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OPINIONS OF NEGlfO UPBRIOR
ITY. .
"Matthew Arnold now stands before the
world as perhaps the must perfect specimen
of modern English culture," stys the Loo
dan Truth. Very well; and the same paper
tells us that he disbelieves "in the imme
diate perfectibility of the negro."
We didn't suppose that Mr. Arnold knew
much about negroes; but we feel convinced
now that be is well acquainted with their
character. The only drawback from his
philosophical view of Sambo is that the
same remark might truthfully be made, we
, i. : : 7." 7 . .7
i-nr, in uis viiuuaMsu superior. ikuihwiu
I Va ) Dispatch
Mr. Arnold's opinion is not quite
as valuable as Dr. McCosh's, the
President of Princeton College. Mr.
Arnold, for instance, has probably
never had the pleasure and expe
rience of examining a class of negro
student?. If such a fclicitv had been
granted him he might have arrived
at the very profound and intelligent
conclusion to which the Princeton
President has arrived after the most
superficial acquaintance with the ua
liabilities of "the man and brother."
Dr. McUosti says, and he appears to
be quite serious,altogether as much so
:"r i.-. ... ..t, i r .? ,u
an ii tic wciciu iiii; unauiuci in ucain,
that the question of the future
is not, will the negro equal, the while
man, but the question is will the
white man equal the negro. That
class oi colored students showed so
much uncommon capacity that the
venerable and eminent Doctor flies
off and begins to see at once that the
"earning man" is the negro.
This is not the first lime Dr. Mo
Cosh has given an opinion on very
little data, lie paid the South a hur
ried visit some six or e"ubt years ago,
and returning North gave some very
crude, not to say absurd opinions. He
is a very able man intins department,
but he does not know everything,
and be evidently knows but
little of the mental qualities of
the negro. That there are many
narrrnaa witli on -vn..-v. - - .1 z
vv 11,11 oujjciiui minus is
true. l hat there are some who
U7 n irft lio slid! inrvniLilm1 If
.. . . uiutiuguiaiicu ii ujjui lii iii
ties allowed is true also. That there
are some eloquent and even scholarly
men among them is equally true.
They deserve great credit for the
progress they have made. YVe re
spect always the self-respectir.g col
ored man, and take pleasure in seeing
him advance in education and life
generally.' We only think it ridicu
lous for an able man to be so carried
away with what he ban seen of th.
negro as to believe that in the fumre
h - will be intellectually Mipermr to
lii white man. ,
The educated and philanthropic
New England lady, who taught the
negroes in Petersburg, Va., for some
J 1 vuiiv,vb new Ul tUU
" 1
average negro capacity than the
Princeton Doctor has, we have no
doubt. The lady referred to pub
lished her impressions in the Index.
'She said her disappointment was em
phatic. She at first thought that she
had never seen pupils learn; with so
much ease and rapidity. In reading,
Rpettinir, ggraphy and other studies
requiring the c instant exercise of
memory they acquired with a facility
that was to her quite phenomenal.
She had never seen a "class of best
New England children qual them.
But this did not last. As time went
on and they passed from book to
book, and lentered upon those studies
that required the constant exercise
of the logical faculty, there they be
gan to depreciate. In the higher
mathematics, in philosophy and
metaphysics they made but slow progress.-
She came to the conclusion
that where ever the imitative faculties
were required that they were sur-
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VOL. XI.
passingly excellent, but that the negro
was deficient in those high mental
qualities that make men great.
We read her communication twelve
or thirteen years- ago, and we there
fore, from memory, give the gist of
her opinion. We have not seen, wa
may further add, the speech of Dr.
AleCosh upon which we have com
mented above. It appeared in the
World. Our information is derived
from a medical gentleman of the first
rank in our city. The1 trouble with
people generally is that they gc off
half-cocked aud venture to give opin
ions upon insufficient data. A larger
acquaintance a wider field of obser
vation, would enable them to correct
their indigested and hasty delive
rances. Said the New York Herald,
the other day, "Englishmen who come
to America for ten minutes usually
'writo 4r-b-whole .country.1 Tftie
Frenchmen who write about ndo
not come here at all." Some men are so
swift to form and express an opinion
of the traits, manners,1 customs and
capabilities of a race, that, if it were
possible to shoot them out of a mor
tar across a country without depriv
ing them of life and mind, they would
gather enough while in transitu with
lightning-speed to make not only a
speech, but write an octavo of ob
servation. The worthy Representative of the
Fourth District, Hon. J oseph J.
