'
Tberv wm In tt Citj one SosU, lnfiunoni
f.r bia Insolence ad villainy, who tbooxht th
perfection of Liberty m licrntloarae of
Speech. Plctarch.
THURSDAY, APRIL, 3, 1873.
Note Crowded Oat.
Letters from Lockville and Pitts
lx)ro in Chatham, a communication
of some colored men from Lumber
ton In Robeson, touching the color
ed correspondent1? lately cultivating
the Democratic papers in Raleigh
and Wilmington, and other matter
prepared for this issue of the Era
.are crowded out, but will appear
next week.
Personal and Political.
A Press Convention is called at
Goldsboro for 14th May.
Charles Mallett, of Wilmington,
fell In a fit on Thursday of last week.
IL W. Conner, of Mecklenburg;
lately died suddenly in Baltimore,
Duffy of the Greensboro Patriot
has been "Joiner" New Orleans for
his paper.
Judge Clark is openly charged in
the DaDers with drunkenness on
MM
the Bench.
Miss Laura Alexander of this
State Is winning fame in the Dra
matic world.
Lewis a colored Pilot was drown
ed at Beaufort last week, by the up
setting of a boat.
Municipal elections for the towns
and cities of the State occur first
Monday in May.
J. J. Shuford. of Catawba, after
a long and honorable life is dead at
the age of eighty.
Hickman and Broughton, the
Good Templar invaders were in
Wilmington Friday last.
Manuel Cline, near Newton, is
drinking 130 gallons of whiskey per
week, says the Piedmont Press.
Daniel F. Savage of Wilmington,
Engineer on the W. A W. R. R.,
died suddenly in that citv last week
. is. I'eierson, a clever young
Printer of this State died in Abbe
' viile.S. C, 22d March, of spinal
meningitis. :
The Wilmington Journal having
been indicted for printing Judge
Bond "a scoundrel" is devoting
much abuse to that official.
Geo. W. Booker, of Rockingham,
charged with killing Hampton Jef
fries last October has been released.
Grand Jury failed of a true bill.
The public will be glad to learn
that E. R. Stanly, Esq., the efficient
president, has so far recovered his
health as to resume the manage
ment of the A. & N. C. R. R.
ine managing Editor, Jordan
Stone, of the Raleigh JTetcs, having
comiuded to take a trip South,
some sensation ist started a duel be
tween himself and Hon. Josiah
lurnerof the St-nliml. The fooler
fooled. j
-any jniormation of the where-
abouts of Alexander Forsy the, from
Scotland, who it is supposed settled
euner in North or South Carolina
. about forty years ago, will be gladly
received by his son, John Forsythe,
lireensDoro, a. C.
mi
J. no ureensboro Patriot (Demo
cratic) is out in support of Grant
ior a mini term. The Democrats
have ik-siu tl mid done many im
poible and foolish things, and they
. A .
muj utsire io run urant for a third
term the Republicans will not.
j.ne ec jsorth Slate savg the
Democrats under the lead of Hen
dricks of Indiana are going to at
tempt to galvanize into life under
some new political name and party
organization entirely distinct from
the Democratic-Conservative party.
instead or complimenting the
South by inviting General Gordon
to preside over the Senate, tlie
Democratic papers manifest a spirit
or the lowliest meanness in claim
ing that the Vice-President simply
honored the Senate by inviting Sen
ator Gordon to the chair.
The list of Special Claims-Commissioners
employed to take testi
mony in the Southern States, has
been revised, and the list for North
Carolina now stands : John Minor,
of Fayetteville; Joseph Dixon, of
Hookerton, Elmore W. Woods, of
Chapel Hill; K. R. Pendleton, of
Aoodville; W. B. Glenn, of Red
Plains ; J. N. Snelson, of Asheville;
Thos. J. Dula, of Wilkesboro;
Samuel W. Davidson, of Murphy;
Geo. M. McDowell, of Marshal, and
C. C. Wither?, of Dallas.
IL C. Radger, Esq.
This gentleman, a Representative
from Wake county at the last Bit
ting of the General Assembly, has
received from the President the ap
pointment of United States District
Attorney for the Eastern District of
North Carolina, and consequently
a vacancy occurs in the County rep
resentation in the House from
Wake.
It will be hard to fill the place of
Mr. Badger. He made an, able and
a working member, and was recog
nized as the legal leader of the
House on the Republican side, be
ing an able lawyer, one of the ablest
of hl3 age In the State.
The speech of Mr. Badger on the
removal of the disabilities of Gov
ernor Holden is remembered by all
who heard it as the ablest speech of
the General Assembly, and as a
lecal anrument unsurpassed and
O r
unanswerable. As soon as room
can be made In the Era this great
speech will be given .to the public;
and Republicans throughout the
State will do well to preserve it,
for it is a most admirable campaign
document for 1874. The enlarge
ment of the Era will give the op
portunity for the publication of this
speech, and it shall be given to the
rrr.florsof the Era in the issue for
Thursday, 17th April.
The Era.
Now is the time for the friends of
the Era and the Republican party
to bestir themselves in behalf of the
paper.
Advices from New York and
Forestville say that the material
and paper ordered for the enlarge
ment of the Era has been shipped
and will arrive in time for the issue
of April 10th to appear enlarged.
