AW
THE CONSTITUTION OF OUR FATHERS.
"I ASMl A- SOTJTHEEISr MA,' OF SOUTHERN PEIlSCIPLES.'VEx-TJ. S. Senator Jefferson Davis.
TARBORO', N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1875.
VOL. 53.
NO. 28.
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
TARBORO.
Mayor Fred, Philips.
Commissioners Jesse A. Williamson, Ja
cob Feldcuheimer, Daniel W. Hurtt, Alex.
McCabc, Joseph Cobb.
Secrbtikt & Treasurer Kobt. Whitc
hurst. Cuikp cv rotlCE John W. Cotten.
Assistant Police Win. T. Hurtt, John
Madra, Jas. E. Simonson, Altiniore Macuair.
COUNTY.
Superior Court Clei'k and Probate Judge
H. L. Staton, Jr.
Register of Deeds -Alex. McCabc
Sheriff Joseph Cobb.
Coroner
Treasurer Robt. II. Austin.
Surveyor John E. Baker.
Standard Keeper V. 8. Hicks.
School Examiners. U. H. Shaw, V m. A.
Du;gan and R. 8. Williams.
Keeper Poor House Wm. A. Duggan.
Commissioners .Tno. Lancaster. Chairman.
Wiley Well, J. B. W. Norville, Frank; Dew,
VI. Excui. A. McCabc, Clerk.
MAILS.
4RR1VT, AXP DEPARTURE OF MAILS
JiORTH AND SOUTH VIA W. 4 W. R. R.
Leave Tarboro- (daily) at - - " A. M.
Arrive at Ta-rboro' (daily) t - aor. Ji.
WASHINUTON MAIL VIA GREENVILLE.
FALKLAND AM" SPARTA.
Ltfave Tarboro' (daily) at - -Arrive
Tarboro" (daily) at -
LODGES.
The NiifUt tiud ilie Places of Meeting:.
Concord R. A. Chapter No. 5, N. M. Law
rence High Priest, Masonic Hall, monthly
convocations first Thursday in every month at
10 o'clock A. M.
Concord Lodge No. 58, Thomas Gatlin,
Master, Masonic Hall, meets first Friday night
At 7 o'clock P. M. and third Saturday at 10
o'clock A. M. in every mouth.
Repiton Encampment No. 13 I. O. OF
A. Heilbroner, Chief Patriarch Odd Fel
lows' Hall, meets every lirst and third lhurs
dav of each month.
Edgecombe Lodge No. 50, I. O. O. F ,
J. H. Brown, N. G., "Odd Fellows' Hull, meets
every Tuesday night.
Edgecombe Council No. 123, Friends of
Temperance, meet every Friday night at the
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Advance Lodge No. 2S, I. O. G. T., meets
every Wednesday night at Odd iellows' Hall
Zauoah Lodge, No. 235, I. O. B. B , meet
on lirst and third Monday night of every
wouth at Odd Fellows' Hall.
Heuby Morris, President.
ClItKC'IIES.
Episcopal Church-Sar vices every Sunday
at 10 1-2 o'clock A. M. and 5 P. M. Dr. J. B.
Cheshire, Rector. .
Methodist Church Services, every third
Sunday at night. Fourth Sunday, morning
and night. Rev. Mr. Swindell, Pastor.
Presbyterian Church-$cryvc every 1st,
3rd and' 5th Sabbaths. Rev. T.J. Allison Sta
ted Supply. Weekly Prayer meeting, Thurs
day night. , . . ,
Missionary Baptist Church Serjices the
4th Sunday in every moLth, morning and
night. Rev. T. R. Owen, Pastor.
Primitive Baptist Church Services first
Saturday and Sunday of each month at 11
o'clock.
HOTELS.
Adams' Hotel, corner Main and PitfSts.
O. F. Adams, Proprietor.
Mrs. Pender's, (formerly Gregory Hotel,)
Main Street, opposite "Enquirer" Ollice,
Mrs. M. Pender, Proprietress.
HAKS.
Bank of New Hanover, on Main Street,
next door to Mr. M. Weddell. Capt. J. D.
dimming, Cashier. OOice hours from 9 A.
M. to 3 P. M.
EXPRESS,
Southern Express Office, on Main Street,
closes every morning at9 o'clock.
N. M. Lawrence, Agent.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
FRANK POWELL,
Attorney & Counsellor
AT 3jA.W,
TARBORO', N. C.
ZS- Collections a Specialty. 'A
Office in Gregory Hotel Building.
July 2, 1875.
tf
JOS. BLOUXT CHESHIRE, JR.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND
Notary Public.
MW Office at the Old Bank Building on
Trade Street. jc25-tf.
Dr. G. L. Shackelford,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Successor to Dr. L. T. Fuqua,
TARBORO', K. C
tT Office opposite AdamsHotel and
over S. S. Nash & Go's store.'-,-Oct.
23, 1874. tf
MOTELS.
