The Greensboro patriot [September 13, 1876]

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I the Wilmington Journal.
THE GREATEST OUTRAGE
YET KNOWN.
A White Boy Made the Ser- ;
vant of a Negro.
A Ntgro Justice 0/ the Peace Vir-tually
Make* a White Buy Hi*
.SI,:
li is the province of the Jounral
this morning to bring to light some
ol tin- facts connected with perhaps
the deepest insult to the white race :
tif North Carolina that has yet been ■
offered through the teachings aud ;
practice of the Radical patty. This
outrage which we shall presently J
orth is ol no recent origin. It
had it" commencement ten years or
more ago, and it exists in the city
Wilmington to day.
Previous to the commencement of;
the late war between theStatesa
naturalized citizen died in Wil-mington,
leaving behind him a
widow and t -.\ • > children. He was |
a native of Wales, and haviug
ised Mil' Atlantic sought a homo
in North Carolina, and married a
witi' near Shalotte in the county of
Brunswick. In thecoursoof time
In' moved to Wilmington and set-tled
himsell ir tlio Southern
Hobnrb ol the city in a bouse which ,
he had purchased. There he lived |
years in llie quiet enjoyment I
ot a comfortable lionie which hou- j
esl industry had provided for his .
happy and contented little family, j
About the commencementof bos-1
tHitieo he sickened and died. The 1
honest Welshman died under the 1
sustaining hope and beliel that he
bad provided lor his wife and chil-dren
whom he was ieaviug behind
tn tight the battle ol life without j
his aiil and protection, a home
which the lawsof his adopted coun-trj
would protect and defend to,
their use.
Tins Welshman's name wasChas. |
Kllis.
The years rolled on : the fierce
battle raged from the Potomac to i
the Rio Grande, and Charles Kllis
lav sleeping in his grave, whilst his
bereaved family rested under the
toot which he had provided. Then
the lights 01 persons and property
were maintained in North Carolina, 1
though battle, bloody battle wasj
the thought ol every heart and the
theme ni every tongue. The elder
son, though scarcely old enough to
irms, became dissatisfied with
ctivity, and he too went to
the front and was never again
beard of. TBe widow and her little
sou John, two or three years old,
bus lefl still more desolate
ami dependent.
The wai closed, and with its close
ed :1M' various steps ot re- '
constructing the Union. Then, too,
commenced the perpetration of the1
outrage which it is our purpose to j
in outrage which, if we
. the people of Wil-mington
will nyaid as not only
a lasting and 11 reparable injury to
an individual, but an injury to the
whole community and a burning
shame to the while lace.
Dual after the war Mrs. Eilis suf-
: Joseph C. Hill, a negro, now
a Justice ol the Peace, to occupy a
0 on her lot. This he end his
j continued to do up to Mrs. j
At her death Hill
look possession of the entire preni-aud
also look control over Mrs.
Ellis' orphan child, John, then
font years old. The
house he iias continued to occupy
up to the present time. There has
ul 1 en a possible way by
which !.e could have become the
having been no
c impotent person to convey title
Bui the possession of the
d the exercise of owner
sinks into utter insig-
- m comparison with his
conduct towards the unprotected,
helpless white bov.
Trough the Atom of a Radical
■1 • Probate he obtained the
legal control of the boy. The state-ment
is almost incredible, but the
truth of it can be established be-yond
all question. For eight years
and more Ibis white boy has been
the servant of a black negro, who
is a trespasser in the boy's own
bouse. He has been required to
do his master's marketing. He has
been compelled to address Hill and
his wife as Mr. and Mrs. Bill. He
has been the nurse of their black
children. He has been bound not
only to do servant's woik about
the'house, but the kitchen work, to
wash the pots and ovens and to
cook. He has not even been allow-ed
to take his seat at the same ta-ble
with his black master, but was
lorced to take his food after llili
and his family had finished. Not
only has this white boy been com
polled to submit to all this degra-dation
and menial service, but when
he failed to come up in the require-ments
made ot liiiu. 11s back was
striped with the lash of his black
master and mistress.
We bavebeen informed that re-cently,
since the boy has attained
to some size, be has been inclined
to assert a little independence, and
that he is not so submissive to the
treatment to which be has been
accustomed.
