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i i i ! THE PATRIOT. GREENSBORO, N. C. YEDIiESDAY. JAN. 21. 1874. -nLj The Legislature. : The matter of most general inter eaS before the Legislature since re assembling is the discussion on tbe subject of theSUte debt, and ' the probabilities are that no satisfactory CQpeiusion will be reached. Mr. ITorwood, of Orange, made a speech in favor of the assumption of onr debt by the U. S. Government. t;The minor liquor law which, has 1 passed the House is one of the best acta Dassed by that body. 1 There are several bills of import ance, such as exempting manufac turing enterprises from tax, giving Justices pf the Peace jurisdiction of petty criminal cases, requiring the publication of lands sold under ex ecution, &&, and others which bate not vet come up for discussion. s'A large number of special and local bills have been passed. Mr. Allen's Bill. 'The Concord Sun learns by a private letter that there is a proba bility of the defeat of Mr. Allen's bill requiring the advertisement ol lands sold under executions, &c We can hardly believe it. If the Legislature will continue agreat out rage by which thousands of dollars are annually lost to unfortunate debtors and their creditors, let them refuse to pass this bill. No one does or can want the present farcical law continued but the few professional land speculators who have and are making money by it at the expense of everybody else interested. ' If the Legislature will do its duty to the people it will pass Mr. Allen's bill ; if its purpose is to please, the land sharks it will defeat it - s The Minor Liquor Bill. The passage of this bill, although in. its amended form, is a subject for congratulation among all those who hare watched the fearful havoc that intemperance is making, and deplored the numberless calamities it has brought upon; men. There is nothing fanatical or prescriptive in it. It simply protects the youth of tbe State and prohibits dealing out to them the poisoned glass that makes drunkards of them before they have attained their majority, and sends so many of our best and most promising to premature graves. It is not thought that the bill wil meet with any serious opposition in the Senate. Amnesty, Ex-Gor. Holden, in a letter to J. E. Boyd, of Alamance, declares himself in favor of amnesty for all offences committed during the Ku Klox day. The ' correspondence is published and quite lengthy. ' Wonder if these Radical journals which howled so much when am nesty was talked of in the Legisla ture last term will now howl at Holden and Boyd f I r ! ' Col. Morehead has introduced a bill in the Senate limiting the powers of railroad corporations. It is , intended to obviate tbe ob jections i urged against- some charters granted by the Legislature, and prohibits these corporations from becoming bankers, land specu lators &c. It has passed its second reading in the Senate and will pass the House. Capt Samuel T. Williams has withdrawn from the editorial charge of the Raleigh News, lor the pur pose of devoting his time to the profession of the law,. The Captain won golden opinions during his ed itorial career and carries jwith him into hU new sphere the best wishes of the. fraternity. - Joseph' Baker was hanged at Charlotte last Friday for the mur der of ewton Wilfong. Whiskey did it. The Southern Home reaches us this week after an absence ofsev eral weeks, much enlarged. W are glad to see these signs of pros perity, for they bIiow that the peo ple appreciate a sterling journal and the Home is one of them. , Grant has made a third attempt and appointed Morrison R. Waite of Ohio, to the Chief Justiceship. The question now is "Who is Mr. .Wane T" and the public wait for reply. His appointment, however, is not objectionable and it is said be will be confirmed. The Roanoke News has been studying the signature of the TT. H xTeasury man, ana nas round out it. is Spinner. We have a friend .here who writes a band that we are ?uujk tu ugr iuauumg on next ana xsee whether he is going to laugh at ns because we didn't study hiero glyphics when at school. : y I - vessels Dearing cargoes valu ed at $3,153,815 cleared from the port' of Wilmington last year, being 81 vessels and $648,931 more in val ue than the previous year. The Immigration Question. .. - Wo have frequently written on the subject of immigration and have hoped that our Legislature would at the earliest practicable moment give it full con8ideration,ancl devise some means of securing for our own State a portion of the benefits reaped by others in the acquisition of imported brains, bone and "muscle. We find the following in ine lucumouu ir g - u ' V 1 w-a t " 'Jt TT7T - which is to tbe poinLfor all we have to do is imagine it was written for North Carolina, to which it applies with even greater force, instead of Virginia: . - In his inaugural message Gover nor Kemper says that the two great material - wants of Virginia are immigration and capital," and he expresses the hope that "the im migration system be thoroughly re vised and rendered efficient, so as not only the better to induce immi gration, but provide for the recep tion, care and protection of immi rrrant. their cheao and speedy dis tribution and location in all parts of the State." . ' If the present Legislature will adopt the views of the Governor as thus announced, ana act upon oia advice, the time is not distant