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fOL. XX. WELDON, X. C, TIIUKSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1889. XO. 40. REST AT LAST. jEFFEKSON DAVIS ENTOM B- ED AT MOW OICLHANS. PARTICULARS Or' THE SERVICES. The eleventh day of December, 1880, I till henceforth be a rod letter day in the South, for it will hereafter be in history toown as the day in which the body of Jefferson Davis, the eminent statesman, orafor, patriot and soldier was consigtied to the tomb. Let tho North attempt to inore him as it may. The one fact will always stand pre-eminent in the future aonals of the American republic, the master and mistress of all republics, that Lee Jackson and Davis all fought for, and, in truth, died for the fundamental principle of the republic local self-gov-trnuient and States' rights; and that piin- jple failed in the recent late war between tie States because, unfortunately, slavery fas the prime cause of its being asserted, still it will rise again in the future in some other guise and be triumphant; and when that day comes the name and fame of Jefferson Davis will be more than rindicated. The sun had hardly grown strong in tte skies before the busy scenes of prepa ration for the obsequies of the great Southern leader began to be made. Mil itary, civic, religious, and secular orgaoi lations out from home and abroad com menced forming early, so that when the hour urrived for the moving of the fun eral procession there would be no jar or friction. Lon" before the hour set for the cere monies, Lafayette Square and the vicini ty of the City Hall, where the remains had lain in state since the day after his decease, were crowded with masses of people, all desirous of gazing once more upon the features of tho beloved dead. Out of respect to this universal desire to fee the very last possible of the Southern hero, the casket was allowed to remain unclosed until the latest possible mo ment. It was only a few minutes before the hour for the burial service to begin, therefore, when all that was mortal of Jefferson Davis, was shut out for ever from human vision. The excessive larnith of the past few days had made oo impress upon the decaying shell of that soul which had been created by the Maker he so much revered, to be a leader imoug hia fellow creatures, yet the feat irrcand expressions remained very nat ural, and those who took a last look just before the casket closed will uave only the memory with them through life of a great man, who after tho fitful fever of a long and remarkable life, at last sleeps well. As the time appointed fur the funeral drew near the casket was conveyed from the large room iu the city hall to a cata falque in the portico. Ovtr the casket the folds of a Confederate battle flag were gracefully interwoven with handsome flowers the beautiful emblems of the resurrection and above them all was the Hwurd which ihe warrior had worn in the Black Hawk and Mexican wars, where he gaioed fame and honor as a oldier, and a Bynonym of true American manhood, Around the coffin, ready to ssist Bishop Gallaher, who conducted the funeral services, were a great nuiiibi r of the clergy of the church of which 'X-President Davis was a member, imimi lately followed by a number of those of the various denominations. The funeral pronation at the hall was ten or twelve clergy, all wearing hit surplices. Then came Bishop Gallaher, of Louisiana, and Bishop Thompson, of Mississippi, each with their Pttjer books opened at the solemn and dutiful burial services of tho Church, immediately behind them came a de vilment of the Louisiana Field Artillery Wing on their shoulders the casket. At the moment that tho casket was fused upon tho shoulders of the artillery ,n signal was given that tho Fcrvicr s fe about to begin, and the tolling o ' th"! bel ai ,lV. r ,,n c;(y nuur.i?nced ihe to the uiouruiog public. The ser vices were conducted by Bishop Galla her, according to the ritual of the Epis copal Church, and he was assisted by five clergymen of other denominations. Father Hubert, of the Roman Catholic Church, a devoted personal friend of Mr. Davis; Bishop Thompson, of Missis sippi, and about twenty others. A sup plied choir of thirty-six voices grandly sang the anthem, "Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death." The march to the grave began accord ing to the following previously arranged order: General John G. Lynn, Jr., grand marshal, and General John B. Gordon honorary grand marshal. Detachments of city police; military escort, consisting of the troops of the First military district and visiting mili tary; clergy, attending physician and pall bearers