North Carolina Newspapers

Ma WM. H. BERNARD, Editor and Proprietor, WILMINGTON, N. C: Friday, October 22d 1880. Notiees of Marriage or Death. Tributes o . .. .mi w. h.KMui I iiVfJ''V rv ordinary advertisements, but only half rates RcBpec , Kesoiauonsoi i uouio, o.. 1 i when paid for strictly In advance. At this rate 60 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Mar riage or Death. g- Remittances must be made by Check, prart Kerfstcrcd Letter. Poet- tfon will register letters when desired. trOBwU jdvwj -o Only such remittances win be at mens i tee publisher. Specimen copies forwarded wnen qeaireu. FOR PBISIDEHT: WINFIELD S. HANCOCK, M PAtiniTlTania. FOR VICE PRESIDENT: -i- r TT TIlTflT TOTT W i LI AM II. JjJNVJUlOXli " i Of Indiana- ai Nothing com intimidaU mt fYom doiw vtot I U lUve. to be honest and rigfU. Hancock in 18b8. liberty of Uuprese, the freedom ofspch, Ite natural I HghUofperions,and IherightSrOf property, muttbel preserved.-Haneock in 1867. I TherigU tf trial W J7Ji2S2Sr SQS and peace established, and the civil authorities are readyand willing to perform duties, JJiemUi- titration resume Us natural and rightful dominion. tarv vomer taouta eeate 10 leaa, ana w r'r" Hancock in it7. PRESIDBRT1AL ELECTORS FOB THIS STATE AT LARGE: ' James M. Leach, of Davidson.' Fabius H . Busbee. of Wake. DISTRICT ELECTORS : - 1st District, Thomas Rv Jernigan. 2d " Henry R.Bryan. 3d " Daniel H. McLean. 4tli " William F. Green. 5th " Frank C. Robbins. 6th " David A. Covington. 7lh " Theodore F. Klutlz. 8th " James M. Qudger. FOR CONGRESS: JOHN W.- SHACKELFORD, Of Onslow- Electiok, Tuesday, Noy. 2.1 IJEIUOCUATIC STATE TICKET. For Governor TnoMAS J. Jar via. " Lieut. Governor Jas. L. RoBmsou. Sec'y. of State Wm. L. Saunders. " Treasurer JNa M. Worth. , ' Attorney General Thos. S. Kenan. " Auditor W. P. Roberts. " Sup't. of Public Instruction J. C. Scarborough. . for judge os" the 4th judicial district, R. Tyler Bennett. FjH JUDGE OF THE 5TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, John A. Gilmer. Straws. The St. Louis Times says that not less than 1.500 nezroes and levee habitues went from that city to Indiana just on the eve of the elec tion. Sherman, in his speech in Chi cago, on the 15th, said "that although the drift of opinion was in favor of his party, only united effort and hard work would save it from defeat." Jess so. It will require dreadful hard work. In October, 181! 2, In diana elected a Democratic Governor (Hendricks) by 1,200 majority, and a I month later gave Grant 20,000 ma jority. It will reverse things again next month. New Jersey is certain to be true to her principles and record. She stood firm by Douglas and by McUlellan against Lincoln; by Sey mour against Grant, and by Tilde n against Hayes. GeneraJ Hancock is probably stronger in New Jersey than any of these. We count on New Jersey. The attendance at the State Fair on the first day was not large. The display is said to be large and grati fying. Everything is well arranged. The races were not specially exciting, says the News and Observer t which contains a full report of the exhibit. The North Carolina State Agricultu ral Society held a meeting. The Board of Agriculture also met. The report of the News and Observer says : "The Board met last evening at the rooms of Governor Jarvia. There was a fall meeting, all the members being pre sent. Montford McGehee, Esq., of Person, was elected Commissioner. . - "Dr. Charles W. Dabney, of Virginia a graduate of the University of Gcr.tingen, Germany, - was elected chemist of . the . Agricultural Station at Chapel Hill." It seems a difficult matter to have election tickets printed correctly at Raleigh. Some grievous errors oc curred in a part sent out in 1878, and the same thing has occurred Again, as we learn from the New Bemian. That paper says of some sent to that place: "la one instance the given name of Mr. Busbee, one of the Presidential Electors, is printed Pabius instead of Fabius. Such ia the case with a part of those sent here and which are mixed np indiscriminately with those correctly printed. Of course this has been done by some scoundrel em ployed in the job office where the work was done." It is extremely important to have the tickets printed correctly.- Re member that Gen. Plaisted lost over a thousand votes in Maine because of incorrect tickets. His name was spelt wrongly and variously. - West Virginia' elected the whole democratic fetate ticket; by 17,000 ujurjiy. ooa enougn. 