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THE WEEKLY ERa. RALEIGH, N. C. There in the City one So-'., loCunon for hi inM!enre anil vilUlny, irho thought the Drfi!:"n of Liberty lirntioans of Spett h. - Pirr a am . THL'KSDAY, SKIT. 4, 1873. Tor the "Working-men. Two columns of space in T7e WrlJy Era i hereby tendered to the "Met lianic and Working-men of Raleigh, to lo at their disposal for any matter they may wish to publish not of a partisan character. They are invited to occupy the space thus tendered them, anil as much more as they may desire. A whole page of The Daily lira Will be at the .service of the Me chanics and "Working-men of Ral eigh and the State next Winter, five of all charge or expense to them whatever. A rounl-oxiiEXT writes dis paragingly of the "West in compari m with the Ka.t. The Era U not U Ik' understood as expressing a J partiality for or favoring any one Motion over another. It is a State jur, proud of the whole State, and of each and every section. less a satisfactory explanation is given, the public will conclude that a very grave injustice has been per petrated. it is proper to say nere that no j member of the night police has ! complained. They are understood f to be afraid to complain. "Off with iiu nea a i so much for Uucking ham." Another ISouiid. The Statesville Inttlligencer pub lishes, in its editorial columns, a ulanderous article from the Raleigh Sacs. If the Intelligencer shall fol low the habit of taking " as a mat ter of course" what it finds in the columns of the AYw, it will 11 add ituittltcr round to its ladder of degradation." Farmers, Mechanics and Work ing-men Gcnerallj-. I he great working-man's party of the country Is the Republican party, and as a representative of the Republican organization, the Era is necessarily, the working man's friend. Between Farmers, Mechanics and Working-men gen erally, it knows no difference, and makes no distinction. Having tendered two columns of its space to the Mechanics and Working-men, the Era devoted a like space to the Farmers, and in every issue or the paper are two columns of matter appropriate to the Farm. unuer influences which the con ductors of the Era are at no loss to locate and understand, the Me chanics and Working-men about Raleigh have not availed them selves as fully of the invitation this paper extended to them as they might have done, but from a distance they have. Every issue of the Era. for many weeks past ha contained from two to four columns of "Letters from the People," and in every case but two the writ 'have been either Farmers, Mechanics or common la boring-men.- ." There are in and about Raleigh a good many hardworkers, whose chief aspiration and occupation seems to be to get in the way of, if they cannot head every movement of the working-men. Such men usually hold local offices or have friends who do, in which case they receive a "crumb" now and then. , leliWrate Filth. S.inc of the papers of this State have Ut n guilty of deliberate filth in publishing a dirty California story under the head of " a twelve Iound lump." Some have apolo gized for the offense by attributing it to criminal carelessness. In the eyes of decency there can be no ex tenuation for such careless or in decent conduct in public prints cir culating among decent, refined and moral people. To the Stat IlepuMiean Com mittee. The selection of two additional llitical writers for the Fjto. will le lelt to the Executive Committee of the Republican party of North Carolina. As it is not practicable to assem ble that Comniittae together, indi vidual jiu-ijjIits of tho same are rtNjuoteil to communicate their preferences to the Manager of the AYT. 31 ore lvu Klux. The . IOuisville Courier-Journal, a rank Democratic sheet, states that the Ku Klux have transferred their operations to the more congenial clime of Kentucky. When a Democratic paier thus ferrets out, proclaims and denounces the Ku Klux, the times are out of jttinf, indeed. The, Democratic contemporaries of the Courier-Journal in North- "ai-olinu, have not one word to pay. It would be in keeping with their line of olicy to take issue with the Ik'inoeratie organ of Kentucky, deny he existence of the Ku Klux in that State, and sirear to it. o'we a "Tammany1 'Among Divers and sundry complaints, insinuations and charges, have, from time to time, been made against . the City Government of Raleigh. There is either something very much decomposed in this Ienmark of ours, or a portion of the commu nity is much given to lying. The Era has an idea, somehow or other, that everything is not as it should be, and as soon as it can lay proper claim to being a local paper it will take the pains to look into home-matters a little, meantime the paper is communications on the ment of our lontl affairs. In the open to manage- Ax unnecessary amount of fool ishness, has followed the folly of ex President Davis at the Virginia . Springs. As ' the representative of the Southern people in a disastrous war of sections, he owes it to himself, his people and his section, to keep "apart from politics," and refrain from speech-making. There was no stenographer at the Springs, and the speech of Mr. Davis, as re Iorted, was but a garble. lie was doubtless imprudent and intemper ate iii his utterances. Under the ci au instances lie cannot be other wise. Therefore, of all men, Jeffer son Davis ought to study the grand eur of silence. He damages himself and his reputation whenever he undertakes to criticise the govern ment of the United States. I Paying the Police. i The Era would like to ask the Mayor and Commissioners of the City of Raleigh, why the difference of twenty-five per cent in the pay of the day and night police is mad a In favor of the day police? The information Is that the day policemen are paid sixty dollars per month, or two dollars per day; while the night police, the real guardians of the lives and property of the community, get only forty live dollars, or one dollar and fifty eents per night. There Is, apparently, an unfair discrimination made here, and un- ', From various quarters wo bear of colonists and emigrants with their fam ilies turning to our good old State. We have homes and a hearty welcome for tlicin all. Italeigh News. "A hearty welcome" indeed That is false. It is a falsehood ut tered under false pretense. The Xeirs and its kind has no welcome for any, whether they come singly or in colonies, who do not come swearing eternal allegiance to the Democratic organization, and pledg ing permanent political affiliation with the ir kite man's party otall the tcealth, icorth, virtue and intelligence. lie who comes to North Carolina comes to be shunned and insulted by the "set" of which the Raleigh AVir is the representative, unless he comes to ally with the Demo cratic party. It has been so ever since the war, and it will continue to be so, so far as that peculiar "set" can influence and Is concerned. If a Democrat, a ankee is a gentleman, though he held office under "negro rule," or by appointment of the tyrant" and "black-guard" as In the case of Judge