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WEEKLY ERA. WEEKLY ERA, " ltate of .jtdrertUIng; S One square, one time, 1 t 00 " - two times, 1 W " " three times. 1 a 00 Manager. irt if Sacrtill-..u j A square U the width of a column, and one inch deep. I jpZf- Contract Advertisements taken nt proportionately low rates. ! l'rolessional Curds, not exceedlnff one r. ,i v One rear, in advance. $7 00 P ,,L' Six months, in ad van.. 60 Three inouths, in advance, 2 00 No. 29. . L, -One year in advan.f, 2 00 Vol. 2. RALEIGH, C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1873. square, will bo published one year for . Six monuis, v ThroAmonth. 50 i A w WEEKLY THE ERA. vwtmcfoiu and Wealth versus loyer and the rootle, i j The Hadiad iarty is ogam under L jfetment on account of the capers f r J)-ue of the wealthy, intelligent. .rj nnfl xocbtl ostracizers of the aristocratic State of Loui.-iana ,'r.dthechlvalric city of New Or- cans. A very admirable article appear a'the ia to-day .from the Statea ble -l""7-"' touching ufiairsrin ouWana, and approving its tone, he Ia commends the sentiment ,f the article to all readers. The anarchists of tiie so-called Hsnucratic party, have been trying or seven years ttf precipitate on tlie iuuntry another armed revolution, ,ut they have failed, notwiihstand li Iheir appeals to the prrjudicca A' the women of the South, the 1 .u.ted iwer ami influence of their wealth and intelligence, to say i., thins of their disgusting pre tensions to all the virtue and rc Jjtvtability cf the country. The hand of the Radical party ! ;:s been put to the plow ; let there lL no looking back. The Itadical Jirlv is the government of the 'ul States, and the Radical the ver:.',rs. r'.'Vil I Let ih; wcaltn, me scu-pro- dimud u-itectability and swag Win,' intelligence fret and foam, tit-mi their betters with epithets of X i:,nl and radicalism, put forth thir threats and organize their ku 1-1,. v n tni-s. and do all manner of - - t ijleral, criminal ana foolish things, lit the eovtrnmentof the United tt:ites has fallen into the hands of the PKOPLE, who are able to pro &t "d manage it, and its power is over all. if.t tltt revolutionary una an- ar. Ideal ieople of the South under stand that the way is always open fbr-iKnee and reconciliation with the ; Radical party, but that such e.iec im;-t Ik' on the terms Radical ism in:iv dictate, and that there will In- no compromise of princi ples, no surrender of justice, and no transfer of power i hands un worthy to wield or v.w with it. Social ostracism oi initiated in the (Tort to destroy the government, ml it is practised with a view to hat end now. Political ostracism, and the linn and unflinching exer cise of power is the just retaliation And only practice the Radical party can adopt or indulge to insure the pftfety and ermanency of the gov ernment, which guarantees and makes jtossihle the exercise of the privileges and blessings of Ameri Iciin liberty, by the American PEO PLE, who, under Republican gov ernment, are the rulers, instead of .the aristocrats, who formerly drove their slaves, lorded it over the poor, jand ground Ww'people with all the 'freedom of a title in fee-simple to .the whole country. 1 1 A XesHcrent House Owner. j I Margaret Whalan recovered $ I, WM) ifntm EIizaJeth Gloucester, in the (Supreme Court, under the follow ing circumstances: She was a nurse, .employed at No. 942 Sixth-ave.; premises owned by Elizabeth Glou i tester. In May, 1SGS, she was get ting out of a carriage with the chil dren in front of the house, and .epM-l upon a coal-hole cover, (which. Unng loose, tipped up and 'injured her severely. She sued the ilefcndattt, who put forward the de jfcr.se that she sub-let the premises, 'which the lessee agreed to keep in .nvpair. It was shown, however, ;that she was cognizant of this de fective cover, and, on trial before Judge Van IJrunt, a verdict of H,"tU0 was rendered. Netc York Tribune. j The above ought to be of interest to sorue of the rentors of property !in this city, for there are houses 'rented out in Raleigh not fit for the habitation of wild beasts, and one 0f these days there will be a suit for .damages similar to the above. The j class who proverbially grind and oppress the poor, more than all I others, are they who own and let j houses; and no class is moredeserv jingof public reprobation or more meritorious of the penalties of the law for outraging humanity than ! the landlords of our day. ; The Homestead Question. The 1 1 iikory Tavern Kajle having dwlared the Homestead decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional, j and the Charlotte Democrat copying ind approving the article of the Engle, the Statesville American re f prds the question as at last settled, i adversely to the poor people of l'orth Carolina, but finds a grain of comfort, however, in the fact that ! the people are not yet quite " out of : lwu.se and home." The Eagle and the Democrat have : tllU3 given expression to the senti- .ment of the Conservative party, j and they tell us what the real ob jJt was in the Convention cam of 1871, and show us what the result of Conservative success j l that campaign would have been. Will Grant's Raleigh Era answer us rne conundrum : What has become of tliat illustrious Republican MacLind say, of the nrm of Pool, Mac Lindsay, Holden and Kirk? Several thousand "readers of Pomeroy's Democrat in North Carolina are anxious to know. ivmc roy's Democrat, Dec 14.