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-.. I .: 4 i Li-- .' The News and Observer BALEIGHi M. C ft. A. ASHE, Enrroa SUNDAY. ..DECEMBER 11. 1881 A PHENOMENAL REGION. The South has in the past been known only as an agricultural section, and we hare been so in the habit of regarding that our mission is purely agricultural that our possibilities as a manufacturing centre receive but little consideration. Yet the truth is, nature, in making us the great cotton growing region of the world, has not withheld from us vast capabilities tor manufactures! However important our farming interests may become, it' seems certain that pur manufacturing interests will in the future rival them. It may not be within this century, but before another generation has passed our prediction will edly be realized. We do not reter ly to the manufacture of cotton , which can nourish equally' at ugusta, Columbus or Wilmington, pat a far greater development of industries. The plains of the Atlantic slope and the rich plateaus of Kentucky and Tennessee are Dot our only wealth. Locked in the recesses of the mountains which separate these agricultural zones are deposits of treasure as yet hardly explored. In time, they will be brought to the uses of man. The mountainous region bounded on the south by a line from Birmingham to Statesville. and nenetratiner nn into' Ken- tucky, embracing a territory of fifty J thousand square miles, is a storehouse where nature has been lavish with her supplies. Vast beds of coal lie in close proximity with inexhaustible deposits of the most eovetefl kinds of iron." Copper, silver, gold, minerals and metals ot all aorta are found in profusion. - i Prof, Smith, in a few remarks to the North Carolina Press Association, at At lanta, in referring to this, said all the mineral wealth of Bussia could not ap proximate 'what is here found so com pactly placed.1. Again the woods are as yet undisturbed, and the choicest Speci mens and most desirable kinds aire in abundanoe; nowhere in the world isfthere such another collection of useful and valua ble timber. But that "is not all. ft The climate if peculiarly adapted to manufac turing enterprises, the altitude giving a bracing air, free from malaria, conducive to vigor, while the latitude and situation pre- !Ire AXMU r f-1 elude the rigors of the North or the en- ervaung neate oi a promciea summer, i In addition to these advant ages, there is peculiarity ' no less striking than im- rbant. Walter power without limit can had almost at any point, and these streams are never blocked with ice! and :J, Vary but little, with the seasons. Tbey are neither subject to floods nor droughts, but ;; "' preeerre a very constant volume, affording 3 ; power to turn all the machinery of. the " universe. When we view this compact region, where: nature has bestowed so many ; favors, mingling coal, minerals, forest! and . power, we cannot but believe that at the proper tune its storehouses wuig be opened and its magnificent resource de veloped. Noj (rift has been withheld from it. Indeed the congregation here of the el omenta of manufacturing enterprises is phenomenal ) There is nothing like It to L. r j -i- i .v u i j then it is iol the heart of a section . needing manufactures to go hand in band with her sericulture. As j5tr- her agriculture. -;.; mingham has risen as if by magic to f up ' '-'A', plj local' demand of iron manufactures, . 4 so will be many other Birminghams to dot the slopes of this) unsurpassed jec i;1 tion. But not alone will iron be pro ' ' dneed: shons for the construction of rail- f road ears, for agricultural implements, for if a furniture, for the manufacture of alt sorts of supplies, for steel rails and eotton . ma chin err. and for evervthimr that human 4 - Industry ean produce, will speedily 'follow. It will be the marvel of the age. ouch is our belief: We win see. Ouk own little star-routes sometimes become of interest, especially to those who are supplied with their mails by them. The one between Baleigh and Boxboro is at present undergoing investigation. V It is said to be a tri-weekly route, but is I aerved as a semi-weekly, and irregularly at that The people along the line say it is a r nuisanoe, and they see no reason why their , complaints to the department are treated with indifference. We are informed that . this route, No. 11,137, was let along with a great many others to a man out west, who has sub-let it. Now, it is illegal to sub-let a mail contract. The contractor need not carry the bags himself, but jiis i agent must do it He cannot lawfully sell it or sublet it The present carriertis badly equipped and does not render proper service. - As a consequence, yesterday Mr. Wiggins, who has interested himself in the - matter, was in town and laid