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POB'UX PAYERS.
The evils under which the people
labored when the Radicals Jiad pos
session of the several counties were
not. imaginary or light; but very real
and very burdensome. If the Dem
craiio party had neverdono any oth
er service- to the taxpayers than to
lighten their burdens and free them
from the rapacity and oppressions of
corrupt and greedy officials, it would
well deserve their eternal gratitude.
Let the old venal, plundering system
be restored in all of its virility and
aggressiveness,. - and the people will
curse the day when they permitted
themselves to be deceived by the
eiies of the very party that wronged
and plucked , them, aiid . when they
sat down in idleness, saying they
wore tired of politics ' and saw no
difference in parties, j folded their
hands and allowed the wolves to come
batik in;o the old fold to raven and
destroy again. It will be too late
when the mistake has-been made.
Before that evil day comes let every
h:iid-workiug,- honest taxpayer rise
-tip ami resolve that, having cleared
the iuld of the eueony he shall ttot
return. The oniy way under heaven
by which you can carry into practi
cal operation such a patriotic and
much needed resolution is by the
Constitutional method of the ballot-I-iix.
You once voted xmt the pil
lagers; now keep them out by still
voting. .
All will) memories know what jus
tice was under the old . black regime,
uii.l what taxes were under the old
corrupt County Boards. - We quote
the following from a timely editorial
in the Lumberton Robesonian, which
will serve as a reminder of the party.
Our contemporary sayB : :
"Bvcrybody knows the workings of the
old elective system. It would da well
enough, probably, in certain sections, but
in larie negro counties andlownships the
yoke wns galling. Justice was a
mi iia Htd n inockeiy ami was indued
iiitii.t, not tmui impartiality, but from s'.ohd
jl - o-ttice. .
W'e knew a Ktdicat Justice, (?) & negro,
w:ii eu:ered decree of divorce in bis
e -uii; nuotberwbo refused to let the plea
-( the bttitute of limitations be entered in
n c!iso tried before him on an action cleaily
. liirn-il rcmurkiug at the time that 'be'll
': d d if be allowed any such pleas
in liis court;', another wbo while a
bw.ra officer", was an aider, abetter
and acting supporter of the infamous
L rey band.wbile others were Magistrates
who bad been guilty of the basest crimes,
and too, mind you, in the county of Robe
son, where the whiles are in a majority over
the blacks. Of course in the i negro coun
lica the evil was tenfold worse. The same
lessons may be urged in favor of our pre
sent manner of electing County Com mis
Houcrs. ' Under the old system the County
Commissioners levied the taxes. Under
tbe new,theCommissioners:aad Magistrates
fiom all over the county so that tbe wishes
of the whole county may be heard and
aaked on tbe very important subject of tax
ation. The tree is known by its fruit."
TUB OHIO NINETEENTH.
If any one thinks tho Ohioans did
did not believe Garfield guilty they
should consult the elections held in
his District after his aots were known.
In 1874 occurred the first election
after he had been charged with dis
honesty, bribery, and perjury. He
was a candidate for re-election. He
lost the votes of 3,524 Republicans.
In 1876 he was a candidate again.
This time he lost 3,616 votes. The
people still remembered his guilty
acts his very disreputable and dis
honest course. Again in 1878 he ap
peared as a candidate, and although
tivo years had elapsed 2,982 Republi
cans refused to sustain the bribe
taker and corruptionist, j
When you learn that dozens of the
leading Republicans were his strong
est and most determined opponents,
and that, they issued an address re
viewing his course in the most lucid
und caustic terms, you j will not
be surprised at the great falling
VOL. XI.
off- in. his vote among j bis.. . own
people. A we said the - other
day, if he had been a candidate for
Governor instead of
would have bjn de
for Congress he
eatedlby i,000
majority. The men who arraigned
him before the? people of the Nihe
teeulh Ohio District! for bad conduot
had long known him,: and had ex
amined carefully hitr public Record,'
Tbey were men of j high social and
political character and were' men of
sense as well as Republicans. We
sh$Il give hereafter the uames of (he
persons who brought the: grayest
charges against him.! They: were all
of Garfield's party.