when old Virginia will be upon the high road to. prosperity and independ ence. I am glad to see that our new Governor gives forth no "uncertain Round" noon this vital question, and it becomes our legislators, now that the ship of State is officered and manned, in the main from our own choosing, to consider well all ques tions pertaining to our material, Dolitical. and social interests, and liberally and manfully come to the support of all schemes which have these objects in view. ? To a proper development of all these interests immigration is a direct essential. Let ns look at it in connection with our material development, which is now the point most directly inter esting every citizen of the State. Believing, as I do, that from this source must come chiefly the remedy for all our ills, no time is more aus picious for a State move than the present. The financial panic from which we are just emerging has swept away many of the well-laid plans of railroad and steamship companies North and North-west, and the severe winters of the past two years have carried truthful and disastrous reports of this great sec tion to all parts of Europe. Statis tics, all confirming each other, and furnished by immigration societies, bv Castle Garden, and by tbe gen eral government, supply a store of information from whose lamp of ex perience we can glean enough to direct our action wita unerring cer tainty, and lay a foundatoin whose superstructure will defy political demagogues, and leave for all time to come Virginia in the bands oi her landowners and tax-payers. ! Iu the year 1820 the attention of this country seems first to have been directed to this question. Up to that time only about 250,000 immi grants had landed; From 1820 to tbe present time there have landed nearly nine million souls, and it is found that an average of sixty-four per cent, of these immigrants were over twenty years of age, and less than ten per cent, over forty years, showing that we are receiving a very large excess of the most pro ductive class of population. , With in the past three years about one million two hundred and fifty thous and immigrants . have landed in America. Of that number 400,000 have landed the last year, ending June 1873, of whom 276,000 were males, and 183,000 females. Ol these, 104,500 were under fifteen ; over fifteen and- under forty, 283.- 000. About 170,000 of last year's immigrants are from Great Britain, who' speak our language, and in every respect are a homogeneous people. Of the nine million foreigners who have landed in America since 1820, only about 295,000 have come to the Southern States, and ont of this number Virginia has received in a period of fifty-three years only 13, 754; from the 400,000 last year's arrivals up to June 30th, only the insignificant-number of 3,000 reach ed Virginia. There is certainly food for reflection in these facts,and I earnestly hope the committees who have in charge this great question will take nd more backward steps. The present population of the United States is estimated in round numbers at forty million. The gov ernment census reports sustain me in tbe statement that of this number twenty-eight million are of foreign extraction. In other words, the united States has by immigration anticipated its natural growth at least lorty years. So we see, but for it to-day the United States would not exceed twelve million in popu lation, and rank less than a third rate power among the nations of the earth. This stream of wealth, in telligence,euterprise and thrift com ing to our new country at the most profitable age (between 10 and 40 years) is what has made empires of the great North-west, whose power is now lelt all over this land, and whose wishes and interest even the Federal Government dare not thwart. I propose in another issue to lay before your readers the monied value of immigration and its relation to the State politically. t S. J. T. The people of Virginia have taken no little interest in this matter, and even with the limited aid given by the Legislature of that State much has been accomplished. We should have an immigration bureau, composed of public spirited, energetic, and patriotic men who would not make the oublic interest subordinate to their own, and a lib eral appropriation of money should be made to enable this bureau to wort effectively, make arrange ments with ocean steamers, lines of ran &&, and disseminate .such printed intelligence about her re source as would give Europeans before they left their home.a correct idea of the country we invited them to If we were in tbe Legislature to-day, financially embarrassed as we know the State is, we would not hesitate one jnoment in voting for an appro priation of $100,000, and would con sider it a good investment if ex pended judiciously. If we succeed ed in drawing even a small portion of tbe tide of immigration this way, in a few years the State would be more than repaid. With all jour resources, natural advantages,;; and central locality we are poor,) and poor for want of bands to cultivate our acres, hew our wood, open our mines, and utilize onr waters. I We must have people to do this and those people can't be got without an organized effort with legislative co-operation. , - j Editorial Squibs. '3 Ah old female mendicant died of starvation tbe other day in New York and they found about $300 sewed up in her skirts. The California ns are