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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-05-21
THE MECKLENBUR DECLARA-
THON OF INDEPENDENCE
NC Getief of Nsr. Bancroft Refer
red to by Gov. r-ru.den
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, j
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
RAIErcu Nav e 1879

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
RALEIGH, May 6, 1871
To the Editor Of the NeaO York Times:
Io the Times of the 1st inst, ap-
pears an editorial notice of Gov. Brog-
den's letter concerning the MeckIen-
burg Declaration of Independence. In
said letter Gov Brogden referred to
the late Gov. Swain, of this State,
dated London, July 4, 1848, in which
Mr.. Bancroft stated that he had him
self procured from the British State
Paper Office a copy of the Mecklen-
burg resolves. By a typographical
error, Mr.. Baucroft's letter is made to
date from July 4, 1875, instead of
July 4, 1S48.
AS the matter is attracting public
attention at this time on account of
the Centennial Celebration at Char
lotte on the Goth inst, I incloss> you
correct copies of the letters of Mr.
Bancroft and Gov. Brogden. I am
very respectfully, J. B. NEATHEY.
MIR. BANCRoFTs LETTER.
No 80 EATON SQUARE,
LONDON. 4th July, 1913.
MY DEAR SIR hold it of good
augury that your Litter of the 18th of
June reached me by the Herman Just
in time to be answered this morning.
You may be sure that | have spared
no pains to discover in the British
State Paper Office a copy of the re-
solves of the Committee of Mecklen-
burg, and with entire success.
A glance at the map will show you
that In tEose days the traffic of North
| Carolina took a southerly direction,
and people in Charleston, and some
| times in Savannah, knew what was
going on in Charlotte Town" before
| Gov. Martin.
The first account of ''the extraordi,
nary resolves by the people in Char
lotte Town, Mecklenburg county,
was sent over to England by Sir jaime 6
| Wright, then Governor of Georgia, IL
letter of the 2OIh of June, IT'S. The
newspaper thus transmitted is still,
preserved, and is No. 498 of the South
Carolina Gazette and County Journal
| Tuesday, June 13, 1775. I read the
resolves, you may be sure, with reve
renee, and Immediately obtained 6
copy of them, thinking myself the sole
discoverer. 1 do not send you the
COPY, as it is identically the same will
the paper which you inclosed me; bu
I forward to you a transcript of the
entire letter of Sir James Wright
The newspapers seem to have reached
him after he had finished his dispatch
for the paragraph relating to it Ii
added in his own handwriting, the
former part of the letter being writer
by Secretary or Clerk. Ihave read
great many papers relating to thu Reg
n!ators, and am having copies made
of large number. Your own Stat'
ought to have them all, and the ex
pense would be for the State inslg
nificant, if it does not send an agent OF
purpose. A few hundred doilar'
would copy all you need from th'
State Paper Office on all North Caro-
lima topics.
I shall always be glad to hear from
you, and to be of use to you or you
State.
Very truly yours,
GEO. BANCRoF 4.
To Hon. D. L. SWAIN.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-05-21

The Tarboro Southerner says: Lewis
Waro, colOred, one of the petit jurors
at the late term of the Court, on Fri
day last ~as found dead in vacant
house on the plautation of Capt. V. B.
Sharpe. He is supposed to have been
killed on Tuesday by bis wife Mary
Ward, with pistol. the ball entering
near the back OF the head and coming
out at the light ear. The jury of in
juest rendered a verdict ON Saturday
that Lewis came to his death from a
pistol or gun shot at the hands of
some unknown person supposed to be
Mary Ward. She was committed to
Jail on Saturday to await trial.
The Winston Sentinel says: On last
Sunday, during the prevalence OF a
very high wind, fire broke out i'll a
new-ground on the farm of Grossly
Brown, of Surry county, near the
| Stokes county line, and rapidly spread
| over track mile wide and swept on
| for distance of three miles, destroy
ing everything in its route. Fortu-
nately there were no dwellings along
its track, but a number of stables and
| tobacco barns were turned. The fire
burned on both sides of County Line
| Church, but fortunately services were
held in the church that day, ano by
the exertions of the congregation the
building was saved. Tie losses in
tobacco, barns and fences viii amount
| to several thousand dollars.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-05-21

lIr. Randall, ct Pennsylvania, is re-
ported TO 10 yecy hopeful Of the
speah4r5Lip, counting on the South
EN- I. d.laga,es and the votes OF Con
necticut, Delaware, Maryland and his
own State Pen1=y-Tau,a). He is
Protecc.ouis., but says he viii make
up committees, Is Mr.. Greeley pro-
posed to sign b-H i, IN the interest OF
the majority, whether 1t be Free Trade
or not.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-05-21
From the Dallas (rex4s) Daily aeraIc.
s.Christ Killer,

