Carolina Watchman

              _, lr < i%nl^4itr^fc > ' lh3iiftri^m#ti#^lf4olr vol iii third series salisbury n c april 12 1872 no 30 whole no 820 triumphant 19 _^^ m 17 gold & silver medals vekk awarded to chas m rtieff »' for the beat pianos over 14 different makers of new vork baltimore and boston manufacturers , office axd kew waekrooms e.9,x liberty st baltimore hd the stieffs pianos contain al the latent im j provenients to be found in a first-dase tiaiio - with additional improvements of his own in vention not to be found in other instrument . the tone touch and finish of their instruments cannot be excelled by any manufactured a large assortment of second hand 1'iano.s always on hand from 75 to 300 j l'iirlor and church organs some 20 different style on hand from 50 and upwards send for illustrated catalogues containing j names of over looil southerners 500 of which are virginians who have bought thestiefii l'iano since the ol of the war 22:401 j allen bkown agent salisbury n c i " i | mul^jiy \ imtw ihn ! also white goods embroidries.&c j armstr0ng^cator co importers manufacturers _ jobbers lill\\et,tllllllll.\li,.\e('ka\l)sasili ribbons velvet ribbons neck ties bonnet silks satins velvets and crapes flowers feathers ornaments frames c straw bonnets and ladies and children's hats trimmed ami l'rtrimmed and iii connecting vvarerooms white goods linens embrofderigs lacks nets collars setts handkerchiefs veil1xc head xets litre c nos 237 and 239 baltimore street baltimore . lltl these loo is are manufactured l>v t or bought for cash directly from the european j and american manufacturers embracing nil i the latest novelties unequalled in variety iim i cheapness in any market orders filled with care promptness and despatch 25:2m:p commission merchant rock hill s c soli iis shipments of flour meal wheat . corn an 1 lats to he sold on commission those having products to sell should corres pond with me and obtain market prices at rock hill which can generally be done in 24 hours reference john 1 shaver esq mr j o white salisbury dec 1,1871 ll:3m:pd clover and grass seeds fresh and at l-orest prices at theo f luttz & co's 20:tf drugstore tt v i'm era t j pmce price & bro have removed tii kir family grocery store to jenkin's corner where they will continue t sell flour mea fresh meats bacon lard butter eggs coffee teas sugar salt pickles mo lasses c . together with a large and varied stock of household ami table necessities bring your country produce to price & bro 1 7 tf a m si i i.i van j p goavajt new opening r i , he undersigned having associated them 1 s.-lves iii business under the firm name of a m sullivan co nave opened in r j holmes new build ing next door to tho hardware store when they will be pleased t meet old and new friends thev have a maguifieent room — tfie largest and best in town — and .>__. liargo to s_plox_.cli.ci stock of goods comprising it gen ml assortment ilard j ware excepted and will guarrautec as good bargains as can be sold l.y any lions in the south they will deal heavily in groceries nnd country piodnce buyiug and selling and invite all « ho wish either to buv or sell to call ii hem a m si 1.1,1 vax <£ co jan ith 1872 10:tf jsave your wheat & oats important notice to farmers an important discovery to prevent rustin wheat nnil llals ifthe direetion are careful ly followed and the crop is injured by rust the money will be cheerfully refunded all 1 ask is t trial " prepared und for sale onl at j ii enniss pruir store july 7 tf salisbury ihe lawless xiowb.-s_rs ! authentic history tf their crimes — 7'ltc slanderers ofthe herald befitted j robeson and her people vindicated / — a bloody record ! arstle robeson co n c \ march 2g r ls72 j colonel e d hail : dear sir : in compliance with the request contained in your letter of the 22(1 instant to be furnished with such information as 1 possessed relating to the lowreya and others of this coun ty 1 herewith furnish such facts as i have been able to gal her during a resi dence of six years in the county regret ting at the same time the impossibility i of obtaining other than traditional accounts ' ot scuftk-town and its population the inulattoes of scufiletown are un doubtedly descendants of the aborigines : probably tusearoras or cherokee ; ma ny of them direct descendants of their j indian forefathers bear decided indian • features and characteristics their are among them a goodly number of half breeds crossed with the whites rai ely ever with the negroes and they never j hare been as mr townsend in his let ! tera to the new york herald would seem to indicate slaves but always free many ofthe grandfathers or great grand fathers of the present stock owned large bodies of land and in some instances slaves and ware generally respected by the better class oi white farmers in the county such was especially the case wilh the lowreys the grandfather of alien lowrey owned both land and slaves and is said to have been educated to the extent that our common country school afford allen lowrey the father of henry berry lowrey had ten sons george pat rick william