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L' r i , t: H A COUNTRY, GOD AND TRUTH. VOL. IV NO. 4. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1873. WHOLE NO. 160- THE ROBESONIAN. TCBLISIIED KVKRY WEDNESDAY, AT L U M B E R T 0 N , N . C . W . S. McDIAItMin, Editor and Proprietor. II A M I L, T OX M c HI I L, L, A X, Associate Editor. MATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, Terms Cash in Adavnce. copy 12 months 1 12 6 3 $3.00 2.00 1.00 It A TES OF AD VER TISIXO : All transient advertisements must be paid for in advance at the rate of $1.50 per inch for first insertion, und 75 cents for Cnll fmliuaminnf iinanrtlrtn fT Ytv nTitrnpf. ys. navamc Quarterly in auvunc : I 03 O '-' S B 3 B g o o o o g s a a s S- cr c C - 1 Tnch 3.756.0i)r7l5O"' 13.50 .oI) 2 iuche? 7.50,12.00:15.00 27.00 40.00 3 inches 10.00,15.00 20.00 35.00 55.00 4 inches 12.50 20.0025.00 15.00 C5.00 column 18.0(25.00:35.00 55.00 82.50 J column 25.00 45.00165.00 00.00 135.00 1 column 32.00l75.00i95.00;i50.0ol200.00 mRniaBBninBBmnaBnaaa A. M c L E A N , From the Savannah News. The Credit Mobilier Infamy. ATTORNEY AT Lumberton, N. C. L A W Office up ptairs over the Drug Store. w. FOSTER FitENCH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, No 2d Street, Lumberton, N. w 7" S. NO R M E N T, Attorney at Law, LU..1KERT0X, N.C. Practices in Robeson and all the adjoining counties. Giles Lcitch. T E I T C II & 1J ATTORNEY Alfred Kowlnnd. ROWLAND, S AT LAw 5th Street, Lumberton, N. C. N A T. M c L E A N ATTORNEY AT LAW, Lumberton, N. C. 5? Practices in all the Courts of North Curolin.i. E EDWARD C A N T W E L L , ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office at the Court House Wilmington, N. C. Will attend all the Judicial District. Courts of the 4th J A S. S. 1 O 1' 11 A M & C O., Manufacturers of, and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in SADDLERY, HARNESS, BRIDLES AND TRUNKS, SADDLERY HARDWARE, &c , &c, kc. No. 8 South Front Street, Wilmington, N..C. D R. E. FLOYD DENTIST FAYETTEVfLLE. N. C. As the investigation of the Credit Mobilier progresses, evidences of the most astounding corruption and venality are brought to light involving many of the leading radical Senators and members of Congress. It would require whole pages of our paper to print the testimony that is from day to day given by the witnesses summoned in the ease, all of which goes to show that the very men who last sum mer, during the presidential canvass, most emphatically denied having received any of the Credit Mobilier and Pacific Railroad stocks, were purchasers and holders of those- stocks through Oakes Ames, and received large dividends from the same. Ames' testimony on Thurs day last, not his mere assertions, but his sworn statements, sustained by books and vouchers, clearly established the in terested connection of Colfax, Garfield, Dawes, Wilson, Allison, Kelley, Scofield, and others, with the Credit Mobilier stocks, which are universally admitted to have been used for the purpose of in fluencing the votes of the members of Con gress in the interest of the company. Commenting on the late Vice-President Colfax's share in the disreputable busi ness and his case is a fair sample of the rest the Boston Pout says: "Mr. Oakes Ames is apparently de termined that if the falls, lie will not fall alone. The first victim he clutches is the stalwart and honest Colfax, and the tumble executed by that suiilling politi cian involves a most disastrous display. The chief points of Mi. Ames' state ment are, that he secured twenty shares of Credit Mobilier stock for Mr. Colfax. that, at the same time, when he settled with the innocent purchaser at par, he handed over SO per cent in dividends, thereby giving Mr. Colfax stock whose par value was $2,000, and whose market value, much greater, for only 331, each; that subsequently he paid the unsuspect ing Colfax $1,200 more as dividends, netting the Vice-President a clear profit of $GGC; and that he now holds the stock with other bond dividends, subject to Mr. Colfax's order. There is no need of iiinjr back to the Vir-e-Prosidont's Pov.th Bend speech to discover a strange dis crepancy somewhere. His sworn state ment, a few days ago, contained a denia of all the charges in Mr. Ames' evidence, together with