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' -''-.-. " ; ' r . V:"-"-. : 'I:--.''-" V ' ,-' - ':!, - V-:':-' ' ' -v ;" . . -' : v. -:-V'v--V --::-;vv.r;. '.!',-,. . : , . . ' . . : .. -: . --.-' . ' - - :-. - - i - - . 1 - - v - - r-' ' . !' -... - . - - h . RAIyEIOII. 1ST. O. Stn9DAY.............'nnTANTJARY 1 1879 CJZESTEH AND LENOIR ASD CALDWELL , AND'WATAVQA RAILROAD, AS D COX SECTIOSS. , . - 1 - ! ; ' ' Should the Cape Fear and Yadkin Val ley Railroad, referred to in Th Obssbtik yesterday, be extended from Greensboro, through Winston in Forsytli, and up the Yadkin Valley, through Yadkin and - Wilkes counties, it could make an advan tageous connection at Patterson, in Cald well, with the extension of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge, at present de signated as the Caldwell and Watauga Railroad. . At the 'same time the Surry connection could be made by a branch road through pobson to Mount Airy, pen. etrating tbe centre of the county, and per haps affording larger facilities to the peo ple of Surry tjhan are contemplated in the Mount Airy and Greensboro scheme. - j i The-Caldwell and Watauga connection, uniting at thejCranbei.ry; Iron Works with a road buUdme by that-Company , from Cranbeny to Johnson City, on the East Tennessee, Vrginia and Georgia Railroad, is an enterprise yet in embryo, but it is in ' such handa, and the movement has taken such 'earnest steps that it is as certain of accomplishment as the railroad from Ches ter to Lenoir, the county; seat of Caldwell, which already has fifty miles of its line in operation, that is to say from Chester, ? South Carolina, to Dallas in Gaston coun- 1 ty, and but six of the forty-four miles between Dallas and Lenoir at present to grade, and by all reasonable calculations the work will be completed' ready for the superstructure lb May of this year. The ' distance then, from Lenoir to the Cran , berry Iron Mines, is fifty miles, a gap be- tweea the Chester and Lenoir apa uran berry and Johnson City roads that cannot fail to be closed. . 1 A close reconnoissance of the route has been made by Chief Engineer C. S. D Wight, of the Chester and Lenoir Road, and he reports a feasible and comparatively eisy route for the construction of narrow gauge railroad. He suggests, as the max imum cost of such a road from Lenoir to Cranberry, though Cook's Gap, by way of Boone, Valle Cracis and along the -Watauga Valley, an , average not exceeding eight thousand dollars per mile, completed ready for business. There are no tunnels to be made along the route, and the maxi j " mum grades will be ; one hundred aid "eighty feet to the mile, five feet un der a gracje daily ascended, without difficulty, on the Milton and Sutherlin Nar row Gauge. The maximum grades on the completed portion of the Chester -and Lenoir are one hundred and fifteen feet to the mile, and these the writer ascended on a ten ton engine, of twenty-five horse - Dower, drawine thirty tons of freieht. first and second class, mail, baggage, and express cars,' with scarcely a perceptible decrease in the rate of speed, twelve miles an hour. The maximum grade Ion this road will be ' one hundred and twenty-five feet at the Catawba River, six miles, from Hickory, and the ' maximum-curve fen degrees, with a ra dius of five hundred and seventy-three feet. ' Grades of one hundred and eighty ieei, on vne -upper connection, are not ex traordinary, and two hundred would not . present serious obstacles to the successful and profitable operation of narrow gauge roads throughout our mountains. The . projectors j of the connection be tween Lenoir and Cranberry, among whom ' Senator Co uNoit is prominent, have al ready secured an immediately available subscription of twenty-five thousand dol lars, they; have begun . the building of : stockades, and other preparations for ..the reception of the convict force at: present employed on the Chester and Le noir line, which, it is understood, is to be turned over to them on the completion of thework, and having selected their Chief Engineer, in the person of CapL Dwight, theyare ready 10 begin operations at any moment when the force of convict labor shall become available.- Their connection at Cranberry is assured. The company owning the iron works at that point are - 3 M T l I cuuairuuuug a rimu uvm donnson Uiiy, Which is at present half completed, and a portion already in operation. A Chatta nooga company of iron .manufacturers are aiding this enterprise with the rails, and they have promised- that when the road is graded and ready from Lenoir to Cranberry, they will iron it for first mortgage; bonds of the company. ; .: It is a reasonable expectation that with in the present vear the cars will run from Chester to Lenoir, and a good year's work ought to complete the grading from the latter to Cranberry; so that inside of two years, at most, the narrow gauge connec tion should be ; complete from Chester, South Carolina, to Johnson City, Tennes- see. In this view of the prospect, the i . Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley enterprise vauuvv w w figvivwuj uouw Jk &Jtv& v remains thirty-eight miles . of grading to reach Greensboro. i rom that point to Patterson, in Caldwell, is about one hun- drert ana nneen mues. out an arrantra. meat is possible; with the North Western North Carolina ; Railroad, to temporarily lay a third rail from Greensboro to Win ston,. and thereby' save about thirty, miles of grading, until the connections can be completed, and the company able to con ivntratA ita force on the rmm mm 7" -, O f V VWM Greensboro and Salem. A connection with the toad from Joh n- ; son City to Chester would appear to be desirable. It would tap the great univer , sal grass and stock raising counties of the iiTtromrf nnrt.hwHit hrinJT noh ' stores r outlet through the port of Wilmington for the iron and copper ores of Alleghany, the products of the plaster fields of south west Virginia and the lime beds of north- caslern Tennessee to the agricultural centre of-the ftite. vg'K: l": r mm winmva t is ni in 11 wfn rn i r in ri r. olina art alive to the importar.ee of rail- road connection, and the internal wealth of that section is fully appreciated by the ! people of other States. South Carolina is stretching out her hands towards it on the one band, Virginia and Tennessee on the other. Tidewater North Carolina cannot remain an indifferent spectator to the di version of such wealth, trade and com mercial adyantasps. the magnitude -of which no roan can begin to forecast. ABOUT CORRESPONDENCE. The, sitting of the Legislature must ac-4 count to our friends for the delay in print ing their favors. Thk Obsbevxr holds a Kood ' deaL .but even Th : Obskbvxk's capacity has a limit. A few moments' leisure last evening af forded opportunity to look through some! reams of paper writing which had accumu lated in the few days "preceding 1 the close of the late contest for theJSenatorship. There were many pages of eulogy of one or the other distinguished candidate, .and many pages of, suggestions as to what 6hould ".follow the withdrawal letter of Judge Mkbeimon. All these, on sight j passed away from sight of man foreVer, aa the i contest itself had previously passed from the sight, and, we now trust, from the thoughts, even, of all good Democrats; Let the dead past bury its dead, and let all of us who live, while we live, live: for the success of the party, and the country whose life is dependent upon that party's principles. ( . - In some sort connected with the Sena torial contest, andshariogthefateof papers on that subject, was found in the lot an in dignant outburst f irom Wilmington in reply to an anonymous assault upon Captt Samukl A. Ashe. Reply to; the assault is altogether unnecessary. His purity of character, devotion to tne party, and of course . to the . State, are known and acttnowiedgea oi au men. a or years and years the name of Asbb has been illustrious, and in all the long line of soldiers, patriots, and gentlemen who have borne that name so ' honored in North Carolina history, there has not been a braver soldier, a purer patriot, aknightlier gentleman, than he who worthily repre sents that old Cape Fear family here as his good and great kinsman does on the Pee Dee. v , THE SOUTH IN POLITICS. Thx Ojjsibvk has very earnestly urged that General Ransom should be the next Democratic candidate f o the Vice-Preai j dency. The South is entitled to the place; and we did not believe that the nomination of a Southern man, even of a "Confederate Brigadier," would jeopard the ,. success i of the Democratic ticket. Elsewhere the i nomination of Senator Mxbsimon is sug ? gested by a friend of that distinguished gentleman. Neither would accept the nomination if tendered. Soon after Tus Obssrvbr's- suggestion of Senator Ransom as l the proper candidate, that gentleman' was in the city, and he and Judge Merbimon both assured us that the time had not yet come for recognition of that Southern right. The Northern Democracy, - both assured us, would concede the right now, indeed the South had but to claim and take it. out both also assured us that either to claim or to receive it would be dangerous to the success of the Democratic party, and! therefore to the interests of the coun try, j Neither would for a moment permit the hope of personal' advancement to im peril either. Georgia, says the Baltimore Hun, exr empts from taxation for ten years all capi tal invested in the manufacture of cotton. wnetner m Duuaings for mill purposes. machinery, or land purchased for the uses of such manufacture. Georgia cotton manufacturers, it is known, are quite flour ishing and -employ profitably a good number of people at certain towns. Chatham Jountjr Outlde mnatlc. j Correspondence of Thx ObsxrvxsJ Pittsboro, N. C, Jan. 8, 1879. Mrssrs.1 Editors : An article published in Ihb Obskbvkb of the 24i h of Decern ber, ; 1878, ; entitled '.'Our Outside Luna tics," seems "to reflect upon the county officers of Chatham. The article states that "Dr. Love said to us that when he came into omce he discovered that great frauds were being perpetrated against the btatfe in this matter, and he at once took step! to cut off this speculation in the im becility and idiocy of unfortunates that was classed and paid for as lunacy. For instance he found that thirty-nine people were arawiDe a support in tnia way Hi Chatham county. Now it claims only ten.! Sirs, there is a big mistake either an your type or in Dr. Liove s statement. 