purday sinclair m unlock calvin stephen tom and henry berry the latter the youngest several of them moved off to other states as they grew up allen has twice married or rather once married and getting into some diffi i culties about laud suits or law suits of some kind moved to south carolina | where he remained about two years du ring which time his wife married some other man and he on his return married another woman marriage in those days among free inulattoes or negro slaves was not considered a very binding obli gation the above named sons i think are the progeny of the second wife or woman among these and with old , allen himself law suits taxes c de i spoiled them of most of their lands ; and they like indians generally believing i their cause just in all cases could not clearly recognize the lights of the courts lo sell their hinds and claimed that they had been defrauded of them probably in some cases they were outwitted or de frauded by sharper men — such has been the fate ofthe indian crer since this coun try was first settled by whites what is here stated of the lowreys may well ap ply to most all of the inhabitants of scuf fietown who were formerly large land owners and though nearly every family now hold small homesteads they do not own lands to the exteut they did iu for mer years 1 am disposed to think from what i have heard here that the scuffletonians have degenerated rapidly in tlie last twenty or ihiriy years previous to about that time they were allowed to vote were required to bear arms and muster and were more generally mixed with the whites on terms of equality being found useful as voters they were tolerated by the whites in 1s3 the convention with drew the right of suffrage from all free men of color and also the right lo bear arms ; and being no longer useful to the j whiles as voters and if no longer allowed j to mix with them as militia men they i were generally degraded to the level of negro slaves ; or in fact in many instan ces came to be looked down upon by the slaves as beneath them this course incensed them and they began to look upon the whites as their enemies and taught their children to despise them and though policy dictated apparently good will many of them being dependent upon the whites for employment they were generally ready to aid with any cause that afforded them a safe chance of i retaliating on their white neighbors oth er causes they had too to increase their enmity during the war they were made subject to detail and as slaves were made to work on the fortifications and from all 1 can gather they were hunted and per secuted by some of the home guard and conscript officers 1 am glad to be able to say that the majority of the home guard officers were humane and had due regard to the condition of these men and their families in making their details the opposite cases were exceptional : strll tlie whole system only served to incense them the more and hence they were found ready and willing tools in the hands of geueral sherman's soldiers in their pass age through this county as pilots in their raids upon the white settlers and hei.ee also when the right tc vote was accorded to them after the war they were found by the leaders ot the republican party as tho freedmen wore ready and willing to join them iu anythiug that would strike at the interests or standing of heir white neighbors — seizing upon the hue and cry of rebel ku klux c to incite their leaders to more stringent measures to in jure them and unfortunately finding some few degenerate white natives who were ready and willing to take up the cudgel with them to inflict injury on their former neighbors and friends these are principally the reasons for the venom of henry berry lowrey and his gang against the white people of the county and the balancu of the population of scufiletown are in sympathy with him and his gang it remains now for me to trace as far as i am able the earlv career of lowerv and i ' i his gang premising that tbe members of his band are nearly related to him by blood or marriage some time in the fall or winter of 1sg3 henry berry lowrey and one of his broth ers william i think fled to the swamps to escape detail to the forts at the mouth of cape tear river and while biding out were joined by some three or four escaped federal prisoners from florence s c — they established a camp in the back swamp near the plantation of james p barnes and committed various depreda tions on stock killiug some of barnes bogs and sheep some time in january or february 1sg4 the exact date i do not reeollect j is p barnes while out turkey hunting in llie swamp came upon their camp and charged them with the killing of his stock threatening to inform the home guard officers of their wherea bouts if they did not leave his neighbor hood shortly afterwards barnes was shot from an ambush on the side of the road by the two lowreys while he was passing on his way home from the past office reading a newspaper barnes fell though not killed and ii b lowrey and his brother william and one ofthe escap ed prisoners came out of the ambush