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THE REPORTE R. J. PBPI'KR, Bn~l J- T. DARLINCTON, Editor. Attoriale Editor. " Til URS DAY 7 JA N U ARY 23,18797 THE SENA TORS HI ?. Last Tuesday was the day upon whioh « Hailed States Senator was to have beea chosen by the Legislature of North Carolina, aod wo suppose Gov. '/i. B. Vance has been selected fur the position.. Senator Merrimoo and Governor Vance have for month* been the most prouii nent competitors for this high honor, ami the friends of the candidates have indulged in arguments, acrimony, crimi nation and recrimination, to an extent that threatened harm to the Democratic party. But Senator Merrimon proved hia patriotism at the right moment by causing to bs read before a called caucus of the Democratic party a letter, with drawing bimself fro n the Senatoria' contest, in lavor of unity aod harmony. Guv. Vance was then unanimously nom inated by the caucus, and his election last Tuesday we regard as s certainty. GOT. Vance is well worthy of the highest honor that North Carolina can confer upon him. He is an able states man, and a man to be relied upon by the people of his Slate With Ransom anc, Vance in the Senate, our representation in that body could not be improved. Yet Senator Merrimon has reflected honor upon his constituency ; his ability, teal and fidelity has won him a legion of friends; aod the withdrawal of his name front the late contest, "in favor of nnity and harmony," will not soon be forgotten. THE LIQUOR QUESTION AGAIN. As was stated last week, the friends of order and morality in Danbury are opposed to the reopening of barrooms id the village. At present, the sale of liquor is prohibited by law within three miles of town, and the better class of people are opposed to having that pro hibition repealed. They have prepared a petition asking the Legislature to re fuse a repeal of the law, and that peti tion has been signed by four fifths of the white men, women and children of Danbury. AH ages, sex and classes unite in an effort to prevent the inflic tion of an infamous disgrace upon com- munity. Months ago it became known that ft certain element of our population in tended to petition the General Ar-scmbly to remove the prohibition, so that they might profit by the liquur trade. We have never spoken'plainly on this part of the subject before, and even now re gret that an imperative duty makes it iocumbont upon us. In favor of pro hibition we find a large mijority of the best citizens of tho village- Opposed to prohibition, who do we find foremost? Last Tuesday morning a Colored man applied to a county officer to draw np a petition for him to the Legislature, ask ing for the repeal of the prohibitory law. Of course, such a petition is to be signed mainly by negroes, and will be really a negroes' petition. The local oolor line may be almost drawn by it. It beenme*, therefore, a question of negroes against whites in fixing the status of morals in our town. Their effrontery demands rebuke. They may be backed and urged on in this course by white friends ; but it matters not who aids and abets them, when negroea set themselves np to degrade and overthrow society, they will find that they and their coun sellors have hatched trouble for them selves. No community will tamely sub- Bit to negro domination ; no communi ty should harbor its foes We have tried a negro barroom here, M& know its evil. Not only vas the tint fearful kind of doctored liquors sold, but it was a perfect d6n of vice, fa which gamblers held high carnival, and around the doors of whioh drunkard indulged in open obscenity. Disorder reigned supreme, and respectable citi tens closed the doors of their dwellings to shut out the disgraceful sights and Maud*. Do negroes and their friends tafok that the people of Danbury are •it loet to deoenc; as to sgain permit such 9 state of things ? As long as the law Against nuisances remain up>o the stst ul« books, there is protection. The it opening of a barroom will be contested Strenuously by all those whose ideas of •ilioe, morality and aooial adranoeuiuoi do not center in a negro grogshop If the degradationists should sucoeed, they will then be made to feel the law when ever opportunity presents itself. 