the carolina watchman vol xiii thirl series salisbury n c july 20 1882 no 40 the ships is now over and any fur ther action must be ashore fully half of the town is burning there will be a landing in force to investi gate the condition of things and if possible render aid democratic county convention it the bounden duty of the white men of . the state to protect these people from the ! oppressive domination of ignorant blacks aud pledge ourselves to such legislature as will secure this end and whereas it is seriously suggested that vigorous effort will soon be made to compel the state by judicial proceedings to pay the fraudulent and unlawful special tax bonds amounting to 22,000,000 issue under legislation passed by the kepublica legislature 1868 and 1809 therefore iteaohed further that the democratic party will resist such recovery and the payment of such bonds by every lawful means the above resolutions were read seriatim and on motion were adopted as a whole aa the platform of the democratic party of north carolina on motion of mr furman the following resolution was adopted : besohed that the present faithful and efficient state executive committee of the democratic party with col oct coke as chairman be and is hereby continued a the executive committee of the party thanking them for the untiring zeal and triumphant results of their past services iiou a s merrimon being called on de livered an address of marked ability the synopsis of which we regret we cannot print in this issue on irs conclusion mr paul b means moved that the thanks of the convention be tendered to judge merrimon by a rising vote for his able masterly eloquent and instructive address which motion being carried all the members of the convention rose to their feet with a shout of applause a compliment as handsome as it was deserv ed j w reid of bockingham being called on made some handsome and eloquent re marks remarks were also made by hon jos j davis capt swift galloway of greene capt c m cooke of franklin andrew joyner of pitt f g skinner of perquimans j m gudger of yancey and w foster french of robeson and after the conclusion of his speech mr r m fur man moved to adjourn leader of a rebellion which is strong er than the government he has the army at his back and is so de termined that nothing but foreign in tervention and probibly war will restrain him he is the head of the party which desires to wrest the gov ernment from the hands of its credi tors and the khedive who is sub servient to england and other foreign powers is almost powerless before him dervish pasha and some of the min isters and the khedive's harem has arrived aboard a vessel in the harbor about 500 loyal troops follow the khedive it is stated that arabi pasha has ouly four thousand very much disorganized troops two hun dred marines have been ordered to march through town and shoot all persons rioting al treasury admini.-tercd with extravagance and profusion of money increasing its function and extend ing its powers and influence far be yond the legitmate purposes of its creation their vast outlay of public moneys for other than necessary uses finds no parallel in the history o world and to the same end they have erected large corporations with dominating influences controlling the action of public men shaping legisla tion affecting public affairs and guid ing the destiny of political parties they have subeidized a part of the press and by the lavish use of public moneys have stilled many voices that might otherwise be raised in behalf of liberty london july 13 — a dispatch to the daily news dated alexandria 8:20 a m says the bedouins are looting by the thousands a dispatch to the standard dated 9:32 a m says the europeans who fought their way down to the beach number a hundred they report all other europeans and christians num bering hundreds massacred london 3 p m — in the house of commons this afternoon gladstone stated that consul cartwright had telegraphed that the khedive had se cured the loyalty of the cavalry and infantry guards sent to watch him and would summon the leading pashas a;id endeavor to re-establish order in alexandria no material progress toward a peace able settlement seems to have been made by the conference of powers and there is vital objection to any ' arrangement which would give tur key renewed hold on egypt though france is said to be urging germany to use her influence with the sultan to effect the deposition of arabi pa&ha ■ as egyptian minister of war and the sultan has disapproved of the : military preparations at alexandria ' against england and frauce these ! military preparations have placed i england in a decidedly hostile atti tude and a london dispatch of yes terday said that the opening of hostil ities was momentarily expected 12:30 p m — the reserve squadron arrived at portland at t o'clock ' this morning the daily news says it is understood that the conference has decided that the egyptian army shall be disbanded and replaced by gen d'amerie how different has been ho prac tice of the democratic party ! in one year when we had control of the house of representatives we forced a reduction o expenses of 40,000 000 and the next year of ten more millions and so on as long a we had the power and so it happened that because of the retrenchment which a democratic congress