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i 1 .:;'- . . ' , -K ;:ht - -:4v .n::-:, , if..,: ,,,1., .-:,.:; j '. . , . j. w -LL. -Li UL JLL Ol. ViAU JLL JX U . . . SAHSBUBY;;1T. C, :H0yEHBEE. 30, 1876. no 7 i v i j. BRFXER. Ed. and Ptod rag ID -- re" - t. K. BKUNER, Associate Ed. m TeaMJble In advance, $9 00 1 85 , ADVERTISING KATES: i men, one publication,.. 1 T two publications, Coatract rates tor montaa or a year. $1 00 1 50 '1 (iOVERNOB'S MESSAGE, f fjii Honorable the General Assembly of Tbe meeting of .the General Assembly in the State. .You Lave met for the purpose f enacting laws to promote our various in a representatives of the people, who, in re mrn for the confidence they have reposed in tou. to you for wise and judicious leg- L.!tion. ' ' . I,, t Duruig the year now drawing rapidly -to I close, we have been exempt froni M?sti Knce and famine, and from unusual suffer jngof every kind. (ur eople have enjoy the blessings of civil and religious liberty, ind they have prospered to a greater oriels Hreree'n 'every department of industry. We have abnndant cituse to be grateful to God fup ll is manifold mercies and lillesisiags. Tlie earth has brought forth her fruits in due season, and all who have beeh indus- . ' 1 1 ..A..n..mtr.il linl'u , 1 wiruwl till IT. jaj; generally recei ved fair compensation lor tbur lanor. - - . 1 Peac has prevailed everywherei wrtnin our lWrs. i We have nothing, tlpcrclore,. U the luavcns or In the earth ituclf of which We have a right to complain, for loth have ilrffn propitious to us. It remair.i for us Li-" eo -forward in the path of duty, nri-iarcd to use and improve the present, nd Ut net our part in a cheerful ail lupe- furnrit in the luture wmcn lies opto re us. v'"" ' 1 ... i .,l j ! C0NDITIOK Or rLiiLic it..nKi. I ti. firvan ial r-iuulition iif the State rlHinm S f 1 ...... .....1 fx. v.l .. . . 1 . .1.1 t i lie uimiii i - r. . inernijri"' . - th General Assemlly. ; The following statement shows balance in bands of; Public Treasurer Oct. jst, 1875, b4 the amount of receipts Land disburse ments ot the PulHc Treasurer for jthe fiscal Tar ending September S-th, IbTU Balance in hands of State Treasurer, Oct. I at. Educational Fund, $ 14.0:i0.78 public Fund, 14,70:5.111 T!.intnt Krliicat ion r unci lor 'fial yeai enUing ep.t. .iu, 17(5. . , : Hwciptsof Public Fund tor hKfal Tar enutng tcpt. ISOth, 1S7G, ' .V4,03!U7! r5C.27i.7i $ $o.5,017.Cr DWir;nient of Kducation- al'Fund for fiscal Year end inrSept. 0th. 187tJ. 54,707.93 Dfalrttrsement of Public Fund -.'Tear rending Sept. 30th, iS76, 8.1." Leaving in hands Public 1876 Treasarer, Oct. 1st, Educational Fund, PuUic Fund, 1,57144 180,087.07 STATE DEBT. ,Th bonded debt of the State on the 1st. Oct. IWu, wa as follows : Bond issued before the war. Iotcrtat unpaid on same. 4-,003,777.o0 Total, principal and interest. $ 1 2,376,077.40 iiomU issued since the war . - Under acts passed before the war, $ 1.781.000 807.180 !. Tnt.C jf im iia !il b. m A $ 2,488,180" Bnndt-ifliiutd since the war un- dec ordinance and acts pass- ..4 since, the war not se . rial tar, $; 2,015,045 ! 921,127.95 .Interest unpaid on same, i . $ 2,936,172.95 This class embraces the fol kw issues : Wilmington, Charlotte Sfc Rutherford Railroad, issued during the war under acts passed be fore the war, and renewed jblacts of lSOS, nd 1807, Registered certificates of Board of Education. Chatham Rail road, Ordinances Convention, $ 405,00 $ 383,045 1.033,000 niianiston & Tarboro Railroad, 150,000 44,000 Penitentiary, v V -..-I, . $ 2,015,045 Bonds issued Funding Acts ' of 186G-T.8 as follows : Funding Act of 18G0, Interest unpaid on same, $ 2,417,200 1,157,793 $ 3,574,993 1,702,900 819,252 Funding Act cf 1863, ; Interest unpaid ou same, $ 2,522,152 fwai lor funding, nSn issued during the war I JH frfder acts passed before (f? tlie war, for internal i:n ; ' prbtenient - jwirposes, in j , . eluding $215,000 for Chatli- ni Railroad, issued under ordinance of Convention, Jan. 30th, 1862. ! Interest Unpaid, on samef Total principal and interest, W Special Tax Bonds; !? laterest unpaid on same, Iotal principal and interest. $ C,097,145 $ 951,000 592,985 1,543,985 $11,407,000 4,897,7' $6,304,770 otaldebfciiuAudinginteriBst exclusive of special Tax, $25,542,160.45 Total debt with interest in vading , "Special Tax" r--.bonds,. $41,84630.45 KEJIDINO ACT OF 1874 -"75 'TsUBSCKIFTIOS RATES : , Nothing has yet been done by the last Gcscral 1 kinder