1 served tne county oi unainam as uounty torn miissioner from September, 1870. to De cember, 1876, and I think I can safely say mat tne county never arew from the .Siate for the support of more than twelve or fif teen lunatics in any one year. I wish to state further, that every person who had been declared a lunatic' by the Justices of the Peace and physicians (iu this county) was also so declared by the judge and jury at Fall term of the Superior Court in 1877. and at Fall term 1878. These facts can be proven by the Clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham couoty km . state aas never saved one dollar by act of Assembly requiring the lunacy to Da tried by a lury in unatham county, but the ! friends of the poor unfortunate luna tics have each lost twenty-five per cent of the $100 allwed in this county. ; This twenty-five . per cent, is claimed ; by the county commissioners to pay the cost of the iDqui8iUon in tne Court, and to pay the chairman of the board for collecting irom tne State treasurer. There is no doubt the State has been de frauded by unprincipled persons in some of the counties, but. we would have it cus tinctly , understood throughout the Star that the physicians, justices of the peace, and county commissioners of Chatham are white men, and by a large majority Demo crats of the straitest sect, and; if the Gen eral Assembly does its duty this winter, the justices of the peace to be appointed will be white Democrats. - If the officers of the several counties would discharge their duty lute while men mere would be no necessity of running the xnends of the poor lunatics to the ex panse of a lury trial in the Superior Courts. Let1 the public (especially in Chatham) near irom you. l repeat there is a mis take somewhere. Respectfully yours. " f; y'- ; J. D. BaAsrsaTou;1 Normal School. We learn that the members of the Legislature are favorably disposed toward the Normal School, and we have every reason to believe that the necessary appropriations will be made for I Us continuance. Chapel JliLL Ledger. Correspondence of Teb Obsxsvkr. ' Washington. D. C Jan. 17. 1879. Messrs. Editors: The Hall of the House of Representatives was crowded to overflowing last night, which was a meet ing called to pay a National tribute to tns late Prof. Joseph Henry, who for some twenty jears was connoe'ed with the Smithsonian Institution in this city. Elo quent speeches were made by several dis tinguished gentlemen. Hon. b. b. Cox, of New York, amoDg other things, said: 'The " greatest achievement of Henry, said the speaker,! is that he made Morse and Edison possible. He evolved the principle and they made the application. A$ Spenser was the- poet of the ; poets. so was Henry the philosopher of the philosophers. Paying tribute to -his un selfish qualities,' and the utter absence of pecuniary greed in his nature, he said his was too grand a soul to profane the high temple of nature and make it a place of commerce. The religious views of Prof. Henry were feelingly alluded to, and the oration closed with an assuraoce that his example in that respect was worthy of emulation by all. " - The senate came in the Hsu in a body, Judges of the Supreme Court, and many of the Diplomatic rtepreseptatives nom other nations, including an unusual num ber of ladiesi also His Excellency the President and Cabinet Secretaries. . GEN. JAMES SHIELDS. . ' " - This gentleman has been nominated by the Democratic caucus of the Missouri Leg islature for the position of United States Senator for tne short term, lnis term is now being filled by Hon. D. H. Arm strong by appointment of the Governor in place of Bogy, deceased. : The term will expire 4th of March, proximo, so that the new senator will have but a few days to serve. Gen. Shields has heretofore repre 6ented two States in the United States Senate rlllinois Land Minnesota. This is perhaps the only case on record 'where the same man has represented : three States of this Union in the senate. Last winter when tne-present Door keeper of the Houee was nominated by the Democratic caucus, B. Fi Butler on behalf of the Republicans pat Gen Shields in nomination for Deerkeeper, and urged his election upon the grounds that h was pooiwriade his living by lectur- i . . - r i a !j! rni. mg : ana was a uisimguisueu buiuiec. i ue obiect of Butler and his party was to induce the belief that the republican party was the special fnend of the soldier. Now.the Democrats of Missouri have "tak en the wind out of uutier a sans" as tney have shown a willingness to give tne dis tinguished soldier reward commensurate with his reputation ana abilities. EFFECTS OF FREE RESUMPTION SAVINGS BANKS. In the discussion of the bill a few days ago to aid in funding the public debt, by authorizing the - issue of ten dollar three per cent bonds, Fernsndo Wood of New York, gave some startling figures and facts in regard to the shrinkage 'ui prices ol property since 1874. This bill of Mr. Wood, wbich passed tne House, is claimed oy its -mends as constituting the Government a savings bank, where the poor people can deposit their small earnings and get a government bond of ten dollars bearing interest at the rate of three per cent., which may be con verted into a four per cent, bond when the depositor can get as much as $5U, there being no four per cent, bond of less denomination than $50 issued by the Gov ernment. And the results of which I speak, appeared incidentally. . .Mr. Wood was trying to show that the savings banks of the country wre not safe. After show ing from the official report of the Comp troller, that in 19 its there were bus savings banks in the United States having the vasi sum of near nine millions dollars on de posit. Mr. Wood said: It will be seen tha the aggregate deposits held by the savings banks ot the United States in 1877 '78 were $879,879,435. To secure these de posits these banks held aggregate nomi nal resources of $941, 447, 150; but when the nature of these resources is examined it will appear that more than two thirds must necessarily be ot doubtful value. As for instance $408,921,601 are loans upon real estate. Who can say of what real value these loana are? So far as the city of New York is concerned it is qmte cer tain that if an attempt should be made to realize upon loans made upon real estate three or tour years ago not over one nun of the amount loaned would be obtained From this it 1 appears that of the 408 millions of dollars secured by real estate that not more than