others that appear quite inconsistent with truth. It is but just to add that Mr. Colfax declares hi ability to refute these terrible accusations, and for the credit of the nation we hope he may be able to do so. Ou the other hand, there is no .reason to doubt Mr. Ames' accuracy. It is, in every way, a most snameml, disgusting anair, giving hints of perjury as well as corruption anions men who have been leaders and after lending them. A gentleman blessed with a good memory, and cursed with frequent ap proaches of petitioners for call-loans, de clares that one of these tricksters has been bereaved during the past six months of offspring to the number of ninety eight, and has become a widower not less than sixty times. Who can regard without profoundest pity a mortal struggling under such an accumulation of sorrows, and not respond pecuniarily? Like rhetorical questions are put by the borrowers. He who answers them with his pocket-book may charge its contents perpetually to Profit and Loss. New York has thousands of regular borrowers, and volunteers arc entering the strategic artny daily and hourly. -Tho ranks are always full to overflowing, and masterly advances are constantly making on the foe, who is hoodwinked by the pretext that he is a friend. The foe is Froni the Savannah News. The Burning of Columbia, S. C. any gull or generous fellow who hates to say no, or gives to his persecutor the benefit of the doubt. The foe can win little glory by resistance; his wisest course is retreat, and he is apt to do so finally, though not before his parte mon naie bears many humiliating sears. Junius Henri Browne, in bcribtur's for February. flow a Prominent Business 3Ian Went'to Ituin. RATIONAL HOTEL, FRONT STREET, (Between Market and Princess! Streets,) Wilmiinjton, N. C. REUBEN JONES, - - - - Proprietor. Board per day $3.00 A. M O O R E Wholesale and Retail Dealer in TOBACCO, SNUFF & CIGARS, Vo. 3 Jrecn Street, Fayetteville, N. C. O R T II & WORTH, General Shipping and Com mission Merchants Wilmington, N. C. Dealers in Fertilizers, Lime, Cement, Mo. lasses Bagging, Cotton Ties, &c., Ac. B. O. WOHTII. 1. O. WORTH. D. LOVE Book-seller and Stationer, No C North Front Street, WILMINGTON, Jan 8. 25C-9m N. C. J.K. Mcllhennv, WHOLESALE &ND RETAIL DRUGGIST, N. E. Corner Market & Ft. Sts., Wilmington, N. 0. Sept Jl I39-tf preventatives of the administration par ty for years." But what do these disclosures of cor- uption and venality in high places iniount to? Just nothing. A few years of radical rule has so familiarized the merican people with rascality in all its forms, that nothing that remains to be told can excite their wonder or arouse their indignation. It seems that the people no longer expect public men to be honest, to resist the temptation of 1 . IIT',1 .1 power and opportunity. mm tncni. adicalism like charity, covers a multi tude of sins, including any amount of official corruption There are no Swart wonts in our day. Indeed it seems that to be a good and loyal radical it is neces sary to be a knave, and the man in posi tion who fails to profit by it to enrich himself is in radical circles set down as a fool. It is but a few years since, says the Chicago Journal, that the house of Ben nett, Pieters & Co., wholesale liquor dealers and proprietors of the "R,ed Jacket Bitters," stood high among our best known, most enterprising and responsible firms. In almost every paper of the country their advertisements were to be seen. Mr. Pieters was a man of fine abilities, and besides being shrewd and successful in business, he was possessed - 1 1 1 . TT oi superior scliolariy attainments, liis home was among the most elegant and refined in the city adorned in the most chaste and beautiful manner, and grace- full' presided ocrby his wife, an estima ble and accomplished lady. While inthe full tide of prosperity, with wealth pour ing in upon him, Pieters fell. He coul not resist the temptation offered by the amnion concealed bcoU the oy hue of the wine cup, and his imagination was heightened and his brain exhilarated by the sparkling champagne or his own bit ters. The high reputation of his firm began to feel the effects of his downward course, and finally came the carsh. Pieters was ruined; he struggled vainly for a time, but the power of the