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'if- UNION, THE CONSTITUTION AND THE LA WS THE GUARDIANS OF OUR LIBERTY. Vol. XLII. HILLSBOROUGH, N. C., FEBRUARY 5, 1862. tfo. 2129. . ' THE HILLSBOROUGH RECORDER. ' M N7BLISHKD WEEKLT BY DENNIS HEARTT. Termi. Two Dollnrtt year, if paid in advance ; Two Dollar and Ffty Cente, if not paid within theee jnonthe or Three Dollars, if delayed until after the expiration of the year. ' No paper will be diaeontinued until all arrearage are paid, unleaa at lb option of the publUhor. No paper will be cent to a new auhftrriber out cf the Siate unleaa payment is made in advance, or some per son in the State ahall become responsible. Advertising Rata for lie Recorder.. AdvertiMaiente not exceeding fourteen lines, on dollar for the 6rt, and twrnty-6e cents for each tuh equent insertion ; longer ones in proportion. Court adveiliaementa twenty-five per cent. higher. A deduo Cioo of one-third will be made to advertiser by the year. i. ,; -., -j- - . , , Select Boarding and Day Sctool, HILLBOKOLGH, N. U. THE Mixes NAfeH and Miss KOLLOCK wiU re open their School on the l?tb of January. No deduction wade f r ! than five weeks at the com menreoier l of the beaeioD. ' December 17. 23 iw JOHN W. GRAHAM, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Office one door noitb of Mr. Lynch' Jewelry Ktoie HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. Jono7. 48-ly 1toriiey and t'oumrtar at fuiic, zniiss estrjer, IT. Co, Will practice in Orange and lha a,JjuiniiigCoiinlie. (fir" Particular atUuliun paid to the col lection of claim. March ,!60 35-l2m March It. 47 To the Ladies of Orange County. AM ftteu4 by tbe Governor of your Plate, to ral upon Too to furnUh for the aoKlier in tbe army I woolen aork aoJ blanket for their comfort an J protec tion daring tbe approaching winter. Each donor will pleaae accompany her gift by her name, hbail thi call upon your patriotism be made without a proper re sponse on your part! 1 cannot Uliete that it will; I therefore call upon yeu to com forward with your fill, end Uy tbm bountifully uon the altar tf your emm try. imitate the eiam;)e of your mother wl the revo lution, end allow n4 the anidiera who te tikrn up arm i detroce of your hberuea, your live, and what ia dill dearer, your bonoi, to go unprovided for; ulTVr not your defender la be ripocej unprotected to the winUr'e cbilling blot. Come, then, to their relief; farnuh tbem with lhoe necemrf alirlra la relieve aoSi nng humanity, and thereby merit the laudil not only of the prreut , hut uf future generation. 1 aut your bumble atrvant, IL l. JONES, Sheriff. 17 The following gentlemen will pie receive and forward to me articles for tbe soldier : W. V. Allien. N. i. Kali, AJison ManRum, M. A. Angter, John W Carr, and Ali Duibain. August tO. 08 SEQUESTRATION NOTICE. TifE unde:ijneJ. appmilrtl Receiver under the Hequeatration Act, fr the rouniir of Orange, Waka, Cumberland and Hainetl, hereby give notice te all person hvrng any UaU, tenement or heredita menu, goods or chattels, right or crej.u, or any inter. el therein, of or for any alien enemy of the (,'oiifroV rate 81 tea of America, epertMy la infirm m of the earn, and te render an account thereof, and ao far a practicable, te put the aam in my poeion, under the penaUy of the law f iioii-rompliaric. 1 ala notify each and every ritirrn of the t'onfet'e rate Hlatee speedily to give information to me of any and all land, tenement and heredita men i, go! and chattel, right and crlita within the" r J rountie. I will attend the different enantie in e few day for the purpose of receiving, of which lime due notice will he given. G. II. WILDER, Receiver. October tJ. I6fw Patent Window Minds. I Great laproi emeiit Superior U Anylhnj la Use. 'PUIS BLIND whenclAMtd hut perfectly tight, and keep out all wet,dul,iiiert,&e.,and entirely el clu.les the light, and mskes a bountiful appearance on tbe ouuide. It ha every aJvatitage over the other hind and cote bat trill more. This tilindwiil recommend itself. Any one ran judge of iia (upenotiiy over the old dyle at tir.t ighl. Ne ufo(t lb it haa seen thi Ulind will ever order anv other kind. The iiH criher will be bppy to ahow a model to any parson wishing to obtain Ulimle, end receive their or dera, which will be promptly filled. j. i). liuuntcK. ' KhiitoO.N.C. May f. 41- STATK. ARMS. A LL persona in Orange county who have in their ( poeaeaaion Arma belonging to lhtte, are re. 3aeted to deliver them to me at this place, without elay. By order of the Adjutant General. It. M.JONES, Sheriff. June 11. : r . fjft BLANKS for S&lo at thi Office. vMtf OSA3L 1EC(LHE2?. a- My your nchsoil, Exuberant, nature'a better blesfing pour O'er every land.", From the Standard. WOOL-GROWIXG I.V NORTH CAROLINA, OK fcHEEP AGAINST DOGS. If the question were asked how we