one fifth of that sum could be realized I Is it any wonder that so many of these savings banks have failed, and that tens ol thousands of the poor laboring people of the country have lost their earnings. This great shrinkage has occurred, '.oo, within the last three or- four years. This result should fix the seal of con demnation upon . this swindling forced resumption scheme of John -Sherman. The ravages and destruction to tne pros perity of the people is certainly lament able. This financial legislation has brought poverty, bankruptcy, and an army of tramps. And strange to say, rernando Wood favors forced resumption. W. U. M. . ' Front the Sea-Side. - (Correspondence of ThiObsxrvbb.j - - OrBRrrTjpk: C. H. , Jan. 13, 1879. Messrs. Editors: We have had an ex ceedingly cold snap for our latitude. The rivers and sounds soon became sheets .of ice, notwithstanding tne nign winds pre vailing. Much loss to shipping on the route of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal was caused by the ice, wbich broke up un der the influence of a heavy North wind Monday last. Several large barges from the Erie Canal were sunk by the ice. Three containing one thousand two hundred bush els of oyster shells lay off the Court House were wrecked by the ice. lhe owners of the boats are ashore and trying to get our citizens to accept the shells as a gratuity. rather than throw tbem overboard. Ducks and wild-fowls are being shipped in large numbers to the North. Geese sell here at 25 cents, ducks at 25 cents per pair. Large quantities or fresh nsn are caught in our rivers, bays and sounds. With all of these natural advantages added to many others. money is almost impossible to obtain. ' '" " ' AlbemaklbJ . Chapbl HillI Property. -i-Tbe future prospects of Chapel Hill are encouragihg. Our friends tell us that the railroad will certainly be built within the next yekr. that a sufficient appropriation to carry ion the Normal school will 5 be aUowed, and that everything that can be done to bdild up the University will , receive a hearty support from the Legislature. Strangtrs are moving here, new: houses are '. being built, and our merchants and citizens are smiling over the prospects. Sustain your paper, bee how the skies are bngutening, and have brightened. - since its establish ment in vour town. Hurrah ; for Chapel Hill lC7iapel Jlill Ledger. , ; Important , Lectures. Professor C. Kerr is expected to begin Lis series; of lectures on t4GeQlogy of North Carolina, at the University, on the 27th inst. This gentleman is distinguished for his famui arity with North Carolina and her resources. is a clear and forcible lecturer, and bis in struction will be of great value. His lec tures will take place in tne .National Mis- tor v room. fProf. -' Simood's recitation ro m. ) President iiat'le invites he au zens of the village to attend, as they did last jeajr.Ctopel JIM Ledger.' , Correspondence of The ObsxkvibJ t Johnston Couhty, Jan. 1ST 1879. Messes. Editors : Allow me in the outset to congratulate The Observer on the handsome compliment paid it by the Legislature now sitting, in awarding to it the Public Printing, not I presume that it has been the "champion" of any particular pet measure, but that it is reliable and re sponsible, and has daily givea evidence of a broad statesmanship, advocating those things that pertain to the interests of the people generally. Long - may - it live to shed light, and stand an ornament to North Caroliba journalism. , ; ' '., K As s well known, J udge Mernmon had many very many : warm : friends m Johnston county: but he has, by his ex hibition of party fealty and lofty patriot ism grappled to him as with hooks of steel alL and more tnan all of bis former trieods. And now let the Democratic party honor itself in making him our next Governor. He has as U. 8 Senator deserved well ot the State, but in withdrawing from the Senatorial contest at the time he did, for the sake of party unity, he has shown, him self to be a man of no ordinary moral courage and patriotism. Of course Gov. Vance, if he lives will be our next senator, and we all know his devotion to the interests of the wnoie peo. pie of the southern people especially. Not to be faithful to his own Southland would not be Vance. Our Legislature has much important Work to do, if they do tt. The State debt must be adjusted, and I see they have gone to work at it. Our farming interests must be fostered. How to act wisely in this matter is to thinking people very diffi cult. This lien bond and mortgage busi ness is ruining the country, I think many adults outside i the lunatic asylum need guardians. Can't the Legislature act iu this mnt ter and thus benefit the farmers? Can not our representatives I give us a practicable, tangible dog law?i Place a tax on everything of the dog kind; make it a misdemeanor, with a telling penalty. not to list each and every dog, and make it somebody's duty to kill "nobody's dog:: and whh such tax increase our pitiful school fuud. 1 I sec that the Moffltt Bell-Punch idea, seems to be popular in the Assembly. It is doubtless an improvement on our pres ent License System. 