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Year: 1874

The proposed constitutional amendment increasing the number of Senators in- stead of carrying by the two thirds vote re- quired, in the Honse, last week, had majority of more than two to one against It. Probably tho action of tho legisla- tnre was influenced by doubt of the va- lidity of their acticn in case of a favora- ble vote. A clause providing that no town should be divided was by clerical error interpOlated into the resolution as printed with the laws; so that the people were not correctly informed regarding the change proposed. Still we doubt wheth- CT the measure could have had a two thirVls vote in any case. Litchfield and other counties that have an unfair advan- tage under the present arrangement do not seem to think that the golden rule should influence their action on constitu- tional reform.
Year: 1874

most despicable. A man who for
the sake of his own selfish delights
or the sake of the praise or careless
or unprincipled friends, make his
home a scene of anxiety and torture,
and degrades and disgraees all who
are associated with him in his home
life, is, whether he knows it or not,
a brute. If man cannot be loyal to
to his home, and to those who love
him, then he cannot be LOYAL to any
thing that Is good. There is some
thing mean beyond description, in
any man who cares more for any,
thing in this world than the,
confidence, and love of his family.
There is something radically wrong
in such man, and the quicker, and
the more thoroughly he realizes it,
in humiliation which bends him
to the earth in shame and confusion,
the better for him. The traditional
good fellow is a bad fellow from the
crown of his head to the sole of his
foot. He is AS weak as baby, vain
as a peacock, selfish as a pig, and
as unprincipled as thief. He has
not one redeeming trait upon which
a reasonable self-respect can be built
and braced.


Give us the bad fellow, who
stands by his personal and family
honor, who sticks to his own who
who does not "treat" his friends
while his home is in need of the
money, he wastes, and who gives
himself no indulgence of good fell
lowship at the expense of dutyl A
man with whom the approving smile
of wife, or mother, or sister, does
not weigh more than a thousand
crazy bravos of boon companions, Is
Just no man at all.


DR.. J c. Holland. i1a Scri6ner's
Year: 1874

ROME, AFhIL q. 1919.


The attempt to describe critically
the statuary, paintings, and inscrip-
tions, bas-reliefs, frescoes, and mosa-
les 10 be seen in the Vatican galleries
in the Museum of the Capitol, and in
the great private galleries, is as


IMPOSSIBLE AN UNDERTAKING
as to describe all the faces, dresses,
and articles one may see at a State
Fair. A verbal description can at
best only convey a faint or vague
idea of the actual appearance of the
original to the mind of the absent
reader. Nothing but an inspection
by the eye itself is sufficient or salts
factory in this respect. To appreci-
ate, one must see for himself; for
descriptions by travellers can at best
give only the impressions of the
writers in language which never con-
yeys to the mind of the reader more
than faint outline of the picture or
image of the object seen in the mind
of the describer. This is in conse-
quence of the poverty of language,
which has not the power to transfer
Photographic copies or reflections of
faces on the brain of one person to
that of another. We can remember
the looks of a person, or his or her
air and style, but can never describe
them SO that others may see them as
We do. And the same difficulty ex-
lists in attempting to convey ones
notion of statue, gronp of figures
or bas-relief.


The marble statuary in the Vati-
can galleries alone will fill both sides
of hall mile long; the pictures
will fill both sides and ceiling of an
other hall more than a mile in length.
The descriptive catalogue of these
marbles and paintings, devoting only
a line or two to each, fills good
sized volume. To describe each OBJ.
ject of art in detail would fill more
books than are contained in consid.
cradle library.


For me
Year: 1874

Whenever any subject is touched by
fanaticism or even sentimentality. it is
astonishing how obscured the truth be-
comes.


Even to this day it is common in the
Northern States and among the better
informed and more conservative people
to speak in extenuation of the present
ignorance and barbarism OF the negro
population of the United States-by as-
cribing it to centuries of bondage. %
the degradation of involuntary seryi.
tude,' etc, and all this without. the
least regard to the truth of history and
of existing facts.


All the advance towards civilization.
all that he has gained in moral or in.
tellectual progress, the negro in America
owes to his contact with the white race
and in his servitude to them. Deprive
him of that aid and he would relapse
into his native bartarism in the conrso
OF one or two generations, and what he
IS to-day in his native home let the az.
companying letter describe.