and walked up to barnes and h b lowrey finding that he was not dead kicked him and cursed him for threatening to set the home guard officers after ihem and after wards placed the muzzle of his gun to his face and fired tearing nearly half ot one side of his face off they then left and strange to say he lived until his brother dr john barnes who was attracted by thi firing came lo his relief and got him home sending for a magistrate at his re quest before whom he deposed these facts this was the first murder committed by lowrey who was at that time some is to 20 years old ; aud this could not bo claimed by lowrey as he has claimed for others of his numerous murders that it was in retaliation fur injuries inflicted on himself and family for jas p barnes 1 am informed by several gentlemen of un doubted veracity was uotoriously inoffen sive kind to his neighbors even to the niulatioes several of whom lived near him i have myself heard two or three of the inulattoes express decided disap probation at the killing of so good a man as barnes though never expressing an opinion as to who killed him the next murder committed by the lowreys was that of james brandt har riss some time iu august ls(i4 and i must admit from the facts of the ease as i have heard them that they may have been entitled to the claim of revenge or retaliation lor wrongs inflicted harris was not a native of this county but a wagoner trom the up country who had settled in scufiletown among the inulat toes where he kept a small roadside store selling liquors c to the seuffle touiaus he was charged with being too familiar with some of the wives and daughters of his customers and from this cause first sprung enmities between him self aud the lowreys after the break ing out of the war harris was appointed seigeant lieutenant or something of conscription and was engaged principal ly in bunting up mulaltoes who had been detailed for work on the forts and from all accounts he was one ofthe rough est of his class overbearing and abusive to them the gravest charge ihey bring against him was the killing of two sons of george lowrey cousins of ii b lowrey the circumstances of the mur der of these two young men allen and t o wesley were substantially as follows : harris was ordered to report with these two men at moss neck depot and on attempting to arrest them was resist ed when he called on some of tho home guard to assist him and to help guard tlietu until they reached moss neck ; when the arrest was made he handcuffed them and started for his destination ac companied by a squad of home guard ; arriving near moss neck lie told the lat ter they might go baek as he could man age bis prisoners the rest of the way bv himself and between the place where the squad parted with him and moss neck the dead bodies of the two young men were shortly after wards found and the presumption ot the lowreys was that harris bad shot them and for this they swore vengeance against him harriss soon afterwards surrender eel himself to the civil authorities or gave bond for his appearance at court for trial the month afterwards september but he w;is shoe by the lowreys before court met after the killing of harriss it is supposed that ii b lowrey was joined by some two or three others of the inulat toes probably some of the same ones who have since formed a part of his band and they continued fugitives from justice from that time about the same time whether just before or jus l after the mur der of harriss i havo not been able to learn a man by the na.ue of carlysle was killed iu the lower par of the county which killing wa3 charged to lowrey and his erang whether justly or unjustly i cannot say after this the depredations of the band consisted principally of pet ty thefts and robberies or as they called it foraging for a living until some lime in january lsbo when ihey fell in with some twenty escaped federal prisoners from florence of mixed nationality and headed by an officer these they joined and commenced a general system of rob beries the lowreys piloting and partici pating iu them the soon became the terror of the county though 1 have never heard ot their commuting any deed of blood only threatening those who hesitated about opening their doors some time in the latter part of february tbey were reported as being on the re-ck ingham road working tlrair way up to words the upper end of the county and the propriety of offering resistance was generally discussed among the farmers living ou the road most of them declar ing that as uo effectual resistance could ; , be offered to such a force they were va : riiiuely stated at from twenty to fifty i the best way was to open the doors to them i and let them plunder at will particularly j as the country was then nearly de pleted of men capable of bearing arms on this discussion my present wife then the widow ofdr.neil mcxair was includ j ; ed and she expressed pretty warmly her | j appreciation of their want of nerve in de i , termining to open their doors to a baud of robbers and vowed she would never open hers ; that if they came iu they j