the act 3"Rll)l to compromise the State debt.; The amount of our State bonds held by the few -creditor w'ho signified their Tvillinsness ;tdi accept the proposed compromise was soatnall that it was not deemed, advisible to incur the expense of having new-bonds prepared, and of levying a special tax upon all "the taxa ble property of the State, for the purpose of paving the interest on such a small amount. it is very important mat we snouia com promise, commute and settle the State debb so that jour financial condition may'be the better known both at home and abroad, and our public credit again established up on a sound basis. ... : "' . . TBEASUBT DEFABTMEST. Iirspectfully recommend to your careful consideration the interesting" report "of D. A. Jenkins, Public Treasurer. It becomes my duty to sat that Treasurer J enkins has .voluntarily retired5 from the othce he lias filled with consumate skill and ability for more than eight years" past. He has-managed the financial affairs of the State honestly and safely through all the xlifficulties and embarrassments by which he ha9 often been surrounded. He has been an honest and faithful public officer, and in retiring to private life, he leaves a record of which he may well be proud. ' THK AUDITOR'S DEPAHTMEKT. The AuditorVreports show the-receipts and disbursements at the Public Treasury for the two lisc-al years ending September 30 1S70. and I respectfully invite jour at tention to the same. The Auditor's office is one of the most important offices in the State, and I take pleasure in bearing testimony to the manner in which the du ties of that ollicu have been dis ; barged. MANUFACTURES. While all material wealth conies from the soil, and while the interest of the tanner should, therefore, be first considered, we should at the same time give attention. and extend our fostering care to the manufac tures and the Mechanic arts. North Caro lina pays annually to foreign countries ami. to bier sister States millions of dollars for j manufactured articles, which should be "pro duced -here at home. We have the raw ma terial, or the means of producing the raw material for neaHv every fabric for which we pay thus largely to other communities and regions. It may be assumed that we manufacture our own tobacco, and supply a, large surplus thereof to other portions of the world the'proceeds of the sales of which constitute the basis of no small part of the financial prosperity of the State; but while this is so. and while 1 would commend the tobacco manufactures for their skill, energy and industrv. vet I would at the samu time urye that -more and more capital and skilled ! labor be emploved-in other branches of do inestic manufactures. We ought to manufacture and supply ourselves with a large proportion oi our "woolen clothes of all kinds, especially of tlie coarser aud more substantial kinds. We ought to spin and weave at least one half of our cotton cro; which cannot be less than 200.000 bales per annum. We ought to "manufacture" our own iron, from the vast bed of ore which we "have in var ious, parts of the State, some of which are not excelled for juality elsewhere iu the earth. "We ought to get out and use more of ou.r timber, and send more of it than we do, to te markets of the world. We ought to di- rect very much more ot our attention ana energies to the great work of building up a home market for our people, and of thus li vin; more within ourselves. - A policy of this kind would benefit every interest, and would especially redown to the advantage and prosperity of the farmers, by creating.a demand here at home for their products. , It would also save millions of dollars per annum to the State, which are now expend ed outside our borders, and which consti tute a constant drain upon our wealth. It would also diversify labor and give employment to all classes of our people, without which we cannot hope to advance rapidly in intelligence -and wealth. I cannot gentlemen too strongly commend this subject to your attention and consider ation. IMMIGRATION. I beg. to renew and the recommcn- datious heretofore made by my predecessors and myself on the subject of immigration.