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mil HUH ,i n iiWMimn ii in rHr-rtfW ' Trr1fniaMMM,a 11 1 111 1 1 - mm MMM M i - ;--, 5 - 1 ' - - - - -".---'. j, " , ' , ' " - . ' . 4 s . --a- 1 i 3- ii I I; f . 1 5 ; 1" tl: hi , r j US' fl !- i; Hi M u sv- THE NOETH STATE: THURSDAY, APjlll 1, 1880. fTiiE "Nobth State is cttemd AT sxc- OSI CLASS MOTH1- - ,ttte of Guilford Cocnlj -dito for holding County Conreation toap Snt dekfitl to lhaBUt Conrtntion. A fall Attendance desired. - ; "i XATio3iAt Cotto of the Epoblicn party will xnet a Chicego. on Wdndy, the Id dr Jaiie . !' o'clock soon, for Ue Dominion of candidate to be eoo portSi for Frcident And Vioe-Preudd . IJmted SUtcs at Ike next election. Hepubli- m hn enumerate with them in gapttortine the nominee of the p&rtj, Aretn Tited to chooM tro delegate from ech Con- i am fonr el laree from each btlie, two from eich Territory, od two ftoo thb Wetrkt'of Colambia, to represent them, to the Convention. . y r i. p. Cavzbov, ChairmAn. Tiiovas R. Keooh. 8ertry. BZPTTBIJCA3I BTATECoKVEfTICW FOB J0 The; next Bepnblkp Stote ConTenbon of North iv,. hk nr.mInn.tion of GoTernef na tobfflm ad Presidential Elector. at Lerce, wilf U held t the dry of Kafeigh.on JhLt . 1b8Q. at 12 o'clock, lioon; end will conjijst of dele ctr from f pch county equal to twice the num btf rPf " Bfi'ftRen'ativea in the House branch of the Old era 1 Amiiy. . C. Y. Gexjidt, Chairman. F, M. RoBiusiJ., Secretatjr. Kentucky and Txa8 have elected Gnpt delegates to the Chicago Con teotion. Without exaggeration thjs lcgislft tnre boat be said to have p?ayd Xj, They havB sold the Western N. C. It. Ii. and expi lled Joe Tnrner. j The Charleston (SL C.) New ex presses the opinion that Georgia must be prepared, as Sooth Carolina is, to fight Independentism all along the line this Summer, or the bottom of the Democratic Party will drop oat in No vember. ' , The local committee of arrange ments for the Republican Rational Con vention at Chicago has let the contract for potting the Exposition building in order, erecting an amphitheatre and scats, for $G,800. The Academy cf De-aio-n has been empowered to decorate the interior of the building. flpn. Scales has introduced a bill to appropriate $5000 to the cepteanial of the battle of Guilford Court House and $10,000 to erect a statue to Gen. Green in this oity. This- is business. Now let him push the appropriation for our U. S. Court House and get it through without further delay. A special dispatch from Washing ton to the KiClimond (Ya.,) Cunmivn wealth, states that "the canard of Grant's withdrawal was concocted in this city and put into circulation by one of Sherman's Massachusetts friends, and it is received here with general derision and crflitampt." The Republican Senators bad a brief conference on Tuesday for the purpose of determining the action to be taken in regard to the House rider pn the immediate deficiency bill in re lation to the appointment of Deputy poited States Marshals at eleptiens. It was unanimously decided to resist all attempts to force such legislation now as at the extra session. Some of our contemporaries are greatly exercised oyer the fact- that Mr. Baford, President of the IV & D. ;R. R. has been in Raleigh lobbying to secure the repeal of the general law under which the new line from Dan villa to Charlotte is to be built. When they come to know Mr. Buford as well as we do, they Will not get "oxcited" over his movements. It is true that he is a dangerous lobbyist, bat his re markable career demonstrates the fact that he is dangerous only to the schemes which he advocates. Gen.) Scales, our representative in Congress, has introduced a bill in the House in regard to the sale of mineral lands, and the application of the pro ceeds thereof to the payment of the public dehi. It provides that the mineral lands of the Government, and all "each lah da hereafter ncqairpd, shall be Wrvfejed, appraised, and sold by'tbe Gqvernmeot at their true value, and that the proceeds of . the same, . after ' the payment of the necessary expenses of surveys; 'shall be applied toward' the payment of, the public debt "and to . that extent relieve the industries of the country of ithe present onerous bur Jess restiBg upon tliem." We call special attention to the clear au4 forcible letter on the subject of a new edifice for the colored graded School which we publish in another column of 'this issue. Our correspon dept ia,ta his case, well, and it s one which demands immediate action on the1 part of the board of Commissioners. There is no reason wby the colored people Shpnld not have a scbopl-hpose of their own. .' On the contrary there arej many: good .; reasons - why they should be placed in the jsame condition BSito educational facilities, as the'white people. " This -is a question 'above all party copsiderations, and wa hope it will be treated in a liberal , manner