The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1876-05-24
FOR aIEUTIlN AMI GOVERNOR,
GEN w. r. Cox,
or WAKE.
DISTRICT CONVENTION.
or WAKE.

r +.
District will be held in the city Of Raleigh
on Tuesday the 18th day cf June next, for
Che purpose Of nominating candidate Tor
Congress and q Presidential Elector. and
selecting two delegates TO the s.. Louis
Gonyeation. A full attendance is earnest
~ desired. Zach county viii be entitled
TO onc vote for every one hundred votes and
fractional part over City given for Merrimofn
in 1862.
BY order Of the District Executive Com
mittce.
IA. LoNDoN, Jr.. y
Iarch Slst. Chairman.
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
NRwBERN May 18th 1876.
To look at the press Convention in its
reality i to look npon failure And an
absurdity. But to view il il its eOnnee
sious and its consequences is something
pleasant. instructive and saddenniug. The
bitter. because it involves something Of
those features Of human nature one would
wish 10 conceal. Ingratitude. aud indit-
ference TO benefits is the last motive men
are willing 70 acknowledge. When !
reached here on Tueeday night, il was with
the Lope that might Be permitted TO find
my way to my room unmolested, for |
found 40 one If my kind on the train ex-
cept the .wo jayetile editors from Oxford.
A display and parade was therefore out Of
the question. Yet long before reached
Newbern. learned that the military was
out. and grand reception was to BE ten
dered 10 the press.
by the glare If torches and amid the
blare 81 tsnmpets and the resonance Of a
brass baud. with two military companies,
and with civic array was the editor 81
the Recorder received. aud marched into
the city. az honor, jet . humiliation.
Since have been here. the city has
rendered me. IS the representative q The
Press, every honor and the sense Of tie
neglect 81 ny journalistic brethren is some
what lesseaed By recognition Of the fact
that the people Of Newborn has been
fsaofking for . principle ard nUt Tor indi.i-
duals- The pres in tue abstract. bas
beeh trea:ed gIOriocsy IS Individuals. We
are overwhelmed with bonors. To day
was the srst public deHOasIatiOn in the
shape Of = ,nptO Beaufort aud Fort Macon.
This vas perhaps the pleasantest day Of
cur editorial life--a swift ride On the train
to MOrebead. a rather lazy sail across The
Ls5 to Fort Msc2D. an unexpected and
grand face 70 face with nature On beach
shere.iims and eternity always strive fci
mastery, ! gOoG dinner q Beaufort. .
fspid run back 70 Nssbern and then .
splendid banfdet.
Tte Erst toast, tie old North State wa.
sS~Posded,o by our old friend, Judge
uhwlg 10 eloquent anil most baPpy style
The second. 10 the guests Of the city VA
responded % By myself. certainly with com.
pOsuic. II not rssls 5loqOenee, in speech q
fifteen q, lEenty InnHsss. and then thl
var ofseaas and .Fcscbes ueHt on inyUl'
wing several gOoj. md several very jejuns
speeches, unlil the time ealle fyr scpara.
ton.
Wefselilnt The press Convention. u
such. il failure. Yet. that We Ose much
70 Nevbsa fpr iis holpiisliiy aud genOiI,
kindness. AID vii tfy q make tho assO.
sistiOn sensible u IL b. gle...
Bristow. IN letter 70 Naaaehusettl
frissd says: i Lave DOT sOugLt nor can
eonsqnt q seek ~ apy means ny on -.
yaBssmebt. DOR ap ! Tilliag 70 70 sny 40
or.take snyaep 70 pIscc myself bsEore ths
public ash esbdida.e ior ofire." Briatow
ID some doeumes,s pos Circulating amen.
tie faithful i slows y Dc q more ahsieqt
original. reds unmel AID long tusked abo
litienisi thai Garrison. though bern IN yir
ginis. asdon Ne qaesiisn u civil right
out O sight Of Morton. 50 says %,
wiImisg,sD Review.
W iiN
Tbe Wilmington Review tays: Tier
need b 10 apprehension Of scarcely q
silrer coin, q there tss been isaed bui
.sLsoa. 900 snder he Substitution prOyi
ssise II dc statute. sbiis Tie treasury De-
synsmsas.has On bard shout fourteen mil
lion. and tie mint coinage VIII supply iron
"a 400. 90 10 ~. OVO. 90 month.
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go Emiannls 40 the Black Hills are return