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- f , . t "w-i 1 - - 1 T TiywjTOr - - . - - r The Carolina! Wfflan. VOL. V.--THIRD SERIES. SALISBURY N. C. MAY, 1874. . XO. 35 .-tffl(teSSS ggggg I 1 SB ' i ill li LLL ' " " l i Trw i ami f awr.x . r : : s 4 . Tfc - 2 :..a -SSBLasaolBT dial ion nndB lha rUBUHHKl) WEEKLY J. J. BRUN, Proprietor and Editor. J. J. STEWART Associate Editor. 2.50 1.50 .... 10.0 HATES OF li'BCRIPTION WEEKLY WATCHMAN. Thar, payable in advance lit "nuTUli ' S Cm ".a to any address, Tri-weekly Watchman. 0x Yr.AR in advance ,..$5.00 Stx loicnia " ......3:00 Gm UovfH "... . 50 IDVKKTII A RATES : 0v Sqt:.xK (1 inch) One insertion $1Q0 m - " two " 150 Re' for a greater number of insertions, At Special notice 25 per cent, more aa :fular advertisements. Reading notice J cei tn per line for ench and every insertion. 0. Woodson Former Clerk J. K. Burke D. S. 0. W. Atwell " R. H Cowan Lumber W. A Wawon Shff. J. K Burke D. S, M. A. 8mith J. Thomason J P. A. J. Mason Stationary for omce for four years O. W. Atwell L. M.A.Smith M T. Cranford " J. K. Burke O. W. Atwell " WwA Walton Shff B F Fraley Coroner 275.00 16.50 1.80 17.80 4.80 30 1.50 2,50 rr I 8. U . r 8 1 C .l-ft4nWA.ttia TIE FAVORITE HOME REMEDY. This unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to eon tain a single particle of Mercury, or any ajurious mineral substance, but la PURELY VAX TABLE: containing those Southern Roots and Herbs, wkich on all-wise Providence haa placed in reostrie where Liver Dise.ws most prevail It will cure all Diseases caused by Derangement ef the Liver and Bowls. Lifer legalater or Medkae. 265.00 6.0 2,40 4.50 2,40 1,20 21,907 1,80 120,50 60 30 15 9,39 Moses Brown J A Boyden CSC J K Burke DS A J Mason tJ SO J & Cownn Listing Tax and Taxing School Census 2o,00 C C K rider Listing Tax & Judge of Election ... 13,00 J A Hawkins " Regt "and Judge of hie. Hon 15,55 Jesse L'ow lis Listing Tax - 10,00 K A Shirapock and Registrar 12,85 nrt Internal UeYenne System Its Evils. OPPRESSIONS, AND ABUSES. SPEECH OP I : til (TJ I HON. WILLIAM M. BOBBINS, OF NORTH CA I the H one's op Repr NT AT IVES, TheB SBBf r-m - at ttavi Whole. sideut'a Regt 10,00 F Wagoner A L Hall " a Judge of Election Phi Alexander " C Barnhart " P Wiseman , Thos Earnhart " Thos U Watson Listing Tax and Censes 15,00 Levi Trexler " " 10,00 A W Klutts " " 11,30 S A Earnhart " " 15,00 Nathan Brown Taxes and Census 1 5,00 F Jamison " . 21,00 M I. II 14,20 14,29 13,31 10,00 10,00 8 M Fun? H 0 Bot VV F Watson of Election W M Kincaid la 18.53 15,50 Regt & Judge 19,05 1 " A Pnn.1,. 91 OA v1" awv J A Rendleman Taxes & Census 15,00 Wilson Trott Regt & Judge of Election 6,00 DC Reed ? u 11,20 J Thomasoa Judge of Elections 6,00 " Listing Tax 10,00 P A Sloop Beg A Judge of Election 1 9,05 John Sloop i,00 D S Cowan " " 1U,W U aaainently a Family Medicine; and by being ken ready for Immediate resort will aave many aa aour of suffering and many a dollar in time aaddoetora' billa. After over Forty Yearn' trial it ia still receiv ing the moat unqualified testimonials to its vir tues from persona of the highest character and responsibility. Eminent physicians commend it at the moot WWW DOTE, all ell former heiacad wk BOWEL, COMPLAINTS, RE81 JAUNDICE, NEAUSEA. MM. . oapost. Purest aad Best Family io Word I It to the ia the Manufactured only by J F Cowan t Census J 8 Sloan " W Felker Judge of Election J H A Lippard Richard Small J.A.Gill, J. C. Snuggs Julius Colera J. Allen Brown 44 n a ir si J. R. W W.T. J. A. J. A lea Rose " Jacob Trexlar M ' - rwk C. C. 15,00 10,00 1.50 ,0 3.00 Judge of Election 3 00 U M M 3 00 ot at - m m Miller F&tH. KhMs Squire Ball ir ou.. J H SBZ1XN 6l CO , Price, $1.00 Maron, Oa., and Philadelphia. Sold by nil Druggists, BOW AN COUNTY. v The following list contains a true state meat of all the Taxes levied and collected for county purpoees during the year ending January 31st. 1874. To wit : Listed Taxes $9420.91 Unlisted Txes 168,10 Merchants, Traders, &c. 676.65 $10265,66 And the Sheriff is credited wit! overchar- f;. insolvents and persons not to be found the Couuty 180,08 $10085,58 And for commissions on 10055.58 at 5 perct. 504,28 Thos. Barber " W. H. Kester M George Lyerlv " C. H.McKinsee " J. K. Graham Tims. Nibloek J. B. GU)stin Joseph Watson J. L. Graeber T. W. Alison J. T. Cutherell u R. H. Broadfield C. F. Baker T. W. Haynes H. VVocmI J. P. Rimer, Judge of Election H. Barringer S. Klutts WT. Morgan W Bean W; C. Brandon " J. F. Hodge T. Goodman M. G. Morgan R. Cuiburtson $9581,30 Set apart for the support of the poor, $2400.00 The following Claims were audited by the Board of County Commissioners: P. A. Sifford, Com. 9 days ' $18.00 ''Milage 9.90 D.A.Davis 13 days 26.00 !' Mnuney M 6 " 12,00 Milag, 8,25 0. M. Baruhardt Com, H9 days 38.00 Milage 22.80 J .Q. Fleming Cum 11 days 22.00 S Milan' 15.40 J. I. Shav. r Com. 2." days 50.00 M. L. Holmes " 2(i ' 52,00 A. J. Mason Superior Court Clerk 153,15 R. A. Shim pock State Case (J.P ) 05 J. K. Bnrke Deputy Sheriff 1 30 J. H. Ileilig Com. . 