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as THE SUN, A Daily Democratic Newspaper, fs' PUBLISHED-UY THE SUN ASSOCIATION, IX Wilmington, North Carolina, every 'MORNING EXCEPT MONDAY, ASD MAILED, ir DELIVERED IN THE CITY BY CARRIER, TO SUBSCRIBERS AT THE FOLLOWING uni ioum rates : For one month, GO cents; three MONTHS, $I.?5; SIX M0NTHS.S3.50; twelve months. ST.OO. , - ApVERTISEMT.NTS INSERTED IN REGULAR ' ADVERTISING ' COLUMNS FOR $1.00 PER SQUARE ONE DAY ; $3.50 PER SQUARE ONE week; $!).()() PER SQUARE ONE MONTH ; 20.00 PER SQUARE THREE months; S35.00 PER SQUARE SIX months; $50.00 per square twelve months. Contracts made for other space and time at proportionately low rates. Special notices are charged. 20 cents a line for first, and 15 cents a line for each subsequent, insertion. interesting correspondence solicited. Address. " .; THE SUN, WlLMfXGTON, N. C. tin CICERO W. KAURIS. - - - - Editor. Thursday -Morning, April 17, 1879. Largest City Circulation. Crude Ideas auul .Social Dangers. The 'various socialistic movements going on in the world, culminating as some of them, have in Nihilism or the denial of every thing, in communism or the dbctrine that there is no right of property, in sedi. tion and assassination which would upheave all social order and abolish government itself with the red secret hand, may not be so wide-spread as commonly imagined or so potential as has often been feared, but they are occasion for serious study of the social and political phenomena of the time. We cannot dismiss these burning questions 1 with a sigh of resignation, a "pisli" of contempt or an appeal to mili tary force. Thk Su sees no ground for either course. The danger, while real and in onesense imminent, need not paralyze any one with fear. I t; does not come to us in the shape of assassinations but of determined movements to exercise political control in cities and States. Still its head is hideous if the red cap be veiled. The marshalling of eight thousand votes in Chicago in support of a J square out socialistic ticket is significant in con nection with the successful Kearney move ment in California. : This last deserves more consideration than has been given to it in the East. It is the most dangerous of the socialistic movements in the country, and it is so because it has had a reason for its being which all fair minded men recognize as sufficient justification for its existence in some modified form. California has suffered from stock gambling, delays of justice, land monopolies, the rapacity of great corpora tions, crude and in digested laws, the in vasion of the Mongolian horde and a va ricty of other causes for dissatisfaction and popular uprising. Jt is . indeed wonderful Kat the people of that State have borne these evils as lonff as thev have. : Hut movement can ie inus reau oi an men 1 - . v 'iff 11 the excesses of the peculiar party which undertooK in a blindfold way to remedy the wrongs deserve nothing but condem nation. Demagogy of the lowest kind has done service for stakraanship. The new Constitution which is to be voted upon on the first -Wednesday, in May, is described as a farrago of political principles, sound and unsound, and of; special legislation, well enough the one for a party platform and the other for a . statute book, but wholly out of place in the organic law of a Commonwealth. A few of the provisions of this Constitution will give the reader some idea of what the .Kearneyites know of Constitution-makiDg. It gives the Legislature power to prohibit buying and selling stocks, and to regulate and limit charges made by gas companies and tele graph companies, storage and wharfage charges, whether by companies or 'individ uals. To prevent legislative corruption, "lobbying" is made felony. To prevent delay ordeaial of justice, it provides that no judge of either Supreme or Superior Court shall draw his monthly salary unless he makes oath that no cause remains in his court un decided which has been submitted for de cision for the period of ninety days. Eight hours a day is made the limit of a legal days' work, which might do for a statute, but in a constitution is absurd. Corpora tions other than municipal are "regulated" very strictly. "Watered " stocks are de clared to be void, though the term "water ed" is certainly very indefinite. Railroads are to be put in the custody of a board. o: commissioners with 'power "to establish freight, and passenger rates," and to charge more than the established rate makes a person liable to a fine of $5,000 or imprisonment