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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
' TABBOBO.
Matok Fred. Philipt.
CoMXisaioKKKS Jese A. Williamson, Ja
. cob Feldenhelmer, Daniel W. Hnrtt, Alex.
McCatw, Joseph Cobb.
Saomi-rurr A Tsiisvui Kobt. Whlte
hurat.: Cinru Pouea John W, Cotten.
Auistst rotio J: T. Moo-e, John
Madra, Wood Windorno and Isaac Bynnm.
" . COCNTT,
Superior Court Clark mad Prvbot Judff
K. L. Buton, Jr.
Register 9 f Petda Alex. McCabe.
SAfiJoseph Cobb. . .
Coroner ,
Ti wwy-Robt. H. Anstia.
Surveyor J oh .xV Baker.
StmndarJ KfperT. 8. HJcka. .
ScAo btwiMnrjr F. Mabson-. Chair
man, W. A Dufr?D, W: T. WUMamson.
Keeptr Poor House Vf. T. Godwin.
Commissioner! Jno. Lancaster, Chairman,
N. B. Bellamy, F. U, Whltted, Clinton Bat
tle,tF. Dancy.
County Attorney. Wj -F. Wniiamson.
. mAiJbs , " y'
ARRIVAL, AND DEPARTCB OF MAILS
KORTH AND SOUTH VIA W. W. B. R.
l" T. it TWo(rfHr) a ' - SO P. M
WASHINGTON MAIL VIA GREENVILLE.
FALKLAND ASD BPARTA. ; i
L.t. TarboWlsK ? - s
ArrW.St Ta?br?siW t - : M.
Concord R. A. Chapter No. 5, N. M. Law
'cence. High Priest. Masonic Hall monthly
convocations ri Thursday in ersry month at
10 o'clock AJK Xii vff i ft '
Concord L4e Nor 58, Thotnas Gatlln,
Master, Masonic Hall, meeti. first Friday night
t 7 o'clock P. M. and third Saturday at 10
'clock A. M. in every month.
Repiton Encampment No. IS, I. O. O. F.,
I. B. Palamountaln, 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' Uall,
meets every Tnesday night.
Esecombe Council No. 122, Friends of
Temperance, meet every Friday night at the
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Advance Lodge No. 38, I. O. G. T., meets
everv Wednesday niat at there Hall.
Zanoan Lodge, No. 235, I. Q. B. B., meet
on first and third Monday night of every
month at Odd Fellows' Uall, A. Whitlock,
President.
DHCKCHES.
Episcopal Church Services every Sunday
at 10 1-2 o'clock A. M. and 5 P. M. Dr. J. B.
Cheshire, Rector.
Methodist CAtircAServices every Sunday
at 10 o'clock, and atnigbt. Rev. W. S.Roane,
Pastor. Prayer Meeting on Monday even
ing. tresoyrertmn Church Services every 1st,
rdandtth Sabbaths. Rev. T. J. Allison,
, Pastor Weekly Prayer meetiug, Thurs
day night
Missionary Baptist Church Services the
4th Sunday in every moLth, morning and
night. Kev. T. K. Owen, Castor.
PrimHivs Baptist Church Services first
Saturday and Smnday of each month-at 11
'clock.
:
HOTELS.
Adams' Hotel, cornf r Main and Pitt Sts.
O. F. Adams, Proprietor.
EXPRESS.
Southern Express Office, on Main Street,
closes every morning at 9X o'clock.
N.M. Uvikci, Agent.
OFESSlOIf Ali CARDS.
-pRANK POWEIili,
"feAtUrmay and Counselor at Law,
TARMORCy, N. C.
Jter Colloet4s)S sm SpoelsUsy. "V
Office next door to the Southerner office.
July 2, 1875. tf
JOS. BLOUNT CHESHIRE, JR.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
jinn
'NOTAEY PUBLI0.
ar Office at the Old Bank Building on
Trade Street. je25-tf.
-jOSO. HOWARD.
ttornty and Counselor at Law.
TARBORO', N. C.
17 Practice in all tbs Courts. State and
Federal. " uov.S-ly.
jpBEDSRICK PHILIPS,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
TABBOBO', 5. C
XW Practice in Courts of adjoining coun
ties, in the Federal and Supreme Conns.
Nov. 6, 1876. ly
ALTER P. WILLIAMSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
TARBORO', N. C.
If ill practice in the Courts of the 2nd
Jadicial Dittriot. Collections made in any
part of tb. Stave.
BTjOffico la Iron Front Building, Pit
Street, rear of A, Whitlock dc, Co .
Jan. 7, 1876. tf
JACOB BATTLE,
Counsellor and Attorney at Law,
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
Practices in all tLe State Courts.