1t seems strange that the true issues
Of race should not be more fully and
truly comprehended by our people:


A Letter From Africa.
An Exploration of tie Nile-Large Drove,
Year: 1874

1t might have been supposed that the
Radical party would have made an effort
to exhibit to the country and the world
Some show of ability to govern the peo-
pie properly when they took the District
of Columbia under their especial care.


But even in this small space the fail
ure Of their theories have been disas-
trous. No less SO perhaps than in South
Carolina and Louisiana. For many years
it was the custom of the Radical press
to point the finger of scorn at the Dis
trict, the white people OF which steadily
refused to vote the Radical ticket For
time they were overcome by bayonets
and these We're succeeded by that over
How OF negro suffrage that voted every
thing into the hands of the leaders of
the Radical party. This was soon found
to be going from bad to worse, and even
the Republican property holders began
to clamor. Then Congress stepped in
and gave the District new government,
similar to that Of Territory, with
Governor and Board of Public Control.
The President appointed the Governor,
and we believe he selected one Henry d.
Cook. banker and brother Of Jay Cook,
with Boss Sheppard as President of the
Board Of Public Works. Thus every
thing was lovely. Thousands of negroes
from the adjacent States were called to
Washington and put to work on immense
contracts, and in Eve OF six years the
taxes on property were run up 20 un-
heard of sums. The contractors all
grew rich and oppulent. But the own
ers of property found they could not
endure the burden and applied to Con-
gress for relief. That body appointed u
committee OF examination. And after
exhaustive research its report fairly ap-
palled both Houses. To 60 on and make
full exposure would perhaps involve
many of the highest Radical ofhce-hold-
ers, even the President himself was sus-
pected Of having had an interest in the
contracts. In order to prevent further
disclosures both Houses Of Congress
passed an act abolishing the District
Government which it had made only five
or six years previous, and which had
never been out of the hands of the Rad
icals. And here is the most distinct and
significant failure of negro suffrage; SC
utterly corrupt and ruinous was the ex
pertinent that it was swept away by the
act Of the last session. Its existenc,
during the short period of that District
Government was disastrous in the ex
treme; and has left the city of Washing
ton, it is said, entirely bankrupt. II
cannot pay its debt, which is about
twenty millions of dollars. This will
doubtless have to be paid from tn,
Treasury of the nation; for it is prepo, !,
ferrous to suppose that the small whit,
population which make up the tax-pay
ing citizenship can ever carry such .
burden-the black population, which il
placed in the census of 1870 at 43, ,4O4, il
said to be very worthless, and not to b,
relied upon at all as tax payers. Sucl
Is Radicalism. With all its vaporinp
when tried it is found treacherous an,
utterly untrustworthy.
Year: 1874

THE Water Company are making
little renovations Which Will improve
the quality of the Water they are fur
nishing the city. The people are
thankful for small favors and are
pleased to know that from the little
unpleasantness between the HERALD
and the Water Company they will
draw purer water. Through the COM
bined efforts of the HERALD and the
Company = the HERALD calling at
tention to the fact that the water is a
little off, and the Company doing
something to improve its quality-the
number of houses taking the water
will probably be increased four or five
hundred. For this increase of busi-
ness the Company will be indebted to
the HERALD, but we shall let it go in
the shape of friendly favor.
Year: 1874

For reasons which we presume are
satisfactory to themselves, the publish
ers of the Anaheim Gazette have never
manifested a decided friendship for the
HERALD. About this, however, we
have never lost our temper, and we
would never have alluded to the mat
ter had our cotemporary confined
itself to facts; but when it makes what
appears to be deliberate and inten-
tional misstatement, obviously with
malicious intent, we cannot permit It
to pass unnoticed. 1t says: "At
special meeting, held during Wednes-
day of last week, the Board of Super
visors ordered the County Clerk to ad-
vertise in its official paper for sealed
proposals to build sundry bridges in
the county. Up to Wednesday of the
present week, seven days after the
order was made, that advertisement
had not made its appearance 1t then
assumes that the enonappearance of the
proposals for bids is the fault of the
HERALD, which is the county official
paper. The Gazette editor should not
permit his spleen to provoke him to
the telling of a falsehood. The Board
of Supervisors made the order men
toned on the 2Sth of October. The
specifications, without which the adj
vertisement could not be made, We're
handed to the County Clerk ON Satur7
day, the 3lst of October; that day he
wrote the advertisement and it APP
peared in the columns of the HERALD
next morning and has appeared there
every morning since. The Gazette
also assumes that the HERALD should
publish the names of all persons for
whom the Board of Supervisors andit
bills, and says member of the Board
understood such publication to be o
part of the HERALD's contract with
the county. This is so absurd that we
will only say no member of the Board
understands or ever said he under
stands the contract in that way. Tie
Board audits from 800 to 500 bills at
each meeting. That those bills are
ordered paid is of no interest to any
one except those to whom they are
due, and they know When to call for
them. The publishers of the Gazette
Year: 1874