the ease, be , fore United States Commissioner PorneD. -We are not advised whether a criminal ease can' be made out of it or not, but s the people are entitled to their mail faoili " ties as the government pays for the ser vice the service ought to be performed, and if not, either the Postoffioe Depart- - ment should act or some criminal proceed - ing should be in order. f l-h Wi make room this morning for a very important letter from the Attorney-Gen-, era! on the subject of railways. It will lie remembered that some weeks ago the Governor directed the Attorney -General to institute suits against such railroads s had forfeited their charters, and particu larly against the Piedmont Railroad Com pany, owning the line from Danville to Greensboro. If we recollect aright, there was also something said about suing to en force a forfeiture of tbejease of the North Carolina Railroad, or to have it declared void. The Attorney-General, in reply, sayi that Chief Justice Ruffin decided long ago : that before such a suit could be brought the facts relied on for forfeiture must be clearly stated with such certainty ,aa i - necessary in bills of indictment Ahd Colonel Kenan says he is not in possession of the necessary facts; and if they exist :be has- no time to go out and ferret them up, and; that it has not been made a part oi his duty to do so. The power to make such an examination carries with the power te send for persons and subpoena witnesses and administer oaths, and these powers have not been conferred on him. If the facts were furnished him we do not doubt that he Would act promptly under the di rections contained in the Governor's letter. The Attorney-General collates the statu tory provisions bearintr oh the sttbiect of - f t o J F - - railroads, and suggests that the Legidla- ture nas power to majte inis legislation more perfect; This compilation will be found Very useful. But still mofe valua ble is the compilation of so much of the charters of the different companies as re lates to their right to fix fares and rates oi freight The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the power of the Legislature to reerulate rates of freight is full and perfect, except in cases wbere the .Legislature has deprived itself of the right by fixing maximum and minimum limits in! the charter of the company. We will in a future issue quote these decisions more fully, in the meantime suggesting that frpm Uol. 'Kenan s letter some of road companies appear to be beyond the control oi me i .legislature. There is a proposition before Congress to allow the heads of depirtmen s to have seats in the Senate and engage in de bate on matters affecting their depart ments. We think we had better stick to constitution. The President is the old the man to explain the policy of bis own administration, and we do not tavor letting the heads of the departments have! an ad- vantage Over him. Thk French people, being citizens of i republic, now have no need of the rem nants of royalty, and are trying tol dispose of the diamonds whose presence seems to recall that they once had a lord Ind mas ter. Among the jewels to be sold is the Regent diamond, bought in Madias for Louis XV for $650,000, and which has lone been recrarded as the most perfect gem in tho world. 1 Tbi Secretary of the Treasury thinks that the silver -dollars ought to be with drawn from circulation as well as the tdlver certificates. He is like a bull in a China shop. Were this notion of his acted on, we would have a fearful financial Dame and business revulsion within forty-eight hours. Jesse: Holmes oucht tof go for Ifolger. It 8EIM8 to be sufficiently settled by the newspaper nun that Gen. Longstreet is to replace Secretary Hunt in the cabinet at the end of thirty days. Jmtr. Davis Back From Kurop Jefferson Davis arrived at New York on the steamship Neckar, from Bremen Tues day, and a Tribune reporter found him on the deck! of the vessel when she reached her pier at Hoboken. The reporter had met Mr. Davis in Canada in 1866, and was greeted cordially. Mr. Davis' face was perhaps a little thinner than it was fifteen years ago, but his figure was still erect and his movements were active, and while time had whitened his hair and a short; beard was more under neath than upon the chin; so vigorous was he in appearance that he did not look to be more than fifty years of age? although be will b j teventy-fbur on January 3, next His health is now good. ; Much of his conversation was in praise of Cap tain Wilhegrode and the officers of the Neckar, who, he said, had preserved the lives of the passengers by watchful ness and caution during the terrible storm that lasted through the voyage. In fact," said Mr. Davis, "I was looking out at the sea as you came on board, a&d thinking how wonderful it was that the bhip had not gone to the bottom or been torn to pieces by those terrible waves. Now that we are here, it is certainly with a feeling of thank fulness that we have at last reached the harbor, which at one time we never ex pected to see."