The News and Observer.
VOL. XL VI. NO. 127.
LEIOS ALL NORU CAROLINA HUES II IEIS All CIF&ULATION.
METROPOLIS
OF FLORIDA
Cleanest City in the South
ern States,
COST OF ORANGE FREEZE
MORE DESTRUCTIVE) OF PROP
ERTY THAN ANY EARTH
QUAKE THE WORLD HAS
KNOWN »
THE UNIQUE OSTRICH FARM
It is a Fine Investment and is One of the Only
Two Ostrich Farms in America
Not in the Ostrich
Trust.
Jacksonville, Fla.. August 3.—(Edi
torial Corespondenice.) —This is not a
noted summer resort. People who visit
Florida ordinarily come in the winter
when its mild climate affords a delight
ful change from the snow and ice of the
North. Rut. though I was here when
the thermometer registered 94, and it
seemed hotter than at any other point,
I found hy reading the state of the
weather at other points that the ther
mometer registered as follows in several
cities: Jacksonville, 92; Raleigh, 92;
Charlotte. 92; Cincinnati, 98; Kansas
City, 94. Memphis. 94: New Orleans. 96;
St. Louis, 96; and Vicksburg, 96. These
were the points where* the thermometer
registered' highest. 1 was greatly sur
prised upon finding that Raleigh. Char
lotte and Jacksonville registered the
same, 92. In one point Jacksonville has
the advantage of both Charlotte and
Raleigh. While the maximum tempera
ture was the same, the nvinirnuap temper
ature in Jacksonville was 82. while it
was 84 in Raleigh and 86 in Charlotte.
One other advantage Jacksonville en
joys is that it is on the noble St. John
river, only fourteen miles from the At
lantic ocean, and within thirty minutes
hy rail of what Jacksonville people
claim to be ‘‘tin* finest sea beach in the
world.'’ It has nine miles of river
front, and most of Ihe time enjoys a
breeze: It is claimed in the advertising
literature gotten up hy the hoard of
trade that “Jacksonville’s mean temper
ature Is seventy degrees, and is cooler
in summer than Boston or Chicago.”
However that may lx*, there is no doubt
that the breezes from the St. John’s
river moderates the heat, though its far
southern situation renders its summers
hot and long, and I do not believe the
board of trade claims that it is a model
summer resort. «
Old as it is, Jacksonville is in every
essential a modern city. Named for "Old
Hickory” in 1822, it swears “By the
Eternal” and grows younger and more
energetic as it waxes strong and rejoic
eth in its vitality. It has the creed ex
pressed by one of its oldest and most
influential citizens: “I am as young as
when L came to Jacksonville as a young
man.”
* * *
You will not find a cleaner city in the
country outside of Washington city. Its
cleanliness accounts for its healthful
ness. the mortality averaging ten in a
thousand. But its glory Is its superb
system of water works and Its miles oL
splendidly paved streets and sidewalks.
The city owns its water supply, for
which it owes .$206,060. The water
weeks is supplied from artesian wells,
flowing 5,000,000 gallons daily. The
power house and offices are in the city,
and are surrounded by a small park
of tropical plants, making a very restful
and lovely plaee. When first pumped
up (the water comes from artesian wells
650 feet deep) there is a suggestion of
sulphur in the water, but that soon
passes away, leaving a pure a: ! 1 whole
some supply, ample for all uses and for
the fine tire department, the pride of
the city. The water supply is owned by
the city. I talked with some of the*
leading citizens and all of them agreed
that municipal ownership has proven
more than satisfactory. ‘No city,” said
one of them, “•light to Ik* dependent
upon private corporations for its water
supply any more than for its administra
tion of justice. 1 have known few cities
that deiKuvded upon a private company
for ‘its water supply that did not have
frequent disputes and much trouble. Mu
nicipal ownership is the only correct
thing.” I thought of this In connection
with the controversy between the city
fathers of Raleigh and the Raleigh
Wafer Company. The people of Raleigh
ought without much longer delay to avail
themselves of their option ami have the
city to own the wafer supply.
