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, RALEIOH, IX.C. THURSDAY,... .JANUARY 8, 1878. c NARRO W UOE RAILROADS. J Several 'narrow-gauge''- railroads are t. now .in process of construction in North "Carolina,- and - others about to be com " menced, notably among the latter the ex ' tension of the Western "(Fa jetteville) Rail ' road. ' Very few people jn North Caro-..-linaknow. much about them, and it may I be useful; besides, to note j he advantages ( claimed for them. ''' The first experiment of a narrow-gauge road was made in North Wales as late as X 1 r anil ww a a a annAnoeful Vi o etmtlat t roads, even in that brief period, have been xnlt: in nearly all civilized countries, fj The j have, proved to be Just what is needed for the purpose of reaching many ; sections of limited local trade which " should be. and are not, in close communi- ' cation with markets. They are said to meet ail the demands of such trade, both as regarcb power land speed ; and it is also stated that they can now be built and Quipped fc( a cost of less than $7,000 a mile. These are important items in these times of money 'scarcity, when useful en-, temriiudi rannot he. undertaken on amount of the great first cost. . ' ' ; This obstacle removed it is claimed thai experience has shown that the cost of con strucling railroads increases in proportion . to the width of the gauge. Every inch v added to this beyond what is absolutely necessary for the accommodation of the . traffic , Increases : the proportion of dead weight, and also the cost of working the . road ; and, consequently, to make broad gauge , railroads pay, charges for freight baveobe unduly increased. Moreover, . - the further apart the rails are the greater is the proportion of the non-paying to the paying weight' of trains. For example, the freight cars -on ; the Denver and Rio - Grande narrow-gauge road weigh less than three tons and carry a load of eight tons, being nearly three times their own weight, whereas on broad-gauge roads the propor tion is generally one to one. ' One.great cause of the unprofitableness of railroads built for local traffic is, that they have a ' capacity greater than the '. i actual amount of business to be done on them requires. When xaili oads are built r which have a greater cost than the traffic on them justifies, the original cost and ex- perile of running" the roads are a continual tax upon ihe business , done by them. While, therefore, the great through lines f of railroads ought to be broad-gauge, the . lines built to accommodate limited local trade, should be built upon the cheap narrow-gauge plan. The average original . " cost of the "ordinary railroads is three " times as great as those built on. tjie narrow . gauge plan, while the cost of operating the latter is twenty per cent, less in propor tion, taking into consideiation the actual results ; accomplished inboth (cases. 'A - saving equal on an average to , thirty-three per cent, is effected, by the flexibility ' pi the gauge which allows the road to follow closely the naturalcontour of the country. Finally, the important item of wear and tear is .also in favor of the narrow-gauge ' railroads. V Railroad investments in North jCarolina have not been profitable. Why not is ex- . plained by the facts just stated. If they are facts, aswe believe, the construction of narrow-gauge roads may not only im prove the State by developing the country through which they p'ass and buildibg up -flourishing cities where now are languish ing villages or towns, but1- actually return fair money, profits to those whose money is invested in building them. , A BRiwr biography of William Pitt Kkixogq is , suggestive. . He was born December 8, 1831, at Orwell, Vermont; removed to Illinois in 1848 ; was appointed by President Lincoln Chief Justice ol Nebraska in1861 ; he afterward resigned and was made colonel of the Seventh 11 linqiB cavalry ; served under Pope in Vir ginia ; , commanded General Granger's cavalry brigade until the evacuation of Corinth ; Jn April, JL865, was made collector ' of ; the port of New Or leans; was then 'elected" from Louisiana to, the United States Senate, where he served-from 1868 to November 1, 1872, . When the resigned ; was Governor of Louisiana from J anuary 5, 1873, to J anu ary 6, 1877 ; was again "elected" to the ICnUed States Senate, and admitted De bember l, 1877. His terra will expire s March 4, 1883. And of such material have ; Southern United States Senators been made for the last dozen years. , Tp Charleston News and Courier is de lighted with the . admirable arrangement made by (be South Carolina Railroad and fla connections by which ibait paper is now delivered in every part of the State on the , day of publication This was never before 5 the case in South Carolina, and the making Of close connections with the interior, begun Jaat Summer and completed in the Fall, is ustiy regarded as one of the most impor tant improvements of the last year. We wish we could congratulate ourselves on ,. fhe adoption of such a system In North Carolina. Here, our Railroads looking to through business are run to the positive disadvantage of the press. ! We do not think it would be i possible tocontrive worse arrangements than exist. . JTh Herald off Health recommends it as ' the J "best possible: thing for a man to do wten he feels too weak to carry anything though I Is to go to bed and sleep as long as he can. This & the only recuperation of brain power the only actual recupera tion of brain force; . becatfse during sleep ' the brain is in a state off rest-i-ln a condi 1 tfon to receive and appropriate particles of riutriment from the blood, which take the place of those which have been consumed Th January dividends payable In Bos- nn anrrecate $10,151,762, an