North Carolina Newspapers

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If iislied with sn ,t of gTound bra por- ' I i . : following, for which .od to an exchange, many cr our read- ; are not always at a anco to. -attend. to and even when they I immediate vicinity. ihyays care to; incur ;identtoBuch a small c-s are already, estab ot 'can be pleasured accuracy.for all prac Hy meau8oT a neat THTJKSIAY JUNE 25, 1874. JSarly Iay of Masonry In 3S;ortht r ...-Carolina, i Masonry was Introduced in North Carolina in 177l.t. On tho 13th of Janaaiyof that year Henry Bomer setjDnkcrtf ;Beaufort and.Grahd Mas ter of Masoiii: ia undr. for England; Issued a charter to Joseph Montford, Ksq., of Halifax, in - the provinces of Korth Carolinav constltutihff and appointing him vlrovinciai Grand authority io constitute Lodges, Ac newspapers in i,v?taie, nas an ar Thi 'charter was L'ivehat London, tide otf" TheJZA' and Wake Conn- and Tio Xcwortli State anWake . vyi ?v County - fy: 5 ; lican organ bf, i(ie Fifth "tngress- ional District, ind one of the best J y and year above rvvritten, fty;'f in which' it rVipgnizes the Era ..f preserved ' in the Grand 1 -Wntril -ii nf thri mrh, wood one an 1 a sixtecjf nd in 11 tnu. u 1 so that the half inches and about h end. Such quite stiff. PSI tical Dt:ri)0 rod pol u)) folUlwaj' Procure J pe a sticky f pH V white-woodc- yfir Iffecfcjoijx'. 'Dress IngfronV the middle. e will be on ana a are at the middle in inch square at each Ie will be light and w graduate one side with the iatks representing feet and inches and graduate another side to indicate a surveyor's links. A pole 'one rocl in length must be equal to tWJU-five links. To di vide one s'doj correctly, let a me chanic '.cxmpass be adjusted, so that the po ntJ will divide the dis tance into 1wdnty-five equal spaces or linkp. -"L fine can be measured with sach t pOe nearly as accurate ly as with j.' surveyor's chain. Xowj- th in, if a person does not understand how to multiply chains and links, let him compute the measurement Iby square feet. In are 43,5G0 square feet. ?nt school-boy can ngth and breadth o multiply one by the ride the product by will give the num ber of teen 4. sand the number of square I fee 4 representing the frac tion of an t ere. If it is desirable to nicasufe'a rian ularspot, two sides ot whidii it right angles, meas ure theso fvfb sides, multiply the distance in one by. the other, and divide;ihat product by two, which will indica e )the number of square leet by43,0Uiand the quotient will represent pyj number of acres. I J)nd ml Umlcrjrrouiut. Undergr tfrid, the city of London is certainljftHe mo'st wonderful in the world It i3 a labyrinth of LiOdgo JJ:au at itaieign.hH : V The yeari-1771 . was : an eventful nou in our nisiory.cfw imam ryou was uovernor, . xnmftwcier- on from; the crown of England. astho central orjcl of the nartv ..";. . ... . w and expressesjf jnce in the.Be- he conduct of the mother country ana ner agents had caused great party law. course pursued by "the one that commends 3 dbou imbst idown if them in thoturef thic: consioTer wrould do the pa damage ; the endorsing of defaulter byt tho central of a refusal tdsustaih the a a packed ! CbnventI6ri,'-no how rtular7,? :l;ix ls to theStatejJxecutiv mittee.' It is 7 composed OJin members. 4 Dnlv' fouh -attended the late meeting in ;pernV?SaII the Era run' tin Lee's name; for Sheriff. and stop advocating public scnools on- tne simple uecisi gentlemen 4 and the' fci :y -asso- : - tYsran 1 t : - Atidaof iHtter Com- -usages dissatisfaction throughout the Prov- Renublicans." inin r wl "Iawwm fTimAn I one acre th "e Any inte ill measure thJ a squato' pot other, fend dj 13.5GU, wht 1 i 1 urain pipeVYater P1?63! gas pipes and underj jriind railways. -There are points ii the soil of London whereat WH fl be extremely diffi cult talindjr pm for another pipe. One compltx; j alone the Gas Light pplies two pr rrnm three Inch tz four feet. These are the main 'ies merely, and lrom them ever r Jlpuse and street lamp receives 01, an) average six or eight feet of smj? flhiping. In addition to these,' -am , tie underground tele graph'wirjyjire are no less than mile f (h drain pipes of vari ous dime islins. Less familiar to us, but ni If'ss important, are the lead and r'oji tubes leaden pipes with oute 'castings of iron among which wr tten messages, packed in a