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IIarkness' Magazine.

We have received the fifth number, volume
second, Of this magazine, and find its con
tents varied and interesting The iTlnstra-
tions are excellent. 1t is C'editable to Will
mingtOn enterprise and its publishers
Among many interesting and to us new re-
miniscenCes of Wilmington we extract one oil
Captain Paul Cufee, some of whose descend.
ants are now living in Washington We
lately enlightened the Petersburg Inter ana
Appeal with regard to this well-known old
sea captain. We publish the scrap Of history
to show that Cufiee was once an honorable
name with the negro, one Of which even now
we ought not to be ashamed.
This magazine does special work ior
manufacturers, mechanics, business men, and
the youth of our country. Send 81 for a
years subscription, post paid, and you will
not fegret the investment.
CONTENTS.
God Contrasted with Man." (prizc poem, }
Mrs. Lizzie York Case. "Grandmother, One
Hundred aud Three" Howard NJ. jenkins.
The Good Of Sects, Henry Collins. IIistori-
cal sketch Of the origin Of Sunday schools,
John Carroll Power. A Country Sabbath,
(pocm,) Samuel W. Pcarce. The Psychology
Of Love, Henry e. Turner. The New Bridge
at Brandywine, (prize story,) NJ. r. {.
Black-Eyed Bella, or the Ayenger OF the
Brandywine, original. Wilfrid Cumbermede,
George Macdonald. History of Wilmington,
Chap. W Francis Vincent. September,
(poem,) Augusta Moore, Acrostic, Edwin
Hirst. Educational Department Reflection
upon the present state Of education in our
county, y lmira Lincoln Phelps Charley Ben.
toms First School, by Mary F.. Wager.
Children's Department-The Fairy Git, or
Aunt MOreton's Story, by NJ. Il. &. The
Sick Bird. Editorial Department owe :;
Social Code Of Honor. Manufacturer and
Mechanics Department Wilmington and its
Industries. Publishers Experimentation
ward We Move; Up in a Balloon Bows :;
Rev. Alfred Goodman; The Coming Race:
Grace GreenwOOd's New Life in New Lands;
The Education Of Young Ladies'; school
Books; Sweden; Captain {. II. Gallahcr;
Boston Fire; How Money Accumulates :;
Report on prizes; more prizes, &c.
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Captain Paul Cumee.

A familiar figure on the wharves of VII
mington was the gigantic one Of Captain
Paul Cuffee, looking like character in mas
querade. His athletic limbs, forced into the
narrow garments of the Quakers, and brim
Of superior development shading his dark
negro face, he talked sea-lingo among the
trading captains, mixed with phrases from
Robert Barclay and gutturals picked up on
the coast Of Sierra Leone.
Captain Cufee owned several vessels,
manned By sailors as black as shoemaker
wax, and he conducted one Of his ships ha-
bltually to the African ports. Coming back
rich from Africa, this figure of darkness has
often led III crew Of shadows into port at
the Brandywine month, passing modesily
amongst the whalers and wheat-shallOps,
dim as the Flying Dutchman, and mum as
Friends meeting. Ii Is possible that from
some visit Of his arose the legend that Black
beard, the terrible pirate, who always hid
his booty on the margins Of streams, had
used the Brandywine for this purpose. AT
any rate, some clairvoyants, in their dreams,
saw in 1912 the glittering pots OF Black
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The Chief JustiCeslbip.

The appointment Of Chief Justice to fill
the place made vacant by the death OF
Salmon =. Chase, is engaging the attention
OF the leading journals. We can but feel the
importance Of filling that position with a
noble, pure minded man of undoubted legal
ability. Many questions affecting the life,
liberty, and happiness of the colored people
are yet to be decided by the Supreme Court,
and il is of the utmost importance to us all
that no man be placed in the position of Chief
Justice who can be blinded by considerations
Of antipathy towards US. II cannot he gain
sayed tina, much Of the oppression to which
our race is subjected finds refuge and snp.
port in so-callcd courts Of Justice, whose
judges often reflect the prejudice and hatred
born Of the system Of slavery which las been
destroyed, though leaving behind its evil
effect. This being true of inferior courts.
how highly necessary is il, then, That the
court of final resort should lie composed of
men who can and will rise above reasaness
prejudice, and deal out justice without regard
to the race, color, or previous condition of a
man. We trust that President Grant, while
carefully weighing the essentials for a Chief
Justice, will keep in the foreground the
necessities for m honorable and upright Judge
in matters concerning our highest interests
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Jacob &. Greener