5.00 Jeaae Powlee J. P. State Case l.!0 N It M H i it U M ( M ( .1 H H u (I II II ii M if ia ii M I M 3 00 4 00 3 93 133 433 433 4 33 If IS 133 1 33 $03 1 33 3 03 4 00 3 00 3 00 1 50 4 50 l.op 6 DO 8 00 8 00 8 00 8 00 2 00 3 00 4 50 4 50 -3 00 1 50 4 50 3 00 3 00 4 50 4 50 6 00 8. J. Picket DS." 8. K. Harris Shff. J.J. Sitfnns D. X. J. CO. Graham Coust, Jason Hunt (.TC ) C, F. Wagoner Shff. J. A. Hawkius J. P. M. A. Smith D. 8. 0. W. Atwell J C Millar Const. W. F. Wataou J. P. D. L B. iuglc K. C. Lent.- " W. C. Brandon. Const. J- K. Goodman D. S H. W. Cozort. Const. J C. Rankin " li. Alexander J. P. Tilman Cranford D. S. J. W. Bunn, Const J- A. Boyden C. 8. C. W. A. Watsou, Skff. Jwhn Wrtliama D. 8. J. B. f uard. Const. . J. W. Mflfor J. p. olfine(Sehiol) 12.00 1.85 15 75 1.51) 1.60 30 45 24.25 '45 80 15 25 80 25 15 55 160 85 7.15 75 35 50 2.10 13 35 80 1.95 J. P. Gowan Regestrar & Judge of Election " " - 29 75 C. F. Wagoner, Sheriff, Conveying Prisoners to Raleigh &c- " 59 85 Moving Privey at Court House, 8 00 Takign down Plaster in " 30 M. L. Holnjea, Work on Jail " 79 45 Brown & Weant Court House 101 90 Earnhart & Co. work on Jail 7 50 E. Crowell " M . M 2 20 H. Powlea 1 Coffin " M 3 00 W A. Walton, Shff. Jail Fees 901 65 G. M. Barringer, for Boarding . pauper " " 6 00 John Bringle Digging Grave 1 09 J. A Caldwell Medical Service 44 00 ii i ii .i 3 go Si.mmerrellf&Gaithcr " 55 00 C. F. Wagoner, Shff. paid for hand and Leg Irons " " 11 00 Me rone v Brb's for Lumber 3 15 and Drayake M M 14 00 MeMeelv V Walton Blankets for Jail 30 00 J. M. Knox for Blankets " 7 25 J. A. Ci hi well, Medical servise 6 50 M. S. Melntyre Ceiling, & sheet ing Registers Iioom " " 77 50 J.J. Br iiner Printing " 1050 W. N. R. Road Freight " 1 75 H. N. Woodson services as Clerk of Board x 125 00 Smithdeul Barnhart & Co Store net. for iail 17 00 J. K. Burke, Paid for Blankets act. 7 85 Foster and Horah, Blankets Ac, 11 85 A. M. Woodaon Blank Book , 2 30 C. W. Johnson Building Bridge 15 00 H.G. Milllf " 125 50 if. L. Chunn " " O. W. Atwell W. H. Hudaon W. A- Campbell J. 8. E. Hart A O. u i it ,i W Atwell ?5 00 24 00 12 00 24 00 25 00 J W Miller M C Morgan Repairing Bridge - 3 00 John Feimster 2 00 Ramaom Jacob 4 D Peninear Bui Wing Bridge . 1JQ 00 WafAonfibaTJail T. CraafoTdD. R. - - 3 184 00 ii J Lyerly Repairing Bridge K en I mi nana - W H KeereP G CooaT . 8 8 Trott J Swink - - Cranford A Barger m " Crawford Heilig for Naila Witneaa Tickets in John C Miller care of 49 33 40 00 S 00 23 03 2 00 3 50 47 33 23$ 00 33 418 37 6 00 i store-keepor e ovur be around to note ana and guard thespirits till to measure and stampt them. war&Wnnerarir;i tbslkeiii oowana i IfoarAere in i 1 rto Irtday, May 8, 1874. ouse. ait CASitl3lldfM 'K m2t El it . j i mar v w w aw w ng ander ctsidWioit' thMVts annual message- i Rarsifron : SpeakcjrA - JSThen Louis Napoleon. twenty-two years ago, struck down the lib erties of France by his celebrated coup d'etat and ereetfd his throne on the ruins he scar cely possessed more effective agencies for the accomplishment of his purposes than are now in the hands of the President of the United States. He had perhaps a more subservient army, though unfortunately ours has often : - i is reeeuwy proveu useir a convenient in strument for the perpetration of very gross out ages and invasions of popular rights. But if we look at other means and other loois ior seizing ana maintaining supreme autocratic power, we find our soldier president as well provided with them as was the prince president of 1851. Napoleon contrived to draw into alliance with him the money po ver. monopolies, the soulless cof t 'orations of France all, in short, who loved weal h more thau lihertv, and who wished for an energetic government to protect them iu their unjust exactions, and against the complaints of the down-trodden masses. In like manner we have seeu our Presideut all through his administration court the sup port and the favor of the money lords to the neglect of the interests of the toiling mil- Imus : and by his latest act. his veto of the bill for the expausmu ot the curreucy. he has thrown himself into the arms of the hankers, the monopolists, and the money changers the entire creditor class and thev are now singing psenns m his praise while be turns his back upon the struggling debtors and toiling agriculturist of the West Soath and leaves them to perish, crush ed by a mouutiau of-accumulated burdens. Even Napoleon sought how he might favur the) agriculturists. Grant utterly deserts . a -il m -m e r care of pauper 5 00 MTL Holmes amt paid W A Lentt for Building Bridge 115 00 m 3jL$3 of this oftco I M O Davis. (and Goods 30 00 I MMmaMa13iHRfte aaaaaaaaaaaaapBaiavaBk' To run out th parallel, however 'Napt loon had his multitudes of deputies and pre- lecta in all the provinces and depar'ments. his creatures and tools, who .owed their official being to his individual will, and ready at a word from their master to public opinion, and by