Every subscriber to the -Era could
easily procure another, and if all
Into whose hands the paper falls
would send one subscriber each, the
Era would have a circulation of
sixteen thousand in the State.
Already It has the largest circula
tion of any political paper in North
Carolina, and is more strictly on a
cash basis than any publication ever
attempted in the State. With the
exception of a half dozen papers
mailed to friends and relatives of
employes in the office, and some
fifty exchanges, not a single paper
leaves the office unpaid for in advance.
No other paper in the State can say
as much ; nor can any pretend to a
better cash foundation than the Era.
tt is paying alnvo its expenses, and
daily on the increase. Give the
Wwk ' a L'ood start now. and a
Dailr will issue in the Fall to do
- - TJ '
credit to the State and the Repubh
w
can party.
Friends, send in the subfCribers
and deduct your twenty-five per
cent, commissions.
Captain T. M. Argo.
This distinguished young gentle
man, now a resident of Raleigh,' is
on a visit to his father-in-law Rev.
Dr. Hubbard, formerly a Professor
at Chapel Hill, but for the past five
years a resident of Manlieus, near
Svractise, New York, where he has
a school and a pastoral charge.
Captain Argo was a Southern sol
dier in the late war, but is one of
those who has not found it inconsis
tent with duty to the South in war
to be a Republican in time of peace,
There is no mistake about it, a high
order of merit belongs to those sol
diers of the South who faithfully
performed the military duty requir
ed of them in the late unhappy con
flict between the States, but it has
been a most unfortunate mistake
for our section to suppose that duty
to the memories of the past requires
that we shall keep the South in
perpetual arms against the North
and the General Government. It
is true that one cannot be a Demo
crat without going constantly armed
and equipped according to law, but
the Democratic party since the war
has been a mistake and a curse to
the South and the Southern people.
Mr. Argo is one of those soldiers of
the South who finds it his duty to
bo as true, in word and in deed, to
the present Government as his con
duct in time of war shows him to
have been to that other Govern
ment, which, born of revolution,
passed away amid the smoke and
din of battle.
A close and intimate association
between Mr. Argo and the Editor
of this paper, extending over many
months, enables the writer to speak
of the gentleman as he knows him,
and it is not too much to say that
Mr. Argo is worthy in the highest
degree, a gentleman in every sense,
and a studious, rising young law
year of distinguished talents and
elevated position in his profession.
An Outrage.
Under the head of Immigration
to Buncombe County." the Pied
mont Press relates the following
outrage and extortion perpetrated
and practiced by the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad to Goldsboro,
the Central to Salisbury, and the
Western North .Carolina to Old
Fort
Four families, thirty-six in number,
migrated frbm Brunswick county, N.
C, to Buncombe, last week. Enormous
compared with emigrant rates rail
road charges wcrp imposed upon them ;
paying from Wilmington, to Old Fort,
the terminus of the W. N. C. Railroad,
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-
t
EIGHT DOLLARS econd class fare.
And this does not include charges on
household effects' and other property
shipped as freight. We understand
these people made every effort in Wil
mington to secure a car but failed. We
don't suppose these people have been
specially victimized by the railroad
companies, for they liave only paid reg
ular rates, and it is this that we com
plain of. Tourist? and pleasure seekers
ride over .this road at half rates ; foreign
emigrants areoffered reasonable induce
ments, but our own people, in whose
interest a great many people were once
fools enough jto believe railroads were
built, are shpwn no favors. Indeed it
f perates as Au effectual barrier to im
migration to I Westp; n X. C. We have
rea -n to believe tuati number of Eas
tern families! would migrate to this sec
tion, but for
he high railroad tariffs.
attention of our railroad
lhis fact and ask that
We call Ihej
authorities
Emigrant latcs be established over
their respect! ve lines through the State.
We haven't iime to tpursue the subject
further at thj time, i j
w
Gen. Gordon Presiding over
the Senate.
The fact tfiat Vice-President Wilson
called General Gordon, of Georgia, to
the Chair, on Tuesday, to preside over
the Senate ifor a few moments, was
made the occasion of a telegraphic item
by the preps reporter at Washington
City, the dispatch adding:
" This is the first time ex-Confederate
has been called to preside over
the Senate.' t
This was perhaps intended as a com
pliment to a new, member. We were
not, however, aware before that there
was any special honor for the Presiding
Officer of either Ilouse of Congress to
call any member to the Chair, and wo
fail to recognize any distinguished
mark of favor to the South in that Gen.
Gordon occupied,-for a short time the
seat latelv! made ' vacant by Schuyler
Colfax, and which is now the post of
llenry Wilson. - j
The idea Jof an ex-Confederate General
presiding tven temporarily over the
Senate of the United States may strike
some minds at the North as an evidence
of an advanced state of reconstruction ;
but if there has been any honor confer
red In this case, it is the Senate of the
United States that . has been honored, in
having in the Chair as Presiding Officer
a gentleman oi tno accompnsnmems,
worth, gallantry, integrity and high
character of J. B. Gordon, i
Iu cabins Geni Gordon to preside
over the Senate for a short while, Vice-
President (Wilson may have intended
to compliment the South, and to show
that he is willing; to treat with decent
respect a true representative from our
section, but such a spirit of courtesy is
due to each member of that body, re
gardless of his locality. Upon the floor,
each Senator is a peer with the rest, and
entitled to! impartial consideration and
courtesy at the hands of the President
of the Senate.
