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FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1875.
IflASONRV IN THE V N I X E
STATES.
According to a late authentic report
there are 543,474 Master Masons in
the United States, New York contain
ing 90,849. There are 8,654 Lodges.
- In North Carolina there are 11,216
Master Masons and 229 Lodes.
An important railroad suit has just
been decided at Auburn, N. Y., in
which William B. Torpe, of that city,
was plaintiff, and the New York Cen
tral and Hudn Eiver Railroad Com
pany the defendant. The plaintiff set
forth that he was unable tb find a seat
in any of the ordinary cars of the train
while coming from Syraouse to Au
burn, and took a seat in the Wagner
drawing-room car. The conductor de
manded extra fare from him, which he
refused. The porter thereupon ejeot
ed him from the car, tearing his cloth
ing and inflicting some slight scrrtches,
on account of which he sued the com
panp for 10,000 damages. The jury
alfowed the plaintiff 1,000. Accord
ing to this decision railroad companies
are under obligations to furnish seats
for all passengers, and if they are not
to be obtained in the ordinary cars the
drawing-room car may be occupied
without extra charge.
Till: AUE t'ESTIO..
On Thursday last Col. A. S. Buford,
President, and W. H. Green, Master
of Transportation of the Richmond &
Danville Railroad, were arretted by
Cyrus P. Mendelhall, Esq., Major of
Greensboro, for violating the statute
prohibiting railroads from altering
their gauge. Governor Brogden and
Solicitor Strudwick were informed of
the arrest by telegraph.
The parties applied to Judge
Schenck, of the Ninth Judicial Dis
trict, for a writ of habeas corpus, as
Judge Kerr was holding Court in this
circuit, and Judge McKoy, with
whom he had exchanged circuits, had
finished and returned to his home in
Clinton.
The case came up for hearing be
fore Judge Schenck at Charlotte on
Saturday, at chambers. The Judge
discharged the defend ants on the
ground that the statute under which
they were arrested is unconstitutional
and void, and because the prisoners
were not embraced in the language of
the statute.
Captain S. A. Ashe, of Raleigh, and
Judge Marshall, of Richmond, were
attornies for the defendants.
VUITI E IS ITS OWN HEWARD.
General Sheridan will take his
young bride out on the plains for the
wedding trip, visiting, among other
places, the famous Yellowstone River,
the rival of the Yosemite of California.
Secretary Belknap and others accom
pany the bridal party, and General
Custer's cavalry expedition of twelve
hundred troopers will furnish the es
cort. Thus do we see that virtue is its
own reward " and that Republics (the
Grant Administration Republic) are
not always ungrateful. Sheridan was
sent to Louisiana by President Grant
for the purpose of enforcing the be
hests of a party over the rights of a
people, and nobly did he fulfill his
commission in overriding State laws
and the rights of the common people
before the common law. The cam
paign was brief, glorious and decisive,
and will bear a hand in the election of
the Democratic candidate for the Pre
sidency next year. This New Orleans
campaign and his ride in the valley of
Virginia when a thousand barnes were
burned in the very teeth of an unarm
ed multitude of old men, women and
children and, later, the massacre of
the Piegan Indians, has entitled the
brave and chivalrous Sheridan to the
lasting gratitude of the party of plun
der. Behold the reward. A bridal
trip to the Yellowstone River, and an es
cort of a legion of troopers, all at the
public expense ! Verily, somebody
is laying up wrath unto the day of
wrath, for himself and others.
THE Til I It II I EK.TI
President Grant has at last spoken
in regard to his third term intentions,
says the Baltimore Gazette, and. in a
letter unusually long for our reticent
Executive, has said exactly nothing
He writes to General Henry White,
the President of the recent Pennsyl
vania Republican State Convention,
and tells of xhe sacrifice he made in
accepting a first term out of pure pa
triotism, thereby relinquishing a life
office, created especially for him, and
its "emoluments." There is a sad
ness in this last clause which sounds
very real, but we think he may find
Borne slight consolation left. If he has
not, like Akdt Johnson, filled "every
office in the gift of the people," he
has at least taken every gift offered
him while he filled his offie, and will,
unless rumor belies him greatly, retire
a Croesus rather than a paupe r. He
did not, he declares, seek a first term;
the second term was the acceptable
offering of a grateful nation,
and he is not a candidate for a
third term. He will, in fact,
only consent to such an abnega
tion if the nomination shall be made
in a manner he is too modest to think
it will that demands self-immolation
on the altar of his country. He, how
ever, pointedly argues in favor of the
propriety of a third term in a general
way, aad even thinks situations may
arise where it will be a necessity. We
yould not be surprised if he should
consider the Fall of 1876 one of these
very situations. His congratulations
to the Republicans of "the second
State in the Union" may be well in
tentioned, but are very weak. We can
not see how this letter has been foroed
out by a resolution that goes far to
place a final bar across the pathway of
1
his ambition, unless it is, as we regard
it, a bid for renomination and not a
renunciation. The President is by no
means a safe man, and we shrewdly
eurmiee, should the other States de
c.tire against the third term, that the
'Republican National Nominating Con
tention will find itself "between the
evil and the deep sea," with the
-plaims of the President set against the
expressed will of State resolutions.
he Republican party is not yet rid of
jjrantism I
The Cincinnati Enquirer says it
may yet become necessary to send the
army and navy up to New Hampshire,
and expresses the hope that this may
be done in order that the folks in New
England may know how it is them
selves. The new Atlantic cable is fast near
ing completion. It has been laid 1,000
mile,s from Rye Beach, New Hamp
shire, to the extreme easterly point of
New Foundland, and from there 300
miles in the ocean, and on Saturday
last the European end was only twenty
miles from the buoy of the end on
this side.
Thk Democratic Legislature of New
York has reduced the State taxes more
than two millions of dollars a year.
They have cut down the tax levy from
fifteen millions to thirteen millions of
dollars. Upon the same ratio this
would be equivalent to a saving in the
Federal Governmext of full fifty mil
millions of dollars a year. It seems
to pay the people to elect Democrats
to office.
The largest run ever made by the
Nashville cotton factory was on last
Saturday, says the Nashville Union
and American, when 20,070 yards of
sheeting and drilling were woven.
Fourteen thousand spindles are in
operation there now, and seven hun
dred looms. Four hundred operatives
are employed, and they receive at the
end of six days $2,050. All this, not
withstanding the fact that trade in
fabrics is at present extremely dulL
Fob the last ten years the policy of
the Federal Government has been to
convert greenbacks into bonds. This,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, has led
to financial ruin and industrial beg
gary. We must reverse the proceed
ing and now convert a large portion of
the bonds into greenbacks by buying
them up with new issues of the latter.
The masses of the people are benefit
ted by the legal tenders only a few
derive it from the bonds. More legal
tenders and fewer bonds more money
without interest and less money at in
terest is now the popular demand.
A LEAF FHO.Tl THE HI VI OK V OF
RECONSTRUCTION.