It may be asked why has this
thing existed so long without being
made public.
The answer is the very severest
commentary upon the local govern
ment under which we live.
When mil first got control ol
the boy there was some talk about
the outrage, among the few who
knew of the circumstance. There
were several white men who were
willing and anxious to take charge
of the boy, but tailed in their ef
forts to do so. He was then a men-child,
and being acquainted with
Hill and his family before his moth
er's death, and perhaps with them
only, he would prefer to stay with
them. Very soon all interest ceased
in the unfortunate youth, and lor
years he has been forgotten iu his
degradation. We have conversed
with several gentlemen who know-all
the facts above state.!, two oi
whom, one a physician who attend
ed the boy's mother in her hist ill
ness, endeavored to intercept Hill's
designs.
The only education which the
boy has received was obtained in a
negro school.
I New Series No. 442.
Damaging Charge Against
Gov. Hayes
Hole the Republican Candidate far
President Took 8400 from a Sol
dier and Kept it from his Mother.
TOPEKA, Kan. Aug. 15. 1876.—
At the organization of a Tilden
and Hendricks club at Independ-ence,
in this State, on last Satur-day,
General W. R, Brown, who
was Colonel of the Thirteenth
West Virginia volunteers during
the war, was called on to state
what he knew of the facts related
by the Rev. W. W. Starper in a
recent letter, in which be charged
General R. B. Hayes of appro
pruning $400 which belonged to a
soldier's mother. General Brown
corroborated the statement of the
chaplain fully and said he was
present wheu the chaplain was
called to minister to the soldier
before the execution ; was near by
wheu the uutortuuate man gave his '
effects to the chaplain : was ores
ent whem the sergeant of General
Hayes ordered the chaplain to re-port
to him with the (fleets of the
soldier and stated that on the chap-lain's
return ho said General Hayes
claimed the £400 belonged to the
government and should be used
to secure another soldier and took
the money from him. General
Brown stated that the Major, Al-bert
McCouren of I'omeroy, Ohio,
was also familiar with the facts:
said chaplain was indignant at Gen-eral
Hayes, because he thought be
bad no right to demand of him the
money, as the soldier had requested
it to be returned to his mother if
she could be found, aud says he
thinks that General Hayes made a
mistake in taking the money as the
government had uo right to it.
A Hawkeye View of Early
Rising.
The Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye
says : The attention of medi-cal
men in this great republic is
called to the injudicious and also
lutely hateful habit much in vogue
in the rural districts and among
early risers in the city, of getting
up iu the night to eal. This noctur-nal
meal is faintly ditguised under
the name of breakfast, aud then- is
no doubt that it has much to do
with creating, spreading and -us
taiumg the national disease, dys-pepsia.
The custom is sometimes
visited by severe judgments, but
nothing seems able to deter its vo-taries
from continuing its practice.
We once took summer boarding
with a man who used to eat in the
nigbt aud roused up all his house-bold
to share the unnatural meal.
One nigbt he stirred us all up at
4 30 o'clock to eat. We it so and
ate. That very day his best cow
immolated herself on a wire fence,
one of his hoises bit himself with a
rattlesnake, a reaping machine ate
up his best farm hand, a distant
relative sent bis youngest boy a
drum, his wife took to writing po-etry,
and one of his most popular,
talented and handsomest boarders
flitted, leaving an unpaid Summer's
bill to remember him by. The lat-
' ter circumstance is indelibly im-pressed
u|K)u our memory, and we
I often think of it in connection with
the somewhat striking coincidence
that we have never beeu iu that
country since.
From tin.- Raleigh Sentinel.
DEWEESE AND DEVILTRY.
HE CREATES CONSTERNA-TION'
IN THE RADI-CAL
CAMP.
Buys His Way Into Congress.
UK M.EEDS FOR TIARR1S, HYMAN
AND HARRIS.
Solicitor General Phillip's Proxy
In The Army.
A THOUSAND DOLLARS TIIE PRICE
OF A POST-MASTERSHIP.
Deweeu tell* how much he paid
Jamm JI Harris, John Hyman
and C. L. Hani* for a Seat in
Cmiijress' to keep them from sell-imj
him out and from supporting
Seymour ami Hlair—Hi* letter to
the Cleareland Pluindtaler and the
.sentinel—Colonel Shaffer3* letter
iii Deweete—Captain Ixe in the
Army.
