7' F KANKLIX COURIER. PUBLISHED EVERY FrID.Y IS Louibburg, N. C. 7 Fit A KLIN COUItiElL ifelir irier XIATS3 OP JLDYHIlTlZTSidm Adtertinrncnts will be inserted at the f 4 lo wins ratct per snuare : Doc Square one time $1 03 30. S. Bate, Editor & Pnjiiitar. two u throe 1 0 2 09 2 50 5 00 25 00 50 00 100 03 2Z itos of Subscription in Advance- GEO. S. BAKER, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS : $2!00 per Annum. . u Four u , " three months Fourth column one year Half " " One ' M " " For one year, For six mouths, Forthreo " ?2,00 1.00 so u u VOL. V. L0U1SBUHG, N. C, FRIDAY. AUGUST 4, 1876. NO. 38. ITS -, 1 1 a via Dt. :l ch off cn. 4 lor ill - A 3d rt, ind ind thy fits, sou Church Directory. Methodist CntniCn. Rev. F. h eid, Pastor. Services. every abba.h t 11 A. M. and 7 . 1 M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday t 7 P. M. Communion service the Second .unday .in each month at u a. m. Htcwar.r.s meeting Monday night fter the second fcabbath in each nonth. Sabbath School every Sabbath at SoVocfc P. M. St. Pauls Episcopal CnCRcn. rt;y. K. Dolloway, Ibctor. .Services on the lirst and. third Sun day in each month, morning aud afternoon. .Holy tommunion monthly on first Sunday. Sunday school every Sunday morii Iii" at 0 o'clock. Professiona Cards TO CAPTAIN SETTLE, ' LATE C. S. A., RADICAL CANDIDATE FOK GOVENOK. Sin: You belong'to the best blood of the State. Like your Confederate and Judicial comrade Colonel Rod man, you vero !)orn ati aristocrat. You are no common man, sprung from obscure parenrage. High sta tion and wealth and tue Settle fam ily are no strangers to each other. Your father, whoe honored name you bear in full adorned for years the J udiciary of our State. Time, and again you have been honored by the confidence of the people. An educated gentleman, you were doubtless early proficient ir in the Legislature save that of the allant and, chivalrous Fleming of HoWan, who lxllly proclaimed that no caucus could compel him to vote for you under" such circumstances. peat the story about the poor girl, but it is needless to say I was forcibly re minded of the time Then I heard you confess and recant your treason to the old Dsuiocrut party, I -tod and -is- Poor Fleming! The gentlest, the tened to j.m that day, my fa-e hum- purest, the bravest, the ino-t in- :ng vi'h .ia.e i:;nt ucij Wiiiiis cu uld corruptible of men, the most inle- be utt.-r,d in mci a place aud no mn minded of patriots and the truest da r.j make a reply 1 Yet so it was. of friends! Fitted by every quality That peech will be forgotten Captain frf head and of heart to adorn the Traitor Settle ! Tue people of North highest -position in the gift of the Carolina do not love traitors But people, it fell to your lot my gallant still you thrived. You were made comrade to lay down . your noble Speaker of the Senate and yo i wore life for the laiul yon loved so well ! again elected Solicitor for district, and You, Captain Settle,' and myself, still survive ! The ways of Provi dence are indeed pas, finding out. us you went from county to county you left strife and discord in your wake, neighbor against neighbor and brother against brother. You became DAVIS & COOKE. ATT'TSani COUNSELLORS at LAW LOUISBUBO, FRANKLIN CO. N.O. Will attend the Courts of Nash.Fraak. lio, Granville, Warren,nnd Wake Coun tii b, h!ho the Supreme Court of North Carolina aud tue U. S. Circuit and Dis nci Couitn. No. 7 tf W. H. SPENCER. ATTORNEY. A. T Tj. A. "W, You were elected and herein was : L ' in English history; at any rate I J your good fortune again apparent, a merciless prosecutor and a relentless make bold to say that the example The Presidential election . took persecutor of those who, like yeursolf of at least one most illustrious En- place in November but that (or had fought sgainst the old flag. Hish character has been alamn un-' Solicitor, did not take place until Time r llei on. You were now a to thy feet and a light unto thy path December, so that you had ample I "loyal man" though not yet a Radical in every night of doubt and, uneer- J time, ample for