YARBORCK HOUSE,
RALEIGH N. C.
G. W- ELACH1TALL, Proprietor.
Bs7 Reference made to all travelling gen
tlrtnen. GASTON HOUSE,
South Front Street,
Newbern, IV. C-
S, R. STREET, Proprietor
ATLANTIC HOTEL,
TVorlollc, Va,
R. S. D0DS0N, Proprietor.
Boi.uD, First and Second Floors,pcr day, S3.00
1 bird and fourth Jroors. " i.M
Special terms for permanent boarders
yM. HOWAED,
DKALKK IS
DRUGS. PATENT MEDICINES,
ScC, Sr.C, ScC
Nest door to Mrs, Pender's notel,
TARBORO, N C.
TARBORO'
Lag
er Beer & Wine
SALOON,
7"EEPS constantly on hand all the Fine
Jtv Wines ami Liquors, Tobacco and Cigars,
next uoor J. A. llliumson s.
E KHAKI) DEMUTH,
Nov. 27. -tf. Proprietor.
IfnCiOA rcr Day at home. Terms free.
l IU i?iV Address Q. Etinsos Co., Portland
MISCELLANEOUS.
PAMLICO
Till
COMPANY,
Of Tarboro, IX. O.
-:o:-
Capital $200,000 00
:o:
OFFICERS :
HON. GEO. HOWARD, President.
CAPT. JNO. S. DANCY, Vice President.
JOSEPH BLOUNT CHESHIRE, JR., Sec
retary and Treasurer.
DIRECTORS :
Hon. George Howard, Jesse H. Powell,
Hon. Kemp P. Battle, Wm. 8. Battle,
Capt. John S. Dancy. Capt. T. H. Gatlip,
Matthew Weddell, Elias Carr,
J. J. Cattle, Joseph B. CofflelJ,
Wm. M. Pippen, O. C. Farrar,
John Norfleet, Fred. Philips,
John L. Hridgers, Jr.,
THIS COMPANY INSURES
Dwellings, Stores, Merchan
dize, Farm Property,
and all classes of insurable property
Against Loss or Damage by Fire I
at local board rates.
3?" AH losses promptly adjusted and
paid.
ORREN WILLIAMS,
Supervisor of Agencies.
Taiboro, March 19, 1875. tf
Jas. E. Simmons,
I?itt tieet9
EAST OF MAIN, HAS 1 STORE AND
lor sale
Wardrobes,
Bureaus,
Washstands,
Writing Desks,
Cane & Wooden
Seat Chairs,
Extension,
Centre and Leaf
Tables.
Towel Racks,
Rockers,
Childs Basket Chairs.
ALSO A LAKCE LOT OF
XJocLjs,
Mattresses
cft3 LOung cs,
All Cheap for Cash.
)XW UNDERTAKERS BUSINES3 IN
all its branches promptly attended to.
JAS. E. SIMMONS.
Tarboro, N. C, Mar. 26, 1875.
3m
Seaboard & Roanoke Rail
Road.
Office Supt. Trans., S. & R. R. R. Co.,
Portsmouth, Va., Jan. 1, 1875.
On and after this date, trains of this Road
will leave Weldon daily, (Sundays excepted)
as follows :
Mail train at 4:03 p m
No 1 Freight train at 4:00 am
No 2 Freight train at 8:00 am
ARRIVE AT PORTSMOUTH :
Mail train daily at 7:15 p m
No 1 F reight train at 12:00 m
No 2 Freight train at 4:00 p m
Freight trains have a passenger car attach
ed. Steamers for Edenton, Plymouth, and
Landings on Blackwater and Chowan rivers.
leave iranklm at 9aU am, Mondays, Wednes
days and Fridays. E. G. OHIO,
upt. oi i ransportanon.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
CHAMBER! AIN 1 RAWLS
Tarboro', N. C.
PRACTICAL
WATCH MAKERS
JEWELERS,
DEALERS IN
Pine Watches, Jewelrv, Ster
lin Silver and Plated Ware,
Fine Spectacles & every
thing else in our line.
Special attention given to the Repairing
auu timing oi tine watcnes ana itegulators,
w e gun.utce mat our worK snail compare
favorably in efficiency and finish with any in
the Land.
We offer you every possible guarantee that
whatever you buy of us shall be genuine and
ust as represented, and you shall pay no
more for it than a fair advance on the whol
sale cost.
Wc have made in the handsomest manner
Hair Chains, Hair Jewelry, Diamond and
VVedding Rings, all kinds of Fine Jewelry
Gold and Silver Watch Cases, etc.
Our Machinery and other appliances for
malting inc uiuerent parts ol Watches, is per
haps the most extensive in the State, eon Re
qnently we can guarantee that any part of a
Watch or Clock can be replaced with the ut
most; iacmty. jan22-ly
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
BOOK AGENTS
wanted to
sell "The
Pconle's Common Sense Medical Adviser."