0 But there are si ill a few white men in Banbury who have not signed the peti tion in I'avor of prohibition. Is it pos sible that they will maintain their appa rent indifference, and permit a negro #tub|« to counteract and crush the ap pe«! a. ade to the Legislature by their vfttes sad daughters? Will they aid boilding up a debauched negro su premacy, when the idols of their homes have petitioned for deliveraoce from it ? A CONTEST. The M urfreesburo Enquirer says that Miijor Yeates has recently served a no tice of contest on J.J Martin f r his acat in the House, lie has evidence of fraud in his possession from several coun ties in the District, and is assured that if the sumo is brought to full light be fore the Congressional Committee, be will be granted the seat. It is said that Mr. .Martin and his frieuds are some what afraid of the result. CROAKERS. Every now and then somebody dreams a dream, sees a supernatural omen, or makes a strange discovery, which, being interpreted, means that "something is going to happen." Judgment Day has been predicted a score of times within the last twenty years ; and all sorts of lesser events are foretold almost every year. The last sensation originates in New York, and the Irish Wurhl has "seen a vision" this time. According to the prophecy of that journal, the >ear 18S0 will witness tho collapse of the American Republic, and that General Grant will bo proclaimed Dictator—.ou» Ropubiican par'y aiding tho overthrow of our present form of government. There are several reasons why we re gard this sensation as tliu veriest kind of humbugry. One is, even if so incliued, the Republican parly isuot strong enough to hatch monstrous treason and then maiiitaio it. General Grant, what ever his ambition may be, has not so entirely forgotten tho fate of old John Brown as to render liiuj willing to lake the risks. Rut there is a still better reason for taking no stock in the Irish \Yorld'» prophecy. The Republican party would endorse no such a scheme Whatever may be said of its leaders, th» great masses tf that party are not defi cient in patriotism and love of liberty They would be unwilling to sac. fiee their rights as freemen to either Grant or party. If tho existence of the Ropub lie was threatened, thout»>hds of tliem from every State in the Uuion would march to the defense of the government of our forefathers. In the war of dis union the Democratic party divided it# forces; in a war to blot out government, the Republican party would not follow t' e leadership of Grant and his fellows Adventure with a Burglar. CiNCINNATf, 0., Jan 13 —Robert Murphy, a grocer, on Grand river av enue, Detroit, suspeoting burglars had | been attempting to enter Ilia store, IMI night concealed himself and awaited de velopments. Soon he heard the burglars enter the rear door by means of a false key. A struggle ensued; Murphy seized an iron wedge and struck the bur glar several blows upon the head, felling him to the floor, but the l'ellow regaining his feet and choking Murphy into insen sibility, escaped. An hour later a man applied at the police station for medtoal attention, saying that he had been way laid and beaten by robbers. Murphy regaining consciousness proceeded to the same Btation bouse, where he identified the party as the burglar. The latter admitted the facts, and said the fear he should die unless his wounds were at tended to, prompted him to go to the station house. The Dead Coming to Life. CINCINNATI, January 1-I—A funeral at Fort Wayne this morning was inter rupted in a somewhat remarkable man ner. Ruse Miller, a girl of fifteeu years of age, died, as was supposed, on Sunday morning, after a short illness. This morning an audience assembled at St. Paul's German CLurch to witness the obsequies. The services were nearly through and the relatives and friends had assembled about the coffin when the indications of life were notioed in the corpse The face and lips moved con siderably and the body was found to be warm A scene of excitement followed Father Koenig dismissed the audience, sent the hearse and carriages away and ordered the body removed to the school building adjoining. A number of physicians were summon ed, who, after the severest teals, pro nounced the girl quite dead. They de clared, however, that the apparence of the body was reuiatkablc, and the rela tives and Father Koenig would not per mit the burial This evening the body was removed to St. Joseph Hospital, where an effort is making to revive ani mation. It is firmly believed by the peo ple who saw the lemaina this afternoon that the girl is not dead. She will be kept where she is until al! possible d übt is icmovcd. A report which tibtained currency during the afteruoon that she had come to life in chuioh drew thou sands of people to the spo', and thr>nps gni'id curionnly at the body .until it was removed from the school house The Tobacco Tax. A movement to have the oppressive tobacco tax reduced has beea made at over; Congress since the