that there were no
troops in Louisiana and South Carolina. A
labor revolution in the North and a politi
cal one in the South combined would have
tested the strength of the government. For
all the evils that are now upon us, for the
destruction of property by fire, for riot,
pillage and blood, the government stands
responsible
WHAT WILL COME OF IT.
It is an ill wind that blows nobody any
good, and we doubt not that the storm of
riot and disorder and lawlessness that has
swept over the North will bring to us some
thing of good as well as of evil.
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The peaceful, self-contained attitude
the Southern States presents too strikin
contrast with that of the convulsed and pan
ic-stricken, mob-ridden States of the North
not to attract attention throughout the
civilized world. From this time forth the
Iks about lawlessness at the South will no
longer be believed, and men in America
and abroad who may desire to better their
fortunes will no longer be deterred from
seeking homes in the South. The South
is peaceful, law-abiding, self-governing.
W hat the North will be no man may tell. In
its best estate it can only hope to equal the
South. This no man may now deny, for
the whole world sees it. And this being
so, our climate and our soil with their su
pcrior advantages and rare attractions,
muo ond nin uraw to us an increase of
population, and of capital too, that shall
make our w'aste places blossom as the rose
Northern men who have in an hour seen
the accumulations of a lifetime swept
away by the mad fury of a lawless mob,
cannot now fail to see the mistake they
made in refusing the South a share of their
investments, and the same reason that
made capitalists lock up seventy millions
of gold for thirty years in United States
bonds at four per cent, interest, that is to
say, the desire for safety and protection,
ought to make them turn their eyes to the
opportunities offered here. Money invest
ed here is as safe from the rude hand of
mob violence as it is in the best United
States bond. The outlook, then, is favor
able at home for the opening up of a new
era of prosperity in the South; for an influx
of both capital and population, growing
Sdirectly out of the late strike.
Nor is the prospect less inviting in Eu
rope. Before the war the existence of ne
gro slavery was the barrier to emigration
from Europe to the South. Since the, war
the reputed lawless and unsettled condi
tion of affairs here and the possession of
our governments by radical rascals with
the high taxes inseparable therefrom, have
proved a barrier equally insuperable. The
effect of the existing troubles in Europe
will be seen in a large emigration at the
first practicable moment. Large wars
must ever be followed by heavy taxation
in one form or another, and we doubt not
that many thousands of Europeans will
seek homes in America to escape the tax
that must surely come, when arrangements
are being made to foot the bill of the war
now going on, and we doubt not that many,
very many of these will find their way
South, i
But it is not to the strike alone that we
shall owe this consummation iso devoutly
to be wished; we were nearing it before a
man at Martinsburg left his work. The
gftat northwest had already ceased to at
tract the foreign emigrant. It appears from
the reports of the Emigration Bureau at
New l ork that the arrivals of emigrants
at .that point during the month of June
reached only .25,903, as' against 61,039 in
the same month last year. The falling
off has been steadily increasing, while
at the same time a large number of per
sons have returned to Europe on account
of the depressed condition of business in
this country. Of course the effect of the
strikes will bo to still further reduce the
number of emigrants to the North, for la
borers will not come to a land already
overburdened with them. ' But it will not
be so at the South. -With
proper efforts on our part thelndi
cations are that we may have at an early
day our full share of both captal and labor
from abroad. 4 Peace and good goverument
in these troublous times must and
tract men seeking homes. '-J
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TIRSf FRUITS ASOTHER OUTUAGE.
The fears we expressed in regard to the
effect of the recent decision of the Su
preme Court in reference to the conflict of
jurisdiction between the State and Federal
Courts Were not without foundation, and
that toe in a section of the State in which
we havd hitherto had but little complaint
11 the facts of the case reported below
be as stated, the Deputies Lamond and
IIioks Reserve to be in. the Penitentiary
rather than in the service of the Federal
Government. . Under the ruling of the
Court, S however, as laid down by His
Honor .fudge Rkade, Mr. O'Bkyan has
no remedy in the Courts of North Carolina,
but was obliged under the threat of the ruf
fians, who had thus outraged him and
his family to make up his mind to have the
ladies dragged to Raleigh as witnesses in a
Court before Bond, or give up the prose
cution, j It is no wonder that he chose the
latter alternative, and that thus, as the
Torchlight says, the lie venue officers
" went tun whipped of justice."