* * *
The streets of Jacksonville look as
clean and bright, as a pin. In most
places the paving has been done with
vitrified brick, and they make a good ini
press inn ami are said to give general
satisfaction. A gentleman, who knows
all about such things, ways the brick are
laid on the sand and will last, seven
years where the travefl is heavy. an<l
then they can Ik* taken up and the bot
tom side placed on top when they will
last another seven years. This is said
here to la* the cheapest method of pav
ing. and it certainly makes clean and
attractive looking streets that make a
good impression on the visitor, ami the
cost is said to be much less than an;*
other system of paving that has been
used. The oxjierience of Jacksonville
mi gift be worth something in expending
the SIOO,OOO bonds issued by Raleigh for
street improvements.
t * *
In the centre of the city St. James
Park occupies a square graced by a $2.*,-
000 Confederate monument erected last
year by the generosity of a rich Texan
and unveiled while the troops were in
camp here and. grouped about it
are the chief hotels, churches,
opera house, and handsome* residences
that make Jacksonville the Mecca for
Northern visitors in the winter. They
come in great crowds, most of them
“rich as cream,” seeking health and
pleasure and recreation no matter at
what cost. The regular population of
Jacksonville is 30,000. In the summer it
goes down to 25,000 and in the winter
up to 40,000 and sometimes even more,
if 1 were the mayor of the city, I would
take the census of the city in the winter
when 1 could count in all the Yankee
visitors and the influx of servants and
others who come to wait on them and get
the sheckels which they scatter. “Talk
about gay times,” said an old resident,
you ought to be in Jacksonville at tin*
season. There’s more fun to the square
inch here than anywhere in the United
States. But it comes high.”
* * *
Living is high in Jacksonville. 1 talk
ed with a young North Carolinian who
is making liis way in the commercial
world. After graduating at the Univer
sity lie said he borrowed a little money
and came to Jacksonville to make his
fortune. "It costs more to live here
than in North 'Carolina,” he said, “but
you can make more. There are more
openings and more money pours in here.”
One gentleman told me that, upon a
guess, he would say that eighty per cent
of the .money invested in Jacksonville
was invested by Northern men. They
came here for health or pleasure and
found opportunities to make eight to ten
per cent on investments, with chances of
doubling it. Many of them withdrew
their New England three per cent invest
ments and put their-money in Florida
enterprises. The big men like Plant and
Flagler built great systems of railroads
and steamboat lines, electric ear lines
and modern hotels. The smaller capi
talists invested in everything from alli
gators up to orange groves.
* * *
People outside of Florida Jo not ap
preciate the magnitude of tin* loss sus
tained by the folks here when the orange
groves were destroyed by the big freeze
a few years ago. It will *lk* twenty
years before the groves are again bearing
as when cut off by the most disastrous
freeze of which there is any history.
“Think about what we lost." said a well
informed gentleman. “There never was
an earthquake, a famine, a shipwreck, a
pestilence that cost so much in money as
the cold that killed the Florida orange
groves. I doubt whether the people of
the country have ever realized that the
disaster was so great.” It was a blow
from which many will never recover.
One gentleman—not a resident of Florida
—had for many years invested till his
earnings in an orange grove and incurred
some debt". For several years prior to
tin* freeze he had been in receipt of a net
income of SO,OOO a year from his oranges.
He had just gotten out of debt when the
freeze destroyed every dollar of a lilt*
time’s saving. He cannot retrieve his
fortune (because he has not the money to
expend on another grove, and if he had,
the necessities of his family demand that
he go to work at something that will
bring in quick return. And his condition
is that of many others. The destruction
of the orange crop brought loss on all
sides. The railroads, which had done
much to develop the orange business, lost
heavily in freights on the oranges and
the bulk of business which good/ prices
brought in the sections where they are
grown. But you find nobody in Florida
sitting down' wringing their hands, and
crying over the milk that is beyond re
covery. Those who can have gone to
work to grow new groves and others
have gone into other lines of industry,
for Florida is a State that is confident of
its future. If Florida has lost its orange
money for some years, it still has two
sources from which it can get a Jiving—
Yankees in the winter and potatoes in
the summer. As long as these crons
hold out, Florida will not be downcast at
anything else that may overtake it.
* * *
They have no politics in Florida to
di> ert them from digging potatoes in
summer or trading with Yankees in the
winter. At least, Florida has no parti
sail politics. ’File Australian ballot law
is in force here and it disfranchises most
of the negroes and a few of the white
folks. The result is that Republicans
take no interest in politics, and compara
tively few of tlie people take the trouble
to vote. The Total vote of the Spite in
a recent election was only 12,000. only a
few less than were cast in Wake county.
