WEEKLY EKA. NORTH CAROLINA!
THURSDAY, JAS. O, 1873.
i ; The Xcw Cabinet.
According to custom, the present
members of President Grant's Cabi
net will all tender their resigna
tions on the 4th of March, and
enough of these ministers will re
tire, from choice, to warrant the as
sertion that the President will
thoroughly reconstruct his Cabinet.
It Is already known, that, as a
recognition of the claims of -the
South, one or more Southern states
men will occupy places In the new
Cabinet, and recognizing North
Carolina for her success in recon
struction, -and the glorious victory
of last August, whereby the Liberal
scales, were turned, nd a Republi
can triumph over the nation made
easy, our State is to be honored
with a Cabinet portfolio.
- The name of Hon. Thomas Settle
has been prominently associated
with a Gibinet position. Nothing
would more gratify the Republicans
of North Carolina than-an appoint
ment of this name and nature.
"While neither the immediate
friends of Judge Settle nor the Re
publicans of the Slate generally
would willingly see the claims of
Senator Pool ignored before the
President, the desire on the part
of the Republicans of ftorth Caro
lina to see Judge Settle promoted is
universal among them, and any
honor the President can confer on
either or both of these favorites will
be gratifying to the North Carolina
heart.
Her Natural Resources.
WATEB-POWEnS
TIaun factories, Mill and Farms.
FA11MKRS, MECHANICS,
MERCHANTS, LAWYERS,
ANI DOCTORS.
Churches, Colleges, Schools,
Ministers and Teachers.
HOTELS AXO PLACES OF M UMC
nit, Etc, Etc., Etc, Etc.
Senator l'ool.
With the expiration of this Con
gress, oh the 4th of March, Hon.
John Pool will retire from the Sen
ate of the United States.
It is well for the people of this
Union to know in what esteem the
retiring Senator is held at home,
and how the people of North Caro
lina, whom he has so ably and
faithfully represented, pass upon
the official conduct of his Senatorial
life.
The Republicans of North Caroli
na regret the termination of Mr.
Tool's- Senatorial career. All the
people of the State ought to regret
it; for the benefits he would have
aided to confer, and the advantages
.he would have wrought for the
material interests of our State with
in the coming six years in the Sen
ate of the United States, and his in
fluence in administration circles in
behalf of the political, as well as the
material, interests of the South, are
not to bo measured by the political
standard of the tugmy-partisans of
North Carolina and of the Union who
.naveuoncsomucn loretaruana ruin
the State and the South.
. . The President, in that jolicy of
liberality anil justice he has already
indicated for the Southern States
under his second term, will miss
Mr. Pool in the Senate, and those
great schemes of education and in
ternal improvement Mr. Pool had
in contemplation, and partially ac
complished, for his State and sec
tion, will miss him ; and whatever
of good the people of North Caroli
ng may fail to reap in this regard,
they have the partisans of the pres
ent Legislature to thank; but neither
Mr. Pool nor the Republican party
to blame.
The Republicans of North Caro
lina are satisfied with John Pool.
They thank him for his. high ser
vice to the Slate, and the people of
the Union have cause to thank
hiiri ; for he has done more than
any other man to vindicate the Ku
Klux Legislation of Congress and
the action of the President there
under. Without such vindication
the re-election of Grant would have
Itcen impossible, and without such
re-election there would have re
mained no stable government, no
I-uee, no security, and no pros perity
anywhere in the United States. -Therefore,
without being Invidi
ous to any Senator or other ofaeial
nieiiiber of the Government, and
certainly not iartial to Mr. Pool
over the scores of other prominent,
able and worthy Republicans of
North Carolina, the Era has to say,
that, the services of Senator Pool
have been of the very highest order
of public merit, and that his retire
mi !( ffm S- Lute of the United
S'.j-.: is . pi. l4. ...lamity, alike se
rious to the State and the country.
That the utterances above are the
utterances of the Republican party
ofjNorth Carolina, a resolution of
the Republican Senators and Rep
resentatives of the Legislature is
hre appended, which, taken in
connection with the unanimity and
persistency with which they stood
hi Mr. Pool in the late Senatorial
contest, is conclusive that the Re
publicans of North Carolina regard
Senator Pool as a good and faithful
statesman :
Sexatk Chamber,
t MaleigK N, G, Dtn. 13, 1872.
