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PUBNBLd PBKOVlfCBBTJBIE OIVIlT Mt6? CLUBS. The city circulation of COVNTT COinniSSIOltEBS. Synopsis of tne Proceedings. A regular monthly meeting of the Board of County Commissioners was held yesterday. "7 B.

G. Larkins having completed Long Bndge to the satisfactibn of the Board, and having filed a bond for the proper maintenance of said bridge, it was ordered that he be paid for the same the sum of $196, according to the contract It was brdered; that the polling places for the election in August be the same as hereiofore established and used at the election in 1872, the 'only change being in the Third Ward in the city of Wilmington," which is changed to Giblem Lodge building, corner of Eighth and Princess streets. It was ordered that the tax books of the city and the several townships for the year 1874, as preparedly Geo. D. Flack for the Board, be approved, and the Clerk was infracted to make the necessary certificate and affix the county seal and turn the said books over to the Sheriff of the county for the collection of the taxes It was ordered that Wm.

Sherman be paid $200 for putting; drawer in Beatty's Petition of R. Phinney, in reference to a license to retail spirituous liquors, was The. following is a list of Judges and Poll-holders appointed by the Board for the election to be held on Thursday, August 0th WILMIKGTON TOWNSHIP. First Ward (Upper Division) D. M.

Smith, Register; Wm. Phinney, Owen Dove, O. JThornton, Polling Thornton's Cart 7 -ffu. r. First Ward.

(Lower Division) John H. Brown, Register; T. C. Lewis, Robert Or-rell, W. Bradley, Jas.

A. Lowrey. Voting-place, Brooklyn Engine House. Second Ward J. 'J.

Register; Jas. F. Post, J. C. Lumsden; Chas.

Mal-lett, Geo. Jackson. Polling place, Court House. i Tldrd WardB. M.

Shoemaker, Register; H. VonGlahn, C. F. M. Bissenger, Jas.

Dry, L. E. Rice. Polling place, Giblem Lodge Hall. Fourth Ward Wm.

McLaurin, Register; W. P. Oldham, Walter G. MacRae, C. S.

Servos J. EL Cutlar. Polling place, Ann Street Engine House. Fifth Ward Anthony Howe, Register; Geo. D.

Flack, Frank Singletary, John Mc-Entee, Hiram nankins. GasiceU TovmsJup (North side) Ai V. Horrell, Register; J. B. Croom, A.

M. Col-vin, Ephram Hawes, Geo. McDuffie. Polling place, Point Caswell. pasweU Township.

(South side) Henry Hall, Register; Geo. Corbett, W. S. Pridgen, Sandy Jackson Lewis. Polling place, at the Gum.

JfcrnettW. W. Humphry, Register; J. Ennett, James Grant, D. C.

Davis, Jordan Nixon. Polling place, Humphrey's house. Federal Point Stephen Keyes, Register; Sol Reaves, H. L. Horn, Jos.

Burris, Joseph- Davis. Polling' place. Little's StorcK County Commissioners. An adjourned meeting of the BoardJ of County Commissioners was held yesterday Commissioner Morris was appointed Chairman pro tern, during the absence of Chairman Martin this summer. Mr.

Morris was authorized by the Board to sign warrants on the Treasurer for payment of county claims. Jos. D. John S. P.

Hand, Jesse Jordan and John Kinney were appointed jurors for the pnrpose of adjusting a land claim at Leesburg, the said jurors having beenappointed on report made by H. A. Colvin, County, Surveyor and and petition of James Murray, Noah Murray and James Murray. It was ordered that the contract for the care of the sick and indigent at the County Poor House be extended with H. E.

Scott in accordance with proposition as modified May 17th, regarding the erection of buildings and other matters; the contract to' be drawn up and submitted, to the Board for approval. James Dry, in the Third Ward of the city, and W. H. Waddell, of Masonboro, were excused from- serving as Registers1 of Election and J. C.

Scott was appointed," vice Dry and John Otfoway, vice WddelL Application of Trustees of Holly Township for authority to levy a tax to defray the township expenses wasnof granted, aa the application was recejlyed too late, the taxes having been leviaftde; books ingm the hands of the- Sheriff for collec-tion. Report 'W 'EViRivenbark, vJ6tin jV Moore Johan Boney and David Johnson, the jury, appointed by the. Board-do the matter of determining tfe boundary lines of the land of Mrs, Martha Johnson and the heirs John E. Johnson and John D. Powers, was received, but an appeal was prayed for and ordered granted on filing of bond as required by laW.