fiend with which he had so long tampered was too great , and nerveless, and unresistingly he was hurried to the consummation of his ca reer. His elegant home soon followed his business house; rich and valuable presents made to his family were swal lowed up in the general ruin, or went to gratify still more his unceasing thirst for drink, until at last he and they were homeless and well-nigh friendless. A few months since he enlisted in the United States service as a private soldier, and is now with his regiment somewhere on the great Plains of the West. His broken-hearted wife has filed a petition for a legal separation from him, alleging that she has been reduced to utter poverty and misery through her husband's love of intoxicating drink. The story of her misfortunes is indeed heartrending, and if anything were yet needed to urge on the friends of temperance and reform it would be found in the terrible fate of ieters and his innocent family. In reference to the destruction of the city of Columbia, S. C, the responsibility of which is so stoutly denied by Gen. Sherman and his Northern friends, and their apparent determination to affix the stigma on the fair name oi Gen. Wade Hampton, Mr. Louis J. Weber translates and sends us the following from the Charleston (S. C.) Deutsche .Zdtunj, the organ of the large German popula tion of our sister city. The article is from the pen of its editor, Captain F. Melchers, who is well and favorably nown in South Carolina, and who at one time represented that State in Ger many as Commissioner ofEiigration. As a part of the record it Is interesting: Very lately the question has been considerably agitated through the press as to who was responsible for the destruc tion of the city of Columbia, S. C, in February, 1863. English subjects who had lost cotton there, called lor an in vestigation to know why the city had been burned. Gen. Sherman was ex amined, but denied that he had given any order for the burning of the city. Gen eral Wade Hampton, who commanded the Confederates, and Gen M.C. Butler both testified and proved that Gen. Sherman did permit the burning of the city. Every one who without bias in vestigates the subject is impressed with the fact that Gen. Sherman did give the order to burn the city. Although our testimony may be of but little weight, still we cannot permit the opportunity to pass without telling what we know. We were in Columbia shortly after the conflagration and were told by one of the City Council, a venerable German, that as soon as the Confederates had evacuated the city he went out to notify Gen. Sherman of the fact, he was taken up by Gen. S. on his wagon, and togeth er they rode into the city, followed by the army. Sherman promised protec tion to the citizens, provided they would remain quiet. A few hours ajler the city icus burning in all directions. An other German, Capt. Harons, keeper of a tavern, relates that in the evening a number or &hermc' $ w'.dtrrs look at the register, and if he found the names of John B. Wilson and James Frank inscribed on its pages under the date of November, to have the parties arrested and charged with the theft of 85,000. The son followed the directions, and from a letter received by the father some time since, we learn that the said John B. Wilson and James Frank were arrested at the said hotel, and they con fessed to the felony; that 4.312 of the lost money was recovered, and that the offenders had been sent to the penitentiary. We Shall Meet Again. Sorrows of a Serenading Lover. (From George D. Prentice.) The fiat of nature is inexorable. There is no npneal for relief law which dooms us to dust. We flourish and fade as the leaves of the forest, and the flowers that bloom and wither in a day have no frailer hold upon life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with his foot steps. Generations of men will appear and disappear as the gras?, and the mul titude that throng the earth to-day will disappear as the foot-steps on the shore Men seldom think of the great event of death until the shadow falls across their pathway, hiding from their eyes the faces ot loved or.es, whose living smile was the sunlight of existence. Death is the antagonist of life, and the cold thought of the tomb is the skele ton of all feasts. We