Through the Kindness of the Rev. LII, IL
Webb, who is contributing to the Episcopal
Register series Of articles on The Origin ana
Progress Of 81. James First African Church
baltimore, We are enabled to extract the fol.
lowing notice of relative, whose labors
in Baltimore, as teacher, preacher, and
worker, are well known TO Baltimoreans OF
the old school. Want Of space alone pre-.
vents US from printing the entire article:
The first effort TO start an Episcopal church
IN baltimore was made BY a talented old
coiored man by the name Of Jacob Greener,
a communicate of st. Paul's Parish. He.
having obtained license rs a Lay Reader.
held service in his own house. But little
progress was made, very few of the colored
people understood or cared anything about
the church, and consequently AFTER strenuous
efforts on the part Of Mr.. Greener and Others,
the scheme was abandoned, and the persons
who had favored 1t went back to the respec-
tive Protestant Episcopal churches where
they formerly worshipped
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Courage Among Races.

1t would surely seem hazardous task for
one who pretends to have read history i'm
partially to assert the prominence Of any
one race in point Of courage. We are not
aware that any honest historian has at
tempted so difficult task.
1t is true that many ignorant, and some
merely bgoted persons, have sworn in turn
to the peculiar martial courage Of the French,
the steadiness and trustworthiness of the
English soldiery, the patient endurance of
the Scotch, or the valor Of the New Neither
landers. Others have asserted the supe-
riority of the fairer over the darker races in
point Of physical bravery; but all of these
feeble claims of superiority are disallowed in
view of the many examples which history
furnishes Of valor exhibited by every race
and in all conditions of life.
The Jews, that able, patient, much endur-
ing race, showed, when Titus and his cohorts
besieged their beloved Jerusalem, that suffer-
ing had by no means weakened their valor.
The Roman legions, who had usually marched
to such easy victories, here found foemen
worthy Of their steel in these despised
Jews.
Neither have instances of valor alone kept
pace with the so-called advance of civiliza.
ton. On the monuments Of antiquity which
date back to the remote periods of history,
in what survives to us Of ancient literature,
instances of mere valor, courage exhibited
on the battlefield or in the chase, not the
highest qualities of human nature surely,
since they are so common, stand out in bold
relief
The bravery of the Huns, Goths and Van
dals, in their gigantic forays over Europe,
and their struggle with each other, are well
known.
In our day, the Irish, who shave fought
successfully all battles but their own" the
dregs of the native Indian population, the
superstitious Russian peasants, the ''cruel''
Austrian, and the cowardly italian have all
shown that no one race can with justice lay
claim to any superiority in courage.
Notwithstanding the Irish had fought their
battles, the Englishmen despised them until
1897 and 1908. Napoleon affected to despise
his black imitator in Hayti until negroes and
mulattoes together had destroyed nearly
10000 ofhis best troops. The slave-owners
of the South, with equal credulity, believed
that their former slaves would not dare to
face them in battle but Port Hudson and
Fort Wagner undeceived them.
In short, everywhere, whether in the case
of the Scotchmen at Lucknow, the Indians
on our Western prairies, the Old Guard at
Waterloo, the Paraguayans in their recent
war, the Rougns or New York city, or the
kid-gloved gentlemen who it was supposed
would faint at the sight of blood during
our war, the testimony in confirmation of the
assertion that there is no difference in races,
in respect to courage, is, we think, almost
universal
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The Commercial Business school.