During -the short time Gen. Gordon
presided on Tuesday, there was cer
tainly an honest man and gentleman in
the Chair, and tfifc Senate of the United
States deserves to be congratulated that
the place ! was so f ably- and honorably
filled for the time being. Raleigh Xews.
The Era is ashamed to say that
the above is the production of a
Confederate soldier and a North
Carolinian. It is an insult to the
gallant Gordon, and a libel upon
the people of 'North Carolina, that
no truly good and brave. man can
afford to be guilty of, without seri
ous damage to his ood sense, his
reputation and His iionor.
The cry of this same Editor and
his Klan' last Summer, was "Let's
clasp hands across the bloody
chasm"-f-"let the North and the
South be United in fact in senti-
ment and
feeling, as well as in
name, i :
.Mr. iee-President Wilson, i if
to practically illustrate the com
plete restoration of the South, which
both the sentiment and incident oi
the late campaign so unmistakably
demanded to dignify and acknowl
edge her representation in the Na
tional Legislature called Senator
Gordon, of Georgia, to the chair.
Massachusetts shaking hands with
and welcoming Georgia!
Statesmen, patriots, Republicans,
men of good ,hearts, good feeling
and good sense, from the St. Law
rence river to the Gulf of Mexico,
from, the Atlantic to the Pacific
Ocean, hailed the act with an uni
versal acclamation of pride, patrio
tism and. pleasure ; only the wicked-
soreheads, malicious-malcontentSj
mischief-maker and canting-hyjio-
crites object.
Men j of large heads and large
hearts statesmen and patriot
Radicals, Democrats or Ku Klux,
so they be honorable ana manly
men, rejoice that the South is re-
storeu ;to tne place oi her power
and pride in the government of the
country. They see Mr. Vice-Presi
dent Stephens of the late Coneder
ate States in the present Congress
of the United States ; our own Ran
som a Senator from North Carolina;
and the gallant, soldierly Gordon,
in the$ehate from the Empire State
,it. rNJ.ii - i p 1 1 j
of the South ; all of them the peers
of any.! No Northern soldier of the
late . war, - or Republican in the
present division of publics objects to
this. It is practical restoration. It
was fori ihis that the Union forces
fought pi defence of the Union;
and Vice-President Wilson illus
trated, the other day the fact, that,
the Union has been restored, and
the rights and dignity of the South
acknowledged . ' and vindicated
through her complete reconstruc
tion. n
In thecfcame of a united country,
all truejmen thank him ; especially
do we oft the South,' who are true
to the best Interest of the South,
thank fMr. Wilson; and General
John Ij-j Gordon, the brave true
so!dier,and honorable man that he
is, does; hot fail to appreciate the
graceful mark of honorable distinc
tion thus conferred upon him in
recognition of his section of the
common country.
But nothing .differing from the
above extract could be reasonably
expected; of one who so recently
proclaimed his;i devotion to tho
creed of the Ku Klux, and declared
his affinity to u murderous Klan in
veil remembered appeals for an
Amnesty and Pardoning Act at
the hands of the Legislature, which
should stimulate into activity and
that renewed career of murder, out
rage and crime, of which the Dem
ocratic party stands charged and
convicted through its allies of rob
bers, cut-throats, highway-men and
midnight-assassins.
This Raleigh Xews is an organ of
the Democratic party, the tribune
of its sentiment in North Carolina,
and the very glass of its Southern
chivalry. It is the herald of wel
come to immigration, capital, and
Northern energy and enterprise;
the exponent of Southern civiliza
tion, the fashion-plate of Southern
Society, and its Political Editor the
advocate and preacher of North
Carolina resources. It is thus that
he proposes to invite the igenuity of
the New Englander, the capital of
the New Yorker, and the solid in
dustry of the sturdy Pennsylvania
farmer. " Come among us and we
" will JBIIONOR YOU-a by
" tolerating your presence " as the
"Senate of the TTnited States has
"been honored in having in the
" chair as Presiding officer a gentle
"man of the accomplishments,
" worth, gallantry, integrity and
" high character of John B. Gor
"don," is the language in which
this Southern Editor proposes to
invite the capital, labor and energy
necessary to utilize our undeveloped
wealth, and place North Carolina
abreast with her sisters of the North,
East and West in prosperity and
intelligence! Deliberately insult
and taunt a people, and thus make
sport of the kindly sentiment and
conduct of those from whom we
hope and expect the benefits of
material restoration and salvation
through the cultivation of pleasant
relations and brotherly feeling. And
this is the sort of work the Demo
cratic Press of North Carolina and
the South is engaged in in behalf of
a land of desolated homes, wasted
wealth and buried resources.
Difference,
See ?"
Don't You
Georgia, which gave G0,000 Dem
ocratic majority, pays G8 cents and
7 mills per head toward educating
her youth ;
which gave
other way,
same object,
that ?
while Massachusetts,
as many majority the
gives $20 toward the
Is there anything in
communicated.
Durham.
The town of Durham, in Orange
county, of all the towns in the State,
is the most enterprising, and pros
perous, and bids fairest to outstrip
all of its fellows in material growth.