by the Commissioners, s Jithey nedecfe to do so, the" day may come when it will enter largely j Juto onr municipal elec tion, . and then, .perhaps, oar colored yoters will secure the attention to which mey are euuueu. : . . v i -. . The Legislature of Mississippi fiss adopted a series of resolutions decUra tory of the State's gratitbdato'lhe world for the liberal contributions' for the yellow fevr anffVriTa. . if , Gen. W. S. Haucoek tells f be St. Louis Times, a Democratic paper, that no one in wbcW devotion to tbe Union in tbe day of trial tbe Northern people, i a mas, did not have the moat ex- plieit ! confidene and absolute knowl edge, could gain the neeoasary recruit to insure victory to the Democratic Party in the Presidential election. Tbe Provideoce Journal says tbat the Blaine men in tbe Rhode Island Republican State Convention used more baste than judgment iu makingop tbetr list cf, delegates to Chicago, and that at least one pronounced Grant man ap pears in the number after alL The Journal emphatically denies that there was any attempt to control or influence the convention in the interest of Gen. Grant. Up to last week Mr. Blaine was an unknown quantity in the problem of North Carolina politics, but tbe Ashe ville Journal has hoisted his name at its mast-head and thus solved tbe prob lem for ns. If then we take x to rep resent fhe Blaine movement in this State, the solution, which the Asheville Journal has kindly furnished, will give us this formula: :rAsbeville Journal. The beauty of this formula isits sim plicity and absolute correctness. Tbe Journal enjoys the proud privilege of being both at tbe head (and the tail of the Blaine boom, apparently being in two places at once, but in reality occu pying only one, as the head and tail of this movement are one and the same. 'Ben. Hill' of Georgia, says: ''Gome what may the people of thp South will never confess themselves traitors. They intend to preserve their selfrespect and deserve tbe respect of all brave and honorable men, every where, and for all time." Who would wish them to do otherwise ? That there was a treasonable intent on the part of the great body of the people of the South in their part in the rebellion no ust man who knows them would for a moment assert. Bat the very fact tbat Senator Hill and the men of his class seem to be sq uneasy about the verdict of history in their case is evidence that they are troubled with a moral con' scioqsness that history cannot acquit them qf wrong to the Union and wrong to their fellow men. It is not needful to give their deed a name now, nor to quarrel with them about its moral or patriotic jalue, for when the time comes that the record? of the rebellion are made op for posterity; and the actors in that sad deed are estimated, uo dis claimer of those interested can turn the pen of the historian from making n truthful entry ou the record. No words, disclaimers or regrets, however forci ble and pleading, will avail, and may as well be left unsaid. And these men had better turu themselves to deserve well in the present and future of all brave and honorable men as a mere fitting and profitable work. But is Senator Hill and are his associates in the secession movement doing their best to this end, and are they -likely to win such respect of those who are worthy to give it? That these men are deter mined to keep themselves in the view of i the public that they will write and talk so tbat all the world hears thus of them, there is no question. Whether there is not a better way by which for them to secure the respect of the good and the brave we think is, however, a question. When a man or a party in a State makes a mistake or perpetrates a wrong oar notion is that it is not well for them to be ever protruding them selves on public notice. There is a quiet manner and an earnest effort to undo the wrong or correct the mistake that will far more favorablv effect the judgment of the future in their behalt In Our judgment the leading men of the . rebellion and their friends have rqade-a serious mistake in this respect it naa oeen oeuer and a wiser course for them to have said less and to' have quietly yielded even rights than td have secured them by thrnsting the memory of their wrongs on public view. While we bate our own lodgment of the char actST of the leaders in rebel Jioa and an estimate of their deeds we have no wish te) call names or to anticipate' the ver dict of history. We are willing Senator Hill and his confederates shall talk and write, yet we believe it were better for them to do otherwise. 