The deep interest that oil have folt in tho
establishment of the Commercial Business
School in this city open to all classes OF
pupils, warrant few lines in our present
issue. Miss Kate Lee, who has so assidu-
ously and benevolently labored for its estab-
lishment, must, with the many other friends
that were present at its opening, have been
more than satisfied with the results of her
labors. She has faithfully performed the
allotted task that she had purposed doing
and deserves the commentator Of the entire
city, and especially those she so much de-
sired to benefit. The list Of pupils that
enrolled their names far exceeded the most
sanguinc expectations orits warmcst friends.
If those that now have taken the control in
their hands do but half what the founder has
done, it will exert an influence for good that
no school in Washington has ever done.
The evening of the opening was devoted to
social converse, short speeches, and music.
DIR. Hinkley, pastor of the Unitarian Church
Mr.. Blanchard, of the late firm of Blanchard
s. Mohun o. q. Howard, John F. Cook,
and others made pertinent remarks. Mr..
and Mrs. Billiard, of the Conservatory OF
Music, with Mrs. Mcdowell, added new
honors to their musical reputation, and
greatly increased the enjoyment Of the even
ing. The room is really attractive. On
either side of the platform, suspended by
crimson cords. are the portraits of our dis
tnguished President and the courteous
Christian gentleman, Secretary Delano, of
the Interior Department. The window shades
are models of neatness, aud serve, as they
are plainly marked, 1.-The Commercial Bust
ness School," as an advertisement. The ap-
pointuent Of the entire room is in good
taste, and yet economy has evidently been
made an important consideration. 1t is
evident that Miss Lee has a keen eye to the
finances, as the enterprise has commended
itself to the public favor from its first incep-
ton, and no doubt, if it is left to the control,
financially, of one so entirely at home in
managing with that enactment that leaves
no doubt to the mind of generous public,
that if they have a desire to ask or look in
what direction their money has been applied,
the receipts and outlay will be fully able to
explain to the most exacting a statement as
satisfactory and clear as though it had been
under the eyes of the entire number of con-
tributors. We bespeak for the enterprise
the patronage of the entire District
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Enterprise