war. In this matter, because the boot is on the South ern leg, Congress seems incorrigibly on just. We sec that the president of the Mer chants' Tobacco Company of New York and Boston has appeared before the Sen ate Committee on Finanoe in opposition to the reduction, There is a oat in this meal tub, or rather there are several fel ines, but their tails stick out and their mewing betrays their presence,. These people represent a constituency of to bacco manufacturers who, eitberby eva sions ot the law or by their superior wealth, can afford to maoufaoture the article more ohealy thin the Southern factories can. They know that if the tax is maintained the manufacture of tobacco io the South will be kept at a stand-still or be crippled They hope for the worst with all the ieat of aelf-inter est. It is their desire to keep the tax high, they being better able to ihau the impoverished Southern rnanu fucturcrs. Then they know, lipfCber, that il the tax should be lowereifcn iin petus w..u dbe giveuju unee to Southern pruductiou of the article, and the South could be correspondingly benefited as they would lose These men look nar rowly at the business. of the present mo ment. If they would study the situa tion thoroughly they would see that as the S iutb is built up in any industry the trade of the North is improved. True, they care not so much about tbeir sec tion as they do about their own interests Aud just there is the rub. But why cauuol these Bostou and New York merchants see that it is to their personal advantage to encourage the manufacture of tobacoo io the South? [f the article can be manufactured more extensively in this region prices will be lower, more people will chew and smoke ; the Northeru merchant will thus share in the prosperity of bia Southern neigh bors. It is the low, jealous, stupid, inob from-your noac policy which actuates many of our Northern friends that at nds in the way of our country's prosperity a* a whole. Whatever tends to the ag grandizement of oue sectiua at the ex pense of another is not a solid gain to the couutry Iu the matter of iuternal revenue tho South has too long borne the burden and beat of the day. We pay too large a proportion of the ifcuiwe of the government. It is unjust, it i» oppressive, it is wicked that the Sutegoi the South should tbus be made to stag ger along uoder an intolerable load while the industries of the North are, eompar atively speaking, exempt Such injus. tice, such national sin, will be punished, or all the codes of morals known to ci viliied men will be demonstrated a stu pendous failure. We prefer to believe in the vindication of our ethics and the vindication of our seotion, which must Come, sooner or later.— Wilmington Sun. The Democratic) Candidate. There is so much to happen between this time and the meeting of tbe nomi nating convention, that it is premature to be guessing who will be the next Dem ocratic candidate lor President. Still the politicians aro working up the canvass for their respeoiive favorites. Shall the coming man be Thurtnan or Hendriuks, from the West, or Han cock, Tilden or Bayard, from the East For some time Thurtnan has been the most conspicuous figure in the publio eye. Tbe Bucseas oi resumption, how ever, may give tbe prestige to the East, and we think we can discover evon now the signs of a concerted movement for Tilden. Recentlj a knot of politicians met in Indianapolis and declared tbat wbile Mr. Hendricks is a reliable Demo crat and favorite son of Indiana, Samuel J Tilden is tbe only m m who oan oarry Now York, and tbat State is sbsolutely essential to victory. This will be the oue. The Democrats muat oarry New York, in order to elect. There are those however, who think that the Empire State could be carried for Bayard, or Hancock, or even Tburman And tbeq New Jersey, Connecticut, Oregon and California mu»t be looked after; and might not Tburman parry his own State of Ohio and win the viotory without New York ? Tho gubernatorial election there this year will tell. It would be a curious state of affairs, if Grant should, contrary to nsage, be oome the Republican candidate for the third term, and Tilden, who was elected in 1876 be the Demoeratio nominee for the i ffioe which ha ia now fraudulent'y k'pt out of.