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SALISBURY, N. C, DECEMBER 25, 1868.
VOL. I, NO. 51
TV fbitoiof is th translation from
an Mttt Spanish poo. wWb, Says.
Edinburg iUvlew, taserneaaed by nothbug
i.k .kleh w an saaaeinted in iht
Bp.oi.li -T b "04 of
0,1 let tastl Its slain Wra break -AwM4i
iu sse, aad awake
To mo bow toon
Llfo in iM foriw, glid away,
And lb stern footsteps of aeeay
Ami wbil wriw the rolling Ode,
Down which ear lowing minutes glide
Away so fast,
Let m th. prent boar tor.
And dee each future diM JJ
Already past.
Let no vain bop delv "
No happfer let M bop to fad
To-morrow than to-day ;
Oar rotdoa d dream efyer were bright,
Lik4tb.n1 th present shall delight
Like the decay.
On lirea like haateoing traamt moat he,
That into oae ooruHog tea
Are doosned to fall
The era of death, whoee ware roll ea
O'er kiag and kingdom, crown and tfcaaoe
And swallow.
Alike the rivers lordly tide,
Alike the humble rivulet's glide.
To that aad ware I
Death levels poverty and pi We,
And rich aad poor sleep side by side
WUhin the grave. ',
S birth it bat a suiting place,
ie the raaaiag of the race,
And death the goal ;
Than all oar glittering toys are brought
That path alone, of all ansought,
17(oaoi of alL
Sea, thee, bow poor and little worth
Are all those glittering toys of earth
That has no hare j
Dream, of a sleep that death moat break;
before it bids as awake,
We disappear.
From the Raleigh seatin!.
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY.
Mb. Kditob i Aa a friend of North
Carolina and all her interests, I doom it
to bo a saered daty that I owa lAr peo-
S, and more especially to the individual
okkokUrt in tba North Carolina Rail
road, to state to the Stockholders in all
ear Railroads, that I have good reason to
hashes that there is a strong Ring, who
are now busily engaged in forming a grand
conspiracy to gat in their possession all
oar Railroads, without paying hot little
or anything, either to the individual Stock
holders or the State for them. The plan,
M I understand it, is this, or something
vary nearly like it :
Tba Riec are to cot t broach legislative
charters for as many Roads aa they can,
ith heavy appropriation, from the .State,
proposing to construct new Roads in every
conceivable directiuu, ruuuing parallel
ith the North Carolina Railroad. Im
pressing all tbeae Roads through the Leg
islator in hot baste, it is hoped the Ring
will ho able to reduce the credit of the
State to such an extent, as to enable them
to purchase up the old hoods of the State
at a very low rate.
The result is counted upon with groat
confidence by the financier, of the Ring,
and while they are to attend to this partic
ular branch of the business committed
to their especial charge, other prominent
members of the Ring are to employ ac
tive agents to travel, free, up and dawn
the Roads, wiUi the IkU of the names of
all the Stockholders in their pockets,
whase especial business it will be to de
clare that the new Roads chartered, and
others that will be passed by the present
Legislature to sell out the Slate's interest
in all oar works of Internal Improve
ments, or to have them leased for a term
of years, to pay the State, will render the
slock in them entirely worthless to the
Stockholders, as all the present shares
will he taxed heavily, both for State and
Connty purposes.
I assert that I have good reason to be
lieve that while the efforts I have men
tioned will be resorted to to depreciate the
old bonds and the stock la all of oar rail
ed the following gentlemen aa mora
ben of said Cotiunitkeawto wit : Chief
Justice B. M. Pearson, Justices
Koodo and Dick, Hon.. W. ,H. Battle,
R. V. Moore, A. 8. Merrimon ted 8.
F. Phillip, and W. H. Bailey, Eq.
An interesting and able communi
cation waa read from Chief J nana
Pearson, which, on motion of Boo.
Anderson Mitchell, was referred to the
abovo Committee.
W. M. Bobbins, Esq., introduced
the following resolution, which waa
adopted, to wit :
liesolmed, That the members of the
Legal Profession of North Carolina
be requested to communicate such
views as they think useful, in refer
enee to the amendment of the Code
of Civil Procedure, to the Chairman
of the Committee on that subject, ap
pointed by this meeting.