'rjHBJSfeA VlfiRY OF TIIK NORTH ? - BUN rABOHINi CLAUSES. Talk about, nero Hlaverv in ,tho &outh, r serfdom in Russia, or while slaves in the mines of Kngland, 4mt at this hour. There are hundreds of thousand of free born white males , - - t r-;---l are miuwtu lu vuw ui iv as Liieir imu i . .. , : - ., nlovera fiav. una lMitlie truth, everv I word of it. It is known that the eapi 1 talistH or- the JNorln to a very great extent control the voles of the em . .. - ployes. The elections in Maine and Yermont, and thoo in Ubio aim In diana reveal thin! fact. We point also to Massachusetts. Connecticut , Rhnrln Island where die thumb- screw is being appliecl, and thousands of poor laboring men will march up to the polls on November 2 ! and vote for Garfield who would rather vote f. Aal Thaxt ara fnma( In I 4Wluo i -j : suppress xioneb uuuviuuuun u vy deny themselves the right of choice. i - i . It is to vote as tho bosses say or pray, or to leave to go out penniless and Deg or 8tarve, .they 5 honseholds. and their dear Now we are not misrepresenting. We .are not oml rwinf exageraiing a great evil. iEvery word we. say we believe to be; true, and upon evidence that will bear a crucial test. If there were no sort of restraint, or coercion placed upon the laboring men of the Norih we sincerely be lieve that Hancock would receive two or three hundred I thousand more votes than he will receive. The white J slavery of the North is horrible. It 1 is a shame and a reproach j to the I boasted civilization has come to pass of the North.. It that a country I claiming to be free, boasting of its philanthropy, Us government resting I upon the conseut of the governed, I the ballot-box being the great instra- I ment of sovereignty, that hundreds j of thousands of its free-born citizens I are absolutely coerced to vote as the I bosses and capitalists say, and have I no voice of their own in the selection I of the chief officers 'of the Republic They call this the land of the free, Is it not really and practically j, the homes of serfs or helots? How can I there be liberty to the citizen when I he can be cajoled and threatened out I otu his inalienable, inherent, prescrip tive right to vote for whomsoever he prefers ? An American without the right of suffrage is a slave indeed.' But let us copy a paragraph or so from an Independent paper that is not afraid or ashamed to tell the( truth even in these false land blatant times when men appear to have lost all sense of wrong or justice or honor or truth. The New York Truth of the 9th inst., thus refers to the white I slaves in. that great! section of our great country: ."If any party is responsible for the grad ual encroachments of capital on labor, it is the Republican party, j If any party has continually aided in the centralization of wealth in the bands of a few, it is the Re publican party. If any! party is responsi ble for the oppression of rich corporations toward their poor employes, it is the Re publican party, li any- party is responsi ble for enormous grants of public lands to wealthy proiectors of railroads in embryo. it is the Republican party. If any party has consistently set its face against the mass of the people to further enrich capitalists by corrupt and un-Kepnlican bills in Con eress, it is the Republican party. "Capitalists know this and fear the ad vent of the Democracy into power. IVan- derbilt is hurrying home to throw the weight of his influence with his 100,000 employees, so that, they shall be compelled to vote the Republican ticket It is known that orders were given out to the bosses along the line of the Central Railroad that all workingmen who will not vole tho Re publican ticket mu9t be frozen out. in many of the New England factory towns notices have been posted up, threatening discharge or its equivalent to those who vote the Democratic ticket. la our own Democratic city of New York the; satne methods are being adopted by many of the -Republican .employers. In i another column we publish the evidences of this conspiracy to defraud citizens of their rights under the Constitution," f i i - Read that, Americans who i.love your land, and let your hearts burn with just indignation. Read that, ye men of the North, and hang1 your heads in shame and confusion of face! i -1 THE PROBABLE VOTE. .The news from the Pacific Coast is of a character to warrant a strong hope that California, Oregon and Nevada will all j vote for Hancock, This will be 12 votes. The signs in New York are altogether favorable. There is nothing thus far to 'cause aqy Democrat in that most important Stale lo f?el any apprehensions as to the result. It is believed most con- fidently that the majority will 'range not below 30,000, and may go as high as 60,000. - Victory is certain if the Democrats have strong hearts: and a firm will. Energy,1 push, resolution, will bring victory to our standards. "lo doubt would be dislovaltvv to falter WOUld be Sin."