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' - ' Local advertisements 35 cents a line. ' Address, ; ' ' I : . - : QH AS. Ii GRADY, : , -,,Editor,.w : -Wilmington, N. C. CITY. We call attention ti the advertisement of Messrs. Parsley & Co., In another column. . IX Mjers C.1 wish thJ public fi$ es pecially notice tnefr iate? itnpoftafions of Wines and Liquors. The "favorite" flour is still a favorite and Messrs. Myers & Co. have a large stock on baud. ' Geo.-Myers haa rece another large shipment ot flour and groctrics of various kinds by the Lorillard's line ol steamers. . x " -"- . m ' ' .' -..-A What did the Democratic:, party ever do to educate the children of the people ? What has the Republican party done? Let the people answer. ' We will give a vei'yltitistic and reada lile report ot Professor Ruekerts ; concert in our next. It haa been crowded ouf by the ku klux testimony. ; L The business on the wharf seems to ba getting brisker,' and the good Lorillard line ot steamers under the very able man flgemeht of Barry Brothers are a credit to the city as well as their owners. : 3iechahics look out for our "Labor Re- "I- forni" column. . It will be a feature of the Post hereafter. Able contributions from intelligent mechanics and business men will appear with buch select and original mat-J ter us the editor can furnish, i "; Isatn Scott and James Lorn ax give notice that Amy 'Hooper's funeral service will be preached Sunday, May 22d, and the Steam er Sam will leave , Wilmington for. Piney Bluff at . eight., o'clock. Tickets j can be purchased at Wm. McLaunn's, No. 10 Front street.' o . . - -- ' --i: ' - ' "! 5 '. The bold stand taken by Judge Russell to briDg evil doers to justice, will commend him to the favor of-every honest ,citizen-;en gardlcss of party. "We give up considera ble space to the' matter because of the mis representations of the ka klux press in this city; , -. . r Tr iV'- Af -t-. tfz n ' Education.- TWe 'apmoch the time when Mr, Blake will close? his . schools for the season causes us to consider the present cjondition of those - schools and the great good accomplished. Probably Mr. Blake has the largest colored school in the coun try, numbering oyer five hundred pupils. The scholars are taught: all the needful branches, and the progress made preves that much may be learned in an industrial school as in - some so-called "uni versities." The tnortl effect of education can be discovered in the immediate taeighborhood of the ckool buildings. A place not the most se lect in the world has become as orderly and correct' as any other part of the city. Parents hive leanied irom their children , the neces sity of cleanliness and industry and the great mission of industrial school system has been proven, even Jn. the classic region of 'Dry Pond." I 7 Those Ku Klux. Bonds, The Journa man says that the men from Sampson coun ty, now in our jail, chargedr with ka klux ing, were required to give bonds in the sum . ot $8,000. Nor;; upon inquiryv welearn i that the tact is that they were: required to v gite bail in $3,000 in each cask There wert f fotir cases fourr 'different 'bill's of indict ment. It was, understood that tacht man . could' give a bond in $2,000 for his own appearance, or .that-they could all gire.the same bond for the sum pf $2,000? So , that the whole eight were ; alio we'd to g.ivc one bond in the, aumj otr$2,000. :W don't think inis is a matter of any consequence, and we . 0nly mention it to show ho w utterly false and iDBcrupuIous these ku Jclnx newspapers ere. Suppose they had been held to bail in $8000 Wht of it? Don't every decent man feel that tten who are charged with ' breaking open bouses in the night, going about, disguised nd beating wbcttetflien'they are indicted ' ivrnich, unfortunately, does not often hap Pa), ought to be compelled to appear and uaer before the courts? " ' in. I . - V T'flil lift 1 v M m X x a Last Sunday aEe? Baptist Banks baptized several convert and, fachedia-jTeryjir! rinff sermvn- tola very large audience Numbers lined. the wharf and tops of ad joining bail din gs-rf some sent t in.boata; and listened in rapltteritiorito all broth ei Banks remaikedTOne boat- contained. the great Gee Zee and tbatf r'Heathcnf Chinee, the collector, both of whom were deeply impressea,' -anasome ssy iiopeiawyw con verted. If-B. B. could only preach a little around the ; court.