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. Tlie Charlotte Democrat asks what
is the use of keeping troops in the South
while such scenes are occurring on elec
tion occasions as. the recent Philadel
phia riots. The answer i3 that the
election riots in Philadelphia were the
result of a sudden paroxysm, and unpre
meditated, while violence in the South
is organized and premeditated by a
body of conspirators against a portion
of the Constitution and laws of the Uni
ted States. But we will do The Demo
crat the justice to say that it has al
ways opposed and denounced the oper-
rations of the Ku Klux.
. The meaning of the word "regener
ate" in theEpiscopal baptismal service.
says The JVashington Star, is the point
upon which there has been some dissen
sion, the most notable case being that
of Rev. Mr. Cheney J of Chicago, who
refused to use the word. On Thursday
the House of Bishotw. in session n Bal
timore, agreed to the interpretation of
it accepted by moderate churchmen
that It is not so "used as to determine
that a moral change in the subject of
laptlsm is wrought by the Sacrament."
The declaration was signed by all the
bishops, and was communicated to the
House of Clerical and Lay Deputies for
the Information of that body.
The promised Daily North Carolinian
made its appearance on Tuesday morn
ing. " It is a handsome and extremely
well gotten up paper. 'The local de
partment, we understand, Is under the
c harge of Mr. T. C. Evans, late of Tfie
Jitlsboro Jtecorder, and reflects much
credit upon its management. Major
Ilearne, the editor-in-chief, 4is well
known to the reading public as one of
the most accomplished writers and ed
itors in the State, arid needs no com
mendation from us. The paper, too, is
supplied with the daily press telegraph
ic dispatches, a feature singular with it
among the metropolitan press.. These
facts must make it popular, at least as
a newsjwipcr. We wish it abundant
success in everything except its-politics,
which are of the old Democratic school
a school to which this writer lias been
opposed all his life.
The Southern correspondent of the
N. Y. Journal of Commerce, in his last
of a series of forty letters on the condi
tion of the South, kys :
" The general condition of the freed
mcn is now better than it has been
since they entered their new career.
But persons who have given close at
tention to the subject unanimously ac
cept the conclusion that the colored
race will never again be as numerous
in this country as it was five years ago.
You -can't educate all at once. I be
lieve there are now twenty thousand
colored people in the South who can
read nnd write, and who have gained
that accomplishment since the war.
That is the most remarkable state of
progress under the circumstances and
yet there are four millions of them to
educate. The Southern white people
want them educated, and are now
cheerfullv paying taxes to do it, be
lieving that intelligent labor is the
best, and that they will always have
employment for colored men or wo
men who will work. So you see every
responsible and intelligent white man
in the South is now trying his best to
1 ...t... .1n-iir At fnr liia tuvt ! rTl
UIIUU Hill nittJf -- VA aw
And he will not hesitate to tell you so."
The New Yokk Herald suggests
to the Democracy that they had better
disliand their party and organize a new
one "as completely detached from the
Democratic peace party of the wlar and
from Tammany as the Republican
party is." Failing in this it advises "a
general disbandment of the party, and
an independant scrub race in 1872." It
then adds: "As the great parties now
, stand, the one represented by General
Grant's administration and the other
by that of Tammany Hall, the pros
pect is that the democracy will be scat
tered to the four winds of Heaven in
the coming I'resiuenimi cvma.
That Hie Herald has judged correctly
of the prospects of the Democratic party
as now organized admits" of no doubt.
Nor is it believed that any movement
the party can make will avert its pen
ding doom. Hon. D. W. Voorhees was
right when he declared at St. Louis a
ngfew days ago that the Democratic
party for 1872 had already bursted.
We have heard that it has been pro
posed to turn Ex-Go v. Bragg, Gen.
Ransom, Judge Fowle, Attorney Gen
eral Shipp, and other gentlemen who
signed the letter to Judge Bond, out of
the Conservative party for the truth
and candor and manliness displayed by
mem in declaring iu mu mm,
the recent Ku Klux trials had "mani
fested" the fact that the Ku Klux "ex
ists in certain portions of the State;"
and that they condemn all such organ
izations; and that they denounce them
"as dangerous to good Government;"
and that it is the "eminent duty of all
good citizens to suppress them ;" and
'that "no right minded man can palliate
or deny the crimes committed by these
organizations." To give a color to such
a report, it is remarked that the press,
which controls the Conservative party
expresses no concurrence in the views
of the distinguished gentlemen, who
addressed Judge Bond. The only rea
sonable view,ever yet taken of our Ku
Klux troubles,by any number of prom
inent Conservatives, is, therefore, vir
tually repudiated by their party.
Ephraim is still Joined to his idols."