you at least, to run 1 In the fall of 1807 a convention of tainty that has co tue upon you. It off with Douglas and return to the your new ' rethren was held in Tucker is unnecessary to say I refer to that I true fold before your election came Hall in Raleigh and adopted such ex- emir ent British Divine, the Vicar of on. treine views that a division was made The storm whose ominous mut- j and for a shrt time there was hope terings had been heard and whose that a few would return to their senses, black cloud had been seen, at last It was frequently reported that you burst and with sudden fury over were opposed to Radicalism, and that the whole country. The President the enicll of the negro was offensive to of the United States called for your aristocratic white noitrils, that I seventy-five ; thousand troops . to looked with some confidence to hear Bray, him' who in every revolution professed the tenets of the sect that ' 'held the best livings 'in England.' No matter how "many might be wrecked around him 'his bark al ways came safely to shore. t Comparatively a young man, for hourly insulted aud hourly In -danger of their lives from the bullets and bay onets of lawless brigands, and - yon, with all the power of the State at your command, miserably, cowardly, traitor ously left them to their fate Vj trfa! by drum-heal court martial! And in the face of all '.his you ask the people of North Croliui to make you their Governor! Do you renumber that Canby no louger rules that our elec tion rcturDS are no longer siut to Charleston to be counted? May God CumbcrlnntU , Fayetteville Gatctte. " Tint ctsnxKiiA ITIOM CVXBtn- UkXD. 1 One of the delegates to the reccU Radical State Convention at Ualerh wh'di nominated Captain Settle of the llrse Marines, and IJKlhouod Bill? Saijth of Johnston, wis a negro. Mack uMiimuii, ui umueriaua. ills voice was potent lu that auffust bodv. and he waa addressed as tbe rcntlcmen iron uumbriand. Mack i a To the Working Class. We can turn Wb employment at wblclt j on can make vtrj iare in your own locabtief, without bciajg awty from home ever night. Agota want ed rn erery town and eovaty to take sobacribera for The Cuiteaniil Record, tbc targett publication tn the United Bttes 10 pure co'.nmne; Cieaot It Illoitrato.1; Terms cmly II per jear. The Ilecud u r'eeotedto whatever l of interest connected with the Cenlen- very nial year. The great Zjthlbitloa at Philadelphia l fully illasUate4 la d- Almighty m his infinite - goodness and .ly conT,QlioJ in Xortll Vagina PP, feel great interest la tbcirCoon! mercy forgive you your great crime; or any where clo, hating just Uec "3' CotenoUl Birthday, and want to the people of North Carolina never tried and bound over for a W and kww all about It. S a elegant patrK will. One of tiie Pfople. On OFFICE, Xush Street, over Brick Store. Hawkins' LOUISBURG N. C. it. f. r.ULT.ocir;ju. t. t. mitchslu Bullock & Mitcliell, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, . FflAKKLtNION, N. C. Will practice in the courts of the 6th judicial district. Prompt attention given to the collec lion of 'claims. No 50 tf MEADE, ORR & CO. Importers and Dealers in HAltDW AltBj CUTLEHY AND twenty-five ears, 3ou have been more or less promiuent before the people. You were by birth and education a Whig; your county of Rockingham was largely Demo cratic; you went to the "University of the State and there -.you over came your early prejudices ns your naturally fine' niind was enlarged and developed by its liberalizing nr quell f the insurrection." Your response to this call was prompt and vigorous. You raised a com pany and with arms in your hands became an insurgent. You defied the Federal President and dis owned the Federal fiag and bore a Captain's commission in the insur gent army. A year passed. In 1862 when came, you were elected a full Colonel, but like Gallio of old, you then cared for none of those things. You could not com mand, you said, men who were sol diers by compulsion. You must have a free troop or none at all. You therefore resigned and came home. 