We rjepeat, that if the facts are as re
ported by the Torchlight, that, these men,
LAMOxb and Hicks, are ruffians who dis
grace nbt merely the Revenue service but
manhood itself. The following is the ac
count ss published in the Torchlight of
the TtliS:
As special deputies Lamond and Hicks
were returning, some time since, from a
raid ore a sua, aim passeu me iiuuse ui jrir.
O'Bryan one of the most respectable citi
zens 6f our county (living some six or
t : . . i - i i - c i r
seven ihiles from the still, and who never
had any connection with a still whatever)
they wantonly drew tho-ir pistols and fired
at the gate and trees in Mr. O'Bryan'syard
some of the balls passed near Airs. O B
fnsrhteniner her very much, lnis seems
to ha v been done through mere wantou
ness. i
The were before Squires Smith and
Hughes last Friday on a warrant. Strange
to relate, these revenue officials threatened
the prosecutors, that if the case was not
dismissed, it would be removed, to the
Federal Court, under the late decision of
the Supreme Court of N. C. , . and the la
dies who were witnesses in the attair.
would be dragged to Raleigh, court after
court. Under this threat the prosecutors
abandoned the case and the defendants
went unwhipped of justice.
8 I much for the late patriotic de-
cisionibf that sweet-scented body the Su
preme jCourt of North Carolina.
i.Eip'Kic Fiton asii cou.vn.
Correspondence of The obskrvkk.
;! Castalia, N. CI, Aug. 6, 1877.
Messrs. Editors-. There has been seve
ral months past since you had anything
from this section of the State, and 1 will
again Jake the privilfege of sending you the
best gfcneral news that can be collected
from qur usually quiet, orderly and sober
community. Tlve wheat harvest is over
an
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lie
and -the yield was never known to be bet
ter. Oats that was seeded in the spring
was also very good, which is some evi-
ence of the farmers m this, as well as
in other Counties of the State, going back
to the landmarks of their forefathers, and
thereby making their homes happy and at
tractive and receiving a rich and liberal re
ward 'jfrom the products of their farms.
Cottoa and corn have greatly improved for
the past month, and cotton in some sec
tions is good, while in others it is common
and will not mase an average crop owing
to not getting its proper workings and
having to plant a second time. Corn is
all bug flattering, and will not make near a
full crop.
Nash Superior Court will begin next
Monday, his Honor Judge A. A, McKoy
presiding. There will be a great deal of
business before the Court, and will occupy
ah of the first week if not the second. 1 he
dockets both criminal and civil are full, and
will bb represented by some of the ablest
intmol in the oouilll jr, BUCll BO IIOllS. W
T. Dortch, J. J. Davis, B. H. Bunn, C
M. Cooki Dossy Battle. J. II. Thorp, II
G. Cohnor, Jacob Battle, G. W. Blount,
Fab. II. Busbee, Spier Whitaker, John W
Blount, Samuel W. Watts, L. C. H. Har
ris, Wf. L. Thorp and others. Tuesday of
Court! is always thronged with people
from ll parts of the county, especially in
August. Eating watermelons, drinking ci
der, swapping horses, chatting about the
crops; eve, will be the order of day. Seve
ral of f the local newspaper men will also
be onjiand working in the interest of their
papers. I he good people of Nash would
be proud to see some of Tub Obskrtek
men c?n hand.
Onq of the mo3t serious and shocking
cuttinb affairs took place about three miles
from here in Franklin county, on Wednes
day lust, that has ever been recorded in
this Oommunity, between Mr. nley Gup
ton and Mr. James Fuller, which resulted
in the? almost killing of Fuller by Gupton.
