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DAILY NEWBEENIAN. Seth M. Cabpexteb, Editor NEW BERNE, N. C, APRIIi 28, 1874. For Superintendent of Public Instruction : j COL. STEPHEN D. POOL, of Craven. THE NEW YORK WORLD AND THE CUR , J RENCY QUESTION.' j We have been disposed to place a high value upon the political fidelity and Democratic pu rity of the New York ! World. The general course of that paper on great national questions has been , wise, sagacious and : unexceptionable sound. Where the Conservative masses of the South, in their restless anxiety to prove the genuinenessof their professions, and the fixed-j edness 6f their purpose to become reconciled to the National Government,, accepted a , life-long abolitionist and persecutor as their standard bearer, this journal earnestly warned them of the consequences to Democratic unity and suc cess. Like a faithful guardian on the out-posts of our citadel, it told us, that to take Horace Greeley for our leader would be to contradict every principle "of, our political record, to put ourselves in a false position before the world, j; and to blight in advance every hope we could cherish of a consolidated war upon -the corrup tion and fanaticism of our opponents. But we were anxious to prove our magnanimity to our enemies. We were in haste to preach a lesson of -- - . - l political charity to men, who cared about as much for our noble forgiveness of their reck less aggressions as they did for our reconstruc tion upon the elements of a candid and cordial brotherhood. We sent our delegates to Balti t more, many of them our' most eloquent and distinguished citizens. They carried the olive branch in their hand, and theip voices . pealed like clarions for fraternity, fellowship, and re conciliation. The Northern Democrats, wiser in their generation, and knowing that they were righting the same men who had started Old John Brown on his journey, resisted the purpose of our delegates. But, alas ! it was another one of those changes like that at Manassas, Chicka- xnauga oXCold Harbor, and who could ever re- . ' sist Southern men; in one of those stormy move ments of hot and impetuous courage. The field GOV. 4 CALDWELL ANDr THE RAILROADS. Owe, Chief Executive seems to be enthusiasti cally enlisted on the side of consolidation. And the inquiry, very naturally arises what is the incentive which jushes him. "It is hardly to be supposed, that he feels such an intense devo tion for a -Conservative Legislature,: as to be anxious to show his appreciation, upon princit pie, of their official action. Neither is it likely, that he considers it the duty of a Governor to act as a sort of a wet nurse, to a public measure, after it has passed to the endorsation or rejec tion nf the neoDle. What then is the motive which influences hini7 . . It must be . confessed, that his active sympathy and personal co-opera tion are very startling. He displaces some of his most influential party friends .from the directorship, and makes ingenious speeches to convince wavering stockholders of the infalibil ty of consolidation. We shall give no opinion to his secret motives, from fear tthat we might misjudge him. i But, there is one fact that is made jconspicu-j OUS m ail tms log oi mogicai reasoning anu personal heart-burning and that is, that the Governor is contributing his mite to strand the ... . - it - Radical party in North Carolina. He is doing for his political allies in this State what Presi- rant is doing for 4hem in the United States, dividing them into sections, kifiBttlmg a furious antagonism ramong their interests, ar raying York against Lancaster, and thus making their far-famed unity" to vanish like a dream of the nisrht when one awaketh. This is! well. The bolts of this political privateer "having been started, presently her decks will begin to rise, and then such taking io life-oats and chicken-eoops neither tHe rocks of Nova Scotia nor the Bay of Biscay ever saw. In due time the free and unterrified democracy will put in a claim for salvage. in the convention was won. But just . as the . . - ' , ' - ' I New York World had predicted, it proved the sacrifice of our political unity, and the ship wreck of all the advantages which our previous perseverenjee had gained. Bat while we are ready to admit the sterling character of this journal, and to acknowledge its claims- upon the confidence and support o1 the Democratic masses of this country, we do jiot think.it has treated us quite right on this currency, question. It may be true, asJ it j affirms, that the positi on of , t h e anti -inflationists embodies move of the spirit ol the old . Democratic platforms: But in a great struggle like this, - in which the commercial and agricul tural prosperity