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tiBAHAM N.C. Februay 11 1879 I 1, 8. f AIKIB. Editor. there is qoite a conflict raging between two corporations, and between sections and cities in onr State** their interest prompt them to espouse the cante of one or the other of the antagonists. There far ns this State could grant it, to eons aired and operate a railroad from Ral eigh to the city of Augasta, In tieoigU. There is a corporation called the Caroli na central Railway Company, with a railroad already contracted and in oper ation from Wilmington to Charlotte. The first named of theee corporations started with its road, and completed it to a point galled llam let, on the litie s of tha second named corporation's road; and there the work oeased, and hopes of reaching Augusta seemed abandoned for Jack of ability to prosecute the work to the extensive determin ed upon. For the interest of this road In procuring freights and passengers it might as well have stopped iu the woods. Two objects influence common carrieie of freights and passengers, especially when theee carriers are powerful corpo rations; first, to obtain, if possible, aud to maintain, if they already possess it, a monopoly of the business In their lino, aooond, where monopoly is impossible, to reach some point where competition may enable them to secure a share of the busi ness. 11 the first of these objects is attained, or. being possessed, Is retained 7 , it Is highly beneficial to the corporation, and to the business (and commerce of (he place it directly feeds, but for the people, whose immediate interest and conveni ence the corporation Is supposed to serve, It Is too apt to prove expressive. If the second object the compe tition. If on terms tt all equal, is not so desirable to the corporations, but Is of real valne to the people In the reduction that is sore to follow In the freight and passenger tariff. The Raleigh k Augus ta Air-Line, finding itself in a condition that precludes all Idea of monopoly, for anything like through travel or freight, Mid in n like unfortunate condition to ibrce, by competition or terms with rivet lines, any considerable share of business npoo its roads, seeks an amendment to Its charter, whereby itm*y be permitted to construct its rood from Band ford to Cbiriatte, aad a| Ike latter point enter the list as a eotnpetitor lor freights and travel between the North and Sooth. This proposod line, It Is said, will shorts en the distance by rail between Charlotte «n«l Raleigh by forty miles, and would open a transportation route through quite aa extensive sssttoo of the State. It asks ao money, but simply with its own means to construct and operate the road. With reasonable assurance of its willingness and ability to construct the road, it would seem that there could be no valid reason why the desired amendment to the char ter should not be granted, conditioned and guarded as comports with the sover eignity of the. Stale. Bat straightway Wilmington and other places in the eas tern port of the State are op in arms against It; —kHags are held, reeolutions adopted. State pride invoked, a North Carolina policy arged, and*Just;what is a North Carolina policy deflaed in the ins tsrest of those defining it. Charlotte aod Raleigh come to the defenoe, and meet ings are haM, resolutions a State policy disouseed mad State pride appealed to. The newspapers, always vigilant In the latere* of their particular localities, ooenmence the battle aad pour broadsides Into each other every twenty fonr hours. Committees, gentlemen authorised to speak for thoee they repre sent. come ap trom the ciiy by the sea. end from ber inland neighbors, to meet similar committees from Charlotte, and all bout aponcouvinelng the Legislature, the Wllnriagtooians aad their allien, that State pride, and a North Carolina policy to bo met by tbow Raleigh, who a# also toll ot State pride and a North Carolina pwUey, with ap peals lor tbe amendment based upon the the brood ground that the interest of tbe ot a Carolina Legislature we have in fierce conduct a veritable railroad war. Tbe oommitte on internal improve ments being the outerworks of the citadel mitte musketry rattled upon it incessant ly, and the newspapers, from long range, throw shot and shell in at regular Intervals. Being oloee pressed and furioosly Ached by two riral bodies, eachdulefcined upon Its capture, one half capitulated to the one side, and the other half surrendered to the other, aud each batch of prisoners allying itself with its captors, and taking weapons from their bauds, join