North Carolina Newspapers

t ffitrife Carolina ffita. TEI-WEKKLT AND WEEKLY BY The Era Publishing Company. Xtates of Subcjiption t 'Riitc-N of 'VZvrtilnm 1 j ' '' mmmm One square, one time, - - - - . fl oo tWO till. fs,- - - - 1 1 i'j " 44 threetin.es,- - -1 - - 2 '00 -1 square is the width of a column and I ' Tri-Wkexi.y One year, in advance, $3 00 6 months, in advance, 2 00 inch deep. . . . : . : j j ""'jffSr Contract Advertisements taken at 3 montns, in ad7ance, 1 00 1 month, in advance. 50 Wekklt One year. In advance, fl 00 Six months, in advance. 50 Vol. 2. ftALfelGH, N; C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1872. proportionately low rates. . i No: 18. Professional Cards, not exceeding 1 square t- ww do puumneu ono year lor Yl. It ; f I I i III II I M H , J ' r. '. i - - communicated. The Society of Friends in North Carolina Efforts in Behalf of Education and Agriculture! During the war the members of the society of Friends in the North and South were preventWtrom mingling toother as haABcentheir custom. At the close oj the war the Friends in the North .learned that their breth ren in the South had suffered by the war. Measures were at once -taken for re lief. When the immediate wants of the Southern Fricnd3 were supplied, it was ascertained that the education of their children had been -almost totally neglected during the war; that the school funds had been wasted by the war; find that there was no provision whatever for Public Schools. In the true spirit of charity and re ligion, ! nn association of the Friends in the city of Baltimore was formed to relieve what they understood to be the wants of their brethren in the South. An apieal was made to their brethren in the North and Northwest for assis tance, md money was liberally and pro:np:5y contributed. ASuperintcnd-t-nt was employed to take charge of the work, lie tr.nic to tlie field of his lu- N)r in North Carolina. lie organized school, employi -d teachers, and held educational meetings. Wii- re there were no suitable school hot;-; The i Truth of Reconstruction The democrats have Abandoned Morton and Barringer; f Contest. In a recent speech, Senator Morton, Staking everything oh the elections The work of organization for the of Indiana, uttered the following truths in, the three great States of Ohio, Penn- Presidential election1 should be pushed in regard to the formation of the new sylvanta, and Indiana, they have lost, with all despatch possible. Everything governments for the States 'of the I and as ;brevIou.fy announced by their depends upon organization. System presses: and speakers, theDemocrats" atic, persistent work,' .will override a the recon- and "Jliberals" will now abandon the great many difficulties. ; We notice i r. ' . . i a t f r i m I 1 1 a ? r 1 " ' J t 1 ' wiin grnuncauon, unu as a preiuue 10 been onranlred bv V W 1 - - W r- M - V . M. " plunderers, and adventurers,' who is doubtful if the hitherto irrepresible cans are moving in many of the coun " went down there to steal, and remain- GreeleSr will even flutter again. His ties. Various public meetings are an ed only until they were gorged, then campaign is ended, and he will hardly nounced.in The ERAand will be kept " to return to the North with their have'the heart to visit the ; Charlotte standing from day to day. "stolen goods. In all this there Is but Fair week after next. . Ifc is important that iGrant and Wil " a small element or truth, and for that Tlie ilmington Journal of a late date son clubs should te organized in every declared that the election of Greeley Township ; at the sambtime itisequ absolutely depended on the States of ally important thatHhe Republican Indiana and Pennsylvania going for party should organize permanently un Plan of OrganizationRepublican State Committee. South: Governor Brown assails . in building and purch; ie as- .: I hem. Ac, for tht schools. He kept books and sta tionory which he purchased at whole- m!o prices and which he eold at cost to thoe who c-ould pay fr them, ainl pave to tlioe who were unable to pay. The first year only twelve schools were organized with about nine hun dred KUpils. The number of schools and nupils have constantly increased. mm The work has now been in operation seven years. For the last four, years, the number of schools has ranged from thirty to thirty-four, with an average attendance of from 2,700 to 3,000 pu pi Is. i These schools were ori "finally in tended for the children of Friends, and were established in neighborhoods of Friends. But the children of all were admitted on the same terms. If the parents of children were able to pay anything they were expected to do so, otherwise not. The result has been, that