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Year: 1873

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On Sunday evening OF last week Mr.. Samuel VIII
let's, y wealthy farmer residing ut Little Neck,
started from his home with his horse and buggy to
visit friend residing at Manhasset About ten
O'Clock the same night the horse and buggy were
found in the iarm yard, but nothing was seen OF
Mr.. Willetts. Everything about the horse ana
wagon was found in good order, and the horse did
not appear to be at all distressed or
Hurried Search was at once MADE 1or
MIR. Wiletts, and he was finally found
about three miles from his homo, lying on the road
side in an unconscious condition. Upon examina-
tion severe confusion was found upon the back
OF his head, as though caused by club. He was
and medical attendance was called, but all efforts
to recover him proved unsuccessful until Satur-
day. when he regained consciousness, ana IS now
thought to be IN o fair way OF recovery. Mr.. VIII
let's is man of temperate habits, and the horse
he drove Is very gentle one, and IL ID therefore
believed that he was Knocked out Of the wagon by
Q highwayman who intended to rob him, but who
was frightened away before he had accomplished
his purpose. Mr.. w. has no recollection regard
ing the time or the manner OF his injury.
Year: 1873

Castle Garden. The committee referred 70 this
Board the question of the propriety Of the payment
OF salaries to the Protestant and Catholic chap
lains now Off1ciattng at Wards Island. The ques-
tion as TO the continuance OF the post off1ce at
Castle Garden was also referred to the Board.
Year: 1873

NO. u. JOlNI RESOLUIION
Asking Congress to give its material


assistance in the suppression of


slavery in the island of Cuba.


Whereas, The island of Cuba has
been and is now struggling for inde-
pendence. based on freedom for all,
without regard to race, color or previ-
Gus condition; and


Whereas, The Spanish government
sustains the war against tine Cubans
with view to keep in force the institu-
ton of slavery anu the slave trade, and


Whereas, Their representative in
that unfortunate island have forced into
slavery again more than fifty thousand
men who were set free by their former
owners (the Cubansl. and that they
force into slavery all colored prisoners
Year: 1873

The Sixth Amendment proposes to
change The Constitution so as to trans
fer the University from the control OF
tie men in whose hands it has gone t"
ruin, to the control Of . Board Il
Trustees, to be elected by the
Legislature.


If any man has any doubt about
the rightfulness Of putting the I'm
versity and its property into the hands
of other men, we beg him to read care =
fully the testimony of three different
eve-witnesses as to the present de
plorable condition of affairs rndt
President Pool, to be found on our
third Dapo
Year: 1873

We publish in another column, this
morning, the laws regulating the man
her of voting upon the proposed Con-
stitutional Amendments.


It will be seen that separate box IS
TO be had for each Amendment, but
that in other respects the law differs
little from that of last year.


It becomes necessary, in view of the
requirement of the law regarding Re
gistration, that every voter should see
that his name is upon the Registration
Book before the day of election. No
new registration is required for any
one who is already properly registered,
but it is the part of prudence, at least,
for every voter to examine the record
in time and see that his name is prop
erly entered.


It is especially important that per
sons who have lately moved from one
township to another shall see to 1t that
they are properly registered.
Year: 1873

derstanding of the same, but that they
will accept as theirs the construction
and application of these provisions
made by the colored men, and bind
themselves forever to maintain the
same. Thus the constitutional pro-
visions, Federal and State, which re-
late exclusively to political and civil
rights, are construed by the colored
people as applying to certain personal
and social rights, which no one before
demanded or claimed under them.


The right of hotel-keeper, of the
owner Of steamboat or theatre, to
control the conditions upon which he
will use his property and conduct his
business, or of communities to organ
ize and direct the discipline of their
schools, are regarded as swept away
by the constitutional guarantees rela-
ting only to political and civil rights.
The legality, the justice and logic OF
this conclusion are stoutly denied, and
have been adjudicated against by very
high authorities. But the Unifiers
concede them, and a great deal more.
They concede them, too, not as SIN
cere, conscientious conviction and
earnest acceptance of their verify, but
as means of placating the favor and
securing the cooperation of the col
ored citizens in certain political and
patriotic aims.