shall first, and most sererelr, feel tlte pressure of this war, almost everjr one wonUI answer, "in the want of clothing, particularly of woolen fabrics." We are able to supply our selves abundantly with provisions, all the necessaries of life at least, but as to the mat ter of clothing, we have already nearly ex hausted our stores, and although we tntv be able to supply our soldiers tolerably this winter by the help of the large stock of ready-made goods which we had on hand, how snail we do next fall i And the difficulty lies not so much in th want of machinery to manufacture woolen, as of the raw material. The hand-looms ! which clothed our fathers, can be again call- ru into requisition to any neeueu extent. Hut h'tw are we to get the wool? It is said there is wool in Texas. But what are even two millions of pounds, supposing the Texas crop to reclt that figure, towards supplying the deficiency of the whot Confederacy, of which no other State makes one-third of what it consumes? Then the question aris es, since we have nearly a year tn g upon, cannot this state of things be met and provid ed for by the calm foresight and enterprise of our people? Is there no means of sup plying this great want? Cm we produce wool in sufficient quantity and in time? Why have we not done sr heretofore ? The answer ought to make any North Cxrolinian blush. And yet there are not two intelligent Jarmers in the State that would give different (answers to the question. Ask the next ten intelligent farmers you meet in any neigh borhood in the State, why they d' not raise Uheep, and nine of them 'will answer some thing like this; Well, I did have about a hundred head two or three years ago, but j the dogs broke in on them one mht and left me about a dozen, and so I gave it op. Hut why did vu not ave the dogs kiljed and try gin? Yes, that is easy enough to say, but it ts another thing to do it. I did attempt it, but nearly every dog in the neighborhood was concerned, my own among the rest, jtthey congregate and make a frolic ol it, you know.) 1 had all mine killed, but as ut the 'others, one of my neighbors killed one or two, .and another insisted that his dog never chas jed sheep, (although they had been seen inihe I fact,) and a third promised to have his killed it he could be convinced that they were guil jty ; but that was the last of it, and so on to 'the end of the chptr. Almost every far 1 tner has tried it, and all have failed. 'This ;ott of conversation 1 have heard over and over again, in all parts of the State, east, 'west and middle. Dogs, then, is it? Moth ing but dogs. For the glory and ptofits of 'ting-farming, we he given up the whole matter of !irep husbandry, and have been 'content that oihcis, and those foreigners and 'ruciuirs, should reap all the adunt'grs of uuie of the most profitable and now indispen sable brxnehes ol agriculture, and one, too, for whirh our country has peculiar aptitude 'and facilities. And, in doing tins, let's see what we have done. Ours is sometimes call ed the age of statistics. And it is eminent- It a practical and factual age. And aurtly nothing can teach like a column of figure. Let us then appeal to the Census tables. Take lirf, for example, the case of a single county, Mecklenburg. ' We have not the tables for i860, and only know the general result, that the population of the State is a little over I .OOO.UOO, Cal culating for this number from the tables for ( 1850, we find the number of families in this county to be about .000. Allowing three dogs to a family as a fair average, we have !G,0U1) dogs. Any farmer will tell you that the lood which a dog consumes wilt keeps 'hog in more than an average condition, and will make at least 00 lbs. of pork. This gives 1, 60,000 pounds, or at present prices $120,000 annual loss to the county. Hut further,, any farmer will tell us that but for dogs, the number of sheep would be increas ed ten fold, and that sheep husbandry would be a large part of our regular agricultural system. The present number of sheep ic Mecklenburg county, calculated as above from the tables for 1850 is something less than 10,000. Setting it down at that the above statement shows that it would be and ought to be 100,000. At the moderate estimate of $2 50 cents per head, this would give an ad. dition to the wealth of the county of $250, 000. And if we .add to the annual income the value of the wool, and the yield of mut ton, would be at leaf t $100,000, we shall have 300,000 pounds, worth now $225,000, mak ing an annual gain of $325,000, and adding for the pork as above $120,000, we get a to tal of $445,000, an annual result, equal to the whole present value of all live stock in the county. And let it not be supposed that this result requires any reduction on account of the increased expense of feeding and tend ing