Gupten and Fuller were brothers-in-law
and left here Wednesday on their way
home together, ruller being of rather
quarrelsome nature and under the influence
of liquor and some old Qxisting feud want
ed to fight, but Gupton said he did not
want j to fight: however, Fuller kept on
until Ha fight ensued. Drs. D. W . Sills
and J. Buxton Williams were summoned
in for) physical aid and pronounced Fuller
to be. m a hopeless condition with no
chance of recovering.
jjolin Mustion was elected constable for
Castalia township on Thursday last Miss
Lucyjj only daughter of Labon and Sallie
A. Taylor, died on the 21st ult., of ty
phoidf fever, beloved by all who knew her,
I atn proud to say that The Observer
is evpry day gaining favor in this part of
the Old JNorth State, as your subscription
list doubtless reminds you, and its pointed
editojfials on education, agriculture and
humn and States rights are greatly aamir
ed and highly spoken of by all its readers.
. ! , l Plain Tom.
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Zlr, Evarts, PUffcicallj'.
rWashineton cor. Chicago Inter-Ocean.T
Evarts' face is shaven. His hair is scanty
and Iron-gray. His ears are small, and
look &s if they had been closely trimmed.
His eyes are gray and faded. They have
a watjery appearance while he is speaking,
but every other part of his body is so dry
that 6ne expects him to crumble up when
his gipeat spirit goes out of him, and blow
away! at a breath. His mouth is small,
his lii)3 are thin and colorless; his teeth are
perfect in form and color. His nose and
f orehfead are the marked features of his
persdja. It isn't a Websterian forehead,
broa4 and dome like, : but it is bulg
ing like, and hangs over his eyes like
a baj? window in the second story of a
house. His skin is so pure and dry that
you iian see the currents of ple blood
that run over his skull. The nose is big
enough to carry all the brains an ordinary
man would neeo, ana may Da jjjvarts sur
plus Is situated there. It is'ii't an "incon
seauent vestibule." as some call Morton's,
but a peak majestic, and rises from the
landscape or hrs iace to give u aigmiy anu
'. ti ; . .:4 in
consequence. Al is now pugj mi SV
like some large noses, but it is of aristo
rratin material and artistic carving. Thi
slope? and curves are all according toj the
lines of art Grecian art. li is a inmg ui
beantv magnified. Evarts legs are pipe
stems and his arms willow branches. His
chestt is less in diameter than his head, and
the breadth of his shoulders is about as
sreat as the distance from the tip of : his
nose to the base of his cerebellum. He
will at- f has no bowels, and only stomach machine
I ry enough to keep the brain supplied wi'.h
LETTEIl FROai SALISBURY.
The Observer and a. TmW Random
Thoughts Concerning Hayes loli
cy The Ami-Statea IligrhU Supreme
Conxwrne Striker n&can la jr and
fehernian The Crop, Ejuu - t
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Correspondence of Tmt OBeraYia.
' , Salisbury, N. C, Acq. & '
Messrs. Editors : : I have been endeav
oring for the last six or eight Weaks to get
time enough to write you a short letter to
express my gratification over the fact that
so able, reliable, manly, and. consistent a
paper as The Obseeveb is printed at me
Capital of North Carolina.. It is indeed
gratifying to your many friends and to the
Democracy generally. Your comments on
the issues of the day are so temperate, weii
timed and forcible that none can read with
out pleasure and approval, to say nothing
of the admirable selections, tasteful." ar
rangement of ; matter and ?the excellent
print. Long live The Observer, r !'
Can it any loneer be doubted that
Hayes' policy, if indeed he has any policy,
consists simply in an effort to save the lie
publican party to bribe and buy over
with office enough hungry Democrats to
keep it in the control? All these postal
commissions to the South, these patroniz
ing appeals of his Secretaries, and his
own imbecile and pretentious orders, let.
ters and gab smell of fraud and deception.
