CANNOT BE AT FAYET TfcVlLLE, S;- -Jlr. Davte Writes a Letter From a ' Sick Bed. bi -The committee of invitation to r Ibe oenteunial ratification by North }, y. Carolina of the Constitution have received a letter from ex-President '■Davis written in pencil and from a -*ick bed, regretting his inability on account of increased impaired health ^ to be present at the celebration of The 21st Inst. In' this letter he pays ’■ .'“"a glowing tribute to North Caroli-! . hist prominent patriotism - during and subsequent to the revolution. It is pronounced by all who. Have; etui it Worthy of the man and wor - thy of the occasion, While the people cif Fayetteville are of course — —deeply grieved rft their inability to welcome Mr. Davis as the guest of the centennial celebration more es ■ - Ttsyisay as tb«.' letter in question , gives expression to the venerated writers interest in this historic event, no abatement is felt in the eniiuisiasm over the matter and no . pause is made in the extensive and elaborate preparations both for' the 1 -Coxnpktenea8.of the inposing cere ' monies and the comfort and pIcaaA I ure of the thousand of ex^cwf „ guests. - * - . T/f' North Carolina and the Constipation. HtflnUntvn Mrmmvuffer. •. The Messenger some thite'ago in y discussing Col. Saunders’s ~ valuable work in behalf of North Carolina, published the fact that North Caro lina never -entered the Federal Union until the Constitution as first adopted had been altered,-1 and that her people after fighting for, < liberty for seven long and trying / irears did not intend to 'enter a Union of States which would re quire to surrender her Statehood, ' tier reserved fights, her liberties. We said that Wiley Jones, cs Pali lax, and Gcu. Torn Person, of if? Granville deserved a monument of native granite for com picunus Sead ' ership in opposition to the Constitu tion. Thu Asheville Citizen says vrt.il: _ ‘ ' . >\crtn Carolina, like tier sister ■ v . SUtt-v, had experienced to the full -till tin! evils of the weakness and in i':!!- i- iicy of the Confederation, tifte efished and purposed something more vigorous; but in niakwg a stronger government she did not in _ j tend to make a muster. She knew what liberty was; she had known what tyrranny was; Bhe had resisted - and over thrown it and won her £L1-freedom1,”; * r*'x,-1',:iv; ' ■: ■ . The Constitution as drafted was in fear of the people and mi the side of the new government to he set Up. . ... The Twelve Amendments were adopted through theinfluerK'Omam-' T, h of Thomas Jefferson, . and they are drawn mainly in behalf of the people and in distrust .of the Federal Government. ' They are th ' x- tie gemu. . .i. .£ ne most conspicuous leaser liv ing iu behalf of States Bights and -a Birick construction of the -Constn tion is the noble and . illustrious ■ Jefferson Davis, ex-President efthe - 4afc. Corifcderate States. Be will be qt Fayetteville in all probability mid the greatest living defender of the.'Joifersouiau theory and inters prelatioii of the Federal Govern-; moot and the Constitution will have ‘•■the pleasure of listening ' to the most stately and eloquent orator of Jiorth Carolina os ha discusses the compact, the Constitution of the Uuit'edeStates, and the parU-North ... . Carolina bore in the formative peri .V od. It will be a grand occasion. . -- Thanksgiving Proclamation. £•» Wabhikotos, D. C., Nov. 1,— gji'v: The followiny proclamation setting apart Thursday, November 28th, as T - a day of National thanksgiving was ; Issued late this afternoon: Jj-’ BY TSB PRESIDENT. -OF UNITED STATES-—A PROOLAllTipN. •* A highly favored people, -mindful of lheir dependence on the bouuty ' - of Divine Providence, should seek a -J lilting occasion to testify their grati ' '* tude and" iisenne praise to Him who is the giver of their may blessings. *, > ■ It behooves us tlion to look back ^withthankful hearts over the past v- year.and bless God for His infinite tneay in vouchsufiing to our land, ' enduring peace U> Our people, free dotn from pestilence and famine, to our husbandman abundant harvests, and to them that labor recompense of their toil. Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Har rison, President of'the United States of America, do earnestly recommend t)iat Thursday, the 28tn day of this present month of November, be set apart os a day of uational thanksgiv ing and prayer, and that .the people of owr country ceasing from the cares and labors of their working day, shall. assemble in their respective plitces of worship and. give thanks to.fiod who has prospered us in our way and made our paths of peace, beseeching Him to bless this day to our present and future good, mak ing it truly one of thanksgiving for each returned- home circle as for the nation at large. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the limited States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this the first day of NoVember, in the year of our Lord A. D. 1889, and of the independence of the United States the 114th. ‘ Benjamin Harrison. • By the President:' . * . James Qt. Blaine, - Secretary of State. THE DRUMMER’S LATEST TRICK. Don’t Pick the Thread From His Coat Unless You Want to be Laughed at, ZumlsvtlU Journals. ■ '_ A drummer always brings the la test trick. Here it is: ' Take a spool of white basting Cotton, drop it into your side. coat pocket and thread a needle with it, pass it up through the shoulder of you) coat. Leave the end an inch or so on the outside of your coat, and take off the needle. Four men out of'fivh will try to pick that whole thread off your shoulder, and will pull at the spool until it actu ally does seem as though your elotches archil bastings, and that they were unravelling not only your clothes"out yourself. ' “I was in to See Wilson Barrett in ‘Claudian’ in Boston last week,” saia uie travelling man. "it was in the most interesting and pathetic portion of the play.' Everybody was wrapt. I was sitting bolt up right, and din’t know or care to know a soul around, me, when sud denly I felt some one tugging at that basting cotton that I myself had clonir forgotten. I didn't say a word and did not move. Foot by foot it unroolled. Half glancing around I saw a man—a total stran ger—yanking at that thread. His face was scarlet.- He bad pulled out about two yards .and was now haul ing it had over hand. He didn’t dare to’stop, because he had decora ted my back and the whole aisle with basting cotton. He hardly dared to go ahead, for he didn't know what portion of ray domestic interir economy. he was trifling with, Rip! Rip! went the thread. Hand over band ne yanked it in. The aisle was full of it. ‘For Heav en’s sake! will it never end?’ said he above his breath. I sat perfect ly still and ran the spool while be pulled. How I wanted to yell. 1 never saw anything in my life half so^funny. The whole section of the house got onto it. They didn’t know whether to. laugh at me or him, and some looked on arnaz d at the spectacle. At last the stranger behind gave one frantic rip and yanked out about eleven yards . on one bunch, and as the cotton gut twisted around his watch chain, over :bjs eye-glasses, in his very hair and filled his lap, ( ' turned' around: and producing the spool from my pocket scid: ‘I am very much obli ged for your interest and very sorry that I misled you. You see I have about one hundred and twenty-four yards left, but I presume tjpt you don’t want any more to-night. I urn honestly sorry, but I can’t help smilimg.’ "The man was a modest sort of a gentleman in appearance.. His face was red ns fire to his ears. He looked at me and tb n at the spool. He changed color once or twice, and then as the crowd caught on, a big laugh went lip right -in one of the painful passages of ‘Claudian,’ and the gent.ejnan who had intend* ed to pull that thread off joined in the laugh and said, ’t will square that up on my wife when 1 get home; but my friend, I 8wear, to heaven that I did think at one tic:e that I was going to undress you where you sat,’ » • “• ' ’ "I catches, every time and my own wife bus been fooled twice on it.” * W. E. W. Scot*, of Tarpon Springs,-Fla., has secured 200 speci mens of birds in the vicinity of Aahe iSilfti ..I’--;: ■ ii,' EX-SECRETARY BAYARD WILL WEO. Interesting'Ttatufes of Republicanism at Washington. JCatprr** Qprreapatidenec. = Washington Nov. 4,1889. e CivilService Commissioner Thom son’s friends indignantly deny the statement charging him with having assisted in collecting cam paign contributions' for the demo cratic National committee in 1888 from the clerks in the T'reiphyr de partment while he was Assistant Secretary of that Department.' Mr.' Yonman, who was chief clerk of the Treasury at the time, makes the following statement, which is cor roborated by a number of other offi cials, some of the Republicans. - “During the incumbency 'of Mr. Thompson as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, I was the Chief Clerk and Superintendent of the Treasury building, and < barged with the en forcement of all orders. I remem ber distinctly during the campaign of 1888 -one- of my subordinates, without my knowledge, bad collected or received from the employes some seventy five dollars and inform ed me of it, and wished to turn the money over to me to be. forwarded to tne Democratic committee. .• I declined to receive it, and at once re ported the fact to Assistant Secreta ry Thompson, who distinctly and emphatically told me that such act was illegal and must not be permit ted in the department, and directed me to Send for this subordinate and order him to return the money to the persons from whom he hod re? ceived it, upon pain of dismissal (which 1 did and the money wasNO returned) and further to stop all that kind ; of work in the depart ment.” This silly charge was brought against Mr. Thompson by Republi cans because he has taken steps to prosecute members of a Virginia Republican club of this city for the Msihone campaign fund. " Ex-Secretary Rayard will bo mar ried in this eity next Thursday, to Miss Clyrner. This marriage has been reported as about to take^lace at least a half dozen times during the