Davis, has introduced a bill to repeal
the .10 per cent, tax on State banks.
We find the following in the Haleigh
Observer; I
"In the preamble he recites, among oth
er things, ihtt : 'The tax of 10 per cent on
State banks and banking associations pro
duces no revenue to the government,
but is intended to secure a monopoly of the
banking business to a single class of pro
r3rty owners, to-wit: the owners of na
tional bonds, thus enabling them, in a great
degree, to control the value of money and
the prices of property.' Mr. : Davis will
doubtless push his measure, and get it
passed at the present session of Congress."
The Observer makes a needed cor
reclion. State banks could only issue
bills to twice the amount of capital
actually paid in. The Observer says:
"As a matter of fact the banks ordinarily
could not keep out a greater issue of notes
than equaled the amount of their capital
paid in. One of the differences between
them and the national banks is that they
could lend nut a part of their capital, while
the national banks of issue are required to
invest their capital in United States bonds.
A North Carolina State bank, with a capi
tal of $100,000, could lend out $33,000 of
its specie and f 200,000 in notes, ranking
$233,000 in all, while a national bank, with
$100,000 capital, can lend only $90,000, in
neither case taking any note of deposits."
So the young king of Spain, just
married for the second time, has been
shot at too, and his would-be assas
sin is in the clutches of the law. We
are glad Alfonso escaped, and we
hope he may wear a charmed life
from the assassin's bullet and poniard.
It is certainly yery noticeable what
poor shots the Nihilists are. TheyT
have never succeeded in bitting any
one but brave, strong old Kaiser
William, and he happily recovered.
He is a courageous man these days
who will agree to wear a crown.
King Alfonso was taking a drive with
his young wife, Queen Christine,
when a young man named Ottero
Gonzales, a pastry cook, fired two
shots from a double-barrelled pistol.
We did not know that handling flour
had such a dreadful tendency to make
a teuow blood-thirsty.: This explains
wny Korrre iemaie cooks are such
viragos.
In a survey of the year 1879 and
the progress tuade . by our country
during that period, the Baltimore
tSun shows us . bow . Europe suffers
from the present system of keeping
larg armies, a policy begun by Bis
marck to the serious detriment not
only of his own country, Germany,
but of all Europe. The Sun says:
"But the United States arc at peace to
day, and have converted all tueir swords
into plow-shares and pruuiug-hooka, while
Europe groans under an annual burden of
f 1,000,000,000 spent in the maintenance of
armies and navies. 8incfrl860 ihe peace
of Europe' has cost 137,000,000,000 in mo
ney to maintain, it, while from 6,000,
000 to 8,500,000 . men are annually
withdrawn from . productive industries in
order to be trained in i the arts of de
struction. If these men 1 could earn by
the labor of their hands an average of $300
a year, as able-bodied men do in this coun
try, the losses to Europe by its prodigious
armaments since 1860 will have exceeded
thirty billions of money, equal to the entire
valuation of the United States, according
to the census of 1870. These figures afford
a clue to the sufferings "and distresses of
Europe as v goon as an tin prosperous year
visits that ; continent, and to the . anxiety
with which crops and seasons are watched
there. The United States have no need to
feel these anxieties."
' Mr. A. W. Collins, a colored citizen of
Washington, has started for a tour in
North Carolina to stop, if he can, the ne
gro exodus. He might as well try to stop
the tide. -Bait. American.
The South is quite willing that all
colored people who wish to emigrate
should do bo. There are none so
blind as they who will not see.
v
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY !), 1880..
1 ' ' " 1 " '-f 1 ' ' ' '
HOW THE REPUBLICANS OF
IUAINE CHEATED THE DEM
OCRATS. '
There is no doubt that for a long
time, extending through a score of
years, the Republicans in Maine have
been acting precisely as Governor
Garcelon and his Council have acted
recently. That is to say, they have
been counting election returns and
throwing out what they considered
defective repqrts. In other words
the Democrats have been often
victimized by the Republican Re
turning Board of Maine, :?nd the
voice of the" people in many instances
has been reversed by technicalities.