- "Several thousand readers of PomeroyU Democrat in North Caro lina " indeed I Why the fellow has not half a thousand In the whole State, nor " several " in all the South. ' Mr. MacLindsay is at hid home in Perquimans county, and leading r.d bitter Democrats andCbnserva ti ves, who know him intimately and long, -ay that no better man lives in all North Carolina, and that ha Is a man incapable of crime; a kind, noble, generous-hearted fellow; slan dered when implicated in or asso ciated with "piracy 'V or such " deeds of daring" as would lead to the cutting of throat3 or the injury or destruction oi nisi ieiiow-man. s MacLindsay is evidently not the man Pomeroy wants. But perhaps Pomeros Democrat and its readers everywhere would like to know something about Out law, a man hung by the ku klux in the Court House yard of Alamance, and Stephens, whose throat the ku klux cut in the Court House of Cas well county. Let Pomeroy direct his inouiries and energies to the discovery f tne murderers of these victims of tho ku klux spirit which the Demoi-rat and its brethren in North Carolina are still endeavor ing to foment. After the ku klux had murdered and scourged more men in North Carolina than read Pomeros Dem ocrat in the State, Pool, Holden, Kirk and otliers, sought to put them down. But the ku klux put Pool, Holden and Kirk down, so far as the Slate of North Carolina wn concerned, and the rasre of Pomeroy and his Democratic breth ren of North Carolina is only in tensified because of its impotency in the effort to put down tho laws and destroy the power of the United States goverment. There are papers in North Caro lina which can better answer "con undrums" relative to ku kluxing than "Grant's Raleigh Era." For instance : A very promi nent Editor of a very widely circu lated ku klux organ in this State is said ' to have asked a few hours after the murder of Stephens, and long before anybody kneur that he was murdered, "I wonder if the boys killed that damned scoundrel last night?" Was not that a "conundrum" for you: Bear in mind that this ques- tion was put at an hour of the day before the body of Stephens was found, and many miles away from the scene of tho bloody tragedy, and that the question must have been propounded on the foreknowl edge of what was to be done, by pre-arrangement, on that Saturday evening. But this murder "will out" one of these daj-s, and "Grant's Raleigh tt" may then have a "conun drum" for Pomeroy's Democrat. "Watch and wait." Colonel ltuss on the Steward of the State Pen. Colonel J. P. H. Russ of this city is no Radical. He publishes a card in the Era to-day which proves, however, that he has no sympathy for, or connection with that caste of Democracy or Conservatism which the last Legislature elevated to the management of the State Pen. What does this card prove? It vindicates the assertions of this pa per relative to the conduct of affairs, financial, in the State Pen. It is merely corroborative of the evi dence elicited by the last Legisla- ture that, a pretty little system ofi "nest-feathering" had been going on at that institution. When Mr. Steward Murray could have bought these potatoes from first hands (Colonel Russ) for fifty cents per bushel, but declined, only to pay a merchant seventy-five cents, he did it for the same reason that convict in the State Pen ate rats, cats, rotten fish and infected hog meat dead of disease; and that rea son was to put money into the pxcket of Mr. Steward Murray. A crime has been committed by the management of the State Pen; an outrage has been perpetrated on the tax-payers of North Carolina; this crime and outrage rests upon the Conservative party of North Carolina, whose representatives put this management in, and retained them after an investigation by the same Legislature had disclosed an amount of rascality, negligence of duty and incompetency, to startle and horrify all the good people of the State. The card of Colonel Russ is a strong bill of indictment -against this Conservative party and its pet managers of the State Pen, and as Colonel Russ is no Radical the Con servative party of North Carolina can hardly have the effrontery to gainsay hi9 statements and asser tions. Read the card. The Public Iriutl Tho public stomach is likely to be nauseated with repeated overdoses of the State Printing of North Carolina. It will be remembered how, in 1870, a leading Editor of the State, spread consternation among all the people of North Carolina when he threatened their vital interests by deelarimrJ that, unless the State Printing was given to him he should leave the State! On this occasion the Mate was saved by the Legislature being driven to award the Printing as it did. No one has forgotten' that before the year had expired an "error" by "over-d 'rawing'" - was discovered, amounting to upwards