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THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL
WILMINGTON. NC
Friday, APniajjm:
In Congress,
two addition-
Iowa, Michi-
tbrec additional
of Illinois four
A.i.iitinnal Representation
Cobubn. of Indiana, made an attempt to
introduce a bill for additional "Presenta
tion into the Homo last Monday, but the
New England and Middle States Radicals
refused to suspend the rules, fearing, as
the New York Herald says, that the new
elections might add to the Democratic
strength in the House, Conuia s bill pro
posed for the States of Alabama. Arkansas,
California, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi,
New York, North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Tennessee and Virginia, each, one
additional member. The States of Gcor-
!a Kansas. New Jersey, rcDujiu",
" ' "
Texas and Wisconsin, each,
The States of
gan and Missouri, each,
members, and tho Stato
additional members.
La Reimbllque Rouge.
It does Bccm a strange fatality that
everv time the friends of trao republican
government in France have Ecen, as they
thought, a fair opportunity to establish it,
soma fanatics and demagogues, assuming
to be the real republican party, have pro
claimed doctrines and committed acts
niiAu mf xvna tn drive back at once all
niivow vuwus is
iVi men of moderation with all the sup
porters of order to tho shelter of a strong
crovernment, either juonarcny or xaupirv.
t ;a o-ewipnt. that the same result must
noon haDnen acain, and in view of the pre
sent state of affairs, the sooner the better.
It has been asserted that great eities aro
ulcers on tho body politic. Nowhere has
that saying been verified so completely as
in France. It is only in Paris and Lyons
that Socialism, with its pernicious doc
trines, has established a strong foothold.
Even in Marseilles and Bordeaux it never
gained mnch ascendancy ; and at present
the socialist insurrection seems to bo con
fined to Paris alone.
It is hard to tell exactly what are the
purposes of the insurgents, or their griev
ances. Ferhaps the squib of the Paris
Charivari " during the insurrection of
1819, would hit off the present situation as
well. That paper published the lonowing
decrae as emanating from tho " RepuUi
que Sociale et Democrat ioue " of that day.
Art. I. Everything is abolished.
Art. II. There is no longer anything.
Art. III. Everybody i3 charged with
the execution of this decree.
Signed, Louis Blanc, Flccon and a good
many other names now figuring again up
on the decrees of tho Commune of Faris.
Really, if it were not for the misery and
bloodshed, tho crashing of shells among
women and children, the loss of life inflict
ed upon each other by citizens of the same
country, the present insurrection would be
a hugo farce, an absurd mockery, hardly to
be explained upon any other hypothesis
but epidemic insanity. Bat unfortunate
ly, it is mingled with enough of terror to
make it a fearful tragedy. At tho last ac
counts the insurgents were claiming a
success, and tho government was waiting
for reinforcements. To our mind, it seems
utterly impossible that such an insurrec
tion can succeed in extending it3elf, even
though it meet a, transitory success. Our
reason for thinking so is this : The insur
rection is avowedly Socialistic. Now, So
ci alism has multitudes of adherents in the
large oities, more in Paris than anywhere
else, among those immense masses of me
chanics of all trades, who, on account of
tho density of population and tho compe
tition of trade, are obliged to work for
wages bo small that they can never accu-1
mulate any property. The utmost that
they can do is barely to subsist. Even the
be3t paid, skilled mechanics under the
most favorable circumstances, can only, as
a general thing, acquiro a little household
furniture ; and this ho loses as soon as
work fails him, or ho is taken sick. It
must go to the pawnbroker's or the auction
block to buy bread. Such a thing as an
artisan being enabled by his labor to
acquire, in time, a little house and a piece
of land, and to look forward to rest and
comfort in his old age, as we aoo every
day around us in this country, is almost
unheard of in Europe. This is why Com
munism makes so many proselytes- in the
great manufacturing cities. The work
men, living from hand to mouth, aro very
ready to listen to tho demagogues who
preach to them a division of propctty, in
which they havo nothing to lose and every
thing to gain.
But in tho country, among tho agricul
tural population, who form by far tho
great majority of the nation, a very dif
ferent feeling prevails. In the first place,
the peasant, while more ignorant than the
citv workman, is also less discontented
with his lot and less irritated by tho con
trast of wealth around him. But especially
the French peasants aro to a great extent
land owners. Sinco tho Revolution of
1779, the chief aim of a peasant's life has
been to acquire land. He will delve and
toil and starve himself so that he may but
purchase his acre or two, if no more. Thus
it is that while the entire landed property
of England has become concentrated in
the hands of 30,000 holders, that of France
is distributed among 15,000,000. Now, a
man may be a Communist 60 long as he
has nothing but once let mm te a pro
prietor, though it be only of a mud cabin
and potato jpatch ; then let Louis Blano or
Pyat or anybody else talk to him of
dividing with those who have nothing, and
he will reply with hi3 pitchfork or his
musket. This is human nature, and it
will prevail. The Rouges may keep Paris
in agony and terror for a few days longer,
but France will put them down with the
strong hand, and all the people will say
amen ! Let mercy be shown to tho de
luded masses ; but ia the name of civiliza
tion, ol religion, of national honor and de
cency, let there be stern retribution r'.ealt
out to those who, uneatiated with the un
paralleled calamities of their country,
have, without even a specious pretext,
ahed the blood ol their fellow-citizens and
brought dishonor upon the cause of liberty
w& the, name of their own nattye la&a l
I . a 1 J.t h. I 1
t TCnTomnnq OEoiinE At- bills were Democratic pariy dius, ana mas people.