'Apui good fortune hail onnrsA of study This was trulv the spring time fortunate. The whole State had also'becoiue Democratic and you returned home, most opportunely qualified for the position of private Secretary to jour brother-inlaw, that true man Governor David Settle Heidi For a time Dcmo cracv was jubilant and so was Thomas Settle, Jr. The future lays tJavor.ca you. mus iar tne current fair aud beautifuV before joa ftW i of popular feeling had been strong sunshine lasted just long enough to against -the Federal Government Ttintrr vrn thn Sr.lirnTrir fnv vrrnr but at that point there was a CARRIAGE MATERIALS, 15 Sycamoro St. :Potersburff, Va K. T. ME A DC AV. OH't J OS K I'll A UC El KR. Jan vi xji Wlntelaw & Crowder, Marble & Stone -WORKS, District.- cnange. Just as mat leenng re But fair weather conld-not last .ceived.its first shock, the Confed aiway?. Portentous gns ofa erate Government made" men sol terrible storin ovei cast Uio'whole Oiers hy compulsion and afforded political horizon. With rare skill to your tender sensibilities excuse you 0 trimmed your sails .is to for stepping out of a current that, break its force. Still claiming to .fast becoming cold and muddy, was be Democrat, vou followed in the carrying you out into an unknown wnl'p nt vnnr fsvmilv rnnnop.t.inn. I SCUl Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Douglas won vou were all richt. If 1 Aime rouea on mT- ia l the Democrats - won, you were still- succeeded in quelling "the insurrec- : nnmr.omt Tf tim finntirm t'on." The current had bj this time .You was run 1 race as an insurgent won, had you not aided them in breaking down the Democratic party! Verily, it wa3 a fine posi tion you took I But neither Democrats, Douglas Corner Fayetteville and Dain Streets, j nor the Opposition won. The win niug ; party, though marchingTm And you wished The Lcgis- OrPOSITE THE YARBOROUBH HOUSE Raleigh. N-.C, EP" Orders Solicited, : i as not yet here. to be Solicitor again. lature met and you asked to be again elected. In the caucus of the Democratic members," held in the Commons Hall, in the turned in the opposite direction, and flowed with euch violoncc that it was like a ru?hiug, roaring, raging, moun tain torrent. But the first thing re cognized on the tumultuous waters was the cheery bark of Thomas Settle gliding on to calury and smoothly that eveu had it hcla that poor girl.s un fortunate babe, its slumbers would have been undisturbed. The people who for four years had made war upon yo, the same people against whom your third recantation. Bat the threat ened divisiou filled, for colored suf frage came and of course you and the negroes then joiuod the Radical party. Reconstruction and Rad ealism were then jubilant and so were you. "Ex celsior" wa? your motto. Upon the sweaty back3 of your sable brettiren, you who had only been Solicitor, mounted to a seat 011 the bench of tha Supreme t'ourt of North Caroliua. Nor might' you be blamed. If a negro could be a voter, might not a traitor be Judge ? Your judgment and fore sight wera admirable in matters politi cal, and why might not you as readily foresee the winning side in a legal con test as the side in a political contest? And then, too. Tourgee had induced the Cunveution to abolish all that legal lumber about pleading, and law and equity, of which the heads of Gaston, and Henderson, and Ruffin used to be f o full. And so ib was. With aristo cratic instinct you at once got above the tommon ' negro herd. 'Nor were you out of place, fcr when Scttlo be came Judge, party became law. Pear son also and. politics were one and in separable R 'dman too an! Heade were always lea-iy to obey partizan be hests. You re no worse than the vot and no better. ' Time rolled on. The terrible Kirk war came on and with It camo the crowning shame of your life. Men might forget that you wore selfish and timeserving; might forget that you had betrayed and abandoned every po litical party that you ever belonged to; they might bury in oblivion the re membrance that you shamefully shirk ed when yenr native land, that had so honored you,. was invaded by a merci less foe; they might forget that you Vnuco'sGrcnt Spoeoh nt Xtiitliei-frxltoii. Charlotte Observer. He could say it without contra diction . and he called ujku his competitor not to dodge the issue (but knew he would), that the Re publican party had inaugurated a system of corruption more wide spread and infamous than any ever known where the English language is spoken. Like the Irishmen who bit a cod fish ball, thinking it a bis cuit, it didn't taste like any other biscuit he had ever gotten hold of, and after smacking his lips and making many sorry faces, he ex claimed, "Jim, d d if there ain't -..l r 11 . .