of three thousand dollars aglnst the State. Last Winter-the entire session of three months was consumed before the question of the Public Printing had been settled, discussion on the subject, in the meantime, costing tho State a irood round sum of money, approximating in amount the "error" by "over-drawing." The contract was finally lei, on the last dav of the session, at the figures of another party who had three several limes Obtained the con tract on the plan of letting to the lowest bidder. At the figures in this contract the party from whom the Printing was taken, by outrage, and given to another would have realized a legitimate profit of over a thousand dollars. Bitf the favorite to whom the work was awarded alleges that he .lost two thousand dollars by, taking the work at the low ligurts fixed; and this loss, we are told, falls on the Editor of the Raleigh Sentinel, although Mr. Theo. N. Ramsay of the Banner of Temperance, was the contractor! For weeks, about the time of the meeting of the General Assembly in November, we heard nothing but the losses of Mr. Turner on the State Printing contract for 1872, and he and his friends were busying themselves in seeking out a com pensation for such losses, and the result of their efforts was to increase the price of the State Printing thirty-three and -a third 'percent, thus squandering the money of the poor people of Iorth Carolina to rewartl and gratify a party pet. liutlo! and behold!! when the contract came to be made, the Printing was given to a business rival and old political adversary of the party pet and heir expectant to the patronage of the Conservative throne!!! This being the result of a little combination of bitter Radicals and sorehead Democrats, the very devil, so4o speak, has been kicking up here and elsewhere in the biate lor several weeks. The object is seen at a glance. The old Whigs seeing that the Demo crats will not allow their pet to have the Printing patronage, are endeavoring to manufacture sym pathy and sentiment to enable them to make good the alleged loss oftwo thousand dollars by appro priating out of the State Treasury that amount of the people's money. The present State Printers will not give up the contract, on no con ditions and under no circumstances, so tfiese outwitted and chagrined Whigs do not expect to revoke the contract already awarded. Their scheme of presenting two thousand dollars, however, to a party favorite, to cover alleged osses in the party service, will lan, as it ought to fail, and whoever at tempts it will go down under a loaa of merited obloquy greater than that which 'has obscured the self- made martyr of the conservative press of North Carolina. The last faint echo of the hundred guns fired in City Hall Park at the p re-supposed and pre-arranged suc cess of Merrimon and the Democratic ticket last August, died away, for-, ever, yesterday, as Tod R. Caldwell took the oath of office as Governor of North Carolina, by virtue of the will and wishes of f he people of the State. WlIEKE Xcics tne how , are .tne iuueign 1 j TT 1 ! Wilmington Journal, Morning .Star and other great, pow erful, influential, potent and al mighty jounials of all the wealth, all the respectability, and all tho intelligence qf tho State, which so lately and so confidently ordered a contest of theiState election ? The State Pen. Another corpspondent comes for ward to offer jiorae suggestions and tell what he knows about the man agement of thb Pen. Hist commu nication will appear to-morrow. Jas. T. IlittRis, ame$hant of this city, is hef Radical. What does he know about Pea for the Peni tentiary? Will he tell the people of North Carolina through the Era t " His Accidency." The term rjr which Governor Holden was clotted expired yester day, and the Honorable Tod R. Caldwell, the neV Governor elect, qualified before Jtdge Settle, of the Supreme Court, as Chief magistrate of North Carolina for the next four yeara. lUn assuming the duties of the office Governor Caldwell said: Mat it mxase yolu HonoW and Fellomt Citizens or the State ok NoKtii-Carolixa : In obedience ts the will of Ue people of North Carolina, 1 appear before you to-day to assume Ae ofliee of Chief Magistrate of the State for tttc next four yearit. It has been eustoinary, fellow-citizens, andlniust universally so, that the Governor fcf the State of orth CafWina snould oe in augj ra ted before the Legislature of the State. On this occasion, however, there U a departure from the general rule, for the reason that the General Assembly is not in eession. ana the Constitution provides that I ehall take my .. . o . x l it !. oatu betore one oi me finances ui n.e ou nreme Court. Gentlemen, I accepted this honor chiefly upon the solicitation of friends, and am sorry that I did not prepare mvself with a little epeecn lor mem on mis occasion. In assuming this hijrh and responsible office, believe me, I will ever make it a point of dutv to take care of the interests ot the people of North Carolina; I do not mean to act the part of tlu- partizan in this omce. Of course, where I have patronage to be stow, other things being equal. 