many have attended who were not Friends. For the purpose of instructing the teachers, the Superintendent held: 'a Teaches, Institute, for a term of from four to six weeks every year. Seven of these Normal Institutes have been held, at which from fifty to one hun area teachers were instructea every year. Threo hundred and twenty teachers in all have been instructed in these Institutes. T i i : l i l l l x iiae; uivu uoucu uvrv omy bfiioois for white children. They have had a element nobody Is responsible but ilia frtnnia rT nf-i-rftTifrXTn Wyv K 44 and South. When the work of recon struction besran under the laws of ' been engaged in the Southern war re " fused to take part in it: stood aloof, 'declared the action of Congress un constitutional, and professed to wash 44 their hands of the whole business, in 44 some States refusing even to vote one ' ti-o rr f Kn riiir lint ?fi oil nnonL J X illw l'lil".! V C4 . Ill Ulllilli 44 mously opposing reconstruction. This 44 necessarily threw the work of recon- " ttrtiMIrvn liitnriri hinilafif f nnnnlArriM Oil UV.HV1I lillV ti Jltlllt-J f A kil V- vViUlVU 44 men, the few white men of the South 44 called "scalawags," and thoso who 44 emigrated from "the North to the "South, called 44 carit-basTgers' If 44 tiie politicians of the South had not, with stupid malice, refused to take 44 part in reconstruction, the so-called 44 carpet-baggers" of the North would 44 have but little to do with it, and the 44 State governments of theSouth would 44 from the first have been in the hands 44 of the Southern people, the friends 44 now of Governor Brown. But 'when 44 they stood afar off, and did everything 44 in their power to oppose, the vork of 44 reconstruction had to be done by 44 those into whose hands it fell, or not 44 be done at all. Doubtless some of 44 these co-called "carpet-baggers") were 44 not proper persons were adventurers 44 seeking their own fortunes; but others, 44 and the majority of them, were true 44 emigrants, and would have remained 44 in the South and become her most 44 valuable citizens, as many have done 44 anyhow, had they not been persecut 44 ed at every step by their Southern en demics hounded on by Northern allies. 44 The new States of the Union have gen erally been filled with carpet-baggers; 44 and even Governor Brown is said to t 1 n xr rr t lo rrrr-w! t" pahi ry rn rl vr 44 ft) each citizen ; his rights are not cir- linmcorihnl lx o Rtntr ond tlir lirwl 44 against carpet-baggers is a craven cry 44 which" ought never to pass the lips of "on Atnnrimn ctrtv;mfln ! The position Morton takes is that the Southern States fell under the rule of bad men because the good men of the South,in pursuit of a contrary pol icy, refused to act when their state3Docn must have seen the utter folly of resist ance to, or argument with a Congress the 4Liberals" and f4Democrats" last Tuesday. The Atto York Herald the day before the election said that if these States jivent.Republican the "jig" was up, forpreeley. The Iialcigfy Xews. the organ of the 4LDemocratic " party in North Carolina, has declared time and again the same thing; and so of all the leading ."Democratic" and "Liberal" papers. of the country. The following is now the 44 Democratic- key note to the campaign, and is fronl The Fayclteville Eagle, the or gan ofthe 4 Democracy" of the upper Capoiear: 44 Thjj -elections to-day in several of ".the Central States will be a reliable 44 indication of the Presidential election "licxtimonth. Take it altogether, the 44 chari:cs for the Democratic party to " day pre more favorable than they will 44 be o the issues and merits of the 44 November election. And therefore, if 44 wo fail in any respect to-day, the fail- "urcvfjll likely be greater next month. 44 Our party is stronger everywhere on " local' issues than on national issues, ".and (his makes us more certain to " elecCState nominees than our Prtsi 44 dentlal candidate. On this reason ing 'then, to succeed in the Novem ber contest, we should carry the pre " vious State elections ; by very decided 44 majorities. The fifteen Southern 44 States are divided in politics, with 44 haljflor perhaps two thirds of their to 44 tal pectoral vote Conservative, and 44 the:Southern electoral vote is about 44 one third of the whole number. Of 44 the twenty-two Northern States only 44 about one third of them are Demo cratic, and this third must embrace 44 the; three or four largest States so as tin f m' a a indiArif r nf f ho "Trrf horn 1 electoral vote. So two or three of " thesji large Northern States will be 41 ablc?to decide the national contest. separate sy.tem or coioreti schools, in determined to enforce its policy on the have done a