At a Republican caucus 1- M In the
Senate Chamber, December 13, 1S72. It
wiui resolTod by-the lie publican mem
ber of the General Assembly of North
Carolina, ia joint caucus assembled,
that, for hi many services to the Re
publican party in thta State and in the
Union, for bU labor in behalf of equal
right, ana for Jus efforts, in the Sena
torial contest, which mainly brought
about the defeat of the Democratic nom
inee, lion. John Pool is entitled to the
thanks of the nation, and especially to
the thanks of the Republicans of North
Carolina.
It. was further resolved.
or this resolution bo
lion. John Pool.
! RICHARD C. BADGER, Chm'n.
E. R. Dudlxt, Acting Secretary.
Note. In tho following brief sketch,
and hasty publication of the?e Counties,
much of vital public and privato inter
est is, of course, omitted. Any person
therein having a Farm, Factory, Mill,
School or other property or profession,
and desiring to have special and fuller
mention made in these columns, will
pleaso communicate tho facts, figures or
data, that tho most may bo said of tho
resources, industries, learning, profes
slons and property of North Carolina
that caiijbo aid, as it is tho de-sire and
thQ determination of tho Era to thus
advertise North Carolina to the world,
and stimulate ami encourage our people
to building up and developing this, the
greatest, in natural resources, climate
and soil, of all tho great sister-hood of
States.
ample water-power, as shown by
the fact that sofiSe twenty odd tjrist
mills are already in operation there,
to supply the wants of a population
of 5,909 souls. Many of these will
one day give way to the larger and
more pretentions water-wheels of
great manufacturing establishments
to keep pace with tho iron horse
which will goj roaring through
these mountain gorges.
The mineral Ayealth of Yancey is
great; gold is fbund near Egypt;
iron on Caney ajad South Toe Riv
ers : iron Ore. dbberas and black
lead on the South Toe ; isinglass on
the lands of J. p. Rays, Esq., on
Boiling Creek ; 'copper ore on the
farm of Mr.' WmJ Johnston, on
fJreen Mountain; silver ore on the
lands of R. R. Johnston, Esq., near
Eirynt : isincrlasa mine on Mr. Bal
lard's farm on the South Toe River;
iron and coppef near Burnsvilla,
(the county seat) and copper in
other mines on the South Toe
River. When these are all opened,
and the facilities: of transportation
afforded thatare coming, Yancey
county will be among one of the
wealthiest of the West that great
empire of wealth! power and inex
haustible resources awaiting the
coming North Carolinian of vim
and enterprise. J
The present manufacturing enter
prise of Yancey is found in the es
tablishments of! Messrs. Jeremiah
The Western North.
Railroad.
Carolina
ALEXANDER.
Paid taxes in 1372 as follows :
Public Tax, 1,01034
Penitentiary. 381 42
Asylum, 476 77
iieta tiers, o
$1,S92 23
The county seat is Taylorsville,
and has five resident lawyers t
Messrs. A. M. Boyle, T. J. Dula, J.
B. Howell, R. Z. Linney and J. A.
Stevens.
Religion and education have not
been neglected. The Alexandrians
manifest their appreciation of the
religious anxl moral influences by
supporting twenty-three churches
and eighteen resident ministers of
. -
the Gospel.
The health of Alexander may be
estimated by the fact that only five
physicians find occupation in the
county, and one of these, Dr. J. 31.
Carson, gets his fees out of the State
as a member of the House of Rep
resenta lives.
There is but one hotel and seven
mercantile establishments, but mills
and manufacturing seem to engross
the attention and engage the ener
gies of this; sturdy people to agreat-
erextent, proportionately, than any
hitherto noted; there being twenty
seven corn, wheat and saw-mills,
and seventeen manufacturing es
tablishmcnts and tanneries, so that
in mechanical industries Alexan
der is ahead of many of her sisters ;
and she is practically and profita'
bly availing herself of the advan
tages and facilities of her splendid
water power. We find one cotton
factory ; four boot and shoo facto
ries; two saddlery and harness
making establishments; ono car
nageana uuggy shop; one wagon
maker and smith ; five tanneries;
one mill-wright and a piano manu
facturer.
There are no mines of note, but
we find four mineral springs, which
are becoming and soon to be
come places of popular Summer re
sort.
The staples are corn, wheat, rye,
oats, grasses and live-stock.
Tho farming interests and indus
tries of the county are in keeping
with the manufacturing, and Alex
anuer possesses me resources lor a
great and prosperous people, and
her sons have the energy and enter
prise to develop them. The county
is hilly, and in places mountainous,
indicating the presence of mineral
wealth undeveloped.
Alexander is bounded as follows;
North by Wilkes, South by Ca
tawba, East by Iredell, and West
by Caldwell, and possesses a fine and
salubrious climate, inviting soil,
and a good, sturdy, intelligent
hard-working honest popuiation.
