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The National la located within fifty vards
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'HALKIBH AM IT W4»- AND
'KALRIGii AMITIV
I. ITS OIiKJIX, ETC.
The city ofßale ! gh is the beautiful
monument erected by the new to one
of the most illustrious jrolitical mar
tyrs of the old \vor Id. Most appro
" p.'iutcly tlocs it preserve the name ol
Sir Walter llulcigh, the slatcii:au,Bnf*
tlior ami cavalier, nnder whose aus
pices was tilted out ll'c first expedi
tion tlml ever landed in the now Uni
ted States, ftoru in 1562, advanced
to tiie most exulted honors under the
favor and smiles of the ''Virgin
Queen," ho -as cruelly beheaded on
la.'Bu charges on the 29t|- dav ot'Octo
ber, 1618, at the instance and procure
ment'of the pusillanimous James, the
first.
Tiiere were few more exciting top*
ics iu anfe-revolutiotiary times than
the location of the scat of government
tft North Carolina. During Lie re*X
ofF.TToii ihTGeneral As-cmbty met in
accordance with the exigencies of the
limes, respectively at Newborn. Kin
-8 on. tiulifax, Smithfield. Hil sboro,
Salem mnl-Wake Court House. [l'he
county of'Wafcc was erected in 1772
the
iii.Ttdcn name ef 'lie amiamo ttii.l ac
tOo,lssW
(governor ot JVotlh .Carolina. :sot
the first time that charms of person
and ofcf.arnctcr have been wedded
to a repulsive and uncongenial u:i>'
I »ii!] x\ tier the revolution the
lature convened at IHll>boro in 1782-
3; at Newborn in 1784-a; at Favette
rijfcfe 1786; aCr^orp and
leTiii-ne'd trgdfii to' FaytHAVille in'
1788, * '** -Yrt m%
In 1787, the Ge:iet\.l Assembly had
resolved ihut it "be recommended to
•(■ho people of the Slate to authorize
and direct their representatives in the
Contention culled to con»ider the
Federal cons til HI ion to fix on the
p/aco for (he unalterable lout of gov
ernment.- •
Tlie Conventif 0 met at liillsboro
in Aujfiwt, 1788, and resolr«.f
fli» Ooiivruti'Mi '* will not Ax the seal
*f government at one particular j>n(nt.
•»nt that it shili be left to the discrc
■ ion of tlie Assembly, to ascertain tlie
«xnct spot, provided always, that il
•hall bo wilhiu ten miles of the plan
tation wherenp' ii Isaac Hunter now
resiles i-i t|>« coitnlyjof \Wike."
Tno foftowing 'eUiroPiar article is
0r Noil.: 0.-irolii|»G'«e/tiotj|ie 20th
|(l ; Nji|6ni|)ei»-, 17VQ .Jf 9 *
"Oil Thursday last the ulfl m? car
rying iyt>  fldkt the Ordinance of the
Ctjtnrviitiniij held at iu
f or holding ilie fuiiire meetings
•f the V-ftut't' 1- , Ajr , came
Itfifore the House ot'-t*»mw*ws, when
t|e question was.pyj,., sl|.i|j this hill
pjiss! 'the Hou&e.livile|3, and there
appeared fifty-one for itj fnd fifty-one
against it, whereupon the Speaker,
(flfr Cabarrus) gave his own vote
and pronounced the passage ot the
bill. It was then sent to Ihe Senate,
when that House divided, and there
aupeartd an equal ef votes
for and against the passage of the bill,
whereupon the Speaker (General JLe
noir) gave tlie casting vote against its
passage, and the bill wasTsjected."
In 1791,"however, the Ueueral As
sembly met at Newoerp, and iu com
pliance with the.postive constitution
al injniicfioil passo Jan act to carry
the Ordinance of 1788 into eflCct. The
act provides that ten perrons shall be
appoiiiled to lay off ant locate the
City within feu miles ot fhcplautufioii
of Isaac ilumer, and five persons ".o
cause to be built and erecttd a State
House sufficiently large to Accommo
date wi h convenience botti houses of
the General Aseetnbly, at «n expense
not to exceed teu thousand pounds."