17JCA1U V . - , . -
mnni,! ha tmac icrv ill ins iniriv lur hut iuuiuis uuvo j u ui.i
pnEwnrrE. We subjoin a letter from a i
friend in Lumberton, from which it will
bo soen that the above noted desperado
has at last met with a richly merited fato:
Lumbebton. N. G, April, 17, 1871.
Editor Journal: George Applewhite was
killed last night near Red Banks. A party
of citizens attempted his capture, which
he resisted, fighting till the lust. His wife
was with him at the time.
Information of tho above has just
reached this place, and the Coroner of the
county is summoning a jury.
George Applewhite, it will be remem
bered, was under sentence of death for
the murder of Sheriff King, o' Robeson
county. He was confined in the jail of
this county, but mado his escape with
several others.
We learn through other sources, that
Applewhite s uouy wa9 discovered near
the railroad perfectly riddled with balle
yesterday. It was impossible, we are told
to ascertain who had killed him. The
body was found by a negro namoJ Peter
McNair who near the place aleo discoveici
a large quantity of the joods recently
stolen from Capt. J. W. Piummer's store.
Convention.
Tho time ia approaching when the can
vass for the Convention will bo opened.
We have, while urging the Legislature to
provide for the call of a Convention, and
we believe that the Journal was the first
paper in the State to declare for it, given
our views at much length upon all tho
questions appertaining thereto. The
power of a majority of the Legislature to
refer the question of Convection to the
people, the absolute need of amending the
Constitution, the economy of eloing bo
throuch a Convention, have all been
thoroughly discussed in these columns.
At the proper time we will go over the
same grounds. In the meantimo wo will
gladly give our readers the benefit of the
views of others upon this important sub
ject.
We learn from the Raleigh Sentinel that
Hon. B. F. Mooke, the acknowledged
head and father of the North Caroiii
bar, has been urged by his friends to give
his opinion upon the constitutionality of
the act oallmg a Convention, and it is
hought that he will comply. His opinion
will certainly carry as much weight with
ho people of North Carolina as those of
tho individuals who composo the Supreme
Court. In the meantime we give the fol
lowing extract from the sworn testimony
of Mr. Moore before tho United States
Senate Outrage Committee, giving his
opinion upon the legality of the act :
Qaestiou, Ly Mr. Bayard. I will aak you in
regard to the Convention to reviae the Consti
tution of the (State of North Carolina, pre posed
to be called by the people of the State. In your
opinion, as a j urist, ia the act of the Legialb-tui e
lately passed lor that purpose constitutional and
legal, what is its object, and ia there any pur
pose to affect the liberties of tho colored people,
by drawing distinctions between the race not
now tolerated, or to invaae men- ri:us as
secured by the constitution and tho laws of the
United mates ?
Answer I havo heard and am acquainted
with the arguments in favor of the bill to allow
the people to call a Convention, and those against
it. 1 am satisuoa that the tiu is not calculated
nor was it intended to, and if it goes into effect
will not produce any conflict with or disrespect
of tie Constitution or laws of the United States;
but its entire eoopo and object were to reform
some ana some oniy or tue great political and
civil powers of the at ate government which had
been introduced in 180a, amidst times of con
fusion, through the overpowering influence of
men from other States who were members re
cently discharged from the United (States army
who knew nothing of and cared not for tho long
established usages and customs ox the people.
The present constitution is a msdly of con
fusions and contradictions; it is utterly subver
sive of our long established judtoial, municipal
and hnaaoial systems, in order the more clear
ly to show the strength of my convictions that
there was nothing criminal intended by the bill
I wiil give a brief synopeii of the arguments for
and aeamst tne dim.
Those who held that no Convention could be
called through the provisions of the bill say,
nrst, that the only mode by which a Convention
can be called is provided ty the present consti
tution, and that the mods provided has not been
followed for want of a two-third's vote of all the
members of eaoh house, in favor of the bill
Second, that the present State constitution was
submitted to Congress and accepted by it, and
therefore cannot be altered in any other mode
than that prescribed in it, inasmuch as there is
no reservation of powsr to alter the constitution
than by the mode presented.
Those who favor the plan provided by tho bill
say that the mode proposed is not forbidden by
the constitution of the State, and that the mode
specified in the constitution refers only to amend
ments mado through the legislature ; that there
is no prohibition in tho constitution against the
direct vote of the people upon the question
directly is not prohibited by-tho constitution
and therefore is not in conlliot with that
instrument. They say that by tho cmsti
tution cf the State all powers are declared
to reside with the people ; that Congress
ia accepting the constitution did not intend to
restrain or limit the exercise of such powers,
provided such exercise was consistent with the
constitution and laws of the United States; and
that any attempt or provision by one convention
to prevent a free expression of opinion by the
people another day is null and void, because such
prohibition is beyond the powers of a convention;
and that whilo it may he both proper and con
stitutional to restrain action by the legislature
upon the subjeot, there is no power which can
forever shut the mouths of a injority of the
people against their wish io alter their consti
tution; that if this was so a new State with a
small population framing a constitution for ad
mission into the Union and suitable to its then
condition, might be forever restrained by its iirst
convention from a change of that constitution
unless by a unanimous vote of all the people or
all the members of the legislature; and there
fore they say that a majority of people can in
that way bo xu more forbidden to alter
their fundamental law, than can a legisla
ture forbid another to repeal a mere legislative
enactment ; and they say, also, that while they
do not pretend to provide lor a legislative
amendment of the constitution, because that is
forbidden, unless in a certain way, btill they may
lawfully proviJe the machinery whereby the
qualified voters ot tbe Btate may declare their
will ; aud the will of the reople being so ascer
tained they the people may make their will
tbe law of the land, and abrogate an existing
law which they dislike.