March 84, 1876. ly
DR. E. D. BARNES,
Surgeon Dentist,
TARBORO', N. C.
All work wan acted to give entire
satisfaction. reD.lbw.
J H. & W. Jj. THORP,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
PRACTICES in the counties of Edge
combe, Halifax, Nash and Wilson, and
In the Sapreme Court North Carolina, also
a me united States District uouri anuueign
H. K. NASH, JR.,
f ngmwr 3nxbtax
OFFICE OTEB
WS. S. NASH & CO'S STORE,
Where be can always be found when not pro
fesslonally absent.
Tarboro, Match 2, 1877.
DR. J. B. GODWIN,
Surgeon Dentist,
Washington, N- C
March 2Z, 1877.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
i
a week inyo nr own town. Terms
fiOOand 15 outfit free. H. Hallett A Co.,
Portland, Maine.
GEORGE PAGE & CO.
Ha. s v. ccasasnxa st, iat.ttvoss. i.
Psrfca t VrtMt Hfuionnry Enrln-
finur Hsrtoy k Ssusls MUls,
eTuZ' FlMr tUlsu, Wtr
ilte Eamry whssls and
Tttlll ftaBaUcaiAej.
VIA.
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tfrtZCZ 0 Hmfmf Week to Agents. 10
tfrOv H 5? Ou Freo. P. O. Viek
ery, Augusta, Maine. ' : j
in day at , home Agents wntd.
i ifiOirtfl nd terms free. TRUE
CP Angnsta,tMa 1
OK Extra Fine "Mixed ' Cards.j with Jsarte,
10 cts post-paidiU. Joues m CoM
Nassau, N. T. - ' ' :. -
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Incoroormted JIprU , 1800. J
President, Hon. W. Dob bio, JudM Snpe-
mw. T..tunitAni asTai-r all the eom
A UC UUTO iuowui ' - , . r
1WUI W B UUUIV SV yrwvww Tw D " " -V
or ear diseases. 8kitt nurses are $n atten
dance, and as the snrfoom in charge resides
in the house with the family, patient are
seen by him several times daring the day.
WOT luriner lDIorxaauun, mpyij k iiuicuu
in charge. Dr. GEORGE REULIN G.
9 OVWilne. BflNSON CO Port
ft w ASSaariiTitttim
land Mains.'
PRICE, TWENTTf-FIVB CENTS, i
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
ONE HUNDRED dc NINTH EDITION,
Containing a complete list of all the towns in
tbe United States, the Territories, and the
Dominion of Canada, having: a population
greater than 5,000, according to the lost cen
sus, togetoer wun roe names pi me newspa
pers having tbe largest I local : circulation in
each of the places named. -Also, a catalogue
of newspapers which are recommended to
advertisers as giving greatest value in pro
portion to prices charged. : Also, all newspa
pers in the United States andsCanada print
ing over 5,000 copies each issue. Also, all
tbe Religious, Agricultural, Scientific and
Mchanicat, Medical, Masonic, Juvenile, Edu
cational, Commercial, Insurance, Real Estate,
Law, Sporting, Musical, Fashion, and other
special class journals ; very complete lists.
Together with a complete list of over 300
German papers printed in the United States.
Also, an essay upon advertising ; many tables
of rates, showing the cost ot advertising in
various newspapers, and everything which a
beginner in advertising would like to know.
Address GEO. P. ROWELL A CO.,
41 Park Row, New York.
NOBTpLK BUSINESS CARDS.
-
W. H. TATLOIL. . X. X1XJOTT. i J. H. WATTBHB
. X. X1XIOTT.
Taylor, Elliott & Waiters,
Importers and Wholesale dealers in
H AR D W ARE,
CUTLERY. GUNS, &c.
Corner of Main Street and Market Square,
NORFOLK, VA.
Feb. 9. 1877. I 8m
S. HAXBUBOSK.
B. HAXBCXQIX
Hamburger Bros.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
TOBACCO.
PACTORT, OFEICE A WAREHOUSE,
Second Street, vo x vo water street,
Petersburg, Va.
NORFOLK, VA.
Feb. 9, 1877.
3m
tOUIS HILLIAKO,
Greenville, N. C.
BILLIARD
MABCBLLUi MOOBX,
Formerly of N. C.
; M00RE,
- COTTON FACTORS
AW
Commission Merchants,
McPhail's Wharf,
Uorfolk, Vixjfinia.
Keep constantly on hand a large and vai ied
stock of Sagging and Ties.
General dealers in Standard Fertilizers.