little fel ibd gutta' percha cases, are blown flhm station, to station. The conv faftnee of these messages is itnmen k A steam engine forces in a blast or.tir and in about a min ute it tnuJWa distance of 890 yards. There is 8t present thirteen stations on the underground railway ; and as peophWalk on the streets of London eecfricity is flashiner mes sages abevo their heads and little ince, and Governor Tryon had won for himself the bloody title of the "Great Wolf of North Carolina." The stamp act was passed in 17 Go, and so great was the excitement that when an English sloop-of-war arrived in the Cape Fear River with the stamp paper for the use of tho Colony the citizens : of New Hanover and' Brunswick, headed by Cols. John Ashe and Waddell, seized the sloop's boat, hoisted it on a cart, fixed a mast in her, mounted a flag and marched in triumph to Wilmington, where the citizens joined in grand illumina tion at night. The next day they proceeded to the Governor's Palace and demanded that he should de sist from all attempts to execute the obnoxious act. Heat first refused, but when the people prepared to burn his palace, he yielded up the royal stamp master, who was taken to the market-house and .forced to take a solemn oath not to attempt to execute his office. On the 16th of May, 1771, the battle of Alamance was fought be tween the royal forces and a por tion of the oppressed people of the State who styled themselves Regu lators. Twenty Regulators were killed find several wounded, and the loss of the royal forces in killed, wounded and missing was sixty-one. In the language of Bro. John II. Wheeler, (Grand Master . 1843-'4 1) in his history of North Carolina, to which we are indebted for tho foregoing facts : Thus and here was the first blood spilled in these United States, in resistance to ex actions of English rulers, and op pressions by fhe English Government." Soortfter rwo last of the North Carolina. Thus it will be seen that 1771 will be ever remembered in North Car olina as the year in which Mason ry was introduced into the State, the battle of Alamance fought and the last of the royal Governors in augurated. Masonic Monthly. Now, Bro. Ball, we shall " misconstrue" give you credit fo to see all our diflfii and. but the Era is not good ftself to not your article. We an earnest desire nces in Wake ir the battle, Tryon was .kk -qyornor of 'New YorkA Olorhv.7n?ah Marti '--? - 1 " arrxxuv ermmr-in 'and elsewhere he41ed up, and all obstructions to the success of the Republican party in the State re moved, and we beg that you will bear in mind thatf all the trouble in Wake is caused by ONE man T. F. Lee. Thouch he claims that he is the Chairman of the Executive Com mittee of the party in the county, he has not called a meeting of the Committee since 1871, thereby ar rogating to himself all the powers of tho Committee, and ignoring those who were appointed with him and charged with the interests of the party in the county. Under his call a Convention recently assem bled In this city composed mainly of delegates appoiited in his inter est, without due notice given to the Republicans of the townships they assumed to represent. That Convention ignored the fact that Lee as Sheriff of Wake county was a defaulter to the amount of $56,2o0.5G to the county and $10, 530.54 to the State making an ag gregate defalcation of $66,781.10. It ignored the fact that serious damage had been done to the cause of Republicanism by this defalcation .gun ppriprfc pr refusal to pay oyer missives just unde LoOOmes day. , Th don pres( streets, s extent. 1 great sew the Than in ine .te Park, an ( whizzing and darting eir feet. As many as s pass to and fro in a uinage system of Lon- a world of underground U.OOOor 3,000 miles in drains empty into three running parallel with which sewers connect hborhood of Victoria through Barking Creek discnargt Unto the river. Men are constant Employed keeping these drains ir rripair. Londoners never pourapjlljof water down a drain but at th7 depths of that mysterious aperturo f ojnebody is making way for it. ..1 1 stranger, properly cos tumed, Sag explore three depths, which :jfmble vaulted galleries, in the si led ot which are trans form- Dcscrvinjr Boys. We like boys who try to helo themselves. Every one ought to be friendly to them. The boys of energy and ambition, who make a manly effort to do