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i i TRI-WEEKLY AXI WEEKLY BY THE TZateu of .iVdvertisinjx i One square, one time, - - - - - $1 00 " " two times,- - - . - - l 60 J three times,- - - - - 2 00 A square is the width of a column, and 11 inches deep. j , j Contract Advertisements token at . 'proportionately low rates. : i - , Professional Cards, not exceedin g 1 square, will be published one year for $12. i ERA PUBLISHING COMPANY. Hates of Subscription t Tri-Week ly One year, in advance, $3 00 . 6 months, in advance, , 2 60 8 months, in advance, 1 00 j 1 month, in advance, 50 ' Weekly Ono year, in advance, $1 00 Vol. 1. iRAliEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY; NOVEMBER 9, 1871: No. 23. Six monins, in advance, 50 j -" 1 - r . - i tentorial Correspondence. Exodus of Ku Klux Tobacco Culture i in the West Col. Tate on the rampage. Asheville, Oct. 80, 1871. This Is near,enough the disaffected counties of South Carolina, where the papers give you accounts of the war of the Government against the Ku Klux to enable us to near mucn ana to see something of its operation and effects It is said that wide spread consternation prevails there amongst the guilty, and they are fleeing in every direction The i nnocent, of cou rse, remain at home a they have nothing to fear. A great number are known to have taken re fuge in this and adjoiningcounties,and many more have passed on, through this place, to what they regard as safe retreat, the State, of Kentucky. A gentleman told me yesterday, that he had that day recognized and spoken with some fifteen or more who were on the hunt of a place of safety. Others tell me that such parties are passing every day. When the State of South Carolina gets rid of these pestilent fel lows, either by the visitation of ade quate punishment upon them, or by their flight from the country, it will have peace and prosperity within its borders and not before. I lie same mav be said of the border counties of this State, where the Ku Klux have flourished. They must be driven out, in someway, before order can be re s ored. TOBACCO CULTURE IN THE WEST. The theme of much conversation here is the encouraging reports brought by several gentlemen who attended the Agricultural Fairs at Raleigh, Danville and Charlotte, of the comparative show of our. Mountain tobacco against any produced in this State or Virginia. At the State Fair at Ralejgh in 1870 a spec imen of Buncombe raised tobacco took the first premium. This year the . breadth of land cultivated in tobacco, in this"county,! is probably four or five times greater than last year, and the quality better. No tobacco wa3 exhib- : ited at Raleigh, from this section, at the recent State Fair, but those who were there, and competent to judge, say that the specimens sent to Danville were better than any they saw at Ral eigh. At Charlotte, the premium on tobacco was awarded to Major Malone, of McDowell. Specimens were also sent to the Knoxville Fair, where they arrived too late for exhibition, but were . much commended, by competent judg es who examined them. The develop ment of this important branch of indus try oujrhtto have the attention of every intelligent farmer in the transmontane and piedmont counties of North Caro lina. With this added to their other attractions and advantages, the Moun tains of North Carolina will soon come to be regarded as the most desirable rartion of the State. But what avails all that we have, and all that we may reasonably anticipate in the futirro de velopment of the country, so long as we have no facility for transporting our nroducts to market." The admiring crowds, at Raleigh, who opened their eves in wonder at the prodigious size, and smacked their lips with delight at the flavor of the apples, exhibited at the late State Fair, from this and Hay wood counties, were surprised that they should not be sent to the central ana Eastern parts of the State for sale. They would have these, and many other val uable products from the West, if there was any other than North Carolina management of the Rail Roads in this - State. That management, whether by the ofiicers made by one political party or the other, has been as ruinous to the laboring and productive classes of our people as it has been senseless and stu pid on the part of these Rail Road man agers. Neither Western fruit, Western cheese and butter, or Western tobacco or live stock can, or will, go to any of the Central and Eastern towns of North Carolina, simply because North Caroli na Rail Road managers impose a tariff upon North Carolina products which is prohibitory against their