From the New Orleans Picay yune


If we understand the great object of
that meeting, it was to ratify the efforts
of the Committee of One Hundred to
harmonize the races and bring about a
new election, in which all would unite
to Danish forever from our soil bad
government, establishing good in its
place, and to make peace, prosperity
and good will grow where now flourish
only the noisome weeds of race antag-
onism, political persecution and official
corruption.


What fruit has this mass meeting
borne? We say tin sorrow-the fruit
is the speech of the small politicians,
Henry Burch, and the resolutions
offered by Mr.. Lewis and signed by
himself, DR.. Roudanez and others.
who claim to represent the negro race
in Louisiana.


Alas, these men know not what they
DO. God knows we had hoped to be
spared the necessity of saying it; we
had hoped that common sense was
beginning to assert it's sway, and that
it and justice wonld be the victors; but
Messrs. Burch, Lewis, and others
must not forget that the whites are
men, and that men have borne. and
can and will bear again, evils far
worse than all that surround us now
rather than sacrifice those funda-
mental principles which alone sustain
true civilization. Concession is one
thing; degradation is another. Ruin
of this generation may be the salvation
of the next. Degradation of this ex-
tends far beyond. Real men will not
be long i'll choosing.


Again we say, we are sorry indeed
| that these representative men" of the
negro race should have SO wantonly
and effectively killed the unification
movement, but they have done it, and
the funeral is theirs
Year: 1873

The meeting at the Exposition Hall
developed more fully than any pre-
vious manifestation the spirit, plan
and argument of the Unifcation part


A careful consideration of ali that
was done and said in this meeting, in
a spirit of impartiality and earnest de-
sire to promote the welfare of our
State and the harmony Of the races,
has confirmed the opinion already ex-
pressed by us, that the scheme is an
impractical, unwise, untimely and III
furious one.


What is the proposition ? That GER
tain white citizens will pledge them
selves to surrender certain ancient
prejudices which are regarded by the
colored citizens as violative of the con-
stitutional and legal obligations of all
citizens. In other words, the white
citizens adopt the Interpretation placed
by their colored brethren on certain
constitutional provisions, and, not
content with general declaration that
they will conform to the Constitution
and avs, according to their own IN
Year: 1873

The third Amendment proposes to
enlarge the power OF the Legislature
III The matter of cXamptIng property
from taxation.


Section &, Article y, of the Consti-
tutiou authorizes the General Assem-
bly, to exempt from taxation wearing
apparel, arms for muster, household
and kitchen furniture, the mechanical
and agricultural implements Of me-
cham s and farmers, libraries and sci
entlti' Instruments, to 4 value not
exceeding three hundred dollars" The
third amendment proposes to insert
, after the word 'i,tstyun3rnfs" in the
above, the words cor any Othc,' per-
so,aW property" SO that the poor man


may get the benefit OF the exemption
as well as the rich man.


If this amendment be adopted the
exemption from taxation will work
fairly and equally and without distinc-
ton between rich and poor, and the
poor mans pig and his COW and calf
will be exempt from taxation as well as
the rich mans furniturea and books and
clothes.


As the Constitution now stands the
men who are we'll off in money matters
get too big q share, by far, of the ben
eft of the exemptions from taxation.
AS the Constitution now stands, to the
extent to which it goes, it makes the
rich man richer and the poor man
poorer; to him that hath It gives, and
from him that hath not it takes even
that which he hath.


If the amendments be ratified all
this will be changed, and all men, in
all conditions of life, will be treated
alike


The fourth amendment proposes to
strike from the Constitution the words
superintendent of Public Works."
wherever they may occur therein and
thereby to abolish the Office.


The Office is one that does no one
in North Carolina or out of it any
Year: 1873

The Eighth Amendment proposes to
change the Constitution so as to make
itunlawful for any Federal Office holder
to hold office under the State govern
ment. We certainly have had enough
of interference by Federal office-hold-
ers in State affairs. The amendment
ought to be ratified without a dissent
ing voice.