1 should irom my heart pity any measure that is not. But it is not " bearding the lion 'tis only dally ing with him. Oh, , for men and enough of them, who have the moral courage to stifle evil, and not license it The best and wises men of all ranks, from the humblest mechanic to those In highest office agree that the liquor traffic is a curse to the people. Tis not necessary to say here in what way. Tis a curse in every way 'lis so plain tnat "ne that runs mav read, and the wayfaring, tho' fools, can't fail to see it." The men engaged in the traffic admit have admitted to your cor respondent, that liquor selling exerts an evil influence on any community, in which it is praeticed and is no benefit to any ; one but to those engaged in it.: It brings them mon ey. lsut neavens blighting curse rests on. "such ' gains, as inevitably as it did on Acban's gold. One man favors the traffic because he loves to drink, (purely selfish) another favors it because he makes money by it, (selfish again.) The Legislator, favors it because be thinks it popular, and he wants to be elected again (more selfishness.) Your correspondent respectf ully submits that any and every sensible man, who will rise above selfish considerations, and act for the best interest of society the rising generation as Well as those now acting their parts on . life s stage, will, without doubt, conclude that liquor selling, aad consequently liquor drinking, is an evil. If an evil, he will go for abating it ; nay, more than that, he will go for prohibiting it. When you take the twist out or a whirlwind, 'tis j no longer a whirlwind. and when you lop off the evils of the liquor traffic, there will be no traffic left. Would that our legislators could rise to the full conception of duty, moral duty, and abnegating self, show forth that true moral heroism that would purge oar statutes or such a foul blot as that is, which in the nauic of a great State, gives license to one citizen to rob, murder' and destroy both the soui and the bedy of another 1 - Who would not in the name and for the sake of revenue be willing to send forth a blighting stream of liquid fire tp sear the consciences of men, to poison the hearts and minds of our children, and bring upon our wonien, in spite of their protests and prayers, a desolation worse than death. A licensed curse I by Cnrutian Statesmen t W&at a paradox ! My h&iid trembles, and my pea .. Kef uses to mate farmer record of , Our shame I . kmin. Wbat Cawell Fecple Say. Correspondence of The Obsiatkk. Ca8weix County, Jan. 13, 1879. M KS8K8. H-ditoEs : 1 see many com mumcations in your valuable paper, 1 call it valuable ' for it certainly is a paper lor the people, 1 see many things urged by your different correspondents as a neces sity. Such as the fence law, the free schools, &c. ! ; We are a poor people in this section. but too proud to own it, but there is one thing I believe all will own. and that is. that the taxes are as high as they can bear. I know that the class of people of whom I speak are generally strangers to our legis lators (except just oeiore elections), 1 feel very certain that the people here are more interested in the reduction of their taxes than in a change of ' the school laws or a fence law. What interest can a poor man who owns nut a few acres ot land, or hone. have in a, fence law? I know many fami lies who get their support principally (ex cept bread ) from : their cows, and their cows get tbeir jiving at least two thirds of the year in the commons. Deprive them of this liberty and they would be poor in deed. If the fence law is to be adopted it will be equal to saying to the poor, who Own no land, that they shall own no stock. As to tne school law l tnmk it is very good, when carried out, and if any thing is needed it is something to force those who have the control of the schools to carry out the laws. ? The school law is not carried out here, and the people are tired of the Cas well law. One corner of a township can and often does get all the- money due the township. One district I know has not had a school in four years, and there is no money due that I can hear of. We have three committeemen in each township. and none in my district. . Whose business is it to remedy these wrongs? Perhaps you will say the County Commissioners, but they have been petitioned and refuse to hear the people. All ; we can hear is. "that the township- system has been adopted." Where is our Superintendent of Public Instruction ? The poor people, as 1 . said, desire a reduction of taxes. They desiie a reduction of the salaries of State and county officers. Would it not be much better to reduce the princely sal aries of some, and thereby enable our peo ple to make some provision for our one armed and one-legged soldiers ? many of whom are suffering for the common nec essaries of life? Surely they are entitled to some aid from the State. Is there more charity in the free school system than there would be in levying a tax for the re lief of our maimed soldiers 7 r wishing yorj great success, 1 remain Yours truly, 1 J IL S ' As a Gaglx for sore throat Meade & .Bakers Uaxboiic Mouth Wash rxneoual- cu., x my ocnia a nocue. ... , . i Correspondence of The Obsebveb. . Messes. Editors : The withdrawal of Hon. A 8. Merrimon from the Senatorial contest before the Democratic caucus has fixed him deeper in the hearts of his friends, and challenged the admiration and esteem of his enemies. It has placed him pre-eminently in the minds and heart3 of the people of the State as the leading statesman and patriot of alLher greatest men. And should a Southern man be chosen before the National Convention for the Vice-Presidency, the name of no man in the South would give greater satisfac tion to the people of North Carolina than would the ' name 6f A S. Merrimor. lid bag doubly - purged the allecred charge of infidelity to his party id accepting a seat in the senate of the United states, first by his able and statesmanlike discussion of the great ' national questions of State in the Senate, . and last by his self abnegation iu the behalf of the Democratic party of North Carolina. ' His manly and dignified bear ing, his splendid abilities