Mr. Robert Dale Owen contributes
to the June number of the Atlantic
Monthly a scrap of political history,
which affords a singular illustration of
how great event may hinge npon tri
fling incidents. In his article, which
he entitles "Political Results from the
Varioloid," he explains how a slight
attack of that disease, from which the
late William Pitt Fessenden, of Maine,
suffered in the Spring of 1866, chang
ed the whole complexion of American
politics during the past nine years,
and is apt to exercise its influence for
many years to come. The story is
very curious and interesting. At the
time indicated, says the Charleston
News and Courier, Mr. Fessenden
was Chairman of the Committee on
Reconstruction m the Senate, and
Thaddeus Stevens was Chairman of
the Committee in the House of Repre
sentatives. The two committees were
very frequently in joint session, and,
in addition to other matters connected
with the reconstruction of the late
Confederate States, had the question
of negro suffrage under consideration.
Mr. Owen says that he proposed to
the Committee an amendment to the
Constitution, providing that no clays
of persons should be denied the right
of suffrage "because of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude' after
July 4, 1876. The idea of the propo
sition was that the negroes would be
given the ballot in about ten years
from the date of the ratification of the
amendment, and on the Centennial of
American Independence. Mr. Owens
asserts that his suggestion was favora
bly received by very many of the
prominent and influential Republi
cans, including Henry Wilson, Conk
ling, Boutwell, Washburne, Thad
deus Stevens Mr. Bingham, of
Ohio, and the then Senator
Howard, of Michigan. All the Re
publican members of the committee
agreed to it, and the amendment, sub
stantially as submitted by Mr. Owen,
was adopted in committee on Satur
day, April 21, 1866, and ordered to be
reported to Congress on the following
Monday. Mr. Fessenden was kept
away from this meeting of the com
mittee by his illness from varioloid,
and it was suggested that, as h was
Chairman of the Senate Committee, it
would only be courteous-to defer final
action until he could be present. No
body but Mr. Stevens thought there
would be any harm in waiting a day or
two, and the committee adjourned
over. He was inclined to object to the
postponement of an important meas
ure on a mere formality, but he
thought that objection would come
with a bad grace from him as Chair
man of the House Committee, and ac
cordingly he remained silent. That
loss of a few hours was fatal to the
amendment. The sentiment of the
committee and the nature of the pro
posed legislation had leaked out, and
the timid Republicans at once brought
to bear upon the committee, a press
ure for the suppression of the report.
Negro suffrage was in those days too
advanced a position for even good Re
publicans to occupy, and the end was
that the committee report never saw
the light.
In this way, we are told, the hesita
tion of the Republicans in Congress,
who were afraid of negro suffrage ten
years hence, secured it seven years
sooner than waa contemplated by Mr.
Owen's proposition. The effect of Mr.
Fe6senden's illness was to postpone the.
proposal of the suffiacre amendment
till February 26, 1869, and then it
came in a form that gave the negroes
the ballot immediately upon the rati
fication of the amendment.
THE TOBACCO TBAOE,
Some statistics of the tobacco trade
of this country may be of some inter
est. Durincr the last
318,097,804 pounds of tobacco, valued
at $130,398,181, and imported 10,000,
000 pounds of leaf and stem, $5,332,
631. We also imported 41,945,744
pounds of.cigars, or 76,888,000 cigars,
worth $2,638,628. We also manufac
tured from imported and domestic to
bacco 1,780,961,000 cigars. The daily
average of cigars smoked in the Uni
ted States is 5,168,000. The Govern
ment received last year from tobacco
and cigars a revenue of $89,392,936.
The Albany Argus notes the fact
that several of the New York canal
boats have been named after General
Grant, but singularly enough there is
not one first or second-class boat among
them; and yet be aspires to a third
term!
A Washington special to the Courier-Journal
says : "Attorney Gene.al
Pierrepont is preparing a list of United
States Marshals and District Attor
neys to be removed between now and
the 1st of July next. Most of those to
be removed are located in the South.'
Setting type by telegraph is the
latest invention. The London Times
is said to have the machine, and to be
perfecting a system by which the pa
per will be set simultaneously in each
of the large cities where it . has a large
circulation. This will connect the
London offices with offices in Liver
pool, Manchester, Birmingham, etc.,
and a person operating the keys of the
machine in London will set the type
there and in all the other offices at the
same time. Of course the papers will
be delivered simultaneously in all the
cities where there are branch offices.
A ROYAL AMEKICM.
The Emperor Francis Joseph, of
Austria, has become a property holder
on Broadway, New York, under pecu
liar circnmstances. About thirty years
ago Marcus Wn se, of Austria, came to
this country aud engaged in the fancy
goods business in New York, and suc
ceeded so well that he soon amassed a
fortune variously estimated at from
three to four hundred thousand dol
lara, consisting of real estate on Broad
way and United States bonds. He was
roamed in early life and two daugh
ters was the result of the nuion. Their
home was a happy one until, in an evil
hour, the husband and father listened
to the song of the syren. Then the
wife and mother sought and obtained
a divorce. With her daughters, she
returned to Austria in 1864. The
daughters died the same year of their
retnrn, and the mother only survived
them until 1870. In the meantime,
Weise, with his mistress, returned,
leaving his property in New York,
and resumed his allegiance to the
royal family of his native country, in
1874. A few months afterwards he
was killed by an Austrian soldier on a
train of the Moravian railroad. The
soldier was court martialed and shot.
Then the crown set up a claim to the
property he had acquired. The mis
tress of the murdered man contested
the claim, but as she could not estab
lish a legitimate marriage, the court
decided in favor of Francis Joseph,
who is thus elevated to the proud po
sition of an American tax payer. He
is now liable to assessments for the
benefit of the American eagle.and if he
is not prompt in making payments
will get a little insight into the mys
teries of praecipes against his proper
ty. But if at any time Bismark shall
feel it incumbent upon him to depose
him, Francis Joseph can come to this
country and live a free man in a free
country, and at the same time have
enough property to keep the wolf
from the door.
Pi.rraoEitKu Louisiana.
In his last letter to the New York
Herald upon the condition of Louisi
ana, Mr. Charles Nordhoff gives a very
thoroughly detailed and painfully in
teresting account of the burdens that
oppress the citizens of the State. In
1860 the whole expenses, contingent
and otherwise, of the Legislature of
the State, was under $100,000. In
1873 it was well up to half a million.
Last year it was a smaller sum, but
still $60,000 above the Comptroller's
estimate of the proper cost. In 1861
the State tax amounted to twenty-nine
cents on every hundred dollars. In
1867, the year before reconstruction, to
thirty-seven and a half cents, and in
1874, after reaching a much higher
figure, to $1 45, to which sum
it is limited by the Constitution.
In Fpite of this enormous tax the
State debt has trebled since 1866, and
at the beginning of the present year it
stood at $50,597,395, explained in
large part by railroad, penitentiary
and other jobs. The city of New Or
leans is made to pay a very large part
of the State tax. It has now a debt
of its own amounting to $22,000,000,
and its tax rate has been 'run up 3 per
cent., while about $17,000,000 of its
bonds are worth but thirty-five cents
on the dollar in the market. Mr. Nord-
non concludes this painful picture as
follows : " Yet Louisiana is by nature
one of the richest States in the Union,
and New Orleans is one of the great
est commercial ports. Is it surprising
that the whole white population of the
State, except the office-holders aud
their relatives and intimates, united,
in 1874, in the endeavor to overthrow
a party which has so abused its pow
ers ?"
RADICAL INFAMY.