a flock of sheep; fur this is more than compensated by their usefulness in keeping down the growin of noxious weeds anil shrubs, and cop verting then into a most valuable fer tilizer for the improvement and renovation of worn lands. And on the contrary, that the result given by the figures should be largely augmented will be apparent to any one who considers the great im provement which would be introduced into the mode of farming the cultivation of grapes, produc tion of hay, and the favorable influence on the health, (not to say the morals,) of our population, ol such a change anil variety in their customary food. Now, if any one will apply these calcula tions in theaame manner to the whole State, it will be found that we should have an in crease of 7,000.000 head of sheep, winch would be an addition to the fixed property of the State ot about $18,000,000; and en an nual profit from them ol $20,000,000, and from the increased number of ho;;s ol 8,000, 000, nuking a total annual advantage to the i Slate of $28,000,000. Well, is that so? If ! not, why not? Where ia the error of fact or j falsity of inference? And if true, is it not a disgrace to the State? Why has this source I of wealth to our farmers, and so to the State, j been so entirely neglected and this, too, i while it is well known that our Sut pos , sesses facilities and advantages for this bu- siness which are not found in more than one i or two other States in the Confederacy ? Our . whole mountain region lug adaptations for this branch of agriculture w hich are not sur passed on the continent, and there is not a county in the State where it would not spee dily become a Sounsj of wraith. Why has not the matter been taken up by our Legis lature, the only power adequate to the task ol removing the obstacle out of the fanner's wav? ot because it was not known that such action wa desired by the lare mass of the agricultural population of the State. It has been repeatedly pressed upon their at tention, and some action demanded at. their hands. But it has been repeatedly lauxhtM out ot the Assembly of law-makers. I it because they have been ton much taken up with the weightier matters of partizanship, tleinasosuisin and the public plunder? Ma ny believe so. Hut may it not be because they are mostly men whose avocations hate allowed them too little opportunity to famil iarize themltes with such plain practiral matters that there are too many lawyers and too few farmers among them ? It may be objected that this is an evil that ; ousht to cure itself, without the aid of legis lation. .td it may be said that it the peo ple had not deliberately perferred dogs to sheep, they would not so universally have adopted the system of dog-farming. Hut bow did this system originate? Kvidently it arose from the manner of the first settle" ment of the couutrv. Sheeo farming was then impossible. The frontiers man, the i Governor, or for members of Congress, or Uquatter and pioneer never advance into the j fur any thing eln- wherein its choice was ex - wilderness without his dog -and for very j seised ? Was n-t the truly great men, who a . a a giing settlers. It was nccessirv to call in the aid of the do to defend the farm and poultry-yard. and gradually to clear the countrv lor more regular and tiroiitable modes i-ular arid nroliialile mm. si of farmim-r. But 1... one ore .V.U .hit in the 0I1I Mates, there is any such service perlonn- . . . " . . , - eI by the dog now. He has performed his 2VHM reason, i ne original hi iiernp!s wa rn,ar! xx v4r ucu ,ut" !uc ... , t . i . i filled with multitude. ..I wild am,.l, sufii- j George Washington have lived in America) oi do to wa.t. and wait, any longer cienttoeatup the entire crop of the strag- fd.tred to rebuke the popular tyrant for "ow or ne e . - , part-but irom mere hab.t Im been retained ' any urani ot mouert or o. a..- 1.... -r. .1. . . I L:Jrmiif limn, uhfi run i, .1.111. h flu numilKr lonjr after the cireumstances demanding hisiciet.t tunes who can approach this nwntcr presence have disappeared. Hut it may bi . -aiu iif in aim neetieu mine capacity oi a II tireiled in the capacity 01 a 1 watclt-dog. In some sections, and under tome circuuHtan-es that is true-but are in some section, aim miner t 1 oneMenth if our present population of dogs thing for that purpose? The truth i..,. li- I... .i.t- . .i - i .. ...a dogs in a whole county, and they have be come almost as great a nuisance as the origi nal wild beasts which they were meant to abate. If all but the good w atch-dogs were destroyed, the farmer would have na more complaints to make, nor the sheep. That the evil wilt not correct itself, i ev ident from the fact that it has not done so yet, and that there i hardly a neighborhood n the State where individuals have not made the attempt. One stubborn or stupid neigh bor is sufficient to defeat tha intelligence and wonli any thing for that purpose? The truth nu cnt.ure ir io ,e most m.rauie pent is, that so lutle a.ten.ion has been gien toflarceny, which ha no been rfurmed bv the breeds of these annuls since they have the represe-ta t.ves of the Inited Mates, and become useless, that the races have been approved bv the ' virtuous and intelligent mi fed tin and le.