Boon and Son blacksmiths and
wagon makers; f Robert MclnturfF,
saddles and harness ; John Robert
son, tannery: J. G. Parrott, car
penter and cabinet maker; R.
Ramsay, carpenter and cabinent
maker ; S. Williams, tannery; and
boot and shoes by Messrs. Wm.
Briggs and Son; and Jas. E. Mc
Canles 5c Co,
Religion and education arc not
neglected in Yancey, there being
ten Churches and twenty-six resi
dent ministers. I A -'good academic
school is kept in Burnsville by Mr.
M. Lewis, besides other good pri
mary schools in the county.
There are, in; Yancey, fourteen
mercantile establishments, seven
physicians and four lawyers, Messrs.
Jas. M. Cadger, Wm. M. Moore, Jos.
L. Ray and R. P. Wilson, all resi
dent ia Burnsville. Three hotels
and a boarding house constitute the
places of public ' entertainment in
Burnsville. i ,
Yancey paid
lows :
Public Tax,
Penitentiary,
Asylums,
Retailers,
Total,
taxes in 187:
fol-
SlSl 99
18o 99
202 43
53 44
?ora 90
rorniATiox.
White 5,G01 ; colored SOS.
YADKIX.
The population of Yadkin county
in lbrfU was wiiue i,iJ: colored
1,414; total 10,097. '
Paid taxes in 1872 as follows :-
Public Tax. .$1,445 12
Penitentiary, " - 55G 90
Asvlum." COG 13
Total, $2,G93 15
Bounded,. North by Surry, South
by Iredell, East by Forsythe, and
West bv Wilkes. i
County seat is Yadkinville.
Yadkin supports seventeen
churches and thirteen resident min
isters. Her interest in education is
manifested in three good academic
schools. The law: school of Chief
Justice Pearson is located in Yad-
that a copy
furnished to the
YANCEY.
Yancey county Is bounded on
the North by Mitchell county and
Tennessee line, South by Buncombe
and McDowell, East by McDowell
and Mitchell, and West by Madi
son county. Situated in the very
heart of the mountains of our State,
and tho Black Mountains running
through the centre of the county,
the climate is enchanting in Sum
mer, and pleasant and dry in Win
ter. The soil is productive, yield
ing wheat, corn and the fruits in
profusion. Medicinal herbs are
founds In great variety, and live
stock, fowls, eggs, milk and butter
are here in super-abundance.
Yancey is rich in natural re
sources, which await the facilities
of railroads for development. Su
perior timber grows in the virgin
forest, and one of these days; wi 11 find
a remunerative market in the Mid
dle and Northern States and in
Europe.
The county is well watered, the
Too River and tributaries, affording
kin, at Richmond Hill.
Manufacturing is confined to three
tobacco factories, fine tobacco being
grown in this county.
There are thirteen merchants, six
lawyers and thirteen physicians
resident in Yadkin. -Two hotels,
one at Jonesville and the other at
Yadkinville, afford the public en
tertainment of that county.
Ho.bson's Iron works and Woot-
cn's Iron works at Yadkinville, are
among the institutions of thecoun
ty. Other mines and great mineral
wealth are being foujid iu Yadkin.
Twelve coru and wheat rnilb fur
nish the "staff of life' to the Yad-
kinitcs ; ,and seven saw rriills make
their lumber.
The surface of Yadkin is moder
ately uneven, lies on the South and
West of the Yadkin river, a pleas
ant country, well watered and pro
ductive. Farming is among the
leading industries, and the people
are a very hard working, earnest
intelligent people.
The chief staples are wheat, corn,
tobacco, rye, oats, medicinal herbs,
and fruits in great variety.
The health f this county is said
to be superior to that of almost any
other section Of our State; Chief
Justice Pearson having selected it
for his residence some years ago on
account of its superior healthfulness,
This county, when.V developed.
will form an important part of that
great Western Empire in the future
or isorth Carolina.
This is an institution of which
the people of North Carolina are
amply tired, heartily sick, and suf
ficiently amused with. '
Designed, ostensibly, for the ben
efit of the people, and regarded by
Western North Carolina with favor,
and looked to with 'great hope, it
has been the victim of - party, poli
tics, and in strangling it, the politi
cians have well-nigh throttled the
State. . ? .; '
This Ro:T was been long enough
underway to have long ago passed
beyond confines of the State,
and the money the p2opIe have
voted it should long ago have sent
it on down to the valley of the
Mississippi, making it that great
highway of commerce, and artery
of trade the ieopIe of Western
North Carolina have heard.so much
about. -l
The delay in completing the
Western North Carolina Railroad
has damaged Western North Caro
lina fifty millions of dollars, and
every year's delay now is more to
that section of the State than the
entire cost of the work.
