He informed
me that he mustered in the first four companies of the Third North
Carolina, and the Colonel and his staff, and that he had never met a
more capable man than Colonel Young.
The Third North Carolina has never seen active service at the front,
and, as the Hispano-American war is practically a closed chapter, it
will probably be mustered out of the service without any knowledge of
actual warfare. I thought, however, as I stood on the dry goods box
and gave them kindly advice, and looked down along the line, that if
I was a soldier in a white regiment and was pitted against them, my
regiment would have to do some mighty lively work to "clean them out."
CHARLES FRANCIS MESERVE.
Shaw University,
Raleigh, N.C., Jan. 25, 1899.
[Illustration: MR. JUDSON W. LYONS, REGISTER OF THE TREASURY, AND
SIGNS U.S. "GREENBACKS" TO MAKE THEM GOOD.]
CHAPTER VIII.
GENERAL ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE RACE,
John C. Dancy, re-appointed Collector of Port Wilmington, N.C. Salary
$3,000.
The appointment of Prof. Richard T. Greener, of New York, as Consul to
Vladivistock.
Hon. H.P. Cheatham, appointed as Register of Deeds of the District of
Columbia. Salary $4,000.
Hon. George H. White elected to Congress from the Second Congressional
District of North Carolina, the only colored Representative in that
body.
The Cotton Factory at Concord, N.C., built and operated by colored
people, capitalized at $50,000, and established a new line of industry
for colored labor, is one of the interesting items showing the
progress of the colored race in America.
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