something for tnemseives, are the nope of the country. Let their anxious ears catch always words of encourage ment and cheer, for such words, like favoring breezes to the sails of a ship, help to bear them forward to the destination they seek. It is not always as it should be in this respect. Many a heart has been broken many a young man of industry, animated by honorable motives, has been discouraged by tne sour words, the harsh and un just remarks of some relative who should have acted the part of a friend. The unthinking do not consider the weight with which such remarks sometimes fall upon a sensitive spirit, and they may bruise and break it. If you cannot do anything to aid and assist young men, you ought to abstain from throwing any obstacles in their way. But can you not do something to help them forward? You can at least say, God speed to tnem, and you can say it feelingly from your heart. You little know of how much benefit to boys and young men encouraging council, 4 pn poses, ana wnic has squandered in tion. It ignored the fact lie schools of the voice 1 for an honest adnxuistratlon of State and county affairs, and hold up all ofncials.whether Republicans or Democrats, to 'the strict letter of the law ? Which course" will bring most odium on the Republican cause? No, Brother Ball, there can be no compromise in this matter without a sacrifice of principleTWe heartily desire harmony in the Republican ranks and the success of the party both in the State and county. We are willing to sacrince anyening but honor to this end. But we can-; not and will not sacrifice all four convictions of right and justice and honor, for the sake of a defaulting Sheriff. The Republican party must stand by its principles, and if a man placed in office by it proves recreant to those principles and by his acts brings reproach on the party, let him stand aside and let the party put a better man in the place. We had intended not to recur to Wake county matters again though assailed daily by thq. ; --defaulter's organ in this city, butThe article of the New North State seemed to render it necessary, and that alone is our apology tor tnis extenaca article. :? r: .-..X -.. . . fCThe' DemocratiGiai caiUciUons.'n ffie W11 to allowOfcKay to bo hlanl. the; instructing iuci- penis or inecampaign tnus iarue-v. Velvpe: ; TheF Miltbn pironide seerns to ;be at"as loss to .khow hpw tion the hands ;of 'the party. fA: momcnts consideration ofhiscourse patiny itine. via l'veid and JoimlL iJillard twere driyuncirig tbeuB3ux and theiractsiinf Rocklrt 1 onoeve Republicanism in Richmond. County. The Republicans of Richmond county met in Rockingham on the 6th inst., Maj. ' R. T. Long in the Chair, and Thos. R. Graham Secre- ary. At tne reques.! I hear a word o censure from lilsvftps ? Some bf his T apolo gists satthat lie disannroved it. If he did Ip, his disapproval was kept so very secret that it" never made itself heard Or felt. Of course there is no evidence that Gen. Scales was actually identified with the Ku KIuxorder,buthe ivas never known as the frlehd, advocate, or comfor ter of any of those who suffered at the hands of those nefarious scoun drels. His silence at Such a time, and on the part of a man of his prominence, especially when con trasted with Dillard, Reid and Ruf- fin, all prominent Democrats of the same county, was evidently the si lence of consent It was so inter preted at the time and the non-Ku Klux portion of the peopleof Rock ingham counted him from first to last a thorough-going Ku Klux. The Democratic party refused at the close of the war to accept the situation, and acknowledge the na tional authority. It persisted in thrusting forward for public posi tions inen who had made them selves notorious by their secession and intense hatred of the Union, and w;hen they were excluded by act of Congress", these Union-haters were held up all through the South as martyrs in a sacred cause. VThis party resorted to the wicked and devilish Ku Klux Klan to get pos session of the' State governments. In its interest ; American, citizens were intimidated, whipped find sassinated, and only the power of f hose appointment and demanding a division of time, ?t5f course, Wad dell doesn't like it; but is compelled gtionajigoyern ;The candidates met On last Friday at ; Saunders' "Store, ,. itt Carteret -county :;the discussion was warm and