North Carolina Newspapers

4. gl)rffl)arM CBAS. K.' JU9ICS, '." -- filitm and tt-oprfetof "Frw from the doting mnipUthat ft-aji out 'free-born reaaon." '" "tt ' WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 18)9. THE POUTJCit'FKOBABILrn . 4- s. e:id, and while some people guests wide of the mark others strike very tyosftb it " The most sagacious political ob server that we read after is theWash ington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. He is free from sensationalism; he is intelligent and conscientious, and has learned us to swear by his judg ment. Sketching the present situation at Washington,;he says: Prominent Republicans express the opinion that there is a probability that the President will sign the iheasure agreed upon by the Democratic caucus, or that it can be put in a shape Ijwhich will be acceptable to the President and will, at the same time, retain substan tially what the Democrats desire.' It is understood that before the bill is finally passed the Democrats will endeavor, in an informal way, to obtain someiunder standinu with regard to the matter as to executive action, but, of course, what ever is done m this respect must be done with delicacy and discretion. The im pression is general that the President will not consent to affix his signature to any measure doing away with tlie depu tv marshals at the elections, and in this event the recourse will be as already intimated, to make all the appropna- . . j l-i; tions so specmc inac no puonc;uioiiey can Dossiblv be used to pay the mar shals. Leading Republicans, some of whom have been congratulating them selves on fancied -victory, now concede. that the Democriusl have1 itau taeir power to obtain all the material points for which they have been contending, if they can only bring sufficient sagacity and good judgment to the worK.i. And tfcarn, asta the length Ofr the sessionfthi same conespotident says In view ht the sittiationf as presented at mis juncture,- opinions" vary wHiei as to the probable duration or the ses sion. Some imagine "that it can be wound up with this month, while others state the belief that the first of July will find Congress still here. The ele ment in and out of Congress which fa vors the entering on general legislation professes to deprive much encourage ment trom tne ouuook, and will re double its exertions to bring about what it desires. Yet -even if Congress should- remain here tor two months more, it is of conceded public importance wo be acted on. 4 C0UC.1TI0X fit THE COLOKED a4fR. ' - ' , .4'" -j I fit were true tht the Southern States are intent upon wronging arid outraging the negro it is singular that we are increasing the opportunities for education of that race, especially when the money expended upon public schools is almost altogether paid by the whites. Here in Xorth Carolina the Democratic party the white people has;-done more during the two years in which it has been in entire possession of the State government, for the education of the colored race, than waaT feneby the Republican party during all the eight years of its administration, and if this were not sufficient the report of the superintendent of public instruction in Tennessee presents a very conclusive answer to the recent onslaught against the South. Notwithstanding harj times there was an increase of 742 schools, 591 teachers and 3f09 pupils for the year. Of the increase in pupils 11,29$ -were colored. 'Forty-four hew s7ru)ol-nousSsT' were built and five counties . added to those paying a school tax. The Increase in the amount j of money i raised? for school purposes was "186,000. These facts are only the indications of a gen eral increase of .interest in education. Prof. Bennett, of Fisk tTniversit an institution tor the education of colored youth, commenting on the report, says that the question of the education of the negrp' fs settled favorably ia jEhe South, that the school officers are dis posed to give the colored scholars good teachers, and that the separation of the races in education js a necessary condi tion. ; The Pocassett Child Murdek.- The Massachusetts authorities have in dicted a number of the Second Advent ists who participated in the meeting which was held at the house of the re ligious fanatic, Freeman, on the" after noon before the night on which-'Free- man offered up his little daughter as a sacrifice. The step haabeen wisely tak- -en. lr it nad occurred to Mr. Freeman that it was the proper thing for him to have oifered himself up as a sacrifice it would have been all right, but when he and his friends go to offering uj 'other people it is time some check be put up on tneir murderous instincts. .These unci jng -are not oniy "not ac ceptable to the Lord but they furnish material for Bob Ingersoll to base new lectures on. An etm' Kt&fe -Raee. ' ine other evening, while Charles Pope, tracredian. was ' nprfm-miv Grass Valley, an antique beet descend ed trom the gallery and took him on the nose. Advancing to the footlights. jc oiu in j vuicc ut suppressed -tuun-4tos --If hfawMn-beat-who- threw 'kekmviojuiic,!! fjt anne stage door when the-play'4i werI will 1e happy to punch his head." After the pwause suosiaed tne play proceeded ,ijii mo oiiuw wits uvfir. fnnd woa surprised to discover a temporary rini? erected in the alley back of the theatre. It was surrounded by a strong delega tion of gallery , gods, and in the midst sat a shock-headed hnnrilnm nnAr. hta teS'rtPPed to the wais'tand io4 "Ti 8 ani;,Konlst3 The; j""iu. uivo.ms carnage, Tyhy; with much astonishment thirlSSSS itfKM0! H delegated as V 4BU ,v iraBeuian as lie drove murrain on uiese ape-fftced vil Killed the Cook With the Cook's illichet. on, May -Th captain of the British bark Chelmsford, at, Hiogo, Ja- fmMouritus'writestoherowner here -that nn : t.h; jm. , -i?uJL: c Chinese hand killed I the T cook Vfyon ?P?k ratchet, -and wheuraiedTb? 2aTSft de?k inmped oveXa?J ; 'uu nw urowneo. .L?R.thMood pure and! the Wtth i t,a -.