in the storming of tbe main force, and now tbe Legislature 1« somewhat in tbe couditlon of Torkey, fn that Its capture is sought by two powers, themselves beligerenis, and its surrender to the demands of one cr„ the other is an Absolute necessity.. Competit ion is said to be tbe life of trade and, as to corporations especially,ls the satety of tbe people, might be added. We believe in building tip onr own ports and cities, but not at the expense of the producer, and of the labor of tbe State by forcing commerce to centre at one point by withholding facilities w hose creation are to eoet as nothing. We ere an agricultural rather than a commercial people, and transportation, cheap and convenient, would produce results more gratifying to «our State pride, than the growth ota single eity,ortbe enriching of a single corporation, by giving them a trade that fears competition. As long as individuals or corporation*, native or foreign, will build in our State railroads, lengthwise or crosswise, we say let them bniid. - vaii PASSES. There was a bill introduced in the Senate, early in the present session of the Legislature, to prohibit members of the Legislature from riding on railroads on free passes. It was vety promptly ki!led and by a large majority; and we think improperly. It seemed to be fear ed that the passage of such a law would be an imputation upon the integrity of members and State officers. Wo can say truthfully, and the fact might as well be recognized by those immediately con cerned, that in the minds of thousands, they already rest under tbe imputation of being influenced by thia substantial courtesy of the railroads. Even so high toned, respectable and influential a journal as the Wilmington Star, under the guise of machine poetry ground out by its devil, twits members with the free rides extended to them by these generous corporations. And the intimation not complimentary ia made in oonnection with difference of opinion in regard to the proposed amendment to the charter of Air-line. It is a faet that there has not been a Legislature for years at whose hands railroads wore not asking favors. Whr are theee free pSsses given? The State pays miiesge amply sufficient, and it is supposed to bo expended ini|traveling to and from Raleigh. It cna scarcely he claimed that the free posses an given as charity to the poor and needy. Then why are they given? There is but one answer, and that is, they are given for the purpoee of begetting a a very kind feeling towafds the donors, that may be of service, in legislation effecting rail* roads and other corporations. Take tbe case of a Judge. He arrives at the county seat to open court in one of onr counties on the line of some one of our railroads. He comes with a free pass in bis pocket, and has been for years in the enjoyment of an exemption from the trouble and expense incident to buying a ticket; and finds a ease on the docket for tiial in favor of some citizen and against the generous corporation that furnishes him free rides; the trial comee on and the charge, however correct and proper in law,is favorable to the cor poration and the jury finds against the in dividual,why, don't every one know that that portion of public opinion which rides with the individual will obarge that the Judge has been corruptly influenced by the money he saves by* his free rides and the charge will be publicly made, and thus the Judge is injured in his spotless reputation, and the administra tion of josticee is also injured by a blow to the Confidence that all should have in the strict integrity of tbe judiciary. We will say there is never jpfuenne exorcised by these free passes, which we do not in hot believe, and then the question recurs: WoaM it not be wail to remove the ranee that leads so many to suspect; suspect thoso in highest places of what does pot totally differ from bribery. Confideaoe in thoee who make, exeeute and admininister oar .laws is worth C*ov. Til den has been before tbe Potter Committee of bis. owa accord and saleainly swose that be neither directly or indirecly was a party to,or counteuano-. Ed any proposition to buf or use money to seenre the favorable nation of nay of tbe returning boards; that he would not have bad tbe presidency If his in daetion into that high office had to be tainted with bargaining; that be Verily believes he wasdishonestly defrauded out ot the office; that hie kinsman,Pslton,has a very different east cf mind from his own, and is tbe last man be woald trust as a oonfldentinl manager; and much more exonerating htmaelf from anv knowledge of