It is the cheapest hook ever published ; t85
paes, over 250 illustrations, $1.50. Thous
ands buy it at siht who could not be induc
ed to purchase the high-priced books treat
ing of Domestic Medicine. Unlike other
books sold through agents this work is thor
oughly advertised throughout North Amer
ica. This fact, togother with the large 6izc,
elegant appearance, and many new features
of the book, causes it to sell more rapidly
than any work ever published in this coun
try. Those of my agents who have had ex
perience in selling books, say that in all their
previous canvassing they never met with such
success or made so lrrge wages, as since
commencing the sale of my work. For
terms and territory, addiens "(inclosing two
postage stamps and stating experience) R. V.
Pierce, M. D., World's Dispensary, Buffalo,
N. Y. Note. Mark envelope "For Publish
ing Dep't."
THE BROWN C0T0S IN 0.
NEW LONDON, CONN. ,
Manufacturers of Cotton Gins, Cotton Giu
Feeders, Condensers and Cotton Gin Mate
rials of every description. Our Gins have
been in use thirty years, and have an estab
lished reputation tor simplicity, light-rnn-ning,
durability, and for quality and quamity
of lint produced. Our feeder is easily attach
ed to the Gin, and easily operated" by any
hand of ordinary intelligence. They are the
simplest and cheapest Feeder in the market
and feed with more regularity than is possibly
by hand, Increasing the outturn and giving a
cleaner and better sample. At all fairs
where exhibited and by Planters having them
In use, they have been accorded the highest
enconiums. Our Condensers are well-made,
durable and simple in construction, and do
what is required to drive the Feeder or Con
denser, and no Giu House is complete with
out them. We are prepared to warrant, to
any reasonable extent, perfect satisfaction to
every purchaser. Circulars, prices and full
information lurnished. Address as above,
or apply to PENDF.R JENKINS,
Tarboro', N. C.
Albertson's Segment Screw
COTTON PRESS.
Unrivlled for simplicity, speed, conven
ience and durability. Makes a 550 lb. bale
with one horse and only IS rounds. Screw,
10 inches diameter and 13 feet long. For
circular with description, testimonials and
names of agents in the South, addre3s J. M.
ALBERTSON, New London, Ct.
WATERS SEW SCALE PIAX0S
are the best made ; The tou;h elastic, and a
flue singing tone, powerful, ture and even.
WATERS' CONCERTO ORGANS
cannot be excelled in tone or beauty; they
defy competition. The Concerto Stop is a
fine Imitation of the Human Voice.
Prices Extremely Low lor cash during this
Month. Monthly Instalments received; Pi
anos and Organs to Let, and Rent-Money al
lowed if purchased. Second-hand Instru
ments AT GREAT BARGAINS. AGENTS
WANTED. A liberal discount to Teachers,
Ministers, Churches, Schools, Lodges, etc.
Special inducements to the trade. Illustra
ted Catalogues Mailed. HORACE WA
TERS & SONS, Broadway, New York.
Box S,507.
PORTABLE ENGINES
The best in the world for Ginninir Cotton.
Grinding Corn, Sawing Lumber, and General
xrrm or rianwuon purposes. Stationary
Engines and Boilers of all sizes for all uses.
GriswMills, Saw-Mills, Shinsrle Machines, and
General Machinery. Satistaction cuarantecd.
end for Circulars and prices to the
Chilliootlie Foundry & Machine Works,
Cuillicothe, Ohio.
. Please say iiwhat paper you saw this.
TTKATCHES & JEWELRY seut by Ex
it cress with the nrivileire to ouph rL-.
ages and examine goods before paying lor
mem. write ior prices.
L. G. GRADY, Halifax, N. C.
$50 TO S10.000
Has been invested in Stock Privileges aud
paid
900
PER
CENT
PROFIT.
"Tow to do it," a Book on Wall St.. sent
free. TUMBRIDGE fe CO., Bankers & Bro
kers, 2 Wall St., New York.
TTTT A The choicest in the world
Company in America staple article pleases
cvervbodv TradA pnnt.innnllv inprtinai n tr
Agents wanted everywhere best induce
ments don't waste time send for circular
to KOBKKT WELLS, 43 Vcsey St., N. Y , P.
O. Box 1287.
"" A WEEK guaranteed to Male and
All Female Agents, in their locality.
Costs NOTHING to t.rv it. Piirtinn.
lars Free. P. C VICKERY & CO..Asrusta.Me.
46 v-SYCflOMANr:Y. OR SriTTT. r:HAT?VI.
ING." Ttow itllT SPY Tnnu f'icpinnta
and gain the love and affections of any per
son they choose, instantly. This art all can
possess, free, by mail, for 25 cents; together
wiiu a iuurnuKe viuiae, Jigypuan Oracle.
Dreams. Hints to Ladies, f-tn. 1 000 000
A queer book. Address T. WILLIAM & CO.!
