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Kidney, pt JJrtt Tfopblest) Lame; Backj Rup tures, ana Wher, Disefses "pt- the Vital Organ. Also tvomen troubled with diseases peculiar ia their sex. l Speedy relief and complete restoratkm fto J neaim guaranteea. i dcm are me, my Electrie aAppllances ittaa. burv evec been constrneted anon neientlffleprin eiples. Their thorooeh efficacy has been prsc-" Ucally proven -vlttf the taMit. wonderful aaeceao, ad (hey Jhavo ! lijrlMsl f keuuorsemenit irom meateai ana eiei' ftlfle men gnd front baodreua wtso suit been quickly and radically cured thelr use j , .i.ii : . '.i ti -..i 8end" at once for Illustrated Pamphlet, glvto all information -fiee.' Afldrcss, i t. -9- . '. -TbuAnrBiaf it&iqj iKi.JLii wis am AT THE WHITE FEONT, E.M.ANDREWS, WHOLESALE ft RETAIL FUBNITUBE DEALEB aag?, rpHE oldaBskfinftSAi JL The Iron bound bucket, Tuejuoss-ceyered; bueket. . r CHAS. B. JONES. St. BTATESYILLE, N. C. rpma house has been leased for a term or tam keep a sWctly towMouse to e7er rSctT IJLf DC. UTS. rT. Beeves. .Whom lntmUnn floori. """"v wuu vu bin (ma aejena The rtronage of the public is solicited. ' julyl.atf. , ! TTsXTtOrn im. -' Twist Che wLaeXftbsUM -" T ' - -' - " t, K-i 1 " . Bewaiy or imitations. ion geolne ubIbm ae -XTXiin k!: . vnemi'i eopy-flgmeaiaoei wnlon wiiibef onnd on Dead of every box. - ManufartwrM oni ur .- BROWN j i lehT- .rfi; ; jlnston, N. a & mux. W S auu no I J4 n ll W WI BMP V I d it is a matter or lacE tnac so tar irom there being any purpose to be subserredt 1 -.MnHAn 4-Vi Infaragta "Roa4- and company required its immediate com- mnniooHnn tn t.hft HI vfl svndiriata the sooner the better. The paper when! stoned was left with Gov. Jar vis (a copy perhaps), with the understanding that? OO BJJH OO VU9 TV HO VaVarvs-avlfWK w tender of it with a copy of the agree ment would be at once made and de livered. That this was not sooner done was certainly not my fault, nor the fault of Best, for he deposited the money with in ten days. So much for the secrecy. I-own my participation inthe production of this agreement with both pride and pleas ure. Its object was to secure, if possi dle, the great and long cherished idea of the peop Carolina a grand durec stline of rail- wav from It ippi Valley, through the tate.to iieau- fort Harbor: ch a line was desired by ou for the de- velopment of the State, it is doubly necessary now, as arroraing tne oniy hope of relief from the thraldom of the Richmond and Danville combinations. I do not wonder that the syndicate as sail it, but I do wonder that it. should not assail it by a charge more in con formity with the truth ; and I wonder most of all that any North Carolinian should assail it who has a particle of State pride in his bosom. Best and the Clyde syndicate are not litigating be fore the Commissioners. That board has no authority, whatever, under the Act, nor has it assumed any outside of it, to decide any questions between these litigants. They are litigating in the courts of North Carolina, and the Commissioners could do nothing there if they would. The plain and simple AM 1 A dtity of bf qommissioxiers srve tha Dfrtoanance 9t-i tfeeh fticfee aislgi&sla: t&eV hate' otnitfg Wltate Ilaving formed his new syndicate Mr. Best came before the Commissioners and asked us, if he and his associates would take a lease of the Atlantic and North Carolina road, depositing $85,000 in cash as security for its rental and the rolling stock, build a direct line fromroldsboro to Salisbnry, deposit $250,000 in cash, and more if necessary, to re-imburse the Clyde syndicate for their enforced martrydom in having to take the Western road, would we, the Commissioners, aid them by all means in our power to procure for them a re-transfer of the Western North Carolina road? This promise we gave. Could we have done other wise? Would we not have been direlict to every obligation of good citi zenship if we had refused ? I confess I embraced the opportunity with glad ness. What wfece we 'to op in return for so great al qeaeftt to North Caro lina? We exrfafcifetp Mi Best that we could not Irrtirfezefptrson ally or officially in the Mitigation for the pos session of the road. That should the syndicate incur a forfeiture of the con tract, and we should so declare, the road would return, not to Mr. Best, but to the State, under the law. Very true, said Mr. Best, in substance, but we will take all the chances ; we desire to es tablish this line of railway, not