The Montgomery Advertiser gives
in full the testimony of W. W. Glass,
Radical Senator from Macon county,
Ala., in reference to his disgraceful
conduct in the matter of confirming
Spencer's so-called election to the
United State Senate. Glass makes
nearly a clean breast of it, confessing
to everything known and charged by
the Democrats, except in the unim
portant matter of the time for which
he "paired" with Senator Edwards.
The .Columbus Enquircr-jS'un has
taken the trouble to synopsize the
main points of Glass' evidence, as fol
lows :
TheSenate waseomposed of 17 Dem
ocrats and 15 Radicate, and there was
one vacancy caused by death. The
Lieutenant-Governor (McKinstry, Re
publican) had a vote only in case of
tie. It was deemed necessary to make
out a Radical majority in the Senate,
so as to make it appear that the Radi
cals participating in the election of
Spencer counted a majority. Glass savs
that it was therefore arranged that
he should pair off with Edwards,
Dem., who wanted to .go home for ten
days; that he did pair, and went to the
depot with Edwards, where they tock
different trains about the same time;
that Edwards went on to his home in
North Alabama, but he (Glass) instead
of going to Macon county, got off the
train at Pickett's crossing, only four
miles from Montgomery, where, by
arrangement of W. H. Betts, a car
riage was waiting to take him back to
the city; that it was a close carriage,
and conveyed him and Betts to the
Madison House, where he was given
a room and told to remain con
cealed until he was wanted; that
he remained so concealed for two
days, and when he was informed
by his party friends that they were
ready for him at the eapitol, that he
immediately went there in a close rr-
riage wna .oeits, ana iouna
the Sen-
ftt.A vntitic noon the onestiou of the
contested sent between Martin and
Miller; that he voted in favor of Mil
ler, R?i., and thus by the casting
vote of the Lieutenant Governor (Mar
tin, the sitting member, having no
right to vote) was declared elected;
that McKinstry, Hinds. Baker, and
several Senators, active friends of
Spencer, knew of his coucea'imont at
the Madison- House; that his boaid
while there was paid by other parties,
he thinks by Hinds; that while there
he went to Spencer's room and
got whisky wheif he wanted
it. Glass pretended to believe
(though his written agreement
showed to the contrary) that he paired
off with Edwards for only three days'.
But that is immaterial, as he acknowl
edges that he acted so as to deceive
Edwards, and that actually he went in
and voted within less than two days
after pairing off. There was other
rascality and double dealing connected
with the decision of the Miller-Martin
contest, which implicates a number of
leading Radicals, and Bhows that oven
Glass' conduct would not have availed
but for the most outrageous and des
potic ruling by McKinstry (in which
he was sustained by Federal author
ity); but the above statement is suffi
cient for this time.
SIIOOUV SCIKKiTlAN.
Sherman's war book, full of glorifi
cation of himself at the expense of
truth and justice to others, has called
forth a variety of comments from the
press. Some( the attaches to the coit
tiils of risiug greatness) see in it but
an opportunity to laud and glorify the
big bummer while others, who have
little to do in the way of political axe
grinding, do not hesitate to condemn,
in most unqualified term's. This rush
ing into print of a man whose perma
nent military mementoes are a black
track of desolation from Atlauta to the
sea and the ashes which marked his
ride through the oace beautiful capi
tal of our sister State. Such is evi
dently the opinion of the Cincinnati
Gazette, the leading Kaditml-Republican
paper of the West, when it says:
The General who began his career
ah commander of a military district by
a panic which justified threport that
his mind was unbalanced; who as soon
as trusted with the dispositions of an
army in the field, sacrificed it by an
utter lack of generalship aud rational
forethought; who never won a victory
nor ordered au attack that was not
disastrous to his own superior forces;
but who through extraordinary favor
itism and falsehood has boon rewarded
by a military rank created especially
to distinguish great military genius
and great military services, has under
taken, ten years after the close of the
war, to write down the reputations of
the officers and soldiers who actreived
that for which he received the honors
and rewards, by a pretended memoir
so wildly untruthful, so studiously and
cunningly preversive of the facts of
history, and so malignantly calumni
ous as to Muaze the general reader.
Even if his statements were true, the
honors which have been heaped upon
him, and the magnanimity which
would naturally supervene in a inun;y
mind after the lapse cf such a time,
would prevent such a one from writ
ing a history for such a Ci usorious
purpose. If the history he gives were
true, his inquest and condemnation of
everybody would be au ignoble act.
But when to this is adde.i a wild un
truthfulness, the conviction is irre
sistible that the mind which could do
this did never have a moral balance,
or has lost it altogether.
The lead of lue It epublie
To-day with appropriate ceremonies
the citizens and soldiers of New York
will decorate the graves of the brave
men who perished iu defence of Amer
ican freedom. If there is a rebel sol
dier's grave in any of our cemeteries
the flowers of Spring will belaid upon
that humble mound as freely and ;:s
tenderly as they w:ll be upon the ht.-t
resting place of him who died that tne
Union might live. We rejoice tuat
this spirit of brotherly forgiveness ai d
oblivion of all the elements of war,
except those of heroism and glory,
doe-j rot prevail in the North only, but
is as active aud universal in the South.
There is no grave there of a Union
soldier, known to the womc-n from Vir
ginia to Texas, upon which a wreath
will not be laid; for death absolves all
aud makes even the tomb of the an
cient enemy seem almost as sacred as
that of a friend. The noble letter of
General Forrest to the Memphis Com
mittee of Arrangements is an illustra
tion of the spirit of the South. He
and General Pillow, who wrote a sim
ilar letter, were only afewyears ago the
bitterest enemies of the Union, wiiicli
they fought bravely and persistently
to destroy. Like all earnest men who
become the champions of an extreme
they were misrepresented and malign
ed. But whatever their records iu the
war may be, their records in time of
peace are honorable and clear. Those
were noble words which Gen. Forrest
uttered in response to the invitation to
take part in the cerem nies at the
National Cemetery at Memphis, "I
sincerely trust," he said, "that the
time is not far in the future when the
soldiers of the late war will cease to
remember the angry passions engen
dered by the bloody struggle. Between
those who were true to their colors
during the late war there can be no
hate or bitterness. Since all have now
one flag and one country there ought
to be nc estrangement or sectional
antagonism." When this honorable
spirit of peace is shown by the late
enemies of the Republic shall not its
friends respond without fear or sus
picion ? We welcome these expres
sions of fraternity and hope as evi
dences of that true and permanent re
conciliation which it is of the first ini
portance to tncouage in the North as
w,li as the South. A. Y. Herald.
(iirioiitt Cane of I.itigration.
A curious litigation is going on in
lsloomington, 111. About thirty years
go, one Stephen Griffith had some
1,500 head of cattle and thesame num
ber of hogs. Corn was high, etock on
the decline, and Stephen, in deadly
fear of losing all his property, entered
into a covenant with God, that if He
would help him out of the difficulty,
he would make over all the property
he might in future acquire, above
enough to support him, to the Lord.
During his life he gave away almost
$1,000,000 to various religious and
ch aritable institutions. When he died
at the age of 80 he was thought to be
insane, for he had previously conveyed
property valued at $150,000 to the Or
phan Institute in Fiat Rock, Ohio, the
Freeman's Aid Society, the Christian
Union, the American Bible Society,
tho Tract, and the Church Extension
Society. These conveyances, his heirs
propose to set aside, with what pros
pect; of success we are not informed.