cajolery, inti . or fraud to carry elections as might by the central power, the silent x. at Paris. The people were ingen I if deceived by the establishment of 'uui veoa.l suffrage," aad led into the belief that thej were the all-powerful arbiters of thei WMfcaiais laaoalnrof '-universal ipolated by the inter of despotism, recorded uot the will si aaainrity boil the will of one man Aad here we wave the same "universal suff rage aad prostituted ballot, ard a li k a.. a m m a muitituae ot omclais ami placemen depeu dent on one man. for their positions an equally active in Uoi.ig the buttling ol tnei master at Washington, nirimd atmg and corrupting the voters, controlling conven tions, oppressing freemen, cheating the ig norant, ma ipu fating ballot-boxes, engin eering eiectiorrs, perpetrating frauds, ami finally, when ail else f-i!s. committing the foulest nsurpattors in the conhdent and after well-founded hope that the master and the party they serve will uphold them iu their daring outrages upon liberty, law, even decency. Such seems to ine the parallel between the circumstances of the prince president and the soldier president the situation of France in 135l-52 and America in 1774. Id the one case we know the 'result ; usur pation, despotism, the empire, uuiyersal cor ruption like a worm eating out the heart of national virtue, aud at length a collapse which astounded the world. In the other ease what will be the event we must wait to Soo war I am frank to say, neverthless. that I have email fear that Grant jrill try to play the role of Napoleon. I do riot believe he is un patriotic enough to do that. Far be it from me to do h:in injustice by charging him with studied designs against the liberties of his country. But is it not a humiliating situation for us that we should owe our lib erties to the forbearance of one man ? More over, among those who are to come after him, are we sure that there may not soon arise some one whose domineering and ar bitrary spirit, brilliant facilities and consum ing ambition may prompt him to put in exercise the mighty engiuery which Grant forbears to use in its full force, aud make us all his subjects ? . Among the many reasons, some of which 4 shall eudeavor to specify, why the present internal-revenue system ought at mice to be totally abolished, is its tendency to centrali sation and the absorption of all power iu the Federal Government and ultimately in the hands of one man. It works toward this result in many ways, a 3 .by introducing the eonstint surveillance of Federal officials into the daily employments and most intimate affairs of the people, bv augmenting th jurisdiction of the Federal courts, aud espe cially by adding so exteusively to the patron age of the Executive. Before the introduction' of this system the people truly felt that they governed them selves, and lightly did their own self-imposed yoke rest upon them ; but now they painful ly realize that they are governed governed by st: angers or by the sycophants of power, aud grinding is the burden. On a man's own land grow Ms own fruit trees planted by his own hand aud laden with luscious fruits ripened by the bountiful sunlight of "HeaAe. He feels that he ought to have th rizht to do what he pleases with that wkich is in tsuly his own. What he ought to do with it seTtfer yoo nor I .have a right to any ; perhaps we-might not think as he does about th t. In the exercise of his. indisputable privilege he chooses to convert his fruits into brandy, for the purpose of pvtUng tbean into a form lesa perishable and anore available for market, or for uses of various aorta in his own family or business. But in setting about this simple matter of utilising the products of bis own little orchard himself at once under the prying Ma of some revenue u ode ring, whose x laatrnctiona and vexations reoui re- be duly complied with before it tfce Ire ander the still Aud juice of apple begins to ie form of brandy, yoor ; all these proceedings honest of tbe citizen xel to. At every stage you him as a suspected rogue. ii' der such a system he aMabwitfefert tei cheat yoo-whenever he rent tdaai tin an honest endeavor) comply WBkftJtotaw he should commit an innocent iiijpaha kaaJHfcbs v a o. j a JS . An3 involve pimseit in a teenaicaai Uliuuusiaw tee Federal ofieiaks toe oftea tab adeaiathge of aucn au owaaioiJo imcaiaoaa auasasafiivi before they release him from the net in which sometime they aave designedly hun by eoufused instruction my 'juago -uow great a Jpooencv trus daily interference ol Federnr agentaab the njost osdiuavy aJTaira of 3)eJveopler hss tci imprea s-epoa tjs aatlaiW tbe idea, that powef noWteSHeS only in the General Gov ernment ; and such an impression insensibly induces acquiesenee in all assumptions ot power by the Federal head. By the same 6ystem tbe jurisdiction and importance of the Federal courts is vastly increased, in so much that they are rapidly overshadowiug tbe atate courts. A tew years ago the United States courts were radically unkuown in North Carolina. their proceedings being eonbneu almost en tirely to the adiudication . ot an occa sional admiralty case, of which scarcely one man iu a thousand ever heard men ion made. Now a session of the Federal court is a great event, aud brings together throngs of citizens as jurors, parties litigant r witnesses, from the most remote parts t the State, entailing great expenses, loss nf time, and many inconveniences to tbe people. No single feature of the great revolu tion which has receutly occurred iu this coun try is more notable than the sudden growth which has akeu place in the assumed pow ere prerogatives of the Fed ral judiciary. 