But the Democrats have polities till you
can't rest a minute in the party prima
ries. There is no fun and no coy test at
the regular election, but enough to make
up for it in the Democratic primaries.
A nomination being equivalent to an
election, there is a dug fight over the
nominations, especially to the most im
portant places, and there are not want
ing well organized factions within the
party, but the primaries are regulated
by law and there is general acquiescence
in the decree of the primary. A man
rarely holts the .primary nomination. It
lie does, he invites and receives political
annihilation. The white people of
Florida had a bitter dose of negro and
carpet bag rule up to 1877. and they have
not forgotten it. They are resolved to
permit no appeal to tin* negro vote. Now
and then an attempt is made in-some
local election, hut the sentiment in favor
of abiding by the white primary is too
strong to permit any headway to be
made.
$ * * •
The new Senator from Florida. Mr.
Taiiferro. lives here. He has never be
fore held office, though he has taken an
active ino-rcsl in local politics. He had
no public record except that he has been
a public-spirited and successful business
tnau who has been true to the Demo-'
I (Continued on Second Page.)
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST (i, 1899.
AWQMAN MAKER
OF PRESIDENTS
An Interesting Chapter of
History Recalled,
DEATH OF MRS. SPRAGUE
ROISCOEI CONK LI NO OBEYED
HER NOD FROM THE GAL
LERY.
DAUGHTER OF SEC. SALMON P. CHASE
Who Spent her Life in Trying to Place him
in the White House. She Married
Sprague for His In
fluence.
(Phil ad e 1 phi a Times.)
Washington, July 21.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, wife of w
former Governor of Rhode Island, ami
tlx* daughter of tin* lnlfte Salmon P.
Chase, Governor of Ohio, United States
Senator and Chief Justice of the limited
States Supreme Court, died at her hoim*-
stead. Edge wood, in WaWliiugton’s su
burbs, early this morning. She was 50
years old.
For three months she had lieen suffer
ing with a complication of liver and kid
ney troubles, bult had consented' to medi
cal treat in cut only ten days ago. She
grew steadily worse and the end came
a few minutes after 2 o’clock this
morning. At the bedside were luer three
daughters. Miss Kiltie Sprague, who
lived with her mother; Miss Portia
Sprague, of Narragaie>tt Pier, and Mrs.
Donald,-ion, of Brooklyn, N. ’l ■
A FAMOUS WOMAN'S CAREER.
Some one has staid that Kate Chase
Sprague was the Mine, do Staid of
America, but later years will have to
furnish the perspective necessary to set
a proper seal upon that likeness. Those
thiit have known her in her day will
always s|k;i k of her as a brilliant, am
bitious. spirited and daring woman, in
tense in her puriKisvs. indefatigable In
her efforts. She had great personal
beauty and a ready wit, an ability that
enabled her to reign in the social world.
She inherited much of the genius of
her father, Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's
Secretary of the Treasury, which, com
bined with an intimate and practical
knowledge of governmental workings in
the days of the war, gave her ti political
jower such as probably no other wo
man in this country has ever ]>osisessed.
She was horn in Ohio in 1840, and was
barely more than 20 when she went to
Washington with her father, who was
to take liis place in tin* Cabinet. Young
ns she was, she bad seen service in
public life. While her father was Gov
ernor of Ohio'she haul' been liis confiden
tial secretary, and by constant associa
tion with him had taken on many of
his manners and, habits of life and
thought. He was- imperious and higli
trmpered, ami l so Was she. His self
esteem was one of liis greatest infirmi
ties, and the daughter was net a step
behind him.
1 >OM FSTI (’ 1N FE LICITY-.
It whs 'the dream of her young life
that she should some time .see her father
President of the country, and. it is cer
tain she subordinated many of her lift*
plans to this one overpowering idea.
Her beauty and her father's place in
the Cabinet placed her in the front rank
of society in Washington, and it was
not long before illie whs using her pow
er to attract the leading men of the cap
ital to her. Those in public life vied tor
her favor, and she accorded it In propior
ti'on to their position and influence, Im
mediate or prospective. For tlx* men
that came to her in a marrying mood
she bad no thought in those early days,
and pastsed Them away with freezing
imperiousness. They had no place In
the plan of her campaign.