memorializ ing Congress to have Ibe treaty with China so amended 'as to ; pro hibit tbe immigration of the almond-eyed celestials. Jesse Holmes, the "fool killer," thinks "Cincinnati whisky" more formidable than his club. The old fellow is partial in his compliments to the Purkopolis article. The debt of Massachusetts is $2S- 477, 804: Maryland, $6,219,172; Maine, $4,620,903; Minnesota $450 000. Tbe bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis is completed. It cost $10,000,000 and is pronounced one of the finest structures of the kind and one of the finest pieces of en gineering skill of the age. St. Lou is accordingly happy, spreads her (lingers, puts her thumb to her nose and makes funny faces at Chicago. The first white girl born in Mil waukee, Wis. in 1835 was mar ried in California the other day. She was no spring chicken. Her name a very uncommon one was Smith. Asheville wants a Federal Court House. Blessed are they whose wants are few and who expect but little from Uncle Samuel, for : they shall not be disappointed. They kill eattle now in Euiope by driving a hollow nail, made for the purpose, into the head. With the contrivance they have it is done instantly and the animal dies with out pain. And now they are trying to leg islate in Congress against polyga my in Utah. They had better try their hands on their own morals first. Polygamy is about as much practised by certain M. C's as, it is by the Saints and Elders in Brig ham's paradise, the only difference being that the ceremony of marri age or "sealing" is dispensed with and the fact not publicly announc ed. Chicago is edified with the sen sation of an eighteen year old girl who took a case-knife and hacked her baby, just born, into a half doz en pieces. The St. Louis Times, : the organ of the Missouri Democracy, has been greatly enlarged and improved and is one of the most interesting pa pers in the West. We commend it to those of our readers who may do sire a paper from that section. Gen. Luther McCutchins, a prac tical farmer, is the republican nom inee for Gov. of New Hampshire. And they are beginning to recog nize the farmer away up there. The Chaplain in Congress, one day last week, invoked Divine Providence "to take into His hands that powerful engine, the . public press," and Ben Butler didn't say amen once. The Wilmingtonians are hopping mad bec&use the Virginius sunk so near their harbor as to interfere with the passage of vessels. Maryland has organized a State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry. Col B. W. Hughes, the defeated radical candidate for Gov. of Vir ginia, has been confirmed as U. S. District Courfr Judge, to fill the va cancy made by the death of the lovely Underwood, whose memory is so tenderly cherished by the be reaved denizens of that State. This appointment may soothe the wound ed feelings of a defeated and humil iated aspirant. The new hall of the Hickman Lodge of Good Templars, at Bal eigh was publicly dedicated last Tuesday week. Hickman Lodge claims to be the banner lodge of the world. Miss. Laura Alexander, a native of Charlotte, who bad adopted the profession of an. actress, and had attained considerable celebrity,died in New York after a brief illness last week. Lynch, colored member of Con gress is 26 years old and the young est Solon in the House. Mr. Waddell is the only member of Congress from this' State who voted against the repeal of the sal ary bill. Mr. Waddell has done so much in Washington that his serv ices are worth a big price. He evi dently thinks so himself whether other people do or not. A House oi Correction. j Communicated. j The Constitution provides for legislation to establish Houses-of Correction for the restraint, of va grants and persons guilty of misde meanors.:; There Js no. subjeefcof more importance to the State at this time, both from , a moral and economical standpoint, than the es tablishment! of one or. more such institutions. At the present, per sons euilty of misdemeanors are either not punished at all, simply discharged upon payment of costs, or judgment simply suspended to get them off the county, or else they are committed to the county jail where they are kept in idleness and at enormous expense. In a House of Correction, the minor criminals of many counties would be united un der one set of guards, they would do their own cooking &c, and in all the expenses incident to ; their care there would be the difference between a wholesale and retail bus iness. In addition to this,' their labor would be made to offset their expenses and a still greater saving be made to the counties. It costs forty cents a day to feed one of our county prisoners, while in jail. . Put the same man j in the penitentiary and his board costs but thirteen vents per day. There are about 400 prisoners in tbe penitentiary. It is fair to esti mate that there are or should be five men sentenced to terms of less than one year where there is one above that.: Especially is this true where so many of our indictments are for simple assaults. This wonld give 2,000 short term piisoners in the State during the year. To board this number in the different jails would t cost about $300,000. To board them in Houses of Correc tion a large number in one institu tion would cost about one-third of that amount, and this might be greatly lessened if not quite removed by the employment of the prisoners in suitable