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Middletown transcript., 1874-06-27

TERRIBLE MARINE DIsAsTER-The Turksh YES
sci Karr, en- route for Salanica, was run into,
last Saturday, in the sea of Marmorh by an
Egyptian vessel named Behera, and sunk in a
few minutes. The Karr had $40 persons on
board, including passengers and crew, and OF
this number 800 were drowned.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-27
CO-PARFNERSHIP.

ITNHE undersigned, heretofore doing business
i under the name Of E. Jefferson Son, has
this day entered into co-partpership with George
W. Morrison, under the firm name OF W. d.
JEFFERSON A CO. for the transaction of tho
grain and general shipping business.
W. II. JEFFERSON.
New Castle DEL, December Sd, ls7a-f.
W. H. JErrEnsoN GEORGE v. MoRRisos'
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-27
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

rTNHE undersigned, in accordance with a law
L passed at the last session of the General As
sembly, hereby gives notice to the Taxpayers q
ST. Georges Hundred that be is prepared 10 re-
ceive the taxes due the State and County from
said Hundred. ]. ii. WALKER,
Collector Of 81, Georges Hd.
may 30.lm Middle.own, Del.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-27

the Pennsy ylyania Railroad, near Wilmore, Pa,
on Friday night, by running over COW. The
engine and fifteen cars tnmbled down steep en-
bankment, and the engineer and fireman we're
killed.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-27

This Sewing Machine gives the best satisfaction
to the user, is paid for most readily, and is the
best of all to sell. If there is no domestic
Agent in your town, apply TO DOMESTIC S. NJ
Co., New York. my lest
LADIES, send for elegant Fashion Book
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-27

j tornado passed northeast of Memphis on
Saturday night, damaging ths crops, fences and
forests. Hf
number of French detectives are in Eng
land watching the movements OF IIcnr Roche
fort.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-27
FOR SALE.
Jlistellanrous.

A BSOLuTE DIVORCES OBTAINED FROM
~ Courts Of different States for dcScrions, &c.
No publicity required. No charge until divorce
granted. Address, NJ. HOUSE, Attorney,
Nov 29-om lo4 Broadway, N. Y.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-30
Assessment Notice.
Pancake Coal Company.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
N a, meeting of-.the Board Of Trustees
held on the 18th day of May, A. d. 1874, an as
sessE4ent no. p of ten cents per share was
levied upon the capital stock of the corporation
payable Immediately in United States gold coin
to the Secretary, at the office of the company
with Ellis King. Carson City. Nevada. Said
assessment TO he paid on or before the
S:sa Day of June, 1874.
Any stockholders uIsking default in payment
Of said assessment as above required upon the
shares held by him, will be delinquent and said
shares will be advertised FOR sale a; public auc-
ton, and unless the required payment thereon
Is made on or before July nd. 1874. SO many of
sUch shares viii be sod at said last date will
be necessary for the payment of the assessment
upon all shares held by such shareholder, to-
grther with the costs Of advertisement and ex-
pensss o: sale. 5. ID. KING. JE-.
m6-lawiw Secretary
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-30
THE REASON WHY.

The question is daily asked by thousands o.
our citizens, why it is the ~ l. Bitters have
achieved such popularity with the public, and
have such an immense ssle:' Tie reason is
because they are an old and well established
article, and axe made from TIE most choice
herbs AMI roots; the many who have tried them,
testify to their beneficial qualities, and have 10
hesitation in recommending them TO their
afflicted friends.
They are Acknowledged to be the best tonic
and recuperator known: they build up the sys-
TEN, and impart strength TO the weak and ex-
lausted, and are endorsed and recommended by
our most eminent Physicians las per certificates
On each bottlel. To those afflicted with the
dyspepsia, Indigestion and Loss of Appetite, as
a blood purifier they surpsss all other SO called
tonics which have lately been placed i'll the
market.
No family should be without them. Sold
everywhere.
II. EPSTEIN 4 CO.,
Sole Proprietors, SIS Front ST.,
r,chI2-2m San Francisco.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-30
vx,uE .RovE SALOON HAS BEE

reftted IN the most elegant style, and fC
comfort and the quality Of its stock has no ST
periUr in the State. The choicest Of Wines an
Liquors and the best brands OF Cigars Away
OIL hand. The renowned
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-30

Are still dispensed at this establishment
Lager Beer OF the best quality always tn be
found at the Bar. Every attention paid to
patrons. Order ard civility Will be the rule at
the international.
l desire a call from my old friends. whom
will always be happy to make welcome.
spIi-tf Il. PENDOLA.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24
GORDON ON LAMAR.