passage over North Carolina Roads. But our Rail Road prospects are brightening, cer tainly growing warmer. TATE OX THE RAMPAGE. ; According to TJie Pioneer, of this place, he declares that he will blow the whistle of his locomotives in Asheville in short order, if he has "to lay the sleepers of his road in helL" We want a railroad, but that's a little further down than we care to go for it. Be sides, that region . is said already to be " paved with good intentions "-of rail road Presidents as well, no doubt, as others; and we have never heard, yet, that such a pavement made a very solid or substantial road bed. It is suggested that the movement made by the Diroc-" tors, recently appointed by Governor Caldwell, to oust Col. Tate and his as sociates, appointed by Deputy-Governor Warren-Jarvis, has something to do witht Col. Tate's laying the founda tions of 'his road so far down," and put ting himself and his corporation at the , very headquarters of the Invisible Em pire, where he knows no radical wjll ever appear to trouble or torment him, or make him afraid, and -where Grant cannot suspend the xcrii of. JIabeas Corpus. M. E. : ". p The clamor of the Ku Klux Demo cracy is that the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in South Carolina is the inauguration of despotism the first step toward the establishment of the Empire. Those who sustain the Gov eminent in this necessary movement J ' w a a -a i are aenouncea as imperialists ana mot- ters of the overthrow of Republican In Ail stitutions. All manner of evil motives are ascribed to them, and in the effort to subdue the Ku Klux rebellion, in our sister State, from the President down to the lowest official concerned in it, one( and all are held up to ( the country as the wicked and mercenary enemies of public liberty. To those who thus ignoring or perveftTng the facts of the current history of the times, vehemently and violently traduce the conduct and misjudge the motives of the ofiicers of the Government, it would seem useless to present the evidence of iuc uiuiuuiitxi crises ui ,wiuug wmtu InaIfirxj tho milHurv nrrpt.a in Snnth Carolina : or to address them any argu-. nieiiL upon uiut eviueuee, m Buppux t w x xi a. .1 ; lilt! IXIIIUUCl Ul IUC UUtUUUiCUU , AUC man who has, with any degree of fair- ness, read and considered the testimony in proof of the numerous actsofsyste- p. in various narts of the Southern States', fnr thft Inst twplvfi or pihteen months past; and sees in it all no signs of an A-rtPnsivP. flnnwrotis and nowerful corn- bination equal, if left unchecked much longer, not only to the overthrow of thn retflhlishpd order of things, but to the subversion of evry essential prin- ciple of civil socie must be blind in- deed. Such persons there are, no doubt some the willing, otners tne uncon- scious slaves of party prejudice. Dis cussion with such is useless. But there is a class of respectable and worthy men in the Democratic party who admitting the truth of enough of the evidence to be convinced that many outrages have been committed and that these outrages have been the systematic work of or ganiied effort, naturally desire that the inculpated parties should be punished) and their organizations broken up. j But they stickle about the means to be used to this end ; and insist so strenuously upon the most vigorous recognition o theif exploded dogma of State's Rights in the execution of repressive or primi4 ivt measures bv the crovernment, that I practically their co-operation is worth-j I ess. Standing on their platform ot 1 State's Rights, with a laudable disposi tionto suppress crime, while they ar0 quarreling with the Government aboiii Jv-x it XT., I'lnv Trio ii marches on brazenly and defiantly to new, murders and assassinations, mocks their denunciations and laughs at their promise that the Klans shall dis4 band. wmIp thmr hnnchnrlr from a cordial andj operi support of the Government in its present measures (which many oi: them really want to give) because they; fear the establishment of some form of despotic authority, they seem insensij ble to the fact, that such proceedings a3 those now earned on oy secret societies i throughout the South andjeympathized with, if not supported, by a great party at the North, are the sure forerunners and! promoters of despotism. They forget when they denounce Gen. Grant) na nn nsnirant for absolute power. ! that so long as they keep up or encourage such associations as theKu KluxKlans so long as they fail to throw all their energy and influence in favor of a sterni decisive movement of the Government against these outlaws, by just so much