6The Milwaukee Frie Press has daring the last yearrrepeatedly demon 8trateu mat it understands and repre sents 4be feelings of the progressive Germans of Wisconsin better-than any other paper in that part of tho country. xne res8 pronounces for Hayes, but declares that Grant, althongh not the nrst choice of the Germans.' will cot only receive nearly a-foll German Re- 1 " 1 A I S ii - ' puuucau vote,, dqi via carry more German Democrat votes, than' he will lose German h Republican. Chicago i The Asheville (Jtfizen records- an ouir rageous attempt by two negro women to throw the cars .off tha track on the tti a.i m mm a r s- m - va , xw aw uaiiiWiugiueiracc xueir Grievance was thev bad been nut ou pne traiu tue day beiore by the con:i1Dst.; j Lnrtingup two or three stores doctor for not paying fare. f ? I 1 ' When Adam ate the forbidden frnit in the garden of El en and Qod came to pronounce sentence on him be laid oa him the curse of labor. In the sweat of tby'face shall thoa eat bread." The earth, which op to tbat time had voluntarily produced all fruit lor the delectation of tnao, should no more yield her increase except upon com pulsion. From that even if ul date to the present time all the ingenuity el tbe human race has been devoted to tbe invention of labdr-eaving machine, which might mitigate this curse. J3ut while we all recognize the necessity for labor as a curse, yet to be idle is regarded as not only disreputable bat also unlawful, as is amply proved br tbe laws enacted against vagrants or those who have no visible means of support. Idleness has been condemned not only by human laws but also by the inspired writers of holy scrip ture. The apobtle distinctly says: "It any man work not, neither ahull be eat." This is a most emphatic con demnation of all loafers, without re gard to race, color or previous condi tion. We have shown that ever since the fail of man labor has been gener ally recognized as a curse, but that fact has j been moro distinctly leJt and acted upon iu our own Southern States than in any other land inhabited by English-speaking people. We have not only fully recognized that labor is a curse, but we have gone a step fur ther and said that it is not respectable. This latter feeling wag tbe natural out-come of slavery. In a land where the labor was performed by a certain class, believed to have been created for the express purpose of being slaves and marked by God himself with a particular color, it was easy to trans fer the feeling of dislike from the labor er to labor itself, and a contempt for all kinds of labor became fixed in the minds of Southern youth. Thi9 feeling was, perhaps, intensified by the ener vating influe nces of our warm cli mate, till at last idleness has como to be the normal condition of Southern young men. This fact is amply demon strated by the group of able-bodied men who patuer daily on the street corners of every Southern town, and spend their valuable time in the con genial occupation of chewing tobacco, spitting and cursing the "lazy niggers." We have been led "into this hue of re flection by a local in the lust issue of the PalrioL " Tbe sensitive olfactories of onr aristocratic neighbor seem to have been offended by the bad-smelling, lazy, loafing darkies who gather around the Mayor's office to hear the trials. Now the Patriot is the organ of the party which assumes to represent the wealth and intelligence of this country, and we venture to suggest that when that "paper has persuaded the lazy w,bite loafers of its own party, crowds of whom cumber tbe streets of every own in the South, to go to work and earn a living lor tnemselves instead oi sponging on friends, it will bo in better condition to reprove the "lazy niggers." We are aware that nothing is so exas perating to the average Democrat as o see Va nigger" anywhere except in he cotton field or the tobacco patch. But the Patriot would do well to take tbe beam out of its own eye, before it essays to remove the mote from the eye of its neighbors. Sherman Going- to Ohio. HIS PRESENCE THOUGHT NECESSARY TO ! STRAIGHTEN MATTERS. CrNcns'NATi, March 30. There ia much speculation here as to the real object ofSecretary Sherman's visit to Ohio. He will reach Mansfield to morrow at 4 o'clock, and will make a speech there in the evening. He will attend to private bnsines on Thursday, ana onijc ruiay go 10 vjoiamons. it is an open secret that Sherman and his nearest friends are dissatisfied with the management of his interests in Ohio. Warner M. Bateman, Col.-Cl W. Monl- ton, and Gen. Robinson, in their well- meant extorts to advance tbe cause of their chief, have succeeded in antagoni zing the friends of all the other candi dates, and in bungling things generally. Urgent requests have been sent to Sherman to come-home and straighten things ;ontp and, while manv of' his irienas aavisea against tne trip, it is believed that be regards the situation as one that requires his personal atten tion. '- I'.: Mcrdxb bt a Moon8heeb- Intelli gence bas been received at ' Atlanta of amurdjer in Rabun countv, Ga., last Thursday. ; John Foster, a notorious moonshiner, has long eluded the grasp of the law and defied arrest. : Recently a warrant was sued out, and his arrest was accomplished mainly by the aid of a neighbor named Cowart. Foster gave bond and was released, but threatened Cowart. His trial was set for this week, and as Cowart was the chief witness against him he tried every means to get rid of him. Foster and one off bis friends, named ( Anderson, met Cowart in the road." Foster , de nounced Cowart. and demanded if he meant to testify against him. Cowart said, "Yes,. , 'Both men then' prepared to draw , pistols. Anderson also drew his and tried to shoot Cowart, but the cartridge snapped. .Foster then shot Cowart dead, o He and Anderson have beeajarrefttedi k :i i.t.V--..sJ-,'; U:-.