as a lawyer, his very look, all recommend him as no other man in the State is recommended for Vice President. He cannot sink down because of his apparent defeat in bis re-election. but will rise higher, and each year but es tablish him more firmly in the appreciation, esteem and love of his people. . W. Choice f Providential Elector, Special to the New York Herald, ITtU.' Washington, Jan. 16. The movement in the Alabama Legislature to pass a law making the Presidential electors hereafter elected not by the popular vote but by the Legislature, after the manner which ori ginally obtained in many of the States and up to 1861 in South Carolina, attracts much attention here. Democrats,' at first blush, think well of it on the ground that it would prevent not only the partisan interference of United S ates deputy mar shals and supervisors ir the elections, but also all trouble with returning boards. txdies which have fallen into suspicion with all decent people. Republicans sug gest that the laws which give Federal supervision of elections m-which Federal officers are to be returned would in such case apply also to the election of members of the State Legislature, and that the field of Federal interference would be widened and not . diminished. Here and there one finds a republican who prudently desires to see all the federal election laws repealed while it Is yet time, and the best democrats would gladly join ia such movement, but it is very doubtful wheth er a majority of the democrants in either House would now vote to repeal them. They see that these laws give enormous power to the party which has the adminis tration of them, and the selection of the deputy 'marshals and supervisors. They have seen and felt the effects of the gross misuse which the republicans, especially in the southern States and in the city of New York, have made of these laws, and they have a mind to take their ewn turn some day with them. The republi can politicians are fully aware of this dan ger to memselves, and it is one oi tne causes of their desperate efforts to retain power. Republican Ignorance, So-Called. Special to the K. Y. World, lTtoJ Washington, Jan. 16, 1879. Senator Windom illustrated once more to-day the curious ignorance or prominent itepuou cans in regard to the real condition of the Southern blacks. He proposed that, a committee of Senators shall devise means for the removal of the negroes from- such parts of the South where they are refused their rights, to other parts of the country, or to a reservation. He appears to be iguorant of the well-known fact, that there' is, and has been for years, a constant ano unimpeded migration of the blacks, a movement which has been aided and stimulated by organized emigration socie ties of planters in such states as .Louisiana and Arkansas, aad by colored emigration agents elsewhere, acting as private per sons, giving intelligence concerning lanaa, prices, wages, Crops, . &c. Hundreds of thousands of negroes have emigrated from Southeastern to Southwestern States in the half dozen years, and it would proba bly amaze Senator Windom to know that Arkansas. Louisiana and Mississippi have been favorite States with industrious col ored men seeking new homes, and that in 1875. at the very time when senator Mor ton was vainly trying to persuade the Northern public that no negro's life was safe in Mississippi, hundreds of negro families removed thither from North Car olina, Georgia and Tennessee, attracted by the rich lands of the i azoo Bottom, and laughing at the ridiculous stories of mur der and intimidation which they knew from the reports of their friends who had preceded them were false. If leading Re publican Senators would take the trouble to travel through the Southern States and investigate fairly tne condition of the ne groes they would not offer such ridiculous resolutions, wbich are evidently based upon a supposition that the Southern blacks are serfs of the soil, unable to leave the spot where they happen to be fixed. American Manufactures. From the New York Times. A recent dispatch from Havana says that Spain will contract next March for 15,- 500,000 kilogrammes of Virginia and Ken tucky tobacco to be made into cigars.' This beginning will b followed, doubtless, by many other orders- It seems novel that Spain should depend on us for tobacco when she has heretofore got all that she wanted from Cuba, whence she has drawn so many of her supplies. This is another Introduction to the new order of things to which .Europe will in due time become ac customed. If we send fceer to Germany, cheese to England, caviare to Russia, why should not we send tobacco to Spam ? Our best cigars used to be Spanish cigars It will not be long before the shop keepers jn the Puerta del Sol and the Calle de Alcala will be advertising the finest Ameri can cigars.' We are rapidly changing an cient conditions. Our products now go to the remotest ends of the earth. Man can not travel to any quarter of the globe without meeting with some kind of Ameri can goods. Hundreds of people in the far East who may never have seen a "live Yankee, have eaten or used something that the Yankees have made, and every year adds to the sum total of our in numerable exports. Thb Rail Road. It is now believed to be in the power of the citizens of Oxford ana vicinity to get a railroad to this point if they will only display a moderate share of enterprise and liberality. The Legisla- I tiira lO nftiv in ofiaoiAn ann a rronliomon K a " gone from this vicinity to look after get- ling the old charter amended in several points wherein it is defective or tensuited to existins circumstances. A gentleman who is practical and intelligent and an ar dent friend of the work says he is fully per suaded if we can raise the small sum of twenty five or thirty thousand dollars that tne . road will be built. - Iron is now so cheap, down to almost nothing, that the rails wiu De less tnan half what they would have cost heretofore. There is no doubt about our ability to get5 convict labor, so the cost of grading will i scarcely i exceed the amount necessary to feed the convicts while they are at work. "We hope to see the work going rapidly forward by the 1st of May. Oxford Free Lance. t . x ob owes siva BKSATfl fxouv oecaved tth and diseased gums, use Meads & Baku's Cakbouo Mouth Wash. Fifty cent a bottle. Special to the Baltimore Gazette. 