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NEW BEENE, N. 0., TTJESDArMORNINa, MAY 19, 1874,
Number 26.
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Corn by the cargo 90 cents per bushel.
Clams were selling yesterday at 40 cents per
. bushel. j
. A jail-bird chain gac lhight bo' made useful
upon our streets. M
Young Mocking-birdsWe now being ofiered
for sale upon our streetej '
Genuine Vienna Beer in bottles can be xro
cured at Zihkand's Hotei, on Middle Street.
Echo has come to the sensible conclusion
that all unnecessary street obstructions in this
city should be immediately dispensed with.
James W. Hamilton, Esq., has purchased the
poultry and produce establishment formerly
owned bythe Manley Brothers at the People's
Market, 'and has a full stock in his line.
An ex-depositor in the Freedmen's Savings
Bank of this city desires to know why it is that
interest upon deposits is not nowT allowed by
that institution. "We call; upon the officer in
' charge for the information desired.
' Lost A gold stud, set with pearl. The finder
will be rewarded by leaving;it at this office.
A reived. The steamer James A. Gary, Capt,
Hall, arrived at. tliis ixut last evening at 7
o'clock. - .' ,
Queky. To what party will a certain Con
gressman, who. was recently unloaded, now at
tach himself to ? We pause for a reply.
Sailed. The schooner McMaghan, Capt. Call,
sailed yesterday from Hatteras with a cargo Of
shingles from this port for Philadelphia.
Postponed. Owing to the inclemency of the
weather, the cotton factory meeting was post
poned until Monday next, the 25th inst., at the!
Court House, when our citizens generally arej
expected- ia attend ia foxaeJ f ' j v -s
Suktet We learn that the schooner Bow
ditch, of the U. S. Coast Survey, has been
ordered to the East channel of the Cape Fear
river, to re-survey that point m accordance with
. instructions from headquarters.
Wake Foeest College. Gen. A. M. Scales
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was invited to deliver the annual address a
Wake Forest College at the commencement in
June next, but being compelled to decline from
private reasons, C. C. Clark, Esq., of this city I
has been invited in his stead.
Me. Editob: I write to inform you that Eggfe
are worth at this present time in the New Berne
market, 12 J cents per dozen. Now, sir, as one
good turn deserves another, will you please inf
form me which was first introduced to mortal
man, the hen or the egg ? Dikes.
' At this present time, " we cave. Ed.
Mayqk's Cottbt. Henry Smith and Walter
Whitfield,: (colored,) were arrai ghed before his
Honor Mayor Campbell, yesterday, for disturb
ing the peace fined $2 each. . j ,
. Enoch Sheppard, a colored tonsorial artiste,;
was brought up for violating the city ordinance
in relation to Bather Shops being opened on the
Sabbath day ; judgment suspended. '
Complimentary. The honor of bearing the
. flag at the recent memorial celebration at Neiw
Berne, North Carolina, was awarded Mr. J. .
Nash, formerly of this city, and brother of otir
friend, ' Capt. J. V. H. Nash. Mr. Nash wasj a
gallant Confederate soldier, and most amiable
gentleman; and no man was worthier of a fore
most place in the lines of the memorial ojb-
. servers. Petersburg Index tnd Appeal.
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County Commissioners. The Board of Com
missioners for Craven County convened yester
day pursuant to adjournment, for the purpctee
of revising the tax. list and valuation of property
reported, &c. '.
On motion, the Clerk of the Board was au
thorized, on the prescribed oath, to take the list
or lists of any person applying to list bis or her
taxabies at any meeting of the Board held on !or
be'fore the first Monday in July, 1874, upon the
payment of the fee prescribed by law. ,r
No business of importance was transacted.
The Board will meet again to-day at 10 o'clock.
TO ALE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
j We desire to state for the information of all
concerned, that we hold ourself responsible for
any and all articles that have appeared or 'may
appear in this paper. "
i . j Skth M. Cabpextee.