or connection with tbe cipher dispatches, no intimation eon ceruing them ever having been made to hl«Br «OV,JARVI». GOT. Vance's resignation TLT (be high' and honorable position of Governor of a sovereign State, to accept a place to which be bad been chosen in the Senate of the United Btate», took eflect last Wednesday, Lieut. GOT. Tl ioe. J. Jar* vis was on that day formally, and wltb the dignity and ceremony becomiug the occasfoiytadncted into the responsible and elevated office of Gov. of North Carolina. Upou the occasion, in the presence o! both booses oi the General Asaembly, and crowded gsllarfet, ftar routided by the members of tbeSupreme i Court ami others ki authority, the oath of office was administered by Chiot Jus tice Smith, and Tho*. J. Jarvis, the man whose eminence has been achieved by himself, became the Governor of a great State. ' ills address was plaiu and prac tical, devoid of effort at display. The fact that bo succeeded to the office to All the place lett by the promotion of anoth er, rather than by having been ditecth elected to it, may have a tendency in the minds of some to an underestimation of the real worth and ability of the man. Because he occupied the second place on the ticket in 1878 does not argue that be is less fitted for tlie office ot Governor than if be had been first. Witb nf want of a Jqst appreciation oi the rare abilities ioi Gov. Vance, we are entirety satisfied: [bat tbe State has lost nothing in the change that took place last Wednesday, in tlie merit, fitness and ability of her Chief Executive. LHVV, OtTMIIfB MHIIMIf, On Last Wednesday, immediately af (or the inaugural ceremonies of installing Governor J arris, tho Senate retired toiu chamber «nd proceeded to elect a Lieut. Governor. In obedience to the determi nation of a Democratic caucus previously held, James' L. Robinson, of Macon connty, and Senator from the district composed of Jackson, Swain, Macon, Cherokee, Clay and Graham counties, was pat in nomination by General Leach, Senator from Davidson; and George B. Everett, Senator from' Forsythe and Stokes waa put in nomination by the Re publican*. The result of the vote show ed the election of Hon. James L. Robin son as presiding officer of the Senate and Lieut. Governor of the State. In an ap propriate speech he returned his thanks and at once took hie Preeideut of the Senate. Got. Robinson is a fine type of the stalwart mountaineer, in the prime of yonthfai manhood, and already of State reputation. His triumphs in political lite have been signal and contin uous. lie baa been Speaker ot the House, and onoe before, fbr a short time, Presi dent of the Senate. The extreme East and West are represented in "the persons of the Governor and Lieut. Governor. r t *■» ■ The proceedings of the General Assem bly lor the week, so tar as accomplished, positive results are concerned, have been absolutely uninteresting. The proposed amendment to the constitution requiring the payment oLtaxes belore voting has been killed, sua the bill empowering the toremau of grand juries to swefu: witness es has also Men defeated. In- truth its work bas been of a negative character, and it seems to expend more labor in the defeat ot what it deems bad bills than iii the passage of good ones. The bill amende ing the charter of Um» Western Railroad, to the extent of changing uaute extending its privileges and reudering State aid to the extent ot 950.000, caused considera ble debate, and after a struggle got tbiongh the House. The bill making it a crime to carry ooncealed weapons also made tbe trip through tbe Seuate. The body has not by any means been idle, as shown by the report of each days proceedings in tbe daily pa» pers, but very little baa been actually ac. complisbed. The bills to pay justices of tbe peace for transacting county business, and tor tbe punishment of adultery, both found rest on the table. A proposition to keep oar law makers warm consumed considerable time, and draw iortb speeches, but that was about .all. Tbe hopes ot merchants, it I hey had any. ot getting back again tbe privilege tax al ready paid by tbem, will excite their feel ings no longer, as tbe proposition so to do died the deatb. And cock fightiug may yet be indulged in, as the bill to Erohi'bit it met defeat. The bill to «n --nge jurisdiction of justices of tbe peace and encourago crime went to sleep on the table. The House by its action said that all county officers most publish an accouut ot *ll tbe tees tbey receive, and also an account ot all tbey tail to receive. If tbis bill should get through tbe Senate