He has done nothing for the South, except
by coercion, that was not intended to re
dound to the glory of the Republican
party. He has scarcely discharged his
sworn constitutionally imposed duty. He
has acted simply like a great iraud mat lie
is. Numa, it is said, was the first of the
Roman Emperors who built temples to
Fides. Hayes is the first of the American
Presidents to erect temples, to fraud.
Numa had followers and they were honor
able men. Hayes has followers and they
are parasites, timeservers, sneaks and
thieves. It does seem to me that to en
dorse Hayes is to apologize for fraud, to
connive at corruption, to acquiesce in
villainy, and to set aside the scriptural
doctrine that an evil tree can produce evil
fruit only. Moreover the endorsement
given to iiayes uy so-caiiea uemocraiic
papers is demoralizing and disintegrating
the Democratic party. The term Bourbon
when applied to those who persist in hold
ing up Mr. Hayes in his true character, is
as honorable as that of Rebel when ap
plied to those who opposed the Yankee
crusade against the South. . . ;
The shameful and humiliating attitude
of North Carolina to-day, as fixed by her
Radical Supreme Court, is sad to behold.
A sovereignty, routed and naked, in chaii s
and disgrace, as far as it is possible for
Court decisions and legal quibbles to put
her, prostrated at the teet of Federal pow
erat the feet of a power she cre
ated ! ' This idea of the Supreme
Court is the extreme of Federalism, and
if it is td prevail States rights are of the
past, State sovereignty g myth, and State
lines forever blotted out. The creature
has swallowed up the creator, and the
aerent i-ssumed that sovereignty which
could neither be granted, delegated nor di
vided. And where did this new idea just
enunciated by the Supreme Court ongi
nate ? Not a single rebpectable . name
among all the fathers can be adduced in
support of this new theory of our system
of erovernment. Not a single State would
have ratified the United States Constitution
had the slightest idea obtained that State sov
ereignty was to be destroyed. . The debates
which occurred at that time in each State
are convincing on this point. But thank
God, the people have yet a remedy against
thi3 damnable heresy or the supreme
Court. They will consign to infamy this
conclave of Radical jurists, and their pur
tisan decision will be revoked.
The strikers have run their course. They
have taught a great lesson, if our Stat? and
Federal legislators will but act upon it.
This uprising shows a great defect, not in
our system of government, but in our code
of laws. Some call it communism, others
labor against capital. It was simply re
bellion against oppression a remonstrance
against the legalizing of monopolies, rings
and money-shaving shops, ny winch labor
has been subjected to ine severest exac
tions. In unjust and unequal laws is to be
found the secret. When we remember
that a poor man cannot buy a box of
matches, a paper of pins, a pound of sugar,
a yard of cloth, a pint ef vinegar, a bar of
soap, nor a dose ot medicine, without pay
ing tribute to the rich, in the form of en
hauced prices, and at the same time he
pays an internal tax on his income, though
that income be not enough to support his
family; while the rich, who receive these en-
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nanceu prices to pay lueiriucuuie iaa. iuua
escaping scot-f ree pay not a single cent of
tax on their thousands of millions ot gov
eminent bonds, on which they receive in
terest, which is wrung by taxes from the
laboring poor. Should it be a matter of
wonder that labor is restless and that the
oppressed poor resort to mob violence ?
When we remember that the men who
built the railroads have been cheated out
of their stock and that these roads are now
run by a few moneyed sharks in the iater
est of a moneyed clique which is daily
growing richer, while those they have rob
bed and those they employ are daily grow
ing poorer, should it be a matter of pur
prise that the great mass of the people sym
pathize with the misguided strikers ? Un
der the present code of laws, our govern
ment to day, with its extortionate and op
pressive National Bank system, protective
tariffs and railroad monopolies, is simply
an instrument for robbing the masses of
the proceeds of their toiL ' Radicalism
has inoculated into ours the European sys
tem of protecting the rich and oppressing
the poor. Under this system four-fifths of
the people are mortgaged, body and soul,
to the holders of the public debt. Is it
any wonder then that there is a rapidly
widening gulf fixing between the rich and
the poor ? The Yankees and Rads have
perverted our free Democracy into a gov
ernment of oppression into a paternal
government for the benefit of the rich. If
not. what mean these protective tariffs,
these National banks, these navigation
laws, the fish bounties, &c?