Vol. 1.
Political Intolerance.
Of the many means resorted to by the
enemies of the Republican party', per
haps none has done more jdamage to
the interests of our State, than the in
troduction of politics, and Sectionalism
into the social and business circle and
the Church of God. We have often
been at a loss to account for the bitter
intolerance practiced by the opponents
of Republicanism in North Carolina.
We have thought it strange that a par-
tv. bnastinc of all the wealth and intel-
mf 3 ,
ligence and literally dieing of (its re
spectability, should pursue a course so
much at variance with the growth and
prosperity of our State, and so well cal
culated to disturb the peace and harmo
ny of its citizens, that its tendency was
only to evil, and that it would, like all
other means adopted by them: ihe re
sult of prejudice and ignorance, ulti
mately vanish before tne grand marcn
of that party who guards with jealous
care the life, liberty and happiness Of
every citizen, and but for the fact as we
believe that the introduction of politics
and sectionalism in the business circles
has injured the prosperity of our State,
we would not notice it all. The de
nouncing men for honest differences of
opinion either in politics or religion is
a species of the intolerance and persecu
tions of the dark ages, and that our
Ampriran ritizp.ns should rjractice it to
wards one another, quite surprises us.
Tt is rreillv amusinsr to see them 1 ur
ging polities into the social circle; they
seem to act on the principles that Re-
a i i x r l
pu oilcans , must, oe maue iu ira mat
thpv will not be recognized as gentle
men, and admitted to their Society, un
less they conform their political opin-
ions io nit; xyeiiiiA;iiiiiuBuiiiuiuu,uiJu tin
who may embrace their views hall be
? rt srvMAtv nnrl no niipstions
as to where they came from. (A short
time since the ladies were called in to
let the frowns of their virtuous indig
nation rest upon all native North Caro
linians who dared toesnouse Republi
can principles. We suppose this means
the same as Nasby would have it,
Point the finger of scorn ac them,"
nnrl all Northern centlemen who had
settled among us and voted the Repub
lican ticket were to be denounced as
carpet-baggers, and mere advjenturcrs
unfitted for admission to the social cir-
tvjv nno will rionv that the social
circle has the rightto make am be gov
erned by its own rules, we .know that
Indies nnd centlemen have and always
will select their own associates; but we
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cannot see that a gentleman's pontics
or his religion is a proper passport into
the social circle he maybe a gentle
man and have neither politics or religion-
.... ;
we think any gentleman, nowevcr,
mav be improved by reliction, 'and the
only species of politics that we ever
;hought should be exciuaeu rom so
Mntv is thp. Ku Klux. and we cannot
understand how it is that the party of
respectability and intelligence, after
receiving them in the social circle,, can
exclude anv one else ; that any gentle
man should be excluded from society
on account of his politics or his birth-
! All
place, is simply nonsensical, .ah
VnWhprn rtnnlf rpsidinf? in North
Carolina have long since concluded that
it is not the only country wherein are
bred ladies and gentlemen, and mey
hplieve desDite the boasted intelligence
of the proscription party, that if some
of them would travel more, xney wo uiu
change their opinions in this and many
other respects. We could wish that
this state of things did not exist, and
we ask, in all candor, what has tnis
system of ostracism ever accomplished?
You may have succeeded in wounding
the feelings of some person who you
know is your equal in everything that
constitutes the gentleman and good
citizen, but is not this rather poor com
fort? We should think so. That you
can by such means cause any true man
to abandon his principles, is simply
absurd, and he regards any Jsuch at
tempt to interfere with his rights as
contemptable and unworthy of his no
tice: As before stated, we think the
introduction of politics into the busi
ness circle, of greater importance to us
because the etfect will be felt in our
commerce and trade, and in everything
pertaining to the public good. I
Does any man for a moment suppose
that politics so control the feelings and
prejudices of men living in our pros
perous Northern States, as to prevent
their taking frequent counsel together,
and advising with each other as to the
best course to pursue in order to secure
for their action any and all of the ad
vantages of trade ? Certainly not, ev
ery one is anxious to hear another's
views, and all are willing to aid in the
public good ; and the question is not;
Is he a Republican?" or "Is ho a
Democrat?" they doubtless have their
politics, but like men of the South,
they do not lug them into everything;
and we believe that unless there is a
reform for us in these matters; and we
unite and labor together for the best
interests of our State, we will ere long
find ourselves ruined.
We all desire the welfare of North
Carolina, but her prosperity pan only
be gained by the united efforts of all
her sons, native and adopted.) Now is
the time, if ever, in our history, when
these efforts are needed. Our resour
ces, inferior to those of no State, must
be fully developed, emigration must
again be directed to our borders, and
our credit built up and all this can and
will be done when men lay aside their
prejudices and cease to abuse and villify
each other for their political opinions.