Liberal cash advances- made on consign
ments. I leb. .-ly
J. Easth-ax. ' E. T. Powxli.
E4STHAM, POWELL & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers
90 Water Bt & 41 Commerce St.
IVox-lolLc,
April 6. 1877. . I 3m.
GOODEJHOUSE
COR. COMMERCE & MAIN BTS.,
A. J. Manhlifc! rdpvr.
Ml 3 J
BOARD FEE DAY, $2-00.
April 6, 1877. J tf.
M. L. T. Davis. ; B. D. Thomas
M. L. T. DAYLS & CO.,
WHOLESALE
O K O O JR. S ,
Also, large stock of MEATS, PORK AND
FLOUR, always on hand.
IRON FEONT, i
Sonth East Cor. Water jand Commerce Sts.,
Iorfolk,Va.
Capt. D. BELL, Salesman m the House.
April 6, 1877. : 3m
MARROW & CO.,
Successors to Bottimore, Marrow A Co.
WHOLESALE j"
SHOE HOUSE,
Nos. 120 & 122 Main SL,
JXorTolh:, Va,
AprU6, 18877. j . i 8n
1855. ESTABLISHED 1855.
W. A. MEHEGAN,
. Manofactnrer of
FINE CIGARS,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer U V-
Leaf & Hanufactured Tobacco-
120 CHURCHj 8TREET, ;
Ram visa worth
jt : AAFAMntt&
April 6, 1877.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
GEO. S. HAWES,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
Tin, Copper
S1BT IRON! WARE,
. Tarboron JT. V.
a FULL' LINE OF COOsUNG HIAT
AL '
Ing, Parlor 4c Office Stoves,
kept constanUy on c&aoV
which will "be sold at
lowest cash pricesw. : ,
ROOFING AND
either te town or country,
ed t and on reasonable terns.
ofaUl
ness.
If yon can't afford to buy "a new stove bring
your old One and trade. - '
' GEO. 8. HAWES,
' Nearly opposite Post Office.
Feb. 18, 1878. ? ly.
Old Rallabl jewelry Store,
V TEARS , EST AIUSHEO. JTIU l FULL IIAST.
Arthui C. Freeman,
SUCCESSOR
100 Main 8L NorfoJk.-Y., , t f t .
offers t the citizens of Edgecombe ahi sur
rounding country, a full line of
Diamonds, Plain Gold Wedding and Engage
ment Rings, Bridal Presents, fcc .
My facilities are such that being connect
ed with one of the largest Importing Houses
in this Country, and buying exclusively for
cash, enables me to offer
SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS.
Send your orders to me, and you will save
15 to 20 per cent. Should the goods not suit
money will be refunded.
Address, ARTHUR C. FREEMAN,
- Jeweler, Norfolk, Va.
Hia"m.T Impohtist. I emnlov none bat
tbe most ixUJM- Workmen In the Repairing J
have your watches" repaired properly and
satisfaction given, send them to merby Ex
press carefully packed in cotton.
WEBER'S BAKERY P
THIS OLD ESTABLISHED BAKERY 18
now ready to supply the people of Tar
boro and vicinity with all kinds ot
Bread, Cakes, French and Plain
Candies, Nuts, Fruits,
$c, $c, c.t.
embracing every thing usually kept in a First
Ulaes JCstabiishment of the kind.
Thankful for the liberal patronage of the
past the undersigned asks a continuation,
wltb the promise of satisfaction.
Private Families cavil always hsvt
their Cakes naked iters) at abwrt
atnatice. Orders for Parties & Bails
promptly filled. Call and examine oar stock,
nexf door to Bank of New Hanover.
Not. 4.-ly. JACOB WEBER.
W. T. TAYLOR,
Manuiaetarer of '
WINDOW FfiAKIES, DOORS,
Plain Panels of every style
DOOR FRAMES,
WINDOWS, 8A8XES, BLINDS,
MANTLMS, MOULDINGS,
BRACKETS, SCROLL WOEX.
Tobacco Box Patterns,
Whitaker's, N. O.
Also, contracts to pat up buildings, furn
ishing all material complete tarn-key jobs,
or otherwise, as parties may prefer, all with
kiln-dried lumber.
March 84, 1876. ly
TH0S. E. LEWIS & CO.,
AT THE OLD ESTABLISHED
INFORM THEIR FRIENDS AND THE
public generally that they will add to their
present stock of
Books, Stationery
ASB FANCY; GOODS,
A foil supply of
Staple and,
Domestic
Dry Goods,
Jfotions9
Boots tf Shoes,
Groceries
OUR MOTTO:
QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS."
The patrons
infire so Io
long extended
to M.