-; - i A destructive; fire visited the town . I rf Tnict4m-. n " k mi. ! ; ar a joes oi oyer ten thousand dollars. Onr Washington Letter. Coricpaode0ee cf Kortfe State-1 Is VAsarxGTOD. , ' V it March 20. I860. The inability of the Desoocraf a, as a party to goveria iaexbibitiDSttsetf more and mpre. every day. They seem so hungry for power that whenever an of fice or some other emolument is seen. ilb such eager baAtei004- , . ts 1 Tl. t a torn on ta rtf f rwl ntiiiiinn they rush for it w tbat they are blind to all coasequences. Garctlon showed them a way in which he thought the Democrats could get power, and regardless of honesty and eve'n decency, tbey all followed bis lead, urged bim on in bis nefarious schemes, and defended bim against tbe merited censure of tbe leading journalists and people of the country. And again, ea ger to obtain some advantage incase the election of the President is thrown into the House, they would unsat Wash bnrn, of Minnesota, notwitbtuding his majority of over 3,000, ou the false pretext of bribery, &c, in tbe election, forgetting that tbe bribery was all on the Democratic side. Rgceutly, in the House, a rascally attempt was made to get a tariff 'bill before the House, though it was under stood that no. revenue law should be cbanged at tbis session. Townsheod, a Democrat, iutrodnced a bill to amend certaiu sections of the revised statutes, relating wholly to tariff, See, and asked its reference to the committee on re vision of tbe laws a committee kuown to be in favor of revising tue revenues laws. No ititimation was given of its true character, else it would have been referred to the committee of ways and means, and threedaysof useless wrang ling avoided. Thus it ia, tbe Demo crats are continually resortiug to low and contemptible tricks, instead of adopting and advocating such measures as can be treated iu a manly, straight forward manner. The National debt is being reduced in a gratifying manner. . This month the reduction will be eight to nine mil lions. Tbe Irish relief ship sailed from New York on Saturday for Ireland. She will land her cargo at either Kingston, Q ieeustovu or Galvvay, as the Herald Relief Committee may desire. Tliere is a well-founded hope here that Kentucky can be made a Republi c iu State after tbe fall elections. Tbe question of the Kentucky judgeship has brought out so many good fellows who are. Republicans, that the Democrats are crowing anxious; the Democrats will probably turn the bung-hole of the barrel in tbat direction. The sub-committee of tbe House are at work npou the army appropriation bill. It is expected tbatitaudtbe navy bill will be reported to the House to morrow. At least that is what the Dem ocrats promise now, aud- what tbey have promised from Week to week siuce tbe Christmas holidays. But "hope defer red tnaketu the heart sick" is a proverb that suits the feelings of. the people as regard AJemocrauc promises. Maxwell. The Third-Term Objection. The strongest and for that matter tho only real objections urged against General Grant's candidacy by the friends and advocates of .Secretary Sher man and Senator Blaine are those of the "third-term" aud the Germau de fection. Tue latter has already ex ploded itself and ia rapidly vanishing iu thin air. Tbe "third-term" objec tion, therefore, is the only one to be barnesaed at this time, aud tbat objec tion, to be of any effect, must hinge on tbe use of Federal patronage in the hands of the candidate at the time when his candidacy occurs. Caesarism or perpetuatiou of pjwer in the hands of an incumbent cannot apply to one in private life, though he may have oc cupied the Presidency for two terms at a former period. The breaking of the thread breaks the force of the objection, if it can be regarded ae such under other circumstances. The fact thatGen erul Grant is not in power and has no patronage to use. knocks the bottom out of tbe "third-term" humbug which the rivals of- General Grant for the nomination are urging against him, and out of which thejr hope to realize some personal advantage. , Now, let us look at thisquestion from another point of view. Secretary Sher man is a candidate for tbe Presidency, as is his right aud privilege. He now bolus in bis band aud at bis biddiug