We shall ever regret that politics was
permitted to enter our churches ; the
evil done by it will only be fully known
until the day of Eternity. That poli
tics should be kept wide apart from
religion, no one will deny.
We leave this matter with those
whose special duty it is to guard the
interest of the church. I
We are glad Maj. Hearne.of The North
Carolinian, a Democratic Paper at
Raleigh, has admonished his readers
that it is time the system of denouncing
men for honest differences of 'opinion
n North Carolina should risp. "We
hope ho may succeed, Aeir&rrr Daily
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RALEIGH, N.
A Sermon from the Sun.
Tlie Neip York Sun, a very viperous
anti-Grant paper, and one which aids
and comforts the Ku Klux in this State,
by publishing the substance of Hie Sen
finer s assaults upon the U. S. Circuit
Cdurt recently held here, does not har
njonize with the Conservative press in
terpreters of the divine judgment, as
nianifested In the destruction of Chica
gp by fire. What it says, of the North
ern pulpit effort to discern and point
out God's purpose in that great calami
ty ,'might just as well be said of a por
tion of the Southern press, which is just
now engaged in directing the attention
of simple minded and untutored Chris
tians to the precise offence of Chicago
for which God punished it with fire.
The Sim says :
(Though a wise and humble spirit
predominates in the inculcations of the
churches, fanatical zealots are not want
ing who point to the recent fearful ca
lamity in Chicago as a divine judgment
hoirled against the wickedness of that
cty. What a scathing rebuke there is
to all thiii disgusting cant, and to that
disposition in many who, whenever a
disaster befalls their neighbor, always
!ve to lay their finger upon the partic
ular sin it was sent to rebuke, in the ut
terances of the blessed Saviour when on
earth. We find it in His touching ser
lijon upon the massacre of the Galile
ans, just after he had rebuked so sternly
the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, while
seated at! meat with one of them. Let
these.zealots mark, learn and inwardly
tjigest its words :
! VAud ! Jesus answering said unto
them, Suppose ye that these Galileans
were sinners above all the Galileans,
because they suffered sueh things ?
)i "I tell you, Nay ; but except ye re
pent, ye shall all likewise perish,
jj ?'Or those eighteen upon whom the
tower of Siloam fell, and slew them,
think ye that they were sinners above
ill men that dwelt in Jerusalem ?
!j fI tell you, Nay ; except ye repent,
ye shall all likewise perisli."
s In that widespread destruction at
Chicago the righteous suffered as well
as? the wicked ; the churches blazed
iigher; than the theatres. It is singu
ar what a propensity some men have
n singlet out the victims of Divine dis
pleasure; and to tell exactly the reason
why the bolt has fallen, and that, too,
indirect antagonism to the precepts of
the ! Divine Master, who came from
God, and was supposed to interpret His
will. These Maw-worms and Cantwells,
kvho would subordinate the movements
of the Great. Controller of the universe
to "harmonize with those of their own
harrow and contracted souls are the
bests of the religious world, and are in
some respects as bad as the prowlers
Who tried to tane advantage oi tne
flames to carry on their nefarious pur
suit. The preacher who can thus in
sult a stricken people knows nothing of
j:hat charity which vaunteth not itself,
is not puffed up, and thinketh no evil,
fcmd should be unfrocked. He is a dis
grace to the religion that he professes
to advocate, and to the pulpit whose
duties he does not comprehend.
Punishment of the Wheel.
The nunishment of the wheel, which
was suppressed in 1790, was one of the
most frightful that can be imagined.
yiie criminal was extended on a St.
'Andrew's cross. There were on it eight
notches cut, one below each arm, be
tween the elbow and the wrist ; anoth
er between each elbow and the shoul
der ; one under each thigh, and one un
der each leg. - The executioner, armed
with a heavy triangular bar of iron,
gave a violent blow on each of those
eight places, and of course broke the
bone ; and a ninth on the pit of the
stomach. The mangled victim was
now lifted from the cross and stretched
on a small wheel, placed vertically at
one of the - ends of the cross, his back
on! the upper part of the wheel, his
head and feet hanging down. The sen
tence provided that he was to remain
there as long as it pleased God to pro
long his life.; Many lingered there five
lor six hours; some longer. A son of a
jeweler i in the Place de la Dauphine,
;who had murdered his father, was only
relieved by death at the end of twenty
four hours. These unhappy wretches,
often uttering horrible blasphemies, al
ways tormented by a continual thirst,
incessantly called for something to
drink. ;A priest never left their side
during the excruciating agony, but in
cessantly put water to their parched
lips, wiped the sweat from their burn
ing brow, and pointed to a merciful
God above the scaffold, extending his
arms to receive them. This holy duty
was always discharged by a doctor of
the Sobornne.