do not want to go through the dark valley, although its dark passage may lead to paradise; we don't want to lie down in the grave, even with princes for bed fellows. In the beautiful drama of Ion, the hope of immortality, so eloquently uttered by the death devoted Greek, finds deep response in every thoughtful A few nights ago, a gcntlemm of this city was going home at a somewhat late hour, when he heard in the distance sweet strains of music, or at least, what he at first supposed to be music, but which proved to be, principally, "strain ing" and other dismal sounds that seem ed to come from a bosom racked with anguish, or a stomach over-loaded with green fruit. Softly he drew near, and, at last, discovered whence the sounds proceeded. A youth, over whose upper lip the barber could not have slipped the back of his razor blade more than twice, stood leaning against the gate-post, with his evs fixed upon a chamber window in the second story of the house before him. In his hatiils he held a-euifftr, upon which he picked with an air of one who is not certain he is on the right string, while from his parted lips came the following song : I have lo-hovcd the-he Zulah Zo-hong, Fo-hor th-hy life was all sa-hang ; Wa-wa haus all a che-heer-ful smi-ile ; Wa-wa has su-huhshine all the while, This is all wrong and should be no lon- cr permitted. v e hope to see a bill introduced at an early day, in accordance with the suggestion contained ia this article. Selecting a Wife. We have heard of the test being ap plied to servant girls, but JohnStarkley was the man who applied it to the se lection of a wife. The Starkleys and the Bclknaps had been friends through severil generations. In the present generation there was in the Starkley family onesonand in the family of Bclk naps five daughters ; and it had been arranged between the parents that the heir of the Starkleys should take him a wife from among the daughtersbf Belk nap. Jonn, tnc neir atoresavd, ct tii3 age of five and twenty, had returned from his travel?, when his father bado him select from the daughters of the friendly house the one ho would have fur a wife. John was a dutiful son, and his heart was whole, and as the maidens were all fair to look upm, he accepted Here the young man paused to spit tbe situation, determined to master it if and fill up again with wind, and then possible. - It, struck into the chorus : Oh, Zu hula, mouldcr-bing Zu-hula, Si-hilet:t is thy silver so-hong ; Oh, Zu-hula, da-harling Zu hula, De-hear departed Zu hula Zong-ong-ong. John spent several evenings in the company of the young ladies, and it was difficult to decide which was the most charming, though his fancy rested most lingeringly upon the youngest- The singer here took a rest for a few not that she was the handsomest, but seconds, looking anxiously down the she appeared the most sensible, street to see that no policemen were in One dij John was invitjd to dinner sightthen throwing a peculiar plaintive and in advance of the family he made sound in his voice, he sang : his way into the hall and threw a broom When the mo-hooa is sbi-lri-ning o'er the upon the floor directly across the pas- la-la-hakc, gjge to the dining-room. By and by Oh, the-hen, I'll think of thee-hc-he-thee, tuc sanimons sounded for the meal, and Oh, the hen, oh h, the-he-hen I'll thi-hi-hi- T . atl.un,i fnr rnn r.H Tb U ink of thee-ce-ee ! Here the front door being suddenly opened, a sepulchral voice said, " Sick Borrowers in New York. 8. W. VICK. C. P. MECAMK fl. GODWIN. Vick & Mebane, U E IV E It A L SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND Wholesale Grocers, Wilmington, N.C. cptl. lS'J-.tf. It would seem as if the city had been districted by borrowers, each district having its infesters. The lending hotels, or rather their patrons, are laid under contributions by these financial pests, who take their position at stated .hours, and ply their trade preseveringly from season to season. These are the fellows who,.having exhausted the metropolitan mine, are following the stronger lode They are better accquainted with the arrivals in town than the drummers themselves. They scan the registers as antiquarians would a mouldering inscrip tion, and greet with fulsome flattery and cordial hand-shaking every provincialist