The Board then adjourned subject to the call of the Chairman. Tne Slander Suit Arrest of James Heaton Application for Redue- tion of BaU, James Heaton, a member of the last Legislature from this County and present Republican candidate for Superior Court Clerk on the regular ticket, was arrested yesterday on an indictment for slander, at the instance of Mayor W. P. Canaday, of this city. He was taken before Maj.

J. Mann, Superior Court Clerk, who fixed his bail at $10,000, the amount of the damages claimed by the plaintiff. We learn that Mr. Heaton has applied through his counsel, Judge Cant-well, for a reduction of the, bail, on the ground that it is excessive, and that he Will have a hearing before Judge Russell tbs afternoon, at 4 o'clock, defendant in the meantime remaining in the custody of the Sheriff or one of his deputies. ftobeson Politics.

A friend at Lumbcrton informs us that the Radical Convention which assembled there on the 4th inst was again', afailure. BusseU on Civil Bights. I Opinion of jHdsce Bussell In tne Matter o'f tbe Theatrical Im- brosllo. I From The1 Morning1 Star of October 24, 1873.1 7 The following- is of Judge Russell in the cases of Hostler, Sampson, Robinson and Price, who sued out peace warrants against Mr. E.

Pennypacker, Lessee of the Opera House, a week or two since. The circumstances are sufficiently explained in tbe document which follows: This is a proceeding before a Justice of the; Peace, wherein the defendants were bound in a recognizance to keep the peace upon the complainf of one E. J. Penny-packer. It appears from the evidence that Pennypacker is the proprietor or tenant in possession of a certain -public Theatre or Opera House in the city, of Wilmington; that defendants, having procured tickets, -presented themselves at this Theatre, and attempted to get admission therein; that the prosecutor refused them admittance, upon which they attempted to force their way in; that he forcibly resisted their attempt; that one of them succeeded in getting inside the house, while the others were prevented from On the next day; the prosecutor having heard that defendants had -threatened to force their way in the house when opened again for another public entertainment, and having formed and expressed a purpose to prevent them from entering the house, applied to the Mayor of the city for a police force to suppress disturbance and protect him in his possession; and also institu ted this judicial proceeding.

That de- fendants did attempt to enter, after liein forbidden by the prosecutor, and that they did present themselves for admittance in a manner that might well have been considered menacing and disorderly, eeems to be established by the evidence that they cherished a purpose to repeat their attempt and to accomplish it by force, seems to have been honestly believed- by the prosecutor; and this belief is, I think, sustained by all the From these facts it follows that the prosecutor was justified in suing out this process; and the question asto whethefrhe had a right to exclude these parties is not to 'be considered. No one is allowed to assert or enforce a mere civil right by resorting to violence. If one has my property and wrongfully withholds it, I have no right to take it from him forcibly. If one wrongfully obtains possession of the house of another, the owner, although he have an absolute title and an unquestionable right of possession, must not violently seize, the premises and forcibly eject the possessor. If he does he is answerable to tbe criminal law, and it will be no defence for him to set up title in himself.

This is so even in a case when the party in possession is a mere wrong doer, a trespasser abimiio.A.n mn keeper or common carrier has no right arbitrarily or capriciously to refuse to entertain or carry a per son. Yet, if they do unlawfully so refuse, it is not for the injured party to take upon himself those powers which belong only to tlje officers of the law, and thus seek to enforce his rights according to his own construction of them, and by a resort to force not authorized by any legal process. To allow it would be to authorize the commission of acts inconsistent with the peace of society and subversive of all public order and safely. Enough appeared in the examination of these cases to. slum that in truiJi there was a controversy between these parties as to the right of the defendants, whd are men of color, to accommodations and privileges in this tfiealre equal to those enjoyed bg other persons.