! The conversation turning upon other matters, Mr. Davis, in reply to a question as to his plans for the future, said: "I have come over with my family to look at my plantation in Tennessee, and the business growing out of the publication of my book. "Has it been a success?" j "That I cannot say, becauw I have been away all the time since it was pub lished, and have not heard much about it' " Have you published it in England ?" "It has been published there, but so far 1 have received but little information regarding it, my stay abroad having been chiefly on the continent" "Are you familiar with the facts con cerning the recent speculation in Confede rate bonds?" f "All I know regarding that matter is what I have wt en in the newspapers abroad, and that is probably not as much as the people have read in the American nanera. I do not recollect just at this time of any substantial reason why a fund should have accumulated in the Bank of England or anywhere else, that could in any way be applied to the pavment of the bonds. But all I ean say is that I hope the holders of the bonds will realise something upon them, as of course they represent money tt m m sn k j t- .l : ii T www vmi u vw ijniw ui uuuij iiiihj uvea. This is the way the National Repub lican talks to the Republicans in the Vir ginia Legislature. It advocates the elec tion of Riddleberger : "If any Bourbon Republicans can still be found to play the part of pander to bring about such a vile meeting they will accomplish nothing but calling attention to their own infamy. The name of Republicanism has been used long enough in the South as a convenience for Bourbon lacqueys. Whoever) plays into the hands of t'e Bourbon Democracy hereafter will be branded, as a mere slave of that party, and no amount of Bourbon influence in Washington will secure him a Federal office as the price of his treason. We are not aware of the existence of any Republican traitors in Virginia," Voting for a Republican, such as Lewis, is to make a Republican "a traitor." : It was said last evening by friends of fostmaster-Ueneral James that be will probably remain in the cabinet until the end of the present fiscal year, the 30th of June next This for the reason that he will have the opportunity to show a full year's working of the department under bis administration, RAILROADS. Rp!y of the Attornwy-O-nwral t LVettra of lb UoTtrnor. Attorney General's Office, Raleigh, December 9, 1881. To the Governor: Your letters of a recent date addressed tome upon the management of rai'roads operating in this State presents a subject of importance, and T have triven it such cous'j deration as I could in view of tho other pressing duties of this department. :ply is nw respectfully submitted. My I will first aii a' ten: ion to acts of As sembly incorporating railroad companies, but will cite iT y extracts of such parts of their provisions as undertake to prescribe rates of charos for fare and freight. - I have confined mi self to this particular bramh of tbe subject, b cause I appre hend from the genera', tenor of yur com munication tii-it. it constitutes the mum ground ol complaint. The am nduients to these various acts have not generally been brought within the limit of my research, as it is believed they have made no sub stantial change, aud do not materially bear Upon the que-tion. The. acta prescribing rates for railroads now In operation arc a follows: Rj'.eigh iibd (Jaatou Act of 1830-51, chapter 123, section 9, and Act of lS32-5." prescribes a charge lor transportation, not exceeding G cents a mile for passenger and 8 cents per ton per mile for freight. Wilmington and Weldon Act of loJ.i, sec. 26, page 344 of second volume of Re vised lotatutes. Not exceeding 6 cents a mile for passenger, and 9 cents a mile per ton of 2,000 pounds of freight Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio (Charlotte and tatesville), Act 6f 1854 55, ch. 227, sec. 1G. Not exceeding 5 cants a mile for ;assepger, and 35 cents per 100 pounls on heavy articles and 10 cents per cubic foot on articles of measurement for every one hundred miles. Puidmont, (Greensboro and Danville), Ordii ance of the convention of February 8,18(12, pages 91, 92, sees. 13-14. At such charges as may be fixed by a majority of the board of directors, provided they shall have no power to discriminate on either freight or travel Against the North Caro lina Railroad, or road in North Caroliua connected with it. Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta, (Wilmington and Manchester) Act of 1846: 47, ch. 82, sec. 29. Not exceeding 6 cents a mile for passenger, and 50 cents per 100 pounds for each 100 miles on heavj articles, and 15 cents per cubic foot on. aricles of measurement. : (J larlotte, Columbia and Augusta, (Charlotte and South Carolina) Act of 1846-47, ch. 84, sec. 15. Regulated by directors, but subsequently the act of 184&49, ch. 89, sec 1 0, prescribed not to exceed 6 cents a mile for passenger, and 50 cents ; per 100 pounds and 15 cents per cubic ifoot for every 100 miles. And the same applies by act of special session of 1868J ch. 8, to the Atlanta and Charlotte Airljine. Seaboard and Roanoke, Act of 1832, 2 Ref. Stat., page 318, prescribes 6 cents a mild for passenger, and 8 cents per ton a mili on freight ; but by the subsequent Aet of 1836 37, several material changes were pad", among them the rate per ton a mile on freight was reduced to 4 cents. Spartanburg and Asheville (Green vUle and French Broad, consolidated) Ac. of 185 U55, ch. 229, sec. 13. Regulated by company. But by subsequent .act of 1873V74, ch. 83, sec. 3, no greater dis crimination than 25 per cent, between rates for local and through freight. Petersburg and Weldon, Act 1830 of the Virginia Legislature, adopted by our act (2j Revised Statutes, page 2-? 5) with certain modifications and additions. Rates prescribed during time of construction, afterwards to be fixed by 1 board f publij works" See. 18, Va. act. And it was furthe r provided by section eight of our act th it the provi-iona should be subject to be altered, amended or modified, except so m ich thereof as prescribed rates of freight. Noith Carolina Railroad Act of 1848 49, cfa. 82, sec. 18. Charges for fare and freigh ; regulated by majority of board of directors. And the same provision is made .ot the following companies, to wit : Carolina Central (W. C. and R.), Act 18544.55, ch. 225, sec 17; Western North Carolina, Act 1854-55, ch. 228, sec. 25 ; Raleigh and Augusta (Chatham), Act 1854-55, ch. 230, sec. 18; North Western (Saleni), Ordinance of convention 1868, eh 17, sec. 11; Oxford and Henderson, Act 1870-71, ch. 150, see. 1; Norfolk and ElKibeth City, Aet 1869-70, ch. 18, sec. 8; University Road, Act 1868-69, ch. 22, and Act 1879, ch. 1010; Atlantic and North Carolina, Act 1852-53," ch. 136, sec. 17 ; Midland, Act 1872-73, ch. 51, sec. 17 ; Chest, rand Lenoir, Act 1872-73, ch. 35, and Act 1871-72, cb. 130. It iii stated in your Excellency's letter "that i t is of importance to the people that the railroads in the 8tate be subject to such laws as the General Assembly shall choose in its wisdom to pass for their con trol," 4,nd in this connection it may not bo inappropriate to refer to statutes now in force bearing upon this subject. The! Act of 1874-75, oh. 140, to prevent dUcrirnination in freight tariffs, provides in substance as follows : 1. That it shall be unlawful to charge for transportation of freight over a railroad a greater amount of toll than shall be charged for an equal quantity of the same elaas ojT freight, transported in the same direction, over any portion of same road of equal distance, and any company violating this section shall forfeit two hundred dol lars for each offense to any person suing for thk tame. 2. Or to allow freight to remain un shipped for more than five days after re ceipt jof same, unless otherwise agreed upon, and the company violating this sec tion shall forfeit twenty-five dollars for each day the freight remains unshipped id, to any person tuwg for the l.s amended by the Act of 1879, ch. hat nothing in this act shall pre- mpany from making special con tracts with shippers of large quantities of freight! to be of not less in quantity or bulk than one car load. " And section 2 of said chapter 237 pro hibits the pooling of freights or allowing rebated pn same, and any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misde meanor, and on conviction be fined not less than $1,000 or imprisoned not less than ti reive months. - The; Act of 1879, cb. 182, prescribes asaforpa tame. 3. A 237. fl vent a ice a, penalty of $50 for .refusing to receive freight, and makes it the duty of j every transportation company to keep posted at depots a list of its charges for freigh,such charges not to be increased without giving fifteen dajs u dice, under a penaljy for violation of not less than $50 norf more than $100. The Act .f 1874-75, ch. ! 