1 shall give such patronage to party friends judiciously, and in a manner consistent with the prii- leges of my office. I shall endeavor to Uiscnargj my uuiy 10 the best of my ability. When I cannot nil the office from my o vu party acceptably to myself, I shall then consider it my duty to select a jrood man from the opposite party, and I know that e very good and true Re publican in the Suite of North Carolina will approve my deteradnation in this respeet. I hope, however, that I wm oe auie to nnu in our own party intelligent, well-educated and honest men enough to iiil tlu offices. I desire, in conclusion, to tender to you, and through you to the people ot iNorth Carolina, my most sincere I hanks for the "enerous manner in which you bestowed your suiferage upon me for the highest office no the gilt ot tne people, anu io gie the assurance that in the discharge ot my duties I shall have an eye single to the in terest of my beloved State, and to all her citizens, without regard to party ; and while I claim no immunity hom just criti cism, I bespeak in advance a fair healing aud honcot judgment from the public. I am now, may it plea-e your Honor, ready to take upon myself the oat h of ofrice. As Lieutenant Governor of the State, Caldwell assumed the duties of the Executive on the impeach ment of Holden two years ago, and it has been the custom of the " vir tuous," "wealthy" and "intelli gent " prints of the defunct Democ racy to speak of Governor Caldwell, with a sneer, as "His Accidency " when he was elected in 'G8 by the people of the State to fill the office of Governor on a contingency; and these witty fellows have evidently forgotten that two Democrats with in twenty years have filled the Ex ecutive chair of North Carolina when the people had simply elected them to the Legislature from then- respective counties. Winslow and Clark were " Accidencies " in tho highest degree, if worthy men, call ed through the acts of Providence to exercise the duties of offices they were not specifically elected to fill, are to pass into history as " Acci dencies." The administrations of Warren Winslow and Henry T. ClarK as Speakers of- the Senate, chosen by the Senate, and that of rIod K. Caldwell, as Lieutenant Governor, elected by the people; have all pass ed into the History of the State, and it may be said with equal truth ot all three, that, they discharged the duties which unexpectedly fell upon them to the best of their ability, that, the people of North Carolina fotind in each a patriot and the State an affectionate son ; and in the public conduct of each there is found more to approve than con demn ; and any man who would seriously taunt the name or seek to reproach the memory of either with the epithet of" Accidency " i3 a fool, and his folly such as a fool might be expected' to indulge at a funeral. That Governor Caldwell' has made soma, mistakes, and will commit more, no one aenies or pretenus to hone asrainst : but. his aumimstra tion of the past two years challen ges a comparison with that of any pf his predecessors ; and his remarks brr assuming the duties of the office vesterdav to which the people elect ed him last August were timely ad mirable and appropriate. The Era bespeaks lortne new au- ministratkm the indulgence and support of the good people of North Carolina of all opinions, colors and conditions of men; while the Gov ernor seeks immunity from just criticism at the hands of bone, neither friend nor foe. Wno will hereafter put faith in a Democratic Legislator who should resign it a convention was not, given him ; or trust a Democratic leader who would not rest until the State election should be contested, and the Radicals turned out? Truth in a Nutshell. It is really surprising how easy it is to escape the meshes of the law when tho arch-enchanter, wealth, is used to break the toils; but, to-day, as In Shakespeare's time. Plate sin with cold. And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw dotn pierce it. The Education of Women. The 'Princess Louise has been made President of the English National Union for the ImDrovement or the Education of Women. The object of tho union is to deliver women from tne piano, tne elobes. the blac k-board and bad French, and make them fit for the exigencies of modern life. At Windsor the staff of teachers consists almost wholly of the Eton Colleire masters, who jrive their time and experience to the task. Similar things are being done at Huddersrield, Southampton, Kugby, button, riy mouth. Guernsey and Cambridge. Can't we do something in this direc tion in the United States? Thero are scores of indoor occu tuitions now pur sued bv men which should be given up to women ; but these they cannot take without the necessary training, livery day it becomes more painfully mam fest, that large numbers of girls must depend uoon their own exertions, ana it is equally plain that the educations they receive do not fit them to encounter the struggle for existence. Norfolk Virginian. The education of women, and wi.