are they paving the way for the over- throw of those institutions, whose ben) efits they vaunt so much, and building upon their ruinssome form' of arbitrary rule. Common sense will prevail, at last. somehow or other, in the politi cal regulations of the American peoplej whatever may become of Constitutions; and speculative theories of liberty andj Government. The liberty to kiu ana maim at will the liberty to deprive an individual, or class of individuals, of, th fnrprcisfi of eruaranteed rights, in I any other manner than by a lawful and regular repeal or modification of thej laws on which these guarantees are t . ... . . . nn -ry-J based the liberty to control any of the uoieu uibuuc jr ti: rtJ departments of the civil administration V " . , . . . of the -different States, in response to laws above the ordinary laws to which1 the people owe obedience, is a monJ strous treason against all Republican, and American ideas. The spectacle of ? ji J an xumpire wmai uic uuwucu iaiuM ofthJ alarmists now' see, is nothicg in comparison of the hideous view of the future, controlled by the Ku Klu ' Klan. It is a choice which the Amerij can people are not yet called upon to make, and may not soon be called upon to make, between organizea aisoruer arid anarchy , on one side, and Imperial ana anarcuy (u j nt wtTnn th2 or any other; absolute authority on tne other but when they are called on to chSheSety and security of their UieTtneir persins and their property uv ea, vuvit. v' will be attended to, and they willtak( shelter, where every other people simi larly situated have found refuge, iri some form of Government, wise enougn and strong enough to protect those elej mental and essential rights." T ' ! Tf the true friends of the Constitution either as it teas, or the Constitution as I it is, are afraid of the Empire, on ac count of the military proceedings in South Carolina let them remember that the existence of the Ku Klux, which they admit ; the perpetration they admit and denounce as deserving I a A exem Diary Dunisnment. crave rise to ' A, the necessity for the employment the military power in the enforcement of the lawrfand to the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. If these steps are'disastrous to public liberty, the par ties who produce the disorders which make such-steps necessary are respon 6ible for tie result. If they refuse to live under i a government of law, and seek to establish society upon the bloody principles of passion and revenge, a conflict must occur, sooner or later, be- J tween them and the constituted author I' ities. It id a fie-ht for life, between resr j ular Government and Anarchy, and no i peupie iiitvtJ ever vet in &utu a vuuuii I failoA f'KnrtcA tho fnrmor Viv Tirhafpv. I er name it may be called, or whatever I mi. a. i. i uue iia jruiers may assume. - rn 4ittk i(4ArnkV Con or a f!v. , 9 pner i For the enlightenment of the Attor ney General, who does not seem inclin ed to heed our call for an investigation or tne accounts 01 tne estate rrmier. we desire to mention to that slow moving . I i. i r -m - a mr. - ct - T iuncuonary, u nis senior, j. at, oemuusi, will allow ius to talk to him, that he may find in the contract of the Public Printer, which is on file in the Audit- or's omce, tne lonowmg supuiauons: "For all plain work, seventy-five cents per tnousana ems. For all rule and figure wTork, one dol lar and fifty cents per thousand ems. For all press work, seventy-five cents per token of two hundred and fifty lm- pressions. ' Such printing, binding, &c, to be es timated by two disinterested practical printers, and to be done in good work manlike style, and according to law." He will find that this contract is sign ed by Mr. fMoore, since translated to the LunatiAsylum, not for any aber ration xf mind, but that a staunch Con- servative might be provided for. He will find there also, a report of two practical printers, callea in to esti- mate the amount due upon the accounts made out anaconectea oy ine sentinel, and in that report, he will find that the State was jcharged about .tinny per cent more for work than tle contractor ia cn itWI He may .find, also, if he can descend for a brief season from the Empyrean heights of his lofty conservatism and deign to discourse for a few moments with any 'ftwo disinterested practical printers in Raleigh." that the measure- ment, by which The Sentinel office has made out its accounts for printing, against the State, is not the one usual among printers is not the one by which former contractors have been paid is not the one which printers tniiiK is ucmruuiy lutuw. He will find