Un motion, the Secretary was request
ed to furnish a copy of the proceedings
ot the meeting to the aennnet and Stan
dard for publication, and the other news
papers of the State were reeeeeted to
cony, when the meeting adjourned till the
7tbof January next. Sentinel.
mttttm & m $ortfe State.
BY DANES BKUNEK.
CONG BESS
i, and laid his anger there.
Long era th damp of death ean blight
The cheek's pare glow of red and white
IT. nasard siraTi
. ..r: . "
Yoath smiled, and all
Are
w . 'm a t a
Asm w here are t nay i
Where is the strength that spumed decay,
Tba step that roved so ligkt and gay ;
The heart' blithe lane I
The strength is gone, the step is alow,
Aad Joy grow weariness a, aad we I
When age comes our
roads, by a portion of the Ring and their
W ashinotoii. Dee. 17, M.
The Senate passed the bill cxtendinr
the time for the payment of tax oa tobac
co to the 15th of February. It goes to
tbe PresiJent.
Rills removing political disabilities from
certain individuals, were presented from
all quarters. i
1 he Douse iangaged on the Stevens
eulogies
Menard, colored member from Louis
iana, has his credential from Governor
VVarmouih, dated November 85, under the
broad seal of Louisiana. He Will present
them to-morrow.
The Senate passed the Douse bill au
thorizing militia organisations in the re
constructed States, except Georgia. It
goes to the i resident.
Hunt, Menard's contestant, is here.
agents, another portion of the thieving
cabal or Junto will he prowling- through
every town and connty along the hues of
these Koeds, with the list of the names of
tbe Stockholders in iheir pockets, as before
sated, with the cash in their pockets to
purchase up alt tbe stock thry can get, at
II 1 I c - .--. I
amau nominal ngure, -especially inai
portion of the stock held and owned by
the Conservatives. If they can succeed
in purchasing the old bonds, issued by
tbe State to construct these Roads, at a
very low rate, as they feel confident they
can do. by adopting the plan above faint,
ly shadowed forth, and also purchase up
the individual stock in th Road daring
the panic tlirv are sealously laboring to
W.C. CONFE1IWCB MrrHODISTl'- irr
PROTESTANT CHURCH
W. H. Wills, tWdoat of th Conference
. AvrourmasT
Albemarle Circuit and Columbian Mis
eion -R H Wills.
Tar River Unsnpplied.
Roanoke Th J Ogburn.
Gmnvllle-J H
North Granville-W
tSKlS. Haris.
Or.oge-RRMich.ux.
Alamance A W Lineberry.
Greensboro C FHsrris.
Rsndolph-W W Arnick.
Dsvidson James Dean..
A.hhoro-J W Heath.
WuihVd-Uusupplied.
Haw River Alton Gray.
Winston T H Pegram.
Yadhin A J LaogWin.
Mo-ksville Joseph 8 Dane.
Catawba Z C Lintberry.
Mecklenburg U E Hunt.
Monroe Willis m 0 Hammer.
Stanly H W Peeples.
MaDwwril Uasupplied.
Buncombe John L. Swain.
J C Daaaa Saparanaatad
Without aoDoinlments at their request
M H Page, J R Ball.
Transferred to tba anstatSoned list at
lis r quest A M Lowe.
I Left in thojband. of tba President of
pe Uonferauce K W regraas, U. V,
Icptinstall, John Paris.
A. C. HARRIS, Hec'y.
Exptoeiva MrsaiLls m War. The
teraational conference for preven tine the
ba of certain explosive baliais in time of
sr, naa published the conclusions to
aieh it has arrived. It is decided that
Power which siffu the convention
M raliaauish. both in sea and land
L m .Sf ' . - ..a
snare, the as of eiptosive projectiles
eight ng las than 400 grammes (14.1
pneos avoirdupois and filled mhanima
k natter. The obligation la not bind-
tspoa aay of the contracting Powers
b at war with Bute which has not
Tbe Prussian
UfJ) th ooejfitilon
tiary , 9fMd tbst the question
re-openetf for a more extended
bat this proposition waa rejuc
protocol embraeinr th deci-
pea of tbe conference is sirned by the
of Great Britain. Prance.
nnaia, Baasia, Austria, Italy, Tnrkey,
aral, Denmark, Belgium, Holland,
wee, Bavaria. Wartembnrg, Sweden
P svaaa. wu. tumr.