In I860 it 'was incorporated, having
not a hundred inhabitants. Now it
has over eight hundred. In 1SG9 it
had only two stores, and two to
bacco factories. Now it has twenty
stores, one drug store, one confec
tion and baker's store, and two large
tobacco warehouses, one steam saw
mill, one manufactory of smutting
machines, one newspaper, hotel,
academy, seminary and eighteen to
bacco factories. Resides there is
soon to be established there a factory
for making shoe blacking, admitted
to be superior to any yet manufac
tured.
The cause oi this rapid growtn is,
in the .main, its tobacco trade;
though, of course, much is due to
the enterprise of itscitizens. Among
them, Mr. W. T. Blackwell, the
maker of the Durham Smoking
Tobacco, is the acknowledged su
perior in enterprise, thrift, and
business capacity. Hn came to
Durham iu 1869, and invested all
his fortune, which at that time
amounted to only $1,500 in a tobacco
factory. Then he worked only two
hands besides himself: now he
works 131 hands, and all the opera
tions of his large smoking and plug
factories are carried on by steam.
His property in 1872 was valued
for taxation atjrffy thousand dollars,
and is now, at . a safe estimate,
worth eighty thousand. In 1872 he
manufactured 1,100,000 pounds of
tobacco, and still had orders un
filled. He now manufactures at
least one-half of the immense
amount annually shipped from
uurnam ana is yearly increasing
his business. Orders are received
by him from China, and Europe,
and hundreds of dealers throughout
tne u mteu estates, lie pays more
tax than any man in Orange county.
So much has this shrewd, energetic
and deservedly successful man ac-
pnmnli'shPfl in thf shnrf. ctv.mo rf
four years. Messrs. Carr and Day,.
who are interested with Mr. Black
well are also men of much business
energy and tact.
All Durham seem to have caught
energy from Mr. Blackwell, and
now the spirit of enterprise and
thrift pervades all classes and con
ditions of this stirring, expanding
community. The traveller of a
dozen years ago, who remembers
Durham as simply a way station
on the T. C. R. R., where a small
amount of freight for Chapel Hill
was discharged, where the students
.
got on and off, and where bullies
It'U
met around a little shanty in which
whiskey was sold to boast and fight.
would not suspect that the present
pretty town, with its neat brown
and white houses, spreading off in i
all directions in beautiful contrast '
with the green of the pines and ce
dars, enlivened by the hum and
clatter of machinery, the noise of
the hammer and the bustle of the
busy people, was that nce unat
tractive place. .
"We predict for the town a perma
nent growth "and prosperity. It is
now" a tobacco, market at which
over 3,000,000 pounds areanuually
sold at prices larger than can be
realized either at Richmond or
Danville. Besides the local dealers,
hundreds of buyers go there from
Richmond, Petersburg, Danville,
Hillsboro, Reidsville, Newbern and
other points, and large amounts are
purchased on order, for parties in
New ork City, Rochester, Balti
more jand several cities South. How
much better for North Carolina if
tfterewere more Durhams in the
State ! We believe -her people have
the good wishes of all who desire
to see commendable effort reward
ed, among whom is one who pre
fers to sign himself, -
Viator.
Speech of I. B. Abbott,
i OF CRAVEN",
1
Delivered in the tfbrth Carolina
House of Heprcseniatives, on the
Ku Klux Amnesty Bill.
Mr. Speaker: It is generally
supposed, in view of the limited ed
ucation of the colored members on
this floor, that they are incompe
tent to discuss questions of such
importance as this, but, sir, I be
lieve the educated men of this Leg
islature have deceived themselves
and are about to mislead others.
We find that it is not left, alone, to
those of the greatest learning, and
to talents which fall to the share of
so small a number, to direct public
judgement and measure our conduct
here. We are thankiui, JU r. apeaK
er. that a divine Providence has
taken good care of our happiness,
and criven us, in the simplicity of.
common sense, a rule of practical
discretion by whien we are in no
danger of being misled.
Mr. Speaker, I have taken the
floor, sir, for the purpose of moving
a reconsideration of the vote just
taken. 1 changed my vote for that
purpose. My reasons for so doing,
are, that we, on this side of the
House, have been gagged by the call
for the previous question, and 1
now move to reconsider that vote
We desire to express our views
upon this outrageous bill. I, sir,
represent a constituency that de
mands of me the offer of their pro
test against this bill. I am in op
position to it in every -way and
manner, all through. The mostob
jectional features of the bill have
been stricken out by the amend
ment offered by the gentleman
from Anson, but there remain pro
visions in the bill that are obnox
ious to every true lover of liberty.
I offered two amendments which I
had hoped would have been adopt
ed. But the wisdom of the house
saw proper to defeat them. There
was another amendment offered by
my colleague (Mr. Dudley) striking
out the Union League, which was
also defeated. Now, sir, I will
state here in my place, that I was a
member, and an officer in the Union
League, and I am not afraid, nor
ashamed to say so. The League
has committed no crime or outrage
as an organization. I admit that
some of the individual' members of
the League have been guilty of
thft and other crimes, but, sir, this
is io be cnargeu neither to the Union
League, nor the Republican party.