Cilley, appointed by Sickles. A "carpet-bagger," a "thief" and "adventurer" if a Republican, as in the case of Senator Abbott. This "carpet-bag Senator" has been in North Carolina tine the cio&o of the war. lie has brought immigrants and money Into the State. He has developed an in dustry of magnitude in the Cape Fear section. He has brought and expended ii North Carolina, an nually, about the same amount of money that Paul Cameron has sent out to lend at twelve and fifteen per cent, because in this State he could only get six and eight Abbott, the "foreigner," when in the Senate procured a substantial Congressional appropriation for the improvement of Wilmington Har bor, thus aiding a North Carolina internal improvement. Cameron, the "native," aided a "foreign cor poration" of Yankee sharjiers and "monopolists" to get possession of a great work of North Carolina in ternal improvement so as to make line, to earn money for "bloated bondholders" of the North, and to 1ri nr wturvii .titnl ' frv7n rmt" poor women and orphan children who looked for clothes to wear and bread to eat from dividends in the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad; which bread, meat and clothes Cameron the "native" has ruth lessly snatched from them. He is of the "set" of the Xeics and has "homes and a hearty welcome for them all," provided,hc and his class can get fabulous prices, and the money down, for their broad acres of Orange county broom-sedge land, and worn out old fields When Democratic papers like the Raleigh AVira talk about "homes and a hearty welcome" for stran gers, after all these papers have said indiscriminately of such gentlemen of means as have come among us, and of such associations -of capital and energy as have "staked" on the restoration of Southern prosperity, Dare-raced impudence loses conn- edge since, which if they had then been known to me, I would not have attended the meeting. I now withdraw my name from the minutes, and from all connection with the matter. II. C. Andrews. Chapel Hill, Aug. 22, 1873, Sneakishness and cowardice fit tingly characterizes such conduct in a public Journal. The Hillsboro Recorder of the 20th of August perpetrated an out rage on Mr. Solomon Pool, and a slander on ladies of the Baptist Church; a falsehood so diabolical and mean that a Baptist Minister has seen fit to rebuke it. The Re corder's malicious misrepresenta tion was iu these words : Some of the young ladies called upon Mr. Pool to obtain his permission to use the Chapel for the School celebration. Mr. P. replied that he had no objection provided the Chapel was restored in as good order as when the permission was granted. One of the young ladies re plied that iu examination of the Chapel they bad found it tilled with cows. She supposed it would be an easy matter to drive them back into the building when the exercises were over. In a letter to the Editor of the Recorder, Rev. W. F. Farrow, and Mr. A. S. Barbee writing from Chapel Hill, August 21st, 1873, say: You will please allow us space In your excellent journal, to publish a correction, vie There being no ladles on the committee of arrangements in the late Baptist Sabbath School celebra tion, no buch conversation as that above published could have taken place. The undersigned, by appointment of the Baptist Sunday School waited upon Mr. Pool, who very courteously allow ed ns tha chapel. The school afterwards adopted and sent a resolution of thanks to Mr. Pool. The Recorder evinces more man liness than the Sentinel, for it pub lishes the letter of these gentlemen correcting its false statement. But it makes no comment. Therefore, It is presumed that its silence admits its falsehood and confesses the reck lessness with which it makes its wilful and mendacious assertions. The world has never known a lower type of journalism than that which to-day afflicts North Carolina and the South in the Democrat! ; and so-called Conservative Press. in praise or defende of himself, nor of patriotlsofto stiear falsely to m&c ma puib ui any muiviuuai Republican against another. He has always directed that it be made a State paper. The Progress of Perjury. It will be remembered that the Era last week had reference to a statement found in the Asheville Expositor to the effect that a Deputy Marshal and some United States soldiers had been on a raid through McDowell county "burning and arresting ;" that they had recklessly and wantonly shot a youth aged sixteen, whom they found squirrel hunting ; that they went into the house of an absent gentleman, "ar rested all the inmates of the house and some neighbors who happened to be present, and told them all. men, women and children, if one of them left the premises or went out side of the yard for four hours, the last one of them would be killed and the house burned down;" and that their horses were turned into and destroyed an "old man Yount's field of corn." This report obtained currency in the Piedmont Press, Raleigh News, Statesville Intelligencer and nearly all the Democratic papers of the State. The statement is pronounced wholly false by the Pioneer In an other column, and even the Ashe- res- cueacompanion in guilt, are bearing me legitimate fruit of a false and cowardly populace, a corrupt and licentious Press, an army of lying correspondents and its followers, in the persons of perjured flunkies and strikers. Conduct such as reported by the jtposuor and retailed by its Dem ocratic companions in falsehood and cowardly meanness, were das tardly and hell-deserving. Bat the language fails to characterize the course of the Democratic Press in originating and circulating so gross and damnable a falsehood nd slan der as the Expositor virtually ac knowledges its tale to have been. The State Agricultural Society The State JAte Insurance Company. ville Expositor corrects it by pub- letter from lieutenant Iu the main it is a Press without manhood ; it is utterly devoid of truth or decency, is moved and sus tained solely by the spirit of ma lignity, and is as base and black as Hell. The Era East and "West. From private letters to the Edi tcr, from several prominent Re publicans of the State, the Era selects two, one from the East and one from the West. A western friend says: "I am a friend to the Era. I go for sustaining our Dis trict paper as far as any man, but the paper at the Capital must be sustained too. I approve of your course fully, you encourage no rivalry, or rather enmity, between leading men of our own party. I am the friend of Judge Settle, as between him and any other Repub lican of the State. I was more than pleased that you took no part, for or against either, in the matter be tween Hon. John Pool and Judge Settle. Knowing the personal and neighborly relations between Sam Carrow and John Pool, I appre hended that the Era would side with Pool. But you, sided with neither, as against the other, and in your course you have made last- ng friends for Carrow and the Era among Settle men. 