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Volume 1.
NEW BERNE, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 11874.
Number 39.
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L O O -A
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
We desire to state for the information of all
concerned, that we hold ourself responsible for
any arid all articles that have appeared or may
appear m this paper. Seth M. Carpenter.
Democratic Executive Committee for.wn-
" . j .ship TmO. S. . j , t
S. M. Carpenter. T. A. Green. G. W. Claypoole,
E. H." Meadows, B. B. Lane, Chf,s. Lovinier,!
H. C. Russell, J. R. Bailey, Wm1. S. Phillips,
Rnfus Smith, John Lane, y James ; H. Pool,
Jacob B. Tavlor. .k. L. Bynum
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X. Y. Z.'s communication on coys running at
large through- the Streets will appear in our
nest.
I. O. G. .T. A regular communication of
Pritehard Temple will be held Wednesday even
ing at eight
o'clock. Business o
In Session. The Board of Commissioners for
this county has been in session since Monday
After its adjournment, we will giv
a fulbaceount of the proceedings
Base Ball. We learn from a private source
that the Elm City.Clubj of this
importance
e oar readers
city, beat the
Fearless Club,, of Morehead, in the match game
at the latter place on yesterday by a score of
28 to 10.
Suicide. We learned at a late hour last night,
that a youth named Newsorn, an apprentice ;of
Sheriff Becton, of Lenoir, committed, or at
tempted, suicide yesterday. Further particulars
will be given in our next issue.
Sudden Change. The thermometer on Tues
day indicated 94 degrees in. ' the shade at 2
o'clock P. M., and ice was in great demand.
Yesterday at the same hour it had fallen to 73
degrees and fell steadily till night, and light
overcoats were eagerly sought for.
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Buck ; Beer. Chas. Zinkand, Proprietor of
thft-Ziff feand Hotel, oh3fiddle Skeet, desires tp
inform the lovers of "Buck " beer that he has
just received several kegs of that desirable bev
erage from the well-known Brewery of Jacob
Seeger, at Baltimore.
I. O. O. F. The signers to the application to
re-open Eureka Lodge, No. 7, I. 0. O. F., are
notified to meet the Grand Master of the State
this (Wednesday) , evening at l o'clock, at
" Berae " Lodge Rooms, corner ojf Pollock and
Middle Streets, for organization.
Ordered. Capt. Joseph Irish, lately in com
mand of the U. S. Revenue Steamer Moccasin.
at Newport R. L, has been ordered to this place
to take command of the steamer Stevens,
vice Capt. Dean relieved and ordered to the
steamer Samuel Dexter, at Boston.
HjUREKA JjODGE, jno. Y, 1. U. U. J?., A num
ber of the old members of Eureka! Lodge, No.
7, L O. O. F., of this city, together! with other
citizens desirous of resuscitating: this old or
ganization,! will meet to-night at the Hall of
Berne Lodge, No. 71, I. O. O, T.i corner of
Pollock and Middle Streets. The
Grand Master of the State, S. W.
will be present.
Most Worthy
Chamberlain,
Off fob 'Atlanta. Messrs. Geo. W. Nason,
Jr., of the Republic Courier, and J. E. Nash,
Esq., left the city yesterday morning for the
purpose of attending the Agricultural Congress,
which convenes at Atlanta to-day. Mr. Nason's
appointment as delegate was frornj Col. Holt,
President of the State Agricultural Society, and
Mr. Nash's from Dr. Columbus Mills, Master of
the State Grange.
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the pleasures
and the other
TfJExcubsion Yesterday. A 'goodly num-
"r citizens availed themselves nf tbp.
offered yesterday 1 of spending
f -sea shore and enjoying
ang, boating, fishing
Jcted with a visit to Beaufort Har--rrtC
pleasures terminated with . a ball at
' life Atlantic House, after which the jexcursion
ists returned to the city somewhat tired, but
much pleased. !