because it will benefit North Carolina, as it surely will, but because we can make money out of it. You are all gentle men of influence and position. The people trust you, and if you will give us vbur aid and influence, by that added to our money deposited and the work which we propose to commence, we hope to convince the people of North Carolina of our good faith, and surely then the Bichmond and Danville Rail- jroad,which hasbeen so long and so large ly benefitted by JS ortn Carplina,wm noi stand in the way of a project so mani festiy penefiaai to per peopi yield to 16 desire m hex to otiri oiftHbf s laral riih It 8Ji j that in the wtiiaaUprof ili Richmond and Danville monopoly our listening to these propositions, and agreeing to give them our support was high treason, but I very much doubt if any citizen of North Carolina, other than an employe or official of that cor poration, will perceive in our action anything but a patriotic desire to serve our native State. All attempts at es tablishing competition to this over shadowing corporation are met by it with fierce hostility, and the efforts of all our citizens to throw off its domina tion are answered with vituperation ana aDuse. iz win not do iorgot ten that its officers once had .the unparalleled impudence to appear be fore our Legislature not long since and ask for the Dassasre of an act. the ef- bfect of which was to forbid forever the building of any competing road north west of their line in this State, t Pebble fwho could do this make but poof j udg- esor other men s honesty, and form a a still poorer judgment of the business capacity and State pride of our people. XHOb content wiui criticising uus agreement in severe terms and impu ting improper motives to the commis sioners who entered into it, the officials of the Richmond and Danville Railroad unceasingly abuse and ridicule Mr. 'Best and his associates. Their habit ual mode of speaking of him is to char acterize him as an "adventurer," "a swindler," without money, etc I have np personal desire of or interest in de fending him, but so far as his projects are likely to conduce to the welfare and prosperity of this State, it is prop er that he should have fair play. Some say that because he has failed once, he is not to be trusted a second time; oth ers ask what is the difference between a menmona syn syndicate. Totl t ancii a Boston 9&I would answer that Mr. Best's! lifr$ Ito " raise the Idla to! the deser- money required Hon of his associ . for wmdh he was in no wise responsible ; and that the saennce or his property by hisassign ptentto the Richmond and Danville syndicate was the direct outcome of his good faith his earnest desire to see the contract fulfilled. In reply to the second question, I answer, "Much ev ery way? In the first place, two rail road systems under cuff erent control gives us competition and cheap rates; and it so happens, granting that they are' equally selfish, that the Boston syn dicate proposes to establish a road just where the people desire it, and to oper ate it so that it will and can benefit on ly North Carolina towns and cities. It so happens, on the other hand, that it is to the interest of the Richmond syndi cate to so operate its system of rods as to Denent tnej Twps ana cities or vir gini841pneusaig Kor as a rcm-toa ana b duciid hfet in fact! haa done towards the performance of hla(agreement. In the first place, he has. put into the" hands of Dr. Worth thft$250X in cash, as agreed upon, to reimburse the Clyde syndicate. In the second place, he has taken the lease of MnJ t flonflA and Vnrth flomtU. arid deposited 885.000 as security for tha Tental and rolling stock. In the third plate.hie has finished the survey and begun work on- the road from Golds bo rp to Salisbury, ; and the process of construction is geing on as X write t in Addition to which he has purchased 5,000 tons of rails to lay down the track as Completed all of which has been aonethrougn wis agreement so much criticised, ana ins aisnonor or whlcnMtbVraqiwna Iftnd Oil roaartttf icifrtocfj pm. S?M m mm w't" r wt wvvw Is to obi QaconLraci A S it mm vct to' dof urn citizens' ts.H t vaoempFmce Aon ffn my&3 s !woma,ipernaps.iDO: lnsurucMyoMf consider in this- connection the differ? ence between the manner in which this' "ad ventuTerisecares his contract, and that in which honest and substantial people lik4h Richmond and Danville Jbnfpatny Seeore tfiits-tthat corpora tipp. having; procured 4vlease,iiWlfte