Assuming that this house is a place of entertainment for ihe general public, that it is licensed by the laws of the State, and that there is nothing in its objects or character tchidt, relieves it from those legal rules which apply to the governmentof aU institution in which the public hat i 'an interest and BIGHTS piIi AS "THB RIOST DAIS If A QIfi OtTBAGE. "Purnellin a speech at Henderson-ville on July 1 the Civil Rights bill was the most damnable outrage that had ever been perpetrated upon tne civilized nations, and that the author ought to be held jp to the execration: of 'mankind." This is an extract from a private letter just received by a gentleman in this city from a friend in The says the letter-writer, are the speaker's almost verbatim. Tommy didn't talk that wny in tbe Eagt. Tommy is a dough -face. In the negro counties he is quiet as a mouse on, the Civil Rights question.

In the mountain regictn, among whije men, he a savage opponent of special rights for colored people. Tommy has no peculiar privilege that we know of permitting him to advocate one doctrine in one part of the State only to utterly repudiate it in another. Tommy is either a Civil Rights man or he is not CiviT Kights man. If be is a Civil Rights man he ought to be manly enough to let his mountain friends know it. he is a bitter enemy of Civil Rights, as his Henderson speech would seem to indicate, let him tell the; Republicans of the East that he is.

There is no getting on both sides of the fence, Ku Klux Tommy. You must know that your "brilliant career is closely watched by your many, admiring friends, who would te pained to see you add further indiscretions and plunders to those you have already committed There is a regular mail connecting us with the far Western country. We down here may not hear from you in a day, but we will certainly hear in a week, or less any remarkable statement like that contained in the above extract. And newspapers have. much, pleasure in publishing the doings and.

wise sayings of -enterprising, talented young men, like yourself. Tommy, walk a chalk, little boy. ADDITIONS TO CLUBS. 1 Many of our friends who have raised clubs for the Weebxt Star write to know. if more names can be added on the terms under which the clubs have been raised.

To all such inquiries we say after ten namea have been sent, at one of one or -more subscribers may be made at l.00 per copy. THE inPORTANGB OP THE JUDICIAL ELECTION. We must elect the Conservative candidate for the judgeship of the Fonrtlf District. The Pear would roll discontentedly iit his bed if Daniel Russell should be The people would be and Justice herself would weep; indeed. Calamity would bare his arm for.

the undoing of the land. We must have a change in the administration of We need and must have a Judge On the bench with the requisite ability, experience, impartiality and fearlessness. McKoy is that man. The Conservatives do not expect him to make a Conservative Judge, but they do expect him to be a' true Judge, for all the people, uns werved by unmoved by prejudice, clear-headed in decisions, honorable and. right-minded.

The people know and are willing to trust the scales of justice in his hands. He will hold them impartially and. with a firm, steady hand. The ermine in in which he will sit clothed and adorned will never receire stain. 'The importance of this Judicial election is not" rightly appreciated.

If it were, McKoy's majority would be more than a thousand. Let the people arouse, Let them, put it ber yond the power of a Judge of the Superior Court to construe civil rights into wrongs, to disturb the reasonable and beautiful order of nature for the sake of partisan advantage. The Distrust does not need a Judge Russell ready to go out of his way and declare the equality of the races in places of amusement, and therefore in other public places. It is time enough for a Judge to decide this question when it is brought before him, especially since so many able lawyers express the opinion that the Civil Rights bill is unconstitutional. This "Independent" candidate fox the Senate from the District, com-Poseu of Duplin and Wayne requests us to state that' our informaut is in error wheu he charges him with hobnobbing with Judge Russell's friends for political or other purposes.

Our "Independent" friend says he is a strong supporter of ColMcKoyVand that the latter wilt receive the full Conservative vote'of the county of Duplin. cheerfnlly give the "Independent'': the of this statement, i tdtlg ttx7 WM; H. tdttpr and Proprietor. WILMINGTON, Friday; JulyOth, 1874. TERMS TO CLUBS.

5 and under 10, each, one year, $1.85 lQr more, each, one 1.00 It ifl not required that Clnba be made up at one Post-OfQce. The number is all that Is necessary to eecnfe the rates to thOBe who constltnte the Club, as the paper will be directed to as many different Post-Offlces as there are subscribers, if desired. Payment must accompany every order. A cop of the paper will be famished without charge to those who raise Clubs of 10 or more. Remittances must be made by Check, Draft, Postal; Money Order, or Registered Letter.