The Murray Hill Publishing { ompany, 1919
East 28th street, have just made arrange
ments with "The Graphic Company" for a
further IL, 900 Of that unique chrome, Throw
Physic to the Dogs" copy Of which they
present 10 every purchaser Of DR.. Foote's
most popular book, Plain HON, Tau and
Medical Common Sense
Both chrome and volume seem - have
touched the rnirth and sympathy of the peo-
pie. 1t is 10 the credit Of the Doctor that
he designed the picture which B.shan has
SO admirably painted. The Doctor is strongly
new school," and can AFFORD 10 humorously
illustrate on canvas the exclamation Of Ham
let, Throw Physic to the Dogs Veg
FOrk DAILY Tribune.
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esty, refinement, intelligence, and wealth
cannot elevate humanity II that humanity
chances to be covered with skin not cOlored
like their own: This is, however, the posi-
ton every white man takes who opposes the
enjoyment of-by colored people on the same
terms with white people-public rights and
privileges. Subject white people and black
people, white children and black children, to
the same penalty for violating good manners,
or for the violation of any necessary and rea-
sonable restriction in public places, and make
no discrimination in the enjoyment Of public
rights based OH mere accidents Of birth, and
the colored people the country will be con-
tented
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Bag The Liberal Christian, from which we
often clip many good things, and we fear do
not always give sufficient credit, in an edto-
rial on Massachusetts politics, has the FOL-
lowing earnest appeal to Massachusetts to
eXpunge the resolution Of censure passed
upon Senator Sumner. While we cannot
agree with all of the editorial, the part which
refers to the great Senator we cordially en-
dorse:
In regard to other issues of the canvass,
there is not much to choose between the
State-Housc faction and the Custom HI use
faction-between Washburn and Butler. We
are inclined to think that Butler is quite as
patriotic and deserving as the politicians
who oppose and abuse him.
To our mind there is another matter which
much more concerns the reputation and the
honor of the people Of Massachusetts than
the simple question who shall be Governor
for the ensuing year. There stands still
upon their State record a vote of censure
passed against Charles Sumner for no other
alleged reason than in the exercise of Chris
tan forgiveness he wished as much as possi-
BILE to Obliterate the traces of deadly warfare
between citizens of common country. For
more than twenty years, and during the most
momentous period of our national history,
he has been a Senator of Massachusetts,
without peer. In the great and terrible
struggle against the slave power, he stood
firm and fearless for the right, and in bis
fidelity to the cause of freedom suffered al
most martyrdom itself. His glorious utter
ances went ringing through the land and
found response in liberty-loving souls across
the seas, while his tremendous blows demol-
shed one by one the bulwarks of slavery
until at last the oppressed were free. Others
have betrayed the sacred cause, but he,
never. Many are the idols that have been
broken for us, but here is man who has not
failed or disappointed us. Faithful and labo-
rious at his post of duty, stainless in charac:.
ter, powerful Of mind, cultured, eloquent and
OF immense attainments, he has brought all
his ability, learning and experience to the
service OF his country and Of humanity. No
prouder or more splendid career has been
run by any statesman in any land. No one
of all the honored sons of Massachusetts has
written such a sublime chapter in her history.
or bound such an unfading wreath of glory
around her brow. And this is the man she
has seen fit to censure! The act of Preston
:. Brooks was humane and noble in compar.
ison. Oh, State of Hancock and Adams.
Quincy and Andrew hasten, before it is too
late, to erase the damnable record. 1t mat.
tiers but little who is your Governor until that
is done.
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paF- We published on the ith the account
of the turning out of school of little colored
boy, almost white, from the public school at
Deer Creek, Montana Territory.
The Ner North Vest, publishedin the above
town. while not so clear on the expediency
of mixed schools, utters the following truths,
for which we thank it. We do not cease our
efforts to bring about so good result:
This question of separate or mixed schools
is not one to be approached by fanatics or
Hotspurs if good IS sought to be done. The
education OF all the children of the United
States-whites, blacks, and copper-colored-
is one ofmOmentous Importance to the future
of our country. We believe great deal
more in universal education than we do in
universal Suffrage and that in universal
education-compulsory if need be-and I'M
partial suffrage, is the bond of safety, perpe-
tuity, and glory of the Republic. There is
with many prejudice against mixed schools.
1t is prejudice so far as the blacks are con-
cerned, propagated and nurtured by slavery.
Slavery is dead and It's prejudices are dying.
But they do live yet; they are existing,
stubborn facts. They exist not alone and
in the South and with Democrats, for even
Iowa, the great Republican State, and many
others Of the North, maintain separate
schools for white and African children, while
in many Southern States mixed schools exist.
There are many persons in Montana opposed
to mixed schools-some who oppose the adj
mission of children of African descent, while
not opposing the admission of children OF
Indian descent. 1t comes simply, solely,
and wholly Of prejudice against the negro
prejudice that in time will disappear.
Statutory enactment will not eradicate though
it may crush it; violent denunciation will
MOTT is the emolIents Of time and reason
that will dispel and the ever growth of new
life and new thought that will supplant and
snnnrcade il
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Mississippi.

That chronic sorehead, Governor Alcorn,
Of Mississippi, opposes the election Of Sena-
tor Ames, the Republican nominee for Gov
ernor. The Senator has the confidence and
full support of the Republican masses, who
look upon Alcorn as traitor TO the party.
We find by the New York Times that the
correspondent of the Chicago Times, writing
from Jackson, Miss, does not look with any
favor upon Alcorn's project or candidacy.
His letter affords rather curious reading in a
Democratic newspaper, not in opposing
Alcorn, but in predicting General Ames' S
election, and also that if Alcon alone runs
against him, Ames' majority will be greater
than that usually obtained by the Republican
party in the State, which is between 10000
and 10, 600. He says: "Alcorn is distaste-
full to everybody except himself and few
followers for whom he provides. General
Ames has the love and confidence of Repub-
licans throughout the State, and the Democ-
racy, so called, have thorough respect for
him, both as a gentleman, soldier, and states
man-so much so that some of the news
papers that have always acted in union with
the defunct party now display the name OF
General Ames as their choice for Governor"
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boards gold lying beneath the rocks Of Har-
vey's waste-land, next to Vincent Gilpin's
mill. They paid forty thousand dollars for
a small tract, and searched and found moth
ing; but job Harvey Rugged his purchase
money.-WiimiagtoH and IFS HniUsfries-Hdrk-
NESS V1gd-iac.
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Norih Carolina Agricultural Fair,

A committee Of citizens Of the state OF
North Carolina, consisting Of Colonel /. j..
Dung. Senator Matthew ". Ramsey, Hon
Thomas Settle, and two others, will visit the
President upon his return from Long Branch,
Tor the purpose Of extending him an invita-
ton to attend the fair, which commences at
haleigh, y. C., October 18th, lasting six
days.
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szsrhe "kelom" Mayor Of New York is
enlistirg the services of that pure patriot and
statesmna, the Hon. John Morrissey, to
secure seat in the state Senate for his
friends and co-refpmers.
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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER Is. 1873.
SuRsCRIBERS TAKE NOTICE!