The Atlanta Herald has again inter-
viewed Gen. Gordon, this time upon
the South in Congress. The General
thinks that the complexion and mate
rial of Southern members have both
changed for the better. Carpet-bag-
gers are being replaced by Democrats,
and the Democrats are men of better
standing and greater ability than those
chosen while so many Southern men
were laboring under political disabili-
tics. He says that the Georgia dele
CATION is good one, and commands
the respect and esteem of the House.
Of Lamar and his speech on Loulsi-
ana, he says:
s'By all odds The most powerful and
effective speech made in the House
since the war, and probably as remark
able an effort as was ever made upon
the floor, was Mr.. Lamar's speech on
Louisiana. / never saw such a scene
as the House presented during its de-
livery. There was not q member in
his seat-every member was on his
feet, straining to catch every word that
fell from Lamar's lips. He captured
the House and galleries, and carried
them with him. It was as absolute a
triumph as I ever saw. Lamar was
overwhelmed with congratulations.
Garfield, of Ohio, wrote him four
page letter, in which he told him that
he had read his speech carefully twice,
| and that it was to him as a revelation
| from the South; that it gave him an
entirely new view of things"
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24
u :sY.AsrEEfEJR. TEEsRSEE: TO 'EsEE,
5EE.ssSsss ORE e:EEEseAs. SEE.

At the Washington Lee University,
Lexington, Virginia, says the Savan-
nah -ft{rC.fiScT, q student is each day
detailed to watch beside the tomb of
General Lee. Every morning one of
the students IS posted at the tomb in
the memorial room of the chapel built
nnder the supervision Of Lee. He is
styled a watcher" and his duty is to
remain there during the day and re
ccive visitors, showing them the
proper courtesy and attention. AS
there are nearly three hundred and
fifty students, no one is on duty moro
than once year.
Thus the entire Southern people,
through their representatives. in the
University, are watching at the tomb
OF Lee, and their sons improved in
manner and bearing by the sacred
duty they perform, and their minds
and hearts benefited by thoughts of
the noble dead.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24
Accidentally Drowned.

Carl Herman Elder, a German sailor
belonging on board the German
barque Ceres, now at this port, was
accidentally drowned Thursday even
ing. lie had been sent from the
barque, lying ut AIessrs Willard Bros.
naval stores yard, at Eagle Island,
over TO the city side of the river in one
of the ships boats. On his return,
just little before dark in the evening.
while sculling the boat, the oar slipped
and he fell overheard. He was within
about twenty feet of the barque at the
time and the accident was observed by
those on board, who threw out ropes
to him, but the unfortunate man is
said not TO have risen at all from the
first plunge, as he could not swim.
Every effort was made to rescue his
body, which was recovered in an hOur
and half after he fell into the water.
when, of course, life was extinct. Cor
oner Hewlett was notified and yester-
day and held an inquest over the body,
the jury rendering a verdict that de-
ceased came to his death from acci
dental drowning.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24
RsnEGaE.sSn GN SOUTH CARO-


Things have come to a pretty pass
when Judge upon the bench is con-
strained, by a sense of public duty, to
supplement- the sentenceof a notorious
convict by q formal protest against the
use, IN that particular case, of the
pardonlng power. Yet this is just
what took place in the Court of Gen
cfai Sessions in Lancaster county the
other day. A correspondent furnishes
The Charleston NcWs ard Courier
the following certified copy of a SEN
trnGe passed on Thursday last by
Judge Mackey:
Inc state of South Carolina, County
oi L'Mcaster-In the General Ses-
SONS July Term, 1S74-The State
vs. lawn Black, alias Calvin Walk
Guilty.
J"dgc's RcmarLS. I do hereby
sentence Calvin Black. convicted Of
arson, TO be imprisoned at hard labor
IN the Penitentiarv, for life This
convict was ably and earnestly de-.
tended by Messrs. Kershaw and
Moore, two distinguished counsellors.
assigned by the court.
ne verdict was rendered by an i'm
partial Jury of singular intelligence,
Composed of five white and seven col.
o[ed citizens, selected by the prisoner,
T %ho had forty challenges. The evil
d"nce developed the fact that a
chlld' about seven years of age. was
nsumed in the bu n ng of the dwell
ing house.
DO, therefore. in the name of the
Violated law, protest against Executive
Tlemiency being extended in this case
ny the CLief Magistrate, +. J. Moses.
IT, Who has SO prostitutnd the par
"ohinS power as to make the admins
tfatlon of the criminal law a mockery
OF Justice, and convert the broad seal
Oh the State into symbol of approy-
ell crime.
r, Witness my hand, at Lancaster
court House, South Carolina, this 9th
DAY OF July, A. d. 1874.
L. j. MACKEY, Circuit Judge.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24
THaE stFASoN WHY.

