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iff'' V"!! "ITfj if Tf ' IH' Mffl ffl www E I a I mm 31 jl a? s BE SURE YOTJ ARE RIGKHT ; TELEl GrO AHEAD.-D. Crockett. VOL. 54. TARBORO', N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1876. NO. 39. GENERAL DIRECTORY. TARBOKO'. Ma von Fred. Philips. Commissioners Jesse A. Williamson, Ja cob FeldeuUelmer, Daniel W. Hurtt, Alex. McCabe, Jogeph Cobb. Skcrktary it Treasurer Kobt. White hurst. Chief of Police John W. Cotten. Assistant Police J. T. Moo e Jaa. E. Sunonsou, Altimore Macnair. COISIT1. Superior Court Clerk and Probate Judge U. 1,. SUtou, Jr. Register of Deeds Alex. McCabe. Sherijf Joseph Cobb. Coroner Treasurer Robt. II. Austin. Surveyor John E. Baker. Standard Keeper 3. B. Hyatt. School Examiners. 11. II. Shaw, Wm. A. Dugsjan and R. 8. Williams. Keeper Poor House Wm. A. Duggan. Commissioners JnO. Lancaster, Chairman, Wiley Well, J. B. W. Norville, Frank Dew, M. Exem. A. McCabe, Clerk. HAILS, ARRIVAL, AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS NORTH AND SOUTH VIA W. A W. R. R. Leave Tarboro' (daily) at 10 A. M. Arrive at Tarboro' (daily) at - - 3 30 H. M. WASHINGTON MAIL VIA GREENVILLE, FALKLAND AND SPARTA. Iiave Tarboro' (daily) at - - 6 A. M. Arriva at Tarboro' (daily) at - 6 1'. M. The Mjrbl and the Places of Meeting Concord R. A. Chapter No. 5, N. M. Law rence, High Priest, Masonic Hall, monthly convocations first Thursday in evury mouth at 10 o'clock A. M. Concord Lodge No. 58, Thomas Gatlin, Master, Masonic Hall, meets first Friday night t 7 o'clock P. M. and third Saturday at 10 o'clock A. M. in erery month. Repiton Encampment No. 13, I. O. O. F., I. B. Palamountain, Chief Patriarch. Odd Fel lows' Hall, meets every ftrst and third Thurs day of each month. Edgecombe Lodge No. 60, I. O. O. F., T. W. Toler, N. G., Odd Fellows' Hall, meets every Tuesday night. Edgecombe Council No. 123, Friends of Temperance, meet every Friday night at the Odd Fellow' Hall. Advance Lodge No. 28, I. O. O. T., meets every Wednesday night at thers Hall. Zanoah Lodge, No. 235, I. O. B. B., meet on first and third Monday night of every month at Odd Fellows' Hall, A. Whitlock, President. CHURCHES. Episcopal Church Service? every Sunday at 10 1-2 o'clock A. M. and C V. M. Dr. J. B. Cheshire, Rector. Methodist Church Services every Fourth Sunday ot every month, morning and niirht. 1st Sunday at night and 5th Sunday at night. Rev. Mr. Swindell, Pastor. Presbyterian Church Services every 1st, 3rd and 5th Sabbaths. Rev. T. J. Allison, Pastor Weekly Prayer meeting, Thurs day night Missionary Baptist Church Services the 4lh Sunday in every moith, morning and uight. 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 Pitt Sts. O. F. Adams, Proprietor. EXPRESS. Southern Express Office, on Main Street, closes every morning at 9 o'clock. N. M. Lawbesci, Agent. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. POWELL, Attorney and Counselor at Law, TARSORO", N. C. J- Collodions a Specialty. "V Office next door to the Southerner office. July 2, 1875. tf JOS. BLOUNT CHESHIRE, JR., ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. g Office at the Old Bank Building on Trade Street. je25-tf. H OWARD & PERRY Attorneys and Counselors at Law. TARBORO', N. C. XT Prac.ice in all the Courts, State and Federal. noT.5-ly. w H. JOHNSTON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, TARBORO', N. C. Attends to the traniaction of busi ness in all the Courts, State and Federal. Nov. 5, 1S75. ly jREDERICK PHILIPS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, TARBORO", N. C. t3T Practices in Courts of adjoining coun ties, in the Federal and Supreme Courts. Nov. 6, 1875. ly yALTER p- WILLIAMSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, TARBORO', N. C. Will practice in the Courts of the 2nd Judicial District. Collections made in any part of the State. J Office in Iron Front Building, Pit Street, rear of A. Whitlock & Co's. Jan. 7, 1876. tf JACOB BATTLE, Counsellor and Attorney at Law, ROOKY MOUNT, N. C. Practices In all tLe State Courts. March 24, 1876. ly J, H. & W. L. THORP, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. PRACTICES in the counties of Edge combe, 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, ITIain Street, TARBORO', N. C. All work warranted to give entire satisfaction. feb.!8-tf. iyM- HOWARD, ID 3TL XT Gr Gr X )3 T DBALKB IN DRUGS. PATENT MEDICINES, 3cC, SbO., SeC. Next door to Mrs, Feudei'b