Macaulav had in his minds eye, no
doubt, this Yankee idea of government,
when he wrote the letter you so pertinently
commented on a few days ago: and Ma-
caulays view is right, if the European or
Yankee idea is to be sustained instead of
that system of free government established
by theiathers. We must go back to the
old landmarks and enforce the doctrine of
State's rights, or prepare for the despotism
of which Macaulay spoke. ?
Sherman's declaration was but the echo
of the bloated bond-holders. Military sa
traps, stock-jobbers, bloated bond-holders
and money-lenders are all in tavor ol
strong government- Their consciences are
not easy; they know their boarded wealth
has been wrung by oppressive ana unequal
laws from a class they now fear.
The crop prospect in this section never
was better. The wheat and oat crop turn'
ed out even better than : was expected be
fore threshing began. Melons and fruits,
of all kinds, are in great abundance,
Mr. Mc Harrison made about one thou
sand bushels of wheat from thirty-nine
sown. S. A. Lowrance had one field
of fifteen acres to average thirty-three
bushels to . the ac; e. , Nath. Neely made
four hundred bushels wheat off ten acres.
Mc. Harrison made seven bushels oats from
three quarts sown. " Josephus. ;
The Rome (N. Y;) Sentinel says: , "A
Rochester book agent went into a house in
West Reme on his dignity, and - tried to
sell a copy of, "Helen's Babies. He came
out on his ear. There were twins in the
house, and the folks knew more about ba
bies and the other place than could be put
J in ( a stack of books as big as a church. .
LETTER FHOn GOLDSBORO.
Correspondence of The Observes.
Goldsboro, Aug. 6, 1877,
Messrs- Editors : The ' magistrates Un
der the new law will be qualified to-day.
There appears to have been same ' misun
derstanding in regard to the time at which
they were legally entitled to assume the
office, and articles have appeared, in the
Aeiand Messenger to the effect that they
could not take office until September. The
opinion of the Attorney-General is con
firmatory of the opinions held - here, and :
hence there will be no hitch in the matter. :
!y I am! informed that, a meeting of the
newly" appointed magistrates will be held
early in September to decide upon the
propriety of the establishment of the Infe
rior Court. From all I can learn, there is
no opposition to thtse courts, and the proba
bility is that they will be put in operation
as soon as possible ; otherwise it seems im
possible ever to try any civil cases. At
the last term of our court the civil docket
was. riot reached at all, nor is it likely to be
at the October term. The criminal docket
now numbers some seventy, vcases, and
this number will be greatly increased when
the magistrates shall have turned over the
numerous cases or bastardy and other
criminal offences now on their dockets.
Of the jail cases, two are capital cases and
will possibly consume two-thirds . ot the
term. Under these circumstances it would
seem to be tne pari wisaom to estab
lish the inferior courts as early as possible;
in order that the labor of the Superior
Court may be lightened, and some oppor
tunity given to settle the immense civil
cases that have been continued from court
to court to the great annoyance and ex
pense of litigants. :
In May last the isoard ot l own uom-
missioners passed an ordinance prohibiting
the sale of fresh meats in quantities less
than a quarter, at places other than the
Market House, lhe nrm ot b. Uohen &
Co. had, previous to the ordinance, been
engaged in the butcher business, and fail-!
ing to comply with the ordinance, were.