A F1SAL 8KKTCH.' -
ci-lf tiny - man verba cause' to
exclaim in agony of spirit, ' "deliver
me from my friends,'' it is that man
who ought to write his name J-Ames
Golyer Garfield. Uis party organs
were constantly parading the kind
opinion of true, guileless Jerry Black
concerning him, and appeared to be
delighted that so able and pare a
gentleman and true; a Democrat had
ever praised him or condonod, teom
mgly, his great crimes against honor
and the people. , But this was not
enough. At last Judge Blaok is
moved to have a farther say, and it
is terrible. What satisfaction or
a
pleasure they, will be able to draw
from it would puzzle the astutest
mind that ever worked upon difficult
problems. The following pen-sketch
of Garfield is quite masterly in
fidelity of portraiture as well as in
the skill with which the colors are
handled. Says Judge Black in his
recent letter to the great Democratic
mass meeting held in New York :
"la public affairs General Garfield does
not act upon bis convictions; when he
passes into tbe domain of politics bis con
science loses its grip, and for his party be
is willing to do any wrong which will pro
mote their interests, or play any card, bow
false soever, which will win them power.
This surrender of his moral and mental
integrity is the condition upon which he
holds itis high place in the affections of tbe
parly be belongs to. Treachery to his
country is fidelity to his fnciion. If at any
time in i he last fifteen years he. bad sup
ported I he constitution and laws in a spirit
of pore justice, refused to defile himself
with election frauds, withheld his counte
nance from executive corruption or de
nounced tbe forcible installment of thieves
in state offices, he would- have, converted
mmselMnto u Democrat and been expelled
from the ommuuion ; of the abli constitu
tional party. ; General Garfield's
public career furnishes morestrikibz exam-,
pies of moral prostitution than tbe history
of any individual 1 have known.
Now that is fearful, and it is fear
ful because it is true. Black is the
warm personal friend of Garfield.
They are of .the same religious com
munion, kneel at the same altar, and
cherish the same dogmas. And yet,
the above is the deliberate estimate
placed upon the Republican candi
date for the Presidency by his friend.
Were we not correot when w& said
he had cause beyond all other men to
exclaim from the depths of a miser
able soul "Deliver me from my
friends ?" ,
The history of-HteTatnrc '-fTirnishes
but few sketches ot character that in
sharpness of outline and biting acidity
of point will rival that copied above.
We wonder if tho Radical organs will
copy this time? As a miniatare
painter Judge Black is a great j suc
cess. If Black had not been the
artist we should have referred to the
above as a silhouette. .1
THE CONSTITUTION A COMPACT
ffltAOISON AND i WEBSTER.. .
After the Convention had agreed
upon a Constitution, it was sent to
the Congress in session in iTe w X01
That body then submitted . it to the
Stales for the consideration of each
in their individual sovereign capaci
ty.. It was then that 'Mr. 'Madison,
of Virginia, and Alexander Hamilton
and John Jay, oTTSfew York, began
that series of very able papers in ad
vocacy of the adoption of the Consti
tutiou, which have been published in
book form , and under the title) of
,The Federalist." It is a work in
favor of the Federal form of crovfern-
ment written by two' of the leaders
of the original Nationals or Conaoli
dationists, assisted by a third person
who was prbbably of their way; of
thinking at first. These able men
adopted a commoi signature. "Fed
eralist," which showed they tad
abandoned for the present all idea of
establishing any other Government
on this Continent than one of limited
powers. i , j , ;
Mr. Webster has been called ad
miringly the "Great Expounder, of
the Constitution." There was never
a greater misnomer. He gave certain
glossings and waa the author of cer
tain statements in connection with the
Constitution that-have no foundation
in historic fact. For instance, in 1833,
I r : -
WILMINGTON,! N.
on! July 16th. in the senate, he said
thit "if we look into all contempora
ry history; to the numbers of The
Federalist; to the debates in the Con
vention; to the publication of friends
and foes, they all agree that a change
haa been made from a Confederacy
of UStales tto a different system f they
all agree that the Convention had
fomned a Constitution for a National
Government." In a somewhat ex
tended reading we do not remember
to have ever met from a man of emi
nence so sweeping and unfounded a
charge as is contained in this remark
able statement of the Great Perverter
of facts and of history. We ask our
readers to turn to oar last editorial
on the subject and determine' for(
themselves if he has not falsified the
records. Why, Mr. Madison, who
forgot more about tho Constitution
than Mr. Webster over knew, says
explicitly, in one of his papers in
"The Federalist," of , the new Consti
tution :
"The change consists much less in the
addition of new powers to the Union than
in the invigoraiion of its original powers."