I. O. M.A regular communication of Gaston
Lodge, No. 4, will be held this (Tuesday) even
ing, in their Lodge j Room, at 8 o'clock. Work
in the 1st and 2nd Degrees. '
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DEMc:iTic3o3rsEBVATrvE County Conven
tion. mere will be a Convention of the Democratic-Conservative
party of Craven county held
jit the Court House in New Berne on Saturday,
June 13th, at 10 o'clock A. M. The respective
townships are requested to appoint delegates to
attend the same, as a full representation is
desired. '
By order of the Executive Committee.
James E. Morris," Chairman.
, New Berne, May 16, 1874. . -
President Krso. The following article ap
pears in several State papers, which may convey
the idea, that free passes were not granted by
the President of the Atlantic fc North Carolina
Railroad. This is a mistake, as many passes
are in the hands of persons who in no way
render service to this corporation, while nearly
every newspaper editor in our State ren
ders it valuable aid. We presume the subject
will be properly treated if brought to the notice
of President King: 1
i "Bailroad Passes. All the railroads in North
Carolina, except the Atlantic & North Carolina
Railroad, furnishes annual passes to the news
paper men in the State. And all the railroads
in North Carolina except the Atlantic fc North
Carolina Railroad are doing a paying business.
It will thus be seen that the liberally managed
roads are prospering." '
" The Situation.
f Mb. Editor : The Radical Nomina ting. Con
tention has been held, and the result has . justi
fied the predictions which from time to time I
have given to your readers. ; Thomas could
have been nominated had his white friends re
mained true to him, but having been advised
through the columns of your paper thai they
could not be nominated, and that Thomas was
the only white man that could, they "determined
at once to kill him off, and, if necessary, to use
a negro as the instrument. And why, shy pro
fessing the creed they do, should they not have
done so ? They proclaim to the world that a
negro is, in their opinion, the "equal of the
white . man, " and therefore as good as Thomas,
or :any of them, and looking from their stand
point, why is he not? He is a voter, so are
they ; he is an office hunter, so are they he is a
money-seeker and they are the same; his aims
are the same power and place; and his intel
lect, the Radicals tell us by their votes,, is suffi
cient to fit him for a position in the Legislature
of the State and a seat in the Senate Chamber of
the United States. Have the white skins who
affiliate with him the presumption to claim for
themselves greater fitness than they accord to
their black equal ? The judgment of an intel
ligent public is against them, for in many! in
stances they have proved themselves the black
man's inferior. The negro has endeavored to
elevate his race by bringing it in social' contact
with the white man, but the white skin who has
acquiesced in the affiliation has degraded! his
race in so far as he has been able! to drag it
down to the level of the African. . The negro
has proved himself the superior of the scallawag,
in that his attempts to benefit his people were,
until taught the tricks of his white associates,
disinterested and praiseworthy, while the scal
lawag, in order to clothe his carcass with power,
and thereby fill his coffers with money, often
times wrung from a necessitous and tax-ridden
people, has placed himself upon the level of an
ignorant, superstitious and besotted race. He
has cut loose from all those, ties to which his
ante-bellum education had endeared him, turned
his back upon the teachings and principles of
his fathers; cast aside the associations of his
youth, and raised his hand, against the mother
that gave him life all this for power and place;
In many instances, before and during the , war,
haying forfeited, the esteem and respect of his
fellow man, and seeing, through the 'ignorance
and easily wrought prejudice of the negro, an
opportunity to gratify his mean revenge upon
that portion of his people whose
indignation
and social kicks he had merited and : received,.
hands 4 with tlie
his rati1.
