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M' .surely rely as for an old army comrade 1 Jwho called at oir office a few days ago to I v I i I? paf half-a-dozen -. subscriptions to Hale's iX I ?H i Weekly, .for himself and others in his !."::'"nw. distant section.; For three score years and f 11 ( tcn our . fathers have been friends, and the : 1 W W.nk inherited what 1s now in their case W a verv old friendship. He had been a little hurt that he at least- had not been getting the paper from its beginmHgTand we explained to him why HALE's.YY EEKLY f fJ t . is not sent to people wnnouv orueio, u ll i not t those who order without pay, -and. ft If ,f those- who do. paynly for the tune paid i;.r. As there are some hundreds of other ufcohave ordered H and who do not get it. 'Xf f$ HitjuajbcM ell to state why a rule adopted I Jlh :athj only proper ruW for newspaper jcon- fc ; y9i redact has n and will be adhered to ng 11 jiHv the rich marr faring exactly the same l:?XM ly.n the poor mao-. f ? - i w now itist three ars since we came ;r- heWi. not of our own motion, to establish ! whaV ijhosc whq induced us; to come told ,is waWthe great need of the Democratic rartv a daily party newspaper, not ft per Konal organ. Wc understood our business and would not have .'undertaken the work Jn a Tlacc then too small to support of it- .lf Vdailv newsnancr.. But other consid- 4& erations inade the plan feasible, and H ale , Jfc Sainpeks undertook ; the work and anAll f-h1in 1 that the work had to be ma - done Without, otherlaid than their own ca pacity to print a newspaper and to run it to a paying poin- Complaining was not oar .habit, and to work we went as it was too late to tae a step backwards. Nearly three jears of Buch labor as has rarely fallen .' to a man's lot made a newspaper nfinxamnled circulation. It had done the State irood service, and men of all par rties likd or respected ft. It haddonc its party 'good service, and the fact was recog nized last January, by almost ,xne unam mous "voice of its party friends inlhetJen eral Assembly.i It had reached the point where it needed no further help, and it nattered nothing that the Public .Printing - then 'given to it was, under a momentary "boom" panic. retrenched and reformed to prices, 331 per centi lower than prices be fore the war, while it bad to pay tor tne work prices 20 per cent, higher than were paid, before the war. That is to say, we cared nothing on our own account for pro-' fit on the State's work, as we had' then Vould have enabled us tq male unmeSiafe j payment of some business claim of which the claimants stood in need. What help - we had theretofore needed had" come as j Tiecded, mainly from old schoohfriends and 1 v.Jd Cumberland and Harnett friends pian V had never better than they were then and are now"! But there are those who,1 nat- ; .urally enough, do not understand that in sonig respects a . newspaper business is like ? other businpss, and Ithat ;yot newspaper f J has: to-be built jus4 as your factory has - ' tp be built and its. Machinery put in and et to work before It lean begin to pay. It was tlwught that as the Public Printing , SH1-,i- ' was" to pay nothing, ihe newspaper was jt; to pay nothing, ana in a moment, as ,n 11 afterwards Resulted, a property worth to I j ; -lis every dollar of $50,000, for it would p have paid to us this year a net profit of at t " least $.8,06q and in three years all it had f ll I ! eost to make, was utterly destroyed. Along : f. 1 -iwitik it went many thousands off dollars Df 'niall debts dtie us, onfr-third ofj which in hand, as- all ought to." have been, would have saved the property. . Behind it, re main to be paid by this writer the thou-sahds- of dollars expended inr the useless establishment of a great Democratic daily i newspaper at RaleighJ . . ' r.v Not many years of Ufe in the ordinary " course . jemain to us, and , in those years this debt has to be paid. .Fortunately we "are now able to begin at the right end, as ' three years ago1 by" reason of Borne years' , . absence from newspaper life we were not, , and we have faith that what remains of . .life will be long enough to let us die?"ow- , ; ing no man anything."! The people like a ;.. newspaper and know one when they see it; , "ire know how to print one; and we print it. - Indications are that . one .year's work will ,ive us more. subscribers than ever we had . before. . , -: .; - .-: .- .-. It is not oiir habit to trouble readers T with personal concerns, our rule of life being to let things right hemselyes; but ; -; the. incident jnentioned at the outset, fbi ' .? lowing" so many manifestations of feeling - of the same sort, has made it seem proper - . that - our friends should 'understand why Hale's! Weekly has adopted a cash sys ; tem, and why, haying been adopted, it will be unvaryingly observed. ; The promise of ,a man to pay us 2 for a newspaper will not be . taken, though the same man's pn mise to pay us thousands for anything we might: have, to sell would be gladly ac- . cepted. Almost every thing that is published by. the great house of D. Appletox & ; ."' Cp. is Well worth " reading. Apptetons X. i'-- .KwnJ is no exception to thenile. . The i f ,j "; January number has just reached us. : D. :J. 'i:.' Appletox & Cty, NewTork. are the pub '. ( lishcrs. j Price $3.. ; .;:;-;. i ; .V ' r '"I IN .v People 'Who. like to know what is go- '- j'f jng on in letters abroad cannot do better ::, U tak!e tiicectic Magazine in which D l ' good matter is wefl printed. E. R. Pelton, I ;i vf '25 Bond strectNew York, is publisher, jfcad the price w 1 5. 