-X'i work, are subjects that should occupy the attention of every intelligent man of the South.' It is appropriate that one who has done so much to alleviate the sufferings of the poor, as James Barron Hope, of the Virginian, should now essay to improve the condition of our working-women ,and seek to provide occupations and the comforts of life for so many of the dependent of our Southern country. The Era proposes for itself a fight on this line until something prac tical is' accomplished, and iti be half of the struggling poor of North Carolina, and tho South, agitation shall be the watchword of this pa per until the claims of the poor are recognized and the dignity and rights of labor are vindicated and, established. Our State. D.vvid and J. C. Pritchard in Alexandria county manufacture pianos. Moses Spitfire recently regis terelattho Mansion house in Charlotte. DuniNG the freeze ,in Charlotte five dollars a load was, asked for wood. Mo I ig anton has had a bachelors club for eight years called "Company Small, pox in Nash eounty on the . . . 1 wane. Nearly nan ine casw pmxuu. fatal. Tkent river at Nowbern has been iVoy.cn over and the ice au inch thick. I SntAOUE & Co. have established ashinglo factory 14 miles irom Mor- ganton. i ; Forty-nine cases and thirteen deaths in Harnette county, up to date. It is on the decline. Dr. Tatrick of Danville (Va.) is at Hickory Tavern buying up a large quantity of grain and vegetables. Found dead on the line of the Wilmington Columbia Railroad, Rob ert S. Hughes,-a telegraph repairer. The town of Graham played Old Sister Phoebe, CTristinas evening. That's the way they amused themselves. A runaway couple, married in Milton, were in such a hurry to salute that the bride was seen squeezing his hand while "Uncle Mk-k" was praying for them. ' Pat Cline, country merchant in Catawba county, lost all his large stock of fall and winter goods, and his store burnt dowt. The stovepipe did it. A correspondent writes that James R. Gattis, popular confectioner in Hillsboro, caught Bob Hobbs (col.) in his money drawer. Bob 'fessed he had been lhar 3 times before. He has a blanket and sleeps in the jail. The Charlotte Observer says: Last Tuesday night while a negro was going from Statesville to his home near Olin in the same county, he was frozen to death and his lifeless body found in the snow a day or two afterward. The Hickory Tavern Eagle speaking of Burke county says: Con servatives here complain of the Raleigh Conservative Press. Say the Era is the only paper of interest, as it copies all the strictures of the country papers on the Senatorial election. The trunk lost at the Greensboro depot last October by Bailey, old John Robinson's traveling agent, and that had in it an eight thousand dollar dia mond pin, has been found in the pos session of Jim Smith, a colored man near Gardner Hill Mine. The pin was found with it. So says the Greensboro State. Mr. Means, riding a horse, . five miles of Charlotte, met a negro in a wagon with a gun in his hands. They got to quarreling over the gun and Mr. M. tried to wrench it out of the negro's hands. In the scuffle the negro fell out of the wagon .id the wheel passed over his body. He . lived six hours. Mr. Means was arrested, and Gov. Vance is his counsel. The bursting of the boiler of the spoke and handle factory near the Lin coln depot in Charlotte, scalded the fol lowing individuals: Eddy Lewis, 7 years old ; J. G. Lee and Lee Rndsill seiiously; Frank Thompson (col.) se riously; Jake Myers, engineer, slight ly ; and a colored man not an employe whose name is unknown. So we learn from the Observer. Internal Revenue. ; The collections of internal revenue in this city for the month of December 1S72 amount to $39,82.30. Collections for the quarter commencing 1st of Octo ber aud ending 31st of December 1872, $115,07.24. And froii the 1st of January '72 to the 31st of December, the collections amount to 379,940.93. ; C0RRESP02OJENCE. Colonel Russ on the Potatoe Transaction. y To the Editor of The Era: Sir: You call upon me through tho columns of your paper to give you a statement of the potatoe tran saction between Mr. Steward Mur ray and myself. You say will Col. J. P. II. Russ let U3 know something about those potatoes which Mr. Steward Murray did not want from him at a low price, but which he earerly bought from 'his merchant ' at a high price." Some time last Fall I applied to Mr. Murray and told him 1 nau a few hundred bushels of "Irish po tatoes," and would be pleased to supply "his Institution',' with them, as they might need from time to time ; (many of them still inThe the ground.) I Proposed to de liver at low figures. He said he did not want them at any price. He was not pressed after that. The same day, I think, a merchant bought them at GO cents, and sold to Mr. Murray at 7o cents per bushel. Soon after this, I saw Mr. Murray in company with Mr. Boyland, of this city. I again ap plied to sell him my "turnips." He said he 'did not want them at all. I then reminded him of the pota toe transaction, stating in full, in the presence of Mr. Boyland. I then said, Mr. Murray, I under stand your manner of doing busi ness. " You tickle me and I'll tickle vou." He said ho did not understand me. I said, "Mr. Boy land