WXDDELL COn ifl respectfully solicited.
iTIics. E. Lewis &Co.1
March.lS77. f .!'! U '
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utboto' IjmniktttiZK.
Friday,
April 13, 1877.
THE TWO LQVE LETTERS.
We don't take boarders' said
Mrs. Farquhar, looking in an owl
ish fashion through her epectac -glasses
at Mr. Stuart Waller. We
have got plenty aid to spare witL
oat the trouble of 'eni. You'll find
the tavern three-quarters of a mile
bwlew You mast v hare come right
ptst its. door.' . . , ... - - 5
chiYalric manner .tnat maae e?err
lady wh.m he addressed feel titer
self, for the time being, the only
feminine creature in all the uni
verse; 'but no, amount of money
won Id hire me to make my home in
a place like thatf Here it is like a
glimpse of Paradise looking j ad
miriaglj around at the shady lawns,
the clematis-bordered porch, and
the rose hedges all sprinkled over
with pink buds. -'I am sure mads
am," you will reconsider your deci-
sion, and take me in for a few days,
and I will promise to be no more
trouble around tbe house than a
kitten.'
Mrs. -Farquhar was but human,
and the upshot of affairs was that
Mr. Waller' trunk arrived the nest
day.
, Oh, mother !' said. Patty Far
quhar, knitting her pretty black
eyebrows, why did you let him "in ?
Jlnd wo bo peaceful and comforta
ble here !'
'Child, why shouldn't J ?' said
the widow, 'lie's to pay ten dol
lars a wi-ek board, and i haven't no
use for the little three-cornered
room over the parlor.'
'I dent know,' ea;d Patty, slow
ly, 'but it seems to me 1 feel exact
ly as Eve must have felt when she
saw the serpent writhing his way
into Paradise.'
'Nonsense !' said Widow Farqu
har, almost angrily.
But Patty only laughed, and ran
away under the shadow of pink
buds, to meet Morris Newton , her
affianced lover. .
'Little one,' said Morris, impf
oning hoth her soft, white hands in
his, -1 ve got baa jiews sot you j
'Bad news,Morris ?'
'7've got to go to Omaha next
wcek,r to see about those silver
mines that one of my clients has an
interest in.
'Oh, dear !' cried Patty, parsing
up her strawberry of a mouth.
'I shall be gone six months.
'Worse and worse,' said Patty.
'But if you say so, Patty,' draw
ing her gently to his side, 'we can
be married first, and make a wed
ding trip of it.'
'The idea !' flashed back Patty,
drawing herself out of his embrace.
'And i without a single dress
made!'
'We can buy the dresses after
ward.' 'That's all a man knows about
it
'Youe sure it's impossible ?'
with a disappointed air.
'Oh, quite !' asserted the little
brunette.
'Then,' said Mr. Newton, with a
sigh, you must be sure and write
very often, and be getting your fol-de-rels
ready to be married in, as
soon as I come home.'
'Yes,' said Patty, gravely. fThat
is more reasonable.'
And she went back into he house
utterly ignorant that, at the isame
time, Mr. Stuart Waller was laying
a wager with a boon companion, at
the Eastworth Arms 'that he would
cue tut that conceited lawyer in
less than four weeks.'
For Mr. Waller was piqued by
Patty's cool indifference, andj un
fortunately, his were the 'idle
hands' for which Satan ia eaid to
find plenty of mischief to do. '
'She's pretty, after a fashion,'
said he to himself; 'and X mean v.
make her dead in lore with me be
fore Pm through.'
Mr. Waller was a man of the
world. Patty Farquhar was as
young in experience as in years.
They were an ill-oatached pair, and
it was hardly three weeks before the
tongue of gossip began to busy it
self with the widow's dark-eyed
daughter.
. Mrs. Farquhar came into Patty's
room, one afternoon, and found her
crying as if her heart would break,
and with an open letter in her lap.
'Heart alive, ehild ! what is the
matter?' cried the old lady.
Nothing, nother nothing !' and
Patty hurriedly wiped her eyes.
'Only I've got a letter from4 Mor
ris, and it makes me so glad and so
sorry!'
'Folks didn't cry over love letters
when I wai a girl,' eaid Mrs. Far
quhar. But the letter was more to Patty
thaa the old lady suspected. Every
trusting word, every caressing ad
jective, was an envenomed arrow
m her heart.
Patty knew that almost uncon
sciously, she had been led into what
seemed to her an innocent enough
flirtation with Stuart Waller.: She
had walked with him in the twilight,
and she had ; written two letters,
when her.was temporarily absent, in
New ork-4-cartless, girlish letters,
which although she had thought no
harm at the time, she would now
sire worlds to recall.