increase of MERCANTILE VmISFORTUWESJ Failures p business in the Northern cities are becoming alarmingly frequent and for unusually . larae amounts. The list in our elegraphic and news columns this morning is a large one, and that for the city of New York for the month of De cember is vry much m excess of that for any previous month of the year. One hundred failures are recorded, and of eighty-nine jof themjthe liabilities amount to $7,704,31, the nominal assets to $4,- 118,771. The number is one-fourth larger than that for November and the liabilities three times the amount for that month. " " The; later; failures of importance have been in Way street, and the Old Year is said to hav left its 'inhabitants weeping and refusing to be comforted. It has'been believed heretofore that the business men of that locality made their living by plun dering the outside public, and that they were scrupulously honest io their dealings with each other. It may bave ! been so heretofore. It is no longer so. The Nktteb an( Bonnes and other late fail ures show that, yielding perhaps to the hard times rhich have "cleaned out" the uninitiated, the . Wall street people have adopted a system of pi undering One another. And so in spite of the optimistic tendencies inseparable jFrom the day, says the New York Times ot the 1st, it is impossible to believe that fwe see the end of the rehy pothecation , business or of the shock it gives to all that remains of confidence in the Wall-street methods. What wa3 at first supposed to be exceptional, if not ac cidental, turns but to be a system. 1 The banker or capitalist, or the broker -who adds to plebeian brokerage the functions of the patrician money-lender, proves after all to bc tnerely a borrower wearing a huge mask, j ; ,j ., MR. HA YES -A XD DHMOCRA TIC 8EXA TORS. At the late session of Congress some Democratic Senators voted against the con firmation of several nominations! to office made by the president. It has been stated that, these Senators will hereafter vote Otherwise, thinking it in one way or anoth er expedient and politic to do so. We quite agree jwith the Brooklyn1 Eagle that their conclusion is right, their manner of arriving at it wrong. j Democratjc Senators, it seems to us, should vote to confirm all propeij nomina tions madefy Mr. Hates, because he is responsible for the civil service and be cause, ri?bt or wrong, for better or worse, he is and wi 1 be till March 4; 1881, Presi dent of the Vhited States. Under him the United ' Stages have got todo ill or well Their ability to do well depends on two conditions in ; considerable mea-bure--that tie President and the Civil Service incumbents shall move in harmony and that the jcivil Service shall be made as "good" as possible. If Mr. Hates nom inates men, it is to be presumed that they are in, accord with him. If he nominates them to succeed other men, the presump tion is to be zariied still further, j and it is to be suppoa d that those other men are not in accorc with Mr. Hates. A.Presi deni'8 desire o dispense with any man. is sufficient reason from a Democratic, stand point. A President's desire to put any suitable men In office is sufficient Demo era tic reason for voting to confirm them. Mr; Hates has nominated some very un suitable men. Democrats have very prop erty rejected them, as McLin for instance. The loss j)f property on the rivers during the past yeer is set Western down at $5,330,000 jThis includes ice and canal boat disasters on the Ohio river, amounting to $4,000,000. The number of lives lost during the eme time was seventy, more than two-thlitls by explosionstand burn- mg of st earners. The agricultural population of is nine hundred thousand souls, Georgia and the number of acres in cultivation iver bix hundred thousand. 1 I, ' I is a trifle ' South CaIkolina raised about .44,000 tierces of rice the present year, and Geor- gia au,uuu iierces. ; IIoos in Droves. The old custom of driving hogs' from Tennessee, Kentucky and otber Southwestern States ip droves to Southern iarkets is again coming into vogue. A party came into the city yester day with a 'hundred, and fifty, which would average about two hundred and fifty pounds apiece. They had been driven from East Tennessee and traveled at the rate of eight piile3 a day. The owner pro poses to drWe 'them into South Carolina and possibly ta Charleston. The same party has already this year disposed of about the sapie number in this way and seems to find it profitable, Charlotte Ob- server. Railroad j to, Oxford. The question of getting a railroad to this place is .still being discussed by some of our promi nent citizens , The plan suggested is to get the cbrpOratioa of Oxford to j vote to levy a tax ofj a certain sum of money, say twenty-five thousand dollars, provided the citizens outside the town limi.s will raise, by subscription, the same arm unL With fifty thousand dollars : thus obtained, the Raleigh & Gfistpn Road, it is confidently stated, will build a railroad. 'and then our people will be blessed with the boon they have so Iongjcoveted. Qjtfirrd Torchlight. Ocr Foreign Trade. The exports for the month oi December, which aggregated a value of $1,401,637, weT-all shipments to foreign polls and did not, ot course, in clude any coastwise shipments. "We want to hear now from the crack port ;of Nor folk, and believe that k Wilmington will very nearly, if not quite, equal her in the showing for J3ecember. Norfolk's foreign exports for November, if we remember correctly, were about equal to those for this port in , December. Wilmington. Re- A Month 6f Rain Mr. Jl Cj Baker, who lives near this city and pays a great deal of attention to the weather.) reports that during he month of" December be kept .an .