bust year. This announcenent is official, as your correspondent has one of the cards issued. ctmisiiituns ox negro preucnera called on Mr. Harrison last week and endeavored to get him to com mit himself. to'the absurd scheme proposed by the recent convention of negro Baptists held at Indianapolis, of asking Congress to appropriate $50,000,000 to ai 1 the negroes of the South in emigrating to the west. The same - committee . afterwards called on the Attorney General and presented a long string of alleged political outrages at - the South. From all that can he learned they did not receive much consolation' from either of the gentlemen visited. They only got some very indefinite and diplomatic promises. L, B. Prince, the Governor of New Mexico, makes a strong show ing ih Vis ’annual report to the Sec retary of the Interior, in favor of. the admission of that Territory as a State. It is expected that the demo crats in Congress will make a deter mined fight during the coming ses sion for the admission of New Mexi co and Idaho. , ' The Government directors of the Union Pacific railroad in their annu al report, say that the interests of the United States demand early ac MOW by congress to secure tne pay* ,meut by this company of its indebt edness to the Government. . The indorse the (Outhwaite) bill, which was pending when the last Congress adjourned. It remains to be seen whether the millionaire lobby will be successful in again defeating this much needed legislation during the coming Congress. Representative Outhwaite proposes to re-introduce the same bill as soon as Congress meets, and. to use.his utmost en deavor to push it through the House. There is little doubt of its being passed by the House, but the danger lies in the Senate, which has al ways been inclined, for obvious rea sons, to be extremely lenient in its dealings with the Pacific railroads. Mr. Harrison is understood to have sat down somewhat heavily on Secretary Noble in regard to the dismissal of those employes of the Pension.office whose pensions were rerated by the lute Commissioner Tanner. The Secretary wanted to dismiss them all, but the President has given him orders that none are to be dismissed unless it can be ful ly shown that they ore guilty of having violated the law. The only one of them dismissed so far is & Democrat, and it is only fair to Mr. Harrison to say that he was remov ed before the matter was brought to the President's attention. Be Postmaster General has back down from the dictatorial position (^e assumed towards the Hegraph ....... ..... t,'' - , 1 J "4*. ^ .. companies some months ago, and has set the.rates to be paid by the Government for official telegraph messages ranch higher than the price he then named. Th rates are about the same' as those charged everyone by the B. & 0. telegraph company when it was; swallowed ny the Western Union monopoly. Jay Gould is a “bigger” : man than ’ Wanamaker. - : . .. . Wolseley’ oV Lc*. , . WilmlMffloH JHcMMf-Hffrr. s * M We do not see the North Ameri can Hevitir, the monthly organ of the Republican party. So far as j Republican .contributors are. con cerned nothing valuable is lost,, for they usually advocate doctrines that are dangerous; unconstitutional and unwise. We do miss seeing an oc casional contribution from some Other hand that is of-interest. For instance, the1 article in the' Novem ber number by Lord Wolseley is: well worth considering if we may judge its value by other contribu tions from his fertile pen** and by an extract we clip from the:- Lynch burgAdvance taken from it in which the English soldier raves another of his views of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He says: _ ■ '■ c ‘ - “It is quite true that by the end of the campaign Grant's doggedness had produced a certain effect upon the Confederate soldiery. All ac knowledge it. But what was that effect? Undoubtly they had to re alize that, if the North would allow its soldiers to lie exposed to such fright fill butchery, the Not th. might at that price triumph. But not for one moment did it minify the confi dence of the Southern soldiery in their own great leader; and not even at the fatal moment of thesurremW at Appomattox did a Southern sol dier doubt that everything that anf general could do for his army had been doue by Lee. 'I fancy that if at Cold Harbor tne proposal cl ihe Irishman uftcr the b..Uie <,£ the no, “to swap leaders and fight it •ever, rgalnfi* could have been put to the two armiest; lliere‘would tip* have hern one hand en the Southern side held up to accept the offer..'--. Won Id there have been none Ob'the North erne l rancy tew ot tne iNortliern generals who knew all the circnm stances would like much to put the question of the greatness of the two leaders to any such test. Of course, the opinion of the armies is not al ways a fair one as to the capacity of generals. It is, however^a very im portant element.in the actual power and effectiveness of. * a general ip command. In this, instance the opinion of the hour has been con firmed by the careful and critical ex amination of many able soldiers.” - In former notes we have given What Lord Wolseley has said of Lee. He has gone so far as to place him above the Duke of Wellington as a soldier. Lee js the knightliest, the most engaging, the roundest figure in history. 