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.7 RALKiaH. N.C. THURSDAY.... ..JULY 4, 1879. TBB DA WS OF BUTTER. DA YS, , ;,. -' There is said to be a good deal of human nature In folks. : So immediately after the war no one ought to have been sur prised at the soreness of the South or at the disposition of the 'North to carry mat ters with a high hand. These natural feelings were known to exist by the politi cians and they were speedily seized upon and used to advance the interests of the different political parties. In particular did the Republicans posh the matter to an extreme, and finding it was a good chord to play upon they hoped to continue the performance indefinitely. The bloody shirt was waved often and with great success. But at length the human nature of the people grew tired of these stale appeals to their worse passions, and the Democratic party in 1876, on the platform of reconciliation, swept the coun try bj an immense popular majority of tbe wniteTOUrs." since tnen mere nave been abortive efforts made to arouse sec tional prejudices by flaunting the red flag In the face of the people but the an ticipated responses were not elicited ; so that it has come to be accepted by think log men of all sections, that other issues most be made between the parties if the speakers are to be in sympathy with popu lar sentiment and are not to discuss mat ters which no longer engage public atten tion. ' : We rejoice in the belief, then, that at tacks are to cease on the honorable inten tion and purpose of the South to sustain our Federal Government, which, owes iu creation largely to Southern brains and its glories chiefly to Southern statesmen. We believe that these attacks are to cease be cause public sentiment will no longer tole rate them. A majority of the voters have declared for reconciliation, and that makes futile further attempts to array, section against section for mere partisan purposes. Accordingly we notice a disposition to revert to older political themes, and to ex amine the principles that undeilie our government, with a fairness and an honesty that has been since the war rarely exhib ited by leading Northern papers. Indeed, the absence from their columns of harsh ex pressions towards us of the South is so marked that we are inclined to go beyond reasonable bounds, and to anticipate the speedy return of, an era of good feeling between the sections. Under these circum stances, how despicable are the efforts of the ultra Republican sheets to keep alive the remembrance of former animosities. And not only do they excite our disgust but the miserable straits to which they are driven also excite our commisseration. The Washington Republican having un successfully exhausted all other means to reisflame the expiring embers, now pub lishes in each issue the events that occured on each particular day during the entire four years of the war. By this method it is hoped to keep . those circumstances some painful, some exciting, some humili atingalways uppermost in the minds of its readers, and thus by fighting the war over continually to prevent the final estab lishment of peace among the people. But its task is a hopeless one. So far as the popular heart is concerned, the editor of the Republican mar as well amuse himself with discussing the events of the war of 1812, and glorifying the perform ance of Old Hickory at the Battle of New Orleans, for the people both North and South seem to be intent on peace and the establishment of business relatione and are not at all alarmed lest the "rebels" may run away with the country. THE LATEST REPUBLIC AS- CRY. The New York Times is a wonderful pa per. Give it the object and it will reach the mark. No means will be too doubtful no methods too tedious no result too preposterous, if the object to be accom plished is only in the line of its purpose and within the domaln-of partisan politics. In its issuer of the 21st, it devotes eleven full columns to alleged Democratic frauds, . practiced in the election of 1876, ard then, touches only oa six States. We will not attempt to reproduce its details, for as the Philadelphia Timt well says : t - We would despair of giving an intelli gent idea of the enormous mass of figures and elaborate cyphering by which its ideas are impressed upon the unfortunate reader of the New York Timet. They will not be understood by one in a thousand, and would addle the brain of anybody but a lightning calculator who may attempt to master them. Republicans will skip all but the deduc tions and believe them, while Democrats will skip all but the deductions and reject them as preposterous. The irjavamen of the charge is that Mr. Tildkh and his friends brought out too many voteri ; that while the Republicans polled their full Tote, the Democrats polled a much larger rote than the census returns would seem to justify. To illustrate, it is alleged that for the thirteen Presidential elections lm mediately preceding 1876, the maximum vote was 85 per cent, of the voting popu- lation, while in 1876 the per cent, voting in Connecticut was 88. 