Poit-Masters will register letters when Only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. Specimen copies forwarded when desired. North Carolina Election, AUGUST 6th, 1874. J- A StTPEEINTENDENT OF PtTBUC II'- Stx; Judges vof the Su- PEEIOR COUET, TWELTB SoiICTtORS, Hkhbebs op the 1EeiSIa.TURE, AND CotTNTT AND Township Officers are to be CHOSEX. For Superintendent of Public In- struction; STEPHEN; D.

POOL, ok Craven. -r 'y1-; i- FOR JUDGES. First District MILLS L. EURE, of Gates. Fourth District ALLMANB A.

McKOY, of Sampson. Fifth District. AltTII OLO-MEW FULLER, of Cumberland: Seventh District-JOHN KERR, of Caswell. Eighth District THOMAS J. WILSON, of Forsyth.

Ninth SCHENCK, of Lincoln. FOR. 1st District-JESSE YEATES, of Hertford, .1: 3d District ALFRED M. WAD-DELL, of New Hanover. 4th District JOSEPH 3 of Franklin.

5th District A ED M. SCALES, of Rockingham. eth District THOMAS S. ASHE, of Anson. 1th District WILLIAM M.

ROB-. BINS, of Rowan. 8th District. OBERT B. VANCE, of Buncombe, soLicrroRS fob fourth and FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

fourth DistritWUJAAM 5 S. -Robeson. 5th District SAMUEL J. PEM-BERTON, of Stanly. RADICAIi CONSISTENCY THE STATE CANDIDATE OF THE RADICALS PBOTEN TO BE A KIT KLVX.

The evidence that Thomas R. Pur-nell, Radical, candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction, was. a member of the Ku Klux Klan is overwhelming. Mr. Mathes, editor of the Winston Sentinel, says that urnell was initiated ipto tbe.

Order of the White Brotherhood in the town jviutui, our. inatuea auu ufcuci a. xxc 'also publishes a statement from Mr. CAmos WiU a fwell-kriown and respectable citizen of Davidson county; as follows: i I am positive and cerlaibj I know the fact that T. Kv PurnelLwas aKuKln, thoroughly versed in tbe signs and sects of the order.

cave Purnell the signs before I 1 9 If .11 I A. li I spoke to him ob the subject, and he re- i i it. i pueu oy signs, wuereupon, estu ueuigcuu vinced that the other was a we i joined in a conversation about the order and he knew all about it, and admitted that he was a member. a Mr. Robert Dicka bas telegraphed Mr.

Mathes that bd has forwarded a statement to the same i effect. Heretofore these statements were made-and generally believed by Conservatives. These latest statements appear to fix the matter beyond -dis- pnte. Mr. Purnell; was a Ku Klux.

He took tho signs and grips. He conversed with members about business of -the' clan, wbatever that was. If Kii Klnjif were, as has always been charged by? Radicals, a band 'of assassins and desperadoes, Mr. Purnell is as responsible as any-. lwxiy else for acts of lawlessness committed, by them.

Some Of the; Re-. publicans profess to have a holy horror of tlte Ku Klnx. Mr. Purnell, their candidate, was a member of that secret: society 4 now can tney. vote for Mr.

Purnell-? Where is their if they do On the testimony Of Responsible and iflnential gentlemen it- is now i clearlestablished as the sun in heaven that tbe Republican candidate for theorily State office to be" filled this year was a member of th Ku Klu Klan. Will all the Republicans, who -have bitterly mem- Tiii liia ont iof a a VAnrrfia on4 LC I 9 VI Mil? owiV Viv m7 a wuuo auvft cut thrpaW eat words and vote for Thomas Purnell? Are they TTn prepareu iu euuurse vuo uiuu at this late day after, denouqeing them in terms of fierce and bitter hate The colored people- generally wU vote iii'this lection. Will the wbUe men stay at when the issues so Now is tb.e time tor gtijing up Clubs tothe.WEEXiT STAR. Show tbe paper to your- neighbors 'and friends, and get them to join in. We want the bfggest subscription list in North Carolina.