Hotel, TARBORO N.C, MISCELLANEOUS. itKK O 2?"T a Week to Agents Ram PJJ i i pies FREE. P. O Vick cryi Augusta, Muine. dt-")a day at home. Agents wanted. g Outfit and terms free. TRUE 3t CO-, Augusta, Maine. $5 to $20$? land, Maine. at home. Samples worth STINSON & CO., I'ort- SPEC'TACLES. Grady's B. P. Specks pre serve the eye-sight. Write lor particu lars. L. G. Grady, Halifax, N. C. - THE BEST FAMILY MEDICINES. Tested by popular use for over A QUARTER OY'A CEX1TBY ! Dr. StroBgr's Compound Sanative Pills cure Constipation, BilliousnesS, Liver Com plaint, Malarial Fevers, Rheumatism, Ery sipelas, and all diseases requiring an active but mild purgative. Dr. Strong's Pectoral SMmacu Pills cure Coughs, Colds, Fevers, Female Com plaints, Sick lleadache, Dyspepsia, and all de rangements of the Stomach. C. E. Hull & Co., New York, Proprietors. Price, Twenty-Five Cents. NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH EDITION. Containing a complete list of all towns in the United States, the Territories and the Dominion of Carada, having a population greater than 5,000 according to the last cen sus, together with the names of the news papers having the largest local circulation in each of the places named. Also, a catalo gue of newspapers which are recommend ed to advertisers as as glfiug 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, Masonic, Juvenile, Educational, Commercial, In surance, Real Estatce, Law, Sporting, Mus ical, Fashion, and othi'r special class journals very complete lists. Together with a com plete list of over oOO German papers printed in the United States. Also, an essay upon advertising; many tables of rates, showing the cost of advertising in various newspapeis and everything which a beginner in adver using would like to know. Address GEO P. ROWgLL & CO., 41 Park Row, New York. NEWSPAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES. A complete list, numbering S,12;, with a Gazetteer correct to date, of all town and cities in which Newspapers are published; historical and statistical sketches of theGreit Newspaper Establishments; illustrated with numerous engravings of the principal news paper buildings. Book of 300 Pages, just issued. Mailed, post paid, to address for 85c. Apply (inclosing price) to Superinten dent of the Newspaper Pavilion, Centennial Grounds, Philadelphia, or American News Company, N. Y. Every advertiser needs it. PRIVTAE Boarding House. MRS. V. E. LIPSCOMB respectfully an nounces that she has opened a Private Boarding House in Tarboro, ou the corner ot Back and Pitt Streets. Good Fare, Pleanant RooniK, Cuuafor table ucaa. llaara iTIoCerute. Feb. 19, 1S75. iy Pest Poison is not only a Safe, Stirs and Obsap DESTB0 YEB of the Colorado Bsetle or Potato Biro, bat of alx, ihscts which Drey on Vegetation Cut sad Atm Wosm Obxzm Fit, &c. Unlike Paris Green and other Poisons, It can be entirely dissolved In water and applied by sprinkling. Nor IiUKion to Pujrrs, Sot D aqbocs to TJm, Kever Fails to Kill. Costs about 25 Cnt ah Acbs. Put up In half lb. boxes, enough for two seres. Price M Cents Send for Circular. Made only by the ' KEARNEY CHEMICAL WORKS, 66 Cortlandt SL P. 0. BOX 3139. HEW I0EK. CHOWAN Baptist Female Institute, MURFREESBORO', N. C. "ajEXT Session begins 1st Wednesday in 11 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, address A. McDOWZLL, President. July 28, 1870. 2m. C. J. AUSTIN'S iTMWuin a dot llUllEiiJilLIi GROCER17 Prices Low Down for Cash ! f tW Asent for PETER'S AMMONIATED DISSOLVED BONE, prepared expressly for Cotton. mar.24-ly. Manhood : How Lost,1 llow Restored ! Just publishrd, a new edition of Dr. Cdlvekwell's Cele hpitcii T".9av on the radical cure (without medicine) of Spermatorrhoea . , i t T . . u.:n.l or seminal t eiiKiiesn, iuruiuuuuj ucuiiuai Losses, Impoteucy, Mental and Physical In capacity, Impediments 10 Mamage, etc.; al so, Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induc ed by self-indulgence or sexual extrava gance, &c. JSP Price, in a sealed envelope, only six oeuts. The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty fill nraotip.fv that the alarm. U 2 - - - r 7 consequences of st-abuse may be radically cured without the dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of the knife ; pointing out a mode of cure at one simple, narfoin and effect na.1. hv means of which every sufferer, no matte;1 what his condition may be, may cure tiimseit cneapiy, privately