2; in Kew xork, 95.2 ; in New Jersey, 93.7 ; in 9 juth Caro lina, 95 6, &C-, &c On this 8ubject.two observations are not unworthy of consideration : First, that the 'figuring by which the voting population in any State is arrived at is unsatisfactory ; and second, that there were influences" at work in that election to draw out it full vote that never were felt before in . the United States and probably never will be again in this century. ' As to this last matter, without doubt the .reputation of Gov. Tildes as a 'ring- breaker" tended to draw out nearly every Toter favorable to reform in governmental afflairs : while the very thorough system of registering every voter, which was re sorted to under his direction, secured their presence " at the polls whenever i t ; was possible to do so. y These things account for the fall role on the Democratic side. j Now as to the unsatisfactory nature of the figuring -by which the voting popu lation of any State is arrived at, we can only say that heretofore the Timet published col umns of figures to show that North Carolina bad cast an impossible vote in 1876, and the writer In Thb Obskbvbb dispelled the il lusion and proved beyond question from the census returns of 1870 that North Car olina had no cast its full vote by twenty thousand in that election. In like manner we do not doubt this latesrr and newest Republican bubble can be pricked by any one 'Who feels sufficient interest in it to make a careful examination of the figures and, discarding Republican methods, seek to arive at only true results.!" 'i "THE COLORED TBOOPS OF MEMPHIS.' We cannot refrain from expressing our admiration of the conduct of the colored military' companies of Memphis who, as the telegrams cf yesterday . reported, have volunteered their services as a guard for the property of the city, should necessity arise therefor. It is an instance of hero-1 ism r and self-sacrifice that commands the admiration of all men and deserves the es pecial gratitude of ? the : people of that stricken city. Having little to incumber their flight, the colored citizens of Mem phis might readily flee from the plague and leave the wealthy and , helpless to care for their property as best they may; but while the rich are leaving their houses and stores and robbers are perhaps planning to repeat their deeds of last year, colored , men offer to keep watch and guard and face the ter rors of horrible disease and death. I We have frequently noticed and always admired and commended the spirit which actuates our colored citizens whenever the property or lives of their white neighbors are endangered. At an alarm of fire they are always among the first to attend the cry and fight the flames , most bravely and fiercely. It is not the hops ot reward, but; their courage and regard for their White friends and neighbors, that inspires them. The people of Memphis - should neve; forget .the McClellan Guards' and Memphis Zouaves t , , ' ,. ' A fkixnd writes us to know If an elec tion will be held for constables this., year, to which we reply as follows t : The elec tion of a constable for each township in the State, by tne qualified voters . thereof, was provided for in article A? section 80, Constitution oi, lpoa. inis section was not interfered with by the amendments made by the Constitutional. Convention of 1875, and the General Assembly, has no power, to change its provisions as it has to modify, change or abrogate the provisions of article 7, amended Constitution," relating to counties, townships, etc., and. which it exercised at the session of . 1876 -'77. In establishing county and township govern' ments, the Legislature of 187677 made no provision for the election of consta bles, and those elected at the regular town ship elections in 1875 have continued to hold and will hold their, offices until the Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem' ber, 1880, when an election will be held for constables onder section 3, ' chapter 152, Acts 1878 79. - Speaking of the numerous candidates for the succession in care Col. Steklk, declines a, re-nomination for Congress. The Robesonian eays : i , If patriotism will continue to advance; there will be no less than one hundred for: midable competitors for .the office, and himself excepted, each of these one hun dred prodigies of ability, wisdom and statesmanship bad. rather see CoL Stsklk returned. ' . ; T '. To the moraIi8trthe office seeking mania, which has taken possession of so many of our people, offers a peculiarly fertile and inviting theme. To such great' extremes do people go now-a-days to secure office, that if the prominent candidates' will be lieve all that will be said about him by their political rivals for' the next twelve months, they will ' be surprised how they have so far escaped the gallows or the penitentiary. '. ' , .1 - Thebb is a movement -on . foot- celebrate- the' anniversary ' of the f hattle 'Of Yprktowri this Vear with unusaTpompfin order to inauguate. preparations, for a gand centennial .commemoration of the surrender of Coaswams on October 19, 1381. Such a celebration would be,1' as the Philadel phia 2ZmM3say8, 'therowning demonstration of the series ' of centennials which, beginning with Lexington and Concord,' and " Bunker m Hill, and