'I'll ask i him to return them to
me,' said Patty to herself : ' 'and
then Pll tura anew leaf. I will go
to Aunt Prude ncja's while he re
mains here, and-begin my wedding
cietbes migood earnesf ) j I
"But when Patty Farquhar prof-
red her innocent request, Mr.
Waller laughed in her face.
My deafePattyiSaid he,- Mo yod
taki me for fool? ...
My hamea MisrFarquhar,' said
thegirl with Jiashing eyes.
, 'Excuse me, but when you say
'Dear Stuart''
k i never saia such a thins! ins
terruptea ratty, with oarninz cheeks
-srv " . . s n
ana e
k. -'' r "... ! w
In the letters !'
T n?rJ 7)a1- Mr W. U' nor.
ted Patty.
vbxeuse me once more
memory playa you false.'
-your
Will you return me the letters ?'
'Miss Farquhar,' with a low bow,
'they are a great deal too precious
to me !
'Yoa refuse V
'I never refuse anything to a la
dy ; but '
Patty did not stay to hear the
conclusion, but flashed out into tbe
afternoon sunshine, whh a huge
lump in her throat, and a curious
sensation as if all her blood were
turned to fire.
What a fool 1 have been !' she
thought, pacing up and down the
tiny graveled walk, like a chained
pantherese, and biting her scarlet
lip, 'oh, what an idotic, unreasons
inr fool ! An l what will become of
me if ever Morris Newton sees those
silly scrawls? But, surely, surely,'
with a troubled .effort of memory,
'in the wildest moment of my in
fatuation, I never addressed him as
'Dear Stuart !' Be that as it may,
I must and will get .those letters
back !'
Fired with determination, Patty
Farquhar resolved herself at once
into a private detec ive, searched
Mr. Waller's room, and even got a
false key to his trunks and went
through their contents, but all in
Ltainl Aodh? had the sorry sat
isfaction 6( perceiving, by Mr. Wal
ler's amused and patronizing air,
that he knew all about it.
'I'll have them yet !' said Patty.
Miss Farquhar was standing with
clasped hands before the wide-opened
door of the old-fashioned oven,
built by the side of the kitchen
chimney and extending a sort of
hump-backed excrescence, out into
the lilac bushes of the back garden,
when Mr. Waller ame in, one af
ternoon, with a string of speckled
trout depending from his finger.
Za Penserosa!' said he, lightly.
Pardon me, Patty, but why are you
so grave .?',
She looked up suddenly at him.
My thimble !' said she, 'it has
rolled down into the oven my lit
tle gold thimble !'
'.And can't you reach it V
'it is impossible !'
'Nothing is impossible where a
lady's behest spurs one on !' said
Mr. Waller, gallantly. 'Stand aside
one second, Penserosa !'
And he sprang valiantly into the
yawning depths of the eld brick
oven.
it was decidedly warm, for the
fires had just been taken out; it
was decidedly dark, but no sooner
bed he entered than Patty, a bril
liant inspiration lighting her heart
and face alike, swung the massive,
dingy iron door to, and fastened it
with the Sturdv bolt.
Hello!' shouted Mr. Waller,
'what are you doing there, Patty ?'
I'm shutting the oven door,'
breathlesalyresponded Patty.
'But I can't find your thimble in
this Egyptian darkness.'
'I don't want my thimble.'
'Patty -Miss Farquhar what do
you mean ?'
1 I mean to have those letters
bask,' announced Patty.
'Do you want vo roast me alive in
this Black Hole of Calcutta of a
place ?' gasped Mr. Waller.
I don't think I care much wheth
er you roast or not,' answered PaU
ty, deliberately.
'I shall shout for help.'
'Shout away,' said Patty, with a
laugh. 'Dorcas is hanging out
clothesby the river, and mother has
gone to the village. Do shout !'
'Patty !' imploringly.
No reply.
'Miss Farquhar!' more imploring
ly still.
Well ?'
'Am I to be a prisoner here for
life ?'
'Until you give me those letters.'
I can't V groaned Waller. I
haven't got them with me.'
'But you can tell me where they
are, I suppose !' rejoined Patty. . .
The oven was hot and dark, a sen
sation akin to suffocation stole over
Mr. Stuart Waller,
'Let me out,' said he, grinding
his teeth, 'and i'll give them to
yon.' f
That won't do!' retorted Miss
Patty. ' 'I must have them Before
you com out, or not at all.'
'impossible!
'Nothing is impossible,' mimick
ed malicious Patty, 'where a lady's
behest spurs one on !'
Mr. Waller uttered an ejacula
tion, which was certainly net a
prayer. ' - . .