- b.ouse-whe- knows but that yjlejstiflinncXmtafui James" might hi II ' Wc should be "lad.to, haTe our Demo cratic papers lCfLafnptheTe-iiJ;7eA eating the people) give an authoritatite de nial to the aVlegCionsrotlir. Luce. pid Mr. Luce receive' threatening letters in consequence i his cnorts to educate tue children of both tv bite and' black in bis enjpUy tfiechoefs for' each being kept distinct,anpjjate ? q ' Ui Diet the 'Episcopal Minister . (anex-con-federatevldieTy-who'sopt-rintended the schools r;eive threatening letters ? v i ; Were any of the scholars .maltreated i Were the schools broken up ? Let "our working classes understand that all this wag Democratic work in the iron regions of Western North Carolina, and ? then s reflect that the Democratic papers here openly oppose the education of 5 the working classes, saithough very anxious that - the working cl asses shoul d .Vote tb e Democrat ic ticket. ; r y'-;':uj- " dil, Tim carefully prepared wjjort ; of' the trial of two of the men charged' with going about committing d exhibits some curious r- things 'to : which ww invite the , careful attentioh of Ikt'oar readers.' -jv .w.'u-M'ri , tilrydzCJi r-rt First!lt deGstrates beyond the shadoir of !a doabt ttrrAttdtiehij. d isguised j ineii jlmTfibeen ; committed (pm Sampson cotibtWiad'' ::.AYH .v V Second, : Thiit.l&lj the innocent ones hare been taken.' Jridjje Russell issued a bench warrant for the arrest of six men. Fonr of them cannet be foac ad 1 tbiis l are all crearly'identified wittftbe murder" "by the evidence. The other two, the innocen onesv are arrested and of course released, t Where is the famous Sampson mounted police ? How could a man nearly dying from a gash in bis skull peaetrating his brain.'and Tvell Icnbwn'toong the people, . ' till rti r' .-t-jf- t f . escape and. no sign .. discovered to indicate his whereabouts ? ! We . think a few United States troops would do good in Sampson county. :: : : - Board op Aldermen. An adjourned meeting of the Board of Aldermen was hela 'Monday evening, His Honor, Mayor Martin, presjding. ' Ti ' The Committee ri r Public Buildings re com mended that a Market" House be erected on Seventh and Castle streets. Report re ceived and recommitted to fame Cdinmitr tee, to fix location :and ascertain cost. ." HH. R. Pertin ;was granted permission to build a wooden building, with tin roof, on the corner of Second street and Vance alley.. ": . l Petition for a gas tamp corner Fourth! street and Cottage Lane wa cfranted. ' . Petition ot sundry citizens for action by the Board relative to the propriety ol Ho ing the sale of milk on Sunday a(ternoons, was not granted. v ' v ' . Petition of citizens residing hear the; intersection of Second and Walnut streets, for the removal of certain dangerous build ings on Southwest confer of that intersec tion was referred to . Committee Jon ,Fire Department; with pother tof6i;t? Aldermen Barry j Chadbourn and Kel logg, Special Committee relative to trial of City offences, reported it inexpedient to make any: change as to the present mode of trial of violations ot the City Ordinance, and recommended that the existing arrange ment be continued, until an appeal in the matter shall cause the law to be decided, and that; until such decisidd,rEdward CanU well, J. P., shall draw froa, the City Treas ury a sum not exceeding, $3,209 per tannm, and thatl)aflines?cb pifrf lUtp Treasury. Adopted. :i : q. y rlt was Tesolved 'that the bg ordinance be not ; enforced east ef Tenth, nerth of Nixon, 'and ?6uth of Dawson street, nor wesi of tbefriTer. I A special Committee of five, consisting Ot