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OFFICE OVKR FCCHTLER KjEBN'S.
The Post Office Muddle.
CONTINUED. ;
It amiears that the lait issue of
the Star stirred up the Post Office
gang, One Hiram Grant, ex-P. M.
on seeing his name mentioned in
connection with the muddleronJ
ded himself with a club
and sousV
vengeance. On baturday evenipiji
Out. 15th. between 6 and .f o'iilock
WMw"3ltfTfa aTTOTYOsrorncej
rJWIU lie BttlU IlOtUlUg U US U'cu ui
wiu ue Baiu noiiiiiig 11 us uic"
tibere, but ihe betook himself iff and
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LD L, i
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i v asxfe were going home ' aboVt ten
uSpa'clock he made an attack"" in the
ri'dark .with a club ; th ' timi and
Bioii v , . -it . . 1'. 'i' '
inpiace was not ui-smieu to one yua
has i ble of committing suoh a cowardly
We will reserve turther com-
uiut) y-
just now as the . matter is
pending trial in the Superior court.
' We are not informed as to which of
"the rumors Mr. Grant s delicacy be
r came offendifat, therefore we wall
repeat, "It is rumored tha,II. Ij.
" Grant sold the Post Office" to Jno.
" R. Smith for $800 and that II.
" L. Grant was short $1,500 when
" Jno. R. Smith took charge of the
" Office in April, 1880, and Smith
" made good the deficit to the Dft
"partpent. P RSmith is the
u author of rumors and
" the publict-.u ihemor what
u they are worth.''
, We will now state for Mr. Grants
benefit that our columns will not be
suppressed through any fear of his
nightly assaults. We expect to take
the same Ireedom of the press ac
corded to other papers and neither
the influence of fear or favor shall
hush our columns from exposing
corruption.
We have given the author of the
rumors we published reflecting on
Mr. Grant and if he can prove his
innocence we will cheerfully make
the correction and brand the guilty
one as a liar in our columns, regard
less of whom he mav be. We trust
Mr. Grant will be as ready to vindi
cate himself of these rumors as he
was to assffult a defenceless man in
the nipht with a club. We desire to
0 .
injure no innocent man and we are
prepared to make the correction
when Mr. Grant Droves his inno
cence. We can make no fairer prop
osition and we take it that a reason
able man can ask no more.
We are doing our level best to lift
Jno. R. Smith out of his boo be
cause he is not fit to be Post Master.
He has tried to brand all niggerii as
thieves and he is not a Republican.
He has made the assertion that he
would " die and go to hell before
he would give a nigger a clerkship
in hisi office." Will the better elen
ment of the Republican party re
cognize such a man ? Will the col
ored inen of Goldsboro and Wayne
county he tools in tho hands of a
man who would dare cast such a
damnable stigma on their race?
Will a Renublican administration
retain such a man in office whose de
light it has been to try and tarnish
the character of a large element of
the party , aa thieves n element
whose greatest pride it has ever
been to show their fidelity at the
ballot box and contribute their sup
port to the party which gave them
their rights and protects their liber
ties ? Will a christian people re
cognize a man whose knowledge of
bell is so limited and who is so nar
row minded as to make such remarks
as John R. Smith has made ? There
are numbers of colored men in this
town whose reputation for honesty
has never been questioned.
God has so guided the destinies
of our nation that the shackles of
slavery have been lifted from the
colored man, and ho is a factor to (
use his ballot, to help make laws to
govern us all as a people. We trust
the bitter prejudice between races
will be soon lulled to sleep and the
good men of both races may strive
hand in hand to defeat the designs
of all bad and vicious men in their
efforts to stir up strife between the
races. Men of intelligence must
admit that the negro has a soul and
that God has intended him to be
cultivated intellectually and morally
as a yuLuau uciug. , . , ... i
We will now nass on our Post Of-
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fice gang and see how they are flour
ishing. It appears the Star route
is an elephant en John R. Smith's
hands. Mr. Thompson of this place
took hold of it a few weeks ago but
for some cause gave it up. Mr.