manufactures. The recent burning of our jail calls attention to the fact that no place in the State is so advanta geously situated for the location of such an institution as Greensboro. By proper Legislation it might be made to serve-as a place of deten tion for criminals awaiting trial for those counties which are conven ienr. The amount which this coun ty would have to expend for build- incr a jail might then be appropna ted toward the building of a House of Correction with advantage. It is a matter upon which men of all shades of political thought should harmonize,, and unite iu moving the Legislature to establish such an institution here and making a partial provision for its erection. Louis Kossuth the once feted and toasted Hungarian patriot is eking a scanty subsistence, in London, by teaching languages. A number of zealous women are playing the mischief with the whis ky business in Columbus and other towns in Ohio by holding prayer meetings in the barrooms and on the sidewalks, if refused admission. The salary bill as amended by the Senate passed the House on the 12th by a vote of 22G to 25. E. Murdock, of Brooklyn, is a widower now because he mistook his wife for a burglar and shot her dead. ' The editor of the N. Y. Tribune has seen the phrase "merry as a marriage bell" only 478 times iu the newspapers this winter. If he had waited a little while he might have made it an even 500. Gov. Allen was inaugurated at Columbus, Ohio, on tbe 12th inst., the first Democratic Governor the Buckeyes have seen in twenty years. Of course they are happy. Unemployed working men are making riotous demonstrations in New York and other northern cit les. An assemblage of ten thous and bad to be dispersed by the po lice and military in New York last week, and several persons were in jured in the encounter. The Congressional Committee on Retrenchment expect to cut down salaries, department expenses, and sinecures to the tune of about $30- 000,000. Small favors thankfully received. The excess of expenditures over receipts by the Government foots up about $8,000,000 per mouth. A pleasaut reflection for tax payers. Matt. Carpenter, U. S. Senator from WiscoLsin couldn't vote for the refuuding clause ot the salary bill because he had spent all he drew. Long Branch, wiue and fes tive females do cost something. The Granges.-rThe following facts u irusiwortny suow that the sys tem ot grangers is not a mere idle display of hostility, but that the iarmers nave reaped decidedly prac tical advanta ires bv refusing to iIpji! with "middle-men," and buying tueir goods direct trom the man ufacture. A good farm-wagon, com piete. is sold lor a hundred dollars the granger ourchases it for ap.ventv dollars ; a plough, for which farmers nave oeen paying twenty-two dol lars, is bought bv a pranwr far sixteen donars: a mty-dollar sew ing machine is bought for j thirty dollars, and a sixt v-five dollar on for thirty -nino dollars. - ; The Patrons of Husbandry, ac cording to their latest reports, have 8,835 granges, with 062,625 mem bers. There were 974 of these gran. ges organized during November. The order is said to have received quite an impetus from the favorable1 showings the granges have made in the autumn elections in ' the! Wes tern States. "Nothing succeeds like success." STATE ITEMS. There are 19 Granges in Mecklen- J burg county. . j , . . . J Negotiations are on foot looking! Seminary at Goldsboro. j ; The Piedmont Press Bay that the farmers of that section have nearly $100,000 in .National Banks. v - The cotton trade of Kaleigh this season will largely exceed that of tbe last, l it is estimated that the trade will reach 30,000 bales against some 22,000 last xe&T.Ral.2?etcs. I Acolored chiId,namedLucy Labor, three years old; 'was ' accidently knocked into the fire in Wilmington the other day by; another girl, and was fatally burned.- Attention, Grangers There will be a meeting of (Winston Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, at the Court House in Winston on Saturday, January 24th. All charter members are reqested to be present.. A large distillery is going np just outside tbe Winston . corporation, and will be in operation, we learn in a short time. We learn that John H. Masten has received the appoint ment of store-keeper for it. Win ston SenttneL The Madison Enterprise says the grist and saw mills of J. W. Moore, of Rockingham county, were de stroyed by an accidental fire last Monday. Loss $6,000. No insu rance. - ; The freedmen in the Charlotte vi cinity are threatening to refuse to work on farms for less than a half, with everything; furnished them. Next year they intend demanding a farm in fee simple. Wer learn from the Goldsboro Messenger, that on Thursday the 8th inst a most brutal murder took place, near Snow Hill. The victim was Mr. Thos House, and the mur derer, a negro named Henry (or Joe) Dixon. The murderer made his escape. The Danbury Reporter says that William Gordon who lived in Stokes county died on; the day before Christmas in his 96th year; and his son Thomas Gordon, who lived in Forsythe county, died on Christ mas day in his 76th year. Pardoned. We learn that Fred Rainey, colored, convicted two or years ago in the Superior Court of this county, of an attempt to com mit a rape on the person of his daughter and sentenced to five years in the Penitentiary, has been par doned by the Governor. Winston Sentinel, The