Mecklen burg in 1875, have done so much in the last f Jur years to revive - American patriotism. aid to reawaken the slumbering spirit of fraternity among the, people ,of the differ esjt States, ,, ... i i - - t ; SXatLer la Cabarrus - , - iCorresp-tndence of Thk Obsikyxr.) Editob Obxbvxb : The campaign .cry in this Congressional District, for the next election, will be, "Lst the office seek the man." Hitherto it has been such arduous and fatigueing work for the man- to seek the office that the people have wisely de cided upon a change of tactics and will per mit the office to beat the bushes for the man it wants. This plan having been de cided upon, it is remarkable to see how quickly the patriots have kicked themsel ves out of the way and ; hidden.; where the omce will be least likely to reach its aveng ing hand into their holes, and pull them out. We have . been anxiously scanning the columns of the Charlotte Observer to find some news of the hidden candidates. and for the sake of the office, we are be ginning to feel alarmed. The election is closj at band only, some thirteen odd months to elapse yet already nearly every deserving patriot in our District has bar ricaded himself against ' the : search the office has been started . around on- JTha numbejr of those who have not yet hidden is few, there being only eight in Mecklen- ourg, two m Cabarrus, three In Lincoln, two in Catawbp, three in Anson, two in Stanly, wu h ... the statistics iff the : other counties yet to work up. This' number would seem to be ssffidentlyilarge for toe office to select from; but a grave question arises. Where will they be when the time cocoes to select one from their number ? The people view with alarm, the possibility that ere, that time cones, they -will ail be hidden becurely away, and the office, one of the most honorable within the gift of me people, will go begging empty handed. Suchaan eyent is not only a possibility but a probability, and unless some of the modesty can be knocked but of the candi dates, our ditfrict may prepare itself for the worst. Unless the candidates can get the. better of their modesty, the office will certaioly claw around with desperate use lessness, and the people will jcease to vote because there will be. no one for whom to vote, , , . 1 1 ' t - . .V " : OCB GOLD FIELDS. ' The owners of the various gold mines in Cabarrus have been grasping the band of the Northerner aud releasing the grasp with their palms full of money. J no. F. McDonougb,-.George:Caulfteld and C.-.E. Lambert, all of New York City, are now cleaning out the Bangle mine and the old Dutch shaft, in No. 9 township, and to morrow they are to be j oined -by- another party of Northerners, who will , invest in adjacent mines. These men intend to give our, Cabarrus mines ; a thorough:: test, and from their preliminary observations expect results that will surprise the outside world. The Bangle mine is located on the spot where that tremenous" lump of gold, the first ever discovered in North Carolina, as history tells ae, was picked up by Reed. While prosecuting their search these gen tlemen will domicile with Capt. W. II. Orchard, late Representative from this county, and Win.; Richards, both well known gold kings. i v.- -. - J" ' SHAKES AMD KA1X. r- One cannot travel any country road with out being struck with the sight of snakes hanging from boughs of trees or lying across a top fence-raiL That is the negroe's prayer to Heaven for rain. So firm is their belief that hanging a snake up. will bring rain that lately they have not contented themselves, with hanging up every snake they come; across accidentally, but have actually gone bunting for snakes, and on one farm near town the darkies yesterday killed eight and now have them hanging up all around the premises. - there must be something in it, , of course, as . heavy clouds have just now begun to roll up, and I can almost hear the farmers and millers shouting for-joy. Torn the tubs upside down, ye clouds of Heaven" and give us all you've got on band, . And don't every- bxly try to catch it all at once. f A - W. II. II. ' Iire&ktplateH A(ain, (Correspondence or Tan OBsnvxa j ! We take the liberty of making the fol lowing extract from a letter, not intended for publication, from Doasey Battle, Esq. "I have i no more doubt about seeing .breastplates, cap.ured from the enemy, in .1862. than that I was in the war. I have 'just stopped two soldiers of Company "I, 15th North Carolina - State - Guards, pass ing "my office, and asked them if they bad seen Yankee breastplates during the war-- both answered they bad seen "piles of them" after the "Seven Pines" fight. 'These absolutely reliable citizens are Wm Donald Williams, and Joseph T. Sugg, or .hdgecombe: - ir necessary, they say, J can get, for you, one hundred or more affi -davits rom members of their regiment. 