Victor. Emmanuel as a Vandal.
i The Ring of Italy, according to cable
adyices from Rome, has stated that he
requries the buildings and grounds of
the College of St. Andre, at Rome, for
tho enlargement of the royal stables.
Now, it is our opinion that since his
occupation of the Kternal City, Victor
Emmanuel has displayed altogether
too much of the spirit of Alaric or
Attila by his seizure of property and
disregard of the rights and feelings of
the authorities whom he has displaced.
And this last act seems to cap the cli
max of his wantonness. He has in
sulted and badgered his Holiness the
Pope, deprived him of his power and
revenues as a political prince, robbed
him of his palaces and menaced him
by jjroclaunations. This last effort,
however, strikes at a still deeper seated
public right. The American College
is located on the grounds of St. Andre,
and if the one is despoiled, we presume
the other will be also. The American
College was never established by Ro
mans, or with Italian scudi, but is an
American institution, found by the
Jesuit Fathers, with American capital,
and backed by Catholic Americans in
fluence and support. If the college au
thorities are disposed to relinquish
their possessions, we shall have noth
ing to say, assuming, of course, that
they will be satisfactorily indemnified
therefor: but, if the transfer should be
effected by duress or any form of im
plied force, we think the American
people will be heard to utter their most
emphatic protest. Nous verrons. N.
Yi Telegram,
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C, THURSDAY,
The Salisbury Fair.
MVe hear from all quarters that the
above exhibition was a great success.
The Charlotte Observer says of it:
Of the Industrial Fairs of Central and
Western North Carolina, the first was
held at Salisbury, commencing on Tues
day and closing on Friday, lit was the
first one ever held at that place, yet its
success was so decided that we hail it
as a cheering proof that neither the ad
versities of unfavorable seasons nor the
calamities of political oppression has
impaired the nerve or dampened the
energies of the industrial class of our
people. It was our privilege to be
among the visitors, and we shall not
soon forget the gay, active, impressive
scene.- There were people from many
counties there strong, sturdy, stirring,
Intelligent men some bringing agri
cultural implements of the newest and
most improved patterns "ploughs,
rakes, reapers, thresheTS,cotton plant
ersthings that multiply so! vastly the
capabilities of human .energy ; some
bringing stock of various kinds whose
sleek coats and beautiful limbs showed
that at last our people had began to ap
preciate the advantages of I improving
the blood of all these different classes of
stock ; some bringing curious and beau
tiful specimens of handiwork from the
loom and the shop, and all bringing
bright, hopeful faces that were; cheering
to look upon. The ladies were there in
full force, with their beautifully bright
dresses and their stijd hioro beautiful
faces that gave the grand stand where
they were assembled the appearance of
a beautiful boquet of rich, rare flowers.
It was a marvel, too, how they had
beautified and enriched Ifloral Hall,
and with what grace they presided
there. Among the beautiful articles on
exhibition there we noticed an exqui
site silk handkerchief, woven by a lady
from Anson county, who had even rais
ed the silkworm from which the silk
was taken. From the hands of the
same hdy came a table-cdver, manu
factured throughput by her whose rich
coloring and pure texture would have
done no discredit to the skill of Paris
or of Ant werp.
TJie Raleigh Sentinel, wjioso impu
dence is only surpassed by its mendaci
ty, in alluding to the ku klux outrages,
says "no Democratic paper in the State
has ever apologized for them." With
out pausing to contradict a falsehood,
which is apparent to every) man in the
State capable of reading, we would ask
if, with a few honorable I exceptions,
they have ever denounced them? and,
as conservators of the peace and promo-,
ters of the State's interests,) if the fact
of omission in this instance does not
partake of the crime of commission?
The back numbers of the (majority of
the Democratic papers reveal the fact
that they have persistently sought to
rob the crimes of the ku klux of the
horrors with they are invested by rid
icule, and in every instance of flogging
they represented the victims as low
down, scurvy fellows, who deserved
the treatment they received, and that
their chastisement was administered
for other reasons than that of their be
ing Republicans. A case in point is that
of the Citizenvhch sneered at the idea
of the raid on Mr. JusticeGnd the spoli
ation of The Star office having been
perpetrated by the disguised ruffians of
their party, and insinuated that Messrs.
Logan & Carpenter had done the mis
chief themselves, with a view of being
remunerated for the damage sustained.