Be sure then to go the polls and cast
yonr votes for all these amendments.
Year: 1873

The first Amendment proposes to
strike ont that part of the Constitution
of the State requiring census to be
taken in 1875 and every ten years there
after at the expense of the State.


The Federal Government takes a
census Of North Carolina every ten
years ut its own expense. If the State
takes one also IL will only be increas-
ing the burden upon the taxpayers
WHO have now as much as they can
bear


The Amendment il a good one and
Ought to be adopted.
Year: 1873

The second Amendment proposes to
change that part of the Constitution
which requires the Legislature to meet
every winter, even though there may
be no business for it to transact, So
that it shall be required to meet only
once III two years.


The Legislature of North Carolina
costs the people nine hundred and
forty dollars each day of it's session ex-
elusive Of lights, fuel, stationery and
printing.


If, therefore, this Amendment be
adopted, the Legislature instead of
mee%ng every winter will meet only
once in two years az it did before the
war, and the people will be saved one
half OF the cost of their law making.
II the Amendment shall be adopted
its benefits will be felt for all time to
como. It is an intoIerable nuisance to
compel the Legislature to meet every
winter ut Il cost Of over a thousand dol
lars Il day
Year: 1873

The seventh amendment proposes to
strike from the Constitution the pro-
visions relating to the appointment
and duties of the Code Commission
and thus to abolish that office


One of the greatest curses inflicted
upon North Carolina is the new system
of laws that Judge Tourgee brought
down here from New York. The
adoption of this amendment will
alb dish the Code Commission and
enable the Legislature to remedy the
evil as far as may be possible.
Year: 1873

u.


He has gone up for few days to Nor
canton on business.


A most fiendish attempt to DESTROY
the family of Mr.. David Moore, of this
county, says the Hillsboro Recorder


was made on last Monday night. A
supply OF meal had been received
from the mill on the morning of that
day, which was partaken OF by the
family at supper. The next morning
Mrs: Moore mixed up large quantity
OF dough of the same meal for the
hands employed in threshing on the
premises. She tasted the dough, and
fould Ii very bitter, but not attach
ing much Importance to it, baked the
bread, supposing the process of cook
ing would dissipate the unpleasant
flavor. When baked, she again tasted.
and the same intense bitterness CON
tinued. The portion she had cut off
was thrown upon the ground. and
speedily eaten by three dogs. In
fifteen minutes they were all dead.
Intense excitement followed the mar
row escape of the family and the
laborers. The family had been dis
turbed during the night by the intru-
sion of some one N the kitchen. and
MIR. Moore went out to examine, and
saw some one going through the corn
field. After the discovery of the at
tempt at poisoning, the direction of
the intruder was followed, and his
tracks measured. A negro mar. Hay-
wood TAFT, living on an adjoining
place, was arrested, and his tracks
found to correspond exactly with those
In the field, and he was brought. into
town and examined before a Mapis-
trate. But there was no evidence of
any motive whatever to associate him
with the attempted crime, and the
Magistrate thought tie tracks too
slight a circumstance taken by itself
to authorize committal, and he was
discharged. There are suspicious of
the guilty parties, but we are not au-
thOrized to express them.
Year: 1873

USEFUL industry does not so much
consist in being contieually busy, as in
doing promptly those things which are
of the first importance, and which will
cyentuolly prove most profitable.
Year: 1873

4 SEVERE TEsT,-The Commissary
General Of the United States, after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention Of consum-
erS
Year: 1873

In healthy condition the skin is kept
supple by an oily secretion. which answers
the same purpose as oiljng leather.
During warm weather this secretion, IN
common with all the other seeretions OF
the skin, is more abundant than in cold.
When it is insufficient the skin becomes
dry and harsh and OR those parts OF the
body where the skin is thick and subject
to much motion. as on the hands, it readily
cracks or assures. The amount Of this Sc
cretion is so much reduced in cold weather
that the frequent washing of the hands
with soap causes them to chap readily,
and this the more certainly if the soap is
not washed off. The alkkah in soap is
usually in excess and this combines witt
the oily secretion. and so deprives the skin
of its natural luhricator To prevent th'


hands from chapping, then, be careful t


wash all soap from them thoroughly II


clean water. This will ordinarily suffice
but, if not, it will be necessary to max


good the removed oil by using KENNEDY


SALT RHEUM OINTMENT, a sure cure 10


all skin disease of whatever name OF nature
PRICE so CENTS Sold by Druggists.