THE dispatches announce that Pres
ident GRANT is seriously disappointed
at the result of the elections and an
nounces that he will name his success
sor in few days. The people will
pay about as much attention to the
successor he will name rs they did to
his demand for reelection. The abdi-
eating King, when he leaves the
throne under compulsion, is not rs a
general thing permitted to name his
SnnnnoSnr - 49, -
Year: 1874

WHILE member of the Council,
Mr.. BEAUDRY asked and obtained
permission of the city to convey water
to his property on the high land where
the Water Company refused to lay
their pipes. For asking this privilege,
The Express assails him in its usual
blackguard style, as follows;s ss sH


The man who is so lost to the common pro-
prieties as to take public advantage of his of
Iicial position for his private and personal
benefit is the last man any people should
elect to responsible trust.
Year: 1874

issue a neat little weekly papeS and
their suggestions as to what the HER
AID ought to publish are, no doubt
we'll meant, but under tine circum-
stances we shall probably be excused
if we manifest a preference for man
aging the paper in accordance with
our own inclinations.
Year: 1874

valuable mineral deposits was furnished, and


that the lands in that region are undesirable
for.cultivation and settlement by white men.


notwithstanding this, organized parties have
attempted to explore it, and have been at
tackled and rcpulsed by the Indians 1t is
aipprehended that efforts will be made to
induce legislation for the extinguishment Of
the. Indian title to the Black Hills country
and to bring the land into market: II g
hoped, that stich efforts viii, be without ste
cess, because Of the general unfitness OF the
country for settlement, and because any d.
tempt to dispossess the Indians at present of
a region OF country upon which they located
for security against the encroachments of the
white man would meet with violent and de-
resistance.
Year: 1874

able to say here that propose to guard with
strict vigilance the expenditures Of this de-
partment sanctioning no outlay which can be
avoided without detriment to the service, and
so to conduct its affairs generally that the in
terests of the public shall be paramount to
those Of any individual, corporation or party.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,


