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VOL.
WttMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1874."
NO. 40.
CIVII. It I itS IS.
During the recent campaign in this
State, most of the Radical candidates
and speakers declared themselves
agaiufet Civil Rights, and denied that
their party, as a party, was committed
to i Indeed Colonel Dockery, J udge
Russell, and such lesser lights as
Kohinson, Sutton, and the county
candidates, especially in white coun
ties, charged that the Democratic Con
servative party was even more com
mitted to the infamous doctrins of
Civil Rights than was the Radical par
ty. Their professions, however,
availed them little. The people knew
that the individual opinions of North
Carolina Radical candidates, even if
honestly expressed, were of little mo
ment in the councils of the National
Republican party, and their success
would have been heralded from Maine
to California as a declaration on the
lart of this State in favor of Sumner's
"Legacy of hate." And tho people
were right.
Since the North Carolina election
thi Fall campaign has opened in a
large number of States, in which elec
tions will be he Id during the next two
months. In most of them, South as
well as North, Republican Conven
tions and candidates have openly and
boldly declared in favor of Civil
Rights, and in none of their conven
tions and by none of their candidates
has one word been uttered against the
the passage of the bill now pending in
the House of Representatives.
In Ohio and Indiana, the most im
portant of the States to hold elections
in October, the Radical platform and
candidates are emphatic in the en
dorsement of this bill. In Iowa, Illi
nois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, in
the North; Tennessee, South Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, in
the South, the elections in which take
place during the Fall, the Radical
party is advocating the perfect equality
of the races. In other States the plat
forms are silent upon thi3 subject, the
party leaders apparently preferring to
risk their chances for success upon
inflaming the Northern heart over
Southern disorders.
In South Carolina many Republi
cans, who seem dissatisfied with the
nomination of Chamberlain, are or
ganizing in order to ruu a Judge
Green for Governor, in which move
ment many Conservatives, or the Tax
Union as the white people are pleased
to call themselves iu our sister State,
Rccui willing to unite, a movement in
which we can Lave but little sympa
thy, although we suppo.se it demon
strates t what a fearful condition
the gool people of that State have
been reduced. We read in a North
Carolina Conservative paper, as fol
lows : "Sentiment in Souib Carolina
' opposed to bribery and corruption
" is crystalyzing on Judge jGreen, of
" Samter. who. though in favor of
' Civil Rights, is regarded as an hon
" est man who would faithfully ad-
minister the government of the Pal
" motto State." We doubt the hon
esty of any South Carolinian or any
Southern born man who is in favor of
civil rights, and we should not vote for
such man for any office. The Radical
party may, and doubtless will force
upon us, so far as the Courts will per
mit, the equality of the races, but
rather than give our sanction to it, we
would prefer to enter our unavailing
protest by voting for some one who
was opposed to civil rights. We have
little patience with such expressions
as those we quote from our North
Carolina cotemporary, and shall regard
the election of Judge Green as but
jumping from the frying pan into the
lire.
Upon the question of civil rights
there can possibly be no compromise on
the part of the white people of the South.
And so long as it is agitated, and
worse, if it be engrafted into the laws
of the country, people and government
may cry peace, but there will be
peace. Man in malice cannot Eradi
cate the prejudices implanted by
nature; laws cannot destroy the dis
tinctions which God has decreed.
Till; LO II S IAKA TBOVBLES.
The committee of seventy, appoint
ed by the white citizens of Louisiana,
have issued a lengthy address to the
people of tho United States, iu which
h set forth the origin, progress and
summation of the political difficul
ties in Louisiana. It takes the form
of an appeal. It sets forth a long se
ries of wrongs from which the State
has suffered, and shows, conclusively,
that the McEnery government was le
gally and fairly elected. It says that
the people of the North were generally
led into an error in believing the col
ored voters of Louisiana were in ex
cess ol the white voters, or that the
colored voters and white Republicans
voted cn masse the Kellogg ticket,
ana hy a compilation of figures shows
wib wmte males to be in excess of the
colored, and claims that many Eepub
ncans, wnue and black, voted the Mc
Lnery ticket.
