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i WEEKLY EBA. THURSDAY, DEC 20, 1872. . k -x v ' , THe Poor Man's Party. The Republican party Is peculiar ly and appropriately the party of the working-men of the State and the country. In North Carolina and the South it is exclusively the party of the poor, Ignorant and oppressed. It is the poor man's party "the poor man's friend the working-man's hope and the salvation of the poor, laboring, oppressed people of our section and country. The Democrats, Conservatives and Liberals say so. They have insultingly and boastingly pro claimed that they are the party of the rich, educated, professional, labor-dodging population; that they have all the virtue and intelligence, and that there is no respectability or honor among the poor laboring people of the State and country. They scorn and shun him of the plow and Jack-plane as they would a plague-man, and they have sought to control the poor men by their system of Ku Kluzing, as they for merly did with their Invincible slave power. All their legislation before the war looked to the oppression and destruction of the white labor of the country ; and every effort of theirs since the war has been against the class they despise with a traditional hatred. Where are the schools these rich and intelligent men ever provided for the education of the poor and Ignorant of the State ? Where are the workshops, factories and me chanical institutions they have es tablished for the promotion of skill and industry among the poorer classes,' and for the employment and support df the daughters of poor men, who, to gain a livelihood, have, for all past time, been . com pelled to labor in the fields at the drudgery stout men fail under? Then let this Republican party be the "poor man's party." Let it be his salvation, and work out what it began in North Carolina when it made the free man, gave the working-man a mechanic a lien law, the struggling husband and father a homestead, and the wife a control in the landed estate of her husband. We want none of their wealth. We will create of our own. We envy them not their intelligence. We will school ourselves. And in making "the poor man's party" what the great party of the country should be, we will establish a name and a respectability to compare not unfavorably with the party of "all the wealthy all the intelligence, all the virtue and all the respectability.". Let the Republican party as "the poor man's party" go on in its mis sion of fostering and protecting the poor laboring people of North Caro lina ; but let its lines be so strictly drawn that no fogy-leader of the defunct Democracy can cross over to the poor man's side; for the working-men of North Carolina are henceforth the governing power in North Carolina, under the benefi cent dispensation of the great Na tional Republican Party. A Specimen of Their Gallantry. In all their speeches and writings in the effort to have reduced the salary of the Governor, there has tcen the studied and persistent in tention to insult and decry a very worthy lady engaged in the not very laudable purpose (in the eyes of s-ome of these respectable and gallant gentlemen) of making an honest living. The course of these gentlemen of the press and Legislature, repre senting all the " intelligence wealth, and respectability " of the State, has been to decry and detract from the rcsiectability and standing of the house at which Governor Caldwell has lived for the past six months. We have no hesitation in saying, that, the men who have thus de liberately, publicly and gratuit ously, insulted and disparaged a lady of as good standing as any of them, are a fit set of ujstarts and pretenders to uphold and sustain thf . Unity mii.1 sition of "all the ttviffA. intefj . inf and respectabWi ty" of North Carolina. The Press. The power and dignity of the press, so generally acknowledged of late, finds a handsome illustration In the following from the Peters burg Index: Acd when Mr. Colfax resigns "the Vice-Presidency of a Conti 11 .. A. A A A -iiens io accept me control or a " newspaper it will be known of all men that the vulgar opinion has "been reversed, and that from the very shadow of the throne itself comes the recognition of the great- -.cr power behind the throne." i The State Debt. If there is to be a commission raised to confer with the creditors of the State, wo submit that the three living Treasurers Daniel W. Courts. Kemn P. TUttle and n a Jenkins. oui?ht tn ha nf nnh mil tee. We learn that there Js not like the, scratch of a pen against the State except by one or the other of these gentlemen, and their connec tion, with a commission, would look Ilk business, . how Carl Schnrz, ofMissouri, and Dr. T. T. Leach, of Johnston. We have to hand, for public In spection, a pair of "specimen bricks" of the late Democratic movement to elevate the lamented Mr. Greeley to the Presidency. Here they are : We could have succeeded this time, as I verily believe, by nom inating Auams. I thought so in May last; I think bo now. The contest, however, has not been barren of re sults. It has play ed out the Democ racy as a party. This is xcelL The people will not elect a man to the Presidency who wears the Demo cratic label. The party, as a party, cannot hope to come to power under that name. They must take a departure so wide as to leave the name behind. Carl Schurz in Cincinnati C o in mercial. The State was lost to the Democracy two years before Greeley was a can didate, I am told that we are to be Democratised, and Democracy mast be the name of the pai ty. Now I have no fondnes for the name. I have had my fill of Democra cy, God knows! If I cannot continue the ttht against radical rascadty, as I have been doing for the last six yearn, without embracing Democracy, I say count me out! for I am as far