resultca most X favorably . for. , McKayr Ayaddelt can't carry the . .".Salary; Grab " through the honest county nf.Cai i'eret. I heard several leading men of his party say i after ,. his explanation In Beaufort, on the ' Xst day c r June, that he, Waddol f, andlja to assist him. fen far iSh'ortpf explaining" to their satis faction'tiiat vaaceu7s act in taking the peoplcL'moheyV without com- ' t amuug me wnutu uauuu cuuueum it. He draws the line of color, and says the question is negro or white man's party.. On this issue of color, McKay literally flindered him. AV Saunders' Store, so decently did Mc Kay wear him out, that at the meet ing on Saturday," at JSTewport, Wad dell tried to abandon this issue made by.him and his party friends the day before. Waddell is hard down on the extravagance of the Government in the expenditure of the people's money. McKay said that Waddell bugnt to be the last man to complain of extravagance in the administration of the Gov ernment. He showed how Waddell had received, while a member of Congress, thirty thousand dollars for about four years' services. That he was then receiving . forty ($40) dollars per day as a member of Con gress, and instead of occupying his seat .at Washington he was election eering through the counties, when the most important measures before Congress were now being agitated. That while Waddell seems so op posed to civil rights, he absents himself from Congress while that bill is. before the House, when his vote might defeat its passage. Carteret county in the last State election went some three hundred Democratic- It i3 now almost a certainty that McKay will carry this county. Waddell's defeat is already foreshadowed. It is only necessary for McKay to meet hi m before the people to gain votes. The parties meet at Rich lands, In Onslow county, on Monday, the 15th of tho present month. McKay, by his de termination to see Waddell through, will make many friends in Onslow. and the whole District. " - Will write you again soon. M. V t$at the pub- couny were clos ed by reason of Lee's refusal to pay over the school money, and the poor children of the county were growing up in utter ignorance, though the school taies had been collected by Lee as Sljeriff. It ignored the fact that jurors and witnesses summoned tJ attend Wake Superior Courts were subjected to a discount of from twenty-five to thirty-three per cent. on their tick ets because Lee had not paid over to the County Treasurer, and this too at a time when proper settlement would be clear of debti It ignored the fact tiat poor men 1 m 1 1 1 1 mi 1 ' . liiiu apauin Whereas, we, the Republicans of Richmond county have met in con vention for the purpose of selecting candidates for the various county offices to be filled at the ensuing election. Therefore, be it resolved, 1st. That we endorse our time honored principles as heretofore enunciated in our State convention of 1872, the substance of which is "equal and exact justice to all men." 2d. That we do not and cannot endorse the present bill pending in the United States Congress and known as the " Civil Rights Bill," believing it to be uncalled for, in- by nominating for the highest ofli mocratic i&rty has again ifused to accept the situatibn-agaid refused to bow to the will of the nation. And thausrh the hellish Crimes of its agent, the Ku Klux Kian, has caused civilization to blush, and Christianity to bow its head in shame and sorrow, the ofli cer3 who assisted in putting down the Klans and restoring law and or der have been set upon with fiend ish malignity by Democratic presses and orators, and now the Democrat ic party goes farther and shows its approbation of! the Ku Klux Klan Democratic PowWow, Wasn Day and General : lreakTUp . in GC liorr? To the E' i imical to our dearest interests, de structive of the peace and harmony of the races and fatal to the educa- tbe county, if J tional wants of our people. Were made,! Aftprtho rpnflincr nf flifl fnrofrn. ing resolutions, says the Spirit of the South, calls being made for Col. ces in tne state tnose wno were known to sympathize with that disgraceful, oath-bound Democratic agent. Voters of North Carolina, think 01 tnese tacts and go to tne pons in and women, made paipers by mis- Dockery, this gentleman proceeded AuSust and by yur ballots forever fortune or accident, ind to whom to address the convention