We publiBhtho following extended
extract from the address, to show the
utter helplessness of these people :
There remained for the people of
Louisiana but one hope of relief, and
that a hope for partial relief only. The
Gubernatorial term is four years, and
the present term expires iu January
1877. The State officers hold for the
same term, and th'- Senators hold for
four years, one-half being elected
every two years. At th.e election in
November, 1874, a State Treasurer,
the tnembers of the House of Repre
sentatives, and half the Senate are to
be chosen, with the addition of mem
bers of the Senate to nil such vacan
cies as may have occurred by deaths
or otherwise, so that the utmc s. which
we could have hoped to obtain by tho
election would have been a State Trea
surer and a majority in the Legisla
ture. The constitution of Louisiana
subjects the Governor to impeach
ment, but the concurrence of two
thirds of the Senators present is req
uisite to the couniction. As half of
tho Senators hold for the same term
as the Governor, the election by the
opponents of the Kellogg usurpation
of every member of the Senate to be
chosen in November would still leave
Kellogg and his colleagues in
powers and the people subject to a
continuation of this usurpation until
the constitutional expiration of the
term in January, 1877. Partial as was
the relief thus to be hoped for "the
people of Louisiana determined to
avail themselves of this election as the
last peaceful mode of obtaining even a
fragment of their rights and a voice,
however feeble, in their government.
Iu proof of this determination we refer
to tho proceedings of the State Con
vention, lately held at Baton Rogue,
the formation of political clubs in every
ward of the city of New Orleans, of
every parish in the State, and the
eagerness manifested by citizens to
have themselves registered as voters.
The existing registration law, the pas
sage of which by the Legislature, in
the form which it has been promul
gated, has been questioned and is not
generally believed, gives to the Super
visors of Registration supreme powi r,
so that they may refuse to register a
citizen or strike his name from the
registry at their mere will and pleas
ure, and no court can or dare, under
penalty of a fine of 8500, entertain any
application to enforce the right of the
voter to be registered as such.- To
execute this law, Kellogg appointed, as
Supervisors of Registration, his politi
cal adherents, many of them persons
of disreputable character, and thus
this tremendous power, this machinery
which had been devised and created
for the especial purpose of de
feating the popular will, was
delegated to the mere tools and in
struments of the usurper and the re
sult of the election was secured beyond
peradventure in advance of the cere
mony of casting votes. Seeing the
impossibility of obtaining a fair ex
pression of the popular will under the
uncontrolled manipulations of the
usurper, and his appointees, a number
of citizens, representing the respect
able and influential of the population
of New Orleans, called upon Mr. Kel
logg and requested him to select from
such names as they might furnish,
Supervisors of Registration to act in
conjunction with those appointed by
him, so that to both parties might be
secured a perfectly fair registration
and election, which he had declared it
to be his purpose to afford. It is al
most needles to add that this request
was treated with indifference, and the
fraudulent registration was continued
under the original appointees. Xt was
difficult for naturalized citizens to ob
tain registration, and many white per
sons clearly entitled to registry were re
fused arbitrarily, while the colored peo
ple were furnished registration papers
on which, in some instances, mey
could vote iu several dfierent wards,
and colored crews of steamboats tran
siently visiting this port were permit
ted to swell the number of voters. To
test the power of Supervisors to refuse
registration arbitrarily, a citizen clear
ly entitled, who had been refused, ap
plied to Judge Hawkins of the Superi
or Court, the only Court having juris
diction to grant such writs, for a man
damus to tnforce his right. The writ
was refused upon the ground toat the
Courts are especially prohibited by
the Registration act from interfering.
Thus the people of Louisiana are left
without the hope or possibility of a
fair election. In proof of this we in
vite attention to one paragraph of the
secret circular of instructions issued
by the State Supervisor to hi3 subor
dinates in the Parishes.
You are instructed to use your ut
most endeavors to cause a full regis
tration of all Republican votes in your
Parish, and to especially encourage
and assist the registration of white
Republican electors. For this purpose
you will keep your office open at the
Court House for as short a period as
necessary, and then remove to the lo
calities most thickly populated by col
ored voters4 and give such notico in
advance, of course with the greatest
caution.as will facilitate their presence
at the time of opening of the books.
Look further at the registration in
this city. With only 10,000 negro
votes in it, over 11,000 have been reg
istered within 15 days after the open
ing of the registry offices. In the Sev
enth Ward, over 700 negro voters have
been registered, a number greater
than the necrro voters in the ward
One necrro was found having in his
possession 27 certificates of registry,
which he had obtained himself by reg
istering so many different times in va
rious wards.