secured and maintained there arose a surplus of funds in the treasury which has since enabled us to pay off so rapidly our national debt and yet when by mal-adventure the republicans gain ed possession of the house at the present congress and by a corrupt bargain with mahone obtained con trol of the senate they at once began again all manner of schemes to expend the public money for the benefit and welure of their party without regard to the rights of the people wo see then where we are drift ing we see what the course and practice of the republican party is and what is its ultimate aim and purpose and the several mi ans it employs to debauch public sentiment and allay antagonism on the part of the people but will the people not awake to a realization of the danger the question is whether we shall without a strvir^le alluw this grad ual sapping or our inetituti ns the overthrow of our state governments and the enlargement of the federal government iinti she spirit of liber i ty shall depart an»i our free institu tions be merged in • a consolidated empire let me isruiiid you that one night republican ftrance slept — in the morning people awoke to find that an empire had bet established the dangerous tendencies and principles of the republican party 1 p m — the british authorities are chartering a number of vessels to day for the conveyance of munitions to alexandria five thousand mules have een purchased in spain from judge merrimon'a speech before stale convention ealeigh news-observer report a due observance of the organic law and a just and faithful adminis alexandria july 13 — chiltern has move into the harbor the fire in the city is steadily increasing it is reported that the arabi pasha is marching on to cairo tration of government are matters of the highest moment to the citizen upon england as things look now | will devolve the main burden of pun | ishing the rebellious egyptians she has the largest interest at stake be sides her direct interest in the finan ces of egypt she must maintain her self in the suez canal ; already the obstruction of that important water way has been threatened as an inci dent of the egyptian complications and yet in times of peace we are for the most part indifferent to their ob scrvance we feel no pressure on london july 13 — 1:30 p m — admiral seymour telegraphs at 10:40 this ruoruing the terms were the surrender of the forts as at first de manded the use made of the flag of truce by the egyptians is consider ed disgraceful northing is known of the khedive but it is believed he is still at ramleh palace where his yacht is apparently waiting until the weather will allow his embarkation us to regard them and as long as peace prevails and there is nothing to shock the sense of the country and arouse the people they put oft the the trouble in egypt consideration of these questions from time to time this was wrong we from cincinnati enquirer must always seek to preserve and in so far as turkey is concerned the origin of the egyptian trouble is somewhat remote we will go back no further than 1841 when mahemet ali was viceroy of egypt at that time turkey held such sway that the sultan was able to impose conditions which made egypt little more than a turkish province the condition of egypt changed ou the accession of ismael who obtained semi-indepen dence and had conferred upou him the title of khedive which signifies less than sovereignty but more than independence for a money consid eration ismael obtained a concession from turkey placing the right of in heritance in his son and the old ot toman law of colateral inheritane was set aside perpetuate free government there is no greater truism than that eternal war ix egypt vigilance is the price of liberty it alexandria evcuated and in ought to be inculcated that men should regard it as a sort of religious flames two miles of houses ox fire duty to uphold the fundamental syg egyptian troops demoralized and re treating to the interior the tottn fired by released convicts and turn ed over to blunder — massacre of more europeans and no watelt tem of their government our gov eminent was worthy of beiug per marines take possession of the city ami shoot looters down in the streets the khedive issues a proclamation two thousand people masacred in the biots petuated of being handed down to the remotest generations it was a system consistent with the highest liberty and greatest happiness of the people and permitting the fullest london july 13 — the telegraph ship chiftern off alexandria july 13 8:40 a m — alexandria has been evacuated and is in flames the telegraph ship chiltern has been or dered to take up a position near the neutral fleets london july 14 — a dispatch to the reuters telegram from constan tinople says masurus pasha the tur kish embassador at london has tel graphed to the porte that earl gran ville has informed him that england is compelled to proceed vigorously against the egyptian rebels but that the sovereign rights of the sultan will be in no way prejudiced thereby development of individual prosperity one of the chief reasons why he op posed the republican party was the foundation principles of that party looked to the overthrow of our sys tern of government by concentration in a telegram sent at 9:20 a m admiral seymour confirms the report of the