from be ing a Democrat as a Radical. Dr. J. T. Leach in Raleigh Sentinel , Dec. V2th, 1872. Now here are two sweet morsels for the old Democracy of the State and the United States. Two ele gant companions for Democrats, constituting, in the highest degree, a good basis for Democratic fellow ship. As we read these extracts we do not wonder that the piebald coali tion failed of success, and we shall be much amazed if any dish Schurz and Leach may cook up will go down with the people four years hence, or at any future time there after. Democrats will love to read such utterances of Schurz as, that, the Cincinnati-Greeley movement "has played out the Democracy?' and from Dr. Leach, "if I cannot con " tinue the fight without embracing " Democracy, I say count me out." We are willing to believe with Schurz that the modern and self styled Democratic party "has play ed out," and as to Dr. Leach, we are perfectly willing that he should be counted out of the Democratic party, provided always, that he is not to be counted into the Republi can party. As we have said before, ve want none of the leaders of this "played" and defunct Democracy. We im- plore, always, that the Republicans will never count tn the hchurzes, Leaches, Turners, and Democrats, Conservatives and LiberalJof that ilk. Hon. W. A. Smith on Attorney General Shipp. In another column, Hon. W. A. Smith, of Johnston, publishes a jcard vindicating himself against the report that he had preferred charges prejudicial to the character and official conduct of the Honora ble Attorney General Shipp. For the Era, we have to say, that, so far as our recollection extends, nothing of the character alluded to has appeared in thesa columns un der the present editorial control, and,if so, we desire to be understood as disavowing :tnd disapproving it. We have the very highest regard for Judge Shipp personally, and for the Attorney General officially. Jjt37,000,000. . Thirty seven millions of dollars is the amount the people of North Carolina pay every year for fences the privilege of keeping out every body else's stock, instead of adopt ing a law to fence in merely their own stock at a cost of one-sixteenth the present expense. 37,000,000 would twice pay the debt of North Carolina. A Ieci in the Penitentiary. There is a ennuch in the penitentiary. lie was put in for stealing. He is a nice stout looking young fellow that walks proud and has a face as fair as a girl's and without a feign of beard. He is from Halifax cr Northampton county, we forget now which, and the affair that unmanned him happened when he was sixteen years old. They have taken that big deer out of the penitentiary enclosure and Rent him to Sheriff Tree's farm. He chassed the convicts, and sometime since, ran his horn through one of their legs. They sawed his horns off, but it only made him worse. He knocked down Mr. Coleman, the builder, and chased Mr. I Hall. So they held a court martial over him and agreed to kill him, but Mr. Coleman interceded for him, on account of his stateliness, and succeeded in gett ing him banished to Tim Lee's farm for for life, where we understand he is be having himself well and doing much better. Mr. Coleman pronounce him one of the finest st ltues of animal lxv ;ity ever seen. CoL A. S. BufortL On the Richmond and Danville Rail way Company, as compared with the last year, there appears an increase of gross earnings tnls year of f76,37P.5I. The fact is no other railroad president tn the South can compete with Col. Bu- ford, who is certainly a bom railroader, as much so as Horace Greeley was a born newspaper man. And it is not generally known, we reckon, that Bu ford, too, is an. old editor. He edited the Danville (Va.) Register tor many years, ana Dctter man that, wben the war broke out, he shouldered his gun a man and made a good soldier until his health broke completely d 3 wn under the exposures. ZA Minnesota lady has already buried five, and married the sixth. La ! thev do count. CORRESPONDENCE i The State Debt. To the Editor of The Era : ' Sir I hear that there is a plan on foot in Raleigh; by certain inter ested parties, to lump the State debt of North Carolina, old and new, and pay thp interest on the same. The interest i; on the whole debt at six per cent would not be less-than one million nine hundred thousand dollars per annum. If the people should be palled upon to pay even the half of jthis, it would impoverish them;! and render them unable to provide for themselves, to meet their honest debts, and school their children. I enter my Krotest, in this public way, as I ave heretofore done, against this whole business. I am not willing to see the people made the victims of corrupt rings, and saddled with a burden that will crush them to the earth. The old debt was created on the faith of the property which the peo ple of the State had at the time the debt was contracted. Since that time not less thanftwd hundred millions of dollars' worth of prop erty has been swept away and lost by the war between the States. If the persons who bought our old bonds at the time they were issued, had foreseen this vat loss of prop erty, they would not have given twenty-five cents irFthe dollar for the bonds. The property pledged for this debt has been lost, as we may say by an act of providence. The great body of our laboring peo ple are not responsible for this. They could no more prevent it than the parties who bought the bonds could foresee the future. All bonds are sold, to a greater or less extent, on speculation. Let speculators lose, ifitmu3t be so, but let the honest people who get their bread by the sweat of their faces, and who never engage in these games of chance, be protected in the little property they have left. Now, is there any great er obligation on our people, if as great, to redeem the new, or special tax bonds? These were issued, as we all know, in a frolic; of extrava gance. Many millions of them have been lost or stolen, ii is ueneveu they are unconstitutional. The peo ple, whose autnority was unju.