tue uommiuee on r ire xrcparuneni, me City Marshal, and the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, .vas appointed with authority to organize a Company, not to exceed Ymv0Simfb'. charge of the new steam fire engine, contracted for by the city, and, upon the organization of said company to disband all hand "engine com panies, except that of the Brooklyn. ''The Dog Ordinance of last ear iraser dered enforced onWiMtexUunelEt. Petition for aF ballast walk: onVett side of Seventh street,' between Ann' and Nob, and for a -lamp in Nthi same locality, was be brougto4btealityj sense of um pim nm mm granted. 7 i-1 The Ku Klux. On Tuesday two-white imenu Jackson and RoyAl, ,vof Samp aorf dnntfV' were-lfrbughV beTore Judge Russell, charged wnlaaQKlux murder in that cqunty:j After, hearing thberidence the Judge 1 said ttiar,'?as to T Jackson, it elearly appearedlfat he 'was not guilty and that as to the., other, the, State, had. not made out a sufficient case. Of course they were dis'chkrged whereupon the Ku Klux bugleman oi the Journal makes a consider able blow and flaunts it as.a triumph of his party. He conceals ail the truth;, and suggests all the falsehood that is imagina ble; , He says not one word about the ;evi dence not ene. . word-abouU the terrible murder 4ofytrm3pfb .his own bonier and in the presence of his wife, and littlo, ones not ne.worjd 0UJ vte disguised rascal3 wuof on that" very' night, besides this murder, took out several men - ! I . from their houses, and. scourged them. M$t this appeared in the, evidence, as we are in-" ' t til l , .1 vVi,, -!i.' - - iormea by our -reporter who was present tnd reported the case we publish yethe has'af bad time'itQietit be; known even the tfew who read his rjarjer. Whv didvnt h&Ml hiU fJea.der8nthit: there were mix men charged 'in the same warrant and that only these two were taken? Why did'nt he publish the fact that the evidence established the guilt of every one of thorn except the two who were taken and that those others had got out. of the way so that the Sheriff could not catclf thtm ? TOE SA 51 PS ON OUTRAGE. A Fall Report of the Examina tion. ....... t ..... " TVlO mat OTfitniriont manifaeforl Kit oil classes of onr citizens, to know the partic nlars of the Sampson county outrages and . - . - - - tberexseaafor Judge Russell's action in the matter, lias '.caused us to give a full report of the preliminary examination of the pris oners, and we -frnst the publicity given to this matter will lead to proper measures for future protection ct men, seemingly perse cuted en account ol political opinions. The revelations made are nofef a character re assuring to tnose seeking our State tor homes or . investment bfcapitalt and mdny who have: not; sympathized with Mr. Phil lips when he declared our people "political children," will be too ready to believe tire doctrine, that certain classes "never become adult." Certainly conservatives who de serve the name Will now arouso and use every exertion to save the reputation or the State, if jjot of. their party, now trained by complicity with murderers and midnight assassins. It is not tob'late to undo all the mischieft done.Letuevery'gcTod citTzen; read GoTrqor,Cal well's proularrmtiun t published in this issue, of .the ,Post and being fully Convinced of the necessity of prompt action rally to sustain the efforts of the executive and put down violence and violent men. Prelimipary examination before his Honor Judge Russell, on a bench warrant, against Charles Turnidge, Bryant Uollinjjsworth, James Anders, Frank Hargrove, Hardy Koyal and Lewis Jackson. The .two -t last named; Royal and Jackson, were produced beiore Hit Honor the Sheriff returhed that tha others could not be found. The; first itness called was Dublin McLaurin, who after being sworn said : ' - v My name is Dublin McLaurin: X.Uyc in Sampson pounty, on iBlrGeary'a lanl Son day night before last a lot of men came to my house; my wife waked me up, and they were cursing about the