The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-05-20
OUR FAC-SIMILES.

scTlptlOn, ana pOrLlOn OF tue pIAhIeo matteIp On
the nrst. or 'front.' page OF the Ne,O York Journal;
or. General Advertiser, issued Thursday June %
1875. Tue peculiar scraps OF Information beneath
the head lines nave a special interest at tnls time
and on this account we present them TO ouI
readers.
Like ITS contemporary RtUfn9ton's Journal II
VIII oe seen. BY reference to the Accompanying
fac-simile or the title head that tue New York
Journal contains "tne freshest adyices both
ogeign ana domestic" ON tine first column va
have faithfully produced the market prices o
wheat aour, Drown bread, West India and New
England rum, beef salt, pork. tea, chocolate and
beeswax. Rum has advanced In value consider
ably since the day the compositor ssetn these
agures and New England Will scarcely
feel battered by the announcement
that the Puritans produced the ex-
hilarating fluid at two snilllngs and sxpencs
te2 x cents) per bottle. Next we nave ave years.
time offered Tor sale By an .fndented servant, b.
trade weavern Time is money, at least so says
the proverb, and az the good merchants OF Man
haitian Island appear to haze been always alive "a
this Important TACT since the foundation or New
Amsterdam the advertiser doubtless found readl
market. Then, David woolnaupter announces
himself as an instrument maker IN Fair street. op
poslte st. Paus church. We are not TOLD whether
his instruments medical astronomical. nan.
teal, musical or internal; the reader will take
his choice. But we can more readily denna
tue location. FAIR street was what we now know
as that portion OF Fulton street east OF Broadway,
and reached as fur as Gin street, through which,
waen the name or the street was changed; Ia
honor OF the inventor OF the steamship apparatus
1t was cut 10 the East River wnere the Brooklyn
ferryboats now land. The portion OF Fulton street
that now runs from Broadway to the Hudson was
then known as Partition street Woolnaupter'a
store was therefore situated on the block wnere
the HERALD Bunding now stands. facing tina
church, as stated In the advertisement
Accompanying the title head we give a comDeu
fac-simile OF the third page OF the Journal OF
June co. 1875, containing the FIRST and FULLEST
printed account of the meeting at Charlotte-town,
MeckleaDurg county, North Carolina, May 81 OF
the same year. me preamble and the first four OF
the twenty resolutions are given In full, APP
parently as copied from the original by CORES
pendent. while the remaining clauses are briefly
summarized In a paragraph, IS though the cor.
respondent conscious OF the jealousy or the BRUSH
patrons OF his paper, was anxious 10 be
agreeable as possible under the clr-
cumstances A postscript added to this
letter, GATED June IL. shows plainly enough, how.
ever that the condinon OF AFFAIRS was desperate
in North Carolina; ''ior,n SAID ne, ''sucn is the
ardor for perfection In martial discipline that
many gentlemen OF the FIRST consequence in this
town, as well as the commonalty, regularly turn
out TO drill morning and evening. Even the Doyf
form themselves into companies and are really
expert in military man9uyres.n John Holt, the
proprietor OF tho Journal, seems 10 have been in
Toll accord with the patriots In their ca nest
struggle Tor liberty. He gives O prominent po-
siron TO the letter OF Lord Bingham TO Lord
Darlington, Secretary of War OF Great Britain.
Eninana had entered into angry discussions IN
Parliament, denounclng the ioo,lsn policy OF tne
King ana his Cabinet in their suicidal attempts
to crush the Americans by oppressive laws
and rninous taxation and wnen II was
announced TO him that the regiment 10
which he belonged was ordered TO hight against
the Coonists ne wisely resigned rather than sacri-
nee his principle. He dd not believe In nghtinR
his fellow subjects abroad VINO simply sought the
same privileges that he ana his brethren enjoyed
at nome BIT, he says, "Your lordsnip Will also Do
SO obliglng 10 ontreat that as tcars twaive)
wnat the custom OF the service would enttle ~ 70,
the right OF selling what bought mis- com mission
in the armv), / may be allowed 10 retain my ranK
In the army, that whenever the envy or ambition
OF foreign powers should require II, may be en-
abed to serve His Majesty ana my country In thas.
way, in which alone can expect 10 serve them
with any degree OF effect.n
Charles Lee informs Lord Darlington that he re-
nounces bis half-pay. and prays Almighty God 20
direct his Majesty INTO measures more consonant
70 bis interest aud honor, aud more conducive "a
me happiness and glory OF his people.n
An extract from a sermon preached nearly two
months earlier tuere evidently the word "Au-
Qust'sshould be "Apriln probably the error OF the
composttor is given because 1t contained sentl.
ments suitable 70 the present lime," and with
the hope that It "wlll prove prophetic Of the sue
cess OF the Commander In Cnlef OF the American
Army.n
TIE sale OF a negro boy Is announced IN bold
type Tor IL was well understood at this time thai
the negroes were valuable as transferable prop
erty eagerly bought up. slavery. II IL said
was almost coeval with The establishments OF New
York. when the nrst fort was being built in 1875.
the Dutch West India Company promised to allos
TO eacn PATRON twelve black men and women
OF the prizes In which negroes shah De found.n
Negroes taken on an enemy's snip we're thus svld
here as slaves, irrespective oi their former condl
ton. Indians we're similarly treated. slaves
were brought indirectly from Africa through the
Duicn West Indies. Fort Amsterdam was com
p.eted by negro labor. One OF the nrst prizes
taken Dy the British ron the Dutcn was cargo
OF slaves, and as they held that all negroes cap
tured were slaves, not prisoners Of war, they ex-
tended the trade which vas so noursnIng at the
time OF this anu ouncement In Holrs Journal
Now comes the announcement OF a sale that
would have read appropriately In Dickens Our.
osity snop.n Here Is dealer who virtually deals
in everything from a pound OF white lead ground
in "oylr TO a snip's OUTFIT. strange medley
here presented. Paints Of all kinds, vlrrio cloths
cassmeres, buttons breecnes, nal z, sEocginga
wines, brandy. sugar. coffee and spices. TIE dif
nculty win the modern storekeeper would be tnd
separation or the paints ana vItriol from tue
cloths and sugaIs-a difficulty that would frst be
known In reports rom the Coroner's once,
Competition in ''stays, jumps and Mscklenburg
waistcoatsn appears 10 have been lively enouRA.
but iraternal as Il WIN oe observed that one haiM
rom Dublin the other rom London O,arian