Hugh Humphrey has not yet receiv
ed his registered letter, made men
tion of in our last issue, which was
mailed at Rose Hill the 6th of Au-
gust. We are informed tnat Mr.
umphrey says the amount of mon
- which the letter contained was
dished out by some of the Post Of
fice employees, but whether it was
paid to Mr. Humphrey or the party
at Rose Hill who mailed the letter
we failed to learn.
The Post Office must be carelessly
managed to allow a valuable letter
to be stolen before it could be deliv
ered. There must be an expert
thief somewhere and he should be
caught and made to know that '-the
ways of the wicked are hard.'
Now we know letters have been
stolen and some one did the stealing
and there has not been a ; igger con
nected with the office to blame for It.
There is something rotten in the Post
Offiee gang and they had better use
great care to keep the smell in their
midst ; a change of garments before
coming out of the office might assist
them to keep the smell within limits ;
or an old-fashioned habit the negroes
had of rubbing onions on their feet to
keep the hounds from trailing them,
might be of service to them just now
stifle the smell they are raising.
Patience and sweet oil-may effect a
chance before lone. Jno. R. Smith is
furnishing the oil and the community
the patience, while we will bend our
undivided efforts ta aid lliem in the
cause.
We have been
informed that C. A
Scott, better known as a "nigger
shipper" during the exodus fever,
wlm busied himself advising colored
men to leave, but who in the sound
ness of his judgment took good care
not to go himself, has been for the
past few days sneaKing arouuu uiu
Post Office and questioning h'ang
therein about the propriety oj rent
ing II. L. Grant with a strek. Mr.
Grant will doubtless feel highly com
plimented at being the recipient from
such a source. We will not, however,
presume to comment upon this mat
ter for "birds of a feather will flock
together," "and he who lies down
1.1.
with the dog, &c," are not inappropri
ate, epithets to apply. ''
Well, when Grant gets the stick he
will feel 111 at ease till lie gets an
occasion to crack another nigger on
the head. We hope he will not Inter
fere with us for we have some preten
sions to decency and don't care to gain
any notoriety as a pugilist. We mean
business and dislike to be detained on
the street after dark, to witness Mr.
Grant's performances. Mr. Grant
should have gained his notoriety in
John Morrisey's day still if he is bent
in his intention he m!ghtr -perhaps.
send up to New York and find some
one who, to accommodate him, would
come down and give him a round. Mr.
Grant claims to be a church member
and if he goes to cutting up such ca.
pers on the street the missionary may
visit him. C
If Grant wants the Post Office (and
it is rumored he does); he had better
drnn his idea of clubbing people, for
it might work to his detriment.
We are now done with Mr. Smith.
The stigma be has tried to throw on
the negro we have thrown back in his
teeth. Mr. Smith has acted like a
great many others of our so-called Re
publicans. The negToes have been
warned of him and should listen to no
more of his soft, sweet tales.
A few of the citizens of Goldsboro
have been led to believe we opened our
columns on Smith to make him take a
negro clerk, but such was not alto
gether our design. Jno. R. Smith
promised he would take a negro clerk
provided the negroes would sign his
petition which they did. Jno. R.
Smith has forfeited his word, but in
asmuch as he has promised the Demo
crats not to appoint a negro when he
got their signatures, we presume he
keeps his promise sucred to them.
THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING
IS cqEfwo IK.
There has been considerable said
by the leading cdlored men iri North
Carolina in the past two years as to
who were the true Republicans and
leaders of the party ; also who were
the colored man's friends.
Chief among these gentlemen is
the Hon. W. P. Canaday of Wil
mington, N. C, who aever lets an
opportunity slip to do something for
a worthy colored citizen when so
licited. We have know'a Uol. Can
aday for some eight yeirs and have
always found him faithful and true
to the principles of the Republican
party, and an unbiased office-holder,
ready at all times to divide equally
the patronage of his office, regard-
ess of race or color.