- complteh this la a thort perioa? "'"S 0' : Bmi'a Blood Mfrh, win" InA : doubtful whether any measures 'exceptT11 I AN ADDRESS Kecesuif for Befonn and the Establish- meat of liivereine masaita ve, u . - " . V '(lit ft " DSUTXBXD BY ll " ? . :' BEFOIUt THE Charlotte Chamber or commerce, . . May 6th, 1879. ME. PRESIDN1, IiApIES AND GENTLE MEN: RAforST proceearwlthWhat i have to say, this eveningr4-trust-L-may.be par? tkmed for saying that I feel highlvcom plimentea oy ine memuei uua Chamber, in that I haveJaeen selected to deliver the second in me series uj. lectures before this honorable body, the more so because I see around me, men who have grown gray in business, and. on whose business judgment the coun try mav rely with confidence. If I pre- sent notning siniuug ui ucn, iuuFOi may indulge in the, not vam .hope that.lab.all&e'able to open some- caan hel of thought, which developed may result in benefit. Snmft writer has beautifully said that each of us will be responsible in anoth er world for the thougnts utterea nere ; that nnr wnrris rolling through the cir cumambient air, will he preserved and whftn we i stand i before; the judge of the quick and tne dead wnetn er this be true or not, I am sure that we shall be held to a full responsibility for all our lost opportunities, and equally so for the neglect to do what we are able to do for the benefit of man kind. It is with the feeling of these grave responsibilities that I approach the duties of this evening. At the close of the lecture delivered before your body at your regular meet ing in April, your speaker, weighing his words with all their import, referring to the reforms that were 80 sadly needed in tbe political economy of our people, significant lv remarked : "And if these reforms,- and departures from the old, beaten farth are ever to tike place tbey will have to be initiated by the intelli gent business members of this chamber, the well understood exponents of the live and enterprising men of all cities where these associations have been es tablished. Such leaders the boutnern I i , . i i i i , .t. M people need to uenyer a-iiem nuiu com mercial dependence; For their natural resources are so exuberant, that they have hitherto been blind to those calcu lations, and minute economies that ac complish diversified pursuits, and lead to the introduction of the surplus capi tal that enables nations to import from abroad, those commodities that they cannot make profitably at home." 1 have quoted the language of your form er speaker because 1 wish to bring back his expression the more forcibly to your minus, sinu uecausex nauiru iv ooj umi r?FtT$tt m tht theretorm is. needed, Secondly, because if they are ever in augurated they must be" commenced and carriea-out Dy ousiness men. v e nave heard the cry for political reform pro claimed from the house-tops for years; et us now begin to sound the ery ot social, wonti, business reform. lean- not discuss the reform which is needed without in some. measure examining the reasons wbv we find ourselves on the threshold of this, want.. In ante hel ium davs the Soulli was happy atid prosperous, but in 1861 a cloud which had been gathering forlialf a -century broke upon us with all its fury. . All know the result ot tnat struggle, vtnen the Southern people realized their con dition in 1865, and their soldiers had re turned to their homes to take up the battle life, jit took buta short time to xealize what it ;rrible"charige had been made m their eondition The Southern citizen who in 1861,was in circumstances of afliuence, if not wealth, was suddenly confronted with the problem of how to earn his daily bread, and to the credit of the former soldier, who had passed through the heat and carnage of a hun dred battles, be it said, that he did not murmur at his -condition, but set him self directly to work. The politician and the soreheads generally tnose who did . none of the fighting did all the grumbling. The same spirit.of .patriot ism which had sustained theoid veteran on hard-tack and long marches for four . t - , 1. 11 years, wire me incentive wnicir seinim to work to repairhe damages. Statistics show' that besides the de struction of personal property, the up setting of values of all kinds, and the depreciation in value of real estate, the people of .North Carolina lost nearly a million of slaves, The very lowest value ever put upon this property has been $300 per bead, so that our loss as individuals in this one item is nearly three hundred millions of dollars, iep resenlitjgUhei earnings of ten genera tions. While this was apparently an immense loss to our people as individ uals, the investment which the State had in these slaves still remains, and while it is not as available or efficient now as in times past and, as we hope to make ttf m the neaiv jiltjie, ife will be made a potent factor in workinsr out the prosperity we hope to achieve, on a wisely conducted systeuiyoi political economy because labor is the basis of all our.f rospepty, And thene'grp.for us. is tne oest lanorer that uoa ever made, barring his infatuation for politics. .setting out in dead earnest to redeem our fallen fortunes the tirst obstacle en countered were thereeonstruction measures of Conzress. and the i advent of the carpet-bagger into power with an that the. term implies. About the time the throne of the carpet-bagger was toppling over, our people found themselves in 'the vortex of a financial (JiSsiaf which shob the centre of the civ ilized world, and which has ho parallel 1 4.1 l.2. -MX !. , , m me mstory oi ousiness, i ne constant decrease in values drove inanvofour best business men to the wall, but I am nappy to say that those who stood the storm, came forth strengthened and pu- iincu uy Having passeu tnrougu tne n- nancial crucible. On the first dav of last January resumption became an ac- corapusnea fact, and to a certain extent business confidence has been restored. On all sides are to be seen unmistakable evidences oi improvement, m tne con - J - m . . dition ot the country, and if I can see correctly, these sums are theMuost- nu merous in those sections - of the South, wnere tue government nas Deen longest in the hands of her own people. x ne iecisiature has l ust passed an act for the settlement of the State debt. aim una mcuuus win ue imeu irom our nfe4 - 1 ill 1 . 1 J.. . f necks.