-iuy and improvident! y used in ordering their issue by the Legislature, have not only not gained anything by them, but they have lost character for the Mate as an honest, debt-paying ! Stat i I am opposed to paying any of these bonds or the interest on them. Let the members of the Legislature look closely to' this thing. They will hear it thunder, and feel it too, if they attempt to fix this debt on their constituents; and they will have an especially hot time when they return home, if they attempt anv such thinjr in obedience to cor- rupt Northern and Raleigh rings A word to the wise, ana to those who would correctly represent the people, ought to be sufficient. I am not assuming to dictate to any one, but am merely expressing my own opinion, which I au'i in the habit of doing now and theil, when the spir it moves me. Look out, gentlemen, no rings! no payment of the' debt ! no more oppressive burdens'. -on the people ! We have had our new State gov ernment in operation more than four years, and yet the interest has not been paid. Who, then, are the repudiators? Why, everybody. The difference is, X have had the boldness to eall the thing by its right name. Repudiation! That is what I am for, unless the United States government, in its great mag nanimity, assumes that portion of the pubfic debt honestly due by the Southern States at some future day, on account of the great losses of the Southern people during a war which the North, in its zeal for the emancipation of Southern property, aided in bringing about. At least, I think- the Southern representa tives should so in a solid column for this measure, regardless oi par- ty, until it is consummated. Any action of the Legislature at this time in relation to the State debt, (other than-: amending the Constitution so as to give the Legis lature power over the debt,) is pre mature and unwise. Very resjectfuny, Your obedient servant, W: A. Smith, Boon Hill, N. I Opposition to thp New County Gilliam. To the Editor ofDte Era: Permet me, through the col urns of your paper, to drop a few hints to the present Legislature, now in stssion in Raleigh. , For a year or two the citizens of Henderson (a Railroad dejot in this county,) have talked of petitioning the .Legislature for a new county, to be laid off from ? the counties of Granville, Warren and Franklin. The idea is so perfectly ridiculous, mat no sober, sensible man paid any attention to it. But not withstand ing the absurdity of the proposition. 1 learn that a petition is really be iore tne legislature, and mat cer tain individuals! from Henderson and Raleigh are. urging its passage, .look at it: uranville.as it is now, is very nearly a 'square. From the Wake line to the Virginia line is forty miles lrom tire Orange and Person line to the Warren and Franklin line is about thirty-six miles. Oxford, from the Wake line, is twenty-two miles from the Vir ginia line, eighteen; miles from the Orange line eighteen miles, and irom tne w arren dine through lien- derson is fifteen; miles. Now. we will suppose this; new countv will take from each fbf the adjoining counties, a strip not less than seven miles wide. , This! will require a line or the new county run within seven or eight .miles of Oxford, and and Ltouisburg. Now suppose this new county is laid off under this idea, what will be tits shape? At most, it cannot;4xceed fourteen miles in width, and forty miles in length. This will 'put many indi viduals farther from Henderson than they are now. from the Court House of their present counties. This is not all, for Granville coun ty is now so "heatily in debt that her scrip is only worth about sixty cents in the dollar, and the portion proposed to be taken off, by this new county, is bv-far the richest part of our county. ! The movers of this project may say they will pay their rate-able part of the county debt. I am not t willing to makei such a debt, or take such a promise, for I should expect the new county to bo thrown into bankruptcy in twenty four hours after it is laid off. Slaughter-Town Votek. Granville Co., Dec. 14, 1872. Liet the Faithful be Rewarded. To the Editor of the Era : The Era deserves and will receive the thanks of all good Republicans for the manly, and, in the light of policy and justice, proper ground which it takes in its issue of the 17th inst., in regard to receiving further accessions to the party. If the Republican party need fur ther accessions, it desires those ad ditions to be of a character that will give it strength and not weakness. The unprecedented triumphs of the Republican party in the campaigns of last Summer and Fall were due, primarily, to the justness of Repub lican principles, and secondarily, to the inability, in consequence, of the Democratic leaders to control their followers. The astounding developments in regard to the Ku Klux conspiracy shocked the moral sentiment of a large majority of the order-loving and right-thinking people of North Carolina, as well of Democrats, as of Republicans. The plain, honest, farmer-Democrat could not under stand how the "virtue and intelli gence " of the State could resort to such diabolical means to uphold principles, which, according to their teaching, were honorable, just, and such, in every respect, ' that every good citizen was bound t support them. Those whom they had been accustomed to think honest and true, they then saw to be miserably selfish hypocrites. Then, when the Democratic leaders attempted, in an unconstitutional manner, to force upon the people amendments to the Constitution, many of which they did not desire, their confidence in the political