'I can't stand this broiling hole !'
Bhouted he. 'In the little summer
house under the loose board of the
table ! Quick, or I shall be stifled
to death !' -
And Patty flew off ss if her tiny
feet were garnished with wings.
In the little summer-housa, un
der the loose board, : as Mr. Waller
had said, wrapped in oiled silkjf
and tied with a jellow cigar ribbon.
Catching them npv-f Ve tore, them
hurriedly open. ;f,;-f.HV
'I knew it wasn't 'Dear Stnartlij'
she exclaimed, mockingly ; and then
tearing them into a shower of infi
nitesimal pieces, she flung them to
the summer wind.
Haifa minute later, Mr. Waller,
crumpled as to linen, frowsy as to
hair, and streaming with perspirai
tion, crept out of his sultry cell.
Patty courtesied low to greet his
egress. "
'Walk out, said she. 'Coward
and liar !' - ,
Mr. Waller made no reply. What
could he have said ?
He left the Farquhar cottage
that evening. He said he had re
ceived a telegram. Perhaps he had;
but Patty had her doubts on that
subject. At all events he disap
peared, and Patty Farquhar breatbV
Morris Newton came ?back in
October, and Patty married him.
But she never told any one, even
ber husband, of the episode of the
old brick over, and the two love
letters. . .
She had her lesson, and Bhe bad
promed by it she told herself ; let
all else sink into oblivion.:
OUE WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington Lapsed into Apathy
Improvements Patterson and Spen
cer Overhauled Things too Mon
strous and too Insignificant to Men
tion A Senator Robs the Soldiers
and Charges Mis Wife with the
Crime,
(From Oar Regal ar Correspondent.)
Washignton, D. C, 1
April 9, 1877.
Washington has lapsed into its
summer apathy; its greatness has
departed.
The SeDate chamber and the hal
of the House of Representatives
are undergoing indispensable re
pairs. The departments jog on
through the monotonous routine.
Mr. izayes shakes hands with all
who are disposed to oondone bis
usurpation, and drives with Zach
Chandler or Secretary Sherman
about the bank3 of the much sound
ing Potomac, A few Senators and
members remain ; some of them own
houses and property in the city and
Washington is more their -home
than the districts to which they are
accredited. This is especially the
case with referenoe to the carpet
baggers Spencer, of -Alabama, and
Patterson, of South Carolina, al
though they represent those States
in the Senate, are less identified
with their interests and people than
are intelligent and philanthropic
members of the foreign legations.
These worthies, their peers and
vassals, are not identified with any
thing, in fact, but theft and lechery.
I am willing to be responsible for
this assertion. J have no doubt
but that similar expressions of opin
ion in my letters have been attribu
ted to malice and personal spite, by
those who were not themselve cog
nizant of their truth. I came to
Washington four years ago prepar
ed, partiotically, to admire our
great legislators, i had read the
invective and bitter personalities of
the opposition press until it impres
sed me as rhetorical rather than
truthful. Strong in the ; orthodox
faith that we were the envy ot sur
rounding nations, I was a worship -
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per ui American : institutions,
American women, men and con-
w ar . . a
gressmen. My opportunities for
observation have not been remark-1
able, but they have been fair, and,
while I have written with strong in
dignation, I have never written a
word that I did not believe to be
the truth, and feel it my duty to
write. 1 earnestly believe that tbe
stoiy of corruption as it affects con
gress ana the aepartments, as it
permeates every artery and tissue
of official life, haa never been told
can never be told. The fraud
that shocks oar existence is one,
which, ere we can fix it in language,
is gone or eclipsed by a bigger
fraud, and bo it goes en in stuns
mng succession, until there is a des
ponding apprehension of a decay -of
public spirit in the .American peo
ple, a reasonable fear that despair
has made them resigned to the
greasy old machine,' until it shall
run down, with its fraudulent exec
utive, perjured judiciary and cer-
rupt, imbecile legislature. I said
that the story of corruption cannot
be told. There are some things too
monstrous and too insignificant fox 1
a statement tnat win ne credited
by our neculiar sacked jury of 40.-
000,000V They will not believe that
the government supplies its legisla
tors with cologne, . visiting cards
and tooth, picks ; its thousands ef
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employees wit u pen-smves anu sta
tionary for private use ; : and they
will not believe that a cabinet
officer, who was a member of the
Republican church, stole thousands
of dollars from the soldiers and
charged the theft upon1 his wife.