house. I thought there was only three of them when I peeked outf they tQid-mejt put my gun out over the crack of the door,H and I did it; they then told me to hand out my ax, and I did that. Three men came into the house; one bad a dfincejon, fcaliedjit;! one' was' a tall man, he had on a kind of a calico coat that looked like a woman's skirt; I thought one of them was Mr.Hollinsworth, They carried me off and whipped me they gave me six licks. Whenr we parted they told jae to go back to my house and go to work. ,There is tiothing else, only they whipped ny boy the same night. When they left Cie they stopped in an old field; in about an hour and a halt -I heard Mr. Darden's ftegs barking. Next"dayI went over! and taw the tracks, which they went over to Mr. Darden's: .that's where they whipped my boy; his name was Aleck. I live about two miles from Mr. Barbaras; his name is Allen. The aen were on foot; I never seed no hor tes. A8 near as Iould see, after I got out, I seed about twenty men around, the" bouse; I thought there were only three tin til they tied ; mei 1 wanted, my bat and called for itf my wife put it on my head. They never told me what they whipped me for; : It was i in an old field. 1 tollo wed tne tracks where they went back to 'Darden's. They asked oe where Dardexr lived; asked me where my ions weren '(I told )tbi !one was gone iSshing and the other was at Aunt' Lucy's house. Alked me if I knew of any 2 black man's having a gu?:iJ lpy hunted, ajl about lot kmy Doy, and looked no ln.thejQtt tprmmuriI BirbaraVis ne my liouse; th'eyiivi In different! directtonsl' 1 ThisappenedJatB Jn'tJje.iiightTbe moon r$ late and was aboufeas the sun gets at breakfast U me, bieh'i. I xnlyi see tone ghn fnhetpy. 7 It was a deubU'.ibaxirWdm ed gun. NJearly: evfryfrone;vof Utem,Vld. fDistols. some ot them were bier ones. load - I .1 l!l. ii 1 . u . . eu ii&e mey couia saooc six or aeven , times. borne bad what I call dough faces on seme hicliiewspaperWtheif-.ia handkerchiefs on . ieir 1 fab&iTb: took for Horiin3erth7h"ad no mask : on; He had a bun4iepifswitchea . Thel man! thought was Royal 'came to the door. I think it was him. Have known him agood while. 1 am not mistaken about Hollings-; worth. He was right along' and I looked back at him and the men said what are you looking at ? He got near me and his Ted beard and hunk shoulders was just like him. I swear that I think Royal was with themV butJ I may be mistaken That is him in the; box; They ' talked" 1 curious so I ceuld'nt rightly tell about their voice. I thought it was him I might be mistaken. I don'f think the man I teok for Royal had anything oyer his face. I was flustered. . ., . ' CROSS EXAMINED. I am certain- there was a big crowd I had gone to bed, I was frightened, ; but when they came into the house, it made me think of old times, the long high man came in first. -Bryant Hb'lingsworth was one -I might be mistaken as to Royal, ,t won't swear to any of them point blank, but I am more sure of Hollingsworth. than Royal. Royal had no disguise uuless he had a handkerchief in his mouth. I was scared when they came in, it seeme'd like old time patrolling. It seemed like death with gun and pistols pointing through! the cracks. They struck mc. about six licks. I never saw a horse in the company Next daylj follpwedthTtracks tb the branch, there were a good many of them, that was on the road to Giiilford Dardens. The tracks I followed, went to Aunt Lucy's house on Dardens land. ; Sarah Darden sworn; My name is Sarah Harden,., Handy Darden was my husband. He was killed Saturday night week. It was on Mr. Allen Darden's land about 300 yards from Hall's school house. My hus band and I and the children lived in the house. They came about three hours before day, and called him a great drove of themv They t61d him to come out, and he said what do you want with me? They said " come out." He would'nt go. Then they said they wanted his gun. I got up and so did Handy, and he put the gun out to them