understands me, and you un derstand me;" and repeated, "You tickle me and I'll tickle you." Very Respectfully, I J. P. II. Russ. Raleigh, Dec. "27, 1872. Zedekiah Comloleth siali. with .To- IIon. JosiAir Turner, Jr.: Sir: As a constant reader of the Conservative papers, I was much grieved to see in the Raleigh papers that tho Conservative party for whom you have worked so hard and done so much, have given the Public Printing to the Daily News office. But we are reminded that Republics are ungrateful and party politics ephemeral, men are but children after all, subject to the whims aud caprice of the hour. Your valiant services against scalawags, negroes, radicals and carpet-baggers seems to have been lost sight of since no one could be found to "beat Grant." The ladies of our party are greatly upset at the treatment that you have received at the hands of the Con servative Legislature, and as a token of their sympathy, they pro pose to raise a ten cent subscription to prevent your paper from sus pending. We very much fear that we shall never see again those fine and impressive editorials of yours that once enlivened the Sentinel on the subject of Swepson, Littlefield, Fat Carrow, Long Perry Smelfun gus and the like. We suppose there will be re joicing in the Radical camp when they hear that you have been snubbed by the Ransom-Vance party. Why did you not put in your elaimsfor United States Sena tor? You certainly deserve more at the hands of the Conservative Legislature than any of those that were prominent before it. But we suppose that they have got you under a hack, so that all the fire of your youth has been extinguished, and that you have well nigh "played out." It is hard to meet reverses in elections, hard to be disappointed in our ambition, but keener far, is the sting of one'sown party fiends deserting in time of need. Ave do not know how to get along without your paper, for should you quit North Carolina in disgust, then the flood gates would be opened upon us, and a perfect tide of carpet baggers would make haste to our State, buy up all our waste-lands, put all kinds of machinery into our little streams, fill our old fields with fru't trees and vines, dig down our mountains in search of gold, cop per and iron ; build school houses and churches in every township: send all the children to school, and play thunder generally with our old-fashioned ways, and break up long settled customs, that ybu and I don't want done, under ahy cir cumstances ; and the only way the Conservative Democratic party had to prevent all these calamities that I have mentioned, was to encour age your undertaking ; by giving you a liberal support. But they have ruined all by encouraging the Daily Newsi whose principal mana gers are carpetbaggers from Virgin ia. Oh! fie upon such treachery. Why could not the present members un derstand the situation, or be whip ped into measures? What was Gov. Graham, Johnny Graham, Theo. Kingsbury John Spelman and Syme doing? Good gracious! are we to be overrun? Billy Smith will blow his horn now. Swepson and Littlefield, Fat Carrow, Long Perry, Friday Jones, Mark Wil liams, Hawk -'Rogers and others, will hold high carnival over fallen Josiah Turner, Jr., and will laugh at his calamity, and mock when his fear cometh. I will try and write you again and keep you advised. So I will close now, hoping that all may end well For prudential reasons, I have not signed my full name. Yours, Zedekiah. The Wilmington Journal is now an old man extravagantly dressed up. The Card of Colonel Russ. To the Editor of The Era: : They say "an open confession is good for the soul." I trnst the card of Colonel Russ, illustrating ?the difference between "tweedledum " and " twe dledee " its Mr, Steward Murray understands it, may have a good'effeet on all future manage ments of the Penitentiary, and also serve to bring out other facts con nected with themw-management of affairs under the Bledsoe Board. Let - Mr. A. 11. Temple explain the difference, and how it came about, in six pigs exhibited at the State Fair in October as six weeks old, and six large fat hogs killed in December, all raised without ex pense to the Stale, see testimony of Moses A. Bledsoe before investi gating committee of the Legislature last Winter. 'Neuse... EDUCATIONAL, Rev. Brantley YorkD. I). To the Editor of The Era :. Sir: Knowing that you take a live'y interest in everything per taining to education, permit me to give you a snort account oi a ue served compliment to that distin guished divine and educator, tho Rev. Brantley York, D. l)j I think I may safely say that no man in the State, has done more lor education in North Carolina, man ur. xorK. For five years, he has had charge of Ruflin Badger institute in Chat ham county, and under his care, it has been very flourishing. At the close of the winter session on the 13th December, he resigned his charge to assume tho duties of his chair in Rutherford College, where he was recently elected Professor of Loiric and Rhetoric. As the exer cises were drawing to a close, J. II. Boothe, Esq., Principal of. ates Academy, and a former student of Ruflin