The point that when in danger of loss
he snade a special vow, would hardly
prove him insane ; though his keeping
it might, in the opinion of some men.
Yinnie Beam is a Freemason, and
has obtained eight degrees. She is
very proud of this honor, which was
con ferred on her by Albert Pike. She
will: yet win her way to still higher
reallms of the craft; the advocates of
woman's rights are to be congratulat
ed on the possession of so invincible a
pioneer in this direction.
Sensitive bather to bathing atten
dant : Listen : if I am to be drown
ed, or nearly so. I want it to be distinct
ly understood that I am not to be
stood on my head, or rolled on a bar
rel, or any such ridiculous exhibitions
made of me. If I can't be revived
"without any of these oerformances. I
prefer to be left alone."
THE SPHYKX SPE KS!
CHANT BOVr WANT A Till II D
T E K I4I.i IICJl. NO I'
(barHrlerllic Letter from Uie Pr
ttetil Occupant of the Willie
Jloimc A Nice pcciuicii of
I'reiUeiitia.l Taste a lid
Temper.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, D. C, May 2U, lb75. S
Dear Sir : A short time subsequent
to the presidential election of 1872, the
press, a portion of it hostile to the Re
publican party, and particularly so to
the administration, started the cry oi
Cajsari-ni and the Third- term, calling
lustily for me to dehne my position on
the latter subject. I b Sieved it to be
benaath the d'gnityof the office, which
I have beea twice called upon to fill,
to answer such a question before the
subject should be presented by com
petent authority to make a nomina
tion, or by a body of such dignity aud
authority as net to make a reply a fair
subject of ridicule. In fa-it, I have
been surprised that bo many sensible
persons in the Republican party should
permit their enemy to force upon them
and their party an issue which cannot
add strength to the party, uo matter
how met. But a body of the dignity
aud party authority of a Convention to
make nominations for tlie State officers
of the secoud State in the Union hav
ing considered this question, I deem it
not improper that I should now speak.
In the first place, I never sought the
office for a second uo' t veil for a first,
nomination. To the iiifat I was called
from a life position, one created by
Congress expressly ior ine, for snp
pos- d services rendered to the Repub
lic. The po-it:oii vacated I liked, it
would have, been most agroi bh to uie
to have retained it until such time its
Congress might have consent) d to my
re ireuient, with the rank and a por
tion of the emoluments which I so
nrjeh needed, to a home where the
balauce of my days might be spent, in
peace and the enjoynioLt of do.nestie
quiet, lelieved from the cares which
Lave oppressed uie fo cons-tint iy now
for fourteen years. Hut I wm minle
to believe that the puuiic good called
me to make the sacrifice. Without,
seeking the cfuee for the second term,
the nomination was tendered to me by
a unanimous vote of the -dolegut-'s 01
all the Statts and Territories selected
by the liepublicans of each to repsc
seut their whole number for the pur
pose of mak:n their nomination. x
cannot say that I was not pleased at
his, and at the ov rw he. ruing endorse
ment which tluir action received at
the election following; but it must be
remembered that all the sacrifices, ex
cept that of comfo.' t, had been made
in accepting the first term. Then, too,
such a lire of personal abuse and blan
der had been kept up for four years,
notwithstanding the conscientious per
formance of my duties t i the best of
my understanding, though I admit in
the light of subsequent events many
times subject to fair criticism, tha: an
endorsement from the people, who
alone govern republics, was a gratifi
cation that it is only human to have
apprtciat d and enjoyed.
Now for the Third Term. I do not
waut it any more than L did the lhst.
I would not write or utter a word to
chtnee tbe will of the people iu ex
pressing and having their choice, 'li e
question of the number of terms al
lowed to any one Executive can only
come up fairly :u the shapoof a propo
sition to amend liie constitution a
shape iu which ail political pairiescan
participate, fixintc the length of time
or the number of terms for which any
one ptrsou shall be eligible for the
office of President. Until such an
amend neut is udofted, the people
cannot be restricted in their choice by
resolution, further than they are now
restricted us to age, nativity, fcc. It
may happen, in the future lnsti ry
of the count y, that to change
an Executive because he hi.s
j been eight years in office, will prove
i unfortunate, if not disastrous. The
j idea that any man could elect himself
! President, or even nominate himself,
i is preposterous. It is a rt flection up
! on the intelligence and patriotism of
; the people io suppose such a thing po
I sible. Any man c tu destroy his chances
for the cilice ; but no one can force au
election, or oven nomination.
To recapitulate, I am not, nor have
I ever been, a candidate for a renomi
nation. I w. uld not accept a nomina
tion, if it were tendered, unless it
should come under such circumstances
as to make it an imperative duty cir
cumstances not likely to arise. I con
gratulate the convention over which
you preside for the harmony with
which its ticket has been put in the
field, and which I hope may be tri
umphantly fleeted.
With great respect, your obedient
servant., U. S. Gkant.
To Gen. Harry White, president
Pennsylvania Republican Stato Con
vention .
Kume ,'!ure t'oiiiuintk.
We clip from onr cotemporarics of
the Tarboro Southtrncr and the Polk
ton Ansotiian, tho following extracts
from their comments on the doings
here during the week of the mee ting
of the Press Association:
It was n most delightful re-uuion of
hard-worked, and, generally speaking,
unappreciated mortals every win. re ex
cept in Wilmington. Time, trouble
and expense were not considered by
our hosts. We excurtcd, we danced,
we toasted. We knew before the tone,
culture and refinement that pervades
the society of Wilmington, but con
fess that the unbounded hospitality
that seemed so cordially tendered us
was rather greater than was expected.
We are satisfied that each editor in at
tendance on the occasion left highly
pleased with the city and its people,
who may rest assured this visit
among them will always be attend
ded with the pleaBantest recoilecticns
from the editorial fraternity of the
State. We shall at some future time
d-ell upon the numerous advantages
oiTered by our city by the sea as a
commercial centre, and now conclude
with three hearty cheers for the good
people of Wilmington.
P. S. It would seem rather ungal
lant not to make especial mention of
the ladies, but it must be taken for
granted that the unmarried members
were literally charmed, at any rate.we
with one in particular but that's pri
vate. Southerner.
It is useless to say that we had one
of the best times imaginable. Wo
would like to meet in Wilmington ev -ry
time, but it wouldn't do, for the
good people of Wilmington would soon
rum the whole "press gang," they
treat them so nice. There aie some
things connected with our visit we
shall notice hereafter- The excursion
down to the ocean was decidedly the
most pleasant occurrence of the week.
At Smithville we stopped au hour,
when tha Yankee officers there got
aboard and went down with us. In the
language of a brother ink siinger "we
met the enemy and (in a certain way)
they were ours" th-j Blue and the
Gray "clasped hands across the bloody
chasm." Our next Governor was the
lion of the day as usual the first
thing the Yankee officers said on get
ting aboard was " show me Vance."
Among other toasts one offered by
the Governor wa3 this : " The Blue
and the Gray separate they can whip
one another together they can lift the
whole creation out of their boots."