- - - v.u , , Indeed,'if I have l ead the sisrns cor rectly. I think I am sale in savmsr that. bv&ara fasUefierinziroin the-excess es or the wai tne, p-epression of the panic arid the4 Immense shrinkage of values. We have struirorled suceesaftillv wilh disordered credit, unjust and prescrip tive laws; with prevailing financial dis tress, and with negro carpet-bag legis- lauuii, anu it ia creaicaoie tnat' we aid not go down in the maelstrom pf ruin. x uiuiK x may say io-nigntthac yre are on the high, dry ground of our own independence, and are in the condition to dictate prosperity. I may assert that to the good dualities of thd head and hearts of our people, and the assistance of our willing hands we will yet be able to work out the problem of civil, social, political and material prosperity which vuo uv urcaiuui our lainers, T . X. A- - - 1 1 a xegrio say, mat mere are among u,s those Who , are the survivors of the old Southern regime? who never tire of uuajung tnemseives over what might have been, if something in the past had turned out differently. With all their wealth swept away, and pushed aside wj ouu iuaue lo maxe way tor the busi ness man of morA finwirv thmr i9nnf IffUemelveii to e ew state of wSPJS-f!? -l .dyreamers virejr uu hoc realize that tn , time has come when brains will, tell, and when industry, skill and discretion will surely claim their reward. They can not grapple with the events :f to-day.' If they have money and some of thetn have it is locked up in the ; vault t. of some bank; invested in government bonds, or loaned to some oue-t large interest, who has more ability s to man age it than they. They - remind me of the young maiden who is forever look ing for the arrival of the phantom ship- which is to come from-spme foreign country, and whose fortuitous arrival iia4nconceiv hor- v,Q nA0aoamr nf immense TweaUh r Taveid,tlrat manufactures-wasvnex the TMicawDer character of Dickens, who was always waiting for something to "turn up. The demand to-day is for men of practical brains men who have the ability to conceive, as , well as the; nerve to execute. The world moves and we must move with it or be left behind.., Let me deal an instant in hy pothesis: '" '''' " - The class of men of whom I have been speaking are blind to their own interests, if they expect events to be shaped to their own liking, without any effort on their part. I have read history in vain if I have not been taught there in that men have always carved their way to success. After the days of mir acles the ablest men spoken of in the Bible have won success by merit. Al exander won his distinction by sheer force" of Character and abilities, and the overthrow of the armies of Xerxes, com menced at Thermopylae, made the Greek intellect the great dynamic agen cy, in European civilization, yet he might have won the naval battle of Salamis or the land battle of Ratea. The same force of character enabled Hannibal to leave the Carthagenian impress upon the world, and Caesar to conquer Gaul, Britain and the North ern Drovinces of Germany. It is no fault of the historian that a dif naWp ferent course might have Hannibal, after the terrible battle Hof -Cannse,- to march upottRoflattd-4 burn it to the ground, and thus put it within the, power of the Carthagenian general to stifle the Roman empire which was destined to subdue the world including his own country, nor that Caesar w as eventually slain in the very height of his glory., by Brutus. Each had reached, the acme of his ambition by the display hi character which has always been iidlirebby the world. - The success of Mahommet, who es tablished a great monotheistic religion, and military ecclesiasticism, which swept with the fanaticism of faith over an immense portion of the christian, as well as'tbe pagan world, was due to the exeftloh'of his skill and daring in the skirmishes, which took place in the early portion of his career, no less than to his political diplomacy in the hours of his greatness. -Gustavus Adolphus, the King of Sweden, espoused the cause of the ref ormation, and made rapid headway in tDdissemination of the doctrines ot Lu theijihtil struck down by a single shot at the battle of Lutzen. i The young tod adventurous Christo pher ColumDuf basing hrs calculations on the r dh?venes todannjiciations of Gallileo applied to tbejKipgtf Rome for aid In developing that idea, ftjyi making further discoveries,- onTy to be pronoun ced a lunatic, and it was not until he had been fostered by the money and imperial favor, of the good Queen Isa bella, of Spain,- thai he was able to de monstrate, to the .hen civuized worm the truth' of .his theories by actually andtng t-Stm-Salvador, and carrying the information back" to his patron queen, tbils bequeathing to the world, an indellible record, whose fruition can only be realized in the fullness of tiiue. - It was on the 18th Bremaire, 1795. fHat the great Napoleon Bonaparte, vir tually seized the government or JtTance, by a coup ae etat whose pretext was born of the horrors witnessed in France during the reign of terror, and which was inanity caused by the miseries ot the people, and the profligate vices of those classes, which ought to have given tone to national life, and it was mar velous courage as well as ambition that enabled that master mind for some de cades to make the map of Europe'con- form to his ideas. It was Watts to whom is assigned the honor of the invention of steam to ap plied mechanics. It was Carthwright who invented the power loom, Whitney the cotton gin, Robert Fulton who first made a steam-boat plow the waters of the Hudson, and it was Stephenson who Brst? drove a railroad locomotive, af any, of thKse men bad failed to follow hp their ideasi tosuccess, the .world would not liave been revolutionized as it has been in the present century. it Washington and his men had not been the iatriots that they were, the formation of the United States would probably never have taken place, but it must not be forgotten that only through patience, suffering, virtue and heroism were such glorious results accomplished. Some of you mav ask what have these historical facts to do with such an ad dress as the present occasion demands. My answer must be that they have been recalled to show what men have accom plished in the past, and to teach that the failure or successor men. both as communities and as individuals, is due in the main to their own exertions. The bard of Avon has beautifully saidr : 1 "There Is a tide In the affulrs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life. Is bound in shallows, and in miseries," but he should have qualified the expres sion uy saying that that "tide is large or small, fortunate or unfortunate, as the individual himself has mado it. Each man or each community in a large degree, and within certain bounds, holds