MARSHALL JEWELL,


Postmaster General.
Year: 1874

ALMOST innumerable are the devices of
housckeepers to guard against the depre-
dations Of burglars; yet the cunning
thieves manage in most instances to cir
cumvent the shrewdest plans for the
nrntertinn of <aluables. Two sisters,
not far removed from the Hub, bearing
in mind this popularity of the common
foe, when leaving their home for sum-
mer sojourn, selected queer hiding
place for the silver that had descended
to them from their ancestors. Though
the idea was not particularly original, it
was deemed a lucky hit by the fair pair,
and when suggested by the elder was
adopted by the younger without an If"
They deposited the valuables in the sit
ting-room stove. taking care to cover
them with little paper rubbish, and de-
parted for scenes of enjoyment without
IL thought of harm Detailing their treas
ure. They left in sole charge of their
domicile a gentleman lodger, tried
friend of the family, who had passed
years under the hospitablc roof. The
summer wore on without incident in the
city, however rapidly the varied phases
of rural enjoyment came and went with
the absentees. Fall approached apace,
but not with severity sufficient to drive
the sisters to their winter residence, and
they fingered near the forest and the
fields until the season was well advanced.
The weather was remarkably mild, and
now and then did chilly day remind
them of the pleasures of home. One of
the dreary periods fell on Sunday. The
lodger awoke to realizing sense of
his forlornity, rendered doubly un-
comfortable by the lack of fire,
and cast about for the material to
start blaze. He first examined the
kitchen stove. "Ashes ~ exclaimed the
bachelor-he was averse to drudgery,
and looked farther. The parlor was
closed. The sittipg-rOom was the last
resort, and, of course, the most cheerful.
Fortunately, too, the stove was clear OF
ashes, and primed for ignition. Not a
moment was lost. In went the charcoal,
the match was applied, and the anthra-
cite followed at the proper interval. Our
bachelor friend was happy over glowing
Goals, and passed the day in serene en-
ioyInent of his book and his cigar.
Could anything be better? In blissful
ignorance of aught untoward in his Sun
days experience he returned to his
business on Monday and followed the
weeks routine as usual. The next week
the ladies had returned, and after set
Ting themselves in their dwelling began
the work of putting to rights for per-
manency. One glance into the sitting
room stove sufficed as to the status
there, and but little more was accom-
plished until what remained OF the
spoons and such was hauled over, talked
over, wept over, laughedOver and melted
over for curtailed reconstruction upon
the domiciliary table. The lodger's ex'
perience in keeping house over Sunday
will be fruitful source of badinagc in
the circle for some years to come, and
when the spoons go down to future gen
erations through nepKews and nieces OF
the maiden aunts the Thanksgiving
gatherings will not fail of interest II
nothing more is related than the story OF
their passage through the fiery furnace
and how they came there.-Boston Tran
script
Year: 1874

PLENTY OF. WHARF.-THE author
tiles of the Linn County Agricultural
Society have ordered a ditch dug from
the Santiam Canal to the Fair grounds,
SO as to afford plenty of water for No.
Ones steam fire engine of Portland,
which will visit our boys during the
Fair, and give an exhibition of her
squirting power. This will be an at
tractive feature to many.
Year: 1874

ARM BRoKEN.-Little Charley Brig
ham. eldest son of Mart. Brigham. on
Monday met with an accident which
will deprive hi'n of the use of his left
arm for some days. From what we
can learn. he was engaged in playing
game of hall at school. and while run
ming fell. the whole weight ofthe hody
being thrown upon the left arm. break
ing it hetween the wrist and elbow. in
about the same place it was broken
some two months ago. VIXEN lie fell
from the water tank near foot of Wash
ington street. The arm had entirely
recovered. and he had been using it
for near month; hut the strain upon
it Monday was too great, and it
snapped in twain once more. DIR.
Gamble reset and handaged the arm,
and has hopes of its early recovery.
Year: 1874

INVITING GOODs.-Sam'l z. Young
gives notice that he is receiving and
now opening one of the largest and
best selected stocks of goods ever bro't
to Albany. Having had eight years
experience in purchasing and selling
goods in this market. he is certainly
qualified to purchase saleable goods at
their very lowest cash value. which
enables him to sell them at lower rates
and smaller profits than ever before.
Persons wishing to buy goods of most
any kind. will find it TO their advant-
age to call on him and get his prices
before purchasing their Fall and Winter
supplies.
Year: 1874

WHY THE CHANGE p 1t used to be the
custom in our court room, and has been
ever since the war, for the whites to as
cend the steps on the right of the door and
the colored people on the left. Now the
colored people have both stairways under
their control and when they come to the
court room they occupy all the seats to the
complete exclusion of the whites. Are the
white people of the country. whose money
built the Court House and sustains every
officer of the county, to have no considera
ton shown them? They should certainly
be allowed some little remote corner to 81
down.
Year: 1874

ANNA BERGER.-The Berger Family
gave one of their entertainments in our
town last Friday night. 1t is troupe of
real merit, refined and chaste, but accord
ing to our way of thinking, Miss Anna
Berger is the decided Star of the company.
Her skill with the cornet is highly artistic
and excels anything we have ever seen in
that line, and her piquant style in acting
was such as to be universally pleasing. Al
we write one of our printers is humming
one of her songs, "Little Fraud" which
will not soon be forgotten where Miss Anna
has sung it.
Year: 1874