A. number of instances of this kind
are given by the Auburn Chronicle, a
Greenback-Labor organ. It is said;
the Republicans never counted out
their own men.
nWp all be leaeMlOi regorfVrgTnhvGeoifgia, f Arkats-,
' - .--W, t. -n , Califoria5. MUwouii 57 Indiana 4,
mo important; lessons. It is seen I Vermont n YnVb a Ainh.m sr tow
some important
how long political iniquity has
abounded. It is seen how long and
how often the Democrats have been
the sufferers by a low standard of
political morality, by a ready use of
political machinery, and by a swift
appeal to technicalities. It is seen
how repeatedly the people have been
cheated out of the value of their bal
lots by having the elected men set
aside for members of an opposite
party. It is seen how submissive the
Democrats were to these repeated
wrongs, and how they ; never talked
of or thought of an appeal to arms
or a defiance of constituted authori
ty. It is seen how quick the Demo
crats of Maine and their allies are to
imitate the example and adopt the
methods of their adversaries just as
soon as they get into power and have
an opportunity. It is seen how the
people are again made the victims of
such "political jugglery," to quote
the New York Herald.
There is onu contrast to be noted.
The Republican . papers none, of
them eve r denounced the action of
their party whilst they were defraud
ing the people and cheating the Dem
ocrats. On the other hand, theDem
ocratic :tpers by hundreds have con
demned the course pursued by Garce
lon and his Council. ..Says the Phila
delphia Times & sterling' Indepen
dent paper:
"la there no Democratic statesman who
can read this lesson aright? Democratic
newspapers have shown at once their consis
tency and their independence by denouncing
the Maine frauds as they denounced the
Louisiana and the Florida frauds, whereas
the Republican organs were as pronounced
in justification in the one case as they are
clamorous in denunciation of the other.
But what have Democratic statesmen to
say? Surely we may expect to bear from
such men as Seymour and Bayard, who, in
the popular estimation, stand head and
shoulders above the herd of politicians."
Another Independent paper of the
the, highest ; possible character the
New York Journal of Commerce
says the Democrats should every
where be as outspoken against the
wrong as they were when their own
party were j the sufferers." It says
further that it is "glad to find that
this duty has not been wholly neg
lected. Wrong is wrong, and should
be condemned .' as such, no matter by
whom it is committed." It adds:
"Indeed by far the larger proportion of
the press published in the Democratic inte
rest throughout the country, to their credit
be it said, have taken the same position.
This should be followed by every true man,
no matter by what party name he is called.
2o uphold wrong in one organization is to in
vite retaliation when the other gains Vie oppor
tunity, Not until the country unites in
swift and certain judgment on all such
wrongdoing, whoever attempts it, will our
form of government, be . vindicated before
the law."
Still another Independent paper, of
wider circulation than either but of
less character, is speaking out daily.
We quot; from the New York Her
ald'. : .
"If the Governor nnd the Council are to
begin to look behvnd the returns, should
they not look down to the very bottom of
a canvass to see what lies there ? Certainly
it cannot be good law which allows the
Governor to stop half way, if stopping there
will plainly produce falsehood and injus
tice. The interpretation of h law may
perhaps be strained to dojitice, but it
must never, be strained to do injustice.
That Republican returning boards have
done wrong cannot possibly justify a Democratic-Greenback
board in emulating that
injustice. The doings in Maine bear a
painful resemblance to the doings in Florida
in 1876, although the facts and the law in
the two cases are quite different. If, how
ever, it can be' shown (hat under the laws
of Maim; towns are commanded to be dis
franchised because the local officers are
stupid or careless, then Governor Garcelon
will be justified. But meanwhile his au
thority as Governor must not be defied by
armeu force." r
. On the last day of the year Edison
gave the public another exhibition of
his electric light, explained his sys
tem to his critics, and made the gas
officials present stare. He gave
them every 1 opportunity to make
tests. The Herald says of, the ex
amination: j '
"All the visitors seemed satisfied that
Edison had actually solved the .problem of
practical household illumination by elec
tricity." I
1 During the year jl8?9 one hun
dred and one men were 'hanged and
seventy-four were lynched ; in the
United Stales, as we learn from the
New York HerakT. :J8itt & woman
was hanged. This invltls bad women
to commit murder fii impunity;
Sixty-four' were bangecRa the South,
considerably more; thafi half. This
shows where the law is tiest executed,'
for crime much more ' abounds in .the
North. The.Herald says:
"Two men suffered thedialh penalty by
shooting, one in Utah and; ffce . other in
Texas,. the laws giving then) tie choica of
death either oo the scaffold or by the bullet ;
Eight were hanged for wife murder, 7 for
outrage, 4 for burglary; t for fratricide, 1
for infanticide, 1 for killing his stepdaugh
ter, and another for murdering his on.
