Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-23

= i didn't give nothing.
How was that ?''
81 got him from my old master vent 10
my old master and asked him if he would
sell this mule to me and he told me 10
take him along II 1 wanted him and /
did, This dsrkey also told me the same
story about the 80 cents cotton picking
business"
THE TERRIBLE BUTCHER OF HAMBURG.
"There was one little thing that nap.
pened on our trip that | must tell you.
In our car were Democratic State caudI-
dates and State officers, among them
General IA. q. Butler, the man about
whom so much has been said in connec-
ton with the Hamburg massacre. About
that affair, by the way, Butler told me
that he was not at Hamburg, and did not
know anything about it tilt il WAS over
When we came to Anderson we found it
to be little vi lage of about 600 people,
only one hotel think, and it was crowded
on account of the meeting, The State
Committee had sent up negro servant
along with us, and the uext morning
said to him, Jim how did you get along
last night?' 1 got on very vol, ho said,
but l couldn't tind any place to sleep at
first What did you do about that {? l
went to General Butler and told him
about it, and he told me TO bring my
mattress into his room You slept in
General Buffers room?' Yes sir
slept in General Buffers room all night.
| was astonished, and thought to myself
how few Northern men of Buffers stand
ing would allow even white servant to
sleep in the same room with them
81 noticed everywhere we went the
general satisfaction of the working negroes
with their present condition; their good
humored and well-fed look. their mules
sleek and fat aud themselves sleek and fat.
l am satisfied that if they were just let
alone they would all 60 to work. Those
that did work were perfectly contented
and were treated in every respect just as
well as the white people"
NO SECTIONAL BITTERNESS.
"The feeling of the people towards the
North has no bitterness in it. All they
want, they said to Bayard and me, is to be
let alone and allowed to go to work in
quiet and retrieve themselves. The Union
and the flag, whenever mentioned by any
of the speakers, were cheered more Justify
than anything else that WAS said"
THE COTTON CROP.
"The fields of the eastern Oarolinas
were white with cotton bolls, and the
picking of the crop had commenced.
Most of it was upland cotton; ii grows
about y feet high. We saw no Ssa
Island cotton, our route lying too far
inland; but We saw on the poorer lands q
good deal of what they call .bumble bee
cotton" which grows about 10 inches
high
1t was about this kind of cotton that
Southern Congressman told Northern
member, who inquired the derivation OF
the name; why, you see, it is 30 called
because humble bee can sit on the
ground, and, by simply turning around
suck the honey out of all the blossoms OF
a plant without moving from his place
HOW ABOUT THE CENSUS =?
81 inquired about the census returns il
every place l was in. They told me thai
the census of 1870 was taken by United
States marshals and their deputies who
were many of them utterly untitled foi
the work. At least ona half of these
deputies who took that census, they
assured me, could not write. The pres IN
census was taken by competent men
This accounts for Il portion of the alleged
fraudulent increase in the returns. Blu
the real increase in the population ha
also been very great. neve
saw 80 many children in my life
large families of them playing
around nearly every farm hous
and unusual numbers in the streets of tn,
towns and villages. There seemed to b,
o peculiar fecundity everywhere We went
But the greater part of the increas
apparent on the census returns was tolt
everywhere was owing TO the ignoranc
and incompe,ency of the deputy marshal
who did not half take the census of 1870.
THE GOOD TIME COMING.
"The present cotton crop promises t.
be 90 per cent. ahead of any former crop
and one planter told me that two or thre
more crops like it would repay him fo
all the losses of the war. slaves and every
thing. Many expressed the opinion tina
slavery was never paying institution an,
they could get along better with free
labor, if they could only get hand
enough. There is a scarcity of labor an,
white lahorers are particularly wanted
1t used to be said that white man coult
not work in the cotton field, but that
all nonsense"
"fhe country is being improved by tn
cutting up of some plantations int,
smaller tracts, by renting 40.acre patche
out to these negroes to till for themselves
By this means the land is better titled an,
yields more per acre than the large tract
did in the days of slavery. In the Wester
part of North Carolina We travelled throug
fine farming country, where Gotten give
way to corn and other cereals"
POLITICAL AND OTHER NOTES.
"Ihere is no Republican State ticket il
South Carolina the Republicans havin
put only Presidential aud Congressiona
ticket in the field. None that l met ex
pressed any doubt about the SUCCESS of tn
Democratic electoral ticket. We cam
back through North Carolina in the nigh
and did not learn much about the polite
of that State. There ia no raason for an,
doubt, however, that the State will g
Democratic"
In Norfolk l met General Fitz Hug
Lee, who was making speeches for Geners
Good, IN Democratic candidate for Con
gress. He is n great Fuuder and think
that the Funders can carry Virginia TO
udhcoch Without tilt hiu OF the l,ehu
justers ] talket with others, bot
Fund, RS and Readjusters, and they though
there would be a union of the two on tn
electoral ticket. Virginia is entitled to l
electors The proposed basis upon whic
to unite is that the Funders and R9at
justers shall each name five electors an
either Hele't the eleventh man by lot or I.
the National Democratic Committee selet
him
IIGHHAYMEN.
A Maryland Farmer Robbed AN
BADLY Ikeatcn on the NrwpOI