., We concede to the Republicans Ohio, Massachusetts, MichiganUowa, Minnesota, Kansas; Vermont; Rhode island, JNebraska; Uolorado, Illinois, I 142 votes. Wisconsin ana Pennsylvania m: ail We claim as Democratic pertainlv i the ent re Southern vote with the caption of Virginia.' This givs 127 vTe claim lfte Rowing IN orthern States ascertain! -. ss i? 44 127 Newer" Add.... j8MMBIU n.io.i.i . - - jn . wi viarnem.: ............. i tuich r."ncocK... ui "PWfif'Statoai wfthout 'ea-. v,ttM1"c,u f ul 1ut with the chances largely favor of the Democrats: Virginia. . .". ; . . . . . ' . t'.'. ii a 6 15 '4i- Connecticut . .'. 4-. 4 ... CaliforniM T ............ . Indian a ........ ........... . Oft'gon.". Then there are three other Stated that may be classed ai doubtful with' the chances somewhat in favor of the mtnral New Hampshire.........;. IV 5 Maine... .. Nevada... 3 . . 15 Who does not believe that Han? cock's chances are not very much better lhaa Garfield's? He ha 171 votes, we think, certain. Ho needs but 14 more. Can he not tiettbem from all of; the remainding States mentioned above? It would seem so really. . ONE OK THEOVHIOSITIBS OF iTHK - CAMPAIGN Tho people of the United States, save always the Stalwarts and their henchmen, have about settled down to the opinion that the three cor- ruptest men of our age and couatry are James. A. Garfield, Ulysses S; 1'Grant and John Sherman. Whether or not the order in which we have written their names exactly expresses the relative degree of turpitude and infamy of the three we cannot say. It is not certain which of he Radical triumvirate deserves , to lead. They are all bad enough, but we rather in cline to the opinion that Garfield is the meanest of the three. John Sherman is well understood. He went tQ Washington a few years ago not worth . $25,000. His salary is not more than enough to live on decently and in a style commensu rate with his position in the capital city. He is Senretary of the Treasu ry of the United Slates. He is now said to be worth his million or more, and owns a great deal of valuablo real estate in Washington. It is un necessary to inquire how he got rich so suddenly. It is one of the myste- ries Of modern State craft. John Sherman has been the assail ant and persecutor of the South for fifteen years. Like Conkling and Garfield he insults and lies upon the representative men of the South, and does it at long taw. When told he lies he does not notice the insult, bat improves the occasion to restate his old falsehoods and revamp his old slauders. John Sherman's recent letter to Gov. Hampton is character istic. It is full of venom and vitu peration and falsehood. No one but Stalwarts will believe anything John may say. As for the South it re gards no more his jibes and slanders than it does the bathos of a Radical ward spouter oj the sycophancy of a professional office-seeker. But there is richness in Sherman's letter nevertheless. We could ' not read a portion without smiliner, whilst our contempt for the graceless falsifier was intense. It is impossi ble not to be reminded. of Satan re proving sin when our eye falls upon the following delicious bit of mean ness. Says the Secretary, who does not stand alone in his bitterness to wards the South and in his desire to blast and ruin it. "For I assure you that the manhood and independence) of the North will certainly continue the struggle until every Republi can in the South shall have the free and unrestricted enjoyment of equal civil and pouttcai privileges, inciuaingatr votes, acur count, free speech and a free press, and the agitation made necessary to secure such re sults may. greatly affect, injuriously, the Think of John Sherman daring to stand np before men of sense and of character and to talk about "equal civil and political privileges" to any one to any class or section. Is it not known to every man of tho most ordinary newspaper information that in Massachusetts alone 136,000 free I white men are practically disfran I chised? Is it not known and read of I all men that in Rhode Island the same I condition of practical disfranchise j ment exists? "Equal rights"- "eqca I privileges J" What arrant nonsense What stupid deception Sherman I knows that there I thousands of khnrimr mBn thrnnffh. put his jown, section that have' never had for an hoar "the free and nnre- Btricted enjoyment . of . equal civi I and political , privileges, includine fair votes, a fair count." The wilv I and nnarriinnjnna anvatii.n Vnn.. he writes inch nonh to r15vk th r KTn.v. ...v, i .i. South, and who are much more care ful to look alter wrongs in this great section of our common country than they are to pry; into evil at noine and to jrfecthe grossest! abuses faith. tpq . -4. - among themselves. While John is poking his dexter finger at the motes in tjie yjisti)f .Hamptoti it..w9uld, be wetMrim:'totrt htrj beam of oorruptrbu and insincerity that pushed his own pqumling optics 6iit' of their soeketi. ",iifi 0 f '-ii'u:- John