for a year. The Chinese are de nied citizenship, and corporations forbid den from employing them. The "equa and uniform" provision about taxation in the bill of rights is stricken out, so as to permit a scaled income tax, and'the way is paved for such a system of taxation aswn make the "monev kinsrs" "divide" with the Kearneyites. Some of these provisions are wise if in corporated into statutes and well guarded They sound queerly, enough in the Consti tution of a State. Other provisions are tyrannical and irrational, and will have to be repealed if the State shall not be wholly given over in future- to the play of the Worst passions and become the arena o violence and bloodshed. The predecessors of the Kearneyites erred most grievously but these latter-day reformers are making things far worse for society by tinkering With thing3 that would better be let alone, l It has generally been the custom when an answer to Blaine was required, to turn back a few weeks to some other speech by : Blaine and let him answer for himself. The South Carolina Election Cases. The candid, UDpartisan observer is shocked by the travesty of justice as ad ministered by Judge Bond's Court in Charleston in the matter, of the election cases now, undergoing judicial investiga tion. Men are convicted of crime who have no fair means of proving themselves innocent, for constituted as the juries are the accused are bound to-be sent on for punishment unless upon appeal to' the Supreme Court of the United States the present proceedings shall be reversed. Happily, Judge Bryau, the District Judge dissenting from the rulings of the presid ing Judge the several questions at issue are to be taken up to, the Supreme Court. In stating the points in the cases, we avail ourself of the columns of our es teemed contemporary the News and Courier. A motion was made to set aside the array of jurors. . Judge Bonds overruled this motion, Jndge Bryan dis senting. Both opinions are confined to he legal points at issue. Judge' Bond claimed that the motion was not founded, upon any allegation of fraud or bad faith 'on the part of the officers who executed 'the , fifty-first rule of Court. No impro priety of conduct is charged against them, but it ' is'simply urged tlfat these officers 'have mistaken their powers under the 'rule and have not followed it strictly." He said: "There has been nothing pre- 'sentcd to the Court on this occasion that 'even hints at or looks to any injustice done to the parties here on trial. The 'juries from their appearance certainly 'look as if they 'were made up of citizens of South Carolina in every way qualified to discharge the duties of jurors." We omit citations of authorities. In his dissenting opinion Judge Bryan was constrained to differ from his associate. I am compelled to conclude," he said, that all three of the commissioners are "necessary for the lawful selection of the juries; that the absence of one of them "involves a fatal defect in the administra-' "tion of the rule, and hence the , part as signed Commissioner Blythe, of.a precise j "locality and for a special object, could "not be performed by any other person. "The rule makes no provision for any dep uty, and he himself made no attempt to "appoint such deputy or assign his position "to any other person. The rule clearly, "by inevitable implication, negatives the idea that any other person, unless pro vided for by the rule; and with like "qualification, could perform his function. "He is distinguished from the other com- "missioners by his locality, and cannot be "confounded with him. His participation in "the initial action of the three commission ers ia the selection of the live hundred "citizens of good intelligence and- charac ter, and also as an adviser in their final "action when it is to be determined what "names are to.be placed on the list "with "the approval of a majority of the commis- "sioner," is equally necessary. "I cannot, therefore, accept the; jury so "drawn as one selected according to the re quirement and sound theory, of the rule, "or which -satisfies the order of the court." He proceeded then to say that "it is not "permissible for the court now to modify "or set a side the rule of the court, and "adopt a jury not selected according to the "rulcof court. That rule has the force, "dignity and obligation of a statute." The motion to set aside the array hav iug been overruled, and the District At torney having announced his intention to examine the persons drawn as jurors as to their participation in the "rebellion," un der