evacuation of alexandria the entire garrison withdrew under a flag of truce leaving the bedouins to fire aud pillage the town the decoy has gone to port said to ascertain the state of affairs there of all governmental powers in one head it sought to centralize the what they knew foil 9 thousand years ago the next concession in 1873 gave ismael the power to contract with out any sanction from the porte for eign loans in the name of the egyp tian government and the khedive was to make all laws and regulations which he might at any time deem necessary thereupon he went deep ly into debt england and france be ing the principal creditors and his extravagance is the immediate cause of the present trouble during his sovereignty english and french of ficials known as comptrollers-gen eral with a great many office-holders under them administered the finances of the country in other words egypt being in debt and having no means of keeping herself was run by foreign office-holders representing the credi tors powers of government in the hands of federal officers to the federal government had been committed cer tain well known functions relating to such affairs as affected the common interest of all the states the local affairs of the state more nearly affec ting the happiness of the citizen were particularly retained in the state governments but the republican party sought by gradual approaches to abolish the state governments to render them useless to wipe them out of existence and invest all power the power of administering our do mestic concerns as well as iuter-state matters in the federal government this unnatural adsorption of the rights of the states was going on continually unless checked it would inevitably result in the absolute an , nihilation of the state governments the result would be the establishment of an empire in america and an em pire means despotism the practices of the republican party all tend to 1 that end they lead to that result no barrier is sufficient to check their ( progress laws that stand in their way are broken or repealed the constitution they disregard entirely | whenever its provisions are an ob staclc to the attainment of their pur ■ pose they bend and twist it to meet | the exigency of any case and if need be they ride rough-shod over the ' plainest provisions during the war when there was much excitement and danger and the pubjic mind was easily influenced to excuse all things because of the necessities of the case the republican party began this prac tice and since the establishment of peace they have not departed from . it nothing stands in the way of the attainment of their purpose as a means to this end they have sought to make the federal government dominating and controlling and to dwarf the state governments and they have created at washington a magnificient government with a host of officials sustained from the feder the popular science 3f*nfkly foi june publishes abstracts from ti.e ad dress of chief justice daly b fore tlie geographical society in which lie says : from one of these book ipi <] after the manner of our model n encyc j iop:i3(iias,aml the compilation of u nc\t is shown to have been more than 2 000 years b c it lias baen ascertain \ ed what has long been supposed that i chaldea was the parent land of as tronomy ; for it was found from this compilation and from other bricks that the babylonians catalogued the stars and distinguised and named tho constellations that they arranged the twelve constellations that form our i present zodiac to ahow the course of the sun's path in the heavens divid ed time into weeks months and years that they divided the week as we . how have it into seven days six be ing days of labor and the seventh a day of rest to which they gave a name from which we derived our word sabbath and which day as a day of rest from all labor of evcry kiud they observed as rigourously as the jew or the puritan the motion of the heavenly bodies and the ]■'.< noncenaof the weather were noted down and a connection as i have be fore stated detected u.s m de j'i yille claims to have d , be tween the weather and the changes of the moon they invented the suu dial to mark the movements of the heavenly bodies the water clock to measure time and they speak in this work of the s|m>ts on the sun a they could only have known by the aid of telescopes which it is supposed they possessed from observations they have noted down oftherisii venus and the fact that layard i a crystal lens in the ruii these brie contain an ac ouut oi the deluge substantially tin •; me ;•..-> the narrative in the bible exa t the the names are different they dis close tiiat houses and land vvei ■ t ! f-:i sold leased and that mun^y was loaned at iut i - ■■:, an ! that the market gardeners to use an american phrase " voi k i 01 tiiat the farmer when pi his oxen beguiled hid with short and homely - have bten found and < ■: :.