— DtinvUle Register. Mf KMwmd Ketctinoi and Miss L'ziie W. amir, of New Y'>rk, were I aceiicly married, the gr-f.uin aged 81 y era, the •tidy 90 Miss Liraie pvidentlv thought it w.s never too late t K tchu u. Tlo Forged Title. There never has been the least moral doubt that when Kellogg signed what is known as tho second set of certificates for electors of Louisiana, to correct the errors which rendered the first set worth less, he kLew that sevoral names were forged to that paper, if he was not di rectly a party to the forgery. Everybody knows now thut the date of the certificates was fabricated to cor respond with the rejeoted original, which Returning Hoard Anderson had carried to Washington, and which Mr. President pro tempore of the Senate, had told him wus irregular in form Bnd there fore invalid It has already been pro ven that Anderson opened this certificate in Washington, where he consulted with tho Republican chiefs as to tho exaot form, aud then hurried back to New Or leans to procure the paper upon which the Klectoral Commission acted finally A. B. Leviseo swore before the Potter Committee that his signature to the se cond set was • palpable forgery, and Kelly, the oolored man, who wus K-'l logg's messenger at the time, and bad charge of the room where the forgeries were perpetrated, recently swore that to his knowledge the name of Oscar Jof frioo was also forged. When the Potter Committee were at New Orleans ten dap ago, diligent in quiry was made for others of the Hayes electors pbout whoso signatures there is also distrust. Yet additional testimony on this point is not uccessary, and the case would not be strengthened it' every name to the second ce tificate was shown to have been forged. Levis'e, who now holds the office of sub revenue agent in San Frabcisco, aud was probably assign ed to that remote setviee so as to be out of the way, lias established one firgery in hi* own person, aud Kelly has proved another. The difference between the two certi licates from Louisiana is that the first pretended to verify a fraudulent result ol the election for President by genuine ; signature, while the secon 1 repeats the fraudulent attestatiou by forged signa tures ; and this second paper was the oat adopted by the Commission as the mean* of declaring Hayes President. So thai the astounding fact will go into history that the eight electoral votes of Louis* ana were in the first instance stolen b) couspiiacy and fraud ; and in the second instance, that the certificate declaring ' his result, being vitiated by barefaced turnery, was y«.l solemnly adjudicated a ' valid, because the cight-by seveu Com . mission determined that they would noi go behind the face of the forged paper! Honest think'Dg men may be deluded or contused by a conflict of testimony it. regard to the vole of Louisiana, based upon the stories of intimidation aud vio ience, artfully constructed to mislead the unwary uud to deceive the tens of ttiou caudu who accept at second hand the as surancee of party managers and party papers. Hut putting ail that entirely out of view, the astounding fact yet stands, that the whole administration of forty-five millions of people, the public policy, the treosury and its mighty o| er ations, the vast patronage of (he Govern men', and the hundred thousand offices at home and abroad, are to day >n the hands of i man who was not elected a( all; and that even the fraudulent title by whioh he claims to be President rests upou u forgery !— M. Y. Sun. The Latest Thing in Dancing. Society just now—'hat is, the progres sive" element of Washington sociity—U very much interested and just a shade shocked by a nnw wall* that is just brought in from New York. This waltz is oalled "The Wave," and it is expected i wjll supplant ihe popular "Boston." The j wive is & most ungraceful dunce. Ii is made up of hops instead of slides, and the vigorous hops necessary to the suc cessful rendition of this walti produce an impression opon the minds of speotato's that savors a little of indecency. "The Wavo,' with its violent oxcrtions and ecoentric motions, is constantly bringing the bodies of the dancers into contaot, and, if one can judge from the biasing red color of both partners at the end of several momenta of thia dance, the ef feet of the oooatant jostling into each other's arms is anything but moral. A dashing blende young woman emissary from New York haa introduced this danoe, which promisee only to be popu lar in the branch of society that is in clined to be fast. To hear the comment* made by s r mie of the spectators when thia dance was first exhibited stampod it* character. It is fashionable in New \ork, however, and it may have a run throughout the country - Chicago Timet. A. D. Richardson, indicted at Kear ney, Neb., fbi the uarderof six persona, wa» tried at Meeden, yciterd»y, f..und guilty and sentenced to be hanged April 26th. The Trial in Norwich. The trial of Mrs. Cobb, now going on at Norwich, shows