77727 PA RD 0X1X0 PO WER. The subjett of pardon by the Executive seems of late to have, elicited a good deal of. comment, though it is hot easy to discover, from the articles and, letters which have. appeared in he papers, whether it is the principle of . the pardoning power or "the exercise of it which has called forth these notices: some indicate onesome the other. One correspondent of more than, usual intelligence ends a letter with something like a sjgh, that after all the power of par don is but a necessary -evil. . This is a re echo of the complaintipf Beccaeia that the admission' of the power is a tacit acknowledgment of the infirmity of human justice. Burely this is not a very noiawe discovery in a world whete everything hu man is marked with imperfection. "Vherc, ays Chancellor Kent, "is the administra tion of justice that is free from infirmity I Were it possible in every instance to main tain a just proportion between the crime and the penalty, aid were the rules of tes-i timony and the mode of trial so perieet as to preclude every possiDimy oi himc w injwstice, there Would be some color for the admission of the plausible theory that the power of pardon would not exist under a perfect administration of law. , liuteven in that case policy would sometimes require a remission of a punishment strictly due. for a crime certainly ascertained. The Vfery notion of mercy implies the accuracy of the claims of justice. An inexorable government will not only carry justice in some instances to the' height of injury, but with respect to itself would be danger ously just." Again; "This power of par- don will appear ine more ctouihu nucu we consider that under the most correct administration-of the law, men will some times fall a prey to' the vindictiveness of accusers, the inaccuracy of testimony and the fallibility of jurors." - -: With respect to the exercise of this high prerogative, it must be admitted that there is no duty which the Executive has to per form which involves such responsibility or is attended with so' much pain. Upon the presentation of a petition for pardon the Executive is called upon to exert thq highest power with which man canbe invested, the of life and death, t He has to exert it under the influence of conflicting feel ' ings :' on the one side is hisjduty to society ; on the other'those sentiments of pity which sway the heart so powerfully in behalf of a fellow-being who, whatever his past life may have been, is now prostrate and helpless. If he be a man callous to human suffering, he Way dismiss the petitioner, with smooth' words of feigned compassion ; it his sensi bilities are strons he may yield to the tide of feeling and grant the pardon at once. reckoning this latter perhaps as the safer error of the. two. But if ihe have a . pro- per sense oi nis nign luneuous, u ue the strain to which he is subjected. It is a power which is exercised with, the utmost care and deuberation,-and; under a heavy often crushing sense of responsibility. An, instance or two will best illustrate this, and of themselves may be not with out interest. . - j .; I . A gentleman of the bar in a distant county .some few months since waited upon Gov. Jar vis with a petition of this nature. 'It was a case in which, after the trial and conviction, a very strong feeling had leen awakened in behalf of the condemned. . The Gov I ernor . at once appointed an hour for the j hearing. The case rested upon circumstan- 1 tial evidence, and tht testimony involved ' many and minute details, i The gentleman j checked himself several times in his state ment of the case and of: the testimony for fear of dwelling too long ; upon any part. On every such occasion the Governor inter posed,, requesting him to omit nothing that he "thought essential. After the statement the Governor wpnt with him point by point through the" testimony considering, ! discussing and weighing each one The investigation occupied ' some hours, dur ing which' our informant said .that "opportunity was afforded to present . the case, and every point of it, in every light. ,The. application was unsuccessful ; but our informant was satisfied that it would have been an inexpressible relief to the Governor-if he 'could .have found any ground upon which he could conscienti ously have based a pardon. r The next is given upon the authority of Mr. Stevenson, at one time our Minister to England." j . ' :' Some extraordinary occurrence having called a -French statesman to the palace of the" Tuilleries as late as 2 o'clock in--the morning, he found the King (Locis Philippe) in his cabinet, examining the case of a man condemned to execution. He afterwards ascertained that the Kin" kept a register, recording the name of every person capitally condemned, the decision and its reasons. Frequently, in'the still hours of the night, he performed the task Of investigating these.cases, and added to the record the1 circumstances which influ enced his decision. It is . known that George III. pursued : the same practice, throughout, his long- reign, always weigh ing the evidence with the deepest anxiety ; and that he generally shut himself up, in his cabinet at Windsor (it Was presumed in prayer) during the hour appointed for the execution in London. One Other instance to how the painful ; trial that the exercise of this prerogative involves. It will be recollected that Gov ernor Seymour perhaps the most vene rated of all living Americans in a recent interview expressed ihe strongest repug nance to returning to political life; even if t Bhould be as President of the United States. : He dwelt'particularly upon the suffering he had endured when the mothtr,. wife and children were weeping around him and entreating the pardon of a son, a hus band or father. He averred that he could no consent to encounter such trials again. Indeed there is no eituation in which it 13 harder, to preserve the just poise ofylhe judgment; none where the line of duty exposes the finest sensibilities of our na tufc, to a greater shock oftentimes the feelings and the judgment are put in direct conflict. ' . , One word in conclusion : no act of the Executive ' ought to be ' more delicately handled by the press than the exercise of the pardoning power. .Little . good can come- from such animadversions except in a irasc where, a pardon has been granted from motives palpably and demonstrably ; c.orut ; . and such a case we. have never known in. this State. In other cases a dis- creet resen'e would bc thedictate of wis- doin. In general the; whole cass can be known to the Executive alone ; the petition" is Addressed to him, and. he only' hears the ev1dencc.x'.roreover tne is between him and high heaven. He has not, like JLIhb judge in a criminal trial, the co-operation of the solicitor and a jury; he" has not here, arfh'e