There were 8 double and' 1 triple hangings.:
Four persons cheated the gallows by com
mitting suicide before the day set. for their
execution. In the list of States inwhich the
executions took .place"; North Cattrfiwuanri t
Texas iwaon wnaeaehinnsvivanift
Hampshire 2, Tennessee 2, Nebraska 2,
Louisiana 2, Mississippi 2, South Carolina
j- 2, and New JerseyOhio, Kentucky. Massa-
cnusetts, uoioraao, uian, west Virginia
and Maryland each 1."
Whites 55, negroes 37, Indians 8,
Chinaman 1.
On Friday there were
72 executions. The lynchings oc
curred as follows:
"Kentucky 8, Colorado 9, California 6,
Louisiana 5, Texas 5, Tennessee 5, Georgia
4, Mississippi 4, Dakota 3, Nebraska 2,
Wyoming 2, Illinois 2, New Mexico 2,
West ; Virginia 2, Arizona 2, Missouri 2,
Minnesota 2, Alabama 2, Iowa 2, Ohio 1,
Maryland 1, Indiana 1, Kansas 1, South
Carolina 1, Montana 1.'"
' There was one lynching in North
.Carolina, one of the murderers of
Mr. Fowler, formerly of this city,
was hanged by a mob. So in fact
there were 75 lynched.
REPUBLICAN PROSPECiS I N
NORTH CAROLINA.
We have noticed recently in seve
ral Northern Republican papers that
in their speculations as to the politi
cal prospects of 1880 for their party,'
they are pleased to consider North
Carolina as one of those States that
can be carried by them in the Presi
dential election. When we first saw
this claim advanced we did not think
it worth treating seriously. Nor do
we now so regard it, only so far as
they may gain success through De
mocratic blunders. It is possible
that the Democrats should ( lose !a
Congressional district or two by refus
ing to vote, by splitting up among
themselves, or by nominating some
man the rank and file do not want.
It is possible that even the State tick
et should be beaten if the wrong men
are selected. But, on the other hand,
it is certain that if men of popularity
and personal worth are put in nomi
nation men who can unite the par
ty solidly and create enthusiasm
throughout North Carolina the vic
tory will be complete and the State
will go Democratic by from 10,000
to 25,000 majority. It all depends
upon the ticket.
But let us see what our opponents
have to say about it. A correspon
dent of the Boston Iraveller has been
making a general survey of the South,
and he gives as the result of his ob
servations and of an extensive cor
respondence the following: :
"After a careful study of the Southern
fields and an extensive correspondence with
Southern men, I have become convinced
that there are twenty-seven districts in the
sixteen Stales of the South which can be
carried by efforts which Southern Republi
cans are ready to make, provided they ro
ceive such assistance in money and speak-,
ers as will be granted as a matter of course
to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Indiana and Ohio."
Here then it is asserted that in the
South there are twenty-seven Con
gressional districts that may be car
ried. That some of these are in North
Carolina appears from other corres
pondents of Republican papers and
from the editorials of the organs.
The thing needed, aocording to this
oracle, is "money and speakers."
The Baltimore' American, a very
staunch organ of the Stalwarts, in a
recent editorial said that the Republi
cans had "a good deal more than a
living chance" in this State. It even
went so far as to prophecy that if a
strong Republiean ticket was selected
that North Carolina "will have, the
honor to be the first to break the line
of the Solid South." That , the wish
is father to the thought in this in
stance we think certain. But let us
see what is the American basis of
calculation. It says: ;
. "The last time they carried the State was
in 1872, when their vole was 98,000 and
the Democratic 96,000. But in 1876' they
polled 110,000 against the Democratic 123,
000 on the Governorship, thus showing a
gain of 12,000, although they had to con
tend against Zab Vance the most popular
man in the State, who was at the head of
tne democratic ticxet. , utner causes
operating to Republican disadvantage
were , the squandering of money by the
Legislature controlled by the party nomi
nally for railroads, but of which the roads
got only a fraction, and the hostility of the
mountaineers to the whiskev tax. Last
year the Republicans scarcely pretended to
Star
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conduct a campaign, yet they elected two
Congressmen Now the party isiu vigo
rous life, and only needs organization . for
effective work. - Popular opinion is turn
ing against the Democrats, because of heavy
taxation, the failure td keep their promise
of reform and retrenchment, the depriva
tion of ; the people of their right to elect
county commissioners and township offi
cers, and the fear that the Democracy is
pledged to further railroad subsidies."