Buy New Butter at
C. E. Slover's.
Ice Cream. Sarah Oxley desires to inform
the readers of the Newbernian thlat she is now
prepared to furnish, in . quantities to suit 1 her
customers, the best Ice Cream manufactured in
this, the old North State, and that jail orders will
be promptly and satisfactorily filled. Resi
dence, next door to Mr. F. Boesser"s Furniture
establishment, cor. Broad and Middle Sts.
State Property. At the Police Station r in
this city, we notice 11 cases, supposed to con
tain 20 each, of rifle muskets, besides a large case
of accoutrements which have been lying there,
tmcared for, since the Holden war of 1SG9; We
'do not knov in whose charge these weapons are,
nor who is responsible for them, but we do
know that the Radical Adjutant General of
North Carolina ought to take better care of, and
know more about the condition of the military
property of our State. These arms and accou
trements are apparently in a bad condition, and
they should be properly cared for. Let Adju
tant General Gorman take action in the ' prem
ises at once. .
I City Council. At a regular meeting of the
'.'S ol tne wftite
cm and rigaits,
if 'we havejjgot
ives to office-
mean soutueru
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the Kepublican
we had
JJew Berne City Council Board, held on Monday
night last, His Honor Mayor Campbell, Coun
cilmen Wolfenden, Bryan, McGee, York and
Crawford being present, the following routine of
business was transacted :
; On motion, it was ordered, that the sum of
$30 be appropriated for the purpose of defray
ing the expenses of certain witnesses to attend
Carteret County Superior Court in the case of
Amos Wade, Esq., vs. the city of New Berne,
which cause ik set down for Thursday, (to-mor
row,) June 4th. ' ', 4 .
On motion of Councilman Crawford, it was
decided that a certain piece or parcel of ground,
of the Greenwood Cemetery, to the extent of,
15 by 30 feet in the rear and adjacent to the
colored Baptist Church edifice, be sold to the
church aforesaid; and that the matter as to
price and terms of said sale be referred to the
Committee on Cemeteries.
On motion the salaries of the various city
officials were fixed as follows: Mayor, $300 per
year; Treasurer, $200; City Clerk, $100; Mar
shal, $300; Policeman, each $30 per month;
Sextons of the Cedar Grove 'and Greenwood
Cemeteries, $20 per month. .
The respective bonds of the Treasurer and
Tax-collector were presented by those officials,
and in consequence of certain informalities, ac
tion upon the same was deferred until next
meeting of the Board.
On motion, A. S. Seymour, Esq., was appoin
ted Attorney for the city.
XXX. -
Mr. Editor, As the half insect and half snake
signing himself 'XXX' in the Times, or rather
the Ku-Klux organ, of last Saturday, has crawl
ed out of his way to 'handle me without gloves, "
I hope you will let me have the use of your pa- :
per to say a few words in reply. Until-1 read
the .answer of 4 Democrat to him in ypur paper
this morning, in which he gives him a good
drubbing, and shows up the mean fling he has
made in his articles, about miscegenation, at
the colored race, calling our men bastards and
our women prostitutes, I did not intend to take
any notice of him, but when the right time came,
to show him and some others up in their real
colors. But as he says we are all bastards and
prostitutes, some of us want to know what he is,
and how much better he is than we are. Wheth
er I am a disappointed office-seeker of not, l am
much more fit to hold an office, that a colored
majority gives away, than a fellow who after
getting it, turns round and tells the colored peo
ple who voted for him that they are all bastards,
and their wives and sisters are prostitutes. He
wants "Republicans to mark well " what I am
at, and charges " openly " that I am "a topi in
the hands of the Democracy;" that I have part
ed with my " boasted freedom and rights and
gone over to the enemy in the moment of
danger." He must think I am as big a fool as
he is, and that the colored people have none of
them got any sense at all. We may not know
who our friends are, and we don't, but we know
some oi our enemies, and XXX is one of
them. And we have got sense enough to know
also, that when a rascal fools us into putting our
pocket-books into his hands, and then makes off
with it, that all our money is gone.
I Colored Republicans will marky '"
am at, and they will mark well wV
and some others who are their friendMju
they can get an office and make money rawo ,
uieui, are ai, ioo. no you minx a nave parted
with my " boasted freedom and rights M do you?
and that I am a " deserter " from my friends ?
