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in MM II I I I I II II II ' BE STXRJE YOTJ ARE BIGHT ; THJSITSr Q-O AHEAD.-D. Crockett. VOL. Ta. TARBORO', N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25,lo76. NO. 37. GENERAL DIRECTORY. TARROKO'. Mitok Fred. Philips. Commissioners Jesse A. Williamson. Ja cob Feldenheimer, Dauiel W. Hunt, Alex. McCabe, Joseph Cobb. SBCUETA.RV & TRE A8CKER Robt. Wll'ltC- hurst. Cuief of Police John W. Gotten. Assistant Police J. T. Moo c Jas. E. Si.iioason, Altimore Macnair. COUNTY. Superior-Court Clerk and Prolate H. L. Stilton, Jr. liegistcr of J feeds Alex. McCabe. Shenff Joseph Cobb. Coroner Treasurer llobt. II. Austin. Surveyor John E. Baker. Standard Keeper J. B. Hyatt. School Examiners. II. II. Shaw, Win. A. Duggau and R. 3, Williams. Keeper Poor House AYm. A. Duegan. Commissioners J no. Lancaster, Chairman, Wiley Well, J. B. W. Norville, Frank Dew, M. Exem. A. McCabe, Clerk. ai ai i.s. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS NORTH AND SOUTH VIA W. A W. R. R. Leave Tarboro' (daily) nt - - A- M. Arrive at Tu-rboro' (daily) Ht - - 3 30i..M. WASHINGTON MAIL VIA GREENVILLE. FALKLAND AND SPAUTA. Lsra Tarboro' (ilaily) at . - - 6 A. M. Arrive nt Tarboro' (daily) at - 6 F. M. The Nights and the Places of !Ieetiir. Concord K. A. Chapter No. 5, N. M. Law renee, High Priest, Masonic Uall, monthly convocations first Thursday in every month at 10 o'clock A. M. Concord Lodge No. 58, Thomas Gatlir, Master, Masonic Hall, meets first Friday night at 7 o'clock P. M. and third Saturday at 10 o'clock A. M. in every month. Kepiton Encampment No. 13, I. O. O. F., I. B. Palamountain, Chief Patriarch, Odd Fel lows' Hall, meets every first and third Thurs day of each month. Edgecombe Lodge No. 50, I. O. O. F., T. W. Toler, N. G., Odd Fellows Hall, meets every Tuesday night. Edgecombe Council No. 122, Friends of Temperance, meet every Friday night at the Odd Fellows' Hall. Advance Lodge No. 25, I. O. O. T., meets every Wednesday night at there Hall. Zanoah Lodge, No. 235", I. O. B. B., meet on first and third Mondav night of every month at Odd FellowB Hall, A. Whitloek, President. CHURCHES. Episcopal Church Services every Sunday at 10 1-3 o'clock A-. M. and 5 P. M. Dr. J. B. Cheshire, Rector. Methodist Church Services every Fourth Sunday of every month, morning and nisht. 1st Sunday at night and 5th Sunday at night. Rev. Mr. Swindell, Pastor. Presbyterian Church Services every 1st, 3rdaBdoth Sabbtth. Rev. T. J. Allison, Pastor Weekly Prayer meeting, Thurs day night Missionary Baptist Church Services the 4th Sunday in every lnoi th, 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, cornrr Main and Pitt Sts. O. F. Adams, Proprie.or. EXPRESS. Southern Express Office, on Main Street, closes every mornfug at o'clock. H, M. Lawrence, Agent. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. pRANK POWELL, Attorney and Counselor at Law, TARX0R0', N. C. 3-Collections a Specialty, "aft Office nest door to the Southerner office. July 2, 1875. tf JOS. BLOLTNT CHESHIRE, JR., ATTORNEY AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC. Bfi?" Office at the Old Bank Building on Trade Street. jc-25-tf. II OWARD &. FERRY' Attorneys and Counselors at Law. TARBORO', N. C. "W Prac.ics in all tLe Courts, State and FMeral. nov.5-ly. w H. JOHNSTON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, TARBORO', N. C. Xjf Attends to the traniaction of busi ness in all the Courts, State and Federal. Nov. 5, 1S75. ly F REDERICK PHILIPS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, TARBORO', N. C. Jf" Practices in Courts of adjoining coun ties, in the Federal and Supreme Courts. Nov. 5, 1875. ' ly ALTER P. WILLIAMSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, TARBORO', N. C. Vill practice in the Courts of the 2nd Judicial District. Collections made in any part of the State. X3T Office In Iron Front Building, Pit Street, rear of A. Whitloek & Co's. Jan. 7, 1876. tf JACOB BATTLE, Counsellor and Attorney at Law, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Practices in all tic State Courts. March 24, 1870. ly J, H. & W. L. THORP, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. t PRACTICES in the counties of Edge eombe, Halifax, Nash and Wilson, and In the Supreme Court North Carolina, also In the United States District Court at Raleigh. DR. E. D. BARNES, Surgeon Dentist, Irfain Street, TARBORO', N. C. Vy All work warranted to give entire satisfaction. feb.l8-tf. yM. HOWARD, 2D IX TJ G O I S T DEALER IN DRUGS. PATENT MEDICINES &a., SnhJ, SeC. Next door to Mrs, Peuder'b Hotel, TARBORO .N.C, MISCELLANEOUS. I a day at home. Agents wanted. Outfit and terms free. TRUE & CO-, Angusta, Maine. "TJ A WEEK guaranteed to Agents, jk I I Male and Female in their own loeal v 1 1 itv. Terms OUTFIT FREE. Ad dress P. L V1CKEKY A CO., Agustn, Me. 5 ti CiOA r,or Jay at homo. Sumpl'.