would have to break them down at ; , that time there was refuging here wit li ! mrs macrae two families her sister and ; family and her brother's wife and family j these two ladies counseled moderation i and the discussion continued until the j afternoon of the 27th of february when two young men acquaintances of mrs j macrae came down from richmond j county on a visit of two or thine days | and mrs macrae declared that with such j an addition to the defensive force she would | resist them to tho last on the same night about twelve o'clock the band [ came to the front door and demanded : | admittance mrs macrae ran up stairs j j and aroused the two young men telling j them the robbers wen at ihe door one of the youngjmen the wounded confed i ciate soldier of whom mr townsend j makes mention had his pistols with him one a large naval revolver and the other a small pocket icvolver which he brought down wilh him hanging the smaller one to mrs macrae when he reached the lower passage the robbers hud broken into one of the room windows and were engaged in plundering he opened the door and fired on one man who was on i his knees over a trunk which he was i about breaking open this frightened them and they sprang through the win dow not seemingly anticipating any defense they afterwards went to the i wood-yard and got an axe and torches i and came back swearing ihey would break the door down and murder every one in the house they commenced splitting the door panels wilh the axe and while doing so one of the number stood immediately in front of the side light holding a torch for the others to see the wounded soldier and mrs macrae were stooping on the same side ofthe door and just below the side light watch ing their proceedings as the man outside leaned his back against the sash the young soldier placed the muzzle of his pistol against the glass and fired driving - the ball through the man a little below the shoulder who falling forward on his ! face pitched the torch out into tiie yard j this created a great confusion outside and the parties picked up their murdered comrade and carried him out of the front gate some distance swearing they would coniu back and have revenge they did return in a few minutes bringing other torches with ihem aud as they approach ed the steps lired a volley through the side-lights shivering llie glass and almost blinding the young man with the particles which were knocked into his face and eyes and cutting mrs macrae's neck slightly fortunately the shot did not strike either but lodged in the ceiling overhead after this the door gave way and the party rushed in hefore ihey did however mrs macrae had pushed the i j young man in a room and met them herself and in being questioned as to who had fired the shot through the glass declared she had done it herself at this a mulato three of whom had entered with the crowd swore he would kill her and raised his gun for the purpose but the officer iu command ordered b:m to desist aud threatened to shoot any man who offered her violence ii is threat however did not prevent the mulatto whom she took to be ii b lowrey from striking her a severe lick in the back with the butt of his gun as she walked down the passage ahead of him ihe officer again iuteifered and shoved low rey back afier this no further violence was offered but the crowd began to help themselves to whatever they found to suit them taking all the silver jewelry etc thev could find together wilh a quantity of clothing blankets ira the day after ; the attack at argyle several of the neigh ' bors assembled here aud determined to obtain the assistance of a small body of , the home guard who were stationed above here and follow the robbers — ( accordingly next day thoy assembled to ) the number of twenty-five or thirty and followed on to scuffletown where the band were reported to have balled to . divide their plunder the band had dis persed however before they got to scuf iletown the party then bearing that h b and william lowrey were at their father's allen lowrey house jiroceeded there and arrested the three — allen ii 15 and william and held them prisoners while some of the party searched the premises and found in a cave under the house stolen goods of various kinds guns pistols ke some of which were recogniz ed as the property of some of the party j then present they then held a consul j tion and some of the party voted for shooting the three others an generally j ihe older men of the party counseled moderation and advised that they should be carried to lumberton to be dealt with ( bv the law the others however pre j vailed declaring that they would be libe j rated by sherman's army who were then i daily expected to reach this county and declaring that ii b and william de.erv j ed shooting for the two murders tbey were known to have committed they finally lied the three and a squad step ped off to shoot ihem but just before the firing commenced h li lowrey burst bis bonds and fled escaping to the swamp which was close by the other two j allen and his son william were then shot some other rash measures