If cutting loose from such fellows as you are,
who came down South to get office and make
money out of the ignorance of the colored peo
ple; and to live on the misfortu
people, is parting with my freei
I am willing for them to go; am
to be slaves for the rest of our
hunting carpet-baggers ; ami
Ayhite men, who have joined
party just to get office out of us we had better
fgo back to our old masters at oncjp, for while fliey
looked on us as slaves, I will say this for thWi,
they were gentlemen, they had some respect! Tor
oar feelings and for the feelings of our women,
and didn't tell, or publish in the papers eitjieiy
we were all bastards and prostitutes, and if you
and such as you are had gone tc them and fold
anyone of them that all his " ne
prostitutes
made tnem cowhide you off the plantation,- I
was a slave, and it is my ; misfortune to heistifjrtek'
by the "rough shot" .which' yon. were so
to fire at the correspondent of the Newbeen jan,
o women were
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he would have called his hands land
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and you knew when you shot it;! and those who
go with you knew it, that it wot Id not hur the
white man, but strike the colored man only.
The colored people' are not responsible forjthe
mixture in their blood. You know as well as I
do, that in the days of slavery jvre were looked
upon, as the writer in the Newbernian tells ou,
as a degraded race, and had to bear those things;
and right here I will tell you what you don't
seem to know, that ' those northern men ivho
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people of this town, white or co
good as yours, and better too, iff
moved to the South before the war 1 were jithe
worst miseegenationists that wp bad, and made
the meanest masters. You wrote your article
against Democrat-for my bene:it, because you
knew that niy blood was mixed. Yon did finot
think that you were going to be shown up so
that the colored voters could see what you vrre
driving at. You may think you have made! hie
feel bad, and made the colored people bliish,
but you are mistaken, we all know how the
thing stands on that question, and we accept the
situation. We think we are jUst as good as 'yon
are, and our standing among the" respectable
olored, is just as
we are all pas-
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tards. As to deserting my friends, they are-isat-isfied
about that. You and ring to which
you belong have been deceiving and deserting
them for the last eight years ; but they are going
to "mark well" what you are j"at" from f this
day forth, and see that you don't desert tjtiein
any more. You and the rest of the office-hunting
carpet-baggers camedownj Soutn and got in
with all the sore-headed secegssionists and jpre-
tended union men, who made a big fuss while
the war was going on, and wanted every man to
go into the army, but kept out themselves, and
who, when the war was over,
people wouldn't recognize, and
ring with them, pretending tp
man's friend, but for the purpose of putting
yourselves into office and puiting money ' into
your pockets. And a nice time j you had of it,
didn't you ? You had it all ypur own way ;you
got everything that was going,! and we didn't
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But as soon as our eyes are open and we tell
you that we want some of the offices, you italk
about '"repudiating the party." I would like to
ask the members of the ring where they are go
ing when they " repudiate the party." Sonde of
the decent white
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you formed ;a
be the
colored
repudiate,''! de-
iri the beginning,
them that are so anxious to
serted from the secessionists
and I don't reckon the Democrats care much
about tbem anyway. When jyou "repudiate," I
reckon you will find yourselves where you have
tried, but failed, to keep the 'colored man, out
in the wet." You are a nicej man to talk about
my being "a tool in the hands of the Democ
racy." Because I, have been a tool in iyour
it in your teeth
longer, I have
"deserted"! my
hands for eight years, and fling
that I am not going to be any
gone to the Democrats and
friends. If you and the ring are the friends. I
have deserted, may the Lord! never let me see
you again. I was poor when I first saw you;
have been looking at you for eight years, and I
am worse off now than I wa$ then, and you are
H and rich. I have worked, hard for my living
t you have done nothing. How do yo4 &c-
t for the diffn-trce in put condition t If
miscegenation I prill
" we intend to at-
ve got the proof
i: and better to be
i cbrry a sleep's
wi.some mJ
tellou. As t