But these are only items ; grains of
sano-en the teeming shore. 1 hate
statistics? the world hates statis
tics. 3 We all-prefer romance and
cant of moral ideas and progress ;
the. blowing. j of trumpets and bang-
ing of , urums on the; fourth of J uly,
or;th soft flaitfring; Sisging if star
spabgle? poets. 'It the poets of the
future wilf but t his facts from
the archives of- the departments,
and his4ntpiratiori from the report
ers gallery, th.e .American epic will
be, different, from Bayard Taylor's
Ujen tenniaL Ode. In my humble
opinion, popular . government is
faulty; not an absolute failure, per-
bapsbut, so far as oar .experiment
goes, a failure to secure wise legis
lation fair administration or just
construction in municipal, State or
national matters. One thing is cer
tain : the government made by the
fathers for 3,000,000 colonists of
the Appalachian water-shed, is not
suited for a steam regenerated,
rail-road ribbed, electric nerved
40,000,000 of people. I am no
pessemist. but since Haves is called
president I think there need be no
haste- to put the obituary of . the
devil in type. .
if an American citizen can bear
or even look at such low browed,1
villianous men as Patterson or
Spencer, without a sense of morti
fication, so much the worse for the
American citizen. These honora
ble Senators are not monsters, they
are such men as we meet every day;
men whose bosoms never swelled
with a free and generous thought,
who have never felt an emotion that
was not selfish, never an aspiration
that was not venal or veneral. But
they are Senators, and this is our
country ! C. A. S.
The Mormon and His Wives.
'Among the gentiles,' asked a re
porter, of a Mormon of Salt Lake
City, "'even one wife . is often , re
garded as an expensive luxury.
How is it that among the Mormons
a poor man is able to support sev
eral wives ?'
'Oh, that is easy to explain. A
man who joins the Mormons gene
rally makes money by it. Let us
suppose a case. Say a European
'peasant comes over here with his
wife, having been induced to join
the Mormons in Utah. He imme
diately takes possession of 160
acres of good land under the law of
Congress. Now, this is a great
taing for a man who has probably
never owned a foot ot ground before.
The land out there, your must re
member, is very good. The soil is
rich and deep and the rainfall has
increased, 1 suppose about one hun
dred per cent, in the last fifteen
years. Still, the land has to be
irrigated to" some extent. xWell,
the man goes to work and nens up
.... . .
a little nut maae et siaos. or logs
and mud; then he get- acow, rais
es crops, and pulls through tne first
year. He may have brought , over
a peasant girl to work for him at,
say $2 or $3 a week. He sees that
he can just as well marry the girl
and save the wages he would other
wise have to pay her. He gets a
baby as soon as he can, and the
next year he puts this new wife of
his, with her baby, upon another
160 acres of land.. Perhaps he has
been smart enough to build his hut
just on the boundary of the farms,
so that by putting up an extension
the new 'family" .can live in the
same house and get on another
farm. Then as he extends his do
main, bo will marry more wives,
and each of his additional children
he puts upon another j 160 acres.
Now, you know, after . the settler
has occupied a farm for' five years,
built upon and worked it, he gets a
full title to the prop erty from the
Federal goverment. Each of his
wives, after he has lived on. anoth
er 160 acres for the same iime, can
swear out a clear title as 'head of
a family.' ' This has always been
done and is done stilL I And thus
the head of the concern, who came
into the country a poor peasant,
often becomes a regular patroon,
living in ease in the centre of his
domain, while his wives and their
children go on increasing their num
bers and his wealth. 1 Now you
know just how it is done.
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'Well,' he complained, pulling on
his pants, 'when I die I shan't go
pokin' about cold mornings bnjldin'
fires.' 'No,' was her cruel reply
from beneath the warm coverlids,
for if you get your just deserts,
you'll find the fire all burning red
hot for you every morning.' 4 .j-."" l;
'Ssmbo, what is ; darj dat nebber
was, nebber can be, and nebber will
be ?' 'I dunno Caesar j I gibs It up
'Why, chile, a -.monies ne'st 1 in a
eats ear.',: .r
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''Equal Bights to All; ExcItidTaPriT
lieges to; Nona " : . ' y ;
Ed. Southebnxb : in closing my
first communication I , said, If . you
love freedom for yourself and isnil-
dren better than slavery, form Green'
back Clubs and demand of Congress
your rights or dismiss your servants.