were proposed but overruled after this h b was joined by his brothers stephen and tom and by the two strongs boss ( j strong a mere boy at the time and com menced a regular conrgt of crime they j were afterwards joined by henderson . oxendine and george applewhite the j latter a negro havirij for wife hender i son oxendine'i sister the crimes c j mitted by this gang of outlaws after this i organization are two well known to re | quire me to trace them out in all their j sickening and bloody record suffice it to [ say that they are chargeable with some seventeen brutal murders in only one of which they can claim any show of justi fication even if revenge might be admit ted as au excuse for murder it onlv re mains for me now to correct a few of mr townsend's false statem-nts and then hare done with the details of a set of the veriest fiends who have cursed this coun ty for eight years not so much by their own prowess as by the aid and comfort afforded them by their own class as well as by the countenance of men whose duty it ought to be to arrest and frown down crime in every case but who have made use of this gang to persecute their neighbors and breed contention and strife in the county the coi respondent of the n y herald mr townsend lias devoted a short paragrajji in one of his letters to the two mcleans iu which occurs the greatest misrepresentation of the elder of the two i can of course readily suppose that mr townsend had no motive whatever for aspersing the character of a good man unless as his letters would seem to indi cate he intended to become the apologist of the lowreys j am rather disposed to adopt the charitable view thai h got his information from some hitler enemy of mr mclean's who took that cowardly method of stabbing h's memory or injur ing his fair t fame i unlock a mclean requires no eulogist iu this comity still i cannot let the occasion pass without cor recting llie record which appears over mr townsend's signature 1 hare been more intimate with mr mclean than 1 have been with any other young man in the county and 1 can safely s;ty that 1 have never known him to bo guilty of a con temptible or mean act he was faithful j in the discharge ol his duties fearless | also and ready at any ami all times to oblige a friend or neighbor or to afford relief to any one in distress ai'lr.ut re gard to race color or condition the hist act of his life was one of nnselfihuess i at the time of his death the militia of thi county had been called out by order of the adjutant general and was sent to the camp at eureka in details of fifty from each regiment to serve two weeks and then be relieved by other details — m a mclean had served two weeks and returned home only to find that his broth er hugh was detailed for thu following two weeks hugh being in feeble health murdock determined that he should re main at home and he would serve two weeks more iu his stead and it was while driving over to the depot to take the cars — hugh going to tako the horse and bug gy back home — that tbey were both shot another instance where a foul-mouthed hypocrite has made use of mr townsend's pen to asperse a good and pure man is in the case of rev j ii coble this ! srenileinan is alive to defend bis own ' cause but as i am dealing with facts in connection with lowrey'a gang i will state what i have heard from parties who were present at the killing of allen and william lowrey mr towns-mid calls mr coble the high priest of the devil and states that he fired off his prayer aud his shot-gun at the same lime at the two lowreys this is simply false mr coble is represented as having been < r ncst in his endeavors to quell the passions of the parties who advocated the shoot ing of the lowteys counseled an appeal to the only proper tribunal — the law — aud did when he found that his advice availed nothing offer up an earnest pray er for the pardon of the two who were then about to be shot and afterwards when some of the crowd insisted upon wiping out the whole family he inter fered so decidedly that he prevented fur ther bloodshed and saved the life of allen lowrey'a wife ii is eaay for us here to guciis from whom mr towuseud gct such information in regard to the two persons named above and we know tint the parties are only bruising their own heads in attempting to butt honest peo ple it is only necessary to cite one other instance of tbe source frcm whence such information as he publishes comes : 1 he persecuted pious old aunt phoebe of whom he speaks is miscalled both iu name and character ; she is the hardest citse in ihis entire settlement can out drink out swear and out lie anything iu the shape of a negro that i have ever met with respectfully yours alkx mackak poison ix postage stamps a few days since dr l chesley of nottingham new hampshire a well know and prominent physician in rock ingham county received a lett-r from an unknown source containing two postage stamps with au urgent request that he should send by return mail a letter to a given address in new york city i be doctor complied with the request using one of the stamps ju*t