'Of course we all know that, as between Thomas Settle and John Pool, Sam Carrow & the friend of Pool, but, sinking his individual and neighborly preferences, for the good of the party, he has allowed the paper he owns to be the special champion of neither, but looking from the Scacoast to the Mountains he has had only the good of the whole Republican party of the State at heart. I am satisfied, now, for Sam Carrow to own and control the central organ of the Republican party. He is just the man for it. As long as he retr.ins control, of the paper Republicans are assured that it will not run in the political in terest of any individual or clique. I know of no other hands in which our central organ would be so safe, impartial and serviceable to the Republican party in North Caro lina." A friend in the East says : "We Pool men down here, knowing the personal feelings of Sam Carrow, expected the Era to 'pitch in' when the tug of war' came between Set tle and Pool. We were disappoint ed. One could discover in the Era no preference for either over the other. We now see you were right. The Republican party of North Carolina belongs to neither John Pool nor Thomas Settle. The Era does belong to the party. To have taken sides between those two lead ing men of our party would have fatally committed the Era to a par tial and unworthy course. "Knowing Sam Carrow to be the friend of John Pool of all other men, the Republicans of the East Sneaks and Liar., Some of the representative Press of the Democratic party of this State, notably the Raleigh Sentinel and Hillsboro Recorder, are estab lishing permanent reputations as sneaks and liars. With an avidity characteristic of the coward and th calumniator, the Sentinel published the- Chapel Hill resolutions denunciatory of Solomon Pool, with the customary flourish over the "Indignation meeting" from which those resolu tions emanated. A few days after the publication of the proceedings of this meeting and its resolutions, Mr. II. C. An drews, Secretary of the Chapel Hill, meeting,sent the Sentinel the follow ing card, which that paper had not the manhood and honor to publish : Mr. Editor: A meeting of a few citizens of Chapel Hill and vicinity, numbering about a dozen was held at that place on Saturday, the lCth inst, at which I acted as Secretary. Resolutions were passed denunciatory of Mr. Pool and the proceedings were published in the Sentinel of the 19th. I deem it due to say that facts have come to my knowl- iisning a James Li. Mast of the United States Army, The Expositor says : In Justice to Lient. Mast, we admit the following. The statement we made last week, was, as we stated then, made upon the authority of a gentleman in whom we have unbounded confidence. However, we cannot deny Lieut. Mast the use of our columns to correct any mistakes that occured which have been injurious to him. That paper then proceeds to give the letter of Lieut. Mast as fol lows : Asheville, X. C, August 26, 1873. Ma. Editor : In your issue of the 21st insL, you charge me and my sol diers, in company with Reveneu offi cers, with such serious, insulting and ungentlemanly conduct, against the people of McDowell countj', while in the execution of our duties, which I, as a gentleman and soldier, cannot allow to be promulgated, and published as facts to the people of Western North Carolina, without offering some few contradictory remarks ; and I hope that you will grant me space in j'our col umns to do ho. The facts of the case are substantially as follows, viz : On Saturday, Aug. 16th, while in McDowell county and in search of illic it distilleries, and after having destroy one, and on the correct road to a sec ond, (of which we had true and reliable information) we met and accosted an individual, (who proved to be the iden tical man we were in search of) on a trail through the mountains, with a shot gun on his shoulder, loaded over four fingers. He gave his name cor tectly, and after being directed to show us the way to his still, remarked: "Well, come along and I w!U show you where it is ;" but wanted to go in a direction opposite to that from which we knew his still was located. After ordering him to go with us on the opposite trail, and informing him that if he attempted to run he would be shot at, he proceeded in the direction we desired him to go. But before going far, he concluded that leaning to the left was in order. He did so ; but was soon brought back by the soldiers. After gwlng some distance farther, and we ar rlrlng at the trail which led to bia atiU, he, after succeeding In Retting my horses in a swamp and bogged, ran a second time. The men finding them selves in this position, dismounted at once and followed in pursuit. He, in the mean time, having gotten partly up the side of an almost perpendicular mountain, screening himself in his flight behind trees, brush, Ac, in order to reach the top, which had he been successful in doing, would have made good his escape, but for a timely bullet, interfering with his onward progress. Immediately after being wounded, he was brought back, placed on a horse, by my orders, and taken to the resi dence of a Mr. Jarrett, where I further ascertained that he was the very indi vidual we were in search of that he was a notorious character of the neigh borhood, and that we had been on the correct trial, leading to his still when he attempted to escape. This was also further verified by our finding it on our second search. As regards the treatment of Mr. Goodson, his family, or any one con nected with it, in any other than most gentlemanly and soldierly conduct, I most emphatically deny, and refer those who desire to know, to apply for further information, either to himself or the ladies, upon whom, as your informant says, we drew pistols. Respectfully, James L. Mast, 2nd U. S. Artillery. Referring to this matter last week. the Era said : "The last Asheville Expositor af fects to cive the details of al leged outrages on some citizens of McDowell county, said to have been recently perpetrated by United States officers and soldiers. "The Era would like to denounce the affair and all engaged in it, but, unfortunately, the source through which the report comes is not cred tabie enough to deal with. "The Expositor and its corres pondents strikers and flunkies-are of a class who lately took upon them selveo the most solemn oaths to lie and swear to lies, get on j uries, and I n every conceivable maner resist due process of law. "A party and a poltics so infa mous as to require of its adherent, In a note to the Era from the Secretary, Mr. Fulghum, that gen tleman says: "From present indications the State Fair will be the largest and most successful ever held in North Carolina." The attention of every reader of the .Era is directed to an article copied in this paper from the Raleigh Agricultural Journalaettlug forth the friendly and generous ac tion of the State Life Insurance Company in x'urnishing the Agri cultural Society the means to carry out the Fair to a successful and cred itable issue. Without this aid the Society must have failed, and sue!) failure would have been a blow at the Agricultu ral interests of the State. With that aid, success is assured, and