3-ldly.
Year: 1873

SIS. 900 IN CASH FOR $l.-We call the
attention of our readers to the advertise
ment in another column of the Nebraska
State Orphan Asylum. Here is a chance
to win fortune in Public Legal Drawing,
and aid noble charity.
Year: 1873

From lands end TO lands eud, that all may read
aud reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who on the road to an untimely grave


with bilious complaints there Is but truly great
and reliable remedy, and that is
Year: 1873

We understand that the Northern Pa
cifc railroad commissioners, Judge Rice
and Captain Ainsworth, appointed to Sc
lect terminus for the main line of the
Northern Pacific railroad on Puget
sound, have, after very careful ex
animation of various harbors on the
sound, and after having given full hear
ings to all parties interested, and ma
turely considering all propositions for
aid by different localities, some of which
have been exceedingly liberal, finally
selected a point on the south side of
Commercial bay, in township q, range
3 east of Willamette meridian, for that
terminus.


In this we think the commissioners
acted wisely, as the hardor selected can
not be excelled for salubrity of climate,
extent, safety, and ease of access both by
sea and land. Persons interested in
any particular locality may for the mo-
ment be disappointed in the action of
the commissioners, but the commercial
world will unhesitatingly approve.


BY reference to a map of the country
it will be seen that the location selected
is at the head of deep water on Com
mencement bay, south of the present
town of Tacoma, and combines more adj
vantages for a great commercial city,
destined to represent and become a
great emporium of trade, beyond any
other mart on the Pacific coast, and we
sincerely feel assured is to become the
second city of the new world.


As an earnest of the faith repOsed in
the location, we hear that material for a
s25, 900 printing Office is being prepared
to be shipped at once to. Tacoma, to
include newspaper, job printing and
book bindery.
Year: 1873

sense enough to know what to take hold
of to reverse her But [ was too drunk
And that grand little angel stood up to
it, trying to warn US in time, and we
just swept right ahead into pile of
ties some wrech had laid on the track
0 my baby Go away George.


There And do you want me to tell
you how the sight Of that mangled little
mass killed her mother? And do you
want me to'tell you I walk alive to-day
the murderer of nay own child, who
stood up to save me And do you want
me to tell you the good fellowship you
were drinkin' awhile ago brought all
this On me?


You'll let this pass by maxim up your
mind to be moderate. Hope you will.
l was a moderate 'un.


0 God o my baby


/ can knock down any man twice my
size for a good reason, George Burks,
but my heart just melts to water for
that little girl"
Year: 1873

The following lines which ring of the trues
1oesy were found about fifty years ago, on ta
Die in the meeting-room of the Royal college OF
urge cons in LOndon and was supposed to have
,een written by one of the members of that so.
iety. It first appeared in the London Morning
JhronicIe and in 8 short time thereafter a re.
7ard Of fifty guineas failed to bring out the au-
horship, nor is it yet known:


Behold this ruin! Twas a skull


Once of ETHEREAL Spirit full.


This narrow cell was life's retreat,


This space was Thoughts mysterious seat.
What beauteous visions filed this spot
What dreams of pleasure long forgot,
Nor hope, nor love, nor joy, nor fear,
Have left one trace of record here.
Beneath this Wondering canopy


Once shone the bright and busy eye;
But, start not at the dismal void,


If social love that eye employed;


If with no lawless fire it cleaned,
e But through the dews of kindness beanie d,
That eye shall be forever bright


When stars and suns sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern hung


The ready, swift and tuneful tongue.
If FalsehOods honey it disdained,
And where it could not praise was chained.
If bold in Virtues cause it spoke,


Yet gentle concord never broke


This silent tongue shall plead for thee,
When time unveils eternity.


Say, did these fingers delve the mine?
Or with it's envied rubies shine?


To hew the rock or wear the gem


Can little avail to them.