IAb IRhaaia, editor.
psnvwa ia Ma
full possession of all oar works of Inter
nal improvement that are, or are likely
boob to be, worth anything. And this
great result ia to be speedily accomplish,
ed, and with a very small sunt of money,
when compared with tbe original cost of
tbeae improvements.
I have had but one moment to write
yon before the mail closes, but yon may
refy upon it, there in now such a King m
exiateucr, and, if it has not commenced
operating, it will soon do so, to carry oat
this grand object of swindling. I there
fore earnestly appeal to you, and all true
mends of the state and her credit, aud es
pecially to the Stockholders on all of our
Railroads, to be on thefom vise and not to
sell their stock for little or nothing to this
unprincipled gang of iand-sbarks.
Are there not honest men enough in this
State to crush out so infamons a conspira
cy t I hope there are, and 'that yours and
the other papers of this State will do your
pari io onng aooui inis aesiraoiu resuu,
and, that, too, speedily I CATU
FOBEIGN.
London, Dec. 17, M. There has been
a sanguinary battle in the Pass of Da
main, Afghanistan. Shere Ali defeated
the rebel with great loss.
Famine again threatens central India.
Earthquakes are reported at various
place.
Berlin, Dec. 17, M. Prussia, in the
Interest of European peace, endeavored to
induce Greece to comply with theSultau's
demands.
Cadis Dec. 17, M. Tbe fleet with
Dulce aboard sailed, on Tuesday, for Cu
ba The following from Cadiz was detained
by tbe government on the 10th :
"The troops are badly beaten in the
fight in the streets. Daring tbe fight,
Captain Farrall, American Consul, iu his
official uniform, mounted tbe barricade
with the Americau flag, aud stopped the
fighting."
Tbe City Hall was shattered by the
artillery. The troops plundered some of
the deserted houses.
broke us li IWaaa BsW
this country lorpV
MtMing vf ike Bench and Bar of
JHorth Carolina. In accordance with
urevjoqa notice, and considerable
number of the Judges and Altorricys
of North Carolina met in the senate
Chamber, at 8 o clock, 1'. M., on
Wednesday.
Un motion ol J a. M. Mcuia.ie,
Bid., the Hon. T. B. Caldwell was
called to the Chair, and on motion of
Judge J. M. Cloud, J. M. McCorkle,
Lea., waa appointed becrctary.
Judge Clond stated that the object
of the meeting waa to interchange
viewa with the Code Commissioner,
and to make ncli" suggestions in rc
gard to changing the Code of Civil
Procedure as were deemed nccesary.
He also called the attention ot the
meeting to several sections of the
Code, whch, in his opinion, required
amendment, and concluded by offer
ing the following resolution :
Itesoivcd, that when the meeting
djonrn, it will adjourn to meet on
the tilt of January next, and that the
Chairman appoint eight members of
Hie Bench and Bar of tbe State, who
are requested to report to said ml
onrned meeting what beuenciai
amendment, not inconsistent with
the Conslitntion, can be made to the
Code of Civil Procedure.
An interestinsr diacussion followed,
participated in ry uons.
uian, J. W. Osborne, and
and V. C. Barmiger,
and J. M. McCorkle,
SALISBURY, DEO. 25, 1808.