18th. j . Washington. Jan. 17. "I cmnt any of my salary," said Senator Lamar to-day to your corresnondftnt. "ft fn im possible. I never paid a cent bevond livery hire and a few little- kindred items of election expenses in my life, and I have been in politics a long time. I could save $i,uuu a year if 1 would do certain things, but 1 do not think-my conscience would be satisfied if 1 did. For instance, I pav about $300 a year for newspapers ; I like to reaa-iuem. - i nave pas s-over rail roads, I could travel all over the United States free, but I pay ;my fare. l.It costs me $57 for each member of my family every time I come and go between here and home. 1 have telegraph passes, but I pever use them. I do not think it would be right. I can send anything I please over the express lines, vet I nav mv txpress bills. I spend my salary, and never have any -money. Some Senators use all these privileges . of dead-heidinir. and they say it is right. I think other wise. But there is one thine I think. should be done, and I shall propose it a soon as i get a cnacce, Every Senator should have a private secretary. He has more correspondence, committee work. &C than he can do. The Senator gets $5,000 a year, and cannot support his family in keeping with his position ; and employ a private secretary on that sum." The conscience of Senator Liimr should be embalmed. The dead beading business is carried to such exueiues thnt n i rtoh ing unusual to see a street car filled with Congressmen about the time the House adjourns, all presenting passes to the con ductor to sa ve the paltry sum of five cents. Polygamous People's Troubles. Special to the Ktchmond Dispatch. lStU. Washington, Jan. 17. The wife of the mayor of Salt Lake City, and Mrs Williams, a blooming Mormon widow. (Mrs. Williams is a daughter of Brighaui Young), were before the House Judiciary Committee this morning, when they urged that polygamy, as it exists now In Utah. be condoned. They, said that the decision of the Supreme Court making it punish able as a crime, wiu prevent any more polygamous marriages in the Territory. They alleged as a reason why it should be condoned, that to enforce the ' law sgVinst it now would be to turn out thousands of helpless women and children upon the cold charity of the world. Mrs. Spencer appeared witn tnem as attorney. ,. Tne Present Political Point. Special to Richmond Dispatch. 18th. Washington, Jan. 17. There is more talk at present in political circles in regard to the coming California elections than about any one political event, and both parties are alive to the importance of car rying it, as there are now nineteen States which will have a Democratic congression at majority in the next Congress and eighteen with Republican majorities, so that if California shall go Republican that would make a tie and prevent an election. The Republicans, through the Adminis tration, have made a bid recently on the Chinese question, and the Democrats will, in a few days, in the House, go consider ably better . A ureat Ulg- Haul. Special to the Baltimore Gazette, ISth.l Washington, Jan. 17. The practical results of the pension bill just passed the Senate are hard to calculate. Instead of $18,000,000 the bill will probably draw on the treasury for something in the neighbor hood of $100,000,000. For instance, there are now 40,000 pensioners on -the roll. It is estimated at the pension bureau that the average of arrearages, including all the pensioners, will be $600 each, and this item alone will aggregate $24,000,000. It is fair to calculate that the same amount will be required for the widows and chil dren of the deceased pensioners, making a total of at least $50,000,000. T Tlie Tobacco Tax. (Special to Richmond Dispatch, 18th ) 1' Washington, Jan. 17. The Virginia senators had reason to believe that the Senate Finance Committee would make their report on tobacco this week, but if it is done next week there will still be time to give it full consideration in the Senate. Further delay, however,- will be dangerous, and the passage of the House pension bill by the Senate, which some say will require $20,000,000. and others an untold amount, to meet its provisions, does the reduction bill harm. Stats Uhivbrsty Railhoad. We learn that, President Battle and General- Hoke have prepared a charter of the State Univer sity Railroad Company. .No aid is asked of the State, except one hundred convicts, who are to be boarded, clothed and guard ed by the company. Members of the Leg islature to whom the subject has been men tioned, think there will be no. objection to the bill. . The road is to be run from "ha pel Hill, or some point in its vicinity, to some point on the N. C, R. R. or the R. A. & Airline Railroad. Whether the termi nus will be Hillsboro, University Station, Durham, Morrisville, At ex or Gary, will depend on the liberality of the citizens of those points. 