in carriages; bier; guard of lien or. Family of deceased in carriages; Con federate veteran associations, local and visiting; Ladies' Confederate Monument Association and distinguished lady guests in carriages; Governor of Louisiana; members of the General Assembly and visiting Governors, Judges of the Su preme. District and Circuit Courts of Louisiana; State officials; foreign Consuls; officers of other States; Judges of the United States and District Courts; United States officials; officers of the army and navy of the United States; Mayor and city government of New Orleans; officials of other cities; Masonic bodies; Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows; Kuights of Pythias; Kuights of Honor and kin dred organizations; faculty and students of Tulane University; Catholic Knights of America; British shipmasters and offi cers of vessels in the port of New Orleans civi1, religious and benevolent associations and fire department of the city of New Orleans. Mrs. Davis, her daughter (Mrs. Hayes) and about thirty relatives and connec tions of the distinguished deceased rode in carriages from the house of Mr. J. U. Payne, where Mr. Davis died, to the cemetery, but they did not leave their carriages, as both the bereaved wife and daughter, while inexpressibly grati fied at the manifestation of love for the honored dead, were too completely over come with grief to be able to face the gaze of the assembled multitude. The procession was an hour aud a half pass ing a given point, and at least 50,000 must have particulated. It was one of the grandest pageauts ever seen in this country. Among the pall bearers were eight Southern Governors, and many others of the most prominent men in the South, including Capt. Jacob Grey, commander of the Grand army of the Republic, De partment of the Gulf. The most impressive ceremonies of the entire day were at the cemetery. The military had paid their honors to the dis tinguished soldier, and had shown all the respect they could to his memory. The citizens had laid their tiibute of ad miration as a patriot and statesman at his feet, and they, to., had done what they could add to to the impressiveness of the memorable occasion. All that was now to be done was in thi name of the Holy Church to commit the mortal remains of the dead to his mother earth, in the hope of a blissful immortality. This was done in the most solemn manner by Bish op Thompson, of Mnissippi, who being from Mr. Davis' own State, concluded he ervie b -y B S op Gillaher. When toe body reached the cemetery the troops were drawn up in proper or der to receive it, and as the casket was lifted from the caisson they came promptly to "present arms." Then fal lowed what was really the most beautiful incident of the entire day. After Bish od Thompson had read the ritual for the dead, the surplieed choir of St. Paul's Churdi, about forty voices, sang "Rock of Asies "which was joined by all the Con federate veterans present, to the number o' hundreds. Such a grand choir is seldom 1. .1 n nirll nil 1 i brjUiiht UuW to li'jaiu yi' - o thousands of eyes. When this was over the final prayers of the funeral service were read and the assemblage was dismissed, but the closing scene of all was yet to come. The fami ly of tho distinguished deceased were to take a last farewell of their beloved dead. They alone descended into tho section of the Army of Northern Virginia Associa tion in Metarie Cemetery, where the cof fin was bbrno on the shoulders of eight artillerymen. There surrounded by those nearest and dearest to him the mortal remains of Jefferson Davis were laid to rest until it shall be determined where they ghall at length be laid away until the judg ment trumpet shall sound nd tho dead hi raised. HIS CHARITY. How different Mr. Davis thought and spoke of the Northern soldiers from the manner in which they have, with few ex ceptions, treated him. When General Grant was dying the Boston Globe re quested Mr. Davis to write a criticism of him for its columns. Here is Mr. Davis' letter in reply. It shows the kindly feel ing with which ho regard the Northern people: 'Dear Sir : Your request on behalf of the Boston Globe for me to prepare a criticism on General Grant's military career cannot be complied with, for the following reasons : First, General Grant is dying; second, though he invaded our country with a ruthless hand it was with open hand, and as far as I know he abetted neither arson nor pillage and has, since the war, I believe, shown no malig nity to Confederates, either of the milita ry or civil service. Therefore, instead of seeking to disturb the quiet of his clo.. ing hours, I would