The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-22
TO BE CONTINUED.
DOMAINS Downfall.

oDIilc Vi our IIIClGS thought we
bore 90 harshiy upon our former
townsman, "Col.' Peter DOMAIN, in
speaking Of his recent letter to the
Chicago B~lackguord. We wrote in
haste, and with a feeling Of deep NOR
tiiication that a man whom we had so
often styled gallant" and ''gifted,"
should SO bemean himself. But that
the reader may Judge from the prem
Uses, we give two extracts from Il iffer
ent papers in the shape of ''interviews,"
though evidently prepared by Domains
own hand
From the Richmond, Va, State.
Pat DOMAIN, whom we last heard from
as in IA great deal Of trouble with a
railroad man in Arkansas, has been
oladdening the hearts of the stalwarts
at the North by a letter, which we have
not seen, but which is summarized as
follows by the Chicago Inter- Ocean.
the worst Of the Radical prints in the
North Says the Inter Oceun of the
late editor Of tie Caucasaan's eXperi-
ence in the North, as given by him
self
"He finds himself in a new world
and breathing a new atmosphere. He
has left a land of impoverishment, dis
enlargement, and declines; he has
come TO a land of marvellous growth.
and thrift, and prosperity. He has
left a land Of memories and ruins; he
has come to a land of hopes and up
building, He has left a land of glori-
Gus past; he has come to a land of
magnificent future. He has left a par-
disc in decay; he has come to where
stout hearts and willing hands are
rearing the walls and planting the fruit
trees Of an Eden yet to be-"
in bitterness OF soul he turns
homeward and southwark for the sad
dening reverse Of the radiant picture.
\ land fair and fertile as ever the sun
shone on, ianguisl4in9, seemingly dy-
inc, amid its w beauty an | the per
tume of its flowers. Q"ueenIy States
sitting tattered and l~istless among the
ash heaps OF their fortunes and hopes.
evet looking backward and net for
ward; their sons scattered hither and
thither to every region of the globe;
cmigrations going out from them in
stead of immigration coming into them.
Noble plantations lying waste and
weel-grown, or lapsing to primeval
jungle. Cities like Wilmington, Char
lesion, Memphis, Mobile, and New Or
leans standing still, or positively going
down; their wharves rotting away with
long disuse, their warehouses dilapida-
ted and empty, and the grass beginning
to grow i'll many half-empty streets.
Mountain loads OF State, county, and
municipal debt, and frantic efforts at
reputation. Every business stagnant,
every enterprise dead, a people pauper-
lied and dlsheartened, and the whole
air filled with dependency and repin-
ing"
"The simple truth is, that while, as
must know, immigration
and capital can only come to us from
or through the North, the persistent
folly of many of our Southern so called
has, ever since the war, kept
the Northern mind inildmed against us
and suspicious OF u; and some Of
their recent blunders and absurdities
under the circumstances,
amount to inquiries. are f~earfully in
tensifving this i%eclin-. The bloody
t1oppings and Andersonville skel-
eton and ghost paraies Of our Ben
the jeff DAVIS clarifying decla-
nations of our Lamars, the State rights, :,
nair-splitting diatribes of our fuckers, S,
the Observation-Disclosures, C%onfeder-
tie bone-rattling haiangues Of u
Jhalmerses and Blackburns, their
.hreats to dis5and the army, abolish :
he Government. and wipe out the 9
ast vestiges of war legislation,' has !
'aised the whole North against them l
md their section and people,"
Special Correspondence of the s.. Pau'S
Mime, ota Pioneer Prass.I
BISMARCK, d. T., April 23.-The i
and eccentric ''pat" DOMAIN, C
Who gave more paragraphs legs than !
nv other editor in the South during !
lis Kaleidoscope career, arrived IN /
bismarck this week with G.. E. Rollins ]
# the Rollins publishing house in Chi a
ago. Rollins is looking fora location +
or "a weekly newspaper, that will have Q
Ir. DOMAIN for its editor and 10, 600 I
u~bsclibers for its substantial constitu- l
ncy. Bismarck has the reputation OF u
big town, and Rollins at least, thinks a.
t will soon have the population. Hence "