We will present each person, suhscr hing
for the NFw NATIONAL Era one year, a
fine photograph Of Toussaint L'Ou,rcture.
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sw-" We are indebted 10 ID. +. Adger, ESQ.
OF Philadelphia, for complimentary tickets 10
The promenade concert Of the Elliott Club.
on the 18th proximo.
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hiCh !!

The Democratic party is called on ~ in.
form the country which of the three platforms
contains the time-honorcd principles of the
Democracy, that Of 1860, 1868, or 1872?
Marshall County Republican., 1873-07-10

into the shops to purchase a piece of
brown bread and fat bacon and a mug
of beer, and eat their dinners sitting on
the curbstones. Their wages is one
horin, or As cents per day, and I am
assured by gentleman resident here
that most of them sleep about the build
ings on shavings, or in barns or sheds,
having no homes. Amid all the splendor
and wealth of this great city, with its
million of inhabitants, there is, perhaps,
more destitution, want and suffering
than IN all the cities of America. Still,
we frequently hear some of our country
men praising and preferring the govern
ments of Europe. While viewing this
scene. the Emperor and Empress, with
his staff, and outriders glittering in gold
and precious stones, dashed along the
Ringstrasse, on the way to the palace,
while short distance off stand the royal
stables, a magnificent structure, cover
ing at least four blocks of ground, as
large as Franklin square, the meanest
animal of which is better cared for than
these women. 1t is not to be wondered
that of the 5000 births annually in the
lying-in hospital in Vienna less than
half are of children born in wedlock.
Marshall County Republican., 1873-07-10
Best Time to Paint HOuses

The IechnoIogist says: The best
time for painting the exterior of build
lngs IS late in autumn or during the
winter Paint then applied VIII endure
twice as long as when applied in early
summer OF in hot weather. In the for
mer 1t dries slowly and becomes hard.
like a glazed surface, not easily affected
by the weather or worn off by the beat
ing OF storms. But in hot weather the
oil III the paint soaks into the wood at
once as into a sponge, leaving the lead
nearly dry and nearly ready to crumble
OF. The last difficulty, however, might
III a measure be guarded against.
though at an increased expense, by first
going over the surface with raw oil By
painting IN cold weather one ANNOYANCE
might certainly be escaped namely,
the collection of flies Oh the fresh paint,
Marshall County Republican., 1873-07-10

Twenty summers have elapsed since it was
briefly announced that new vegetable tonic and
Alternative, bearing the name of Hostetter's stom-
ach Bitters, had been added to the list Of Pre-
ventive and Restorative medicines The modest
advertisement which invited attention to the
preparation stated that it had been used. with
great success, in private practice, as a cure for
dyspepsia, bilious complaints, constipation and
intermittent fever. 1t soon discovered that
the article possessed extraordinary properties
The people, Of every GLASS; tested its merits as a
tonic, stimulant. corrective and restorative, and
found that its effects than fulfilled their
hopes and expectations. From that time to the
present its course has been upward and onward,
and it stands to-day at the head of all medicines
its class, American or imported, in the magnitude
of its sales and its reputation safe agreeable
and potent invigorant and restorative. For
languor and debility, lack of appetite gastric
isturbances, so common during the summer
months, it is absolutely infallible. Indigestion
bilious disorders, constipation nervousness
periodical fevers, and all the ordinary complaints
generated by yitiated ana humid atmos phere
vanish under its renovation and regulating infu-
ence. This is its record avouched by volumes of
intelligent testimony, extending over period of
fifth Of a century, and comprehending the names
Of thousands of wellknown citizens belonging to
every class and calling. In Europe it is thought
great thing to obtain the patronage of royalty for
patent medicine,' but Hostetter's Bitters has
pendent sovereigns, and its patent consists in
their Endorsement