upon trial, fined in a number of cases to
the amount of f 72, as heretofore published
in The Observer, r rom this decision they
appealed to the Superior Court, to test the
question of the right of the Commissioners
to pass the ordinance, bubsequently, upon
affidavit that they were, by the ordinance
prevented trom selling beef at therr place
of business, Judge VVm. A. Moore, : in
Chambers, granted an injunction against
the town by which the town was restrained
from interfering with the firm of S. Colien
S; Co. until' (presumably) a decision was
reached in' the Superior Court. ' From this
a case was made and carried to the Supreme
Court. The Commissioners denied the
affidavit of S. Cohen, and claimed that
Judge Moore had no right to grant an in
junction, perpetual in its nature, but could
only grant a restraining order for twenty
days, in which time the Commissioners
were to show cause why the injunction
should not be granted. This case : was
argued before the Supreme Court some
weeks ago, but up to this time no opinion
has been filed, or at least no public notice
given of any opinion having been filed,
and our commissioners aud citizens are
disposed to ask why it is so. Hundreds
of other cases have been argued since this
and opinions filed long enough ago to have
become old law, but this must perforce
wait. During all this time the firm of S.
Cohea fc Co. have continued to carry on
their business at their old stand in despite
of the Commissioners.
The conundrum in this instance is, "how
much, longer than seven weeks docs the
Supreme (!) Court of North Carolina re
quire to settle the question of error or no
error in a matter of such tremendous im
portance ?" We are tolerably patient in
these parts, but if it takes two months to
arrive at an opinion in a question of such
slight importance, then we suggest that the
sittings of the court be made as perpetual
as Judge Moore's injunctions.
All reports from the crops are extremely
favorable, although I dare not assume any
responsibility that they will be so twenty
four hours from this.
We have had an abun'danee of rain, and
are disposed to cry, "hold ! enough."
The asylum for colored insane will Ik;
located here, but which of the two propo
sitions before the commission, regarding
the site, will le accepted, is unknown
My own opinion is, that the, offer of the
College building is the best for the interest
of the State. I do not give this as the
public sentiment of Goldsl)oro, or Faison,
but only as my -own individual opinion. :
please make a note of this for the bene
fit of some people. Roy.
LETTER FROM THE WEST.
(Correspondence of The Observer.
West of the Catawba, Aug. 4, '77.
Messrs. Editohs : The Observer from
its first number has made 1112 weekly visits
with punctual regularity. Its general
merit is aoove my aDiiity to praise de
servedly, and must content myseli in
thanking you for contributing to the pub-
he welfare and my pleasure a truly peo
pie's . paper, and able exponent of
sound opinion on the political questions of
the hour: filling iit great measure a nqces
sity of the times. It is the- interest and
dut? of the tax-paying people to make at
least one paper at the Capital totally inde
pendent of mercenary influences. Make
its treasury ample and a moral courage
will be developed equal to the demands of
truth and the whole truth, without fawn
ing, fear or favor.
The people need information, facts and
figures touching the collection and disburse,
ment of the public money. A watchful
eye on the Legislation of the country,
(something more than wholesale white
washing members of the Legislature,) and
indiscriminate praise of men in places high
er than plowing barefooted. Such a paper
we hope to see 1 he Observer, and feel
confident that if the ploughing portion of
JNorth Carolina voters will do their duty in
sending in their $2.00, we will not be
disappointed. '
I feel that I can do my fellow-countrymen
no greater service than urge upon
them the necessity of a truly people's or
gan, and as a promising hope to realizc.it,
point to The Observer, which in a great
measure already fills the object in view,
j Subscriber.
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How the War Correspoxdests i Kilt:
Them Off. Small wonder that the Rus
sians have already begun to think of a levy
en masse. Of the 280,000 men with whom
they began the advance across the Pruth,
they have already lost 169.200 killed-and
212,450 wounded. The Turks, figfiting
on the defensive, have naturally suilered
less, but of the quarter of a million ' men
with whom they began the conflict fully
three hundred thousand have been placed
hors du combat World, ill .