CONSERVATISM. ,
Modern usage has introduced tbe word
"Conservative" into polities, botsaWdoes
not seem to be a very applicable or very
appropriate term. In ha political signifi
cation it means one who wishes to main
tain the existing order of things In tbe
State one who ia opposed to violent or
radical change in established governments
or institution. Yet it is often applied to
parties which, in the mutation of revolu
tionary times, become as radical a those
to which they are opposed. The Tory
party, fd instance, ia tba conservative
party in England, in tbe political accepta
tion of the term, and has aver been so re
garded. In tbe latter half or the seven
teenth, and the first half ol the eighteenth
eeatary, it held certain wall defined and
distinctive principles, which were eminent
ly conservative in their character. Most
prominent among these were th princi
ples of Divine right and passive obedience,
taught in tbe celebrated work of Filmer,
which called forth the famous essays on
government from Sydney aad Locke. To
trace tbe growth of these principles, dur
ing tbe revolutionary time which inter
vened between the meeting of the Long
Parliament and the assembling of the Con
vention Parliament which restored Cbarlea
II, te unnecessary. It was the strength
of these principles in the Tory party,
which waa mainly composed of tbe High
Church party, that enabled Cbarlea to ex
alt the prerogative of th Crown above
the ancient constitution and laws of tbe
Iss. It waa the strength of these prin
ciples in that party that enabled Jamea
II to so narly subvert tbe liberties of
England ar.d establish su absolute despo
tism apon t icir ruins.
But the intolerable tyranny of Jamea
1 1, at lengt 'u caused a portion of tbe Tories
to so relax their principles aa to allow
Uhe Revolution of 1688 to be aecomplish
W No sooner was it accomplished, how
ever, than most of them returned to their
principles and continued to regard the
banished Jamea aa their King. Daring
four reigns, adhering to their conservative
principles, the great body of the Tories
were wishing and laboring for the restor
ation of tbe exiled family. Not only was
this the case with the country gentlemen,
and the leaders and masses of the party,
who were oat of office, bat with tbe most
influential member- of the Cabinet itself.
Lord Oxford, Lord Bolingbroke and Lord
Chancellor Harcourt are well known io
have plotted to bring in the Pretender up
on the death of ieen Anne. In this
they we.-e defeated by the promptitude
government for any considerable length of Bot Mtt!d by an amendment to th Fd
tlmeAM when at length the Tories eral Constitution -that in th next cc
finally adopted tbe principle of the Whigs tt between tba parties the Conservative
of 1888 tba two parties by no means cc party, by whatever name it may be call
alesced. Other issues had arisen in the ed, will only have Inscribed apon its ban-
eantime upon which they still divided, ner, "Universal Aroneaty, Universal Suf
frage and tha-Eqoal Rights of tbe State..' '
FB0M WASHINGTON.
WasuiNOTON. Dec. 17. P. M"
Dispatches ; from St. Louis wdieteTttoi"od energy .f the Duke of -Shrewsbury,
kabatk we bar had ha
tion waa unanimously
tbe Obit man apponft
election of Carl Schurs to the United
States Senate.
J udge Chase is reported as saying, that
he don't believe that a single Associate
Justice ha given intimation of bis views
on the constitutionality oi legal tenders.
Hon. Robert Walker and W. W. War
den, the President's Private Secreteries, I
were Deiore tne Hcircncnment uommittee,
to-day, regarding tbe Alaska corruption
fund. - -'"
The Reconstruction Committee contin
ued the examination regarding Mississippi
and Georgia...;.-, i tt-tii;
General Srpher, at the request of Men
ard, will prcst-u: Menard's credentials to
morrow, i
Col. Hunt wit present certain papers.
and, also, Simon Jones, when the whole
matter, without" argument or any recogni
tion, of .Menard, will go to the. Election
Committee.
The House bill repealing the Militia
restrictions passed tbe senate without
comment. ""I.
Guv. Bullock, of Georgia, having been
summoned before the Reconstruction Com
mittee of the House and requested to give
(lis orinion aa to the proper mode of over
coming the difficulties in ueorgia, reconi
mended that there should be a literal exe
cution of the Reconstruction Acta, which
require the primal organisation of the State
Legislature to be made by tue admiasiou
of ouly thoaewha could take the test oath
or badl BrVcd of disabilities by
Tliis-rfflrse would restore the colored
men to their seats without any special leg
islation, and place tbe Legislative Depart
ment of Georgia in lb bauds of "loyal
men," Vc.
The House bill removing disabilities
from certain citizens of South Carolina
pasjicd.
The resolution or tne f inance commit
tee, censuring the President s nuaucia!
views was discussed.
Dixon spoke at length on tbe financial
question, and said that the way to resume
specie payments wss, first to institute a
system of rigid economy, and, second, to
remove all political disabilities from the
Southern people. The resolution finally
passed yea 43, nays 8.