Some weeks ago the Sentinel re
feiu-il to the tact that Hou. John
I'. Deweese had thrown a bomb-shell
into the radical camp here.—
We were compelled to proceed on
the information of parties who had
seen his letter ill the possession of
Colonel Harris, who had the only
copy of the paper containing it.—
We wrote for a copy of the Cleave-land
l'Utindeaier containing the
letter of John T. Deweese, and in
that paper ot the 9th of August
we received the letter of Mr. Dew-eese,
from which we make this
extract:
EXTRACT FROM CARD OF DBWBBSE.
The Leatler on last Saturday saw-fit
to devote a half column of its
editorial matter to what it termed
a specimen reformer, aud to charge
me with shortcomings. Amongst
other things they say I twice bought
my waj into congress. This is true
in this respect, as the chief editor
of the Leader should by this time
well know after his persistent chase
after the Swiss mission, that yon
gut nothing from the republican
partj bur what you buy and pay
lor. I was twice elected by the
republican pany to congress, and
on both occasions I was compelled
to buy the leaders of that party lo
keep them from selling my eleciion.
1 paid James H. Harris $l,ooo to
keep him from bolting, two weeks
after my first nomination, aud
82,000 the second to keep him from
supporting Seymour for president
in 1868. I also was compelled to
pay John A. Hyman, now a repub-lican
member of congress, $o00 for
bis influence. I paid C. L. Harris,
the chairman of the republican
state central committee of North
Carolina to keep him from selling
my election to my opponent—iu
short 1 was compelled to pay money
lor any favor 1 ever received from
the republican party. Their offices
appeared to be in the market for
Bale and I purchased them, like any
other doubtful stock on which spec-ulation
is made. I know of no
friend ot mine who had any favor
Irom either his party or its leaders
he did not pay for.
The publication of the above in
Oleaveland, Ohio, aud onr com
merits hue set Captain Timothy to
work in behall of Colonel Ceburn,
getting up affidavits to establish a
character for Deweese of uutruth
and utter unworthiness, aud a
bushel or two of affidavits forward-ed
to Washington was the result.
Yesterday we received by mail
this voluntary and unsought con-tribution
from Colonel Deweese;
LETTBB OF m:\vi",F.sE TO THE
BBNXIBKL.
OLEAVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 20,1876.
Editor Sentinel: I enclose to
\ou a photographic copy of a letter
from Colonel Shaffer to me as well
as the envelope it came in, which
will show whether Harris aud son
otfered me money or not.
Tim l.ce was cashiered and drum-med
from the United States aru.y
us a lieutenant in a Massachusetts
regiment for • • • I sent to
I. J. Young a copy of the proceed-ings.
He has them now. He used
1 in in against Tim when Harris
wanted 10 get him out of the reve-nue
office.
I hope you will succeed iu North
Carolina. Can I help you any if I
write an expose of the ringt
Truly yours,
JOHN T. DEWEESE.
The following is the letter of
Colonel Shaffer, photographic copy
of which is referred to:
LETTER oi- COLONEL SHAFFER.
OFFICE OF REG. IN BANKRUPTCY.
Fourth District of North Carolina.
Raleigh National Bank Building,
Raleigh, March 29. 1SC9.
DEAR DEWEESE : Col. Harris
says he will take up that draft, for
81,000 if you will appoint bis son
(I.ogan) postmaster here. He has
not, however, authorized me to say
as much to vou.
A. W. S.
COL. DEWEESE.
Confidential.
Private Dalzell is writing letters
to Hayes and Wheeler. To Wheel-er
he puts the startling question :
"Did you send your sons, nephews
and neighbors into the Union army,
and bid them God-speed as they
weut, ind follow them yourself *r
Mr. Wheeler has not yet been
heard tiorn in response.
HON. ZEBULON B. VANCE.
Next Governor of Noith Carolina, by the. grace of God and the will of
the people.
THE RADICAL CONSPIRACY accordiug to the discretion of the
marshal in all States in which
sheriffs have a similar power. Sec-lion
20.10 has no practical bearing
upon this point in States where no
limit is imposed upon the appoint-ment
of deputies by sheriffs. In -
Attorney General Tuft's Instructions cause in such States the laws of the
to United States Marshals in Uef- United States prior to the 10th of
nOW THEY PROPOSE TO
CARRY THE DOUBTFUL
SOUTHERN STATES.