section 820 of the Revised Statutes, the counsel for th'defence moved that the Government be required to prove the facts of disqualification, and be uot allow ed to ascertain them by interrogating the juror. The Court ruled, Judge Bryan dis senting, that the examination should go on in the manner proposed by the Dis trict Attorney,and the jury was empanelled. Nine white citizens were rejected by the Gov ernment for participation, in "the rebellion," On the jury as finally formed, there were eight whites and four colored jurors, but to only one of these eight whites was the test oath applied. The News and Courier says the "District Attorney "challenged . the juror for having been, in "the Confederate service, whenever he im agined that the particular person before "him was likely to be bold and independ "eat in the discharge of his duty. Not a "colored man was catechised. Among the "whites to whom the test oath was not ap plied are some who cannot take it, and "would not have taken it. They, were re "garded, however, as safe jurors because of "their affiliations or connections. The "District Attorney, in fine, packed the jury "by admitting to it every6 colored man and "every white man whom he believed to be "anti-Democratic, and by excluding from "it, as far as the test oath enabled him .to "do, every juror who might be presumed to "be io sympathy, not with the accused J'about to be tried, but with the Dcmo "cratic party. Only four whites could "take the test oath, and three of these were ''peremptorily challenged by. the District "'Attorney. NoTnore need to be said jto "exhibit the aniriuls and purposes Of the "prosecution." It seems that the District Attorney, Northrop, aud his assistant, Ma,ckey, did not move under Section 821, wMch leaves it discretionary with the Court whether the1 test oath shall be applied. Their, op erations were conducted under Section 820, which makes participation in the "rebel lion" a cause of disqualification and chal lenge.; The provisions in 820 were repealed by Congress but by a conspiracy. or by accident were not excluded from the Re vised Statutes. As our Charleston con temporary shows, to take advantage of an accident or a conspiracy, with the view of organizing, juries to convict is unworthy of the Government, and a pitiful exhibi tion of partisanship and unscrupulousness on the part of it representatives. The jury having been sWorn, a motion was made to continue the whole of the election ases to the next terra, on the ground that the Court was divided in opin ion as to. the lawfulness of the very organi zation of the jury, and that, under the op eration of the test oath, the jury had been picked or selected' for which reasons and others', further proceedings cannot be had "wlflinnt. Tvrpiiulioe to the merits" of the t j case. Judge Bond over-ruled the motion, saying that the legal right existed to ap ply the test oath, and that in the matters alleged there was no reason for a con tinuance ; persons who miaht be con victed would be admitted to bail, pending the decision of the ques tions upon which the Court was divided, and would have a new trial if the judg ment of this Court were reversed. "This "does not take into account, however, the "inconvenience, the expense, and the gen eral annoyance to which the accused are "subjected while they are awaiting a de "termination of the legality of the juries "and other questions. A decision two or "three years hence that they were im properly tried will not relieve them from ' contumely of an unjust conviction. Their "position will be just one degree better "than that of the man who is found id be "innocent the day after he is hanged." . awi giving by Slander. The Radical party liyes by slandering the-South, and yet we should think that the, signs of the times would admonish f them to try some more substantial and promising means of livelihood. The New York Times, which is the leading organ of that party, says that for Southern Demo crats national questions have little attrac tions. "Their thoughts are concentrated 'on their own section, as a'part from the "country, and their interest in the contest "for the Presidency turns upon the uses to 'which the Presidency may be applied for 'the furtherance of the Southern plaus. 