greater work. In connection with their schools, the Friends have established a model farm near High Point,'in Guilford county, by which I thev teaeh "the ieonIo of the State what am be rfone with poor,, worn-out land in North Carolina. Mr. Sanv1500 the able and efficient Superintendent of this farin, has promised to deliver the address at the Swe Fair next week. Every fanner ought to hear him. Mr. Sampson has not yet published the debits and credits of his farm, as he will do In a few years. He is, how ever, very communicative; gives a cordial welcome to all ; goes to almost every agricultural meeting to which he is invited; and tells everybody what lu; knows about farming. I had the pleasure of sjending a day on his farm in the month of July. I saw a ix acre field, in which I was informed nothing would grow, three years ago, 'lut sassafras bushes, from which he rt-aped and measured, last summer, one hundred and seventy bushels of wheat. Frojn one of these six acres he thought he renied forty bushels. Mr. Samp son Is satisfied that the same agricul tural skill and labor which keep the lands of New York and Pennsylvania productive, will make and keep our lands equally, productive, to say noth i'V of ocr advantage in dim ate. The Friends have done a good thing f(ir North Carolina. They have shown where to begin the work of restoring the State to prosperity; that Public Free Schools are the basis of agricul tural improvement, and the latter, the hue basis'of our prosperity as a icople. country. This was seen by Hon. D. M. Barringer. who, time ha3 proven one of the tvisest Democratic statesmen of tho South, and about the only'gen- Heman in North Carolina of that party to-day, who has any claims to states manship. I In an address to tho people of North Carolina in 1SG7, he urged their accep tance of the conditions prescribed by Congress, and he desired them to go to work and take their State affairs in their own hands. He was phrophetic, and his arguments then and Morton's assertions now, in the main, arc con sistent, and sustain one another. Gen eral Barringer is how the leader of the Democracy in the State, and his party has at last accepted what, at his urgent request, they scouted in '07 ; but the people have suffered from their foljy what the madness of such "Democrats" would again inflict could they get into power in the State and Nation. 1 Freeing the White People. From the date of President Grant's inauguration down to September last, the debt had been reduced in round numbers & 40,000,000, and now, on the 1st of October, there is a further reduc tion -for Hue month ot September of n,327,343, making a grand total for three years and seven months of $350, 009,000 reduction of the national debt. Liberal-Republican-Democratic-Con-native-ilorace-Greeley-Pyramid :. ' G o i Federal Court at Greensboro. We learn that his Honor Judge Dick opened the Federal Court at Greensboro on Monday with an eloquent, clear and elaborate charge to the grand jury. The question that had been raised as to the jurisdiction of Marshal Carrow in the Western District of this State, was also argued by Mr. Phillips, on behalf of the Marshal, aud his Honor thereupon expressed the opinion that the jurisdiction of the Marshal through out the State had not been affected, by. tho Act establishing the new District. La av Governing Presidential Elcc- bn Head and Circulate. ? . . Thi election for President and Vice-- President which occurs on Tuesday, the Ffth of November next, is to be held as near as may be in conformity with;thd election law of 1872 : that is to sa-M j ' iJocks 0f Registration must be imme diately re-opened by the Registrar, and person's. qualified allowed to register, .until! the! day of election excluding that $ay,(i Persons must vote in the Township where they reside. v ' Tickets must be printed on white pa per ajtid tcithout device. No 'certificates of registration must bo given. Registration not allowed on the day of election except where a person has arrived at the age of twenty-one, or for bthe'y good cause. understand that Messrs. Barrin ger, lason and Phillips, as Chairmen of the Executive Committees of the vari ou$ parties, in accordance; also with the views "of Attorney-Genial Shipp, have that the above constitute the the ap- der the Plan of Organization as laid downby the Republican tate Conven tion in April last, which is as follows : Resolved, That hereafter the organization of the Republican party of Jsorth Carolina shall be as follows : 1. A State Executive Committee of eleven members, to be appointed by the President of the State Convention ; and the President of the Convention shall be ex officio one of the members of such Committee. 