jNorth Carolina road by means iiniv;er cajuy conceaea co- do- quesuuuauicv u iioli positively tradulent,curd3to the lessor their, stock and property by giv 4sg the note of their own company, a corporation whose property was then covered by at least two mortgages fot millions more than it was worth, al though the contract required that other security should be giveiu That a coit pOration such as this, which was then without money or much character of any sort, and which, in the opinion of many, was saved from bankruptcy by thus obtaining control of the property of North Carolina and, reducing-there- by to a grievous commercial servitude, the people whoaa substance they weie enjoying for such a corporation toim-, pugn the motives of three reputable oitizPinn nf t.ha Steffi for a simple at tempt to do something which .they5 niighthonrably do ;which patriotism re quired them to do, in behalf of their corporation cursed people, displays an amount of impudence ana arro gance not to be found except with peo ple who believe they have their vic tims in their power. " T ! There is " much ground for that be lief.' There is a great danger upon the people of North Carolina. Their pros perity and their freedom are alike threatened bv an old foe with a new face.. The entire transportation lines by which the products of their industry, are carried to a market, and their arti cles Of necessity procured by exchange therefor, are about all to pass under the control of one set of men.; This is the revival of one of the oldest griev ances which has afflicts, mankind since the organization of society mo nopoly. .In. the earlier ages of Euro pean governments, monopolies were granted bylaw chiefly by the crown. Their operation was everywhere most intolerable, and constituted the principal obstacle to the prosperity of the poor. The French and German, writers, as wen as tne Anglian, are eio auent upon the subject of these grievances. I am indebted to the elatK t -al -3 . m t orate ana learneu uner oi ex-juage Campbell, filed in the Slaughter House cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, for a collection of the intances compiled from them, regard ing . those days when the prying eyes or tne government ionowea tne Dutch er to the shambles,and the baker to the oven ; when the peasant could not cross a river without paying to some noble man a toll, nor take his produce to market until he had bought leave to do so; nor consume his grain till he had sent It to the lord's mill to be ground: nor full his clothes on his own works? nor sharpen his tools at nis own grind stone; nor make wine, oil or cider at his own press. In Scotland the culti vators of each barony or regality were obliged , to v pay, a- Culture" on ach stdck of hay or straw reaped by the farmer, called "thirlage" or rthraldom," and where the lands' were subject to an "astriction" of their inhabitants to par ticular mills for the grinding of grain that was raised on them. In Great Britain, in the reign of Edward III and Richard XX :ana their successors,- the price oi laoor was nxed by law, ana every able-bodied, man and woman, not being a merchant or craitsmanjwas "bounderr" to! seve at the wages fixed, and the rural laborer was forbidden to leave his own village in order to better his condition. Macaulay describes in his first volume, -History of England, the first great battle against these mo nopolies. - "uueen :iizaDetn. says he. "took upon herself to grant patents of monopolies by scores. There was scarce ly a family in the realm that dic not feel itself agrieved by the -bppression and extortion which the abuse natural ly eaused. Iron, oil, vinegar, coal, lead, starch, yarn, leather, glass, could only ve bought at xhorbitant prices.'' So great was the storm of indignation traised, that the Queen's reign would tiave. ended in shame and disgrace if she had not submitted to a redress of these grievances by the House of Com mons. Again and again was this bat tle fought under succeeding reigns. Old Sir John Culpepper attacked them fiercely in the,Long Parliament, and speaking of the monopolies and poll era of; the people, characterized them in the rude English of that day as "a nest of wasps; a swarm of vermin which have over-crept the. 