has in other . cases, the aid of a council , to advise him. The , constitution has devolved upon him alone this awful power. ' Let us respect .hia, solemn isola tion ' ; ' '..'"' MORE ABOUT TAXES. We ' fear that the Winston Republican iaonc of those papers which, not having room or facilities for printing, information aout public affairs, regards the public documents which are of so much interest t the people outside of towns as only fit for kindling fires in town. iThe result is that when it comes to talk about matters o fact in after years its sole reliance is upon partisan "booms." Two weeks ago, we had occasion to copy its statement,; de rived from last winter's " boom," that un der Democratic rule "taxes are now higher ttian ever " in North Carolina, and then to show. that the taxes levied for collection in 1869 by the Radicals were 77 cents on the $100 and by the Democrats now 24 cents On the 100. And j now it changes the ifeue.j It says that "many people" believe, .; that is to say it believes, that though .the taxes have been reduced, the collections jrfnd expenses have been increased. Let us. t; i , . .' ,.''!;,'': see. i .-.,! . ' ,! 'Omitting $7,800,000 raised by the sale of bonds for railroad purposes, the Audi tor's report for the year ending September 30th,l 1869, shows an expenditure of $887,428.97. That for the year ending September 30th, 1870, omitting in like manner $2,000,000 ;used also for I railroad purposes, was $1,454,214.10. Under pemocratic rule the State " pays as it goes," and in the throe years of that rule the total amount of taxes collected from the people js $1-420,981.10. The expenditures have been just about the same sum ; that is to . . th.tm vaara-. xit ucmocraiic ruie cost ' and that too .without : ' counting the illegal and repudiated debt, made under Radical rule. iS ''-' : -" But the Republican says that even if : the Democrats have reduced taxes it is be cause! increased valuations of property have jif5de the' percentage, in fact, the same. Let us see. " The 'Radical Auditors Report for 1869 emits the usual full statement of taxable property; That of 1870 makes the same; omission. ' But for the 'fiscal year ending September 30th,4S73, the next we can lay . hands on, Republican Auditor Reily reports it as $124,821,450; next year the same Auditor reports it At $143r t23,813 ; and for the year pending Septem-" ber 30th, 1875, the same Auditor makes It $139,953,361. : Dr.. Love, for 1878, I reports it at $142,308,102. A new as sessment has been made this year, but its results will only, show themselves next year.! : .. I ; :, . j't'v,-.; : Next the Republican, which sticks to it that taxes have not been reduced,- insists that they have only been reduced because the value of a dollar has constantly and. iuu uugut ime iuvue if fixed salaries and fixed ippfopriations varied with the value of a dollar, j But the Republicarl knows Very well tjiat, they do not, and that while "$70,000 might have bought very recently 'much more iron for the Western Railroad than it would have .bought when iron was dear and money cheap, the State saved no part of the $70, 000 j though the Road, which the State, owns, was the gainer.. So with the other' State expenses which are pretty much all fixed and do not go up or down! monthly or even yearly with the money market. . Finally, to be, certain about the matter, the Republican says that the Democrats have saved by retrenching the expenditures for schools. Our contemporary in this makes the worst olunder in its lot of boom inherited blunders. In the last "year but one of Radical rule only $69 was paid for tie use of schools, that is to say to Pilgrim Ashley's clerk. Under the last year of. tiat jule $38,981.80 was paid to the sup piort of schools. . Under the first year of fill! Democratic rule $169.6S2.94' was paid oltl jfbr white and $93,840.93 'for' black schools, and $11,505.97 for school houses. In 'the ndxt year,187S, $18S,822.80 for White and $104,70.12 for black' schools, 'audi $12,864.04 for school homes The report for this year is not ready ; it, will stow greater improvement. S . 0ne more error, doubtless also anunfer ence fronj ;" the boom," is made by the. Mepublicait in supposing, so it seem that thie Democrats have retrenched the schools out: of all their taxes thu year because . sctool bill failed to become a law at the life session Of the . Legislature.! : If the Republican will inquire of any Forsyth takj collector it Will find that the School Law is still in existence and the same tjaxes to!; be collected now as for the past two years,. . ! ' . . j - J '4- word in conclusion: When Mr. Au ditor i Love sends the Republican his re- port -, for 1879, now jroinqr ' thronsii; press, permif us to Fnggert that it bernr'!, used for kindling firea. print the facts, it. and next year 'when questions alpt . taxes come up for ion there wUg j no need for i looking into the firstrp3h I second boom for fancies about State fi& ti jcts in1879:t We.know that there ist much duller reading to a newppapcr editor than Presidents' and Governors' messas and official documents, and that in toxrhs few' care ; to I know anything abitt them. But thef people are entitled tc&l' uAa, and when the people, get a cbajte "J.J MS?-3r- they read the tacts and remember the t$g$. i Mingling with: the people from yout hfjSe , . , ; t J3 . have neverjased to wonder at the kfT : ledge acqmred, and the tenacity with wbh j it was held, even by1 those who in the , old days could : not read due iistcnea a:tD reading f documents or to the tpe&$a i. by the candidates for Governor. : ;Wr bae i known many a North Carolina farme nocent of tvjcu hi A, B, C's, whose ki(,'T-; ledge of the principles of United St4jj G overnmenlf and of the facts of its hisi ; would put. Congressman or -editor to Xie blush, j Besides, knowledge, of facta par-J great preventive of useless disputation. . (t n is not the less true because a great novelet, whom we used to read after when' we fe j-ounger, said it, or something very likc;it : It is from our ignorance that our cona tions flow; We debate with strife and tth wrath, with bickering and with hatred,jnt of the thing debated ypon we remain in the profounoest darkness. Like the labor ers of Babel, while We endeavor in varji . to express our meaning .to each otherj hc fabric, by ijrhich, for a common . endwc . would liave ascended to heaven froni'the ills1 of earth, remains forever unad'ned and incomplete. Let lis hope that kjj6w ledge is the . immortal language which r? fiall .re-unite us. i As in their sublime'alle)jT, the ancient signified that only" rthrpgh virtue we should arrive at honor, so le? us believe that only through knowledge ian we arrive at, virtue! ' "'"' ' :.