-' No State has a finer climate than North Carolina, and her soil is rich and so varied that nearly all the fruits and products of the earth common to our country can be cultivated and realized here by the hand of industry. Besides, we have inexhaustible deposits of the most valuable minerals ; we have water power in the greatest abundance for turning machinery ; and we have vast forests of the best timber thus far barely touched by the hand of man. In a word. there is no region ot the earth, so tar as climate and mineral resources are concerned. which is more inviting than our State is to the immigrant." I feel sure that vour legis- tion will be such as to hold out inducements! to immigrants to settle among us, to become: M.M Uili; 111 UUI IfCUIMV, ailll lliua inuvn nun AM nMn Mn..i.lr. amH f hna IdlulP with' those of us who are already here, and who? expect to remain to develop our resources to build up our industries ot all kwids ana to render our htate more and more prosper ous, enlightened and wealthy. UNIVERSITY. i The last General Assembly passed an act directing the Public Treasurer to issue to the Trustees of the University, a certificate of indebtedness for one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, with interest at six per cent, payable semi-annual ly, on the . 1st days of January and July in each year, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not other wise appropriated, the interest to utf used by 6aid Trustees in support of the University. Under this act the Public Treasurer pay to the University $7,500 per annum tor that purpose. ! The University, was opened for the rccep tion of students on the 10th of September 1875. under its new organization aud it is now in successful operation with Hon. Kemp P. Battle as President and an aoic corpse o Professor. PENrTJENTIAIlT. I respectfully invite your attention to the biennial Report ot the Board ot Directors Architect, Deputy Warden, Stewart nd Physician for the two years ending Ocobe 31st., 1876. The report of the Board 6 Directors show ia a plain and business-like manner the practical operations ot the Peui tentiarv. from which it will be seen that much valuable work has been done on and about that Institution, although a large number -of the best convict laborers Jiave ljcen sent off to work on public works, Dur- inr- the !t tro Tctns the wortc on tna 4reai- tentiary has progressed about as much as could reasonably be expected under all; the circumstances. , i- i . " ' ( .There has been, erected within the prison enclosure a strong cell j building, containing 64 eel la for prisons. Ij . . .. The building is of, brick with iron doors and frames, and is now ready for occupa tion. ' ' ; The brick used in j its construction - were made by convict labor, and all the stone work was cut by convicts. There has also been erected one section of the cell block in the main building the larger portion of the bricks having been laid by convicts. And the iron doors and frames for the same were manufactured within the prison enclosure, by convicts, at less ' than one-half of the original contract pricfe. The foundation for another section of cells, has been laid and the first and second stories built. The iron doors and frames have been made and are ready ! for this section also. In compliance with an act of the General Assembly the Directors of the Penitentiary furnished 332 convicts to the Commission ers of the Western North Carolina Railroad and have built for them three sets of quar ters, i The value of the labor of the convicts al ready on that road is probably $100,000. The State is bound to feed, clothe, and guard theni. The increase of the number of convicts, the increase of the guard and overseers have created a deficiency; of $21,678.97 for w hich the Directors ask an immediate appropria tion, to meet the present wants of the prison. The Directors of .the Penitentiary farmed out to the Spartanburg and Asheville Rail road Company 200 convicts for the period of 2 years. That was done mainly because the appropriation for the Penitentiary, made by the last General 'Assembly, was insufficient to support all the convk-ts.