received in mail ing the return letter wetting the stamp by laving it upon his tongue ho was in stantly seized with a mysterious fainting bcnsation accompanied with severe con vulsive action of the heart difficulty ot breathing and a prickling numbness ol his whole system he said to his wife standing by :, i ata poisoned by that stamp she b ay . it cannot be and taking the remaining stamp appli i * small portion of it to her tongue when she was seized with precisely the same though much more vera symtoms which have prostrated her for several davs not more thau one-twelfth pari of the adhesive side of the stamp wa ■ n n—riwi ■ i i i kt-__pw w ,^^. w , applied to mrs chesley's tengne at 1 the time of using the stamp dr chesley j had iu his mouth a quid of tobacco j which he thinks was an antidote to the ! poison the stamp no doubt contained ! » ! ___ opening of the campaign for 1872 speech op hon i b vance at statksvii.l.k tuesday april $, is reported phonographic-ally tor the daily despatch nv rev k n cobb stenographer of shelly n c i mr chairman and fdlote-oithen of iredell county : i feel happy to meet you all to-day ami am much obliged for the invitation to ad dress your county convention i esteem it not only a duty but a privilege to lend my aid in upholding law and order and in maintaining the principles of civil liberty ami whenever i can say anything in th_t direction i am happy to do it we are now on tin eveof one of the most important elections evetjhdd in this ebon try an election which involves the choice of a president and vice-president members oi congress senators in ( ongress governor legislature an 1 ill state and county olli cers except judges and clerks 1 believe in 1868 the people of iredell voted for the democratic ticket and sustained the men sures of that party which was opposed to radicalism is there any reason why we should abandon that policy now and side with our enemies on the contrary is there not every reason why you shonld not . is there any reason why we should now up bold that party that disfranchises the li.in.-m decent patriotic men of your state and uphold the oppressors of your country < in 1868 that party was composed of all sorts of political remnants hound in one com pact mass of hatred to the institutions of the south and that alone audit is that alone which binds it together now we are h.-re then to oppose radicalism which would batter down under its feet every principle of civil liberty that our forefath ers fought for let us look at them a mo ment innl see if tlii i not true the writ of habeas corpus w as secured ikiiii l.y n;i tit mil and stat constitutions the su preme court of the united states and the courts of our own stiite w.re established for the protection of that right you have seen it overthrown time an i again in the last few year another privilege was tbe right of trial by jury this is one of the great principles of free government y..n have seen that right overthrown and men taken up and imprisoned tried by drum head court martial and sentenced to igno minious punishment the freedom of the press another bol v.iirk of civil liberty haslieen invaded i"d irar have been imprisoned and their papers seized in defiance of law martial law has been proclaimed in our midst in a time of profound peace in the face of the express provisions ofthe constitution and aged and virtuous citizens seized by red soldier without warrant at the instigation of vaga bond negroes and placed in dungeons with out bail or main prize taxation according to representation i another great and val uable principle of liberty but for three years we were taxed heavily with no repre sentation at all : and from 1868 to the pre i*iii we have been with a few honorable exceptions represented or mis-represented l.v only such men as they would graciouslj permit and not mich iis our own choice die tat.-.l most of these political eunui hs are like john pool who instead of defending and protecting their downtrodden coun trymen st.-iii i in their places a living prosecutors and slanderers of the land ot their birth laughter and applause the military shonld always rre subordinate to th civil authority says the constitution v.-t in time of profound peace whole states have been seen withoul a single solitary civil magistrate the governor judges sheriffs constables justices of the peace were iill hurled out of • tli and the bayo net was supreme and now even yean after the last armed soldier had laid down hi inii-k.-t and ceased to r.-i-t the authorir iv of the government we find martial law proclaimed in our sister state t smith car olina and whole communities laid under the strong hand of violenci — soldiers l">intr itl.oiit seizing and incarcerating all such an an pointed out by vindictive vagabond ne groes all these t r.-<l principles of human liberty and many more for which not only ocr forefathers fought and suffered but oux kirali-li ancestors also for hundreds of years labored and organ izi d for which hampden died mid elliott languished in prison pray ing the tyrant for a little more air that fa nlight bavestrength ;■ dia all these have been disregarded overriden aud trampled into the dust by this r nlical parti in it last for power and vindictive hatred to the southern people and even now wi-.