such success is the success of the Agri cultural interests of our whole peo ple, for it will redound to the ad vantage of every Farmer in Xorth Carolina. Stepping forward at a time of such need, when the Agricultural inter ests of a great State were at stake, placing EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS at the service of the material inter ests of North Carolina, the State Life Insurance Company should have the full benefit of its patriotic and praiseworthy conduct. And thus investing this action of a Home In stitution with more than passing im portance, it is to be hoped that our people will hereafter wed closer with home institutions of every character. We are told that others were ap plied to companies which have drained theState, annually.of more money than all the government taxes put together but they all de clined. It was for this home cor poration, in existence less than a half-year, to lend its first accumu lated means to the promotion of the first great interest of our people. Here is a nut for those to crack who habitually curse "carpet-bag gers," damn "yankees" and anath ematize "foreign corporations ;" yet who are never so happy as when hob-nobbing with "carpet-bag" agents and "yankee" representa tives of those "foreign corporations" whose business with our people is to "bleed" them, notfeed them. Here is a home life insurance company, composed of good, well known men from every section of the State, on a safe and doubly-secure basis, managed by men of business knowledge, unquestioned honor and qualification. Let ns see now how much our people will pat ronize it in preference to the "aliens" and "foreigners" among us. The writer knew Daniel M. Bar ringer, of late years, intimately well. He had his faults, but he possessed virtues in a corresponding degree. We shall miss him much for, all in all, we may not soon look upon his like again;. Tne wife and a grown daughter of Mr. Barringer , died some years since. He leaves two sons, one at the Bar, and the other a student at Bingham's School. The Virginia Campaign, i in Virginia the campaign, in- measure, bears out the prophecies made early in the Summer that it would be one of the most exciting political contests ever known in the State, and much doubt was felt as to the result. As it progresses nowever, this doubt is being gradu ally relieved by the feeling on near iy nu siues uiai nugnes, tne re- puDiican nominee, with the rest of the ticket will take the State by storm and wrench a solid victory from the hands of the Conservatives and ultra Democrats. In Rich mond Kemper and Withers, the choice of the Democracy, have been well received, though it was evi ueui unit inetr loiiowing was limited to a clique. A meeting was held at Surry Court House, on the 2Gth ult., and from the following notice of it in State Journal, there seems to be in that section a desire on either side to be courteous, and to uphold the principles of the parties without Death of Hon. I. M. Barringer. Honorable Daniel Moreau Bar ringer, a native of Cabarrus county, but of late years a resident of this city, died at the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia, on Monday afternoon, September 1st, 1873. Deceased was the eldest son of General Paul Barringer of Cabar rus; was born in July, 1806; grad uated at Chapel Hill in 1826 ; studied law with Chief Justice Ruffin; served in the House of Commons, at intervals, from 1829 to 1842; a member of the Convention of 1835 ; was elected to Congress from the Salisbury District in 1843, and served continuously until 1849, when he wa3 appointed by Presi dent Taylor Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid, in Spain, which position he filled during the Taylor-Fillmore administration. President Buch anan tendered the same position to Mr. Barringer in 1857, but he de clined. He served in the State Legislature in 1854-'5, and was a member of the "Peace Congress" in '61. In the great political campaign of '72, he was Chairman of the Dem ocratic Executive Committee in North Carolina, conducting the campaign with; the utmost vigor can but admire the splendid pluck, tenance, and the English language (Judgment and fairness of the man confesses to an utter poverty of ad- who would not permit his paper to jectives and epithets. I take part in an individual quarrel, Qne of those individuals being his nearest friend, the other understood to be his enemy. "The Era is the Central organ of perjury and murder for politcalends the Republican party. It should is capable of misrepresenting and know no East no "V est, no North no South, but the whole State of North Carolina. It must not be directed in the interest of individuals or cliques. In the severest crisis through which he can be called up on to pass, Sam Carrow has proven equal to the occasion. Few other men would. He is just the man to own our Central paper, it never has anything to say about himself. He will not allow it to attack his enemies, even in defence oi ms friends. Let us have Hoiden for our next Chairman of Executive Com mittee, Carrow to remain in charge of the Central organ, and we can sweep the State hereafter by from thirty to fifty thousand." The Era has no comment to make. It has striven for the best interests of all and the great good ol the Republican party. If it has any partiality for one Republican over another it is not aware of it. Colonel Carrow, the Proprietor, has enjoined that it shall say nothing lying on officers of the law in the discharge of their duty." While all good men in the ranks of the Republican party, and those out of it who support the govern ment in an honest and earnest desire for the preservation of peace, law and order, are seeking the correc tion of official abuses, and striving to restrain and displace unworthy men who have found their way into office, the Press, the leaders and the great body of the Demo cratic party are stirring up strife, encouraging disorder, provoking violence and maliciously misrepre senting, falsely accusing and "lying on officers of the law in the dis charge of their duty." It is the progress of peri ury. The principles taught by Democracy in its Ku Klux foray, that, in opposi tion to the government, it was praiseworthy to murder and scourge, honorable to lie and steal, brave and chivalric to mask and disguise, and the height and pride ; and ability. He was before the Democratic Convention at Greens boro last year for the nomination of Governor, and, as the most pop ular man of his party, if nominated, ! might have been elected. The subject of this sketch was one of the most courtly gentlemen of the State. He had represented the Uni ted States.creditably and acceptably, at the most punctilious Court in the world, and was in every respect an accomplished and cultivated gen tleman. Some one has said that politeness is benevolence in trifles. Daniel M. Barringer had that be nevolence in excess of any gentle- i man within the knowledge of this ' writer. The deceased was in no respect an ordinary man. He belonged to the old school of politics, but he was the wisest