2. A Congressional District Committee for each District, to be composed of one member from each coanty, to Vh appointed by the Congressional District Convention. o. A County Executive committee to he composed of one member from each town ship, to be appointee, by the County Con vent ion. 4. A Committee of five for each township. to be appointed by the people, lie-solved, That the present organization shall continue to .exist until the new one shall be effected. liesolved, That the representation in the County Conventions shall be in accordance with the plan of organization of the party heretofore adopted. The State .Executive Committee is as follows : I. Edwin West, of Craven. T. 15. Keogh, of Guilford. X. W. Lillington, of Davie. G. Ij. Mabson, of Xow Hanover. R. W. Logan, of lUitherford. S. T. Carrow, of Beaufort. J. II. Williamson, of Franklin. J. W. Hood, of Mecklenburg. J. II. Harris, of Wake, li. 15. Ellis, of Wake. S. F. Phillips, of Wako, ex officio. A complete list of the District, County, and Township Committees, ap pointed under the Plan of Organization quoted above, with post office address, should be forwarded to Hon. S. F. Phillips, Chairman of the State Com mittee, or to Mr. J. C. L. Harris, Sec retary. This information is required for permanent organization. The Chair man of each Committee District, County, and Township should attend to this matter immediately. The atten tion of our brethren of Republican Press is directed to the matter. Speed the work of organization ! Hold meet ings in every Township ! Arouse the people ! Get out a full vote, and Grant will carry the old North State by ten thousand ! agreed governing proper rules for , r proaching Presidential election. : Tlie Working-men for Grant. Tlie working-men of the country, where, they are allowed a free expres sion!! of opinion flt the ballot box where there is neither 44 Democratic " proscription nor social ostracism will vote for Grant. His privatesympathies have always been with the working men ; his official encouragement has bqch extended lo them on every possi ble occasion. I Greeley's Advocacy of the Elec tion Uayouet Law. j Read an artide in another column - from The New York World, headeti "Mr. Greeley's Truculent Advocacy of the Bayonet Election Law." jTho articlo was written before the Balti more Convention and is, therefore, en titled to great weight with Democrats who are such from principle. j No one can predict what a day may bring forth in politics. Therefore let us bo of good cheer until the day of despondency comes. Raleigh jVeic. ' . . ( j '' We have heard from Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio, and even Nebraska, the home of Tipton. Please let us know when ' the day of despondency ; ; j How Can They? Ulbw can our peace-loving Christian people longer countenance or support apolitical' party whose leaders winked at and encouraged the Ku Klux to the commission of their murders and other outrages i many of these leaders belong- ingftb- and leading the organization nhdparticipatingin the murder of their felloe-citizens for no crime but political differences? I , : , The News; KM ' North Car- comes. Gives tip olina. In trying to figure out a "forlorn hope!' Raleigh News leaves North Carolina out of the count of States prob alM !for Greeley, thus conceding the o for Grant in advance of the news From The New York World. Mr. Greeley's Truculent Advocacy ot the Bayonet Election Law. We are aware that this article will be regarded as a deadly thrust at Mr. Greeley's claims to a Democratic in dorsement at Baltimore. We shall very likelv be told again that we are making it difficult for The World to wheel into line and support Mr. Greeley if he re ceives the Democratic nomination; This is a just "observation. No doubt, it will be difficult for The World to ad vocate Mr. Greeley's election ; but we shall make it equally difficult for every true Democrat ; but if the Baltimore Convention shall put us in that awk ward, ridiculous position, we shall have "lots of company" to keep us in coun tenance. Our sense of security against the derision which multitudes of stanch Democrats would share with us rests upon a confident belief that Mr. Gree ley can no more be nominated at Balti more than the Apocalyptic Dr. Gum ming could be elected as the successor of Pope Pius the Ninth. We have had a hand before in picking enormously; distended bubbles. The- Greenback craze had a greater run in the Demo-; cratic party in 1SGS, than the Greeley craze has at present. We had no faith in it, and opposed it with honest zeal. We had then, and still have, great per sonal respect and kindness for Mr. Pendleton; but we made his nomina