Remember that this is theyear for an important general election which all North Carolinians are interested. All Conservatives should do their utmost to increase our circula-tion, as they can thereby contribute materially to the success of the r'l We have no club rates for any but yearly subscribers but for 10 or more subscribers the paper is only $1.00 per copy per year. 1 Bestir yourselves, friends, before the campaign fully opens. Nothing is easier than to secure a club of 10 or 20 subscribers. CBESWELL'8 FLACK.

Grant offered the office of Postmaster General to Eugene Hale, but when it was ascertained that this was a part of Mn Speaker Blaine's advance movement on the Presidential chair, there arose a hitch, Mr. Hale declined and Grant accepted the declination. Score Grant is anxious for the third term. This was Part First of tbe Comedy Of Errors in Selecting a -Postmaster General," being' a sequel to that other rich drama, How not to Choose a Chief 'Justice until after a Considerable Waite." It was a neat thing while it lasted, but it left a painful impression on mind of Mr. Blaine.

Perhaps we might say that it was something of a chilblain out of season. But the Second Act is likewise good, that is to say, a successful way of showing how to do a wrong thing. Barely missing a Cabinet officer who would intrigue in the interests of a powerful rival, the President decides to recall his Minister jto' Russia, who is a perfect Jewell of Republican partisan-ism, and invest him the command of one of the Departments, one that exerts its influence on elections more powerfully perhaps than any under the" Government. Only the other day Gov. Jewell was sent to St, Petersburg.

recall him at this early day take charge pf a Government Department 'seems a little like Presidential fickleness, though it may bexmly an evidence of Grant's partiality for his favorites. He honored Jewell by sending him on a first-class mission. He pleases him, it is hinted, by" calling him to fill a Cabinet The whole affair is as farsical as the. fight with Senate over the Chief Justiceship. A COPY REE.

Notwithstanding the. present low irie of subscription, we have decided to send ione copy of the Wkkkly Star free to every person sending a club of 10 or more cash This is equivalent to 11 copies for $10.00 or, about 90 per copy. T0E SAVINGS BANK SMASH. Tear after year tbe poor colored voter has allowed the, sharp-jawed, long-nosed, sneak-eyed gentleman from New England to lead him about by the proboscis whithersoever- the adventurer would. Blindly has he voted as the carpet' bagger would dictate.

Xuffee has been cheated out of his rights, privileges liberties and all by these knightly braves from the slams arid penitentiaries of the North'. Even his little earnings have now been gobbled up the mickles he carefully stowed 'away for a rainy day in the National Sav4ngs-anks. The concern nas bnrsted The bank is The fraud is known. Poor deceived one miserable deceivers. "-j There is a lesson in this disaster the colored men of the South should learn.

Let them henceforth trust to their own sense of right, their 'own judgment, and put themselves no in the control of sharpers and vagabonds. Some sort' of excuse will be made for the explosion of this bank, but the. best form of. words known to tne language can frame no true excuse. The ring at Washington used the funds of thelbank, and the result is the institution" hascollapsed.

Here is the naked truth. The. vile District ring has no greater crime to answer for than this scoundrelisni practiced on the unsuspecting of the South by the coohivance or imbecility of. the Freedmap's National They borrowed money to nse it lav-ishly in corrupt they squandered the money and left' the lender perhaps perhaps shared with him: the plunder. We do not know.

A Morning Star is twitfe as large as that Of any other Wilmington paper. Its city and country -circulation is larger than that of both other Wilmington Dailies last look, at log an. -They seem-teTthink, up inthe Chaiv lotte Judicial District that Logan is the Last of the Mohicans. The sprightly Concord Swn, with a generous sadness worthy of Mark Twain among the innocents 'abroad, extends this touching invitation to the Radical party and the rest of mankind: Any one of bur readers who may desire to take a long farewell of, and last look at Judge Logan should not fail to come to Court next This is the last opportunity of ever beholding his remains, and those of his friends and admirers who fondly cherish his memory should not -debar themselves this last high privilege. He can be seen at the Court House any day during the -week, except on Tuesday on that day D.

Schenck will address the people and; Logan will be hid from public As Logan has. always aspired to be the Jeffreys fNorth Carolina, this notice to his': stately remains should be generally heeded most gratefully. It will be good to be there. For the Morning Star. COUNTY? COidlHISSIONlEflS.