it will be a dead law, as it will never be complied with. The big contest of the session, tbe proposed amendment to the charter ot tbe Raleigh A Augusta Air- Line, to euable it to extend a branch of its road to Charlotto, will oome up next week, and then tbe latent oratory ot members will oome to light. CONORBSS- The time of Ooagresa is pretty much devoted to tbe consideration of tbe aps propriation bills. The House incor porates retrenchment and reform and tbe Senate amends by striking out and inserting something liks old extravagant previsions sad figures, when they are sent baek and tbe House compromises, tbrongh a committee of oonference or otherwise, away most of its economy. The Senate, it will be remembered is Republican, and that means opposition to saving. Tbe army bill produced con sidcrabla debate upon the amendments introduced, proposing a ted iction of the number composing the army. All the amendment* looking to a reduction were voted down. Edmunds] resolnt ions, in tbe Fenate, affirming Ihe| validity of the constitu tional amendments siuce the wai gave rise to wide range of discussion in which Edmunds himself, Bayard, of Delaware and Morgan, ot Alabama were prominent. It may seem a little remark* able that Edmunds, one ofgthe leading licptih'licans in tlje Senate, and perhaps the ablest, should be first to question the validity of the ameudnientx, by intro dnciug resolutions affirming it; The Potter coroutine havo taken evi dence that completely exhonerutes Tililen trotn any Improper action, either directly or indirectly, concern ing any proportion to buy return ing boards in 1876. Stranger things havo faap|>eued than for Samuel J. Tilden to be the Democratic nominee lor President in 1880. He ia gathering strength, and will do so till the nomination is made. He may not gather enough, but then again he way. TAITSBJKCCOTAX. The majority of the Senate Finance committee will report favoring the re duction of tbe totutcco tax to 16cts. but we do not see any strong probability of the law reducing itv Icing enacted this sflsaioa, and w« advise tobacco men not to permit their bopea to grow too con fident. The session ends the 3rd day of March,** lg o'clock on tbe night thereof, and there are various ways of putting this proposed reduction behind the dead line, and our opinion is, it will be done. WAsmfleven Livna, WASHINGTON D. C. } Feb. 4 1870. $ In a year or two every Democrat in the country will be wondering why tho Democratic House of tbe Forty-fifth Congress did not inrist on a largti reduction ofJGoverament expenses. The Army might have been properly cut down, and the Navy. Our foreign "re lations" coat doubly what they should. In all the Depwtmftnts are countless superfluous employes, besides thousands of overpaid ones, and separate Bureaus which were never necessary or were necessary only during and after tbe late war. Kveiy Democratic Congressman of two ysare experience knows this. Yet, though our revenues are falling off, and the inevitable result nibst be the imposition of new burdens upon the people at the first session of the Demo - era tic Forty -sixth Congress, the Demo cratic Houae has so for haidly in if ma ted a desire for retrenchment. Democrats in Congress to-day are digging their own graves, and the grasps of future Democrats. There is time, even in the three weeks remaining of the session. Many ap propriation billsara still under oontiol of the Houae. Many schemes involving tbe useless payment of money are yet to , be acted, on. The House cannot do all it should have done at this session, but it can do much. Senator Conkling was yesterday badly beaten in bis fight with the ad ministration on tbe New York Custom House appointments. The result is largely due to a speech of Senator Bayard, favoring confirmation. This admirable Senator's influence ia, as it should be, very great, and has not been more conspicuously effectual in any case 1 than in this. The quarrel was a disgraceful one. Manifestly tb# efforts of the Ad ministration were to change the direction of political support, in tbe Custom | House, not to do away with it. Just as certainly Senator Conkling fought for continued control of that influence and for personal friends. There never i was an atom of principle involved. There bos been, in the last week, a deal or nonsense ottered in the House on the subject of Southern or war claims now filed here, which were filed and have been completed at great expense under the provisions ot a law extending what Is called the •Southern Claim Com mission' until 1880. It is now proposed to