--' ':-'l'!;rfi::' ": ri r. : -. ; -.j,'. . OCR New; York Correspondent asks iCpput ! it are these: About the year 1840 aeand of strolling' Tyrolean musicians pagled through Raleigh, and our old Iriend, r l. ' i , . , iM. An x o. jas, uuw w.vinuiuv. then teaching; mtiwc ,in Raleigh, eht one- of the imelodiesi towhich; :thpy.4n8. one of theiri national songs and play it by car on the piano. The venerablend venerated Jilrs. James F, TAYLOypk a fancy to the tune and asked JudgefAs , TON to combose' a jsong for.it, which lid. The. Supreme !Court (IitFFiN, Del, : 'AND GastOn) .usually met for ;-conflIta-tions, 'in Judge GAjSTON's office, onthe corner of itargett and Salisbury struts, and it was Ruling ;-a consultation one;er- noon that Judge G aston wrote theng, I Harper Naguztne for Jknuarjij al ready. out ajid Svill ttlight readers ofihat ever inclination. Take it -all in allt is . the best as well! as "the most succliful 1 Monthly ever printoii in the Old or I jew World. ... Hon. seph j Jt. Davis, oui : extent Representarivehas our thanks, forgery valuable publie dcfcuinents. c "- f-.f Frty-Sixtii Congress j M On Tuesday, in the Senate , nothing of interest was done lor i said- , In theiflpiSe many bills Were .iiid-oduced, but .nnii0' of ; general or f ;N;orthj Carolina interest A -resolution was passed to adjourn fronj&the; 19th inst., id' the 16th prox. ;." : Nothing of interest occurred on WecfKcs day, Thursday or; Friday in either Iriuse except the passage; by the House oa Ffday 404,000. Both Houses adjourned 0Tr to .Monday.'"'). XX l- X': ':iit ':k On Monday, in the Senate, Mr.!)fof. hees moved; that a ; committee investigate the cause of North Carolina colored lining for Indiana which Indiana does notke ; and Mr. Butler, an amendment fixinthe date of Mr! Bayard's legal-tender rdeaj at January !, 1885. ; :' . ' - In the House," Mr. Steele of this;itate, introduced a bill changing the time fbthe meeting of Congress to thej second 3on- Aav ?Tl -TiiTi-risii'tr i ' I - , i I ' Political 'Notes : " : - m . The Indiana Democratic . paperJK'are pretty much all forj Tilden. j .. Senator Wade Hatnpton is for Mray-.' aijd'g; legal-tender! resolution, becausit: is right and because j it is politic ;. ri&Rin . principle, and politic for the South. 1 iffi: .-. They are! mighty law-abiding fblkour Northern brethren. Eleven- men ai In the Tombs Prison, New York City, aitr -ing sentence or trial for murder in tHegrst ''degree.-' Truly a ghastly record ftSthe. greatest city on the continent.. i y& ; : ' ; i ' j.--1 ri'.) . .-o. i ' 1 Nation with at big N sS. on therffifem- page. A Massachusetts petition IK be- fore the Senate; stating: that e l'rovidence , ot uod tne time hasfme when the doctrine of State sovera&iity logically; a begging of the: questioriJand 1 historically a lie, I should be eradiated : from j the civil, structure of the,Tted fact of , National sovereignty claimiBp?;the direct-allcgianSif all, and directly gird ing the rights ofall, should be thorqtthly and foreverj confirmed by; organic k v- be yond the reach of doubt, denial or defi ance." Whereupon, the petitioner '-Jnts a National Convention to adopt a Najifinal Constitution, with big N's all tfirouplit. Closing a long interview, report m Friday's lT?TaHt General Gart, of ith Carolina, said that while his own prefiice was for E wing, 'j Mr. Tilden's nomitbn would undoubtedly be received bv our;tco- V pie with full acclaim. The whole': Sith would vote tor lilden. V hoever teiyou' it won't tells a lie.. .There would no .bolting, i We've ihad .enough of boltpg - enough of secession. ; You' can't gfypy more of it from the South. Talk of th ern brigadiers not being docile to thjeci sion of the partyT or ' not being frient of the Union. ! By iGod! I expect they're about the best friends the Union ha to day, just because they have bad som ex perience in butting against it." J ".i fXi ' XXTf YOB EI COBBESPOXDEMCE. 1 Correpondeaoe of IIaie's Week tlr. 'XX 3Ir. Editor": A hjctore waTdeliTered at,; Tammany Hall, it -few eveninga ago which 1 regret that i did not know iof; for 1 would nave uted to heard it. It was j. on The Southern Confederacy and iof prisoners of war, by Col. John F. Mines. ( of Utica, the Terson who furnished the f ; norld with his conversation with his neih- j bor in the same city, Senator Conkltng, in I which the latter declared that he knew facts about Hayes and his robbery Iof the p lowest depths of infamy," and who fur- w iue.aw paper dm conversauon T"1 fe?' M? then IT. S. MarsluU in th'city, in which he gave the particu- fe of nil f frnm hnnt Tijden in case he should attempt to take the oath of othce as -1'resident, Colonel Mines was a prisoner of war in Richmond, and he did not hesitate to speak j to his large audience such language as this : "Fourteen years have elapsed since the men in butternut under Lee and the boys in blue Under' Grant had literallyj turned their swords into pruning hooks and beta ken themselves to the arts of peace. This week a Federal official of thi city who President has spoken, in I behalf ooce pioiieu to aouuee a xremocrauo of the and no be no man stalwart gospel , at New Orleans, one has oneredj him the crown of dom. . To-night I speak here half 6f justiee to the South and objects. There can be no better proof that peace has really returned, to the land.) Only the politicians the men. who. stayed at home when their country in vain called; for volunteers ' and had to put up with a draft still persist in fighting the battle of hate. But the men who did their fisrhtinf;' on the field mean to have peace- and will have it." . ' , 't. . - I ! '. ' Tliatmay. be Col, Mines's opinion but it is not mine. The , Northern piople Jdd- not hear him, but they do hear and believe in Beecher and Blaine; and Sherman and their like, and there is no peace nor is there ' likely to be during this generation. . j 1 , " In regard to the treatment of prisoners, Col. Mines said, "The key to Confederate treatment of the Federal prisoners was found in the fact that they had very little for themselves and gave the best they had to. their prisoners".. While the Northern officer in the Richmond prison had his ba ker's bread three times a day and meat twice ar day the Confederate sentinel had ; only his corn Cake and molasses, varied by a little meat occasionally. If -.the North f xrn officer in his quarters felt the rude j Wasts of winter, his sentinel, clad; in a thin ; homespun, slnvered like a leaf as the keen swept", through 'his 'slight:rag8,and ... held out skeleton hands to the firC. Their blankets were taken from their beds at home '.worn by use, and some of the off- cars .carried A little roll of carpet in lieuof other covering: Ihiswas the spjint of the South. . Beyond the' fact "that they vere confined in close quarters jthere was nothinsr to iustifv the I stalwart assertion that Federal prisoners Were? treated , with barbaritv -bv the Confederates. . This " k said the lecturer, ."is the truth of -history, asjborne out. by my experience and the testimony of my companions In misfor tune. -After the lapse of these many years of peace it is time, that the truth of histo- f V should be spoken on this point. But not know personally about it, except that the mortality among the Confederate pris oners at Elmira was proportionally greater than at Andersonville,. j In order, there fore, to defend the North from it he charge ' of neglect and cruelty to its prisoners he -must deny any excessive mortality at An- , idersonville..'- Yet there ! might have been .fault on "both sides. ' As for the 3 South, the entire weight of testimony went to- sbow ; that they did; what they could I for the Northern men whom the (fortunes of war had. placed in their charge. The speaker closed with an earnest plea for jus tice to the South, without regard to past i prejudices, and for.the vindication of the truth." . X;X: , ,..-,;. ' ..X : -It is certainly gratifying to find a North ern man doing for us of the 'South what so few of our own people havcj taken the' . trouDie to ao. x nousanas oi i our men, with abundant information and ability to write it, could a,nd should long ago have Vindicated the truth oi historyj by expos sing their own barbarous treatment, notiby La people who had not the means to be gen erous to their prisoners, but by a great Nation with a big N which abounded in . wealth and had all the world , from " which to get medicines and food anJIoth ring. But they allow Yankees t make history that kind of history whielfc "is a e! ;;; ' - : ; X i ' ' YX j ' ; Beecher seems to have bowels of com passion for everybody but Southern people. For them; he- has "nary bowel. j' A week or !. two ago, on j Thanksgiving Day, he preached, a furious sermon: against them; On Friday night last he exhorted his heari crs to be "very full of Christian sympathy and benevolence towards W m, C. Gilman, who has just been pardoned jout of the penitentiary after sening about one year out of five to which he was sentenced for the trifling peccadillo of forgery.. Gilman" married Beecher 's niece, 'who ; was crazed by his sentence and died on the day he was pardoned. ' V !. " ; f Three steamers of gigantic iiizle are now being built in England to run ito the Uni ted States. One of them is 550 feet long and 50 feet wide, with engines of 10,4 000 horse power.- They are expected to mate the ' passage in six daysi just the time, day and night, that it took me .fifty years ago to travel in the stage from Fayetteville to' New York. The! Herald predicts that ; within : tsfenty years the passage will be made in five days, and with as many thousands of passengers as the best steamers now carry .hundreds. : Tliis ii under the presumption j that before twenty years people will not be tiansported across the Atlantic, in balloons'or by wings. The will of the late Peter Ooelet, the old bachelor who lived at. the corner: of Broadway and 18th street, where he had in his yard a fine cow, and chickens and peacocks, etc.,. was written on iwo pages of foolseap, though; it peonveysr twenty-five millions of dollars worth of property. It is so simple and straightforward that the lawyers will scarcely venturej to ."tackle" it. Should they attempt to prove him wtak-minled, the will itself inay be offer ed in evidence to disprove the allegation. Except trifling legacy of half a million to his nephew Elbridge J. Gerry, his whole estate is left' to "his brother and two sisters, 1 one a widow and the other an old maid. : The brother having died since the will was made, his Bhare goes fc the other legatees. ; Not a cent, not a cow or a ' chicken or a peacock is left to any outsider or to any ,, charity or public purpose. It is all in the ; family "me and my wife, my son John and his wife; we four and no mpre." ! i There is great commotion among the' r . . i-' v T butter dealers in thw citv on account (.f the bosrus butter." 4o imanrarino. ' The head of the house of ThurU-r A Co., the leading "crocery house in this citv, his been accused to his fact! of dfaliins fin Jt. and a fund of $5,00(1 lias been iued to prusecutehim for h. He admita that he Sells' it, but only as (Jwrnarcarine. TIw truth seems to be, that it U. really marked as such, but ao indistinctly that purchaacrs aay be deceived. Tbere are fire iarg manufacturers of the spurious article, and vet in jfpite of this the price of real butter as xrone up about a hundred per iccnt. It retails as high as forty-five centis. It w raid that a house here made scvn thou sand dollars of profit on j butter in one Jay latelv. . - , - ., :- .. An auction sale of rare coins awl auto graph letters took place here latt week.' A penny of 1804 brought $203. If arty one at home has rare things of the wurt, let him correspond not with me, but with the auctioneers, Bangs & (.., lmwd way. .: ; .' '' .. ." ' i :";- ' t The race of mascuhne, females is rapid ly