and radically. This Lecture should be in the hands of overy youth and every man in the land. Hont nnrlr pal in n nlain cnvelODe. to any address, post-paid, on receipt of six cents or two postage stamps. Address the jfublisners, CIIAS. J. C. CLINE & CO., 127 Bowery, New York ; P. O. 3ox, 45?st also Sunerior ORGANS. ST.BALTIMQRB1D. MISCELLANEOUS. Colcleia's Liebig's Liquid LXTRACT OF AND TONIC IN VIGOR ATOR, Recommended by the best physicians in England and America fur Consumption, De bility, Loss of Appetite, Fever Ague, Dys pepsia, Indigestion, Female and Children maladies. OPINION OF DR. R. S. STEUART, Pres't, Md, Insane Hospital, Baltimore, Md. " I can recommend Liebia's Li quid Extract of Beef as the most sufficient preparation I have ever met with. It com blues the virtues of food and tonic yi a re markable way." - OPINION OF Dr. WM. n. STOKFS, Physi cian to Mount Hope Retreat, Baltimore, " I have great pleasure in adding my testimony to the virtues of Liebig's Li quid Extract of Beef and Touie Invigorator, as the very best preparation used, and there fore confidently recommend it to the medi cal profession." t AND MANY OTHER TESTIMONI ALS. PUT UP IN PINT BOTTLES 11.00 EACH, TAKE NO OTHER. SOLD BY Druggists and Dealers. WHOLES ALE AGENTS. Thomson, Lilly & Co., Baltimore, Md. Pureell & Ladd, Richmond, Va. Wm. R. Biirwell & Co., Charlotte, N. C. Dec. 10, 1875. ly FUE1TITUHE ! V large lot for sale cheap for cash. AUo Furniture made to order, by JT. E. SIMMONS, PITT ST., TARBORO', N. C. Call and see before you purchase. promptly attended to. Keeps on hand and makes to order, Maho any, Walnut, Poplar and Pine Coffins. Also on hand a full line of MET ALIC CA SES. Hearse for hire on burial occasions. BW Terms cash. Jau. 1, lS76.-ly. J. E. SIMMONS. A CARD TO THL PUBLIC ! I am now prepared to furnish the Centen nial BOOT i LUCRE TIE SHOE, cheap er than can be gotten up in Northern cities, and am ahead of trade in this and adjoining counties. I use nothing but First Choice French Calf Skins and Extra Pebbled Goat. The finest grades of Sole Leather, English Bend a specialty. The latest style last are used in my business. Also keeps constantly on hand all sorts of SBoe-llndln. Workmcnship unexcelled. Give me a trial, and if my work don't 6uit will make sacrifice on auy that is taken Irom mv house. O. C. DOGGETT. Tarboro, May 5, 1870. 8m. GEO. L. FENDER, WITH BrurX Faulkner & Co,, Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Good, Motions & White GOODS. 275 W. BALTIMORE STB.EET, j. e. Ruff, 5 Baltimore. A. IS. Faulkner, V Wm. R Hallett, ,3 novl9-ly. Manufacturer of and wholesale dealer in 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, 10, 4 and SbUnion Street, Norlolk, Va. April, 7 187. ly. W. T. TAYLOR, Manufacturer of VYIXDOW FRAMES, DOORS, Plain Panels of every style DOOR FRAMES, WINDOWS, SA.SEES, BLINDS, MANTLES, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, SCROLL WORK ASD Tobacco Box Patterns, Whitaker's, N. C. 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, 1876. ly THIS PAPER IS OX PII.E 'WITH Where Advertising Contracts can be maiiSj Greensboro Female College GREENSBORO, N. C. THE Fall Session will begin on Wednes day, rd of August, and continue 20 weeks. Board (exclusive of washing and lights) $75 Tuition in regular English course, 125 For catalogue, apply to Rev. T. M. Jones, President. JN. 11. JJ. WlLSUiN, President Board of Trustees. June 23, 187(5. 2m Want to Sell. bt WIT T. SFT.T. MY TWO STORY DWELL- J. inz on Church Street, corner of Thomas street five rooms and closets. The Jjfea house is newly painted and in excel- fcAjii' lent repair. One acre of ground is rjiif attached under new paling. There are also the necessary ont houses. It U a bargain for somebody. T will ntart sell a irood Piano and oherFur nitnre. Also several vacant lots ou Church Street. All in Rocky Mont, N.C. D08SEY BATTLE. Oct. 29,1875. tf. Sept. 8, 1876 Written Expressly for the Southerner. A SILVER HUNT. BY ARACIIEL. In ray college ays 1 had paid a great deal of atteiition to the study of. Botany and Mineralogy; but the arduous duties of a physician had to a great extent cooled my interest in them. But this fact was still known to aome of my early friends. One morning about the latter part of March 186 , as 1 was sit ting in my office in the rising rail road city of C , state of North Carolina, a burly mountain man stepped in, and greeted me un ceremoniously with : "Good morn ing, Doctor. Pack your thinga in your wallet and go with me to the mountains. When I was in Raleigh ;n attendance on the Legislature I hoard the report of the State Geolo gist read. 1 never knew before how rich we mountain fellows were. He said there was lota of silver in my district. I want you to go up there and see for yourself, you can tall it when you see it 1 can't. We'll get a guide and go and make our fortunes. If we find the silver mines on my land, you shall go halves with me. Come, pack quick, the train will be off in an hour." The proposal chimed iu with my wishes. Zeal for my favorite old studies revived in an instant. 