that destiny at will. .Nothing can be truer, than that the future is mirrored in the past, so that only a keen, clear, searching vision, un disturbed by prejudice, unclouded by prepossession is needed to read aright its lessons, and deduce their moral. If we look back only a few decades, we shall see that our old system of labor, and our old ways of doing business have impoverished and weakened our coun try in the pasty and if -persisted in, will do so in the future; It was in Georgia that the cotton gin was invented, and it is in the South that it is exclusively used, but until the past few years it was m the .Northern States that vast tor tunes were made from its manufacture, It was in South Carolina that the first railroad engine was built, in the United States, but it is the foundries of Bald win and Danforth, of Philadelphia and Paterson, and other points North, which have grown rich in their con struction. It was a North Carolina brain that conceived the principle of the magnetic telegraph, out it, was Morse who utilized it, it was Cyrus W, Field who united the destinies of twin continents" with it, and it is northern men who are to-day principally reaping tne reward, and tne pronts ot its utility. Suppose the South had utilized all these ana our. thousands of other opportum ties, as we might have done, What would have been the result ? In 1790 North Carolina had ten thousand more population than the great State of New oi k and nearly as much as all of New England put together. Whv is it that they now outnumber us nearly fifty to uusr wnyisre mat according to tne United States census of 1870, seventy nine thousand native North Carolini- ans men and women born, nurtured and reared among us our kinsman and our neighbors, had found homes other States? - -- I believe 4n that patriotism which enaoies a man to utter earnestly the woras oi tne poet: ' , "Lives there a man with soul so dead, Wno never to hlmselt ha said, , ; This Is my own, my native land. MY mends. God has rri vpn im fin a climate, & . fruitful, soil, untold water powers and mineral deposits of inesti mable value, to which we have added an undimmea patriotism, but we have lacked the spirit of enterprise. When we think vof our J advantages and recall these things can we say as did Ulysses of old, in the ripe fullness of his event ful, observant career : ' "r . " I am a part of all I have met ; Tet all experience is an arch wnere through Gieamrthe untraveUed world, whose margin fades, ?orei!ISS JoreTef when I more." Washington is said to have remarked -that "iisrricultuf was r. the first and noWest of the sciences." but he should foster sister. Our country has been too exclusively an agricultural one. But is this not the iauit or our tamers r auu if it were a fault, shall we, their descen dants, go on perpetuating that fault? Did two wrongs ever make a light? Have we yet to learn that the planting of successful manufactures admitting that agriculture is our main-stay in any district, uniformly induces an im-: proved system of agriculture, to say nothing of the general increase of wealth, in that district, as may be veri fied by any observer ' who travels through any of our Northern or Middle States through France, Great Britain or Gennany. In any country where agriculture is practiced exclusively, every man's granary is full, and the farmer can find no purchaser for his products. The cotton fields of the South would whiten in vain with our peculiar- , ly southern staple if there were no buy- ers ior tne proauct Deyona uie piuuici o township boundary. But shall we be satisfied, as our fathers were satisfied, with transporting our raw products to a distant market, always stipulating to Eay the freights to that market, and ack again, if any of our products should be returned to us in manufactur ed goods ? Shall we always be content to have our shirt linens, oi the cotton tfcoods that dress our wives and childrer. I Spun 111 fillginuu oHuuiuji luxjio, land woven on New England's prolific looms? Will we always be satisfied with buying our rudest plow-shares from the hardware merchant, who buys only from the Pittsburg manufacturer ?; Shall our furniture stores be always tributary to the .Boston Cummings, while thousands Qf acres of valuable timber stand unutilized at our doors? Will the present generation be content to patronize exclusively the printing presses of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, when by a little more liberal ly patronizing our home printers they will be able to build up their busi ness so as to compete with the Northern typo? Shall we always go North for our paper, envelopes andDlank books, when the paper mills within a stone's throw of where I now stand, and which are owned and managed by one of your members, can furnish all the material of which they are composedfbr less than our northern brethren tf If you answer no, rTffusT reply that the habits and impulses of a people are not easily modified, while they are rare- v. and with great difficulty transrorm- ed, and yet if they are ever changed there must be a commencement Full as is our southern country with misdirection, mismanagement and profligate waste of all kinds, the most gigantic material calamity, which I can conjecture, is the.f ailure tostretch forth our hands and pluck the golden apples of opportunity Unlike the story ot par adise the fruit is not forbidden, and we should be impelled both by our intelli gence, and our interest to pluck and eat to the tun. Our statesmen and soldiers or the past generation have made for us a glo rious record, but tne nrst nave been content to rest upon their labors4 when they managed the political interests of the country upon fine spun theories of political economy, or sound morality. while the latter nave been content when they remember that old Zack Taylor, on the battle-field of Buena Vista apologized first, and afterward thanked Jeff Davis, and his command for the true heroism shown in the mar velous defeat of Santa Anna s army. While Calhoun and Benton were pro claiming the virtues of the southern theories of government, in the United States Senate.our more enterprising,and less sentimental, northern brethren,car- mg less for the theories advanced, than their own material prosperity, had their hands and arms into the Federal Treas ury, up to their arm-pits, taking the appropriations, which they