fully enough that there is in the life of New England now the same material for dark and tragical romance, the same "elements of pity and of fear" which were mixed with it io the seventeeth century, and which Haw tborne alone of New England writers has known how to use. It was not nec essary for that purpose Wherever men and womon are, there are all the passions necessary to tragody and romance. The crime of which Bishop and Mrs Cobb were aceused was as deliberate and atro oions as it is possible for human beings to conceive or to execute. Hut the de velopment of the defense thus far has given a fresh interest to the trial, and made it more likely than ever to become a celebrated case. The theory of tho prosecution is thai Bishop and Mrs. Cobb, being in lov-> with each oth' r, conspired to get rid of Bishop's wife and Mrs Cobb's husband, and in pursuance of that conspiracy Mr. Bishop killed his wife and helped Mrs. Cobb to kill Cobb. This theory is supported mainly by the confession of Bishop himself. Bish >p, it will be ob served, is under no sort r-f compulsion to testify. He has turned State's evi dence without any promise of immunity, nor with much prospect of any. For even if the State by using him as a wit ne3B in tho trial for the murder of Cobb 1 in which he represents himself as an ac ccssory, is debarred from prosecuting him for that crime, there remains the mur der of his own wife, in which if he was concerned at all, he was undoubtedly concerned as a principal. Ilis motive in testifying must therefore be either a desire to promote justice, which does not look altogether likely, or a personal de sire to be revenged upon Mrs. Cobb. This latter motive the defense in the case seems t > be distinctly charging upon him Their theory, so fur as it has yei been developed, is that Binbop bad a passion for Mis. Cobb which she did not retain, but which she may have permit ted Bishop to believe, or Bitbop uia) have induced himself to believe, thai jiic would return if the obstacles in the wiy of their legal union »erc removed • and that Bishop thereupon proceeded on his own account to remove those ob&ta cles. This necessitates the further hy pothesis that after taking this troubli Bishop found that he was not only noi thanked hut that he was scorned by the object ol h 8 affections, and that be now sei lis to have her declared guilty in or der to feed his own grudge against her In statiug these two theories we d not of course adopt cither, but either i> consistent with the characicr whicl. Bishop has given of himself It doe not much mutter, so far as he is cou ceroed, whether he swears truly 01 falsely. If he swears truly his appear anco a* a voluntary witness for the pros ecution 'n this case is an inexpressivel) dastardly act, while if he swears falselv it is even harder to characterize bin. prnpe:ly. The Prince of Wales when a witue.-s in a famous divorce case in Lou don was suid to have "perjured himsell like a gentleman." What &hall be said of Bishop if he has perjured himself? Oue thing should be said, that whereas if he has told the truth he is but a commonplace sneak and scoundrel; il he has perjured himself, and the de fense is made out, he is entitled to be ranked with the most eminent villains v of' history, and entitled to a much more conspicuous sing) than Norwich can aff >rd him. It is to be hoped, however, in that case that Norwich may find itself equal to providing a scaffold which will supply his immediate needs and deserts. —y. Y World Half-Price for a Wife. Yesterday morning an able-bodied ne gro called at the Ordinary's office, on matrimony inteot, and made, in 000 l ear nest, a proposition that almost-took that functionary's breath away. He said he had made op bis mind to get married, and had two dusky ekarmers tn view, bat didn't know exaotly which would suit him best. He proposed to obviate this difficulty by marrying both—wedding one first, and if he became dissatisfied with t'.ie partnership, to dissolve it and marry the other. Both women, he said, knew of this arrangement, and were per fectly satisfied with it. He wanted the Ordinary, therefore, to give bim two li censes for half prioe, so as to be prepared, in oase the firat wife did not euit him. Judge Bothwel) informed him that it was against the law to issue two license* to one man. The colored citizen walked off with his license, and thinks law is a poor thing.— Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist TeiM he* one hundred and sixtj four organized counties, and ail tbeir sheriffs are to meet in Austin next week to t?