7 packed my "wallet," as my old friend Sockheimer called it, and the next night found me a guest at this gentleman's house. There had been a very heavy fall of snow a fortnight before; but it had all melted except in a few pos itions under high bluffs where the cold "northers" kept it frozen. Our journey led us up a river that came rushing down from the Balsam mountains, with many a tortuous wind. In order to reach this i-ivcr, it was tieceesiy to i-U., horseback of course, fourteen miles. We were to meet the guide at Davidson's mills, just where our road touched the river. 'vnd to accommodate ourselves t ) his wishe3 we were obliged to start Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Fielding Sockheimer was a man who was utterly ignorant of fear of any kind. It never occurred to his mind that any body wanted to hurt him in any way and certainly it never occurred to him to wish to injure any living keing. But he put a " Colt's navy" in his pocket, "for bears," he said. As I attempted to mount the horse that 1 judged was accoutred for me, he waved me off "That's mine you take Flax mane, tied to the rack yonder." 1 could not very well see why he was so particular about such a small matter. But I found afterwards that the noble fellow did have a reason for his conduct in this res pect. The truth ia, Sockheimer took entire control of me, just as if I had been one of Lis little boys; though I was ten years his senior. And after events proved that my safety depended upon complete trust in my brave and sagacious friend. At 3 o'clock, Thursday after noon, with a warm wind blowing gently from the South, we, set out for Davidson' 3 mills. Fielding re lieved the tedium of the way by relating some of his many adven tures in East Tennessee aad among his native mountains. There was one difference between his "yarns" and those of his neighbors his were all true. For he scorned a lie as much as he did a cowardly action. As we touched the river bank near the Mill3, we turned abruptly up the right bank. The sun had gone to rest behind the black range of the Balsam, and night was fast creeping down the valley through which the river ran. "Strike your pony with your switch en the right fore leg, Doc tor," said S., "and she will under stand what it means. We must hurry up; for I know old John has about "talked out" to those people up yonder at the Mill and is wait ing impatiently for us" A t the touch of the birch to the place mentioned, Flax-mane lifted her drooping neaa ana pacea gany up to the side of the raw-boned bay across whose back swung the long hcavv legs of my friend. "JLb we passed close by the door of the mill, many voices greeted my companion, from the midst of a group assembled there. "What news, Fielding, from below," eaid one. "None," he replied, "except court week is coming cn soon; and they say the judge says he's going to clean off ihe docket this time, come what may. Two or three rusty looking fel lows, who had been sitting on a rock w&rming their feet at a little brushwood fire kindled against the mountainside, roso at once and Friday, came eagerly forward, shouldering their rifles as they came. Just then a shout from the road before us attracted our attention. It was the guide calling us, from his station at a bend of the road where two ways met. He had seen us or rather, dimly discerned Sock heimer's well known form, in the gathering dusk; and from some cause, unknown to me, was anxious that he should not have any con versation with the men at the mill. As we rode rapidly toward old Jfthrw5 hv?ked bacl and, , saw. the men with the rifies ia eager discas sion with the one who had address ed my friend. Soon one f them separated from the group and ran down the river a hundred yards, crossed it on a high foot log and was soon lost to sight ia the thick laurel. I touched Flax-mane twice on that fore leg, for I had lost distance while observing the strange move ments of the rifle man, and came up with S. and Old John with my horse at full gallop. An introduc tion followed, and I felt my hand grasped in that of a large and pow erfully muscular man, who cracked nearly every bone iu mine by the operation of shaking it. 