And when the actual perpetrators of
these unlawful acts are arraigned at the
bar of justice to answer for their crimes,
these moral and humane Democrats or
gans charge that the jury (which tried
them was "packed," and that their con
viction followed as an inevitable se
quence. Does any rational , being de
sire better evidence of the falsity of
these charges, and of the ) guilt of the
parties accused and convicted, than
that afforded by members' of the Klan
who, through fear or he prickings of
conscience, gave in their testimony on
the part of the State ? They were con
victed out of their own mouths, and it
is from them that we have it that the
Invisible Empire was a ruffianly polit
ical organization for the suppression of
the Republican party, and that murder
was an auxilliary for this purpose. The
lihpl of The Rcdeiah Sentinel upon the
jury in the case of R. A. Shotwell and
others has been ecnoea Dy every
Conservative-Democratic paper in the
State, and yet that paper i has the un
blushing effrontery to assert that "no
Democratic paper in the State ever
apologized for the acts of the Kuklux."
Possibly not, for there are few, papers
now of that name that advocate the
law-upholding and liberal views of that
once respectable party, but for the most
part they have prostituted their calling
to subserve the basest of purposes.
Asheville'JPioneer. : j ; :
American Extravagance Illus
trated. Everybody who has been in.
Paris knows the Grand Magasin du
Louvre, said to be the largestshop my
American friends call it a "store
Swan and Edgar's multiplied by six.
An employe of this immense concern
told me the other day that since M.
Thiers had been proclaimed President,
the receipts of the establishment had
been 70 per cent more every day than
they had been since the war was pro
claimed in July, 1870. He also inform
ed me that in one forenoon three Amer
ican families had together spent 24,000
francs (1000) in the shop. Milliners
bonnetmakers, ladies' boot and shoe
makers, ladies' linen shops, mercers,
glove-makers, fan-makers, and evry
trade that depends upon the fashions
of fashionable Paris are coining money.
This is not only by reason of the orders
which are received from visitors and
residents in Paris, but I also from the
M-YrmoiiS Till rrhnsr? made and makinsr
for foreign markets. What think you
onn fmnrs each: eierht hundred
averaging GOO francs (24) ; a thousand
averaging oou irancs Jtzuj eacn, ami iwo
thousand priced each 250 francs (10)?
Such was the invoice of a shipment
made to New York last week for one
firm In fhat crrpflt. citv Of the West.
Parte Correspondence London Telegraph.
Never speak while you -eat, as a man's
throat is too narrow a channel for words
to pass up, and good meat to pass down
at the same timet
OCTOBER 26, 1871.
CORRESPONDENCE.
The Editors most not be understood as endors
ing -the sentiments of their correspondents.
Communications on all subjects are solicited,
which -will be given to the readears of The Eka
as containing the views and sentiments of the
writers. i: ;..."). ; '
; For the Carolina Era.
WJiat We Can Do.
1 Messrs. Editors: The following is
a clipping from The Sentinel, of this
date:-' " -:r- j ';!
Good Yield. jS. R. Hunt, Esq.,Avho lives
between Kittreil's and Henderson, made
$1,540 on five acres of land. A Caswell or
Rockingham , man would guess, it was on
tobacco ; an Edgecombe man would say
cotton; but you are both .wrong. As no
county in the State can guess, they must all
give it up and we will tell : the land was
planted in grapes and strawberries. Get out
with your cotton and tobacco. The crop is
now pitched for the next year and will not
requiro as much work in fivo as you put on
cotton and tobacco in one year. Jior will
Hunt's barn oyer burn down or his gin
catch fire. j .
This, I doubt not,is an accurate state
ment, respecting the y ield, in dollars of
Mr. Hunt's grapery, but as I am con
versant with the whole transaction, let
me explain more fully: S. R. Hunt
and Thomas Capehart,sold their grapes
on the vine,to a Northern Horticulturist
and Packing fruiterer, for four cents to
the pound; the latter told me, that two
weeks sooner he could have afforded to
pay from 7 to 10 cents,but as the grapes
werft overriDe. all thev were worth to
him was the first figure. These grai
wpm fiith Ai-pd. and nacked in wooden
boxes 3 and 5 pounds, by the Purcha
ser's own employeeSjWho came for that
purpose, from a distance of 120 miles.
The first was shipped to New York,
Boston, and Newport, to be retailed in
those cities by the fourth hand, i. e.
grower, packer, commission merchant
and retailer. I If Mr. C, the Packer in
question, had been able, to find one
million of pounds more,he would have
brought them, as he had a ready and
sure market for even a larger quantity.
I well know, that all along the R. & Gr.
Railroad, all species of grapes will
thrive, including the Catawba, which
does not acclimate a little farther North.