tion impossible. We are on stronger ! ground in opposing the nomination of Mr. Greeley, and have no shadow of doubt that our opposition will be equ ally successful. We were vehemently denounced then by three-fourths of the Democratic papers as "the bondholders' organ ;" but we survived those assaults and thrived under them, as we oxpect to thrive under the senseless vitupera tion we now i encounter in exposing a more preposterous folly. We owed some consideration to Mr. Pendleton as a sincere, estimable Democrat. We owe none to Mr. Greeley, the bitterest opponent and most reckless libeller of the Democratic party. All Democrats now concede that we were right in op posing the Greenback craze in 1SGS ; and by the 1st of August all Democrats ... 1 1 - i . i i will recognize ine wisuoin auu jjoou sense of our opposition to the Greeley craze, which, by that time, will have been entombed with the Greenback heresy, with "none so poor to do it reverence." Two things have been held up to A proclamation of universal amnesty by Mr. Greeley, should he be elected, would have no more legal validity than the similar proclamation by Presi dent Johnson. Mr. Greeley's signature to the Davis bail-bond is a thing of no political consequence. It was merely a personal favor to a single individual, and to the one individual in whose fate and fortunes both the Northern and the Southern people have the least reason to feel much interest. To bo sure, all the negroes know who Jefferson Davis is. They regard him as the chief foe of Abraham Lincoln who proclaimed their emancipation, and Mr. Greeley's act of friendship for Davis will turn the whole negro vote against him. The Greeley canvass is, as yet, con ducted inside the Democratic party , and it is the most preposterous bone of contention that ever divided Demo crats. The exploded Greenback con troversy, which divided us in 1SGS, can not compare with it in absurdity. There was some show of reason in saying that a debt incurred in -greenbacks could be justly discharged in the same medium. But what semblance of reason is there in asking a party whose cardinal doc trine is anti-centralizatiou to adopt the chief apostle of centralization as its candidate for President? The thing is too absurd to survive the discussion and exposures of the five or six weeks which will intervene before the meet ing of the Baltimore Convention. The fatal bar to Mr. Greeley's claims as a Democratic candidate which we are now about to present, will kill him off as soon as it is fairly considered. No Republican measure is so odious in Democratic estimation as the bayonet election law. It is centralization in its most detestable and intermeddling form. Mr. Greeley not only defended this odious law, but was its chief insti gator. He confessed its New York pa ternity in The Tribune, and acknowl edged that its main purpose was to con trol the elections in this. city. He was in active correspondence with the Re publican members of Congress from this State at the time of its passage, and he advocated and defended it in The Tribune with all the passionate fond ness of paternity. The monstrous, tyrannical bayonet election law was passed in the spring of 1S70; and The Tribune had elaborate defences of it in its editorial columns on May 19th, May 20th, May 23d, May 2Sth, May 31st, August 30th, September 27th, October 7th, October 11th, Octo der 2Gth, November 4th, November 5th, and November 6th, of the same year. We have not space to copy all those articles, nor even extracts from them ; but if we were to do so, and could get Democrats to read any con siderable portion of them, we are confi dent that no Democrat would ever vote for Horace Greeley unless he publicly recants and abjures all that he so vehe mently maintained in the numerous articles whose dates we have given. That infamous law which all Demo crats, both in Congress and out of Con gress, denounced as the most daring and insulting of all the outrages perpe trated by the insolent Republican par ty, is still in force ; and Mr. Greeley has given no sign that he desires its repeal. He could not express such a desire without humiliating himself and stul tifying the most prominent part of his record for the last two years. We may, at some time, think it expedient to re print ail that he said on the subject ; but his course in that controversy is too recent and well remembered, to make it necessary now, unless his supporters should have the hardihood to deny the record. Even that infamous law did not go far enough to suit him. He would have had it apply to all State and local elections as well as to the election of members of Congress and Presidential Wit and Humor. COKKESPON1M2XCE. The