-accurate account of all the,, rain that fell and found it to foot ud to eight and three-quarter inches, t This is an ex traordinary quantity for one 1 month! CharJotU Observer. - ' ir , J . , 4- Ha rborM aStkr's Report. --From Capt. jostph Price,j Harbor Master, we have the fellow ing report of the arrival of vessels at tfcis port, &C.I for the month of December. Steamers, 1 5; f barques, 11; brigs, 9; schoon-. era. Ik barbuentines, 2. .'jTotal, 47. Amount of toonage, 6, 237. Wilmington NEW YORK CORBESPONOENCE. Correspondence of bm Obsbbvxk. ; New York, Dec 81, 1877. t Within an hour orvtwo lhla yearthe, 1877th of: our Lord, will be naraberedi with the Past, and we sliall enter upon a new? ?one. My Christmas salutation v-to yon, iMessra. j-Sditors, and to th8 readers of The Observer, having failed to reach you, allow me now to wish you and them a Happy Year for 1878. It is a time for reflection' upon the past, not less than for hope of he future. What blessings we-nave en joyxo-of -life, - and health, and friends; what of good we have received, , and what "bestowed; what sins' we have committed, what errors fallen into; what misfortunes have overtaken us, but far more, how many we have escaped. Let fevery one for himself ponder over such thoughts as these.;. And though he may have had his trials, he will still find much to thana God for in. the past. But though "the fashion of this, world passeth away." some of us remain to hail the new year and the new fashion that succeed it. How many and who of us may hope to see the end of the coming year? It is" for the young to answer the question. This morning's World closes a thought fid article on the occasion as follows : . ."The lines which Johnson, added tp Goldsmith's; "Traveller", go as close to the core of the matter now as when hd penned them; " ' . ' ; "How small of all that human hearts endure The part which laws or king- can cause or core!" Where the year has brought wealth or social happiness it will be remembered as an annus mirabilis. ordained to that sweet and special end. To the girl ", who bears its date upon her bridal riog it is the gold en year; she to whom it has brought the sweet anxieties and responsibilities of motherhood will reckon from it as the Romans reckoned ' from the founding of the Eternal City. Those whom it has over shadowed with the loss of fortune or the death of friends will., look back on it as a year of eclipse, bladk with curses. 'But however we esteem f it, and whatever it may have brought to us, it has gone. It is dying in the day, it will s die with the night." r ; j . " Certain it is that thousands must Jook back upon 1877 as "a year of eclipse," and even since the World was issued the great army of unfortunates haj been swelled by important failures in Wall street, and elsewhere, as doubtless the tel egraph has informed you before this hour, indeed before it was known in my part of the city .though within 'gunshot of the scene. One. of the most notable cases of fast living in this fast age is presented by the two young Jewish bankers who tailed m vvaii street a lew - days ago. ihey were brothers, who inherited $200,000 each f tqm their fathe-. They married daugh ters of rich men, and came to this city from Cincinnati some three years ago, doubtless supposing that - they could do anything wan !jS4UU,uuu and two rich fathers In-law as capital. They are stated to have lived at the rate of $40,000 a year each, which accounts for $240,000 Of their capital. The remaining $160,000, and the additional $400,000 which their friends and creditors lose by them, bave all been swept away in. unsuccessful speculations. .Light hundred thousand dollars in three years I But that even is not equal to the . loss of a Mr. Woodward, of Brooklyn, a bold specula tor who failed for upwards of two millions on;'Black "Friday," a few years ago, all caused by the fall of stocks on that me morable day. The Cincinnati papers re present these young Jews as reproaching New York and impugning the integrity of Wall street. This might be very well as coming from some one else; but the Messrs. Netter have no right to call the kettle black, for their own ways bave been very peculiar. Never mind, though they are flat on their backs at present, they are young enough to fail half a dozen times in the future. The Radical war upon the South is ky no means ended. Chandler's furious let ter, full of venomous falsehood, is not his own act, but that of his party, and it will be followed up throughout Yankeedom. The Washington correspondent of the In dependent, a paper of large circulation and influence here, has the following among other hurtful stories: "We are told by a South Carolinian that the whites in South Carolina wish to re strict the freedom of the negroes in going about nights; wish to keep them from at tending public meetings, attending day schools, or any schools at all. And the white Legislature has decreed that the con victs in the Penitentiary shall hereafter be farmed out to contractors for labor on rail roads and farms; and, as it is negroes who are chiefly sent to the Penitentiary, this makes a limited return to slavery which, with the re-estabiishent of the whipping post, is abnut slavery enough for one State, even if that Slate be the State of South Carolina, with Wade Hampton for its Governor." H. Goosebose Prognostics ; of Whiter Weather. The goosebone says we are to have cold weather in January, the last of the month to be the coldest known for years. February w ill be a cold, blustering month, and winter will without doubt go a good way along with spring, carrying cold weather and snow into March. Those who take stock la the' goosebone will lay in their fuel and keep plenty of warm Clothing about the house. Charlotte Ob server. t ' The Cotton Trade. The receipts of cotton at this port