I contend that the. servant', is hot
greater thaa his master ; that the pee.
pie are tne sovereign j that Uongress ;
is ftk "paid agent (servant), xlotked -.
with delegated power totsohl' money TtI . -and
regulate the value thereof. . They
hate no granted power to grant oth--.
ers an exclusive right to coin money, ; ti
nor to regulate the value thereof, tlf '.
the people are sovereign in the United ' ;;
States they f have ; the right q' com
mand their servants and demand of i
Congress a government "currency for v i
themselves, sufficient for all the wants ; 'i
of tra4e and . commerce of the United dt
Statea The sovereign people are the ,' !
best surety for. the redemption of all
its debts.' But Congress, instead of
coining legal tender greenbacks at.
par with gold, have passed laws to"-. SJ
call them in Jand are burning them,1 -
and have legalized upwards of 2,100
national swindling shops to coin mon- . .
ey, and to shave and swindle the toil-
ing millions of people out their labor, ,"
with its fictitious credits called mon- ' V
ey which, in fact, is not lecal monev ' '
to cheat the people by contracting" I - -
ana innacing at will, raising and low ;. ;V
ering the value of labor and property , . ,
causing panics and suspensions, as in. K,
1816, and again in 1837, and sot ;n
ward for about every, twenty yean, ' '
which, have. brought ruin and disas
tor. upon the! country clogged all the. ;
industries, demoralized and destroyed' " '
confidence among the people, and the " 'i
result is now bankruptcy and ruin all
xw7 wuubry. at ute auora umep
swindling began by. shavers, agents
and speculators of the fictitious mon
ey power, and: reaped a fafr harvest
out of the f ruins "of ! the - people,
brought about by these i legalized
swmdling shops.- r These, are facts
I have witnessed. ( "We claim of Con-',
gress "equal Jaws to protect equal '
rights ' to ' property; persons ; and
speech, and : equal taxation upon all 1
values, and a legal tender greenback
currency of its own, instead of con- .
traeting and burning them; to 'com
pel the people to use a fictitious bank
currency, cheating and 1 forcing them
to pay lnterest'from 1012 to 25 per
cent, on the dollar for its use. Sunh
is equal protection and .equal rights
with a vengeance. Our servants -in
Congress - have botvayod . tha xxplo . ,
iufa Pound xis, ana all w lia, ever
to the bondholders, not only in the
United States, bnt "Rnronn. Mnatdail
of coining money as the. Constitution
required, have uncoined silver, calling '
in all' the leiral tender Annntitntionnl
money, buttj gold, and have granted
exclusive privileges to twentv-one
hundred shoos, called National Banks.
to coin a fictitious money not a con
stitutional money out, of the credit -and
bonds of the government, instead
of issuincr i?reenbaclc IacaI tamers
and paying its own debts, have, sinoe .
1873, been contracting its greenbacks"
to oppress the tjeonle. A maioritv '
of Congress do not represent the peo-
ana are j opposed to equal rights
and equal taxation, and are in favor
of exclusive privileges to the few. and
hence we are paving the way for the
bankers and bondholders, 1 who pay
no taxes, to peap another fat harvest
Out of the people by resumption of -specie
payments in 1879, with an al-
most empty treasury; to force the -government
j to purchase gold of the
same money changers and pile up bil
lions more of bonds at ruinous rates
of per 1 centumn and more taxes on
the people to pay. We say to . Con
gress, : the people must, have equal tax
ation or no taxes Thej must have a
United .States money a- Currency .of
its own, made a legal tender in 'pay
ment of all debts and dues, ! whatever;
or repudiation will be the result, or .
something worse may come. : ; 1 1 '
" ' He Left Eer. -.
He left her and stepped out to see
a friend berweeu acts, i - j s '
Why, Edward, said she, when he
returned, there are tears in your '
eyes. ( . v-v- -:- i ' - ' "
'JeS, pet;' replied he solemnly, 1
suppose there are I saw such a sad
aighr when I was out' i f -j '
You did--whatwas Itfr : r
'Such a sad sight oonftnued he,
keeping his face away that she might
not smell his breath. 1 dtsoovered a
voung man whom I haveMcnown for
years drinking whisky.' i !
You did r .;; 1.-; I -.-
'Yes, standing right in plain sight
before me, partaking deeply and ears- .
leasly of the( intoxicating glass.'
There was a little pause, when the
young lady suddenly said: j j
'Edward, was he standing right In
front of you?' j -r .
Yes, pet,, was the reply J ...
There was another pause, when the '
young lady asked again i l
'Edward, don't most of the fashion
able saloon counters have great nioe
mirrors right j on the "walls . behind
themf - " ! , -i" !' - " J
Edward flashed m little and looked
quizzical as ho replied that be ''believ
ed" they did. I. V j:
c And there he permitted the subject
to drop. i i. !. -. -
A simple method of rendering
Etperso retentive ; of r. ink that the
ittcr cannot be removed withoct
leaving plain marks has been lately
adopted in France for checks. The
main feature of Ithj method is the
passing the paper through a very-
blled water.
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