- I ir V 1 ' ii VnmifTUD&' i printed fre to each, subscriber. It Mack's exploits 1a that line really en- U entitled. In remembrance f tb, Utle biai to a rlice on the State Radi- One Hundredth Anniversary o! the la. cal ticket. by was not "the centle- dependence of the United States." man from Cumberland selected to 6ize,'2S by SO Inrbe. Any ne caa bold t.p at least ikic fold of the starry wooe a succeailoi agent, lor tmt show banner in the coming campaign J XhW?T Md J,cXr d "Jrede cf u v n : t r-jfr . .t snbecrlbers are eat II j obtalne 1 everr- Ti 7;e!!?vfb: whera- Ther. U wtwrin thai 5tt TiIden Aance and Wadd.U Club; with p.y like- tbU'at preaeau We hare a long list of vice president, at the manv areata who am tsakiev fcifc ncaa 1 wuicu is Mr. J. U. Jjyrover, I ss 020 per day and cpwards. Now is of the Gazette, - , , I the time: don't" deity. Remember it The Democia'ic voters of Rockfhdi nothlog to give tea badam a township are requested to ' meet at lriU for ?r ircnlart, , terms, Rfish Villsge on S.turd.y, 5lU cf Z. Aognst, for the purpose of organaing Complete outfit lr to tboee who di- a iiiaenana vanoe uiaD lor tai caw- t dde t eagacp, I Farmer, and enrcttn lea; iodthtlr tool and daasbteta make tut very best, of agents. Addrcaa, pa gn.i i ATm-Heol HnulT Story. IRE CENTENNIAL RECOUD ! Fort 1 and, U Io. H . In , of North Carolina, a gay aud festive youth, carried a young Isdy to a private dance. After dancing sev eral setts, the young lady desired to be 5M o 1 1 ce. . k ft V - - T A a " i , 1 ... . . . . 1 At LnckiiDi? 01 mi ucua ni laibii something rotten in my biscuit.- cuseu a snort wruie, that aLe might Cemmlssiooera of Franklin Coaaty ca The Radical biscuit is cither rotten odulge in a d:p of snoff. After she the 3rd dty .! April 1878. Thsfol- raxlically or radically roaen.. Great 1-1 been gone some lime, the young ebTrtffUot re,- laughter and applause. He waa min vcnt afl,:r Dcr nJ desiring to ceive in the-tt:eBJent ol taiea, or using Republican authority, and if r3""!1 concluded to ask permia- treaty Treasurer pay any ' . I .1.. I L'onntv OriUr itmrd twfnr tl i.t sion in this wuo: "Miss, will you condescend to de scend so far beneath your native dig nity, as to allow your most devoted ad mirer, to present tbc digits of my fin gers in that odoriferous vocabulary, and from thence to excite a considera ble degree of tidlation in my aHictory I pleaded in t r ot their t c r- nerr'es-" ' . F. 1. HAWKINS. Chairman. it was .a lie, that party had told it. The Curtis report of the gov ernment expenses saya that the whole expenses or the 30 crnnicnt, for a period of seventy-two years, was $1,581,000,000, and this inclu ded tho Indian war, the Mexican war and the war of 1812. - The ex penses of the government, under Republican rule, from I860 to 1815 (in time of peace), was $2,340,000, 0 00, nearly twice as much us the ex pense for the period of seventy-two years. Out of the, $4,500,000 col lected by the civil service or the revenue .officials, $1,500,000 never reacned it3 destination; in the lan guage of the import it waa lot. Lost I Lost!! Is that the name you give it up ucrc r oicc in . . . . 