2 , . « dcienuiic tooKing. SHenttfle American. “^Edward Atkinson, the eminent statistician, bus fount} time to give same attention to the art of cooking, and to the invention of cookers and ovens with which to do the work economically and well. His paper ■ on this subject read before (lie American Public Health Associa tion is pnblished in the November number' of the. Popular Science Month!fa and is very interesting. Mr. Atkinson cannot refrain from indulging in statistics, which he handles very easily,'to show that present methods of cooking are ex tremely wasteful, and it is believed injurious. But the important part of his 'paper is that'which de scribes his Aladdin cooker and his Aladdin oven,' both of them heated by oil lamps. In the cooker the heat is transmitted to water in an attachment to a metal-lined wooden box, the work being done by the contact of the hot water with the outside of the porcelain vessels in which the food is placed, or.hy the steam generated when the water is heated to the boiling point. In the oven a column of heatedjur is carried from the lamp around and inside oven, which is separately ventillated. The cooking is Garried on very slow ly, and Mr. Atkinson recognises that there may be difficulty injuring bis system introduced, though he is confident that it wduld prove econo mical and healthful. He describes a fairly good dinner of,five courses for 16 persons cooked with one pint of oil at a cost for fuel of less than two cents. ■ Stanley Observert ,Mr. Joe. Shankle was in town last Wed nesday, • exhibiting a specimen of slate found on his premises. I He says the vein is dp odd feet thick. Persons who saw the specimen say that it js genuine a ate and very fine, —L_ ] •f- ' IP W. M’INN -y. A Brief Biographical Sketch of the Probably Future Governor o> Va. Riciimosd, -Not. 5.—(Special.) Captain PhiL W. McKinney, who has probabl ■: been elected fur Gover nor of Virginia by the Democrats, .was born in Buckingham county, Va^and is stiil on the sunny aide of sisty. r . _ He race! veil hisedueation at Harnp den-Sidney.Co!l,ege and at Judge Broi kenbury’s ' famous law school at Lexington, Va., from where he graduated with high honors. He has always, been one of the foremost lawyers of his State, whose ability aSan eloquent and ready debater and as an able expounder, of the law has been recognized everywhere. The electors of bis native county sent him to the General Assembly when he ■was only twenty-one years bid. ' ' - When the civil war broke ont'MrT McKinney, though at heart, a Union nrah, cast his lot with bis friends, who of course were all seceders. He became captain of a troop of cavalry recruited in. his district, but was in capacitated from f urtherfieMduty by wounds received ifi the battle of Brandy Station. _ After the war he went to Farm ville to take up the practice or his profession and has lived there ever sinee. Captain McKinney has always taken a keen interest in the politics of Virginia, and bar been to the front in every palii-cal campaige since,the war, di.i::g gallant, servicn for his party, , c-. __ /'-—-■■ ■ • i' —a-; !' . i . The Railroad Problem. P mg re* ait i Farmer. ■ ■ ■ It is now known that the ablest railroad men of the' country Save fora year or nioie, been endeavor ing to devise some scheme which should embrace- the consolidation of the railway lines or systems throughout the whole country,. It is given out in certain quarters that the solution of the problem will re sult in establishing four great trass continental systems whteh will vir tually control out- inter-state traffic. The probable coUsumation of. this raammouth scheme suggests to the thuadetphvi Record to the necessi ty for Congress to exercise its pow er in securing to the people their just rights. This giant stride towards one vast monopoly ol railroad trans portation, v> ill present'the question of corporate power in • a new and striking light to our people, and will doubtless develop -a strong senti ment throughout the country in favor of governmental control of our railroads. But there are people all over the country-~some of them iu North Carolina, who pretend to believe that in these matters, the people haye no right and that they should not be consulted. But they will demand a-bearing and they will have. it. Plutocrats and People. Char feat oh Vries nnrf Courier. The next, impressible conflict in this country will be waged between HH'piofocntts mid the people. In a paper puL'iitied iu the Rorum Mag azine for September, Mr Thomas (}. Sherman shows that 81,000, per sons now possess three fifths of the national wealth, real and personal. The aggregate value of their proper ty, according to the highest esti mate', is sixty billion dollars. The United States Senate is controlled by milliouaries* the Legislatures in many of the .Tiithern and Western: States ;.te ui.der the mastery of the money kings, aud popular elections are determined.,by the toss of y the dollar. The vtiico of the people is stifled by the ring of t he metal, and to-dav we have a l’ri-sirient who owes his election to the “fat" that was fried out of the manufactures. There are more than two hun dred and fifty persons in the United States whose wealth averages $20, 000,000 each, mid these two hun dred and fifty millionaires control to a large extent the legislation of the couutry,and have pushed their way into the very temple of justice. The tendency of the times' is towards centralization of the government— towards the establishment of apriv ilegei,class, toward- tve further re striction of the rights of the States and, by consequence, of tho rights of the. people. Thoughtful men of all section % nod without regard to parly lines, oLserve with concern, the drift ef events, and are disposed to tuiite in a protest against further encroachment upon the liberties of the people.._ :_ > There was a very I amiinuted de bate before the American Bar Asso ciation in Chicago, on Thursday, in regard to the powers of the Federal courts. The lawyers of the Morth west are beginning to feel the effects of a too greatly extended Federal Jurisdiction, They demand that the power of the $tqte Courts shall be enlarged, and that the jurisdic tion of the Federal Courts snail be restricted. - Litigants are under the thumb of soules corporations, and are compiled . to compromise or waste their time and energies in fruitless efforts to secure a settle ment of their cases upon equitable basis. The Federal Courts are un der the control. of corporations,' and justice is worth wbot it will fetch in the market. We do not mean that the Judges of the Feder al Courts are knocked down to the highest bidder.or that there is a reg ular exchange of money for the ser vices rendered by the Bench as the lawyers are paid for their sendees by their clients; but the effect is the same. By some hocus-pocus, cor porations chartered by the Stats nave the right to appeal their cases from the State to the Federal Courts, and the ends of justice are defeated. The only safely of the people, as Mr. Wilson, of Minnesota, informed the Bar Association, is the power of the State Courts and the restriction of the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts.. The mills of the gods are beginning to grind in the North and West and we hope that they will grind exceedingly small. The strength of the Government is the people, in the consent and confi dence df the government, and Hot in the money of the corporations, v Mr. Hayes in Vermont General R. B. Hayes recently spent a number of days in visiting friends in Vermont. The Wind ham County Befortner after giving an account of his movements, says: “Nowhere was there the slight demonstration of popular feeling for him, hardly even curiosity to see a man who has occupied so high a position in the nation. The an swer, when citizens are jibbed for this neglect is that they ‘didn’t know he was here,’ They didn’t know it simply because no one took interest-enough it to tell his neigh bor/ Do you suppose that General Grant or General Garfield or that high-minded gentleman, Chester A. ariuur, cuuiu uavc uceu in me town, aud county three days and any man, woman or child fail to ‘know H.’ How was it with General Mc Clelland on the different occasions when he was here and tried to avoid public notice, but the desire of the people to see and greet him could npt be repressed? How would it he if Grover Cleveland should come here tomorrow? Do you suppose that you should hear the excuse that people,didn’t know it? When ex President Frank Pierce came here, though he was the littlest of all the Democratic Presidents, people gen erally of pll parties turned out to pay their respects to him and the por tion he had held. “The case with General Hayes is just as it was at the centennial at New York, when ;he rode in the carriage by the side of Cleveland, end for miles upon miles down the lines there was tumultuous cheer ins for Cleveland, and not a men tion of Hayes’s name. “And yet Mr. Hayes - is a good man. He _ did most honorable service for his country in the war. He won and deserved respect as (governor of Ohio. When he _ was in the White House he tried earn estly to give a clean and worthy Administration, and he succeeded remarkably well, considering the el ements of Bcoundrelism to which he was obligated. If he had never been President so-called, he could not, as a distinguished son or grand son of Vermont have passed through Battleboro in such ,utter neglect as he has done this week. “What a lesson there is here to the youth of America! . ----- —--’’i “The great crime of the century by which Mr. Hayes was placed in the chair that belonged to Samuel J. Tilden, not only made high suc cess impossible for his Administra tion, but shadows and darkens his whole career. The American peo ple's sense of justice' which even purty feeling cannot stifle, expres ses its contempt in unconquerable indifference, and like aMemesis this follows and will follow Ruth erford B. Hayes to to his grave.” j. W. Keerans, of Ststesville, is taking a course at the YaV Law School, The New Haven Times, ot a recent date, reports “the most brill iant meeting in many years,” of the Yale Kent Club, one of the features ofthe occasion being a debate on the following: “Resolved, that the an nexation of Canada to the United States wou|fl be for the best interests of both countries.” There were two debaters on either side, Mr. Keerans being one of those on the negative, and the Times says, “not in many yeaf^has mvy ^ question been more ,* V 1 n.v V.W.