he' has been quick to-' strike
DiacKs, and to array nmiseit . ag
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and to become the champion of a policy whi(h,
if successful, he knew and felt, wotjld not only
be destructive of the best interest of! his cotmtrv,
but would break down thejbarriers of society,
and lay prostrate at the mercy of an j ignorant
and unbridled lust, the virtue and innocence-of
the entire South. ' And yet, sir, he asks and, re
ceives the social recognition of those husbands
and fathers, the sanctity of whose homes his
teachings, if. carried out, will violate, and is ad
mitted to the society of wives and daughters
whose virtue his hellish principles, if success
ful, will degrade to the level of the bawldy
house. . ' . ' ; ' "!! 'Ik
These things, the advocates of scaliawagery,
Civil Rights Bills and their corollaries, social
equality and debased morality,
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will
deny and
hized; by nu-n who have wives
growing' up', in the immunity.
ca-st; their let with the negn4 lot them
with the negro; let them eat with him:' let
associate with him, and let them sleen
.uid, daughters
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denounce, and attempt to meet - with their old
cries of disinterested philanthrdphy, anxiety
for the welfare and improvement j of j the poor
unfortunate negro, and such balderdash tluitan
intelligent dog would sicken at could he read
it. But, Mr. Editor, they are facte stubborn
facts which as men, as fathers, a4 husbands! as
brothers, the white people of thej entire South
are called upon to meet, and meeting to solve
at once and forever. i !
With an air of injured innocence worthy of a
Judas or Bill Holden, the leaders of the par ty
with a -grand flourish, herald to the world that
Southern men regard it a "eriniej' to be a Rad
ical, i It is a crime, anci their own guilty soil Is,
seared as they are, tell them so". Radicalism,
as practiced at the South is! a crime j not only
against society, but against j law, morality and
religion. It is a leprosy upon the, body social
as well as the-body politic, and should and will.
be expunged. We do not desire, and j it is not
our intention to produce strife. Nor do we
wish to injure theJMack man. jWo are .willing1,
for him to work out bis own destiny, and to
reap what benefits he can, but in doing so, we tell
him plainly that he must not and shall not retard
the prosperity of those whose ancestors laid don
their lives to achieve the independence of the
nation. The white people of the , South have
for eight long years given the. negro a full and.
fair trial to fit himself for the duties Of citizen
ship, and to participate in the affairs of Govern
ment. What has been the result ? jAttachlng
themselves to northern adventurers, and those
to the manor-born, who have been yer ready
to usefthem for their own selfish-ends, they have
arraj-ed themselves, duped it is true by the men
who have led them, in solid phjilanxj upon' the
side of corruption' and ruinJ ijvery interest of
the State has been subordinated
and power of party. The credit and j honor! of
to the interest
ruined,
and a
the commonwealth have Teen
large portion of its tangible) property has been
gobbled up by sharpers and swindlers. The
substance of the people individually 'has been
extorted from them by onerous taxation, and
then frittered away and stolen by dishonest Offi
cials. And not content with plunder, and the
control of the white man's property, the fiat has
gone forth that he must control and shape Abe
white man's morals, and take part in the educa
tion of the white man's children: Behold your
Academy !-f-an institution for white j children,
presided over by negro Trustees. It is useless
to say. that the negro does not participate in the
examination of the ; pupils, for if he. does riot;
then is the reason stronger why he should not
be a Trustee. But there stands the principle;
white children are under his supervision, and
must submit to such rules and regulations as he
and his white confreres may see fit to. enact. It
is but the entering wedge to his taking a tutor
ship. , Let Radicals deny it as,: they will, it is;
the first step, and that gained, .the others lire
easily taken. . ;:::.r -.'.J-;
This, Mr. Editor, is Radicalism as the unfor
tunate people of the South are accustomed ; to
see it; and we are indebted for it, in its hideous
deformity, to a set of white men, who, in order
to grow rich and fat themselves, are willing to
see us, their own race, - and ini many instances
their own kith and kin, not only .shorn of pur
prosperity ; and estates,- but placed under . ithe
galling and degrading rule of a semiibarbarus
people. And these same ; white men, with
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shame be it said, are countenanced and recog-
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him. Thev have used him. thev hnve ::lmv.l
him, and how let them be com; celled to recog
nize him as their social - equal. They have re- I
pudiated the while men of the country ahdj ,it s j
time that the white men should repudiate them:
If they,-with the aid of four million 'negroes, can Cj
continue to hold 4 millions of white people in y
subjection, let them do it, and let them stripe
with scorpion's tails the backs of the j uryy
curs who are willing to submit to them. The
time has come when the great principle for
which they have labored so long and so pa
tiently, is to be tested. The great issue of cofcv
lias come at Last, and the negro and their white
skinned allies, thank God ! have brought j jit
about. The great question now' is, shall this be
a white man's government, or shall it be a black
man's government? At the next general 'elec
tion the issue will be finally made, and tlie
white. -men of North Carolina will be jcalled
upon by leaders in wlgmi they have confidence,
to take their stand on the one side or the qtner.