1 U U 6 X lAiliUlL'JpUia.
e. t. rooi.. c. a. ron,. w. e. pool
Pool Brothers
FASHIONABLE BAR,
Billiard Hooms9
OYSTER SALOON,
Barber Shop
AND
Cigar Store,
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
WE HAVE ENGAGED THE WELL
known caterer, JOSH MOTLEY, to
take charge of onr RESTAURANT, and we
will guarantee for him that our old custom
ers can always get a GOOD, SQUARE MEAL
at the shortest notice. inrl9-tf
CHEAP !
Very Cheap
A number of
new and sec
ond liana PI
ANOS & OI1
OAS8 on
hand for sale
TUN1NQ & MUSICS
cheap for cigh
and by instail-
ment.
B" Every NEW PIANO from this this
house Warranted to possess all the im
provements claimed by manufacturers gener
ally. Prices reasonable. Terms accommo
dating. Correspondence solicited. autj21-ly
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE FAVORITE HOME REMEDY.
Is eminently a Family Medicine ; and oy be
ing kept ready for immediate resort will save
many an hour of suffering and many a dol
lar la time and doctors' bills.
After over Forty Y cars' trial it is still re
ceiving the most unqualified testimonials to
lis virtues from persons of the highest char
acter and responsibility. Eminent physicians
commend it as the nio;t
EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC
For all diseases ot the Liver, Stomacli and
Spleen.
Tub SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint are
a bitter or bad taste in the mouth ; Pain in
the Back, S-iides or Joint?, often mistaken for
Rheumatism ; Sour Stomach ; Loss of Apep
tite ; Bowels alternately coiiive and lax ;
Headache; Loss of memory, with a painful
sensation of having' tailed lo do something
which ought to have been done; Debility,
Low Spirits, a thick yellow appearance of the
Skin aud Eyes, a dry Cough .often mistaken
for Consumption.
SomoLimes many of these symptoms attend
the disease, at others very few ; but the Liver,
the largest organ in the body, is generally the
seat of the disease, and if not Regulated in
time, great suffering, wretchedness and Death
will ensue.
For Dyspepsia, Constipation, Jaundice,
Bilious attacks, Sick llaadache, Colic, De
pression of Spirits, Sour Stomach, Heart
Burn, &c, &c.
The Cheapest, Purest and i..st Family Medi
cine tn the World!
Manufactured only by
J. H. ZEIL1N ik CO.,
Macon, Ga., and Philadelphia.
Price, $1.00. Sold by all Druggists.
Piedmont Air-Line Railway.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE, RICHMOND
& DANVILLE R. W., N. C. DIVIS-
ION, AND NOHTII WEST
ERN N. C. I. W.
CONDENSED TIME TABLE-
In effect on and after Sunday, May 30, 1874.
GOING NORTH.
STATION'S.
Mail.
Express.
Leave Charlotte 9.24 p. k. 5.55 a.m.
" Air-Line Jct'n, 9.32 " C.20 "
" Salisbury, 11.58 a. m. R34 "
" Greensboro' 3.00 " 10.55 "
" Danville. 6.20 " 1.12 p.m.
" Dundee,' 6.30 " 1.20 "
" BurkviUe, 11.35 " 6.07 "
Arrive at Richmond, 2.22 p. m. 8.47 p.m.
GOING SOUTH.
STATION'S.
Mail.
Express.
Leave Richmond, 1.88 p. m.
" Burkville, 4.52 "
" Dundee, 10.33 "
" Danville, 10.39 "
" Greensboro', 2.45 a. m.
" Salisbury, 5.27
" Air-Line Jncfn,". 55 "
Arrive at Charlotte, 8.03 '
5.08 a. m.
S.35 "
1.14 p. M.
1.17 "
3.5S "
6.16 "
8.25 "
8.33 "
GOING EAST.
GOING WEST.
BTATIOSr'.
Mail.
Mail
L've GreeLsboro', V 3.C0 a.m. dArr. 2.15am
' Co. Shops, a. 4.20 " j;Lel2 51 "
" Raleigh, c 7.50a.m. 3 8.42p.m
Arr.atGoldsboro,! 10.27 " L've 5.30"
NORTH WESTERN N. C. R. R.
(SALEM BRANCH.)
Leave Greensboro 4.30 P M
Arrive at Salem 6.13 "
Leave Salem 8.42 a n
Arrive at Greensboro 10.33 "
Passenger train leaving Raleigh at 5.38
P. M.. connects at Greensboro' with the
Northern bound train ; making the quickest
time to all Northern cities. Price of Tick
ets same as via other routes.
Trains to and from points East of Greens
boro' connect at Greensboro' with Mail
Trains to or from points North or South.
Two Trains daily, both ways.
On Sundays Lynchburg Accommodation
leave liichmond at 9.00 A. M., arrive at
Burkeville 12.43 P. M., leave Burkevilie 4.35
A. M., arrive at Richmond 7.58 A. M.
No change of cars between Charlotte and
Richmond, 282 miles.
