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THE MESSENGER, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY -ll obcah-ZjOTTH, iff. o. -BT WILLIAM 0. SMITH. SUBSCRIPTION: One Tear,... •!“* Six Months -78 Three Months -40 Always in advance. I#*All Letters should he addressed to W. C. SMITH. [Entered at the Post Office at Charlotte, H. C. as second-class matter. SATURDAY, DEC. 16,1882. All money must be sent by registered letter or money order. If yon don’t get your paper at the proper time please tell us at once. Short correspondence of interest to the general public is solicited, but don t be disappointed if you fail to see your production in our columns. We are not responsible for the views of corres pondents. Anonimous communica tions go to the waste basket. SUSPENDED. In consequence of the necessary work in securing matorial, the holi days, etc., the Messenger will not appear again until the 6th of Janu ary. After that we intend to pub lish our own paper. i r 1 — Thb colored Baptists of Virginia are organizing a joint stock com pany to publish a church paper. It is now charged that Dr. York says he ran for Congress only to keep a Radical from getting elected. The Democrats say York will vote with them. W. H. Woodward has been dis missed from the mail service. It was very liberal to let him run six weeks and dismiss him without cause. We learn that John T. Schenck has been dismissed from the revenue service. Os course the appointment was a liberal one and wo are not surprised to hear of his discharge. We hold the Liberals responsible for Harllee’s failure to get his office, and if he and Woodward and Quick do not take care of Richmond coun ty in the future, they are not the men we take them to be. The Virginia Star wants to see more colored men doing bigger busi ness. So do we. Let our pcoplo patronize those who gb into busi ness for themselves, and next to them, the white men who patronize ns by advertising and otherwise. A NEGRO RAILROADER. While in Wilm ngton last week it was our pleasure to meet Mr. E. P. Martin, the colored man who is trying to build a railroad from Wil mington to the sounds. Mr. Martin faas the right of way for this part of his road, and to our surprise, we learn his plan is to eventually run a lino from Norfolk, Virginia,to Char leston, S. C., which he claims would boa route some hundred or so miles shorter than any existing route between the two points. We find that Mr. Martin is in dead earnest about building this road. He seems greatly encourag ed, his plans and intentions are no ble and patriotic. Besides making • reputation for our race in enter prise, it will go far toward breaking down caste prejudice by opening fields to our young men that are now closod against them. He argues that the road can be completed for comparatively little monoy, several miles being already graded. That when built, colored men will be in every respect upon oqual footing with white men. The road will have shops in which colored boys will learn the machinists trade, will run as engineers, conductors, ftc. fie proposes to have in connection with it when practicable, an indus trial school to teach all the trades. His intentions aro not selfish wo think, but his hopes is to elevate his race; therefore we hope he will" have the encouragomcnt ho deserves not from the people around Wil mington alone, but throughout the State. Mr. Martin is a very intelligent man and shows more energy than is of ten seen in a man. Ho deserves success, and if ho fails it will not be for want of work on his part. Suc cess to his enterprise. CONSOLIDATIONS and changes. The Goldsboro Star and the En terprise have consolidated and will be published by Wassom & Smith, and known as the Star-Enterprise. The Review of New Albany, Ind., and the Review of Springfield, Ohio, have consolidated and will hereaf ter bo published in the latter city. Mr. A. T. Bradley retires from the Chicago Conservator, and it will be edited and printed by its new proprietors, P. L. Barnett, Alex. Clark and A. G. Clark. The Star of Zion has a new head as well as a new editor. It looks a little Greeky. THE NEGRO POLITICIAN. Mr. Reuben S. Smith, of the New York Globe read a paper in a meet ing •in in Washington City upon “The Negro Politician,” which seemed to raise some excitement and discussion. We have not seen the paper, but from conversation with Mr. Smith, and his defense of the paper which he so ably repre sents, we know he would not en courage disruption in the republican party when the members of that party are carrying out the princi ples laid down by Garrison, Sumner and the other founders of the old party of freedom. We know ho would not advise nor encourage the going into the Democratic or any other party unless there was great necessity for it. He advocates inde pendence of action by the colored voter. He does not think the color ed man a slave to any party though it seems natural for him to act with the Repulican party. But when the Republican party is to be ruled by bosses contrary to all principles of right and reason; then it is time for the colored voter to* assert his manhood and stick to principle and let the party leave and go where it may. New York is republican to day and will fall in her proper place in 1884. The good Republicans of that State saw it necessary to voto with the Democrats to defeat boss ism, and in doing so did not vary from Republican principles as far as if they had voted for the men who ran in the name of the Republicans. The colored men helped do it, and they should not bo ashamed of it.