1 cannot now digress from th subject iu hand to enter upon a full discussion of this matter I may recur to it at some other time, and enlarge upon the manner in which the local administration of j jstice is being superseded by our Federal courts. When the raws of North Carolina are violated it would seem but proper that the trial and punishment of the offender should be left to North Carolina tribunals. But under your legislation it ia not so. The . murderer, the robber, the ravisher indicted in the State courts has only to swear that he believes he cannot have justice done him in those courts, and it is eontendeo under your recent laws that be is entitled to have hit case removed to the United State courts for trial. 'In the jail at Raleigh there is to-dav confined a mau who o t committed a cold-blooded muider in Char lotte four years ago ; but the State whoee law he thus violat. d la inhibited from trying and punishing him unless your Supreme Court, to whieh the eaaa haa cone, shall de cide that she haa the right to do so. If be had beea a white man and not a negro. doubtless death aad the devil would hav claimed him for their awn long siuoo. Mot I eannot now stop to give full aad fitting no tice, as I hope to do hereafter, to the ominous eucror ehmeaU of the Federal t ribu sals epos the honor audi hood and bring-them into datly "contact with. o'rs, cleVjfcirW CdVreSbmeV -Aelf is now, one niiW trpDrrl wyria eireven8fc oHMisW eVry'raiOwd plain IPft'-L,.. J tJ5xJ i "Pn tk JkToducer, but tbe cvoaura mwYr pprrtrJTs all tid er.Wy nSnklVigtilrapae an eh hanced price. But rfnveer Vw eVervi'rJlaial pbri a opramia.peW as welt as the imlet ... .... k J ifw . , jm , . whose daties ramify info" eS ary ' tieM.ir- jjr'ncJ),;tI S&J ,ntl"-T teh U'1 " f ' m J t eww "wyaaaaaM v.a 'pw tion of tf vw?a JsSS&WSie rn iibil ninnumrn fai ma .a ' W i aaa - A . k . . - I .J laiiiHK m thr.njphojfcviiu bt, ,a w-- k wnm.w plf!Tie6ix were taken off. which .wouad tbuto wcledrcefn tots. ten on which ie iwodncer. M ' frtifc"er to IB will of con ric par the fawnt nearly every citigaas anjl 7 motion or toe views a uo seaeiars ot k4cmi ve ioftW fi cholfrfoput it to work ii ne uesun TlajlirYlhin lor a tnira pa aaljmaaelcfoejt wbdn 'HeeWowa he rrer-to lonrm term or even lor life, now manttnc.n-, ru.thex nnvajA itan tkMoape of a anils oflMawwS:relfearDdun(rlra eTLidnt .t l-l.i- oyer the fc,uetvwa1ald, thi iiaajep their hata f rewOalKSt Jf rh -dbcrlne tm.t the ptu for -jiiin au4.go ftp.ipkawiBg--ia his.ifa- ducerloan nothing tbe tax on what.hapiu- tereSt;fofnLerteUWWe tltncTurtenn , duces. - ' . nieatrsrtejaal mnstoahiB W." EfveuJ lwarawafty upon Certain new these aadJataHwiaaewaaaali wl a tobacco ia the .aervunta of the nub he LP,V,"T e imnTWTn IsVhey are-the pidu-P1""' are not so m a' th$y mi eal agonta of ' km aeelaatai ahess lick tl. pWic . ihrdugfi whom tbe jttoo-. It ii aa well elsjilea as idea Maryland, ... . . A WasbinelOQ Atlanta Herald, pac foiling at 'uiglerTXr'fM . 77 i particular fHsaaaVaaUaaema 333flgB 'TieWai dam oTurrTred toe-. eatoJTa. . the proper iurisdietioa ef the State Thesubiect ifoneefeaat importance. There may be those who. in their overweening de sire to see the p wer aad prestige of the Fedeial Government augmented, may not deem it an evil to have the prerogatives of the Pi deral indiciarv thos extended. But ------- j thoughtful patiiots. in view of receut events, imoug which we have eeear" a rotate goveru- - 1. ., 1 t 1 ineut overt ui neu iy ine aecree oi a r euerai district judge, will perceive in the new as sumptions of power on the part of the Fed eral in nciarr the most imminent danger to that fundamental principle of liberty, local self-government. Oua of the greatest evils nf tbe internal revenue system aud on which most tends to the centralization of power, is the lucrease patronage which it gives tathe President. I do not know, nobody does know, precisely the number of officials, high and low. which the Executive has by law the right to ap point, or nominate, which is usually the same as appointing them. Cabinet officers. judges, postmasteis. customs officers, Indian agents, lnternal-reveuue officials of every grade all these are the actual or virtue ap pointees of the President, and a large portion of them belong to the internal-reveuue ser vice. Beingthe appointees of the President, most of thein