The people have not forgotten, nor
will they forget in 1880, that the Re
publicans "squandered" their money.
The mountaineers are still "hostile"
to the "whiskey tax." The last Con
gressional elections were not any
tests of Democratic strength in the
various districts, and the Republi
cans of North Carolina well under
stand that. The Democrats have not
increased but very greatly reduced
the burdens of the people, and there
hayejjieen ,n many instances great
ceireNnt ; aBreform." When
the campaign opens all this will be
made 80 plain, that the wayfaring
man, though a fool,cannot err therein.
The Democrats are abundantly able
t6 meet their enemies. When a Repub
lican offers to rebuke a Democrat in
North Carolina because of any waste
fulness, extravagance, or dishonesty
of his party, he is at once reminded
of the saw about Satan rebuking sin.
It is regarded as about as cheeky as
for Hayes to rebuke JGarcelon for
counting out Republican votes and
defrauding the people. But, as we
have said, the result depends upon
the ticket. The Democrats have it
in, their power to obtain a splendid
victory. They will not be apt to
abuse their power or to gratify the
Republicans. All they need is har
mony among themselves andean hon
est count.
NEWS FROM INDIANA.
C. A. Scott was sent by the col
ored people of Wayne and Johnston
counties to Indiana to spy out the
land and report. He visited several 1
places in that State, and also Kansas
City in Missouri. He has returned,
and has been interviewed at length
by the Goldsboro Messenger. Some
of the negroes already in Indiana
have not secured homes. We quote
a part of t what he says, as the inter
view is far too long for our columns.
We give the most important parts
He said among other things:
"I saw some that had good places about
and near the towns and they seemed to be
satisfied. They are eetting along well but
have to work hard. Men get from $12 to
$15 a month, and women who understand
cooking and washing are paid from $8 to
$12 a month. The women report that the
people there are more particular than here
and more is expected of them. They must
rise early and work till late. Our ordinary
cooks would not suit them. I only saw one
instance. That was a woman who had left
the Suttons, near LaGrange. She had hired
to a colored man named Henry Thompson,
but failed to give satisfaction, and she
went back to the church looking for an
other place. ,
"Think there is plenty work in Indiana
for industrious emigrants, but women and
children can find more work here during
the cotton cropping and cotton picking
, time. The farming is mostly done by men
and with labor saving machinery. The hoe
is used but little, and of course they make
no cotton. The farming system is altoge
ther different from our system, and at this
season of the year there is but little done on
the farm. The lands are rich better than
ours. They require no guanos. There is a
strong opposition to their coming. It comes
mostly from Democrats and the poorer
classes, but amounts to nothing and will
not lead to any trouble unless the colored
emigrants should go in too large numbers,
or should displace any considerable number
of white laborers. This, I think, would
antagonize them. There are but few
colored people in that State, and the
laboring classes are principally whites.
Our friends there advise the colored peo
ple to come in smaller .crowds. Industrious
colored men can do well there; think better
than here, but idlers and lazy ones better
stay here. There are no street loafers there.
More work is required there than here, and
the laborers receive less indulgence. No idle
time is paid for. There is belter discipline.
Think they must work a good deal harder
than they do here, but the wages are higher
There must be some suffering among those
who do not provide for winter during the
summer. They can't make full lime, but
coal is cheap, only about $3 a ton. Wood
is very high, and costs from $8 to $10 a
cord. Provisions generally are reasonably
cheap.
- "Many asked me if the colored people
were not badly treated here.but I told them
it was not so. I think there is strong pre
judice among the Democrats of Indiana
a good deal more than there is here."
Here is the account of what a co
lored man saw for himself, and he is
evidently intelligent and observing.
We have given the above that all the
colored people who have access to our
columns may see for themselves what
is reported by one of their own race.
He was treated, he says, with respect.