1 1 am glad to see you sitting down so heavily on Capt. Judson. - .. j . - . . - PArittlan Affair. , Edward King writes from Paris to the Evening Pott as follows i - ! . THB FAILURE OF IMPERIALISM. Madame de Remusat's memoirs, in which she gives the character of Napoleon the First so severe a condemnation, have cre ated a tremendous sensation. TheCre&ric legend has received so many blows of late that it no longer remains firmly in its place. Apropos of Cae tirism and imperi alists, the retirement of M. Rouher from politics and the acquittal cf M. de Cassag nac of the accusation of press offences charged against him are the events of the week. Poor M. Rouher professes to be heart-broken, and when he read the late Prince's will to an assembly of the faitnful the other day, we are informed that he burst into ' loud sobs. Perhaps he was weeping for his lost hopes, but he says that it was for his "dear dead ones," He may be pardoned a certain amount of grief for the Empire was extremely beneficent to him, and now that all hope of its resto ration is over, his occupation is gone. He wisely persists in his determination to re tire definitely in'o private life. M Rouher has never been .his best self since be was beaten by the Due d'Audiff ret Pasquier in the great debate on the 4th of May, 1872. With bis retirement the last of the elder supporters of the Second Em oire's claims vanishes from view. Etnile plliver and Rouher are already forgotten men.': . ; : -: , i f 8ABAH BKBNHAEDT'S RESIGNATION. , -The resignation of 1 Sarah ' Bernhardt from the Company of the Comedie Fran chise was the natural rt-sult of the system auc attacks of which the nervous actress has been the object for a long time. When she disappointed a London audience, and the aristocracy criticised - her with great sharpness ' in consequence thereof, the critics said so much that Mademoiselle Sarah lost her temper. - How much truth there is in the story that she has been of fered two millions of francs to - play in America two years 1 know not. one can not leave the Comedie Francaise without paying heavy damages : the contract stip ulates this. Bui it She decides, to leave she will do. if, should it cost her every pen nt she .has saved. She ' would probably have marked success in the United States. A Cctuqcs old Cow. Captain EI ward P. Nichols, of the bark Noriena, of Port land, while slopping at Port Mahon, in the Mediterranean, making repairs, made the acquaintance of a well Known ci izen of that port, Antonio Bartebni, who pre sented him with a silver coin which is supposed to be very valuable, and one of the most remarkable curiosities ever brought to this country.: Mr. Barteonl savs this coin is ona of the original silver shekels of the kind used in the purchase of Joseph at the time, be was sold by bis brethren into Egypt, and that it was mide with some kind of flint stone by. the ancients. ' He says it came into the possession of his family from -.the Moors, and has been handed down from generation to genera. tion until now. While people are at lib erty to take their own view of this es i mate of its antiqrUy, it seems to be better established that the coin is one which was eagerly -sought after fifty years ago by the officers t)f one Of oir United States man-of-war vessels, who applied T to the owner for It. and which Signer Barteonl then carefully kept from them. : It is al r most square in shape, and has some pecu iiar.nierogiypmcs worked on both sides. Ltvtutoten Journal. . ' iSIiss Bttsie's Thrilling. Adventcbk. A i young girl named Susan Johnson, of Uhiontown, Kentucsy, who is addicted to reading novels, dressed herself in boys's ciomes, ana armea witn two pistols and dagger, took the steamboat for Evansville, inienamg lo-ieaa a nie inat would be terror to the foe. On the boat some deck hands were moving freight and a big rat ran out in the direction of our hero. - Miss Johnson jumped on ft bale' of tobacco and screamed. .They carried ber to the ladies Cibln, where ehe- remained -during the round trip, and she is now at -home. , with no desire for a life of adventure. Cleave land Ledger. ., '. j j: ? Statci . of Libbbtt. The , Franco- American monument project has been re ausciated, and a lottery of three hundred thousand tickets at one franc each las been organized, the funds to be devoted to the finishing of Bartholdi's colossal statoe to be erected in New York. The largest prize offered by the lottery is a silver table service worth 54,00U. ; . POLilTITALi MOXES. 8ECESTAKT M'CBAKT'S 8HCCKSSOB. Washikqton, July 21. It seems that the selection of ex Senator Ramsey to be the successor of Mr. McCrary as Secretary of War, when the latter is confirmed as a United States circuit judge, is not, in any way. in the interest of Sherman's candid acy for the presidency. The Urant men claim him as a true stalwart among the third-term advocates, and explain that his selection was made simply from a ceo graphical standpoint. As Mr. McCrary represents one of the strongest or tnosc strong republican States in the jNortnwesi- ern section of the country, the President was of. the opinion that his successor Bbould be a representative of the same ele ment. Katrrtey was a candidate ior me mission to Berlin when Bayard Taylor was appointed, having the indorsements of the most prominent republicans of the .Northwest, such as senators inanaier, Allison,- Kirk wood, Howe, Carpenter, Windom. Saunders and Paddock. Con sequently, when the President determined to select a