mother's heart the baby's 1st 2th. , Of all. the birds that please us with their lays, the most popular is tlie hen. "Bejabers," says Pat, who was born on the last day in the - year, "had I de layed a bit, where would I be?" w ny is nsn peaaiing, moral iv con sidered, an objectionable business? Be cause one sells what hfe knows has been hooked. An old sailor at thej theater said he suppossd the dancing: girls wore their dresses half-mast , as a mark of respect to departed modesty. Addie Ballou married a jeouple at Terre Haute, Ind., last week, and in the nuptial lecture told them 4 'cradles were cheaper than divorces." Agricultural pursuits may be very ennobling and humanizing,! says The New York World; but. for all that, it will hardly answer to make the Presi dential race a Ho-race. " ' i : iv Chinese thus describes a trial in English courts: "One man is quite si lent, another talks all the time, and twelve wise men condemn the man who has not said a word." i The last invention :is a scarecrow. Not only does it frighten away crows, but they are so alarmed that they usu- any bring oacK any corn they may have stolen prior to the establishment ot the said scarecrow. A brief statement of Darwinism : There was an ape in tbjo days that were earlier : I Centuries passed and his head became cur lier; i Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist luen lie was a man andsa Positivist. correspondent oh a liaitimore pa per wants to know why marriage and death notices should le paid for? For the best of reasons : ofie is an advertise ment of co-partnership, and the other is a notice of dissolution. Business is business. gives 4th joy at TheEJitorsmutnotboundcrsURxlasenaors- ln the MriHiraer.ts of their corri:sponJcui8. Communications on all snljects are ftolicltvd, which will be given Lo the readers of Thk Kra as containing the views aad w ntlment of the writers i Several people Whd have answered an advertisement promising a "correct likeness of yourself, imd your fortune told," for hlty cents, three-cent mirror, anel have received a informed that wn iortuncs by they can tell their counting their money. "Johney, where is yfur pa?" "Gone hshingsir." "He wasshshing yester day, was he not?" "Ifes sir." What did 'he catch?" "One catfish, the rheu matism, two eels, the toothache, and some little ones. Ma says he will catch fits to-day ; just wait til he gets home." The young lady inhabitants of the island of Hinia, in the Mediterranean, are not allowed to marry until they bring up from the, depths of the sea a certain number of sponges. Notwith standing this sponging business, divers couples are united in dissoluble bonds every week. j. A young lady who let her eye-lids drop on being spo"ken to tenderly by a young gentleman is anxious to recover them, and oners a handsome reward for their restoration. "A nautical tleman of her acquaintance assures her that they could not hav been properly lashed, or they would not have been lost. I Mrs. Agnes Bullock, at Virginia lady, recently cut a new set of teeth, though she is ninety-six years old. She was Republican 3Iass .Meeting and Harbccuc. To the I-Alitor of the Era : . ' Sir: One of thoso regular old times that make all the .frua.bluo Republicans! feel glorious, and our opponents foci as if they had been taking salts, cauio oll'at this p!a o on yesterday, j j At an early hour in tho morning tho towu began to fill, and' about ten o'clock Troy.w as certainly more popujous by several hun dred than ever before. The academy ground was filled with wagons loaded with eata bles, drinkables being : left out of tho pro grame, and under tho auspices of the innr- shal, two hundred feot of tables werouoon. groaning under a heavy load .of .-refresh- in cuts. , . ! In tho meantime an Immense Grant 'and Wilson llag had been raised, aud an audi ence of from 2,000 to 2,500 pooplo were lis-" tening to 44 words that burn" from tho j lips of Col. Henderson, of Davidson, and Hon.. Xeill McKay. Theso gentlemen held their audeanco uutil about 2 o'clock, when din ner was announced, and ah hour was passed in general hiliarity and good feeling. After dinner a vast crowd assembled in the Court House, and for tho space of two hours weut wild, with enthusiasm under tho eloquent, ministrations of our honored champion, lion. O. II. Docker v. ! . A night meeting was absolutory ncccss.'try to work off surplus steam, no part of which ; was generated in a still. Sterling ttpeochos .were made by Col. Dockery. Hon. Allen Jordan and others, and somo rousing cam paign songs were sung by Mr. U. A. Gra ham; and at a late hoir tho meeting adjourn ed, having gathered many into tho fold, and done much to roll up a tremendously