A friend writing to us from Clinton
says:
"Ihc remarkable absence OF negroes
from the places of political discussion
is at last explained. A gentleman
(Maj. JAS. NJ. Niosely, of the HoteD,
who heard E. w. Kerr and Robinson
Ward at Piney Grove to-day, tells me
that Kerr asserted and threatened to
prove it if desired, that the negroes are
promised that the scaiawags are all for
Civil Rights, a though they now pro
fess publicly not to be SO in order to
get white votes. Mr.. Ward made no
reply!'
Clinton. July lG.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24
July 18th. 1874.

To the Editors Of the Journal:
My attention has been called to a
! most remarkable letter in the Post of
last Thursday, dated ''Edenton, July
10th, and signed ''Aug. nj. Moore. "
The ordinary ISLANDERS published drr-
ing political contest are unworthy of
notice, and L have entirely ydisregarded
any concerning myself heretofore; but
the letter above referred to--coming
from point far out of my District,
from person whom [ have never in
Jured in thought. word or deed, and
containing allegations more recklessly
false than seems possible-demands
notice from me.
The time, place, and manner of my
resignation from the army, were each
and all, different from what the letter
alleges, and the other statements,
down to the least one, are untrue, but
being matters of no Importance L pass
them by, and come to the last charge
against me, which, if true, would
make me infamous, and if false ought
to cover myaccuser with disgrace. The
writer says ''that 1t. Col. Waddell
and Rev. A. D. Hepburn made
speeches welcoming General Schofield
and the Federal forces to Wilmington"
and adds, ''if necessary I Will make
affidavit as to these facts" I pro-
nounce the writer of these words an
unmitigated liar, and appeal to every
man aud woman, white and black, who
was in Wilmington on and after the
arrival of the U. S. forces there, as a
witness to the truth of my denuncia-
ton. The audacity of the falsehood
is increased, not only by the certainty
of its exposure, but by the impossible
and contradictory circumstances to
which the writer refers in that con-
nection.
I cannot account for this attack on
me, except upon the general principle
that when a native Southerner turns
Radical to get Office, he notonly forfeits
the esteem of honest men, but parts
company with truth and self respect.
OF course I include in my denuncia-
ton, all who repeat or indorse this in
famous libel.
A. M. WADDELL.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24

Mr.. Geo. ID. Parsley, whose resi-
dence at Hilton was robbed on Tues
day Of large quantity of wearing ap
parel, obtained Information on We'd
nesday which led to the arrest of
Robert Hill, colored, as one of the
parties implicated in the affair. He
was lodged in Jail and a hearing was
set for yesterday afternoon at S
o'clock, before Justice Gardner. At the
appointed hour an officer went to the
Jail to bring the prisoner down for
trial, when, on entering the Jail, it
was fonnd that the bird had escaped
from the cage, taking along with him
David Martin, the colored boy who
was convicted of the murder of little
Willie Carter, and WHO was to have
been hung on the 18th of last month,
but who was respited by Gov. Cald-
we'll to the Goth of August, and
Richard Jones, the man who
cut Spott, the Purcell House
porter, one night last December.
and WHO was in Jail to await trial be-
fore the next term of the Superior
Court.
The prisoners were on the second
floor of the building, which is the
first floor of the Jail, and had by some
means obtained possession of knife.
With this they cut through the floor,
which is somewhat decayed, and Sue
ceeded in making hole large enough
to squeeze through. They then drop
ped to the floor of the building. below
the level of Princess street, which is
used as kind of storehOuse. They
succeeded in escaping observation, and
then jumped from a window to the
yard without, where they entered
sewer, and crawled through it to it's
exit in a lot west of the Jail wall.
There they were at liberty and sue
ceeded in making off without attract
ing attention. 1t is not known at ex-
actly what time the escape was effected,
as it was not known that they were
gone until the officer entered the Jail
to take Hill to trial. It is thought,
though, that they must have escaped
about two o'clock An effectual search
was made of the premises near the
Jail in the supposition that they had
concealed themselves there. Several
tracks in the soft soil evidenced that
they had been there, but there were
| no other traces of them.
Late yesterday evening Robert Hill
was overhauled in Brooklyn, and was
conveyed back to Jail, but there are as
yet no traces of the others. The cap
ture of Hill was effected by officer
George Jackson.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24