* It was no less so in our own State. Many good men of the party were sacrificed on accoutof mongrel allies. When wo see that the plan was to keep the negro out, then it was our duty to turn our backs upon those hypocritical leaders pretending to be our friends,and if necessary,it is our duty to vote to defeat them. See our best men betrayed, placed in awkward positions, demoralized al most disgraced. AVhy did not Re publicans and Liberals come to Harllee’s rescue ? Why was he al lowed to fail with his bond? We tako that his pretended white friends preferred to see a democrat fill the place than a negro. Wo want no bettor evidence of this than the fact that almost every time a man is wanted to fill a place, a government place, a democrat is taken in prefer ance to a negro. Then the negro is a mere figure head in politics to a certain extent. Tho masses mistake by following bad white men in preference to in teligent, good men of their own race We must have our own leaders. They should be men of irreproacb ablo conduct, intelligent, good moo. Men who have the good of the race at heart and intelligence to demand justice for their race. When we adopt this we will succeed as a par ty and as a race, and not until then. Let us prepare and go to work at once organizing for 1884. Wo have the men, let us use them. Let the negro take his proper place in poli tics. Let broken down hacks and dead beats go to the rear. Let us march onward and upward. For the Messenger. Plain Truthi. There are 105,000 colored Repub lican voters and 30,000 white Re publican voters, and yet these 30,- 000 white voters dictate to the 105- 000 what way they shall vote and what must be the policy of the par ty, while the colored Republican stands still and awaits the orders of tho 30,000 and obeys them, and when the election comes on the bosses at Washington and the boss es here expect the Negro to vote him into power, and what do they receive in the way of Federal pat ronage ? In the whole State of North Car olina there is not a colored man hold ing a prominent position in the Fed eral government nor there never has been. We have not so much as a collec tor or a post master in the State. About as high as a colored politi cian gets, is to be a mail agent, and ho is always half scarod to death for fear of getting kicked out of the ser vice, and to even secure these seem ingly small places requires that a man must have skill as a leader of his people. The State of Georgia has been hooted at because of her unredeem able democracy, yet the colored peo ple there hold some of the most prominent Federal places in the State. The same can be said of Al abama and other States, but North Carolina is behind all others. Why ? Because the colored leaders instead of standing together and demanding these prominent places, have only been too willing to accept third or fourth rate places under white men who in many instances are their mental inferiors, and feel devotedly thankful ; that is why the tail wags the Republican dog. * COALITION VICTIMS. Coalition the new movement got busted; And ** pedal” Deputy Schenck got worsted; But Mr. Bobby Bay, As Collector didn’t stay, While Woodward, for home got up and dusted. • Fire in the Royal Palace* London, Dec. 13.—Early this morn ing a fire broke out in a private apart ment in the cloister at Hampton Court, Royal Palace at Hampton. One wo man was suffocated by smoke. C., C. & A. R. R. CO. Orncx (Jknkhal Passxngxb Agot. I WT Schedule In effect September Bd, 1882. SOUTHWARD. No. 62 dally—mall and express. Leave Statesville 8 00am Arrive at Char otu> 10 06 a m Leave Charlotte, (c) 8 80 p m Arrive at Columbia, (b) 7 00 p m Leave Columbia, (b) _ 7 07 p m Arrive at Augusta, 11 16 pm No. 20 dally, except Sundays. Leave Charlotte 4 30pm Arrive at Columbia, 12 86 a m No. 18 runs dally except Sundays. With passen ger coach attached. Leave Charlotte, 6 00am Arrive at Columbia, 8 82 p as NORTHWARD. No. 63 dally—ma. and express. Leave Augusta, (a) 7 86 a m Arrive Columbia, (b) 11 46 a m Leave Colum Ma, (b) 11 62 a m Arrive at Charlotte, (c) 416 pm Leave Charlotte, 6 00 p m Arrive at Statesville 7 06 p m No. 10 dally, exoept Sundays. Leave Colombia, 4 06 p m Arrive at Cberlotte 1 06 a m No. 17. freight, with passenger coach attached. Buns dally exoept