In this goodly town, not long since,
lit le girl of Hebrew parentage, on
returning home from school, said:
Father, what Is the meaning of
Christ-killer p
why do you ask, my daughter ?"
said the parent.
Because, while one of the girls was
angry with me to day, she called me a
little Christ-kiIler
1t is needless to say to the reader
that volumes are embraced in that in
cldent. It illustrates, III tones unmis-
taxable, the impudence and injustice
Of thousands in this land of civil and
religious liberty. 1t illustrates the
blindness of that ignorance which
fails to realize the true character and
the true history OF the Hebrew
people. 1t ignores the lights of his
tory. Omitting all allusion to the
grand tenets of Christianity, in
which we are humble but sincere
believers, it sinks into the oblivion
of prejudiced ignorance, the grand
truths of Hebrew history for 1875
years. 1t fails to grapple with the
sublime truth that to the Jewish race,
more than any other source, We are
indebted for the preservation of his
tory, learning and letters during the
centuries of the dalk ages-that to
that race in Spain, through hundreds
of years, civilization owes its preserva-
ton, and other countries of Europe
debts of gratitude mountain high in
the long road from barbariam to
wealth, elegance and refinement. 1t
spits upon the tact that Jewish
beggars and Jewish drnnkards are
rare as diamonds. 1t refuses to know
that the Jewish poor never, in any
any country Oh earth, become a charge
20 tho rIhlin, 1t forgets that for
eighteen hundred vi saventv-fiya
years the Jews have, with rare Gaesr
tions, been prescribed and perse-
cuted race to the ends of the earth,
and yet, that to-day they are law
givers in the most enlightened, pros
porous and liberal countries of the
world. 1t refuses to acknowledge that
the Jews have all this time been the
friends of humanity, the patrons of
learning, of science, of commerce, of
liberty.
Despite the iibes and filings of un-
thinking men, women and children,
no Hebrew has any cause to hang his
head in shame by fair comparison
with any other race. GA nation
without a country" they have done
as much and are now doing as
much, the world over. as any other
nation, to break down the battlements
of hate, and spread over the world
the spirit of peaceful intercourse
and true humanity. The American
Mason of to day may go to any Ma
sonic lodge at the uttermost part OF
the earth and enter the portals of that
great embodiment of benevolence, and
there, as friend and brother, tried
and true, he will find the jew. Go
into the streets seeking aims for the
distressed, and the last man to say
nay will be the jew
Those thoughts rushed upon US on
hearing the above incident related land
We felt the blush of sorrow tingIe our
cheek. It is sad to realize that at this
age mere thoughtless prejudice is al,
lowed to sway the judgment of oui
children in matters SO sternly appeal.
ing TO our sense of justice and our
knowledge. How much better tc
pluck the beam from their own eyes
and leave the mote in the eyes of 9th
ers?
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-05-21