Mr. Webster never proved and
could, not prove his unfounded and
reckless assertion. Let us very briefly
see if it is a fact "that a change had
been made from a Confederacy; of
States to a different system." Mr.
Madison's view is given clearly and
succinctly in the above quotation.
We can show from various
productions of his that he
held that the Constitution was no
more and no less than a "Compact"
between the States of the Union.
Mr. Webster denied that the Con
stitution was a "compact" about the
time he was in controversy with
Hayne and Calhoun of South Caro
lina. Some months ago we showed
in these columns that Mr. Webster
had repeatedly referred before this
to the Constitution as "a compact,"
and that ho did so on two important
occasions :it a later period of his life.
Mr. Webster said that if the Consti
tution was a "compact" that it could
be dissol ved, and yet ho so calls it in
many f peeches.
Mr. Madison wrote this:
"That this assembly doth explicitly and
peremptorily declare, that it views tbe
powers of the Federal Government as re
sulting from tho compact to which the Slates
are Parties"
This was in 1798. Again, and
thirty-two years later, he expressly
said in his letter to Mr. Everett that
the Constitution is "a compact among
the States in their highest sovereign
capacity" Again he speaks of the
States being "the parties to the Con
stitutional compact" When Web
ster got under Judge Story's influ
ence he swore such language could
be found only in the new "political
grammar." And yet just three years
before, in his debate with Hayne, he
had said of the Constitution :
'It is the original bargain, the compact
let U stand. ; The Union itself is too full of
benefits to be hazarded in propositions for
changing its original basis."
He read Story's false and dan
gerous work a tissue of misrepre
sentations, perversions and glossings
as we can prove and then for a few
years he rested under the shadow of
the book and talked a new "political
grammar." Later on he returned to
the language he was familiar with
prior to 1831, and henceforth used it.
We will not stop to quote, but we
assure the roader that iioverneur
Morris, Gerry, Jay, Hamilton, Ed
mund Pendleton, Jefferson, Webster
and so on all referred to tho Consti
tution as "a compact." Yet in 1833
Webster so far forgot tho truth of
history and his own words as to de
clare in the Senate that to refer to
the Constitution as "a compact" was
"new language." Every man who
loves liberty and the Constitution
ought to read the debates between
Webster and Calhoun in 1833. He
will then see how truth and intellec
tual power triumphed over a grand,
sonorous eloquence and special plead
ing. We repeat, a greater perver
sion of language is not known to his
tory than to call Daniel Webster
cThe Defender of the Constitution"
and "The Great Expounder." He
himself could not have believed in
ilia i-k htm CMafAnAo" nr A (wsai i"
of the immortal instrument.
In another article we shall follow
up the stream of history that our
readers may- have glimpses of the
political I headlands and see the
beacon-light of Constitutional liberty
that was planted ; securely by the
founders of the Republic at the very
source whence all our blessings as a
free people flow. It is good to re
turn to first principles:
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ANOTHBK LETTER
in
BLACK.
'he editor of the New York Sun
thought that Judge Black, in' his ad
mirable lettor to the New York mass
meeting, had not beenysJifEciently ex,'
pliciton two or threa: points, so ho
addressed him a letter' propounding
certain i questions. ' The . eminent
jurist and writer has r6plied,1n which
he shows that his friend. Garfield was
s I
guilty of "a fundamental falsehood.
It is not neoessary to copy the whole.
We will give enough, to show "'that'.
Garfield was guilty of' perjury in the
matter of the Credit Mpbilier bribery,
his, friend Jerry Black being the wit
ness. Ho writes to the editor of the
''i. Did ! mean in my letter to Mr, Blaine
that Geo . .Garfield acknowledged the re
ceipt of stock and dividends from Oakes
Ames . ;.;?.;' : . ..