- The Company agreed to feed, clothe, guard and furnish medical attention to the i prisoners let to them and in addition pay to the prison Di rectors the sum of $31.20 per capita per year, and have given a bond for the faith ful performance of the contract and all of the provisions of the contract ;havc been faithfully observed! and the quarterly pay ments promptly made. There is a foundry uiid Machine Shop connected with the Penitentiary, which has been proved to be both necessary, aud valuable. The work in this shop both as to quality and quantity has j been, very satisfactory. All the work is done by 'the convicts and all the iron work required for the building is made here. The blacksmith shop has been kept busy manufacturing toilu required in quarrying stone and for other purposes. The labor is performed by convicts. , lu the shoe shop they are now manufac turing all the hoes worn by the convicts within the prison enclosure, also for those employed on the different railroads in the State. It is believed that a small amount of money invested iu machinery tor manu facturing shoes would yield a large return; but owing to the limited means on hand this important branch of business ha.s not yet been very extensivelt carried on In accordance with the requirements of the General Assembly, the Directors of the Penitentiary furnished 50 convicts to the Insane Asylum at Kaleigh. who were employ ed in the manufacture of brick, used in the erection of a new kitchen for that institu j tion. The Directors of the Penitentiary al- so lurnished the Directors of the W estern Insane Asylum atMorganton 50 convicts, who were employed in making bricks and grading grounds, for that 'institution. ' The Penitentiary Board of Directors furn ished the North Carolina & Georgia Rail Road Company 50 convicts. This road will form a part of the Western Divisiou of the Western North Carolina Railroad, leading from Asheville to Murphy, n Cherokee count v, and thence via the Georgia Road to Marietta, Georgia. This Company is composed of citiz.ens of Georgia and North Carolina, and the State of Georgia is working its convicts on the road to the North Carolina line, while our people in Cherokee county agreed to take upon themselves the trouble and expense of transporting, ieeainganci cioining guarciing . .. . . and furnishing medical attendance to the convicts for their labor. The Board of Directors also farmed out to Matthews & Co., lessees of the New Han over work house,' 30 convicts for the balance of their term ; ihey agreeing to feed, clothe, guard and give medical attention to the convicts lor their lalKrt I respectfully invite you, gentlemen, to visit the Penitentiary any time at your leis ure. and see for yourselves what has been croric. and the management and progress ot his imiH)rtant State work. I deem it due to truth and justice to Ray that I have had no cause of complaint against anv of the officers and managers of the Peni tentiary during the last two years. I be lieve they have been honest and faithful in the discharge of their duties, and I cheerish none but the kindest leeliugs tor them all. AMENDMENT OR THB CBI1LNAI -COD. ? . i - . . i . '. . : - Justice requires that each criine shall be punished according to its grade, and not according to an arbitrary law that would punish a small crime as much as a tireat one; ana as mere are graaes ana aegrees oi crime, so there should be grades and de grees in the amount Ot punishment. We aejnjformecl by the Divine j law, which up holdi and sustains the eternal principles of iusjice, that 'every man shall be judged and rewarded according to insaeeas. There is a white man in the Penitentiary, sent there for a term of ten years, tor steal in' a Bible while drunk. There is a youth in the Penitentiary tor a term of three years for stealing one goose, valued at ten cents. There is another in the Penitentiary for a term of three years for receiving a stolen chicken. , Such punishments for such, onen- eeV are unjust,- cruel, monstrous and absurd. Under the law as it now stands, according Id the decision of theSupreuae Court, assault And-batter vl even. ail assault with aj deadly weapon, with inteorjto commit niuraer is not a Penitentiary crime. ; INSANE ASTLUM. The interesting report of Dr. Eugene Grissom, Superintendent of the Insane Asy lum, shows the condition of that Institute for the last two official years, to which I re spectfully invite Tour attention." ' The report for 1876 shows that the total number of admissions since1 the opening of the Asylum on the, 22d day of February, 1856. is one thousand one hundred and sev enfytfareej jthe total i number of discharges for the same tiuie is func hundred and nine, of whom three hundred and two were cured ; .An hundred and fourteen "improved ; one u... .,... -..a ;htv .inimnrnvp.)