further, that by this Sentinel .measurement and charge for the" public printing, that, taking the law page as an average, the public 'printer has collected out of the State forty' five cents on each page of printed matter more than he is entitled to "ac cording to law." Now, riot to weary or perplex the distinguished Attorney General, and to give him time to act understanding probiem at his earliest convenience: Jf t-- DtlDiisne(j report of the Impeach- ment Trial! which we mention only as an instance, .contains two thousand six hundred and; eighty four (2G84) of printed matter, and upon each of these pages the accounts made out and col lected by The Sentinel, has been forty five cents more than the law allows, or than "two disinterested practical prin ters" would estimate, how much more has The Sentinel received for the print- . r printer i3 Entitled to according to his contract, arid "acccording to law?" - . : . , i. . It is a simple sum, and they say that , .... i when- the Attorney General was a . . : , . , . , younger man he was a great hand to : T .. , 2? . , " A"uia" m0I?m ? Jf l' a U1 uue uuu' "JZ ,rLZ, ZI ' ". ' Z r fWo ed through this City en route for the . . . mt. - J1"5 P' P?? 2 "v nsrw rt TIT 1 II Tw I I 1 I r York county, South Carolina They left the homes of their birth the land where they saw the s first light of Free dombecause of the. persecution and outrages of the KuKlux. Therearethir ty voters in thej party. Their fare for the whole party-4-is nine hundred arid eighteen dollars from Rock Hill, South - . . . CutoW Whenthey reach Iberia vmarried men get twfiye of and; single men ten i ; both get six months rations and shelter for the e l f - ,. samelength of time. . : . Instead of immigrants setUing m the wuui w Southern 4 people are emigrating to Northern and VesternStates and to wri. xma ia legiumuw.cv.. of Ku Kluxism. REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY! N. Y. City and County Robbed! ONE HUNDRED MTfjJONS STOLEN! The exposures of the frauds and robbe ries which the Tammany Hall t.Ring that is Mayor Hall, W.M. Tweed.P.B. Sweeney and Richard Connolly, have perpetrated upon the city of New York, Exceed anything of the kind in the his tory of this country. In less than two years ' the debt of New York city has been increased over ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. The ring composed of Hall, Tweed, Sweeney and Connolly, have grown suddenly rich by their stealings from the city treasu ry. Various men have been paid enor mous prices for work done for the city, part of which found its way into the pockets of the ring. New York; papers of Friday last contained disclosures tra cing to Tweed the amount of NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUS AND DOLLARS which was received by him as his share of disbursements to the amount of SIX MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, which the city paid for work which was never done. The history of the ring during their Ofiiial life, is as follows : . Tweed began a bankrupt, and now owns property to the amount of twelve millions of dollars. - Connolly swore in 1866 that he owned no property. He now owns property to the amount of three millions of dol lars. I .; Sweeney has invested fifteen hun dred thousand dollars since 1866. Mayor Hall has invested one hun dred and fifty thousand dollars j since 1866. Tor several months The New York Times has been engaged in exposing the frauds, . rascalities, robberies, and stealings of the ring. At first the; press and people thought The Times had raised that same old cry of fraud and corruption, that we hear so much of these days ; but it was not long j until the other papers of the City,seeing that the charges and figures of The Times were not denied, fell into line, and for more than three months a persistent, bold, open, and fearless war has been made uoon the municipal ring. - The honest people Democrats and Repub licans have been aroused to a sense of their danger; the result is, that-the various pouticai associations pi , JNew York City, opposed to Tammany jHall, have united in making war upon the ring. Leading lawyers,such as Charles O'Conor and Wm. Evarts, have been put in nomination for the Legislature by the opponents of Tammany Hall. Everywhere, throughout the entire State, unrelenting war has been made upon the allies of Tammany Hall. Democrats and RepublicanTwho are tainted with corruption, have been denounced and made to take back; seats. Where ever such a man has secured a nomination, the honest men of both parties have united for the purpose of defeating such nominee. With the exception of a silly feud between the followers of the the two New j York Senators Conklin and Fenton and The Times and Hie Tribune the war V : i against Tammany Hall, has been worthy of a free press and of a free people. Notwithstanding the want of harmony in the Republican ranks, we are not without hopes of carrying the State on Tuesday next. ;. 