growing in these parts, A few days ago a Mwi Ferguson' got into a Third Av- anue smoking car, and was dreadfully dis gusted at the fumes ; of tobacco from' the cigars of two gentlemen who were amok-' ing, as they had a right to : do, and read ing their papers, altogether oblivious of her .disgust, and even of: her presence. ,She complained to the conductor, who told T . her that it was a smoking car and he had no right to interfere. Instead of leaving the car and getting into another where smoking was not allowed, she scolded, and finally struck one of the gentlemen square Iv in the mouth, knot-kin? out his' cirar'. .Thereupon she was arrested, taktin to the Tombs -court and fined $a forj asuadlt. Served hxr right. She is a bdy iof about 30 yearsj (about 50 according toj one lin gallant paper,) wearing gold-rimmed eye glasses, and is manager of a Woman's Em ployment Society. She threatened to put a mark on the gentleman that he . would never forget possibly she means to chal lenge him to mortal combat. - A day or two after this spinster's exploit,! another cowhided a keeper of Taylor's Hotel, in Jersey City, across, the river. j . . i It is now promised that the East River Uridge i will bo completed within a year. Doubtful. ; : ' ' I . . I:.! A North Carolina friend, one of the ""scattered abroad' asks mo to inquire who compofied the music to JudgejGastori's Jiong, "Carolina ! Carolina !'' Siomebody in North Carolina ought to know, he says, whether the music is j an old air, or origi nal and if so, by whom ? ; - Seventy-two millions of dollars of gtM and silver have been brought to the United ; States within the laslTour months. Tliis is of course one of. the causes of! the pro digious,; specuktions or the san4 period, and many ; a. man has already found lani Self the worse for this abundance of mon ey,! One of its -effects is visible in the in creasetl prices of many kinds of poods. In my 'line I have beeh duly notified of an advance of about 10 per cent, ijn paper and 15. to 20 .per cent, in blank bjooks. t Thej! U- S; iariffj inrjioses dullies upon, no less than 2,000 articlesand among;.' them "imported tripe," which paid intoitho treasury during the last year the! magnifi cent sum of forty cents ! along with '.'water , from Lourdres," holy water,) which paid ninety cents, paim leai oi tx.uii, . i- i-ii . i j and six. otner articles wmcn aggregaieu a revenue Lia. ilrmw the Buit 1 .have heretofore mentioned pending in Jersey City over tlie estate of an oldi-miser named Iiewis, who left a (nil- , lion ot . dollars to the United States ((in stead of to me.) Soon after he died a wo man came forward claiming to bei his wid ow, exhibiting a marriage certificate and calling witnesses who swore that they wcro present at the marriage and often heard Lewis address her as his wife. On Mon day, the principal witnesses swore that they had testified falsely1, that the marriage jcer tificato was a forgery, and that the woman had admitted to one of them that! eIic had never in her life seen Lewis ! One of these perjured witnesses said that! he had received $25 in cash - and was promised $1,000 more in thirty days. Thej $ 1 ,000 not being forthcoming, it would now be in order to inquire what he gets for his pres jent testimony. What is a man's property 'or life worth in a city where thousands of men could be hired for $25 to swear it Away ?f H. Randolph Cotton Mannfactnfin !- What can be done by cotton ruanafac turers in North Carolina the Charlotte Ob server learns from jthe experience! of j the owners, of ihe Batidleman Mills in Ran dolph county. This now valuable property was purchased in 1871 by the company at 4 cost of about $30,000. The machiijicry in the mill was in bad order, and; in no condition to make money by being operated. The company went in debt for nearly the whole amount of the purchase money. For eight years the mill has been operated! on . sound business principles. The company how employ 350 hands, who Occupy over ?200 dwelling houses of the company, .giv ing' the place, from 1,000 to 1 ,200 inhabi tants The' main building is a large subr ! stantial brick edifice, which, with the store, arid other buildings, together with the ma- chinery now in successful operation, 'has been developed at a cost of about . $225, 000. Since . 1871; all the goods manu factured have found ready sale, and most cf the time .the .company havje been behind their orders from sixty days to four months. .The profit oh the goods manufactured (has averaged $100 per day, for" every working day, in the past eight years. The mills are running night and ; day producing 1 1 ,200 yards of plaids , per day, at a margin of. prone wnicn snouia awak.cn eimuar ienicr prises in almost every portion of North Carolina, and all this in spite of the fact that the mills Are located 10 miles from High" Point, and all supplies) all goods manufactured as well as . all raw . material, must be hauled in wagons over thesei 10 miles of bad roads. In addition to this, in getting out to where they must compete with the markets of the world, they! must contend with a local tariff, on the (single railroad which is accessible. Ii -il !' There is a good story told of a fshrewd- boy who allowed himself to be most! un- mercifully pummelled . by a smaller boy. and who gave as a reason therefor that the small boy had a father; that the father had an orchard ; that his pears were just Dcgm ning to set ripe,' and that the little boy would undoubtedly ask him to partake of the fruit. "But," said he, "you just wait till pear time is over, and if he hits t me again won't I give it to him !'' That boy will some time grow to be a rich man. Such genius in the use of opportunities and such self-denial for the sake. of achiev ing an end cannot fail of success, i He will be rich, but he will ?now too much to pay an income tax. j r I Uhat Nrtfc Tarwllalaa arr Ik. Inc. liLEAMNGS rROM Tlie Xrrl-ri'im andcsi' ci4U n at 11 J rt-nt.; ' ; : . TlieAshbori" Yl.r4 miutfrton there at 1 1 i cents. WadVwlitiro, ,itho fJtntM'aax. i riiii 12.57 f it iruttoji. -. Witmt4i is to hate thrt DKrr ti-JcKx-o factories, the S-tuiel gay. Quhelc'a c.tton Mwi't,the RJfmnii Kay, have Uvn J..Li2 lUs thw falL (4ton it 4cnt1 at Salisbury and th WatcUman qu4 it at U.'