L Mr. Speaker, offered my amend
ments providing that the provis
ions of that act shall not apply to
the first regiment of North Carolina
State troops, and one of t hem was for
the purpose of excluding in toto
companies "A." and "11. " of the
said Regiment. My object for this
isi, that 1 was a member and an
oMlcer of company "II" in that
Regiment, and we ask no pardon at
the hands of this Legislature. It
will be remembered that, when the
Shoffner bill was under considera
tion in the Legislature of 1868-'G9,
it was then denied that there was
any such thing as a Klan of Ku
Klux. The bill I have reference to
is better known by the name of "an
act to better protect life and proper
ty?' The gentleman from Craven,
Mr. Seymour, mastering the bill,
then occupied the seat now occupied
by the gentleman from Washing
ton, and the gentleman from Hyde
who disgraced that very highly
notable corn country upon this
floor, became so excited, on Ku
Kiuxism, that he sprang from his
seat and shook his list in Mr. Sey
mour's face, and denied the exis
tence of any such organization in
this State. Mr. Malone, the Demo
cratic carpet-bag member from
Tennessee, struggled to defeat the
bill. Mr. Durham said there was
no necessity for such a law and that
the people would rise up in the
next election and call a Convention
to do away with all such unneces
sary laws; and they did rise in the
August election oi 180. He knew
that the Klan was then or would be
strong enough... by that time to
defeat the Republican party in this
State. What did they do when
that Legislature met here? About
the first thing they did, was to pre-
prefer , articles of impeachment
against Governor Holden for en
deavoring to put down the infamous
and lawless Klan of murderers
which this bill proposes to pardon
impeached and thrown out of his
fhce, to the disgrace of the State,
by the influence and power of this
monstrous association, simply be
cause he called out troops and ar
rested one Mr. Turner and others.
Whether or not it was right I will
not now pretend to argue, or
whether he arrested Mr. Turner too
soon or detained him too long, I will
not now say, but my simple opm-
... mm
ion is that H it naa ueeu eignt
months earlier it would have been
a great deal better for Li. A. Shot-
well, -who was seutencea to tne
Albany Penitentiary for Ku KIux-
ing. . .
" But," says the gentleman lrom
Orawre. "a few men came down
L. . ...1 ' .. . .' II L.n ..o.
and had tvki the reins in their
hands, and bt.idiiitr .them with the
aid of iiecf .(.-. d people, they ruin-
tsi our CKiue.
I only thank God
that tliey did
come. JJut he goes
further and savs. " we ask nothing: I
from the Republican side of this 1 15
House. Let us come tip," Bays he,
" and take the responsibility." I
know that he needs no help from
this side now ; but when those con
stitutional amendments were under
consideration, help, was needed
and besought from this side of the
House ; and on one of those amend
ments our assistance was needed so
very much, that when a Represen
tative on the Democratic side of the
House called the previous question,
my fried, Mr. Williamson, told him
if he did not withdraw it, that he
and all his side of the House would
vote against it ; the call was put and
not sustained by his party. AU I
have to say about that, is, I was
surprised that the 'wealth and in
telligence of North Carolina could
be thus influenced by a negro Rep
resentative upon this floor.
I hope, sir, that this bill will be
reconsidered and recommitted, so
that , we may know what we are
voting for. '
In 1867-8 the party now in power
in this Legislature found themselves
in a hopeless minority ; and instead
of then submitting to their condi
tion until they could honestly gain
strength, they went to work and
organized an association 1 of mid
night assassins, who had no sympa
thy for humanity, and who went
forth, night after night, whipping,
shooting, and killing poor, defence
less men, women and children, be
cause their sympathy wras with the
Republican party. They did it, sir,
for the purpose of gaining political
power in this and other Southern
States. This is the class this bill
proposes to pardon and let go scot
free. I do not believe it is right,
that, when a man or set of men
comes to my house and takes me out
and cowhide me to their fiendish
satisfaction, that they should be
pardoned for such offense by this
Legislature. I believe they should
be punished by the law of the land.
When these men went into that
conspiracy, against the peace and
dignity of the State, they knew,
that, sooner or later, the law would
overtake them ; but at the same
time they knew their organization
was powerful enough to get control
of the Legislature, and that they
could receive pardon for their sins
against the criminal law of the
State.
The people of this State will not
endorse your actions in this matter.
Every Democratic paper and speak
er in the State before the August
election was holding up Holden's
war on innocent people, but they
did not tell us anything about their
own Ku1 Klux war which caused
and preceded Governor Holden's
movement. I suppose the reason
they did not say anything about it
was because they agreed with Mr.
Congressman Waddell, who said he
was only sorry that, while the Ku
Klux were at it, they did not kill
every carpet-bagger in North Car
olina. Mr. Speaker, it is such characters
this bill proposes to relieve as have
caused the finger of scorn to be
pointed at North Carolina. It is
such men as these Ku Klux leaders
that have caused the bloody hand
of murder and the black disgrace of
treason to blot her fame; and by
them and tor them only, her laws
have been permitted to slumber
when they should have justly
awakened to punish.
I am a friend to law and order.
I am opposed to the bill and the
Klan it proposes to relieve. I am
opposed to them because they are
men who do not believe in that im
mortal declaration of independence
which declares that all men are
created free and equal. I am op
posed to them on such principles as
nothing can either alter or corrupt.
By the anxiety I feel within myself
for the equal rights ol all the hu
man race; by the disgust which 1
experience when I observe men di
rected by prejudice and governed
by hatred on account of the color of
another man's skin, I am opposed
to it.