1 On Thursday last, the 26th j inst., Tweed was arrested on civil and crim inal suits begun bv Mr. Charles O'Con- . - V -1 or in his capacity as Actin Attorney General. The affidavit upon which he order of arrest was granted,is made by Samuel J. Tilden, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee. Tweed waived an examination and was admitted to bail in the sum of two millions of dollars. The evidence of Tweed's guilt is com plete. The conspiracy to defraud the City and County of New York began in 1870, when Mr. Tweed, on April 26, breed the County Tax Levy through he Legislature, and legalized what is now familiarly known as the ad inter im Board of Audit. That law author ized Mayor Hall, Mr. Tweed, and Con troller Connolly to audit all existing claims against the City. At the only session of that Board ever held, and which lasted only fifteen minutes, Mayor Hall submitted in his own handwriting a resolution delegating this power to James Watson j then County Auditor,and making the claims audited by him payable on the ? sole approval of William M. Tweed. The rogues 1 went immediately to work. Claims were adjusted and warrants is sued at once, and it is shown that many of the latter were forged by Elbert A. Woodward, who,3 bri the sudden j death of Watson, became j the agent of Mr. Tweed and his accessory in crime. Over $6,300,000 of warrants were made out and passed into the hands of four men, as thus tax shown., Each warrant has been traced from the Controller's office to the final division of its proceeds among these four rogues. . " j The . election for a portion 01 tne States officers and members of the Leg islature, takes place on Tuesday next. The issue between the two parties is made up : The triumph of the Demo- cratic party will be the triumph of Tammany Hall and the rogues ' who have so unmerciful robbed the city. The triumph of the Republican party will be the triumph of honesty, princi ple, reform, and retrenchment. If the people of New York State do not put their seal of condemnation upon Tam many Hall and its allies, we shall be very much mistaken, and shall not feel very sorry if the rougues felould runaway with the new Court I House one of these days. Thus far the people of New York State have made a strenuous fight tigainst official robbery and corruption. If this effort should fail, then -alia ten tanda via est: Whether that method will be Revolution, is not for us to say. The Writ of Habeas Corpus-Its Suspension in South Carolina. Ve published a few days ago the proc lamation of President Grant suspend ing the writ of habeas corpus in certain counties in the State of South Carolina. This action of the President is the dernier resort of the National Govern ment to "preserve a republican form of State government" in South Carolina. If this effort fails, the United States government will have been brought into contempt and successfully defied by the Ku Klux. The news from the counties wherein the writ is suspended, leads us to believe that the Klan will be checked in its career of murder and outrage, if not entirely broken up. We hope such will be the case. I It is singular that the writ ishould have been suspended in South Carolina. This State, ever foremost under the old order of things, in fomenting rebel lion, contains at present, active and vindictive bands of midnight maraud ers and assassins, commonly knpwn as Ku Klux; I These demons in human shape, persistently disregarding and defying all warnings, glory in I acting as the most irrepressible fragment of the slaveholders' rebellion, and in be lieving that they may become ihe ad vance guard of a second rebellion. They have inherited all the stubborn ness and defiant wickedness of a line of secession ancestors. They can under stand no definition of patriotism which does not imply defiance to the author ity of the National Government;. They believe that no principles are more sa cred than those typified by nullification and secession. - As they were first to vitalize rebellion forty years ago, and the first to fire upon the forts and flag of their country in 1861, p they are now the last to listen to the warn ings against the wickedness aijd folly of continued defiance to the laws of the Congress. Time has not improved the