belong to his party and are per sonally and politically his supple to. Is and bFnd apologists and supporters. Just think of it. Jn a couutry possessing a republicau form of government, wherein the people are said to have the right to elect their own rulers and officers, in a coiiutrv where the i lea of universal suffrage prevails, more than half of all the officers are elected by one man ! What sort of republican government is this ? Away with such republicanism ! In North Carolina, from the governor to clerk and constable of a township, our offi cials are chosen by the people. Why srTould it not be so in the case of the collectors and other principal officers of the internal-rev etiue service ? Theseoffieers. in thedischarge of their duties, come into daily contact with tbe people, and the manner in which they perform their functions is of vital importance to the happiness and prosperity of tin people. Why uot then allow them to be elec ted by the people whose most intimate con cerns thev are to oversee and pry into? If we were allowed to elect our own officers iu this department we could no doubt find some North Carolinian, tofill every place in our State. As it is now "we have no man from the State of Maine filling the office r f super visor of internal revnue forthe Mates of North sua ftouth Oarulina. trom wnicn l suppose we are to iufer that the President thought he could not fiud in those two States, in either party, any mau who, in his opinion. wassuitabie ror the position, in the name of the people of North and South Carolinia I protest against such injustice. In either State and iu either party can be found many men far more suitable and more worthy to be our supervisor of internal revenue than the mau from Maine whom the Executive haa placed over us Give the people the privilege df choosing their own officers. If the mtarnal-revenue system is not be abolished forth with, aa it should be, at least grant the people the right to elect tbe collectors ana ait the other prin cipai otnciaia ot tnat service in the respective districts. I demand this ib the interest of the constit ueucy I have the honor to repre sent. It ia fall time such a pel icy were adopted In vindication of popular liberty against tbe encroachments f the one-mas power. There ia bo more propriety in de priving the p tafia of the right to choose their eollcoSers of internal revenue, for ia Stance, tbaa their wewld be in rafbaing them the privilege of elect tag their herifs. eolici- e lections in states and districts tbw angry protest of Massachusetts on this subject last year. If you have heard nothing of this sort trom North Carolina, where such abuse- ars rampant, it is because the Federal offtcinU in their affairs that thev have come to look upon it as one of the inevitable. Whv, air, in a delegation of six men, whom I chanced to see. on their way 4o tbe convention win -h nominated my opponent for Cooffrcas, five were officers of the United States Goaerument. And in the canvass which followed for the seat I now hold here, great as was the ability and energy ef my worthy competitor, his oppi tion wms as a drep in the but kelto that which I had to encounter in the pbaluux of revenue officials and placemen, many pf whom were appointed to positions with no duty to perform except to draw their pa v of $1J0 a month and ride day and night among the people election eering for thier candidates. It is inconceiva ble what activity they displaved and what expedients they resorted to. intimidating some of the voters by threats of prosecution, corrup ting others by promise to wink at their eva sions of the fsw, cajoling, bullying, browbeat ing ; even going so far on one occasion as to present fire-arms at myself while on the plat form making a speech, because I dared to de nounce, in aa luting terms as 1 could the infinitude of t heir villainy. If such things are to go on till thev become chronic and inveterate, how lonz will it be be fore the freedom of elections will entirely vanish ana the ballot-box be nothing more than a machine for registering the decrees of the man at the White House ! Another reason for abolishing the .internal- revenue system ia the demoralizing influence it exerts both upon its own officials and apon the people. It affords extraordinary facilities for pecaiation. I do not wish by any meaaa to make reckless and indiscriminate charges against those who are engaged in this service, many of whom are no doubt honest and up right men. But it is undeniable that fortunes bare been made by some of them very disproportionate to their lawful salaries; and it ia well known that in many in stances these officials use their positions to blark inail citizens by entrapping them into vio lations of the law and receiving money to quash proceedings or to wink at iiregularties. Bet the system is still more deaaoralizing av its influence upon manv of 1 have aieadeaod taw people are watched by apiea and inform on ia their daily employment., aa if they wave deoti tute of