For further information address
S. E. ALLEN,
Gen'l Ticket Agent,
Greensboro, N, C.
T. M. R. TALCOTT,
Engineer & Gen'l Superintendent.
FOR NORFOLK
AND
PLANT
and
J. PAMLICO connecting with
the Old Dominion Steamship Co.,
allord the most direct and the
quickest time for shipment of produce from
all points on tne Kivcr.
Through Bills of Lading given from all
points on Tar River tor Norfolk, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, jew lorn ana iioston. Pro.
dace is covered by insurance, if desired, as
soon as isais oi Laciing are signed
Shipments by this line go directly to des
tination without delay at JSorlolk or Wash
ington.
The COTTON PLANT makes close con
nection with the Wilmington & Wcldou Rail
Road, aud gives through Bills of Lading from
all landings on the Kiver at the lowest rates.
JOHN MYERS' SONS.
Washington, N. C, Jan. 29, 1875. tf
NEW FIRM!
THE undersigned having purchased the
entire interests of W. A. Bssett, are now
prepared to do any kind of PAINTING,
Plain or Fancy, usual in their line. They
have an agreement with Mr: W. A. Bassett
by which his services may be procured on all
work of especially dimcult execution.
W e respectfully solicit the patronasre of
the public. T. W TOLER,
T. C. BASSETT.
Jan. 8lh, 1875. Cm
TERRELL & BR0.,
DEALERS IN
GROCERIES
AND
STAPLE DRY GOODS
Slain Street,
near uie linage
July 16, 1S75
Tho Negro A New Departure.
For the special edification of our
colored friends, -who perhaps, do
not have frequent opportunity of
reading the kitchen organ of Pres
ident Grant, the Washington Bep
ullican, from that journal full ex
tracts from the speeches on the
fourth of July of those two great
colored orators and leaders. Prof.
Lanjstcn and Fred. Douelas. uooni
"1.11. ... i . ; i
ine aury oi tu negro ana th' trea-1
chery oi his .white friends. These
speeches were delivered at iills
dale, near Washington, and they
point very distinctly to a new poK
ideal departure in the colored race
on this continent. After alluding
to the condition of his race Doug
lass said :
"All we ask is a fair field to work in,
and the white men to leave us alone. We
have been injured more than we have been
helped by men who have professed to be
cur friends. They are lawyers without
clients ministers, broken down ministers,
without churches wandering teachers
without schools. The- are great beggars.
They have the gift of begging down to a
nicety. They are great at getting out cir
culars. They scatter them broadcast over
the land, as leaves before autumnal gales.
If you are worth anything they will find
out where you live, and if you never got
a letter before you will get one now. Eel
low citizens we must stop these men from
begging for us. They misrepresent us.
and cause the country to look upon a poor
and helpless people. They say. ' Please
give something to help to educate the poor
black people, but do, I pray pay it to me,'
and if it is a hundred dollars it is reduced
about one hundred cents when it eels to
poor black people.' We do not want, we
ill not have, these second-rate men beg
ging for us. We nrotest against it."
Referring to the Freedmen's Sa
villus Uank he said: "We have
ad a Freedmen's Savings Insti
tute, but we don't want any more.
Our white friends told us that if
we had cents to bring them to them,
and they would take care of them.
If we had dollars, or hundreds, or
thousands, to bring them to them.
They told us they had a gooso and
golden egg. les, we put our
millions there, but where are they
now ? The men who went into
that bank a few years ago poor
men are now domiciled in beautiful
homes and drive their fine turnouts.
It makes me feel badly to think
how Ave have been robbed. Just
enough honest men have been put
into the bank to insure its success.
but while they put two sound ap-
les they slipped in five or six
speckled ones, and were sure to
turn the specks down."
He urged the colored people to
stop begging for themselves, and if
they built cnurches, net to ask the
white people to pay for them. Ii
they hid banks, colleges and pa
pers, not to ask other people to
support them ; but be independent.
Ja concluding he said : " We pro.'
pose to cut loose from all invidious
institutions, and to part company
with all those wandering mendi
cants who have followed us simply
or paltry gain, and wo now bid an
affectionate farewell to all these
plunderers, and in the future, if we
need a Moses, we will find him in
our own tribes.
This is very strong language, and
is as sensible and just as it is true.
Ever since suffrage was conferred
upon the negro he has been made
the dupe of unprincipled and dis
honest white men and used for their
aggrandisement, and never yet has
the negro reaped any advantage
from the unnatural alliance. It is
time tncy had 'cut loose from tho
wandering mendicants,' and placed
themselves on a higher plain of
both personal and political action.
Whether they will ever be able to
find a Moses in their own tribe'
capable of leading them through
the waters of the Red sea is at
least doubtful, but they can rise to
the highest degree of their capaci"
ties by acting in the future with
their former old masters.
Next comes Professor Laneston.