Therefore, I make bold to say, that in
the course of a few years, this part of
North Carolina will have taken rank
with the foremost yine producing
countries of both Continents, in which
I will feel some pride,as I am inducing
European wine growers to pitch their
tents among us. .
And now, my dear sir, having right
off, to do honor to a bottle of Garrett's
F F. F. Scuppernong (a wine almost
as delicate as Tokay) in company with
two other Johnnies Crapauds, I salute
you as hurriedly as friendly.
J Ii. Labiaux,
I Late of Newark, N. J.
Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 16th, 1871.
I For the Carolina Era.
"It is no wonder that hundreds of
innocent people are leaving Cleaveland
and adjacent counties, and Logan's
Kingdom of Western North Carolina
is fast becoming a desert." Sentinel,
Oct. 8, 1871. i .
For what ! did these innocent men
sell out and leave, so suddenly? Yea,
some did not wait long enough to find
a buyer for their effects. Surely there
must be some grave, momentous cause.
Was it on account of threatened fam
ine, pestilence, or forebodings of dire
evil, or the hauntings of a guilty con
science ? Have we ever had a historic
al instance "in the annals of the world
where a thrifty, healthy, populous and
fertile region was made suddenly a
desert by innocent men emigrating ?
Surely there is something behind the
curtain yet untold by the Sentinel and
his exchange, the Southern Home Then
why is it that North Carolinians, rear
ed on her soil, and endeared by all the
ties of social relation, kindred and
home, are leaving the State for parts
unknown? It is on account of reck
less, unprincipled, disappointed office
seekers, who prefer to govern by un
lawful means than not govern at all,
have inaugurated a secret political con
spiracy to overthrow the Republican,
party and portions of the Constitution
and laws of the United States ; to per
secute, scourge, maltreat and assassin
ate men on account of a political opin
ion ; to hinder the execution of the
criminal law, to substitute mob law in
the place of the civil, and carry every
election by means of intimidation.
Every laudable effort made by our law
makers to reach these midnight ma
rauders has failed, until the act passed
by Congress last April become a law of
the United States. When this law is
being enforced, men abandon f home,
families and friends and take to the
forest where the beast of prey are won
ted to stay or leave the State. The nat
ural inference is that these men have
been engaged in this horrible conspira
cy; too horrible to contemplate and
disgraceful to good North Carolinians.
Does an innocent man fear arrrest from
the worst official if he is in deed and in
truth innocent? Can innocent men
suffer in free America while all have a
right to trial by a jury of his peers?
Do innocent men flee when no man
pursueth ? If this be so, we have mis
taken the real for imaginary and justice
for lawlessness. Has this government
ever oppressed or punished an innocent
man, without proof or due process of
law ? Never: never, never.
S. K. Nab.
Woodknoll, N. C. -
Greatly - Exaggerated State
ments. The losses by the Chicago
fires have been estimated as high as
five hundred millions of dollars.. That
is nearly double the amount fof the
value of the property of the entire city,
ground included. It has also been
stated that seven millions of bushels of
wheat was destroyed. There 'never
was that number of bushels of grain of
all kinds, at any one time, in or within
fifty miles of Chicago. The stock of
wheat in store on the 1st of October
was 1,463,418 bushels. The entire loss
by the two fires will not vary much
from fifty millions of dollars. N. Y.
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No. 21
For the Carolina Era. 1
Southern Claims Committees 1 '
Are these committees equal to the
great task that they are in charge of.