• • i very rcnv te civil ution will i us ages of t"-diy a dispatch to the news from alex andria says the number of persons massacred by the mob is estimated at 2,000 admiral seymour telegraphs i have occupied ras el tin palace with marines and spiked the guns in six batteries opposite the city is still burning but i am clearing the streets the khedive is safe in the palace which is garrisoned by 700 marines off alexandria july 14 the fire ing heard in alexandria yesterday was by marines and sailors who were dispersing the plunderers with gat : ling guns the small detachment first landed had to wait for reinforce ments before they were able to push to the centre of town there was some short sharp fighting no water could be obtained owing to the stop page of the works there are some french ladies among the fugitives rescued yesterday also an egyptian prefect of police who succeeded the instigator of massacre in alexandria on the 11th of june there are not enough sailors and maries to occupy all the streets of the city the reuters telegram company has received the following alexandria july 13.-9:48 a m — the egyptian army is greatly demoralized and is in full retreat to ward the interior the european quarter of the town including the exchange and telegraph office is ut terly destroyed the city was set on fire by released convicts who commit ted horrible atrocities the egyp tians used a flag of truce to enable the troops to withdraw from the town the telegraph ship chiltern is crowd ed with survivors who fought their way to the beach whence the boats of the fleet removed them they report having passed a dreadful night de fending themselves desperately one hundred europeans and other chris tians in the ottoman bank and ad joining building were massacred a part of the fleet are now leaving for port said the whereabouts of the khedive is unknown the carolina watchman established in the year 1832 prk e : ."■■ :- a dvance fly celebrate a j ofthejvubllo hostetter's ■ ha iei ea . ; ■ i nign ■ , .<; bladder i ill sc nee wing dia , i r it 29:1 y , art a ii o m e c 7 seekin g home patronage smbl prompt mis literal pern i dwellings premium ill cash and bal liici in t \ j c months j allen brown aj?t 2 oik salisbury n c come at < nce john frick's celebeated grain cradles 1000 ooz axe haimoles for sale at r r crawford & go's : bead | : i monuments tombs ciileat reduction in the prices of marble monuments and grave-stones of every description ':- invite the public generally •" 1 ' of my stock and work 1 ■''< ; i a rting that my past •'■'!"■ under first-class workmen in aud modern styles and 1 workmanship is equal to any of '!"• ll ->! in the country 1 do not say u])eiior to all otliers *] ■ ill uoi exaggerate in or sale my eudeavoris ifli eustomei the val ' a e w ith inc peic 50 per cent cheaper in hi tow n before • ii*l for price li.-t and de '■: or no charge ■ n u blc is the last work l'i<-'li we {■■;,\ to the memory john 3 hutchinson n'o i 1881 ekkors v>v voi;tii a ' vil " offered for years from j ' n.ii pkemati i:i decay i ■ utlifu indiscretion will i iii»aniiy,fiendfreetoi ■- recipe and direction for ! '" reni j whidi lie wm i tt.jthead-i l»v uddivksin-in maws ■ ii st nl-w v irk on saturday august 5th 82 the democratic comity convention for rowan will be held at the court ilouse iu salisbury saturday august 5th iz&2 at 12 clock m m for the pur pose of uouiinaling candidates as follows viz : house of pepresentatives clerk of the superior gaurt court register of deeds county treasurer sheriff coro ner and county surveyor the conven tion will also recommend a candidate for senator for rowan and davie counties this convention is called in pursuance of a resolution passed by the democratic county convention held iu salisbury on the 1st day of july : i all democratic voters of the county are requested to meet in convention in their respective townships at the usual voting precincts on saturday july 29th 1 332 ai 12 o'clock j for the purpose of electing delegates to county convention and for electing township executive committees each committee to consist of five active 1 democrats each township shall be entitled to cast in the county convention one vote for every twenty iive democratic votes and fractions of fifteen as follows to wit salisbury ki franklin 9 unity 4 scotch irish g mt ulla7 locke g atwell 10 litakcr 6 gold hill j morgan 3 providence 8 each township may semi as many delegates as it may see lit the township executive commit tees will also meet in salisbury august 5th to elect a county executive com mittee j w mauuey clcm co ex com salisbury july 3d 1382 piiatpobm we coagrtituluto thejpeople of north car olina on the era of peace,prosperity and good government which has beenun broken since the incoming of a democratic state adminis tration upon the pure and impartial admin istration of justice and the honest enforce ment of the laws ; upon the efficiency of our common school system and great advance made i education and the general iin provement and enterprise manifested in ev ery part of the state and we pledge our selves to exert all efforts to advance the material interests of all sections of the state in the future as we have done in the past and we challenge a comparison between a democratic administration of our state af fairs and the crimes outrages and scandals that accompanied republican misrule af firming our adherence to democratic prin ciples as defined in the platform adopted by the national democratic convention held at cincinnati in 1880 : resolved that we regard a free and fair expression of the public will at the ballot bux as the only sure means of preserving our free american institutions and we de nounce the republican party and the