during the month of December amounted to 80,953 bales, and the exports to 42.564 bales, of which 16, 465 were coastwise and 26,099 foreign. The receipts for the year 1877 footed up 117,663 bales, and the exports to 113,733 bales, of which 63,598 were coastwise and 50,135 foreign. Slock in yard and on shipboard 19,250 bale Wilmington Star, 2dinsL ' ; . " -f ' Victort or Death! The following singular courtship of a Prairie Grov gal lant is. an illustration that faint heart never won fair lady." He proposed, but was gently' refused. He went a second and a third time with the same result. But at length . be rode over one i evening and told her that he would neither eat, sleep nor speak until she consented- to become his bride. She invited bira in to dinner be shook his head. She talked on ; Je merely looked dejected. Then she. re-, quested him to take supper ' a negative1 shake of the bead - was the only reply.' She played, sang and, chatted on till bed time, when a servant .snowed mm a room . a negative shake, 'the tripped away to ber chamber; he sat determinedly still. About 12 o'clock she came back and said: I donS wish to causs the death of a good officer, so I will marry you." The re leased one arose, and with much eagerness said : "My dear, have you Any cold vie-" tuals on hand I" Qroesbeck Texas Nev Era. ' Ir8hJUadt Wit., Not Jong bacK. an Irishman was summoned before a bench of country jnagist rates fjprbeing, drdnkj and disorderly. . vi)o you know what brou jrht you here ?" . asked ihc j chairman; flfacix, Tour honor, ' two' polir femen, re-" Tlied the prisoner.. vHad not drink somes ing.r .Sortinly," , answeredtPaddyi" a aoashed,' "they Wrre hoth drunk." .; $ ' PTvnRrwi TnRpon Krfxitq3 The receipts of tobacco for the past year have been 12,275 , hogsheads, and 4.610,173 pounds of loose tobacco. Stock 873 hoga- pead. BEAVFORT COtTNXT LETrER. , Correspondence of TBI Observer J - Beaufort County, Dec 23, 1877. 9Hessbs.n Editors : The . tremendous rains, tides and floods, of which you have heard' and : chronicled so much, ; did not pass us harmless by. Great damage has been done to bridges and farms : whole .plantations were submerged ; and in many instances' families were water-bound in their dwellings, and had I to wade knee deep to look after their stock and to get out dinner." This suggested the impor tance or more and larger canals and ditches; which suggestion proved so ."striking," as to secure a considerable; adoption., , .Some, of the rales, however, aided by tides, would have mocked any kind and nnmberj of ditches, , for the whme "yeath, s Major Jones bai it, was covered as 4 the waters cover the sea.? H . The gathering of - crops is well nigh over. Many farmers consider that they have saved only about half crops; whiie a few' think that theirs is average. Some I few bave lost their entire and large sweet potato crops ; and very many have lost a part. Long faces 1 and 5 solemn coun te nances meet you at every turn, especially if you be a man With a pocket full of ac counts hunting for pay. -,; i " ' "Hard Times" has : no friends judging from the uncomplimentary remarks about him, but almost every man (everyone who owes you anything) claims his acquain tance. We trast that you being, as our self, public men, do not meet with so many of his acquaintances. - If so and the ac quaintance is legitimately obtained, we would again quote the Major by Inquiring "what in tarnation thunder is gwyne to cum er us all ?" So far as we have heard, the prediction (or growl) is that 1878 will be noted as the hardest year wev have ever seen. Our little folks want -to know, "Father, if it's any harder with us than it has been, do fdu think we can stand it ?" What say you to that, "gentlemen f Be'ent that a hard nut ? Howsutndever, the old lady, t. e. some old lady said we shill all lib tell we di which is some comfort. ' The weather continues as it "has been for some time past, too warm for winter, but most pleasant and beautiful. Christmas is near at hand,; but its approach is not hailed with that joyful expression, exu berance of spirits and general preparation for a gay, jovial and festive time, when work ceases for the nonce, and the univer sal song is ''begone dull care,: which in other years andj by-gone " days dismissed the old and welcomed the New Year, The reflection saddens the heart, but the Good Book comes in to sheer it again : "What I do you know not now, but you shall know hereafter." And now wishing you a happy Christmas, with well filled purse from delinquent subscribers we bid you farewell until ar new year, (and may it prove the best of our lives)," shall bring us together - , Again. Sewing- Jlacblneat. Correspondence of The Obsibter. Newberx, Dec. 29th, 1877. Mk8srs. Editors: As The Ohserver is a family paper, will you allow me through your columns to say a few words to my sisters in affliction on the subject Of sewing machines, and not suspect me of "coming a Chicago dodge," and getting a free advertisement for the Wilcox & Gibbs Automatic, because, after years of practi cal experience and Suffering, I pronounce it the only machine that a delicate woman ought ever to run. I am not an agent for it and get no percentage on those I buy for my friends, but I am constantly asked when I leave home for the summer "to look at cheap machines," and when at the Centennial Exposition spent several hours daily for nearly a week in trying machines and examining the work and the working of them; and for swiftness, lightness, dura bility and ease in learning to use them, found none equal to the new Automatic, which is almost noiseless in its motion, and so elastic in its stitch that there is no dan ger of the sewing giving way,' when the thread is properly fastened, if the directions engraved on the plate