1 the crowd, no; we call it stealing-) reply. "But; said tho fanner, "you Suppose you hear your dogs bark I promised to pay when yoa got l ack at niiht. aud hear vour eniekem, from New York.' '-VftlL I htb't County Onter. isued before the lit day o! April 18i3, 2nd. All persons hold a & irden t od before that dste mntt prr cat the fame to the Cuk ot this Board co or before the 1st day ot Aoguit 1871, that a record thereof maf be made; snd-parties holding' ach orders, who itfuse to so pieeot tbtm are brrrbv notified thai the Statata ot liciii;'.u nerves. The girl said she knew one big word and thought then was the time to use it, and she said : "Constantinople, would you have taken the snuff?' J. B.TUCKEB, Uerk. Modest Yocxa Lady. Mr. II. will you please transfer into my piste from the deceased fowl soma of its arti ficial intestines. .''Is it not time that you paid me that five dol:is? said the firmer to his iieigluor.; uTaint due," was the squall, and when you count thcra next inorning-and-your old domi nccker ben don't come up!. Do you say she is lost ? Shouts of laughter and the Indian who iRgton city and couldn't find his hotel. Ho leaned against the lamp post and said "poor Indian lost, me no find hotel; no, Indian not lost, - hotel lost; Indian here.' Money not lost. It is in the pock- been, was the reply. Mark Twain, speaking of a new raoqa to netting, write.- MTha day 19 coining wnen we riau ait unuer onr cries of no! Like W " ,cLh aneJ Jber peaeefullj erate aoldier after the w . ,,,, ; eK lu utsomfitcd flies dob togetb- to bis borne, st bich he flad got drunk ia W ash- CT an j uke h at of tU toin-uUr douu. u front ol .the When you reflect that at picnics one hundred years ago it was the custom for the girl3 to stand up In a row and let the men kls them all good bye, all this enthusiasm about national progress seems to be a cts of the revenue o racers, , Roars I grave mlstakc. of laughter, cries of that's exx But to excuse their own stealin' At a young ladies seminary, dp r- confessed and publicly called yourbelt that partJ alleges that some Demo- of the 'mc-trwnisi'n fapils wai a traitor; might overlook your alliance cratshave also stolen. Well, the Interrogates: Mary, did llartin with heirrocs and vour association whh: Radical paity held the keys and Luther die a natarardeathr 'No. OOUEIEE JOB OFFICE. We have added to our stock a splen did JOU PRESS, with an elegant (election of type ot the latest styles, and we are now prepared to do 1860, you made a speech recanting your errors and apologizing for your wanderings. I was present at that caucus. I have in my mind's eye now, your tall, graceful figure an d'your commanding form, as you renewed your fealty to the Democratic party, which, it is need less to say, then controlled the Legislature. I well remember the classic and elegant manner in which . you re ferred to your error, It was for cible too. You said you were like 5 winter of four years before, you had so valiantly Ue wrpet.baggcr8 wbo ovemn Jonr had no business to let 1 recanting taken up arms were now triumph. I ce but never so lobe as 'vou and fL'LJ?. in the neatest and best manner. Si vnn nnl nnt apnrl vnnr TOR WORK North, for we will do itiust a the poor girl when severely rebuk well and cheap as you can get it else- ed by her stern mother for an in wbcre I discretion that re&ultod in an un- BETTER HEADS, ENVELOPES, lue winning side that tor tour .years had been marching ea, was actually hfire last and no mistake and you wcro again jubilant. . - ; AConvoMion, si-called assembled' and you were one of its prominent members. It met in that same Com mons' Hall where you told the chaste and pathetic story of that p:or girl. In that same Commons Hall, for tho Caubv Constitution had not then changed its name, it was again my for- tuuo to be present when you made an other celebrated speech, that in which you confessed yourself a conscious trait or to your flag aad to your country. authorized grandchild for the old ut, though a conscious traitor, you State, but never so long as ' you and they shall Hvoj will - citizens - of North treasury so that nobodv can handle the fund3 except the officer. His them steal. I was tho reply, hc was exconmu- guani tne l mcatel by a bulLr Tbe cultivation of such manaers.as Carolina either forget or forgive your opponent would evade the Ihing ball express all the best fetlbgt, the 53 53 . ; PETERSBURG Va, j E. . lUCHTEIU "Watclimnkcr