through the crack ever the door. Then they went off a little wy and got:in a crowd and talked together. Then they came back and said make up a light,. for we want your ammunition. Handy said I haiut got na ammunition. : Then they said you are a d d liaiy and cried open the door. I opened the door and they j irked it and broke it all to pieces. Then they came in with the pistols and commenced firing. I got out of the door and seen Handy running along as they fired. I heard a man say have we killed! him and another said, "Yes, G d d nj him." I felt I must go to my husband, and I went to the house and the children said he was over there. I went there, and there lay my husband, dead, in the planted ground. I cried and hollowed, and held him up and fanned him and brushed him, but he ! was dead. I then went to Mr, Barbara's. When I came back7 my oldest gal said "Mammy, Pappy '. struck a man With, the ax. I looked at the ax and it was all bloody, the. tall man had a mask on. He went to tie Handy and I made such a fus3 that an other man pointed a pistol at me. They had pistols. There Were three men at the back door, one of them had a gnn which was the only gnn I saw. Ihe ax Was very bloody-- the edge looked like it had chop ped something and pulled it ! right out, the mask I saw was a red one, when the man put the pistol to my neck, I ran out as fast as I could. I was so scared! didn't see whether they were masked or not, Handy would have got off if he could, when the tall man took off his mask he handed it to another man and ea I knew him to be Hargrove, I didn't see who shot Handy, there are lots of heles in the planks and floors; I saw no horses or horse tracks, they were all shoe tracks. I saw them go right off after Handy was killed. I felt so bad and hollered so loud that my eldist gal said, "don't mammy, they'll come back agin.- .!?s , - : ,- I first, thought it was 3Ir. HargroTe, bet he had a fair skin and Hargrove has a dark skin. He caught me looking at his face and so he kivered it up the children thought it was him too. We tracked them rom the way they oamc; they came ; the langand went back the lane. I tracked them to the end of the lane, to Hall's school house.' I don't' know any of these men, Lewis Jackson or Hardy Royal. I never went put among nobody only stayed right there !ft r. 11 fit . tt , v 'ij. :$nuin pieman .tpok .jjia maskiXff-rIieras a man hatihink goV hurt; V rPkZ Wv iCrinDardenp man7 Vas my fatljeri j ft seejt i paf pyi rwhen !,?ck thf ,taJlsjrwiOirfaitskfn.He F 1 ocard, "J. saw the man when he mve way give way to go out. I don't know where he was hit; ft? was about the "head ' eomewhere. i man I knew. and Jus. nam was Jim An ders. . Tiere!85 no ntti&tnke f about" him; I seed lum certain., II used to work fe ' ' CROSS-EXAJCINATieN. it-'. This happened about 5 hours before day. I only knew one man in the crowd. He did'nt come slam inside, but he just come to the door B;e hard on his hat, but don't know, hew het was dressed. ;i just saw his face in the moonshine. n J reckon the moon was about 3 hours high: I know Jim ' An ders well-I worked witW birdr1 : " ' ? I aeverseen, no horses. 1 1 was asleep when they came. They wake me up,' cus sing and a beating and a knocking at the door.? ' ;' . .:'ti,X'' : - . Dr. James H.j Darden sworn. I live in Sampson county. Am not a practicing physician no w.f l I live about 9 or 110. miles from Mr. Barbara's. . I am.abut as near ss By phyBiciairrircka.I am not person ally acquainted with a man named Tornf idgeJ' I have seen himi tie -came!: to" my hfuse about atweek ckme with tim . He was wounded in the headt It was bleediag freely and 1 had a bandage on. 'Ipnt,a coBpresSt' on and told Jackson to take " hina h'omrf jr. 