'Glad to know you, Doctor. Field ing's told me, many a time, how smart you was ana we need many more such men here. Bat don't gallop Flax mane any more. We'll need all that after a while, if I know what's what." Then turning suddenly he asked Sockheimer ; "What made you tell the news to that crowd ? You arc generally a man who knows when to talk and when to keep silence but" "Hold on there, uncle John," said Sockheimer, "the temptation was too much for me. I just wanted to see that crowt scatter; and 1 guess 1 did." It was now dark; and as wc iode abng the stony road under beetling cliffs from five hundred to a thous and feet high, with the river rush ing and roaring at our very sido and the spruce pines moaning around and above cur-heads, our guide began to develepe. lie was a fat and jolly man, bold as ..liij atnnniDn a.t ft fnx. His attachments to those whom he liked were as strong as his love of him self, almost. And I soon found that I was already enrolled among his friends. (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) Why Ha Won't Vote for Tilden. Atlanta Constitution : Tete, who is you ewine ter vote fur de Presi- ident V asked Jake last evening. 'Nobody ; now yer got it !' 'VV hat's de reezin ?' Well. I done told you some time back dut I warn't gwine ter vote for no more oi uem publicans in office, didn't I ?' 'Yes.' 'Well. I wuz thinkin' dat I'd act de free nigger an vote fur de dim- mycrat dis time. 'But yer can t stana him, en : 'No. sah ! no how ! Yer see, de papers, dey makes him out all buckra an' a fine gemman, but one ob de men at de Pes' office be done sot me right.' 'Wat do he soy V 'He say dat Mister Tildem am de man wat dey have all dat troub le 'bout twixt him and dat Beecher feller. An' lissen to me when a man 'lows anudder man to 'nsult his wife an' don't go cut him wid a ra zor, dat lets me out wid him. You'se right, old man ; you al'us is,' said Jake, as he resumed his half of a watermelon. A Good One. Sceue at the vlstor IIouso. An exquisite of the first order takes his seat directly apposite a rather rough Specimen ot the old iventuclc ; and, reclining his head languidly upon his right hand, ejaculates in the following manner : 'Wait-a-h ! bring me a glass of wat-a-b, with a few cloves in it ; bring me ah cup of tea let it be as a zephyr, and as soft as the exening breeze ; biing me the breist of a virgin pullet, and rub my plate with lemon,' then pointing to the Kentuckian before him, added : 'What fell-a-h is that V Whereupon, the Kentuckian throws himself back and retorts ia the following strain : 'Cook ! bring me a cup of ceffee let it be as hot as h 1, and strong as d nation ! bring me a piece of the rump of a ten yea: old bull, and get a corncob and rub me down while I feed ! What con temptible Jackass i3 that, over t-h-e-r-e r Dandy mysteriously vanishes. A Challenge. Dallas, the queen city of northern Texas, fiends forth in behalf of the State of Texas, the folowing char lenge: W e challenge each and every State in the Union to meet us in friendly contest in November next to see which can roll up the largest majori ty in favor of laden and Hendricks, the prize to be a splendid silk banner. THE AFRICAN IN THE SOUTH. INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE ON THE Q UESTION OF RACE. A Clercical DemafiroffueiaNew Hamp shire Hnd.erta.keN to Instruct a Col ored, nimlonary in Virginia, and. Gets a (iod Iicwon. From the Richmond Whig. Concord, N. H., July 26, 1876. Dear Brother Dunjee: On the 12th inst., 1 sent yeu a check for 50., and have received no receipt or anything from you since. " To day 1 received a letter from -ffafpers Ferry in which is the fols lowing .sentence : "The report is current here that Bro. Dunjee has gone over to the rebels, and is go ing to stump for Tilden and Hen dricks. I am afraid it is so." My dear brother D., is there any truth ia that report? Save you even had a thought of doing such a thing ? If you have, I pray you pause beforeayou take a single step in that direction. Such a course would be a cause of great grief to all your