'Unquestionably he agreed1 to take the
stock, and did receive dividends' upon it.
The letter plainly .implies that, he had not
concealed, nor tried to conceal, that fact
from me." '
. "this is plain enough, is it not? Says
the truthful Black, -"unquestionably
he agreed to take the stock, and did
receive dividends upon it." But here
is another question and answer that
must be coupled with the above:
tV. Why, according to my understand
ing of the fact, did Garfield adopt a de.
fence so contrary to that he bad agreed dn?
"I have already said that he made no
agreement about it. His reason for aban
doning the true ground bf his defence was,
doubtless, the necessity ho felt himself un
der, of making common causa with his po
litical friends, for whom there was no
refage except in a fundamental falsehood."
There is no mistaking the mcaniog
of this. Black is always clear.- He
says Garfield "abandoned the true
ground" that is to tell the truth and
acknowledge that he had "agreed to
take the stock" and that he had "re:
ceiyed dividends upon it," and in
stead took "refuge" in "a fundamental
L falsehood." That is he committed
perjury by swearing to a lie.
Wo knew, and everybody else
witb any information concerning the
political outlook knew, that Garfield
was a very dead cock already in the
Presidential pit, and that the Rads
were in despair ; but we did not
suppose that in their desperation they
would undertake to swap horses in
the middle of the stream, or change
commanders on the very eve or a
signal defeat. That thefe is some
such purpose in the minds of the
Stalwarts may be true, and the fol-
owing throws light on it. The
Washington special dispatch to the
Baltimore Sun, dated September 29,
says :
"An item of gossip has been floating
around in political circles here for ten days
past to the effect that a movement was on
fool for tbe withdrawal of General Garfield
from tbe head of the Republican ticket
and the : substitution of General Grant in
his place. Not much importance has been
attached to this, and for two reasons:
First, that there is no recognized authority
which could undertake the responsibility
of substituting General Grant, even if Mr.
Garfield was willing to get out of the way;
uuu, aeconu, an uurewu politicians ogiee
that if the Republican cause ista -eueh dire
straits as some of its supporters seem to
fear, it is too late now for Gen. Grant or
any one else to save it. The meeting yes
terday between Gen. Garfield and Gen.
Grant, Senators Conkling, Logan and Si
mon Cameron bas, however, given lre9h
iuterest to this piece of gossip, and promi
nent Republicans to day, while aot exactly
crediting it, talk of the possibility of. it as
a forlorn hope. In this connection it is
rhujeh commented on that neither Gen-.
Grant nor Senator Conkling in their
speeches yesterday made any personal al
lusion to Mr. uarneiov and it-is a iact,
which has never been the case in any pre
vious Presidential campaign, that scarcely
any of the leading speakers of the Republi
can party bring Mr. Garfield into their
speeches at all. Several high government
Officials to-day were expressing grave
doubts as to Republican saccees in Ohio
next month, and said the Republicans
could scarcely have settled on a candidate
less calculated to arouse' popular enthusi
asm than Gen. Garfield."
Let them change; we have "got
The country wants peace, and
QUI.
wants an honest government. The
country means to have Winfield S.
Hancock for President.
FBNDBB POLITICS.
A mass meeting was held at Bur-
gaw, September 30th, and a resolu
tion passed requesting the Secretary
to! send a copy of the proceedings
not only to the-two Democratic
papers, but also to the Republican
organ of this city. We received our
copy, and we find that Mr. John W.
Cowan was Chairman and Mr. R. N.
Blbodworth Secretary. The pro
ceedings state that five townships of
Pender county were represented "ir
respective of party," and the object
of those participating was to "con
sider the propriety of holding a peo
ple'a. convention for the purpose of
nominating a Sheriff that would give
general satisfaction to the masses."
Finally, thia "people's donvention"
resulted in calling a convention of
the people of Pender county to meet
atBurgaw on October 16th.
Now having given the substance
of the proceedings of this meeting
OCTOBER 8, 1880.
we wish to say that wo take no stock
in I "people's conventions" in this
campaign, an our advice, , to r tho
Democrats of Pender county is to
sta'nd by the.,nominees of their regu
lar convention, or they may wake up
on the morning of November 3d and
find that their .folly Ijas ; resulted in
the election of a Radical sheriff.