The women of the capital she never
heeded. She considered them as useless
as the love-lorn men, and could not see
how they Could ever help her to the
realization of her dream. But the ene
mies she then made wlere never lost
to her, and surely counted against her
hi the days that came.
When she Was 24, however, there ap
peared as a suitor for her hand, Gover
nor William Sprague, of Rhode Island,
He was a man of great wealth, had
served with honor in the battles of the
war, and there was that about him
which made the young woman believe he
might Ik* of great use to her. She mar
ried Inn as a mere step forward in the
furtherance of her ambition, and not
wilt hi any thought of love, ns events
wen* made to show.
HER MARRIAGE A FAILURE?
This marriage proved to la* the mis
take of her life, and it was unit many
years lw*fore she realized it. Her hus
band, Governor then and Sennit or after
ward, brought no addition to her power
and helped her not at all in the cam
paign in her father's flavor. But she
was not Cast down to the point of for
saking her plan, and when, after pas>-
ing from the Cabinet, her father went
into the Supreme Court, of the nation,
then* to become its Chief Justice, she
redoubled her efforts. She employed
every method known to the science of
polities to advance his cause. An enor
mous fund was raised and a systematic
corruption of the newspaper eormspou
ih*nlts at Washington was attempted.
The list prepared by this clever, auda
cious woman, contained the names
of men who should receive
SIOO per week for advocating the
nomination of the Chief Justice. She
once boasted to the writer of this arti
cle that she had the receipts of many
men, whom she named, for money ac
cepted in this service. In that list
are the names of several ix-rsons who
stand very high in wealth and political
power today.
But all the cumpaigining was for
naught. All she could do wins id vain,
and when, in 1872, her father died, with
out her hopes having been realized in
the slightest degree, she gave up and
whatever power six* had ever had was
at an. end.
AMBITIOUS FOR HER FATHER.
Her li in fried life had never lieen hap
py. Her husband had established her
in a palatial resadteaice at Canoneliet, R.
1., destined to be the scene of a great
sensation in a later day. She was ex
travagant in everything, and this led to
a feud between her and the fnembers of
h<*<r husband’s family. They warned him
that she was leading him, on at too rapid
a pace, and when she learned of this
she vowed a lasting vengeance.
The first child! bora to her Was a
sun, but she never cared for him. \\ hat
cver mother’s love Lhere was in tier heart
was saved for the daughters that came
afterward. Not one (of the children
served as an additional bond between
her and her husband.
The death of her father was 1 followed
by the panic of 1873. The vast for
tunes of the Sprague family were not
thought to be in danger, and if all the
members of the family had stood to
gether it would not have been necessary
for any of them to go to tin* wall. But
the Senator's wife had estranged the
others, and in the wreck that came tlx*
Senator was the only one that suffered
to the extent of losing all his posses
sions. At that time the Senator and
Mrs. Sprague, although living in the
same house, never spoke to each other.
When everything was gone Mrs. Sprague
tiM»k hpr three daughters and left flu*
house, never to see her husband again.
Long before that there had been talk
of a divorce, but tlx* world hail known
little of their troubles. There was
however, the incident in which Roscoe
('onkling figured. He had been marked
in his attentions to Mrs. Sprague and
Continued so until cue afternoon, at
CnDoiiehet, when tile husband chased
him from the place with a hatchet.
A NOD OF TREMENDOUS IMPORT
When Don I ’ln tit was publishing the
Sunday Capital in Washington he print
ed an editorial (said to have been writ
ten hy Colonel A. ('. Buell, now with the
<'ramped in which it wax charged that
Conkling was «ailed from the fioor of
flu* Semite by a nod from Mrs. Sprague
in the Senate gallery, ami that the sum
moning' of OonkM'ng in this manner had
much to do with tlx* passing of the
electoral <-oinmission hill, which resulted
in tlx* seating of Hayes in the White
I louse.
But nothing ever came of the mutual
charges of misconduct made hy the
Spragues, and it wins not until 1882 that
a divorce was granted to Mrs,. Sprague
on the grouixl of non-support.