successor for McCrary from McCrary's country, he came to the conclu sion that from Ramsey's indorsements he was the representative man of his party and entitled to the honor.. - The Grant people say that even should Ramsey desire to aid Sherman's candidacy wnat aid ne can command is ioo msigniu- cant to be of effect. In the first place his State. Minnesota, is small and really in the control of Senator Windom, a Grant - Conkling man : and in the 1 second place, white Ramsey is a stalwart party man., he is negative in his nature and not the man to control delegates to a national nominat ing convention. f ; POLITICAL FLANK MOVEMENT. It is further said by the Grant people that after Sherman found that the Presi dent would not make Hartranft Secretary of War his (Sherman's) friends tried to flank the Grant people in Pennsylvania by bavin? CoL Quay, o' that State, named for the place. Q jay is Senator Cameron's chief of staff and the chairman of the Lie publican State central committee of Penn sylvania. His management of the guber natorial campaign in his State last year, which resulted in the disastrous defeat of the Democracy, gave him a prominence in his party next to Cameron, and booked him for the United States Senate in place of "Senator Wallace, whose term expires on March 4th, 1881, contingent, of course, on the Republicans carrying the Legisla ture, which is more than probable from the Republican gerrymanding of the Leg islative districts now existing in Pennsyl vania. CoL Quay is a pronounced Grant man, and so is Senator Cameron, but the bherman people thought that a cabinet position might induce Col. Q lay not only to change bis mmd, but to give bis mend, Senator Cameron, whose wife is Sherman's niece, a reason for changing with him. But the President said that the appoint ment belonged to the Northwest, and there ii must go. And the Grant men are bap. py, and say, "Set the Pennsylvania Re publicans down for Grant." grant's lbttebs. . Gen. Grant, by the way, writes by every mail to an intimate friend of his here. The latest letter he has from him is dated "on the road to Pekin, May 29th." In that letter be mentioned October 1st as the date of his arrival in San Francisco. He said nothing of going to Australia and the Sandwich Islands, and of not return ing home until after the Republican Na tional Convention had been held. Another mail is expected from him on Thursday, the steamer from Hong Kong, with mails from that place to June 2Uib, having arrived in San Francisco on Thursday last. G01XG TO TALK FOB EWISG. Mr. Mason, who polled 82,000 votes as the greenback candidate for Governor of fennsvlvania last fall in a tout vote ci 700,000, signifies his intention of taking the stump in Ohio f Jr Gen. is.wmg. A POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF 100. . In obedience to a call signed by George M. Gill, seventy members of the Inde rendent Democratic Uommutee of one hundred assembled in the south cafe of the Academy of Music at 8 o clock last night This committee reported an elaborately prepared address to the people of Balti more, which was adopted. The paper sets out with claiming as the duty of the Con vention "to devise a remedy- for existing evils in the administration of our city and State governments." The address declares in favor of the best men for offices, the fewest elections possible, and denounces as demoralizing the present system of primaries. The address says there is no ground or reason for upholding the primaries unless , it Is tnie that by them alone par y supremacy can be maintained, and if this is true tarty supremacy had better be abandoned. The first thing to be done is to get lid of primary elections, and the next step is to secure free and fair elec tions. 1 be address demands an abandon ment of the present registry system, and holds up the evils of . the know-nothing reign as a warning, and declares that pres ent party misrule is almost a3 perniciouaas know-nothing rule or the outrages of mili tary power during the time of the war. The effect of this state of affairs, it is claimed, has been an enormous public debt, oppressive taxation, large expenditures of public money and the selection of un worthy men to places of public trust, if all who are disgusted with frauds and out rages characterizing the primary elections will unite in behalt good nominations, the address thinks there will be no doubt of success in the movement. All efforts to reduce salaries,- &c, have so far failed through the present agencies, and the peo pie most now themselves look out to se cure economy, retrenchment and reform. The paper claims that proper candidates for otflce may be secured in the same way as when know nothingism was put down, namely, five of the best citizens in each ward, pledged not to be candidates them selves, to meet in convention and select candidates. On . this basis .the .present meeting proposes to operate, the members of it having bound themselves not to seek office this year, and to look exclusively to the interest of the commxnij.BaUimore bun. ; '-' - " ' ; " , ; . The Bureau of Printing and Eagjaving is now engaged in striking off engravings of the Hon. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury. They are -principally for distribution in the Soirh among tne office' holders. When the office-holder scans the face ciosely he is supposed to reflect on the . wisdom of announcing himself for Grant and then to decide in the negative without delay. , Washisgtost, July 23. The President said to-day fo a gentleman who called on him that he had made a selection of the person he desired to fill the vacancy on the bench of this district made vacant by the death of Judge Humphreys, but that he would not make his name public until he was sure of his acceptance. The feeling prevails with the Washington bar that Judge James, of this city, but recently of Oaio, is the man. - The final action of the Louisiana con vention on the question of the State debt, which is a partial repudiation, creates great indignation here, where bankers es timate that $600,000 of the bonds are held. Bv the settlement the convention has made it is estimated that the total loss to the bondholders here will be $200,000. Mr. Stephens has not yet announced himself ready to- take the nomination for Governor of Georgia. His health is all right. He was placed on the apothecary's scales several davs asroand it appeared that he had gained four pennyweights and six grains .in a month. - - AL1BA51AS "BL1CK BEIT," A Itejrfon When colored rlen Are concerned ana rroienu. iFrom tie New York Times, Radical. T : Selma, AxL, July 17. The 'section of the State known as the "Black Belt,"jmd composed of the counties Of Montgqmery4 Lowndes, Autanga. BullocK, uaroour, Macon, Wilcox, Greene, Hale, Sumter, Perry, and Dallas, raises the greater por tion of the cotton crop of tnis Diaie. These counties embrace a very large color ed population in some the blacks being as high as four to one of whites, and in none less than two to one. The immense quan tities of cotton, corn, grain, etc., raised in the above counties are the result of negro labor, there being so few whites who work on the farms that their' productions form but an insignificant portion of the crops. These counties are situated in the central part of the State and are remarkable ror the degree of peace, good order, : and general morality which pervades them. Murder in an aggravated form among tne colortd people is almost unknown, and the records of the courts show that there have been comparatively few criminal cases of any character against colored people in the past ten years. During the days, of re publican ascendency in this . State the "Black Belt" was the great bone of con tention between the two political parties. In a fair and honest election no Democrat could be elected in any of the counties above named. - There has been a considerable degree of prosperity in this section since 1875. This may seem surprising in view of the terri ble'sceneB enacted previously. It results, however, from the wisdom of the colored people. They quickly discovered that any attempt on their part to control political affairs although, possessing so large a majority, they had a perfect right to do so only resulted in disaster to themselves and their families. " ''; In auit6 a number of interviews with leading and prominent colored citizens in my tour through the "Black Belt,"Idi covered ' that the belief was universal among them that there was no hope for their future prosperity or advancement ex cept in securing property. The great cry against them, as controlling element in politics, was that they possessed no prop erty ; that they did not sympathise or have any interest in common with the pro perty owners of the State. Hence, they have gone to work to secure property, and their success is very ; gratifying. In all these counties the'colored people are every year increasing their possessions. Many ot them now own valuable farms, have them well stocked, and are absolutely in dependent. This enables them to employ teachers for their schools. The Demo cratic administration in Alabama has vir tually destroyed free public schools, so far as the colored people are concerned, and they have boasted that they did not intend to be taxed to "run free nigger schools " In various places I found excellent schools in operation, the teachers, mostly white, being assisted by colored teachers, and the colored children showing a - commendable and encouraging degree of advancement The colored people are strongly devoted to churches and schools. They have more churches in Alabama, in proportion to the population, than the whites have, and it is an admitted fact that in respect to their moral condition the colored people have shown a more marked and rapid improve ment than any people on earth. Prior to the war they had neither churches nor schools. In the cities, the colored people exhibit a more marked advancement than is dis cernible in the rural districts. It is hard to find a negro child of 7 or 8 years of age who cannot read and write. In this city, in Mobile, in Montgomery, and in all the large towns of the State, the colored peo- )le have ; numerous churches, Masonic odges, charitable societies, schools, de bating clubs, social clubs, and, in fact, they have every means of advancing