- worth tf lO Civ St free. STINsjON CO., Port land, Maine. TtflND READING, PS YC AO M AN C Y IvJL FASCINATION, Soul Charming, Mes merism, ncd Marriage Guide, showing how eithur sex may fascinate and gain the ltive pud all'eci-lon of any person they choose in stantly. 400 pages. By mail 5L' cts. Hunt & Co., 1C0 S. 7th St., Philadelphia, Frke, Twenty-Five Cents. NEWSPAPER . ADVERTISING ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH EDITION. Containing a complete list of all towns in the Untted Slates, the Territories and the Dominion of Cauada, having a population greater than 5,000 according to the last cen sus, together with the names of the news papers having the largest loeal circulation in each of the places named. Also, u catalo gue of newspapers which are recommend ed to advertisers an as giviug greatest value in proportion to prices charged. Also, all newspapaper in the United States and Can ada printing over 5,000 copies each issue. Also, all the Religious, Agricultural, Scien tific and Mechanical, Medical, Ma-onie, Juvenile, Educational, Commercial, In surance, Real Esfatoe, Law, Sporting, Mus ical, Fashion, and other special class journals very complete lists, 'Together with a com plete list of over 300 German papers printed in the United States. Also, an essay upon advertising; many tables of rates, Bhowing the cost of advertising in various newspapeis and everything which a beginner in adver . tising would like to know. Address UEO P. ROWgLL & CO., 41 Park Row, New York. NEWSPAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES. A complete list, numbering 8, 1 2t, wiih a Gazetteer correct to date, of all town and cities in which Newspapers arc published; historical and statistical sketches of theGre.it Newspaper Establishments; illustrated with numerous engravings of the principal news paper buildings. Book op 300 Pages, just issued. Mailed, post paid, to address for H5c. Apply (inclosing price) to Superinten dent of the Newspaper Pavilion, Centennial Grounds, Philadelphia, or American News Company, N. Y. Every advertiser i.-Ll- it. PRIVTAE Boarding House. AIRS. V. E. LIPSCOMB respectfully an ItJ. nounces that she has opened a Private Boardiug House in Tarboro, on the corner of Bank and Pitt Streets. Good Fare, Pleasant Rooms, CoiMfor table Ileds. lioard Moderate. Feb. 19, 1S75. ly Pest Poison is not only Safe, Bars and Cheap DESTE0YES of Uia Colorado Beetle or Potato Bug, but of au. ibsbcts whlchimv uu D((B4iluu UDTIDa ABal WORM Gbzzn Fit, ha. Unlike Paris Green and other Poisons, It can be entirely dissolved la water and applied by sprinkling. Not Injubiocs to Pl&mts, Not DanghMcs to Use, IT ever Fails to Kill. Costs about 25 Cimts an Acbk. Put up in half lb. boxes, enough for two acres. Pries 40 Cents Send for Circular. Made only by the' KEARNEY CHEMICAL WORKS, 66 Cortlandt Si. P, 0. BOX 3133. HEW YORK. CHOWAN Baptist Female Institute, MURFREESBORO', N. C. "VTEXT Session begins 1st Wednesday in In October. Number of boarders limited to one hun dred. For the instruction of these, ten first class teachers are employed. Facilities unu sually ample and charges very moderate. For catalogues, nddress A. McDOWELL, Presidcut. July 23, 176. 2m. C. J. AUSTIN'S HOLESALE & RETAIL GROCERY, Prices Low Down for Cash ! rRT Agent for PETER'S AMMONIATED DISSOLVED BONE, prepared expressly for Cotton. . mar.21-ly. Manhood : How Lost,1 How Restored ! Just publishrd, a new edition of De. Culvekwell's Cele brated Essay on the radical cure (without medicine) of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal-Weakness, Involuntary Seminal Losses, Impoteucy, Mental and Physical In capacity, Impediments to Mavriaae, etc.; al so, Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induc ed by self-indulgence or sexual extrava gance, Sec. Price, in a sealed envelope, only six cents. The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty years' successful practice, that the alarming consequences of self-abuse may be radicallv cured without the dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of tho knife ; pointing out a mode of cure at one simple, certain, and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may cure himself cheaply, privately and radically. This Lecture should be in the hands of every y juth and every man in the land. Sent under seal, in a plain envelope to any address, post-paid, on receipt