integrity of those apos tles of civil liberty began to be seri riously impaired and finally, after the sale, of them and what had been called the principles of the party, at Baltimore, distrust took the place of former confidence, and they re fused to be further led. These leaders can, therefore, bring no strength to our party; in fact, they are now rather followers, than leaders ; the people first indicated a purpose to come to the support of a policy which they had learned to regard as right. In general, too, their purpose in "coming over" is to obtain from the Republicans, who now have the power and pat ronage, what they can never get by remaining loyal to their former pro fessions, position and gain. They, therefore, become consumers, and produce nothing, than an accession, staunch, honest a drain, rather We want good, voters in the in the counties ; we now have, townships, and many of those and are ready to receive others, and to receive leaders as well, but not ready to offer them the po sitions, as a price, which our own veterans should have. Besides, it is not just, nor is it safe, to place in positions of trust and profit these disappointed, mortified, unscrupul ous, deserter-leaders. It is against them, and their cruel, unjust as saults, that the brave, true, deserv ing Republicans of the State have made so gallant a fight ; and it is from them, fighting under the black flag, and crying no quarter to the Radicals, that these same gajjant Republicans have wrested' so many glonous victories. If, therefore, we have benefits' to confer, let them be Driven as rewards to those who stood when the battle was hottest, and when it was dangerous to stand ; and not as charities to those who have brought all our troubles upon us : and who are true to no one and to nothing, save themselves and their own depraved ambition Republican. Hon. Win. 31. Shipp Card front Hon. W. A. Smith. To the Editor of The Era : - Sir: My attention was called a few days ago to a speech purporting to be made by myself in the Presi dential campaign. Wherein I am reported as having reiterated the charges brought against Attorney General Shipp last Summer by the newspapers. Your correspondent wrote the report of my speech with out having one word of it, and drew entirely upon his imagination for what he put in it. I made no allusion to the charges brought against Attorney General Shipp during the campaign in August or November, for the reason I believed him innocent of the charges and in capable of doing such acts. Yours truly, W. A. Smitit, Boon Hill, Dec. 12, 1872. Mr. .James 13. 3Ioorc, of Martin County. To the Editor of The E?n : The gentleman whose name heads this article, (though of different po litical proclivities from the writer. deserves much credit for the able and gentlemanly manner in which he advocated and defended the pas sage of the bill through the House of Representatives, to charter the xsew York, Norfolk and Charleston Railway company. Y e of the east em portion of North Carolina, who leei a ueeper interest in this charter thau those of other sections, will ever feel under obligations to Air. Moore who not only has the honor of representing the good people of Jianin, out me wnoie people of the fetate, .which, he proved bv hisl course on the passage of the above bill. Member from the East. Italeigh, Dec. 18, 1872. Weldon News, Dem. Public Printing. V e are gratified to state that the contract for the State printincr. has been awarded to our energetic young inenas and coteraporaries. Messrs. Stone and Uzzell. They richlv de served it, and the award is but a fitting reward for their fidelity and service to the party. We are fully assured tnat tney will discharge the duties incumbent on them, satisfac torily an around, and we congratu late them on the appoint uent, and hope they may have pleasure, and profit thereby. teaf The little orphans in the Asy lum in Richmond are to be given a grand Christmas dinner. Our State. w J v Weldon can soon count three Baptist churches. There is a precinct in Harnett county called Barbecue. Weldon on skates vas a winter scene in that little place last Friday. The fluttering of wild ducks is exciting the pulse of the Wilmington ians. Several, deaths from pneumo nia have occurred in Mecklenburg county. Col. Wm. Gilham, well known to the boys" of the 16th N. C, recently died in Lexington (Va.) The Liberal local must have had a coffin spell when he wrote that article on the Marble Yard in Newbern. Twelve year old boys in Char lotte always see that their pistols are loaded before they go to Sunday school. Harry Bryan of Edgecombe has purchased the White House tract of land near Enfield . for five thousand dollars. . i He had just finished with thir teen coons and sixty-seven possums when he died the other day in Charlotte. Poor dog. We think Harrisof the Wilming ton Star will be the lucky man. There is nothing the matter with Ais piece on Miss Jeanie Patterson. . Eggs are in good demand at Jeff erson in Ashe county at ten cents to twelve and a half per dozen. And pork is four to six dollars per hundred. A beautiful monument of Ital ian marble has been erected in the Episcopal church yard of Hillsboro to the memory of the late Judge Ruffin. Jesse Hollo well of Wayne got two thousand eight hundred and forty-one dollars from the Government for prop erty destroyed by the federal soldiers. Hickory Tavern is full of 'em. Old man Whitenerand old man Stronce both walked to the polls, and they are so old that their gums are as sharp as a knife blade. They are continually pawing in to somebody's smoke house up in Mecklenburg on Paw Creek where Mrs. Mary McKnight lives. She's gone and lost all her flour and wheat. The Newbern limes says: A horse owned by George V. Dill, Esq., died from the effect of the horse malady which is somewhat