Such are the arguments. I am un
able to perceive in either tho ono or the other
any criminal purpose to impair the constitution
or laws of the United States. I &m satisfied
that thero exits no such diiloyal purpose. The
reason I have given so extended an answer is
that Bince I have been here I have seen in a lead-
inrr paper in this city, the Daily Chronicle, the
insinuation that the whole purpose and object
of the proposed State Convention in North Caro
lina was to beget a disloyal and insurrectionary
sentiment in North Carolina.
Republican to vote for either one of thee
bills.
Mflttertydood in thi3 fix for several dajs.
The Radical press alternated in taontiDg
the Democrat, and in urgiDg upon their
party frit-nds to stand firm. Whatever
may have been tho effect rf their taunts,
their appeals at leat w ra ia vnir. On
Saturday Mr. Winans, (Republican) of
Chatacque, announced that he Would vote
with the Democrats. It is charged that
ho was paid sixty thousand dollars for his
vote. Of course his Republican colleagues
and the eutiie party pres3 of the State
have opened their batteries npon him. lie
is being denounced by men who would
step into his shoos for h:df the money.
We know nothiug of the truth or falsity
of the charge. We sec that during the
present week all of the bills which the Re
publican caucus had desired to defeat bavo
been passed.
ltatlicullm
ami fcociut
Carolina.
lfe ia South
Wo publish else where a letter wiitteu
by its Columbia (S. C.) correspondent to
the New York Sun. It gives an account of
"A Grand Colored Military Rail" at which
social barriers were swept away." Not
long Bince there was a timiiar affair at the
Governor's Mansion in Columbia. The
social question id rapidly assuming a
prominent fd&ture in Republican politics.
In reviewing tho interesting points of this
letter, tho Richmond Kniuirer remarks
that wo had a week or two since, Mr.
Frederick Douglass traveling to San Do
mingo on terms of purfeot t quality with
tho members of tLu San Domingo Com
miskioii. Jlo beenjs to have mtu-ed with
them, and, for aught we know, hli pi with
them, cliuiog the journey. They refused
positively, on the Aquia Cicek boat to par
Wo
tike of their dinner in his alienee.
believe thv.X ho was invited to the Presi
dential Dinner given to tho Cemmision-
er on their return to Washington. We
havo also one of Mr. Douglass compatriots
at West Point" Cadet Smith." We have
them also in Congress ; and, just the other
day, we htd the pleasure cf Judge Wright's
(of the Supreme Court of South Carolina)
company on the Danville cars. In Lou
isiana tho Constitution has provided for
mixed " schools, and, we believe, Mr.
Chipmau, the Republican candidate for
Congress in the Territory of Columbia,
favors the eame system.
But South Carolina U the baaner.State.
It is doubtless almost a privilege, in that
Abjs3inian realm for a pure Caucasian to
secure the entree to " the best colored so-
ciety."
The recent Bali was given at Janney's
Hall, in Columbia, by Company B ("Com-
mnj G" is in tho rme regiment) of "tho
Second South Carolina National Guard."
Tho officers of the regiment were present
in full uniform. Tbo following descrip
tion is given of Capt. Jacob Thompson :
"Oapt Jacob Thompson, the gentlemanly com
mandor of Co. Ii. is a coal black nero of hue
proportions. Bis manly form was clad in a dark
blno militaryfiuit. somewhat resembling in cut
the dress of au Alpine hunter. The coat was
trimmed with red slashing, and on tho Captain's
shoulders gleamed a pair of the shiniest epau
letts. He was ubiquitous. He gallantly aided
ebony belles to surmonnt the atoep staircase,
and also flitted about tho refreshment table,
and superintended the proper arracgement of
the choice viand j. Tho Captain is a very fine
looking officer. He is not so graceful in his
movements as your Col. Pick, but he is quite
as gallant among the ladies."
The lieutenants aro not so handsome
President Grant should by all
power, even at the
point of tho bayonet, to prevent suoh a
moral and social condition of society from
being disturbed by Democratic ballots.
Such indeed would be against the spirit
of liberty aod our republicaH institutions.
How lorjg befcre thee social features
will be proclaimed by North Carolina
Radicals ? Has mixed schools and social
equality been defeated in this State by last
August's ehclioo, or only postponed?
Tbo people must decide. Renewed Radi
cal victory may bring into prominence the
social relations between the members of
tho party, and the iuoidtnts of the ba'l at
Janney's Hull, iu Columbia, may be re
enacted at the City Hall, in Wilmington.
We doubtless have our " Alderman Mi
nort," who waltzes well and who clasps
firmly. undulating hoftly like a ground
swell on the beach."
Reconstruction and Kit Klux !
Ths New York Evenbuj Post, (Radical,)
in speaking of Shellabarger's Ku-Klux
bill, which has passed both Houecs of
Congress, sajs : " Tuose parts of it which
are new uio directly, at variance with the
Constitution, and with the fundamental
theory of o ir government."
Vice President Colfax recently pub
lished in the Inde?)endent a statement to
the effect that Russian influence alone
prevented the recognition of the Southern
Confederacy during the war. This was
promptly contradicted in Harpers Weekly,
on what was represented to be adequate
authority, and Lord Granville subse
quently denied it in tho House of Lords.
lie went so far as to bav that as a mem
ber of the Palmorslon andRassell Cabinet,
he could say that a proposition' to recog
nizo tho South was never even enter
tained."