Badger institute, m a neat and eloquent little address, rehears ed the long labors, and distinguish ed services of the venerable Dr. in the cause of education, and in be half of the trustees, Students, and patrons of the school,! and as a me mento of their high appreciation f him as a scholar, teacher and divine, presented him with a magnificent gold medal. The Dr. Was completely surprised, and, tho' evjincing consid erable feeling, responded ;in a few well timed and affectionate remarks. It was a well deserved compliment to one of North Carolinafs most gifted and devoted sons, aiwl one of ler most distinguished ana zeaious educators. ' Sl'ECT'ATOlt. Patriotism in the Penitentiary. To the E lllor of the Era : How some men in times past iave endeared themselves to the country and the people by their de votionand their sel f-isacrifices and devotion ; but how few do you find now-a-days to practice such patri otic devotion for the public good ? Durincr the war you could muster an army of such patriots, at home, as thev said, to raise bread for the families of the soldiers in the held, when in fact they were speculating and extortioning on the families of these poor fellows in the necessaries of life. The curses of the dead men alien in battle and the impreca tions of-their widows and prphans rest on all such patriots. Another class of patriots had to remain at I ome and farm for the Insane Asvlum. to grow vegetables and other necessary supplies for the stricken of God. But the war over, with what avidity these patriots attempt to bleed impoverished tax- payers oy demanding pay uiruugu the Legislature, for all services so rendered, and how dissatisfied such patriots grow, when they fail to get both hands into Us i'uoic lreas ury? ' I Then we find some of these pa triots seeking positions over at the Penitentiary with not a cent of pay attaching to the position. e have seen them kicked out, or partially kicked out, but retained because thev happened to be on the Lxecu- tive Committee of the Democratic nnrtv. and their fellow-patriots in the Legislature, who consented to serve the State for the trifle of five dollars r day and twenty cents each wav. thought "U might nun ine party" to turn them out summari ly. We have seen them kicked out of the Executive Committee, but they manage to retain their place on the Board of the State Pen that thankless office you know, wi th ou t pay, but plenty of abuse you know, and in this instance, right- ully bestowed j. inimt. .Where will you nnu anouiersucn jatriot as the Presidedt i ot tne Board of Penitentiary j Direc tors? No pay; kicked out oi he Democratic party abused Irom one end of the State to the other, and competed to take the money required for the support of the In stitution from the hands ofa Board terl bv the Governor. But thus unpaid and humiliated, he and his co-patriots hold on to a thankless office.. I Another Director furnishes gratis his apple brandy for the benefit of the Board and tho Deputy War den ; to say nothing of the convicts who steal it and are tied up and nearly tortured to death for yield ing,to a temptation that the law says shall not be set before them. Notwithstanding this gushing patrotism, I hope the press will agitate the subject of abuses at the State Pen, and that this Legisla ture, having brought to light the abuses practiced there, will appro priately acknowledge and fittingly reward the services of these patri ots of the North Carolina Pen. - Wake. Our .exchanges are considerably agitated over our Indian trouble. We are worried to death ourselves about it, although, we never say anything. We prefer to let the grief eat into us eat into us silently. Danbury Neics. An Ohio lunatic has tlopod with his mother in-law. A yew in St. Paul' Episcopal Church iu llichmond sold for $0. The favorite sons of tho Siamese twin" wero hoys together." . . .i-. latto man fro:w to death on the Liovdton plank road near Petcrs- burg. . A New Orleans boy spelled " chica nery" and defined it to bo "a coop to raise chickens." : Tho Sigma Chi club will hold their next convention in Richmond (Va.) tho third week in October 1S74. A Western paper supgests that tha Canada journals may bo rendered bright by making a bonnro of them. Daniel Uoone's axe, rifle, nged sin ter and numerous terrapins are travel ing separately through thfr newspapers. A Columbus, Ohlo.hrldegrooiu bor rowed 1 2 of tho ofOclatinsr minister to pay for a Turkish bath atter tho ecro mony was ended. ; j ' A eontleman tho other evening: ob jected to playing cards with a lady, bo- causo, no saul, sue uau sucu a winning way about her. , The origiual manuscript of tho De claration of Independence U rapidly fading away and nearly all the signa-i tures aro entirely effaced. Josh to young man : " Don't bo dis kourased if yur mustash don't grow; it Romctimes happens j where a musUtsh duz tho best nothing else duz so well." i Tho marriage ceremony among tho bushmen of Australia is very simplo, and don't cost a vent. The man selects hi 1ml y love, knocks her down with a club, and drags her his camp. Mrs. M. learnt hor whito help the Lord's prayer and oi)o day Mr. M. over heard her in her room saying: "O IiOid, niako my hands ily fast in tho dish-water, so Mrs. M. won't scold mo. Amen." - i . Mrs. Mooro. ofi Topcka, Kansas, earns money enough herself to pupxrt a good for nothing husband and bring a niece to livo with them. Now that ho has eloped with her nioco, she will havo more to eat. " Recollect," aid tho polite proprie tor, " if you lose your pocket-book, you didn't pull it out here.