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f ho fJhafiotto Homo "BemQe& Home - Democrat. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Can the Ne?ro get Justice in North Caro lina. Banner Enterprise, Colored Organ. We consider it oar duty, and a pleasant one it is. to cive to our many readers any facts which tend to disabuse the minds of nnr KT rrt Imrn friond nf t.llfl 1(1 P3. that the vut I negro is so badly treated in the South at again, by tne trauauient ana iwegai pro log in -rtm n irm cesses bv which Tilden was deprived of least in some portions. Some weeks since we were present at a term of Bertie Superior Court, and there witnessed the trial and termination of a civil action which made such an impres sion on our mind that we cannot forbear to call attention to it, however disagreea ble it may be to bring to public notice seemingly private matters.' It was an action to recover land. The plaintiff, Charles White, colored, brought his action in forma pauperis. lie is about tnrAntv.fi vn vparn old And denendent en tirely on his daily labor. The defendant was a white man, Thos. D. Ilolley, one of the most intelligent business men of ligrtie nnnnt.tr. and wnrth at least one hundred thniiaand dnllara. Blank against white, Pnvprtv against wealth. The case was of twelve white Democrats. The evidence a conflict between the plaintiff and the defendant upsupported except by small circumstances. The trial last two days. Judge A. C. Avery presided. The jury was out about ten minutes and returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Taking into consideration all the facts of the case, a negro bringing his suit as a pauper again'st a wealthy white man, a conflict of testimony between the two, twelve white jurors, we are forced to con clude that a negro can get justice in Bertie county, and we know the same to be the case in many other parts of the State We believe in writing the facta as they are. And when otters say the negro gets no justice in the South they speak without being informed. Race prejudice is passing away. Evil hours occasionally como when it asserts itself, but ordinarily the calm of citizenship is not disturbed by its unholy presence. All honor to the Bertie jury. All honor to our laws. Let Sherman ask to have a committee appointed to investigate this case. The N. C. State Exposition. The meetincr at Raleigh on the 30th of January to organize the State Exposition Association, was largely attended, mostly by gentlemen from that immediate sec tion, with a respectable number from various sections ot the State, who attend ed not as accredited representatives but as individuals who felt an interest in making known as well as developing the vast re sources of North Carolina. Ihe citizens of Raleigh generally manifested a lively and substantial interest in the matter, and have resolved that the enterprise shall not fail for the want of proper exertions on their part, nor lor the want of necessary accommodations to visitors. Prominent citizens assured the meeting that ample means for boarding visitors would be fur nished. A a tnn f Y nrai t win iq t.rt Vlfi held at. the capital of the State, of course it was proper w a nit; rtf Ralicrh a i.rpaidpnt. n,l Mr YV S Trimrnsft was splpeted. lie I is an energetic business man and is well i;fl,i rr. v, ion tt; oioKtmn vaaa sutreested bv gentlemen living outside of Raleigh. air. Henry t ries, Jr., ol balem, was elected secretary, and he, too, is a thorough business man, well adapted to the office. After free and full consultation, the meeting appointed a committee consisting of E. R. Stamp. Chas. M. Holt, W. H. Page, W. J. Yates, O. W. Carr, W. II. S. Burgwyn and W. II. Cheek, to nominate nine vice-presidents and twenty directors for managing the affairs of the associa tion, which committee reported the follow ing: For Vice-Presidents 1st district, Dr. Wm. Riddick, of Perquimans county ; 2d, W. R. Capehart, of Bertie; 3d, J. A. Bonitz. of Wayne: 4th, Julian S. Carr, of Durham; 5th, C. S. Winstead, of Person; 6th, W. II. Bernard, of New Hanover; 7th, John 11. rerree, of Randolph; 8th, VV. A. Hidden, of Alexander; 9th, G. S. Fergu son, of Haywood. Directors Gov. T. J. Jar vis; Capt. Syd. B. Alexander, of Mecklenburg; Mar J. W. Wilson, of Burke; Richmond M. Pearson, of Buncombe; Jacob Wallace, of Iredell: W. G. Unchurch, of Wake: Col. T. M. Holt, ot Alamance; John Nichols of Wake; Hon. Geo. M. Rose, of Cumber- land: Julius Lewis, of Wake: Dr. D. W. C. Benbow, of Guilford; P. H. Haines, of Forsythe; Wm. Wolcott, of Wake; Dr. Eugene Grissom, of Wake; Henry A. London, of Chatham; W. II. S. Burgwyn, of Vance ; W. C. Stronach, of Wake; Thos. K. Bruner, of Rowan; Geo. Allen, ot Craven; Hon. George Edgecombe. Howard, of The directors aud other officers of the association will, at an early day, give the public full information as to the date next Fall when the exposition wilt be opened, &c. It is expected that the exposition will continue about four weeks. The citizens of Raleigh have already subscribed about ?12,UU0 lor carrying on the undertaking and will increase that amount. Citizens of other portions of the State have also made liberal subscriptions, and it is hoped that many more will give substantial aid IT" As to the settlement of the Indian question, General Crook says : "There are simply two methods. Either the Indians must be exterminated or they must be treated with justice. From my experience of late years 1 can state unhes itatingly, that since the Indians have learned the strength and power of our people, in almost every Indian war which 1 nave known anything about, the prime cause therefor has been either the failure of our government to make good its pled ges, or the wrongs perpetrated upon them by unscrupulous whites, lhis condition of affairs can no longer continue. The Indian now has sufficient knowledge of the needs of the country to force 'us to deal iustly with him. If not so dealt with he will go upon the war-path." The meaning of this is that we must do right by the Indians and give them their rights, or we must fight them in wars in which our own wrongs will have pro voked. 