Meantime, she had been living on a lit
tie estate, culled Edgewood, in the su
burbs of Washington. Tins had been left
to her by her father, and at that time
it was of little value. But the city be
gan to grow out in that direction and
w hen the time came to cut the land
up into building lots, Mrs. Sprague found
herself in comfortable circumstances.
Hot* natural extravagance, however, led
her to encumber the land by a mort
gage. and* it was only by the personal
intervention of some of her friends,
among them Levi P. Morton, of New
York, that it was saved to her.
IiATI IE R NEGLIG EE.
llow L'eutenaut Brumby Welcomed tlx*
(Fitts! urg Dispatch.)
(Pitslmrg Dispatch.)
Flag Lieutenant Brumby, who is now
with Admiral Dewey ait. Trieste, is n
dapper little man, who is most puncti
lious ultout his uniform and deport
ment. 11l elceiitnliy lx* is as brave ail
officer as ever scant a ship into ac
tion, and his native State of Georgia
lias a handsome gold-filled sword ready
t*o present to him when lie gets home
from the war. On one occasion, how
ever. Lieutenant Brumby made a most
lamentable slip in the matter of uniform.
Up to- this time tlx* story has never
been told in print. lit occurred while
the Olympia was still lying Indore Ma
nila. One of the duties of Lieutenant
Brumby was to receive all who
came to call on the Admiral. On llx*
afternoon in question he had gone down
Into his statercKWii to take a nap. I't was
terribly hot, and before lying down he
removed iiis spotless white canvas
coat, trousers and cap. Half ail hour
afterward an orderly hurried down to
announce that tlx* launch of the cap
tain of the British ship I minor Tail ite
was alongside the Olympia. Half
asleep, Lieutenant Brumby pult on 'his
coat and hat and rushedi on deck in
order to be* in readiness, to receive the
guests. During the hot weather no
work was done on the warships be
tween 10 o’clock in the morning and
4 o’clock in the afternoon. Consequent
ly, most of the crew was on the up
per deck enjoying the breeze. They
took one look at the dashing young
Lieutenant and then burst into a laugh
which not even naval discipline could
restrain. Tlx* Lieuteuant hurried Ik*low
decks for his trousers, while another
officer temporarily took liis place in
the reception of the guests.
RAGTIME IN REALITY.
“Do you have any ragtime
here?” asked the man with the guitar.
“It’s always ragtime down here." re
plied tlx* hard-times citizen, with a
lugubrious sigh, "nothing but rags;
badly any patches.”
THE NEGRO SHOULD 3
00 TO TOE INDIES
Emigration the Solution of
the Problem,
IN CUBA AND PORTO RICO
the NEGRO OF INDUSTRY AND
SMALT, MEANS CAN 1)0 WELL.
CONGRESS SHOULD GIVE $20,000,000
To Aid the Southern Blacks in Going Says
Waller. A Negro Now in Cuba
Writes of the Future of
his Race.
San Luis, Island of Cuba—When
American soldiers freed tlx* Cubans they
opened a pathway to liberty and happi
ness for tlx* colored people of the United
States. The solution of tlx* negro prob
lem lies in the direction of a partial emi
gration of tlx* colored population of
America from tlx* South to Culm, Porto
Rico, and tlx* Philippines. What with
lynching* in tlx* South, and oppression in
tlx* labor market in tlx* North, it seems j
that tlx* eolored man of North America !
has lus choice Ik t ween three things:
First-Gradual but sure annihilation,]
as in the case of the North American In
dian.
Second —Gradual amalgamation, which
is physically impossible and undesirable
from all points of view.
Third—Emigration.
In my earnest opinion tlx* gradual em
igration of the colored people from the
South to Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Phil
ippines—the two former islands more
particularly—will furnish a sure solution
of the many wrongs and persecutions to
which the recently emancipated people
have been subjected during tlx* past
thirty years. There is before this people
now an “open door.” as a result of the
Spanish-Americaii war, which makes it
possible for tlx* colored people of the
States to emigrate in large numbers to
tlx* islands comprising our new posses
sions and still be under the protection
of the Stars and Stripes.
MUST BE HUSTLERS.
I would not advise any )>ersoii or per
sons to emigrate to either of the islands
mentioned unless they possess tlx* same
hustling qualities which were found in
tlx* early colonists of North America.