Shefafan,' who helped to steal Louisiana andsFlorida, and who had more to do with the 'great frauds of 187&hanUnjr otbir man with th exception of Gat field John! Sher man to talk abbot "fair - votes and a fair count." There was never greater mpudeuce seen than that. The devil mtist fairly envy such brazen effrontery:- 'r ' : ! " Their think of it: his party has just stolen two Slates by fraud and bribery and villainy." They sent" their thou sand of repeaters and loafers and ignorant negroes into ; Indiana and Ohio from a half dozen States in order "that the manhood and independence of the North" might guarantee to tb people of those unhappy Stated the' great, priceles?, dear bought privilege of enjoying "equal political privileges," including, of oourse, "fair votes, a fair fouut." 1 That is the way the corrupt Sherman proposes to treat "the manhood and independence of the North;" to bulldoze them, to cheat them, to deceive and bam boozle them, to stuff their ballot- boxes, to corrupt them by bribes, to choose their candidates for them. That is Sherman's idea evidently of what constitutes "free votes" and "a free count." It is to vote scoundrels from a half dozen States to overcome their choice of candidates and then and thus to count them but. This is the way he and his co-conspirators against the people against the trne interests, the peace and . continued prosperity of the whole country pro pose to trefat those of their own nousenold tnose of their own sec tion. If Ohio and Indiana are thus outraged in their rights and privi leges, what may the South expect? If Sherman and his set thus visit ruin upon the green tree what will they not do when they come to the dry? : Look at Davenport in New York. The best papers denounce unmeasur edly his insolence and ty ranny. His own lawyer does not pretend to con done or deny his unwarranted course. In his great anxiety to give his cor rupt party the victory he came near provoking a serious conflict in the streets of New York a few days ago. He is endeavoring to prevent 10,000 foreign born naturalized citizens from voting on certificates they have had since 1 868. This is Davenport's idea of "a free vote" and "a free count:" and this is precisely John - Sherman's idea of asserting and vindicating "the manhood and independence of the North." Since the world began there has been no such political depravity and charlatanry and hypooricy and inso Ience as that which marks the leaders of the Radical party. If God ever chastises the American people as the sins of the rulers the woes of Sodom and Gomorrah may be come omt woes. God deals with na tions in time; with individuals in eternity: He may hot visit his judg mehts upon the whole land because of the stupendous crimes and iniqui ties of those who bear rule. But John Sherman's last letter is a curi- 08ity. Its impudence and "cheek" are simply colossal. They tower like Himalaya above their fellows. THINK OF THESE THINGS. i Let every Democrat in the Third District remember three very impor tant things : j 'First, every vote 8 necessary No man can stay away from the polls arid thus fail to do his duty without self-condemnation, whether ; "we win or are defeated. If we are victori ous, and we hope we shall be, then the delinquent has no part or lot in the rejoicing, for the victory was none of his- If we are defeated through his culpability, then his con solation will be that he helped to re store to power the corrupteat and most treacherous party known to i . - history.; ; , .. j : ;.-;; I Second, the election of the Demo cratic candidate for Congress i in the Third .District may, be necesssary ab solutely in order.. to giye ithe emo cirats a majority in the . next U. S. Hooae of Representatives.. Be sure id do. all'you can to prevent such a sad and damaging catastrophe as the election of Collector Canaday as the Representative .' of . 18,000 ! Demo crats: in ; the Third District. How can Ae represent one Democrat,much less 18.000?. . : iTbird, be assured that the Radical manaffera in Washington and New ! O . ft - . York "will make a strong effort to capture thla Congressional District,, and other Districts in the State, and' also to place North Carolina in tW Garfield column.i Are you prepaied for such a result? Are you willing thitJ' f6uhj jParplinaVAen electoral grnroTcrha be veirw'th ignoble fellow who was "mainly in struraental in stealing the ' vote of 1 Louisiana in 1876, thereby defeating Mr. Tilden' who ' had carried ' that State by at least ' 8,000 votes; who gave the eighth vote in the Electoral Commission which consummated the great ' outrage !and defrauded the 'people of the United States of the right of choice and placed in the Presi dential chair a man who was - never" elected by a majority ' of the voters or by a majority of