prevalent in this city. This is the only fatal case of which we have been advised. A little colored boy in Char lotte applied to a lady for work, but she said he was too dirty ,so he stole a nice suit of clr thes and came back in them, and she took him. But he now studies his catechism in jail. The Morganton fire first broke out in Preswell's tailor shop that adjoins the dwelling of Wm. C. Erwin ; a part of Mr. E's. furniture was saved. Pres nell lost all his elegant stock, estimated between three and four thousand dollars. The Charlotte Democrat says : We are gratified to hear that several na tives of Mecklenburg, who moved to Texas, Tennessee and Arkansas a year or two ago, contemplate returning here at an early day. We will all gladly wel come them back. Newbern was waked up 3 o'clock yesterday morning by the Fife House in a light blaze, and one build ing, a store, had been already consumed. The Times locates the fire in the upper portion of the city. The fire was hard to conquer owing to the scarcity of water. The Greensboro Patriot says : We learn that Mr. Ellison, of Virginia, has leased Mr. M. T. Hughes' New Warehouse and willopen it immediately for the sale of leaf tobacco. This makes the third tobacco warehouse now in op eration in our city. " It i3 cold," said the boy. " It isd dcold" quoth the parrot. All of which happened in Wilmington as a boy was taking Poll in her cage to a gentleman in the city, and had set the cagei down, to blow his hands, on the stops "of the Methodist church. The Star fathers it (we mean the piece.) J. R. Walker of Rutherford got tired clearing up new grounds everv I year for turnip patches and clover lots, and so he broke up an old held this year witir-ofckCbarlotte plow and cultivator I and sowed It in'clover and turnips. He made a ton br so of clover hay, a good crop orthe lincst turnips, and a line field of turnips for next jrear. Solicitor General Phillips, as receiver of the dividends on the part of the State in the case of Swazy vs. the N. C. It. R. Co., has appointed Andrew Mickle of Chapel Hill his agent to re ceive and disburse the accrued interest arising from this stock. The Hillsboro Recorder says, " it is an appointment alike creditable to Mr. Phillips and Mr. Mickle." The Rutherford ton Vindicator says of tho Air Line Railroad : The track of this road is laid from Charlotte to Big Thicket v in Spartan burg county, about 60 miles, and the bridge for Thickety already framed and ready to be put up. It is i miles lrom there to Packolet river, where the bridge buil ders are delaved lor want of lumber.- There is to be combination bridge, four spans, each to feet, two of which are up. The track is laid from Packolet 7 miles to and 13 miles west of Spartanburg. Transportation over other roads has been refused the Air Line Company, and hence the delay of getting lumber for the bridges. Refusal of transporta tion based upon the heavy weight of the A. L. Engines, and the fear of breaking down the trestles. A Secret. i There i3 a mighty clever man living in Danville, (Va.,) by the name of Ike R. Raines. All men have their notions about making a fortune and Ike had his. He set up with a few boxes of can dy and "opened" in a little coop of a shop on Main street. There was a big fine candy and toy shop in the place at the same time and people laughed and said, " what 'does Ike Raines expect to do with that littlo shop?" Ike never said anything. And, about the only men he was everseeti to talk with were some printers in the place. In'fact a poor editor never passed by that littlo shop without Ike's calling him in, aud the ink and pen man; would strut out with a good cigar in his mouth, every time. A year or two rolled around, and the big confectioner man put his first ad vertisement into the paper that he had ever written, and it was to " sell out" his stock, and move away. And Ike had gone into a big store ! Ille'a in it now ! lie's called the Santa Clans of Virginia, and all the border Carolina buy their " good things " of him ! We asked him, "Ike, how'd you make your money?" "Phaw," he said with a laugh, you know. if was with printers ink." Discharged. ack Royall is back in . the city. It will be remembered that Zack was one of the Ku Klux, in the killing of Menas Herrring in Sampson county, that turn ed State's evidence before the Federal court. He was arrested by the State authorities, on his own statement, when he returned to Sampson, but at the Fall term of Superior court in that county, there appearing no witness against him, ho was discharged by Judge Buxton. Twigs. ,; Thomas Cook': colored. ' in Rich inond, fell dead while drinking a cup of coflee. . i -. ' The Virginia legislature take recess from the 21st of December to tte 2nd of January. A man in Oregon has a calf with wings. He keeps it chained in order to prevent a rise in veal. The Chief of Police in Richmond has orders to arrest every boy that blows a horn on the street during Christmas week. " My leg won't walk," said a little girl as she limped down stairs ,after some slight hurt: "mv bones need oiling" . A Paris tradesman advertises by erlueina- a thin eard uoon the backs of tz r " . . the bank bills that pass through his hands. , . The police officers in Philadelphia are numbering: all the children in that city between the ages of six and eigh teen years. Dr. McCosh savs that there are 20.000 Presbvterian coneregations in the world, embracing a population 34,090,000. of "Dear me. how heartilv tired I am of the mourning !" said a fashionable lady to her maid. " Jane, who is it that I am in mourning for?" The Christian church at Lynchburg, Moore countv. Tenn.. uses a decanter in its sacramental service which be longed to George Washington. A Kentucky huckster has over his stall this impressive moral injunction : "Any Man or Boy that