of six cents or two postage stamps. Addreis the Publishers, CHAS. J. C. CLINE & CO., 127 Bowery, Now York ; P. O. Box, 4586' Siiirior 414 .BALTIMORE LEXINGTON ST FOR SALE OR BBNT. rilllE neat and comfortable dwelling X east side of Church street, recently occupied by Mr. John N. Vick, is for renU or it will be sold privately on reasonable terms. The house has four rooms nicely finished, and adjoining it Is a kitchen. There Is also a splendid Garden spot and Stables. The lot is neatly enclosed and is one of the most comfortable and desirable places in Rocky Mount, N. C. Oct.2a-tf. W. L. THORP. ORGANS. MISCELLANEOUS. Coltl en's Liebig's Liquid LXTRACT OF AND TOXIC 1NVIG0RAT0R, Recommended by the best physicians in England aud America for Consumption, De bility, Loss of Appetite, Fever Ague, Dys pepsia, Indigestion, Female aud Children maladies. OPINION OF DR. R. S. STEUART, Pres't, Md, Insane Hospital, Baltimore, Md. " I can recommend Licbig'3 Li quid Extract of Beef as the most sufficient preparation I have ever met with. It com bines the virtues of food and tonic in a re markable way." OPINION OF Dr. WM, H. STOKFS, Physi cian to Mount Hope Retreat, Baltimore, t i Lave great pleasure in adding my testimony to the virtues of Liebig's Li quid Extract of Beef and Tonic Invigorator, as the very best preparation used, and there fore confidently recommend it to the medi cal profession." AND MANY OTHER TESTIMONI ALS. PUT UP IN PINT BOTTLES 11.00 EACH, TAKE NO OTHEK. SOLD BT Druggists and Dealers. WHOLESALE AGENTS. Thomson, Lilly ifc Co., Baltimore, Md. Purcell & Ladil, Richmond, Va. Wm. R. Burwell & Co., Charlotte, N. C. Dec. 10, 1S75. ly PUEUITUEE ! A large lot for sale cheap for cash. Also Furniture made to order, by .T. E. SSIIVJMOIYS, PITT ST., TARBORO', N. C. fi" Call aud sec before you purchase. promptly attended to. Keeps on hand and makes to order, Maho any, Walnut, Poplar aud Pine Coffins. Also on hand a full line of METALIC CA SES. Hearse for hire on burial occasions, ftp" Terms cash. Jan. 1, 1S7G.-Iy. J. E. SIMMONS. A CARD TO THE PUBLIC ! I am now prepared to fnniish the Centen nial BOOT & LUCRE TIE SHOE, cheap er than c;:u be gotten up in Northern ciiies, and am a'ueau of trade in tLis and adjoining counties. I use uothiug but First Choice Frencn Calf Skins and Extra Pebbled Goat. The finest grades of Sole Leather, English Bend a specialty. The latest style last ore used iu my business. Also keeps constantly on hand all sorts of Shoe-finding. Workmenship unexcelled. Give me atrial, and if my work doi.'t suit will make sacrifice or. anv that is taken from my house. O. C. DOGGETT. Tarboro, May 5, I S"'!. Sm. GEO. L. PENDER, WITH Brug; Faulkner & Co., Wholesale Dealers iu Foreign ami Domestic Dry Good, Notions & White GOODS. 275 W. BALTIMORE STREET, J. e. Ruff, ) Baltimore. A. B. Fanlkner, S- Wm. R. Hallett, novlO-ly. V. WRENN Manufacturer of and wholesale dealer iu CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, FARM WAGONS, CARTS, WHEELS AND AXLES, HAR NESS, COLLARS, II AMES, SAD DLES, LAPROBES, HORSE CLOTHING, WHIPS. &c,, &c. Also a large Stock of Carriage Materials. Nos. 14, 16, 24 and SGJUnion Street, Norfolk, Va. April, 7 1876. ly. W. T. TAYLOR, Manufacturer of WIDttV FRAMES, DOORS, Plain Panels of e?ery style DOOR FRAMES, WIXDOJFS, SASHES, BLINDS, MANTLES, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, SCROLL WORK AND Tobacco Box Patterns, Whitaker's, N. 0. Also, contracts to put up buildings, furn ishing all material, complete turn-key jobs, or otherwise, as parties may prefer, all with kiln-dried lumber. March 24, 178. ly THIS PAPER IS OS FILE WITH rw. is i 1 Whore Advertising Contract can be made Greensboro Female College GREENSBORO. K". C. rtnllE Fall Session will begin on Wednes X day, 23rd of August, and continue 20 weeks. Board (exclusive of washing aud lights) f 75 Tuition in regular English course, S25 For catalogue, apply to Rev. T. M. Jones, President. N. H. D. WILSON, President Board ot Trustees. June 23, 1676. 