Iu the following year (1792) a ma-
jorily yt lbe commissioners to wit:
Frederick ilargett, Willie Jones,
Joseph McDowell, Thomas Blount,
William Johnson DaWson and Jame*
Martin met on the 4*h of Apri!, and
ou the following day purchased of
001. Joel Lane 1,000 acres of la/.d,
and laid off the plan of a cftv, con-,
taming 400 acres, arranged iu five
square* of 4 acre-, and 276 loir of one
acre each, Caswell square." (he site
0t tlte litsiitute for the Dmn'j
and blind.) the Northwestern; Bu-kc,
(Ihe site of the Raleigh Academy.)
tha Northeastern; Nash, tbe South-
WAt'eru; Moore, the Southeastern;
a»»tj Dulon, iip which the Sfc'e House
stamis, the Capitol Square. Tho
names of the towns in the direction
toward which tbe principal streets
ran gave them tbeir designations and
GRAffAM, N- C., TUESDAY, JUfvE 5 1877
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the noines of the commissioners and
other prominent ehieens were applied
!o the others. Newborn, Hillsboro,
llaliltix and Favetfevillestreets were
made 99 feet iu width and all the oth
er.* G6 leot.
The first cliartoi'tor the city was
granted by the Legislature in 1792,
and coutainslui little more than a
confirmation of the action of the com
missioners iu laying otf the city.
In December, 1794, the General
Assembly met, for the first time, in
the now State House, authorized by
..lie legislature ot 1791.
In 1802,, art act was parsed, requir
ing the Governor to reside at the seat
of government, aifd an unpretending
two story frame building, and an ex
ecutive office on the comer, were
erected o:i the lot where the Italeixh
National Bank property now stands.
Here successively resided Governors
Turner, Alt xander. Williams, SIOIIC,
Smith aid Hawkin*,. In 1818, how
ever, the Assembly nppoTiiled c/iTff
missioueVs io superintend the erection
on the public lands iifcar the city, of a
proper residence for the Governor, at
a cost not to exceed 5,000 pound*
sterling, ••Palace,'' (l uc.u* a
iion lucendo.) ut the Southern ex
iroiuity ot Fayotiville street, first j>c
e.npied ab-iut 1816 by Governor Miller
and now used for the pnr|xises of
the'-Graded School, was the result of
their supervisory labors.
In 1819, Duncan Cameron, John
Winslow, Joseph Gales, William Ho
bards and Henry Pottei - wero au
tiit'i'izud to oell all or part the
lands purchased of Joel with
the exception of the, Stone Quarry, in
lots to suit purchasers. *
The Governor was nulhottiscd,fVom
lhe proceeds of the sale, to improve
he State House under the direction
of'lie State Arciiiteot, and in con*
toimity with a pl.n which he had
prepared and submitted tatho (jencr»
al Assembly,
Gov. Swain. in his interesting ad
dress at the opening of Tucker Hull
in 1867. thus deserves this building
as it was orljpially and atter 1t "was
remodeled and reuovatod:
"In form it was substantially, so
f»r as llie body of tbo building was
concerned, though on a smaller scale,
very similar to the present edifice. It
was divided by broad jiassages on I lie
ground floor,•from North to South
and from East to West, intersecting
In • hcce'iitr iat right angles. Tlie
' frf-es of the Secretary, I'nb'icTreas
urer and Comptroller were on «hc
lower floor. The Senate Chaiu'Jcmud
llall of the House of Commons, with
the offices, appurtenant, above as
at present. The £xecu>ive office, as
has been stated, was contiguous to
the palatial residence.
'•The passages and halls of the first
State-house supplied all, and more
than afl, the au-:ouimodatiouß to tho
public contemplated by the founders
of this less extensive, but bettor fur.
nished and more finely finished edi
fice# Divine worship on the Sabbath,
balls pn festive occasions, theatrical
representations, sleight of hand per
formances, and last but not least,
Fourth of July orations and Fourth ot
Julv dinners, all fouHd their places
and their votaries for a tune. These
passage* and these hall* were supplied
by the public tieasurt of ihc State.X
"The construction of the dome, the
erection of the ea-t and west portico
es,,the additional elevation and cov
et tog of stucco given to the dingy ex*
terior walls, the Improvement of the
interior; and especinlly the faction
of the statue of Washington from III*
chisel of Cmova, a noble specimen o 1
a noble art, commemorative o the no
blest or wen, in Hie rotunda, at the
point ot intersection ot the passages
directly under the.apoxol the dome
converted Hie renovate.l capilol into a
sightly and most attractive edifice.