Col. Canaday has shown himself
to be an unflinching friend of the
negro, and to-day the name of Wil
liam Park Canaday is honored in
every colored man's house or cabin
from the sea shore to the mountains
of western North Carolina. . ,
He was appointed Collector of
the Port of Wilmington, about the
year 1877, and, aa soon as the oath
of office was administered to him, he
appointed five prominent colored
gentlemen Deputy Collectors of the
Port of Wilmington. He is also
editor of the Pot, a Republican pa
per published in Wilmington in
whose columns the rights of the ne
gro have always been defended.
The next gentleman on record is
the Hon. O. Ilnbbs, now member of
Congress from the 2nd District of
North Carolina. This distinguished
Republican, while Sheriff of Craven
county had severalC colored deputy
sheriffs employedUnder him, and in
fact, has always been a warm friend
of the colored people of his section.
The next gentleman to follow was
the Hon. E. R Brink, Post Master
of Wilmington who has two colored
clerks in his office olio as Money
Order and the other as Mailing
Clerk for this the colored people
feel grateful.
About the same time the Hon. E.
Hubbs of New Berne, was appointed
Post Master, arid on entering upon
the dutios of his office be appointed
a worthy colored clerk, who is yet
in the office and doing his duty
faithfully. .
We next notice on the roll of hon
or the Hon. W. W Jenkins of Char
lotte, who has - had two colored
clerks in the Post Office.
The next followed Col. I. J.
Young, Collector of the Metropoli
tan District, who stands on our list;
he has two colored clerks . in his of
fice and one deputy in the Fayette-
ville section. ... The Colonel has at
least evinced a willingness to do
something for the colored citizens.
We are also pleased to note the
name of the Hon.. John Nichols,
Post Master at Raleigh, who has two
colored gentlemen in , his office that
are worthy servants of the Govern-
ment. .' '. ., ... '..
So, also, we take great pleasure
in name of the Hon. J. J. Mott,
Collector of the 6th District, who
appointed the first colored store
keeper in the revenue service in
North Carolina. Mr. Mott is also
chairman of the State Executive
Committee, and leader of his party.
We close our list with the Hon.
George B. Everett. Collector of the
3rd District, who has recommended
two colored men for storekeepers in j
his District, and had them commis
sioned. These are the paying offices in the
State. Some are exceptions of which
Goldsboro is one, where we have
those white-washed, negro-hating,
would-be sycophant gang of blood
suckers, consisting of Grant, Jno,
R. Smith and J. N. Green.
' DING B AM CADETS.
We notice in the News and Ob
server of the 17th inst., in speaking
of the drill of the Bingham Cadets
in which it says :
By the efficient managemeut of
the Secretary and Marshals the parade
ground was cleared of cattle, negroes,
loafers and race track horses, so that
the Cadets had a much better opportu
nity to drill, and the public to see
them."
This is the common language used
by a great many of our Southern
presses in speaking of negroes.
We presume the negroes who at
tended the Fair spent their money
to go there and any man recognizing
them as brutes and lumping them
with cattle, &c, may be termed a
partisan. It will be a matter
of no surprise to 'civilized, intelli
gent people that some of our South
ern Fairs are a failure when they
read such editorials boasting of ig
norance and inhumanity in the
South
YORKTOWN
I. Has had her Centennial ami bur
Republic has had her oration. May
unnumbered centuries of Yorktown
Centennials be repeated, so that un
born generations, descendants of the
heroes of that noble achievement
may have the exultant pleasure of
meeting and mingling m joyful
greeting.
We regret our unavoidable ab
sence, but we arc of the opinion that
the throng being so great, our ab'
sence made room for we cannot say
as we positively were not ih the
crowd.
What, then are we to say to our
readers in relation to this Yorktown
fete f What conduced to the fall or
capture of Yorktown may be as en
tertaining, and perhaps, not less in
structive to our readers than any
clippings from our exchanges.