The Washington Patriot sajs : " Sinco
the adoption of the rule by the Committee
on Elections to recommend tho payment
of no money to contestants who do not
have a reasonable ground of contest,
and in no ease beyond actual expenses to
unsuccessful contestants, several Radical
claimants to seats have withdrawn their
papers, and deshne further prosecuting
their claims, One contestant, who was
beaten by his Democratic competitor over
eix thousand votes, has given up the con
test, declaring the Committee on Elections
too conservative for him to hope for
success."
From the Baleigh Eentinel.
LETTER FROM SERGEANT BATES.
HIS MA li CJI FROM VIVK8BURG TO WASH
INGTON. TUB "LEAGOK" AND TI1K "FIAG."
have
not been
The lfvr York legislative Muddle.
Our readers may have noticed that there
has been for a few days a "dead lock" in
the New York Legislature, and that the
Radical ring has been broken, and the
blocked machinery of legislation set in
motion again.
The circumstances were briefly aa fol
lows: The Democrats had just a majority
of the whole House of Representatives,
and a Mr. Ibyinq (Democrat) resigned in
consequence of a personal difficulty with a
Mr. Weed. The State Constitution re
quires a majority of the whole number of
representatives-elect to pass a bill. The
Republicans seized the opportunity of the
reeignation of Ibvinq to meet in caucus
and exact a pledge from each of their
party not to betray the party, and they,
furthermore, xesoiyed that certain named
"as their captiin. They
so long in society. "
Among the distinguished Caucasians
presant, we haye mentioned Hon. Mr.
Smythe, the Mayor of Columbia, who
"danced very frequently." The Mayor is
described as "a very graceful dancer," and
"the delicacy with which he clasped his
partner in the waltz" was "the admiration
of all present-" "Having long leg?," con
tinues the correspondent, "the Mayor is
peculiarly litted for a votary of Terpsic
hore." The Board of Aldermen of the city, and
Hon. Wru. J. Elter, the City Clerk color
not stated were among tho guests.
Senator J. Y. P. Owens, of Laurens
county, was another distinguished Cau
casian present. Ho has consumption, and
had to conliuo himself chiefly to ''theLaur
s .
cers, as requiring less oxcrtiou tnan me
more violent dances.
Mrs. Covicsart, the wife of a Northern
man, a merchant iu Columbia, also "at
tracted much attention for her beauty
"and the elegance of her attire." She is
said to have presented "a lovely appear
ance." Mrs. Coviesart eiistinguished her
self particularly in the Vareovionne, in
which sho was the partner of Aldcrmau
Minort, a colored gentleman. "He clasp
" cd his partner as lirmly aa au iiou band
"clasps a cotton bale, and undulated soft
"ly to the music like aground swell on
" tho boach.!
The belles of tho evening seem to have
been "Tho beautiful Misses Rollin.'
Theso young ladies were accompanied by
Senator Mclntyro of Colleton (a white
gentleman, who is "engaged" to Miss
Charlotte Corda Rollin.) There are three
Miss Rollins : Miss Lottie, Miss Kate, and
Misi Louisa. They are the leaders of the
colored ton'n Columbia. Miss Lottie had
her dress cut decollete, and trimmed elabo
rately with froinl d'Ale?icon of great depth.
Also white roses and blossoms. Miss Kate
had on a heavy corded black silk, with a
sweeping train, and wore a red rose in her
hair. Miss Louisa was attired in a crimson
satin, with a light gauze- overskirt dotted
with red roses. Her dress was cut low,
displaying her neck and thoulders, which
were beautiful.
As will be perceived by a perusal of tbe
letter (which is well worth perusal,) a
rather serious personal difficulty occurred
at the supper-table, about a pickled pig's
foot, between Major Samuel Dickson
(oolored), of the South Carolina National
Guard, and Senator Mclntyre. It was
conjectured by the friends of Senator Mo
Intyre that the Major would send him a
challenge ; but the affair seems to havo
blown over. Major Dickson toook a pig's
foot which Senator Mclntyre had laid
aside in a napkin for Miss Charlotte
Rollin.
How dreadfully the Ku Klux bill is
needed to protect" these pqqj oolored I
Meeting of tlie Stockholders of die VV II.
in i n g ton and Onslow it K.
Wilmington, N. C, April 1J.
The Stockholders of tho Wilmington
and Onslow Railroad Company met at the
Commercial Exchange, to-day, at 11
o'clock.
On motion, Capt. D. R. Murchison was
called to the Chair, and Wm. A. Walker
was requested to act as Secretary.
Mr. Wra. A. Walkor tendered his resig
nation as a Director, which wa? acccptod.
On motion of Gen. Wm. McRae,
Resolved, 1 hat the numbi r of Director of Una
Company b-i incteaaoJ to nine.
On motion of Maj. C. W. McOlammy,
Mr. Christopher Stevens, of Onslow, was
nominated and unanimously elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the Resignation of
Wm. A. Walker.
On motion of Gen. Wm. MacRae,
Messrs. A. A. Willard and B. G. Worth
were noraiuated and unanimously elected
as additional Directors.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
D. R. Murchison, Cb'mn.
Wm. A. Walkeb, Sec'ry.
IIolden' OlTcr of $10,000 If like Sergeant
will Abandon the Slaicli In Oiigut."
BRIBERY AND TURK ATS OF AbSASSINA-
TION.
Indianpolis, Ixd , Marh 27, 1871.