of each machine are followed. . There is a general cry among the medi cal fraternity against the constant use of sewing machines by delicate ladies, and the hand machines are as bad in their ef fect as the treddle ones; but any one who can rock in a rocking chair can with im punity run an Automatic Machine three or four hours a day, with intervals of five or ten minutes rest every now and then; and as they never get out of order, re- quire no cleaning, except what the user can give, and have very few places t where they can( break, . they are in -reality the cheapest mkchines in market in more senses than one, for they draw after them no bills for repairs and no Doctor's bills. - I have used one for nearly two years, during which time I have done all my, family sewing myself, including shirts, collars and cuffs f jt three gentle men, innumerable little dresses for a small feminine morsel of a grand-child, which my vanity induced me to puff, ruffle and tuck elaborately ; and I have never bad a moment's trouble in ; managing the ma chine, or broken a single part of it. Yet I seldom use it after one o'clock in the day, and never feel crowded by my work, because not fatigued as I always was by the' use of either Singer, Remington or any other shuttle machine. The fall in the price of other machines, by the expiration of their patents, is inducing many persons to give them the preference from a mistaken idea of economy ; but any one who has ever become accustomed to the Automatic, with its easy, swift and noiseless motion, will never willingly go back to any other. . Or, if they do, will soon see the differencen the amount of back ache, head ache, and pain in the side that they cause. To spare others, who ask . my advice, the suffering I see so many endure, I have trespassed on your good nature so far. : M. B. C. Fob Liberia. The bark Liberia, from New, York- for Monrovia, Liberia, yester, days wasnd carry about seventy negroes, composed principally of families from Mis sissippi," North Carolina, Virginia, .Mary land and Pennsylvania. Among them is Sberwned Capp, of Raleigh, N. C, who was recently graduated from the ' Shaw University of that city. During eight years of study Mr. Capp was, pecuniarily, sustained by two benevolent gentlemen, one of whom resides -in Boston and4 tbe. Aher ia Newark.' The petition recently presented to Congress by Gen. Garfield, for the extending of "governmental aid to the 'cause of Liberiao- emigration, was drafted. - it is said, by Mr. Capp. New Xork 'Times.' u Tt f ... . . M ' . .jjs Untimely Suggestion. At the re cent dedication of. a Baptist church in this cpunty the ceremony of ; Immersion Was performed for the first time in that church byja well known Baptist minister of this city. When he had entered the water, and while waiting for the candidate, the minister suggested that somebody should sing an appropriate hymn. One of the deacons who stood near by beard the su eestlob and. without thinking struck utt theamlliar hymn, 'Pull for the Shore." The hymn proved to be so suggestive, it Is stated, that neither the minister nor the " .f - Ll.t - . s ,iz congregation cuuiu reinuu uuui ou auut ble smile for some time, and the ceremony bad- to be postponed nntil the preacher could recover, hia gravity. Rochester Ex- pro, .j ..'!.' - - .-. . - : Moboo CrviuzATibs. The Modoc In dians who made so much trouble under Captain Jack have become tolerably good farmers... Shack Nasty Jim now . has one, thousand twp hundred buahela of cora. ?: j . BEYEX8E RAID, jtOW, AID RESCUE. -Nortb Carolina Aero, tne Border. . 'Special to Charleston Courier, 1st J ; Columbia, DecV ; 81.-The h following particulars concerning the rescue of Hlieit' distillers from " the custody of United Slates revenue officers by a mob in Union county are obtained from the report made by Deputy Marshal Kirkland to headquar ters in Columbia : 1 , r On Thursday last Deputy-Collectors Moore, Kane and Cummiugs, and Special Deputy Marshal - Wm. Durham, while on an inspecting tour through Union county, discovered a wagon containing eight boxes of tobacco af the residence of Trial Justice Jasper Gibbea, eight , miles .from. Union The stamps being, unvarnished and im properly affixed, the?, driver- was ar rested and the waj;on, its 'contents and the team were seized. The owner of the wagon, a peddlernamed G. G. Hill, from Hickory,' Catawba county, N. C, was next arrested at another house, and upon him were foimd three revenue stamps and a caution notice. After an unsuccess ful attempt to conceal the stamps : the t o prisoners were handcuffed, an the party started for Spartanburg, four miles dis tant. At West's Store, nowever, they came upon a rifle company. ' Some of the mea were armed and some mounted; and about twenty-five were uniformed. Tl.ese surrounded the revenue officers and their? charge, and,' after a long wrangle, com pelled them, ? by dint of threats, ' cursing and various demonstrations, to remove the handenfls, and released the prisoners and the property and stamps. The trial justice (Gibbes,,) his constable (Gregory) and the captain Of the rifle clubr are charged with having taken the most' active part. Gregory, by direction of Gibbes, searched the wagon of the revenue Officers for whisky, and threatened to send them to Union jail. The report estimates the number present at about two hundred men, and states, in conclusion, that, after the officers were re leased, they were followed by a crowd who were shooting off their weapons. It was only by the total surrender of the rev enue officers that bloodshed was averted. A private dispatch to your correspond ent confirms the above particulars, but stateB that the rifle company were col lected for drill only, and that no violence was usedonly threats. Anothen private