some four years or more, to the time
when Holden was Governor, and
claimed authority to suspend at will
all the laws Of the State. just as they
were suspended when Sherman's army
occupied the State in 1865; to the
exciting times that preceded the Hol-
den-Kirk war, when Holden by the
stroke of his pen could declare every
county in North Carolina to be in q
state of lnsurrectiOn, and when with tine
help Of the Supreme Court, he sus-
| pended the writ Of h0be0s corpus at
will, and declared substantial martial
law wherever it pleased him so to do.
A Judge of Canby's make and of the
true Reconstruction pattern, was then
| no small parsonage either in Mr.. Rus
sells opinion or in point of fact. Alb
bott WAS then United States Senator
and Latin and Estes and Flavial
Foster and Abiel Fisher and Chicken
Stephens and Parson Sinclair were
statesmen OF course the true white
people Of North Carolina had q small
showing.
Then it was that Mr. Russell pro-
cured the arrest of a citizen of OnslOw
county and had him carried to Raleigh
before a Federal Commissioner on the
ground that he was holding the Office
of Sheriff in violation of the 14th
amendment to the Federal constitu-
ton, and for no reason in the aOOrld
sare the fact that the Sheriff persisted
an forcing Judge RusseH to pay tares
on his plantation in Onslo,o county
then several months past due!
And has it come to this that a North
Carolina Judge threatens an officer of
IL 81
his Office because he dares to do his
sworn duty When did Judge Russell
become SO mighty and 50 great that a
Sheriff dare not call upon him to pay
his lawful taxes then several months
over due Was Judge Russell enti-
tied to any special privileges in the
matter of taxation ?
But not only did Judge Rus sell
threaten Sheriff Murrill, lie actually
had him arrested and carried to
Raleigh And this is the man that asks
the peop,e to make him q Judge over
them, the man who has his neighbor
arrested ani dragged to Raleigh as a
criminal, ant, for what ? Why, because
having been q Coroner before the war
and being Sheriff after the war he
''uanoyed" His Honor 6y asking him
to pay his tarcs! Is the man who re-
sorts to such measures as this to
crafty his spite and to satisfy his
desire for vengeance fit to sit upon the
bench ?
People of Onslow, people of the
whole District. are you willing to trust |
the powers of n Judge in the hands of
the man who committed such an out
rage? ?
Surely Judge Russell forgot himself
when he became a candidate for re-
election. for it is one thing to be |
when bayonets and bullets
and a military commanders certificates
are all powerful, and quite another
thing to be a candidate when the bal
lot box alone settles the question, and
mems mouths are no longer closed.
Did Nv. Russell fatter himself that
no one would dare expose his record =?
If so, he is not the first man that has
found himself to be less awe inspiring
than he had supposed himself to be.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24
WHAT CANRY,S JUDGE THINKS
OF NEGROES As JURORS.
Three Years fefOre the Election

Question. The juries are summon
ed by the Sheriffs?
Answer. They are summoned indis-
criminately there by law. As a general
rute. Of course, negroes are not COM
potent to SIT on juries, and their names
are not put on the list-ought not to
be in many instances, and Union
| whites i'll those counties where difficult
ties occur are largely in the minority.
Z. You say negroes are incompe-
tent to sit on juries.
A. very largo number Of them
are.
Q. You do not mean incompetent
by law?
A. .. no, I do not mean that there
is any distinction on account of color
made by law bM q Ue,y large pro-
portion of the negroes hare not su6f
cieslt Intelligence and character to
make good Jurors apd SO [ say there
are a considerable number of whites,
of course larger proportion of ne
groes than whites. Under an act of
Assembly the Board of County
Commissioners are the sole judges.
They are compelled to revise the jury
list, and all that are deemed incompe-
tent are stricken out.-Judge Russell
before The Ku klur Committee at
Washington IN 1871.
NINE MONTHS BEFORE THE ELECTION!
"Upon the whole it was gratifying to
see and know that in a case ofsuch i'm
portance involving such delicate rela-
tiOns between the white and black
race, that jury of black men had rem
dered q verdict according to evidence
oonarIlnor 70 10 fNhic iok
presents striking contrast to one just
rendered III another State involving
similar important consequences to
them. b ere a jury of twelve negroes,
probably O majority of them unable to
read Or write, give such a verdict as
the highest degree of intelligence and |
integrity demanded. There jury of |
q different race-white men-educated |
men no doubt, had rendered verdict |
IN violation of established and proved |
facts, so declared by the Judge on the
bench and SO acknowledged by |
an outraged public sentiment-a
verdict i'll violation of the law
and the facts. So much for the
difference of justice as administered
in North Carolina and New York
He regarded the fact as worthy of
the calm consideration of statesmen
and lawmakers. Honest ignorance
should be recognized while intelligent
vice should be scorned. ."-.Iudge Rus
sell on t,'ial Of David Martin, Nopens-
bcr, 1878.
Rather a considerable rise in the
value of negroes-as jurors Does
any one suppose His Honor had dis
covered by November, 1873, that his
political crop was likely to be smartly
in the grass about August, 1874, and
that the colored brethren would be
very useful about that time ? Won
der if he did, now sure enough p
Shouldn't wonder Shouldn't won
Jari |
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24
Three Times.