2m Want to Sell. I WILL SELL MY TWO STORY DWELL Ing on Church Street, corner of Thomas street five rooms and closets, ihe jpsSa house is newly painted and in excel- lout repair, vne acre oi grouuu i pall attached under new paling. There are also the necessary out houses. It ts a bargain for somebody. I will also sell a good Piano and other ITui--niture. Also several vacant lots ou ChurcU Street. All in Rocky Mout, N. C. DOSSEY BATTLE. Oct. 29,1875. tf. 9 3 Friday : : Aug 25, 137S Gov. Hendricks' Letter of Acceptance. Indianapolis, July 24, 1876. Gentlemen : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication, in which you have formally notified mc of my nomina tion by the National Democratic Convention at Sc. Louis, as their candidato for the office of Vice Prjsident of the United States. It is a nomination which I had neither expected nor desired; and yet I re cognize aud appreciate the high honor done me by the Convention. The choice of such a body, pro nounced with such unusual unanimi ty, and accompanied with so gener ous an expression of esteem and confidence ought to outweigh all merely personal desires and pre ferences of my own. It is with feeling, arid I tru3t also from a deep sense of public duty, that I now accept the nomination, and shall abide the judgement of my countrymen. It would have, been impossible for me to accept the nomination if I could not heartily endorse the platform of the Convention. I am gratified, therefore, to be able un eqiuvocally to declare that I agree in tho principles, approve the poli cies, and sympathize with the pur poses enunciated in the platform. Tho institutions of our country have been sorely tried by the exi gencies of civil war, and, since tho peaee, by a selfish and corrupt man agement cf public affairs, which has shamed us before civilized man kind. Jy unwise and partial legis lation every industry and interest of the people have been made to suffer; and in the executive depart ments of tho government, dishones ty, rapacity and venality have de baucLed the public service. Men known to be i:nwor;hy have been promoted, while others have been degraded for fidelity to official duty. Public office has been made the means of private profit, and the couutry has been offended to see a class of men who boast the friend ship of the sworn protectors of the State amassing fortunes by defraii'i in tho public treasury and by cor rupting the servants of the people. In such a crisis of the history of the country I rejoice that the con conventi jn at St. Louis has so nobly raised the standard of reform. Nothing can be well with us or with our affairs until the public con science, shocked by the enormous evils and abuses which prevail, shall have demanded and compelled an unsparing reformation of our Nation al -Administration, 'in its head and in its members.' In such a refor mation the removal of a single offi cer, even the President, is cem paratively a trifling matter, if the system which he represents, and which has fostered him aa ho has fostered it, is suffered to remain. The President alone must not be made the scapegoat for the enormi ties of the system which infests the public service, and threatens tho destruction of our institutions, in some respects I hold that the pre sent executive has been the victim rather than the author of that vicious system. Congressional and party leaders have been stronger than the President. No ono man could have created it, and the re moval of m one man can amend it. It is thorcughly corrupt, and must be swept remorselessly away by the selection of a government composed of elements entirely new, and pledg ed to radical reform. reforms needed. The first work of reform must evidently be the restoration of the Constitution of the United States, with all its amendments. The ne cessities of war cannot be pleaded in a time of peace; the right of lo cal self-government as guarranteed by the C7eniStitution of the Union must be everywhere restored, and the centralized (almost personal) imperialism which has been prac tised must be done away, or tho first principles of the public will be lost. Our financial system of expe dients must be reformed. Gold and silver are the real standard of values, and our national currency will not be a perfect medium of ex change until it shall be convertible it the pleasure of the holders. A.s I have heretofore said, no one de sires a return to specie payments more earnestly than I do; but 1 do not believe that it will or can be reached in harmony with the inter ests of the people by artificial measures for the contraction of the currency, any more than I believe that wealth or permanent prosperi ty can be dreaded by an inflation of the currency. The laws of finance cannot be disregarded with impuni ty. The financial policy of the Government, if, indeed, it deserves the name of policy at all, has been in disregard of those laws, and therefore has disturbed commerical ami business confidence, as well as hindered a return to specie pay ments. One feature of that policy was the resumption clause of the Act of 1875, which has embarrass ed the country by the anticipation for which no preparation has been made, and without any assurance that it would be practicable. The repeal of that clause