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DIA I LT C H A R L Q XT F. OBSERVER.: TV-E D N E S DA Y , S E PTE I.I BE R 9 0 0 5. FUBLISH2D DAILY EXCEPT MONDAl CHAS. B. JONES, . . Editor and Proprietor. ESTKEKD AT TS POSTOETICB IS CHAKLOTTK, N, - BAD MEMORIES. , While John' Sherman and : Judge Foraker are orating in the bloody shirt style in Ohio, and charging that . the colored voter in the bourn 13 ais .i franchised, that he approaches ; the , ballot box in mortal terror and casts Ids ballot, if a Republican, in peril of his life, they forget that in the States which formed the Confederacy, leav ing out the border State3r; Blaine got 1.014.532 votes. : 148.744- more votes ' than Garfield got four years before, which is a greater gain than the Re- rmblieans - made in the Northern States in the same reriod. t These Re publican bloody shirt orators act up on the presumption that every color ed man is beyond question aRepubh can, which is not true by any means. " The great bulk of" them, it is true, have heretofore voted the Republican ticket when they cared to vote, but there are many who vote the ; Demos -cratic ticket, and still more who take so little interest in politics that they do not vote at all. There would be many a vote lost to the Republicans - it the party managers did not Hake . the precaution and provide arrange ments for getting the indifferent to the polls on election day. But these Republican orators, although they know, or ought to know these fact.0, don't let them enter into their calcu lations, but take it for granted that the Republican party is entitled to the vote of every man of African . blood- and it it don't get it they ' raise aloud their voices and proclaim that they have been cheated. As a matter of fact there is no sec- firm in thA United States where the elections are so free, fair and orderly as in the South, the . white people very frequently submitting to illegal voting by. Republicans, and other things which ordinarily , a high spirit ed people would not submit to, to give no ground for the accusations that their enemies are always on the alert to make, and for, which every little incident is seized upon for ma terial. A personal encounter at the polls is magnified into an organized CDnspiracy W to ; intimidate Republic ' "can?, and the accidental or intentional discharge of a pistol on the day. of eiecupnouopea a -evidence, pia. or wholesale .slaughter. ... The records of elections will show twice the dis order, intimidation and violence in with the South, where, ; with some rare exceptions, the elections are 6 characterized by remarkable good -x uxiaueipnia xiecora : , itepuDii "can contemporary is so angered be cause tne jJemocrats - nave out-the head of Jefferson on the new 'postal cards that it suggests substituting the head of Jeff Davis for that ot Wash ington on the two-cent stamps. How long will it be before the author of the Declaration of Independence will be forgiven for his insistence that the people could take caro of themselves, and that the less they were governed Dr. John M. Gregory ; is one of the civil service r commissioners. His home is in Illinois. - Last fall he ar ranged his civil examinations so as to take him into his own State about election time, where he made two speeches for.Biaine and cast his vote. Then he presented a bill of his trav elling expanses,' amounting to $105.07 which included small change given to porters, newspapers bought, etc. Dr. Gregory, as a civil service com missioner, is evidently thrifty.' Michael De van ny . is in jail in St. . Louis on a : charge of murdering his wife. She was' buried Saturday and he was one of the attendants at the funeral, having , been permitted to v leave the jail for that purpose under ' charge of an officer, r This i3 said to , be the first ; instance of that' kind 'on TPP.nrfi in t.hat.'nif.v - '': ' . - -. - ' ' r 1 T Mi ' ' -:. . ' , Since the death of the two sisters in Hoboken a few days ago from the blunder of the druggist in using mor phine in pills instead of - quinine, three fatal cases of poisoning are an nounced, all from the same cause taking the wrong medicine in mis v take: Superior Wisdom of the Xcwsia-r- per Ilar. From tlie Altoona Tribune. v.' The newspaper liar has recently been devoting a ; good ' deal of atten v tion to -' Secretary Lamar, He is -a dreamer; he goes to sleep while con versing with :- callers ; his memory is terribly defective ; he is a victim of the opium habit; hi3 health is com "pletely broken down and his days on earth are numbered.' Z- Mr- Lamar does does not believe that these state ments are true, but then he may be mistaken. . ' ' TIic Colored Tote. . T' New York Times. - . .;, : Ia a normal condition of politics i is aril ought to be entirely impossi bie to calculate on tne vote 01 any race, nationality, or class of citizens as.belonging of right to'one political party. Those. Republican politicians wno persisi in Keeping up a sectional agitation on the ground that the col ored vote is to a greater or less ex tent suppressed in the " Southern States continue to assume that it . is altogetner . a Kepuoucan . vote, v or would be so if cast without hindrance and counted without fraud. It is evident that they intend to continue the assumption. Any fluctuation in the Republican vote -v of a