The House waa engaged all dsy an
Stevens.
and the other Whig leaders, although Lord
Campbell thinks that a majority of the
nation, numerically, waa in favor of it
Almost the entire Tory party sympathized
with-tb rebellion of 1715, which was un
dertaken to dethrone Georgo I, and en
throne the first Pretender, son of the de
posed James II. A large portion of the
party also wished success to. the effort
made by the Young Pretender, iu 1745,
to obtain possession of the throne of his
ancestors. So judicious a historian as
Lord M abou has even expressed the opin
ion that if the young Chevalier had been
able to control his followers, and had
pressed on from Derby to London he
would have won the British Crown. In
deed, it waa not until George III had as
cended tbe throne that this conservative
parly abandoned the idea of changing the
dynasty, and with it tbe established can-
Mtitution, by a radical revolution,.
Upon tbe accession of George III, th
Tories, seeing that all bop of effecting a
restoration was gone, adopted the princi
ple of the revolution and accepted him as
their constitutional King. 1 Through four
reigns they adhered to the teachings of
Filmer and their conservative principles,
during all of which time they were desir
ous of effecting, by means of them, a rad
ical change in the established constitution
of their country, which their radical oppo
nents were laboring to conserve. When
they Ifinaliy yielded, and surrendered the
last hope of restoring the ancient order of
thinf they surrendered with it tba doc
trines of Divine right and passive obe
dience, which had been for so lone the
cardinal principles of their cred. The
highest Tory of the reign of George III,
and subsequent times, would have been
regarded aa a radical Whig iu tba reigus
of William III and Queen Anne. Until
they abandoned their absurd conservatism,
if such it Bsay be called, the Toiy party
was aevav able to botd possession, or toe
twi continue to divide down to the pres
ent lime. In the sense in which the word
is used in modern politic w have said
that tbe Tory party waa the conservative
party of England. And so it waa, and
is, bat fortunately it did not call itself by
that name. If it bad, it name, during
some part of its career, would have bae
anything but significant of its objects and
intsntisns, if uot of its principles. View
ed at this distance of time the stubborn
conservatism of the Tories of that period
persisted in until it became radicalism
seems to have been tbe most unaccoonta
bl pervrrseness and folly. No exact par
allel to it is to be met with in the history
of the revolutionary times in other conn
tries, for the reason that in no othercoun
try wa toe political principle or any
party also its religious principle. . That
of th Bourbons, and their adherent, in
France bears some resemblance to it. It
bss been truly said of them that "tbey
never learned aay thing and never forgot
any thing." The result ia well known
their persistence in their conservatism
wiiicii was, in tacr, radicalism, cost ttiem
the government. It ean scarcely be doubt
ed that if, after their restoration, tbey had
made due concessions to the demands of
the nation, and adapted their government
to the changes wrought by tbe Revolu
tion, they might still be occupying the
throne of Henry IV. But, yielding
nothing adhering to anti-revolutionary
ideas they were swept awav by the tor
rent of another, but less violent revolu
tion.
Whether the revolutionary time trough
which we have been passing for the past
eight years will furnish a paralel must be
determined by the less biased judgment
of succeeding generations it is useless to
attempt to draw any paralels now. Which
was the conservative, and which the radi
cal psrty at tne commencement or our
troubles is a question which c m not be
settled in the midst of the 'prejudices
which they engendered. But which be
came the radical, and which tbe conserva
tive party after the close of the war ad
mils of no doubt. Indeed, one of the
boasts of the now dominant party is that
it it the radical psrty. Whether the con
servative party, however desirable it may
have been to retain the old order of things,
as far as the altered circumstances of tbe
ease would allow, baa not exhibited some,
thing of the perverse obstinacy of the En
glisb Tories and the' French Bourbons
may well be doubted. Seeing, as it should
have seen, that a mighty revolution was
sweeping over the land, which could not
be siccessfully resisted it remains for the
statesmen nt'jha next age to say whether
it should not have attempted to break its
. .. ... ..
loree and check its progress by making
some timely concessions to it. Whether
it could not have better served the coun
try by becoming the moderating party .in
stead of persisting so long in its stubborn
and unyielding conservatism ia scarcely a
question for these time. Whether, like
the English Tories, it will persist in its
conservatism until it become radicalism
remain! to be seen it is not believed that
it will.