Ed itors Sen tin el :
Dear Sirs: In the report of the Sen
ate Committee, of March 10th, on politi
cal outrages, they assert, in regard to the
Union League at the South, that "its pur
poses were publicly avowed, that it held
public meetings and processions, in which
its members appeared and acknowledged
their connection with it; that no violence
was either directed or countenanced by the
League."
Allow me to give you some facts in re
gard to the Union League South, in con
nection with my tour with the United
States flag through the lato Confederacy.
Not wishing to troublo ycu with a very long
communication, I will be as brief as pos
sible. After I had commenced the mareh from
Vicksburg, and before getting out of Mis
sissipji, 1 made tho discovery that I was
being followed by a respectable and in
telligent looking negro. It would extend
this commanioution too much to explain
how I made tho discovery that he was a
spy and tool of the Union League and was
to follow and act under instructions from
the Leagne in regard to me (he was to
do me no harm, but if my object in going
through the South was what the directors
of the Lea ;ue asserted it to be, I was to
be assassinated, unless I would return to
my northei n home when warned to do so)
or how and why I made him my friend and
arranged with him to tnke charge of tny
baggage, meeting mo at &uch points as
railrcad communication would admit of ;
how he assisted me to attend three' secret j
meetings of the League in dtsguiae and at
the risk of my life ; how, on two ccca-ions,
at Warrenton and Augusta, Ga., he aved J
mo from serious harm and perhaps daa'h
from the skulking bloodhounds of tho
League, If this shall meet tbe eye cf any
of the leading citizens of Warrenton it
will bring to mind the unusual excitement
among the negroes on the evening of my
arrivai in their town, and their openly ex
preised hostility towards me a feeling
created by the false representations of tho
leaders of the League, the object being to
excite tho negroes to mob me. homo of
the citizens Tjil also bring to mind how
strongly thoy urged me to allow them to
guard my hotel during the night for the
protection of myself and the flag, an J how
1 sacaessrnlly opposed their wishes iu the
matter. But they weio not aware that
late in the night atter they had retired to
rest, for the purpose of gaiuincr informa
tion, I disguised myself anu, with my
trutj friend, htolo quietly from the Ljouso
and attended a negro meosing, presided
over by two white men, where I heard
myself misrepresented by the whites and
roundly cursed by tho negroes.
While in belrna, Ala., au agent of tho
League called on me and requested a pri
vafca interview, which T prautod. i ob
ject in ealliu?: me wan to induce- um to b
For the Journal.
I'uMlc Meeting In Ilr nan wick.
A meeting of tho Conservative party of
Brunswick County was called at tho Court
House in Smithville, on tho evening of tho
10th of April, at which time and place a
large and enthusiastic crowd assembled.
The meeting was organized by calling
Dr. S. D, Thruslon to tho Chair and ap
pointing Rufus Galloway and Jno. If.
Mints Secretaries.
Tho Chairman
tho meeting in
a
BIKECTOB3 MEETING.
Immediately after the adjournment of
the Stockholders meeting, tho Board of
Directors of tho Wilmington ant Onslow
Railroad Company met and traneaoteel the
following business;
The city Directors, with Mr. B. G.
Worth as Chairman, were appoined a Com
mittee to solicit subsoripitons in the city
aud wait upon the city authorities to as
certain what amount they would subscribo
to the work, with authority to employ any
one they may deem proper to assist them.
Maj. C. YV. MoCIammy was authorized
to solicit subscription iu the county of New
Hanover, and Mr. Steyeus in tho county
of Onflow.
Mr. B. G. Worth, Mr. A. A. Willard and
Mr. F. W. Kerchner were appointed a
Committee to wait upon the citizens of
Onslow, at Jacksonville, on the firs'; Mon
day in May, to secure tho subscription of
that county and any others that may be
offeree!.
Tho President was requested to com
municata with tho President of tho Plan
ters' Railroad Company in reference to
the connection on the two roads.
The meeting . then adjourned to meet
again in Jacksonville on the first Monday
in May next.
Wii. A. Walker, Sec'ry.
Tub members of the Democratic Con
servative Executive Committee for the
Second Congressional District, are re
quested to meet at the "Exchange Hotel,'
in Goldsboro', on Thursday, the 4th of
May, 1S71, at 11 a. m.
A full attendance is desired.
TnojiAs S. Kbnan, Ch'mn.
Democuitic papers please copy.
paper
smew,
K. if. It.
The Spartanburg Republican, a
which is Radical in flesh, bone and
says that "whether combinations of Ku
klux klans are to be found or not in these
upper counties, we are boand to admit,
with few exceptions, that they have never
disturbed in his daily avocations nor mid
night slumbers any man who avowed Re
publican principles." We hope that the
New York Tribune and all other Ku klux
shriekers will take notice of this emphatic
declaration. Charleston News.
Ordination.
The Savannah Morning News contains
an account of the ordination on Sunday,
February 9th, in Christ Church, of Rev.
R. W. B. Elliott, a son of the late be
loved Biehop Stephen Elliott, of the
Diocese of Georgia, and who was, during
the late war, General Lawton's Chief-of-
Staff. The ceremony was conducted bv
the Bishop of the Diocese, the Right Rev.
John W. Beckwith. who nreached a ser
mon on the occasion, selection as his text
a passage in the Now Testament, very ap-
propnatet
' "ito ii;'i iua; ij : i )is
come a member ol tho L(jagui 11 is ar
gunient and the inducements offered by
him I will 1MB over (for tho present.)