'jacksen: lives ar rlmyXhoussJ Hargrove- said he granted to go tb 8eehisannt;and soIasked Mr J Jackson as a favoiV .take jMrTurni idge home? who said he . h&t.:&&t$ by a horse. Hargrove said the same thing It was, about. sjs-hour by : sun when they eame to my house. I live between 7 and 9 miles from Barbara's.. Jackson lives close to me. I sent Isaac, a freedman, for Jack- son. He took a buggy and said he would take him home. " I did'nt xaminA tha wound as fie aMeeing saeyi.s'andr' had nor instrpmenrsnd; 'so ; jnst; put on a compress, . I dosft know personally ..where Jackson was when die vas rresteci. ct think hej wasonthe rpad, coming home. His cbarapfer is good.as; a moral, nprigfat man.1 Hargreve's name is Frank. Don't know i where hei is now. I don't know whether there was a 1 cut or not on Turn idge's .head.' There.was. a temporary band age on itt and I did'nt remove it. He said a horse kicked him at James Anders'.1 He did'nt say where itwas, and I never asked him. Jacksou came back. He took Turn idge in Hargrove's buggy and his horse. I know nothing about Handy Darden's mrirder, . ' ; ' :; ' : CBOSS-EXAiitNED. , I live about 8 or 9 miles from A. Bar- bara'si and it was an hour by sun on Sun day morning; a T wck" ago, when this wounded man -was brought ,to ny. house. I am!. not practicing, and had no instru ments to dress the wound, and so I did'nt remove the bandages. Ho was quite laint. Hargrove eaid he wanted some person, to take him" home, and. I said I reckoned Jackson' would takO hims (He left his horse at my house said his; was very tired and asked Jackson to takehfs.Jf Hargrove walked on to his house. Jackson lives at Mrs.t BellV;: he mtrried her daughter, and all live together within 200 yards of my House. '-Tf ;I ;' '; 1 " Dr. Henry Faison. sworr, :H I live in Duplin conn tyr-about a? mile from Samp son couaty lineabout 15 tniles from where the murder was committed. I saw Turn idge at his: house last Sandaywee He Was suffering terribly Iron hemorrhage, &e., by wound in his head' A4 Begrot cams' for me from Giddensville. The darkeis said that Jackson was t taking Turnidge horns and .wanted me ta go on and see him, I have not seen him since. This was evidently a cut on the head.0 'He said he was kicked by a horse at Mr. Anders'. . asked him how he rnanaged to'get a wound on his head, in Irish a poiiticn, and he said he was leaning over and playing with a colt when the marej kicked him. lit ,f wai a severe wound to the brain. , I removed some bone. I have understood since' then Turnidge had left the county. I am not the nearest phy sician, but have doW heJ)racti4e in tjiat section of countryjf or twenty ddyearsi?t i; In going from Dr Darden's to Tomidge's we go by GiddtnilItfi i 7xrt 3 Biles from where fiarbslralj I i m, - warcalled there : lasrSuadaki ; t have knewn Jackson t from his infancy J He is a goodt1 induatrions, hard working young' man" l- , w: -i.-'i -wikhrt : :;V"' Jndge Russell here remarked- that he saw nothing in the evidenccJcriminating Jack son, and as the evidence clearly snowed his connection with Tnraidge; ' Jicksen was discharged. 'VH'' John Giddons iworn. I know a nan NQrJOS'.' uamccr 1 nrniage; he come to my honse on,,, thay f rpm-Dr: Dardensfhouto where Turnidge; jzi::t take him the rest of the wayut I waa ait eent-r live at GiddensVilleV IfrTumidgef was there Saturday night 1 didnot seeldm., Nocross-examinationr; " . J , Dr. Faison recalled. Turnidge is a ma Turnidge had some beard or monstache iV lari I stated that the' W'eund was a cut I V AXA :i. --l i - ' ' .' "' ' didnot say it was made byEab'r w.whaVu a kick from a horse neWiy shod mi eht nri. drice a cut. . i :i:u::r-'j; ? Col. Devane movedJscharge ot Har dy Royal from this charge which was all lowed by his Honor.. ? ktd -yjip i Boyal was then remanded to jail toAtt: swer. the indictments found-against him in SarapBOn court, at our next termrto beheld June 5th, prox. LETTERS PROM THE l'EOPlV3i . Mb. editor : Again the Star toldeth its moral cloak about i ts digninecl shoul ders and, like brother Picksniff, 'rolls up its holy eyes and groans at "Godl1' New Enff- land. As nine-tenths of all the wealthy or , kniinaia: in.. f iL!. ! i. 111. W y ' ' viw9 ucu ui iuw ciiy are ennei XanK9 or but one generation Iron the