Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1879 — More North Carolina N groeS. [ARTICLE]

More North Carolina N groeS.

Two hundred and twenty North Carolina negroes came in at 11 o’clock to-day on the I. O. & L. road from Washington, Of tHese only twentytwo were men over twenty one years of age, the remainder being women and Children, many of the latter be-* ing children in arms. It was a most piteous spectacle to see those people ragged and destitute, many of the children cryiDg because of the cold as they went out Indiana avenue to the colored churches where they are to be t ken care of until homes are found fjr rubtn. The smallest handcart wo’d have held, without crowding, every ounce of superfluous luggage of the entir motley crowd. The negroes of this city who have taken in hand the feeding aud care of the North Caro lina iwigrantß are now appalled at tie magnitude of their contract, and the exercise of their benevolence has scarcely begun. A Kepublicnu who saw the negroes as they passed through the streets ia<-ing the biting northwest wind after berating tne cruelty of the politicians wow had induced these poor people to come here expressed the opinion that every one ot these poor wretches wo’d cost the Republican party a thousand Four hundred and twenty have already arrived, o that if the calculation of this Republican may be depended on. the damege to the paltv Is already sufficiently extensive. —lndianapolis News 12th.

Rscently a well known collector of curiosities in Paris, who had spent considerable sums of money in "gathering together bank notes of all countries aud ail values, became the possessor of a Bank of England note to which an unusually strange story was attached. This note was paid into a Liverpool merchant’s office in the ordinary course of business sixty-one years ago, and its recipient, the cashier of the Arm, while holding it up to the light to test its genuineness, noticed some faint red maiks npou it, which, upon closer examination, proved to be semi effaced words, scrawled in blood and upon the margin of the note. Extraordinary pains were taken to decipher these partly obliterated characters, and eventually the following was made out: “If this note sho’d fail into the hands of John Dean, of Long Hill, near Carlisle, he will learn that his brother is languishing a pris oner in Algiers.” Mr. Dean was promptly communicated with by the holder of the note, and he appealed to the government of the day for assistance in his endeavor to obtain his brother’s release from captivity. The prisoner, who, as it subsequently ap peared, had traced the above sentence upon the note with a splinter of wood dioped in his own blood, had been a slave to the Dey of Algiers for eleven years, when his strange’ missive attracted attention in a Liverpool counting house. His family and friends had long believed him dead. Eventually his brother with the aid of th British authorities iu tkb Mediterra nean, succeeded in ransoming him from the Dey, and brought him hotne to England, where he did not long survive his release, his constitution having been irreparably injured by exposure, privations, and forced labor in theDey’s galley’s.