Would that we had space to tell
all about the excursion, the band
some reception given us by the Wil
mington merchants at the Produce
Exchange, th courtesy of the Super
intendent of the C. C. Railway, our
visit to the Navaso Guano Works, aud
the handsome entertainment provided
for us there, the grand Ball at the
Opera House, the but we must
stop, " or words to that effect." An-
eoniau
THE STATE (F THE SOUTH.
G3VERK0R HENDRICKS' QPifilON
OF IT.
Btisiucis seeui Lively find the Peo
ple Prosperoua - Tlie Meckleu- J
tturg Cenieunial Celebration
Presidential Prospecting- by it
floiiscietilioai Correspondent.
D. S. A., the able and conscientious
Indiana correspondent of the Cincin
nati Gazette writes: Gov. Hendricks,
as aimonnerd iu the G -Zett-- this raoi n
mcc. returned from I"iorth Ciirolii-a
yesterday. Joining 'be nay no was
busi y engaged ti ausa "tiug the state
business which hnd accumulated in
his absence, bat this morning I found
him ready for visitors and in a par
ticulariy communicative niooJ. In
reply to my salutation, in which I ex
pressed tlie hope that his trip South
and been a pleasant one, he expressed
himself higuly pleased wiih his tour,
"which," said h, "lengthened out
uruiewLi'.t more than I had fiisL plan
ned. "i rode t wo days ad three nights,
passing through Ki-utm L , Teimes.-ee,
Gei.igm. North and South Carolina
i ' T IT: t . .i
iiiiil irgiuia. jus nisi. sioyimiL;
place he said, after leaving Louis
ville, was Augusta, which he regards
as one of ho prettiest cities he was
ever iu. lot ;.n hour and r half ho
rede through blond avenues at least
200 feet wide, with rows of shade
tries iu the eei t.T, arching overhead,
and a walk between them.. Business
seemed to be iiv. ly, and the people
!iior- prosperous than he had expected
to find them. His observations, how
ever, were mostly confined to the
States of North and South Carolina.
He parsed through them iu the day
time, and a gre;it majority of the peo
ple he met lived there. Many parts
of the Coivlinsis, he says, are perfect
gardens, being under
A moil STATK OF fUnTlVATlOM.
The fiii in houses 1. ok neat ande-' zy.
Ttie outbuildings are m good repair,
,:nd the lei.ces vo te ail up to the. eighl
raii staud'ud. He saw lailes and miles
of n.'-w board fence, as wt-il rmide as it
ev. t is m tue North. The people, too,
ioohed pi ospeVoUs uud happy. MflCU
ot the ;iid a- being cultivated by
negrot s. but him a d -. of wnitco .veic
simdariv engat d. Now ana then the
.iiuio.id ran tuionvftt t liuiy populated
district-', wiieie the soil is poor, and
n .'(iji;ig looked tiinliy or iuvitiug, but
a-i a y.-ueral Uo.'g he was favorably
disappointed, rvnui many accounts
whicn he had r.-ad and heard, he was
orepared to see wretchedness and
squalor on every side and especially
iu Nwrth Carolina. Cu the contrary,
thrift, prosperity uud happiness seem
ed to prevail. A4 h ast twenty thou
sand people attended the Centennial
Celebration at Charlotte, the shire
town of Mecklenburg comity. There
were many negroes strolling through
the city and hanging on the outskirts
of the crowd, but the great majority
of those assembled were whites. Ail
were comfortably, and, so tar as he
observed, neatly clad. The ladies did
not constitute bo large a part of the
audience as they gtneruiiy do in the
North on a similar occasion, but still
they were out iu large" numbers, and
the stvleof dress did not difi'er niate-
ii. illy from what we arc : ccuatoined to
see in Ouio and Indiana. None were
diessed extravagantly, but rtll were
well dre-sed, and in good taste. liut
by far the most notice. d.e and most
characteristic feature if the crowd
was the ehceriuluess and good nature
which seemed to prevailed. AU seemed
H.-U'I'V AM) CoNTKN l'tU WITH T1IE1K LOT.
Tiny were patriotic, but not boister
ous. He saw very little drinking aud
few intoxicated persons. Near the
place wht re the old lo Court House
stood, ni which the UcC.aration of In
deenilenc was rt aa and ratified, a
btautifui ilag stall, nearly 150 feet
h'gn, had bent erected, and on its top
was a huge hornet's rest. Twenty or
tnirty hornet's nests- Were also Carried
a lout through tiie crowd on long
spears, and whenever they appeared a
patriotic shout was sure to follow. "I
didn't understand their meaning," said
the Governor, "out Governor Vance
informed me that Meckienburg v.:is
originally settled by Scotch-Irish Pres
byterians, who were intense Wh'gs,
! and alter
' pstidcnce.
the Deeiy.aiiou I iude
aud jefore, in fact, they
were so uevoieaiy auaeneu to ine
cause of tiie Colonies that their coun
ty was called the 'hornet's nest. ' It
w as a queer sight
curried about ou
them, 1 was told,
many years."
to see tueae nests
epesrs. Some of
had been kept for
Governor Hendricks stated also that
he neither saw nor heard anything
which led him to suspect that the
Southern people wore not contented to
abide the results of the war. One of
tho speakers was a iittlc extreme m his
utterances, but tue crowd gave no
reason to believe that they sympa
thized with him. With that exception
nothing was said by any of the tpeak
ers at all out of place. He talked with
several prominent Democrats in regard
to tho outlook, who felt confident that
they could carry everything in the
South except South Carolina and Mis
sissippi. Governor Vance was certain
NOHTH CAF.OI.1XA WOULD GO DEMO
CRATIC, especially now th&t the State and Na
tional elections occur ou the fame
day. Of course Gov. Heudricks said
nothing about his being a candidate
for the Presidency, and it may be un
charitable in me even to f uspect, much
more to write, that his virdt to tho
South was made for the purpose of
kokii)g after his Presidential interests
in that st c'um. But tnat this is the
purpose for which he wenr, no one
here doubts, while Lis "inside"
friends do not hesitftte to affirm that
Southern strength is pledged to his
support, and that upon tbe South he
relies chiefly for his nomination next
Spring. Mr. Hendricks chances for
securing the nomination are certainly
very flattering. Those who dispute
the fact, that he is a formidable caudi
pate, dou't understand the feelings of
the people. There can be no doubt
that he will conticl more Southern
States in the Convention than any
other candidate. The editors who re
turned a few weeks since from a
Southern excursion corroborate each
other in the statement that Gov.
Heuilrieks' name is about the only one
they heard meiitiourd in connection
with the Presidency. It is known too
that he is in censtaiit communication
with all parts of the South, anil that
his outspoken, working friends are
amor.g the most influential in every
State. But the South is by no means
alone in its adrairatiou for him. His
money vh ws give him
AN KT.KMKNT Ot? STKEXtiTU
among the capitalists of the East,
while the common people are possess
ed with the idea that he is on3 of tbe
greatest aud jut rest Democratic politi
cians of the West.
ita.itfiiii$; Atkl in Silence."
Here's to the memory of General
Bieckinridge ; take him all in all, we
shall not look upon his like again,
thank God Buffalo N. Y. Ejvcss.
But as long as meanness, baseness,
cowardice and malignity tiud a lodg
ment in the human heart, and incite it
to instinctive hatred of the noble and
the brave, wo fear we shall be com
pelled to look upon the like of the piti
able wretch who penned that para
graph. Louisville lAidger.