repeal the law extending tbe time of that Commission. The question whether or not that ought to be done is entirely separate trom tbe qnestiou as to tbe orig inal policy of paying the claims. Tbe claimants meet with certain losses. The Governipent promised to pay those loss es if proper proof was made belore 1880. The proof has been and is being made. How the Government can honorably es> cape payment in such case I cannot see. It may properly, perhaps, refuse to con sider claims filed after 1880. To day. or M soon as he can get the floor for tbe purpose, Senator Morrill will call op the Senate bill providing for tbe taking of the next or tenth censas. It is to be hoped that thn two houses will agree upou some measure tor the par pose, and that, as far as possible, the numerous persons who will necessarily be employed will be selected without re gard to politics. To-day the sehool Superintendents meet here, from all parts of the country, to discus* school affairs. The meeting ought to be aud I thiuk will be produce tive ot great good. Tbe attendance, however, is not what it should be. SOLON. After a warm debate tbe Iron City Democratic club, of Pittsburg, Pa., has changed its name to tbe Iron City Tils den elab, the vote standing 86 yeas to 16 nays. It claims to be the pioneer Tiln den club ot tbe campaign. Tbe Greensboro Shooting Club baa been organized, and glass ball shooting has commenced. In Saturday's and Tuesday's score as published in tbe North State the naughts in the priuters case must have been nearly need up, while tor real figures there was little use. A naught means tbe glass ball didn't get hurt. While tbe skill of the average member of the clnb is not remarkable, tbe perseverance of some of them is to be I admired, however. a L som ' vjj I UZxZjkz: f jgfife* Tailor. -JgpSß Cutting and making done in the latest. fashions aud most desirable manner. j Ho keeps constantly on hand Sampler, of latest styic goods for gentlemen* wear; and will tonier according to selection ot justoiners.—also the ntion&l S ewinq Machine i ... ' • *■ ■ i i M - J .. ;... which he keeps'constantly on hand and W sell for the low price of $24 Call and see him. • Grtnain .1 C TO MY CUSTOMERS and THE PUBLIC. I have just retnrned from the North where 1 selected and purchased what I claim to be the best Stock of Goods ever brought to this market, consisting in part of PfKCE OOOBA, UDIBI . I>BK« ess##, LAOIBS CI,OAK*,CSACH HARDIVSRS. SADDIiEg, 8110. OF IHAMMtSS, PI.SFB, IRON. HKADI'-NISI ' CI.STHINQ, the best stock of ZEIGLERS BHOEB in town, a goodjlnc of BROQAN and PLOW SHOES flBfMIl'S of atl kinds, and every article to tie found in a Qeneraal Store. I bought these goods cheap, and will sell thein cheap. All kinds of country produce tak en at tbe highest market price. With thanks for the patronage heretofore enjoyed, I beg to invite an inspection of my new stock. Octo. 39th 1878. - I. W. HARDEN, to Lead, Ready Mixed Paints, Linseed i -LTanners oil, at SCOTT & DON NE L'B fROSATR COURT, Alauases Ossatr, Thomas N. Faucet t and E. W. Faucett, Exec utors of John &. Faucett. , vs J T. Allison and wife Mary F. Thomas M. Kirklsnd and wife Annie, George C. Fauoett Jr., Ed. W. Faucett, J as. P. Faucett and Oscar , Heasabaugh and wife Callie{E; The Executors of ; John B- Faucett, having filed their final ac count, and this is a proceeding for a final set tlement of the estate of their testator. It ap pearing to the satisfsction of the court that Jcmes P. Faucett, Geo. 0. Faucett and Ed. W. Faucett are non resident* of the State it is or dered that publication bemedefor sixsuoeessive weeks in Tsa ALAMAXCB GLIANER, notify fiem to file exoeptioos, within tne I scribed hy l»w, to said final aoooont, and in default of thsir so doing a decree forever ex-" on era ting said executors from liability will be entered. Done at office in Graham ) Jan. 2nd 187 V J A. TATE c. a a Judge of Probate. E. S, PARKER GRAHAM N. 0., Attorney at Law Practice in Alamance and adjoining contlea and in the Fedaral courts. 1 AJHSKSII? 