Wilmington Star of the 10th instant : "A young man about six teen year? of age, named Atwood, a nephew of Mr." F. A. Newberry, of Magnolia, died ut that place on Thursday from the effects of an overdose of chloroform, used in the performance of a dental operation." Sentenced to be HangedOn yes terday Judge Watts, in a touching and impressive mauner, seutenced Allen McPhersou and lienry Wil liams to be hanged between the hours ot 12 o'clock M., and 1 o'clock, P. M., on Friday thel3th February next. They had been tried and con victed of breaking in and robbing the house of Mr. Carson Murray, of this place, a week or two ago. One of the persons sentenced has already spent a term in our penitentiary. Kaleigh Sentinel. I Raleigh Netcs: The Board of Ed ucation have apportioned among the several counties of the State $34,800.30 of the State School funds in tbe hands of state Treasurer, which will . amount to about ten cents for each child in the State, be tween the ages of six and twenty one years. A correspondent of the Spirit of the South, (Rockingham, Richmond county,) says that there is a band of robbers who infest the Western part of Randolph county and the eastern portion of Davidson county, making occasional forays into Rich mond, Moore, Montgomery, Stanley and Rowan counties. The band numbers about 25, including some dozen women. They steal every thing they1 can lay their hands on and commit all sorts of outrages. The Minor Liquor Law. All honor to the projectors at Greens boro, of the Minor Liquor Law, and all lioner to those noble members of the House of Representatives, who voted for its passage on its third reading on Thursday last. The ma jority by which it passed, was very large. Mr. Johnston of Buncombe, being the only one who opposed it it openly and tried to kill it. But his efforts failed, we rejoice to say, and we believe he will see the day to. rejoice for it. It has now gone to the Senate, and we have no doubt of its passage there. Spirit of the Age. Attempted Robbery of Bishop Gib bons in North Carolina. The En field (N. C.) Times of the 10th inst. says : Bishop Gibbons, of Richmond, while at tbe residence of Edward Conigland, Esq., in Halifax, on tbe night of the 5th inst., was aroused froin sleep, a little before day, by a noise in his room, and called out "Who is that T" when he discovered a negro in the room iu the act of retreating The negro had a por tion of the wearing apparel of the Bishop, but in his haste to escape dropped it. In the pocket of the vest ; was about lone hundred and fifty dollars in cash. In the. room were some valuables, among which was an elegant gold cross and chain. Fortunately the rogue did not get anvthing. I It is 'time neonlo wnrn more vigilant in securing their dwell ings. ; ' i TheStatesvillevimeridansavft: Mr. John Bostain.of this countr.sava he can beat tbe man that wore the' brass buttons 27 years! ago." Mr. Bos tain has a nair of shoes that he wnrn 36 years ago, and a pocket-knife that his grand father carried about 100 years ago, and another pocket- anne, inac nis iatner-m-iaw earned fifty years ago. i Correspondence of the Patriot Washikgtox, D. C, Jan. 17, 1874. N ft . CONVENTION WEEK. ' .. ;v "' j W baT6 bad ' ran on eoaTentions daring thiaweek.: TbsMexican war vet the cheap transportationitta, tb Patent eonventionitoa. tbe Woman's anfiraeiata ana the civil HgbtisU nave bees holding sortn in council, f ; -i j T '' ' " MIXICAS WAS ' ' VXTXXX8 i bad a good time;' the occasion being a Terr Pleasant : one. On account of his disastrous " setback' Gen Caleb Cashing declined to orate and to Gen. Negley's lot it fell to tell tbe story of the war in which bis hearers bad participated ; be acquit ted himself very creditably. . Gen. J. W, Denver was chosen se President of the convention. Geo. Cadwallader, Gen." II. 8. Lane and Gen. Sherman.-were present. Gen. Albert Pike then read an original poem prepared. lor tnia occaaion. , j THE CHEAP: TBAKsrOSTIONISTS j yesterday reported that railroads are highways and railroad companies are com mon carriers that Congress should pre scribe penaltiea toi any violation of tbe above liabilities in commerce between States' and the. State Legislatures should provide for tbe same in the ease of com merce by rail within their j urisdictions. Judge Cochrane, of Georgia, presented a minority report which declared that Con gress bad no power to regulate the rates on existing railroads, Considerable dis cussion ensued in which the railroad manages were shewn np pretty clearly.! There seemed to be a very decided opinion in favor of opening up the water routes in view of the fact that , wbilp the peo ple of the East are paying high for bread in the far West grain is burned for fuel ; we want tbe grain, the Western people want our coal and for such bulky articles canal transportation is the only channel. By the Southern water routes as pro posedwheat may be brought from St. Paul to New York for about 14 bents per bushel while by rail it now costs about 37 cents a bushel. Tbe opening of the water : routes would soon reduce the charges on freight by raiL Good will, no doubt,; come of this movement. , j THE PATENT CONKENTIONI8TS met here to endorse the resolutions of the Patent congress, held in Vienna in August last, relating to international patent pro tection, which was done without dissent. It is thought that the agitation of this question will result in the