Major Howell, of Nashville, Tenn.,
has accepted the chaiJenge of the
Evansviile, Ind., school teachers for a
spelling match by telegraph between
representatives of the two cities. Each
word will be inclosed in a sealed en
velope when sent over the wires, there
being objections raised to postal cards.
SHERMAN'S "MARCH TO THE SEA !"
A TERRIBLE EXCORIATION OF THE
KING OF BUMMERS.
Urant TVeed !Vot lOnvy Him Wil
liam u 1 1 in ore Mi mm and the
Federal lirigrandit.
XewYirk lay I"ok
As infamous a record as Sherman's
worst enemy could wish to inipa'e his
reputation upon was that "March to
the Sea," the originator of w hich Sher
man claims to be, but which claim
ierneral Grant, it seems by the cl.imut
of the General's friends, just now,
seek to rob him of ! In God's itauie
let both these men share the honors
(!) that cowardly, u nnanly, piratical
raid upon defenceless womeD and
children seems to have won. Another
age will do -them hot h full justice. Oi
all the brutal infamouny, brut-tl, nf
fairs that the history of Uie American
war chronicled, Sherman's "March to
the Sea," of which
the world has
heard so much, was the crowning dis
grace, if disgrace could crown au in
huraan, barbaric epoch. Men, to de
fend tho homes and lirefidt-s of
mot hei s, wives, sistets and little ones
Laidly able to toudlc, there were
none. Iluthiess, long-continued war, a
campaign of years, had sacritjeeJ the
limited fighting material of a popula
tion of nine miiiions. Twenty millions
in the North had enough human food
for powder and ball left to continue
the sacrifice tnat had been kept up iu
this stction, aud Sherman's "March
to the Sea" was hazarded. It cost the
stalwart warrior nothing. The buru
ng of barn-, dwellings and all planta
tion property that fire would onsnme,
was simply the pastime ot army bum
mers. Meu. patriots, true soldieis,
who were fighting for a holy principle,
would have died ere they engaged in
such a devil's carnival. Weak women
besought mercy, and prayed to Shcr
m.in's fiends with clasped hands that
their wardrobes, aud their food might
be spared; but those braves (?) heeded
them not, and the devouring flames
were fed with all the necessities and
luxuries that were combustible, unless
gold and silver were found, in which
case this was claimed as "loot," and
to-day many a New England bide
board displays trophies gallantly won
by the noble Sons of Mars (?) in strug
gles with weak and defenseless, over
powered women, during Sherman's
wonderful "March to the Sea." We
never shall forget the tone, looks aud
bearing of the deeply lamented
Simuis, the poet and noveii.-it of South
Carolina, as he at in the office of this
journal, and mournfully detailed the
passage of Sherman and his bummers
through the beautiful city of Colum
bia, his place of residence. Poor
Simms jwas at the time away from his
charming home, a home filled with and
surrounded by every luxury thutl
wealth, and renued, cultivated taste
could gather together. His lovely
family of daughters were there alone,
with only The negro f-c-rvauts of t'3
plantation to prottct them. Th vaa-d-ds
came and pillaged, robbed, de
stroyed :nd burned, and that which
they could not easily carry uw.-iy, de
stroy, or consume by fire, iu the lire
of food, they, with a barbarity and j
brutality that would have disgraced j
Uot'ei'.iots or Australian Bu-hmen, or
I the Dierarer IuJians of America, so bc-
fouled, that it was food uc longer.
This picture, with its terrible and in
famous filling up which we will not
attempt li re, Giimore Simms gasc us
a year after the soul-sickening . vent.
That man had lived sixty years witii
his heart iuii of love for humanity,
lie had looked kindly on his feilow
meu i veiywhere. His writings showed
hit' warm, gonial sympathy with all
mankind. Ho had b.itked in the sun
shine of life, honored aud respected,
and he was unprepared for the stait
iing proof that there were specimens
of human bungs ou earth whose or
ganisms were lower in Ihe scale of hu
manity than biuto beasts. Giimore
Simms died a changed man. He gave
up his faith iu that order of creation
which the Bible told him came into
the world a little "lower than God's
iingels."
And Shorn: an craves the honors (!)
of the conception of this great achieve
ment which, from inception to culmi
utition, was one long, b!ack, damning
record of inf.. my of the character of
this vitited upon the family of Giimore
Simm, of Columbia, South Carolinn.
Sherman was the modern Attila, with
his Huns sacking and pJngir.g ; he de
stroyed every vestige of Southern ci
vilization that he could reach, aud did
his best to blot out, like the Goth of
the sixth century, the arts, scienees,
manners and customs of the people he
ravaged, hoping to exterminate th
womeu and children (there were no
men left) by taking from them th.?
very means Di subsistence ; and that
extermination effected, this modern
barbarian, as did his prototype, sought
to plant his heathen hordes upon the
ruins of the cities he had destroyed.
History iu this "March to tho Sea" re
peated itself. The whole Northern
wilderness of ignorance and fanaticism
was in motion, and Goths, Vaud lis,
Visigoths, Alans, Snevi, See., rushed
like a torrent into the South, spread
ing carnage, desolation and destruc
tion through the finest portiou of that
then beautiful domain. And tho great
originator of this damning disgrace of
the American civil war is actually in
fear of beting robbed of the honors (!)
that iufamv won him !
The Springfield Union, speaking of
the Iloiyoke disaster, refers to a ca
t a st i opbe at Santiago de Chili, South
America, December 8, 18G2, when, by
the sudden conflagration ot the cathe
dral during a crowded service, two
thousand women, maids and matrons,
including the very flower of the city,
peri.-hed horribly. It was at au even
ing strvice, when the church was
densely crowded. A camphene lamp,
used in a transparency on the altar, set
fire to the hangings, whence the flames
spread instantam ously along the ela
borate festoons of gauze and drnpeiy
that covered tho walls and ceilings,
among which 20,000 candles and cam
phone lamps were burning. In a mo
ment the whole interior was a bonfire,
and a rain of blazing oil aud burning
cloth fell upon the crowd below. The
one door of the church opened inwards
and was soon choked. In less than a
quarter of au hour 2,000 persons, in
cluding very few men, had perished.
The Chilian Lt gislaf ure forbade church
illuminations for the future, and or
dered a sufficient number of doors to
be put. into all churches.
Interesting Document.
The following is a ccpy of an ex
ceedingly interesting document which
has just been deposited in the Stale
Library :
"Jefferson to the King Bond of
Marriage License Know all meu by
these presents, that we, Thomas Jeffer
son and Francis Eppes, are held and
firmly bound unto our sovereign lord,
tho Kiug, his heirs and successors in
tho sum of fifty pounds current money
of Virginia, to the paymeut of which,
well and truly to be made, we bind
ourselves jointly and severally, and
our joint and several heirs, executors
and administrators. In witness where
of we have hereto set our hands and
seal this twenty-third day of Decem
ber, one thousand beveu huniired and
seventy-one.
"The condition of the above obliga
tion is such that if there be no lawful
canse to obstruct a marriage intended
to be had and solemnized between the
above-bound Thomas Jefferson and
Martha Skelton, of the county of
i;uaries oiry, wiaow. ior wntcn a
license is desired, then this obligation
is to be null and void; otherwise to
remain in full force.