dispatch tome, from Union, claims that the tobacco peddler's stamps were wet from crossing a river. The officers found the wagon in charge, of negro driver and removed the stamps, which came off easily, and then arrested and handcuffed Hill on his return, home one struck Hill severely with the butt of & gun. The peoole ref ased to submit t what they considered an outrage. Hence the release. f Considerable excitement ex ists. ' I - District Attorney Northrop and fhe de partment at Washington have been in formed of tbe occurrence, and it is expect ed that prompt measures will be taken, as this is the second recapture and release of tbe kind which has taken place (n Union within the past six months. C. McK. Tbe Iluruu and the FUliermen. From the New York TleraM.l I find the following paragraph in the Herald of December 28 : . ROBBING TH K DEAD OF MONEY AND TKINKET8. , Lieutenant Walton gives in detail a'u ac count of the efforts of the life savins crews a3 soon as they were apprised of fhe dis aster, aod of a numler of people living on the shore, to save the; unfortunate victims, and concludes by saying : "It is shocking to record that out of ninety-one bodies found (about twelve of whom were offi cers) not a single trinket, such as would be deemed a relic by the relatives of the dead, was found oh the bodies. V atches aud chains, money and even finger rings had been stripped, off by those who first found the bodies as they were washed up. Good evidence is found in the case cf Lieutenant , Simmons, whose third and fourth fingers of the left hand had been scratched aod gouged by the brdy roblx'rs in their haste to secure their ill-gotten lopt." In the name of the poor fishermen of the eastern shore of North Carolina I wish to denounce this statement as utterly false. I was at Currituck at the time of the disas ter, and many of the bodies came ashore near the sportiDg club house of which I am a member. The case of Lieutenant Simmons is one in point. When he was found the money in his . pocket, his card and that of his wife, and a certificate of stock were taken charge of by Mr. Jose phus Bauin, the owner of our club marshes. 1 sa w the body shortly afterward and helped to remove his gold shirt studs, his knife and some small articles from his fob pocket. Wheu this was done I crossed his hands upon his breast .preparatory to covering his body from the birds, and would certainly have noticed if his fingers had been stripped with ill usage. 1 did see that his right hand bad been injured, but evidently by a bruise from pieces of tbe wreck, as the mark was directly in the centre of the hand, and not on the fingers. These effects and others, including the watch of Captain Hyan, with a picture of his child in the back, were delivered to Lieutenant Commander Green, who had charge of the government bnrial party, and wbo stopped at our clubhouse on his way up and down the beach, and in whose pos session I saw them. There was very lit tle, sometimes even no clothing on the bodies, as people ordinarily do not wear jewelry or carry money on board ship, and bad probably stripped their clotbes off in order to swim the better. Of course I cannot say there were oo cases of theft, but I can say there was no theft is Lieutenant- Simmons' case. I do not' know wbo Lieutenant Walton is or when he ap peared on the scene, but Lieutenant Com mander Green and Lieutenant Clark were the only officers who had anything to do with recovering the bodies or burying the dead. . RoHKHT B. Roosevelt. Si-MtEL's Powerful Weapon. Mrs. Samuel Peters secured the arrest of ber liege lord-Sunday, and the twain were be fore Just ice Multtolland yesterday morn ing. "Ordinarily," said Mrs. P.j in apol ogy, "I can lick Samuel!". ; Yes, i see you ace about as big as two of him," said the Justice. . " i .'Mrs. P. -r But when he gets in a pint too much, he's just about a pound too heavy for me, Yer Honor 1 u He ain't a bad man. He worka, well if Xcao; keep the last pint out of , him 1 ) j r -v i u i? .tv Justice Well, the whisky is out of him now; do you think you can take care of him.? i t - . - . - ' tt i I j Mrs. P. Oh. yes; I can lick him easy pw,ilJus.tigive,him to. me I x C ; J V . ; ! And; Mrs. Peters took the , little man away. Syracuse Standard. , . v . 4 m ' ' "ri - Pokes as. a Family Game. A party of Indians were playing- poker on Court Street 'recently, and one of the players, jwho was in on a bluff, having all his money In tbe ' pot, - pulled' off his blanket and raised his opponent . one blanket. The other Indian saw, the raise and raised it a kquaw better, and then the bluffer hesita jted.r He offered: to s put up " bis mother, but the other player said she was too old, and that he bad put'up his wife and want ed the bet called with a wife or be would take down the pot; and tbe Indian with two deuces laid down - his hand, and will sleep to-night with a barley sack for a bedspread- Austin Reveille. ; '", : Raik. Rain water brings down yearl about twelve pounds of ammonia - to the un nf rnnniul whJr-h ' fnrmi . mw.t vol. liable and effective principle as a fertilizer. Bntlnew Diiaaten. " f New York, Jan'y 1. The fact wis made public yeslerday morning that Jew ell brothers, proprietors of the Brooklyn City Flopr Mills, had suspended. The mills are the largest of the f kind in the conniry, and the Messrs. Jewell were re garded in business circles as verv strong financially. As to the cause of the fail ure. Mr. Edward Jewell said yesterday that the trouble was . ; unexpected' until last lfaday. The chief cause. -he stated, was an extensive shrinkage of- .values: The firm, on account of the-bad wheat crop of last year, brought large . quantities of grain from the Vest to ! enable sthem to; bidge over i the Jhterval between the old crop -and the - new. They-have a very large trade ..with the West Indies and with ; England, and the flour and wheat which are shipped to the former have to be of the very best aaalitv in order to keep is, that climate. The firm accord ingly purchased wheat Which thy knew to be good. in 'an unusially. large quantity, tlie prospect being that they would not be, able to obtain as good an article until the new crop came i n. They: also, bought heavily, when the Eastern wax fever set in, with the expectation that the great demand at that time would continue," especially as the crop was a short one. After hostilities had beguu prices declined steadily; the aggregate decline being 2ft to 30 centra bushel, which was a surprisfe lb every one iu the trade. Among the other causes mentioned by Mr. Jewell as operating against them, was a large amount of bad xlebts Contracted 6ince May 1, and the ex penditure of 1 more than $50,000 during the past twoyears in improving the firm's property. New York Times. , The liabilities are about $400,000. , New York, Jan. 1. The schedules in the case of, Thomas Keech, superintendent of the Bureau of Repairs and Supplies, show the liabilities to be $270,000, and no assets. - , The Bull's Head Bank will to-morrow post a notfce that no more deposits will be received, ;and will proceed to wind up. Lack of business is the cause. . AJ Montreal special says Cameron, McKenzie & Co., a large dry goods house of good standing, is in financial deficiency Liabilities,; f 250, 000. Cincinnati, Jan. 1. A special says the German Savings, Bank at -1 afayette, Ind., closed yesterday. .Liabilities, 89, 000; with nominal assets of $94,000. Chicago, Dec. 31. The following peti tions in bankruptcy were filed today :. Norman C. Perkins, lawyer; liabilities, $GO,000; assets, $10,000. William F. Hate, builder; liabilities, $101,000, mostly secured. Amos H. Woodruff, coal dealer"; liabilities,' -$57,000; assets, encumbered land. , Lttkt U'cekS Cotton Fig-iireat. According to the New York Commer cial and Financial Chronicle of the 29th, the cotton receipts of the seven days end ing: the niebt before were 224.634 bales, against 162,033 the corresponding days of last year showing a gain for the week of 62.001 bales. Total receipts of the cotton year to Friday night 2,332,915,- against 2,562,063 bales for the corresponding period of last year showing a decrease of 229,148 bales. ' The interior ports received, during tlie same days, 98,600 bales, against OTj.GOO the same days last year. They shipped 65,552 bales, against 56.824, atid their stocks amounted to 261,896-against 356, 397 last year. The Chronicle's visible supply table showed on Friday night 2,345,761 bales of cotton in sight, against 2.835,060 at same date last year 2,731,227 the vear before, and 2,793,863 in 1874. These figures, in dicate a decrease of 489,299 bales on the supply of 1876 385,466 on the supply of 1875 and 448,102 on the supply of 1874. Middling upland last Fridaj in Liverpool was quoted at 6$. At the j same date last year it was worth G 15-16, bind the same at the corresponding date of 1875 ; but at that date iu 1874 it was selling for 71- Tlie holidays and heavy receipts made the New York market weak. x There was heavy rainfall all over tlie cotton States during the week generally raiu on six days. Labor contracts are repoited at about the same rates as last year. The Chronicle thinks there is no4)asis for crop estimates any fighter than the figures of last year. i . . j Internal Revenue Collections.- As a matter of interest to our readers we pub lish the following statement of the "infer nal" collections that are extorted from tne people of th'iB small district, for the past twelve months, .fon the support of ,th? U. S. government. Of course we do not mean to reflect on Col. Yoimg. the Collec tor, who is required by virtue of j his position, to obey orders, collect all ihey assess, &c, but ask in all sincerity, if it is not too much to require of the small and impoverished counties of Wake, Franklin, Johnston, Orange, Chatham, Granville and Nash to pay a tax to the government of $888,633 53 for one year. For the information of all concerned we publish the following report'of the amounts collected for each month of the years of 1876 and 1877: - 1 1876 $ 46,725 63 80,505 '14 46,5.6 65 67,1 8-i 45 1 38,067 63 44,845 '3 73,327 84 62,300 45 73,612 19 46, 84 61 66,472 90 1S7T Jauuary February.... March April May.......... June Jaiy . August...... SepVmber... October..:. .. November ... December.... cz 4,yti u 80,044 95 C4,i.S 01 84.170 08 8ti,907 3H 71,419 15 60.097 4H J6,8i5 79 75,931 22 90,3 8 09 73,111 69 40,90 62 Totals ..'. :.. $18,239 27 $8S8,6 3 55 Collections orytarl876.. 718,289 27 Increase for year 1877 over year lt76. ...... .'. $17044 38 ThB iBCSIXESS OF TH P0TOFFICK. Washington, Hecj 30. The Postmaster General has prepared a tabular statement showing tbe number'of stamps issued each fiscal year from 1859 to. 1877, both years included. ; From this statement the rapid and constant increase in the business of the Postoffice .! is , plainly apparent, i the issue of ordinary-letter stamps growing from about 200.000,000 In 1859 to nearly 700,000.000, in 1877. The following figures will show the number of ordinary letter stamps issued, by fiscal years, dur ing the years named lte9''.i:...L.l2.20i.92O 1SG9...'..'... 1370.V...'.. 1871..., 1872..., ... 1973... v..-. J874 .-..J.., ,o-r .".420 89fi,540 ..46,116,445 . .4US.126475 .J4.,453,t'7 , .601,931,520 ..632,7a3,4-l0 1 R60. . . i .-...9 i 670,660 1861 ..... J . . ..214 ,7ii818 1862.-.. X5t,30.lU 1863. .... . 338.340,S85 1864.... . .". ...S34,5410 : 1865. . .i . 8 ,419,455 1S66.. ,347r734,325 187 . . . . . .'. ..71.599.605 15.. ....... 82.342,470 1876..... ,698,799,090 1877.. ....... 