The Ei a has been at pains to as
certain somewhat the conditionpf
UJU AVUiiu, twin lilt: cuuua uj no n-
fairs, and the conclusion arrived at
is, that, the Western North Caro
lina Railroad is a nearly defunct
institution ; that, its affairs are hope
lessly entangled, the Company
bankrupt,- the stock worth nothing,
and the condition of the road, ma
terially, hopelessly beyond any
power or resources of its own.
The interest of the State of North
Carolina, as an investment, is gone,
and the only hope of recompense-
lies in the early completion of the
Road by other hands, and the con
sequent increase of the values of
proxerty in tho section through
which the Western North Carolina
Railroad was designed to pass.
State subscriptions to Railroads
are always unprofitable, as invest
ments, but the return to the State
in taxes on the increased valuation
oT lands, and the public accommo
dation and prosperity incidental io
Railroads, always, and speedily,
more than compensate the State for
Irer original investment. .
So itlwill be of this line, if it ever
goes through the mountains of Wes
tern North Carolina and taps the
Tennessee system of Roads, and
any obstacle the State may now, in
the effort to save herself, throw in
the way of the completion of this
Road will be a public misfortune to
all the people who are tax-payers of
North Carolina.
I no rrfiniicnc horn iocu vi r l o rr
that, the State's interest in her for
mcr appropriations and in the
property of the company has been
sacrificed in the series of delays,
financial mishaps, and the general
mismanagement of the Road, and,
that, tho best and only thing the
State can now 'do, is to allow the
property to pass into hands that can
and will complete it.
The people of Western North
caronna want, and must nave a
Railroad. To them it is a matter of
little consequence who builds, and
their restlessness and dissatisfaction
at dela-s i but natural : and their
impatience has no bounds at appa
rently unnecessary and certainly
ruinously delays, to them, and,
probably, as fatal to the future of the
Road itself.
Governor Caldwell, in his action
in the matter of the late injunction'
gratified at its evidences of pros
perity. . . .
; The relations of the two papers
have been very pleasant, and tleir
conductors, on the very best terms,
personally, and in pausing to greet
the Journal in its new dress, the
Era desires to clasp hands jn the
material interests of the people of
North Carolina, and together ex
plore a field wherein political differ
ences cannot obtain. '
The Journal takes theEra to task
for omitting mention of its daily
publication in 1851. 7he editor of
the Era is well posted on the his-
.toryofthe Journal And the omis
sion was neither through ignor
ance, nor intentional. The article
on the press of the State, in the Era
the other day, ras prepared from
a list made in tho early part of
1S51, before the Journal issued dai
ly ; and up to September 1351, when
the Journal began daily, the EaU
eigh Register in the hands of Sea
ton Gales, was the only paper which
had been published daily in the
State. ?Ir. Gales began the Register
daily some time in 1850.
Judge
Settle Tlic
, Court.
Supreme
CORRESPONDENCE.
Eettcr from Charlotte.
More About the State Pen.
It is by no means an agreeable
occupation to be compelled from a
sense of duty to the public to be
continually lambasting a portion of
ones fellow-citizens, and especially
disagreeable is it to have to criticize
the conduct of public officials when
the inclinations and desires of all
crrrt1 pitircna ci r f r cnnr.rrf. nnl sue.
tain rather than kick and cry clown
the servants of the public.
But as regards matters at the
Penitentiary no other alternative is
left this paper.
Yv'Iicn the Ku Klux of North
Carolina assembled in Raleigh in
1370 in control of the State Legisla
ture, an attack long premeditated,
was bcgi.'; on all the decency and
Tho Superintendent of Public
' Instruction.
Governor Caldwell tendered, the
position of Superintendent of Public
Instruction to Rev. Charles Phillips,
of Davidson College, confessedly the
best man in the State for theDosi-
i - k .
tion, and it must be deplored that
the Legislature in its partisan mad
ness and the i meanness .it has dis
played in refereuce to ,the salaries
of Republican officials has cut down
the salary of this important office so
low that a gentleman ;of the learning
and talents of Dr. Phillips must de
cline the position on account of in-
against the sale decreed by the Fed
eral Court at Asheville, was moved,
solely, by an honest desire to pro
tect the people and the State whose
interests he is called upon to preside
over. His well known honesty and
patriotism is ample to sustain his
action before the people of North
Carolina, and if he has committed
any mistake in this matter, the
people of Western Nortli Carolina
will not view his action as a thrust
at the interests of their section, for
he is too well known, and too fully
Identified with the internal im
provements of Western Carolina,
lor any man to question, ror one
moment, his action in the matter.