Whilo btopr-iDg at tbo Kllropeau Hotel,
iu Montgomery, Ala., I wanono evening a
short time ubsent from ray room ; on re
turning to it and entering, I found a com
munication which had been thrust under
the door during my absence, and it was
from the League, who "threatened me
with certain death ' uuless I furled my flaa;
and returned to my home, giving up all
fprthei efforts ia my attempt to deceive
;he people of Iho North in regard to tho
oyalty of the reel handed traitors of the
Suuth," fce., &c. I mentioned the matter
o but ono person General James Clan
ton, of Montgomery, who urged mo to
accept cf an escort of ex-Confederate sol
diers, who woulel see me and the flag pass
safely through Alabama into Georgia. I
refused the escort.
At Greensboro', N. C, I was offered ten
thousand dollars, which I was to receive
provided I would stop the march and go
home. I was to elo so apparently in dis
gust, and in the interest of the Republi
can party. The offer cume from Governor
QoLicn of your Stato. Although a poor
man, nevertheless neither mjnalf nor the
flag I carried was for sale. On ray way
through North Carolina I was informed by
numbers of the League that the organiza
tion in that State was already powerful,
and was growing more so at a rapid rate;
that Gov. Holden was at tho head of tho
League, and that they were guided in all
political matters by him.
The above are only a tew facts of the
kind. That sime Union League of which
tho Senate committee said "So violence
was either directed or countenanced by
them," mado four attempts to bribo me
and three tiaies threatened mo with death
whilo on my way with a United States flag
from Vicksburg to Washington, it being
well known that I was in tho interest of no
party, my only object being to prove that
tho people of the North and South could
and ehould bo uniteel in the bonds of a
friendly union. Allow mo to say that I
am opfoscd to all secret political organi
zations of whatever character, for I be
lieve them unnecessary and a public evil.
I would also tay that I can give you fur
ther and more important information in
regard to such organizations, asserting
nothing but what I can prove, and. if ac
ceptable, will do so willingly, simply from
the fact that I believe it a duty I owe to
the public to give publicity to information
of the above character which I am posses
sed of.
Very respectfully,
SEEtHr. G. H. Bates.
c cplaincel tho object of
thort and appropriate
discoarsc, urging the necessity of a thor
ough organization of tho "parly, auel dwelt
with peculiar forco on tho propriety of
amending our Stato Constitution and the
absolute necessity of every voter going to
the polls determined to do Lis eluty in be
half ef fame.
On motion, a Committee of five, from
each townsh'p, was appointed, which
should constitute a County Executive Com
mittee to serve for one year, 'and to meet
as often as the Chafrman or a majority of
said Committee should sec proper. This
Executive Committee was instructed to ap
point sub-committees iu the rcspectivo
townships to attend to tho various duties
of their several elistricts, and report from
timo to time to the County Executive
Committee, and thus render assistance in
more thoroughly organizing the party.
While the Chairman was appointing the
Committee, tho meeting was agreeably en
tertained in an eloquent and forcible man
ner by JVlcssr. Maradeu Bellamy and
Swift Galloway.
The Chaiinian then announced the fol
lowing as tho Executive Committee to
serve for ono year from this date, viz:
N; rth West D S Oowan, Ham 1 Hall, Jordan
Wollard. D O Alloa, Sam'l A Kin.
Town Creek Jao D Taylor. Thoa A Duraut
J ah U Grimes, E It Tavlor, T O Sollara. '
fc'mithviJIe Henry Williams, Owen D Holmea,
Jno li Swain, Jh II Doencr, LewU W Wescott.
hallotte E aiears, Ham'l lieil, Hiiii'i Frmk,
A K iMcKtithon, J WTuarp.
Locliwoel'j Folly A (J Tolson, Altred Urown,
Washington Golden, JJHowit, l'rank'in Gil-loway.
Vi.ccaniiW Jno A Ilea. Dasi'i GoJoinao, EtJ-
raoml ISdw&rdd, Nathan Millikin, Noah li. Ben
net. On motion it was resolved that a Coun
ty Convention assemble at ThoB. E. Mc
Keithen's at 11 o'clock, tho last Thursday
in June to make a nomination; said Con
vention to consist of delegates appointed
by the County Executive Committee.
On motion, the Chairman was added to
IheExeoutiva Committee, and ma le Chair
man c f tho same.
On motion, it was resolved that a copy
of these proeeedingr; be sent to tho Wil
mington Joubnai. and Star, with the re
quest to publish same.
On motion the meeting adjournc-d."
D. TiinrsTOK, CL'm'n.
liUFUS UALLOWAY,
Jno. II. Mints,
Srci'etari'ia.
A prominent andsuccessfnl planter gives
hi- vi.iwf? on tbo important subject, to
Southern Agriculturists in the following
. a
aij'u;ipre
lilt Hard.
Senator Thurman popped Sumner on the
sconce right hard in the debate on the Ku
klux bill. Sumner announced his inten
tion to vote for that monstrosity, where
upon Thurman thus hit him :
Mr. Thurman said tho President of the
United States had only recently been just
ly arraigned by the Senator from Massa
chusetts (Mr. Sumner) for usurping the
war power against the black people of
Hayti, but Senator Sumner seemed to be
wholly insensible when a bill was proposed
to confer upon tho Freeident power to
make war upon the white people of America.
The Waverly Advocate says there is an
inveterate newspaper reader in that village
who marks a column with a pencil when
he reads it, so that he won't read it again.