Meetings or. conventions "irrespective
of 5 party" at a time like this almost
invariably result, in benefit to the
party.
dltKBNILACKlSSk IN 1KB rfllUD
; .,(.. IJISTBICT. :
. ?here are but two parties in the
'country, that have any widespread
influence or who dominate. The
fight now, is between the old corrupt
Republican party and the Demo
cratic party that for eighty years or
more has stood forth as the exponent
and defender of the Constitution.
The Greenback party is small but
not powerless. It is strong enough
to do a great deal of mischief. By
throwing its influence and strength
on tho side of Radicalism it can de
feat the Democrats in many sections.
The Greenback . candidate for the
Presidency, Weaver, is known to be
doing all be can to ad trance the elec
tion of Garfield, and to thus hand
over the country for another four
years into the hands of a party that
has destroyed hundreds of millions of
the people's money, ttnd haa brought
so much of suffering, corruption,, and
abuse upon the South. Indeed, the
whole country has been the sufferer,
and the intelligent and honest people
of all sections and of both of the
great parties are resolyed on a change.
.This is the reason why Hancock's'
name is ' such a tower of strength,
and why the tidal wave of reform is
moving on from Aroostook in Maine
to the Gulf, and from ocean to ocean
in such a mighty, resistless sweep and
surge. .
But the Greenbackers clamoring
or countless millions of fiat money
of irredeemable trash are affiliating
in some sections with Radicalism, and
under a specious guise are alluring
Demoorats from their old party
allegiance and using them to defeat
their old friends. The T' Greenback?
manipulators know that in ' North
Carolina they can do nothing to ad
vance their notions about the cur
rency by cooperating with the Radi
cals who have been always the invet
erate enemies of all financial reforms
and tho steadfast friends of the money
kings. Wo can show t&at in almost
every test Vote in Congress for the
last fifteen years the Radicals have
voted against all measures in which
the Greenbackers profess to be inter
C&ted. There is Scarcely an instance
in which a large majority of the
Radical Congressmen (of both
Houses) did not resist every effort to
improve the currency in the interests
of the people and do all they could to
stregthen the hands of the ; "bloated
capitalists." And yet the Demoorats
of North Carolina ;are to be enticed
into the Greenbaok party and for
what?. ' : ' " '
Take this Congressional District.
Is there a Greenbacker Who coope
rated formerly with the Democrats
who expects to elect Ko'rnogay ? The
question' is absurd. Suppose he gets
3,000 votes, where will they come
from? How many former Repub
licans will be of the number ? Not
200 probably. The remainder must
cpfne then from the Democrats. Then
what results ? Take 2,800 votes from
Shackelford and give them to Korne
gay and who is elected ? It is not
Kornegay that is certain. It is not
Shackelford, for theDemocratic ma
jority in this District' is not 2,800.
Who then is successful under this ar
rangement ? Why, Mr. Canaday, the
Repubhoan candidate. Then comes
another question. By electing Cana
day how do tho Greenbackers ad
vance their cause ? He does not hold
one solitary, financial view in com
mon with them. How then can they
establish their principles or attain
their ends by electing or helping to
elect an enemy?
The Democrats who may affiliate
in the Third District with the Green
backers may not deBign to elect Can
aday but they are working certainly
to that end none the less. They can
not elect their man i - Every -vote
withdrawn from Shackelford1 is one
vote added to Canaday. That wil
be the upshot of the ' matter if the
Democrats who are no w hob-nobbing
with Radical Greenbackers persist in
their course. . "
No man of sense or fairness be
NO. 50.
lieves, we take, it, that many of the
Radicals in the Greenback camp will
be there on the day of the. election.
We do not know how many Radicals
are -now wearing the Greenback
colors, but wo venture to say. that
pot one in ten will vote for Kornegay.
We add one word. more. We have
no idea that the Greenbackers can
poll 3,000. votes, or the third, of it.
We merely take these figures to illus
trate a : point. I We believe they
count' high, and ; if their aots corre
spond they will only, do harm. Let
all; the fair minded and considerate
Democrats now.united with the Radi,
cat Greenbackers think well upon the
probable consequences of their course.