Sundays. Leave Columbia, 6 00am Arrive at Charlotte, 8 16 p m CONNROTIONS. (a) With nil iii.es to and from Savannah, Flori da, and the § tb and Atlanta, Maoon and tne Southwest (b; With South Cal- a Balled a# to and from Charleston (c) With Richmond A Danville Railroad to and from all pointa North and Carolina Central Rail road. Pullman Sleeping Cars ran on Trains No. 63 and 63 between Charleston and Washington. D. C., tfa Danville. Lynchburg and Charlottesville. Also, on Trains No. 62 and 68 between Charlotte and Richmond. Above schedule Washington time. For further information, address <4. R. TALCorT. Superintendent, M. SLaUQBTU, ttea'l Pass. Agt. D. Cakdwmll. Richmond, fa. Assistant Gen’l Past. Aft Columbia, 8. C. WESTERN N. C. RAILROAD schedule: EAST. ~ WIT. Fassenf r Train BTATlosn. Pameng’r Train No 2. No I. Arrive 5.46 pm ■ • (Salisbury.. Leave 8. IO«m :: iiigs “ 2.10 pm ... Hickory... “ V.26am “ 12.64 pm ...Morginton.. “ 10.4.1 am " 11.60 am —Manon “ llAjjaa “ 10.08 a m Black Mountain - 153 p m “ 0.02 am AahevlUe... . “ B.oopm Leave 8 00am Warm Springs “ 6.44 pm “ 8 00am Pigeon fever " 6.46 pm Train So. 1 Connects at Sal labor, with B. 6 ». R R tromaU pointa Nortn and South and tram haletgh. Con nects at BtatmvlUe with A., T. 4 a Division of C_ C. 4A.8- R Connacu at Warm Springs wtm 6. Tenn , Va 4 Ga. R R. (or Morristown and petals South-west. Train Ve. • Connects at Warm Sprlnga wtth K. T., T. 4 Ba. R R (mm Morristown and the South-west. Connects at Statesville with A . T 40. Division ot C.. C. 4 A. R K.. and at Salisbury with R 4 D. R R (M all points North and last and (or Raleigh. Tkraagh Tickets on sale at Salisbury, Statesville, Asheville and the Warm Springs to nil prior-pal ettle*. j. m. vise .writ do, oct2s Auditor. G. F. 4 P, agent J. R. E33D3DX3STS, Christo Presents. The finest lot of Christmas Pres ents in the city. WRITING DESKS, NEW YEAR CARDS, STORY BOOKS, XMAS CARDS. A fine lot of the most beautiful single and double fringed cards. Presents from 1 cent up to SSO. dl6 J. R. EDDINS. THE GREATEST VARIETY OF SUIT ABLI Christmas Presents AT THI CHINA PALACB OF J. BROOKFIELD ACO. OUR WHOLE STOCK HAS BEEN OPFHXD up and everything la now on exhibition and i will be offered very reasonable. We have Goods to Suit Everybody. CALL BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE AND SEE THE GRANDEST DISPLAY EYES MADE IE CHARLOTTE. Oar stock ot FINE SILVER-PLATED WARE In particular, la the Mrgest and handsomest ta the South Fancy CHINA BRONZES. GLASS* WABE. etc., ot every description. R-spect folly, l Brookfield & Co. dio- WANTED. TT'OKTT or Mty acres of goad land. adpaiedtoMe P raising ot cotton and com. Including timber, agelllngrheuae and water The undersbpied wtah ee to purchase the aforesaid In thla county [Meck lenburg) and will pay a fair price to procure file same by the ensuing year. For particulars spps to 8. J. CALhWgLL, Nov. 28. Charlotte. spicuLjnnius. WANTED—At this office, an in telligent boy to deliver this paper to WANTED—Between this date and January Ist, 200 new subscrib ers to the Messenger. PERSONS sending subscriptions will please send money order or registered letter. When you send stamps, send 1, 2 and 3 cent denom ination*. We bare no uae ior 5 and 10 cent, stamp* PERSONS paying after this will please pay for 3, 0 or 12 months. We cannot take 50 cents now and 25 cents then and make np a yean subscription. Go by our schedule. 3*tu) Advertisements. WANTED. AGENTS. Q TAUT LING as the pane of ro n m Alice —from the low cat depths of ■Livery to a powilion among the first in the land. -Life and Times* of FREDERICK DOUGLAS. Written by himself; 15 full page illus trated; price $2.4tX Outrivals “ Unde Tom’s Cabin * in thrilling and romantic interest, with the added charm that every word ia true. A marvelous story most graphically told and of gnat his toric value. 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You can make money taster at 1 work tor ns than at anything else. Capita! not needed. We win wart you !U a day and upwards, made at home by the Industrie us Men, women, boys and girls wanted everywhere to work joe us Now is the time. You ran wort in snare time only, or give your whole time to the business. You can Uv* at home and do the work. No other badness vrfQ puy yon as well. No one can (an to make enormous pay by en gaging at once cosily outfit and terms tree. Money nude fast, easily, and honorably. Address Tarn tut, Augusta/Malne, fi , a week In your own town. » cotft 'free. Ho risk. Everything new tapi i tat not required. W e win tumish you everything.. Many are making for tunes ladles make ns much a- men. and boys and girts great pay. Beider. It yon want a badness st which yon ran make gaeat pay an the time you work, write (or par Eculars to H. Halutt 4 CD* Portland. Maine. S-S-ly BENNETT SEMINARY, Gromboro, N.C. A hblMm ltMn4 W.'thw .s«**vw. «w ch*t*<4 State. 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