But addressing itself to the great
interests of our isolated mountain
and trans-montane people, with the
general good of the whole State in
view, the Era can but regret that
any delay should have occurred in
the transfer of the Western North
Carolina Railroad to the hands of
those whose interest now is to
speedily complete it, and it trusts
that every obstacle to such transfer
will be removed before it is too
late; for if the matter is much
longer delayed, it will be to the
interest of those having the matter
in hand to build a connection with
the Tennessee system of Railroads
from Danville, Virginia; and then
the last hope of Western North
Carolina for a Railroad is gone, for
years, perhaps a half-century; cer
tainly indefinitely.
The Wilmington Journal.
This old landmark of North Car
olina journalism has been greatly
respectability of North Carolina;
governments were to be overturned
by revolution ; partisan legislation
was to be the rule, and a war of po
litical destruction and ostracism wras
to be waged against the Republican
party, and no official or placeman
of that faith was to be retained or
his claims at all considered.
The Governor was impeached for
attempting to put down the Ku
Klux, by theKu Klux" themselves.
Men sat as managers of that im
peachment trial who had taken the
identical oaths reproduced in that
Court ; and Senators were compelled
to vote "guilty" who felt in their
very souls they were obeying the
behests of the Ku Klux rather than
the commands of Justice.
Every charitable and reformatory
institution of the State was invaded
by politics, and the outrage perpe
trated on the people of the State of
unlawfully putting a set of men in
charge of the Penitentiary who have
proven a disgrace to the State,
themselves and even their KuKlux
co-partners who put them in place.
For two years the convicts placed
in the penitentiary for reformation
and not for torture have been starv
ed, tortured and punished .with all
the inhumanity of the savage ages.
Tho President of the Board of Di
rectors purchasing a coni-mill
shortly after his instalment, the
convicts have eaten no flour bread
for two years, when all the medical
authority of tho world is against a
steady diet of corn bread.
Men and women have been put
to the rack in the shape of a gagging
post until restoratives were neces
sary to bring them back to life.
The shower-bath has been insti
tuted as a means of diversion for
the officials and hangers-on of the
State Pen, and the, amusement of
"showering" is repeated as often and
continued as long as tho lovers of
such sport may see fife to repeat and
keep it up.
The Deputy Warden, appointed
and retained because of his relation
ship to the President of the Board
and some of the other officers.
is represented to be a perfect "fiend
from hell." -
Full supplies of provisions have
at all times been paid for by the
State, but for days, weeks . and
months, less than half rations, and
sometimes no rations, are said and
proven pot to have been eaten, or
even carried inside of the enclosure.
Convicts on their release never
find any of the good clothing ; they
happened to wear to prison ; ; and
all turned out are sent away in a
patched, half ragged condition;:
And to cap the climax a species
of concubinage is said to have been
carried on in the State pen shock
ing even to the morals of a hell
hole where "he who enters leaves
hope behind."
For down-right rascality, fiend
ish inhumanity, and systematic
Cruelty,' torture and death, the
management of the Penitentiary of
North Carolina for the past two
years stands without a parallel in
the history of prisons in the United
States; and convicts though they
be, the wails and lamentations of
the starving, the tortured l and
dying, ascend to Heaven only to
The Jannary term of the Supreme
Court of North Carolina began the
6th, with a full bench, Hon. Thom
as Settle having been 4 re-appointed
by Governor Caldwell to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation
of Judge Dick.
' The reappointment of J udge
Settle to the Supreme Bench . has
given universal satisfaction in the
State, and i3 a subject for congratu
lation not only to the immediate
friends of the Judge, but to the Bar
and people of the State, asi well.
There is perhaps no more person
ally popular gentleman in the State,
and no.more gallant and deserving
son of North Carolina than Thomas
Settle.
During his temporary retire
ment from the Bench, Judge Settle
performed distinguished public ser
vice to the country abroad, and in
the late campaigns, State and Na
tional, his service to the country
was as marked, distinguished and
meritorious as any hitherto per
formed by himself or any other pa
triotic son of the "old North State."
Judge Settle will carry none of
the partisan with him on the Bench.
His conduct as a Judge will be
marked by that freedom from parti
san bias and political bearing which
has distinguished the Bench of
North Carolina for uprightness and
fairness.