- Ajul thrwA' hundred and' thirteen died -leaving no- under treatment two hundred and four. . , . ... j . , ..... The last General Assembly passed an act authorizing the Board of. Directors of the Insane Asylum to rect Vnew kitchen with sufficient store room bonnected therewith to accommodate provisions and supplies for the institution. The' act provided that so much of the appropriation made for the years 1875 and 1876 should be applied by the Board of Director to the immediate con struction ofr a suitable kitchen connected with and for the benefit of the said Asylum; the sum for that purpose was not to exceed $50,000 ; the act also authorized the em- gloyment of such convict labor from the enitentiary as should be necessary for the erection of said kitchen. From twenty-five to fifty convicts were employed, and the building is now completed, j The last General Assembly passed "an act to provide another Asylum for the Insane of North Carolina," to be located within three miles of Morganton, North Carolina, and known as the Western Insane Asylum. The act appointed five' Commissioners to pur chase for the State a suitable tract of land for the purpose, to superintend its construc tion, and appropriated $50,000 for the year 1875, and $25,000 for the year 1876. all of which has been paid out of the Public Treas ury. The act alsq provides that the Com missioners may employ such convicts in the Penitentiary as can be spared bv the authori ties of the same arid can be made available. report of the progress of the work on said Asylum will be made in a short time. The last General i Assembly passed also "an act to provide for the- colored Insane of North Carolina,'' and appropriated $10,000 per annum to the establishment at the Ma rine Hospital building at Wilmintrton, North Carolina of a branch Asylum for the colored insane, and their isopport and treatment; but nothing has been done - under said act for their benefit. ::: I respectfully arid earnest recommend the establishment of an asylum for the colored insane, under the j sanies rules, regulations and treatment as white patients. , The col ored race compose a large part of our popu lation and help to; support our government, and they are as lidble to become insane as the white race. ' Although they were kept in bondasxe and ignorance for more than two hundred years before their emancipation, yet they contrib uted largely to improve this country and increase its wealth and prosperity. They live among us. and we hope they will stay and enjoy with u the benefits and blessings of a free Republican government, of equal laws and equal rights to all. If the white racit com jKse two-thirds of our population, and there are two asylums for the support of the white insane, surely the colored race,: composing one-third of the population, ought, in justice, to have one asylum for the support of the colored insane. Tlie subject should appeal strongly to the humanity and charity of the General Assembly, aud I .hope the appeal will not ; made in vain. DKAf ANT OfMB AND TI1K BLIND. I respectfully call your attention to the report of the Priucipal of the North Caro lina Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind. . The number of pupils enrolled during the last two years ha been : Deaf and Dumb males 83 ;' females 65, 148 Blind males 51 ; lemalcs 42, 93 Total.! 141 The average attendance for the past two years has been alwnjt 210, sometimes more and sometimes le The health of tlie pupils has been good. and thev all seem to be contented and haiv I hev are: taken care of bv kind and hu mane teachers and. matrons, who seem to re gard their protection and welfare with as iuucu uiiciesi ana ansieiy as h tuey were their own children. The financial condition of the institution is as favorable as could reasonably be ex pected. On the first, day of November, 1874 then? was a lalance in the haucU of the Treasury of $ 5,097 01 1 he appropriation tor two years was ' ; Special appropriation. Received from shoo shop, Miscellaneous soUfres, From interest, ; 90.000 00 t ooo on 3,000 00 2,020 25 758 15 80 00 $101,355 41 $5,9G14l Total, .. X There has been expended for all purjioses, j Leaving a balance in the hands of the Treasurer. t Novem I e'r 1st., 1876, of $15,361 41 Out of this balance must come the sup port of the Institution tor the months of November and December, 1870, as the ap propriations made by the General Assembly , run from the 1st ff January of each year, i This noble Charity of the State has done and is doing much good for those unfortun ate objects of our charity-and pity, who are deprived of the great blessings of lan-1 guage, or sight and of hearing. I heartily recoiinnend