OFFICIAL DUTY.-Last Friday an indi-
vidual, devout worshiper of Bacchus and
at the time having his soul full of devotion
to the genial god (or his head filed with
old rye) was SO intent upon his meditations
that he lost not only the power of self-con-
troll but that of managing his steed, and ran
his charlotte (or cart) against one of the
city lamp posts to the great injury of the
appended luminary. There was a pause
in the gentleman's thoughts and he was
preparing for further progress when Officer
Hyatt came upon the stage and escorted
him into the honored presence of our Mayor
where the bacchinalian devotee deposited 6
small amount to mend the lamp aud tool
hIs Leave On othsr thoughts intent.
Year: 1874

Our DoCKETs-Show but little court
business of civil nature, there being but
forty eight cases on the civil appearance
docket. The criminal docket, however, is
full as usual, one hundred and forty cases
being now docketed beside the numerous
ones to be found by the Grand jury. They
are mostly of the usual petty nature.
Year: 1874

HOME ENTERPR1sE.-Messrs Battle &
Son are now offering to the home trade
goods from their cotton factory in every
way equal to those of northern or foreign
manufacture. It's healthy sign when
we see these articles sold from factories in
our own midst, thus building up Southern
enterprises and saving money to the pur-
chasers, not only in freights to and from
the northern markets, but in the profits OF
numerous intermediate purchasers. See
Messrs. Bat lie s Sons advertisement.
Year: 1874

JUDGE HLLIARD-Seems to be giving
satisfaction. He is prompt in his decisions,
attentive in the hearing of causes and cour-
teous in his dealings with the bar. We
await, however, to know more of his Off
cial conduct before expressing our opinion,
hoping we will always have the justice and
magnanimity to recognize worth wherever
we find it.
Year: 1874

Nor RIGHr-Those who purchased re-
served seats to the Berger show last Friday
night were much annoyed to find that they
had been 30 crowded, to make room for
more, az TO be decidedly uncomfortable.
A diagram of the reserved seats is made
out and people purchase under the impress
sion that there are only SO many and at a
comfortable distance apart, and when they
are sold under this impression it is not
right afterwards to change them.
Year: 1874

CoULDN'T AGREE.-An attorney the
other day dilated pathetlcally upon the fact
that his client ought to be permitted to
walk upon the "grcen earth free from
prison bars" The jury, however, couldn't
agree with him and thought it more healthy
for his client to spend the winter in the
State Penitentiary.
Year: 1874

some be devised, by which the public could
be spared the annoyance and ndinconvenience
to which it it is subjected every day at our
depot The passengers have to wait un-
til the freight cars are shifted before they
are carried to the depot. Can the freight
not be attended to after the passengers
get off
Year: 1874

OUR BAR.-The Edgecombe Bar may
not be especially famous in the State, there
being few in it that have sought or cared
for notoriety, but for real legal ability and
substantial worth we would pit against any
other in North Carolina, saving perhaps
the metropolitan.
Year: 1874

GRAND JURY.-This august body, with
Mr. W. S. Clark as foreman, is busily at
work. 1t is composed of eight white men
and ten negroes. We would suggest to
our commissioners that they throw all the
white names out of the jury boxes and
make the entire court a negro concern.
Year: 1874

CHEAP TRANSFORMATIONS John
S. Dancy was delegate to the Cheap
transportation Convention now in session
at Richmond, Va, but on account of the
delay in the appointment to reach him did
not attend
Year: 1874

HoP.-The hop given by the young men
of Tarboro last Tuesday night was very
pleasant affair Josh Motley's band fur
nished the music and the young people trip
ped to his beat until the wee sma' hours
| of the night
Year: 1874

AT one time ship building
was carried on as extensively
in this State as in any other
in the URiou. Commencing from a
very early period, when the first set
tiers butt their canoes, small boats
aud plantation built vessels, down
to 1865 when the business of build
ing ships on the Pasquotank river
for transportation of produce to the
West Indies and where the vessels
were sold with their cargoes, up to d
few years since a large number o.
the vessels required in the trade were
built Of North Carolina machaniC
and W, re considered as good as any
constructed abroad. Why is it tina
this business has been abandoned
The State has an abundance of a.
good material now as then, there il
the same demand for good vessels
and we cannot but believe thi
branch of mechanical art if carried
on extensively, would become one O
the most important of trades in tn
State. Let some of our friends il
the Old Nor;h State revive the trad
and We have no tears Of their success
-4he South.