and Jcw i clcr. FIHE WUhr n-l Jewelry of the U 5Linnf;rtorstKl at tt lowwt rrW. All woik iktvouaIIx attefMled to aud war ranted. tl UHrannortBL,reUrkbarr.T 1 THE J-0ST CAUSE. I A MAGNIFICENT rictnre Hxlt i aches in sire, printed on heavy plita psper. beautllol in design and artistic ia execution. , It reprennta a coated ar rrtornlac dads loaely aad rained cot tage, telling a aad tale of the atscrks ot wari arc two graves with radt cxeea. e, oa one of which some frtesd'y hand baa bong a girl sod. ' To the right the Calm rlrer aad the -mia; moon ladl cate pece and rrst. Tat star, sera through the trees, represent the boeth. era 'Cross.. .H is a-pVetsre that Ut touch every Sutbera heart aad sbosld find a place la every "Sob tb era hme. 5e&t by mail tooontul on a roller ai ' post paid, m receipt et 23 eta, or three fat ce&tj. j Address Joit Ecaow& Co., I PcblLvben, Driito, Teas, i AgtaU'waated cyetjwbtre to sail our cheap aad popular pictarw, f3 ta 1 10 peda eatilj aaaJ-. 2o potty leaired aatil piarei are soli, $cai Stamp for cataUe aad tetaa. shameful conduct when you ' a sworn su.c3 oftneaay and appeal to their Judge,, sworn to administer tho law "Vi honesdy and impartul.y. abandoned furyf firo an,j bhxalshdl fhut out them, in the hour of their extremity, I from the sight and buried along to the mercy of Kirk and his cut throats, with the bloody shirt. Wo wanted When you and your Radical brethren Pcacc an'1 we' would have had it cn the bench real or pretended fear k j lh crouched down before Kirk s insolent I of the war. ;ibcs like a pack of whipped curs, you noblest thoQghta, the refreahmeat and the grace of the mind and the heart la a thing which ' cacao? - be too highly thought ot nor set about two soon. Labor conquers all t blags. Every thing that we do has to hsva a certain amount of labor expended on it, to bnag It to a state ol perfection. How ever difficult it may appear, however 1872. 187C C1EDS, fcc. lady; aud all you had to say was that if you had had a baby it was a mighty little , one," and you hoped to be excused. You .wero excused and nominated and re ceived the vote of every Democrat denied that you had been a willing traitor. You declared that when you stood by the dy iug bed of your honored father, no greater agony wrenched your soul than that you felt when you aban doned the old flag, You did not re set your own seals to your own shame and to your own infamy. Did you fear or did you only feign to fear ! In 18 GO you hesitated not to take up arms against tho Federal Government. How was it, then, that iu 1S70 a single Ten nessee cut-throat could by a few indo lent words strike down all the manhood ic you? Shame, oh shame, lb here is thy blush? Friends, Vinsmeo, fellow citizeqs all, were in vile dungeons, hud dled together iu tnid-summcr's heat, "Excuse this bit of sarcasm,' said I impoubleit msy seem to be, remember Smith to Jon, Lot I must say that you ate an infamous liar and acoua drcL' "Pardon this bit of i-ony," said Jones to Smith, as he knocked him over with the poker. "I'd like you help me a little," said a trarap, poking hu head into a coun try store. "Why don't you help your self," eaid the proprietor, angrily. "Thank you, I will' said tbc tramp, as he picked up a bottle of wlmkey and twa loaves cf bread, and disappeared. if you attack It with energy aad labor with sll year might, yoar effort will be crowned with success. TKE'EOAKOIEHEWS, : FBICE KKDUCKD F OE ; The Ccntennfa! Year. A IsDtrsrsDajrT " BboWxxsxT . ,3s wsr a rs a. Devoted U Polities, Li:erstcas Afri ca hare aad News. ClrcnlaUo Urge aad dally Laerei NOW 13 TIIE TIME TO bCBdCKlHl It circulates ia Thirty-two Cos sties of Eastern aad Kiddie Nori CaUca Moving for a new trial Courting a I tod rootb bide Vlrgials, second wife. What is nothing? A fooUesa stock- Z witltoot a ler. When a physician dwerts Li pro-" feition for the pulf it the iuferene U that be can preach better than Le can practice. rj"A prixTt ims vui firjtrxasa Trr- obcripUon Irice, la adraace tZJi per year. 5 cs d fiW sample copy to Masx:so Baoy., FropHct. . W!doa,N. C : . rr , , i