honor and not to ha troated ia their dealings with the Govern sweat. Nothing can be more humiliating and degrading to the spirit of American freemen than this espionage. If poftoibfe it will make cheats and swindlers out of honest men. By the way you watch them you clearly intimate that they are expec ted cheat yo;i and run the blockade when they can ; and that they take care to not disappoint vour expectations. It vou would onlv trnt the ind I Hit It 4 bia particvJi A year w S a , hoaaea of Coni iw negroes. w,r etretrl peacefully I brow eh the lonsM3J3J3V Now, aa eewaras !eenghtaIrp et tW gmiec4Vhetae1ia.lC br the deos-kieftCBguji, to decrease the number brother'' who to completing eeeisuntto.i ihern interest. Bv taxing it you impose a dispropor tionate burden on these already depreaaed com munities, an allow the rich Stales of the North east to escape their just share of revenue exac tions; this too, while they have plenty of money I Ik-m -elves, persistently nefUse to allow any expansion ofkhe currenev so that the West and Soath could omman(f the means to pav the K very effort haa been aswnd eHMrfP4be heavy taxes thus levied on them present aeeetoj, to prevent flll" ror all the reasons mentioned, ind others . . . 7 'T which 1 must pas over, this whole svstem of Fr , Vv X internal taxation onht so be uprooted and I of lne West to m-cui a I oiucr means ror raiding tiie necea-iry rtvtnn wiwitu isra. it mar MX deviled. I know we have" a large debt to pav people are not an the nrf ' ' - L m -m ... - - I " - - - , growing oni pt ine war, ana ine current expert- thfak it will The WMt c- iiuyi. oe rcireocneu greaiiy. ii ia increai- I .i i . ,i . h e t hnt mtrnim.nl mTunli .iut Km s..ni.. w fire millions annually fifteen years since, ander '.,,BCe wi:lj South, MudjJaJt 3j3) beet tor both sectioi.s u to draw aaaaer the negroes on tbe street a iuorr man one occasion u separate ears be kept for nation. I here is nothing w hirb th X England politic iau dreads seeaaka as union between tbe We t ikfsLn ih . what was thep- denounced as an extravagant 1 policj administration, should now cost ope hundred and oeyenty-lve Or two hundred millions, if proper economy pre vailed. Then, ao to the debt, we should only aim to keep the interest paid and' a very small annual amount on tbe principal to show that we mean to pay it, and postpone the payment of the main debt till the next generation, when thiacouairy will be one of the richest and moat populous on earth and can pay off tliis debt without feeling iu If this plan be adopted we can so curtail the amount of money required that a moderate increase of duties on imports will provide for all our wants and however we may regret to see the larsaT ia- creased, it will certainly be less objectionable the tiea o( a commercial ia lodraartoaer i lrreguianieo. deaaoralizing thw people. ' I manner in W Col. U heeler TomsU lhet trst Paper in North Cat The Firtt Newspaper in Raleigh The Number of Papers in the Slate fdafllO. At the banqne: given to lBe Iesa at the I arboro last week a verv tar v toast was offered to Col. vrfu I .1 - n, ueeaer ioe uis; inguisueo ItlsloxifJlln reepoane to this Col. Wheeler than the present syotem of internal revenue, bia grateful acknowledgments wnicn oamio niu oe aispcnseo wnn. Both the that alter the brilliant BpenMBe3a3BBl T the old wing and democraUc parties always m.Am .1.;.; A : zi agreed that a tariff for necessary revenue waa . . ... . , Wa sialic.. VI UK uuui, lie FUUUIU DO Ultullil to detain the exhausted aodieame, bsfw If, however, tbe internal-revenue system is I lr present some cbrouelogicai ftfcta f1a to be eoBtinuad, amendments ought to be made tive to the Prase of North C II I M tag taut which would ameliorate its evils and burdens. mnmA h n. ,l j lhave already suggested some of these .mend- W?" orrMfawjaayi moats ia the ceo roe of my remark, among which or oPtoble to the honored gaealof are the election of the chief revenue officers, tbe evening. It was more than 300 Tears (practicable by altering tbe constitution, if not after the discovery of Printing that a Presi aw x i A jm 1 i . K - ut 1-uiixnwuunni enaciraeni. ana easentiai. ill u matt nn m i ... ...iL. I. v v " mmtm ewv mm aasiar bxtlmuu. aa the Pr to their power. Lose. aaiopai enactment, ana essential, it VM m Bp n luig , i Utp be perpetuated.) and allowing .