'land. .'Like the frogs ef Egypt they, have gotten pos session of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. .They sup in our cup ; they dip in our dish ; they sit by our fire. We find them in the dye-fat, wash-bowl and powdering tub, They share with the butler in his box. Theywill not bate as apinvWemajr not buy our clothes without their brok age These are the leeches which have sucked the commonwealth so hard that it is almost hectical. Mr. Speaker, I have echoed to you the cries of the Kingdom." - Thgse sjnonopolies spoken ot by Mr. Culpepper,' embraced wine, coal, salti starch;irie dressing of meat in taverns, beavm.JJeitstbohe', lace; leather, pins, and, evethet gathering of rags. But finally, Ttheir legality came into the courts, and the great Case of Monopolies reportedin, 11 Coke was decided by which thev wAre declared utterly void, and so between' the courts andParliamenL 1! - monopolies weia luiouj uveruu,wii among. the Jititish people, and cast out as a badge of tyrannyrana 'oppression. This was, consummatedjby the statute 21 James the H, bv which it was declared that all monopolies ' and all commis sions, grants, licenses, charters, and let ters patent to any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, whatsoever, of or for the sole, buying, selling; mak ing, working or using of any thing with in the realm, were altogether contrary to the laws of the realm, . and, utterly void.- Thus did our ancestors after great and long, continued struggles, free themselves and their posterity from the' curse of monopolies. Though, by the spirit of odr institutions their creation by law. is ,no Jong5rvjejcmittd-rexciln-i sive privileges being allowed to none yet in a different shape these same evils are comingliatily1 npod the American people. r"They.inight now properly be called monopolies created by, circum stances under the forms of lawthe logical extreme of the laws Twrpectln'g; the right of . property. ' Railroad com panies are chartered for the purpose of accommodating the public by the cheap and rapid transportation or : th "j)ro- ducta of industry.-..) ; Their construction requires vast outlays of inony--fsoTast as to be beyond the rteach of individuals. id even many communities. . jliw an tial di8tribntioiltf wfealtlucanseajth: Simulation of capital to ojir great mercial ntti&j$m wisely, ahd orlt.imatelv annlied this is one.. Of the ieatestaidto mmereial prosperity, but iaaceompanie WitH ar immense power to inflict injury. v Tot want of more beneficent channels oflnvestment this capital tbeii presentr age xbas shown a tendency to combine for pniv pose$ cprbfitinf th4imo,ahger6to(: anq onassaiiw,orinB5.m, iuwwiwij; Sudha combination'.; will rtpurehase all thai Hnef atlway-ta '8tateM?Jp. in hrentBrritoryraiid byWitting, off allxompetitkni, bold' the people that territory practically at their mercy This is as complete a moior)r-as; Bpy ever granted by b4 Kings of France cr England, f6rlf the commuhitiea thus endangered are unable to- bnild corn- petinglineS .of transrjoTUtioLd cnV ig- lines "of jtranspottttlolo.fn ent of ylejtfsiaturflf orexclusive icaXiS Of-anssaMrAiim An wreffectually forbid them7 helphjf tion ofthft jeater-part of:ihe people .of v Nofth 'uCSarolinau t A corporation chartereyneigbrrig Sttite? called the RichroOTrti '.affdr'pahvine " Rail- W'paTOtiiirvtery ,,o?jStatft commerce jUaa-i oncjaroiins aului goad, has rone on axulintf Toad'after rpad nntil.they , have secured ycontral of ttieVVestem North Carolina; the Orth Western North Carolina; the Char lotte, Columbia -and Augusta; the At lanta and Charlotte Air-Line ; the Spar tanburg and AsheVille; the Spartan burg and Union and the .Virginia Mid land, and. are said to be treating for the remainder i ini this region. By , these means they dominate the only remain ing road by which all: that: vast region West of Raleigh san find . a way to the sea for its products. And now a region of country embracing In North' Caroli na alone a population of more than 800.00& souls, . to say nothing of the re gions in adjoining States, is - under an "astnction" as to every thing they sell abroadr and everything they buy from abroad. . Three men, or at most a half dozen, compel these 800,000 by force of circumstances, as rigid as positive law, . w, amy uuu i o-ouip e vervtuiug . oy tneir lines of transportation at their own i prices; 2Jo ."Multure, "thirlage" or, -enranaom" or tne Middle Ages was i more inexorable. Everywhere our corn i ' Not a bale. 6f Our cotton, not a pound of our tobacco, not a I arrel of our naval stores; not a, bushel of Our wheat, can be sent abroad that these lords, do not .first sit in counsel and determine how much thereof shall be their's. Nor