Judge Kelley on the South Again.
The editor of the Lewistown, Pa. ,
Sentinel, Democratic paper, adj
dressed letter to Judge Kelly, after
reading the report of his changed
"views" respecting the South, inquir-
ing of him the exact truth as to his
modified opinions. Says the editor
els it presumption to ask if you are
fairly represented If you have the
time and inclination, [ should like te
know the exact truth. [ am not,
politically, en- rapport with you, but
am unwilling to misrepreseut you III
my own publication. L would not,
willingly, misrepresent any one, much
less one who has held SO high place
as yourself III the Federal councils. as
Pennsylvanian.
Judge Kelley replies to him through
the columns of the Philadelphia Tele-
graph, in the following pointed man.
mer. in which he admits that the views
attributed to him were correctly re-
ported, and goes still further in the
same direction. We publish the main
points in this letter as his latest utter
ances on the political, social and fnan-
cial condition of this section:
The report of my recent conversa-
| ton with a number of the representa-
tives of leading papers i'll Washington
! is, SO far as it goes, substantially cor
rect. You say this publication repre-.
sents mo as having materially modi
fed my views in regard to the South
ern situation. l think you overesti
mate the change of opinion [ have un
| dergone. Circumstances that haC
transpired in Louisiana, Mississipp
and Arkansas, seemed to me to Justify
v. ry stringent legislation, AID it is OF
this point that my convictions have
been modified.
If it be true that can idle mans
brain is the devils Workshop" WE
must expect turbulence among mil
hons of men who live in constrained
idleness, because there is no marke
for their labor. No measure of forc'
will reduce such a community Il
order. 1t will always be liable t.
have its passions infiamed by trivia
causes, and should not, on such occa
sions be harshly dealt with. Hence
my regret at having voted for the forc
bill.
By referring to page III of a vol
ume of my letters and addresses, pub
lished by Henry Carey Baird. you will
find an address made to my neigh
bors who did me the honor to serenad
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-05-21
METHODIST MISSIONS.

The Board of Missions of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South, at the
recent meeting in Nashville, made the
following appr opriations for the next
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-19

BY its espousal of the cause of the
"Coming City, San Francisco blovia-
tors, the Express has placed itself in
an awkward position, from which it is
trying to extricate itself by charging
that the HERALD is fighting the Los
Angeles and independence Railroad.
This is too thin. The HERALD has
done more toward inaugurating and
carrying out that enterprise than the
Express ever can do. What we have
done and what we propose continuing
to do, is to expose the scheme of lot
of INSCRIPTIONS spectators who are
flooding the country with statements
that Los Angeles does not meet the
commercial wants Of Southern Cali
fornia, and that they are going to de-
stroy her by building city of one
hundred thousand inhabitants at San
ia Monica. These statements are false
and are intended to injure Los Ange-
les and to delude people into buying
lots where there never will be town.
There is a difference between building
. railroad TO Los Angeles and moving
Los Angeles down to Senator JONES'
sheep ranch. The HERALD wants to
build the railroad, but the Espress
advocates the moving.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-19
New Zealand.

EDITOR HERALD: In alluding to
the growing Importance of New Zea-
land and its rapid progress in mineral,
agricultural and commercial develop
ment, it will probably appear to those
not familiar with the country that the
statistics contained in the Superin-
tendent's address allude to the whole
of New Zealand, instead of one Pro-
vince. The Government of New Zea-
land is good imitation of the United
States form Of government, inasmuch
as each of the nine Provinces are en-
trusted with local legislation, the
work OF Provincial Assembly, and
the duty of that body is to allocate all
monies expended on Provincial works,
and to submit to the General Assem-
bly, of New Zealand such amendments
and notifications of existing laws as
may be considered necessary for the
public good. Each Province is gov
erned by Superintendent, who is
elected for certain term, and the af-
fairs of the Province are administered
by an Executive Council. In fact, the
Provinces are mimic representatives
of governments one million times
their superior In Importance. AS de-
pendencies of Great Britain, one
anomaly exists, and that is--each col
ony Is represented by non-elective
Governor apnOinted hv the hono a
government. He may be wise man
or fool, or pauper aristocrat, with
no other recommendation than his
foolish notion of superior birth. The
people have no voice in choosing him
and are compelled to pay his salary; but
even that the Colonists are becoming
too intelligent to bear and are already
advocating the abolition of all sine
cures. I am, sir, yours,
r. w. NUTTALI.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-19

by the schooner Mendocino, which ar.
rived here this morning. The Cham
plain was ship of about fifteen hun,
dred tons, and was loaded with gem
eral cargo.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18th. - The
Centennial of Bunker Hill was cele.
brated yesterday by general display
Of bunting in this city and amongst
the shipping. There was picnic at
Belmont, under the auspices of the
Bunker Hill Association. 1t was very
largely attended. The Sumner Guard
escorted the excursionists and had q
shooting match at the grounds for a
company prize.
In the evening Union Hall was
crowded to hear an grafton by General
M. @. Cobb. A poem was read by w.
M. Leman and other musical and lite
rary exercises were interspersed.
The Tuolumne Association cele-
brated the day by an excursion to
Dangers Park, Brooklyn. There were
speeches, games, etc.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-19
San Bernardino items.