-nlrat.l until tin undid tiCOt-le t" hat chance IS there for SO much enterprise of a whole community. That the country desires legislation on the subject, is evident enough from their having asked for it so often, and may be made still more so to any one who will, take the trouble to con verse with farmers any where on thesubject. Let it then be pressed upon the attention of the Convention. That body ; is evidently better fitted to deal with such a matter than any ordinary legislative assembly. And then we must act at once; otherwise we shall be brought into the greatest straits, and our sol diers reduced to suffering, and decimated by disease from exposure and cold. And North Carolina is the most favorably situated of all the States fortius movement. Indeed, Ten nessee, the only other besides Texas, which could compete with her, is disabled by her present political difficulties from giving her attention to such subjects. Every conside ration then of interest and of patriotism combines to urge us to some speedy action. If we go to work at once, we may by the next autumn double the number of our sheep and quadruple the product of wool. By the use of the winter oat, which has been recent ly so generally introduod, the wintering of sheep has become a matter of no difficulty or expense. There is a wide market and the best price for all we can produce, and by be ginning in time we may get possession of the market, so as to be able hereafter to make this single business a source of vast wealth j to the Mate; or if not, we shall, besides the immense imm'tliate advantage, have the honor of leading the way in a movement of untold benefit to the whole country. Then let our Convention pass a law impo sing a tax of one dollar for the first dog, and five for each additional one, to a family. And let it be made the duty of some existing officer in each county to put the law into immediate execution." And let it be made lawful lor any one to kill a dog found at large without his owner. This will accom plish the whole business at one blow. NIL NEMINI. From tho Richmond Dispatch. A LAND OF LIBCRTY" AXD LAW. Great Britain certainly is better entitled to this appellation than the U. S. even was at the best period of its existence. It is true that we never haJ a king, nor a heredi tary aristocracy, but the sovereign of Eng land is a mere weathercock upon the church spire for ornament rather than use, and for use only so far as it yields to the current f public opinion. Its aristocracy has getieral- lv the merit of at le.ist a thousand vtnr nf good blood; it is no mushroom affair, like the laughable imitations on this continent ; it is composed of the best gentlemen of the land, whose well ascertained po&itiou eua - bles them to be kind and affable to those beneath them, without hazard to their own dignitv. Instead of being dangerous to libertv, the aristocracv of Englaud has been its nuist trustworthy friend and champion. In ihe United States there was alwavs a tvrant, th mob. which, in tin. dovplonmonft r.f ihi last vear, has proved that of all tvr-nts it is we most auauiute, irresponsible, bloodv, i- a . . . . . V norant, bruial and base. Did it ever.'in fts j i . - . . i ... .... .1. ....,...,; j hi "ul propensities, and did not pretend to believe that the ax pt,puh of fallen human!- tv any more likely to be vox Ihi than vox diaboh, sure to sign and seal his own polttl- (iiaOoU. sure to sign and seal his own polttl- ! perdition ? Look at the " virtuous and peruiuon .- look mi tne " vinuous una lliztnt people" of the United State by lurid flames of this infernal invasion, is there anv tvrant of modern or of an- (".I . '; l"p !" i r . -1 . .... a t : - t ine arteiv ami magiiuuiie ot nisviie pas- i ,,...v.. ...... , w i"e, wnai ueeu oi Hickeuncw, wnat ! olatioti .f liberty, what moral debasement from the cold bloodei id hiomietl massacre oi women. ! and 'children to the most mi!erat)ie petit .... .i a tirotesf nf tho f,w wuf and food men as a protest of the few wise and good men in its wn section arainst lhi most tvrannt- ... .. ... cat and inhuman t which the despotic best davs, demonstrate the capacity for self- mmable "V fnd a w" ? ."ce ,he. n"1't j government which cringing and place-hunt- m tue least profitable kuown in the tog demagogues ascribed to it ? Did it Mwy y( civilized communities. All man- ifhooso to,". iKM.f .,.,, r.,r P-;.!..nt nr f..r tUT ot f.lCtlOtIS Will