202, amended by Act of 1879, ch.l 281, provides .that the chiel officer of railroads Or other works of injernal improvements in which the State owns an interest, shall make an auuul re port to the board of interna! improvements to be submitted to the Legislature! per son failing to r. port guilty of misdemeanor; suit to be brought against persons s$ fail ing, on appli-sition of board of i eternal improvements, to whom authority s also given to have the affairs of any sue road investigated by. a member of the poard, who shall hive power to send for persons and pip-is, administer oaths, etc.; sheriff to execute summons as in other cas '; re fusal to obey summons a misdemeanor. lfrom th se statutts it appears that the reme ly for a 7iola'ion ot their provisions isgivm to the party aggrieved, and also by indictment in the Superior Courj.. A case arose uuder section 2, chapter 2:40, of the Acta of 1874 75, where a railroad com pany was sued for the penalty incurred in allowing freight to remain unshipped more than five days after receiving it, anld the court held the act to be constitutional and the plaintiff entitled, to recover. Branch vs. Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company, 77 N. C, 347. j The Act of 1866 67, chapter 105 em powers directors of railroads in the State to enter into agreements with each other to secure through freight and travel, without expense of transfer of freight or breaking bulk, and in section 2 authorizes the di rectors of the Western North Carolina Railroad to connect with the roads from Tennessee and Georgia, but in making such connections no discrimination j shall be made again&t railroads or seaports of this S.ate, and that the terms upon which said connections are made shall be approved by the Legislature. And nnder a resolution, ratified on the 14th of December 1865, (Acts 1865-G6, page 11), it is provided that in the event of any contract having been entered into by any railroad company in this jState with any person or company, whereby preferences or exclusive rights of transpor tation, either in priority or arrangements, are given to such person or company, suit may be brought against the company for a forfeiture of its charter. In the contract of lease of the North Carolina Railroad, entered into on thej 11th day of September, 1871, to be found in the legislative documents of 1871-72, Doc. No. 27, the lessees covenant tp pay $260,000 annual rent, to deposit bonds to secure the same, in the First -National Bank of Charlotte, or in such other jbank as may be approved by the directors of the North Carolina road, and on failure to comply with the above, possession of the road may be resumed by the lessors on notice required by the contract; also to keep the road in good repair, with bond for faithful performance of the same,; and not to establish local fare or freight .at higher average price from station to station than the average rate for same as estab lished by the North Carolina road on j Sep tember 1, 1869. ! General order No. 88, referred to in Jrour letter, I am informed by your Excel ency was revoked, and did not gojiito practical operation. j It is provided by the general statutes that a f uit may be brought against aj cor poration to vacate the charter and annul its existence, whenever it shall exercise a franchise or privilege not conferred by: law. Bat. Rev., ch. 17, sec. 3G2 el teq ; chl 26, sec. 39 ; Revised Code, ch. 26, sec. 5j and 25. And upon a judgment of dissolu tion the corporate body is continued only to enable the company to settle its affairs, and not to carry on the business for which it may have i een established. After col lecting debts owing to it, selling its prop erty, and , paying its creditors, it is pro vided tnat the surplus be distributed among the stockholders or persons entitled thereto. Where the franchise and prop erty of a corporation are sold under an execution at the instance of creditors J the corporation in the hands of the purchaser retains the same powers, &c., as before such sale. Revised Code, ch. 26, see. 9 and 13. Gooch v. McGee, 83 N. C.J59. By the ; Act of 1874-75, eh. 198, the Legislature directed suit to be brought to dissolve the Roanoke Navigation Company. After providing for the appointment t a receiver, a sale, 4c, it makes the purchaser a new corporation under any name men tioned in the deed of conveyance, and specially provides that the corporation thus created shall succeed to the rights of !the old. By direction of this act a suit was brought and a judgment of dissolution ob tained. See Attorney-General vs. Roan oke Navigation Company, 84 N. iC, 105. There is also a provision in section four teen of the act incorporating the Raleigh and Gaston road, to the effect that when ever the Legislature may be of . opinion that the charter shall have been forfeited, it may by joint resolution direct a : writ to issue, returnable before the Supreme Court, calling upon the oompaoy to show cause why the charter shall not be forfeited. (I suppose; however, that now the remedy would be the same as in like cases under the general law.) S 1 have collated these statutes from time to time, as other