the electoral votes; who wanted to place a cordon of bayonets around the South, to give up its lands to the victorious soldiers, and who would dishonor every Utre man in the South by forcing him to acknowledge himself a traitor; :'who stands convicted before the country by the records of his own party and by the voice of ; the leading Republi can papers, as a nrioe-taker. . in two . instance, as a professional. friend of subsidy schemes .and job beries; who is a free trader in, one section and a high protective tarjfj advocate in another section; -who is now in the hands and under the. con trol of the extremest men in the Radical party? Are you prepared to see such a base creature, without honor and without manliness,1 the champion of the moneyed corpora tions and the uncompromising enemy of the honest laboring man are you prepared to have such a fellow as this to be the President of fifty mil lion people? If you are not, then do your duty. Hancock and Go to work now for reform and a restored brotherhood. Go to the polls - and VOtC . ' ''. - .;!' triaaa nee linen lo Brnniwick,: -u . By order of the Executive Committee there will be a Democratic mass ' meeting at Lock wood's Folly, Brunswick county, on Monday, October 25th; at Sballolte, on Tuesday, October 2Clh, and at Town Creek, on Wednesday,. October '. 27th, which will be addressed by John . W. Shackelford, our candidate for Congress, and others. D H. McLeau, Esq., pur District candidate for Elector, is expected to be with Mr. Shackelford at Town CreekV We hope the voters of Brunswick gen-1 erally will come out and hear the speaking. Democratic Oynter ICoast. ! There will be a grand Democratic rally and oyster roast at Macumbei'd Store, in Harnett Township, on Tuesday, October 26lb, at 11 o'clock A. M. The meeting, will be addressed by Major C. W. Mc Clammy.,Col. B: li. Moore, Major J. W. Dunham, J. H. Currie, J. D. Bellamy, Jr.., J. I. Mack and W. B. McKoy, Esq. ! All the voters of Harnett and adjoining town ships are invited. The call is. signed by Mr. Garrett Walker, Township Committee man. . . Fire at Wllaon. A telegram was received here yesterday morning announcing that Ihc steam .cotton giu of Mr. C. Barnes, at Wilson, N. .C, was destroyed by fire Monday nigbt.. The property was insured for $2,250, of which $1,250 was in the Agricultural Insurance Company, represented by Messrs. J: W. Gordon & Bro., of this city, the other $1,000 being in the Old Noilh State Company. A steam saw mill stood in immediate prox imity to the cotton gin, but cb mention is made of its loss. " Death or a. Prouilueui Cltlzeu of Fender. '' Mr. Dawsou T. Darham, a prominent and well known citizen of Rocky Point, Pender county, and father of Dr. J. IL Durham, of this city, died at Lis. residence at the above place yesterday, about 1 o'clock. A telegram was received early in the day announcing his dangerous illness,' and a later one conveyed the sad intelli gence of his death. The disease ; was paralysis. Mr. Darham was aged about 60 years. . i - ,': Arrested on a capias. . . A capias for the arrest of one .J. T. Eadens, of Onslow countyon ihe charge of larceny, issued by Mr. .A.J C. Huggins, Clerk of the Superior Court of that county, was received by Sheriff Manning a few days since, and yesterday Deputy Sheriff T. C. Miller came across - the 'young man somewhere in tbe neighborhood' of the bid market house and arrested him, where upon he was taken to the county jail to await a requisition from the authorities of Onslow county. A ndte from the Clerk of the Court states that Eadens had been ar rested there and succeeded in making his escape. : : J ;: Mr. Frank W.King, in tbe em ploy of Messrs. i West brook Bro., of t Rocky Point, Pender county, had one of bis arms broken and the band badly Jacera-. ted by getting it caught -in. Hie machinery of a cotton gin on Monday last. : . -. 4; - We gladly call the attention of all Who buy children's shoes to the advertisement of the American Shoe Tip Co. in another column. As a black tip that ia a perfect protection to the toes, while adding to their beauty, is of the first, importance: , Such, the A. S. T. Co. Tip has proved to be.r Dr. C. L. Mitchell, Fort Meade,' Fk -on May 28, 1877j wroter-I think yotr-would confer a blessing on, the peopler in this country by estabfisbing aq i agency here for the sale-of TuttV Pills. 1 HVc tested their superiority, And want tp .see them need instead of the worthless compounds that are sold in this country n RAlLROlb "OCCIDENT THee MEN klXlici) DPOURTliEN WOUNDED "irHE TAtS FAIR - DATH OF CHAS. iSpeclal Dispatch to Morning f tar 1 Raleigh, N. C, October 20 To day a freight train ran into a crowded xcursion train coming lo the Stale 7 I i TheVu- gines and cirSj were wrecked. Three men were -Killed anaSifourteeo wrimded, three 8eriously.J-' They wfere niostty lm thia plaf-; fOrm.'