The Eteston .Railroad. Chowan
voted almost unanimously for a subscrip
tion to the proposed road. Gates against
it. Voters kept away from the polls by
storm. Another election to be held. J ;
Here is a good business-like epitaph :
" Here lies Jane Smith, wife of Thomas
Smith, marble cutter. This monument
was erected by her husband as a tribute to
her memory and a specimen of his work.
Monuments of the same style, $250. : :
"" ' 1 - j' ?; "
Rustic (who had just been informed of
the meaning of the " B. D." affixed to the
parson's, name on the preaching notice)
Bachelor o' Divinity 1 Then that there
man ain't a right man to preach, by my
ways q' thinking. , Informant Why not ?
Rustic Cause he calls hisself a bachelor
an I knows he's a married man. ; 1 1
lMt Week's War Record.
Cable Dispatch to N. Y. Papers, 6th.J
i London, Aug. 6. The first movement
Of the Russians toward carrying out that
plan of the campaign heretofore fore
shadowed as the On likely to be selected
has resulted in the disaster of Plevna. The
purpose of the Russian Generals obviously
was to wheel around their right and left
wings to a line parallel with the Balkans,
taking Tirnova as a pivot, 1 and thus force
Osman Pasha and Mehemet Ali back
across the mountains on their respective
lines of retreat. This accomplished,
and Osman Pasha and Mehemet
Ali prevented from effecting . & junc
tion by the forces under Gen. Gourkho,
which were meanwhile to establish them
selves south of the Balkans, the Russian
campaign would have been beyond dan
ger of failure or serious interruption. The
promenade across the Danube and to and
over the Balkans, while the Turks remained
idle in their camps and fortresses, was per
haps sufficient to justify the idea of the
Russians that they had only to advance to
insure that the lurks would retreat. It
was this feeling which led the Russians
into the fatal ambush of Plevna a fort-
night ago, and which
on Tuesday
sent an inferior force to avenge that
disaster on a victorious army in forti
fied positions. The result is that all is
chaos again, so far as our knowledge of
the situation is i concerned, and that news
dispatches from - the. front are- full of
panicky or exaggerated rumors, dictated
by the hopes or fears of either side, but
the salient fact is unquestioned that the
Russian's have been checked, and their
campaign cannot mike any progress until
they have shaken off Mehemet Ali and
Osman Pasha from their flanks. Mean
while, Gourkho's task south . of . the
mlkans is rendered more and more
serious, daily by the concentration
and organization- of Su!eiman Pas
ha's forces.' The Roumanian Rail
way is monopolized by the dispatch of
reinforcements from, the camp of reserves
at Kischenerr. It is alleged that the Do
brudsch'a will be almost wholly evacuated,
and Zimmerman s corps1 will return via
Sistova to the central army. The Czar has
decreed fresh levies at home, all of which
means that the military promenade has
been turned into an affair of life or death
for the Russians, and .that the Turks will
be crushed if there '13 power in Russia to
crush them.
The Turkish plan is believed to be for
Osman Paslia to fight his way eastward,
and Mehemet Ali to advance westward
upon Tirnovn, while Suleiman Pasha en
deavors to force the Russian position at
Kazanlik; but, in doing this, Osman
Pasha must expose his left flank to the
risk of being turned from the direction of
Nikopolis, thus facilitating the Russian
plan of pivoting on Tirnova, and forciifg
him ; to retire behind the Balkans. Me
hemet Ali would incur the same danger
from the Russians between Ruslchuk and
Rasgrad, while Suleiman Pasha must at
tack the Russians in positions of
their own choice. The supposed Turk
ish plan does not look very pro
mising unless the Russians aid it by
mistakes like - those at Plevna, but it may
with skillfal handling serve to keep the
Russians in checK until the campaigning
season is over, which would lie for the
Turks the " next thing to absolute victory.
Both Russia and Turkey are submitting
to a terrible strain 011 their resources to
win a decisive advantage in this campaign.