increased majority next month for Grant and Wilson. , I cannot pretend to givo you an outlino of tho! speeches. Tho samo thunder will doubtless be heard many tiuies and oft bo- fore tho election, and some more ploaant quill than mino may hereafter assume tho task. Tbo day has been a memorable one in tiio annals ol our Uounty-scat, and must hereafter bo an interesting joint In its his tory. Republican. Troy, Montgomery Co., Oct. 5th, 1872. engaged splitting kindl the teeth which were dollars fell out of her mouth, and the axe dropped on them. says it will be a great ng wood, when worth sixty Her husband many years bc- Electors. The following extract from the article in The Tribune of May 31, 1870, shows to what lengths Mr. Gree- ey would have wished to go : "It is urged by the Democratic or 'gans that the law is to be enforced in 'State and municipal elections. This 4 is done to make it more obnoxious, 4if that be possible, to their party. Uhit, JCUNFORTUNATELY,-a 'this is an error. The law applies only ' to Presidential and Congressional elec tions, THOUGH WE HEART 4 ILY WISH IT COULD BE MADE 4 TO APPLY TO ALL OTHERS."- We think it needless to multiply quotations in the same vein when this one is so unequivocal and explicit. The only fault Mr. Greeley found with the infamous and detestable bayonet election law was, that it did not go far enough. He "heartily wished" that it could have been made to apply to State and municipal elections! He thereby struck at the very roots of lo cal freedom, and proved that he is a more iutense and bigoted centraliza- tionist than even the overbearing Re publican Congress that passed the bay onet election law which so deeply moved and .incensed all honest Demo crats. Has Mr. Greeley repented? Has he renounced his opinion that the only fault in that execrable law put ting elections in the States under mili tary control, is, that it fell short of his wishes in not including all elections within its tyrannical provisions? He has not repented or recanted ; and until he does, we do not see how any Demo crat can bring himself to vote for this foremost apostle of despotic, domineer ing centralization, who was not only the most strenuous champion of the worst law ever passed by a Republican Congress, but asserted that even that odious measure fell short of his wishes. If Mr. Greeley will declare that he has changed his views on this subject. Dem ocrats may perhaps vote for him ; but until he does, they cannot entertain the question. o m- 1 t W-V AT screen iir. ureeiey irom .ueuiocruuc criticism : his, spasmodic zeal for am nesty, and his signing the bail-bond of ir rfcwis- But amnestv is a trivial fr6i the Northern elections on Tues- auesti0n, as there are now less than five (Liy, the 8th inst. I, j Robert Barnwell Rhett, of the old Charleston Mtrcury, has become Manag- lcrEditorof The Neic Orleans Picayune. hundred. persons who remain under disnhilitv to hold office under the XlVth amendment, and their disabili ty can be removed only by Congress. President Johnson exhausted the pow ers of the Executive on this subject. The following anecdote is related of Rev. Peter Cart-wright:- "He was preaching before the Nashville Confer ence, when the time-serving clergy man whose pulpit he occupied, seeing General Jackson standing in the aisle, leaned over and said in a loud whisper, 4General Jackson has come in. General Jackson has come in.' 4 Who is Gener al Jackson?' cried Cartwright in a voice of thunder, 4if he don't get his soul converted God will damn him as quick as he would a Guinea negro.' This did not convert-Old-Hickory at tho time, but it commanded his respect for hi3 monitor, and he treated him with the greatest coasideration ever af terward," . .- fore she gets another set to cut. Just as a traveler -was writing his name on the register of a Leavenworth hotel, a bed bug sallied out and took its way across the'bafge. The man paused and remarked : j44 I've been bled by St. Joe fleas, bittenj,by Kansas city spiders, and interviewed by Fort Scot gray-backs, but I'll beiblessed if I was ever in a place before where the bed bugs looked over the liotel register to find out where your room was !" A voung mother was in the habit of airing the baby's clothes at the win dow. Her husband did not like it, and believed if she saw her practice as oth ers saw it she would Mesist. lie so di rected their afternoon walk as to bring the nursery window into full view from the central part" of. town. Stop ping abruptly, he pointed to the oflend ing linen flopping unconsciously in the breeze, and asked sarcastically : 44 My dear, what is that display m our win dow V" 44 Why," she replied, 44 that is the flag of our union;" Conquered by this pungent retort, he saluted the flag by a swing of his hat!, and, pressing his wife's arm closer within his own, said, as they walked homeward, 44 and long may it wave." Old W- o!