and most sagacious of his party to-day. He was the only Democrat In North Carolina, since the war, who could lay any claim to statesmanship. His letter in 1867 urging the people of the State to accept the Reconstruction conditions of Congress "stands as a monument to his wisdom, while it j points the folly of his politicai.as A man of means he was a man of progress. He has been identified with nearly all our vorks of inter nal improvement, and his money is found invested la nearly every local Institution looking to the pro gress and permanent well-being of the community. Within the past year he has erected one of the finest business houses and most substan tial improvements of the qity. resort to the blackguardism -that too frequently characterizes such meetings : Before the speaking comenced satisfactory arrangements were made to divide time with Dr. Holt. of Surry, and Mr. Graves, of Isle of vyignt. jvir. itamsdell opened the uiscussion in a speecn oi mucn pru dence and wisdom, and never have the intelligent white people of Sur ry listened to Republican utter ances with such respectful atten tion. Messrs. Holt and Grave followed. and conceded to Mr. Ramsdell abil ity and high character. It was pleasant to Mr. R.'s friends to hear the encomiums showered npon him v. us.. lsx; l uy ins puuucui enemies. Dr. Holt is a fine speaker, but be ing in favor of an exclusive white man's government the divine right of a favored class to rule, and wholly opposed to negro suffrage his cramped theme afforded a bar ren field for the play of true genius. He and Mr. Graves charered lir. Hughes in his Suffolk speech as fa voring social equality. in nis reply JUr. H. thought so cial equality a myth, a "bug-bear" to ingnten weak-minded people; that it never could exist under Re publican teachings; but judging from the color of the negro popula tion here, there must have been a very affectionate kind of social equality in Virginia long before Republicanism had been introdu ced. The newspapers are fighting their battles with zeal, and are withal moderate as a rule, though at times sharp words are said that had bet ter have been left unsaid. Still the discussions are more marked for the ability they evince than their asperity. The Stale Journal in its issue of August 30th, in the course of an article with the caption "Re markable Conservative Tergiversa tion" compares the course of the two candidates thus: If the Democratic party could ha.ve been organized on the basis of strong union sentiments, it would very probably have achieved tne ascendant in the Union and held ; the government until this day. A very strong desire was felt by Union Democrats to put up Chief Justice Chase as the Democratic candidate in 1868. And if there had been any protracted balloting in the national l democratic convention of New York or tnat year, a very strong vote would have been cast for Judge Chase, and he would have had a good chance for nomination. But the extreme state-rights ele ment of the body were noisy and demonstrative; and, as soon as they failed to nominate George H. Pen dleton, of Ohio, they formed com binations which resulted, earlvin the balloting, in the nomination of beymour. Having gained power to accomplish this much, they used it for securing the nomination of Francis P. Blair for the second place, and for adopting a platform on the extreme line of state-rights politics. The result of their success was, to drive out of the Democratic party ail the old Democrats who had made up their minds to aban don the obsolete creed of Calhoun and Davis. Ever since then, the Democratic party have fallen back far into a minority of the people of tne united states. Among the men whom their suicidal nomina tions at Tammany Hall, New York, and their re-adoption of the Bour bon platform of Davis, Benjamin and Hunter, thus drove out of the Democratic party, and silenced in the campaign ol" 1868, was Mr. Hughes, our candidate for governor. He disapproved those proceed ings, and whether he has been con sistent in his course since, or wheth er those delegates from Virginia (General Kemper included) who promoted and concurred in those proceedings have been more con sistent than he, seems to a question entering into the debates of this canvass. It is a question easily secuea. The New York convention adopt ed resolutions, the most important one or wnicn declared tnat any at tempt to deprive the states of "the privilege and trust of suffrage" was an "usurpation of power, and found no warrant in the constitution':" and denounced the reconstruction acts of Congress as "an usurpation, and unconstitutional, revolutionary and void." On account of this and kindred resolutions, Mr. Hnghes went out of the Democratic party. But General Kemper approved it. sup ported it, and supported the Dem ocratic party after adopting it. The sequel must decide which of the two men was the more consistent in his subsequent course. development in all that concerns our material prosperity and progress as a people. It would be difficult to estimate fully them an i fold bene fits which accrue to all from this annual State Festival. Its discon tinuanceeven for one year would be a blow to the best interests of the State that would be felt by all clas ses of citizens, yet tins great ealam ity had well-nirh overtaken it. For months the officers and friends of the North Carolina Agricultural Society had been struggling to overcome the obstacles in their way, and nad at last succeeded in secur ing all the funds that were necessa ry except about $8,000. This sum had been promised them by several Foreign Insurance Companies wnicn for years past have been draining hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State. Their rep resentatives here had expressed perfect willingness and earnest de sire on the part of their representa tive Companies to loan the money on the ample security offered. The time came but the money did not. Their promises made, like too many others, only to tickle the ear, and serve the end of the mo ment, were shamelessly repudiated. Relying upon theslS broken reeds, the Society had made no other ar rangement, and the time was short. A few days would decide the fate of the State Fair of North Carolina, not for one year, but prob ably for all time. Just here it was that blood showed itself thicker than water, and the North Carolina State Life Insurance Compa ny, came forward to the relief of her sister corporation, and advanced the amount necessary to carry for ward to completion the plans of the Agricultural Society, thus firm ly establishing "the State Fair," upon an enduring basis. Honor to whom honor is due. The people of North Carolina will for the first time in their history be false to their record, if they do not prove themselves true to those who in the day of adversity were true to them. The North Carolina State Life Insurance Company is now in the firstryear of its existence, but it has already taken a stand of which its officers, and the people of the State at large may be justly proud. and its judicial investment of every j aoiiar