they have ever encountered. Their ac cidenta are chronic, their misfortunes unvarying. They have always lost their pocket book or left it at home; they have been suddenly called out of town, or have received a dispatch requiring immediate answer. They have failed to -receive an expected remittance; their wife -is very ill, or their child has just died; they must have money or go mad. (It may From the Norfolk Virginian. The "Christian" lEumlmg V or tshermc' $ w'.dtrrs were uriniving in nis piace, wne-.Tiauuctny, two rockets were sent up from head quarters, and the soldiers coolly began setting his place on fire. On begging them to desist, they laughed and said they would destroy the u-hoe nest; such proved to be the case. Another German citizen , , T ..1 11 says : "As l saw tnat tne soldiers were setting fire on all sides, I gathered some necessary articles of clothing, and, with my family, packed them on my wagon to await events. Soon there came a squad of Sherman's soldiers who set fire to my house, but left me alone. I started to drive through the burning streets, when another party seized my horse, threw most of the clothing inio the flames, robbed me of my watch and pocket-book, and, riding off on my horsss, they left me with my family helpless on the streets." Such and similar testimony can be produced bj the quantity, and yet Gen eral Sherman denies that he is responsi ble for the burning of Columbia, S. C. The terrible suffering of the inhabitants can be imagined when it ia remembered that the Federal soldiers made it a special duty to destroy all provisions they could lay hands on. Several persons died f exposure and starvation, as it was s time before the necessary supplies col be obtianed. "Columbia's destruction is and will be a stigma on the name of il Gciural William Tccumseh Shenih soul. When about to yield his young him, Tige! and out bounced a dog existence as a sacrifice to hate, his about the size of a flower barrel and Clemantha asks if they should meet with a good set of natural teeth. Th again, to which he replies; I have asked singer turned a back sumersault out of that dreadful question of the hills that the gate, and with the dog nipping at look eternal, of the clear streams that his coat-tail at every jump, disappeared flow forever, of the stars among whose down toward the heart of the city. fields of azure my spirit has walked in Hereupon, the gentleman who was a wit- lory. All were dumb; but as I gaze ness to this serio-comic dramn, turned upon', thy living face, I feel confident and left the spot, but not until he had ahathcre is something in the love that I seen a middle-aged man m a vangls gar 4 u.,1.n.!i ita ho'infu thnr fliiTinnr. mfinf. with :rr,- : ?ri rr-.r-cvtalerl - r-vmh-'o wholly perish. We shall meet again rolling over the 'hall tray, convulsed Clemantha. with mirth, and saying, whenever he stopped laughing long enough to say A Scottish, advocate, naving on a cer- athj Oh-thchcn Oh-the hen tain occasion drank rather too freely, Flj th;Qk of thec . Th centleman est daughter stepped over the broom loftily. The second went around it. The third gave it a kick from her path. The fourth gave it an extra kick. The fifth the youngest stooped and pick ed the broom up, and took it to the far corner of the hall, and set it carefully out of the way. And John selected the mcekcyedj fair-haired maiden who had thus stood the test, and he never had occasion to regret his choice. She proved to be a wife who looked woll to the ways of her household, and herlierrrt had no lack of faith and love. " " Yo:ir Evenings, Young Men. The historian Ililliard has said: "To a young man away from home, friendless ind t'nrlnrn in n OTP-it. r.itv. thfi hours was called on unexpectedly to plead in -na(j malted several squares from where of peril are those between sunset and bed a cause in which he had been retained. tue scene occurred, passing a broken time;" andwc h?ve no doubt many a The lawyer mistook the party lor whom itar that i in tbo cJ of the tt young man win respond to tins senti- 1,0 wn fnyicrp(l ai.d tn thp ore-it amaze- i i .u j - -.i "lent. It is then that the theatre throws he was engaged, and to tne great amaze- wlien he met the dog returning with a -, .11.c, ,v ,i..:i.: ment of the agent who had feed him, wild CXpreSsion in his eye, and a pair of , pts by its glitter of lights and glasses; and to the absolute horror of the poor SUSpenders and a portion of a coat-tail then the strange woman stalks abroad;, client, who was in court, he delivered a ;n jg Uiouth. Bowl Green (Ken.) then it is that your companions, tired of the day s lab-.rs, and seeking recreation, step beyond the line of rccititude, and From the Raleigh News. wiu.