inter ference of its federal officials for their gross frauds upon the elective franchise whereby whole districts states and the union have been deprived of their just political rights and we believe the corrupt and corrupting use of federal patronage and of public money drawn by taxation from the people jr influencing and controlling elections to be dangerous to the liberties of the state and the union liesohed that we are in favor of the en tire abolition of the internal revenue sys tem with its attendant corruptions and that we denounce the present tariff laws as grossly unequal unjust and vicious we favor such a revision of the tariff as will produce a revenue sufficient for the econom ical support of the government with such incidental protection as will give to domes tic manufactures a fair competition with those of foreign production that there should be an immediate repeal of all laws imposing a direct tax for the support of the government of the united states but if it should prove impracticable to abolish the internal revenue system with all its at tending demoralization fraud and corrup tion then we urge upon our senators and representatives iu congress the importance of so amending the law that the revenue officers whonow receive in salaries in north carolina alone more than shall be elected by the people of the localities to which they are assigned besohed that the course of the demo cratic party since its accession to power in north carolina in furtherance of popular education is a sufficient guaranty that we earnestly favor the education of all classes of our people and that we will advocate any legislation lookingjto an increase of the fund for that purpose that will not materially increase the present burdens of our people resolved that the question of prohibi tion is not now and never has been a par ty question in north carolina and never been endorsed by the democratic party and the people of the state at the general election in the year 1881 having by an overwhelming majority voted against pro hibition and the supreme court having decided that the prohibition act is not and never has been a law we regard the matter as finally settled and any attempt to re new the agitation is merely a weak effort of designing persons to divert the minds of the people from the dangerous principles and corrupt practices of the republican party resolved that while we are not wedded to any particular form of county govern ment we recognize the fact that a large part of the taxes of the state are paid for 5 he common benefit by the white people of ou uitfstcru counties and that we consider on account of his financial troubles ismael resigned on the 26th of june 187'j and was succeeded by his eld est son tewfik the present khedive m wadclington the french foreign minister obtained a firman from the sultan of turkey vesting in tewfik functions of ismael in view of the full powers conferred on ismael in 1873 the necessity for this firman has been doubted but it was served probably to keep up the connection of turkey with egyptian affairs and to weaken the egyptian government turkey seems to be an important fac tor in the conference of powers look ing to the adjustment of egyptian af fairs london july 14 a dispatch to router's telegram company from alexandria says : some field pieces were landed with marines at ras el tin fort the khedive's lias el tin palace was looted shortly before ma rines arrived a whole battalion of arabs was blown up in one fort du ring the bombardment a dispatch to the news dated off alexandria july 14th 4 a m says the fire in alexandria is still raging there are at least two miles of houses burning more than a third of the city it appears has been fired london july 14 2 p m a dis patch to the standard dated alexan dria 9:30 a m says explosions oc casionally occur in the city a procla mation in arabic is being prepared in the khedive's name calling on the people to maintain order and on the troops to disband the khedive with london july 13 — 11:30 a m — a correspondent of the standard on board the invincible telegraping at 8 o'clock this morning says the whole civil population and troops have been withdrawn the whole of grand square is burned the helicon which went to discover the meaning of the last flag of truce last evening could discover nobody on board the egyptian vessel mahrousa or in the arsenal the correspondent accom panied the officer to shore in the steam pinnace purveyor of the fleet who was one of the party and was well acquainted with the town laud ed and proceeded a considerable dis tance all was perfectly quiet ex cept the roar of the flames it is be lieved arabi pasha has concentrated his forces beyond the city to oppose the brittit-h advance the work of the financial condition of egypt has not improved under tewfik and the country is still overun by foreign of fice-holders who take charge of the public pocket-book the popular re volt against this state of affairs is led by arabi pasha the egyptian minis ter of war who has suddenly sprung into prominence and seems to be a much stronger man than the khedive a little more than a year ago arabi was only a colonel in the egyptian army but he has been so aggressive and the khedive correspondingly weak that lie has greater power than any other man in egypt he is the