of the South and West was at stake, it might have exhibited a little less devo tion to the banking interests of its own section, ftiid a Httlo more svmmthv for the tranroeled victims of metropolitan cupidity and self-love. The New York World ought to know that high protective tariffs' 'and National bonds have always been the worst foes to Democratic prps perity and success. The very, men, whose cause it is defending, have ever stood like angry lidns in the path of free trade and popular liberty. . And now to throw up fresh ramparts around the diminished legions of the j enemy, when they were driven to the wall, divided among them selves, and, like Mtf&ena in Genoa, driven to 'the last necessity of feeding upon mules and eats, was not a sound policy,, we think. We wish the New York World would remember, that there are other - Democratic interests, to be served besides those north of the Susquehanna and east of the Ohio. A bachelor gent in Springfield, Vt, has under cultivation twenty-seven! cats of various ages and colors. . : 7 Blaeic vs. White. Mr. Editob: We of the Conservative party being largely in the minority in this district, and having, therefore no possible chance of electing a man from our own ranks to represent us in Congress, is it not the part of wisdom for us to exert our influence to secure the best man from the Republican side of the house that we can get ? . j '.-...' ! ; i Now, sir, who is that "best man ?" j Judging from the articles that have recently appeared in the Democratic press of the district, I know that Judge Thomas1 is odious, but, nevertheless sir, he is the man upon whom we should centre; and why ? Because he is the only wtiiie man in the whole district who can possibly be elected, and it is by no means a certainty that; even he may not be thrown aside, ' The negroes are doing all ii their power to make the question of color the distincti ve feature of the coming .campaign, and while we. ag Demo crats, are on the outside, as it Were. ! I ask you and all other right-thinking white men of this district, be they Conservatives or Radicals, if they are ready to array therqselves jjupon the side of the negro, against their own race? The negroes have forced this ques tion upon their white Radical brethren, and, in doing so, have forced it upon the white people of the entire State, and I am glad to know that thev are readv to answer it. Education, ability, integrity and fitness for place, they j have en tirely ignored, and the issue is now, sir, one of race, and race only. In other words, wrill we take Judge Thomas or will we take an j ignorant negro to represent us in the j Congress of the United States ? Are we not already sufficiently igno-wheel our . Legislative under the heel of the African ? Do not ...... i i . - ranee and stupidity sufficiently clog every of bur government ? Are no bodies rendered ridiculous enough in the eyes of the world by the African law-makers who de sire to file the records of our State in the Arch- i is I A ibes of Grabity ?" Look at the Badical ; nomi nations just made for Trustees of the New Berne Academv, an institution in which the scholars are all white, and in which the negro has not the slightest interest, and yet, what do we see? In a Board of four, twoare negroes. And such a Board ! When and where did its members re eeive an education fitting them to become . the guardians of seat of learning ? How many of them are familiar with the writings of Homer, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Cicero, - Livy, Hor ace, Virgil and the long list of poets that wrote and sung in the classic days of yore Imagine this Board, composed of half men and half Baboons, present at the examination of j the pa pils A scholar is called to read one of the le tures of Socrates ; a copy is handed to each of the Trustees, who are requested to examinethe pupil, and to decide upon his j scholarly, attaint ments ; the student rattles away jwith his Greek for awhile all goes well ; soon he makes a mistake in the translation; the teacher stops him, r but being a "smart" lad, and knowing the augusi tribunal that is to pass upon his merits,! he api peals to the Trustees to sustain l im and, horror of horrors ! asks them to translate the sentence for him. : J ' ;''j ; Ye Gods and little fishes ! Shades of thi Athenians arise ! The hand of ignorance agairi presents the Hemlock chalice. 'MurdeT, most foul and unnatural," stalks upon the scenei The witches sing: : , ;.' , " . ' "Thrice the brindl'd cat hath mew'd, . Thrice and once the hedge, pig whined, - i Fillet of a fenny suake, . i , ; In the cauldron boil and bake ; i Eye of newt, and toe of frog; - I .' . Wool of bat, and tongue of dog; , . Adder's fork and blind-worm's sticgf Lizzard's leg, and owlet's wing . . T For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a Hell-broth, boil and bubble. 