oi its lunds in Nortn Carolina, and among our own people has al ready been productive of incalcula ble good. The benefits resultmar from the establishment of this Company and the Home Insurance and investments which it offers and effects, are such that we are confi dent the people of North Carolina win not be slow to appreciate and reward. Senator Morton said : Well, I can say I have not taken it, and never expect to. - "Immediately after the passage, of the bill, I had an inter view with my distinguished col league, 3Ir. Pratt, of Indiana, and we there agreed that we would not take it, believing that the principle Involved in f back-pay was not a sound one. . Hook told a story of a gentleman driving his Irish servant in a cab, and saying to him jocularly, half in anger: "Now, if tne gallows had its due, you rascal, where would you be now?" "Faith, then, your Honor, .it's riding in the cab I'd be, all alone by myself, maybe." Vice Admiral Yelorrton remc moved the Vittoria and Alamanga to Gibraltar on Monday. The Bankrupt Act. The fol lowing will" be found of interest to those concerned : . To the Members of the Bar of the 4th Congressional District of 2?orth Oaro Una : , Gestlemks: Many letters have been received askincr information upon the present status of the Bankrupt law, under recent unpublished amendments and Judicial decisions. For reply to these inquiries, I respectfully submit the following brief abstract of the law, as it now stands upon the subject of (lis charge, exemptions, dec., &o. : 1st. All debts contracted prior to January 1, 1869, and all security debts and debts not proven in bankruptcy, which have been contracted since that date, are discharged without reference to assets. 2nd. On all debts contracted since Jan uary 1, 1SG9, on which thjo bankrupt is liable as principal debtor", and which are actually proven against the estate, the assets in the hands of the assignee must IN JtfANKItUPTCYi LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Letter From Eastern Carolina. North To the Editor of the Era: I have just returned from a Sum mer tour all over North Carolina, so to speak. I have been to the West. The great West about which wo always here so much in the State Legisla ture. I am duly impressed with the scenery of the "Switzerland of America" the vast undeveloped and undeveloping water-power of Wes tern North Carolina, her mountain fastnesses, huge chasms, dangerous gorges, cool springs, fresh butter and sweet milk ; but I am profound ly impressed with the vast superior ity of Eastern Carolina over that great El Dorado, Tfie West. So much so, indeed, that I assert, with out fear of successful contradiction, that the portion of North Carolina East of the Wilmington and Wel don Railroad is worth double and treble all the balance, present and jtrospectire value taken into consid- j It has been my lot to have "been ground" some little, and I say that in no other section ol this State, nor in any other State, can a far mer make more money, have more to eat, enjoy and spend, than do the farmers of Eastern Carolina as a class of easy workers and liberal liv ers. As to health I saw no eveidence greater longevity in Mitchell and Watauga than I find in Edgecombe, Pitt and Beaufort, or in Hyde, the Egypt of North Carolina. I saw no better facilities for stock raising on the Blue Ridge than among the so-called sandhills of the East. Our reedy marshes and swamps afford better green proven der for cattle,while our mild climate equal 50 per cent., or the same propor tion in number and value of these cred itors must assent in writing to discharge. 3d. Discharge will be granted from debts mentioned in paragraph 1, without reference to those mentioned in para graph 2. (See Acts of July 27, 1808, and July 14, 1870.) 4th. Tho following exemptions are al lowed to every citizen of North Carolina in bankruptcy, to-wit: personal proper ty, of the value of 500, and real estate for a homestead of the value of $1,000 .under State laws, and personal property of the value of $500, under United States laws. Total exemptions in bankruptcy ?2,000. The foregoing exemptions are "valid against debts contracted before the adop tion and passage of the State Constitu tion and laws as well as those contracted after the same, and against liens by judgment or decree of any State Court, any decision of any such Court render ed since the adoption of such Constitu tion and laws to the contrary notwith standing." (See act of June 8, 1S72, and March 3d, 1 873.) The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Georgia case, declaring the Homestead provis ions of tho Constitution of that State unconstitutional in so far as it relates to debts contracted prior to its adoption, has annihilated the Homestead and personal property exemptions in North Carolina.in similar cases,cxccpt through the bankruptcy courts. In view of the demand which must follow the recent liberal amendments to the Bankrupt Act, and the decision of the Supreme Court destroying the Homestead under State laws, I have carefully prepared and had printed ruled and endorsed in very neat style, all the forms liable to be used in bank rutcy by the officers of the Court or the profession. They will bo sold at $1.50 per duplicate set, and forwarded on re ceipt of price, by mail, post paid, or by ex press as directed. To facilitate business and promote the sum of 100, be deposited with the petition in bankruptcy, and when so done the Register is authorized and will guarantee that no further sum shall be required of tle petitioner in ordinary proceedings, and the deficiency found upon the taxation of costs will be do ducted pro rata from the costs of the several otliccrs of court. I am Very Respectfully, Ac., A. W. SHAFFER, Register 4th District N. C. Raleigh, N. C, April 23, 1873. THIS IS TO UIVE NOTICE, That on the ttth day of Aug., A. D. l7;j a warrant in iJankrupUy was issueL out of the District Court of the UnitcfT States for the Eastern District .f North Carolina, against the estate of Rich mond Upchurch.ofLouisburg, in tliecom'vr.f Franklin, and State of North Carol. i.h who has been adjudged a Bankrupt oi! his own Petition: That the payment of any debts, and the delivery of any pro- Eerty belonging to . such bankrupt, to im,- or for his use, and the transfer of anyproperty, by him, are forbidden bv law ; That a meeting of the creditors of said bankrupt, to (.rove their debts, and to choose one or more assignees of hi estate will bo held at a Court of Bank ruptcy, to be hoiden at Raleigh, N. C, before A. W. Shatter, Register, 'on the 10th day of September, A. I., 1h73, at 10 o'clock, A. M. , R. M. DOL'ULAS, 9 3t Marshal as Messenger. Jos. J. Davis, Attorney. HIS IS TO IlfOTJCE,"Timt on the 8th day ol Aug., A. D., lit, a warrant in Bankruptcy was issued out of the District Court of the United State for the Extern District of North Carolina, against the estate of IIhmhu Ji. Big;s, of, Staulropein tho county Nash, and State of North Carolina who has been adjudged a Bankrupt of his own Petition: That tho payment on any debts, and the delivery