A worse story is told of a law student in
this city. He was reading Kent very asssid-
nonsly and used a book-mark to indicate
each day how far he had advanced. His
fellow-student secretly chanced the olace
of the mark, so that he read the same par
agraph over for ten successive days with
oct discoverinar anything wroner- Ha
Anally remarked that Kent seemed a good
deal alike as far as he had gone, when the
laugh of some of his companions revealed
tne imposition they had played upon him.
Cyrus W. Field is a firm believer in life
insurance. He has policies on bis life
amounting to $214,000, on which he pays
annual preoiaa waouutipg t? $$,QQ9.
I have paid a great deal of attention to
fwlmt is termed deep plowing", and. I never
yet li.ive seen any plowing thatean average
over mx inruffl tioep, ana tnat loouecl so
deep, to an inexperienced person, it could
easily bo palmed off as eight or ten inches
deep. But after trviug satisfactorily both
deep and sli.illow plowing, I havo como to
the conclusion that plowing shcuM be reg-
ulatou to suit tne bind wo were plowing.
If I wo'if. into a Held with but four incliea
of t!oil, .1 would turn over that land but
three or four inches, antl subsoil in the
furrow of tbo turning plow ; that would bo
my system for tho first timo I plowed snch
lands. And tho next year if there were
stubble or weeds on tho land, I would turn
under again, going this time from four to
six inches that is, I would never plow any
land deeper than its soil Ilia lirat plowing
with a turning plow ; but eanh succeeding
breaking np, I would gradually go deeper,
until I reached tho depth of seven or eight
inches, which is tho maximum depth I have
yet seen done by the very best plows,
plowmen and team of two land three
horses ; and if to havo woeel, fctubble,"
clover or peas to turn under annually when
breaking np, soil can bo mado deeper than
when wo first commencej.
My mla for plowing is, to be governed
entirely by the quantity of tho lands I am
going t . plow. If shallow soil, I plow
shallow, and subsoil ; and put on the land
such crops as will make tho most rubbish
to turn under and, in time, a field of
shallow soil can be deepened by jntlicious
plowing anel rotation.
I would never turn up the clay to tho
surface if it can be avoided ; anel if a field
had so little soil I would break up such
lanel.s entirely with subsoil plows then
sow them down with small grain, cut stub
bles long, and then turn under as above
described.
Thero is no implement we use of so
much importance as the plow ; it is our
first and greatest implement, hence every
farmer should make the plow and plowing
his study ; he ought so to understanel it as
to bo enabled to instruct or aid the manu
facturer in. its construction telling him
what he wants and what is necessary to
make a plow perfect. But as it is, there
are so few farmers who understand the
plow and plowing; we have been de
pendent entirely upon tho manufacturer
to suit ns in plows, iu accordance with
their own ideas of what the plow should
be, and, right or wrong in construction,
we find but few who know it. Tho plow
may break and turn well, and the draft
may bo too heavy, or tho draft may be
ligtit, and tho work of the plow imper
fectly done ; also, tho fault sometimes lies
in the gearing in of the beam. But be
the fault where it is, tho farmer should eo
understand the plow, plowing and gearing
iu of the same, as to eletect the error and
point out tho remedy. If not, his plowings
are accidental, whether light or wrong.
In turning lands, it will be noticed that
some plows turn the furrow slice flat over,
or lap on the principle of shingling.
Where the plow turns the furrow over fiat,
I prefer such a plow for manurial pur
poses, that is to turn under clover, weeds,
or stubbles.
But in breaking the ground for cultiva
tion, and especially for corn, give mo the
plow that lodges its furrow as, when the
furrows are so lodged the ground remains
longer loosened and broken as it is not
so easily run together and compressed by
rains as when the turning over is flat.
. , .From, the N.Y Jour, of Cera.
TI Union League Worse than tho K
Tho Union Lieague at tho South, Jifcu
tho Ku-klbx-klan; has doubtless been often
uDjustly accuseel of complicity in murders
arson and other outrage-. If we were to
believe all that Southern Conservatives
eay cf it, wo should icgaid it as more de
serving cf armed repression than the
Whito Brotherhood, or Constitutional
Union Guards, which are- said to be th0
more rcnpecfablo aliases of the K. K. k
Of the Union League, os of the rival or
ganization, it is safe to discredit the ma
jority of tho harrowing fetories told. Bat
yet there is no question that they have
each been productive of much mischief,
aud it is due to tho causo of peace and
morality that they should bo repudiated
by tho parties at the South which they pro
fess to leprescnt. The example set by the
Charleston Republican (a Kadicjl paper)
is one that should bo universally imitated
by journals throughout tho Sonth. and, if
it were, perhaps no good occasion would
bo furnished to President Grant to apply
tho terroi-3 of the Foic3 bill, fhould that
pa?s the Senate4. The Republican coma
out against all secret political or
ganizations, not merely against the
Ku-kl uxes. It lays its hand boldly on
the sacreel ark of the covenant (a3 South
ern Radicals commonly esteem it) the
Union League itself. It sees tho danger
that it runs in attacking that cherished in
stitution of Radicalism, saying : We know
that our advocacy of tho doing away of tho
Union Leaugue will bo considered as
treason by many Republican., but we
cannot help it ; we long ago carao to the
conclusion that it should be abandoned."