.W U 12.50 Concord Ucht li'.HI laU-"f ciHton hut wtvk. The RetfUtrr qut tlie price at 12.;0.'-. ;-j.;;i'.. ; CVrtton still i-onrp into TarbiTo, and it live uicnhanuj, wcjloarn from the SHtk erurr pay for t. .. , The liattltliorojVyrrM ay ct4ton in that t-vtkn U:ll lumped. It quoU- the price at 121 cents. . ' Monroe, thd Emirfr aayabrouht 75? bale of cotton hut, wwk, at pricva ranginje from 11 .to 12 and dotting at lit. . Mrs.t M,ary I. Harris, aged li, ami f fifty'years a mennbor of the 'IVwhyterun Church, died it Witmington on the ltd. ' Mecklenburg was shaken un twice?on (Friday night (last ! by earthquake shoik, tne nariotw ijotermr rvporta. o dam age done. . J ; .;' The deU iof Trinitv Culh-o U onlv $10,400, and the Methodists have rctMlvxl to pay it during the coming year, the Wil. xon Advance iaysii i i . .... . I . Ii . .- ... ' . 1 he tobacco breaks at Kcidsville lust week exceeded 200,000 llxL The Timn quotes lugs $10 t.f $15; fillers $1(1 to $12 ; wrappers $15 to $00, The Reimrte r quotes cotton at Jackmm ut 11). It wants, and we hoc will get, a railroad from JacVson to Ganibiiri:t- Tlw distance is only 9j miles. William Kjiscr, of I ant on county, for rcawms unknoWnj took his departnre to a world unknown, f n Sunday of lust wwk He traveled oh rope. The Exprrx (jiiotcs' citton in Green villo at 111; the Innr$ of Loui.Hburg at 121 the Review oft I lenderson at 11 to 12; the Advance $t n llwon at 121 Only twcnty-sJx colored poll are lifted in Wiuston townhhip. Nooll.tax no vote would add $50,000 a year, to the wlnn l fund in this Skate, says the Sentinel, Col. U L. Polk and C1. Thomas M. i Holt are Yicetl'iesidents of tlio ''National Agricultural Soticty, jut o New York City ! lr. A. 11. U nwniied in of the SecrctricH. Mrs. Henrietta Caldwell, widow of 11. N. Caldwell, lis I., of Greensboro, threw hrslf into a well on Sunday of last week and was drowned. She had 'liven melan choly since her husband's death. James" K. OCHara, who iontcsts I M t Kitcmn 8 seatl lp a speech at the recent Industrial Fair, ;iid that the negroes owned l.uuu acres in Jlantax county, and over 0,000 in : arrcn. Tyson k Jones, of Carthage, the Jmh f. says, sell an average of 1 C buggies a mont h for $2,00,0. (The same paper says, that 57,000 bales of "cotton have been hijrH)r from Hamlet n;rthc direction of Ilafvigli since September 1 ft. ' ; - , and desperado, fas arrestd Hint week arid jailed in Ashljioo, tho Gttrier says, jfe was well eriuippcd with counterfeiters' ap paratus and hjs den was in arMvnal in the way oi ngnting tmplemcnls A siiecial billlp;isrted the House 'on Fri day removing -Lite disabilities, of Gabriel Holmes lull, a won of Dr. John II. Hill, now of GoldMboW Mr. Hill, who was a gallanf , Uonledelrate soldier, had been in the III S. Artillery service and resigned in loot. .: CoI. Ncill Archibald McLean, one of T..l '.. ktl'.' ' 1 ... avoovjwij a iiioM uiHiinguisneu citizens and one of the best lawyers in'the State, died at ijUtiiocrton, t the Jcubeimman says, on Monday of last; week. Col. McLean' dis ease was typhoiid pneumonia and his illness ot a week s duration. j At Charlotfie last, week, the Democrat says, the price of flour was $3.50 ; corn 05; meal CVto 70; peas 70; oats 50: sweet potatoes 0 ; pork C to 7 ; beef 4 to u; butter ZU; chickens 12 to 15; o; l. iu.:1 : L i t nt . u l" lO i ;vori WHWKV i.-O to I. .HI- nth pie Dranay l.oy to l,7D.- . r The Goldsborb Mail notes the burning jot fir. ueorgerWi lJests gin house and several bales ofl cotton, and of Mr. Nj L. Long s dwelling at Mt. Olive. The Mail also is informed that more negroes have bought and paid for land in Wayne county in the last ten Jfcars than the whites.. . . And now Currituck is making tobacco, its land yielding both good quantity and good quality, jits corn crop W short,' but the prices make up tha deficiency to the planter. Tyrrell's crops are short but bears are' plenty. One hunter has killed 11 another 3, another 2. Ho wc find in th Economist. . '. ' j ! ; Three steamers now ply regularly Co twecn Morehea(.City and New York, and the Aeicbcrnuiiii Says the line is a pro hounced 8uccHj! i! The last clearance was of the Gulf Stnwm with a cargo of 1,130 bales of cotton, (large quantities of oyster, egga, cLinm, potatoc, Wooden plate, and a variety of othcri ifreight. i Upon a recent trip of one of thenc vessels it took out as part of its cargo15 ltarrcls of terrapin. Wilmington's ' tobacco factory, less than t one year oll, as we! learn from the Star, ia a great success and is to be much enlarged. About fifty hands, white and colored, are employed . in thl!i works, and about one thousand pound of plug and smoking to bacco together ate turned out each work ing day. The boxes in which the chewing tobacco is packed aro imported from troit, Michigan.! ji-The bags, for the smok ing tobacco are made in Richmond, Ya. It would seem that the workers in wood and cloth are behind (the times. - i Dr. J, Francis! King, says the New York Herald, a prominent physician of Wil mington, N- C.died at No. 1 North Wash ington square, vi this city, last feck. He had been in failing health for the past two vcars. and about a rear and a half ao he was compcUcd ! to abandon his profes- I sional duties, lie traveled abroad in the hope of recuperating, but he never rallied. He came to this city a short time ago in order to obtain the best medical attendance that could be procured. Dr. King was in his 48th year. His widow is a niece of ex-Secretary Hamilton Fish. The Charlotte Home says that Judge Schcnck has sentenced Joe Gillespie to be hanged on "the 2tHh for the murder of MrC Fowler at Mooresville last' winter; that Judges Bond anil -Dick are to open the Circuit Court at! Charlotte on the 20th; that Mr. W. D. McQuaig, of Randalsburg, Mecklenburg county, raised, .with two abumUntw of wb.l, com anJ othrr Crw rorrlics; that a man rrtuM ia jmj n. weddin f, to a Charh4t Pron I h h,-v Uv. hU vile had Uic.1, and h haI no of payimr f'r ch. - , Mr y. U. Farrar ha had hw nem water bc-l tcnte.1. ' Ir. lVtUw uilt the Gncn- U,n" tUn that - th wlcrj U-l wa 13! IIM I 1k Jiaimtor, the nUn Hace ot the otm iri jrvili U-in 4 1 iim'Im, and wa. ISoryvant Manuf-cturingCiu- bu!t bv ih. J pany, of tl.ir tJm. uikW lh Mirwnin of the patent'. f,-t M'al of '. wt jcr, ic wheel m.ie tiCMl rev.4utio lf lu-uute, and run a corn cwlH r, heat fan. i. vator ani mT, iw i ri whiUs filleil to theit otm eanaoty. i he ( brl rut 'h I,'e n",M,T inchm ml wImW pwrr uivltf 11 head of 'chincry water run wilr half, the aroe uia- mtUftrtorily.' Col, John A. MiIVnUl" Uhm. ered lUyc, writ to the yilminrt..n that the tnt'r lUdi-l li-aet ior wu vear i John Sherman,. for lrenlent, anl IteuU ni K. Feiit.Mi, f r. A ioe-lrei.letil. He this lickrt noaiiii.d-4lvaueol. 