of any pro perty belonging to such bankrupt, to him, or for his use, and tho transfer of any property by him, are forbidden by law ; That a meeting of the creditors ',f said bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more assignees of hi estate, will bo held at a Court of Bank ruptcy, toe hoiden at Raleigh, .. r.t before A. V Shatter, Register, on the 10th day of September, A. D., 17:5, at Id o'clock, A. M. K. M. DOUOLaS, 9 3t - Marshal as Messenger. Dossky Battus, Attorney. , NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That s petition has been tiled in tho District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina, by Micajah Hilliard, of Warren county, in said District, duly declared a Bankrupt under the Act ol Congress of March 2d, 1807, for a discharge and certificate thereof from all his debts and other claims provable under said Act, and that the 10th day of Sept.: 173, at 10 o'clock, A. M., at tho oftlce of A. W. Shaffer, Register in Bankruptcy, in Raleigh, N. C, is assigned for tho hear ing of the same, when and where all creditors, who have proved their debts, and other persons in interest may attend and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of . the said petitioner should not be granted. And that the second and third meetings will be held at the same time and place. New Borne, JN. v., Aug. llth, IM73. 9 2t GEO. W. TINKER, Clerk. M. J. Hawkins, Attorney. "VTOTICE IS HERElft' GIVEN. That a Fctjtion has been filed in the District Court of the. United States for he Eastern District of North Carolina, by Kintchin Haitheock, of GrauviiL) county, in-said District, duly declared Bankrupt under the Aet of Congress of March 2d, 186T, for a discharge and cer tificate thereof from all his debts and other claims provable under said Aet, and that the 12th day of Sept., 1873, at 10 o'clock, A. M., at tho office of A. W. Shaffer, Register in Bankruptcy, in Raleigh, N. C, is assigned for the hear ing of tho same, when and where all creditors, who have proved their debts, and other persons in interest may attemi and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of tho said petitioner sliou ill not be granted. And that tile second and tlu'rd meetings will be held at the. same time and place. New Berne, N. C, Aug. 2Stli, 1873. 12 2t GEO. E. TINKER, Clerk. A. S. Peack, Attorney. IX "BANKRUPTCY. From State Agricultural Journal. What a State Institution has done for North Carolina. The time is fast approaching when the hopes and struggles of many weary months will be crown ed with success. The State Agri cultural Fair is endeared to the hearts of North Carolinans. Year after year, the sons and daughters of our noble commonwealth are wont to assemble in this grand familv re union, not for the purpose merely of meeunir menus oi omer aavs. and cementing by renewed acquaintance ana association tne . indissoluble ties that unite us, but also to secure the more practical benefits that are derived from imparting and re ceiving valuable information affec ting the varied interests and com plex relations of every department of life and labor. The farmer, the mechanic, and the professional man are all here teaching and being taught. Enterprise is directed by new intelligence, capital is divert ed into more useful channels, and fresh stimulus is given to the de sire for higher culture and nobler i9 not to be thought of in connection with the rigorous Winters of the "West, where, "old settlers" tell me, the cattle and the deer often slide down the icy mountains, break their limbs and destroy them selves. As to the Western Farmer, I did not see him. Taking the so-called Farmers and the signs of the so called farming I saw, from Raleigh West, and I would not give Jim Thigpen, of Edgecombe, for the whole West full. I can produce as good cistern wa ter on my farm in the East as the coolest spring in the West affords. My butter is as fresh and milk as sweet as any in the mountains. My fish-pond is not to be mentioned in connection with the brooks in which they take the occasional insipid mountain trout. While the mass of the' population in the West look as if they would be materially ben efitted by a visit to our Eastern fisheries. .AU in all, I am disgusted., with the West in comparison with the East; and land companies, subsi dized agents hired blowers and paid detractors to the contrary, I say the country for farming and for immi gration lies East of the Wilming ton and Weldon Railroad. Ob serving the rules of health, people live as long here, are happier, have more money, more intelligence and as good health as anywhere in the proud old State of North Carolina; while the productions of the soil and the return for labor are double and treble any other section of the State. Lang rave. Eastern North Carolina, August 29, 1873. BANKRUPT SALE OF VALUA BLE REAJi ESTATE. As Assignee of the estateof Archibald Taylor, and in obedience to an order of the District Judge. I shall sell at public sale, to thu highest bidder, in the town of Louisburg, in Franklin county, X. C, on Tuesday, September JUli, 1S7.J, the Tract of Land on which the said Archibald Taylor lives, adjoining the Potis Gold Mine in Franklin county, IS'. C. This tract of land has beon divi ded, and will bo thus offered, a.plotof w hich will be shown on the day of sale, with each lot accurately calculated : Lot No. 1, on the South-East corner of tho tract, has 170 acres. Lot No. 2, on the North. of No. 1, lias 18G acres. Lot No. 3, on the North of No. 2, has 316 acres. Lot No. 4, on the road, has 1S4 acres. Ijot No. ;". North of No. 4. ha 2tiS acres. Lot No. (, on the road, has 100 acres. Lot No. 7, north of No. 0, lias i)S acres. Lot No. 8, north of No. 7, has 120 acres. Lot No. y, on the road, is the Store House Lot with about 30 acres. Lot No. 10, running from the road to the Creek, west of Nos. 0, 7 and 8, containing the fine residence with all necessary buildings and several small sctilementa, has 042 acres. Lot No. 11 is a lot f about S acres detached by turning the road. Nos. 3, 5 and 8 con tain a large amount of very rich bottom land on the Creek. Other lots are thought to be rich in Gold Ore, especial ly Nos. 1, 2, , 5 and 8. This Land will be sold one-half for cash, terms strictly to be complied with. The oher half payable in six months, with interest from the day of sale until paid, tho Assignee reserving title, also requiring bond and good security of the purchasers. The title is good. Creditors will please attend the sale. . lilCHARD W. HARRIS, Assignee of Archibald Taylor's Estate. Oxford, N. C, Aug. 1, 1873. 8 4w NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVKN, That a petition has been tiled iu the District Court of tho United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina, by James R. Suit, of Granville county, in said District, duly declared a liankrupt under tne Act or congress of March 2d, 18o7, for a discharge ami cer tificate thereof from all his debts and other claims provable under said Act, and that the 12th day of Sept., JS73, at 10 o'clock, A. M., at the olllco of A. W . Shaffer, Register in Bankruptcy, in 1U leigh, N. C, is assigned for the liearing of the same, when and where all credi tors, who have proved their debts, and other persons in interest may attend and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said petitioner should not be granted. And that the second and third meetings "will bo held at the same time and place. New Berne, N. C, Aug. 2Sth, ls73. 