-'W-.iU" -JtHV. jU-( -.4. .r J;'. ;' The State Fair ;ia io j ogres8j wiifa a line -exlnbitioQ and large attndaoco ( Chafles 'bewcy, ;Esa,' for 'atohg time connected with tbe StuteBMVk of 'North Uaroiina, nd .Preaideqt of. lho. Raleigh, NationarBahk, died to-day; agtd82r.'" j i - t , . t MAiriPTON V.. SHEIlinaN.i COKEESPONbilNck J 5lSf 1 i PERSOKrAL1 .MATTER BHTWEBN - -THB SECRETARY1 h iAWD THE SOUTH PA ROLJN A SENATOR. ) j-TVILE SLANDBKS SHEEMAN'S . UT-. . iTEBArCEa DENOUNCED BY HAMP- 4 iTdif la 'fIalse ll-andJk:novn' 'to' be' o j , Bj TeleKrapB to the Eotalae 8tu.ir!: 1 s. ! Washington, October; ,.18.-rBecj;etary, Sherman to-day furnished for publication,, the folio winy corr'espoudencei.o consieting of: fovir letiers.which, have passed between hijnsdif aud'SjoHt'ir fiamptoii of South Carolina; n:4i' --..un; H I)agger Spring8 piember J7, ;1880. .- lion. John " rjhermau, secretary of the Treanir t-Siri Same days go I saw a' report if your fspeecn at a couferciace helil.. by-the Nali'niil Republican (Jomtniuee at. this FTlh -Avenue' Hotel, New' Yuik, and you , were quoted,, as. having used ; -ttMj .fol-i low fag ; language:. v,Abu n'ovyou are asked to surrender aii you 1ia.ve 'done : into the hands ,pf , Wade .Hampton.,.. and the; Ku-. Kiux, and the little segment" in the North that is called the Democratic party.'' -May I ask if you used; these words, and jf you did So did you' mean to connect me directly or indirectly with what is Jknowu ss the Ku-JDux IClan ? . . , : ,,..t; ; Requesting arf early reply "a'Jdressed to me care1 of uABgast Schell, JEsq., New Yoik, I am,? very respectfully, ' : h' ;o j ii lour obedient servant,; v: Wade Hampton. :? tyqghingUnt D. V.t 8ept. 21st. Hon. Wade Jlampion. Sir: Your note of the 17lh init. is received, in'1 which you inquire whether at,, a conference r held, by the Na liunal Republican Committee at the Fifth Avenue' Hotel, New;Yotk, 'I used language attributed to . me as follows: .."And now you are asked1 to surrender all you haye done imo the babdi bf Wade Hampton and the Ku Klux and the little segment iq the North that is called the Democratic party." In reply I have to advise you that while I do not remember the precise lan guage, I presume the reporter correctly stated in a condensed way his idea of what I said. I no doubt spoke of. you ; as a lead" iog representative of the Democratic, party in the South, and referred to the Ka Klux Klan as the representative of the. barbarous agencies by which the Democrats have subverted the civil and political rights of the Republicans of the South. I did not connect you personally with the Ku Klux Klan. Indeed, I know .that you had in one or two important instances re sisted and defeated its worst . im pulses. I appreciate the sense of honor which makes you shrink from being named in . connection with it. Still you and your associates leading men tf tbe South how enjoy the benefits of the polit ical power derived from the atrocities of the Ku Klux Klan, in which phrase I in clude all the numerous aliases by which it has from time to time been known . in the South. Your power in the Southern States rests upon actual crime of every grade, in every code of crime, from murder down to the meanest kind of ballot-box stuffing, committed, by the Ku Klux Klan and its kindred associates, and, as you know, some of the worst of them committed since 1877, when you and they gave the most solemn assurances of protection to tbe freed men of the South; These' Crimes are all aimed at the civil and political rights of the Republicans in the South, and I be lieve but for these agencies the very State which you represent,, as well as many other States in the South, would be repre sented both' in the Senate and the House by Republicans. . But for these crimes the bqast attributed to you that the 138 solid Southern votes would be cast for the Dem ocratic ticket,- would -beirat tdre-vapo.riog ; but now we feel that H ia sober truth. While I have no reason to believe that you or your Northern aassciates personally par ticipated in the offences I have named, yet while you and they' enjoy the spirit of these crimes, you may in logic and morals be classed as. I ciassed you, as joint co operatives with the Ku Klux Klan. In the policy which thus far has been successful in seizing political power in the South, and which. It is hoped by aid of a small seg meqt of .the Democratic party in the North may be extended to all the departments of the Government. It is in this sense that 1 spoke of .you,; the Ku. Klux Klan and., the Northern , Democratic party. Permit me, in, conclusion, ' while frankly ' answering your question, ,to say that the most fatal policy for tbe South' would be by such agencies ' as E have mentioned to secure