THE BAYONET VERSUS THE BALLOT.
erence thereto, as approved by the
President.
WASHINGTON, Sep. 4.—The fol-lowing
was referred to Gen. Sher-man
lor his guidance by the Sec-retary
of War, and transmitted to
United States Marshals lor their
government :
SIR—The laws of the United
States having made it my duty to
exercise general direction over
Marshals in the manner of discbarg
ing their offices, I have prepared
for their use this circular-letter of
instructions as to the coming elec-tion,
iutending the same also as ;t
June, 1802, lest marshals also un-limited
as to the number of their
deputies.
In discharging ;he duties above
named you will doubtless receive
the countenance and support of all
the good citizens of the United
States in your respective districts.
It is not necessary to say that it is
upon such countenance and support
that the United States mainly rely-in
their endeavor to enforce the
lights to vote which they have
given or have secured. The pies
ent instructions aie intended only
to counteract that partial malice.
reply, once for all, to numerous ap- wrongheadedness, or inconsidera-plications
in like connection from
private citizens in various Slates.—
In the present condition of legisla-tion
the United States occupy a
position toward voters and voting
which varies according as the elec-tion
is for State and other local
offices only, or for members of Con-gress
and Presidential electors.—
Iu elections at which members of
the House of Representatives are
chosen, which, by law, include also
elections at which the electors tor
Presideut aud Vice President are
appoiuted, the United States secure \ disorder, every persou
voters against whatever in general
hinders or prevent them from a free
exercise of the elective franchise,
extending that care alike to the
registration lists, the act of voting,
aud the personal freedom and se-curity
of the voters at all times, as
well against violence on a. tint of
any vote that he may intend to give,
as against conspiracy because of
that he may already have given.—
The peace ot the United States,
therefore, which you are to pre-serve,
and whose violation you au-to
suppress, protects among others
the rights specified in the last para-graph,
and any person who by force
violates these rights, breaks that
peace and renders it your duty lo
arrest him, and to suppress any
riots incident or that threaten the
integrity of the registration or elec-tion,
to the end that the will of the
people in such election may be as- i has jurisdiction to oppose you in
certaiued and take effect, and that I discharging your official duties tin-offenders
may be brought before der the laws ot the United States.
the courts for punishment. No- if such interference shall take place
torious events iu several States, I—a thing not anticipated—you arc
which recently aud in an unusual to disregard it entirely, llie laws
of the United States are supreme,
and so consequently is the action
of officials of ibe United States in
lion which sometimes triumphs at
critical moments over the e.onser
vative, aud in general over the pre-vailing
wishes of society, and to
which the present and passing con-dition
of the country gives more
than ordinary strength, and there-fore
requires the Government par
tioolarly to observe and provide
against, in this connection 1 ad-vise
that you and each of your
deputies, general and special, have
a light to summon to your assist-ance,
in {preventing and quelling
in the dis-trict
above fifteen years ol age,
whatever may be their occupations,
whether civilians or not, and in-cluding
the military of all denomi-nations—
militia, soldiers, marines
—all of whom are alike bound to
obej you. The fact ih.it they are
organized as military bodies, whetb-erof
the State or of the United
States, under the immediate com-mand
of their own officers, does not
in any wise affect their legal char-acter.
They are still the pout COUti-talus.
I prefer to quote the above state-ment
of the law upon this point
Irom an opinion by my predecessor.
Attorney-General Gushing, because
it thus appears to have been well
setlied for many years. (Opinion
406,May 27, 1854 ) I need hardly
add that there can be no Slate law
or S'ate official in this country who
manner have been publicly repro-bated,
render it a grave du'y of all
marshals who have cause to appro- !
bend a violation of the peace of the ' enforcing them. There is also, you
United States, connected as above
with the elections to be held upon
the Tuesday after the first Mouday
iii November next, to be prepared
to preserve and restore such peace.
As the chief executive officer of
the United States in your district,
you will be held responsible for all
breaches of the peace of the United
States, which diligence on your
part might have prevented, and for
the arrest and security of all per-sons
who violate that peace in any
of the points above enumerated.—
Diligeuce in these matters requires,
of course, that you be and continue
What holds all the snuff in the
world! No one nose.