As a part of the history of the times,
and in proof of the hopelessness of our
condition, we insert here an appeal to
the President of the United States by
the Committee of Seventy, sent ta him
by telegraph on the 9th of September,
1874, of which no notice has been
taken, and which we are inclined to
believe has been Buppressed,and never
been permitted to reach the eye of the
President.
Rooms op the Com. of Seventy, )
New Orleans, Sept.8, 1873. $
Resolved, That this Committee, on
the part cT the people of Louisiana,
make the following appeal to the Presi
dent of the United States :
I
MM
ToJIi Excellency, U. S. GRAST,Vei
dentqfthe United States of America.
The Committee of Seventy, a body
which fully represents the Conserva
tive people of Louisiana, referring to
your recent order putting a portion of
the armies of the United States under
the direction of the Department of
J ustice, for use in this and other
Southern States, would respectfully re
mi e d you that the people of this State,
whooi we have the honor to represent,
have, after two years of struggle
against the power of what they con
sider an odious usurpation, been re
mitted by your action and by the non
action of Congress to the ballot as the
only means of relief from their diffi
culties. The approaching election
has, therefore, more than ordinary
significance. The chances are against
the Conservative masses, although
they have an unquestionable majority,
since the machinery of the election is
in the hands of the acting Governor
a machinery carefully arranged by
himself and his coadjutors for the ex
press purpose of defeating the popu
lar will. The Conservative people,
however, believe that they would be
able to overcome even these advan
tages by a thorough organization and
the greatest vigilance. You can im
agine with what surprise this commu
nity received the intelligence that you
had placed the troops to be sent among
us at the disposal of the Attorney
General of the United States for the
purpose of assisting the Marshal of
this District, S. B. Packard, in carry
ing on persecutions against our peo
ple. Without intending the slightest
disrespect, and impelled by a sense of
public duty, we would remind you
that in the opinion of the people of
this State, and we believe of the coun
try at large, whether that opinion be
well or ill founded, the present gov
ernment of Louisiana owes its blight
ening experience in a large measure
to the continuance and active support
of the Attorney General himself, and
tha t this Marshal to whose control the
troops are really to be remitted was
one of the active participants in the
judicial and political maneuvers by
which tLe usurpation was called into
j existence; that he has been ever since
1 the friend and supporter of the acting
Governor; that -ho was the President
c f the last Republican Convention in
this State, whose nominees for Con
gress and other important positions
are now before the people; that he is
at this time, as he has been for many
years, the President of the State Cen
tral Committee of the Republican par
ty of Louisiana, and is therefore
pledged as a bitter partisan against
the rights of the Conservative people.
With the Federal troops under the
orders of the President of the State
Central Committee of the Republican
party, it is manifest that a fair election
is improbable. We may thus bo foiled
again in our efforts for relief. If we
understand the sentiments of our peo
ple correctly, they have no objection
to your sending troops to Louisiana,
provided they come to secure good
order and a fair exercise of franchise
by both white and black, .especially as
the present State government, not hav
ing been chosen by the people, and
being, therefore, without their affection
or confidence, has shown itself utterly
unable to administer the affairs of the
State and preserve order. But we
earnestly protest against your placing
troops in Louisiana upon the eve of
such an election as is now approach
ing, under the control of civil officers,
both of whom are thoroughly identified
with the usurpation, and one of whom
is actually the President of the State
Central Committee of the political
party sustaining the usurpation. To
your candor we appeal, and ask
whether this is just. If yon will re
move the present Marshal of this Dis
trict, and appoint some one not ident
ified with either party, but enjoying
the confidence of bom ana such men
may be easilv found we will not ob
ject to the coming of troops to Louis
iana for the purpose of maintaining
the peace and securing a fair election.
The class of people whom we repre
sent have nothiner to cram by disorder,
but everything to lose. If you consid
er i vour dutv under the law to em
plov troops here, it seems to us that
justice would require that they Bhould
not be placed in any way, directly or
indirectly, under the control of a par-
tizan Marshal, who is an active sup
porter of the usurpation, and the
acknowledged leader oi one oi ine
parties of this contest.
It. 1. MARR
Chairman Committee of Seventy.