Mr. Speaker, in conclusion I only
desire to say to my Democratic
friends on the other side that I en
tertain no feeling of hostility
towards them. I will also add that
I am not the personal enemy of the
members of that party; quite the
contrary'. There is no Representa
tive on this floor who more heartily
wishes them. all individual good,
personal peace, happiness and pros
perity than myseir, but, sir, lam
the avowed, open and intrepid ene
my now, and always, of what is
known as the Conservative-Ku
Kiux-Democratic party in this
State, and I hope sir, the bill will
be reconsidered and recommitted,
or defeated, even in its present
shape. '
Goldsboro and all About It.
EY T. C. E.
The first train of cars ran into Golds
boro about the year 1S38 or '39. There
were no houses in the place at that time.
Shortly afterward they commenced
building. Old man Dick Gregory, and
StcpL.cn D. Phillips, both still living
there, were the first citizens that settled
it. Thi population of the place at pres
sent is near about three tho'usand souls.
Of these fully one third are blacks. Dr.
A. C. Davis is the Mayor appointed In
the stead of J. B. Wbitaker who couldn't
hold the place on account of being Mail
Agent at the time. There will be an
other election in May. The prominent
dry goods stores of this place are as fol
lows : Alex. Keating, C. G. Perkins,
A. B. Ilollowell, John II. Powell. II.
Weil & Brother, J. D. Winslow, A.
Strause tt Sons, Z. Einstein & Bro., D.
Mnrphey fe Co., W. Keating. These
stores combining dry goods and gro
ceries and clothing. The hardware
stores, Wesley Farmer fc Co., and Bor
den tfc Kornegay. The principal confec
tioner, W. II. Freeman. The clothing
stores are: S. II. Montor, S. M. Cohen,
R. M. Cohen, Lewis Levi, and Charles
Sboultz. . The commission merchants
are B. M. Privett, A. Day, and Gregory,
Galloway & Cc. Two drug stores, Alil
ler & Kirby, and Dr. J. ,M. Hunter.
There are also two Cancer Infirmaries
in the town. There are more smaller
stores, and quite a number of liquor
shojs. Three hotels among them cur
old friends Granger and Morris".
COTTON AND TURPENTINE.
Cotton and turpentine are the staples.
People don't think of corn. Both these
staples are at low figures at present. No
cotton buyers in market. Goldsboro
eeiH'rallv hips about 15 to 20 thousand
.b&ra'a .-c'son. Very little low midland
keu it is worth 15 cent. Good
in u.iiii
country hams sold in wagons to-day at
cents. The down country people are I
much dispirited at the fall of turpentine.
Four families constituting nearly 20 in
number came up the road from Bruns
wick county yesterday, flying from tur
pentine, and going to Buncombe coun
ty to "make corn."
SUPERIOR COURT.
They have had quite a sige of court
in Goldsboro. Just through with a
special term of two weeks by Judge
Tourgee, ; when Judge Clark held his
regular session two week longer and
just adjourned business to-day. There
were 132 cases on ; the criminal docket
and 144 cases on the civil. David Jones,
white, was sentenced to the penitentiary
a lifetime for burning M iss Betsy Wiso's
house and all her. thing. David was
granted an appeal,, Hubbard Edmund
son, white, was sentenced two years to
the penitentiary, lor shooting a negro,
but "II ab' having giveh the negro three
hundred dollars to "make friends" with
him, 'sart'nly, boss, sah," said the ne
negro. and he and 'Hub" shook hands,
and Judge Clark remitted the sentence.
' AMONG THE DEAD.
Travellers in strange, places always
love to visit the depots ' they get on at."
Sol strtlletj out to tne Cemetery, the
great jdepbt where i the dead , take the.
train for that country " over the river."
I find' down in this section a shudder
ing revulsion against being put under
the ground. Not far from Goldsboro is
.now a coffin resting in an old field on
two stumps, and has been there for
several years. I -find, in this cemetery
vaults built and the eoflins placed in
them. Over one little fresh made grave
was a coop built with just room enough
to poke one's head through and look,
and there sat a pitcher full of flowers by
the little grave's side. What is there
between death and flowers? As a flower
we fade and die, and then our relations
neglect their business unless they keep
the flowers blooming over us. One
fresh made grave of a growii person,
sat by and curiously wondered. At the
head iof the grave sat a pitcher half full
of water, and on the breast of the grave,
was stuck a china toy, representing a
young fellow with a gown on, and his
face, ibis mouth and eyes, were as joljy
as a lager beer dutchman. I gave it up.
But why not that as well'as anything
else? " It is better to laujch than be
sighing."' I . 1
j THE MESSENQER.
I visited friend Bonitz of the Mcsnen-
ger, and l found him, as ever, at busy
work in his office. lie has moved his
sanctum from the printing offlre, up
street, and when completed, it w ill be
the tastiest little boudoir for a pen and
inkhorn'man in the State. Bonitz is
expecting the arrival from Lynchburg,
Va.; of an assistant editor, a Mr. DaWitt,
who has been been an attache of the
Lynchburg Republican.
THE NEWS.
This is the Republican paper of ( Jolds-
boro, but I saw neither "uncle John"
nor old " Blucher." The former I sup
pose was absent on "claims" and old
"Bluche" lightweight that he is, was
running his route on tiie Atlantic Rail
road. The yews pught to be more lib
erally encouraged by its party friends
in that section of tho State.