always man aged to get. When not thus engaged they were busy witn tne development of some, new idea or problem, which when worked out would result in some easier or better way to acquire an extra dollar. : Mv fellow citizens I would not have vou forget the memory of your gifted statesmen, or your honored soldiers of the past ; nor would I have you entirely imitate the example of the selfish, grasping spirit of the men of the North I should be untrue to my manhood to ask you to forget the memory of the men of the South, who have made for her a name and a fame which will last forever. Callous must be the heart, and unimpassioned must be the feeling, that can without pndeT recall the fervent patriotism, and heroic sacrifices, which have woven a garland of imperishing and imperishable glory around tne brow or the citizen soldiery of the Southern States, but it must not be forgotten that there were brave men m both armies, .md that the valor displayed by either is the common heritage or every Ameri can. But "On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread. While glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." Their sublime heroism is a legacy which this , eeneration,:at least,' must guard with sacred care, and transmit un dimmed and .untarnished to those who are to follow us in the field of, action, but let us remember, that it is now the material resources, and prosperity of the country which we must look after, and that our children will hold us to,a fearful responsibility, for fcegleeted ad vantages m the very near ruture, When Augustus Caesar desired to turn the attention of his people to agri culture he encouraged the facile pen of Virgil to write his bucolics, and the beautiful expression "Tottre, tu patulce reeubam sub tegmine fagi" as it was re corded under the inspiration or the melodious tones of the oaten pipe, comes down to us as one of the grandest ex pressions of Roman thought, chanting as it does the praises of its advan dignities and beauties. When Gallileo, or Hershel at a later day wished to es tablish their doctrines, or annihilate those of their adversaries, they fulmina ted abstruse and lengthy treatises. .Lu ther, Calvin, Knox and Wesley electri fled the world by appeals from the pul pit, and at a later period of English literature, the statesman or the philoso pher turned the thinking mind towards Ins doctrine by terse and vigorous argu ment, but to-day, the man whose thoughts and inspirations may- shape ' the destinies of men and of ages, is a : man of action, ' He is a worker, catch ing inspiration irora the time m which he lives, and one who can hew his path way to success Over all ordinary obsta clesa man in whom are the germs of future thought, and not the ghost of buried memoriesi ' Politicians gave the country civil war in 1861, Politicians have perpetuated strife and business distrust from-the close of the war until now j in the future, statesmanship in the management of the affairs of the country, together with the discretion and zeal of our business men, with a diversified industry, ca&alone give the peopld that peace and pfcesperity ? which is so much to be desired, r , I have spoken in vain if: I have failed to impress you with the necessity .for reform, and that the ra in our history has arrived ! when we can safely and profitably take asteo forward.: Tn refer ring to well established events; Jn, his tory I have shown what has been , ac complished by pthers,.and in dwelling upon the past present and probable fu ture condition of the country, 1 have en deavored to show the dire .necessity for ; reform. If : I would be r peristeum in 1ressing1 one faci mora than another t is that the reform will never come by itself. Do you agree with me that the time to baild up our material interest by increasing our manufacturing indus tries has come? If so ho w shall it be ac complished? It is an old adage that lieavm'ihelps, .those who, help them selvesr'and it is a well known fact that there is eiKwghrwateE power, mNorth.. Carolina to turn the combined machine ry of the world," and that ninety-nine hundredths o;f it has never been util ized and if so it would seem the part of wisdom to "begin now,; It is fortunate that all who engage in manufactures now can travel in the well beaten tracks oj-4hose who have been successfuLAs we are on the margin of the cotton belt let us glance a moment at the record, and see what others have done. According to the most available statistics there are 55 cotton factories in the State of North Carolina six of them run, exclusively by steam twenty-nine are located in what is known as the Piedmont belt. &2,175,O0O are invested, and 3150 opera tives are employed, expending in the mutations of trade not less than ten millions of dollars annually, and mak ing a clear profit to the owners or 343, 500 per annum. Twenty-six of these factories have been put in operation since the war more than half since 1873 and during the stringency of the financial crisis, through which the country has been passing. These mills now make ginghams, plaids, yarns, sheetings, tickings, ticking,-warps, knit ting cottons, cottonades, twine, carpet warps, jeans, satinets, linseys, kerseys, wool rolls. &c. (if our sheep escape the avages of the dogs.) Here is -what we are now doing. There is no reason why all the finer qualities of cotton and woolen fabrics should not be manufac tured in the same area of territory, and there ought to be one hundred dollars invested where there is now one. Situ ated on .the confines of the cotton belt, and producing within our own borders two hundred and twenty-five thousand bales of cotton, its manutaeture at our own doors, and the saving of freights, the cheapness of labor, and the aggre gate additions to our wealth, in the yearly gains, ought in a few years to make it our leading industryy'Hor ace Greely in his Political "Economy," writing in 1868, and speaking or the manufacturing interests oi New En gland, says: "In the year ot my earliest distinct recollections (1816-'20,) there were a very few cotton mills in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, but not enough to affect the general recompense of labor, and none at all within a day s ride or my home in New Hampshire. What is now Lowell was then a sterile, partially wooded tract, where a few fishermen had their cabins and dried their nets; there was one store but no factory, where now is Nashua, New Hampshire ; while a ricketv. old lorsided bridge over the Merrimac, closely approached bv a pitch ume forest, occupied the site of what is now the manufacturing city of Manchester, N ew Hampshire. Law rence, Massachusetts, was not even con ceived till at least twenty-five years af terwards, but Lowell, the pioneer, was laid out soon after 1820. i rom this day forward the manufacturing inter ests of New England have been stimu lated, fostered and encouraged, until its naturally bleak, sterile hills now blos som as the rose, and money has been made until it has become the most prosperous portion of the United States. With the acquisition of wealth has come the natural influx of intelligence among the masses, until her people are now regarded as the best educated peo ple on the globe. 