a large official patronage relating to bit positiou, which extends through every Custom-house and every Internal Reve nue olhce from Maine to Texas, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. By virtue of his position this vast patron age ia his, to be used, if he so wills, to advance his personal interests. To use tbis as a fulcrum by which to raise his Presidential interests would be auite as objectionable as for General Grant. after being out of Dositiou more than three years, to be a candidate and be confronted with a prejudice because prior to that time he bad held tbe power to' use the patronage of the Govern ment, but holds, it no longer. We do not urge this objection against Secretarv Sherman, but we think be is more ob- noxieas to it, than General Grant at this moment". On the hypothesis thai the "third term" may be secured and power may be.perpeLnated fcbrongh tbe aid of patronage in the hands of a Presidential incumbent, and- is. dangerous to the public welfare, it certainly gives point to an objection if urged against tbe use of patronage aa an agent of promotion from ; a Cabinet position to the Chief Magistracy. -If the objection baa any force in the one instance it certainly has in the other. .We allude to the matter now; however, merely to remind these anti-tbird-termera that it is not wise to throw stones when their own tenemental are composed largely of glass. It is not discreet, to say the. least of it, though we would bathe last to object under common usajje in politics to Secretary Sherman or any other Federal official's using Ida patronage to promote his in terests, if the public welfare is not made to suffer thereby .--National Erpublican. i The Louisburg Times ;Jgivea an ? ac count of a turtle cs.tebi.ng and holding a crow by the loot until both tarlie and crow Trero captured. Washtsotox, p. C, March 23, 1SSQ. ; ii the XJtiar cf the National Jlrpullican ; 'Sini Inasmuch as my communica tion of the JC:b of February, published in your coftunns, baa attracted v the aK tettiou of numerous papers iu North Carolina, and elicited denials from one or more, it may not be inappropriate to a id a few remarks explanatory and in " embodied in the commnaicatiun have been, as I expected, warmly indorsed by nearly every Republican journal res iect ability and stauding iu the State, and denied by none. of theux. The SlatcscUle American, however, a paper presumably operated in the interest of Secretary Sherman, and w host, only promiuet.ee arise from its isolated and ambiguous position in this respect, has eudeavored to place npon several 'of my remarks a wrong interpretation. Idid not state,. nor did I wish to intimate, that all the Treasury offidaM, or eveu a majority of them we're for Sherman, but tbat all Sherman men, or at least the greater majority of them wereTreas ury officials, aud my distinction in tbis regard was so'explicit that the effort of the American to fasten upon my lan guage any other construction can only be attributable either to a deplorable ignonfnee of Angjio-Saxou syntax, or to a repreheusible tendency toward will ful prevarication. This paper has very wisely not attempted to controvert the incontrovertible statemeut that the choice of the Republicans of North Car olina is almost uuauimous for Grant. When it asserts, however, that Sherman could carry the State as well as Grant or any other nominee of the Chicago Convention, it asserts that which is ab- solatel) untrue. Our leading Republi ca ia wouta support, uruui, liiaiue or any other mau than Sherman, and t .eir X 11 M ' t M support., especially ii euner urant or Blaine were tbe nominee; would insure a victory fur our party, but I wish to reiterate as forcibly as I can (and I have authority for the statetaeut,) that large portion of tho wealthy, influential and leading Republicans would- have nothing to do with a Sherman canvass, as to do so would bring tnem into con tact with the Treasury officials. The widespread objectiou to these officials, as a class, is not based upou any doubts as to their personal integrity, but from a conviction that it would be tbe height of impolicy, intrenching even ' upon tbe domaiu of idiocy itself (sacred to the Democratic press,) to intrust the management of tbe interests of our party into the bands of persons of so undisputed unpopularity. A large por tion of the lower classes of tbe people of North Carolina, without .regard to political party, consider the laws im posing a tax upon whiskey, brandy and tobacco as oppressive and unconsciona ble, and naturally look with disfavor upon every one instrumental in enforc ing their obedience. Therefore, al though many of these revenue officials are men of unquestionable character and ability, it is but too evident tbat a canvass manipulated by them would insure only an absolute overthrow of the party. One somewhat significant fact is worthy of