taikes wun Ap nel Without Leave is a littil Roge in his Harte." ... - When Mrs. Partington read in a let ter from a watering-place tnat "very few persons bathe at the west end," she said sue "naa an idea tnat tney oainea all over." A Lancaster undertaker advertises : " Get vour holiday coffins of J. Water- house. Don't go up or down Shawnee street without seeing my stock of cas kets and coffins. A bosrus asent for Miss Burnside, the actress, presented himself at the Exchange hotel in Richmond, got the clerk to cash a check for $50, and has not been heard of since. Youns ladies who did not succeed in finding a husband at the watering nlaces this summer, are making travel ing excursions abont the country and admiring the autumn scenery. Father Tom Burke says that the hisrhest title on earth is that of Ameri can citizen : and that next to the cross, "the greatest shadow is that of 'the stars and stripes' of free America." Bauev of the Jews savs: it oc curred to a Danbury scholar, while writing a composition, last week, to make the remarkable statement that " an ox does not taste as good as an oys ter, but it can run faster' " Whatever God has made is per fect," said a Western preacher. " What do vou think of me?" said a hunch back, rising and exhibiting his defor mity. " Why. that you are as perfect a hunchback as 1 ever saw I Voltaire more than once says, in his letters to Madame Buflaud. " I hate life and yet I am afraid to die." A Chris tian fears neither of these. He is will ing to abide ; and he is , ready to go. Life is his. Death is nis. Header, now is it with you ? Savs the Norwich Bulletin : " In the pale, translucent moonlight .which now nightly bathes the earth, the dis tant roar of the falls, the weird note of the peacock and the hoarse snort of the bull calf, make lite up town a perpetual romance." Chicago is all excitement over a man who plays billiards with his nose instead of a cue. He chalks the some what prominent organ and then pushes the ball about the table by means ol a series of collisions. He has succeeded in ihaking a run of nine points. A young lady at a recent fashiona ble churcn wedding in Jew xork seat ed herself on the back of a pew for bet ter observation, but seriously inter rupted the ceremony by an involuntary somersault and an attempt to stand on her head in the pew just oehind. Mrs. Flirtington (coquettishly) "I am at raid you are bored, Mr. Amo- ret? You would sooner be walking with some young lady !" Mr. Amoret (with native readiness and gallautry)- " O no, indeed, Mrs. Flirtington. I I I much prefer the older ones !" "I served," says Thomas Jefferson m his Memoirs," with General Wash ington in the Legislature of Virginia, belere the Revolution, and, during it with Dr. Franklin in Congress. 1 never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to anv but the main point, which was to decide the ques tion. ' A toper got so much on his stomach the other day that said organ repelled the load. As he leaned against a lamp post vomiting, a little dog happened to stop by him, whereupon he indulged in this soliloquy: "Well, now, here's a conundrum. I know where I ate the baked beans, I remember where I ate that lobster, I recollect where I got that rum. but I'm hanged it 1 can recall where I ate that little yaller dog." The following curious advertise ment appeared in one of tho Cincinnati papers the other day: "Personal wanted the undersigned, a healthy young man, unable to procure other employment at which he can make an honest living, desires to inform profes sors of medicine and surgery that he will submit himself to experimental operations of almost any description for reasonable compensation. Address Viv isection, box 2,845." Beccher said in a sermon the, other day : Half a dozen young fellows got together in a back room of a sample store, it was charming. Thev had choice liquors and good , fellowship. Bad liquors -killed, of course ; they knew that. But this was good, and they pitied the poor vulgar drunkards. To-morrow thev would visit there asrain. It was the most blissful hour of the day. So weeks, months, would liy awajr. By and by a taint in the blood was de- j veloped in one ; a spark touched the brain of another ; another grew careless ; another became lazy. In twenty years where was Aon lie went to sea and died. Jso. 2? He didn't do well in business, and went to the plains and was last heard of in the mining moun tains. is o. 6 7 Ho was alive, but every body who knows him wishes he was dead. No. 4? He is the only one that escaped. He broke away, got religion, ana oecame a Metnoaist minister. - Laughter. Iso. 5?. In Greenwood. In twenty years the preacher had known hundreds of young men, educated, with. fair prospects', and every rational hope of doing well, who had gone the ways of death, because they thought it safe at the outset to indulge in intoxicating Naval Stores. Naval stores have .Jbeen uniformly higher this year than they have ever been known. The turpentine distiller ies are on the increase in Johnston and Wake and Harnett counties, and there is such demand for labor that the hands are raising their prices from twelve to twenty dollars per month. They are resurrecting the remnants of all the old rosin beds that were unfinished after the surrender and shipping it to New York. And we understand that capitalists from this State and Virginia aregoinjr farther South of us, into Georgia, tof work at the same business. We believe that an era of prospei ity has begun to dawn upon North Carolina. Fists. - fezf They are wooding vp the poor in Augusta. ' - " fiSF' The needletcorhen in Savannah have given a charity ball. San Francisco has a phono graphic school with 532 pupils. A Columbia man kitted xcith his pistol a large red fox that was raid ing his chicken coop. : ? .. The first cargo of