'With a Democrat in the White House ' they will be content. Whether he be Til- den or Thurman matters not to them. "Neither will stand in their way or hesi tate to help them in their efforts to con solidate and guard the power they have "gained. Whoever he be, the South knows that he wilt be, its tool." , With a Democrat in the White House the Southern Democrats will indeed be conteut. They will feel that a Democratic President will treat all the sections alike, that he will uphold the laws impartially, that he will frown on corruption and as far as he, can check extravagance. They may care as between the candidates named who shall receive the nomination, because they are concerned about the election and have their own ideas of fitness. But no more do they expect to control Mr. Thurman than' they expect to manage. our Uncle Samuel. There will be no need of manage ment from this end of the line. The truth is the Times has got so used to lying about the South it comes perfect ly natural for it to say things like the above. The days of the efficacy of Radi cal lving are numbered. The Southern Dempcracy snap their fingers in the face of the Stalwart press and tell it to go ahcad'with its untruths, its uncharitable- ness and its senile loyalty. We care not what you say. We mean to thrash you out in 1880, lving or no lying. ' Morning News Serials. A NEW STORY BY A SAVANNAH LADY. -IN THE Savannah Weekly News OF FEBRUARY 1st, will be commenced a new serial story of absorbing interest, entitled WARP AND WOOF! BY MISS R. J. l'lllllililCK. This beautifully written and intensely inter esting story, illustrative of Southern character and Southern life in town and country, will run through several weekly issues of the News. Without anticipating the interest of our read ers, we can promise the lovers of well wrought fiction a rare treat in its perusal. The Weekly News is one of the largest and handsomest newspapers in the country, tiding an eight page sheet 38 by 52 inches. Among its new features we invite attention to a series of articles on the Orange Culture, written ex pressly for its pages by Mr. C. Codrington, of Florida, which will be found interesting and valuable to those engaged in orange growing. Another feature of especial interest to our lady readers is our New York Fashion Letters, by an accomplished lady writer. The aim of the News Is to be thorough in all the depart ments of a comprehensive newspaper. Its Agricultural Department, its careful compila tion of the news of the day, foreign and do mestic, its reliable market reports, editorial comment, and choice miscellaneous readings, make the Weekly News one of the most in structive, entertaining and valuable newspa pers. New subscribers desiring to commence with the new story should send in their names at once. Subscript'onj one year $2. Weekly Neics and the Sotittem Fanners' Monthly one year $3.50. Address J. II. ESTILL,, ja25-tf Savannah, Ga. - " THE TIMES. PUBLISHED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. Mail subscription, postage free, six dollars year, or nfty cents a month, exclusive of Sunday edition; including Sunday paper, (double sheet,) 6even dollars and-a-half a year, or sixty-five cents a month. The Sunday edition will be mailed to single subscribers, postage free, Jor $1 50 a year. Advertisements fifteen, 'twenty, thirty, fifty cents and one dollar per line. Correspondence' containing: important news solicited from any part of the country. If used will be liberally paid for. TOE WEEKLY TIMES, Eight pages published every Saturday morning. Terms per annum, postage free, one copy, $ 2 00; 5 copies, $8 00; 10 copies, $15 00; 20 copies, $25 00. An extra copy sent free to auy pereon send ing a club of ten or fa club of twenty. Addi tions may be made to clubs at any. time at club rates and from different postofflces.. Advertisements thirty" cents per line. All letters or telegraphic dispatches must be addressed to ' THE TIMES, Philadelphia, STANDARD' 01 THEWOBID 1)1 IM1AM SMOKING T O B A C C O. Manufactured By JAS. JR. DAY, Late of the Firm of W. T. Blackwell & Co. J. R. DAY &-BR0., - DURHAM, N. C. ja26-tf A NEW DEPARTURE. R. L. BRIDGERS & CO., Following the example of Park & Filford, Ackler, Merrill & Condi t, and other large Grocers of New York, have commenced keeping Burnett's Cologne, acknowledged by all to be THE BEST IN AMERICA ! We have just received a new supply of that Old North Carolina CORN WHISKEY which created such a sensation amoug the lovers of PURE OLD CORN. - It is made by a farmer near Charlotte, and we are the only parties in the State that can get it. Guaranteed lobe i FOUR (A) YEARS OLD. P. L. BRIDGE IIS & CO. THE CAPE FEAR STILL TAKES THE LEAD. OUR ROCKBRIDGE CO. STEWART RYE IS THE BEST $4 WHISKKY IN THE UOItM). DIAMOND STAR (3 for 10c.) CIGAItSj guaranteed clear IlavanS, filling. Don't