again political ascendency in this country.; For I assure you that' the manhood and independence of the North will certainly continue the struggle until every Republi can in the South shall have the free and Unrestricted enjoyment of equal civil and political privileges,, including fair voltes, a fair fcbunt, free speech and a free press, and the agitation, made necessary to secure sueh results may greatly affect injuriously, the interests bf the people of the South;' j Very respectfully,;, s -i, ,4 . your obedient servant, . , " 1 John Sheescan. CharlotiesviUe.Va. October 1. gird Your letter has been received, and as you do not disclaim the language to which I called your attention, I have only to .say that in using It you 'uttered ' what was' 'absolutely false, and what you knew to be false. My address will be Columbia,. S, C. ! ! I am, your obedient servant, r" " ' "Wade Hampton , To Hon, John Sherman, ; i ... Wngton:D.u&. October 18. Hob: Wadef Hampton, s Columbia S. C.--Sira I. nave to acknowledge . tbe receipt of ryour note of the 1st inst.. handed toe., unopened.' by Mr. C. McKinley, a few moments ago, aicer my return irom me west. 1 have this mdruiogread what' purported to be an er traet of a speech -made by . you .published in the Charleston iTws and Courier, and upod'your general - reputation as a" gentle-' man bad denied that you had made such a speech or written 'such a letter' as is at tributed to' you' in that papers ii What I stated to -you tn-my letter of September. 21st 1 believe ' t6 be true nbtWithstainding your deniaU and it can'beebown to be true by public .records and as a matter of, his tory. ' 'Myetf hadlbng " before your letter WAfl rlolivorcarl fn raa .aAAn.nfAiiaa ,4a'm.1a public a statement, of your views of ,the, . without note or comment, , and let the pub bc decide between Us. rvery'respectftfllyi2i -' I John Sheoman. . . t)0 hot trifle with the iff eetiori 6f a jonbg girU it is. worse tbaa trifling with la bad congn, ior mis can De curea Dy ur. liuil'a Cough Syrup. Ai Spirited Turpentine Greensboro BeaHon! ffcThptrnoF, ' 1- -nna iiciu iuia year i August at FriCTt8villp; -Tenn.rbut tbet will hold, at New, Garden this fall a general meeting, beginning at the usual time of holding the yearly meetings. Friday, No vember BtWi Several ministers from tahce are exptcted to be In attendance , -aiuiefcV4riri:;cApout 17,000 bales of cotton have- passed through this place via Seaboard Air-Lme Railroad since th cotnineBceinentVof the aeanon. - a. lubatic i z named iMirsh; from Union coun ty who- was being T carried lo the Lu -natie Asylum. eSCabed from ibp depot here; On trie morning pf the 13th j-Kin8ton . 7o?crwai: The Annual Convention of the Disciples of- Christ met with tbe church at Bethel, in Lenoir- coun ty) on Thursday, Oct etfr, with Dr. J. T. Walfih" Rfl Mrvrfpratrir. ' Thon iran f. tvyo churches represented, and the rennrt. showed ah addition, of four new churches during the year, and! an increase of about 900 in membership. iThere are about 100 Churches in the Siatej with a membership j Toisnot Home'. It is stated that arrangements are being made for the Rev. J.tE. Carter, Missionary Baptist minister of; Wilson, to preach once a month regu -Jarly in this place. There were more professional gamblers and games.of chance at the Weldon Fair this week than we hve ever seen at any fair or circus in North Carolina. To or three fights occurred outside the enclosure of the Fair grounds on last -Wednesday. . Charbtfe Observer i Two coun trymen named Wm. Potts and C. A. Dulin got into a difficulty in a bar room yesterday eveniDg. when Potts drew a knife and in flicted a rieep gash around Dulin's eye, leaving a very ugly and painrul wound! -r-t- A car load of cotton caugbt fire on a Carolina Central train a few days ago and ;was completely destroyed. The South Fork bridge on the Chester & Lenoir Nar row Gauge Raifroad will be completed the first week in November. The masonry has already been finished. The bridge will be 330 feet long. ' r Raleigh News: just before 3 o'clock, yesterday afternoon, the fire alarm was sounded, on account of the burning of the gin bouse of Mr: J. W. B. Watson, about a mile south of tbe city. The stack department, we were informed by the Secietary, is larger and better than ever before. , He had to erect thirty additional pebs for hogs. Every breed of sheep men tioned in the premium : list is represented. We met Mr. James Norwood, the proprie tor of Poplar Hill farm, who showed us fifty-two entry tickets for stock and pro ducts of his farm. Horses for trotting and running have been entered from the fol lowing places in our State: Washington, Tarboro, Weldon, Kinston, Henderson, Littleton, Winston, Hillsboro, Wilmington and Apex, and five from New York. -: Charlotte JPress: It ; is