on fbp drive this party from power in our an allowance has been made bv the on State. mimtv in Icpph thpm frnm stdrva. u: i r. rn , " r 1 I 1UU X1111JBC1X ill li V Ul Ul nn I II -ir n l ; giviug uioai, cogent reasons mere- President Grant has for. He said the colored people piimented the Republicans of North UiUUOluwu u"y eumrgeuieuL 01 Carolina, by the appointment of W T T . I . A . - T X .41 - meir ngnis ana privileges ; mac th Rtn -m- ,0t0 4l. I given ntly ana well-timed, may be; plump, the torrent is fearful; so -much s (Hat upon several occasions men ha e tost their lives. I - i Rirtli-l'Iace of James Madison. On th Vouthside banks of the no ble and Mcuresque Rappahannock, abont'tilrtv miles below the his toric m W . C J orea Vila. p of Port Royal, is the little tov c known as Port Conway. There ii Nothing in the appearance 01 me Futp self to attract the ob- Some students fixed up a ghost me iraveier; yet n 11s and placed it upon the staircase of a history wire generally known, so Troy newspaper office and then re-full-Is tbf historic interest to the tired and awaited developments, people i fftliis State, that its visitors One of the editors came along and would 10 Hloubt be numbered bv riiri 1 . sucn woras aaaressea to tnose in need of them you may find reckoned among your good deeds. Then help the boys who try to help themselves. You can easily recall simple words of kindness ad dressed to yourself in childhood and youth, and you would like now Cnfof .e"cks.b.urLim- though they may long since have y- fopposiie me ume-non- Kn rpaIw! with th sJIptipa nf death, and covered by the clods of the valley.. huDdrei In the colonial days of it, and now wears a fifteen dollar mdhwedth," Port a ten dollar pair of boots erous "Uia Oom-lnair nf nnntalrons Conway was a I vpsK vpn Hniinr row a v no nttie importance; and, and an eight dollar hat, while one aiipun pever densely populated of the students goes about without nof cova-ihg a large area of country, a vest, and another roams around itslmprtance as an Importing and through the least frequented streets ext rt afmart was felt not only in wearing a very ancient pair of in- iu uuw aunwu. m later years I expresslbles est 'to 1 1$ jy reason of its being the birthpir C4J.killustrious states man, JTtta We wonder that history has been ligent regarding: the dress was founded byCatlett Conway the maternal grandfather of Mr. Madi- LOjnegMjg the f life, of Captain We sunnose. however "John smitn. that she wore tion, are forced to bed through our streets, with county cfders in their pockets, and submit to a ruinous a shave because Sheriff! Lee had not 1 settled the county tax& as the law requires. It ismored the platform of the Republican party so fir as it relates to public schools by plicing in nom ination a man who hid closed the public schools by his-reckless dis regard of law requiring the paying over of school moneysf collected by him. It insulted the intelligence and integrity of the Republican party, and of the whole people of Wake county, by proposing for Sheriff a man who had utterly'xefused to pay over one cent of the ntoney collected for county taxes last ear. Now, Brother Ball the above is a plain and truthful sti tement of un deniable facts. The 1 aoral sense of the whole people of the State has been shocked by the jitter disregard by a unanimous vote, every town- again com- they already possessed the same political and civil rights that he enjoyed, and if this bill was passed it would certainly result in serious injury to the colored people whose interest it was intended to promote. He said the two races could not be as well educated together, as they could be separately ; that it was the best for each race to have its own schools and school teachers, as at present; the educational'lunds to be equally divided between them. But we will not attempt anything like a report of the Colonel's speech; suffice it to say that his remarks were well received, tho colored peo ple signifying their approbation in the plainest terms. A vote being taicen on the reso lutions resulted in their adoption Col. Victor C. Barringer as a mem ber of a mixed Egyptian Court for the trial of causes in that country where Americans are interested, with a salary of $8,000 per annum. Judge Barringer rendered the State of North! Carolina signal ser vice as a member of the Code Com