hereditary treason of South Carolina's "chivalry." Instead of improving with jein the character of its manifesta tions, their treason has grown more and more murderous and despicable. It is no longer gilded with the eloquence arid logic of a Calhoun, but has sunk into that last extremity of evil in which a jesuistic gratification of its wicked ness is not even attempted, (and m which defiance of the nation, j-evenge for past defeats, and schemes for attain ing future power, sek expression in a series of indescribably cruel deeds That bravery and pluck which' charac terized the South' Carolina soldier dur ing the rebellion, has departed. Inof fensive men, women and children are now the objects of attack at the hands of South Carolina Ku Klux. Men who dare no longer open batteries land fire upon Fort Sumter, wreak their baflled rage and satiate their smothered hate, in the dead of night, upon the innocent and defenseless inhabitants of solitary huts. No attempt in open discuss ion is made by the opponents of the Republican party , iri South Carolina, to gain a victory over tne conspire Repub to put licans, but they sleuth-hound assassins upon the track of leading and influential as! well as humble Republicans. The tactics of the Ku Klux are the tactics of the Thugs of India. They have earned the ignominious distinction of being the only men of a civilized race men who claim that they are the "chivalry" of this Republic who have ever rivalled the Thugs in cowardly wickedness. At last, after repeated warnings, and after two years of intimidation, murder, and outrage, the President has issued a proclamation; directing that thelwrit ot habeas corpus, shall be sus pended in certain counties where ; the Ku Klux are numerous and j defiant. It is to be hoped that this effort of the President to preserve a republican form of government In South Carolina, and to protect each arid every; citizen in all the rights which appertain to ' an American Citizen", will be thorough ly arid terribly successful. Thorough, so as to reach every, violator of the law; terrible in its punishment of the guilty ; t y m 1 " j v : j . ' ' " j. y J- -" so as to,aeter otners irom again, ai tempting to subvert the State arid Na- ion Governments by the means of a secret rebellion, under the guidance of he Invisible Empire. The cry ' of mercy will be heard in South Carolina ust as we heard it in this State : but a persistent member of the - Klan is the ast of criminals to whom mercy should be extended.4 All men who have par ticipated in cold-blooded murders rieh- ly deserve the fate of murderers, and it is high time that their dangerous and deadly crimes should be punished with the; utmost severity. The issue is made uds The Ku Klux Klan must be bro ken up annihilated routed exter minated or free government in the Southern States is at an end. Apolo gists arid sympathizers of the Ku Klux will denounce the President for suj3 pending the writ, while every citizen who loves peace and quiet law and order more than party, will uphold and sustain the President in this crisis. " By their fruits ye shall know them.' A Startling Re?cla(ion. Chicago Fired by the Societe Nationale-- I Confession by a Member I The following extravagant narrative which we give in an abbreviated form Is taken from The Chicaao Times which I 3 j. j uie il paper uevuies a cuiuuju ouu u. iuui fine type to its exciting details : in ?Though it appears at first to De u I- terly romantic and improbable there are not wanting confirmatory circum stances. ; The original explanation of the origin of the fire has been conclu sively disproven. It can be attested bh every one who listened to Train, at Farwell nail, on tne nignt 01 tne nre that he used the language recited b low, &c. Little doubt remains that the city was fired in several differerit places." ; - The informant, professing to moved by remorse, uoes not aivuige his name.: !"". ;,.'h;: 1 He states that the Society had its headquarters in Paris, and branches in London, Edingburgh, Manchester, Liv erpool, uuonn, sernn, t. .retersDurg, Naples, Florence, Vienna, and other cities in Europe, and in New York, Boston, Washington, New . Orleans, Baltimore and Chicago. The Society was organized during the political ex citements, which preceded the election of Louis Napoleon to the Presidency. Its object was tne promotion 01 a com mune, with equality of rights and rich es, poor and wealthy, ignorant and learned. The coup d'etat, which placed Napoleon on the throne temporarily, defeated its purposes ; yet its organiza tion was Intact, and the alleged evils pf the Emperor's reign caused the