-uj, " u na, An Amend- nustyou aor Avoia empiauon; tmt. mis is easier sum luuu uuiiu. now uo Our readers remember what a gallant effort Fernando Wood made to bring the 'Christian Hero," O O. Howard, to ustice for his extraordinary abuse of power while chief of theFreedman's Bu reau, and how the aforesaid "American Ilavelock" (as O. O. is sometimes called, with cruel irony) was most artistically whitewashed by a committee appointed to acquit him. O. O. escaped then, but it seems that he may yet be made to give an account of his stewardship, and we sincerely trust he may. It is now stated that General Vincent, of the A. G.'s Department, has inspected Howard's bureau, and his repoit gives ample ground lor a more thorough and formal investigation than that to which we have referred. General Vincent reports tha many important documents, necessary to an understanding of what had been done where not to be found; that others were carelessly thrown about; that the fin an cial papers were in great confusion, and indicated questional transactions involv ing large sums of money. But not to go futher into detail it is shown by this inspector that Mr. Wood's charges were not without fouudation, and in the public interest we call on Congress to take up General Vincent's report, and renew the endeavor to bring the transac- , t . . V T il long and iervent speecn airccuy oppu- j)emocrat. site to the interests he had been called upon to defend. Such was his zeal that no whispered remonstrances, no jostling of the elbow, could stop him. - . . i i But, just as he was going to tate ins jfo bill, we believe, has yet been in- seat, the trcmoiing client, in a unci Produced in the Legislature, looking to The Election Law ment Suggested. any change or modification of the elec tion law. you do when yon wish to avoid thoughts that trouble and unsettle you: lou think of something else, and while you are reflecting upon other things you are not thinking of your troubles. Your duty, then, is plainly to do note, intormed . mm tnat ne naa oeen nleadins- fur the wrong party. Thisin- D - LJ I . timation, which would hav3 disconcert ed most men, had a very different effect on the advocate, who, with an air of in finite composure, resumed his oration : we have shown conclusively that his and feel that you arc bound to do some " Such my lords, said tie, is tne state- objections are not well taken, and that thing for the comlortand social life of ment which you will probably hear from fV-p. nrnvisinns nf the. l.iw whioh h U,t. that home. If you are in the city, . r " " " I i i- , .1.... - - n, l,orrorl hrnthPr on thfi nnnos to. n a . :... ooaruing, men mjo lihu, every evening is ""' J I TOoll nppiir.ipd. l:iS3 njirfc fit tins Ipiwnrrt We do not concur in any of the sug- something something that will put you n I ...i ,.fii.m...Af i..,..ii: . gcstions on the subject contained in TP , , 1 . , Governor Caldwell's message. We think un r,mrifi ,uoro v imf,.K na ;i,u Remarkable Verification be related here that they rarp.lv P-n half j 0 so made as the credulous creatures do I cions of 0. 0. to the light of d-y. The Fort Wayne Sentinel-relate following as a well authenticated f; A gentleman of high social pod in this county has a son engag a clerk in a large mercantile ho Omaha. A few weeks ago the father re ceived a letter from the son tosthe effect I that he had been robbed of $5,000 be longing to his employer, while return ing from a collecting trip into the coun try. The father was naturally troubled by the intelligence, and he lay awake for some time thinking of the unfortun ate occurrence. At last he fell asleep, and, as it seemed to him, he was sitting by a table in a bed chamber of the Hotel, in Omaha, listening to the con versation of two young men who were recalling the particulars of a robbery in which they had been concerned, while they