••There were but few of the better
class of lraveliers who dhl in t j ause
on tbeir passage through Raleigh to
heboid aud atkuire it."' >
This edifice was destroyed by fire
.011 the 2U*I day of June, 1831. the
cause being the alleged carelessness
of a tinner iu soldering fbe root—and
with it was destroyed the Italian
sculotor's roaster peice. Fell fire
fiend! Pitiless alike of the home of
doinestictiojoys and the proudest me
morials of art and geuiusl
rTiic corner-stone of tbe present
8 pier did Oapitol vva- laid J a 1^4,1833
b); Ihc Ilfii. D. L. Swain. L.L.D.,
then Governor of the Stale.
The early Chief Magistrates of Ral
eigh were designated bv the title of
Iqtei«dauU>of police, and Its, "Ciiy
Fathers" by the appellation of Com*
tnissioners, —names which haye given
way to the more pretentionv but
proper, distinctions of Mayor,
Alder Men. We regret that we canuoi
the names of all those aho
have served the eitv, in the former
capacity, sinco its infancy. The
memory of the writer of these
sketches jfoos back to the times when
the salary of ma Uiti'udauts was for*
ty dollars per annum, and when the
filled by Joseph Gule*.
ThosnfUobb, William Clark, Weston
It Brier. Thomas Loriiur, James
fJchfoKl and-others—nil *ot whom
have gone to rest. Ami so ..through
another peried. when llie position -.vas
held by William Dallas 11avwood,
G'narles B. Hoot and Win. 11. Harris
son, how living. to the praseut excels
lent administration of Mi.j. Basil C.
Manly, who inherited an honored
name, closely associated with t lie ear
ly history of RMleigh. — Otter cer.
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WHERE THE MONET WBifV
A noted lawtr ot the Oxford cir
cuit had a case on hand in which,
among otlier tilings, he wished to
prove that his client had no money,
and to that end he cross-questioned
one of tba opponent's witnesses as fal
lows.
"You asked my clieut for money,
did yon not?"
"Well—yes, tir."
"Answer promptly, sir. Let us
have no hesitation. You asked liini
tor money. Now what was his an *
wei?" *
"I don'i know as 1 can tell."
' But surely you remember?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then out with it. Whit was his
answer?"
'Td rather not tall."
"Ho! hoi You are on the task,
are you? You
"I , would rather not, sir." '
"But you runst; and, if you do cot
iinswer my question promptly and
truthfully, I'll call upon the court to
commit you fur con temp."
"Well, sir, if 1 must tell tales out
of school, here you have it. 1 asked
him yesterday if be could lend me
aalf a crown, and he told ine he
couldn't."
"And you believed him, did yon
not?"
" Vex, sir) for he said you had robbed
him of every peuny of hie ready
money, and tf he diau't get out of
your hands pretty soon his wife and
little one would come to
'•That will do, sir. Ycu can step
down/*
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WHAT UILII IfIAKK ÜBN9 LAY.
Put two or uiqre quarts of water
in a kettle, and one large seed pepper
or two small ones, then put the ket
tle over the fire. When the water
boils, stir in coarse Indian meal until
you have a thick innsh. Let it cook
an hour or so. Feed hot Horse
radiah chop)*ed fine and stirred into
mush as prepared in the above direc
tions, and for results we are getting
frowMjvft'fo ten eggs per day; where
at*, previous to feeding we had not
had eggs for a long time. We hear a
great deal of complaint from other
peopje about not getting eggs. To
such we would warmly recommend
j cooked food, fed hot. Boiled apple
I skins, seasoned with red pepi«r; or
v boiled potatoes seasoned with horse
radub, are good for feed, much better
than uuoouked food. Corn, when
fed to the ttens by itself, has a ten
dency to Ustteu liens rather than of
producing the more profitable egg
laying. A s|»oouftil of sulphur
stirred with their fend occassionally
will rid them of vermin mad tone up
their ftysteuia. It is especially good
lor yoong chickens or turkeys. {
Out of a flock of ten hatohed last
November* we have lost bnt one.