}l tbe Legislature how to diminish crime. Lewis and His Dead Wife's Niece. PENN YAN, N. Y , Jan. 10. —For many yeajs Leon Lewis of Peon Yan was a story writer for the New York Ledger and other periodicals. His wife Harriet Lewis, was also a popular story writer. The; acquired considerable property in I'enn Yan, and took rank in social life. Their home was one of the finest in tha place. A year or so ago Mrs. Lewis died and souie months later Leon Lewis ao nounced that he intended to begin the publication of a periodical in Penn Yan modelled ufter Kibert Bonner's New York Ledger He got a large eubeerip tion, and on the week before Christmas The Myttcry appeared. Believing that his wile was still with him in the spirit, and was interested in the enterprise as much aa though she were living, Lewis announced his dcud wife as his co-editor and publisher. The initial number of The Mystery contained the opening chapter of a story purporting to hara been written by Harriet Lewis Leon's ® introductory editorial article was a feel ing eulogy of his late wife. It declared that she was in oonstant spiritual com panionship with him, and that the "bless ed hope of eventually enfolding her in his arms in heaven" wua ail that recon ciled him to her death, Only one number of the Mystery was printed. Miss Julia Wheelock, a nieoe of Harriet Lewis's, had beoome a special favorite of Leon Lewis's. On the Mon day previous to "Christmas Lewis and Miss Wheelock started from Penn Yan, with the understanding among their friends that they wero going to Roches ter to do some Christmas shopping. Bat the baggage masters cheeked nine trunks lor them, and since their departure they have not been seen in Penn Yan. It has come out that Lewis and bis sixteen year-old companion arrived in New York on the day previous to the «ailiog of the steamship Scythia, and • hat they took passage for Europe.— Lewis owes $50,000 in Penn Yan. He loaves a properly estimated to be worth $20,000 This is a library and the Myt tery establishment. His real estate is mortgaged f r more than its worth. It is s:iid that he collected sbont (20,000 n subscriptions to the My»t ry. NEWS OF THE WEEK. T«elve greenback papers have died in lowa since the lull election. Tt.e Legislature has repealed the mer chants' privilege tax. ■ The Legislature hits introduced a bill in refereLoe to the M"ffet Bell Puaeh tax The Governor of New York thinks the increase of lunucy in that State is 'srgely due to the ouoruious harden of axation. Young Mr. Daniel Pittman.of Lenoir, accidentally killed hiuia.df at Snow Hill with a pistol supposed not to have been loaded. By the death of Mr. Schleicher, of Texas, Mr Cabell, of Virginia, becomes chairman ol the House Committee on Kailriads and Canals The women's rights convention met in Washiouton last week, and two color ed men, Fred Douglas and Purvis, of Philadelphia, figured as speakers They have recently felt the shock of an eaithquake in Florida, the first ever known, liuildiuus were violently sha ken, crockery rattled and doors thrown opeu The Ooldsboro Messenger t ocondemns the Board of Pardons project Sensibly calls for the restoration of the whip ping post Unquestionably that is the best board of pardons A meeting of northern men residing in :he South wis held at Charlotte on the lath inst Resolutions a ere passed declaring that in no sections do all elaseea enj >y greater liberty. Five Stales war* represented. Rockingham Bee : It is reported that a negro was shot and killed while trying to steal horses from Mr. Ileory Fairley'a stables, near Laurel Hill, on the 3rd ioat. Tbo hand that pulled the trigger seesM , undiscovered. Mr. >sthan H Adams, an isen of Ooldsboro, committed suioide last Thursday afternoon by taking laudanum, it is supposed because bo vaa financially embarrassed He was buried by tbo Ma sonie order of «hicb ha was a memberat the time of bis death. Four members of the House of Reg»> resenUtives have died since the opening of the session in Deoetnber; two jnst W foro the Christmas recess, and two mors last week. The last were Mr. Hartridge, of Oeorgia, and Mr. Schleioher, of Texas Josiah Turner was received by the Demoersts in fall fellowship into the cau cus at Raleigh Wednesday night. But he bolted the nominee for Speaker M* the firs' jump, aud was promptly expell od. Setved him right, for it is a bad bird that will foul its own neat. George Wettsis, a good-hearted aiti aen of Coneord, being driven to deeper* at ion by driuk, shot himstll' Wednesday night, with a pistol. The ball entered Ins abdomen and he died at three o'clock tl.c following day.
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