Coup's circus that is coming! next month on their return from the South. ' The London cir cus will come no farther South than Dan ville. With the Connecticut troops last night were quite a party of civilian?, among whom were several editors, two or three hotel-keepers, 'and also a group of ladies. All seemed anxious to meet Gov. Yance. He was sent for at his room, and wheh he appeared was introduced with evident pleasure on the part of both. A train hand of conductor Eyeret, of tbe Carolina Gentral Railroad, named Sandy, while bn lop of the freight cars Satur day night arranging, the bell rope, was stricken by a covered bridge near Lumber to a and knocked down senseless. He was discovered at the next station on the car. his legs banging over the side and in an unconscious condition with tbe rope in bis nana. 11 is reared he is fatally hurt. - : Lumberton liobesonian: A ne gro woman was killed yesterday near Mr. Nathan . Alfords by attempting to jump from the cart while the mule was running;, her dress caught, she was dragged some distance, fell in front pf tbe wbeei, which) went over her, breaking her neck and shoul der. Shoe Heel department: There was received in this! maiket for the week ending Saturday, October 16th, 340 bales of cotton Total receipts to that dale 2,323 bales. The total receipts In the lust issue should have been 1,883 bales. Pres byfery convened last Thursday. Rev. Joseph Evans preached the opening ser mon, wbich was an ' intellectual treat, a literary gem. The Rev. D. D. McBrydu was elected Moderator. Revs. McQueen, Hill, Fairly, Alexander, McBryde and Lacy preached excellent sermons during', the week. Rev. Dr. Hepburn, President - of Davidson College, submitted a very grati fying report from the trustees of that insti tution on Friday, accompanying the report with an interesting statement. The following interesting items wei take from the Lincolnton Progress' ac count of tbe celebration at King's Moun tain : He (Maj. J. W. Daniel) had befoie him a tall goblet, of claret punch from which he occasionally sipped.- Its color was that' of rosin, j During one of these sippings a plain North Carolinian, full of the subject and the speech, called out in a clear Voice,1 Drink your djje stuff, shake your foot and giye us some more-'" This was a great compliment to the orator and. tha speech,- and ' shows - how deep the sub ject and how deep he impressed his hearers . After the speech Vance was loudly called for, He was on tbe stage, but he came-not-rhe was . not on the programme.. It was noliceable.however, how little North Uaj-olinians had to do with the day, except to furnish the crowd of men and women for, the occasion. South Carolina prayed. Georgia read, Virginia and Tennessee spoke, but North Carolina, "like the poor man at tha Ball," had no place assigned her. Gov. Jarvia; was present and on the stand, and be bf all others should have been introduced to that large crowd bf his constituents. f-Littleton correspondent of Ra leigh News and Observer'. Four years ago there was not a church edifice completed in the town of Littleton. We now hate a Presbyterian church finished, neatly fitted up .with a nice organ, &c. Its pastor, Rev. Mr; Primrose, preached his farewell ser mon last Sabbath. This church is in a prosperous condition. The Baptists also have a neat and comfortable edifice, well furnished.. Rev. Mr. Glenn is the pastor, and the interest in the congregation is in creasing The Methodist Episcopal Churcb is now building a very large edifice. Tbe cornerstone, was laid last Monday with Masonic honors. There are sow six jttesm cotton gins in Littleton, and the . country seems filled Up with them." They are at neany every, cross road, and yet tbey all j seem to to be doing a good business. Mrs. O. P. 8 . Chanel Hill lelter: President Battle followed in one of bis hap piest home speeches. It was pleasant to see his boys greet him with hearty applause whieu be Came forward, and-pleasant to hear the shouts of laughter that accompan ied! bis remaiks. He took the career of Hifatpn; James, of Wilmington, the first student on the ground when tbe doors of the University were opened in 1795; gave a VEry. humorous sketch of what bis feelings may "be presumed to have been when alone in jbis glory, sole freshman, sophomore, junior , and senior, all iq one; Adam alone in Paradise with no Eve in prospect What easy times be had running for office; ar rivals to fear, no constituency to propitiate; chief marshal and all his subs; representa tives; ball managers and beaux; all center ed" in him. Mr. James was a good and useful citizen, and his name Is yet held Trr honor on the Cape Fear. Mr. Battle called on his boys to. mark his example, and to remember that the f University kept an eye upon her sons and preserved, their records.