March 21st, 1873.
Home Industries.
Our farmers are buying1 too much
commercial fertilizers. ,
Three bales to the acre is the best
Johnston county cotton lands did
last season.
The Steam Cotton gin of Captain
Lewis? at Princeton turned out 350
bales of cotton last gining season.
A new and splendid locomotive
has been added to the Wilmington,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
E. A. Cox. of Johnston, has in
vented a sowing-cart for the distri
bution of fertilizers unci cotton seed
in the drill. j
The old Rockfish Factory will be
in operation soon, and Fayetteville
i3 to become one of the leading
manufacturing towns of the South.
At the Convention of Saw-mill
owners and Lumbermen at Savan
nah, O.j G. Parsley of Wilmington
was chosen permanent President of
the Association. Adjourned to May,
6, 1873. when the organization will;
be perfected.
The Pelc-rsbiirg Index says:
" There considerable trade in this
article, which is manufactured in
wiimingiuu, s.j., ior tne paper
mm in Jf reaericksburg. seventy
five bales passed through this city
ior the latter place."
A through prorata freight tariff
on actual distances from Wilming
ton to Huntington has been agreed
upon on the Chesapeake & Ohio,
Richmond and Petersburg, and
Weldon and Wilmington Railroads,
This will insure a through: tariff
irom w umingion io Cincinnati ma
TITM a Mtm
Richmond.
Beaver Creek Cotton Factorv.
near Fayetteville has just started its
machinery of 61 Loqms, 2,700 Cards
which will turn out 80,000 yards of
sneetmg per month, and consume
850 bales of cotton a year. With
this and the old Beaver Creek Fac
tory the Company will produce
doilhlp. tho flhnvn nnnntlf r of fohi-in I
! W e are indebted to Capt. C. B.
Denson, proprietor of Kelvyn Gar
dens, located at Pittsboro. in Chat
ham county, for copies of his several
catalogues of flower seeds, parlor
aim winuow pianis, Dulbs, roots,
shrubs, trees, evergreens, &c, for
wnicn vve return our thanks. The
Heivyn uardens are the most ex
tensive in the south.
oays ine unariotte Observer, of
tne iytn inst : A quantity of ore
irom ine ivings Mountain Gold
Mine was assayed at the TTniti
States Branch Mint in this citv
.,1, mi u i . T '-
jrcniciuaj,. aucruiu oncK weigned
1 ounces, ana was valued at $4,
191 00. It was forwarded last nfeht
cApiwis io .rniiaaeipnia for
coinage.; The vein from which it
was taken is yielding abundant.
Jn riciay, 2lst March, $39,000
iuw xirst xuongage J3onds ol the
Western N. C. Railroad Company
were sold by the Treasurer of the
m. v Atanroaa and brought 11 cents
in the dollar. On Saturday $26,000 1
JLwnus were sold at
public auction in Charlotte nnd
S?uei?nJ? vf ctn Pol
isiaturft hdri fho iTinrf?:
road much. - !
News.
George Wm. Curtin ; Improves toalil
The insurrection iu Guatemala i"
been sutfpre.ssed.j "'u l,aM
Senate id ji.urntd nine di,- w. . .
Ex-Henrtor Dixon, of Ibutr. r,! r. .
dead ; ed 58. , ; '"V '
IS
o aim's urooKs as worst
,i- Uis,,,,,.
is chronic dysentary.
John Th xiipsob Mas n, s,-i r ,
State or Maryland, is dead. ' ' rt
TheOxfoid racje was won hv tliec
bridge crew by three length
at aiienipt hi revolution iji Arts
pa, Peru, has been suppressed:.
Philadelphia has aire id v Kuls-ri' i
nearly .00,000 for tho Ccnteni-il.'
John S. Wilson, a distinguish, ., p'
byterian divi-ie of Atlanta, h d.-ad.
Thobaik Lark, from .San Uu'...., ,
Eusnedos, U lost with all on 1 ,.iIY '"'
fL .W.I.
Tweed's resignation "as Senator i ,
.1. V... V I, i. .... . . ""lit
!" lui-l.
A mob at Chillieotho hun a n
who had raped a respcet il,I(. Ns
woman. , 1
Tho Liberal ltopuhlicanft of Cm
.1 ... T ml I . 1,1
nun eimuiw iiuiiiisun, 1 'rlUOci a! i
didate for M3-or.
. iii-
Thori ew Peace Corn mission, -is i. '
t i .... i. i i ... i . "
aintt'u hi iiju iuv new aim st'i k
talk witii cajnain Jack.
RejxTirt.1 are current that tli.
San Salvador was destroyed
earthquake on the 4th instaiit.
a i,.
hv'
Tho President informed a Soutln ai.
lina delegation that ho would i!o!i.,t,
make a Southern tour a year hener
A bill has passed the lVnnvyJv.u, ,
ueiMmiuiu "piropriaiing .N.Mhi.iih
the (.entemal fclehratioii and
the Governor."
' t s
J Tlkflfl 111141 W I I M lit . mH,.. .... 1
A 1 !j . .
jsiaiui, uuh! eacn oiiu r. tvKrrin ' i
io aeaiu irom starvation.
probably die !
