Newbern weekly progress., 1860-11-13
DISTRICTS :

1st District-Cel. Samuel Watts, Of Martin.
End " +. u. Koonce Of OnSow.
;rd " d. McDougald. Of Bladen.
4:h " Henry w Miller, of Wake.
Eth '' Gol.J Morrison, of Moore.
9Th " I. w. Keenc, of Rockingham.
eth I" ~ r. Myers, Of ,Mecklenburg.
Sth tx 1JD. LYMAN, Of Buncombc.
Whel. prin>ud they lazy or ou+ counter and
about -ovr office, and VIC aaycthe,n out snd ex-
hbitcd them 70 Douglas men, Bel mcn anC!
Breckinridgo men freely and openly, anci never
dreamed OF fraud or deception" Until OUR
qnIz1-,t friend, Co1oncl James W. Morris, of
Lenoi- United States Nail Agent between
Goldsborc and Morchcad City, supposing that
he had found mares nest, commenced crying
out about .f5utGulent tickets up and down the
road, ard placed copies OF the ticket in posses
sion Of our friends Of the Rough Notes and
Journal, who, to say the least, we think, made
very ungenerous use of them. We are init
mate with all three of these gentlemen and we
cannot believe that either Of them would know
ingly attempt to injure us, but they have done
it nevertheless and that too without cause; for
to prove that the very tickets about which all
that fuss was made were genuine, they were
raised by the judges relative to their validity
But it is urged that we printed other tickets
that differed from these and hence the attempt
at deception" or fraud is proved. Yes,
we did print other tickets with the names of
Douglas and johnson added, but it was done
by order Of gentleman of this town, who, hav-
ins got some tickets from Raleigh with the
sc tIoo oI
desired some like them, and we filled his order
as we would have printed hand-bill offering
for sale M)laSses, Salt or Guano
We regret to learn too that our friend, Col
L. ". Humphrey, of Onslow caught up this
cry Of fraud, and used our name in speech
in his county, saying some very hard things OF
We have not heard the particulars of what
he did say, but Col. II. is gentleman, and af-
ter he sees this statement we doubt not but he
will do US justice. We trust that our rientls
of the Rough Notes and Journal will do us the
justice too to give their readers the benefit of
this explanation. Our excellent friend, Colonel
Norris, we know will make the G1se,a7e honor-
able, for we have long since promised to sign
recommendation for his re-appointment with
an increase of salary. And then too while he
is on the Road we shall want no telegraph to
get political intelligence as he keeps us posted
in all that does occur, and sometimes in that
which don't He is the best mail agent we
know of, and should he hold on under Lincoln
(Which We hope he will we shall defend him
against all who declare such act to- be dis
honorable.
The tickets, really, had nothing " fraudulent"
or "dcceptive" about them, but if they had
have been what they were pronounced by our
excited friends, we should have been no more
responsible for it than we are for the language
used in a hand-bill which we print for the own
CT of donkey--aS in each instance the work
is done to order, for q confederation.
On election day we had our counter piled up
with Breckinrldge, Bell and Douglas tickets
which we did not sell, but gore Gtddy to all who
applied
Now we hope never to rccur to this matter
again, and will here say that we have made
this explanation for cur own justification, with
out vindictiveness or malice toward any one,
but simply that we might repef the unfounded
charges made against usand afford those who
we cannot believe had any intention of doing
us an injury an opportunity to dc uh and them
selves justoo.
The omnibus receipts Of London for a week,
ending Oct 1c, were $50, COO