12-2t GEO. E. TINKER, Clerk, A. S. Peach; Attorney. rp ms is toTj f v i f n "ttct:, That - JL on the 9th day of Aug., A. D., lf73, a warrant in Bankruptcy was issiusl out of the District Court of the United States for Eastern District of North Car olina, against the estato of Robert S. Perry, ol Raleigh, in Ue county of Wake, and State of North Carolina,' who has been adjudged a liankrupt on his own Petition : That the payment of any debts, and the delivery of any properly belonging to such bankrupt, to him, o"r for his use, and the transfer of any pro perty, by him, are forbidden by law ; That a meeting of tho creditors of said bankrupt, to prove their debts, aud to choose one or more assignees of his es tate, will le held at a Court of Bank ruptcy, to ho hoiden at Raleigh, N. C, beiore A. W. Shaffer, Register, on the loth dav of September, A. 1. 173, at 10 o'clock, A. M. R. M. DOUGLAS, ! 3t. Marshal as Messenger. Ed. Graham Haywood, Attorney. "VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, JLi Tfflit a petition has been filed in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina by II. JI. Williams, of Nash coun ty, in said District, duly declared a Bankrupt under the Act of Congress of March 2d, 1867, for a discharge and certilicatelheroof from all hisdebis and other claims provable under said Act: That the 10th day of Sept., 1S73, at 10 o'clock, A. M., at the office of A. W. Shaffer, Register in Bankruptcy, in Raleigh, N. C, is assigned for tho hear ing of tho same, when and where all creditors, who have proved their debts, and other persons iu interest may at tend and show cause, if any they have, why tho prayer of the said petitioner should not bo granted. And that the second and third meetings will be held at the same time and place. Now Berne, N. C, Sept. 14th, 173. GEO. E. TINKER, Clerk.' J. W. Lancaster, Attorney. 10 - it. The Democratic Back-Pay Stealers. To the Editor of the Era : Our people are complaining that the Democratic press of this State has been bought up by the " back pay stealers." This extract is sent you, for publication, by a Republi can and reader, of your paper.- X. Goldsboro, N. C, Sept. 2, 1873. Cincinnati, Aug. 23. Senator Morton of Indiana, and Gov.'Noyes of Ohio, opened the Republican State campaign at Athens, Ohio, to day. At the end of Senator Mor ton's speech Gov. Koyes said that a note had been handed up from the crowd asking what Morton had done with his back pay. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That on the 25th day of Aug., A. D., 1873, a warrant in Bankrupty was issued out of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Caro lina, against the estate of Clement Richardson, of Selma. in the Johnston, State of North Carolina, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt upon the Petition of his creditors : That the pay ment of any debts and the deli very of any mwciijr LTCiwugiug to aiu uaiiKrupt, to him, or for his use, and the transfer or any property, by him, are forbidden by law : A meeting of the creditors of said bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more assignees of his es tate, will be held at a Court of Bank ruptcy, to beholden, at. Raleigh, N. C, before A. W. Shaffer, Register, on the 12th day of September, A. D., 1873, at 10 R. M. DOUGLAS, 11 3t Marshal as Messenger. R. G. Lmwis, Attorney. rpHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That jl on tne iKtn day of Aug., A. D., 1873, a warrant in Bankruptcy was issued oat of the District Court of the United Suites for the Eastern District of North Carolina, against tne estate of Ratlin Eatman, of Wilson P. O., in the county i ui "u nLiiLu ui xnona uarouna, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on his own Petition : That the payment of any debts, and the delivery of any pro perty belonging to such 'bankrupt, to him, or for his use, and the transfer of any property, by hire, are forbidden by law; That a meeting of tho creditors of said bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bank ruptcy, to be hoiden at Raleigh, N. C, before A. W. Shatter, Register, on the 12th day of September, A. D., 1873, at 10 o'clock, A. M. R. M. DOUGLAS, , II 3t Marshal as Messenger. J. W. Lancaster, Attornev. rpiIIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That JL on tho 14th day of Aug., A. D.,1873, a warrant in Bankruptcy was issued out of the District Court of tho United States for tho Eastern District of North Carolina, against the estate or James Coggin, of Nashville, in the county of Nash, and State ot North Carolina, who has liecn adjudged a Bankrupt on his own Petition : That tho payment of any debts, and the delivery of any pro- Eerty belonging to auch bankrupt, to' im, or for his use, and the transfer of any property, by him, aro forbidden by law : That a meeting of the creditors of said bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more assignees of his .estate, will be held aJL a Court oC Bank- . ruptcy, to be hoiden at Raleigh, N. C, before A. W. Shaffer, Register, on the lutn uay or September, A. I)., 1873, at 10 , o'clock, A. M. R. M. DOUGLAS, , 10-3t Marshal as Messenger. Dossky Battlk, Attorney. I WILL SELL TO THE HIGHEST bidder for cash, at Crenshaws Mills, near Forest ville. Wake county, N. V., on Saturday tho 30th day of 'August, 1873, at 10 o'clock, a.' m., 80 acres of ", land, lying in Granville county, N. C, adjoining the lands of C. M. Rogers, Robert Garner and others, the property of Thomas II. Rridgns, bankrupt, also athe same time and place, the notes, accounts, and chose tij action, of tho above named bankrupt. A. L. DAVIS, Assignee. 0 w3w 1. O. Forestville. N. C. FOtt SALE-CHEAP! ONE NEW, FIRST-CLASS HER RING'S Patent Fire and Burglar Proof Safe cost In New York 87G.OO, ani has all the latest improvements'. Will be sold cheap for cash tho owner having no use for it. Can be seon at the Commission House of W. H. Jones A Co., Raleigh, N. C. 7 tf A. W. SHAFFER. lnited State latcrnal Ilrnu-, Collector's Office, Ath JXstrict, N. ( '., . i , KALEIflTT. Anu A 1 K "OTICE - IS II EREBY G I V EN, That in the month of February, 1873, seizure was made at Earpsboro, in the county of Johnston. State or N'nni. ..Un.. .... v . . vniuiiiio, ui a mi oi ixianiHctured Tobac co, said to be the property of one Rogers for violation of Internal' Revenue liws of the United States. Notice is further given; That any pa-riyn?r Pities having any claim to said Tobacco will com : forward and make claim in thity du . s from dato of this notice, or said Tobacco will be for feited and sold for the u - of the United States. ' I. .1. YOUNG, 8 3t Collector
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