From the Guardian, June l6th.
Mr.. Goldsmith was arralgned in the
District Court on Monday and allowed
two days in which to plead.
From Mr.. Wood, who visited us yes
terday, we learn that the crops on the
Rincon will turn out splendidly. Both
wheat and barley are excellent. The
wheat harvest has commenced, the
reapers going constantly. Haying all
over; the crop heavy. More wheat on
the RincOn than ever before.
Deputy Sheriff Wood arrived in town
on Monday night, having in charge
Louis Bourharke, Spanish horse
thief, charged with stealing cattle from
Mr.. Scully. The fellow displayed con-
siderable capacity in evading justice,
but he was no match for the untirlng
and penetrative skill of Sheriff Wood,
who hunted him down after three
days. arduous chase on the Santa Ami
tas ranch, Los Angeles county. An
other arrest was made in connection
with this offense; but the man was,
after investigation, turned over.
->.>--
All the concreters on the Mare
Island Dry Dock were suspended on
Saturday, with the exception Of two
men.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-19

WHEN the fierce Scipio Africanus
gave utterance to the memorable
words Carthage SIT belinda, 1t was in
the interest of Rome he spoke and he
was flushed with ardent patriotism.
The Express may try to ridicule the
alarm of the HERALD at the danger
that threatens Los Angeles. 1t was
no coinage Of the HERALD, it
was simply reproducing the sound of
the first gun fired by the modern stock
broker, financier, Solon, Lycurgus and
Sage Brusher, the morning after his re-
turn from his ice factories and deals on
Wall street. The Express man may try
to laugh it off but let him rest assured
that he will find, perhaps to his cost,
that we have had a little too much
Santa Monica served up for breakfast,
dinner and supper. Ifthey have faith
in Santa Monica, let them cry Car
Mage SIT belinda; do like other birds,
foul their own nests, seek home
with the Saint, wait for the title OF
the Sheep Ranch to be settled, and
sell the few lots they are getting for
their blow. The stockholders SUBJ
scribers and patrons ofthe Express are
pretty sick, and there is no Disgusting
the fact. Americans are very con-
cervative and say but little, but when
they act they act with vigor and ra-
pidity.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-19
San Bernardin0 Items.
From the Argus of June 18th. ]


An enterprise is now on foot to build
a wagon road from San Bernardino to
the Colorado, which will cut off $50
miles between this place and Prescott.
Mr.. c. ID. Putnam has surveyed the
route and says that with little pecu-
mary assistance from the public he can
open the road in a very short time.
This enterprise is of great Importance
to San Bernardino, and should be
looked after. The projected road pass
es within thirty miles of the famous
McCracken mine.
We understand, from gentleman
Just from Panamint, that Judge
Murphy, of that place, committed su-
icide a few days ago by cutting his
throat with a razor-and il dull one,
too. Jim-jams the cause.
tFrom the Guardian, III
Quite serious accident occurred at
the new building being erected by
Mrs. Wills, on Tuesday. A workman
fell from the second story, and was
picked up in an insensible condition.
He was injured internally.
At the Arcade Saloon, is one of the
queerest articles of pottery, extant. 1t
Is small vessel, nearly l.alf as large
as modern jug; composed of burnt
clay; and nicely finished. 1t was
found in an Arizona mound at depth
of about 100 feet. 1t Is unques.
tionably relic of the Aztec age. Per-
haps, one of the Imperial Montezumas
himself, may have used it in the
the service of his kitchen? The jug is
certainly curiosity; and worthy of
preservation In an antique museum.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-19
Harvest Hands Scarce-Why