mission, which position he resigned to accept a place on the Commission to codify the ilaws of the United States. I He is a lawyer of large experience and will do credit to our govern ment in the responsible place as signed him by the President. of principle and by khe determin ation of a faction of! the Republi cans of Wake to bolkter up ONE man, and the attempt to force his election by the cry of " regular nominee" and by a vigorous use of the party lash. J What do you expett do, Brother Ball? the Era to What would you do, if you were a citizen of Wake? Would you stifle all your sense of right and justice and ask George W people to vote for a man who J Meacham, -JglTTi 1 1 ii ', ajHh the ship in the county being represent ed. The following nominations were made by the Convention : For House of Representatives, Robert Fletcher; for Treasurer, Richmond T. Long ; for Clerk of Superior Court, Dugald Stewart ; for Sheriff, Zachary F. Long; for Register of Deeds, William R. Terry; for County Commissioners, McKinnon, Daniel H. Thomas R. Graham, The Republican Convention for the Seventh District held at Yadkin ville, Wednesday, nominated Dr. C. L. Cook, of Wilkes, for Congress, A. H. Joyce, !psq for Solicitor, and recommended W. H. Bailey for Judge. ! I ! CORRESPONDENCE. party, ,. simply. because t he had"sCTMcean. It must not be understood that The Era endorses the sentiments of Its correspond ents in every instance. Its columns are open to the friends of the party, and their communication Hi will be given to the public as containing the views and sentiments of the writers. i Neill Mclva, Esq., Republican Candidate1 for Congress in the 3d District, after Hon. Alfred IH. Waddell,: the Democratic "Back Salary Grabber." To the Editor, of the Era: tne Oftrrrt-H mi sift l n s and as it was suppo of fun was on handi uriositv afewRpnDa A 1. : ii- of their kit amount of fift house bell (wk hour and a hal gathering some (about one-third cans, as above as s fi ofp -uto. around to seethqceQfd to ffk stafow-trCro anxious to see the show). The ball was opened by appointing Boar Hooks to take care of the clothes, do the general superintending, Ac, while J. A. Bonitz was requested to kindle fires, carry off the rubbish and to do such other dirty work as the rest of them were not willing to engage in. At this period of the exhibition, the Boss of the concern announced that they were ready for soap, whereupon, about twenty-five or thirty pieces were hurled in for in spection in the shape of resolutions, whereases, resolves, &c. You could plainly see by this time that every one was for himself and (as a wag at my elbow remarked) the Devil for all. Some of the worthy ones (who were in the minority) con tended that no nominations were to be made, while others, who held a majority, contended that then was the accepted time, and contended for the rules of Parliament: while the balance of the crowd contended that Parliament had legislated for tneir special benefit. Things by this time began to get pretty warm. and during the excitement Col. Morris had a few men over in one them a resolution for the fifteenth time, and when peace was restored. Col. Morris was yet found reading 111s same resolution, the contents o .1 1 3li y T . ..11 n 1 .mi rmr--r-if. 74 KnZ a-rr ti alt it care anything about, excepting Col. Morris, who declared by all that was good or bad that if such as that was allowed to ero on. the RenublU can party would get the whole kit or them before tne campaign waj over. It being plainly observable that more help was needed, a mc tion was made to adjourn and call in the townships to their assistanc as it was very evident (and' marked) that Rhodes, Copelanc and others intended to to use thei through the mud before the tbin was done with. The various candi dates, of course, had their wire pullers around, doing all they could ; but as most of the Conven tion (so-called) were' candidate hemselves, no time was consumer in wording ior - otners. a gooc many customers presented their : x t ai 9 1 1 -11 1 ; ciaims 10 nave meir iiueu uiieuuui. . to, and wen tney mignc, as iney nave oeen wearing ineir pnvau garb in this county since 18C7; and as might be supposed, are gettin; very buggy, i But we will conn 4 dently promise them that if thet0 ; I will do the soaking and scntbbiL ril : , in..., l, 4a. rt ! ( -di l SMI 1, u ' If f r . .1 4 1