In conclusion the address says:
Our tale of misery is complete.
Nothing remains but submission, re
lieved onlv by tho dim, distant nope
that the sober, second thought of this
great people wi;l consider calmly our
conduct, and devise in their wisdom,
some method of relief for their un
happy countrymen."
Miss Citherine E. Beecher, sister of
Henry Ward Beecher, wrote a long
letter in the New York Tribune, in de
fense of her brother from the charge
of adultery. It is all a lame and im
potent defense. She don't want the
case to reach the courts, but to rest
entirely on public opinion.
The new American Chapel, in pro
cess of construction in the new quar
ter of 'Rome, excepting the basilicas,
will be the most beautiful ecclesiasti
cal buildinfit in the city. It is built in
the present Lombard and Gothic
stvle. The exterior facings will be
travertine, the interior of beautiful
Aries stone. The tower, with a good
peal of bells, will be 140 feet high.
The desicm includes lecture rooms,
school rooms, library, and lodging
rooms for the officiating clergyman.
The land cost 825.000. and the build
ing will cost $70,000; of the latter sum
$55,000 have already been suDscriDea.
Ioss of Jflemorjr may mean a general
breaking up of the life forces, or it may Indi
cate the effects of obscure disease contracted
it. mm-i Ufa. In either case Dr. Helmbold's
Rnhn la tha sure specific. It restores the
functions of manhood, and renovates the en
r mrntAm. It acts uDon both the liver and
kidnevs. and Is justly entitled Ithe Gieat Diu
retic. Get the eonnine. All druggists Bell it.
John P. Henry, New York, Sole Agent.
T rom tha Norfolk Landmark.
SMfis of NorH Carolina.
MOW THE PEH SIANEST SETTI.E-
MEIVT WAS IlADi:.
English from Nansemond
and
Barbadoes.
The Ratio of Native and Foreign
Population Scotch, Scotch
Irish and German.
The
Cenealogical Tree of
Old North State.
the
BY COV. Z. B. VANCE.
No. 3.
One cannot fail to be struck with
the remarkable length of time which
intervened between the discovery and
the colonization of North America
proper. Mexico, the bpanisu Main,
and the West India Islands, engrossed
almost entirely the enterprise of the
Spaniards in the early part of the 16th
century; whilst the English and the
French did little in the direction of
the great lands they were destined to
occupy, a uii ninety years almost a
century after the discovery oi tne
continent it lay without notice, or at
tempt to settle it until Raleigh's ships
came in 1584. Several expeditions to
Florida had been made prior to that
time, but they were mainly for explo
ration and plunder. From 1584, to
the settlement on the James, twenty
years more elapsed. From that settle
ment to the first permanent lodgment
in North Carolina, forty-five years
more intervened, and it was quite one
hundred years after that, before the
pioneers of North Carolina got in
sight of the Blue Ridge. At that pe
riod, 1G50, they had got westward as
far as Port JJobbs, which stood near
the Yadkin river, some twenty miles
west of Salisbury; and fifty years after
this, in 1700, there was not a white
man in that portion of North Carolina
which is now lennessee, if we except
a lew scattered Jbrench traders and
emissaries to the Indian tribes. Thus
TWO HUNDRED TEARS.
after its discovery, beyond the sea
board snd its vicinity the greater
part of our country was still an unpeo
pled wilderness; for the tide of popula
tion in .North Carolina and Virginia
kept nearly side by side in the march
westward !
These States show not only the dan
gers and dithculties of subduing a
wild land and planting civilization
within its recesses, and the weakness
poverty of our pioneer forefathers but
they show also the comparative pover
ty of the English people at that time.
One great English steamer of the
present day could, with ease, have
transported every inhabitant (white)
of this colony with all their goods,
including cattle, in 1G70, seventeen
years after the settlement began. The
immigrants landing at Castle Garden
every two years now, would people the
whole State of North Carolina as
thickly as it was peopled in 1G70.
Such has been the growth of western
civilization, with all its wealth and ap
pliances. The character of the people who set
tled and continue to inherit the State
is worthy of the student's considera
tion. North Carolina owes less to
foreign immigration than any of her
sisters. Hers is almost a homogeni
ous people. Her population is more
nearly composed of those born in her
borders, descendants of her original
settlers, than that of any other State
in the American Union. The census
of 1870 shows that her total population
is 1. 071,301 and of this number only
3,029 were of foreign birth ! Not only
relatively but absolutely less than tha
same class of any other State. To
prove that this is not an accidental
enumeration, the census shows the
number of persons born of one or both
foreign parents to be but 6,404; and
of persons born of both foreign parents,
to be 4,328 the same proportion ap
pearing in the census of 180 and 18."0.