counted over the proceeds of the same with an exultant air. Le Prning the number of the room he descended the stair?, consulted she reis- O ter, fixing their names in memory, to gether with the date under which they were written, and then awoke. He im mediately wrote a letter to his son, re questing Lira to .call at the Hotel, w and unreasonable, are founded upon i to common sense, are in accordance with in and n in Creating More Expense. The Legislature has several propositions to create new counties and, consequently, more expense to tax-payers. Such pro positions emanate from persons desiring to hold County offices. There are al ready too many members of the Legis lature and too many county officers and State and County Treasury suckers. Charlotte Democrat. , A farmer who wished to invest the accumulation of his industry in United States securities, went into a broker's office to obtain some " five twenties." The clerk inquired : " What denomina tion will vou have them sir ?" Having ------ J w never heard that word used excepting to distinguish sects, the farmer, after a little deliberation, replied : " Well, you may give me part in Old School Prea byterian, to please the old lady ; but yive me the hel'fc ou't in Free Will Baptist." in reading or study, at your room, when it is possible. What fields of knowledge 3na- the principle of the Republican theory you may survey, and what acquaintance rted of elections, and are sustained by the with Past you may make, by one or . . . . twnpveninL'Ssnentinthi.sw.nvp.vprvwpptl sPe" highest legal authorities. .rrj i i Hie Tlinrp. is nnfi Riio'irpstion wh5p.li wo .1 l. os - - 1 lu U, li'J mail; lu'uiu, ViSIL BUU1U the would like to make to the Legislature refined home, where woman's influence eat on the subject, and which we would be will soften you; connect yourself with etic- oiaj to see acted on before it adiouras. somQ ciass.or wnere improvement 14 flip mnf.itrf 11 vnn wifth inr amnco 1 vo. rninit liir i jprisiaiiirp. now in i , ..-, ment, go wncre rennement win surround session, should amend the present elec- you, and where conscience will not tion law so as to require every voter in reprove you; unite yourself with a chris the State to present his poll tax receipt tian association, aud enter into its works, ..i p ana ne at me prayer-meetings, nut ao , . '. , J . . ' not feel that you can do without God s before he is permitted to cast his vote. vou h fc A1) tht we . e There are thousands of persons in mentioned is only secondary. Here .ia North Carolina who are always found at is your armor, me pons, out never uiu wie.r appear- Ust;RY ljAWS.The Georgia Senate auce on tax collection day. , has passed a bill to repeal the usury The provision of requiring all voters laws. It fixes the rate of interest only to pay their poll tax before they are al in the absence of an agreement. A i j t,q vQ .similar measure is peauing in me umo III W I ' I t III lrl.Ml Llll.ll 1 J 1. 1 11) . UilD ULL11 I adopted in ueorgia, ana nas woreu . . tendcncv 0f eRoli:.llteiied wlbla very benoficially. The oonsequence is t-lon, and as our States come to adopt it, that the State Government of Georgia without federal interference or indirect is entirely in the hands of represents- coercion, each for itself, a sound princi lives chosen by the tax-payers, and who win oe vina.cateii. will take care of the interests of those Basil Lee. the oldest colored man in l bv whom they are elected. Caswell county, being in his one Ao man ouaht to le allowed the vrlv- nundretn year, was Ku;eutie omer cay xf i. ileje of the baltot until he has paid his poll-tax. The principle is reasonable, right and just to all parties. We have no data at hand on the subject, but we venture the assertion that at the last election, twenty-five thousand persons voted in this State who have never paid a dollar of taxes of any descrijition. by a tree falling on him. The L'hronuZ: says he was a former slave of Washing ton, and was 12 years old when Gen. Washington gave him his choice to live with him at Jit. Vernon or be sold. He preferred bsing sold, and was sent to Richmond aud put on the block and was .bought by a member of the Lea family in Caswell, and has remained in that family ever since.
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