attrac tion to its ranks of all malcontent ele ments. ! He proceeds to say that the miserable results of the late war invited them to a trial of their terrible princi ples, and the gorgeous city of Paris be came the scene of their bloody orgies, and, as by the torch of Hecate, the flames of destruction wasted the relics of grandeur and the trophies of natioh- al'power. : . . - I ' : The most horrible record of devasta-1 tion and woe the century will take down to futurity .he charges! to this Commune. Its final defeat did not ex tinguish it, and now yet strong in trembling France, its members, whojm the whips of theFuries must urge on, are scattered thrpughout our own pros pered cities. He states also that . STRIKES ' : ; in Great Britain have been instigated bv them, and men powerful to influ ence crowds by fiery eloquence addea to their body everywhere, and that they have failed in many attempts to foment strife between employers arid laborers, and as a ultima ratio they de termined to burn Chicago as the ciy where rapidly-growing wealth was widening the social distinctions in extreme.- - ; I ; The confession includes the name bf GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, as a member, and reminds that he stji- before the fire : "This is the last public address that will be delivered within these walls.H A terrible calamity is impending over the city of Chicago. .More l cannot, dare not say." He adds that another word would have ended his life, as there; were scores of pistols pointed at himJ i PETROLEUM MINES had been laid by plots in secret conclave beyond the reach of mortal observation. Mines in various streets were simulta neously fired, and in order to cont vene any possible effort to stay the con flagration by explosion of buildings by gun-powder, a train communicati with the magazine could at a moment destroy it. " f I The first barrels moved by the pow der brigade were those with which the train y communicated, and hundreds were saved who would have been kill ed by explosion. Many of these mines started new fires, and the water-works were also under-mined. He asserted that the men executed the design, and that buildings destined by the Societe to be spared fell. Concluding, he says that two of the original founders of this fearful fraternity in Chicago found their. deatn in tne names, ana ne, tne narra tor, is exposed to hideous death for treachery : that other cities are threat ened in like manner, and that every circle of society has the sworn members bf the Societe Rationale in its midst . i m. Lrrt T 1 3 1 l-Yl Line xnugs 01 J.nuia xiau uo paruiiei bower in the numbers he estimates belonging to the Commune. as So far as Raleigh is concerned we" will simnlv inform its DeoDle that tin less they do better, and show a better disposition, the State Fair will be (re moved from their city. They must not expect the whole State to come to their own doors and pour money into their coffers, while those receiving and prof iting by the same stand isupinely byj or permit others of their kin to raise up obstructions to the Fair. " ; I The Era had best employ its time in culcating these lessons upon its people before it is too late. A word to i he Wise is sufficient. Tarboro Southerner. The EBAj in its issue of the 26th ult; devoted its lead particle to "inculca ting the lessons referred to by i Ate Southerner, ' It was the yery first to take that . view and urge it upon the business men of Raleigh. ' ": '! -; 'n We hope The Southerner does not re gard the Local of The Era as The Era, and that it will make the proer distinction in future.' Kevenue Tax on Tobacco. IMPORTANT LETTER FROM THE " TREASURY DEPARTMEIfT AT WASHINGTON. Peddlers or Retail Dealers' of Tobacco Pay a Special Tax of FIto Dol lars, and may Retail any where in the State. j TREASURY DEPARTMENT, - i Office of Internal Kevekuk. Washington, Oct 28A, 1871. Sir : In reply to your letter of Oct. 24th, in relation to peddling manufactured tobacco, I havo to say that a manufacturer of tobacco may sell his product anywhere in the United States without paying a special tax as a dealer in tobacco, but ho can sell only in the original and unbroken packages. lie mny send out an employee to peddle for him, who may sell in the same manner and under the sumo condi tions as the manufacturer. i A peddler of tobacco, who is not an employee of the manufacturer, and whoso sales exceed $100 per annum, isjiable to a special tax as a dealer ic tobacco for sell ing manufactured tobacco in the manner ot a peddler, and such a peddler who has paid the special tax for so selling tobacco, may retail from