The class of people who should come
must possess the following qualifications:
Nerve, manhood, determination, an inde
pendent spirit. S2OO or S4OO. mid a good
team. They must burn tlx* bridges be
hind them and come here to stay, to
make a home for themselves and their
posterity. The man or men who will
come here or go to either of the other
islands, to sit on the seashore and sigh
for the old plantation, had better remain
where they are. There are millions of
fertile acres in Cuba only waiting the
brawn, sinew, intelligence, and enteV
prise of tlx* colored |K*ople of tlx* States
to turn this island, now uncultivated and
poverty-stricken, by reason of the late
war, into a field of plenty.
Lands can be either leased or bought
at reasonable prices and on reasonable
terms. They are supplied with an abun
dance of water and jvill produce almost
any vegetable grown in the States. In
addition to these, sugar cane, tobacco,
coffee, cocoa, and sweet potatoes are
grown in great abundance in Cuba. Corn
and cotton are also produced here. Or
anges. bananas, grapes, mangoes, lemons,
limes, figs, and many other fruits are
abundant. A thrifty and energetic far
mer who gets a fair start in Cuba can
treble liis money in one year.
CUBANS ARE FRIENDLY.
The kindly treatment accorded the dis
tressed Cubans by tlx* Twenty-third
Kansas. Eighth Illinois Volunteers, and
Ninth United States Volunteer Infantry
(colored) during their six months stay in
tlx* province of Santiago has created a
friendship between the American colored
l>eople and the Cubans that will always
make the former welcome visitors to tlx*
island, despite the fact that there have
lieen efforts on the part of some white
men high in station to discourage it. I
would be pleased to hear from one or
two of the leading eolored men in each |
of tlx* Seates who favor a partial emi- j
gration of our people from the South,
to the three islands referred to, to the
end that we.may co-operate in an effort
to induce tlx* Congress of tlx* United 1
States to make an appropriation of at
least $20,000,000 for the purl wise ni‘l
ing such eolored people who desire to em
igrate to either Cuba, Porto Rico, or the
Philippines.
It must lie remembered that I am
shaking only of such persons of the
race as may desire to try a home in the
islands above referred to as a solution of
tlx* wrongs now inflicted nisni our race.i
There can easily be spared from the |
South 2.000.000 colored people. 2.000,000 j
of wham should emigrate to Cuba, and j
the remainder divided between the ofliei I
two islands, or, if desirable, 1 mba has
room, for them all. This would chum* I
such a reduction of colored labor in tlx*
South as to create a demand tor the re
tention of tlx* remainder of that race in
tlx* States, and it would forever set at
rest the bugbear of negro domination, j
as feared by Ulie Southern white. I hex,
too, the news of tlx* success of the de
parted 3,000,000 would ultimately result
SECTION ONE —Pages 1 to 4.
'RICE FIVE CENTS.
the emigration, of at least 70 per cent.
_ the remaining portion of the colored
people from tlx* South, and the negro
problem would be solved as was the
Israelitish problem ami the Protestant
problem, wtiich latter resulted in the es
tablishment of the early colonists in
North America, from, which a goveru
imiift has been founded that lias become
the strongest among the family of v na
tions.
The intermingling of our race with that
of the Cuban (both are similar) will in
fuse new blood, new life, and awaken
new enterprise in the pt*ople of this
country tuat will make them one of tlx*
strongest, most energetic, and fearless
people in the world. The coming of
our race to this island would! result in
the foundation and establishment of one
of the greatest settlements in the West
Indies. Congress com Id well afford to
appropriate the $20,(MX),000 for the pur
pose, to save the name of our country
from further shame and disgrace.
. wuerica has given the Cubans $3,000,-
000. The colored American has done far
more for our country than the Cubans
could do in the next 500 years; yet we
were turned out of bondage without a
dollar, despite the fact that 200,000 of
our race aided the North in saving the
Union. We were loaded down with the
ballot when each freeman should rath
er have Iks* a given a hundred and sixty
acre farm, a good team of mules, wa
gons and farming utensils. This would
have placed the colored man in a better
position and made him able to maintain
and appreciate the ballot in 1900, quite
early enough to give him enfranchise
ment.