-n it election does not ira righi or we venture t assert anv of these great rights are h-rtaiii i:i to u eai'm.ira er d t < oarse threat ■>! future violence and continued disfntnchi ment of our wisest and best men and btil further curtailments of our few remaining liberties in fact in the language of the late thaddeus stevens oaeof their greatesl leaders the constitution has been ram into a thousand fragmentsand scattered ip every backhouse of ivashingtoa city li _*-- ter such are some of the things that il p_r ty has dona " and now gentlemen of thejurj i beg pardon i mean fellow-citizens im >-■» may consider yourselves e_ifass_xe as i : jrr.ytoti this party for their crime agsi liberty let me say om word boat th rupti.-ii of this party i believe it may be asserted m i 1 ton ; dfket that publico n iptioowas unknown in this land inti the radical came into power some of you old men ma ■'■•- ber the case of an rai fellow named swart wourt who stole only a few thousand dol lar i believe it was under mr van buret - administration and you may rem whal a great war of indignation it exciti ; and how the prcso teemed v ith accounts o such corruption why he would not have been dan appkextice al th trad in these days laughter ot a revenue officer nor a stiil-house p ■ - this coon . . | _.. .. _ ._ .» pert • ontempt i ..._ .- . laugh * r lou i ii i ■ •■' i carolina lhutcbman pllli.isiiki weekly i1t j . 1 . 1 it u n e it , editor and proprietor kates of ibbcbiptioh omi teabi payable in advance 2.50 su months 1*50 5 uopt-s to one address 10.00 bocsk of representatives — tho apportionment of this body as prescribed bv the legislature it as follow : alamance 1 jackson 1 alexander 1 johnston 2 alleghany 1 joues 1 amon l le oir . '» ar.hr 1 lincoln 1 ll.autorl 1 alteon 1 i'erti i ? madison 1 w.den 1 martin 1 llruiuwick 1 mcdowell 1 buncombe 2 mecl.lr-i.burg 2 jl.trke 1 mitchell 1 cabarrus 1 m on tannery 1 caldwell 1 moore 1 camilm 1 hmmh *. carteret 1 new hanover 3 well 2 northampton 1 catawba 1 ouslow 1 chatham 2 orange 2 cliirokan 1 pasquotank 1 chowan 1 perquimans 1 lav 1 persoo 1 clearelaod 1 pitt 2 columbus i polk 1 ( ratrn 2 randolph 2 cumberland 2 richmond 1 currituck 1 robeson 2 dare 1 rockingham 2 davidson 2 rowan 2 i trie 1 rutherford 1 duplin 2 sampson 2 k.if-ecouibn 2 stanly 1 forsyth 1 stokes 1 franklin 1 surry 1 ciiton i swam 1 cates 1 transylvania 1 granville 2 tyrrell 1 crrcue 1 i'nion 1 juilford 2 wake 4 uallifax 2 warren 2 harurtt 1 washington 1 haywood 1 wilkes 2 henderson 1 watanga 1 hertlord 1 wayne 2 hyde 1 wilson 1 iredell 2 yadkin 1 l'ancey 1 lirahaui is not entitled lo a represen tatiw ; pamlico votes wi.k beaufort for ii ember of the house senatorial distkts — the follow ing are the senatorial districts as passed by tho lrj-isutur : 1st district — currituck camden,pas quotank hertford atrs chowan per quimans — 2 2nd tyrrell washington martin dare beaufort pamlico and hyde 2 rd northampton aud bertie — 1 4th halifax - 1 5th hdgecornbt rl gth pitt 1 7th wilton nash and franklin — 2 8th crarrn 1 hth junes onslow and carteret — 1 10th wayne and duplin 2 11th i enior ami jrctuie — 1 12tb niw hanover — 1 13th liruuswick and bladen 1 14th sampson — 1 15th columbus and robeson — 1 16th cumberland and harnett — 1 17th lohn-'toii — 1 lmh wake 1 l'jih warren 1 20th person caswell and « ra_gc-2 l'ut granville 1 22nd chatham 1 23rd rockingham — 1 24th alamance and guilford 2 25th randolph and moore — 1 26th richmond and montgomery — 1 27th anson and union — 1 l'mh cabarrus and stanly — 1 29th mecklenburg 1 30th rowan and davie — i 31st davit's ui — 1 3jnd siockts and forsyth 1 3jrd surry and yadkin 1 34th iredell wilkes and alexander 2 3.v.b alleghany ashe and watauga 1 36th caldwell burke mcdowell mitchell and yancny fc 37th cntiiwba and lincoln 1 38th gaston and cleaveland 1 3'jth rutherford and polk 1 40th buncombe and madison 1 41st haywood henderson and tran sylvania 1 42nd jackson swain macon chero kee clay and graham 1 congressional districts the fol lowing are the congressional districts as laid otl bv an act of ihe general assem bly lit currituck camden pasquotank l'eniuimans gates chowan hertford hyde beaufort pitt pamlico bcrlie martin washington tyrrell and dare 2d edgscombe wilson green way ne lencir jones craren northampton warren and halifax 3d onslow duplin sampson har nett cumberland bladen columbus brunswick new hanover carteret and moore 4th johnston wake chatham < range craaville frankliu and nash 5th randolph davidson guilford alamance person caswell rockingham and stokes gth robeson montgomery richmond anson stanly cabarrus union meek lcnburg gaston lincoln and catawba 7lh forsythe surry yadkin davie rowan iredell alexander wilkes ai li-jrhany ashe and watauga 8th caldwell burke cleveland mitchell yancey mcdowell transyl vania buncombe madison haywood jackson swain macon clay graham i'herokee rutherford polk and hender oo i