11 1 m r 1 .1 1 a t r A case 01 aeam resulting irom ar - senical poisoning in the effort of a young lady to improve her complexion is report- ed from Walerbury, Conn. Miss May otevens, tne victim, on ner aeam-ueu con- iessea me cause 01 ner aeam. xoung m- dies should take warning by her fate and Deware 01 arBenio. The Republican "Bright Political Skies." The North State, under the above caption, tells us wnai us pariy expects to accomplish. It sums up in two para graphs: First, the .National uepuoiican pariy will elect the next President of the United States. Second, the State ot .North Caro lina . will be redeemed from the ty ranny of the Bourbons and the Bosses. m -1 f II The nrst they nave aone successiuny heretofore, and may possibly do the same . ... .it. j - 1 l . bis seat: an illegality the more honest and candid of the Republican party more than once have admitted; or by the free use of money, of which "Ihe Ireasury of lh United States, and consequently the peo ple of the United States, was robbed to rt 1 T 1 - - 1 debauch states, as was aone in inaiaua oy the Star Route thieves, ouch tactics a r familiar to the Republican party, and are so natural to their adoption, that the North State does not trouble itself to elaborate its first proposition, and it is possible the National "Republican party may elect (!) the next President of the unitea otates. We are glad to hear from so high authority that the last proposition is to be sustained by the promise that the "last I crnod will be accomplished ih spite of frauds, appeals to race prejudice, &c, be- cause it the uepuoncan party sucks to that the Democracy will have no trouble. Frauds form a large part of the weapons nf the Renublicans: and aDoeala to race . i- l . - 1 . - zt i nreiuaices an auueai io wuues u ai urrnnrr ommlittr ann man a wnethflr aa- u .. . , . .. i l " - w " W . 1 T I dressed to wnue or Diacx nas given mat party absolute control of the negro vote. If that appeal bad not been made, and the negro suffered to follow his natural in clination and his true interests, the party that used him would have been without strength long ago. To abandon that ap peal, therefore, means the redemption of North Carolina from the tyranny oi the bosses, Boss Mott, Boss Young, and the like, who have had the party by the throat, until many of it was driven to en gage in a "Coalition" to express their re sistance to boss rule. But the North State, more than on any other reliance builds its hopes of Buccess on the Union of the Liberals, "enthusias tic followers, led by such men as Price, Day, Leach, Edwards, &c." "The Re publican party does not ask lor office," as all the world bv this time knows, and it is the proper party for such disinterested and self-sacrificing men as Winston, Price, Leach and others, who could not be re warded according to their merits in the Democratic party; and having been tu tored in adversity in that party, go into the Republican party trained in self- denial. They do not want office of course they do not. Another piece of information we gather from the N orth State. It may or may not be news to the public. We have an idea that it is not; but from the show of secrecy those engaged in the game have made, we infer that they will not thank the North State for stripping off the mask so early, because there was a hope of catching un wary Democrats. The North State tells us that "ltadicals and Liberal Republicans and Independ ents will form one line and vote one ticket; a united opposition, united in sentiment, in patriotism, in purpose. One conven- tion, one victory this is the political trinity under which we fight and win." All this to be done in the eervice and behoof of "the National Republican party. All then that goes by the name ot JLib- eral-Republicanism-Coalition-Independent- Democracy is working for the same end- the ascendancy of Republicanism. There is no mistake now. nei uemocrais not " . 1 T T be deceived. Neither let them fail to bear in mind that the combination is not to be desDised. It claims, according to the North State, "to stand on principle,' but it will be backed up by money aud government influence. The combination must be met by work, aud by unity and effective organization among Democrats. Asheville Citizen. ISF" The career'of the late Gov. John Letcher, of Virginia, affords a notable refutation of the idea prevalent in the North before and since the war and to amu crtont. oviatinrr in tTio minds thnsA amount us now who like to speak of "the new South," that the organization of so- cietv in the old South impeded the politi- cal progress of men of honor and ability whose origin was humble. At an early age young Letcher began his apprentice shin at the carpenter's trade with bis father. But he found time out of work j hours to feed his active