Mediterra nean fruit .since tho war arrived in Charleston tho other day. S'At the end of her sixtieth year Margaret Doyle, in Richmond, (Va.) preferred drowning' to living any longer with a bad husband. And she drowned. vj fi It is said that an inexhaustible quarry of lithographic stone has been opened in Rockbridge county, Virginia, and is to be worked by a company be ing formed in Baltimore, t ' . jg They just seize them in Russia by the village full and vaccinate them, Whether or no. At Chodshent, recently, they broke out in open muteny and sleughtered a numher of the vaccina tors. . . J5 The Era office will take the Christmas holidays for the ben tit of the poor. It is a laudable object, and wo know a generous public will contribute to it by not wanting any paper from Wednesday until Monday morning. The brakesman on the Georgia State road is killing himself at it. Every night he sees an imaginary brakesman who gets on top the cars, just as they are running between Tilton and Altoo na, and remains there sometime, when he suddenly disappears. The fellow ain't an inch from the rats. ! Here's a " sign of the times " hungoutin Long Island. The following communication was recently read out in the Fulton street prayer meetiug in the town of Huntington in that State: Pray for Huntington, both for the mem bers of the church and the ungodly, that all may be saved. Also that all contentions may cease, and that there may be a revival of pure religion, i , A Business Man. r Colnmbus, Ohio, can boast of a girl for you. She dressed up in mens clothes aud rode with the Freight con ductor as "Charlie Smith." She stole his watch. Then "Charlie'? got em ploymentina saloon, slept with the proprietor for three months without discovery of her sex, and stole his money aud left. When arrested she was a driver on the canal, and had love letter with a lock of hair in her pocket, showing she had won the affec tions of an artless damsel in Cleaveland Her name is Goldsborough. Here is the fence law that has been introduced in the House of the South Carolina Legislature: Section provides that the statute shall be sub mitted to a vote in each county, for adoption or rejection. Section II pro vides that it shall not be lawlul lor cat tie, fcc., to run at large, that is ol: from tho land ol the owner or manager ot such cattle, &c. Sections III and IV provide that the owner shall be liab e for any damage they may do off from the proper premises, the hue lor first ol- fence to equal the damages done and the costs ot the suit, ana all subsequent of fences to be double the damage and costs, and a lien shall be held on the stock. And Section V provides that an election shall be held sometime in Jan uary and the law onlv to be applied to those counties that adopt the act. Foster, the Spiritualist, is'Jhold- ig seances in his room at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis. v The St. Louis Democrat savs of him: Some of the spirits announce themselves in remark able ways : for instance, in a case which came directly to our knowledge, Mr. Foster .said the name of the dead would be written on the back ol his hand in char acters of blood. He placed his hand on the table and in a moment it began to tremble. He then moistened the fingers of his other hand with his lips and passed them rapidly across the hand on the table, when there appeared the let ters of some of the dead in ; large style and as if produced by the scratching of a pin upon the nesh. (Questions requir ing a simple answer of "yes" or "no' are very promptly returned, but others involving answers in detail are slow and embarrassing to Air. Foster. These, he says, he can sometimes write out with great facility. Mr. b oster docs not pretend to explain the phenomena : talks ireclv and irank ly auont it;, is courteous ln manner, and in his business is altogether one of the most inexplicable and, astonishing men we nave ever met. W. T. ADAMS. T. R. ADAMS. W. T. AOAMS & SON, Manufacturers and Dealers in STEAM IE N G I N K S. SAW AND CKIST .MILLS, Plows,' Harrows, Cultivators, Ilositing Macules, and all kind of CASTINGS. All work neatly and promotlv exe cuted, by skilful workmen, on the most reasonable terms. 1 - Tae senior partner has had over 40 years experience in the business, and leets justified in saying that he can cive entire satisfaction. WANTED 100.000 pounds of old ff. Iron, for which the highest market price will be paid, in cash or exchange for work. ; Works one Square AVest of f.anrt House. ' Raleigh, Aug. 13, 1872. 9 w3m. wm mm mm m mm mv mm mum si Sept. 19,1872. 14 w6m. "OTICE. - On the 6th day of January, 1873, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, at the Court House door in the town of Oxford, one tract of land in Kittrells Township, containing 250 acres more or less adjoining the lands of Wm. J. Hunt, Sancuel R. Hunt and others, the property of Lark ins Pearce, to sat isfy art execution I in favor of tne State of North Carolina for taxes. , . ; !, . JAS. I. MOORE, Sheriff ; Granville countv, N. C. Dec. 2. : 25 4w wm Sept. 19, 1872. 14- 6m. QOME WITH YQUR MILL. I have any quantity of Lonir 'Leaf Yellow Pine. One mile from W. C. & Augusta Railroad, want them sawed into lumber. Come and look at tho chance. J. B. STANLY. Whiteville, Nov. 0, 1872. 