But if the page of Truth they sought
Or comfort to the mourner brought,
These hands richer need shall claim
Than all that wait on wealth or fame.
Avails it whether bare or shod,


These feet the paths of Duty trOd?
If from the bow ers of ease they fed
To seek Affections humble shed


If grauduer's guilty bribe they spurned,
And home to Virtues cot returned,
These feet with angels wings shall vie
And tread the palace of the sky.
Year: 1873

my little children, let us not love
in word, neither in tongue; but in deed
and truth"


A child had beautiful canary, which
sung to him from early morning. The
mother of the child was i'll, so i'll that
the song of the little bird, which to the
boy was delicious, disturbed and dis
tressed her so that she could scarcely
bear to hear it.


He put it in a room far away but the
birds notes reached the sick bed, and
caused pain to her long, feverish days.


One morning as the child stood hold
ing his mothers hand, he saw that when
his pet sang, an expression of pain
passed over her dear face. She had
never told him that she could not bear
the noise, but she did so now.


"It is no music to me-" she said, as
he asked if the notes were not pretty.
He looked at her in wonder.


"And do you really dislike the
sound?"


"Indeed do" she said.


The child, full of love to his mother,
left the room. The golden feathers of
the pretty canary were glistening in the
sunshine, and he was telling forth his
loveliest notes but they had ceased to
please the boy. They were no longer
pretty or soothing to him and taking
the cage in his hand, he left the house.
When he returned, he told his mother
that the bird would disturb her rest no
more, for he had given it to his little
cousin.


"But you loved it So" she said :
chow could you part with the canary?'


81 love the canary, mother" he re-
piled "but loved you more. I could
not really love anything that gave you
pain. It would not be true love if I
did. THE QwiUer.
Year: 1873

SELF-SACRIFICE.- the spirit of
sacrifice there are two distinct forms
the first, the wish to exercise seIf-de-
NAL for the sake of self-discipEne
merely, wish acted upon in the aban-
donment of things loved or desired,
there being no direct call or purpose to
be answered by so doing and the Sc
cond, the desire to honor or please some
one else by the costliness of the sacri-
fee. Now it cannot but at first appear
futile to assert the expediency of self
denial for its own sake, when, for so
many sakes, it is every day necessary to
a far greater degree than any of us
practice it. But believe it is just be-
cause we do not enough acknowledge or
contemplate it as good in itself, that
we are apt to fall in its duties when
they become imperative, and to calcu-
late. with some partiality, whether the
good proposed to others warrants, or
measures the amount of grievance to
ourselves, instead of accepting with
eladness the opportunity of sacrifice as


personal advance. .-Ruskfn.
Year: 1873

Not only of great but of al sound
minds, this is true, they require the
two elements, society and solitude. No
healthy life is ever lived in which either
Of these is ever wanting. And If we
turn 20 books, 70 Judge OF mind 10y its
most enduring products, we see the
same experience repeated, from age TO
age. There are books enough left ms
by those who, never having tried TO
live, have shut themselves within the
circle of their own meditations. Won
derful in its variety is the literature OF
mystihcation and sentiment What
wealth Of thought and feeling, drawn
from the pure depths Of human con-
sciousnessl Again, turn TO the memoir
writer's and court-gossips. What keen
observations of manners what infinite
webs of intrigue they unravel before
us what countless character they have
distinguished But what are the books
that instruct us; that speak 20 us as
men that raise us, but raise us not too
high for our duties and our destiny
Between the frivolous and the divine
lies the truly human. Wisdom that is
from above, yet that can give us no
light in this world Theory without
facts is not science, and moralizing
without experience is not wisdom. A
pallid and dreary iarPon is the meta
physics of the schools, by the side OF
the tangible and experimental maxim
which flowers out, naturally, from the
intellect that has lived. But. unless TO
this experience be added the maturing
influences of meditation and self-knowl-
eage. the result is equally one-sided.
We get, then, that unspiritual and de-
basing physiology Of human conduct,
that so-called philosophy Of courts,
which lures out Of the computation of
motive all that separates man from any
other species of mammal.-Quarter'y
ReUic7O.