mind by study,and having thus prepared himself entered Washington College at the age of 19; at 23 studied law; and in 1839 established a newspaper in Lexington. In 1851, he was elected to Congress without opposition and was returned thereto thrice after wards. Here he became chairman of the committee of Ways and Means, in which position the sobriquet of "watch-dog of the treasury" was bestowed upon him; and he gained a national reputation as debater and for his persistent and able advocacy of extreme State rights. In 1859 he wa9 elected Governor of Virginia, serving from Jan y 1, 1860 to Jan y 1, 1864. making a record as an able and patriotic "war-Governor." Chinese Engineering. Our friends, the Chinese, continue to exhibit evidences of the remarkable attainments in science and the arts which have characterized them for several decades of centuries. A recent news item says that engineering in China has achieved a notable triumph in the construction of the bridge at Lagang, over an arm of the China sea. It is five miles long, built entirely of stone, has 300 arches seventy leet high, the roadway is seventy teet wide, and the pillars are seventy-five leet apart. Jgf A daughter of John F. Walls, ed itor of the Philadelphia Sunday Mirror, on Sunday evening detected a burglar in the upper rooms ot her home, lie was deterred from attempting to escape by the girl whistling for an imaginary dog, and when the thief made a dash he leaped into the arms of an officer, for whom she had 6ent her little brother, who, with her, was the sole occupant of the house. The heroine is only fifteen years old. JdP The Medical Times and Gazette having recently referred to the value of adder's poison as a curative agent in lock jaw, Dr. Kichard lleale calls attention to i.i . r . . . . a t. . a a 1 me laci mat in im mere were 1,43a per - sons exposed to yellow fever who were in - ocoulated with attenuated adder venom, not one of whom died, although seven were aiiacnea wun me disease, ine ac - cuumui um miner, wnuen djt s nepnew J of Baron Humboldt, appeared in the Med - ici Aigesi,. State News. tW Mr. W. C. Staples, who has been one of the editors of the Reidsville Times, withdraws and the veteran Capt. T. C. Evans again assumes entire charge of the paper. ZW Mr. James Parsley, who lives on the old Love place on Crowder a Creek, made last .year 11 bales of cotton and 80C bushels corn with two males. Gastonia Gazette. W Mrs. Letitia Morehead Walker has given $1,000 to build a bath house at the Uxlord Orphan Asylum, as a memorial to her son, John aioreneaa Walker. It should be remembered that, under the Code, administrators, guardians and executors are required to make an nual settlements. The penalties for fail are can only be escaped by a strict com pliance with the provisions of the law. 13? The Carolina Central Railroad Company has. completed a large and sub stantial depot building at Iron Station, on the Shelby Division. Arrangements are being made to put a telegraph office in the depot. 3diF Section 2.025 of the Code requires the road supervisors of each township to meet on the nrst Saturday in February and August of each year for the purpose of inquiring into the condition of the pub lic roads. fj?T Up TanrtK TW a tArwcA A a anil a mim. - uituiuu ntarieu lur riuuua uu iuo inu : j c "LTM : J tu i itU December. The 21st January they re turned sufficiently amused with the Floral State. They say that they were able to realize $3.50 per day for"work, but it cost $3.00 per day to board. Concord Times. The Hotel Brunswick. We received a call from Mr. James D. Sublett, the new manager of the Hotel Brunswick at Smith ville. He informs us that many additions and improvements are being made to the hotel, and that preparations will be made for the accommodation of a large number of guests. Wil. Star. Capt. Waddill tells us that he now has the Narrow Gauge track laid to the Catawba river, five miles from Hickory, and that the bridge is expected to be com pleted so as to let his engine run across into Caldwell next Monday. This will be the first train ever run into Caldwell county. Hickory Press. ZBtT People are curious about the name given to the immigrants from the Isle of Skye,now on their way to North Carolina. Land allotments on that island are very small, an acre or two, which, including the dwellings thereon, are called "crofts; hence the name ' crofters" for the tenants thereof. More Peanuts. We have been in formed that Mr. W. T. Taylor, of Whita kers, made the past year on "old field" land a crop of peanuts that yielded 100 bushels to the acre, for which he refused 51.25 per bushel. He was also offered and ref used $30 an acre for the vines which make an excellent forage for stock. This to Dr. Capehart calling his attention to I the fact that the law allows the importa-1 tion of salt, duty free, for the purpose ol - . - . curing fish on the shores of the navigable waters 01 the United btates. u ben im ported this salt must go into a bonded warehouse, from which it caa be taken on a bond that it shall be used only for the purpose specified. 