arise. Abolition f.lllat- moo, inro..gnHSMasning'onrepresiauY,,w and we proclaim it to tha may perform ? The si ence of death, or the Be;haMari. that the hand writin- Bistiie, is the only alternative which the despot presents. Wo havft liiiirr lii"in nf nnininn that, with II itiA fl timif lihvrf v ami Piio.ilitt' in the United States, there was less of either, and 'er, with troops, wis beached on the coast of certainty a vast inferiority in the adminis-! South Carolina and was burnt. The troops tration of justice, to Oreat Britain. It is, and crew were saved Threa vessels, ladeo, true, social equality in Kngland is unknown, IwitliCcal.have also beea beached. . abd so it is everywhere, and nowhere more than it is in the Lnion, where an upstart money aristocracy, having neither educa tion, good blood, nor good manners, has uni formly treated the poor with a degree-of brutality and tyranny unparalleled in any part of the world. But equality in the ad ministration of justice is a reality in Great Britain, as it never was in the United States, Here money could always save a ruffian from the consequences of his crime; there the proudest nobleman and the wealthiest com moner who violated the laws of the land have no more chance of escape before an. English judge and jury than the meanest occupant of St. Giles. England is a land of law in fact, as well as in name a land where every man's life acd property, as well as liberty, are secure; a land which, in its conservative spirit, its equal administration of justice, and its practical sympathy with the poor and humble, our own new country may well adopt as its its model. In looking over a late file of London pa pers, we observed one of its solid columns of editorials devoted to a case which in an A merican newspaper would have scarcely oc cupied ten lines of a local. It.was a case of a boy, who, for throwing a stone in a ba ronet's window, had been fined twenty shil lings, and sent to prison for a month, whilst a man who had committed the some olfence upon the window of a publican, hid been discharged upon the payment of a small fine, and without any abridgement of his lib erty. The journal boldly arraigned the magistrate fur the oppressive punishment of a mere child, and the partiality shown to a greater offender, in terms and with an em phasis which to American journalists seem altogether disproportioned to the character of the offence. r But the press in England is freer and bra ver, as well as more dignified and intelli gent than in the United States, and the peo ple, of whom the press is a representative, are more rigid in their ideas of justice and fair play. The government also never for gets the claims of its humblest subject up on its attention in any part of the earth. We have lately noticed a case of this kind, which occurred under our own observation, and which well might form a model lor. offi cial example in our own government. YANKEE DISCONTENT. . The Richmond papers furnish very re markable extracts from the Yankee papers, such as the N. Y. Tribune and World, anil the Cincinnati Commercial and Times, all iof which express deep discontent with the (conduct of affairs, both military financial, I The Tribune, after giving vent to the moat 1 dei,ish sentiments towards the South, says, I "lt is ,ime this war were brought to a clo?e' We cannot S on spring ,n0cy I at the present enormous rate for even aif . I months longer. Woe to this land i if Mother Mar finds the rebellion stilt nauchtv and defiant I 'I1,e "und says. "The credit of the jrovernment is sink- Tl,e PeoPle becoming desperate- ; ;caiv ,UI a,v 1Hi" ,Wi. ""IH ' Vl v ! n u ti a man jl? k kftrl f a I a I a Kxlati 9 (1 aril ! inS nd horrible burden of an im- ics red republican furies secession con spiratorswill grow potent in the unwhole some atmosphere of a war conducted by im- t I i a a. - fat I..,, ti.d .. irtit ri a . nniuKinea a lift in 11 M'tz uriiriib ui iuinmvii3 , . maintaining i V.' " . V . , an enormous lorce for ... . contractors. "It e can 1 ,nt,i ... .ni li OK Mie a r i- - , . Ir.u, ,., tn? scoundrels it.sens.lde to honor, with it drop ot blnl in our veins,and as in- rM f h5htin? ,he Ci',nm' t "" " 'm - .- , ,e aa Cease prt HIMHIIg in UC i j , ,1 . . " ? atiun that , t - , miti-siiir lib iiic iimic i i The Cincinnati Time. -;. r ih- Admin. "l ,. wlieB it come(l , - ;"""'" . a tu "; y. . . ua. " 4 in the hands of thieves, P' J" rici;uie U plunder. If Vt a chanste i the Cabinet for the "j "at S0S, the people will demand u-,l"r . . 1 .r. .1,-:- Am- thai tiiintli'rmir in I fie ill-asm,. ins c"a"Se' V, uhtr1w,nl. .nd it a cnangc oi n . '"aiiu. viat . . .. .i w 1 not step until n sweeps me wnoie a " 1 J. the Potomac. We ' kno know is on the wall." The Baltimore South, sari a large Steam-
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