true friends, and all the true lovers of freedom and piety. In doing this you will bring a wound and a reproach upon your mission work among freedmen, and ruin your own usefullness as a minister of Christ. How will all those feel who hae contributed for your sup port in our mission-work for Rich mend meeting house, etc., if you now desert yonr brethern and go over to the old Kebs, the haters of the colored man and the cause of freedom, and give your influence to strengthen the hands of such men as Jeff. Davis and those who have murdered thousands and thousands of your colored brethren at the South within a few years past, to prevent them from voting for the cause of their own God-given rights ? O, this cannot be ; I will not be lieve it can be so till I hear more from you. Do write me by return mail and send receipt for fifty dol lars, ond tell me if there is any foundation for the report to which I have alluded ; and be entreated to go no further in that direction, if you have taken one step, until you consult with your true friends, Brothers Morrell, Brackett, Stew art, Xiurgess, ABiuuiij. vjuiisc, xu., &C. Do not fail to let me hear from you at once, and give me the facts on this subject. Yourstruly, Silas Curtis. P. S. Tilden and Heridricks are indentified with the old rebel party, and will be supported by ex-rebels of the Jeff. Davis stripe and those wne sympathized with them during the war and bince, and I would just as soon vote for Jeff. Davis for President as I would for Sam. Til den, the former associate of Boss Tweed of New York, and always a rebel sympathizer. S. C. Richmond, Aug. 21. 18T6. Dear Brother Curtis : Yours of Ju ly 26th is before me, asking me about rumors which you have heard in regard to my going over to the "rebels." First. I would state that I have tried to fulfill my whole du- j ty m my work here, and have not at any time neglected my mission duties. No man is more interested in all that pertains to the best wel fare of the colored people and their highest development. So, I have tried to conduct myself and teach my people that it is their Christian duty to make friends with the white people of Jthe South, among whom they live. This can be done with out sacrificing any principle ot manhood ; in fact, the Southern people do not ask the colered peo ple to- compromise a single right. But we, who live here, see the great importance of a full and manly re conciliation between the two races. This can be done by dividing the colored vote between the two par ties. As soon as it is thus divided they will cease to be an object of ostracism and bone of contention. Both parties will then treat them with due respect. Take Virginia, and the white people of this State are as friendly to the colored peo ple as they are anywhere in Ameri ca ; the most friendly feelings ex ist between the two races. What we who are interested in the great cause or humanity are endeavoring to do is to break dawn all color lines, and altogether forget slavery, the war and the pa3t, and go on to higher attainments and a broader Christian manhood. I believe the white people of the South are true to the professions they are now making. They do not desire any more slavery ; they will stand by all the results of the war; they are in the Union to go out ne more for ever. They are laboring nobly in our State for public education, without regard to color. I have every right in Richmond that I would have in Boston. They are doing all for the colored people in a benevolent way they can do. You know the late war laid its wither ing hand upon the South, and there are many poor people, both white and black ; notwithstanding, there are many of the white gentlemen who have contributed largely to mission work for our people in Richmond and other places in the South. There are 31,000 colored people in this city who are depend- .1 1 ma . mg on tne whites lor tne bread tbey eat. Many poor people of color would starve to death here but for the kindness of the whites in giving them Shelter and food. You can hare no idea ef the true condition of things here. Now, in the face of all these facta, I do not think the white people of the South very dangerous rebels. J ust a word about some of our troubles. You have heard . much talk about "carpet-baggers." You have no idea the amount of trouble these men have given ub. Men who were of tho worst character in the North, whe were from the low est haunts of New York and