We are, emphatically.
ONE PEOPLE, OF UNMIXED RLOOD.
In the many political canvasses which
have made, from east to west, I have
never, to my best recollection, visited
countv, however distant, without
being asked by some one about his
kinsmen living in my country. If the
bloody revenge of the old Scotch clans
were practiced now-a-days, it would
fare ill with the man-slayer who
should attempt to conceal himself
from his enemy's clansmen in this
State. They would spring from the
earth around him in every direction,
as the men of Roderic Dhu did about
tho path of James Fitz James. Where
did these people come from? Who are
thev. and of what blood Ihese are
questions always worth asK'Dg and
answering, though an excess of De
mocracy has begot an unworthy in-
differenca to the subject of the peo
pie's ancestry. The aristocratic feel
incr is almost entirely conhned to tne
beasts in this age of physical progress,
It is thought to be important to them
to have great progenitors, but not so
with men and women. A plain, Dem
ocratic farmer will descant by the
hour on the noblo sire and dams of
his horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs,
and even his game chickens; but if
you should, in his presence, under
take to show forth the glories of Ids
blood, he would shake his head and
tell you it was aristocracy, that there
was nothing in blood for people, aud
advise you to stand on your own
merits. Most excellent advice, but
founded on bad philosophy, neverthe
less. THESE IS MUCH IN THE RACE
we spring from affecting both the indi
vidual and the community. The phys
ical and the mental traits we derive
from our ancestors are not more mark
ed and important in directing our
destines than are the prejudices, as
pirations and traditions we drink in
from childhood. No profound obser
ver of human nature will ever esti
mate the capacities or conduct of a
people without first looking at their
genealogical table and noting the blood
which flows in their veins.
The first comers were English from
Nansemond, Virginia, and their cum
bers were largely increased by
Quakers and Non-Conformists whof.ed
from persecution in the parent Colony,
which had established the Church of
England as the State religion, and
passed laws unfavorable to all other
forms. This nnhappy spirit of intol
erance was the result of the Governor
Council's attempting to show their
loyalty to the home government, which
was then a persecuting one, and forci
bly reminds us of many wicked things
of recent times, done also in the name
of loyalty. It helped, however, to
people North Carolina rapidly, and
the rich lowlands of the east received
some of the best citizens of cur State
from that source.
To the south, the county of Claren
don, embracing all the region of
THE IiOWER CAPE TEAK,
the English again came, from Barba
does, and laid the foundation of that
grand old community which has ever
been such an honor to the name of
North ' Carolina. Whilst our begin
nings in both Albemarle and Claren
don counties wera thus almost exclu
sively Englis? we have received no
other accession from that source of
any consequence. Occasional settlers
dropped iu from various parts of the
world, but so gradually as to become
lost in the general mass and leave no
particular marks upon our national
features. Tho streams from which we
were to derive our most nc arked char
acteristics were yet to come ; the
Scotch, tho Scotch-Irish and the Ger
man. The colony of Swiss and Pala
tines under DeGraffenried was not re
cruited and made no visible impres
sion upon our blood, or manners.
The Scotch and Scotch-Irish are en
tirely different, and the latter do not,
as the casual reader might suppose,
arise from Scotch parents on one side
and Irish on the other. They are na
tive Irish of original Scotch descent.
to whose pedigree reference will be
made again.
Ihe Scotch who settled tho Upper
Cape Fear were principally followers
and adherents of Prince Charlie, who
were out in the '45 with him. After
their great
DEFEAT AT CriLODES
large colony of them came to the
State and settled near the present
town of Fayetteville. Their descen
dants and constantly arriving country
men soon spread over all the region
watered by the Cape Fear, and have
ever since constituted one of the most
striking elements of our population.
Their religion was Presbyterian, but
unlike most of that denomination, they
vrre generally monarchists in politics.
They brought with them and have
preseived habits of thrift, industry, a
love of education and most of the
characteristics of the Scottish people.
