The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-05
A 81. Junket. What Will it Cost?

(n Saturday. Gov. Jarvis, and staff,
Gf the $3.50 Yorktown uniforms were
along they were not displayed at the
START Mrs. Governor ThOs. j., Mrs
Thos. J. Jackson and Stonewalls daugh-
ter, Commissioner McGehee, Colonel
Paul Means, Colonel Paul Faison, ct
a. ct Get, left the State for a grand
~junketing expedition, stretching over
three weeks, and six States, via Nor
folk, Baltimore, New York, Wooden
Nutmeg, Beast Butler, and Boston. The
Exposition at Boston, which opens to
day. and is intended to exhibit the fruits
of New England wealth and prosperity
after. b, IN, lostereI and fattened for one
hundred years by robbery of the South,
1t, by Tariffs; 2nd, by enormous gifts
to Cape Cod fisheries 3D., by fixing their
own price on Southern cotton 4th, by
selling US their slaves at high prices
pocketing the money ana then sending
Hessian armies TO steal the negroes back
again, and burn he homes of his owners !
Is it wonderful that Iankeedom, like Jes-
huron -'waxed fat. and kicked?'
The Exposition opens TO-DAY, and Beast
Butler, the man whom even Gen. Il. f.
Lee, deliberately denounced as an Out
law" and whom Mr.. Gladstone, politi-
clan though he was, described as a dis
grace to civilization is TO make the
speech of welcome; aud Gov. Jarvis is to
Say-Thank 'ye." Gush viii gush freely,
the Yankee getting the best of it. as usu-
al. Already the New England papers are
chuckliug oyer the idea that the Exposi
lou will mot help the South. oh no II
enable us to get back some Of the South
eru trade. lost when We made war on
them That is the secret of the grinning
cJmplaisance with which our visitors are
greeted. New England mills want South
ern co ton and greenbacks.
Now it must not be understood that
we object 10 North Carolina having an
exhibit at Boston. 1t would be well il
We had one at Louisville Southern Expo
salon also. The expenditure OF $40, 600
ought to bring some return, and no
doubt will. 1t is said that fifty car
loads, comprising > go specimens, have
been sent aud the result must be a
a very wide advert. Sements of the
States resources. The Department of
Agriculture has exerted itself TO make a
striking display, and it no doubt deserves
high praise for its zeal and diligence.
Commissioner McGehee, DR.. DabDey,
and a large force will remain three weeks
or longer supervising the display.
Mrs. and Miss Jackson are the guests
they were met by Col Marshall Parks
lof the Albemarle Canal and Railroad
famel and entertained by him. A tele-
gram says Jarvis reply to Butler will be
half an hour long. He and his cortege
will spend a day In New Haven, and will
nave a public reception. They will also
spend a day at Mantle. in the State
Military Camp not the colored regiments
who figured as New England Troops
when they were pillaging North CARROLL
IA but a amp OF State Militia.
GOV. JAMES l.. ROBINSON.
Meantime our good Old North State Is
under charge of Lieut-Governor, James
j.. Robinson, who came from his noun
tain home on FRIDAY, and was sworn 10
as acting Governor, during Jarvis jun
ket. The first act Of his official pen, as
we learn was to issue Il pardon un-pen-
ming James j. Penn, Of Cherokee, con
victed of perjury in 1881. The Obserrer
S Us the crime was mitigated by the fact
that he was persuaded to perjure him