Messrs. Editors I see in ths morning's "Stab, that Ihe county taxes on Real-and Personal property amount to upwards of fifty-three thousand dollars, and I learn that the taxes pdid by merchants and others not included in the property tax above named, will amount to, at least, fifteen thousand dollars additional, making an aggregate of county taxes to be collected from the people of New Hanover county for the years 1874, of sixty-eight thousand ($68,000) dollars. Now, how many, do you suppose, of our struggling tax payers, know what is to become of this vast sum, wrung from their bard, and oftentimes, scanty earnings Will it not be well for them to consider at the coming election, 6th of August next, what sort of persons shall have the handling of this money? u'r i The County Commissioners, then to be elected, will have the spending of every cent of this vast sum of money, and it consequently becomes the duty and interest of every good citizen, and bad citizen too, to see ttiat every candidate voted for as a County-Commissioner, is honest and capable of spending sixty-eight thousand ($68,000) dollars for the best interests of New Hanover county. I know there are some beggars and "jion-compotes," that are straggling to get on the Board ofCounty Commissioners, for the chance it affords them of making the pitiful sum of $2 per day during tbe sessions of the Board. It would be much better for tax-payers, if this class must be fed at the public expenseto pay them this miserable pittance, and keep them where their impotence will hurt no one but themselves.

7' Vulcan. ff For 10' or; raorefstibBoriberu to price issbn5y ONE DOLLAR per copy, per year. At this price we ought to have subscribers at every Post-Office in North Who will send the. next Club ONSLOW. Mr.

Davis spoke to five hundred people at Jacksonville, Onslow county, last Monday. We learn that his speech was enthusiastically received and that the county is alive to the issues of the campaign and will give her usual majority. '-J CAPT. W. 8.

NORAKENT. This gentleman, the Conservative candidate for the Solieitorship in the Fourth District, is doing yeoman service in Jbe canvass. He is a fluent, pleasant, effective speaker, and makes a fine impression. He will be elected by a considerable majority. There is a movement in Georgia for the.

union in a great central university of all the universities and Colleges of the State. The following able committee to perfect a plan of combination has beenappointed by Gov. Smith Rev. J. 0.

A Clark, ex-Governor J. Brown; Gent John B. Gordon, Hon. H. Hill and D.

David' WUls, thelast recently President of: Oglethorpe (Presby-. terian) in The Savannah Adoeriiser-RepiLbtican believes that the great great majority of the thinking men of the State, heartily approve this patriotic plan for establishing an educational institu-tin. thapwill piacfcGeorgla in the very front rank Vh Virginia, Massachusetts and thelibear patronage of her educational institutions. Yet it is feared that there are high and inflnehtial digni-J taries in the various denominational colleges who think the design' will' retard the progress of their wa religious sect, and who will, forgetting the good of the people at large, and the glory of the State, work tnr the. success of their net institutions.

A grand npivcrsity inK North Carolina would do more for the cause and nmoress in the State than all the- denomi- and inderjendent cblleaes that could be started. APPOl NTMBNTS TO SPEAK IN THE FOURTH JTUBICIAL DISTRICT. The Hon. George Davis will address the people at the following times and places: Shoe Heel," Roesori county, Friday, Kenanville, Duplin county, Tuesday, juiyi. COLi WAVHELL'S CANVASS.

uuu. will address his fehow-cltizeM at the following rr A Xf widdeil. canouutB lor vudstceb, times nd place: July 11th, Saturday-'Tha Hollow.V Bladen isith. MmdaT-Elizahethtown, Bladen Co. ti iAft.

TiieuUT White Hall. Bladen Co. JutV lSthl WednesdftyiBrinWey'a, Brunswick Co. 1 Jnly nth, Qbrdo, Columbus, county. JnW JOth'.

MbndayHeires4 Roads, Columbus Co. Ju MsTuesday-Cook-i Storeolumb county dVenesLy inner appoiuuueuin, a 1 Masonboro' Eli jah Hyrlelt, Register; J. UeasleyHenry JUartendale, W. H. Wad? Joseph Smiin Polling place, -Per-vine's Creek.

-V Cape F'eariL E. Scott, Register; Samuel Davis, Sanders, Murphy Ward, Emanuel Williams. Polling place, Williams' house. Rocky Fowl A. Garaburg, Register; Rob't Marble, G.