consideration as an indication of the Grant feeling, and that is the enthusiastic support throughout tbe Re publican ranks oi our. State of Judge Settlt as Vice-President, well knowing, as all bis supporters dp, that the nomi tiou of Sherman would be an effectual and absolute bar to the interests of Judge Settle, there being uo sympathy whatever between the two, and owing to Judge Settle's pronounced views in favor of Grant, which are as strong now as when, in 1872, ho presided over the deliberations of the Philadelphia Con vention which Dominated that distin guished soldier. A North Carolinian. Grant in the 8011th. 4 NEW ORLEANS ANTICIPATING III3 ARRIVAL. New Orleans, March iJO. Special dispatches received here show that General Grant met with hearty recep tions at all points iu Texas. He was handsomely received and entertained at Houston yesturday, and left tbat place to-day for New Orleans.. Prepa ration? are being mude here for the reception of the General. Stato aud city officials, military and civic bodies will participate in the exercises. A committee, will meet the party, at Mor gan City to-mJrrow, and Wednesday evening, after a review of the proces sion by General Grant, an address of welcome will be dalivered by General Bussey at the St. Charles Hotel. AN EXHIBITION OF REBEL FEELING. Galveston, Texas, March 30. Du ring General Gi ant's receptiou at Hous ton last night the gas was turned off from the street -lamps and candles bad to be used. On Sunday night the guns of the artillery company to be used to fire a salute on Grant's arrival were spiked, but the spikes were re moved in time to , be used. Five hnn- dred dollars reward is offered for the miscreant who spiked, the guns. Gen eral Grant and party, arrived from tmt . -w Houston this evening and departed bv steamer atj 2 for . New Orleans, yia Morgan Ctv. . , . ; AN INVITATION TO' YICKBCEG. Yicxsbprg, Miss., March . 30.-r-Tbe city council has appointed a committee. to go to .New. Orleans and invite Gen eral. Grant to Vicksburg. . Tbey have ments to act if the. iu vitatioa ia . ac cepted. . 1 : " , . . .. Sherman is 'capturing the North Carolina delegation abd that too when everybody knows that not , one Repub- : i x . l t - ucan in win layors mm. tirant ,is tbe man forj the negroes.! Groat are ma chine politics and machine operators The people Lave ceased to be fairly beard. Wilmington Star. Mr. Kinchen Hancock; t of Granville county, worked four hands and two horses, with ! which j be - cured 5,200 pounds of fine yellow tobacco .and made twenty-one barrels of corn nnd I filty-niue bnshela of I wheat. : He has iauea only . two years during the last eight in averaging $35 to $52 per. hun dred pounds fori Lis tobacco crops. Illluol Solid Tor Grant a crncAOo mas who niEDtcTs or, ob-ant a aourxATios wittjoct a roaMAx, w Washtsctos, March 24. District-At torney Heed, of Chicago wiio. in Washington, has informed a reporter of .the xnig Sar tbat tbmia not a abadowof a doubt thai will receive the solid vote OI tue Auino. delegation at Chicago; tbat those woo dispute tbis fact know uotbmg of ufJ they are i talking bout, -Why, ; d Mr. IteC "There Is Sfeve tianouri. Ua ia a warm friend of Senator Blaine, but be will not be able to be elected as A delegate to the Chicago Coo vention, and, so far as Jim Root .is ccmcerrted, sltbougb b is a member of the Nation al Republican Committer be has not influence enongb to be elected as a del egate from Hyde Park, a suburb of Chicago, to even tbe Cook County Con vention. Now. they call me a machine ralitiriiin. Well. 1 am. and I am proud of it. 1 told JJe MediU, of the Chicago Irioune ; 4You call me a machine poli tician; well, keep ou calling me one; .1 am proud of tbe title. This country could not go along without the macbiue. It crid9 out the wheat and makes flour. The maehine politician is just as necessary politically as the grind stone as a machine is necessary in social economy. I am going as a delegate to the Chieao-o Convention, and I assure you that Illinois will be for Grant first, last, and lair the time. I say moreover, that Grant will be nominated, and there will be no formal ballot taken in tbe convention." J rant's Victory in Texas. 