can a saek of salt, or of coffee, or a pound of iron, or anything else that pur peo- lip.iiijcu Aiuuj cxuiuiui ua uiougut . into ;them,tWithout a levy of their "multure." One hundred afid seventy jSenators" and iRepreseitatives of the people meet bi ennially in the city of Raleigh, and iand under the solemnities of ' ; ian' bath and the responsibility of an account to an Outraged people if they do wrong, levy with the utmost impartiality and justice, $500, 000 annually upon the people, fot the Support of the government; this half dozen men without oath, and no respon sibility to anybody;, in a distant city; without the pride of citizenship, from time to time sit down and levy a tax of more than three times that which our Legislature imposes, and- collect it by distress. They levy it too without fair-' ness or justice, making a man in pne community pay more for the same ser vice than oue-th another community, and Of ten making this difference be tween men in the same community. Truly they sup" in our cup, they dip in our dish. "These ate the leeches who suck our commonwealth, and they will not bate us a pin;' Truly did Mr. justice Field, in con struing the words "Involuntary Servi tude," in the Slaughter House cases, say, "it is clear that they include some thing more than slavery in the strict sense of the term ; they include also serfage, vassalage,- villeinage, peonage, and all other forms of compulsory ser vice for the mere benefit or pleasure of oiners: ' But it is asked have not men a right to buy railroads, any number of . them; anywhere, if they have the money t Surely they have. So men iwho have the money, have a legal right to buy all the corn in a community, and yet when they do so, and bold it for sale at their own prices, they are Indictable at com non law, as for a misdemeanor. Now, what ia the difference, legal or moral, between buying up all the corn, and all the lines of transportation by- which men alone can get corn, and holding them at their own, prices? Is it not a crime against trade to so employ capi tal as to destroy competition the life thereof? And when corporations, crea ted for. purposes of public convenience, pervert the powers granted them into instruments of public oppression, is it not the plain and manifest duty Of the State, their creator, to take them in hand and correct these abuses V The power of the State to do so is undenia ble. It would be absurd to say that the creature of the State may set its creator at defiance; absurd to say that the State in granting a charter, does so by a law that is forever irrepealable, and that it parts with its police power over the company so formed in anything affected with a public interest. Has this1 corporation so abused its privileges? Has it oppressed the peo ple of North Carolina? I have so charged and am responsible for the truth of my allegation. When I set about collecting the proof I found the utmost difficlty in so doing. Many men, brave and honorable men, frankly con fessed they were afraid to furnish me any papers, saying, we are in the power of this corporation it can ruin us and will do it without hesitation if they find out we have helped you in the least. One gentleman, among many, of large business, wrote me at. the begin ning of this controversy a most encour aging letter and offering any aid in his power to redress the grievances of our people. Later he wrote me that the railroad company had doubtless heard of that letter and his business was al ready, suffering- and. begged .to be ex cused. Those who have furnished me proof of extortion and discrimination will-doubtless suffer severely for their rashness. They may rest assured, how ever, that in the end they will fare bet ter than those Who have made friends with the unrighteous mammon, and licked the hand that smote them. Not withstanding all efforts to sup press the truth I have obtained much testimony. Here is some of it The original bills can be seen by any one who will call on me. Take ; the item corn. Charlotte, once had a large trade in this article, buying in the western counties of the State and i distributing to the cotton growing couaues. suuui oi uer, at ireigac rates which, left a fair profit Now those rates are as follows: to Charlotte from Newton 16c per 100 lbs-from Hickory lt.Morganton ra Marion 21J)ld Fort 22,Bridgewater20,Asheville24, From Richmond ty Charlotte, nearly three times further than to Newton, the rate 14 16c per 100, From Newborn, the great corn mart of the State, to Char lotte, precisely, the same distance as Richmond, the rate has recently been reduced to 21?c to Greensboro. Doubt less the publicity lately given to this matter, will force a still further reduc tion, perhaps even to the Richmond rate. .This Is the chance Charlotte merchants, who paid lartrely to the building of these roads, have for get ting in gram to supply their customers. jM.ow.see wnat cnance they have for gettingit Out. - Compare the following caoies taxe? irom the o Pjimnanv'a nwn nmisia: wTo!