They came direct by way of the Cape
Fear Inlet or harbor, lhey were
Highlanders. The Scotch-Irish, one
of the most remarkable members of
the great British family, were Scot
tish Presbyterians, planted by King
James I, iu the north of Ireland, on
lands forfeited by the treason of the
O'Dogherty and tho Earls of Tyrcon-
nell and Tyrone. There they grew
and flourished, preserving their blood
a exclusively as if they had remained
in the mother country, and also their
manners and religion. They called
themselves Scotch in contradistinction
to the natives, whilst to distinguish
themselves from their Scotch kindred,
they were called Scotch Irish, a name
they have to this day retained, lhey
were Lowlanders.
The story of their persecutions,
their adherence to principle, their
massacres, their splendid courage.their
attempted emigration to New Eng
land, and return to Ireland from mid
sea by stress of weather and a leak in
their ship, the Ji,agle ving ; of their
final triumph in tho flight of their
tyrant James, and the elevation to the
throne of
THE DELIVERER, WILLIAM OF ORANGE,
is one of tho most striking and in
structive episodes in modern hirtory.
They became mighty in Ireland es
pecially in Lister, and lrom that prov
ince poured ship loads of emigrants
into North America. They came
mostly by way of Pennsylvania, and
finding lands east of the Alleghanys
difficult to obtain, and no settlements
yet made west of that chain on account
of French and Indian hostility, they
drifted steadily southward. Leaving
many of their numbers in Virginia,
they finally reached North Carolina
and spread all over that beautiful
champagne country from tho Dan to
the Catawba. Soon after these, and
by tho same route, came our Ger
man settlers and located on the banks
of the Yadkin and Catawba.coveringall
tho beautiful rolling country between
these streams aud far up the right bank
of the latter in fight of tho Blue Ridge.
In agriculture, as a general rnlo, they
have excelled all our people, rspeeial
ly iu thrift, economy, and the art of
preserving their lands from sterility.
To this day there is less of that deso
lation which is called in the South
"old field," to be seen among the
landsof thcirdescendants than amongst
any others of our people. In religion
they are ljutheran, aud in politics
Democratic, and they are as steadfast
as the hills in each.
A STURDIER RACE
of upright men and substantial citi
zens is not t-i bo found iu this or any
other State. Their steady progress in
wealth atid education is one of their
characteristics, and their enduring
puience and unflinching patriotism
tested by many severo trials proclaim
them worthy of the great sires from
whom they sprang. The colony of
German Moravians was on exceptional
case. Their tettlement of a part of
North Carolina was not until 1753.
Two years before that date those of
them'living in Bethlehem, Pa., bought
100.000 acres of land from Lord Gran
ville. President of the British Trivy
Council, which was located in what
is now the county of Forsythe,
and soon afterwards their colonists
came forward and occupied it. Salem
was built, and these pure, pious and
industrious people have lived for
nearly a century and a quarter, in
almost Jewish seclusion from the
general turmoil of the world, devoted
almost exclusively to the absorbing
subjects of education and religion. As
a communion, they have not increased
to any considerable extent, but their
descendants, members of another
faith, are widely spread over Western
North Carolina, and embrace many of
our leading men and families. They
revere the name of their illustrious
founder, Count Zinzerdorf, aad called
their land
WACHOVIA,
after the Wachau Valley in Austria, of
which he was Lord.
Thus it will be seen that the sources
of North Carolina life were English,
Scotch, Scotch-Irish and German
mainly, with minor streams of Irish,
Swiss, and here and there a French
Huguenot: and with a very small infu
sion indeed of foreign immigration
since the original settlements, our peo
ple are almost exclusively their descend
ants. There has been little or no exclu
sive feeling among these races; they
have married and intermarried until the
crsual observer can scarcely determine
by any outward sign to what blood
any owe their orig" i, except in a few
localities where the old land customs
and prejudices were longer observed
in full force. It has been but a few
years since the Gospel was preached to
portions of our people in both Ger
man and Gaelic.
Of the race which of all these has
given most color and tone to our soci
ety, and which furnishes the key to
our pubblc character the Scotch
J"ish, I shall speak more "particularly
in auother paper.
For the Journal.
A !cv Urangre The Resources of
Lincoln Township
Messrs. Editors:
On yesterday our community joined
the great farmers' movement which is
agitated throughout the land. Mr. J.