1 be road will be narrow or broad gusge, according to the decision of the directors. The company i authorized to ro to work as soon as $10,000 is sub scribed to the capital stock. Chapel' Hili Ledger. . , Waits :' Texas ranks third among the wool producing States, having 3,674,000 sheep, and so treading closely on the heels of Ohio. California leads, of course. Nueces County, Tex., has more sheep in its limits than any other county in the 'Union 656,000. 4 v ' ' : - ' ; i lAst year 5,314 books were published in England, 1,584 being new editions, f Fic tion leads, with 879 volumes ; .theology comes next, with 739, and education third, with 586. Nearly all - the - novels are re published, while hardly a third of the other books go to a second edition. Two members of the Ontario Legisla ture tramped on snow-shoes 210 miles of the 374 miles distance between their con stituencies and Toronto. : , The Premier and Treasurer of Q lebec look a twenty four mile walk. on tne same useful articles of foot-grar last week, inspec'ing the un finished Eection of a government railway. For ttlckbated mouth,' the hearing prop erues of Mcaos & Baker's Cirbouo Mouth Wash are unexcelled. Fifty centa a bottle. - Fob all diseases of tus tketh and gums use Mkadc & 1?kkb's Carbolic Mouth-Wash. Fifl v rent a hnttia , ' Tor Blkedisq Goms, use Mcadk & Bajuk's Uakbuo Mouth Wash, jftfty cents bottle. . : au? 16-6nx ; Aa A FKA0RANT AND PLXASABT WASb for the mouth, there is nothing so good as Mxadk & Basse's Mouth-Wash., i Fifty centa a bottle. ji i h$-v.' I i 1soipi5T tabtas and souk removed by Mxade & Bax&b's Sapokiss Dxnti- vjuok. if my otmu a box. , : v- ,4 iKTTLERS. Amririf. u ' seventy-five or eighty delegates who at tended the convention of Northern sT tiers, held last week at Charlotte, N a of the United States, whose connection with the history of North Carolina dnrine the final days of the war was of quite a ivmauuu nuu tsinguiar nature, hie was the, first Federal soldier who entered Ral eign ; and a Confederate who fired at bim after the surrender, was hanged by order of the-Federal commander. . Lapt. HavM was sloo 5p charge of the squad wbich sr. rested Governor Vance at Statesville. Hig regiment was stationed at Morganton where he was married to Miss McElraih . so that his opportunities for k no win-. something of the recent state-of feeling of the North - Carolina people have been good. Peter&bttrg Index, 18th. . Tne Keproof. Whisper It softly, V Whon nutoodjr'a near; . Let nt those accents Fall harsh on the earl She ia a blossom ; - Toi teatler and frail " For t he keen blast , Tne pitiless gale. Wh'sper it gently, ' j 'Twill cost thee no pain; ' Gentle words rarely ' !' Are spofcen In vain; Threats and reprt aches Th stubborn may move Nob e hj couquest Aided by ,6ve. Whisrrit kindly, i TwiU pay thee to know I i Penitent tear drops Down her cheeks flow. I Has she from virtue ? Wandered astrav ? Guide her ieet gently, . Rough is the way. She has no parent, None of her kin Lea her from error, Keep her from sin. Do she lean on thee ? Ch rish the trust; -i God to the roerelf at Ever is Just. ' - NEW ADVEKTISEMENTS. BITTER, ETC 1,500 Pounds Choicest ISortherfl L Butter. i We invite the special attention of housekeep ers to this depanment of our business. We give parti nlir care to the trade in fine BnttertH ceMng uupplie8 every . week direct from the dairy.. A SMALL LOT OF OLD SOUTHAMPTON HAMS NORTHERN HAMS OP ALL , SORTS AND SIZES. - BKKAK . FAST BACON, LARD, FLOUR, AO. FINS TEAS ANU COFFEES. An uosurpassed stock of choice family sup plies, Staple and Fancy Groceries of every de scription. Our customers will please remember that we srnarutee the quality of ail goods that leave our si ore, and that we cannot be undersold as to price. - ' i HABDIN, GRIMES & CO., JanI9-tf ' E. J. HALE &S0N, PUBLISHERS. 17 Murray Street INVITE ORDERS FOR f , OF THEIR OWN PUBLICATION ; '- f AND FOK ALL OTHER ' " s SCHOOL, MIS0ELLA1TE0TJS And standard books, f AKD FOB AXX KIKD8 OF STAPLE STATIONEFT. . WRITINO PAPERS, Cap, Letter, Note ! : mi f other sizes. BLANK BOOKS, of aU grades. ENVELOPES, of all sizes and" coIqtb ac t qualities. - SCHOOL SLATES, best quality, ail W. SLATE AND LEAD PENCILS, PENS. INKS, MUCILAGE. Ac Ac. Those who favor us with their orders, by n ail or in person, may rely upon having them flliai promptly, and at prices which we believe to 6e quite as low aa can be had in this market. E. J. HALE & SON; PlTBUSBXaR. BOOK8BLLKRS AKD STATION KBS, U Murray Street, New York " SPECIAL NOTICE John -M. Walker, 01 NOSTH CAROLINA, Begs to announce to his friends arid enstomen that, for their convenience, he wM keep durini the Sprinsr season, a l uU line of samples of BOOTS. AND SHOES, Manufactured by the Rouse he is connect With, CARRICK, CALVJKKT 4 CO., 61 4 6 Peakl Stbkkt, Boston, at the Book and Fni lisolng Bouse of ' E. J . HALE Jk SO.h 17 M array Strset, . NEW YORK, Where he will be pleased to see and to" serfl ne"t.And he will be pleased to recelye ordeH uwui ifluw uiwamihn woo will not go market this season. i j mh-djrw-tt M JH A I OU, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, MAR ret: square, " FAYETTE VIL LIE N C Keeps constantly on hand a full supply ot; BIBLES, - PRAYER AND HTMN BOOKS, .-v'. 1 ARB ALL ;' S C II O O Jj BOOKH . in' 'general use. ' ' A FCTX ABSOBTmKT OF WRITING PAPERS. ENVELOPES, BO? pi PETERIES, PENS, INKS, VENCILS, .. , . i .1- FANCY ARTICLES, .' : ; WORK BOXES, u ." -'f-- a. - WRITING 1ESKS, Orders solicited, and any book mahed, poW Mid. on receipt of the catalogue price. Orders for mosie promptly attended to. MS,
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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