Southern State is treated as an evidence o tampering with the rights of colored citizens. There are frequent sugges tions tnat tne boutnern wnites secure a ratio of representation and a power t A 1 It v ' . ' 1 At. . in me electoral cciiege to wmcn iney are not entitled by means of the sup pression of colored votes. Whatever may be the precise facts and nos body can ascertain them what; is meant is tnat the Democrats "main tain their ascendancv bv suonfessine - r ... . , ' a Republican majority, 1 and some thing should be done to secure that majority in States which have a large There is no .doubt that immediate ly .alter reconstruction, tor ; reasons wnich it is not necessary to recount, the enfranchised freedmen were uni versally disposed to vote' with " the Republican party. This' disposition was aided by the direct influences which made it almost impossible for them to do anything else.. , The result was a itepuoiican majority . in most of the reconstructed States, and , , we must admit that it was attended by Kvery bad government in some of them. There is, furthermore, no doubt that the Southern whites, the arge Democratic majority of them at east, determined to rule in those States and to the. extent necessary to that end they did intimidate and suppress', the colored vote until they gained the ascendancy. In how many Northern States would the same thing have been done under similar circumstances? In receat years who can tell how the colored citizens have voted or would have voted, if unhindred, or what variety of local and general in fluences have affected their action? There have been evidences of inter ference or of violence in some places, and there ' have been evidences of fraud. Just how far they .have - afs fected the vote who can tell ? j There- nave aiso oeen evidences tnat many colored voters nave grown indiffer ent to their political rights and have not cared to vote. Who can number these? Many have yielded to influ ence's which have induced them to vote with the Democrats. - What is their number? How are we to calcu late the extent of changes of this kind which are goingi cn all the time? Now that the negroes have learned that Democratic ascendancy does not mean re-enslavement, or even a cur tailment of their rights tb any greater extent at least than they'?were ' cur tailed before, these changes will go on more rapidly, and it will be im possible to say even in a general way tnat their vote belongs ; all on one side or to ascertain the extent to which it is divided. . f Nobody pretends or expects that the colored voters of any Northern State - will vote uniformly with one party, and nobody cares whether they door not. It is their right to differ. The same is likely to be true to an increasing extent in the South, where they are more numerous, , As f hey divide they will receive' more considerate treatment and be safe in their rights, ind the inevitable conse quence will be that the whites' will begin to divide more generally be tween the parties; This they would never do in the face of a danger of negro ascendancy. The foundation of the scheme for a seo tional policy based on tho assumed suppression of votes is made of shift ing sand and will r not sustain the structure. - ' " - - The Pool Passion. . "Towle;V. of the -Boston Traveller, says that the great passion in Wash ington just now is earning on the races. -There are in active operation at the present writingfivepool roomsN wnere Dewing on horse races all over the country is carried on openly. A test case was made last spring, but thejourts held that Congress had failed to pass any legislation which wouiu cover tne subject. Then in fluential New York parties came here and opened pool rooms, aided by local talent. Betting on horse racing has reached the size of a mania and the evil is constantly spreading. Bets as low as fifty. cents are taken, and thus.the temptation is placed within the reach of hundreds who would otherwise be kept awav. ' In some instances men who are in business sit all day in the pool room and risk their money. ; Their business is done by clerks who come to the pool rooms to receive tneir orders irom their bosses. ihere are scores of men who" have lost thousands and thousands of dol lars on the races within the past few months.- Thousands are lost where hundreds are won. It is only a mat ter of a short time when the inevita ble financial smash will take nlace in Washington, and it-is certainly only uttering a kindly word of caution to employes, whether under govern meni service or not. to see that men who are handling the funds do not, as mo pnrase goes, ."play the races." feiiowln? jWlia Determination t ' ' Can Do. From the Omaha Herald. The fortv davs allnwftd hv Profli. dent Cleveiahd to the cattlemen who had been illegally occupying land in Indian Territory have expired and it speaks volumes for the courage of the President' that it inspired those cattlemen with so much respect that they have moved right out without calling on tho army to expedite tucir GEORGE EIIOTT. Extracts from pier Recently; Till - lished .Life and tetters. - - To the Editor of ThkObsebveb. , - r ' : If there is one attitude more odious to me than any other, of the many a titudes or "Jsnowingness' it is that air of lofty superiority to the vulgar. Linis was written as. a comment on