-' The poor edi tor had iust bought a cigar and was leaving the store, thinking of coursotl e gentleman would " charge" it. It is declared bvjan Indiana editor, who "can't stand 'iij any longer," that tho only difference between tho entrance to a barn and a lounger around a news paper oihee is, that tho first is a barn door and tho latter a: darn' boro. j A young man in San Francisco found an old deacon ho know " bucking the tiger" in a gambling hell. " What," lie exclaimed, "deacon you hero?" " Yes," was the reply, '.'lam bound to break down this evil institution." i r-A stranger visiting Rock River Falls, Wisconsin, was inclined to think that a convention of IJoston drummers had assembled there, until ho learned that it was nothing but tho mumps that gave the inhabitants such a cheeky ap pearance. I Tho most- deadly enemy of human life is our own breath. A canary bird hung in its cago over night at the ton J a curtained bed has been found dead in the morning from tho poisoned atmos phere created by the human lungs of the sleepers below it. Tho Memnhis iivneal tells of nn Irishman who got laughed at for mak ing faces over some persimmons, and" who retortod thus: " Ye may grin, yo mutton-headed idiots, but 1 can lather thesowl out uv thq man that split tho Vinegar over thim plums." A Duluth editor says. wo stop tho . press to inform our readers that, from what we can learn, there has boon a suicide committed on Jitack Alley, un less the corpse sha 1 provo to bo the IkxIv of a drunken man. And yet they say Minnesota has no. editorial talent. e . A nhicsiiro nat-or of the 20th ult.. had among its headlines, " Christmas In , Chicago Happiness and Good-will All Over the City" whilo in the next column, was another whicn roau Carving a Darkey -HA colored man cm, all to thunder with! a cheese ku no. Draw your own inference. An Oxford press describes a Kansas wedding: " When the ceremony which made them one was periormeu, me happy couple retired to their camp, far tr.nu nf atoinnerof slan-lacksandcotleo, alter which the wagon bed was Impro vised into a bridal fcham bcr ana- au went merry as a weddirg bell." When ro met Meade on tho I'alm Sunday of 1803, near Appomattox court house, ne saio, wim iuo iriMij . common amiu crusnm Why Meade, what are you doing wuu all that gray in your bcarar " ou have had a good deal to do with 1 re torted his conqueror, with a short laugh. At a school in Greene county, Iowa, the scholars caught a skunk and put it in the school ma'am's desk, thinking she would "smell a m:ce" anu k them a holiday, bhe wa n't one oi mat kind. She took a spring clothes pin, fastened it on her hose, went on with the exercises, and 1U tho scholars enjoy the perfume- j "You're a lady I" says Mrs. Mull holland. "You're a liar!" says 'Mrs Murphy " The which?" says Mrs. I lull holland " The vaino!'" says Mrs. Mur phy. Both tho ladles livhi St. Louis and the cold weather1 so congealed their words that Itcaused this misunderstand ing and they aro moving out of tho name house as fast! a they can pack their duds. ,j Tho wide-awake editor of Iho Cath olic Ileview has discovered, in a quiet corner of the National liaptixt, "tho most outrageous" advertisement ho has ever seen. It relates V "baptismal pants," manufactured by a certain Philadelphia tailor, which aro otTered as prizes by the IIaptit editor for new subscribers to the I National ItaptM. . - . ... i : r.- fntu 1 ' "l'ants is prooi-reauiiiK ,lJL -" Says the Boston the most ludicrous Traveler: Ono of incidents posslblo ...nrri in n mixtion room in inis city, on Saturday, where a mammoth painting is on exhibition, of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel. An Irishman asked a by-stander, "Wbo is it there?" "Adam and Eve and their children, was tho reply. A lady standing by said otto voce, to her companion, "V by, l didn't know they had any children. The Boon Hill; Dispatches. A Petersburg paper got hot after tho news and wrote to jail the telegraph op erators to send it tfrj " freshet items" at the paper's expense, of course. Now the operator at Booii Hill, a little coun try depot downtha road, was right in for it. He sat down rigni ou ana ieie- ; graphed a regulaii nice letter stating about the " gloomy woods," how " low ering Old Winter looked" and that "Time with its keen and glittering gcythe" had mado many changes about . the handsome little village" sinco the "loud mouth cannon" had give place to the peaceful plough." That Peters burg editor is said to have stood outside his door in the cold and and cursed him self into a stream of perspiration. 1 . i a a i it'
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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