- ' ; From Charlotte LariCHster, (70 miles) 82 e Bock-Hill,!! K8 miles) 18c Wlnnsboroj (71 mites) 28c EVdgeway. (84 miles) z8o Por-;l miles) 8e , Flour Is1 still worse . From Richmond (353 miles) 82c (308 miles) 88c (854 miles) 2c 386niilea) 18c (373 miles) - 20 c 80c liTrom Lexing- ton to Charlotte, fJp miJes, it is 45c per wi.i irom xiicKory .ac per ddi w miles j f rem Richmond,. 283 miles, it is 45c pbbJ,an(lfrom CohcOrd, 20 miles, it is fiOc per bbl. I am informed upon the authority of a gentleman' of large miuiiu liiLcretsu in ourry county, tnat pbt lom since he undertook to sell flour in GoId8borOL 15B Thflen frntn Winafnn is shfoping point-the freights were so high that he could not compete with the flour that came all the war" iron. Chicago and so abandonej&vtha. at tempts :; -...-?;lty.;J ' On tobacco, leaf, the rates alsshoW a great discrimination against tha mar kets and producers of North Carolina.' JSliettt? tntSi a. wellnowuren izea of this State,, who -esUblished a bpurfe In that city for the salrOf North to hny iJ;Un.Bibjnond . jorfVlrglnia ; that the freighted are - much cheaper than if aMbQughtt ett .antf shippedlt imlhe pfaOeMWhete it ' Was T grown. jsarrnfftne' receiiu visit 'or.tnejjommi.s ffohfers ftrtfo Wft. othf ..Weite'rn North almWknrdad'werask ed the general, freight-, agent of;1f that ,f road 5 Hfhat ' were the rates on leaf tobacco front .Asheville' andJtfarion? He replied that, from ; both points to Danville and.Richmond; iHia rotik moo Rrin nar fna 1Kb 1 TITini- vv . . wj wj jut., a. r v ill ston, Reidsville and Durham he told us they had no rates, for the reason that no One ever shipped any tobacco from Asheville or Marion to Durham, and they were never asked for rates in that direction. The next day I met on the streets of Asheville four dealers who said they shipped a great part of all they handled to Durham. One firm said they had shipped there during the past season more than 100,000 lbs. On examining their bills, some of which I have, I found they had paid to Durham over 62c per 100 lbs., and to Danville, only 12 miles nearer," about 56c per 100 lbs. ' Here was a direct discrimination against the largest tobacco manufac turingtown in North Carolina in favor of its Virginia rival, and an attempt to ignore all the, markets of the State in favor of that system which has made North Carolina production build up Danville, Lynchburg and" Richmond. No wonder thaNew Orleans merchant has to buy his North Carolina tobacco in Virginia. I have ih my possession a certificate by Messrs. Mills & Walker, merchants in Newbern, which tes tifies that in July last they purchased ed a trial tierce ' of leaf tobacco Asheville, and had it shipped to them over the North Carolina road; that the freight thereon wa3 atthe rate of $1.28 per 100 pounds, and that they immedi ately declined to buy any more in Asheville on that account, though anx ious' to do so. New ;Berne, be it re membered, is the same distance' from Asheville as Richmopd, to which place the rate on tobocco is 65c per loo lbs. : The following bills of freight wiJI further illustrate the discriminations : From hird Creek to Concord, 10 bags rye, 495 lbs. ... . . . . $ 1 80 From Klchmond to Concord; 24,000 lbs. ' oats....... , 88 40 Rye and oats are both classed "D:' Now, it will be seen that the one from Third Creek to Concord paid 36c, per 100 lbs. for 32 miles,' whilst the other, from Richmond to Concord, 262 miles, paid 16c per 100 lbs! Perhaps that rye was "double first-class," or mayhap it was an "overcharge ;" but there are the bills. Call and see them. A rate on North Carolina rye sixteen times greater, dis tance and amount considered, than that on Virginia Oats, will do pretty well for a compliance with section 20 of the act of sale. ' On cotton I have not been able to make a critical comparison of rates, a3 most of it is shipped directly through to New York. But what is doing in North Carolina and what on