After many protestations that princi
pies can never be yielded without dishonor
and degradation they will most probably
be yielded, finally, by the American Con
servatives, as they were by the Englis!)
Conservatives. Practical statesmanship
will, after a while, be resorted to as the
only hope for the country. Men will be
gin to see, after a wbile, that sound poli
cy and wise expediency is a higher order
of statesmanship in troubled times than a
rigid adherence to the exploded dogmas
and obsolete principles of tbe past. Soon
er or later they will come to the conclu
sion that patriotism will permit noabstract
good name. Certain tactics of those
who are manifeetly to the opposed in
vestigation will be noticed hereafter.
UEMOBIAL BAZAAB.
The ladies of the Wilmington
Memorial Association contemplate
holding a Bazaar on the 23d, 23d and
This latter principle cannot be surrender-
mA wittlilMt .MmJ.M. H.l.k I . . . m -
ut iUot govero-ent, .nd mart, there-1 84,h. of for the pnrpo . of
foreflceuHly constitute . part of th. ra,wn ,he fno,s nV to aadeee
platform. This is new, and has been for vmeiery wiu. an won ran
mg, and erect a monument to the
memory of the Confederate dead who
repose there. They earnestly solicit,
and will thankfully reeeive contri
butions from home and abroad. Suc
cess to their noble efforts.
some time, the platform of the moderate
Republicans, aud upon this plafftTrm tbey
may unite with the Conservatives and the
government may pass into the control of
other bands, provided the Conservatives
will discard their fossilised leader, who
have thus far. in the lane-nape of the .W
linnnl Ilrlli,u;,rrr 1,1.. ,J A.mih ThI UnTTKBSITT. We leaiH frOtll
Itaeif every effort of living conservatism the Standard that Lewis P. Olds Esq.,
to obtain afair hearing upon living iaabes.'' j !aa been tendered the Presidency of
For no party is likely to obuin tbesccn- the University. At the reqntt of the
dency iu the Northern Stater daring the ' Board of Trustee he has furnished a
present generation which recognise, men plan for starting tbe school at once,
of the political antecedent of CJ L. Val- i with a new curriculum based upon
landigbam and Robert Toombs among its the best systems of e time. Wheth
er Olds will acceptof the tendered
position is not known, but
sume he will.
national leaders.
THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION
A bill is now pending in the Lug
islatnre for the better protection of j
Andrxw Wim iE, of color, was kill-
certain debtors. It was under consid-! ed in . ba, room tn Greesboro' on
eration in the House on WMnesday, Wcdnesdarv. the 16. by Alfred Oe-
the I6th, when a proviso w& adopted ,nenti wuit0 Liquor said to be cause,
'that it, should not apply to the col- j wititice was stabbed in tko neck aai
leotion of bills of cost, from any j iired oni . faw mjBntes. Osraent is
a
court in this State, nor to any penal
ty on official bonds," and a farther
proviso "that sheriffs and other Col
lecting officers shall not be liable ojy
their official bonds forfaiting in obe
dience to this act to collect in accor
dance to laws heretofore in force,
only for bills of costs and fines and
penalties."
During it discussion Mr. Bowman
said that many officers in the State
paid no attention to the Exemption
and Homestead law, and he thought
it necessary for the protection of the
poor pcoplo of tho State that this bill
should pass. On his motion it was
amended Ly inserting "Constitution
and" before 'laws."
From these proceedings we infer
that there is a party iu the House
which I hinks that the Homestead
Exemption, provided in the i ew Con
stitution, will hold good as against
debts contracted before its ritiSca-
tion, and that they are desirous of
carrying out that construction by leg
ielation. But no action of the State
Legislature can possibly affect tho
Constitutionality of that provision of
the Constituion, which, we believe, is
in conflict with the Constitution of the
United States. It ie still a question
for the Courts, and whether they will
sustain the view which seems to have
been taken by the House in the
adoption of Mr. Bowman's amend
ment remains to be seen we do notl
believe that they will. Certainly the
Federal Courts will never sustain that
view as long as the cases of Sturgis
tw. Crowning shield, and Ogden vs.