adoption by European nations of tbe American patent system. In Europe a patent is very readily granted and then the patentee bas to resort to the courts for protection our system being much more perfect. A permanent patent organization has grown oat of this convention. Mr. Leggett commissioner of Patents presented a bill by which the Patent Office is to be di vorced from the Interior Department which received the sanction of the Con vention a number of reforms is also em braced in the bill. THE WOMAN'S SUFFRAGISTS held a pow-wow at which the never-give-np, nor-never-to-be-put-down-susan B. Anthony presided and Vice-President Wil son spoke. The feeble vice had been a woman's lighter for twenty years and still remained " one of 'em." Wilson al ways did go for the womenfolk and al ways will I reckon. It is not bo fashion able to be one this crowd as it was before tbe Woodhull-Claflin-Beecher-Tiltou scan dal set people to thinking. THE CIVrX. RIGHTER8 met in council and have agreed to " reb- ber gib ipup so ' but to continue pegging away at Congress through Sumner and Butler nntil social equality is granted them. The poor female suffrageists don't ask as much as the negro does the right to vote being tbe torn total of their wild est hopes, though in case they had that privilege there's no knowing what next they might hanker after. the Chief justiceship The intense excitement and bitterness that was engendered by the Chronicle as saults on Hon. Caleb Cnsbing Grant's second choice for the Chief Justiceship has subsided and speculation is rampant a to who next bas to run the gauntlet of Senatorial examination and Chronicle vituperation, for Harlan's paper will pitch into any nomination bat that of associate'. Justice Miller the father-in-law of Mr. Cork hill, one of tbe Chronicle editors. So flabbergasted is Caleb that be has not yet determined whether he will ge to Spain. Senator Conkling will, $is said, bo the next choice for Chase's seat, if be can arrange conveniently for a Sen atorial successor. Tbe letter of Cashing to Jeff Davis was not among the papers bought by the Government of Gen. Pickett bat was captured at Richmond. An effort will be made to have the whole batch of Confederate archives published. If this is done there will be some very loyal Radicals who will be tumbled as was Mr. Cashing. Let's know who's who by giv ing the documents to the country and it may save considerable valuable time as in the recent case. ' TEXAS. ; - I "Notwithstanding the Texas Radicals Governor Davis at their bead are tele graphing the President and i the Attorney General, asking for military aid to keep themselves in power it will not be granted. Texas mast take care of herself as she has no Presidential bro-in-law in office there as Louisiana had. j ' : CHEAP POSTAGE. There will be qnite an animated dis cussion, over the cheap postage subject. Penny postage a popular measure will be strongly urged. The proposed reduc tion of postage en books and other printed matter to one half the present rates is al ready creating an excitement the pub lishing houses in favor and tbe retailers against it. ! v THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE. ' The committee on Post Offices and Post Roads have framed a bill in accordance with the sentiment of . Members of Con gress for a partial restoration of the Eranking privilege. As a sOp to the Press exchanges will be allowed : to go tree as under tbe old systen. ! SAINT HOWARD. The House committee on Military i af fairs have been debating the case of the Friedman's bureau Apostle Gen. O. O. Howard "and no course of action de termined on. Four of the committee de sire the House to continue the investiga tion which means, if possible, another coat of White-wash, the other four wish to recommend the President to institute a court of Inquiry which means punish ment if found guilty which be certainly is.. I "A VETO EXPECTED. , It is current that the President bas signified his intention of; vetoing the salary grab repeal bill. I don't think him fo,l enough to do that, though, " Whom tbe Gods would destroy they first make mad'' and may be Grant has been picked Ont for destruction, j "MCJXETT. I A delegation from" the Bricklayers Eassed in Baltimore denouncing a. d lallett,' Supervising Architect of the Treasury; for his : recommendation regard ing the eight hour law. Mullen is hard headed but he bas run bis caput against the hard fisted and he may get hurt. GOING vast. j Of the $44,000,000 Treasury reserve only S17.000.CUO remains. There win do a new bath of tax gatherers soon, j A correspondent of the London Lancet, the most important medical journal published in England, re lates the following curious iacr: 7 a man iu bis neighborhood had three daoghters. Wishing for a son, he made a solemn vow that, ii his next child should be a girl be would never speak to her. The next child provedtto be a son, as j be wished, but cuipously j enough,! he never would speak to his father, although be lived thirty-five yeats with him. He always talked freely with bis mother and sisters,but with no one else until after tbe death of his father when he talked readily with every one. He was called "Damb Eli.ff New York Suru The New York Herald hays: "The government pays to the na tional banks nearly twenty-fonr mil liou dollars a year interest, at six per cenL, althoogh it gives back to tbe. banks in their own currency over; three hundred and forty mil lions to invest and make interest on over-again. These favored Institnf tion8, in fact, have ninety per cent." upon that capital. Mr. Richardson wants! money, and proposes to tax commerce and the necessaries of life to obtain it. If be will propose to sweep away the national bank circulation and make all the curren cy of one denomination,lega!