1 THE SIXTEEN DELEGATES TO VOTK AS A UNIT. WITH FOURTEEN OF THEM FOR THE GENERAL. Austin, Texas, March 26. The graud result of the Republican State Conven tion here is an overwhelming victory for Gen. Grant aud tbe rout of the Treasury Department aud Custom House Ring. Tlio opposition to Gen. Grant was led by ex Gov. Pease, Col- lector oi unstoms at ' Uaivesiou. wno was eat down upon early in -the action, by being defeated for President of tbe Convention, first in the cane up. and uext in the body, wheu Gov. Davis de sired t6 decline in his favor. Of tbelG delegates to Chicago, 14 are for Grant. The adoption of a resolution to cant the vote of Texas as a unit is equivalent to instructing for Grant. Tbe Con vention was the best of the Republican Conventions ever bel-J in lexas. it was composed of the leading respectable citizens of all parts of the State. CoL Tom Ochiltree, who led tbe Grant meu, did bis work with consummate ability and , marked success, and actually squelched Mhe bitter opposition to the great Captaiu. Tho two colored em is 6anes, Kuoy ana tJypiiL-r, wno came here with Jay Goulos ruouey to work for Blaine, go back with' large-sized Ilea in their ears. ' San Antonio, March 2G. Business was almost entirely suspeuded to-day, and the building-sot the city were deco rated with flowers, wreaths, and flags. The train bearing Gen." Grunt arrived here at 5 o'clock tbis afternoon, aud was met by a committee. (After three cheers by the populace, the General and mayor .trench entered .a carriage at the head of a procession of military, firemen, &c. together with bauds of music After marching through the city, the party. retired to the Menger Hotel. J Correaponcletice of North State. Chicago, March 23d, 1880. Dear Sir: Unclosed find a few facts in regard to the conditionof State edu cation iu some of the States The spread of universal intelligence has as much if not more influence over the development of the State than any one condition, for an increase of in formation will develope new wants to be supplied by increased exertion, and the people desiring tbe most of tbe good things of tbis life and at'tbe same time able to procure them, are tbe most civilized. TT C m .i s xour aiaie uas a mucn larger pui gration than immigration, and wil continue to have unless yon develope your fat ate education to a higher degree A good class of citizens will not settle in a btate without an advanced stand ard of education at present or in pros pect. Quite a number of Canadian families settled in your State,- bo nearly all of them have returned i their old homes, not on account of the climate or the productiveness of the soil, but because they could not affoni either to send their-children to private lUfctitntioBB of learning or allow them to grow up in ignorance; and as you had not public education worthy tbe name, t.hey returned from whence they came, ana thus JNortu Carolina lost chance ot acquiring a large number 6 very valuable citizens. Develop the common School Syttero oi your fatate and it is not only possi Die out probable that one intellec will be made-active , which otherwise may have Iain dormant, and this one intellect will confer a greater benefit on the State than this cost of the ep tire system for a year. j Tb greed men nearly all come from tbe lower walks of life', but their natu ral powers are greatly increased ev n br a common ivhoiil MlnMiMn f -1 ' J . v..uu. i m i i ... . ... Anese iactP, ana thoughts on tbem are presented to you, as a thinking be ings without any other backing than jy au appeal to your reasoning faculties, iy a North CAfiOLrsiAN.i : V" r ' " ; i ' our correspondent, sends ne com parauye statistics of ( several of tbe States, but we have room only for the Comparison between our own Stat and the State of Wisconsin, whose popular lions in the year 1870 were very tearlv equal, as ioiiews: l. r j. -M V' .1 - ' ' -WleoBseto.., a. CAroline. uimum io wtm, lujeara on.. . &5.411 . . S9TSS0 Cnble to write, 21 years old. . . 40,307 95839 At schoul, total.. Number of teachers. U-45 ao School Income, total. ..X School income, trom taxation.. 2iambr of eciioola. ....... . S:.!HS . JL16J After this does Any one .ask. why We have no immigrants to this State ? R. H. Flemming, of Granville. ouru oi woacco ior yj per hundred iouuus average. i - - J frjrlhe North StaJ.t " Oiir Colored Graded Sehcol. The aboVe is a rery important mtu. ntiou in our mid&t. It ia one in wbiK verr one,' irrespective of race or party ahOU(J Ie-1 a ucep iumicsi, iron uis Uct' that to the past it has been tbe meant cf properly molding the' niind aud' of many a colored youth in this vicinity! and is destined in the future to be 1 towerfr lever - in removing the igno ranee ana sopersimoD uiat oroou ovtr tbe minds of those yet to come undr its influence. U - Because: of. the. above .lndupuUhl facUtre wonld like to. cull UjeattenUoa of every'person interestedia the pro. grrss of the school, ana more espoatliy those in control and authority over matters pertaiuing to the welfare of this comui timty, to a great netd of tbU school. At tue r resent the school is betas taught In the Presbyterian chorch, ih - expenses of it Lxring divided between; the Commissioners bere and a 1 reb r. terian Committee in Pennsylvania. lt latter run entirely a . parochial school, OBtil the former proposed to Quite the public and parochial schools, and have them taught iu the same budding, ae tbey (the Commissioners had uo builds , Qg. of their own. The school this year is in a prosper. bus eemdition both as regards the nam-' hr of pupils enrolled and