22 wtf. MARRIAGE GUIDE. EVERY ONE 1113 OWN DOCTOR Being private instructor for married persons, br those about to be ni.;rried, both male and female, in everything concerning the physiology and relation -. .''iir sex ual system, and tho product! n and prevention of offspring, including nil new discoveries 'never before given in the Fnglish language, by WM. YOUNG, M. D. This is really a valuable and interesting work. It is written iu plain language for the general reader, and is illustrated with numerous Engravings. All young married people, or those coiw templating marriage, and having tho least impediment to married life, should read this book. It discloses secrets that , every one should be acquainted with; still it is a book that must be locked up and not let lie about the house. It will be sent to any address on receipt of 50 cents. Address pr. WM. YOU. NO, No. 416j Spruce street, above Fourth, Philadelphia.. . i 3S AFFLICTKD AND UNFOUTUNATK. No matter what may be your disease, before you place yourself under the rare of any one of the QUACKS native and foreign who advertiso in this or uny other paper, get a (copy of Dr. Young's Book and read it carefully. It will be the means of saving you many a dollar, your health, andi possibly your life.. Dr. Young can be consulted on any of the diseases described in his publica tions by mail or at his office. No. 410 Spruce street, above Fourth, Philadel- phia. ; . j 14 w(Jn $200 RERDI ! A, Proclamation by the Governor of North parolina. j Executive Dkpartmkst, Raleigh) Dec. lith, 1S7U. Whereas, official information has been received at this Department that one J. N. Carson, alias Clawsou, alias Wagner, charged with- burglary in the county of Ashe, has escaped from tho jail of that county, and so conceals, himself that the ordinary processor law cannot be served on him : j Now, therefore, I, Tod R, Caldwell, Governer of tho State of North Carolina, by virtue of authority in me vested by law, do issue this my proclamation offering a reward of Two 11 u ml rod Dollars fir the arrest and delivery of tho said J. N. Carson,! alias Clawsou, alias Wagner, to the Sheriff of Ashe county, and I do enjoin all officers of the 'law and all good citizens to aid in bringing said Carson to justice. - Done at our City of Raleigh, tho 18th r i day of December, A. 1)., 1872, LL. ts.j anj ju the 07th year oi American Independence. j i ' TOD; R. CALDWELL. Bv the Governor:, J. B. Neath ery, Privato Secretary. , - desciUption: Said Carson, alias Clawson, alias Wag ner is about 21 years of age, about hix feet high, dark complexion, black eyes, rather awkward in his appearance, has no beard, and is by occupation a watch tinker. He is supposed to be I u. king in the vicinity of High Point or Thomas ville. I - 27 w4w S" Statesville American weeks and send bill to the Department. copy four Executive NOTICE to Parties of tho Name DALLAS, M'KEUUOLL, arid WILKINSON. of WANTED, Children full, Particulars of tho ori Descendants of ALl- EXANDEKand WILLIAM DALLAS, DUNCAN M'KERROLL by his Wife Isabella Dallas, and of JOHN WIL KINSON by his Wifo Janet Dallas, all of whom are entitled to Share in the Succession of the late Peter Dallas, of Glasgow, in Scotland Brother of the above-named who Died, Unmarried and Intestate, on 2d June, 1872. The Parties were all Natives of Islay, in Scotland, and the Families of the three first-named are supposed to be in North Carolina, and of John Wilkin son in Canada. J Affidavits and Evidence of Pedigree, Authenticated by a British Consul, to bo lodged with James Gait, of 98 West Nile Street, Glasgow, Scotland, the Judicial Factor on Mr. Dallas' Estate. December 17, 1872. 27 w3m THOS. S. THAkN, Alex. Thuhi Henry Thainl Defendants. nnd against William Thain, Hamilton W. Thain, and Caroline RJ .Thain Defendant. Summons. The State of IVortli Carolina, To the Sheriff of Johnston- County, Greeting: j You are hereby commanded to sum mon William Thain, Hamilton W. Thain. and Caroline R. Thain. tho do fendanjts above named, if they be fotlnd within your county, , to appear at tho office of the Clerk iof the Suerior Court for the county of Johnston, -within twenty days, after tho service of tliis summons on them, exclusive of the day of such service, and answer the com plaint, a copy of which is deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for Johnston county; and let them take notice, that if they fail to an swer the said complaint within that time the plaintiffs will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. , I . Hereof fail not, and of this notice make due return. ; Giveu under my hand and tho seal of, the Court this 2d day of November, 1872. I I P. T. MASSEY, C. 8 C, j 23-w6w. . Johnston County. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. In the Superior Court Pitt County. SYDNIE H. SPAIN, Administrator, cum testamcnto anncxo ot D. O. Spain, j-iuimiii, ' ts. I James A. Brown and who Marv M. Brown, et al, Defendants. i In he above named case the petition er and plaintiff nravs for a sale of tho lands of the late D. O. Spain, for asset, to enable him to 6ettle the debts pd charges of Administration : and it ap- E earing that the defendants James A. irowu and wife iMary IM. Brown are non-residents of the State. It is ordered that publication be made for them in The Weekly Era, a newspaper published in the City of Raleigh, N. C, fornix successive weeks, to appearand answer or demur to said petition or complaint, or judgment, pro confesso will he taken as to them and a decree of sale made, j W. L. CHERRY, Clerk ! . - j Superior Court. A. H. Mansfield, Den. Clerk. . Nov. 13, 1872. 22 wtfwpaid ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. I will sell in Tfiomasville, on the 20th of December next to the highest bidder, the chattel Dropertr in and about tho Female College, viz : Three Pianos in good order, the Library, G1o1k?s, Ac,, all the Beds, Furniture, (consisting of Sheets, Blankets, Comforts, Mattresses, Ac.,) Chairs, Tables, Table Ware, Kitch en Ware, Cooking Stove, Wash Kettle, Tubs, fcc. Also some Corn, Wheat, Oats and Hay. Terms cash. '.- R. W. 'fHOMAS, Adm'n last! call. All those indebted to the estate of J. XV. Thosuus, dee'd, must come forward ami make payment or they will have to pay cost. I ' ' R. W. THOMAS, Adm'r. dec 4 I . 0" JawSwrd
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