their moral and spiritual condition, and they are doing so with a rapidity which is as re markable as it is gratifying. They are very strict in the observance of their religious duties more so than the whites. Their Sunday-schools are the wonder of all stran gers. OaSunday, in all the large towns, cities, &C-ithe negro children can be Been in regiment marching to and from the Sunday- sdbool. No matter how hard a negro man may have to labor during the week, when Sunday comes he is sure to be seen at church, and the remainder of the day is spent in reading or learning to read. The negro has ceased to be a factor in the political affairs of Alabama, simply because white Republicans were crushed and driven to the wall. The colon d man has none of the elements of leadership in his nature. He simply follows. ' But there are none of the despised carpet-baggers" left in Alabama now. "The prospects of the negroes in the State seem quite promising, and I did not meet with one in the s entire "Black Belt" who was disheartened, or who did not exhibit a manly disposition to make the best out of his surroundings. Tbey claim that so long as they refrain from taking part in politics they are reasonably ; well treated by the whites, and ' for the present they are more bent upon accumulating property than anything else. From extensive observa tion, I am led to believe that in five years from the present, the colored people of Alabama will own at least one-fourth of the farming interests of the State. ; - f The Kansas exodus excitement did not affect Alabama in the least. As a general thing the ? colored laborers here have re ceived much better treatment and better wases than those of the Mississippi Valley. The last Republican officer in the State being disposed of, it may now be set down that Alabama will henceforth be unanimous ly Democratic. - ; ; Yellow Jack.' AAitory. The history of yellow fever in this country shows that it has hardly been the. exception when the fever appeared as an epidemic the year following an epidemic In 1847 there were 2,259 deaths in New Orleans, and 850 in 1848. and 737 in 1849, In 1853 there were 7,970 deaths in the same city, and there were 2,423 in 1854 and 2,670 in 1855. In 1858 there were 3,889 deaths, but none the next year. In 1867 there were 3,093 deaths, and none the following year; 1 In the1 same propor tions the fever appeared in the smaller places in Louisiana and Mississippi in these years. In 1843, when it reappeared in New Orleans, it cams in June, while ti e ep idemic of 1847 begin in August. The great epidemic ot 1853 began in May, and the epi demic ol the year following came in July, and in the next year in June. The epi demic in North Carolina in 1863 was fal lowed in 1864, two years afterward, by one of increased mortality, but not in the same cities and towns as a general thing. In 1797 Philadelphia's death list was 1,200, in 1793 3,500, and in 1799 there were 1,000 deaths. So it was in 1802 three firths, when Philadelphia next had the fever as an epidemic. In South Carolina it has been almost invariably the case that the second year brought an epidemic. . Mem phis and all other points which were in fected in 1873 escaped the second year. In that year the fevef began in Shreveport first, and did not come until the latter part of August, reaching Memphis September 14 .h. : August has been the favorite month for its inception. Last year it began near tne nrsi or mat montn in the south. . ;; Prolific 8sakc Mr. Wash King, while engaged in gathering pine straw yesterday in the neighborhood of Jump lngsRun, killed a huge water moccasin ; he also dispatched fifty -nine young ones which he ; thought - were ; the offspring of teo&on Wilmington Review. , ', .-. . .. .... . ,.- . -.. - THE YELLOW FEVEK. Tlie Plajrue at Memphis. v itn intelligent gentleman, who has been engaged in business at Memphis, and who only left when his employers positively ordered him away, arrived in this city yes terday morning. He says that the half is not told of the ravages and malignity of the fever in Memphis by the public press, for the reason that the outer world would quarantine against its people if the whole truth was told Our Informant verifies the staXejnenLthat the samtary condition of the city "Invites the plague instead of repell ing It. -:,f " The Government is dealing very libera' -ly with Memphis when it gives that city 1,500 army tents and rations for 20,000 people for twenty days, i r ; There was a slight rainfall in Cairo yes terday. ' Quarantine restrictions '' have been increased. There is no sign of fever there. , ? -y'v-- ' ; The community of Union City, Tennes see, is greatly excited over the yellow fever reports. Another case in ' Martin, and the place is about deserted. Frank Parodire, a gentleman from Mem phis, is sick at the yellow fever hospital in Louisuille, Ky.,the doctors having pro nounced his disease yellow jack. , Washington, July 22. A meeting of prominent southerners was held at the rooms of Representative Casey Young, of Memphis district, to night, to devise means by which to lessen the Suffering of the re maining inhabitants of - the yellow-fever district. ' Senator