forget, even if we are the largest retail Cigar and Liquor dealers in Wil mington, that we are also the Cheapest Grocers. P. L. Bridgers & Co. . march 30-tf VICTORIOUS: TRIUMPHANT: AT THE AT THE Centennial Exposition Exposition UniverscUe Phila., 1876. Paris, 187S. The Stieff" unrivalled Grand, Upright and Square Pianos, the recipients of more than sixty first premiums and Gold and Silver Med als, including the Medal of Merit and Diploma of Honor at the Centennial Exposition in 1S76, have achieved at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878, over all American and many for eign competitors, their GRAND CROWNING TlUUMPIl THE MEDAILLE D'ARGENT . anu a DI- PLOME D'HONNEUR, Together with a Special Certificate of Merit to .Tacob Gross, Superintendent of the Stieff Factory, for his extraordinary skill displayed in every part of their construction, the whole forming a Grand Award, higher by fai than that of any other American Exhibit, and dem onstrating beyond doubt the immense supe riority oi tne atien instruments. Ihe "SticrT" combines every quality neces sary for perfection in a Piano. Its rich, grand, mellow and powertul tone has ever been ex celled by any otner instrument. Especially in the treble does the " Stieff" Piano show its superiority over all others, by the bell-like clearness, sweetness and singing quality of tone, which lend to it an inestimable charm r or quickness of response to the finger and evenness of touch throughout the entire scale, laultle6s action, unsurpassed durability and artistic finish, this Piano has justly earned a world wide reputation . SKCUND-IIAND PIANOS of all makers constantly in stock, at from $75 to $300. Sole Agent for the Southern States of -the Peloubet, Pel ton & Co., and other makes of ORGANS. Catalogues of Pianos and Organs sent on application. : Address CTIAS. M. STIEFF, 9 North Liberty Street, nov 12-tf Baltimore, M1 RALEIGH Christian Advocate. THE MTU CAROLINA SI. E. JOURNAL FINE AQVERTSIXG MEDIUM. Address, BLACK & REID, Raleigh, N. C. rah 29-tt L I XT ELL' S Living Age. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY. The Livixa Agb gives 52 numbers of 64 pages each, or more than three and a quarter thousand double-column octavo pages of reading matter yearly. The ablest and most cultivated intellects in Europe, and especially in Great Britlan, write for it. t Eight dollars a year, free of postage. . Extra cop; to the getter up of a club of 5 subscribers. I XJTTELL & GAY, oct 33-tr i 17 Bromfleld street, Boston WILMINGTON SUN Daily Democratic Newspaper THE SUN HAS SIH 11 IDT CAPITAL for 11 its purposes, and it will use its; money freely in funiishin;r- the people of North Carolina with the laiet and most reliable r- information on all subjrets of current interest. 'Above all things it will be a NE WSPA VER. An yet an im portant feature erf The Sin's daily issues will be intelligent criti- . ' cisirts of the World's doings. North Carolina matters industrial, cominer c-ial, educational, social and literary wil receive particular attention. The Sr:' w ill be a North Carolina Newspaper. SUIJSOR1ITION. The Wii'm.migton Sun will be furnished to subscribers at the following reasonable and uniform rates For one week . , ... .15 Cents GO 1 ?5 .... :s no 7 00 month . " three months.. six : twelve " At these latcs Tin: Si x will be left by carrier in the city, or mailed to any address ir his country. ADVERTISING. One Square, (10 linesionc time, . . $ 1 tO " it " tw o times. . 1 t,i) ' one wd-k .", ;,m '' -one month ..... U 00 u tfirec months'.-. . 20 O.J " six months..'.. . :J5 00 " " " twelve .-months.. 50 00 Contracts for other space and time made proportionately low rates. . ' ? . COREEHPONDKNX'K. Iatereeting correspondence solicited. Address, THE SUN, Wilmington, N. C. mi South-Atlantic ! A MONTHLY M.AOAZIXH OF LITERATIM, SCIENCE A5U Alt! The Corps of Contributors includes "several of the most distinguished Authors of the pre, cut day. A serial story, ioeriis, sketches review s, scientific and historical articles win appear in every number. The Magazine win contain only original literature . I Subscription one year 00. Single copy 30 cents. ' - ADVERTISTNd TERMS: . 1 page one year. u n it 75 00 : - - 5o 00 . . ro 00 . . .25 00 . 15 (XI 10 00 . . 