1U KHr1nt DtneM lor Ulu.niK "f'J ten. - Tl ju me rtn nj w. not'wUh it elected. A lHn who can tk.rt hii Ciiuiry in Wfintf ntr ScnaM on a salary of $5,1HH1 and . save one million out of it in fifteen jm U more of a ret rem her and nf'nwer than i t our tate fi-r iVfidcnf; and - n deuU u:ht ik4 to I made of Mie othrr folk a nniev t liu New Yt.rkcra aay Mr. FenU.n ud a do Th, NortheaMtern countiea eoin"' tlm lut; the middle count i.-a the 2d; lhel'a Fear and Peo 1 Wr counie the 3d and the extern couutiea th I Suirtimini' Ditri-t. Th rreeideiit i to apHitnt the uH'rvin, prolmbly 'within tho nxt tlne mnth, and llon. W. Steele ad rie applicants to addn Cien, Franc A. Walker, the .Hunnten.lent, fortified with such testimonial of their character and fitnena as they , may ; el m to pvb. Penmn wihing to act a name. rator Miould apply to tho diint mpcr- VlHor. 1 here will 11 one eeiixu iker ut, every '4,000 inhabitants-, and thecoinena tim will pniltobly vary from $l2t t 1250, doixiwlin utMiit eirvuiuManwm. All of thoir Work i rvnuire"! to l done in the month Iof June. . j ' Of tho Wilmington .V WcMoii H tiln-u I , it cioollent Superintendent, Cai-t." J. r. Diviiie rejKirt awirdtng to tin SViluiing- ton Rrvwf that its jKuwM-nger equipment coiifit ot 1 1 brMt-i4 iHUWM'iiger eoai lK. 8 mnlond-i-la' pimm-ncer riaeln, 3 mini, lmggage and cypres -ar, 2 mail and bur gage car exj're ear, j'f j in.wi p.i, t 2 rittal cars.jand li jHdae r, a total of , 34. (Thefniht ixjuipmen) j oimnioI of 221 liox. Car, 129 platform car, and ' 20 gfavel eriat ttl of 370. In iho r formanco of Jocimotivi'S, .2.(,3h3 mile was fun during "tlie year by piuwenger en cinci181,210 milea by I'retiht engine, 23,.W t .mile (by grav4 engine, W; 1 13 i .; mileli by coiiMthw-tiiig engines' and ,'3.1 ,5I I mile by wi(liing ; engine, a total of! i 505)7 mile The total .'ctwt i r iuiK j" run (was 11.0. cent. t . ' , , ' j Men and time change, even, ill the f WcMterti Judicial DiHtriet. The Chailotte Oirnr notci the fact tlwit in a caw lie- fire JiKhzc.lick, njw holJigVtiirt at I I liajriotU', thil connm l for tho d.fndnt j wa questioning a revenue offuvr to' prove i- thntj ho and hi kwm; ineluding l lie. com luiwtioner, werb drunk when they inudu the arrek. Tho Solicitor olj-tyl to lhi tuat- ter being 'bsoujght out before Ihe jnrv't but Juiljgt! Dick evcrrtilcd the objociioii and stated that he particularly lchir.il that ihe jurjj hou!d know this fiet. Worm- llmii thl tho o(Fu!cr had diKtMlyol aoine of the defdant'projierty and tho prwcutioti. itmirttcfl that they did have the rijiht to destroy any protK-rty fiwnd on the pn iniw , but (Judge Dick informed him that lii' wu mitakcn; that they had a right to. M-ixe ,thi! property, but in no iruttancv to d.lroy anything but iho still itmlf, and he wmh very emphatic in his aMcrtlon oiithul. ' jevt, At this rate a revenue ofTicvr will ' aooi: be reduced to the l'evi-1 .of a white man. ' ' : ' ' ; : ' X: i Tlie Fayetteville dautte'. und. rtanU' the large fact that thi in a day of aiuull . thingj and tries to make folk !und rtanl it aUi.: It learn' that tho "vhtral atxl wei'ru trtion of tho State raise over one million dollars in small fruit. Tho; Cup.-; FeaK country i peculiarly adapted J to the pnduction of the blackberry, tlm whortle berry and the cherry tnail fruit, hi, h i are jN-tiliarly .aumtefitible of j'nwraii.o, and which alwaya command a gol nurkct. Not long since, at the invitatwin of the President and Ihwrd of Directira of the' Capo Fear & Yadkin Valley, Railway, wcj maJo a ..visit to Kratiklinvillo, Jwing; thnjjugh. o, portion of Moore, Chatham and ,' Randolph.' . During Our brief jourm-y 1 through that irt of North Carolina, wh' made the acrjuauitaneo of two Northern agents, Kent out by houm in New. Jcrm-y': andjAew lork.to make a thorough in- ' rjtion of the facilities for Wanufcturiiir ! g the lino of tho ('apo Fear A Ya-lkiti f, Valey Kailroad; andwhen that )ute completed we will find that there arc rtive and energetic men, from, id.rond if not at home, who fully aj-pr utc tho great ad vantage offered by 'thin iiarl of North Carolina. ; Let our own rxoj.l! turn their minds and their energies toMhu f.it4ing of slnall induHtrlc. and tlio cultivalion of COOd. thrift V. foticronii tn,U 1 . ny, clfupporUng inwhanio u wrth lull a d icn non-utaining profcsfcional Ucn ; dcjH-nd ujion it, it U betu-r t giro your boy a trade and an honet Uvin?.' if lm I, ,- a mechanical turn, than lo rsimj birn up u, loa through life." Wajks: liremature trrowth i the eoniuion law in - the Far-W4 even in viclcdrica. A " twclvc-ycar-ild boy in Lawrence, Kan., lm beer arrested mx times for varioii ofTi-tw ch Scotchman at tho point of etth . '' ' said, to hia pastor : , " Do yiu think that if I left ten thousand jKund to tho Preubj. terian Chffrch my soul w'd be saved V - "I can'k prorr.wc vou anvthinir." armwrnd trotKl man, after sj second thought, " but 't I .s joTth trying, i , v. ' , A gtiod lady whon he dea h of her husband, man ied hi lnht r, has a"Ntr T traitjof the former hanging in fa r dining painting, anked; "la that a. member of ' 'J I your . uuiuij; i "un, iiuus wj joor .. , M , -( 1 . l. f - - i ii f ii .a . j i a wrutiiir-iu-iaw, wmm ujp.-iiiuu vjijr. ; Ai dental journal asp the reason so many men fail as orators i because tliev have bmt sotniof their tseth. . Ilonhl ' jook at .a hen j haxn't and never, had a taoth In her. head, and did the dental editor never hear a hen mount the fone and deliver a' two hours' Fourth sf -July oration over one egg no ISgger than a lemon ? If, 1 I"; ,-. pi i? !'' ' j , i, t. , x : w ,1 lis 1 mi 7 i