C. McMillan, of Duplin, organized the
Grange. Although his intended visit
was not generally known, yet quite a
enraber of our best farmers responded
to the call. Many young ladies, too,
were present, adding, as they inva
riably do, an interesting feature and a
lively zest to the occasion. A thorough
organization was effected, and we un
derstand that the Grange asserted the
inalienable rights of the farmer and
took active steps for the cause of ag
riculture. The following are the officers of the
"Lillington Grange No. :"
J. W. Herring, Master.
Lester Bell, Overscpr.
A. J. Mclutire, Lecturer.
Liston Simpson, Steward.
J. H. Herring, Chaplain.
1?. M. Scott, Treasurer.
WT. W. Larkins, Secretary.
Mrs. J". A. J uiikb, Oorco.
Miss Kate Lamb, Pomona.
Miss Mary Larkins, Flora.
Miss Lute Lamms, Lady Assistant
Steward.
We are proud to note the interest
manifested, and hail it as a departure
from former apathy and as a harbinger
of better times. Our farmers, possess
ing agricultural advantages inferior to
to section of the county, and becom
ing tired of the empty cries for "im
migration" and "Northern capital,"
have resolved to "put their shoulders
to the wheel," and with a united ef
fort, develop their own resources
which they abundantly possess. This
is, indeed, a wise conclusion. The
disorganization among our farmers is
what has heretofore so materially re
tarded advancement in farming when
there is concert of action, mutual con
sultation, in short, when there is
union and common interest felt, then
and not.till then, can we expect a com
munity to prosper.
Lincoln township at present with a
population of about thirteen hundred
could, with its resources developed,
support a population five times as
large. Besides, hundred of acres of
cleared land now uncultivated, some
of the uncleared land bordering on the
rich swamps and valleys, is equal to,
if not superior to the lands of the ad
jacent townships.
It has been said that "muck is tho
mother of the meal chest:" our rich
valleys traversed by many streams af
ford supenor ad vantages, for compost
ing; and some of our farmers have yet
to learn that the gold has been washed
from the hills and deposited in the
valleys and swamps.
Vith u ranges in our midst, and
with a more convenient local govern
ment, which we will soon have, the
new county townships will prosper
and rejoice. By xmitina, the farmers
have aimed a deadly blow at monop
olies and co-operations. We look for
better times. Mat.
Ltllington, N. C, Sept. 22d, 1871.
County Commissioners.
The Board of County Commissioners
met yesterday morning, present: Mr,
Wilson, tho Chairman, and Commis
sioners Morris, Nixon, VanAmringo
and Wagner.
Application of P. Newman for liquor
license from October 1st, next, was
refused.
It was ordered, that from and after
September, 1874, the pay of Jurors of
tho Supreme Court of New nanover
county 6hall be $1 50 per diem, with
5 cents mileage.
Ordered, further, that the sum of $1
per diem be allowed tales jurors, and
no mileage.
Ordered, that from and
23, 1871, the Sheriff be
cents per diem, each,
after Sept.
allowed 40
for every
tho County
prisoner maintained in
Jail.
Ihe former uiry room was assigned
to the present Standard Keeper,
On motion, it was ordered that A,
R. Black, Tax Collector, is elected for
one year from the 1st of September.
Ordered, that the County Treasurer
bo aliowed as a compensation 1 per
cent, for collection and 1 per cent,
disbursements.
Ordered, that the poll tax of D.
for
W,
Mott be remitted.
Ordered, that the Clerk of
this
Board be required to inform the Chair
man of each Committee of the busi
ness to come before that Committee
at a meeting of tho Board
THE STORJI KIXC
Yesterday's Equinoctial Gale
ShortLiTcd but Rough and Se
vere XUo Cape Fear and Hnmn
wict Rivers Forced Up Rice
Crops Almost Totally Ruined
Telegraph Wires all Prostrated
Trees and Fences Blown Down
in the City, Ac, &c.
Just about the rudest equinoctual
gale that we have ever known in this
section, passed over us yesterday.