- ppritu,,, of it of tobacco raised, or spirits msde, T " h . sin by the producer, as the States Ihe itifluemea of the ntegntv of the people thev would not fail vou. But you pursue them with spies, and they dodge uem. loll seek to bind them with oaths and pledge, tmtil oaths become a by-word and lose ail sanctity. In the South since the war vou lave required iu to $cear so often that we got to sxearing when not required. Instead of tins upgrading process, it you must continue your internal taxation, why not adopt a simple awl straightforward plan for ascertainm ' the amount ol the taxahles, like the State of North Carolina does? The .State simplv requires each citieu to give in the list of his taxable property himself, and takes Ins wonl for it except in unusual cases. In like manner, whv cannot tbe United Stales allow every man to give in the amount of spirits he makes or tobacco he raises or manufacture r In my opinion vou would thus come nearer "ettintr a correct account of these things than by your present plan ; and by aimphtying and cheapening vour method of collecting the tax a much larger amount of it would reach the Treasury. But the revenue svstein is further demoraliz ing by the great multitude and variety of offices it creates, which, it is no secret, are considered in North Carolina, and )terhn) elsewhere, principally as baits with which to catch hungrv democratic gudgeons and land them safe iu the radical partv. The rank and tile of that part v in the South consists mainly of the negroes, with whom are united number of plain, honest men who entertained Union sentiments during the war, and were induced to become republi cans through their prejudices. The leaders of the party are almost all men once bitter demo crats who have gone over to-the radicals iu the hope of securing office or making money; and I know of no instance Where a previously respect able man goes over to them except in anticipation of receiving some appointment as the price of his tergiversation. This occasional metamorphosis of an impe cunious democrat in an office-holding radical ia a process extremely curious to watch. Most likely the individual has been blatant and ex treme in his professions of democracy ; Hrhaps a hioody secessionist. But the first thing you know the active partisan grows strangely silent and reserved ; he mopes around li'ie a chicken wih the gapes, with feathers frowzlcd ; he avoids as far as he can the company ol comra des, is sheepish and downcast, cannot look a man in the face, but looks ashamed, like he felt mean and was about to do a mean thing. When yon see these signs the poor fellow is near bis end the end, 1 mean, of hU honorable and self-respecting existence. Very soon he is in some Federal office, and professes to have found out the mistakes in his former opinions and accordingly changed them? 8o much for tbe corrupting and deaaoralizing tendencies of the interual-revenue system. The system ought also to be abolished on ac count of the inequality of the burdens it impos es upon different sections of tbe Union, and particularly because it oppresses the agricul tural interest. The larger portion of the reve nue is raised on spirits and tobacco, both of winch are product of the husbandman xne tillage ot the soils is the founds tion of all other employments and the true key to national wealth ia a country noosaoainw soil and climate like ours. Taxation, therefore. which lays Us heaviest hardens upon this most essential calling meat be nowise end mischie vioos. Here is a point to which the grangers would do well to direct special attention. It at sometimes said that tobacco and spirits are luxuries and that it is all right to tax them as each. Bat they are Bo luxuries to him who produces them. The Isbor which it t.k prodiies theaa ia sa katrefas any other, sam faojmH. led toll reward Tha r J into i and - ng levid npoa it. Wo aaw aloo teed that the tbe svst tbe amour to be given bow require taxable to be listed, sad without the surveillance of informers snd spies. Besides these many other srneodasantj should be asade number of eijjlBBa Store-keepers at small distilleries ought to be dispensed with. Ia my district many distilleries do not average a pro duct of more than ten gallons of spirits daily, on which the tax ia seven dollars ; and vet at each one of these distilleries s store-keeper is required, whosf pay ia four dollars a day. This and other ex petJaes make the cost of col lection in such cases greater than the amount collected. Surely the poodle can be tru-ted for enough to allow them to give in their own statement of spirits made at these little distilleries, such for instance as do not exceed s capacity of twenty five gallons a dgy. 1 have introduced a bill, which was referred to tbe Committee on Ways snd Means, providing that in these c.-e the distiller shall report his monthly product of spirits to the collector, store keepers to be dis armed with. The bill also contains a section reducing the las on brandy to fifty cents per gallon. I hope hi bill may receive favorable con-idoraiion iiuhis House. Another very great injustice is done by the 1 a w o the prodijcers of tobacco. It is the pro vision !which forbids the tobacco-grower from selling to anybody except to a licensed dealer, a manufacture, or an agent bin ing for i x i . ration. This limits the purchasers to a small number of men. and of eonrse rednrc tbe price So extraordinary a law ought not to exist a day longer. Why refuse to the grow er of tobacco thf privilege of a free anj open market ? Why hot let him sell to whoever will pay him the mog for In- commodity ? Kverys body else can dp this. Why discriminate a