otherwise. There is an average daily fttendanceof 115 to 120 pupils, and three teach era. All of the instruction is , done ia the. same room, as there is but one room ia the building and no partition. Ibis last fact leads us to what we wish ta speaK oi. At is ibis: ine school alandf absolutely in need of a new buildioe, and it is our honest opiuiou that those who have tbe overseiug of these mat ters should, aa justice to the tax-paying portion of the colored KpuIation, have oue erected in the near future. A prop etly graded building w a jxiramounk necesauu. It is utterly impossible to do justice to auy pupils with the immense disadvantage under which the school at present labors. There is consider-. ble power dissipated in the present building which might be otherwise utuV; a i a izeu to mucu pronr, proviuea eaco teacher had a room to himself and her- self within which each mightgather hii aud her pupils for instruction. -The! above disadvantages, however, don't seem to engage the seriou3 attea tion of these thai they ought, as it if ' of little moment to them whether three hundred or ten are taught in tbe same room, so that they have provided something approximating a school-. house where they can be taught. With us, though, it makes a wide lifference where our children are taught aud the facilities for instruction hveca our vVriting this article. - ' " ' Another important f-ict to be taken into consideration why there should be- . . l It. - .e ' a proper Fcnooi-uou.se IS, inai no goou teacher will wish to teach in the present building when tliere is tfuch a great tax1 upon his vitHhtj- iu trying to keep ove one hundred pupils in order and at the same time instruct bis classes. Tho "powers t Imt wtgursayngafuv "wo care not. for that, there are toe mmij wo cun employ who would be only too willing to teach iu the present building." To this we ofl-er bo denial; but we ofck, what kind of teachers are they ? Some of your cheap-rab?, third-rate, wishy-washy pedagogues who keep in sttadjof teach scuooL Under such, pa-, pils make uo progress at all, and in tha loug run this sort of teachers are more, expensive than competent, well-paid) t oues.1 . Another thing to consider is, tht some parents don't, at the present, serAd their children to the school because, ai j tbey say, it is sectarian, and'they don't care about having other than their own denominations' doctrines, instilled into -the minds aud beaits of their children." While it is true, the instruction of the' day pupils iu the Presbyterian tenets, , is not carried ou now, jet such was Jbj case two or three years back, and if tbl Presb terian Committee should order it to be done again, we dou't Bee how te," Commissioners an prevent the Cate-' chism from being taught to those pupil,, whose parents object to it, unless by withdrawing to a buildingof their own. Sueh being the case, . why can't the Commissioners have a building erected -now and be on the safe side at once? In all of the parochial schools of the Presbyterian Church the Catechism hi. daily taught tbe children, and it is only1, through tbe intercession of tbe teachers that it is not taught in the preseatj schooL ; v While we know there is nothing dst- rimental in the Presbyterian doctrinesV yet every tax-paying parent has a right -to demand a free, public, unnectarian school.. , t Greensboro justly and proudly boasts of tbe high excellence of her white J Graded SchocX why should she bete hind other cities in the State respecting her colored Graded School? J - m . In tbe citj- of Rareigb the Commis sioners are going to erect by another, school year a large edifice for the col ored school, as the one in which it is being taught is insufficient; Can't ocr(l Commissioners do likewise ? We knotr i it is claimed that the city is unable to build uow, but possibly may in tbe fu ture. Ibis plea baa been given in years, back whenever the question of building. -has been proposed and we see no hopes; , of their being other than the same ex cuse to our oft-repeated requests, un less; iu tho erection of a building at once. . ... ; -. The city didn't have the money when tho white people needed a" new.cchool building, bat arrangements were soon entered into Dy which one was furnish- led j when required; we .don't see why similar plans cannot be agreed upon so, as to erect one for ns. -I We are aware of the fact, as well as, -grateful for the same- alsoy tbst tbe present Committee have done more fofi the. school than previous ones.' .Wbil.-, we l are thankful for I email fayorsi. ws.. would be still more bo for larger oneft fThese things ye ought to have dost : and not have left the others undone." - i - - - - Nat.-B. BoEBoras. John Rutherford, a wealthy and well known citizen of Barke coantyj is dead aged 9Q years. . T 1 - ! r - r , i . r.
The Union Republican (Winston, N.C.)
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