is necessary that the natural operation of finan cial laws may be restored, that the business of the country may be re lieved from its disturbing and de pressing influence, and that a re turn to specie payments may be facilitated by ;the substitution of ser and more prudent legislation, which shall mainly rely on a judi cious system of public economies and official retrenchments, and as hove all on the promotiun of pros perity in all industries of the peo ple. 1 do not understand the repeal of the resumption clauso of the -Act of 1875 to be a backward step in our return to specie payments, but the recovery of a false step; and al though the repeal may, for a time, be prevented yet tho determination of the Democratic party on this subject has now been distinctly de clared. There should be no hin derences put iu the way of a return to specie payments. 'As such a hinderance,' says the platform of the St. Louis Convention, 'we de nounce the resumption clause of the Act of 1S75, and demand its re peal.' I thoroughly believe that by pub lic economy, by officfal retrench ments, and by wise finance enabling us to accumulate the precious met als, resumption at tin early period is possibly, without producing an "artificial scarcity of currency" or disturbing public or commercial credit ; and that theso reforms to gether with the restoration of pure government, will restore general confidence, encourage the useful investment of capital, furnish em ployment to labor, and relieve the cxmcry from the "paralysis of hard timc3." OUR INDUSTRIES. With the industries of the people there have been frequent interferen ces. Our platform truly says that many industries have been impov erished to sudsidize a few. Our commerce has been degraded to an inferior position on t!io hirh seas ; manufacturers have been diminish ed ; agricultures has been embnrra scd, and the distress of the indus trial classes demands that these things shall be reformed. Tbo burdens of the people must also be lightened by a great change in our system of public expense. The profligate expenditures 'which increased taxation from five dollars per capita in 1860 to eighteen dol lars in 1870 tells its own story of our need of fiscal reform. Our treaties with foreign powers should also be revised and amended, in so far as they leave citizens of foreign birth in any particular less secure in any country on earth thai they would be if they had been born on our own soil ; and the in iquitous coolie system which, through the agency of wealthy com panies, imports Chinese bondsmen, and establishes a species of slavery, and interferes with the just rewards of labor on our Pacific coast, should be utterly abolished. In the reform of our civil service, 1 most heartily endorsa the section of the platform which declares that the civil service ought not to be "subject to change at every elec tion," and that it ought not to be made "the brief reward of party zeal," but ought to be awarded for proved competency and held for fi delity in the public employ.'' I hope never again to see the cruel and remorseless prescription for po litical opinions which has disgraced the administration of the last eight years. Bad as the civil service now is, as all know, it has some men of tried integrity and proved ability. Such men, and such men only, should be retained in office: but no man should be retained on any con sideration who has prostituted his office to the purposes of partisan utimidatioQ or compulsion, or who has furnished money to corrupt the elections. This is done and has been done in almost every county of the land. It is a blight upon the morah of the country, and ought to be reformed. OUR SCHOOLS. Of sectional contentions, and in respect to our common schools, I I have only this to say. That in my judgment the man or party that would involve our schools in politic cal or sectarian controversy is an enemy to the schools. The com mon schools are safer under the protecting care of all tho people than under the control of any party or sect. They must be neither sec tarian nor partisan, and there mu3t be neither division nor misappro priation of tho funds for their sup port. Likewise I regard the man who would arouse or foster section al animosities and antagonisms among his countrymen as a danger ous enemy to his country. All the people must be made to feel and know that once more there is estab lished a purpose and policy under which all citizens of every condi tion, race and color, will be secure in the enjoyment of whatever rights the Constitution and laws declare or recognize , and that in contro versies that may ariaa the governs