From the Sacramento and San Joa-
quin valleys-the great wheat fields
of the State-comes the report that
labor is scarce and harvest hands diff.
ficult to obtain in sufficient numbers
to meet the demand. To the person
not familiar with the California mode
of doing things, this would imply q
scarcity of farm labor, yet such is not
to great extent the case. There
ought to be, and we believe there are,
plenty of men in this State to harvest
the present crop at reasonable wages
and without the loss Of single bushel
of grain. But it is difficult to get the
requisite number of good hands at the
proper time, and there are two causes
for it. One is found among the labor
ers and the other among the farmers.
AS general thing, the harvesting in
California is done by men who do no
work the year round except during
the six weeks or two months of hay
ing and harvesting. They expect to
be paid as much for this two months
as the average farm laborer receives
for the whole twelve months. AS the
haying season sets in, hundreds of
great stout fellows sally out into the
country from San Francisco, and with
the sacking of the last bag of wheat
they return to their old haunts in the
city to idle away their time until
the commencement of next years
haying. They have no thought OF
remaining on.the farm from harvest to
harvest. The offer of thirty dollars
per month the year round is no induce
ment to leave the old loafing places in
the city. They only work during har-
vest-the period of the year when their
services are In such demand that the
farmer will pay almost any wages to
get them. This is the laborer. Now
for the farmer. The great wheat
grower of California does some foolish
things. One of these is never to hire
man until he cannot do without him
and then treat him as an inferior, a
serf or coolie, while he has him. The
visitor to large wheat ranch during
harvest will at night find dozens OF
men rolled up in their own blankets
sleeping in header beds, under wagons
and In hay sheds. If he will go to the
breakfast table in the morning he will
find the men standing around an ele.
waited platform from which they are
eating the coarsest food prepared by q
cheap Chinaman In the most uninvit.
ing style. He will find that these
men are called from their blankets al
the earliest dawn and kept in the field
until darkness renders impossible fol
further labor. The moment a mans ser.
vices can be dispensed with he is dis.
! charged. Can there be kindliness Of
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-19

feeling or harmonious action between
such laborers and such employers?
There Is nothing save the wages to in
duce the man to remain on the farm,
and he leaves when he can no longer
command exorbitant remuneration for
his services. He says he is fed and
housed like pig, worked like slave
and treated like an inferior. The pol
Icy of the farmer is to pay the man
who works for him two months during
harvest about what he should pay him
for half the year. There is remedy
for this expensive evil. When labor
ers learn that it is more profitable and
far more respectable to remain on the
farm all the year at fair wages than to
exact exhorbitant pay for two months
and idle away the remaining ten in
penury and want, and when the
wheat grower discovers that it is bet
ter and more money making to pay 8
good man thirty dollars per month,
and treat him as an intelligent being
all the year round, than to pay him
four dollars per day for two months,
farmers will commence harvest full
handed and there will be fewer able
bodied men loafing ten months in
every year around the streets of San
Francisco. These may be said to be
extreme pictures and we admit that
they are, but there is enough truth in
them to convey an important lesson to
both laborers and farmers.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-19
New Patents.

Through dispatches to Dewey &
Co., Patent Agents, s. F., we receive
the following advance list of U. s.
Patents granted to Pacific Coast in
ventors, viz: Arthur Barton, Nevada,
Cal. machine for bending horse shoes;
VIM. HI. Carson, San Jose, Cal, ANAL
gamator; Frank Enos, Mineral City,
New, attachment for cooking stoves;
A. s. Hallaidie, s. F., endless rope
traction way; Daniel +. Hawkes., Tim
bucton, Cal, flume battery; Joseph r.
Mitchell, Haywood, Cal, cutter holder
for metal lathes; A. S. Wall, Granite
vile, slow match for lighting fuses; A.
p. Ashbourne, Oakland, Cal, process
for preparing cocoanut for domestic
uses; J. w. Tucker, S. F., trademark
for watches.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-19
$500 Reward.

8. Nordlinger, the Jeweler, on Com
mercial street, offers the above reward
to any parties who can prove that he
does not keep the finest and largest
stock of Watches, Diamonds and Jew
elry In this town. He would also in-
form the public at large that he does
not keep any plated or Cheap John
jewelry In his house. He also will sell
till further notice OF. silver Bartlett
Waltham Watches at $50; IA karat
gold Gents Chains at ST 10 penny
weight; Watch Crystals at Is cts.each.
In fact, he will sell 25 per cent. cheap
ar than any other house in this town.
For further information call at his
store, No. 3 Commercial street, and
examine his fine stock of goods.
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