He heard of but few colored schools,
and does not think colored children
would be allowed to attend white
schools. When asked if he advised
the colored people to go to Indiana)
he replied:
"No, I don't advise them to go. Of
course I was sent there to find out what was
best. ' I can only tell them what I saw, and
then they must decide for themselves. I
don't think they will leave here in any con
siderable number. Since I have returned
they call on me day and night I tell them
if they will go they bad better wait till
, spring or until warmer weather sets in. I'
would advise too one to go unless he has
enough money to pay his expenses and to
be independent after he gets there."
!
NO. 11.
fflackB, the South Carolina Despera
' do. Turned Over to the Proper Au
thorities. Henry Macks, the colored desperado
from South Carolina, who was captured in
this city a week or two ago by officers Carr,
Strode, Whitney and others, and who has
since been confined in the city prison,
awaiting a requisition from the Palmetto
State, left last evening on the southern
train, in charge of Capt. W. H. Sligh, of
the penitentiary guard, for Columbia. It
seems that Macks is an escaped convict
from the South Carolina penitentiary, and
that the Superintendent of that institution,
hearing of hia capture here, wrote to our
city .authorities concerning him. Ii ap
pears from his statement that Macks
entered the penitentiary August l3t, 1877,
to which he had been sentenced from Dar
lington county for two years for grand lar
ceny. He escaped October 17th, 1877, and
it was after this that he engaged ia those
crimes of arson, burglary and theft with
which he now stands - charged Sheriff
Cole, of Darliogloq , at Who&'lnstance the
arrest-was made, not having in the mean
time been heard from, the prisoner was
turned over to Capt. Sligh to be confined
until his term expires, when he will be held
to answer to4 the other serious charges
against him.
The citizens of Darlington county had
offered a reward for the capture of Macks,
which it is hoped that, they will - have the
fairness to pay to his captors, in addition to
the small one paid by the penitentiary au
thorities. It is a risky business taking such
desperadoes, and those who run the risk
should be well paid for it.
Receipt and Exports at and from the
Port ol Wilmington for the Year
18T9.
Under our commercial head we give a
statement of the receipts and exports for
the year just closed. From this it will be
seen that the total receipts of cotton for the
year amounted to 92,484 bales; of spirits
turpentine, 103,312 casks; of rosio,. 522,379
barrels; of tar, 65,192 barrels; and, of crude
turpentine, 131,361 barrels. The exports
for the same period footed up 87,738 bales
cotton, 91,224 casks spirits turpentine, 512,
892 barrels rosin, 67,372 barrels tar, aad 2,
905 barrels crude turpentine; of which 37,
486 bales cotton, 68,982 casks spirits tur
pentine, 468,001 barrels rosin, and 22,721
barrels tar were shipped to foreignportF.
The receipts ia 1878 were 117,803 bales
cotton, 114,356 casks spirits turpentine,
601,609 barrels rosin, 67,267 barrels tar,
and 163,007 barrels crude turpentine.
.The exports during the same period were;
130,462 bales cotton, 118,171 casks spirits
turpentine, 581,953 barrels rosin, 63,134
barrels tar, 4,536 barrels crude turpentine;
of which 76,233 bales cotton,' 107, 152 casks
spirits turpentine, 516,279 barrels rosin, 31,
176 barrels tar, and 1,449 barrels crude tur
pentine were exported to foreign ports
States Rlshts in the North.
Lemars Sentinel, Rep.
The Maine rebellion is another out
cropping of the infamous doctrines of
States rights and State constitutions.
The coup d'etat has been accom
plished by strictly constitutional me
thods, and if State rights amount to
anything, it is nobody's else's business
how the people of Maine conduct
their own affairs. It is all fol-de-rol
to shoulder the constitutional insur
rection of Maine on the Democrats,
when the truth is it grew naturally
and necessarily out of the accursed
doctrines of ' State lines and State
constitutions. Maine ia the far
therest nook of the continent, at
.the greatest possible distance from
the treason-soaked Dixie. It has
been nurtured on eold water for
thirty years, and according to the
canons of moralists, all the social and
civic virtues ought to flourish there.
It is the home of Jim Blaine and Neil
Dow, and ought to be the very creme
de la creme of patriotism and virtue.