If thev REft tfcat a Greenbacker can- I
not be elected would it not be wise
and patriotic in them to do
elect Canaday ?
nothing to
COMKXOGJUEF.
A. Colored Ola a Arrested lu ibli City
i
lor a ITInrder Committed la South
Carollua.
A. week or so ago Officer Simon A. Rich
ardson, of this city, was in company with a
party of other celored men, and a day or
two afterwards he was approached by a
certain individual, who asked him if he
knew who a particular member of the party
in question was ? Richardson replied that
the man was a stranger to him, when the
other, remarked: "Why that was Jim
Black, who killed another man in South
Carolina a short time ago on account of his
(the other man's) wife. Acting upon this
information Umcer Kichardson immediate
ly telegraphed to Sheriff John; Wilcox, Jr.,
of Marion. S. C., where tho murder was al
leged to have been committed, to know, if
there was any truth in the report. Tbe
Sheriff replied by letter, slating that Jim
Black was wanted for a cruel and brutal
murder, and that a reward ef $100 had been
offered for his apprehension and delivery.
This statement was corroborated by letters
from Messrs. W. W- Sellers, Solicitor of the
Fourth District, and-W. H. Manning, the
Qovernoi's Private Secretary.!
Upon this information Justice J. C.
Hill issued a warrant for Jim Black, which
was placed in the hands of Officer Richard
son, and; yesterday morning", about half
past 7 o'clock, the alleged murderer was
discovered and arrested on board of the
little schooner JSnow Storm, on the line be
tween thia city and Little River, S. C,
upon which he had shipped as a hand, un
der the name of Sam.
After being arrested and; handcuffed,
Black asked permission to go down ia the
cabin of the schooner to get something that
belonged to him, which was granted, when
he reached over : in the berth, and, as he 1
withdrew his bands, which were still con
fined with tbe "bracelets," a pistol was
discovered in his grasp,' which was quickly
wrested from him by Special Deputy J. A.
Ashe, who accompanied Officer Richard
son. !
' The accused was then taken before Jus
tice Hill and regularly committed to jail
without benefit of bail. Information of
tbe arrest was thereupon telegraphed to
Sheriff Wilcox, and Justice Hill also im
mediately communicated the fact to Gov.
Jarvis, in accordance with law, in order
that he may be prepared to furnish the ne
cessary requisition when applied to for the
same. )
Yesterday afternoon Officer "Richardson
received another telegram from Sheriff
Wilcox, asking him if be could bring , the
prisoner on immediately, without waiting
for a requisition on the Governor, stating
that he could exhibit Gov. Simpson's pro
clamation and furnish him (the ofQcer)a
certificate that the prisoner had been deliv
ered; but the officer concluded it was safest
to have matters conducted strictly in ac
cordance with law, and his answer to
Sheriff Wilcox was to that effect..
The murder is said to have been com
mitted Borne time in January last, and
Sheriff Wilcox said in his letter that great
coneern for the capture of the murderer
had been exhibited by all classes of citizens
in Marion. I .
For the Star.
"Wadesburo and Cnarleaton, "
Such is the title to an .article in tho
Charleston News and Courier ot September
29 tb, 1880, which seems tome to be in
tended more as an attack upon Wilming
ton than aairexposition of circumstances
connected with the subject I in question.
The editor writes : "The managers of the
A. C. L. were informed (by whom?) that
the superiority of Charleston over Wilming
ton as a cotton market, &c."j It is an easy
matter to make such an assertion, but a
very difficult one to prove its truthfulness.
It is a notorious fact among merchants and
cotton buyers in interior towns that the
net proceeds of shipments of i cotton to this
market are almost invariably always av
erage more than to Charleston. I myself
have seen account of sales of cotton from
the two markets of the same quality
and lot of cotton shipped and sold on the
same day, which showed a difference in
favor of Wilmington of i cent per pound,
notwithstanding the fact that the quotation
of that day's market was i cent higher in
Charleston than in Wilmington. I do not
intend to explain why this difference
should be in quotations, but it is seldom
that the grading is uniform; and as a rule
Charleston grades will go fully one-half
to a grade higher here.