1 will not insult the intelligence of my hearers by stating in detail what Lowell, Manchester, Na shua, Providence, Hartford, Waltham, Springfield, &c., &c have become be cause of the fostering care extended to their manufacturing interests, but 1 will remind them that the cotton man ufacturing interest was the pioneer of all others. Once the ball was set in motion and remember that they had to come to the South for the raw ma terial other interests were added, un til New England has even become cele brated for the' manufacture of wooden nut-megs. Her coal and her iron in terests, catching the inspiration, have been developed until there is no possi ble estimation of their value. She has outstript her own most sanguine ex pectation, and to-day her nnm ana her factories produce goods which are un rivalled in the markets of the world. All ths and more is possible in North Carolina, We are a thousand miles nearer the cotton fields ; . our water- gowers are infinitely superior; in the osom of our State are deposited more iron and copper than New England ever dreamed of; in our forests grow more and better timber than we shall possibly ever need ; our climate is more genial, our soil is more fertile, and our productions are more diversified. Who shall say that we shall not tread the pathway that leads to preferment and to success? How much longer shall we say to New England, or to old En gland for that matter, here is our cot ton "take it at your own price?" The South needs to engage in its manufac ture if for no other reason than that she is poor, and needs employment, be cause nature has provided us the water power and the coal-fields in the midst of her cotton-fields, waiting to be put to use, and because thousands of our now idle population can thus find profitable employment. If it be said thatitis a stupendous undertaking, I answer by saying that the "better the day the bet ter the deed," and that we certainly shall accomplish nothing without first commencing the work. You may say all this is good, theory, but how shall anything be accomplish ed? I answer, by putting our shoulders together as a community.' ' In union there is strength. Let us have what the political theorists call a communi ty of interests. If A hasn't got the capital, let his be Joined to that of B and C, or the smaller sums of the com munity in general. The cry of alack of capital is delusive. We have ample capital in the country, if we can give it the proper direction. One of our banks, within the past few days has in vested 1550,000 in government lour per cent bonds, because they- offered the best investment at present. Taking the published statements of our national banks, together with the small sums of money hoarded up by hundreds of our people, and bur capital is ample to make a start; You have but to put forth the effort, and convince the moneyed men that money can be made by the enter prise and capital will come forth from its hiding places. "Men do not gather srranes from ' thorns. nor! fics from thistlesV" WTEhin the past few days I have been informed that capitalists of liBoston, and other Northern cities, . are . ready and willing to advance as- much money as we are l to start 'cotton factories at the South; in ; suitable localities, but I tell you plainly that we may talk ourselves blind about our natural resources our mineral wealth, and our genial climate, as long as we do not utilize them as long as we oo not improve our opportu nities ourselves.Once we put our own hands to thFpTelw, and look not back in the furrow, and make twenty per cent, on the .capital invested, the outside world will begin to study whether it is not more profitable . than investing accumulated - eapital in govern men t lour per cent, bonds. But hne spun theories will avail us nothing; ; "Ha thai hv thrt hlow would thrive.--&J. i ' - C HjmseUraust either hold, or drive." Let me make a suggestion; - Suppcse that it takes $75,000 to iStart a success ful cotton mill, or a furniture, factory, (and it wouldn't be safe-to-start with less) and no one man is able or if al? le, unwilling to be the pioneer, t Let seven hundred and fifty ime hundred dollir shares be issued, and offered to the public,:ith the proviso,;ifv necessary, that after the payment of fiveper cent, the capital will be called in at so much per week, or monthor two years. Let us assure men who are able to take only small amounts of stock that they and their families, will -be given, pre ference in employment;' - and Itbenr if thereis. a good clever fellow among, the, stockholders, who," not with standing his clevernessris carbankrupt and jieveri had a practical fdea in his rife, don't let i us make him president. i.et us rather select a man ? who? has proven - himself competent to manage his own business. Let it be im ahaged : on strict husiness principles! iAfterfthe labor ; has been added 0 th cost Of the raw material, let it be sold,and the proceeds carefully looked after and guarded. In such an enterprise I can see and predict success, whether it be the construction of a cotton mill or the running of a soap factory. Many of our Southern people have had an idea that no kind of labor is honorable. The young man of to-day, here, imagines that to reach preferment, distinction or competence, he must be a lawyer, a doctor, a preacher, or a counter-hopper, and society encourages him by regarding such a young man with consideration. His diploma is a pass -port into good society, while the laboring man, though equally worthy ,is given the go-by. Let us remember