ment is not a partisan, but, within its constitutional authority the just and powerful guardian of the rights and safety of all. The strife be tween the sections and between ra ces will cease as soon as the power for evil is taken away from a party that makes political gain out of scenes of violence and bloodshed, and the constitutional authority s placed in the hands of men whose political welfare requires that peace and good order shall be preserved everywhere. cov. TILDEN. It will be seen, gentlemen, that I am in entire accord with the plat form of the Convention by. which I have been nominated as a candidate for the office of Vice President of the United States. Permit me, in conclusion, to express my satisfac tion at being associated with a can didate for the Presidency who is first among his equals as a repre sentative of the spirit and of the achievements of reform. In his of ficial career as Executive of the great State of New York ; he has, in a comparatively short period, re formed the public service and re duced the public burdens, so as to have earned at once the gratitude of his State and the admiration of tho country. Tho people know him to be thoroughly in earnest ; he has shown himself to be possess ed of powers and qualities which fit him, in an eminent degree, for the great work of reform which this country now needs ; and if he shall be chosen by the people to the high office of President of the United States, I believe that the day of his inaugeration will be the begining ofanewera of peace, purity and prosperity in all departments of our government. 1 am, gentleman your obedient servant. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS. To che Hon. John A. McClernand, Chairman, and others of the Com mittee of the National Democrat ic Convention. lis Had a Patent. Soon after dinner yesterday a very pleasant-faced man, having something wraped up in a paper uoder his arm, called at a Detroit hotel and requested a few minutes conversation with the landlord. When they were seated the stran ger began : 'I am an old landlord myself, I kept hotel in St. Louis fcr tweiry eight years. 'Yes,' was the non-committed re ply of the landlord. '-And of course 1 know all about the inconvenience of hotel-keeping,' resumed the man. 'There were bugs around the bed in my hotel, I suppose. Of course, I used to lie to guests, but the bugs were there, and I knew it.' 'What do you mean V demanded the landlord, growing red clear around to his neck. 'Just keep right still,' replied tho man, 'for now I'm coming down to biz. This is the summer season, isn't it, and the only season when bug3 bite? la the winter they are dormant, and unless there's fire in the room they don't dare to get in to work on the weary traveler. Well, tho summer season is the sea son for the mosquito, also. All hotels and houses have mosquitoes and nothing is thought of it. They seem to be a sort of necessity. Travelers will raise a howl over bugs, but they never even grumble at any one about mosquitoes.' 'Sir ! do you think 1 keep a junk shop V roared the landlord. No, sir, I don't. This is a reg ular hotel, and a very good one. as I was going to remark, I have invented and patented a machine, operated by a boy and a crank, which you and all other landlords wants and will have. It is a ma chine to imitate the hum of mos quitoes. It's notes can be heard all over each floor, and with a good boy at the crank there can be no failure. The traveler, just dozing off to sleep, hears tho hum. At the same time a bug works out from under the cover. Then more hum3 and more bugs. Actually, sir without any lying or exaggera ting, men will strike and claw the air ail night long to kill imaginary mosquitoes, while the bugs go un molested and grow fat. The hum is a perfect imitation, and has even deceived Yale College professors. Without it, no traveler will mention bugs at all, but will rip and tear at the mosquitoes.' 'Do you mean to insult me ?' shouted the landlord. 'No sir.' 'But you talk as if I had bugs in ray houso !' 