The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-05-04

will no doubt form an imposing street pageant
such as is rarely witnessed this section OF the
country There win be visitors here from Canada
Twenty Canadians, residing at Berevillc Ontario
win accompany Dr. Palmer, 0. that place. formerly
Of Raleigh, who mas accepted an invitation to be
present.
PRESENTATION OF FLAG
TIE ladies OF Charlotte are to present dag to
the "Hornetn Fire Company In season Tor the
Centennial. one or General vances sons has Sc
cured huge hornets nest for the occasion. This
Is intended by way OF remembrancer or the Hor-
nets Nest, a doughty little pltrotIc paper
claimed to have been published in Charlotte
hundred years ago. Its name has
a twofold origin:-Fi an allusion to the
buzzing and singing of the formidable in
sect after which TWAS called and second from the
remarkably close resemblance In the graysh hue
OF It's printed pages to the peculiar neutral tint OF
the hornets nest. The first revisal OF the colonial
laws OF North Carolina made in 1852, was O small
folio volume with yellow binding, and was for q
similar reason, popularity called the yellow
jacket"
A REVOLUTIONARY CUP.
Captain W. A. Cumming, OF Wilmington, has q
somewhat remarkable cup, or rather mug, which
he wants to have used to quench the thirst OF the
speakers at the Centennial The following is o
description of the cup:-
1t IS made OF norn IS lined with silver and
banded near tue bottom with o strip or
the same metal. The inside is much worn and
battered and a crack, extending nearly from the
top TO tne bottom, IL noticeable. II Is also some
what worm eaten at the bottom, but it Is still IN 4
condition to be used In dimensions IL is about
three and half inches in height one and one
hall inches in diameter at the bottom (Which Is
narrowed DOWN and two and a MALI inches
at the top This cup has had a very strange and
Revolutionary War by William Cumming the
grandfather OF Captains W. A. and J. ID. Cumming,
and Mr.. Preston Cumming, who was an officer in
ID
through the battles or Trenton, Princeton and
Brandywlne, ana also figured In the Southern
campaign at Camden, Cowpens Kings Mountain
and Guilford Court House. In the war OF 1912 IL
also pa, ed It's part, beng used at the mouth OF
the Cape Fear River by James r. and John X.
Cumming, sons of William Cumming, and
during the late war William II. Cumming,
into whose hands 1t had fallen, carried II Tor a
short time, but owing TO his advanced age was
scended TO his three sons by whom IL was borne
throughout the late fiercely contested struggle.
What Is considered as remarkable coincidence
connected with the cup Is the TACT that grand
latner OF It's present owner, his two sons aud
three grandsons, all successfully held 1t In three
wars, IN the same place, VIZ: at the mouth oil the
Cape Fear River.
II this relic of the olden time is made servicea-
Bile in wettIng the whistles OF the Centennial
tors, another notable link Will be added to the
cnan or historical events IN " hicn 1t has figured
Remarking on this offer of the ancient mug the
gifted but waggish editor, 10. Turner, of the Ra-
We should DO everything in order and celebrate
with the incest decorum and proprlety, that the
next Centennial, IN 1875, our posterlty may be
great greaL-granddad dies VINO Knows, but pipe
that some good old Mecklenburg iarmer will
smoke at the Charlotte Centennial shall be carried
back there hundred years from now and SHOWN
TO sthe boys relic OF 1875? And it will be car
RED about unoer the wing ror people VIII fly IN
those aays) as great curiosity. Yes, let's DO the
thing right.
fear Turner lacks faith. The preceding extract
looks like making light OF the subject. But he al
ways was charged with proneness to inoppor-
tune levity.
Another controversy has arisen in connection
with the Centennial IL Is no less an enigma than
the question whether or no. General Grant was
really invited to attend the approaching ceebra-
ton. The Presidents letter of decnation, through
MIR. "Lev P. Lucky. Secretary" would indicate
that he was invited. But the Southern Home pub
llsheu here denies this. The editor that
is all q mistake; that the presence OF General
Grant has not been asked oficialy, and that II he
was invited ut all It was by somebody having no
authority. He further intimates that the attend
ance OF the President at Charlotte Ia not espe.
cially desired.
REPUTATION OF ISLANDERS.
I neither see nor hear anything here, unless
General Wills article Just referred TO may be
sldered as smacKing OF "disloyalty." which gives
by tue Washington Republican, ana echoed by
other administration journals, that "the
Meckenburg celebration promises 10 be
close communion, hidebound and con-
ceitedly eject arair" whose conductors have
been chosen with regard solely TO their state
rights, Southern, democratic and Confederate
antecedents. and that the object is ''to make
treason Respectable know that the Repuoilcun,s
statement, that ''al the ex-Confederate military
companies OF North Carolina and the adjoining
States viii be on hand,n ana that there Will be
"about forty ex-Confederate generals as assistant
msrsaals,' is a monstrously absurd exaggeratlon.
The idea that the whole Confederate army what
there Ia left OF it's to assemble IN Charlotte on
the goth OF Mayor on any other day-ls ridicu-
lous In ts very face. The celebration VIII be no
such "big tningn as AL that. /. wouldn't pay
The Southern people are poor, and travelling ex-
penses, IL Is wen known, are enormous In all TINS
section. These facts win keep many at home who
would glaaly come. The South Is tired OF war and
by no means In q mood, Notwithstanding the in
Juries and indignities they have borne to renew
tho conflict with the North. The exact reverse OF
the allegation made by the Republican is true.
The Charlotte celebration win be purely patr-
otto occasion, and patriotic not In a sectional
sense, but in q large, liberal, catholic-ln one
word, Americsn-lmport. It is the erection OF q
new memorial day. IL Is an abandonment or the
narrow "reminiscences and obseryances which
tend only to perpetuate the anmosties OF the late
war between the sections; IL is u return 10 the
nober recolections OF that early ana better era
when the Northman and the Southron stood side
by side IN q common contest, and when the men
OF Mecklenburg answered the heroes OF Mtddlesex
uEenvyingly and with glad acclaim. The Char
lotte declaration was q sequel and response to
Lexington and Concord. The 2oth OF May was a
result OF the 10th OF April These two dates, with
the great events they signalize. are indissolubiy
connected In our history and form part OF our
joint national inheritance Of renown.
THE HORNETS NEST OF AMERICA
Charlotte was designated py LORD Corn wallis
aTne Hornets Nest or America This appellatton
was not very PROBABLY intended as a compliment;
but tue "wnrligig OF time,u which brings about
so many historical reyenRua. seemR ma In many