One would suppose from reading the
article referred to that there was.eosea
port cotton market within ' five hundred
miles of Charleston, as they seem to think
that they should be charged no more freight
on cotton over two, if not three railroads, a
distance of miles, than Wilmington,
over one railroad, of miles. I would
not be surprised at their claiming that they
should he put on the samel footing as re
gards freight from Interior points in Lou
isiana, Arkansas and Texas as in New
Orleans. . I
Our merchants would do well to ponder
over this extract: "There is no discrimi
nation against ports that are strong in them
selves. Wagon towns,mj italics) the nooks
that did a fine business when there were
no railroads and no steamboats, and have
been dropping behind ever 6ince, but
places likCharleston have nothing to fear."
Now, sir, it behooves our , business men
tp ioakeup and take advantage of the means
which nature has provided for us and we
will soon not only recover what we have
lost, but, from our greater facilities for
cheaper handling of goods in transit than ate'
offered by any oiuerj Atlantic port, utsf
nothing of IS eccssarify a greater improf e-
ment in market -facilities "and u'dvantacV,
wo would soon be placed nearer the from
rank ot cotton porta than we art: uw As n
means to , this end,.I would surest
greater manifestation " f inuie-t id' .sup
porting oar Produce! Exchange ud ouc
more placing our Chamber r Commerce,
of which we have, beard so little of Into
years, in the high potmiori of Influence it
once held. The eina'S arm uul expended
in the Bupport Oi ihsc iuuiiiu'.iwia would
be vastly more than u paiil in a little while.
In this connection I j would. a-k w hy it ia
that tbe reports of the .cotloa crop if North
Carolina, made to Uu National Cotton Es-
change, should bo tbfough the instrument
ality of the Norfolk lijxchau and others,
while we never tieur a word from our mvsj
institutions, whose buiiGeste'rt is.
The subject 'grows Upon -inteaa be writes,
and I hope that this comtnurjicntioa will
result in bringing fully before our., people
the stern fact that we are going backward
and not .forward as i a commercial com
munity. Wilmington:
Eoirits Turpeuiih.
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Shelby Aurcfa: The Rev. Dr.
Wl D. Lee died at his home, iu tbia place,
at 1 o'clock on the morning 0f the 2Uih
inst. Dr. Lee was pastor of the Methodist
Churches at tbia place &nd King's Moun
tain. ' "
j Warrenton Gazette: Tho rite
'of baptism wa3 administered near Wnnon
lm? last .Sunday evening u tw.lver.an
notice Jhe'ile.ih .f Col.
Rich aid Christmas, which occuned un his
plantation in Alisfeissippi a few weeks eiuce.
Hd was a native isi tbia county atxl nvjvo 1
South many yeais ago..
Reidsville j Weclsly. At, Mr.
John Bateman's, across Smith River, a lit
tle; white ,noy. named Cook was burned ti -death
a Tew days . ago. Be attempted to
kindle a fire with a csn of kerosene oil mid
succeeded wssn-the above rvsull. 'l lm
spirit of building is still uIivj in our town .
-"-Col. P. L. Young bas left for hi.-j
winter home in the southwest, aud. befoie
leaving be purchased of oar manufacturers
upwards of $60,000 worth of their line to
baccos. Raleigh News and Observer:
Tli3 regular and excursion trains on the
various roads yesterday brought maoy
visitors to the colored fair. At an early
hour the grounds were quite well filled.
- Bishop Hood oHivered a very sensible
and appropriate address, in which ha
counselled tbe colourd people tocheriah
proper self-respect jto cultivate lemperauci:
anrj the domestic virtues; . to acquire pro
perty, and most important of all, to educate
both the minds and the hearts of their
children. He spoke; of the exodus move
ment, and condemned wholesale coloniza
tion, while he considered that with regard
to emigration it should be left to the choice
of the individual. 1
Raleigh News and Observer :
The Raleigh Light Infantry bas definitely
decided not to go to King's Mountain. The
company will make; the best show it ever"
did next Fair. Preparations are being
made now for it. -i Maj. Wilson began
laying iron on tbe Western .North Carolina
Railroad on Monday, and by Tuesday - at
10 o'clock had nearly a mile, finished.