-tender, he will save nearly twenty-four mil lion dollars now given as a bogus to the national bank,and be just so much richer without taxing the peo ple at alL i j ! - -j . I y Mr. Senator Carpenter sees "but one way of getting bonesfpnblie servants, and that is by paying them ! a good price." Unfortunate it is for the Senator's theory, but the i fact I is irrepressible, that we may, pay the good price without getting the honest public servant. Moreover, it isn't exactly safe to permit, a man to fix the valne (in greenbacks) of his own honesty. This method will always result in differences of opinion. For instance, Mr. Flanagan of Texas thinks that his public services are worth $10, 000 f perl 'annum ; yet everybody knows that they would be dear at a tenth of the money. . and that we could better afford to give him $10, 000 a year tojBtay at home for the rest of life. iv". Y. Tribune. i The funding act which is before the South Carolina Legislaure,and which will probably pass, reduces the State debt from $16,000,000 to about $6,000,000, by repudiating a part! of the fraudulent debt, and scaling toe valid obligations of the State and another part of the fraud ulent debt fifty per cent. Bonds for which South Carolina received dollar for dollar are scaled equally with those for which only fifteen cents were paid by New York spec ulators. ? This is iniquitous as well as contrary to the Constitution of the United States. ' j j Vigorous efforts are being made by Virginia people to have their State Constitution amended, A petition J has been numerously signed asking ' the Legislature to submit to the ! people amendments reducing the ! number of members in the Housel of Delegates to 75, and the number i of Senators . to 25; providing for biennial instead of annual meetings of the Legislature; and changing the i pay 0t mvmbers to salary, of $500. instead of per diem salary of 6; makf j ing attorneys for the state ineligi ble to seats in the Legislature, aud j equalizing and reducing, as far as ) possible, ;the rate of taxation upon real estate. i ; : i f ! ; ' ! IulTGl the British Parliament adopted the Gregorian ratification of the calendar. The act directed that the year should commence on the first of January instead of the 23th of March, ao heretofore ; and thatdeveJi days from the 2d to the 14th of September should be omitted. yfAqgusta (Ga.) Constitu tionalist. ; f ; The Men the People Want A mau well disciplined, full of useful information, thinking quickly and clearly, earnest and brave, honest and faithful, will always ! command respect. As to political mediocrity, the people are beginning to be sur feited with it. Tbe ignorance of some men: in high place, and the bad character of others, raised byH accidental circumsauces to unmerit ed honors, are evils which sooner Or later will work their own cure; Already there is grea(. restiveness and a desire for change. The change cannot come too soon. Bal-A Umore Gazette. ' Greensboro Price Current. ! ' : - 1 KKVISKI WEEKLY BY j JAMES SLOAN'S SOIVS, I Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Groceries, tc. BrtadstuffsYoar, per sack, COrn Meal, per lb. Grain Wheat, per bunhel, Com do Oats do Clover seed, do Bacon Hog round Lard Beef ; s 3.75a4.50 112 l.GOal.75 70a75 40aTe 8.00a9.W 10al2T 10al2i 5alr 25a3( J.ra2( I5a20 Butter Eggs Chickens ; Dried JVu&r-Apples, bright sliced, "' do dark Peaches, strictly prime, - do good to common Blackberries, Coffee Swrar Brown, ' 4a I5a2C 6al0 35a40 llal5 12a 15 1.00a2.0O 2S!aC5 5.00a6.5O 5aG 3.00 2.00 1.75a2.-J5 4.00 5.53 30a40 14 lit -75 1.00at.5O 1.50 j Refined, Tea Syrup Nails per keg. Iron Salt Marshal, fiine, per sack, American-Liverpool, Lime per barrel, Cement per barrel, Calcined Plaster per barrel, Wool 1 - - Hides GreT!, 1T7. Potatoes Swet, Irish, do Northern, Cotton Tarnr Hay Iu balee, Loose, Shucks In bales 75al.00 C0a75 75al.00 i M OUSTS- BESSON Has replenished bis Stock of WINTER GOODS, ' I i OF THE LATEST VARIETIES, i r ? - And will offer to bis customers tbe GREATEST INDUCEMENTS ' I OF THE SEASON. On Fayetteville Street, B A L E IQH, feb 20:ly N. 0 Piedmont Alr-IilneL. Railway.: Richmond Q 4c Danville, Rich mond &. Dan Title K. W., North Car olina DivUion, and North Western North Carolina R..W. t i condensed"ttime-table. - In effect on and after Thursday, Jan. 7st, GO!G XOUTII. Stations. Mail. -Leave Charlotte," 7.00 P. 21. Air-Li neJ uric 7.15 " - Salisbury, 1 10.09 A.M Greensboro, 2.15 " ; - " Danville, , b:Z8 " " Burkrille, 11.40 " Arrivo at Richmond 2.32 P.M. Express. 8.35 A.M. B.50 10 47 " ' 3:27 8.06 " H.Q2 " GOING. SOUTH.. Stations. vfiail. Express. 6.03 A.M. 8.28 1.03 P.M. 4.00 : 6.33 " 8.53 9.00 Leave Richmond L48 P. M., 4.53; M 9.52 " 1.16 A. M 3.56 " Burkvme, , Danville, 1 Greensboro, Salisbury, Air-LineJunc.6.22 M Arrive it Charlotte, 6.30 GOING EAST.; Stations. Mad. Leave Greensboro, 2.00 Ai M., ; " Co. Shops, 3.55 Raleigh; 8.30 Arrive at Goldsboroll.40 M i ' GOINGnWEST. Stations. V Mail. Leave Goldsboro. 3.00 P. M. -Ralelgbr 6.00 " " Co. Shoos. 