The difficulty, these times, of NOM
mating n ticket that will suit every
body, IS best illustrated in the case of
the Radical office-seekt RS over in
Brunswick county. They have three
times tried to get the thing straight
and there is considerable doubt as to
whether they have yet been successful.
The last effort in that line was ut Town
Greek, on Saturday last, "when most
harmonious Convention" Everybody
knows what that MEANS made the fol-
lowing nominations:
House of Representatives Asa Ross;
Clerk Of Superior Court, Sam. 2.
Swain; Treasurer, Hanson Ruark;
Register, Lewis A. Galloway; Sheriff,
Z. w. Taylor; Surveyor, G. w. Girls
sett; Coroner, Arthur Lucas; Commits
sioners, A. j. Swinson, VIM. Grissett,
Geo. X. Andrews, Jno. Hooper, Sr.,
and Whitfield Hawkins.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24
VOL. 80.
ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! xNzatTE
MEN TO sEaV: 'FRONT.'.

The white people possess large un
doubted minority pf the voters i'll boil
the Congressional and Judicial Dis
tricts, and all that is necessary for II:
t, do, IS TO go thepolls in full strength
| and deposit our ballots. II we Il,
this, the victory will be ours beyond
dispute.
The question is will we do this :
Upon the answer depends the future
Of orr section of the State.
We will not, we cannot bring out
out full strength, unless we go to work
systematic ally and organize our forces.
Especially is the work of organization
necessary in the townships. We call
upon our friends therefore to ask them
selves If they are doing anything in
this matter, and if they be forced in
honesty to answer that nothing is be-
ing done, we beg them not to rest a
minute until they have done their duty
How many men are there who can
tell what and how many changes are
likely to occur in their several town
ships, or even in their school districts,
so that if report of the condition of
affairs should be called for by school
districts or by townships, it could be
made out at once?
Are there any persons in the various
precincts, attending to the important
matter of registration. There can be
no registration on election day.
RemtnJc1. that the election Tar re-
I"iTcs CHAT WHEN VOTER IS CI1AL-
LENGED AT THE POLLS UPON DEMAND
OF ANY CITIZEN OF THE STATE IT SHALL
BE THE DUTY OF THE INSPECTORS OF
THE ELECTION TO REQUIRE SAID VOTER
BEFORE BEING ALLOWED TO VOTE TO
PROVE BT THE OATH OF SOME OTHER
PERSON KNOWN TO THESE JUDGES THE
DAYS PREVIOUS THERETO IN THE COUN
TT IN WHICH He PURPOSES TO VOTE
L'tnacn3Gcl also that the election
lar says ''NO EUFCTOR SHALL BE EN-
IL I-t-i' ~ lAGp VI. VILE ~ AM
OTHER PRECINCT OF TOWNSHIP THAN
THE ONE IN WHICH He IS AN ACTUAL
OR BONA TIDE RESIDENT ON THE DAY OF
ELECTION, AND NO CERTIFICATES OF REG
IsTRATION SHALL BE GIVEN"
Unless all these matters are being
attended to, we have no right to expect
to win the fight. The victory Will be
ours unless we are cheated out of it
by fraud. But we must organize
thoroughly and work increasingly and
leave nothing to chance. We intend
to repeat this injunction until the polls
close. Organize thoroughly, work
Systematically and work increasingly
until the polls are closed. Leave
nothing to chance.
The work is easily enough done after
it is laid out. The important point just
now, is :or the District and Township
Committees every where to meet and
allot to each man his own particular
work. Then let each man do his part
and a bright and happy future awaits
us in this section.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24
Dr. i. =. DeVane.

We hear the most encouraging ac-
counts from the canvass that DIR. De-
vane, the candidate of our party for the
Senate, in BladeE and Brunswick, is
making against the whole Radical khan
in those counties. He meets the
enemy wherever he can find them, and
never leaves them without making
them feel the weight of his blows.
DIR. Devane is the regular candidate
of the party in his Senatorial district,
and will receive the most enthusiastic
support from our friends III each
county.