The first intimation had of the storm
was on Sunday night about 9 o'clock,
when it was first indicated by the fall
of the barometer at the U. S. Observa
tory in this city. At aout 11 o'clock
P. M. there was a still more positive
and marked decline in that instru
ment. It continued to fall during the
night and at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning the storm commenced. The
wind blew pretty lively and there was
a heavy fall of rain. The wind rose
rapidly to a velocity of about twenty
five or thirty miles an hour, and dur
ing the afternoon as high as forty-five
miles an hour was attained. At 5 P.
M. it was oscilating between the East
and West points, via the South, and
at 6 P. M. the centre of the storm
passed over this city, at which time
the wind was almost uniformly from
the Southwest, blowing in heavy gusts
some of which attained a velocity of
forty-eight and fifty miles an hour.
At 7 P. M. it began to gradually de
crease and at 8 P. M. it had fallen to
a uniform velocity of thirty-six miles
an hour.
We are glad to be able to say that
we have heard, thus far, of no loss of
life or injury to persons by this storm,
although there has been more
or less damage to property. Chief
among the last we regret to
record that the reports from the rice
fields on the Cape Fear and Brunswick
rivers, point to a heavy loss in the
rice crop, which has been recently cut.
A gentleman who passed CoL John D.
Taylor's plantation, in Brunswick
county, a short distance below the
city, says that the water had overflow
ed the rice field banks and that he
saw whole stacks of rice swept away
and ruined, and the same, we fear,
may also be true about other planta
tions. CoL Taylor himself started
over to his place, but was compelled
to return, as the water was on the
causeway and there was a number of
large trees blown across the road.
Every telegraph wire, leading in
various directions from the city, was
prostrated, and business in this line
was completely interrupted. There
was nothing left last night, over which
to send tho press disp-tahes, and con
sequently there are none to issue this
morin'riQ' Workmen wre sent out
from this city last night, however,
and it is calculated that the wires will
be again in operation to-day. Reports
from the various lines of railway aro
also to the effect that the storm was
one of tho most severe ever known,
and it is feared that a great deal of
loss has been sustained by tho crops
now in the fields.
In the city the blow was, as we have
stated, very severe. Fences were
blown down and huge trees wero
either torn up by the roots or snapped
off from their trunks. A number of
valuable shade trees in various parts
of the city have been lost and numer
ous fences and outhouses were pros
trated. The "top-knot" on the top
front of the new Postoffice building,
corner Second and Chestnut fctreets,
was blown down, cairying with it a
number of the bricks by wh'"ch it was
supported but, fortunately, no one
was injured thereby, although it was
near the hour for the opening of tho
mails. A fine large glass in the show
window of Messrs. Bos kowitz&Lieber,
on Market street, was broken, as was
also one in the window of Mr. Mayer s
confectionery establishment on Market
street, and various sign-board3, awn
ings, &o., were made to succumb to
the fury of the blast.
in the river, the tide was attempt
ing to run down while the wind was
blowing up the stream, tnd the conse
quence was that there was a terrible
commotion of the waters. At the hou"
at which it should have been low tide,
the water was as high a3 is usually
known here iu Spring freshets, and
the waves were dashing upon the
lock. During the height of the storm
it became impossible to work the ferry
boats, and tho eteam-tug Ayce was put
into requisition to bring over to the
city the employes at the Bhops of the
Wil., Col. & Aug. It. 11.
The gale must necessarily have been
very severe at the mouth of the river,
but we have, as yet, no reports from
below. It is feared that there have
been some distressing marine disas
ters, but it is hoped that, if there were
any vessels near the coast, they man
aged to get a good ofhng before tne
storm burst upon them. As we write,
at nearly midnight, the winds have
subsided very much, but the clouds
are still overcast and it may be that
to-day is to be but a repetition of yes
terday. Hoard of Education.
Tho Conuty Commissioners met yes
day morning as the Board of Educa
tion. On motion, it was ordered that tho
Treasurer be required to furnish this
Board a statement of the amount now
remaining due each school district un
der apportionments heretofore di
rected .
The Board then went into an elec
tion of a Board of Examiners for tho
ensuing year.
The following Board were elected :
A K Black, J II Smyth and Mrs F.
Wise.
It was then ordered that the Clerk
of this Board be requested to send the
names and postoffice address of the
Board of Examiners to the Superin
tendent of Public Instruction.
The Board then adjourned.
Haywood county raised 100,000
bushels of wheat this year.
Davenport Female College has 72
pupils more than it has had since tho
war.