We hive no doubt, that every Union
man and woman in the United States
hopes so. It will be verry mortifying
to a true Southern Union man, to see
his rebel neighbors drawing from the
Government, as it Would seem, a price
for their rebellion. It. should be re
membered that since the war, the ene
mies of the government have put every
obstacle in tne way to keep the govern
ment from progressing and prospering,
they could and especially what they
could 1 in a civil manner. Now it is
evident, that all the money they can
draw out of the government weakens
it just in the proportion to the quantity
drawn therefrom, if they could draw it
all out tomorrow and sink it in the
deepest place in the Atlantic Ocean ,
there would be the greatest rejoicing
among some of the Southern rebels that
has been since the battle of Bull Run,
And how stealthily ithey make out and
present these claims.so much so, that
nine-tenths of the people, even among
their neighbors, don't know who are
making claims. Has not theku klux in
vestigations developed the feet that there
is an organization in the country to ob
structi impede, and pull down the gov
ernment, if by any means they can ' it
is to be wondered and asked by Union
men if any ku klux is to paid for being
aku klux in the roundabout way ! Of
paying them for a few stock of hordes
and cattle they lost during the civil
war to destroy the government, valued
at one third more and frequently as
much again asthey were actually worth
proven by their rebel friends, who are
as deep in the mud as they are in the
mire.! We think these Southern Claim
Committees ought before there is even
a cent paid to any c!aimant,to advertise
in some hews paper in each county,and
wnere mere is a couui mau
paper,tben in the nearest paper to such
county for at least six weeks, six
months before the money is to be paid
to such claimants; the amount to be
paid, to whom to be paid,and for what
it is be paid for. We think all the tax
payers in the United States have a right
to,and ought to know how and to whom
this loyal money is payed out. We
hope Congress will think of this, and
require these committees to make such
advertisements as "Congress made the
committee's and makes the appropria
tion to pay. We don't pretend to know
and don't speak positively; but we
don't think that during the first six
months of the year 1863, that JNortn
Carolina could posibly boast of more
than thirty thousand citizens that were
strictly loyal to the government of the
United States, and out of this thirty
thousand,as a general thing with a few
exceptions, they were the poorest peo
ple in the State, many of these people
are dead, many of them lost nothing,
and many of them who did loose lost but
little, and verry many of them who
did loose will never make any claim
on the government for what they di
loose.! Now if this be any thing like a
correct guess, there will be very few
loyal people in North Carolina that
will ever make a claim. We think
Congress done right in making this
arrangement as it has done, but we
thinkjit ought to be managed with the
most extreme caution. I Those ; people
who were loyal to the I Union during
the civil war and who have remained
so during this second rebellion, that
has been eroinsr on
ever since August
going on here in
1868. and is still
North
Carolina, if anv bodv is to be
paid t
hese people surely ought to be. ! K.
For the Carolina Era.
Progressive 'Agriculture
The
present is an age of Jmprove
The minds of allierood farmers
ment.
are being turned to the subject of bet
ter stock, and more abundant crops,
from year to year, without incurring
and unnecessary expense in the labors
of the farmer. Their minds are grasp
ing for a system of farm: management
that will be self-sustaining x a system
that will not only keep the soli in a
good ..state of fertility, but render it
more productive from year to year ; a
system of management that will soon
be the means of producing two blades
of grass, two bushels of grain, two
pounds of wool, or meat, with no in
crease iof expense, where at the present
time the proprietor receives only one.
Our fields do not produce one-half
the amount of grain, grass and meat
that they are capable of producing un
der proper management. At present
there Can be found but few instances in
our entire country where the product
iveness of a farm has been tested to its
fullest capacity. Some farmers have
experimented, and made efforts to im
prove ;the productiveness of their farms
for a number of years in close succes
sion ; I and every year with no extra
labor, their crops have proved to be a
little more abundant,
In numerous instances, impoverished
and worn cmt farms have been brought
to an excellent state of productiveness,
with no other available resources for
effecting this object than what was
found in the soil and on the farm, j
This, then, is what may be denomi
nated progressive agriculture. That
system of farm management that will
make d poor farm a good one, and ren
der a good one more and more pro
ductive from year to year, will be the
system that will be advocated in the
communications that will appear in
The Era from time to time. The
time is coming when the details of our
farm management will be ridiculed
and discarded, and when we shall J see
abundant crops of golden grain and
grass where now those crops barely
pay the expense of cultivation. , And
an object so desirable will be attained
by investigation, by careful' experi
ments!, and by the application of scien
tific and practical knowledge. . This
work is already begun; an enterprise
which will, eventually, render the
world wiser and happier, and mankind
better. V-V.; - M : .'
When the agriculture of our country
is characterized by that system of judi
cious (management which will event
ually prevail when our soils shall have
been underdrained as they ought ! to
be when they shall be? improved n
fertility by manuring and more com-
Slete pulverization when our farmers
ave learned how to save how to make,
and to apply manurejinthemostprofit-
' " Hates of Ad-rertisinc I
One Bquare, one time, j 4 $1 00
" " two times,- 1 - i:i I 1 60
" " three times,- . - r i 2 00
- A tquare U thc width of a column, mid 11
inches deep. i r ' '
Contract Advertisements , taken at
proportionately low rates. 4 ' " J ' , 1
" Professional Cards, notexceoding i square,
will be published one year for f 12. , t t
able manner and when they.' have :
learned to turn their i grain 1 into meat 1
which will bo. worth as much 'as the
grain, while the manure of the ahimals
led will increase the amount of, the
next crop ; nearly two-fold then we
may not only reckon on our agriculture
as being progressive, but as a system of
farming that "will pay,'J and be , wor
thy of universal adoptionv Vj .
Through the Carolina Era.
To the Board of Public Charities.
Gentlemen: I have been pleased to '
note the gradual tendency of the age,
towards the amelioration of the! condi
tion of theprisoner and the unfortunate.