the letter of a lady and claimed her as an inteUectual sister in the cr,eme de la creme of literary society A woman like'. George EUott. whose highest ideal of feminine excellence was her own conception of the Meth- ouist preacner. Jr jman Morns, hated pretentious vulgarity, : . whether in duchess" or shop woman, as she - hated reptiles After taking a trip through a portion of England, she savs: "The journey wa9 long. How hideous those towns of Holbeach and Wake neid are 1 it is d:mcuit to keep up one's 1 faith in a millenium within sight of this modern civilization w hich consists in 'development of mdus tries " ' " ' ' - . , ' . Her sympathy for others is shown m the following: 'A pretty thing has happened to an acquaintance of mine which is quite a tonic to one's hope. She has all her life been work jng bard in various ways, as house keeper, governess and et ceteras that I can t think of at this moment: a dear little dot, about four feeteleven in height; pleasant ' to look at. and clever ; a working l woman without any of those epicene queernesses that belong to the class. Her life has been a history of family troubles and she has that susceptible nature which makes such troubles . hard to bear. More than once she has told me that courage quite rorsook her. : well! ; a man of fortune and accomplishments has lust fallen in love with her, now she is thir ty sthree. It 'is the prettiest of swift-decided passion and made me cry for ioy. Madame Bodichon and. I went with her to buy her wed ding clothes, v The future husband is also thirty-three, old enough to make his selection an - honor. . Fond of travelling and science and other, good things, such a ' man ; deserves to ' be ond of who chooses a poor woman in the teeth of grand relatives " Another paragraph is this "I am not quite sure what yon : mean by "charity1 when you call ita humbug. XL y ou mean iaai aiui.ua e 01 mmo which says "I forgive 1 my Xellow-men for not being as - good aa I ami" I agree with you in hoping that it will vanish. But if you are alluding to anything in my letter, I meant what the translation? of the Bible meant m heir rendering of the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians -Caritas, ' which I am happy to believe no philosophy will expel troin the world." f r 11JVl. 1. It Grew Backwards One hundred years ago there were 6,000 residents in St.: Mary's City, Marvland. To-day, says the; Hart ford Times correspondent; there are wo houses there. One is an H-pisco- nal church and - the other is A -orosv perous female acudemy-- .ljaryi,s southern part of the; State. '. It' is pleasantly situated on the St' Mary's River, a branch of the i. Potomac. ast summer St, Mary a church cele brated its 250th anniversary) It was at St. Mary's City that Lord Baltic more and his party landed when t e settled Maryland. Today there is but one family residing there. , ?Durs ing the school season there ai!e about fifty young ladies; there. There are but tew signs 01 the lost city.- .Mere and there there are yet to be seen races oft the foundation, walls of the ittle city that was; but even these are about obliterated, ' At thisblaee was j built the first state house : in Maryland: Years afterward ' Anna polis was made the capital. The out- mes of the foundation oL the, -old state house are still visible. " Many of he" imported bricks, which, came roth Eneland. were used in the con struction of the church that yas built many;- years after the capital was changed to Annapolis. - Others ' were us 3d iu . ouuding xne acauemy. im ported bricks were used in the ; con struction of many of. , the original tiouses- in this country. They are about one-third "longer, a half inch wider and a half inch thicker than the modern made brick. They, are also much harder, and have more of the appearance of . stone than red clay brick which is how in use;. The mulberry; tree under wmcn j-iora Baltimore offered prayer upon his arrival, 251 years, ago, still stands though a great many branches have been cut off from time to timel, to. be worked up into canes and other rel ics, so dear to Marylanders, as well: as to some others. -.The res idents of St. Mary's City . ot course opposed 'very strenuously the taking ot the uapitai to Annapolis; and the records ot the atate were on ly taken away by force. The State aUluOi ILlfcJS uuuiu uuvvu iiuLu Auuay- olis and took them by mam strength There was quite an engagement on the St. Mary's Eiver before tho - St. Mary's people surrendered. To pro tect bt Mary s uity a tort was: erect ed where St. Inigoes creek empties into the - St. -Mary's River. Two1 of thalarere cannons which did1, duty yi4VA V W. V - .. . rv's River about seventy years ago, and have since stood , where the .fort was. at a place called Priests' Eomt, which is within one ; hundred ' yards nf the famed St. Inigoes Church.' At Priests' Point the Jesuit ; Fathers have had their villa ever since, -and ifc is here the Jesuit scholastic from all parts of the united States ? come. annually and : spend their summer This ;:, summer ' -i there xvpvts about two hundred scholastics at the villa; ; - r' : - ' , j ; A neirro named Armistead, who es caped from the Lynchburg jail, res rioted- arrest in North' Danville yes- fnrd.iv. A duel was the consequence. 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