"Thomas Jefferson, -"Fkancis
Eppes."
Richmond Enquirer.
Rea.ling (Penn Kgie, M iy I'tt:.
sci;!u at a Bimct ia dkimca-
TIO
Suri-oumls nr Vttt T;tlcc Fire,
iiiid Horses :t;i I t'iirrljincs Itiira
tip.
Humors wore current on the streets
last evening that a largo woo. Is iiie, hi
Upper Bern Town-hip, had destroyed
barns and burnt many horsfs and cat
tle. . Subsequently it learned,
from people who were in attendance,
that the woods near the new .-it Mi
chael's Churck, iu tiiat township, were
accidentally set on tire during tue ded
icatory services in the afternoon, and
that a number of horses ami carnage
were burned. These conveyed people
t ) the church, and were tied up at a
railing near the church aud through.
the wootls.
Air. Oliver
correspondent
D.
at
Sohock, the Eagle
Hamburg
1 1 - . . ..i Q
eut at the .oe. lie writ s tha tlie
consternatiou aud the scene that en
sivd were ten i he beyond description.
It. was about two o'clock in the after
noon, and the church was packed.
Ilev. T. C. Liienbach, of Womeisdoi f
was reading a Scriptural lesson, when
of a sudden the terrible cry of fire
was raised. (ne of tlie members
rushed rapidly forward to Kev. Mr
Zweizig in the pu'l it and informed
him that that the dry trees and leaves
of the adjoining grove were on fire,
and that, all the horses mid cHrriaava
therein were being burned dp. Mr
Zveiz;g imm -eliatt ly anuoui ced it, and
a wild panic ensued. Everybody
rushed to get out, and when the con
gregation reached the burning woods
the li tuie- shot up, and many of the
poor hoises were literally surround
ed by the five, the flames shooting
up fully we've feet The people at
once set to woik to t xfinguish it. The
scene was terrible to behold. Horses
neighed and wliinued in their agony;
people screamed, men rushed back
ward and forward, excited and anxious
to render assisting ; bra e men rush
ed through tue flames and cut the
haltsr straps of the tied up horses; the
animals then, finding themselves ioos-
e-nea, ran away, .i i.-nmg tue carnage
against the burning tre s; men with
rakes and c-lnbs, and oilier articles, set
to work vi jorously to beat out the fire;
women screamed and otood iu terror,
viewing a scene that few people are
ever called upon to witness, and above
the noise and din of everything could
be heard the duig shrh ks and groans
of the poor horses, and the pistji shots
sending bullets through the heads of
ihii animais to kill those that we. e
burned almost to death. I shall never
forget the sickening fight, a-d thoe
thstt were present were of the same
opinion. All was huiry and excite
ment. A high wind prevailed, and
heavy sparks descended hundred of
yards away. At one time fears were
entertained that the church would be
swept away in the liery clement, but
the work of brave and determined un n
spared that community from any
further calamity.
It was a teirible day for Upper
Bern, and I saw men stand in tears
viewing tho. snll'criug of the dying
horses as the fh-sh qnivei'eei with pain.
The scene tiiat followed is beyond de
scription. Alter the excitement wa-;
partially subdued, I learned that the
woods had oeen accident iy set ou ar.
by a, gentleman who was lighting his
cigar. A lighted maicn ft.ii from his
lnmds. During the excd-'nicnt a gen
thtiian named Lukenhiil, who was
cutting thn horso. loose- in the wood-,
accidentally inliicred a striom wound
in hi.- cheek, wh-ch was dressed by
Dr. Puttciger, ef Hamburg.
Hesitations o 1 'f luniks.
FAi:rri.v.nT..i:, N. C, I
May '2.3th, 1S75. )
The undersigned, Committees from
the Fayetteville Imiepend nt and L i
Favette Light infantry Companies,
( and from the L.tFayette Cornet Band,
! appointed for the purpose oi drafting
j resolutions expr.s.-ive of the apprecia
I t.ou of their fellow cftioers and rafn-
bors of the mn uy courtesies and favois
t xtend'-d to them during their Char-
lotte trip, beg leave to submit the fol
i lowing :
Resolved, 1st. That we tender our
; cordial thanks to Capt. Worth and
! the officials of the Cape Fear and Peo
' plo's Steamboat Line for tho generous
! tender of free river transportation and
j return, and
i 2d. Our grateful iioknowi'-dgmetit-j
to Capt. Garrison and tho officials oi
j the Express Steamboat Line for like
favors.
j 3.1. Our hearty acknowledgments
i to the Superintendent, Col. Fremont,
and the omoers of the
Carolina Ccn
ti'tusuortatiou j tra Railway for
free
over their road to and from Charlottes
and for the uniform c-urtesy ami
kindness extended to our companies
on the trip.
4th. Our sincere thanks are due to
the Fire Depai trueut, the members of
the Caled niaii Club, and the citizens
of Charlotte generally for the gener
ous hospitality so freely offered to t-s
during our stay in their city.
5th. Our thanks i re hereby tender
ed to the Wilmington Light Infantry
Company for their kind and courteous
reception of us on our. return from the
Centennial, and for the good care i hey
took of us during our brief Rojourn iu
their city.
6th. That it would bo an act of great
remissness on our pr;rt ih.i we fail to
acknowli dge the noble hospital. ty so
generously offered the members of our
companies by Col. F. W. Kerch nor,
and that we take the first opportunity
offered for tendering him our many
thauks and high appreciation of his
generous kindness.
7th. That a copy of these proceed
ings be handed to the North Carolina
Gazette for publication, with the re
quest that the Wilmington and Char
lotte papers copy.
Signed!
Capt. W. F. CAMr-BEnr,,
J. 15 UKCiWY s M Kai:,
I. B. Davis.
1st. Lt. J. B. Smith,
II. S. Williams,
G. F OvF.ltBAftJH.
C.ipt. C. B. Banes,
J. McK. Woodward.
F. I. L. I.
L. F. L 1.
L.F.tJand.
Another proof of the growing wealth
and importance of the PrcvuyUiiau
Church has iu.- t been given in the city
of New York. At the corner of Fifty
fifth street and r'ifth avenue stands
tne newly-erected and magnificent
edifice; presided over by Dr. Hall. The
building cost about one million dol
lars, and it was hardly finished before
one-fifth of the cost was subscribed by
one or two members of the congrega
tion. The pews Amounting to 352
were valued at $800,000. Atau auction
held two weeks ngo some KiC pws,
estimated worth about 325,000, were
sold for 100,000. It is expected that
e
torn debt. This
achtevtmc-nt upon the piit of Dr.
Hull's congregation, trio most, bniinti.t
probably iu the history of the, Presby
terian Church, not oniy spc;iks well for
the vitality and wealth oi that bod- iu
the United States, but for the ability
aud worth of its popular divine. It has
always been a question whether money
spent in costly edifices and elegant
adornments might not have been bet
ter a2plied in relieving the poor and
spreading the gospel, or whether the
fashionable church has not a tendency
to foster pride and to shut its doors
agaiust the multitude. The Church
of Home has reared the noblest tem
ples'to its faith, but the beggar is i s
free to pass those sculptured gatee,
and to worship at that costiy shrine,
as the proudest people iu tiie land.