Boston, men as bad as crime could make them, who were negro haters in the North, have coaae South and taken advantago of the ignorance of the colored people, and have baen ele vated to places of high trust in our State governments, for the sole purpose on their part to plunder the public. This same class of men have arrayed the colored people aginst the whites for political pur poses, and, when trouble comes, de sert them. All the mobs which we have had in the South have been gotten up by bad men. I know we have some lawless white men here, but the good peeple of the South must not be blamed for their acts. You have them at the North with yon. ihis wild and fruitless con- tost has been going on far years, and who are the sufferers ? The col ored men, being the weaker party, always lose ground, and must at last go to the wall if the fight is kept up. I -know you in New Hampshire, may not see this mat ter as I do, but I tell you that the negro in the bouth must go under if the poiicy of the last few years is to be continued. Now. if the Home Mission Board dischar ges me for these sentiments, I re gret it, but cannot yield my honest convictions ; 1 am sorry I cannot make them see the rightfulness of my position. You ask me what the persons who have contributed from time to time for my support would think. lo this 1 would say, if they under stood mv true nqsiticn thev would. 1 think, make those contributions more readily than ever. The ne gro is now passing through the most critical period of his history, and his destiny for good or evil, will be sealed by his action. If he arrays himself against the white people, he must, sooner or later, be ground to powder. There is no natural antagonism between tho two races in theSouth ; the whites and blacks were born and brought up together, and must live and die together. The late trouble at Hamburg, South Caroli na, and other troubles we have had in the South since the war, have not been the result of any ill feels ing on the part of our home people, but are the result of the action of bad men who have come South and kept up fromyaar to year the most bitter political contest, and have used every effort to keep tho white and colored people from making friends. One of their principal means is the wholesale use of bad whiskey ; also, appealing, to the very worst passions, of the ignorant. No stone is left unturned on their part to exasperate and exc;.to tho feel ings of our poor peopU, which might at any time be kindled into a flame which might result in blood shed. I only wonder we have not had tea riot3 where have had one. Now I say that every good man in the South, white and black, ought to join hands and nd our fair sec tion from this terrible stato of things. I hope you will understand me ; those charges are not against the good people of the North. We will give the most hearty welcome to any good man of the INorth who may come among us for good pur poses. I think that if you were to live here a few years you would take the same stand that I have. We have some men from the North who are highly respected, but all of these take the same stand, and are not the men objected to. The colored men, if they are not to be citizens of this country, must differ just as white men do on all the great questions of the day, such as finance, tariff, taxation, and ques tion of law, trade, kc. Until we arrive at this point we will bo mere machines, and not men in the true sense of the term. In conclusion, I would call your attention to the report of the lion. B. B. Douglass, of Virginia, on the Freedman's Bank fraud, and the speech of Hon. W. S. Stinger, of Pensylvania, on th6 same subject. I would also call your attention to the large amount of money stolen from the widows and orphans of the colored soldiers aud sailors. The District Ring and many other things might be mentioned, but time and space will not allow it. The colored voter of the South, as ruled by the Radicals, has no liber ty in the use of his ballot, which liberty we claim, and must have, or continue slaves. ZZe should be taught independence and self-reliance. Please answer me a few questions, Who should be the best judge of the true condition cf the Southern people, I, who was born and brought up in the Seuth, a3 I have been, and served twenty seven years of my life as a slave (when a boy I played with white boys, and know there is no natural bad feeling be tween the two races), or yourself T