Every one may read this in the erection f
of Insane Asylums, the establishment
of Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institutes,
in the more humane treatment of pris
oners, in the abolition of the whjpping
post,the brand and the cropping of ears,
and in the formation of societies! for the
prevention of cruelty to animals.
I am proud to see that the "Old North
State' ' has appoi nted a Board of Pub
lic Charities to "investigate and super
vise the whole system of the Charitable
and penal Institutions of the State,'
and that you may require the" Siiperin-
tendents of these Institutions to report
to you "the manner of instruction and
treatments of the inmates." H f :
Believing It to be the duty of all good
citizens, to assist you in this laudable
work, I beg to direct your attention to (
one or two matters, and ask 1 you to
enquire into the truth thereof:
First,I have heard that a subordinate
in one of the Institutions under your
supervision,sometimes horse-whips pu-
Eils, first "causing the outer apparel to
e removed. Will you be kind enough,
gentlemen of the Board of Public Chari
ties, to inform that subordinate that
those children are not brutes, and that
although God has so afflicted them that
they cannot speak ror tnemseives, mat
they are entitled to better treatment at
the hands of State agents? I have heard .
that ::. ' .-. ' ; . I! . "'
"Man drest in a little brief authority . j
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Plays such fantastic tricks before high
lieaven as make the angels weep,"
but I do hope you will . see i that the
angels seldom weep-over cruelties to
these unfortunate cnildeen. I !
Second, I have heard that parties are
released or discharged from the Peni
tentiary, without a mouthful of food or
a cent of money to procure iti I sub
mit that this is unjust to tho poor
wretch liberated, unjust to the people
of Raleigh, and not in accordance with
that admonition: "go and sin no more."
The party released should at least be
furnished three days rations, even If it
did increase the daily allowance of food
above the boasted eleven centsi The in
sane when cured are sent home by tho
State, the deaf and dumb and blind aro
slot home at the end of each session by -ti&
State, but released felons are turned
loose upon the people of Raleigh, and
if)urkind people do not give them
irT tho nnor wrtohfts are forced to
lal it. r Index.
For the Carolina Era.
Mr Turner and the Courts.
In The Sentinel of the 12th inst., the"
Editor avows that he and his party in
tend to use the State Courts for political
purposes. '
, We advise our friends to secure a copy
of that issue of The Sentinel; It may oc
important to recur to it some day.
We now see the object of the move
ment began in Orange some two years
since, we don't think Mr. Turner,
Gov. Graham, or the people of Orange
have made much by the movement.
But nous verrons. A Ravial.
For the Carolina Era.
I- Will the investigating Committee
composed ,of Messrs. Bachelor, Shipp
and Martin, appointed by the present
General Assembly to ferret out frauds,
committed upon tho State Treasury,
enquire into the account of the Public
Printer, and see if any, or how .much;
money has been wrongfully drawn by
him. ,
Rumor says there has been more
money drawn than the printer is en
titled to. Let us have a full investiga
tion, and if any who have been squall
ing "stop thief" have themselves been
stealing, let the people know it. -
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Stifling the Ku Klux. j
Important Movements by the United
' States Authorities The South Caro
lina Ku Klux ranioStrielcenThe
Beginning of the End. M I
Washington Dispatch to the N. Y. Times.
' Washington', Oct. 10. The public
will rejoic to learn that the! Govern
ment is taking tho entire Ku Klux
organization of the South literally by
the throat. A movement of j the most
important character was initiated six
weeks ago, thq details of which hayo
been arranged with the utmost secrecy,
and the results of which aro now being
developed in a rapid and even startling
manner. There is news to-day of an
utter panic among the whole organiza
tion in the State of South Carolina, It
will be remembered that at the last
Cabinet meeting, held early in Septem
ber, the report went out extensively
that it was then agreed that nothing
short of a proclamation of martial law
would , meet the requirements of . tho
s'tuation. . , j
These dispatches alone maintained
that such a proclamation would not be
issued, and that was just the decision
the Cabinet arrival at.- Important in
formation was laid before the President
at that meeting, to the effect that it
was possible through the civil arm to
lay hands on the leaders of the gang in
every Southern State, and annihilato
it utterly. The facts were! considered,
and a plan agreed upon which is now
being carried into execution. The de
tails of the movement are not proper
to be made public, but the results aro
beginning to come to the light, despite
the efforts of the Ku Klux press agents
to suppress them. It is sufficient to say
that the Government agents inside the
klans themselves have placed it in pos
session of the whole rjaraphernalia,
insignia,and to a great extent the names
of the leaders of the order, whose rami
fications and purpose extended far be
yond the belief of most people North or
South. j." 1 : :
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