The Washington Chronicle states
that in Pekin is published the old-est
newspaper in the world. It is
over 1,000 years old. It is a ten
page paper, with a yellow cover;
has no stories, no "ads," no mar-riage
or death notices, no editorials,
no subscribers. It simply contains
the official notices of the govern
ment.
have already been told, no officer
of a State whom you may not sum-mons
embody into your own posse
already embodied by a sheriff will,
with s'ticb sheriff, be obliged upon
your summons, to become a part of
a United States pout and obey yon
or deputy, acting rirtu offimo. The
responsibility which devolves upou
an officer clothed with such powers,
and required to guard the highest
right of citizens, corresponds ex-actly
with those powers and lights,
and exacts of such ofiiccr considera-tion,
intelligence, aud courage.
It is proper to advise you that in
present in person or by deputy at preparing this circular I have con
all proper places of registration or \ sidered recent important judgmens
reason I given by the Supreme Court of the
observe that "special'' deputies need, iu this place, add no more
section 2021 of the Revised Stat- than that these judgments do not
utes) have peculiar duties assigned concern instructions for federal of-
- ticers. You will find appeuded in
full, or by reference to, such statu-tory
provisions as it seems import-ant
that you and your deputies
shall in tliis conuection read and
consider. Iu matters of doubt you
are of course entitled to the advise
of the United States attorney for
your districl. The instructions have
been submitted to the President
and have his approval.
Very respectfully,
ALPHONSE TAFT,
Attorney General.
to tbem ; duties which otherwise do
not belong to deputy marshals.—
Such " special" deputies cau be ap-pointed
only in cities of 20,000 in-habitants
or upwards. But the du-ties
assigned to marshals and their
deputies bv section 202-', or other
like statutes, belong to all duly ap-pointed
deputies, whether they be
general or be special, within the
meaning of that and the preceding
section. Deputies to discharge this
latter class ot duties may be ap-pointed
to any number whatever,
From the Wilmington Journal.
The Homestead Law—Its Or-igin
and its Friends.
A favorite and oft repeated claim
of the Radical party to popular
favor is based upon the assertion
that to its legislation is due the
wise and beneficient provisions
against misfortune contained in the
Homestead law. A more unfound-ed
claim was never made. The facts
of the case are well known and
show beyond dispute that the policy
of a Homestead and Personal prop-erty
exemption was firmly fixed as
a_ part and parcel of the law of
North Carolina long before the
Radical party ever bad an existence.
The statute books of the State
show this to be true beyond all
dispute. The records of the Su-preme
Court show the same fact
and not only that but they show
that the leaders of the Radical par-ty
know it to be a fact. If any
man doubts, let him turn to the
record and see for himself what
Thomas Settle the present Radical
candidate tor Governor has to say
about the matter.
In the case of Hill against Kess-ler,
decided by the Supreme Court
of the State at June Term. 1869, N.
0. Reports, vol. 03, page 437, Judge
Settle united with Judge Iteade in
saying:
" We have too, our own legisla-tive
construction and the practice
of our courts under it for the last
twenty years. The Revised Code
adopted in 1856, makes the exemp-tion
of " one cow and calf ten bar-n-
Is of com or wheat, fifty pounds
of bacon, beef or pork, or one bar-rel
of fish, all necessary farming
tools for one laborer, one bed, bed-stead
and covering for every two
members of the family and such
other property as the freeholders
may deem necessary for the comfort
and sup|iort of such debtor's family;
such other property not to exceed
fifty dollars'' apply to all debts con-tracted
since July 1st, 1845.
So iu 1866-07, our Legislature
passed an act exempting " all neces-sary
farming and mechanical tools,
one work horse, oue yoke of oxen,
one cart or wagon, one milch cow
and calf, fifteen head of bogs, five
hundred pounds of pork or bacon,
50 bushels of corn, 20 bushels of
wheat, and household and kitchen
furniture not to exceed 8200 in
value. And this was not restricted
to subsequent contracts, which is
the more significant, as by the
same act a homestead of one hun-dred
acres without regard to value
was restricted to subsequent debts.