25gT If Raleigh is a sleepy town,blessed be the sleep when it holds such men as Williamson & Upchurch. W. C. & A. B. Stronach, Edwards, Broughton & Co., William Woollcott, R. B. Raney, R. S. Pullen, R. S. Tucker, and Julius Lewis & Co. They have each subscribed $500 in stock of the Exposition Association. Not less proud is this city and the whole State of the other gentlemen who have given and are giving liberally in sums of $250, $100 and $50 each. The total amount subscribed to date in Raleigh is $10,300. which is an assurance of a $15,000" sub scription by the sleepy "little capital town. otate Vnromcte. A Minie-Ball in his Head. Mr. An drew J. Hause, an esteemed citizen of this county,carries around with him a souvenier of th, "ate unpleasantness' from which it . ,u p1, .mm Kr?" P3,1" 10 Pari- aiD(? Mlll on f ndav. ine 7 ' .u,r" mg the seven days tight around Iticb- mond, Mr. Hause was shot in the head. The ball struck him on the arched bone under the eye-brow at the root of the nose above the left eye. It entered the cavity of the eye, destroying the eye-ball, struck the bone behind, then glanced downward and stopped behind the cheek bone, where it still remains. The ball can be distinct ly fi.1t unt.Vi ttio finivor lint reivaa n rt nam except in damp weather, when it gently reminds nr. riause ot his experience on the war-path. Lincoln Press. Employer and Employee. As there is complaint against employees being hired after already having bargained to work for another, we publish the second section of the law of the State on thai sub ject, the nrst section makes liable for civil damages any person who shall entice, per suade and procure any servant by indent ure, or any servant who shall contract in writing or orally to serve his employer. I The servant is also liable. The second section is as follows : "In addition to the remedy given in the preceding section against the servant and person violating the preceding section, sucn person ana servant shall also pay a penalty of one hundred dollars to any person Bueing for the same, singly or ioint' ly, one-half to his use and the other half to the use of the poor of the county, when suit is brought, and the offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not ex- ceeaing one nunarea dollars, or imprison ed not exceeding six months." it this law is enforced a few times it will put a stop to the evil. Tarboro Southerner. ics? vjen. jacKBon was tne nrst to in r1 -r 1 ...... augurate the custom of shaking the hands 01 an who came to bis public levees. Be- tore that time the populace had merely made a respectlul obeisance to the Presi- dant as their names were announced, but Old Hickory, who despised all pomp and anectation, and was nothing if not Demo cratic, took every hand in his firm and honest grip. 1 m- m 1 ss? me bears who have been resort 1 ing lately to the most unscrupulous Drac- J tices to depress prices, regardless of what I the results might be in the way of a finan- 1 ciai panic involving general business dis- 1 aster, nave come to gner, ana everybody 1 is rejoiced to see the screws put to them m me most crn,8mng eiyie, communicated. The "31st May" was never so called in Mecklenburg, and this date is not named by Mr. Bancroft In consenting to come before the pub lic with the facts which have been found to prove that the printer' date oi the "Mecklenburg Resolves" wa a variation from the MS., a new historical held was entered with the expectation ot gaining. as well as imparting, some information. In this I have not been, altogether disap pointed. Thanks are returned for con gratulations received, but more especially for candid criticisms through private cor respondence, and otherwise, suggesting difficulties which were to be removed be fore this conclusion 'could be admitted. The last article was, perhaps, rather un dignified for such a subject. Ihe end sought would be defeated in the outset, if the impressions were made that my own recent conviction forbid 'a decent respect for the. opinions of mankind,' from whom I have only been led to differ by a mar shaling of the evidence, after a discovery of some facts never presented for their consideration. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, will straighten the lines from corner to corner through this strangely tangled Wilder ness of Mecklenburg. As the giants of the forest are disclosed, through the lichen and the moss, on one side, and the 'im mortelles of later growth, on the other, the hatchet shall be driven as deep as that of Thomas Polk in 1772, when he ran his portion of the present line between the two Carounas. All the arts ot logic, rhetoric, and satire, were long since ex hausted on the trial of the geueral issue, to-wit: whether there was a special Declaration of Independence by Mecklen burg prior to the general one by the Con tinental Congress. Nothing has been further from my purpose than to reopen that, adjudicated case, the decision of which is so emphatically approved by Mr Bancroft. See History U. S. vol. VII. 370-374. His conclusion is that Brevard 'digested the system which formed in ef fect a declaration of independence, as well as a complete system of government' which digest those participants and wit nesses who have left a record of their tes timony, and allude to it at all, call 'a copy of the whole proceedings.' But in attempting, with all due respect, to correct others, I must set the example, in candidly acknowledging errors. The concurrence of both sides to the previous question, led us also to the admission that the great historian had given the 31st May, 1775, as the date of one of the Meck lenburg jISS. A careful perusal of his language, vol.7, pp. 370-374, discloses the fact that he does not name the day. Ol the action taken by the county, he savs: 'sometime in Mav. 1775 ' and of Dr. Brevard s signing the digested Ke