Sounders, continue to be regarded as
authority. Hut the Mate courts may
possibly hold that they cannot go
behind the reconstruct ton acts, and
the act of admission by which the
new Constitution was accepted by
Congress, and, consequently ren
der a decision in accordance
with the plain language used, and
sustain the exemption as against old
debts.
jail.
C. P. Mekdibthall. Esq., of Greens
boro' was assaulted and severely l
jured by negro by the name of W
ley Lindsay on the night of the 16
Lindsay lay in wait for him and e
tacked him suddenly and unaware
Tbe negro waa arrested and lodgeu
in un
SB JB)B
Bokk, Gkaiiam, & Co., of iladol
phia, have purchased the Friendship
Iron Banks and Foundry, in Guilford
County N. O, and intend to com
mence working the same at once.
Success to all such enterprises.
The Store of W. S. Moore, of
Greensboro, was entered by means
of false keys and robbed of $100
worth of good one night last week.
Most of tbe goodT recovered no arrests.
A bill of indictment has
found against Hon. Mr. Dewese for
violating the laws relating to the
franking privilege.
SrEaJfU on the Neuse.- We leant
from the JJolcUboro Messenger that
parties are preparing to put a liue of
steamers on the News Itri ver, to ply
between Newborn and Smithfield.
We should like to sea a line placed
upon the Yadkin to ply between
this ; lace and the Lime kilns of Sur
ry.
Wilmington Journal txj that
there are thieves in that bity who
not only knock down and steal a
a man's hog out ot his pen the day
beJbre be intends kill them himself,
bail, who actually steal tbe locks off
the gates. -
THE COBBUPTIOX IKVESTIGA
TION
In the Serrate, on Wednesday, the
16th, Mr. Jones,, of Wake, inadein
principles to stand between them aud tbe I quiry as when the Committee to in
best interest of their country ; and it is vestigato tba alleged bribery and cor
quite within the range of possibility thai
th conservative of 1870 or 1873 will be
a man who would have been regarded as
a moderate Republican in 1868. It is
quite witbin the range of possibility that
in the next trial of strength between th
parties the Conservative platform, an
far as it relates to tbe most exciting issue
of the lat contest, will be precisely that
ruplion woald report was very mi
ions to see the report before adjourn
ing for the holidays. In reply Mr.
Sweet, as a member of the commit
tee, stated that a report would be
made at the earliest possible moment.
The charges tcould be sustained, and
notwithstanding the power of tbe
Senate branch of the Committee bad
of the moderate Republican, of the pre . pj.g.,j by ,b M,ion
ent dsy. Leaving out questions of finance
and revenue, and other measure, for car
rying on the government, it is highly pro
bableif experience shall not demonstrate
B the meantime that it ia impossible for
tbe two race, to live together in th ame
of the House branch, it would thor
oaghly sift and probe all transac
tious.
Mr. Sweet has exhibited great firm
n ess of purpose in this matter, and de
Drowned. Mr. Bory McNair, of
Bobeson Count r. was drowned on
Tuesday, the 16th, by walking into
Lumber Biver. His feet became on
tangled in some boshes under tho
water which caused tba fatal acci
dent. Lari.1l Hogs. Mr. John Snider, of
this place, slaughtered a fine- lot of
hogs a few days ago, which is, thus
far, tbe finest lot which has boon 1
slaughtered in this county. Five of
them were eleven months old.' the
sixth one twenty-two months old
Their respective weights were a fid-
lows: 222, 238, 246, 239, 272 and
473 aggregate, l,690:-average 281. ;
Who can beat this in Bowan.
IIBYJ isjv laws Hi in w tvsjVMn. as aw anuiv i w ,
attvernmant on terms of nerfect ooliiical ,he ,0uk of 'W nan in the
eqnalitv,. and the question of suffrage be State who is at all solicitous for her taken by Federal tre-pa.
FIGHT IN ARKANSAS.
Mem obis. Dee. 17. P. M A Sent be-
tween thirty of the militia and citiaana, at
Augusta, Arkansas, occurred on yester
day. Four of th militie were killed.
Uov. C lay too message sBys tbat th
li'ia will be withdrawn, and their place
mm