10.28 Arrive at Greensboro,12.30 A.M. NORTH WESTERN N. Ct B. E. . . SALE3I , BltAXCII. Leave Greensboro, ' a 4.40 P.M. Arrive at Salem, ! ! 6.35, ; Leave Salem, : 1 8.00 A.M. Arrive at Greensboro, 10.00. " ; Passenger train leaving Raleigh at 7.40 P.M., connects at Greensboro f with the Northern bound train ; making the quick est time to all Northern cities. Price of tickets same as via other routes; Trains to and from points east of Greens boro connect at Greensboro j with 1 mail trains to or from pnints North or South. Trains daily both ways. i I On Snndays Lynchburg Accommoda tion' leave Richmond at 9A2JL. M., arrive at Bnrkeville 12.39 P. M leave' Burke ville 4.35 A. M., arrive at Richmond 7.58 A.M. . ; i I '-' Pullman Palace Cars on all night trains between Charlotte. and Richmond, (with out change.) 1 I I t " : " " . For further information address S.' E. ALLEN, General Ticket Agent. . Greensboro, N. C. T. M. R. TaLCOTT, Engineer and , Geul Superintendent., j : CHANGE OF SCHEDULE I ' - - 1 ! :.-H'J:V The Popular Line for Richmond and all Points on the Chesa peake & Ohio Railroad- , Richmond, York liiver & CbesapeakeRail Road Line. rnilE magnificent iron: steamer 'Sue," X Oapt. A. C. Niekle, will leave Pier JO, Light street wharf, foot of Barre t etreet, on Mondays, Wednesdays and-Fridays, at '4 p. m., stopping at the Landings ion the York River -and arriving at Richmoud 10 arm. the following morning. , : J I j fi Passenger trains leaving. Richmond for Baltimore and all joint Noi lh, tm Tuesday, Thursdays ami Saturdays,, at 2 pirn., arriv ing at Baltimore the following morning. "This route from Baltimore offers to the public, an uninterrupted i)iglit'r rest on the. Bay and entering tueYrk Kifej at day light, affords the passengers a. beautiful view of the maguificeut scenery'on Ydrk" Bier and allowing time to partake Of! breakfast ton the steamer before . arriviiitr at West Point. . . .! i: i - ;:.; -."-i-r- Passags-from Baltimore to Richmond , $5 after thirty days tickets will be sold to Balti more over this line at -Abe same price of any other line. " :J' Freight received daily, carefully handled and forwarded wiTn dispatch. j : All claims for lost and damaged freight will be promptly traced and adjusted, . Through bills of Landing and rates guar- anted to all-poiuts boutn as low as .i it - ' . i :i - by , any uiucr 1111c For further information apply tOi R. FOSTER, General Superintendent, 144 Light Street Baltimore. EDW. F. FOLGER, I General Ticket and Freight Agent, - - , Richmond, Vai . N. II. II0TCHKI88, Travelling Ageftt, 28ft-tf Fountain House, Baltimore. 1MPOBTAMT TO THE TRAVELING! PUBLIC A HTILL FURTHER l ' DEDUCTION OF BATES - BV TIIK I I i . ' - BALTIMORE ANDOHJO TO ALL POUifTS .1 , ' West, Northwest, and Southwest. ; First-clase Fare from Greensboro' To Pittsburg, : $19 35 ,! Columbus, 21 35 .: ; ; Cincinnati, 22 35 i ; Indianapolis, 23 85 '. h . Louisville, 24 35- - . Chicago, , 2d 35 u . St. Louis. 29 35 i Evansville, 30 35 - Kansas City, 4135 j. Omaha, L ! 45 85 .i Nashville; . ' 31 80 r New Orleans i 50 35 - ) -,'- -Sherman, 64 85 ! t Galveston, 0 CO A Correeponding redaction to all other poinU. Tickets purchased at the above rates . are not,epecial or limited, j but good uhtil. ; used, - j I j -.1 - This great National Route is one hundred, and twenty-five miles shortest aH rail route from Washington? to -Cincinnati,! and all points Wejt. . ;i i f - M i Seventy-five Miles the shortest boe to Pittsburgh. J ' -, I . M'., 22 hours from Washington to : Cincinnati, Two fast daily trains l?ave Washington, as follows : at 8 a. m. and 7:45 p.m. Pullman Palace Cars, and magnififcent dav - coaches, run through to Cincinnati, Columbus, St. Louis and Pittsburg Without Change(ij and with but one change to Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Loaisville, Skc. The equipnienu of this great short line are of the most modern and improved style. For speed, Comfort and safety it is unrivalled. Its eating houses and botefs are owned and operated by the Company, -i Meals- at j sea sonable hours and ample time to enjoy them, i Tle scenery along ! this rodte is Unsurpassed for crandeur and beartty. ji j H f i For through tickets and information apply -at the Company's! Office, Green sboio, the . Ticket Offices at Clharlotte, Salisbury,, States ville and High Point. I I'r IHj ' j-t , 1 Baggage checked through from Greens boro, Salisbury and Charlotte to all Points I Emigrants and colonists furmfabed tickets at the lowest "rates.. Hifl I : .-' -- !i An ammt of the com nan v will meet parties at any railroad station, and fumirh tbem with through tickeU and baggage checks, when desired. . -" : n : j For further information, apply to .1. R PEARCE. Airent , Greensboro! N. CV " f Greensboro, N. C. : " J. L. WALTDROP. S. E. Pass Ag't. I; Jan. 14,-3m. ;- Richmond,! Vs.- Jno. H. Dillard. Dillard, . Jno. A Gilmer.' Gilmer ATTORNEYS AT --. ' i and 1 SOLICITORS IN BANKRUPTCY, ; Office over-Bank of Greensboro. n..W TTouae.' ! Opposite PRACTICE in SutO and IFederal Courts. - Special attention given to matters m Bankruptcy, and eauees arising undjf '"- nal Revenue, in District CouxTorWeatern District of North Ca)Bna.1 (Uf'ons mv Sute and Federal Courts solieuoa f 4 June 26, 1872., 205:ly. tt in m 4! SI I'll .
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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