' The Postmaster-General tilings
great railroads will appeal to Kw
UWl UiUUI.V U.liU MUllUiaW K;
cars meanwhile.
1"
Thei award of $2t;s,KK to Fui niiriii f, r
foreinr tho fleets way to New Oi ,.;', s
has been oniirnied." Tho pnermi.e t
resisted the claim.
Wnt. L. Lan;
ids mother and
;sloll, confes
ki!
i.'u:
a little mil near I'.,
dise, Colo county, Illinois ; was insti- , .
ed thereto by his wife.
Tho Oxford crew rowed fn m ;.:i t,, y
strokes per minute, and the "raiitaU'
from 38 to 42 strokes. Time of the i;i
was 20 minutes 3o seconds.
The I seizure of considerable t.,1
mm i u u m in u i several ii.
. i : 1 1 ,. : . . . . i . . , . ,
H it
siniM ih j-ei'oneu i rum u.ie iiorclcis (
Virginia and North Carolina.
A bill has passed both Houses i; .
Kentucky Legislature providing , i iv .
hoiruppathic professors in the m ,li
department of tho State Univnsin.
A "prophet " after the style i ! i:i .
ham oting has been urnsied in(; ,f.
gia, tried and found guilty of vi.l:m, tt
of the Civil and sot-ial laws of the .
i ' .
In Portland, Maine, the A! aw l.tin
met and lormed an asoeiation t 'k
ecute their claims to the estate oi . v.
in Scotland, worth some fiO.oiMout ,.
lars. I
I
Cap Mac-bell's hot so, "Dc-truwiu
won the grand steeplechase mar l.i. :
pool. !Tho favorite horse- horse, "I n ,!,
man, "j broke his neck atone f c,.
jumps!
Seven hundred awards unuh- v
Southern Claims Commission, Ika'o
passed from 'third Auditor to m .-m ,
Comptroller. One hundred , and tl.iuv
still remain.
The I court at Paris has1 eonvii tul
inose that are selling Menu his an. I l.l
1'a.io raihoad bonds
OI SWlll. ll II.
is General I it-
Among the sentenced
niont for livo years.
Mr. Bangs, of tho IW olice hepj.t
rncnt, has assuruneo that the r:;i.! i..l
combination to withdraw the postsw ei.r-.
unless the government, aei id s t t i i - ir
terms, will back down.
GenJ Gordon visited the pni.l.
who promised that where it w ai iu- it
corruption had been used to'v-mr.:
nominations to federal olliee in m--rv i:.
either by the uso of money or hv ..r-f
ries. sticli nominations would he . Un
drawn.
High winds prevailed through' t;t tl.
country Friday and Saturday last, d ii g
mucii uamaxe. jii iev ioik miNiiiu-
day heavy wind and ruin-stonns. nil
outdoor business susixinh'd. aiai h-i
vessel' going to sea.
Tho northern bound train on the Nil-
don & Wilmington road tmtraeked mar
Kocky! Mount. P..C. and two e..a ii
were thrown down an emhaiikniiir.
Several hurt but none fatally.' llcni i n
der of tho train made usual cohuh-m i .
A blunder has occurred regard inir il.o
Raleigh Collection District. Harm
confirmed on tho last dav of the s . .a
of the Senate, but tho President ha i en
viously, by u message, withdrawn ii.-'
nomination, thus Yonug retains tie
olliee. '
Oakes Ames intends to kfej. '.:
gressman Keilogg's Credit .Mol.ili.r
bonds ;until it is decided to whom th v
belong;. Ames also says that the h'-oki
of the Company will not be given hi t
United States Attorney .General, hut l.e
may have access to them.
The abolition of slavery in Port" hi
meets with the approval of the p-.pf.'
A few pro-slavery leaders only ohj.-f
to it. iEven slave owners consider il
provisions of tho law more lavoraWt i
their interests than they had
reason i
cxpoct The press generally a'htain ;i-
yet from comment on the passage -( tin
bill, i ' 1
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A CAKI.
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America as missionary,, discovered a
safe and simplo remedy for the Cure 4. f
Nervous Weakness, Early Decay, Dis
ease of the Urinary and Seminal Oi!. -',
and the whole train of disorders brought
on by baneful and vicious hahits. (in at;
numbers have been cured by tlih noM'
remedy. Prompted by a d.siic
benefit, tho afflicted and .unfortunate, I
will send the rocipo fr preparing"''
using this medicine, in a sea!
il.-d en ( I-
ope, to any one who needs it,
J 'rrr "i
charge.' Address.
JOSEPH T, IXMAX,
Station D, Piblo House, '
mar, 13--w3m New-York Cit.h
TO; THE SUFFEICIXfi.
The Rev. William II. Norton, wl.i
residing In Brazil as a Missionary,
covered. In that land of medicine--:l
remedy , for Coxsusirxiox, Sct.oh i--.
Soke Throat, Coughs, Colds, Asth
ma, and Nervous Weakness. Thi
remedy has cured myself after all other
medicines had faHed.
Wishing to benefit the suffering, I
send the recipe for preparing and usin
this remedy to all who de:,iro it FliKK
OF CHARGE. .
Please! send an envelope, with your
name and address on it. Address,
Rev, WILLIAM II. NORTON',
C70 IlKOADWAV,
mar 13. 3S w3m New Vonic Ci r
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