So that exemptions applying to
antecedent debts have had the
sanction of our Legislatures and of
lliis Court aud of the procedure of
all the Courts for the last twenty
J ears."
Four years later, in the case of
(iarret against Cheshire, N. C. Re-ports,
vol. 09, page .396, this same
Supreme Court of North Carolina
had the Homestead Law again un-der
consideration and this same
Judge Settle, uniting with Judge
Reade and repeating the substance
Of the act of 1836 (Revised Code)
and the act of 1S60 '67, above re-ferred
to, says:
" It is apparent that an allotment
of there articles approximates 81000
aud in many cases would exceed
thai sum in value. And the same
act allows a homestead of 100 acres
without restriction as to value,
which in many cases would be
worth, with the improvements,
many thousands. In 1868 our con-stitution
was adopted, and in that
our present homestead law is limit-ed
to$1,000realty,not in fee simple,
but for a limited time and personal-ty
lo the value of 8500. Cau it be
said ol our homestead law, as the
learned Judge of the Georgia law,
that oue casting his eye over them,
as compared with tinnier exemp-tions
would be struck by the mag-nitude
of the increase ! Our home-iteaa
laic is not an increase but a
restriction upon former exemptions."
Two years later, or nearly two
years, the same court had the same
question once more under considera-tion,
and lor the third time repeat-ed
the history of the Xorth Carolina
h stead law. In tho case of
Wilson against Sparks it decided
ai the January term, 1875, and re-ported
in the N. 0. Reports, vol.
7L'. page 208. Judge Settle again
uniting with Judge Reade declares:
" We have had exemption laws
for a long time, varying with the
limes, declaring upon their face
the purpose to secure necessaries
anil comforts for families until they
have become a part of the policy of
the State. With ns it has no rash
experiment nor spasm of prejudice
of the debtor against the creditor
class, but it has had a regulur
growth of a half century, increasing
from time to time as our necessity
required and as their good effects
were apparent. As embodied in
our Revised Code of 1854 tho ex-emptions
of personal property are
by articles named ; aud in many
cases, accordiug to the size and
circumstances of families, they
might at least equal the present ex-exemptions.
Up to 1866 '67, when
we had another statute, they were
increased until in many instances
they might have doubled the per-sonal
exemptions. Up to 1848 we
had uo real estate exemptions, and
even a husband's interest in his
wife's estate, which was for his life
or for hers, as the case might be,
was subject to execution sale for
his debts. Iu 1818 that interest
was exempted. In 1858 we had a
statute which made a further ex-emption
of 50 acres or a town lot
of two acres not exceeding 8500 iu
value. In 1866 67 that was changed
to an exemption of 100 acres with-out
limit as to value.r
The upshot ot the whole of it
then, if Judge Settle cau be be-lieved,
is that the claim of the
Radical party to popular favor
based upon its action in regard to
the Homestead law is utterly with-out
foundation, for the simple rea-son
that the white men and the
Democrats had already established
a Homstead law broader and more
beneficent than the one now existing
before the Radical party came into
existence. Comment upon such a
claim is useless. Comment upon a
party that would urge it in the face
of all the facts is useless. When
the Radical party asserts tbat it is
the friend of the Homestead Law
it presumes upon the ignorance of
the people and yet to hear Radical
orators talk, one would think their
party owned, as a party, all the
land in the State and had appor
tioned it out in homesteads by
formal deed to the people, one or
more to each family. It reminds
one of the time wheu the devil went
on a high monntain and offered to
deed away all the world although
he did not own a foot of land to his
name. The Homestead law is Demo-cratic
law and its friends are in the
Democratic ranks.
In the face of all this, however,
we learn that Judge Settle harps
and plays on the homestead as if it
was the only thing to be talked
about in the Constitution ot '68.
and as if It was in danger now.—
He does not allude to a single a
inendment proposed, but shouts
homestead to make ilit people be
lieve the homestead is in danger.—
With this sort of dust throwing he
hopes to blind the people to the
true issues and alarm them into
voting against the amendments and
for him. The mass of the people
have learned much within the last
few years, and are not so easily
bamboozled now.
From the Milton Chronical.