W. Hill, D. T. Durham, David H. Armstrong, Rob't Marble, G.

W. Hill. Polling place, Rocky Point Depot. Holden John Penny, Register; Jas. Moore, P.

H. Hand, Thos. Lewis, John Kinney: Polling place, Burgaw Depot Union J. D. Sellars, Register; S.

C. Fillyaw, John D.1 Powers, Rufus Garris, Elijah Voting place, South Washington. Grant Alfred Lloyd, Register; R. Nixon, D. McMillan, Thos.

Nixon, Andrew Nixon. Polling place, Sandy Run. Holly Thos. Williams, Register; Jacob S. James, W.

B. Player, Samuel Hill, Samuel Rochelle. Polling place, Shaking Creek. Votumbia C. M.

-Galloway, Register; G. F. WalkerrH. S. Everett, Seymour Wagg-staff, Bryant Gurganus.

Polling place, Piney-i Woods. Lincoln W. J. Bivens, Register; F. H.

BellvW. W. Larkins, John Bell, Jno. W. Williams.

Polling place, Lillington. Adjourned until this morning, at 10 o'clock. Politics In Cumberland. At a Mass Meeting of the Conservatives of Cross Creek Township, held in the Town Hall at Fayetteville on Friday evening, July 3rd, at 8 o'clock, of which W. C.

McDuffie was Chairman and A. Harrington, Secretary, the following resolution, introduced- by -ex-Senator W. C. Troy, was unanimously adopted: '-s 1 That it is the sense of this Convention that our able candidate for Congress, Hon. A.

M. Waddell, has fully and thoroughly; satisfied the minds of our people upon his action in Congress; and has placed the white people of this district under lasting obligations to him for his bold and emphatic opposition, both in Congress and upon the stamp, to the infamous civil rights and social equality proposition. Copies.of this resolution were ordered to be printed, and circulated throughout the entire Congressional District. The meeting was large and enthusiastic; A Democratic-Conservative Campaign Club was organized for efficient work in the canvass, of which Dr. W.

McDuffie was elected President, W. F. Campbell Vice President, A. A. Secretary, J.

H. Myrover, Corresponding Secretary, and-Chas. Treasurer. Speeches were made, jncluding one from S. H.

Fishblate, of this city, who, we are assured, responded in a. earnest, eloquent, cheering effort to the repeated calls made npon Old Cumberland Is wide awake Fire as RlagnolTa. On Tuesday night, about 10 the quiet town of Magnolia was thrown into excitement "by the alarm of fire, -which proved to have originated in a dwelling occupied by Mr. J. T.

Groves. The family barely escaped with their lives, saving comparatively not -even sufficient clothing to dress, themselves fire originated, it is about the stove. Among the furniture consumed was a fine, piano. There wasj no- insurance on the furniture 01? building. we regret to learn, falls heavily on a worthy young man and his family, who were illy able to sustain it.

I JThey put out a ticket, -it is true, but- great J'dissatisfactioH was expressed that day and is still rife. Dr. R. M. Iorment leads the ticket, rice W.

P. Barnes, removed because he did not suit Nprment as a colleague. Alonzo G. Lewis has also been displaced and E. K.

Proctor nominated in his stead for Register of Deeds. The Board of Commissioners has been revised, Proctor's place being supplied by a colored Sinclair, our friend informs us, is rampant, and says he will stump the county against some of the Radical brotherhood and also against the ticket put forth by the Rads. last An Additional Luminary. A gentleman writing to us from Point Caswell under date of the 1st speaks as follows of an astromomical phenominon which startled the natives of that quiet burgh: 'About 2 o'clock P. M.

two distinct suns were seen here, the hew. one not looking quite as glaring as tbe old one, but had enough of brilliancy about it to keep any one from gaziag directly at it for any. length of time. The position of the new sun was a little West of the old one. This fact can be attested by reliable witnesses." Thia throws Bald Mountain in the shade Politic In.

Brunswick. July Convention of the Radicals as; sembled.at Smithvipe oii the 4th, four townships being 3Rhere was a great amount of talk by. the' SJrjff others, the affair winding-up, in' ttrrgwihg. Rosafy overboard entirely, a comptete repudiation of the Towi Creek CohvenlibB; and A call for a new Convention to assemble at Town Creek on the lStbrmst. Xegg, avis and Griffin were'leiSdvd'Slegates to said Con-: vention.