solves:" 'before the month of May had come to an end.' The old Delphic oracles were so worded that the victorious party should have the privilege of construing the language used after the event was known. Our historian, unfortunately, as late as 185S, found, that, while the pre vious question had been decided, still there were some who assumed that not I only was tae printed date certainly rignt, but that it was positive proof that no other Resolves could possibly have pre- ceded these. On the other hand, none of . the participants and eye-witnesses had ever named the printed date. The day and days!1 he left to be decided by the wager of battle. All who ever spoke of more than one day, and faxed the dates, said that the call was for the 19th of May, and that the Delegates met accordingly. With equal unanimity, though hundred of miles apart, the day when the Declara tion was read out to the people by Lol. Polk, was fixed as the 20th of May. No witness ever named a different day for it. In the U. S. Pension Office, through the assistance of Mai. Wheeler, and the cour tesy of the government officers in that department, we have found this day, the 20th, 'confirmed by an oath, and no one doubts that every witness who certified to it on honor, was prepared, unhesitatingly, to swear to it Hon. Jos. H. Wilson, who is at once an honor to, and the father of, the Charlotte Bar, recollects distinctly that a number, of the Revolutionary soldiers applied for pensions through him as their attorney and the statements of several set forth the fact thal lhey were present at Charlotte on the 2oth May, 1775, when a Declara- Hon of Independence was made." So much, then, to show that one day, at least, has been settled. Ihe printed date is quoted to contra dict the accuracy of the memories of the actors themselves, even on such a house hold word, after the lapse of years; and previous writers have either contended for the 19th, 20th and 31st, or denied the first two dates upon the appearance of this nullius filius in 1837. The latter class, as to the dates, appear to have the more accu rately defined the issue ; for it is a con test ot lshmael against Isaac both can not abide under the same roof. This is the more appareut, when it is fully under stood exactly what the printed "Resolves" contain, and the long distance some of the delegates would have travelled, unneces- sarily,to return to a second meeting. Ihe object was not sufficient. If the Resolves, as Mr Uancrolt concludes, are really the system which Brevard digested from the several MSS. before' him which we find were two preceding Declarations, and three other papers of a rather differ ent character " a copy of the whole proceeding" then 4.here was no necessity for the sub-committee to separate before its completion. Printed dates are not necessarily, conclusive. A wounded Con federate officer could be named, who brought home from the surrender at Ap pomattox, a parole, printed on Gen Grant's army press, bearing date Apri 10, 1865. But the world knows that the capitulation was really on Sunday morn ing, the day before. Ihe only objection yet advanced against the 21st as the day of the Digest, is that our calendar place this day on Sunday. In the last article, it was shown that such was not the calen dar of the people in old Mecklenburg. The point might, perhaps, more clearly appear, it we could show the lown Com missioners transacting official civil busi ness, which required no undue haste, on days corresponding to the 21st May, 1775, as Sunday to Sunday. Two such occa sions in immediate succession would, doubtless, suffice. These I will proceed to give ; and that the' reader may the more readily test the accuracy of the cal culations already furnished, take these data: By our present calendar, the 1st January in 1773, 1774 and 1775, would have fallen on Friday, Saturday, and Sun day, respectively. Then, the days of the month in January and October, being the same in number, are also the same in the week, with the exception for lean years I W ith the same exception, those ot May I are found just one day earlier, respective- 1 iy, in the week ; e. g. the 1st, otb, ltb 2 2d, and 29th, January and October, cor respond with the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28tb, ot May. So that the 1st, 8th, 15th. &c, January and October,'' 1773, being Friday, the 10th and 17th October, 1773, would in evitably have been Sunday; and likewise, two years later, the 21st of May. 1775, by the removal of the intervening day,) would also have been Sunday.' But that was not Sunday in M eckleuburg is shown, further, by the fact, that the Town Commissioners, Messrs. Folk, Alexander, aud VcCafferty, by their joint signatures, executed a deed of conveyance "for a town ot on October 10, 1773, and another October 17, 1773. Without further facts the legitimate presumption is,' that the Mecklenburgers retained the calendar oi Julius Caesar, Pontifex Maximus, and re- ecied that of Gregory, substituted by statue, 24 Geo. II, 1751. No one who un- lerstands the history of ALEXANDUli CRAIGHEAD from 1743 to 1766, and that he was virtually Kina of Mecklen burg for the last 11 years of his life, can doubt whose lime he kept, if the choice was limited to the two. I am gratihea to learn that in Wheeler's Reminiscences due credit is given to that eminent divine and ripe scholar, the Rev. A. W. Miller, D. D., for demanding and securing for the memory of this independent pioneer a proper