1 i Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf; -i Witches' mummy ; maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt sea shark J Root of hemlock, digged i' the dark ; Liver ol blaspheming Jew; i Gall of Goat, and slips of yew, I Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse; ' ! Nose of Turk, and Tartar's! lips ; Finger of birth-strangled babe, ; Ditch deli ver'd by a drab -i j I VIake the gruel thick and plab. ' 1 Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, i For the ingredients of ourj cauldron ; Cool it with a baboon's blood, f Then the charm is nrm'and good. " I Socrates drinks and dies. The Trustees,; being advocates of Cremation,! jorder his body! burned, and as a tribute to learning, place his ashes in the "Archibes of Grabity. be the result of There! lean be so And what, Mr. Editor, is to this unnatural state of things ? but one : The Academy must inevitably down ignorance and incapacity can lead intel ligence and ability but one way to ruin. All tnis, sir, we are cauea upon to Dear, in; order that Cuffee may take a seat by the whites man, and delude his vanity with the ignis fatuis idea that he is his equal. j 17 Now, I hold that we have enough of the negro i . a , li : 3iJ : " i nere ax. aouie, ana ca.n wen uitspense wiia xns services in Congress. But in order to do that,? we must throw no more obstacles in the way of Judge Thomas, for I repeat, that he is the only white man in tne Kadical party that stands a ghost of a chance. j 1 jj : I It is true, he entertains view? different from; ours upon many of the great questions of the. day, but if the papers quote him correctly, he is opposed " in toto to ' negrd supremakyt and that is the greatest of all the, issues, that wet are called upon to fight. . Upon this greatest of great questions 4 he is with us, and stands asl it firm as the rocks of Gibralter: for if the Golda boro Messenger is correct, he raise the question of color, party -111 repudiate it. What more can you ask; from a Republican ? Can you find a negro in ( Tf . s I'll leave says, you: the the district m i favor of the white man's rule ?! 1 1 1 -; certainly not- why then longer oppose Judge; he has jability, appropriations to. Thomas? He has education and whije he has obtained no build us a Post Office and Custom House, or deepen the waters of our river, he . has not dis graced us upon the floor of Congress, by dis-J plays of ignorance and common ense. I , , ! To be sure, in lopping off he head of Geo.' W. Nason. Jrl, he has deprived us of the best Postmaster that we ever had; but he could not; help that, I don't believe he dislikes Mr. Nason,! on the contrary, he would, I think, be disposed' to aid -him in any way that he could, j It was! not the Judge that decapitated Nason, but the office,' and the or run the risk of of Congress. 1st "Self preser cuffee-euffee wanted a place in Judge had to kick Nason out, having himself kicked out there anything wrong in tha, vation is the first law of Nature; " and besides has he not the right to give the office to whom l?pleases? Let Judge Thomas stay where he; is, and if by a sop thrown to this and that hun4 gry darkey, he can keep his place in Congress, let him do it. - It is only keeping cuffee in thel back ground, and giving' us jan intelligent genl tleman to represent us in Congress. He must do something to fill their bellies, for the struggle is almost desperate. The negroes, and those among the whites who want his place, are already traducing him. They have raised a great cry about his , connection with "what they term the " salary grab," but who among them would not have voted for and dack pay they could have put taken all the their f clutches It did not exceed $8,00&- It is only the kettle calling the pot black. True, Dick King calls him " Sugar Thomas,' andthose of the negroes who want, a black man in his place' throw up their hats arid hurrah. But that, amounts to nothing; everybody stes the milk n the cocoamiL" Rumor says, Thomas caught King at some of his sharp tricks at a certain railroad meeting, and called him sharply to account ; thi L so says the old diune,'! made King mad, and he js how a candidate for Thomas' place in Congress ; but if the boot had bem on the other leg, who knows but that Thomas might, with qual pro priety call him " Sngar Dick." . ' -, With these Radical courteiie.s(- however, we have nothing to do. The question for us to consider, is whether we are to have; a white man or negro to represent us 111 Congress ?