-IA -i: . NOTE OF ALARM TO CANADIANS. Oita Government Organ Admits That - Annexation is Gaining Ground. A Dispatch from Ottawa says: The Dominion Government is evi dently becoming alarmed at the hold the agitation in fuvor of Closer trade relations, and in some (juar ters political union with the United States, is gaining on the country. Their‘■chief organ in Quebec, La.^ i Cawwjien, today conies out stongly favoring imperial federation as de serving of serious attention by all who are anxious to maintain exist ing institutions, and to oppose an j " , effectual barrier to the Americaniz- • ing and revolutionary tendencies of the Liberal party, which are"grave 1j threatening the stability of con federation and gradually: drifting ’ : Canada toward annexation. The S: •Premier of Quebec, La Canodien . says, is the heart and aoul of a pow erful organization with this object in view, and which is preparing a section of public opinion for radical ' changes, and it tells the govern- - meuts friends that they will never combat the Quebec premier with success unless to his vigorous pro gramme they oppose one eqqally vigorous, clear and well defined, and -r: unless to Americanizing ideas they , oppose the British idea, firmly and ” without • ambiguity,- and • unless against the advantages of a closer union with the United States, they : set oft the advantages of a closer union with Great Britian and sister colonies, : Until now the organs of Domin if n Government have, ridiculed the idea that the movement in favor of closer relations with the United^ wl States had any following or foothold vjj in Canada, and the admission of one of its chief mouthpieces and expo- 1 nents of its views that the agitation in that direction is gravely threaten ing the stability of the confederation and gradually drifting Canada into •. annexation with the United States, has caused no little comment in po litical circles here: •' j « - state Notes. - Charlotte Chronicle: A doable* headed, double-bodied colored wo man was on the Atlanta train last, night. Her nam was said to-j-be Milly and. Christina. She was bom in Anson county, this State, 42 years ago, and belonged to a Mr. Smith. Hilly can smile and and Christina frown all at tlirsame time. Oxford Day.- Register of Deeds Daniel swapped marriage li senses with a young man yesterday. The prospective groom found out, after securing his papers, that “his- best girl’ was not willing ts*become his bride, and he at once secured the consent of another young lady to stand before Hymen’s altaf with him. Our obliging register of deeds made the “swap" gratis. Raleigh News and Observer.■ Mr. Walter Henry gives us a statement of the questions and comments made by the Supreme Court at the hear ing of the Cross and White case, from which it does not, appear that the Court is against his view of the point he chiefly relies on, vis.: that the offense charged is cognizable in the Federal Courts alone. The opin ion of the Court will j we suppose, be soon filed. The Willmington Review says: Mr. Thos. C James, formerly of this city, but for nearly four years past Joint Agent of the Associated Rail.1 ways at Charlotte, has been appoint. J -r, . r;.“““ wwvn n.u|JUJiUm ed freight and Passenger Agent of the. Cape Eear & Yadkin Valley R, If 1h i U.m _11 I. . , . R. in this city, and has accepted the position. He has been here for two days past in consultation with Capt. If ry, the General Superintendent of the Road, and Capt. Kyle, the Gen-, eral Freight and Passenger Agent, and left hist night for Richmond, whither he had been summoned. He will go onto Charlotte tonight and will return here about the middle of the month, oi us soon Aft the road is open for traffic. Distinguished Visiters. jPaw^fetilffe Ofls/rtwr, •' Cliit-f Marshal Carr and Col P. A Oids,' Quartermaster-General of the. North Carolina State Guard, arrived m the city last night, and apt lit ter day here, making preparatory ar rangment* for the Centennial, loea cutionuf the troop,'etc, ‘ It ha* been decided that the C'eBt tennial salute on the morftiag of the, ilst shall consist of 100 gun*, to commence at sunrise, and at the same time the Stat« and national flu*, wi be hoisted. At 12 ui.. there W« .1 . tfun* in honor n 3,o,g,"“letui at sen. *et the 42 guns m hour • <*f the present number of Staten iu the union, . Mr. Carr is leaving nothing uik done or g,;id ta make the occasion a gfi’und