If their sympathies are with the negro; if, they
lirefer the society of Cuffoe; if they still wish to
see the offices of the State and counties .filled'
with unnaturalized foreigners,-" negroes and
scalla wags, then let them take their stand with
the nepro party ; let them go to the negro and
scalla wag gatherings, and invite them to' their
homes and their tables; the morality and man
ners learned from such associations 'may be
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good for them and theirs, but for us and ours
we are qiiite willing to dispense with j it.. On
the other hand, if they wish the country pros
perous, if they wish it ruled by the intelligence
of the land, by men of ability and integrjtyi
thev desire the inower iilacel iii th han1i
the white men of the Stajte, let them plafit them
selves rirmlyuTwm thegwat principle, that this
is and shall be a white man's government ! !
The Radical press need no longer give! ve .U
to the snivelling cant, that ice wish to j deceive
the negro That will avail no longer j: Cuffeo
has opened his eyes, and at Goldsbord, on tlie
14th inst. , declared in (thunder tones, j that the
rogue who had deceived j him so long was caught
at last, and the name of scallawag and carpet
bagger was telegraphed, throughout the length
and breadth of his dominions. The scalla wag's I
race is well nigh run, and -the 'carpet-bagger's end j
approaches, for Cnffee has so decreed, and Cuffeo
now is master. We tell the negroes plainly,
that social equalityj even as contemplated I in j
the Civil Rights Bill now pending in Congress,
we cannot and will not give them. We have.
wratched their course for eight long years, and
believe them less fitted jto-day, as a race to con-
trol the affairs of State, jthan they were upon the
day of their emancipation, and we tell them fur
ther, what .their white-fskinned deceivers may
say to the contrai-y notwithstanding, that this !
opinion is becoming universal, at the North, as
well as at the South. We say to them, more
over, that we are determined to stand or fall by
ourselves, and that they and their white-skinned
equals and -associates must and shall do the
same. We give them and their leaders fair no
tice, that wherever and whenever we have the
power, we shall use it, and we bid them do the
same. If they can elect negroes in this District,
let them do it we will elect white-men in the
others, and if the Conservatives are true to the
teachings of their ancestors, true to the genius
of their time-honored institutions, and true to i
themselves arid their children, we shall sweep
the State at the next Gubernatorial election.
Demociiat.
Hotel LtrrivmW.
Gaston House, May 18th. Aug. C. jThomp
son Beaufort; Dr. (.John McDonald, C M.
Brown, Wm. Chancy, .Wasliington, N. C; Fred.
J. Blank,1 D. S. Willis, II. J. Lovick, Ed.
Harvey, cityjChas. Hibbard, Hibbard House;
B. T. Webb, Wilmington, N. C. ; J. B, Nelson,
New York. -j i ' ' " '-""j " P
Batemax House, Iay 18. C. S.j Beatty,!,
Richmond, Va.; Wm. Ellis, G. Bryan, City;
II O. Betts, N. C; M. A. Carroll," Danville J
Va. ; M. V. B. Brownj Amherst, Mass. Geo. H.
Colton, New York. ; L. W. Washburn, ! Blount's
Creek.
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