He too i3 in favor of a new depart
ure, and nas lorm.ed an utter detes
tation of carpet-baggers, theives
and canting hypocrits of the negro
persuasion, nere is one ot nis as
saults upon those shrewd yankees
i i i i
who want to control all the nesro
schools and colleges in the country
and hold all the oflices
" On the 20th of April. 1875. a body of
clergyman oi the Congregational denomina
tion met in Atlanta, Georgia. 4hey were
in session for three days, in a small room in
Atlanta LTniversity. And now, fellow citi
zens what do you think they were delibera
tion during those three days 1 They were
deciding.
WHETHER THE NeOKO WAS A FAILCEE OB
NOT.
A few white men from three or four of the
Gulf States meet in Atlanta, Georgia, to de
cide wnetner the negro is a failure ! Fred
erick Dougias was in Washington city : but
he was not invited. Charles L. Reason and
Rev. Henry Highland Garnelt were in New
York; but they were not invited. Dr. Wm.
Wella Brown was in Boston ; but he was not
iuvited."lPeter K. Clark was in Cincinatti :
but he was not invited. Pinchback was in
New Orleans ; but he was not invited. In
fine, there was not a single colored rxfea in
vited to take part in that important meet
ing, which was to decide whether the negro
is a failure. And what was the decission
reached by that body 1 It was that the ne
gro is a failure, as a Christian, as a citizen
as a stuaent. as teacher.
Again :
' " Fellow citizens, we hav been charged
with a great many sins ; but these charges
ironi these saints, these preachers of righte
ousness, astound me. Tne democrats have
vuoiicooj atocvuuu iuc 1UC UCUlUvrftUS Haiti
said we would steal ; that we loved to visit
Friday,
the hen-roost at unseasonable hours; that
wo would lie ; and yen know that they said
we were intellectually and physically the
inferiors of the white man. Bat this is the
first time I ever heard that the negro had
no religion and was void of a conscience.
They have been saying all the. time that we
were too religious; that if- the preacher
talked about gloi-y we would fall off the
benches and go into religion hysterics ; but
these 'gentlemen of the cloth' say we have
no religion. I have always heard that the
negro bad a tender conscience ; that he was
of a forgiving spirit, but these wolves in
sheep's clothing, these pretended friends, of
the negro, say we are without conscience.
These men to be teachers of our children !
God forbid! How do they approach v the
negro 1 The first thing they do is, " Ton
see my flaxen locks, my bine eyes, my fair
complection, my beautifully jchiseled nose
and equif.itely thin lips 1 Well, first be im
pressed that I am your superior in every
particular'- That is-the first lesson. And
the second is like unto it. You see, fellow
citizens, that this has a tendancy to cause
our people to loose their self respect and
self-reliance. The colored man is always to
be made to feel his inferiority to the white
roan. And besides all this, these white men
fill up their treasury by saying to the giv
ing public. The negro is a dangerous ani
mal. He must be educated, and we are the
only persons in the country who can do it.
We Congregationalist have a society for this
work ; we have a college in Nashville, and
schools all over the South. Give ns money,
and place the negro into our hands and we
will take care of him.'
" Mr. President, I am here to enter a sol
era protest against the recent doings of the
American Missionary Society. I am here
to-day to declare my independence
and independence for all who
are my followers. The hour is come when
we must throw off this volte of onnression.
and stand up for our rights as freemen. The
signs of the times demand that we shall
prove our fitness, for all the duties of citi
zenship. Mr. President, the hour is come when
we must manage our own institutions. If
have colored churches, then give us colored
preachers ; if we have colored banks, we
must have colored bankers ; if we have col
ored schools, let us have our own teachers ;
if we have colored colleges, we demand that
we have our own officers. We have played
the second-fiddle too long. We want, we
must have a change for the better !"
It is evident that the rei?n of
the carpet-bagger is over and that
in the future we are to have either
a colored line distinctly drawn, or
will see the negroes vote independt
ently of all party dictation.
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Raleigh News.
The We Murder !
The body of Mrs. Scott Parton cut
to Pieces and luried in a Guano
Bag!
The search Saturday in the Pan
ther Branch Township with a view
of developing some facts in connec
tion with tho mysterious disappear
ance of the wife of Scott Partin, in
ebruary last, resulted m the find
ing of the body of the murdered
woman buried in Little Black Creek
Swamp, some miles from his father's
residence.
The unfortunate woman had been
cut to pieces, her legs broken in
order to enable the husband-fiend
o place his murdered wife in a
guano bag, and had been placed in
the morass which at that point was
almost impassable. The party en
gaged in the search was accident
ally attracted to the spot by a dead
cow that had fallen into the mire
and had become the prey of buz
zards. .IN ear the cow on the sufface
of the marsh-warer a small spot in-
dtcated the presence of something
unusual, when a vigorous probing
into the mud and water discovered
the bag containing the mutilated
body, which was still in a good
state of preservation.
lhe murderer has been seen in
the neighborhood some three times
in the last two weeks, and was seen
the last timo on Thursday, but he
escaped arrest. Now that tho mur
der has been a certainly, every ef..
on win oe maae to arrest him at
once, lie is some 16 years of aze.
about 5 feet 10 inches high, is light
complexioned, and has a down cast
ook. He was employed as guard
At the State Penitentiary some f,wo
years ago. Ixovernor Uregden
should at once offer a reward for
this brutal fiend.
