Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-18
The south Revisited.

Raleigh, I should not have known it! Thirty years have wrought great changes. From five it has grown to thirty thousand. It has spread out correspondingly. Among other improvements are horse cars and electric lights. The Marlborough" is still the best hotel. Walking up Main street recognized familiar sign, "John s. Pal mer, Jeweller." I remembered him as an old man (so he seemed then) thirty years ago. entered and found him sitting in the same armchair vigorously chewing the weed as I saw him in '59. The true south not know me, but remembered me when I gave my name and gave me a hearty southern welcome.
 l Visited the deaf and dumb and blind in stitution where found one of my former pupils teacher.
 Find the same sentiment among all sorts and conditions of men. Negro saffrage is the bere noir of the south. great gulf is fixed between tho two races, which is l widening every year.
 l The war made many and great changes. A man whom knew as journeyman printer in '59 has been postmaster, and is now member of congress.
 A lady thus delivered herself upon the situation from a republican standpoint: You ought to go out to Oberlin Ca sub urb of Raleigh and see the negro houses and the nice things they have about them. The negro exodus to Kansas and else where will be great damage to North Carolina. The whites ought to make the negroes their friends. The negroes are l ke II c., d. nnn1 l them all for laborers and servants"
 I have been struck by their excellent be- havior Have not seen one drunken, dis l orderly black. The servants take off their hats on entering the hotel office, and l am constantly saluted by them with tipped hats on the street. They might have been made to vote with the whites if they had been rightly treated.
 Visited Shaw university, colored insti- tuition. It occupies large square, and has academical, theological, law and med ical departments, with white professors. More than two hundred students in at | tendance.
 ! St. Augustine's normal school has a hundred students (colored). It is an Epis- copal institution, and has 8 theological de- partment It seemed strange to one who remembered the ante bellum south to hear negroes reciting in Latin and theology. l Was pained to notice lack of animation, an almost sadness in the pupils. Being asked to address them, l spoke of the great change in the south; and told them of the auction sales of slaves I had seen thirty years before. They listened as if it l was some tale of past ages in which they l had no personal interest.
 Federal cemetery contained over ,2OC graves of the "boys in blue," more than half of them marked "unknown." It is well kept by the superintendent, dis abled soldier. At regular intervals is g tablet containing stanza of the poem "On Fame's eternal camping ground Their sileut tents are spread, | And Glory guards with solemn round 1 The bivouac of the dead''
 Made the acquaintance of Chief Justice
 Smith, a graduate of Yale, who took me over
 the supreme court building, built by con
 victs, who made and laid tho bricks.
 Cotton-seed oil is one of the staples ot
 the south Before the war the seed was
 thrown away. After the oil is expressed
 the residue, sort of oil cake, is used fol
 fattening cattle. A reliable citizen is re
 sponsible for the statement that steer
 upon an oil cake diet, gained 320 pounds
 in forty days, at a cost of It cents pel pound.
 During sojourn of week saw only
 four persons whom knew in '59. VJAToR