5 (XI ' l ( u u ( u a ( ( 4 4 Advertisements on cover pages, are charge 50 per cent, additional. Persons w ho order specimen copies must enclose 30 cents. MSS. sent for .examination will not bt "re turned unless the author sends the requisite number of stamps. MSS. will not be taken out of the P. O. un less sufficient postage has been prepaid. Liberal terms to local agents. ; CLUBS. :Any person lending us ten yearly subscribers, with the money, will be entitled to one annual subscription. .' All communications should be addressed, to Mug. CICERO W. HARRIS, Editor and Proprietor, . Wilmington, T. C . Messrs. Goodwin & Lewis, 3i N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, Mil., General Agents.- - NOTICES OF THE PRESS. (Wilmington Star.) There is steady improvement. '. (New Yohk World.) Deserves the support of all Southern readers. (New York Sun.) We wish success to this interesting enter prise (Weldon News.) It is a, magazine of merit and we wish it much success " (Chronicle and Constitutionalist.) It richly deserves the cordial support of all our people. (Biblical Recorder.) It is printed in large, clear type and ts a credit to the State. (Greensboro Patriot.) It.is ably edited, handsomely printed, ami gives promise of being a very, very interesting publication. - (Elizabeth City Economist.) Altogether creditable. . Its contributors are fi rst-class and its mechanical and typographical execution Excellent. fTl ir.i.STinwo Rprnniivn . Its list of contributors is an an able one ...,.!: T ...:n . .jtiiu. it BiiRLiuueu, win ensure me permanent, success of the enterprise. (Wilmington Post.) It is a first-class literay magazine, and one. that the people of this city should be proud of; and pationize, as well as the people of the w hole state. (Rai.eigii Observer.) It is needless to say we wish it success, auJ that w e look forward with pride, as well Us pleasure, to the r :sult of the enterpise as one that will reflect honor upon the State. (Oxford Torchlight.) - The typographical execution of the magazine is very fine, and in point of appearance, con tents, and indeed in all respects it is a publi cation which must commend itself to the public. . (Graham Gleaner.) Jt give promise of being eminently worthy of public patronage. No commendation of ours would equal a simple statement of the table of its contents, with the naces . of the contributors, w hich w e give" as an ei. idenee of of the worth' of the periodical. (Farmer and Mechanic.)'. Here we have a rich bill ol fare from Seuth ern writers, catered by a Southern lady and printed by Southern printers, on Southern paper. Ye who bewail the lack of Southern literature, and home-fostered talent, ehall this enterprise live, and expand? (Wilson Advance.) The magazine is well gotten up. The sub ject matter is varied and entertaining, while its tvnrirrrnrihifiil nnnparaiicfl is a model OI neatness, and reflects the highest credit upon the exquisite taste and excellent judgment that suggested and directed its consummation. (Norfolk Virginian.) This publication appeals to the people of the South for a staple support. It richly merits it and we feel will receive it. We know of mo Southern literary venture, that has exhibited so much merit, united with an evidence ol management that must win for it a position in the ranks of magazine literature and hold it. (Petersburg Index & Appeal.) The South-Atlantic has this merit over any of its predecessors in the same arena, that its content are solid, though not heavy, and that no room appears to haTe been intended in it for productions of a trashy and frivolous character. While it continues to adhere to this rule, it will have every claim on Southern and general support, and we sincerely trust 11 win receive 11. (Danville News.) ThLs is a most excellent publication a mag azine of high character, an honor to the State, and a credit to the whole South. ' All its pages are tilled with articles of superior excellence and interest. It has for its contributors some of the best known authors in the South, is ably edited and neatly printed. This splendid monthly deserves a liberal patronage as a first class southern enterprise. .' (Raleigh Newb.) Peculiarly Southern in its character-and numbering, among its contributors some of the be&t and -most vigorous writers jn the country, it bears upon its face the stamp of originality and force. The Interest of its serial stories has never ceased, while the shorter, casual articles have been marked by a vigor peculiarly their own. All topics are discussed, and thus - the world's progress is closely followed. The magazine has from its inception been received with peculiar favor by North Carolinians, nor have its merits failed to receive lust encomiums from persona of ability everywhere. tf
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