Much has been said by the oppo
sition against the Judiciary of North
Carolina for the past four years ab
solutely discreditable to journalism,
and the repeated attacks of the or
gan, of the Conservative party on
the Supremo Bench of the State has
been without cause, or any sort of
justification whatever, and it is to
be hoped that these baseless attacks
will never be renewed by a press
which professes to have regard for
the peace, protection, law and or
der of the community.
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The conduct of the State and
National governments require our
constant and careful attention, and
the safety and success of these lie
in the perfect and permanent or
ganization of the Republican party.
Put none but Republicans on guard.
To the Editor of the Era .
As your old correspondent from
this place, "J. S., Jr.,", seems to
have laid aside his pen for good, I
propose to write you a few lines
from the Homet's Nest" of Con
servatism. !
And first, when yoa come to tell
about Meckburg county in your ar
ticles on the "Jlesources of North
Carolina" you must not forget to
say, that Charlotte is the second
City (in point of business) in tho
State. , Of course some of your
Raleigh readers will demur to this
statement and claim that the "City
of Oaks" is next to Wilmington.
So it is in population and territory,
but when you come down to busi
ness Charlotte is far ahead of
Raleigh. For the proof of this you
have but to examine the Railroad
Books at our : freight Depots. And
then our city is growing so rapidly.
Brick stores I and warehouses are
springing up on all of the principal
streets in short the signs of pros
perity are so evident that "ho who
runs may read." I
Isn't it strange that the country
will persist in prospering under
Radical rule? According to Demo
ocratic orators we ought to have
been at "demnition smash" long
ago, but how true the contrary is?i
The common people at last are be
ginning to get the scales knocked
from their eyes, and are asking
themselves, whether, after all, Rad
icalism is such a horrible thing as
it is represented to be?
Well, we have got through the
holidays the cold, mud, slush, ice
and snow did their worst, but wo
still survive, j Whiskey in-id "high
carnival" hereof course the nights
were made hideous and all that sort
of thing, but we came out of it with
only two or three little fist fights.
On last Tuesday evening we. had
a first class accident here the boiler
of the engine at the "Spoke and Axe
Handle Factory " exploded, scald
ing six or seven persons, four of
whom have since died.
The old Mansion House Hotel has
been undergoing repairs, refitting
&c., even its name is not left us, for
henceforth, it will be knoxvh as the
"Central Hotel" and all the re
commendations it will need to your
Raleigh readers is to say that Major
Blair, formerly of the old "Yar
borough House, is to have 'charge.
The United States troops stationed
here have been behaving very bad
ly of late. The other night a party
of five or six of them, all drunk of
course, made a regular raid 0:1 four
or five different colored persons ,
houses', broke in the doors and win
dows, beat the men, frightened the
women and so-forth. It is! due to
the officers to say that they uso ev
ery exertion to prevent these out
rages, but still they goon. The
best way is for the colored I men to
arm themselves, and when drunken
soldiers come raiding around their
houses, shoot them down like dogs
this would soon stop it.
it is said our city is to be "gerry
mandered." In other words in the
election for city officers two of the
four Wards I persistently refuse to
vote in "accord" with the Demo
cratic partyand the boundaries of
these rebellious Wards are to be
changed, so they will elect Con
servative aldermen. This is what
Vance wTould call a "scurvy trick"
and our friends in the Leirislature
must look out and not let the thing
go through: Speaking of Vance
puts me in mind that it is whispered
here, now remember only whispered,
and you mustn't speak it aloud in
Raleigh, that Vance has a sort of a
half-formed intention of becoming
a "carpet-bagger." What! . Who!
Now don't get excited, 1 only mean
that he has a sort of half-formed in
tention of leaving this "State and
seeding ms lortune in Georgia or
Texas where' Republican 1 majori
ties ana independent Democrats do
not exist to vex tho soul of the
faithful. Apropos to this I might
say that the deleat ot Vance is look
ed upon by the Republicans here
as a rebuke to that class of Demo
crats iwho nave denounced every
one wTho did not agree with them
politically, as a thief in other
words it is looked upon as a triumph
ot gentility over blackguardism.
The "uncompromising Union ed
itor" of the Southern Home has
been down in South Carolina, and
he comes back holding up his hands
in holy horror at what he saw down
there but while he was describing
the present state of things in South
Carolina, he ought to have told how
before the war, when the chivalry
naci everything their own way,
white men were pened up by the
hundreds tor weeks before the elec
tion, fed and clothed, and when the
day of the election come were led
out like so many mules and voted.
Talk about the ignorant nigger after
that !