What can you in New Hampshire or Maine know of our condition down here ? When you ' call' our people "rebels" you do them a great wrong. I believe the people of the South, are as loyal to the Union as those of the North, I ask you, as a Christian, do you ttiink it right to be constantly abusing the Southern people 1 They have come - back to the Union and folly accepted all of the amendments to the Constitution with all the results of the war. Th oniy reason why they have made sucn an ettort to get hoid of their own State governments is to pro- tect themselves from the wicked plunderings and robbery of carpet baggers; and every eood man. whita and black, ought to join hands to emancipate our section from this fearful state of things. Remember that our homes in the South ara as dear to us as yours in New Hamp shire. Now how 'would von lilre your State to be "infested with a gang of those political thieves frem another far country. nlnndArSni j-, r e public treasury and leaving a tax vii me peopie too Heavy for them to bear, exciting riots, causing bloodshed ? 1 ask VOll wrmlrl -umi help them to continue tho work of aestruction against your own peo ple ? I tell yon this is our condi tion, and the colored people are the main agency by which they are en abled to do their work? nnr? in mtr judgment, nothing but a division of me coiorca vote can bring peace and prosperity, which VA set TTiiinh need; and I feel that no pulpit work ui ""ooivu uwi win enaoie me to do as much for mv race n tl,;. work. I have given this matter aIav.h years- thought, snd for years I have taken great pains to inform myseu as to the true felling of the people of the South, and it i'o mv conclusion that the whites desire to liy With tho nnlnrol . peace and quietness, and are doing all they can to gain that object. They do not want all of the colored people to vote the Democratic tick et, but believe it would ha heat tn divide their vote between the two parties. This point would have been sained years aro but for th tenor of the Radical party and its loyal leagues. There has been no intimidation in the South worse then that practiced by the carpets Dagger party ot the South. 1 do not chargo the colored neonle with this cruelty. They are not to oiame; tliey are only tools in the hands of these bad men. I have known some colored men to be whipped, some turned out of their churches, and all kinds of intolerant abuse have been heaped upon those colored men who dare vote the Democratic ticket. In some parts of the South the life of a colored man (Democrat) is not very safo. I submit these facts to you as the honest conviction of my heart, and must say I cannot accept your ad vice, because in doing so I would not do justice to myself and to my race. Ycurs, with great respect, Joiin W. Dunjee. The Concord Sun says that the lar gest chunk ofpuro gold, yet exhibited, was brougt to our office on Saturday last by Mr. Wm. Richards, the suc cessful gold miner, of Stanly county. It weighes 3o0 pennyweights, and was produced from his old mine the Endy in Stanly couty. Mr. D. W. Parlra. who 7 " a-w New Hopo township, this county, not many days ago, killed a rattlesnake uioftuuiiug wur Auut anu iour mcneB long and having eleven rattles and a lt..4. TT? 1 i uunun. -U.13 anaKesnip seemed to De making his way into the dwelling house when Mr. Parka shot and killed him. Messenger. Darwin eays the male grasshoppers use their hind legs to fiddle on their wings, and that tho boss fiddle always wins the affections of the female first. The editors of the Norriatowa Her ald aver that they have frequently noticed this, but didn't think it worth while saying anything about it' At a young ladies' seminary, during an examination in history, one of the most promising pupils was interroga tod: " Mary, did Martin Luther die a natural death ?' 'No,' was the reply "he was excommunicated by a bull." Tho postmaster at Bell Swamp, Brunswick county, N. C, has been re moved and the office discontinued, in consequence of the postmaster's traf ficking in stamps and stamped envel opes, contrary t0 tbe regulations of the departments Mitchoi county is boasting over the abundance of her wild sweet potatoes. Ona weighing twenty-five pound was sent to a friend in Statesville not long 6ince, and Mr. English has 4ngf another for Prof. Kerr which weighs1 eixty pounds. A Tilden and Vance Club, with, ovet one hundred members, was or ganized in Wadesboro on Saturday .last.