'liter have been fed cooked feed
mostly and growing finely.— Ohio
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Eleven States will bold election
beforo the meetig si Cougreas, viz;
Oregon, in J one; Alabama, in An v j
gust; Arkansas, California, Vermont
and Maine, in September; West
Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and lowa,
October. I
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DRIED EGGS.—A la rgp establish
ment has bewn opened i„ St. Loui
for drying eggs. It is iu full operation
and hundreJs of thousands of dozen.-*
art going into ita insatiable maw.
The eggs are can fully "candled" by
hand—that ia, examined by light
to ascertain whether good or not—
art) then thrown iuto an immense
r receptacle, where they are broken,
and bjr a centrifugal operation the
whilo and yolk are separated from the
shell vo»y much A liquid honey fc
separated froft. the comb. Hie liquid
is then drieJ by heat, by patent
process, and the dried article is left,
resembling sugar; and it is put i'u
barrels and is ready for transportation
anywhere. Thia driod artiole has
'a-en twice across the equator in
ships, and then made into omelet, and
ootumrml with omeiet made from
fresh eggs in the same manned, and
tin best judges could not detect the
difference between the two' ls ibi*
not AU age of wonder? Milk mad.
twlid, cider made solid, apple battel
•nude iuto brick I What next?"
Philadelphia TrwU Journal.
•A War R«alai*«MM,
One morning a (tarty were sitting
at While Sulphcr, and the converxa
ilon had fallen opon the lato war.
Personaf reminiscence was in order.
Each was the hero of hi* own hair
breadth e*cnpe, and the sequels were
blood and thunder.
ear shot sat an old grays
coaled Virginian,attentively listening
and 'nrulog his quid reflectively be
between his teeth. At length lie
spoke l
"Gentlemen*, yon've all been
through aheap, but they haint none
otvon had a wuss time uor I, I'll
bet."
"Which side wa« you on?" asked
one.
"ATnrj a Mrte, genlfcmens, but 1
hnd a very hard lime," and the old
tellow drawing out birquid of reflec«
tlon, proceeded:
Waif, when the war fust broke out,
1 didn't know uiuch about it nohow.
I was studying it out. but hed'nt
come to no judgment.. One night my
darter Mary Ann was took powerful
sick. The doctor he wrote a ecflpt,
and told me to go right rf amiget It.
So I bridled my eld mnr', and started.
Wall, gentlemen*, when (got I reek
on. 'bout thru? tulles from home—it
wus inonst IOIIS dark—s une ouo call*
ed out hull I and I baited. Fust I
ku iwed, 1 was a prisoner, ami the
boys was round thicker uor June
bug*, Sez they: 4 Who are you
fur.'" Bez I: -'Gentlemen*, darter
Miry Ann, she"—Sez they: "Dam
Mary Ann I Who are you fur? 3|*e»k
out. liuirah somebody 1" 1 studiedu
minif, an' sez I, on a ventur' like 1 :
"Hurra for Jefl Dav.s!"They sez mad
as hornets: "I told you he was ad—d
rebel. Git off that toarl"
"Gentlemen*, I haint telling yon no
He. when I sez they took mo off inv
mar', and bucked me over a log, ami
triii me five hundred. It hurt me pow
erful bad; I was monstrous sore. 1
mounted my mar* and 'tar ed on. 1
had'ut got tnure'n three uiilles when
I lieerftl noilnr voice call out:
"Halt I" and I billed ; and agin the boy
had iWo. "Who are you fur?" *ez
they. Sez I, '•Gentlemen-, my darter
Majy Ann Is powerful sick, an' tbe
(loetoti 1 —'*Dum the docloi I who arc
you fur? hurrah for fomebody I" ;
' '*l wau t going tu be kotched agio,
so 1 Jest took oil my hat, ami scz 1 at
load n« I could: "ilurruh for
oobi?" "There?" *cz I uey,madder nor
b>az -a, "I told yon ho was a »l—d
traitor! Get down oil that uiar'. Gem*
llcuicus. 1 hain't telling you no lie.
Tlioy iuk me oft lliat mar', ami buck
®d Uie over a kv, ami, jen where -1
Mus soie, they gin toe Ave hundred
uw\ It was monstrous bad. But 1
g ton an' went along. Jest as 1 was.