4 Zvbjr Wo 0 ,» * BCOTT | • FOR THE CURE OR Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint, I>YSfBrSIA AND SICK HIADACH*. Symptoms of a Diseased Liver. PAIN in the right side, under the edge of the ribs, increases on pres sure; sometimes the pain is in the left side; the patient is rarely able to lie on the left side; sometimes the pain is felt under the shoulder blade, and it frequently extends to the top of die shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken for rheumatism in the arm. The stomach is affected with loss of appe tite and sickness;*the bowels in gen eral are costive, sometimes alternative with lax; the head is troubled with pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy sensation in the back part There is generally a considerable loss of mem ory, accompanied with a painful sen sation of having 'left undone some thing which ought to have been done. A slight, dry cough is sometimes an attendant The patient complains of weariness and debility; he is easily startled, his feet are cold or burning, and he complains of a prickly sensar tion of the skin; his spirits are low; and although he is satisfied that exer cise would be beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely summon up fortitude enough to try it In fact, he distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred where few of them ex isted, yet examination of the body, after death, has shown the LIVER to have been extensively deranged. AGUE AND FEVER. DR. C. MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS, IN .CASES or AGUE AND FEVER, whet* taken with Quiqjne, are productive qf the most happy results. No better cathartic can be used, preparatory to, or after taking Quinine. We would advise all who are afflicted with this disease to give them a FAIR TRIAL. For all bilious derangements, and t& a simple purgative, they are unequaled. BEWARE or IBTAMSA. The genuine are never sugar coated. Every box has a red was seal on the lid, with the impression DR. MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS. The genuine MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS bear the signatures of C. MCLANB AND BROS, on the wrappers. X Insist upon having the genuine "DR. C, MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS, prepared by Flem- Sgßros., of Pittsburgh, the market being full of imitations of the name McLane, elied differently but same pronunciation. Ayer's Ague Cure; for Fever and Agns, frtenfftten* Fever, Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Periodical or Bilious Fever, ate., and indeed all the affections which arise from malarious, marsh, or miaa matio poisons. Thin is a compound remedy, prepared with scientific skill from vegetable ingredients, which rarely JUla to cure the severest cases of Chills and Fairer snd the concomitant disorders. Such a rsasedy the necessities of the people in malari •as Mstriets demand. Its great superiority over aay other medicine yet discovered for the cure ef Intesvalttents Is, that it contains no quinine or mineral, and tboee who toko it are free from danger of quinism or any injarioas effects, and ye as healthy after using It as before. It has been extensively employed during the last thirty years in the treatment of these distressing dis orders, snd so unvarying has been its success that it has gained the reputation of being Infalli ble. It can, be safely recommended as a sure remedy and specific for the Fever sad Agra of the West, and the Cbills and Fever of the South, which, onoe broken up by it, do not return until the dlessss is again contracted. The great variety ef disorders which arise from the irritation of this poison, such as Neu ralgia, Rheumatism, Gout, Headache, Blindness, Vsslhsche, Stnthe, Ca tarrh, Asthma, Palpitation, Splenic AflTeetlone, Hysterics, Pate la the Bow els, Colic, Paralysis, and derangemsat of the Stomaeh, all ef which become intermittent or periodical, hare no speedier remedy than Avxa's AGUE CURE, which cures them all alike, and protects the system from ftatnre attacM. As a preventive, it is of immense service in these t communities where Fever and Ague prevails, as it stays the development of the disease if taken on the first approach of the premonitory symp toms. Travellers and temporary residents sra thus enabled to defy these disorders, and few will ever sudor if they avail themselves of the protection this remedy affords. Var Liver Complaints, arising from torpidity, It Is an excellont remedy; it stimulates this organ into healthy activity, ana* produces many remarkable cures where other madhjnea fail. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Pi asillSal and Aaslyttal CfessahM, IOITSU, JUII. f SOU> XT iU DSDOGISTS XVXSTWiptBX. QM OKI? |J BLACKWELL'B [lj M DURHAM mm TOBACCO Ucan make money faster at work for us than anything else. Capital not requir ed; we will start you. tl2 per day at home made by the industrious. Men, women, and boys and girls wanted everywhere to work for us. Now is the time. Costly outfit and terms free. Address TKUR A Co., Augusts, Maine.
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