Fashionable churches seem to be au
offshoot of the time. A man is cer
tainly free to worship where he pleases,
and if he possesr-es wealth is c rtainly
justified in bestowing it where itseeui
eth unto him good. Handsome
churches doubtless form a graceful
tribute to the Most High, and a seem
ly ornament io. the heart of a civilized
city.
From the Raleigh NewP
THK lll.UU AD THE
Federal IK-roratiou "ay,teret
liiff Crononien-TUe Blue an
tiie Orey foniiuiurlinir
First Time l loqueut Iraye
I'ociti a.tl Speech. '
Yesterday afternoon was observed a
Federal Decoration Day in our mi,!
The programme as announced w
stnctly carried out. The troops fr0n
the Federal camp marched down to tli
Courthouse green at -4j o'clock, j0iuJ
by the Raleigh Artillery, Oapt. A t
Sironaeh commanding, and by "th"
Light Infantry, Capt. B. C.
command mg, aud proceeded by tb.fi
Stanley band, marched to the Federal
Cemetery, just East of the city.
Arriving at the Cemetery, the an
Jieuee was conducted to the grand
stand prepared for tha speakers aud
the special guests of the occasion, and
the services were opened by prayer
from the Rev. Mr. Marshal, a prayer
exceedingly appropriate to the occas
ion. Then followed the recitation of
tiie poem, "The Biue and the Grey"
by Col. 1. J. Young, preceded by ap
propriate remarks.
me orator oi the day, Hon. A. W
Tout gee, was then introduced by Mr
S. D. Wait, Chairman of the ConitohV
tee of Arrangements. Judge Tourgee
s-poke for the space of au hour, setting
out with the gratul-ition to himself to
witness the soldiers iu the grey par.
ticipatmg in the memorial services to
tir. honored dead of the A'ortfi. He
referrjcd in touching language to tbe
memory of Loo and Jackson, aud the
sp och throughout was replete with
language unobjectionable to either
North er South. We have heard hut
one expression concerning it; that it
did justice to the occasion and honor
to lite speaker.
After the oration was concluded, a
national salute was fired by a battery
of artillery from the Federal camp,
during which time the friends of the
dead strewed flowers ou the many
graves in the Cemetery. And thus
closed the day.
This is the first time since the late
war that the Soathem soldier has
marched with the Federal Eoldieis to
trie decoration of Federal graves, and
w e hope it will have the effect of show
ing the people of ihe North that all
animosities .have been buried by the
Southern people.aud that we are again
ready to become members in evry
sense of the grand Federation which
ve celebrated at Charlotte only a few
days sinco.
t'pon the stand wo noticed some of
the lirt gentlemen of our commuuity
men who have often braved the
dangers of battles in the late war, who
thus gave countenance to this reunion
of the blue aud the grey.
From the Herald.
I lie Itcatli or KiMtiop Polk.
We could plainly see three persons
standing ir. front of a line of breast
works and a larger group in the back
ground. As it was evident that they
were wutchingoar movements, Stanley
suggested that a few shots be fired to
drive them under cover. Howaid sug
gested that perhaps Bishop Polk was
iu the party, when Stanley turned to
Captaiu Simonson, his chief of artil
lery, with the remark :
" Simonson, can't youunlimber, put
a f-he-t into the group and give the
Bishop a morning salutation ?"
" I'll try it," was Simonson's laconic
reply. And away he galloped to the
rear. A few minutes later a section of
the Filth Indiana battery (Simonson's)
wss uuiimbered within twenty feet of
us. The Lieutenant sighted the gun
aud the shot exploded over aud to tlie
right of the group. Simonson, when
the guu had been reloaded, dismount
ed and said : " Here, Lieutenant, let
me try it." He took the range and the
messenger of death sped on. its mis
sion. Our glasses were bent upon the
group and we observed a commotion
as the shot took effect in the group
that scattered to the rear. While Si
monson was upon his knees sighting
the gun for another diccharge.iCap
tain Leonard, chief of Howard's Signal
Corps, sitting on his horse beside me,
read tiie Confederate signal and caught
the words :
"General Polk is killed !" With a
look of amazement Leonard tnrnedto
Howard and Stanley and exclaimed:
"Bishop Polk is killed!"
"What?" exclaimed Howard; "have
you interpreted the signal correctly?"
"Yes, General Simonson's last shot
killed him. They are signalling it
along the line."
The yonngmen of the staff who were
clucking jokes instantly ceased, aud
for a moment none spoke. Then
Howard said:
"Weil, a Chris ianhas fallen. Such
i - war."
Just then Simonson cought th?
words: "Bishop Polk is killed!"
He was sighting the gun, aud lifting
eyes, that glared fearfully, exclaimed:
"What was that Leonard?"
"Bishop Polk is killed ! Your last
shot did it. They are signalling it
over the mountain," I replied.
Simonson's head dropped upon the
"vent," where it rested a moment.
Then, rising his tjyes he excleitnad:
"Thauk God ! Yesterday they killed
my clear brother; I have killed a lien-tenant-general,
and am avenged !"
Without discharging the piece
Sicionsou arose, remounted, and
joined the stall The enemy was so
demoralized that he evacuated the
mountain, and half an hour afterward
tve stood upon the spot where Polk
fell and saw the ground stained with
his blood. A day or two after poor
Simonson foli, shot on the skirmuh
iiue in Ackworth woods.
I'euder County.
Our correspondent at Iiocky Point
draws a gloomy picture of the coudi
tiou of Pender". It seems the miser
able Padical vagabonds, whom the
vicious negroes, natives aud squatters,
elected tu office, are unable to give
bond, and the beautiful lladical Com
missioners are beginning to divide the
spoils amongst themselves. Mr. Shaw,
the only Democrat ou the Board, and
Mr. French, the only decent liepuhli
can, vote against such outrages not
only against the people but agaiust
decency itself; but the regro, Arm
strong, and the other two, who are
really more contemptible than the ne
gro, "constituting a majority of the
Board, rule and vote themselves in.
And next, they will doubtless have the
hardihood and indecency to pass on
their ownbond3.
We tell tnese lladical commission
ers that they will be held to a rigid
accouutabilty. We have an incorrupt
iblo Judge, who will do his duty.
We- have plenty of Democratic law
yen, who will see to it that every
branch of the law shall be attoiied for.
You had better be careful. The eyes
of the country are upon you. If the
law is violated, by commission or
omission, you w i 1 be made to bear the
penalty incurred. Judge McKoy will
be at the proper place for holding the
Court of Pender, and woe to the Rad
ical office-holders if they have failed
in their duty and incurred the penalty
of the law. It will be ecfor ed.
We tell the friends of Fender to be
of g.od cheer, Pender shall not fail
We te'.l the enemies of IVnder beware,
Pender shall succeed. A Convention
a Democratic Convention will con
vene iu Baleigh next September. The
session will be short, and soon after a
session of the Legislature will be con
vened. Before 1S7G shall dawn relief
will come to Pender.
Let the Democrats be faithfnl and
fearless Do their duty and Pender
will yet be all right and that ere long.
Duplin Record.
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. ii
1K1UIW1J WUK'rg""""! " . 1
oounty, will celebrate the Centennial
of their Church, which falls due on
the 25th of August.
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