riae, ire think the remarks are in bad tastt,'ta&t&ta we don't care. Poor absurd G Idly" ITsW England. After such a artling attack; yen will cease writing school books and dictionaries, , and send your sons to North Carolina to be educated. It will never do to live In New, England .any more. Fare Well old Granite Hills t Mi ,; Mr. Editor: At Waterioo there is a monument, "To the glorious dead of the British army," and then fellows an inscrip tion of the names of IfcEe-oera, t Where upon Thackeray, in one of his essays, holds' up. to view the intense conceits and selfish ness which would thus name some ot the fallen brave. He asks, were there no pri vate soldiers? Did these officers defeat the enemy, and is this all ot her sons that E up land lost? If not, why mention some and ljnoro oihrs, oven though more )llimll. iu rank. , Surely a poor man's life is'as dear to him as to our richer or more nobly born, r Do our mechanics, our nrtizans and pur laborers who attended the last memorial celebration see here anything analogous to the treatment of the services of themselves, ancl their fallen relations. Stranger. ;? f .Grand Army of the Kopnblic. In spite of repeated, denials, in this city and elsewhere, the democratic papers will pcrist in asserting that the "Grand Army of the Republic" is a "Rudicar.' institution. Wljilc we have great , respect for Radicals 5we;must -disclaim 'their c6nncct.fon with thcvw G. A. R.rt ' The f eccnt action of 'the Boston Convention shows, Wliat every member knew before, that thd discussion, pi! political ques- tions is strictly prohibited by;the rules of ' the order, and even Gen. Grant, cannot'di yert it from its firm; foundation. -Even in his city - the G. ;A. R. j numbers among its members anti-Radicals, but the question of parties never comes up. : ; ; We do not see how it ia possible for any man who served ia the ,late war ia the U. $, Army or Navy to be aoytbinI but a Re publicah. Surely, the action of the j demo cratic party wou Id give'thein sufficient dis gust were they inclined -' that Stay before, and therefore the great majority ot the G. ' A. R. are staunch Republicans, bnt the or der has never taken part in politics or re ligion.; ' . . Let the Star and Journal take notice, sow and forever, the Grand Army ofthr Hk public is not a political organization, never . as leent and -we do not think it ever will be. G. A. R. " ir '( ' Monsieur Editor ; I vas von lettles Dulchmans, and' vasts myself to work at nottings dat improves my minds and throws aside my present du ties sawing wood lor the more nobles tc Cupation of de printer of de newspaper. I dinks I comes mit you for my board and clothes de first week, and'solbn raising de price de second week if you prefer it, or I will cemmence de second weeks on de ssas responsibility, as you choose. Yen I vas in New York, some twesty years a go, attending upon de garbage et sthreets, ; I just steped in de ; 2Te w , Terk Worlct4 6ffice as de bon ion of de Bowery wonld say--Mshied my cutor" I ,was in formed dat all de do nothing places were filled up, , and ash my friend Bennett fold ' me, "precluded de possibility of ray enter ing upon the road to fame." So I returned upon de road of Broadway in my former capacity; Everydings conspire; te ' makes baa prinder.- My lettles cu,sht teld all. de frows about, dat I wonld make ay mark ia dis world ot sin and. hard-wotk, as I had f marked every ding she has mit ink all ever. " Dea fellers Tat setts dem types for .you must be' awful smart. .Ven dey setts types , dey reads allde nobspapers before he is got in prints snd much time to consider and" ' conjest the, paints. aDey learn for to 6pell read and many other dings dat comes out -side ot my phness. 1 wants to learn all dia , and everydings more, and sc-me day I learns . to write and spell likes my Prusian friend, about six feet high, rather-darkcomple y ? ion; he is not a fair complexion; Hargrove 7 is much darker than Turnidce: I think R---i' n-r . ... -. 1 . 1 1 '1.: '.