wooden packages, packed and stamped according to law. Very respectfully, J I M J. W. DOUGLASS, Commissioner. W. D. Jones, Esq , Assessor 4th District, Raleigh, N. C. A Democratic Journal Gives Up 1 1 the Party Ship. From the Missouri Republican, Dcm. ' THE PASSIVE PROPOSITION. . ; TiiP trrnvA dlfflf ul tv that the Democ racy have encountered in all the national contests since luo nas oeen tneir ina- tcsts. They enter every campaign to find the issues already dictated and de fined by their opponents. They are not able to select the field of action; they are compelled, at great disadvantages, to fight on a field chosen by their op ponents, and to take the position which their opponents assign to them. They have endeavored to wage tho cam paigns On the tariff, taxation, amnesty, civil-service reform, and tho legitimate, constitutional rights of the States ; but they have signally failed in every in stance, because the dominaht party re fuses to permit tho country to forget the war. It professes and pretends to have given us peace, and to have es tablished an equality before the law which will make, peace permanent; but with all these professions it con tinues to nurse the war spirit with in dustrious care, and to use it with effec tive and most mischievous vigor. It r revives this spirit on tho eve of every imnnrtnnt rontpst: it refuses to allow' the people to think of tariffs, taxcs.ship building, civil-service reforms, State rights, or anything else; it appeals to tneir wax Bpint uy piwauuiug uuk i settlements of the war are endangered, and rallying them to the defense of tho threatened adjustment. iAnd this strategy of our opponents is invariably successful.for the simple reason that on the subject of Unionism the people, of the North are more sensitive than on any other, or on all others. Any dis turbance of, or an interference with.tho established results of the war, would bo a stultification of themselves which they can not permit, nor even think of without resentment; and hence, while thinking men know that an undoing of the constitutional amendments is an impossibility,the imputation of a design to undo, them never fails to have a temporary effect upon the masses. ' If the dominant party is to be over thrown at all, it must be dono by de priving it of this power, and, directing the popular attention to other subjects. A withdrawal of the Democracy from the field would, we thlnK, effect this. Such a withdrawal would i remove tho war from our politics,and it is,perhaps, the only thing that can so remove It. The formal retirement of a great his toric party from a Presidential cam paign, with the declaration that it. leaves to the people the duty of reck oning with the party in power, would be a moral spectacle that would havo the profounaest effect. It would vin dicate completely and forever thepa triotism of the Democracy,and it would force the dominant party to stand naked before the people for trial. That party could not impute disloyalty to its antagonist, for It-would have . no nntiie-onist. exceDt one born and bred ! in its own camp, it couiu not ooasiT that it had saved the Union j for the j people would answer that they had saved the Union themselves. It could not draw its war swprd,for there would " be no enemy whom a War BWord could wound. It would bo bewildered by tho novelty and danger of its j position jit; would feel for its old weapons only to find them gone; and in the room of its ' - J A 1 A T old antagonist it wouia una a new one, j assailing it at me pomuj wucru i 10 weakest, forcing it to fight on new crround. and comnellinff it to deal In answer instead of accusations. Thoj Administration mastership of the siua-f tion would be destroyed: liberal Repub-j licans would owe to the Democracy j their release from subjection to Presi-; dent Grant; the Democracy would.owo to liberal Republicans the release of tho ; South from its semi-military rule: and the country would owe to both its de liverance from tho danger of ia disas- trous centralization. What ia the MatterJ Mr. James II. Moore, nominally State Printer, formerly belonged to the Central Exe cutive Committee of the Democratic party. His name does not appear at '. the end of that address ' What is tho matter?; Has. Mr. Moore resigned as a member of the I Committee, or did ; ho refrain from signing ; that address be cause too much money has been drawn for State Printing?, Let us havo an answer. ; ''.-.i V ,.',. . . ; 1 Christians pray with outspread, be cause clean hands ; with uncovered head. without the aid of a prompter, because f we pray iruiu vue hwuv, wintu 1 1 IS 0 : VI- .