Meantime, it would seem from apparently
well ' authenticated reports of outrage,
murder, and rapine by the Bashi-Ba-zouks,
Bulgarians, and Cossacks that" the
war is fast assuming a character of savage
cruelty, which threatens to make it a war
of extermination for all the inhabitants of
the territory involved, whether Christian
or Mohammedan. ' "
JSfln Asia the intention of the Russians to
advance from Ardahan, as reported last
week, is confirmed by the news that their
outposts have already pushed on as far as
Pennek. At the same time another di
vision is marching to Ardanusch, which
commands the road from Batoum toOlti.
A third column of apparently fresh forces
is occupying the line of the Adjara river,
Bouth of Batoum. This points to an evi
dent intention to advance, possibly on Er
zeroum, or to carry out a wide sweeping
flank and rear movement on Mukhtar Pa
slia's army before Kars, which will be
covered by attacks in front, conducted by
Melikofl'H forces at Kurnkdara, sup
ported by General Tergukassoff, who
is believed to be somewhere on the River
Araxes, south of Kars. Thq latter plan
is more probable than an advance on Ejze
roum, if indeed the whole movement ou
Olti is not a feint to distract Mukhtar Pa
sha's attention from what is going ,on in
front ; but, as the feint might be converted
into a real attack, Mukhtar Pasha cannot
afford to ignore it. lie will, therefore, Imj
forced to detach a considerable number of
men from the main army to guard the base
of the triangle formed by Ardahan, Kars,
and Olti, while the Russians are" able to
direct their operations froni the apex, Ar
dahan, against any portion of the base,
and, assisted by General Tergukassoff, cut
Mtihktar Pasha's communication with Er
zeronm, and force him to fall back upon or
into Kars.
Telegrams from Constantinople report
that a portion of the Turkish Batoum
Army is embarking for Varna to reinforce
Mehemet Ali, so that the Porte must feel
sufficient confidence in the strength of
Mukhtar Pasha's central column and posi
tions to throw upon it the entire burden
of resisting MelikofTs second invasion.
Vot. Vancet to Got. Porter.
Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, says the
Mew York Times, has sent the following
letter to the Governor. of Tennessee :
Executive Department, State of
North Carolina, Raleigh, July 27.
My Dear Sir : It is officially reported
to' me that two men, lately ci'.izens (I
grieve to say) of this law-abiding Com
monwealth, named respectively William
Reece and Noah Reece, recently made a
hasty visit to Union county, Tenn., on
foot, and-, disregarding the rights of hospi
tality and the comity of States, returned
into North Carolina mounted. William on
a mule and Noah on a gray norsc. Close
upon their heels came one Barrett Ray,
from said Union county, Tenn., who
made oath, iu ..due fprra, .that said
mule was his property, and that
said William had obtained posses
sion tl ereof by certain carpet-bag methods
in directjcontravention of the. eighth com
mandment; At the same time and place
came also one Kobert . Love, of said Union
county, Tenn., who made a similar affida
vit in regard to said; Noah Reece and the
gray, horse whereupon the said William
and Noah Reece were arrested and lodged
in the jail of McDowell county, N. C, to
await further proceedings. I have the
honor, therefore, to await your Excellen
cy's pleasure in the premises, and to assure
you that it will afford me no little pleasure
to intrnst--tipon a " proper ' requisition
these erring sons ol .North Carolina to the
correcting hands of your judiciary ; and
with assurances of very high personal
and official regard, I am, dear Sir, very?
respectfully, your most obedient servant
r Z. B. Vance.
Gov. Porter promptly sent a requisition
forthetwd "erring sons' of North Caro
lina. .. . ' .
A clergyman was preparing his discourse
for Sunday, stopping occasionally to re
view what he bad written and to erase that
which he disapproved, when he wis ac
costed by his little son, who numbered but
fiye summers: "Father, does God tell you
what to preach ?" Yv' 'Certainly, my child."
"Then what makes you scratch it out V j
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