Captain Settle
One wonld suppose, to hear
Judge Settle talk, that he never
raised his hand against the " old
flag" and this " blessed Union," and
that he is without a " war record"
of any sort. We well remember
when he volunteered to figbt the
" old flag" and blow the bottom ont
of the Union. He was such a ran-tankerons
war man that lie was
made Captain of a "rebel" and
proudly he led tbem forth to fight
against the Union, He rendezvous-ed
nearly a year on the banks of
the Potomac, and snuffing tbe ene-my
at or near Yorktowo be " leaped
the Tiber" (Potomac,) and went
forth to meet him. About this
time a new election of officers took
place iu tbe 13th Regiment, and if
we mistake not Captain Settle
aspired to the Colonelcy of the
Regiment—that Gen. Scales (then
Captain) beat him, and being thus
defeated he ran for Lt. Colonel, and
was again defeated by Lt. Colonel
(then Captain) Ruffln, whereupon
be became disgusted with military-life
and resigned bis Captaincy just
in time to dodge the Williamsburg
battle, and came home. This is
our recollection of Captain Settle's
" war record," and if we do him the
least injustice we will thank some
old soldier of the old 13th that
fought and bled upon a hundred
battle fields, to correct us, for we
are not trying to beat him by lying,
like the radical papers are trying
to beat Vance.
Disappoiuted in his military aspi-rations,
be managed somehow to
play out of tbe army, and when the
lost cause went up, he came forth a
great Union sbrieker, and made the
Northern people believe be was as
innocent as a lamb of waging a war
against the Union! There are
Union men now living who can
tell bow Captain Settle had them
" running the gauntlet" aud dis-graced,
because they didn't want
to remain in the army and fight
against the " old flag." (The true
reason was the fellows were cow-ards.)
We rather like the dog-meat i
ideas of the Manassas Gazette,
though tbey may savor just a little
of cannibalism. It says: One of
the inmates of the poor-house in Al-leghany,
Pa, kills all the dogs tbat
come in bis way aud eats them.
What a blessing it would be for
Virginia if every inmate ot her poor-houses
could be indnced to adopt
dog-meat as a food. It would give
sheep a little chance for an exis-tence
in the State.
Brazil—The territorial extent of
Brazil, over which Dom Pedro
reigns, exceeds that of the United
States, though its population is
only ten millions. Of this popula-tion
from one-quarter to one-third
is white. Less than a million are
slaves, aud provision has been
made for gradual emancipation.
When inquiries were made of the
Emperor on this subject he said
that be desired to bring about
emancipation in such a manner as
would not inflict injury upon either
race. No person born after Sep-tember
28, 1871, can be held as a
slave.
A Quaker having had a bag of
golden eagles stolen from bis coun-ter
while he had stepped into his
back room but a moment, never
mentioned tbe loss to a single soul,
but quietly bided bis time. Several
months afterwards, a neighbor, be-ing
in his office, carelessly asked if
he'd ever heard anything of that
bag of eagles that he'd lost.
"Ab! John," exclaimed the Qua
ker, "thou art the thief, or thon
couldst not have known anything
about it!"
The shrewd old fellow was right,
and the gold was restored, with
interest.
"I don't see how you cau have
been working all day like a horse,"
exclaimed tbe wife of a lawyer,
her husband having declared he
had been thus working. "Well,
my dear," he replied, "I've beeu
drawing a conveyance all day,
anyhow."
Between 1860 and 1876—fifteen
vears—the population of tbe United
States increased 13,000,000, being
now, in round numbers, about 44,-
000,000. During that decade and a
half tbe assessed valuation of taxa-ble
property rose from #12,547,900,-
000 to $18,330,900,000. The State
taxes grew from $27,200,000 to 870,-
400,000, and State debts have risen
from $266,800,000 to $367,100,000.
Making a comparison on these data,
we perceive that the population has
increased 41.19 per cent.; the valua-tion,
46.48 per cent.; the taxes, 168.-
44 per cent., while debts increased
37.99 per cent. Thus it will be seen
tbat the taxes since 1860 have in-creased
nearly fourfold the ratio ot
growth in population or valuation
of .taxable property. Not only
has the National Govern-ment
beeu profligate, but States,
couuties and cities have likewise
been rushing into debt at a fearful
rate. It will be readily seen that
we have been travelling rapidly
along the road to ruin since tbe war
broke out. Aud yet this is not so
very wonderful after all when we re-member
that we have been gov-erned
by fools or thieves ever since
the Republican party became domi-nant.