639,580,67 1868 ...333.310.5O8 i ; Io addit ion Tothe "" above, - w bicteia cludesonly the ordinary4 -letter 5 stamps, there .were issued during the past four years ' 82,365.835 official stamps for f the use of tbe executive departments,' and 4,888.271 newspaper and periodical stamp?, j i - - ' , '"m -: ' (" ' i Clerical Digs ita bies. Ijondon; Jun; list The Pope declined to accept iany diplomatic comxratnlations on New Year's 'Day . Tbe consistory, ; . held I yesterday 'morning was absolutely pxivate, instead of um! miftli Hi M(liiil'iimiffrrit1 li' a upon five'CWdinaisj inctudiDg (.'ardinal Jianmug. pi ociaiiiieu cK-ivtu ? uuMvp rips, none of which are American. , - DissTaL SwAMp Canal. The Cat oli. fiians&ys that 1115 vesstls and 2,i83 ipassengera hav passed (through be Dis mal Swamrj Canal during the last ear., ; y , - MARRIED. -V V,'v:. tt brides father, ?aear AurGra? N c f i itl evening of December ,19th, 18;7? b k ir h Uooter,' .Mr. George J. bwwnKLL. of Ht5p cnnty, to M lss. Annie Mary Watson. j7 1 TA TK -DENNY. On thfi 1 9th nit.. In g raham I by Rev. A. i-urrie, Mr. A. B. Tate to Mwa 8al1 lie Si Densy, daughter of John Denny. . WATSON-JklcKKNZIE.-On Wednesday.'lsttf Di cember, at the residence of the late p. B. Mc4 KeiiZi-, by Rev. A. McMillan, Mr. Alexander -C. Watson to Miss Margaret McKenzib, all of Ri- tiuiuiiU -couuty. . - L , , . r MCCA8KILL KEAX.-OnMomlay.December S4th, at the residence of the Una. Waiter L. Sieele, by Rev. A McMillan, Mr. Murdoch C. f McCarkiix, Priocipalof the Hhh School at Eller- i SirH.gs, Rjuhmund county, N. C, toTAisa M. I- . M. Kean, of Gouchiaud county, Virginia. i I McMtU(ANJOH NSON.V-On the th of De--? ceuiiMjr, at the residence of i the bride's father, i?nd ;onPty. N. Cj, by the Revi. Joseph ?J t, V; McVillan, Esq., of Robeson couu ty, to Mis Chaklottk a. Johnson. 1 . . McFADYEN-MEMORY.-On the mu of De-. cember, at the reaiaeaoe ot the bride's .father. Cumberland county, x c, by the ReV. Josepn E.aus, JohnD. MclfADTBu, Esq., ofiRobeson connty, toMiiss Mar'v A. E. .MkMoir. XIlOLSON -KINdr: Near CarTer'a CreeK, In Bladen couutf, on the 2Cth of Deceuiber bv Kev. a. McFadvcn, Mr. Joskph S. Nicholson to Miss sicSA.v V. Kino, daughter of Mr. John King. i un:u. - McCALLUVI. In Montgomery county, N."C, October lath, in the 35th year ot her aae. Mrs. , i Effie. wife of Neill McCallum, Esq. j. AlcQl EEN. Near Shoe Heel, on the 2d of Oc tober, is; 7, Mrs. Mart Louisa McCcken, wife of Mr. James McQueen, in the 4 th year of her age. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. New Tear! M Store!' New Goods I AND W. II. LYOX Flas removed to the NEW STwRE, one door South of his Old Mand, BLOUNT STKKET.whtre he will continue to i DEAL ON THE SQUARE t. I ' And offer t FRESH GEOCEBIES, PROVISIONS, AND PURE NORTH CAROLINA Whiskies, Brandies, Wines, &c, ' .Af KO KBOTTOM PRICES. ' All goods guaranteed as represented, or money refunded. W. II. I, YON, - South of Old Stand, Blount St., 'Jan3-lw. Raleigh, N. Cf 'P M . A R C O . , L A ttovn eij at Law.' $ i V f rJf-PRACTICESlN ANY COURT. Oitice : In Building two doors aixwe Yarboro It ouse, Fayetuiy iUe street,. Kaleigh, N. C. ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT' LAW ' RALEIGH, N. C. Practices In all the Courts, State and Kedera HfOnlce in Adam Building, oa Martin stree Janas-ly. B. F. MOORK. J.OHN ClATLlK). ATTORNEYS AT LAW. KA LEIGH, N. C. - 1 Practice i in State and .Federal Cotuts. Jyis tf ; . ; ! ' i ' ! : ' A. S MERKIMON. THOS. C. FCI.I.KR. S. A. A SHE. Merrimon, Fuller & Ashe, Attorneys and Ooimsellors-at Law, . . RALEIGH, N. C. ' Praftice in the Mate and Federal'tiourts wher ever their services may be required, dec 80-tf . , " . h.. W. 1 lMohKLAKt, ' .A.ttiiieiy-at-la w, ; LOUISBURG, N. C. 83 Collections inul in any part of the State.. CIRCUIT: Fraiikliu, Wake, NasU, Warren anrt (irauville. ' sept29-ly J. W tllJJSDALK, Kaleigh, N. C. J. A. Worthy, Carthage, SC. IIISIAI,I Ac HOIITHy, Vtt orneys xxt. Law l . Carthae;e, N. C. Have formed a co-partiierKhlp for the practice of lar iu the county of Jloore. . nov 4-tf vVttoi'iiey at Law, It AI I.Kill, N. C.9 , May be founi as heretofore . at.hU bfflce ia liaieigh. will attt-nd all the courts iu )Vake, Moore and CumberJaud counties. , nov4-diw-tf. ' , P. tsl. BRIGGS, j RALEIGH, N. C. Practices ln the Gourts of Wake and Orange anl the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Sp ctal attention Riven to collections of claims and to the adjustment and settlement of accounts, particularly to the accounts of Guardian and Ward, Executors, Administrators and Trustees, and all buhiuesa in the I'roiiate Court generally. Omcc corner Fayetreville ana Martin Streets, Opposite Citizena' National Bank, upstairs. dec 0-3m AW. HAYWOOD, ATTORNEY AND COCNSELLOH AT LAW. Office In ' Bar ley Building" opposite the new Post Office, Ral eigh, N. C- Prompt attention given to all busi- ness entrusted to his care. Having had four yer8 experience in the banking bus'ness, pre vious to obtaining hia license to practice law, he ia a practical book-keeper, and will devote spe cial attention to settling the estates of deceased persons, taking accounts, Ac. Refers by ex press permission, to each of the. Bank- in Ral ega ' . dec So-lain f J N O. E. BLEDSOE, A ttornej at Zaw, . RALEIGH, N. C! . : tr Practices in State and Federal Courts JfSpecial attention given to the collection of claims. - ' ' - - Office : IN SENTINEL ROW.. - ' janl-fy TO HA VKUOOD HEALTH THE L.IVEB -I ' i K m i 75AHF03DS LIVER 8 OMRRHEAV StCKHUOACHfA MEBCOMPLAKTS lfOR DISEASES CF BIU0USHESS.I LTVERSTCMACH &DYSPEPSIA. lAVi a o.onup n CLEARS M tnun n flu tor 1'ampi. e s )r A---'Vi !' N v N oik. ,!DALTIMOREAa 414 IEXINGTONS m u1 r 5 W- J I i pippn ptw January, lax. tar,2d.:
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