place in American history. His bold Declaration at Middle Uctorarj was but eight years before the Act pro viding for the abandonment of the time table of Caesar and Sosigines. To the old tero and patriot, it seemed but a short time lor the love he bore the land which has now almost forgotten his name. Every gazette and every established church, presumably, adopted the change in 1752; but he found neither here, in 1755; and there wa9 neither at the tune of his eath, 1766; nor when his sentiments were voiced by his surviving comrades, in May, 1775. Though dead, he was still firt.t in the hearts' of his countymeii on that memorable day, and no other influ ence was so potent on the occasion which witnessed the final fruition of his hopes. He planted the tree, posterity gathered the fruit. Without a knowledge of the previous training aud true status of the '1500 taxable peraous' who were represent ed in the Mecklenburg Committee, the ef fort might well be considered desperate to show that they so persistently clung to the Old Siyle. They had sought a remote part of the world to be as free as civilized men could expect to be, from outside in terference especially in matters of con sciuce, in which forum there seems from the dawn of Christianity to have been always a difference of opinion as to whether days and seasons are minor matters ot the law. lo-day we leel great complacency in looking around us, and seeing a people of almost every phase of christian faith with a comfortable house of worship and an instructor 'apt to teach,' to say nothing of the legal, and medical profession, the Bankers, merchants, experts in every avo cation, and last, but not least, our excel lent schools; yet, in the face of all this, blush to own that the PROPORTION of persons well informed as to the civil and religious status of their country, aud possessing a fair education, in Mecklen burg in 1884, is not equal to the exhibit lor 1775. We are not behind our age, but the general prosperity and growth of the county, and the upheavals ol the late disastrous war. from which the people in the aggregate have recovered as rapidly as cculd have been expected, must not be left out of the account. Our excellent newspapers, since the establishment of the Catawba Journal here about 1820, by Air. Lemuel Bing ham, who still survives in a happy old age in Statsville, have ever been in, the front rank as true educators ol the peo ple; but the ancient Mecklenburgers, from the college at Queen s Museum in Charlotte, were as well intormed. and no less vigilant. It was before the days of telesrams and steam-engines, but iheir steeds were as strong and as fleet as ours, and from time to time, well considered manuscripts went out on the wings ot the morning to prepare every freeman for the coming storm. Such wre their local gazettes. In full sympathy with the de feat of Gov. Tryou as to the enforcement of the Stamp Act in 1764; so openly in lavor ol the Kegulators in 1771, that an oath of allegiance was required of every man able to shoulder a musKet as soon as the parties who had ben artfully out witted and cajoled by tin "olive branch" ot Gov. Tryon, and his elegant household, could re ch the county, they had already determined among themselves that "the cause of Boston is the cause of all." The removal of the d ad body of that enforced oath the usual and absurd artifice of tyranny to prolong its life beyond the time appointed by the King of kiugs alone stool between them and a de claration of independence as absolute as it was in the power of one county to make it. All the resolves, then and tliero unan imously adopted, they knew amounted to nothing, unless thev succeeded in the perforniai.ee of the duty so solemnly as suraed : 'to spread the love of country and fire of freedom throughout America.' The first step, in this direction, was Brevard's Digest. Hear what Mr. Ban croft has to say as to the construction put upon its language by the actors them solves: "Ihe Resolves were made bind ing on all, aud were to be enforced till the Jrrovincial Congress should provide oilier wise, or, what they knew toould never take place, till the British Parliament shoul resign its arbitrary pretentious with respect to America." VII. 372. Why then were such an enlightened people, s r s l t . I " .1 iar m auvance 01 omers in seeing the end irora me oeginning, oeuina mem in tne change 01 their calendar i l hey held to the O. S., doubtless, as at once a legacy trom Craighead and a badge of liberty But the fact is, they were very little more tenacious than were the Protestant States of Germany, who only made the exchange in 1774; while the civil and religions head, the king and pontiff of all the Russia, bears Caesar's name, and keep Caesar's time, to the present day. JNOW it is certain that this . was the calendar of our first settlers; also that the people of Mecklenburg and their offi cers did not yet punctuate time accordin to ours. Subsequent data from the records of their independent court occasionally disclose a variance ol one day from tl C! 1 . U - 1 . . i. o., out iue reai importance 01 mis va riance ls.ithat it establishes Ihe fact that a change! was then made. So that, cor recting a; lormer conclusion too hastily t .1. -.1 . T . . auupieu irum mute suuszqueni aacat and preiernng tne ascertainment ot truth to the maintenance of an entirely consistent argument, 1 must discard both Sunday and Saturday as the 21st May, and find that the old patriots met on a Tuesday 1 1 . i rt.t . . . . win v. 1 1 was ineir lain 01 Auay, 177o, and again on Wednesday, their 20th, when al the papers, bo tar prepared, were read out and adopted by the people amid the wild . 