'I'll tell you what I'll do, land lord. I'll examine five bed3 and if I don't find bugs in at least three of them I'll give you a machine for nothing.' It would have been a nip and tuck fight if the great big porter hadn't jumped in and hit the sti ank ger with an iron boot-jack. The inventsr still lived, however, and within half an hour was seea bear ing down for another hotel und full sail. VAME ON HABEAS CORPUS. Lsttor to President Davis. STANDING UP FOR HIS PEOPLE. Union Men Respected for Opinion's Sake. ME POWER OF REASON AND PAT RIOTISM AGAINST THE LAW OF FORCE. NORTH CAROLINA EVER TRUE TO THE CALL OF DUTY. State of North Carolina, Executive Department, Raleigh, Feb. 9, 1864. J His Excellency Jefferson Davis : My Dear Sir : Since receiving your letter of the 8th ult., to which it was my intention to havo replied before this, reports have reached me from Richmond which, if true, would render my reply unnecessary. I hear with deep regret that a bill is certainly expected to pass con gress suspending tho writ of habeas corpus throughout the Confederacy, and that certain arrests will be mado in North Carolina. Of course if congress and your excellency be resolved upon this as the only mean3 of repressing disaffection in this State, it would be mere waste of time for me to argue the matter. And yet 1 should not hold myself guiltless of the consequences, which I fear will follow, did I not add yet another word ot expostulation to the many which I have already spokea. If the bill referred to, about which I can form no opinion until I see it, be strictly within the limits of tho constitution, I imagine the people of this State will submit to it, so great ia their regard for law. if it be adjudged, on the contrary, to be in violation of that instrument, and revolutionary in itself, it will be resisted. Should it become a law soon, I advise you to be chary cf exercising the power with which it will invesi you. Be content to try at least for awhile the moral ef fect of holding this power over the heads of discontented men before shocking all worshippers of common law throughout the world by hurling freemen into shrifflcss dungeons for opinion's sake. 1 do not speak this factiously or by way of flourish, nor do I believe that as an enlight ened lawyer and christian states man you feel any pleasure in the performance of such an ungracious task. I am, on $hc contrary, con vinced that you believe it to be the only way to secure North Carolina in the performance of her obliga tions to her confedeiates. The misfortunes of this belief is yours; the shame will light on thoso un worthy sons who have thus sought to 8 tab their mother because she cast them off. If our citizens are left untouched by the arm of mili tary violence, I do not despair of appealing to the reason and patri otism of the ballot-box. iundreds of good and true men, now acting with, and possessing the confidence of the party called conservative, are at work against the movement for a convention; and whilst the civil law remains intact will work zeal ously and with heart. I expect myself to take the field as soon as the proprieties of my positioa will allow me, and shall exert every ef fort to restrain the revolutionary tendency of public opinion. Never yet, sir, have the people of North Carolina refused to listen to their public men if they show right and and reason on their side. 1 do not fear to trust the issue now to these potent weapons in the hands of such men as will wield them next sum mer. 2 do fear to trust bayonets and dungeons. I endeavored soon after my accession to the chief mag istracy of North Carolina to make you aware of tho disaffection in this State, and the cause of it. In ad dition to the many letters to you, 1 have twice visited Richmond to give you information on this point. The truth is, a3 1 havo often said be fore, that the great body of our people have been suspected by their government perhaps because of the reluctance with which they gave up the old Union; and 1 know you will pardon me for saying that this con sciousness of their being suspected has been greatly strengthened by what seemed to be a studied exclu sion of the anti-secionists from all the moro important offices of the government, even from those pro motions in the army, which many of them had won th .ir blood. Was this suspicion just 'i and was there a sufficient effort made to disprove that really did exist at Richmond ? Discussion, it is true, has been un limited and bitter, and unrelenting criticism upon your adminis tration has been indulged in, but where and when nave our people failed you in tho battle, or withheld either blood or their vast resources ? To what exactions have thoy not submitted ? What draft upon their patriotism havo they yet dishonored? Conscription, ruth less and unrelenting, as only been exceeded in the severity of it3 exe cution by the impressment of prop erty, frequently entrusted to men unprincipled, dishonest, and filled to overflowing with all the petty meanness ot suall minds 'dressed in a little brief authority.' The mes vi vxj umuc are jjiiou up nuu tho wailing complaints of outraged citizens to whom redress is impossi ble. Yet they have submitted, .and, so far performed with