- in the Judge Old Dominion, is a character. Ho wai frequently lawyer, f legislator, judge and leading politician among the old time Whigs, of blessed memory; but, alas, like them, his glory has departed, and. like many otherb of his confreres, has's-one "where the woodbine twin- oth " Notwithstanding the loss of property, and the too free useof "apple jack," he maintained the dignity of ex -judge, dressed neatly, carried a gold headeti cane, and when ho had taken more than his usual ; allowance of the favorite beverage, he: was very pious, at such times always attending church, and sitting near the stand as erectly as circumstances would; admit, and re sponding fervently. . ! On one occasioa af Baptist brother was holding forth, with energy and unction, on the evils - of the times, and in one of his flights exclaimed, "show me a drunkard." ' The Judge rising to his feet, and un steadily balancing himself on his cane, said very solemnly : i "Here I am, sir, here I am !" . The Elder, though" fa good deal non plussed by the unexpected response, managed to go on wfth liis discourse, and soon warming to his work again, called out "show me a hypocrite! show me a hypocrite; !" Judge W again arose, and reaching, forward across a seat which intervened, he touched Deacon D on his shoulder with his cane and said: "Deacon D , why don't you re- l,spond? I did when they called mo I", j Mica. y To the Editor of the Era ; Sir : Enclosed I send you a specimen of Mica taken from oho of tho mines in Yan cey county. Thcro aro .now being forked in that county several largo mines profita bly land successfully.. Theso mines are said to bo uncommonly rich with this valuable ore, and if sullicient capital were employed it could bo mado a successful mining county that would coni-r petowith any -Mica mine North or South. Soapstono, Cbrundun and other gems, and ore, aro found most plentifully In jour, mountains. Why then go to South Amer ica and Arizona to seek our fortunes? ' ' SWANJTAJTOA. The Princess Salm-Salm, well-remembered on the Continent for her devotion to 44 poor Carlotta," has be come a convert to Catholicism, and, weary of fashionable .life and tho world's people, has entered a convent at Innspruck, in the Tyrol. By birth she is an American. Her namo was Agnes Leclercq and her life has been a rorriance. Atone time she was a circus rider. She saved her husband's life in Mexico, and got him restored to his mi kil reg itary rank in Germany. He was ed at Gravelotte at the head of his iment. . 1 A good many years ago a Kentucki an went to Cincinnati and drove a cart at low wages until he had saved up $700. With this ho bought a barge- load of coal, which sunk at tho landing the night it was delivered, and he had to sell it for $100. The party who bought it failed before paying, but fi nally compromised by giving two and a half acres of land for the debt. The land is now in the business centre of Cincinnati, and is worth over $1,500,000 to its owner as tho price ot that load oi coal. itemarkingou tho recent unsuccessful at tempt of a man to swim ocn-ss the English channel, The London Times says that sev enty years agoi threo men, convicted of a political offense, ..to escapo punishment swain from Calias to Dover. One wa drowned, the Other two landed on the beach, ono in an utter statu ol exhaustion, irom "which ho'didd; tlie third lecovered and lived for several years. In the last report of the Massachusetts la bor bun ait it is stated that tho great C;brta cle in tho way of woman's success as a wago laborer is found in tho lack of motive con sequent upon her expectation of being mar ried. The girl of fifteen or sixteen looks to but1 three or five years of wage service, and tho earnings of those years are only ex pected to add to the attractions that shall shorten this period. r . Hie Pall Mall Gazette hays that after thoir expulsion from Germany the Jesuits of tho Rhine provinces will go to Holland and ; Belgium, .where they will remain for a time, and then go to England and America. Most of the Jesuits of Silesia have already set out for Galicia, where the establishments, of the order yet exist, I "My son,"! said a! man of doubtful morals, putting his hand upon tho head of a young urchin, "I believe sa tan has got hold of you." "1 believe so too," replica tne Doy. A printer's devil in an Omaha news- nanpr nfflf WAS bitten DV a dOCT SOmO days ago. After lingering several days;, death put an end to the sufferings oi he dog. 4 - t -.. 1 -