that labor is the basis of all our prosperity, and that it is the foundation stone on which is erected the 'fabric of society, as well as good government. When we have made it more honorable, we snail nave taKen long step forward. Just so long as broken down politicians are put at the head of our interests we may predict failure. We shail as assuredly succeed when we select faithful, competent managers from the working classes. I desire, now,' m closing: my re marks to take a practical view of the subject which 1 have been discussing. Stepping into a drug store in this city a few days ago, I in quired the probable cost of goods ept in the drug stores in North Carolina, whieh might be manufactured, or com pounded here. The magnitude of the question astounded the druggist, but lie answered without a moment's thought, "at le.tst one thousand millions of dol lars per annum." He evidently alluded to the whole South, because he contin ued: "There are to-day, m the Soutli $500,000 worth of soda water fixtures, all made iii the North, and paid tor by our money and labor, and yet it is 'mown that North Carolina marble, for purity, for fineness and for variety stands unrivalled in the markets of the world, and for cheapness, barring the cost of transportation, excels them all." But to return to the drug store: On the shelves before JDe, in beautifully wrought labels and wrappers, were spread out, Fell s mustard, McKeone's Tidal Wave soap, Buists' garden seeds, Lyon's Kathairon, liisley's philotoken (whatever that is); Simmons's liver regulatorl EL F Houghton's medically unobjectionable cosmoline, Gourod's Oriental Scream,- plantation bitters, ju niper taiv glycerine; Russian bath soap, made in New York, ai d utterly ignor ant of the Russian language, Hostet ter's stomach bitters, Gile's liniment, Wistar's balsam, Steven's vegetine, Dr. Dr. Pierce's golden medical discovery, hepatine, vinegar bitters, mustang lini- merft, Perry Davis' pain-killer, and thou sands of other just such articles, all cf which are now made m the North, but which could be made here. The intelli gent druggist informed that in nine cases out of ten. he could compound a better and a more efficient medicine, f or the purpose intended, than any of his patent medicines, and yet that he would be laughed out ol his protession it he attempted it When a customer came in and called for Dr. Bull's cough syrup, which had cured little'Andy on "some former occasion, to substitute his own remedy, though a better one, would be to practice fraud upon the purchaser. Suppose it were possible to manfacture, or compound these preparations here, what ouldvbe the result in ten years? In thfe book and jiaper business all our ertVelopTes, our writing paper, our shipping tags, cards and card boards, tor say nothing or bianK oooks, can oe made at homelandthe sum of their value is immenseAjI; Our farms and gardens are stocked, and outhouses are' built with northern hardwareiSWith cheap-pig iron, and I am informed that0s near at hand, the most available being in Lincoln and Gasjojn' fcounties, we cduld success fully manufacture hollowware of all kinds, antirohs, grind-stohe fixtures, well wlieeM cast butt hingeS, coat and hat hookSiclamps, sash weights, tuyere irons, wagonhpxes, thimbteskeins, pipe boxes, buggy wrenehesV-cast 'shoe and nail hammers, cievisesu carnage maila bles, plumb bobs, drawv pulls, and nu merous articles of small hardware, that come into daily use. With cheap iron, cheap labor, and cheap coal we can make to advantage, trace chains, wrought clevises, plows, plow heel screws, grass rpds, blacksmith's tongs, wrought hasps., hinges, hooks and sta ples, copper rivets and burs, carriage and machine bolts, fry pans, cow bells, currycombs, strap and T'lringes, corn shellers, straw cutters, reapers, mowers and general machine made work. With capital and energy, we- might make all or nearly all our furhitarewagon hubs, rains, spokes, shafts, buggy bodies, wheels, carriage parts, lazy backs, water buckets, tubs, hames ; hoe, fork, shovel and ax handles ; hammer, auger, pick, adze and other small handles ; coffee and spice mills, wood, bench and hand screws scythe snaths, grain cradles, trunks, lemon squeezers, rolling pins, and thou sand of other such articles .of which wood is the chief component. Black smith's bellows can also profitably be made here, as the wood in their con struction makes freight heavy, and all the raw material for all these things can be found here in abundance. I am informed that the freight on ar ticles of the class of which I have been speaking,which are made principally of wood, adds at least 20 per. cent to the cost here. Here would be an immense saving ! Babbitt metal cah also be made here at a profit, as has been dmonstrated, and tons of copperas could be made by simply utilizing the iron filings of our machine shops. To conclude, will you always be sat isfied with buying aU that you use ? If you are, having lived all your days, on Western bacon, and bread made from wheat grown and ground in Wisconsin, going to church once a week, in a vehicle made in New Jersey, wearing clothing woven in Massachusetts mills, and made up in New York, your shirts from Lowell, and bedecked with shirt-studs made hi Boston, your hats from Pater son, your shoes from Natick, your cheese from Orange 5 county. New York, the butter which you put on your Wisconsin bread from uoshen, you sit in yonr church pews lined with New England plush, listen to the word preached from a northern bible, sing hymns from a northern hymn-book, get sick and are dosed with northern medicine, adminis tered by the graduate of a northern medical college, your dying gasp shall be measured ov the ticking of a Seth Thomas (Connecticut) clock, when you die and are carried to the cemetery in a northern hearse, to . close the climax your grave shall be artisticalry adorned, to commemorate your virtues, with a Vermont marble tomb-stone, and flow ers, the" seeds' xf f which f came from James Vick,: of Rochester? New York, shall be annually scattered over the green ? sod, ? that ? marks your resting plaCe-y'F f 'v 'i-";--j f j" ; THE COM PROJf lSK BI LI.. rfportkd favorably on and ED THR HOl'SH. PAS- Garfield Submits a Substitute which -JRejectedWhat the Commit tees Are Doing. Washington, May o. Senate. Mc Donald reported from the committee on the judiciary, with amendments the bill introduced yesterday by Eaton making it unlawful to use any part of the army and navy at the polls. et- iic nutice mat ne would call it un to-morrow. .1, j 4 ? 