Yet it is the very first Northern State
that has asserted its sovereignty and
administered its constitution in the
interest of treason. If such infamies
be practiced in the godly and goodly
State of Maine, what Northern State
is safe from constitutional treason ?
Again we say wipe out State lines,
wipe out State constitutions, elect
Grant, proclaim the Nation.
A Violent Graqt Programme.
Washington Special to New York Sun.
But can he be elected ? The con
spirators do not expect him to be
elected. They would, in fact, be ra
ther disappointed if he should be fair
ly and peacefully chosen. They want
him to come in under circumstances
that will give some color of necessity
to their scheme of "strong govern
ment," which they intend shall issue
in practical imperialism. A disturb
ance or a serious snarl in 1881 would
serve as another excuse for a military
election in 1884, or, better still, for
Grant to hold over without that ex
pensive formality. They know that
Grant is unpopular; that he could not
carry Massachusetts; that his candi
dacy would make even Pennsylvania
doubtful on a vote of the people, and
that it would carry Indiana, Ohio,
Illinois and Wisconsin over in solid
column to the Democrats. They com
prehend fully the extent of the Libe
ral and German opposition, as well as
that of the anti-third term, anti-ring
and anti machine Republicans. But
they are not staggered by it, for they
do not expect to need their support.
They will wait until the last moment,
and then in all those States where
they have both the Governor and the
Legislature they will call the Legis
latures together and, in the language
of the Constitution,"appoint electors"
to suit themselves.
Spirits Turpentine
A Tarbofo correspondent writes
on December 31: Five persons broke out'
and escaped from the Tarboro jail laat
night. -
Raleigh Observer: Santa Claus
put into the stocking of the poor $100. The
Ladies.' Aid Society hung it up at Tucker
Hall on Tuesday night last. About
four hundred excursionists came up on thi
Raleigh & Augusta Railroad yesterday to
take part in the emancipation celebration.
Wilson Advance: Eight stores
were burned at Greenville, hut wc could
not learn the names of all the losers. Messrs.
R. A. Tyson; R R. Cherry Jc Co., W. B.
Jarvis, Allen Forbes and J G.'Rawles&
Bro., are among those wko suffered loss.
The entire loss is estimated at from $16,000
to $18,000, with only $3,200 insurance.
A negro named Cannady, in
Granville, thre a stone at one' white man
and struck another on the head. The tree -Lance
says: The negro was arrested and
put in a house for safe keeping. During
the nieht, while the guard were asleep, the
negro jumped from the house, and in bis
desperation ran against a stake with each
force as to rupture his bowels. He died in
a few days. The article to which the
Free Lance refers and which ought to have
been credited to thai paper, was clipped
from an exchange. The error was not our's.
Oxford Free Lance: We under
stand arrangements are being made for the. .
speedy' construction of an Episcopal
Church at SassafEas Fork, in this county.
-Thirty regular huyers will operate in
the Oxford tobacco market during the pre
sent year. It affords us pleasure to
learn that Mr. J. H. Homer is contemplate
ing the construction at aa early day of some
large and handsome barracks for the
use orNthe Hornet School, to which
a military feature will be added.
Mr: Obediah Overby, a very old and
respected citizen of this county, died at his
residence, in Towusville, on Sunday, De
cember 22nd. Mr. Ovtiiby was a soldier
in the war of 1812, andTat the time of his
death had reached the advanced age of 88
years. Mr. H. Gregory, of this coun
ty, lately killed four hogs, weighing 276,
326, 391 and 455, respectively average
354; all about the same age. The mother
of tha heaviest hog littered nineteen months
ago twenty-six pig? in one year and raised
them all. .
Goldsboro Messenger: We learn
that Mr. W. K. Bizzell was assaulted and
dealt a heavy blow on the head by an un
known party, who demanded his money, on
Monday night, the 22d.ult., on the White
Hall road in New Hope township. Mr.
Bizzell happened to have his knife con
venient and proceeded to use it freely on
his assailant, who then hastily took to the
woods and has not since been heard from
-The Presbyterian Church was well filled
last Sunday evening by an attentive and
visibly affected congregation, drawn thither
to hear the farewell sermon of the late
pastor, Rev. B. P. Marable. A neero,
giving his name of Ben Williams alias Ben
Hill, was lodged in jail here yesterday on
suspicion of being a murderer. He was'
arrested in Sampson county, and shot by
the constable making the arrest while en-'
deavoring to escape. He is black, about
28 years old, and of medium size. 1 He ad
mits that he was accused of having mur
dered his wife in Craven county, but de
nies it.