By 1900 the negro would own proper
ty, banks, railroads, factories 1 , machine
shops, packing plants and foundries, and
e able to retain thereafter equal repre
sentation in Congress. Having had the
right and exercise of the ballot since
the ..rs-t administration of General
Grant, we are only able to appear at the
end of thirty years with a people fairly
educated, a great number of churches,
a limited proportion of other property,
and a single* member of the race (Mr.
White, of North Carolina) to represent
10, <A,0,000 people ini Congress. We
mice had seven members upon the floor
of Congress at one time. We now have
one. It w ill be many a year before more
than three colored men will be members
of the American Congress again at the
same tune, and the generation is not
yet born that will see another colored
man in tlx* United States Senate.
PLAN FOR APPROPRIATION.
But to return to the plan for the ap
propriation by Congress of $20,(100,000
to make this energetic idea possible. If
will naturally la* asked; "How if. the
money to »e returned?” The whole
am omit would be paid back into the
Treasury of the United States an the
way of revenue aml duties on exports in
less than five years after its appropria
tion. When the amount is appropriated
it should Ik* stipulated that the whole
or such portion of the sum as is neces
sary to carry out the purposes for which
it was appropriated be disbursed from
time to time by the Secretary of War,
or the Minister of the Colonies, should
such a department lx* established. The
law should safeguard the money appro
priated as the wisdom of Congress may
deem expedient.
JOHN L. WALLER (Col.)
Late Chaplain Twenty-third Volunteer
Infantry.
METHODIST U< INFERENCE.
The Local Preachers and Lay Work
ers’ Conference of the M. E. church,
wihcTi is now in its thirtieth year, will
be held at Clayton, N. August 17-20.
The following is the program:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17.
8:00 p. m. —Rev. J. B. Lloyd, presi
dent. Annual Address: Rev. J. T. Dra
per. Response.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18.
9:00 a. m. Conference —Rev. T. N.
Ivey. I). D.. Sermon: Rev. I. A. White,
Suburban Mission Work; Rev. J. W.
Jenkins. Church Orphan Work; Rev.
R. C. Gulley, Inspired Work vs. For
mal.
2:00 p. mi. Conference. —Mrs. Mamie
Terrell. Woman's Work; Levi Branson.
“Let him that heareth say Come;” Capt.
George Baker, "Except ye be* convert
ed,” etc.. The Constitution of the
Church: Rev. .T. O. Guthrie. God's Love
and Man’s Destiny; Professor Bassett,
Muttering Thunders; Prof. W. I. Cran
ford. The Great Battle.
SATURDAY, AUGUST. 19.
9:00 a. m. Conference. —Mrs. B. R.
Adams, The Joy of Christian Work;
ncv. Peter M. Briggs. The 'More Abun
dant Life; Rev. 11. 11. Horne, Special
Discourse: E. B. Thomas, The Hidden
Mystery; Miss Lottie L. Best, Woman’s
Devotion to the Master; Prof. John E.
Kelly, Industrial Education; S,vm]>osi
uni. What the Lord Has Dome for Me.
2:00 p. m. Conference. —Prof. Charles
11. Mebane, Education and the Gospel;
Rev. R. H. Wfiitaker, D. I)., The Great
ness of the Gospel; Rev. A. B. Cram
pier, Does the Blood Cleanse from all
Sin? Rev. T. 11. Bain, Modern Mis
sions.
SUNDAY, AUG IST 20.
W, H. P. Jenkins, Local Preachers
by My Time.
9:00 a. m. —Symposium: P. M. Briggs
and others, What the Lord Has Done
for Me.
11:00 a. in. —Rev. .1. B. Floyd, Ser
mon.
2:00 p. m.—Rev. T. N. Ivey, Sermon.
3:00 p. in.—Rev. James H. Buffaloe,
Special Sermon —Rev. A. G. Kirkruan,
The Live Layman.
8:00 p. in.—Rev. A. B. Crumpler, The
Blood Cleanses.
The Committee on Entertainment
comfists of E. B. McCullers, C. M.
Thomas, W. E. Barbour.
Members of different denominations
will take part in the conference.
JAS. B. LOYI), President.
Rev. .Tames B. Floyd is presklent of
tlx* conference and Rev. Levi Branson,
secretary.