duties permitted, to show what the Legislature has done in respect to this subject, and the result of these dif ent modes of procedure against corpora tions ! j ! To constitute th : basis of a suit to dis solve a corporation, vacate its charter and annul its existence for exercising a fran chiiu or privilege not conferred by lawj it is necessary that the allegations of cause of forfeiture should be specific as to tin)e, flace and overt acts, as was said by the ate Chief : Justice Ruffin in the case i.of Attorney-General t. Petersburg Railroad Company, 6 Ired., 456 This was a suit to vacate and annul the charter of the de fendant company, and it is declared by the Chief J ustice in delivering the opinion jof the court, ''that when the Legislature re quired tthe grounds to be set forth on which the . forfeiture is alleged, nothing less was meant than that the information, like an indictment, should state with cer tainty to a common intent the facts and circumstances which constitute the offence." Ana it is also essential tola successful prosecution of the same that the allegations must . be established by proof. I trke it that this particularity is required perhaps on account of the consequences which result from a judgment dissolving a corporation, as ieferred to above. When the facts necessary to meet these require ments of the law shall have been furnished, I shall deem it my duty to give the same a fair consideration, and to institute suit in cases affecting the public interest. To extend the investigation to obtain the facts of any particular case, and proof to sustain them, would impose upon me a labor so great as to seri'msly interfere with the proper discharge of the duties of this,d-p rtment. . It will be observed by reference, to the Act of 1875, above cited, that the board of internal improvements are riot bed with certain powers in inventig-iinsz the affairs of any road in which the State owns an interest. Whether these powers should be ex tended so as to inc'ud-j all railroads in tf e State, or whether authority' should be given to any other person or commission to Bend for persons and p ipers to make a pre limirary examination into theii" manage ment upon complaint made, are! questions for legislative consideration j While I think the bmeficiat character of railroads is universally reeogniied, and that investments in these and other enter prises ough to be encouraged, yet at the same time it is important that: such regu lations for their management! should be matured as will prevent their being oper ated to the injury of the people f the State; and that the same should be reason able in themselves, and subservient to the public good. Additional legislation, if any should be thought necessary, framed upon this basis, n ight conduce to the welfare of the pub lic, and work an injury to no class of busi ness, whether conducted by individuals or corporations; but its particular character, I cannot anticipate, nor is it a proper sub ject for me to enter upon. Of that, the Legislature, after receiving the recom mendations and suggestions of your Excel lency, will be the judge. j -very respectfully, &c, . Thos. S. Kenan, Attorney-General. ' NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. DR. CLARK JOHNSON'S Indian Blood Syrup flTTliUO Pl'fpcP'ia. liver Ills- llU ll Till citscs. F ver Sc cne, vwiaajm Rueumatlsm Dropsy. lTe-rt Dl ease, Biliousness, r er voui Debit ty, etc. The PEST REMEDY KNOWN to ManU 12,000,000 Bottles SOLD SINCK 1870. This Syrup Possesses Varied Properties. It stimulates the Ptya ine in the Saliva, which converts che Starch and 80 gar of th food into glucose. 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ON SATURDAY, the Slst of December, 1881. I wil; let, at publte outcrr. at the Court House door, in Ralelgn, for the year 1882, all the storehouses and lots in the city of Raleigh, belonging to Mrs. liary Smith ) Morebead. Also the follow- . Ing tracts of land in Wake county : Crab tree tract, now occupied by John R. Tay lor; Bash ford tract, now o copied by J. H Hutchinson ; Hartsfieid tract, occupied by T. B. Ai t, and the Vandergrift tract, occupied by Lucy Taylor. Terms Payments to be made quarterly, and evidenced by note with good security, r W. K. DAVW, dec7td Gaardian, Ao. JUST RECEIVED BY Andrews &. Ferrall FINE FULTO BfAJtKET PICKLE?, TRIPE and CO K.N LI BEEF. FRESH SMOKED SALMON. Genuine Codfish FINE IBISH POTATOES. BEST CAROLINA RICE. HOMINY. GRITS and CEREAL FLAKES. French and Turkish Prunes. Otsego Cheese WIRE RAILING and OR namenUl WIRE WORKS, DUFUR & CO., No. M Nerth Howard street, Baltimore manufacture Wire Ruling ror.Cemetenes Haiconiea, Ac; tleroa, Fenders, Cages SMid and Coal Screens, Wovea Wire, Iron bedsteads. Chairs, Settees, Ac, en 4 1 . : j : -'f ' "1 3.