The trains will leave Swannanoa Junction,
at Asheville, on Monday morning, un
der the new schedule, and continue from
that point hereafter. Quite two miles of
the grading down the French Broad, and a
mile on the Ducktown line, has been com
pleted, and work on both lines is bein
vigorously prosecuted. Let the good
work proceed. Work and not words is
what the people now wish and expect.
- Asheville News: Mrs. Braxton
Bragg, of New Orleans, has been in town
during the past week, stopping with Dr.
Mijlard . She is accompanied by her sis
ter, Mrs." Anderson. Judge Henry
has the most extensive practice of any law-
yer west of the Blue Ridge. Rev.
Isaac Justice, of the Methodist Protestant
Church, living near Edneyville, aged
eighty-four, -vas married a few days since
to a widow E.iloe. I Third time for both.
Mr. Alexander Long.of Swannanoa.has
shown us a sample of tobacco from bis crop
of this year, which was A 1 in quality. He
las cured the first barn in the Swannanoa
Valley, and this is the fust sample that has
been brought to town from any quarter.
Mc. Long bas a crop of six acres that be is
willing to compare J with any west of the
Ridge. Several of the houses in the
Edneyville section of Henderson county
stand exactly on the water-shed, their roofs
dividing the rainfall between the Atlantic
and Mississippi slopes.
Greensville correspondent of
the Raleigh News and Observer : Col. Long,
the agent in this State of tbe Postomce De
partment, has been; here looking into tbe
condition of the postolflce, and finds the
postmaster, H. E. (Nelson, a defaulter to
tbe amount of nearly $2,000. A pretty
good steal tot a small office. He bas ab
squatulated, leaving bis bondsmen to pay.
Chapel Hill items : Things are bright
ening up for our little town. Chapel Hill
ia just coming out of her desolation.
There are more students here now than
at any previous session at its beginning.
The University is complete in all depart
ments. The jUniversity Railroad is
graded within a mile of tbe corporate
limits of the town, and will be push
ed to completion as rapidly as possible.
The crops in this county are good.
Corn is abundant and cotton is coming in
rapidly. It will soon be all open; the crop
is good. There is! also a fair fruit crop.
Halifax dot: j The handsome brick
house belonging to Maj. M. A. Hamilton,
within three miles of this place, was burn
ed on Saturday, ilt is now a mass of
ruins. - Mebaocsviile note: You will
be sorry to learn that diphtheria has been
prevailing alarmingly a few miles south of
this place. One family buried three chil
dren in less than one week.
Tarboro Southerner : A man in
Tarboro bas been found bold enough to
bet $25 against $50 on Garfield. T. G.
Etheridge, of Coletaine, Bertie county a
food man, is dead. The farmers of
idgecombe and P,itt counties have organ
ized a society and aro determined to bold
an Agricultural Fair on the 17lh of No
vember at Temperance Hall Grange, Mc
Kendreeville, Edgecombe county. This is
the way to start, -i On tbe 18tb of No
vember (Thursday) Capt. James R. Tblg
pen will, deliver an address pertinent to
the occasion, and Col. John L. Bridgets
will entertain the crowd with an historical
and practical essay on farming. Dr.
Joshua Taylor, a good citizen, died at his
home in Williamstpn, on tbe 21st inst, of
consumption. j-Rocky Mount contem
plates constructing a Missionary Baptist
church. There are at present more
mosquitoes than were ever seen in Tarboro.
We regret to learn that Mr. W. E.
Best, a prominent citizen living near Ham
ilton, in Martin county, poisoned himself
on Saturday by taking morphia through
mistake for quinine, from tbe effects of
which he died on Sunday. Mr: Best had
purchased from a merchant in Hamilton,
named Hoffman, on Friday, what he sup
posed to be quinine',' as both morphia and
quinine are put up. in the same sort of
small phials. j
The Best ot All.
LToisnot Sunny Home.
The Wilmington Stab, tho best
and most ably edited journal in the
State,has entered upon the fourteenth
year of its existence. It is in every
way worthy the name of newspaper,
being one of the most complete in
the South.
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