It i3 thought that other parties
will be arrested as accessories after
the fact. An intense feeling pres
vails in the neighborhood of the
murder. The murdered woman
was the daughter of Mr. Hender
son Waltcm of Buckhorn Towns
ship.
A Duplex Negro.
A duplex negro is the latest an
atomical wonder m the Southern
papors. He has acquired such per
cr3 of self-contortion that in exhib
iting nis dual organization to a
Wheeling doctor, he dropped his
ribs one foot and the doctor felt
1 . 1 . T-w . m
underneatn tne nrst. lie then an
nounced that he would throw his
heart down the same distance. The
stethscope was placed over it, and
it was shown to be breathing regu
larly in its right place. He then
gave his body a jerk, and the heart
was beating a foot below, as he had
promised. After two minutes' in
terval the active organ returned, as
the negro said it would kill him to
keep it there longer. He dropped
it again on the right side, and held
it there the same length of time.
Then he stopped its beating alto
gether, and for the space of two
minutes there was no pulse in all
his body. When this remarkable
child of nature began to manipulate
his riba and do several things with
his internal organs still more re
markablr, some gentlemen present
fainted. It is not said what has
become of the man who wrote the
story but we get it from the 2W-
I
I OUne.
Washington's Communion.
Major Popham, an officer of the
Revolution, vrrote a letter, in which
he says:
"It was my great good fortune
to have attended St. Paul's church
in this city, with the General, du
during the whole period of his res
idence in New York as President
cf the United States. The pew of
the Chief Justict Morris was situa
ted next to that of the President,
close to where I constantly sat in
Judge Morris's pew ; and I au as
confident as a memory now labor
ing under the pressure of fourscore
years and seven can make me, that
the President had more than once
I believe I may say often-attended
at the sacramental table, at which
I had the privilege and happiness
to kneel with him. And I am aid
ed in my recolections by my eldest
daughter, who distinctly recollects
her grandmamma (Mrs. Morris),
often mentioning thaf fact with
great pleasure. Indeed I am fur
thus confirmed in my assurances by
the perfsct recollection of the Pres
ident's uniform deportment during
Divine service in church. The
steady seriousness of his manner,
the solemn, audible, but subdued
tone of reice in which he read and
repeated the responses, the Chris
tian humility which overspread and
adorned the native dignity of the
Saviour of his country, at once ex
hibited him a pattern to all who
had the honor of access to him It
was my good fortune, dear madam,
to have had frequent intercourse
with him. It is my pride and
boast to have seen him in various
situations,-in tho flush of victory,
in the field and in the tent, in the
church and at the alter, always
liimself, ever the same."
How Did She Do It.
A Boston chambermaid is said
to have got twelve commercial trav
elers into eleven bed-.rooms, and yet
to have given each a separate bed
room. Here we have the eleven
bed-rooms :
12345678910 11
"Now," said she, "if two of you
gentlemen will go into No. 1 bed.
room and wait a few minutes, I'll
find a spare room for one of you as
soon as 1 ve shown the others to
their rooms." Well, now, having
thus bestowed two men in No. 1,
she puts the third in No. 2, the
burth in No. 3, the fifth in No. 4,
the eighth in No. 7, the ninth in
No. 8, the tenth in No. 9. the eleyi
enth in No. 10. She then came
back to No. 1, where, you will re
member, she left the twelfth along
with the first, and said : "I've now
accommodated all the rest, and still
have a room to spare : so if you will
please step into No. 11, you will
find it empty." Thus the twelfth
man got his bedr-room. Of course
there is a hole in the saucenan
somewhere ; but we leave the read
er to determine exactly where the
allacy is, with just a warning to
think twice before deciding a3 to
wnich, if any, of the travelers, was
the "odd man out."
Art:mus Ward on tho Negro.
Feller sittisuns: The African
ma be our brother. Severil hily
respectable gentlemen and some
emails tell us so, and for areyment
sake 1 might be inclined to grant
tho I don't believe it myself.
But the African isn't ouj sister and
our wife and our uncle. He isn't
severil of our cousin and all of our
wife's relations. He isn't our
grand-father and our aunt in the
country. Scarcely. And yet
numerous persons would have us
think so. It is troo he run3 con
gress and severil other public
grosserys. But we've got the
African, or he's got us rather. Now
what are we going to do about it ?
He s an orful noosance. Perhaps
he isn't to blamo for it. Perhaps
he wa3 created for sum wise pur
pose, like Bill Harding and New
England rum, but it is mity hard
to see it. At any rate, he's here,
and its a pity he kan't go orf some
whares quietly by himself whare
he cood gratify his ambition in
varis wase without havin'ian eternal
fuss kickt up about him.