1 .. - est appiause; mat, nine attested copy was not made on the same day. it' fo lowed on Thursday, their 21st, and, the next Thursday being the 28th, the prin ter's date, the 31st, was. not theirs, be cause tt fell on their suaaay. l i, D. G. Volcanic Eruptions A letter from Mr. Edward Whyroper to Prof. J. Norman Lockyer, the English as tronomer, gives some interesting particu lars concerning an eruption of the South American volcano of Cotopaxi which oc curred in 1880. At the commencement of the eruption Mr. Whymper was mak ing his famous ascent of C.himborazo, and was more than 16,000 feet above sea-level, nnl ahniit. nixtv3Sve miles from Cotopaxi. A rlnso Ro'nmn of smoke was seen to rise suddenly from the volcano to a height of about 40,000 leet above tne sea, wuen it was borne westward somo twenty miies by a strong wina, ana tueu inrsul ll lirpfitions. In a few hours the cloud passed between the observers as the sun, and . color ellects surpassing iu vivid intetifritv those of the most gorgeous (unset were then witnessed, the sun itself J appearing green. As the cioua papseu ovprlipad and surrounded the mountain- climbers the brilliant colors ceased to be seen, while an exceedingly fine dust fell upon everything. This remarkable ob servation seems strongly confirmative of ihA ri tli at. lata unusual . sunsets : and other atmospheric phenomena have been auo 10 voicanio uusi uuauug uigu w mo air. Two Events. Two grard events transpired in the present century that never happened be fore, and in all probability will not occur again in the mueteenth century, it ever, one in Church and one in State. John Adams lived to see his son occupy the highest place in the gift of the people, Dr. Lovic Pierce to see his son at the head of the M. E. Church, and in the front ranks of men of his day, in the Episcopacy. A very few, comparatively, living now, ever saw the elder Adams, thousands saw and knew John Q. Adams, but rnnlions knew Dr. L. Pierce, and know his illustrious son, the Bishop. John Adams was the nrst and last President that lived to see his son Presi dent, in fact the only father and son who occupied the national executive chair. No father felt a greater pride 111 his son, the more so. when he was elevated to the ugliest honors his country could bestow. But, sir, can we conceive with what grati tude swelled the bosom of that great and grand 01a vairiarcn, wnen it was an nouueed at Columbus, in May, 1854, that George, his beloved George, was elected lo the Hpiscopal office, and henceforth to 'o 111 and out before the people ot Israel, as a leader of t he sacramental host. We know whereof we speak, when we say we know that great man s heart bounded with joy when h heard the words, G. F, Pierce is elected, and well it might, when no father ever had a nobler son. no son a grander father. Macon Advocate. SSif" The journalism that ignores the foulest crime at home, and habitually magnifies wrong-doing elsewhere, for the purpose of bringing aversion and contempt upon fellow citizens of the same country, lacks the spirit 01 genuine patriotism as truly as it does that of Christianity. And it thus qualifies itself alike for the office of a conservator of public morals in its own circle, and a friendly and profitable adviser outside of it. S" The coraplaiut of bad . roads comes up from all quarters of the State. Ihe roads will never get any better un der our poor old antiquated and ridicu lous road system. A little dirt will be pulled to the middle of the road once or twice a year and the rain will wash , it back again. A few pine brush will be pitched into the holes and a rotten bridge here and there will be patched with old rails or refuse lumber. But there will be no permanent improvements, because the system contemplated n'othingof the sort. TO THE LADIES! You are rtspectfully invited to call and exam ine our stock of new Hamburg and Swiss EMBROIDERIES and INSERTING?. They are very handsome and very cheap. Machine Torchon Laces 35a50c. per Dozen. Weaie seising our stock of Children's and Misses' Underwear at cost. Also, a full line of Ladies' and Gents' Underwear at very low prices. Call and be conviuced. . I1ARGRAVE3 & ALEXANDER, Jan. 25, 1884. c Smith Building. Removal TO SPRINGS' CORNER. R. n. JOllDAN. Eft. JOS. GRAHAM. DRUG STORE. We have opened and have now on sale a new and complete line of Fresh DRUGS. Toilet articles, &c., which we respectfully invite our fnenus aud the public generally to call and examine at our Store on the Corner of Trade and Tryon Streets, known as Springs' Corner. Prescriptions Carefully Prepared at all Hours, Day and Night " R. H. JORDAN & CO. Jan. 18, 1884 FANCY GOODS AND Confectioneries. The largest stock ever brought to Charlotte at . V. S. HOLTON'S. A mammoth stock of Plain and French Can dies, made t.f pure Sugar and manufactured by the best manufacturers in the United States. FRENCH CANDY. Spanish Castles, Marsh mellows, Cucoanut Jelly, Fig Paste Flats, Smooth Cloves, Chocolate Drops, Rose Gum Drops, Leraon Gum .Drops, Lemon Cocomut liars Mint Drops. Cream Almonds, Bon Bons.&c. The largest and best selected stock of TOYS that has ever been brought to Charlotte. Tin, Wood, China and Mechanical Toys, Arks. Coffee Setts, Steamboats, Work Boxes, Toy Pianos, China Va9e?, Glass Vases, China Mugs and Cups Wax Dolls, Unbreakable Dolls, Rubber Doll? Drums, Harmonicas. Boxes, Swiss Cottages, Doll Hou.