routes through more favored sections, may be inferred from a letter I have to a cotton broker in Concord. For some years he had been supplying a factory m Mt. Airy, N. Cn the owners of which write that they ard now buying in Rome, Ga., the price there being some less and the freights ttftiAe same! Rome is 378 miles further from Winston, the snip ing point for ML Airy, than is Concord. SO tnatby reason .of high freights the North Carolina manufacturer can not afford to buy at his own door! The same gentleman lost a valuable cus tomer in Pennsylvania in the same way, he finding it much cheaper to buy his cotton in Memphis some 600 miles further away. : I fear to make this article too long by giving many particulars, nor am I ca pable of doing full justice to the sub ject, not prof essing ; to be an expert in the business of freight shipping. And verily it requires an expert not to un derstand a business which Should be.but is not, exceedingly plain and simple but to understand the manner ih which professed railroad men do business, and the mystery and complication with which they envelope it, for purposes of their own. The science of chemistry contains scarcely more technicalities and formulas. They will deny that 50c on a barrel of flour from Charlotte to Concord, whilst the charge on the same barrel from Richmond to Charlotte is 45c, would be a discrimination; and they Will explain this by a technology of their own. Common sense and jus tice refuse to be deceived by this. . If a thief be drawn up, charged .with larce ny, it would hardly do, after he had ad mitted the fact of the taking of the goods in the manner charged, for the court to let him off, upon his alle gation that according to the rules and technicalities established among thieves he was not guilty of larceny. So man kind understand a discrimination to be the charging of oue man more than an other for the same service rendered and no amount of railroad! jargon or plead ing of railroad usages, can, obliterate the fact xne instances or discrimina tion herein cited are in regard to the leading articles of State production, by the Richmond & Danville Railroad generally. The particular instances of discriminations on the part of the West ern North Carolina Railroad Company forbidden under section 20, of the act of sale.j about which'l have collected some proof, I shall reserve until after the charge has been thoroughly investigate ed at a meeting of the Board of Com missieners, which I have asked to le held in Charlotte soon. What I.have here said in relation to freight charges is but a tithe of what could be said, but I hope will be suf ficient to attract attention to the ini quities against which I have sounded the alarm. One fact alone speaks volumes more than I could speak on this sub ject Notwithstanding we have rail road communication between the east and the west in this State, a man may walk through all the towns of Western North Carolina and find few or no pro ducts of the east exposed for sale ; he may walk through all the towns of the east and find still fewer products from the west for sale. The reason is doubt less found in the fact that induced Messrs. Mills &. Walker to decline buy ing tobacco in Asheville. A vegetable grocer in Concord shipped fifteen bush els of potatoes from Newbern to his place in ten sacks. I have his bill for the potatoes, the sacks and the freight The price ef the potatoes was 'six dol lars, the price of the sacks one dollar, the freight was six dollars and sixty cents, So after receiving his goods the merchant had just the ; price of four sacks left, to-wit, forty cents. ' He ought to have bought his potatoes1 in Rich mond. ;I wrote to a friend in Wilmington to procure and send me any bills of freight-he could find there for Western products, fruit, yegetables, ScCn shipped; from any . point on the Western North Carolina Railroad. He replied he could find none. Nothing whatever from Western :North Caro lina is ever brought to this market, the freights will not permit, But I forbear. Men of North Carolina,:! "echo to you the cries of the kingdom." I have laid before you with perfect candor the rea sons for. my action . as a Com-. Sissidner of the Western North irolina Railroad, and. my - feel in firs and' instincts v as n a. eLtisen- If I have acted wisely and with integri-f ty, I hope f Or your apprpoauon; a naa and have no personal ends to promoter If I know., my. 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