;a coining into town, mother man eall>-
ed out: * llalil" «ui' 1 billed. '•Who
are you lur?" sez lie, "Hurrah lor
somebody." Gentlemen*. I waiiV
never agoln' to be kotched agin. 1
Jem sez. "Mister, yon'jett be so kicd
as burrab fust jest this once. ,
Whore a. fond wife decides to acs
company her husband to a soda water
fountain, and whilo sho says "saraa
pnrilla'' and be leans over to whisper
to the attendants, the syrup be takes'
comes froth under the counter, and
looks like molasses.— &. T. Herald,
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NO, 1 4
A Virginia paper thinks tint Sena
tor Jones of Nevada, the miUion4to,
ia the identical Joues .who used la,
laddie tiunare In that State. Be
may be, eve« U even ,If
lie isn't, for that matter. Anight spent
on the Pontine marshe's wouldn't
more deleterious to the health or*in
mi warmed man tell" hi in so.— Courier
Journal. ' J '
Let the people cl the South so act
Juriug this peace administration tbat
it will be Impossible ever again to
raise the bloody shirt except to be .
ridiculed and hissed. Let the hatch
et remain buried till its rust fructi
tiej the ground.—Chattanooga Timet
Dem.
When a women makes apberoiind
• hat a lien shall not set, and the ben
makes up her tfiind she will, tbe JiS
irrisifctible meets the immovable, and
emry law of nature is broken or
perverted. :
Don't denonce the whole world
because you 101 l to make it adopt
vour ideas. It is a sort of a self,
willed woijd eny way, and per*
haps the best one yon will get in>
to.
Don't undertake to do in a week
or year what Omnipotence has failed
to do in five thousand yean—make
man perfect.
Don't tall at the ballance of man
kitid until vou have plucked the
H'i«'# out ot yourself, and l>€tore that
•he gitths will be growing over
yoa.
Don't anathemafixe the cat family
because pussy scratches yen when
you ruh the hair the wrong way,
You'll find a good deal of cat la
yourself and ;he rest of your iellow
mortals.
Don't envy the man who tempore*
rlly figures before the public. The
buffoon on stilts above tlis crowd.
It • what's under him, not iu Idm that
makes liiui conspicuous. f
Don't think every mau who meets
with popular applause a heio. Meu
have been known to worship wooden
gods cuts, snake*, lizards and other
reptile*, ami yet they were uoye the
le*s the woodeu gods, cats, snake
and lisxards.
Don't hold yonrsolfat such a low
esrlmto »s to become a boot-lick to
on* who il made onrofjusMlie same
kfinfofdirt thatyoti are.
Don't hold yourself in such high
esteem and get mud at your fellow
nieir »ucauee they do not recognize
a lion when you exhibit nil ass.
Don't seek notoriety unless you
are muster of yourselt. You are not
half a* apt to exhibit tne rent in your
neither garment on-the level ground
as when you undertake to climb a
polo.
Don't)Yiiuk that yon cut be re
>petuhle'lirpubllc position and a dog
in private life, If you hays a dogs
instincts you are ouly a dog no matter
how high you climb.
Don't contract the ha hits oftha dog
either, for you will bark sometime
When ton didn't in ten J to betray
yourself.
Don't expect fo bamboozle mankind
by plat lug the roll oi (lie trickster and
intrgner. it's a life-gatue, hard to
sustain, ami when it plays out the
payer jiluys out, too. Aud then be
become* contemptible.
Don't bold hypocricy in aeyof the
aflltn of life, in church or State, above
candor. Yon art not smart enough || ~
to humbug the world and keep it
bninlmged.
Don't sWelt like a tond because
accident lifts you temporarily out of
VOiw obscurity, .for then. every bedy
I will know you are a toad.
Dbn't humilate all those oonnectod
wiffiyou by making a beast or au asa
out ofyoursejr* when you could lust
M well avpi'J it. . •»,
Don't run th-« of riskW making a
beast or nm out of yonrtelf tyr gnx
zling, Hun When you have not the
sense to nse it in moderation,
Doirr think that "yon can convert
your rtoifach Into a stiH and keep
a cool head, it you have en*,head.
Don't think I tat. you £an spend
years contracting habits to be cast
aside iu a momer.t. A man who has
not strength enough to resist tlie con
traction of a habit will hardly have
;! *■ 'tf"trt?
AMI baa passed the -IHlonia Leg
islature authorial»g railroad cons
due tors to atop trains and put off
! ftvrybody playing cards tor money or
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