honor their duty to their country, though the voico of these rery natural murmurs is set down to disloyalty. I do not hold you responsible for all the petty annoyances 'the in solenco of office under which our people lose heart and patience.' Even if 1 did, I cannot forget that it is my country that 1 am serving not tho rulers of that country. I make no threat I desire only with singleness of purpose and eincerty of heart to speak those words of soberness and truth which may, with the blessing of God, best sub serve the cause of my suffering country. Those words I now be lievo to be the advice herein given, to refrain from exercising the extra ordinary power about to be given by congress, at least until the last hope of moral influence being suffi cient is extinct. Though you ex pressed a fear in your last letter that my continued efforts to concil iate were injudicious, cannot see just cause for abandoning it. Pers haps I am unduly biased in judg ment concerning a people whom 1 love, and to whom I owe so much, though I trust not. Our success depends not on tho number eng8g cd to support our cause, but upon their zeal and affections. Hence I have every hope in persuading, not one in forcing, the sympathy of an unwilling people. Tho legislature of the State meets next May. Two thirds aro required by our constitu tion to call a convention. Thia number cannot be obtained. A bare majority vote for submitting tho proposition will, in my opinion, be impossible ; under no circum stances can a convention be assem bled in North Carolina during the present year, in my judgment ; and during next summer tho approach-' ing State election will afford an op portunity for a full and complete discussion of all the issues, tho re sult of which I do not fear if left to ourselves. If there be a people on earth given to the sober second thought, amendable to reason, and regardful of their plighted honor, I believe that I may claim that it is me people ot JN or tn Uarolin. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant. Z. B. VANCE. It's a Boy. One evening recently the'friends of a married couple up in Chillicothe determined to give them a surprise party. To this end twelve couples of young ladies and gentleman, with well-filled baskets, made their ap pearance beforo the houso at about nine o'clock. As they camG up to the door they saw the gentleman standing in the alleyway with his overcoat on, smoking a cigar, and the parlor was all lighted up. This struck them as rather singular, but the leader grabbed the door knob and they rushed hilariously in. The gas wa3 burning brightly, and six dignified old ladies were sitting around the stove, looking as solemn as grand inquisitors. 'Ub, my I where sMattie shout ed one exuberant young lady, set ting her basket on the piano. 'bhe s up stairs, said an old lady, looking over her spectacles with solemn acrimony. 'Let 8 have her down, screamed half a dozen girls in chorous, as they made a break for tho hall. 'Here, girls, girls, don't go up there !' . and the old lady made a hasty attempt to check the proposs cd raid. 'Why what on earth's the matter here, anyhow ?' inquired the impa tient darlings. 'Well, I believe it's a boy.' 'Oh, let's go.' And that company of nine young men and women moved away like soap bubbles in a hurricane, and the girls never stopped for beau or baskets, but stuffed their handker -chiefs in their mouth to hold their breath down till thoy were safe be hind their own doors, and not a girl in tho fourth ward knows whro Mattie lives. According to a statistician, tak ing the mean of many accounts a man of fifty years of age has slept 0,000 days, worked 6,500 days, walked o,UU0 days, amused himself 4,000 days, was eating 1,500 days, was sick DUO days. lie has eaten 17,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounda of meat. 4,600 pounda of vegetables, eggs and fish, and drank 7,000 gal. of liquid, viz: water, coffee tea, beer, wine, etc., altogether. This would make a respectable lake of 300 3quare feet surface and three feet deed, on which small steam boats could navigate. And all this makes up the routine of an average man's life. A Chinaman spoke all the En glish he knew, in Indianapolis, the other day and was fined seven dol lars for profanity. . Dom Pedro is anxious to meet the poets of -America. So were we before we went into the ncwapa-' per business. V I ft tf I s it H if it, i'l 41 i If ?. i;t ! 1;! I r 1 1 -5 1 5 t "J
The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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Aug. 25, 1876, edition 1
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