1 Beck reported from the committee on appropriations, with amendments, the legislative, executive and judicial m. propriation bill, and gave notice that he would call it up at an early day. . The Senate proceeded to the consider ation of the resolution reported from the committee on privileges and elec tions authorizing the taking of testimo ny on the memorial of Mr. Spoiford who contests the seat of Kello-g of Louisiana. Hoar offered a substitute declaring that the Senate had already settled the case on its merits by decl tr ing Kellogg entitled to the seat. An animated discussion followed, pending which the Senate adjourned. During the debate the President pro win aiiuuuiibcu mo lecepuon Of Hi e iiouse bin to prohibit military mter- ierence at elections, and it -the first time. was read Mr. Edmunds said that as the me xs ure was very important he must object to a second reading of the bill to-da with a view to its reference to a com! mittee. HoUhE. The morning hour wa con sumed in the introductiun and refer ence of bills. The House has concurred in the Sen ate amendments to bill providing for certain expenses of the present session Knott, chairman of the judiciary com mittee, reported back, without amend ment, the bill introduced yesterday to, prohibit military interference at elec tions. Robeson offered a substitute, making it unlawful to bring to or employ at any place, where a general or special election is being held in a State, any part of the army or navy, unless such employment shall be necessarv to carry out the provisions of the constitution or overcome forcible obstruction to the election laws made in pursuance there of, and making any violation of the act a penal offense. The substitute is en titled "A bill to further protect the free dom of elections." Robeson's substitute bill was defeat edyeas 93, nays 121 after which the original bill, to prohibit military inter ference at elections, was passed by a strict party vote. All the Greenbackers voting voted in the affirmative with the Democrats. Barlow, and Russell, of North Carolina, did not vote. Chalmers attempted to call up the resolution heretofore offered by him for investigation of the Fort Pillow mas sacre, but the House adjourned without action on his motion. A resolution was introduced in the House to-day tendering the thanks of the American people for the hearty contribution to the success of the Indus trial Mission of American merchants and manufacturers recently visiting the city of Mexico, which will extend the friendly commercial relations our countrymen have been so instrument ;tl in establishing. THE CABINET AND INDIAN TEKUITOKY. The cabinet to-day again discussed the Indian Territory question and the threatened further invasion of that sec tion. It Avas decided that in case of in vasion by whites, the Indian service would have to call for troops to be used as a posse coraitatus for preventing sucll violations of law and to eject per sons who have already invaded the Territory. THE INTEllNAL REVENVE VXDEH CON SIDERATION. The House committee on ways and means met to-day and appointed" a sub committee of which Representative Carlisle is chairman, to lake under con sideration and report to the full com mittee on all the bills now before them relating to the subject of internal rev enue. No other business was transact ed at to-day's meeting. COMMITTEE ACTION ON THE COMPRO MISE BILE. The Senate juuii-iaiy committee, at a special meeting this morning, took ac tion upon the bill introduced by Eaton yesterday, "To prohibit military inter ference at elections," and, by a party vote, decided to recommend its passage with two amendments: The first pro vides that the bills laying prohibitions against bringing to, or employing troops at the polls, shall not apply to the uf-e of military force when necessary "to protect a State against invasion ; the other amendment inserts the words "when the Legislature cannot be con vened alter the clause which exempts from prohibition the employment of the army or navy to enforce the fourth section of article four of the constitu tion and laws made in pursuance there of -upon the application of the Legisla ture or the executive of the State." -The principal amendments made by the Senate committee on appropriations to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill as reported to the Senate to-day, are those which were agreed upon by the committee yester day evening, including the omission of the House clause directing the ten mil lion reserve to be issued in payment of the arrears of pensions. 'Longshoremen's Strike ContiiJues. New York, May 6. The 'longshore men still continue to hold out against the twenty-five cent per hour arrange ment of the various ocean steamship docks along North river. The Circas sia, of the Anchor line, was advertised to sail last Saturday, but did not get away until to-day. The company ad vertised for two hundred men at twenty-five cents per hour, and promised regular weekly wages to steady men. At the State lineydock the new hands are working on the State of Pennsylva nia, and the company say she will sail on time next Thursday. The City of Chester, of the Inman line, will also be ready to sail Thursday. The Wyom ing, of the Guion line, left this morning laden principally with grain. The Bal tic, of the White Star line, will sail Sat urday, as advertised. An Old Man Kills His Daughter-Bank , Robber Arrested. Philadelphia, Pa- May a Edward Parr, sixty years old, stabbed his daugh ter, Susan Irvin, aged 30, this morning, inflicting fatal injuries. Family diffi culties caused the tragedy. . Henry Hall, charged with being con cerned in the robbery of the Manhat tan Savings bank, of New York, last October, has been committed to await a requisition from the New York authori ties. Hall has been identified as Jno. Dodds, a resieent of New York, and a well known associate of burglars. A Fatal Mistake. Cleveland, O., May C Yesterday Dr. Ezra Rosn-oprietor of thedrW store at Palmyra, Portage county, Ohf , invited Sylvester Garfield to try some new liquor which he had just received. By mistake they each drank about two ounces of aconite. The doctor died m a few hours and Carfield is in a preca rious situation.