And speaking of elections reminds
me that the "reform party" is said
to have conducted the Presidential
election in Union county (just be
low us here) in the most shameful
ttT
manner, w arrants nave oecn, or
are to be issued, and the ! matter
will be investigated before a United
States Commissioner. I learn also
that the "Charlotte election cases"
will be pushed for trial1 in April
next atStatesyille. The "moderate
editor" of the Democrat haying de
nounced the whole thing as a piece
of persecution the aggrieved parties
must,! to vindicate themselves if
nothing more, o to a jury with their
case. :
The Charlotte Observer under its
new management is the best daily
we have had here for a long time.
Long may it wave says
. ! "Once ix a While.
Charlotte, Jan. 4, 1873. '
Answer to Militia Col. Ituss on
the Potato Transaction. '
To the Editor of th Era:
Sir. When I wan informed that
you had called on Militia Col. lm
to tell what he knew ab:iv tho jk
tato transaction, I expoou.l v0n
would hear from him, and v'-?iot
astonished when, instead of making
a straight-forward,-truthful : ti
mcnt, lie perpetrated a pa!pnM0
falsehood, die said I applied to
him to buy some "Irish potatoes'
from him, and that 1 told him that
I did not want them at anv prion
This statement Militia Col. Jtn
knows to 'bo false; Unfortunately
for him, there were two or threo
persons present who heard n en
quire the price of his potato;? ;m,j
heard him savowo, dollar per ! !,.
el. I offered to take tventv-t;
bushels at 75 cents, he refused ut
take it, and .remarked that he l:;ul
been selling to one of the other
State Institutions at one dolhr
When I get this I Militia Coloiu'i
before tho Committee on oath, I
will make him corroborate this
stateme-nt if the truth can be cross,
questioned out of him. He sh-rll
t 11 the truth if I havo to employ
lion. Bat. Moore to cross-exam iiU
him. It is well known that ?4r
Moore will make him tell tho truth
if he has to insert a cork-screw down
his throat and twist it out. li(
says"! offered the potatoes to him
at low figures," but for the purj.ssc
of creating a false impression, foils
to state what those figures wero.
Ho says, "I saw Mr. ?i Murray iij
company with Mr. "Boylam'l. 1
again applied to syll him my "tur
nips;" he said he did not want thciu
at all. I then reminded him of the
pot a toe transaction :" and 1 then,
reminded t.he Colonel in the pics
ence of Mr. Boylan that . he h
manded one dollar per bushel for
his potatoes, and refused to take,
less, atul that I afterwards bought I
them- at 73 cents' from -another
party. This he did not deny, hut
became considerably In 11a ted mnl
remarked, "You tjickle me and in
tickle you,')' and viimo.sed.
.The cause of thU misstatement of
facts by tluji Colonel is owing to my
not "tickling" him to the tur.r if
25 cents extra er jbushol for hUpo
tatoes. J , j 'j
Respect fullyj !
! -Stewahd . Muuuav.
I21UCATIOXAIi
Colored, Schools in Duplin.
To the Editor of The Era :
Last Fall : I ' cjune down from i
Goldsboro,! got my certificate from 'i
the County Examiner,1 and opem-d I
a school in this 'county, Se; f. i'!, i
1S72, with jtwentyj-five'pupils r the
colored race. " Asj this was among j
the first colored public schools ever j
held in th county, most of the
children only knew their alphabet,
a few onlr being able to iu
simple words. j
The children have all improved i
very muclj, and learn quite as i-.'A
as any I ever saw. As a reward fur
the merit they hald displayed, iuu
to encourage them to pen-severe Mill
harder 111
mined on
mas tree,
tneir studies. 1 iur-
ivingthe school a ("In isl
and have an exhibition'
1 I J k ft J -v 1 1 rt 1 a
on me 21m 01 jjeeomner. l iieev
hition parsed off quite pleasantly,
tho pupils taking,; thejr parts with
great credft. 1 am very sorry tl:;it
all the parents we;re not satisfied nt"
the distribution of prizes from the
Christmas tree, for 1 "endeavored to
reward each andj every one w ith
strict impartiality.
During the day, Major W., Turner,
who teaeihes a colored school i.t
Miller's School House, about four
miles froip Zion's Chapelj brought
evor hisscjhool to spell against mine.
The content was very spirited :nnt
pleasantjand 1 rather think thr.t I
got the best of Mr Turner.
On Christmas day 1 went over :
the school house of Mr. Turner ;o
witness his exhibition and Chri-t-mas
tree. lie had a good exhibition
and a magnificent tree; for his pupils
as a reward for their dilige.no in
study. I !