tend to him her,r
from enemies
believed than frt
skiii with a wolfs body under it. Yon say you
are for '" Civil Right's for all- men," and that
your " Civil Rights, thank God, are not depend
ent on any bill that Congress may pass, now or
hereafter," and you speak the truth' when you
say it. The bills that -Congress'iiiay, pass h;ve
nothing to-d6 vdth your Civil Rights; you are
in favor of them for the "colored man, jiist '-so
long as he will let you keep your hands in the
public crib, for when he makes von take them
out, as he will do at the proper time. Congress
might pass a. thousand bills and you would do
all that y-ou could against thciji. I reckon vou
will be about ready then, to "repudiate the
party too. Who told you that . I ever carried
an article to the editor of the Ku7Klux organ, to
be re-written and to have language put into iiiy
niouth, and that he refused -to. do it? Whether
I did or not it is none of your business, and if
he refused to do itr it was only because he didn't
have sense enough to write what I wanted him
to write, and for tliat same reason, I suppose,
want of sense, he got you to write the article
for him that I am now answering. If one of
3Tour stripe should happen to meet you two to
gether,, he might well ask the question that I
have often seen under a certain picture with two
ads and long, ears, "When shall we three
meet again ? " j You suppose because the Ku-
Klux organ gets you to- "sling mud" for it, that
I get a friend (?) to put "language into my
mouth." 'It's none of your business whether I
do or not, and if you want to handle me with
"gloves off," just do so as often as you
please. You can't fool anybody with what you
say. We have been studjTing your character for
eight years, and we know you all like a book,
and when the right time comes we are going to
show you that we know you. We have got
enough of carpet-baggers. You think you are
going to make us vote for a carpet-bag Judge
for this district, but go on with your rat-killing.
We will show you when the time comes
to vote, whether we belong to carpet-baggers or
not. You know that the choice of the colored
people of this district, is the Hon. Wm. J.
Clarke, but because he told you what Sherman's
bummers did, some of you got mad and swore
you jwould turn him out and make the colored
people vote for a carpet-bagger. You may man
age the caucuses and the conventions, but we
votenow'a days for the men who we know are
going to do us justice, and that man. for Judge
is Wm. J. Clarke, who is already His Honor,
and we intend to keep him His Honor just as
long as he does us justice. How you came to
get mad about his speech, I never could see, un
less you belonged to the bummers and you
thought somebody might indict you for some
thing, and the Judge inight put it to you. But
he is our man and you will see it. Now, Mr;
Editor, I am done with this half snake and half
insect, until he attacks me again.
A man who says the colored people are bas
tards and prostitutes is beneath my notice and
the notice of the colored people. Many of us
have read his articles about miscegenation , and ;
what your Democratic correspondent has said
to him in reply, t We are not such fools as not
to see the light in which he, and others like
him, look on us, and when the day of election
comes around, or the time for Congressmen to
make their appointments in this district comes,
we will see that men who regard us as infamous,
and our women without virtue, and publish
what they consider our infamy, to the world, do
not take what it is in our power to give.
A Colored Voter.
.. P. S. The "Bed Bug," in the Ku-Klux or
fjan of last Saturday, who wishes to know what
color I am, blue, black, white or grey, and ' fan
cies I am green, is not worth my notice. If I
could just get my thumb nail on his back he
yrould never suck blood again.
That part of "Bed Bug's " article, " Civil
Rights a Certainty, " was written by a white
man. I am sorry his back was so cut up by the
lash, but suppose he got it at the whipping
post, as all that about his having a master is all
bosh. I suspect he was a carpet-bagger caught
miscegenating, and as the white people didn't
want his breed they gave him thirty-nine lashes
and told him to travel. We'have no doubt your
back has been pretty well lashed, old " Bed
Bug," but it was done at the public whipping
post, by the sheriff of the county, and not by
any master. I maybe "blue, black, white or
gray," but I'm not "green."
after a
. . DIED,
In Beaufort, N. C, on the 30th ult,
protracted and painful illness Mrs. Theresa
Asm. wife of Wiley F. Hiceins, Esn., aged 30
years. .'.
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