These aro courageous words, when it is
remembered that tho Union League has
oaiii, penalties, hundreds of thousands of
subservient members ia tho South and
North, enjoys tho encouragement and
patronage of tho government, and to the
most formidable body of men, not except
ing tho Masons, over sworn into a brother
hood in America. Tho editor of the
Charleston Republican will probably aufh-r
for his oandor and temerity, if not ia
person then in estate, by tho loss of gov
ernment and other political advertising
and bupport. By so much is his manliness
to be commended, ia daring the risks of
recantation. Bafore the Ku-Kluxes were
heard cf, tho Union Leagne flourished at
the South as at the North. The estab
lishment of an opposing political secret
society was tho natural and inevitable
result of founding league lodges in the
Southern States-. The former cannot be
extirpaied until the bitter plucked np
by the roots. Tho Charleston editor has
gone to work in the right way. Jf he and
his friends can causo the abandonment of
Union Leagues in South Carolina, wo have
little fear that the mystio crew of the op
position will not speedily pass away.
Ke-re rr reconstruction .
Mr. Roosevelt carries bis humor to Con
gress and tells tho revolutionists a little
story :
Tho Republicans themselves reeru a lit -
tie- dissatisfied with their own work. No
sooner had rhey ivcontrnetcd tho South
than they wt to work to reconstruct it over
again, wnon they had reconstructed it
over again thoy did not like it much moro
than when tliey had done it iirst, and.
therefore they reconstructed it nnee more
Anel this bill is to reconstruct it for tho
fourth""" or 1'iftU time. The court e of the
iiepnbitean party in this respect reminds
me of Bunce Baul in tbe French opera of
the ' Granda'Duchessa." When tho prime
minister of his bighuens came to tho duch
ess and proposed hi hand in marriage, he
was invited to walk tip stairs, then along a
corridor, then down stairs, then along
other corridors ; up more tdairc, aloug
more corridors; down further nlairs, along
further corridors, up further stairs ; or, aa
the French has it: 11 monlf-ra, ilavancera,
il descendera ; alois il ro-remontera, il
re-reavanccra, il ro redoscendera ; alors il
re romontera, il re-reavancera. il re-redes
cendora ; alors il re ro-rcmontora, and ko
forth. That is just about tho way it i
with reconstruction. We first had con
struction ; then reconstruction ; then rev
construction ; thon ro-re reconstruction ;
and this bill is re re-re-reconstruction.
The
Wrong
Jll.-in in the
A New Orleans man, who sunk a well in
the rear of his factory the other day,
found, when he had reaohed the depth of
forty-six feet, that there was a sudden and
very powerful flow of gas from it. The
Republican tells his subsequent proceed
ings, thu3 :
"He immediately closed the nine, think
ing to utilize this gas for illuminating pur
poses, but found the pressure too great,
when the idea struck him to direct it into
the boiler of one of his engines and exper
iment with it in making steam. - But no
sooner bad the connection been made than
the engine began to run entirely by the
gas acting upon the piaton at a pressure of
twelve pounds to the square inch ; and so
it continued all day yesterday, giving no
sign of exhaustion." -
Wo don't think that tho elevation of
Pool to a seat in the United Stated Senate
has covered North Carolina with a flood
of glory, or himself cither. His career in
that body has certainly not been distin
guished by useful service to his Stato or
to the country. In short, we think that.
Mr. Bool is about as indifferent a speci-
men of a public servant, in tho true senfo
of tho phrase, as ever fignred in that ra
pacity. Tho New York Democrat, it seems,
has been searching tho 'records of tho
Committee appointed by the Legisla
ture of North Carolina, to investigate
the outrages of Holden, and has fonnd
there documentary evidence showing
that Pool was not a whit bey on el Holden
iu the peculiar views whioh ho held of po
pular rights and of official responsibility.
Ho was ono of tho ex Governor' encour
agers in the work for which ho (Holden)
was subsequently impeached and pun
ished. Pool, Amef, and Brownlow ! What a
uoblo trio of Senators, all sitting sido by
side in the National Capitol ! What boau
tifnl exemplifications are they of fidelity to
public trusts I What charming exponents
of tho representative piinciiilo as it is
embodied in our institution 3 1
Petersburg Courier.
A Deserved Tribute.
The Saturday Review, tho most scholarly
and discerning of the English weeklies, in
noticing a memoir of the lato General J.
Johnston Pottigrow. of South Carolina.
pays tho following well deserved tribute
to the integrity and motives of the Con
federate leaders' :
"A brief, touching, sensible, and manly
memoir of General Pettigrcw, one of tLo
many bravo and distinguished Southern
ers who fell in the service of tho Confed
eracy, is not only a becoming monument
of a good and honorable life prematurely
cut short, but a serviceable illustration of
the general character of tho Southern mili
tary leaders of the spirit and temper in
which the 'slave-owning oligarchy' really
entered into the war. No one who has
read or hoard enough of the character of
the Confederate Government and staff to
know how largely both were composed of
such men as Lee, Jackson and Pettigrew
men ef tho highest moral character, of
pure and simple piety r whoee course only
the bitterest party rushes can ascribe to
any other motive than a piofouud sense of
duty can doubt that from first to last the
Southern people lirmJy, devoutly, and
even dispassionately, believed in the just-
loe of their cause, and, in taking np arms
for the State against the Union, conoeived
that they were acting in obedience to the
law Aa to fill an in defmiHft of the risfht. To
talk of acansclcss and wicked rebellion is
possible only to those who will not or do
not know what manner of men the rebel
leaders were ; and there must be some
thing wrong about the heart or intellect
of the man who, having read this short
and simple record of tho lifo of ono who
was an active participator in the events
which led to secession, and an active sol
dier in tho war which followed it, can re
peat that party ehibboleth without a sense
of compunction and self-distrust."
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