Before I closer! my (school on Hit
24th for vacation to Bee. 30lh, Vr.
Lewis Chambers i delivered before
the school - and parents and friends
of the children, a very fine add rc
on the subject of-education.
My school is again in operatu M,
and getting on very hopefully, i-
deed. . J. u. Cakuoi.l.
Turner's School in Dupli
To the Editor of the Era : " '
On the 5th day of ' February iVt
I. opened 'a colored school in tin-
county of Duplin,, six miles froiJi
Kenansville, in what j is known m
Miller's School House. As ihra
had hitherto been no Schools of
count in Duplin for the eoli.'.tu..
people, theso children started Li
the alphabet. !'
1 opened my school-exhibition
7 o'clock Christmas nijrht.
First piece spoken by Ma-tcr
David Mclver: 2nd Miss Minriw
Iver: 3rd Miss Sally Miller; 4th
Pearson's I2s-
Ileirs of JLazarus
tate; of Xorth Carolina, in In
dianaClaims, i
The Voting: Population
Of the Southern States by tho Census
Report of 1872:
enlarged and improved. While the ? descend again in a curse-upon the
Journal is the antipodies, politically,
of the Era, it is nevertheless the
only paper of its party that pars
proper attention to the material and
commercial interests of the neonlp
civilized people of a State who tol
erate and permit such outrage ; and
the disgrace of this management to
the people will be a stain and a re
proach to North Carolina until bis-
adequate pay.
of North Carolna, and for that, if tory shall be read no more, and
nothing else, the Era would feel I tradition forgotten.
STATES. WhiM. Col'ed. Total.
Alabama, 105,474 97,823 203,297
Florida, 21,064 18,842 39,906
Georgia, 129,665 107,962 237,627
Arkansas, 77,195 26,789 103,984
Kentucky, 245,133 44,321 289,454
South Carolina, 62,547 85,475 148,022
North Carolina, 139,535 78,019 217,554
Tennessee, 199,056 64,131 263,187
Louisiana, 87,066 86,913 173,979
Mississippi, 84,784 83,926 174,710
Texas, 132,390 51,575 183,965
Virginia,. 161,500 107,691 269,191
Missouri, 3S4.314 23,882 408,196
' I,29,723j883,349j2,713,072 ,
To the Editor of TheEra: :
We, the undersigned, being heirs
of Lazarus Pearson's estate, have
noticed in the Era that the Com
missioners on Southern Claims have
allowed said estate $1,482. By cal
culating the interest on the whole
claim fnpm March, 18Go, to the pres
ent time, we find it to be about
$1,482. Through your paper, we,
therefore, desire to ask the above
named Board of Commissioners
whether this $1,482 is a part of the
principal or i is it tne interest on the
whole claim? If it is the latter, am
i ' 1 W. L. Peaicsox.
Ehzabethtown, Ind., Dec. 31, 1872.
Master Johnston Miller; 5th 31a.-t(r
Bryant Miller: Cth Miss Barbara
Ann Chambers; 7th Miss Hattio
Miller; 8th Master Frank Mclver;
9th Master Brvan Mclver: JOtli
Miss Bettie Mclver : 11th blaster
Itoberts Chambers : 12th Miss Ma
ria Mclver; 13th Miss Kizzie Ih-r-
non : 14th Miss Sarah Mclver: loui
fourteen small children : 10th Mi-f
Bettie Ilirrion ; 17th Master LUj-
erly Chanjibera ; and the la.it ph.ve
oy itev. !J. u. Carroll, . l'nnei;ii
of another colored school in Uu
plin. I . :
Ihcre were 1Q. pupils present ;
and the Christmas Tree was worth
about twenty dollars, which viw
stripped affter the exhibition u:n
over. liev. J. C. Carroll caller on
the names, and Mr. Henrv Mclver,
Jr., delivered the presents to the
children.
Messrs. Mcl vers and Chamber?
then addressed, the school, after
which the teacher dismissed th
crowd, hoping and trusting that
everybody was satisfied jit the
Krogress of the sehool, and what
ad taken place. 1
Major W. Turner.
Our Jails.
Men are kinder and more thoughts
to their beasts than thpy are of the rr!S'
oners confijned in our little county jaiis.
Did it evfr strike you that they wero
cold iu there, without lire of any orU
this weather. Wc know of no jail that
has a heating itparatus. One blankt't
i about all the protection, t'oi. ('arrow
got a mail out of jail in thi.s city the
oilier day j and alt one part of his hr
was nigh frozen ott. Think about V
it
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