As illustrative of tho imbe-cility,
extravagance aud dishonesty
of that party, it will be instructive
to cast our eyes for a brief period
to the local administration of the
Eastern States, where Republican-ism
has held almost uubroken sway.
The State taxes of tbat section
have risen from 81,616,002 in 1860
to 810,450,377 iu 1875, and the
debts from $8,645,853 to #46,470',-
898; the ratio of increase in the
taxes being 535.26 per cent, and in
the debts 437.56 per cent. Yet the
increase of population has been
ouly 20.19 per cent, and the aug-mentation
iu valuation but 100.76
percent. This is au astounding ex-hibit.
It appears utterly inexplica-ble
on any other supposition than
that New England, more than any
other section of tbe Union, has
yielded to the extravagances of the
times, and been mote a prey than
other quarters to tho nefarious in-fluences
and thieving instincts of
the Republican party.—Great Cam-paign.
James Bedpath, tho notorious
abolitionist, after a visit to Missis-sippi,
said it was his honest convic-tion
that a government in the
hands of negroes, is one " which no
white race on the face of this earth
either ought to endure or will endure."
That is truth. Yet, in the face of
it, Judge Settle would subject
the white race of North Carolina to
a government in the hands of ne-groes
! Whether he is successful
or unsuccessful in this contest the
day will come when he will repent
this r.REAT, CRYINC SIN AGAINST
nts OWN RACK, his own blood and
kindred.—Raleigh Netet.
A new blasting powder, named
" heraelin." is being experimented
with in several French and Aus-trian
mines. It contains picric acid,
nitrate of potash, and of soda, sul-phur,
and sawdust. Engineers say-that
it burns comparatively slowly,
so that it only fractures the mass,
and does not scatter tbe pieces
about.
A crow was killed recently and
upon opening his crop more than
twenty nests of catepillar eggs were
fonnd, showing that this much
abused bird had dined on about
4,000 or 5,000 caterpillar eggs. The
crow is not only a scavenger, but
very useful also in destroying in-sects
and worms that prey upon
crops. The damage it sometimes
does to young corn is more than
counterbalanced by the service it
renders on the farm.
An unwilling juryman recently
excused himsell Irom serving by a
letter, of which the following is a
literal copy—
" Sir.—As I am a luriner and my
lengwich Oanicb I am not ettal
eompitint of the English lengwich
to be a Jewry man and my coulions
du not alow me to geive my openian
en wat I do not euderstan—An
answer vel oblight."
A contemporary states that in
Chicago Fred Grant left tbe thea-tre
when the li""e Indian was put on
the stage. This is a great slan-der.
Young Mr. Grant is a lieu
tenant in one of the regiments now
in tbe Indian country, but he don't
know an Indian when he sees one.
The latest receipt for trne elo-quence
was given by a minister at
the Maltha's Vineyard Baptist
camp meeting yesterday. Here it
is ; "Get yourself chuck full of
the subject, knock out the bnng,
and let nature caper."—Boston
Globe.
Three leading Democrats were
killed last week by an armed body
of negroes in one of the parishes
of Louisiana. The Radical papers
have not heard of this outrage, at
least, they forgot to make any
mention of it.
'■We find that he came to his
death from calling Bill Jackson a
liar," was the verdict of a cornel's
jury in Missouri.
False hair is now made to imitate
real hair so closely that it is hardly
possibly to tell which is switch.
—Xorwich Bulletin.
Would it be proper to call a re-tired
liquor dealer's country estate
a bar-own-ial mansion f—Sew York
Commercial Adccrlh'r
By "tbe Governer."—It's hard
work to keep your sons in check
while they're young; it's harder
I still to keep 'em in checks when
they grow older.
A young lady, on being asked
what business her lover was in,
and not liking to say he bottled so
da, answered: "He's a practising
| fizzician."
There have been four political
riots in Indiana and Illinois and
i one in Vermont within the past two
; weeks, yet we do not hear that any-republican
organ fears another re-bellion.
tyThe Good Templars have 230
woiking Lodges in North Carolina
with about 10.000 members. The
order is stronger in North Carolina
than in any other State except Ken
1 tacky.