We start here upon the maxim
4 God is the Ri'ler oe Nations,
and while His ways are mysterious
to us or are, in the words of Pope,
all chance direction which we can
not see, an analysis oi events as
i . 0 i
they have occurred will clearly re
veal the guiding hand of a wise and
henevolent Being. Causes are irrel
evant to this .phase of our story,
suffice it to say they flaew from the
young Virginia lawyer the notable
expression, " Cflesar had his Brutus,
Charles I. his Cromwell, and George
III" here pausing till the reitera
ted cry of u Treason " from severa
parts of the house had subsided, he
added " may profit by their ex
amples ; if this be treason make the
most of it. ; " " T '
This reference to George III
leads us to inform our readers that
George did not reside at the Vati
can ; , he was King of England. His
" Navigation Laws," " Stamp Act"
and " Mutiny Act," might be look
ed upon as " Invitations to the Bos
ton Tea Party " and subsequently
to a little Lexington scamper-down
where Lieut.-Colonel Smith and
Maj. Pitcairn danced if they did not
pay the piper.
We may go farther into these de
tails in a future issue, a brief rela
tion of which may not have had op
portunity of becoming conversant
with the stirring times of the Revo
lutionary period.
For tho Star.
A COMPLAINT.
Mr. Editor: On last Sunday the
Midland N. C. Railway furnished us
an Excursion train to carry passengers
to a camp meeting near New Berne,
and after leaving the passengers from
the East the train proceeded to Golds
boro to get more passengers. There
was a young Conductor in charge by
the name of Morris, and to our sur
prise he took on some white passen
gers from Goldsboro to New Berne
and placed them in one of 1 he first
class cars and locked both doors. This
caused us a deal of trouble as it was
the third car in the train. Had it
been the rear car we should not have
noticed it so much, but as it was it
was very annoying, as parties trying
to get in would have to get down and
go to another car.
Now, had one of the old conductors
had charge this would not have hap
pened, nor do we believe that the Com
pany have any knowledge of this trans
action, for we are satisfied that they
would not have furnished us the train
and then allowed the conductor to
lock one of the cars.
Now, Mr. Editor, this should not
be in a free country.
AMI DES NOIRS.
HOMICIDE AT WILSON.
Last Monday night about 11 $ o'clock
on the cars at Wilson, a colored man
by the name of Cary Hill, was shot
and instantly killed by Benjamin May
of Pitt county. We learn from a pri
vate letter from Wilson the following
particulars :
May and a young man by the name
of John Gardner of Wilson came down
to Goldsboro on the first evening train.
They were drinking during the evening
and while getting on the 10 o'clock
train t return to Wilson, bad some
difficulty with one of the rarn"hafias7
which was ended by the train man be
taking himself to the baggage car to
avoid a disturbance. The young men
were under the Influence of liquor, and
after the train left Goldsboro made
some insulting ' remarks to a colored
woman who was traveling under the
care of the colored man Hill. The lat
ter resented the insult and the two
young men, May and Gardner, attack
ed and would have beaten him had not
Capt. Cutts, the conductor, interfered
to preserve the peace. The quarrel
was kept up till tho train reached
Wilson, when the young men got off
the car and hid himself behind some
cotton on the platform till the train
moved out of the depot. Then he got
on the platform, between the first-class
and sleeping cars. Gardner and May
got on the platform between the bag
gage and second-class car, and went
through the train till they came to
Hill who was standing at the door of
the first-class car, when May shot him
twice, one bullet going directly
through the heart. Hill died almost
instantly, and May and Gardner leap
ed off the train and disappeared.
Cary Hill, the man who was so bru
tally murdered, had been working dur
ing the summer on the new Opera
House at this place, and .while here
had so conducted himself as to win the
respect of all who knew him. He was
well and favorably known in WiUon,
where he had lived for some years, and
had the reputation of being an indus
trious and well disposed colored man.
The young men concerned in the
tragedy are respectably connected in
Wilson and Pitt, and this unfortunate
affair has cast a gloom over both the
communities. The sheriff of Wilson
and his posse are scouring the coun
try, and the colored people, naturally
incansed, aie eagerly searching for the
perpetrators of the crime. Meenger,
21th intt.
A Galvestdn father rebuked his ugly
daughter for teiog rather forward, ne
said: "You ought to be ashamed to
be always running after the young
men." "It is not my fau'.t," she res
ponded. "Whose is it?" "It is their
fault. If they would stand still I
would not have to run after them." -Southerner-
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