if it were in my power, contribute to the peace of bis mind and comfort of his body. THE NEGRO IN KANSAS. St.Loul" Post-Dispatch. The American Citizen, the organ of the colored Republicans at Kansas City, is doing a good work in calling attention to "the puplicity and treachery of the great mass of white Republicans toward the negro, regardless of section or locali ty." A striking illustration is found in the scratching of Mr. Brown, the negro nominated by the Republicans at Topeka for county clerk. His nomination was conceded to the colored clemeut of the party, which furnished 1,700 of tire 4, 280 Republican votes in the county. But at the election Brown received only 2, 006 voles, which was but 40 per cent, of the Republican vote cast. He got the 1,700 negro votes and 306 of the 2,580 white Republican votes. Seven out of every eight white Republicans scratched Mr. Brown, saying "they would not vote for a nigger under any circumstances." And this occurred at the capital of the "bauuer Republican State." OPPOSED TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. A telegram from Jacksonville, Fla , says: " 1 he Presbyterian synod ot West Florida and Alabama has been in session at Pensaeola for the past three days A profound sensation was created by Dr. Shearer, President of Davidson College, N. C, in his address last night. The reverend gentleman proceeded to de nounce the common Rehool system, of the country whose non-sectarianism pre vented the education of the youth in the religion of their fathers. He advocated strongly the advisability of having chil dren of Presbyterians educated in schools fostered by the church so that therein they might have religious training iu cousooanee with tho faith of their parents and moral training n w denied to an ap preciable extent in the government of educational institutions. Clarke's lixtiacl ol'l'lax Cough Cure. It is a sure cure for Whooping Cough. It stops the whoop, and permits the child to catch its breath. It is entirely harm less. Good lor any cough of childhood or old age It heals the bronchi and lungs, and stops the cough. For winter or bronchial cough, this syrup is the best ever discovered. Only one size, large bottle. Price 11.00 at W. M. Cohen's drugstore. Clarke's Flax qmp makes tl o Skin siuiaau, boft ulJ white, i'ri.u 25 eeuts. CONDITION IN WARREN. The condition of the people in many sections of North Carolina is deplorable. It has been produced by bad crops caused by the unusually wet year, and unless relief comes, and that speedily, many of the counties will be depopulated of their best labor, and there will be left on hand a parcel of women and children to starve, steal or become a tax upon the county. What is to be done? It is a condition and uot a theory, that confronts us; take our county for an example, and it is not near so bad we learn as those farther east; many of the tenants, nearly all of them, hive not made enough to pay their rent, even, not including guano aud other ad vances. They will be stripped of every mouthful to go upon for another year. It is also true that many, very many, land owners will be in the same condi tion. Now what does this portend? It means that hundreds and hundreds of people will starve, steal, go to the poorhouse or leave the county next year. If they go to the poorhouse their' support falls upon the few if they live by stealing, it means ruin to them as well as to those from whom they steal; if they leave the county it means wasted fields, deserted farms and less, far less, cotton, corn and tobacco than wo now have. Worse still, the able bodied men are going off and leaving for us to support helpless women and chil dren. There is now far too much idle land in Warren and we need a great many more good laborers than we now have. The thoughtless may abuse the negro and say "go!" but when they do go there will be not half as much produced in the county as there is now. To sud denly destroy or export your labor, it matters not what kind, means temporary ruin, at least. If there were not a ne gro in the county, we could not supply his place, for years at least. Where is it to come from? The trend of migration is westward and to the far South. It would be beneficial for our floating, idle labor to leave, but the labor of the coun ty must be held here; we cannot do with out it. If it leaves, the land owners, the professional men, the merchants and those who rent other people's land and work it with hired labor will be greatly injured, because the pioduction will be reduced three-fourths. If the m rchants who hold mortgages foreclose perempto rily, they destroy the man's ability to make a crop