A Look Around the World.
The latest and best authority
gives the population of the globe at
2,350,000,000.
In America, 72,800,000.
In Europe, 587,000,000.
In Asia, 789,000,000.
In Africa, 188,000,000.
In Australia and Polynesia, 6,-n
300,000.
The adherents of tho principal
sects, recounting the whole popula tion,
are supposed to be thus :
Roman Catholics, 195,000,000.
Protestants, 57,130,000.
Moharamedens, 400,000,000.
Budhists, 340,000,000.
And six oriental churches, 6,5C0,
000. Other Asiatic religions, 260,000,
000. Pagans, 200,000,000.
Jews, 6,000,000.
Good looking our little Peyil.' (?)
Gambetta on Duelling. '
There is one man in France whom
the adherents of Bonapartism de
sire ardently to get out of the way.
That man is Gambetta. They can
not talk him down nor write him
down, hence their only hope of dis
posing of him is to fight him down.
There is something essentially Cor
sican in the Bonapartist party, and
when arguments fail it can always
rely upon the ready service of some
trained swordsman to run an adver
sary through the body, It is not
a long while since one of these de
voted bravos of imperialism struck
M. Gambetta publicly, in the hope
of forcing tho leader of the republi
cans to fight a duel. With admir
able good sense Gambetta contented
himself with handing the blackguard
over to the police, and a few months'
imprisonment left him, no dcubt, a
more prudent if not a much wiser
man. A new aspirant to the honor
of assassinating M. Gambetta, uns
der the forms of tho duel, has ap
peared in the person of Granier de
Cassagnac, the editor of the Bona
partist organ. This person is pleas
ed to announce that he holds the
leader of the republican party liable
for certain articles, and thcroupon
challenges him to deadly combat.
M. Gambetta's answer will commend
itself to tho approval of intelligent
men everywhere. He says that he
has other work to do than to fight
every body who may take it in his
head to challenge him to combat.
In tho present state of French so
ciety it requires no little moral
courage for a public man to refuse
a challenge, and M. Gambetta de
serves credit for having set an ex
ample that we hope other distin
guished Frenchmen will follow.
There are, perhaps, occasions in
which high-spirited men could find
no other solution of their difficulties
that would satisfy themselves than
is offered by the semi-barbarous
practice of duelling ; but such occa
sions are, happily, rare. Nothing
could be more absurd than for the
leader of a great party in the nation
to venture his life against that of
some empty-headed but dexterous
fencing master. A system which
would encourage an absurdity can
not resist the march of modern
ideas. This challenge of M. Gran
ier de Cassagnac and M. Grambet
ta's reply will go a long way toward
discrediting that system of political
duelling which is a blot on the civ
ilization of France. Herald.
The Farmsr is King.
We have but to consult the re
turnrs of the last census to prove
clearly that the cultivators of the
soil are the controlling power of
the republic. In the light of the
census tables, the Lynchburg News
compares agriculture with manu"
facturesthe two chief American in
dustries. The importance of the
facts in sufficient to relieve of the
charge of dullness always brought
against statistics.
In 1870 tho male population in
the Union over ten years of age,
was 14,000.000. Of these 5,500,s
were engaged in agriculture, while
only 1,100,000 were employed in
manufactures. That is, nearly
three-sevenths of the males over
ton years old were agriculturalists,
while less than one-seventh were
manufacturers. The value of the
farms in the country, that is the
soil and buildings, was nearly $10,
000,000,000; of the farming im
iinplements and machinery, 840,
000,000; of live stock on the farms,
more than 1,500,000,000. Here
we have the sum total of nearly
$12,000,000,000 invested in agri
culture. The census returns of
1970, in regard to tho amount of
capital invested in manufacturers
are more imperfect the sum given
up in round numbors, is $2,200,
000,000. The ceusus Superintend
ent thinks this sum is less than the
actual fact. Well, double it if you
please, and even then tho amount
of capital invested in agriculture
will be three times as large as that
invested in manufactures.
Tha South.
The correspondence on tho con
dition of the South which we pub
ish in another column will be found
full of interesting information. The
great problem introduced into our
politics by the admission of the col
ored people to the enjoyment of
equal rights with the whites is slow
ly working out its own solution.
So far the influence of the carpet
bag element, supported by the fed
eral power, has been able to main
tain the color line unbroken outside
of Arkansas, but there are not wan
ting indications which point to a
growing discontent among the col
ored people with the present sys
tem. The result of the caroet-
bagger's success has been a course
of dishonest legislation which has
disgusted the honest republicans of
tne bouth. Wisdom and forbear
ance on the part of the democrats
will in time break the solid phalanx
of the colored vote and free the
South from the nightmare of car
petbag government, and federal in
terference which at present crushes
out the energy from the Southern
people and impedes all progress.