-es, Bellow Toy, Furniture, Locomotives Santa Clau3. . ' FANCY XOTIONS.-Dressing Cases, Dressing ar.d Hair Brushes', Tooth Brushes, Pocket Books and Purses, Toilet and Shaving Soaps, &c. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FRUITS Malaga Grapes, Figs, Apple., Oranges, Cabinet Raisins, Lemons, &c. -- NUTS-Almonda, EnglUh "Walnuts, Pecans, Filberts, Palm Nuts, Cocoanuto. WILLOW COODS.-Dc' , Cradle., Fancy Baskets, Work Stands, Work Baskets, Rattles. STAPLE GROCERIES. Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Bacon, Flour, Lard. Rice. Salt. Soda, Powdered Sugar, Cut Loaf Sugar, Candles, and many arti cles too numerous to mention. ; Also, Fancy Cakes lr parties, weddings and family nse. Fresh Pies, Plum Cakes, and Bread every day. ' I would be pleased to have you call and ex amine my Btock. Nov. 30, 1883. C.8.HOLTON. i Comparative Cotton Statement. The following is the cotton staten.,," for the wtekeuding Jauuary 31st ;v . 1884. ism Net receipts at all U. S. ports 109.461 len. Total receipts to this date, 3,954,903 4 200' Exports for the week, 164.417 WoT: Total exports to this date, 2,503,803 2 8004n? Stock at all U. S. ports, 1,066,503 923 o7 Stock at all interior towns, 152,769 166 'ori Stock at Liverpool, 798,000 851 nnn Stock of American afloat for ,wu Great Britain, ! 331,000 289,000 Total Net Receipts of Cotton. The following are the total net receipts of cotton at all the ports Bince SeDtemK. 1,1883: Galveston, 312,465 bales: Ncft. leans.1,269,167; Mobile, 220,354; Savannah KOrt 7C4. rhorlofitmi SAT V:i . 81,819; Norfolk, 501,450; Baltimore, 29 57i. New York, 78,474; Boston, 90,73l'; Provi-' dence, 1,373; Philadelphia, 9,176; West Point, 151,749; Brunswick, 7,214- port Royal, 10,897; Pensacola, 21,738;' Citv Point, 2,318; Indiauola, 8,074; total 3. nci ant ' " '. Total Visible Supply of Cotton. The total visible supply 0f cotton for the world is 3,381,410 bales, 2,778 010 being American; against 3,237,424 and 2,574,426, respectively, last year. Re- ceipts ol cotton at all interior towng 45,858 bales; receipts from the plantations 80,964; crop in sight 4,737,329. New York Cotton Futures. The Post's cotton report Bays : Fu. tures closed quiet and firm; 3 to 4-100 higher. The total sales were about 37 000 bales. E. B. SPRINGS. K. 8. BURWEIX. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Dealers in Groceries, Provisions and Fertilizers. Thanking the farmers of this section for their generous patronage during the past ten years we respectfully solicit a continuance of the same. We hope by fair dealing and reasonable prices to deserve it. We are at the Old Stand near the Postoffice, And it is our intention to make our Store in the future as it has been in the past Headquarters For the FARMERS. We have now in Btore a full stock of Groceries, Provisions, Clover Seed, Orchard Grass, Farmer's Friend Plows, &c.,&c., on all of which we are prepared to give you lowest market prices. We ask your special attention to our facilitiei for furnishing you with reliable ' Fertilizers. Having a large Warehouse conveniently lo cated, built for the purpose during the past Sum mer, we will at all times have a large stock ready for delivery. We control the following Brands in this market : THE ETIWAN DISSOLVED BONE. THE ETIWAN GUANO. The Stono Acid Phosphate. The Parmer's Friend Guano. The Goods of the Eti wan and Stono Companies1 aie known to be reliable and are admitted to have few equals and no superior. These Companies being the only ones in Charleston that have the celebrated "Due Atomizing Mill," Which is the latest invention and most improved Mill for grinding the Phosphate rock into an un palpable powder for the manufacture of Fertili zers, it stands to reason that these goods are what we claim for them, THE BEST IN THE MARKET. We have now in store 100 Tons German Kainit, Which we know to be pure. o We are wide awake and will he glad to serve you. Call and see us. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Feb. 1, 1884. 2m Charlotte, N. V. NEW FALL GOODS. We are now offering a large stock of Dress Goods, a tremendous stock of Velvet Ribbons and other Trimmings. A magnificent stock of Ladies', Misses' and Children's , Hosiery. A nice lot of Handkerchiefs, including a lot of the cheapest ever offered by us. Don't forget to ask for CARPETS. Our stock is new and well assorted. We are the agents for the "Charlottesville Woolen Mills," And these Goods need no praise from us ; every body knows them to be the very best goods for the money, made. Don't hesitate to ask for anything you want, lift V 6 it ALEXANDER & HARRIS- Sept. 28, 1883. SALEM ALMANACS. Just received, a supply of the year 1884. - WILSON BROS., Sole AgenU. Oct. 19, 1883. ' Charlotte, N- C BURGESS NICHOLS, - WTiaUaale and Retail Dealer in FURNITURE, BEDDING, &c I have now in Store a well seltcted stock em bracing everything found in a First-class Furniture Store, Such as Bedroom and Parlor 8uits, Lounge. Tet-a-Tets, Whatnots, Marble and Wood Top Tables, Dining Tab'es, Washstands, Bofesns, Wardrobes, Book Cases, &c. tW CHAIRS of all kinds and cheap Bedstead" at prices to suit the times. I respectfully solicit a shire of patronage also, . - , , COFFINS of all grades kept on Land ready made. JVb. 5 West Trade Street, Jan 19 1882 Charlotte N.U
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