Lamar and General Hooker, of Mississippi were present. It was agreed to organizs a bureaa in Wash -ington where supplies could be received and for warded.4 As It is hardly possible for the North ao give so' generously and unanimously as she did last year, this plan has been instituted in order to husband as much as possible that which may be offered. During last year's epidemic money, cloth ing and provisions were not distributed economically. ' ' Borne districts received more than they needed, while others scarce ly received anything. The organization effected to-night proposes to see that all donations be used to the best possible ad vantage and in a way that all will share alike. The reports received by . the National Board of Health to-day are only corroborative of what was anticipated by those who are conversant with the sanitary condition of Memphis. . One thing, however, seems to relieve the darkness of the prospect , and that is that the New, Orleans Board of Health have telegraphed Baying positively there is no case of fever in that city. Good news cmes from Memphis this morning in the shape of assurances that the city has been reduced by the grand exodus of its citiz3ns, to such a condition that the fever has little or no more material to work on. be it violent as it may. The disease is, therefore, likely to burn itself out gradually as far as that place is con cerned, which will end the trouble. But a counter-irritant to this comes also, in ; the form of authentic rumors that the fever has jumped the Memphis line and is in danger of spreading into Tennessee and Northern Alabama, where it has already obtained a foothold This is grave in telligence.' If ; the plague once begins to carry its horrors through the Southern country, no one can tell or predict where it will end. Post., Breaking; ike New to Eujreule iThe.Qorrespondent of the London Teut graph writes "as follows : It was not d lcult to see, even long be fore Chiselhurst was sighted, thai m my of the passengers in the train from London were members of the great Bmapartists party which bad just lost its head. liittie groups ot f renenmen clad in black, Spanirds who remembered the na ttonality of the Empress Eugenie, attaches of .embassies, representatives of Itoyalty, were all to be seen ere the train drew up at the well-known station. Passiog by twos and threes into the house they had been received by the Due as Bassano, ex pressed to htm their sense of soripw, and so departed.- ' At length it came to my tiTrn to enter, and passing through the carious panel door which opens into the reception-r wrn of Camden PJace, I found J the Due de Bassano waiting to receiveme. As. he read the telegraphic dispatch which told of the Prince's death and the finding of the body, be nearly gave way to the inten sity of his feelings, protestng the while that he bad no part in the voyage which had terminated so fatally, and that, in deed, it had been undertaken against the advice and wish of all the Prince's friends But he was so ardent, so .courageous and such a capital horseman. liis Grace con tinued, taking apparent pride in this last accomplishment of his youthful chief, "he was so anxious to be with bis comrades of Woolwich and to share their dangers that nothing would persuade him to .."give up tne enterprise. . ; f "The Empress." the' Duct remarked. "learned the newsj in fact, by an accident last v nigh&t Some friend , of. Mr. ; Pietri, bearing of the disaster, which had befallen the Prince, wrote him a letter, which he seht by rail, warning him. t prepare for sad and, indeed, painful intelligence. - fSome bow'or other the Empress opened this letter, and, although unable exactly to comprehend its import, . feared unhappy tidings. She knew her son, had been ill, and she naturally dreaded to hear that he was worse However, no more intelll- gence came till this morning, when Lord Sydney,' who had received a message f mm Lady Frere and also the command of the Qieen, came round to communicate the terrible news to the Empress, together with the expression of Her Majesty's sympathy. I received him, and upon me the duty de volved of breaking the fearful news. , .. : i M asked permission to see the Empress, who noticing probably from the expression of, my countenance that I was greatly troubled,, begged to know at once all I had to tell her,? 1 said ? 'Madame, the Prince is very ilL more dangerously ill than he was when we , last heard.' - Imm ediately Her Majesty exclaimed,' I will go to him ; I must go.' To which I replied nothing, and retired. -: f'A quarter of an hour, elapsed, and then 1 returned toner. I told her that further news had come which made the aspect of affairs still graver. "She cried out, I will go at once ; where is he ?' To which I re plied, It is too late, Madame-' Oa bear ing which Her Majesty burst into a flood of tears, exclaiming Mbn filt, mojipauvrs fih; and I left her." .; r I W o i ''r"'" " r Th E ads Jkttiks. The Secretary of War has telegraphed Captain Brown, the Inspecting Engineer at. the Eads jetties, who is in New York, to come to Wash ington for a consultation. 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