F'J: We learn further 'that the Convention finajly broke up in a row and that there was Considerable fighting. State and County Taxes. The tax books for 1874 were turned oyer to the Sheriff he will commence the collection of the same immedi ately. is rendered notessary from the fact that the law requires him to visit every township during the present month. The aggregale" valuation orVeal' and personal property in the county is $7,958,742.

Total county taxes to be collected this year. 53,300.47 Total.State 37,931,74 Grand total State and $91,232,21 About one-eighteenth, of the entire tax of the State is paid by the county. Change of Appointment. We are informed by the Conservative Executive Committee of Bladen County that Col. Waddell has changed his appointment of July 14th from Dalton to White Hall, Bladen His opponent, Neill McKay, will also be present ThetVC VL.

Wti Open to rolkton. By aspecial. dispatch from Lanrinburgj received from S. LFremont, General Superintendent, we learn that the Carolina Central Railway is now open for business to Polkton. Passenger trains will run regularly to that place on and after the 10th inst For the present freight to that point must be prepaid.

'McharestabSedpr permitted for the public good as toaiAoj which there was no evidence-and hence I express no opinion assuming Oiat this is the fact, 1 apprehend tltat the rightoftliese defendants to precisely the same accommodatioTis a nd Vie same treatment as other persons, will not be questioned: Ihe pretension that any person or class may be prevented from resorting to a public place whose doors are open to aU but Uiem and denied to them only on account of color or race, will not be toleraudby any Court honestly and sincerely desirous of 'expounding the Constitution and laws according to their true intent and meaning. It maybe that the manager of this theatre has the' right to separate different classes of persons whose close association is not agreeable to each other always reTnanberui- -that he must not discriminate against but convenience and aU other considerations for which the parties pay their money, shall be the sasne as to all, or so nearly so as to furnish no substantial cause of complaint by any. Thia opens a wide field of argument into which I have not the time to enter. The defendants, by adopting unlawful means of asserting what they believedJtobe a right, have rendered themselves amendable to this proceeding. If it was their purpose to test' a legal right, they ought to have kept inside of the law not to have constituted themselves violators of the whose protection and assistance they were seeking.

This much is said in reference to the rights of the parties lest the decision of this cause shall be misunderstood. A court is always sustained in giving expression to an obiter dictum -when the purpose is simply to avoid a misconception of the extent. or bearing of its decision. This opinion is formed almost without any opportunity for reflectionf without any argument by counsel and without consulting a single authority. Hence I do not ask or expect or it any consideration greater than is -usually given by the profession to the dictum of a nmprius Court rendered in the hours of business -and without, that deliberative and mature study always given -to cases which are to be looked to as authority.

I would not have put this opinion in writing but for the apprehension that the! ruling would be misunderstood or misrepresented. It is adjudged that the warrants be dismissed at the cost of the defendants.1 In re-publishing the above 'opinion we have italicized thaVPrtioa which we wish lo call special attention. There are indicationsibat the adoption of -the new Ohio Constitution will be made a partisan question. The Democratic: Com-mitteee of Wayne county has. declared against it, and the Cincinnati Enquirer calls upon the Democracy in all of the other counties to follow tbe example, adding: "It has been clearly shown jbe a partisan Constitution the design of which is to give the Republicans the majority in the General Assembly for all' time to come, even when they are largely in the majority.

The Legislative apportionment with its unequal system no Democrat can sustain either -in policy, or are other: thin 28 equally objectionable in it It will be a dark day for the Democracy of Ohio when the Bew Constitution is put upon them." ::7 Murat Halstead is editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Murat is as dashy as his namesake, the celebrated Commander of Napoleon's cavalry. He, unlike Watter- -son, the brilliant editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, thinks Grant will not be The politicians, he thinks, will fear for his The says: "No party is strong enough to Carry him through the storm of opposi- tion to a third term. Influential men and newspapers in the Republican pafty-frenld A UlVf MV the mere suggestion of a third term." Which is right on the third term question, Watterson or Halstead?.