Pittsboro Record: We regret to
learn that on the eight of the 2Ctbult. Mr.
David Goggin, of this county, had the mis
fortune of having his barn.with its contents,
destroyed by fire. - No insurance. Dr.
L. A. Hanks, of this place, made a very
narrow escape from a most horrible death
last week. He and Mr. Spence Taylor were
on a hunt, and as the latter was mounting
his horse his gun 'was accidentally dis
charged, and the whole load barely grazed
the face of Dr. Hanks, who was not five
feet distant; indeed one shot pierced the
skin over bis eye, but no serious injury was
inflicted. A lady near- this place had
a flock of turkeys, in which two were gob
blers, and one of these she sold some days
ago to a resident of our town. The other
gobbler, missing bis companion, started in
search of him, and wonderful to relate
went directly to the lot and to the coop in
which it was confinedand . such a "gob
bling" was never heard as they rejoiced at
meeting again . t .
Kinston Journal: Coon dogs
sell for five dollars. Sheep are said to be
dear at two dollars. On Monday even
ing the Kinston Rifles were the recipients of
a beautiful silk flag, presented by the ladies
of Kinston. On one side of the flag was a
blue back-ground and thereon the coat-of-arms
of North Carolina. On the other side
was the old stars and stripes the National
colors. J. E. W. Suggs sends us from
Green a stick about six inches long and a
half an inch in diameter.apparentfy a splin
ter from a fence rail, which was found in
the wind-pipe of a hog after being killed,'
belonging to Mr. William Tilghman, one
end of the slick being in bis lights.
Captain Thomas Hartsfield of tbeNeuse
River Improvement Corps, was in town last
week and reports the work progressing
favorably between White Hall and Golds
boro. He says it is understood that two
new steamers will soon be put On the
Neuse, under the control of Captain Pat
terson, of Wilmington one of them, the
Iceberg, will carry 450 bales of cotton and
fifty passengers on thirty inches of water;
the other, 150 bales of cotton and twenty
five passengers on nineteen inches of water.
The owners expect to establish a large
wholesale store in White Hall and a depot
at the W. & W. R. R. and keep theBe
steamers plying between Kinston and
Goldsboro.
Charlotte Observer: During the
year of 1879 the Register of Deeds has re
corded 1,692 deeds and mortgages, sgainst
1,505 last year. A negro was sent to
jail yesterday by the Mayor for stealing an
accordeon. He told His Honor that he took
it for the music that was in it 1 Yes
terday afternoon, in accordance with a
preconcerted plan, Policemen Farrington
and Stevens, with Constable Orr, went to
the house of a negro woman named Mat
Brown, in the unhealthy locality known as
"Buzzard Roost,", and arrested a negro
named Palmer, alias Wright, a confederate
of the notorious Bob' Pnarr who was
killed in this place about two weeks since.
For some time the vestry of St. Peter's
Episcopal Church have been in communi
cation with Rev. Geo. K. Mason, of Vir
ginia, with a view of securing him as pastor
of the church. -Yesterday a letter was re
ceived from him formally accepting the
call. The Messrs. Oates having for
mally asked the city to relieve them from
city taxes, for ten years, on a cotton fac
tory, within the limits of the corporation,
and that release having been granted by
the Aldermen, an Observer reporter yester
day approached one of the gentlemen on
the subject and obtained from him the fol
lowing facta : The factory buidings will be
located near the Air Line depot, on a vacant
lot now owned by Dr. J. H. McAden,
and will be of sufficient capacity to
contain six thousand - spindles, besides
such other necessary machinery as will be
required to prepare the cotton for the ope
ration of spinning.- About seventy-five
thousand dollars will be invested in the en
terprise, and behind this an ample capital
for all purposes. The first fact that .
attracts attention is that in no previous year
of the history of the county have there
been so many marriage licenses issued, the
total number being 364, against 381 in 1878,
310 in 1877, 282 in 1876, 219 in 1875, 247 in
1874; 257 in 1873, and 165 in 1872. Also,
during the past year the per centage of co
lored people to whites is larger than ever
before, being 213 colored to 151 whites,
though the average difference is not very
much smaller than this. December seems
to be the popular month.
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