next year, and thus hurt themselves so much it is ripping open the goose that laid the golden egg. Never have we seen such a willingness on the part of the people to surrendtr tin ir all as a rule, they are willing to give up everything but to do so ruins many of them. Whoever heard of a farmer assigning? They pick their flints and try as they can. If the busi ness men of this coun:ry were in, tl e same fix as most of the farmers and la borers, i hey would assign iu twenty min utes and start again. Now, for humani ty's ake, let the farmers and labor, rs h,ic one more start; they tire the bone and sinew of the hind, iis main stay. What would the merchants and lawyer. mid mechanics do. if it were not for the l': r ners, and what would these, in turn, do it were not for the laborer? Dread ful diseases may need heroic treatment. Our county is in a bad condition and many ot tne best tenants ami laoorers will be forced to leave here uuless relief uoiiieH in some way. If they cannot leave they will be forced to steal a liviug because they wul have no oilier way of making it. As to the remedy for pust failures there is none, but cannot all elav-fls come together and devise some remedy for next year, by which our tann ing operati' lis cau be carried ou aud the people kept at home. Warreuton Ga-t-.tU. THE OA ME IN NOUTHAM PON, We notice in the Roanoke News tho mass meeting of the citizens of Hali fax county, Dee. 3rd, in the interest of the distress and destitution which pre vails among the citiz "i ot that county, o . tu ila forlully buoh crops. Over 1,000 present resolutions were passed urging the Gorvernor to call the Legisla tes together to authorize the county commissioners of the distressed counties to issue bonds to raise money to extend relief under such regulations and safe guards as would be deemed proper and prudent. This is, as we said in a previous issue, wise aud considerate, and we think the people of our county should take a similar step. There is great and fearful distress among our people, and something ought to be done and something must be done. Roauoke Patron. PROHIBITION IN MAINE. Portsmouth (X. H.) Times. The so-called prohibitory law originat ed in the State of Maine and that State first engrafted prohibition upon its con stitution. Immediately blackmailers, spies, spotters, private detectives and paid iu. formers began to prey upon the people, and for more than 20 years they have swarmed all over that State. These in famous creatures with the hordes of cranks, tramps, sneaks and cheap profes sional politicians with which that State is cursed constitute the majority of its voters today. The result is that more murders are committed in Maine each year than in any State in the Union having no greater population, and its newspapers and court reports are daily filled with the details of other crimes; while there are more than 1,500 liquor sellers doing business within its borders. Hypocrisy is there cultivated as an ac complishment and taught as a profession necessary for success in life, and its great apostle and exemplar is this Nelson Dingley, Jr. While ho loudly preaches temperance and morality in public, no man in that State knows better than he that the Republican party carries the elections there and elects him to Congress by means of blackmail levied through Republican State officials upon liquor sellers and criminals, by the votes of malefactors purchased by promise of offi" cial protection from punishment, by the proceeds of woman's virtue bought and sold, and by the wages of sin and debau chery in his own crime cursed city. Everybody knows, what only hypo crites like Mr. Dingley denv, that all over the State of Maine, the hirelings of the Republican party go about collecting funds from liquor sellers to carry elec tions and purchase votes. Nobody knows better than Mr. Dingley that he who pays tho assessment is protected in the busi ness while he who does not pay goes to A TOUCHING INCIDENT. New Orleans for New York World. A touching incident occurred in the death chamber upon the arrival of Mi'o Coo er, an aged and decrepit co!ored man who had boon Mr. Davis' servant during the war During the pat fifteen years Milo has been a resident of Florida and each year has sent to his old master some kindly remembrance in the shape of oranges or otht r fruit grown in that State. Hearing of the severe illness of Mr. Davis he started for New Orleans foi the purpose of getting a last glance at the kiudly face before its disappearance in the grave. Upon his arrival this uiorn inn be was admitted to the death cham ber, where he fell upon his knees and bursting into tears prayed