gainat him in that unjust manner ? There arc many 'other points in connection with this subject whirh I shonld be glad to touch did time permit. But I see my hour is running out and 1 mu-st close. If what I have said shall inducc,the flow to take this matter into consideration, and either abolish the internal-revenue y--tem-or at least reform its most flagrant evils and abnes, I shall be well repaid for the trouble ofrmnking these remarks, I thank the House for the patience and attention with wbirh it has beard mc. A DKLUsitK Scheme. The final scheme announced bv the minag rs of the "gift concerts. " or lotteries, of the Public Library" of Kentucky stn passes in mn-rtutudc -and delusiveness anv of atmctod aa Governor of YatffiBsB by lb. otony V Btakvmha: IksWU. the cole. i vaiaay "liaaa baiaa- :StoB I TV5 m sA Tee 43- their pi eceding schemes. It contemplates the riistiibutmn of ?2 500.000 in caah priefs, codtingfit, however, on the pay ment of exactly twice that co1osmI sura by l he ticket buyers. There are 100,000 tickets aud 0,0OU priars, giving to a ticket-hoider oic chance (or a prise to five agaiuts it, but 19.000 of the prtaes arc $50 each ' the exact price of each ticket, ao that tjiey are merely nominal prizes, leaving $nly 1,000 real prizes, of which 500 are barely 8100 each, leaving at last 500 actual prizes, for one of which (about half of them are only 8500 each) the bolder of a tick i Lea a aiugle chance against 200. I the event, as is probable that not more than half the tickets will be old tbe chances io favor of tbe ticket-, holder, supposing a full half to be sold, will be doubled, and tbe pibtM halved, giving him one ; chance against 100 tot half a real prize instead of one against 200 for the whole. A man who shoo Id invest bis money; in a baaineas where the Chances of failure were 200 to 1, and the chances of losing the stake beside weie 5 to 1 , wow Id represent lbs aasoant sff discretion of saw one who would spews, money in this delusive scheme. Tbe managers may do what they premiss as do, ben wbat they promise if do, when fc it analyzed, ia a glittering eosp babble. We bare often warned the po! lie against these deceptive acLcmes before, and regret that H ia necessary ts renew Use admoni tion. Ball i More Sum tebe wf the Lorda Btxnristora of ay si Carolina and Governor of Virginia, devoertly thanked Own that the wVnst a single pnuUng press ia Province. A small treaties oa I called from iu binding. "The Jacket wss prin' ed in 1752. The Jipt Press in North Carolina wss ajjr James Davis ISewberne in 1754 tl year that Arthur Dobbs was Gel the t'olony . Davis was reputed to mi gf ntleruan and a good printer. In 17(5 Andrew Stewart act Bp a press and was sp pointed by Governor Dobba printeV To tbe King ; the Governor Assembly to make provision for 1 be lower House replied that no such office and no Mich duty, art waa accidentally drowned in ' the Cape r car river; he was facet Adam Boyd but in 1776 Boyd ' a g a -1 ue press ior ine pmpit. lucre gri press west nf Raleigh before 181Q. . mf il I a a e m7' " nrst press csiaunsiicu a: li in igh was Minerva, by Hodge and BoyTan, ' oa1 li.h.-d in 1796. The Itoligh by Jo Gales, Sr., in 1799. eigh Star by Thomas licnUcoo t alvin Jones. 1 he Coastitatiaa by . in mm . d pom and usmiey. l nts waa putel by l'hilo White snd called the Standard. Thomas Loriug becamg purchasei; and W. W. Uoldenpj of Loring io 1843 or 1844. The fy t.:g are tbe newspapers that wen m tencc in North Carolina in 1810. zette at Wilmington by Hassell Magrath; Minerva at K il iU by Boylan; Star at Raleigh, 'J' ho mas son; Itfgisler l les and ocaton; Carolina Federal Republican at Newborn by Hall and Bryson; True Republican, awrwbera Thomas Watson; GZ'-tte, hdctitoojf by James Will.-; Halilax J oinial by Wiurkt and Batcheloi; Fayettcville Intelligencer by Ray and Black; a . I El'zibclb Ci'.y Gazette by Jacob Br.islry. -g . df i to Leaf Tobacco Titan:: I P."annaf blessed is the mau alio blh his aoigBT full of them " So says that practical artd profound observer. Solomon, of the sdvtrt t ages and plsasares oi a naaoawsass' tm spring. Adopt. ng this view of ibea aagaa two of the most prominent repreacftjg tiree f our most promiuent internals, the leaf tobacco trade, are entitled n t1,a eongratulsrioBS nf si! their friends. 1 bese two gentl tbe last few days, hive sack had ti child ren horn uuto them, one . m M m taa tainer of two boys sod the other tws girbi. Louisvdle Courier-Journal 1 1 iAaVCd A gentleman st Helena. II. -i pair ot sage moc stain lions be baa raised fm ore aaa shoot two as, at eoafart whaW TW faft large aaa good-auad i ney ao not ohuia their fall growth u. tnnr rears ot m Tk. WW OT wth aaa are aar il hereto (brows into thw mm juj"- Irvr mm I a "-t- ftt a yelp . Ta f they have already sawaaam cot' nt tataowMw an taata to
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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May 21, 1874, edition 1
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