- j It we prefer aL negro, then let us, continue to hoM up to view, those little things which Thomasj' ememies call his shortcomings, and our wish will be gratifikl; but if we prefer a white maril, one of our own race and color, we have no choice but to accept Judge Thomas, and if wa will let him alone to fight his own battles, he will whip out every negro competitor in the field, and force them into their proper places the rear. I throw -out these suggestions in their crude state. Mr. Editor, hoping that our people will reflect upon the situation, and act as to them seems best. Democrat. The home circuit at night -Walkin' round witha baby NewBeriie 3vdCarkets- . Corrected by BLANK BROTHERS & UL.R.ICII, ; , Wholesale and 'Retail Dealers in Groceries. ProTisions. Country Prodnce, &c. New-Bebne, JS. C., April 28, 1874. ! LArd, lb 1212iC pplea, skeet, bush $1.40 northern $4.505.60 Beef, choice lb 315c " . whole, - 67o Bacon, 810c Bagging, yd 1315c Butter, lb 4550c Brick, & m $8fl3 Beeswax, f. lb . i025c BblSUves, Whiteoak, in $1$16 Candles, ' 1620c Cheese, lb 1 9 20c Cotton, middling - 15c " low midlixtg 14c good ordinary 14c inseedcwt$3.005.00 Corn, cargo 83c i ; retail 1.00 Coffee, rid lb 2730c f " java 40c Coal, ton . $8.00 Chickens, pair 6080c Cypress Staves , ! f m $10$12 Cabbages, each ' 1025o Pucks, l pair 60 75c Dressed Hogs, Tlb 810c Domestics yd - 716c : " bleached 820c " osnabnrgs 1220c EggB, doz 1215c Fish, bbl 4050c Field Peas, $1.25 Flour : $6.00$12.00 Fodder, cwt $1.50 Hides, dry, lb . . 14c green, 8c Hay, hundred $1.60 Honey, strained gal 75c M comb lb 813Kc Heading, ash nx$8$12 Herring, f m $6.00 Iron Ties, l lb 9c Liquoes: ' ' ", Brandy ,apples gal $3.00 Whiskey, bourbon $1$4 ! "N.C.Corn $1.60$2.50 Lime, bbl $1.75$2.00 Mnllets, bbl $6.00$6.50 Meal, buBh $1.00L.10 Molasses, syrup . ' 3235c " cuba . 4560c " new Orleans 70c Nails, keg, $5.50$7.00 Oats, bush 1.00 Oysters, gal ,0c " bush 50c Oil, kerosene, gal 2230c astral 4545c " linseed $1.00 V train 1.09 Potatoes, 1 p" Irish, bush $2.50 sweet .6080c Pork bbl $16.00 $18.50 812c 1.75 1425C 1.90 12 i875 10c i 3.00 2.80 1.80 45c " fresh lb Peanuts, bush Rope, lb Koein, bbl Rags, lb Snuff, Lorillard's ' Gail & Ax Soap, f lb Virgin dip tur pentine Old dip turpentine Scrape, Spirits, gal Tar, bbl 1.25 Shingles, cypress . . - ti inch 4; 12 inch 7 Sugar, white 1114 " brown 1012 Salt sack - 1.65 " alum "A bush . 60 Spun cotton, Spirits casks, Tobacco, Wheat, Wool, Wood, oak or ash, per cord, Wood, pine 1 Yellow pine, j Lumber, m ' Poplar lumber, 1.60 2.002.50 4575 1.501.75 20c 2.502.75 i;502.00 $12ai8 $10(420 upon? His back pay was not worth a quarrel. i Arrival and Departure of Mails. POST-OFFICE, NEW-BERNE, N. C, I ! ' ' ' - ' ' . April .20th, 1874. t i Mail Closes for the North, West and South at 7.15 a.xa ueauiort anatne jsast, d.w p.m ' '. . " Washington, Swift Creek" Hyde and Beaufort Counties, daily at 5:30 A; M. ' I .Mail closes for Trenton. Pollokville. and fiwautboro, Tednesdavs and Saturdays t 6:30 A. M. Juan closes xor uatteras, (Tia. ueanrott) 5 p. m. Mail closes for Bay Kiver, Yandemere and OrantsbQrp Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 6.30 a. iq MAIL, ARRIVES ; ' From the North, West and South at . . , 5.30 p.ni : (opened for denvery at 6.00 p.m. ) rrom ueauioj-t and tne M&st at ! 7.45 a.ia ' From Washington and Swift Creek, -N.cL at . 4 p,d I From Trenton, Tuesday and Friday at 1 ' . 4-00 p.iii. ; From Bay River, Yandemere and Orantsporo -.' . Monday, Wednesday and Friday at . ( ' 4 p.oa ered in one month are sent to the dead' letter office. , The law requires thai all letters shall be prepaid in full;; When not fully paid the law provides for sending thecj to the dead letter oface. , 7 . f 1 1 For safety, money orders can be obtained upon ill the principle offices in the United States, Great Britain and Switzerland; and letters can be registered to all offices in the United States; and to most offices in the entire world. All letters' containing Money or other valuables should always be registered; without whict, there is little safety. . . j f Office hours from 8.30 a.m. to 5p. m and COO to 7.0 J p.m. Sundays from 12-30 to 1 p. m. j I . ET1LELBERT HUBBS, Postmaster COTTON FACTORY.1 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT BOOKS OF subscription to the Capital 8 took for a Cotton Fac tory, to be established in the City of New-Berne, are now open at the National Bank of New-Berne, at the Banking House of Iiountree & Webb, and at the storev of Messrs. J. E. Nash and S. H. Gray. Books of subscription havs also been op11 in the counties of Lenoir, Wayne, Wilson. Edgeombe ' Halifax, Greene, Daplin. Jones, Beaufort. Pitt, Hyt- Pamlico, &c. V -,. . Jas. A. Betan, 1 "A ' 8. H. Gray, c.fl-"fi"c''1- f ' O. 8. Dewet. ) V Xew-Cerne, N. C., April Jlth,l74. 1
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