fervently for his old master and for the welfare of those he had left behind him. Extraordinary Hone Scratching. Herbert Sperry, Tremont, 111., had Erysipelas iu both legs. Confined to the house six weeks. He says: "When 1 was able to get on my legs, I had an itching sensation that nearly run me crazy. I scratched them raw to the bones. Tried everything without relief. I was tor mented in this way for two years. I then found Clarke's Extract of Flax (Papillon) Skin Cure at the Drug Store, used it, and it has cured me sound and well " Clarke' Flax Snap has no equal for Bath and Toilet. Skin rw $1 00. Soap 25 eentv, F r sale at , . M. Ceheu a THE SOUTHERN PROBLEM MR. GRADY STEAKS PLAIN WORDS TO A NORTHERN AUDIENCE. On the 11th inst. a banquet was given in Boston at which Mr. Henry W. Grady of Atlanta, was a speaker. He spoke upon the race question in the South. We give some extracts: I thank God as heartily as you do that human slavery is gone forever from Amer ican soil. But the freed man remains. With him a problem without precedent or parallel. Note its appalling condi tions. Two utterly dissimilar races on the same soil with equal political and civil rights almost equal iu numbers, but terribly unequal in intelligence and responsibility; each pledged against fu sion; one for a century in servitude to the other and freed at hist by a desolating war the experiment sought by neither but approached by both with doubt these are the conditions. Under these, adverse at every point, we are required to carry two races in peace and honor to the end." Describing the difficulty of the prob lem Mr. Grady declared that the people of the South wear it "in their hearts and braius by day and by night." He asked that it be conceded that the people of the South are as honest, as sensible and just as the people of the North, seeking earn estly to rightly solve the problem that touches them at every vital point. "Now, Mr. President, can it be seri ously maintained that we are terrorizing the people from whose willing hands comes every year 1,000,000,000 of farm crops? Or have robbed a people who, twenty-five years from unrewarded slav ery, have amassed in one State 820,000, 000 of property? Or that we intend to oppress the people we are arming every day? Or deceive them, when we are ed ucating them to the utmost limit of our ability? Or outlaw them when we work side by side with them? Or re-cnslave them under legal forms, when for their benefit we have even imprudently nar rowed the limit of felonies and mitigated the severity of law? My fellow coun trymen, as you yourselves may some times have to appeal at the bar of'hu mati judgmeut for justice and for right, give to my people to night the fair and unanswerable conclusion of these in eontestible facts." "When will the black eat a free bal lot?" Mr. Grady asked, quoting from the President's message, and he answered the question by saying that it will only b : when the laborer anywhere eas's a vote unhindered by his boss. He declared that the white people of the South arc banded not in race or sectional prej udice, but in a deep and abiding ne cessity. There is a vast ignorant and purchasable vote, the possible prey of the cunning and unscrupulous of both parties. Its credulity is imposed on, its passions inflamed, its cupidity tempted, its impulses misdirected, and even its su perstitiotn made to play its part in a cam paign in which every interest of society is jeopardized and every approach to the ballot box debauched. Ii is agninM suih campaigns as this the fily and the bit terness and the danger of which every Southern community has drunk do-ply that the white people of the South arc banded together. As to the freedom of suffi age in the South Mr. Grady said: "Adiuiuing the right of the whites to unite aaio.t this tremendous meuacc, we are challanncd with the smallness of our vote. This has long been flippantly charged to be evi dence and has now been solen.nly and officially declared to be proof of political turpitude and baseness on our part. Let us see. Virginia a State now under fierce assault for ibis alleged crime cast iu 1888 seventy five per cent of her vote. Massachusetts the State in which I speak sixty per cent of her vote. Was it suppression in Virginia and natural causes in Massa chusetts? Last month Viruinia cast sixty-nine pt r cent of her vote, and Mas sachusetts, fighting in every district, cast only forty-nine per cent, of hers. If Virginia is condemned because thirty one per cent of her vote was i-ilent, how sl'all this State csei.pe iu which fifty-one pu' cuit was dumb? . i ill
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