them to your favor able and generous consideration and sup- .port. : I WESTERN 2OKTH CAROLINA KAILUOAD. The'last Generil Assembly passed "An Act in relation to the Western North Caro lina Railroad, whieh act appointed the Governor of the State of North- Carolina, Robert F. Armfield, and James L. Robinson commissioners to purchase the Western North Carolina Railroad, and all property appertaining thereto at a sale thereof, made under a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States, at Greensloro, in the Western District of North Carolina, and any claims against the Western North Carolina Railroad which might be necessary to secure the State of North Carolina a perfect and indefeasible title to the said North Carolina Railroad and all its property and franchises, for a sum not: exceeding $850,000; and to pay for it said commissioners were fully authorized and instructed to issue bonds in the name of the Western jiNorth Carolina Railroad Company of the denomination of $1,000 each, in the usual form of mortgage bonds, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent, per annum payable semi-annually, and due at fifteen years from date, signed by the chairman and countersigned by the sec retary of said commission, and'sealed , wjtb the seal of tho c,binjany. The coupons, as they become due on said bonds,' are . made receivable in payment of any taxes or other does tqths State.) For the purpose of se curing the paynient of the bonds and the interest as the same may become due, the said commissioners were empowered to ex ecute, and ! deliver mortgage deeds with nower of sale as provided by the act, Hon. .pATidjJL Jonkin, late Public. TrAuurer was.' agreed on as a Trustee. ,The act provided for the appointment of three commissioners to manage said road and itsaffairs.during the pleasure of the General Assemblv. and tn hmlH orwl plete the same to its termini at Paint Rock ana me Georgia or . Tennessee line nPr Ducktown, according to the charter of said Western North Carolina Railroad Company and the acts amendatory thereof. The act required the Commissioners appointed be fore entering upon their duties to execute a bond payable to the State of North Carolina to be approved by the Governor, in a sum necessary to secure the State, but in no case less than double the amount of the net earn ings for the precedent year. The Western North Carolina Railroad. property iranchises, including road-bed. super structure, equipments and all its real and personal estate, was sold at public sale, at the Court House in Salisbury, on the 22d day of June, 1875. After the sale was duly confirmed by the Circuit Court, and a good and lawful title conveyed to the State, I appointed Wallace W. Rollins, of Madison, W. S. Pearson, of Burke, and William P. Canaday, of New Hanover, and took a sep arate bond for $23,000, with sufficient secu rity from each Commissioner, to protect the interest of the State. The act provides that said Commissioner shall have such convicts as are not necessary for completing the pen itentiary for laborers upon the unfinished portion of the Western North Carolina Rail road as they "may require, and mav use such portion of the net earnings of .fNe road in its construction as they "may deem proper. By order of the Circuit Court of the Uni ted States for the sale of the Western North vmuiiii;i luuiruati, rne purcnaser was re quired to pay $10,000 in cash on the dav ot sale, which was done. As soon as a per feet and indefeasible title to said road could be secured to the State, and as soon as the necessary arrangements eould be made for taking care ot convicts, they were put to work on the road. The Directors of the Penitentiary have furnished the Commis sionerns of the Western N. C. Road addition al convicts at uiliertnt times amounting to 332. More might have been put to work on that road, but the law requires the Peniten tiary to feed, clothe and guard them, and it has been impracticable for the Penitentiary to support the large and increasing numlier of convicts out of the limited appropriation for that purpose made by. the last General Assembly. No appropriation was made for an active and vigorous prosecution of this great State work which has been -too lonr neglected and which is destined to be of vast impor tance to the people of North Carolina. Soon after he had purchased this road aud com menced work upon it with the limited means at our command, some of the liberal and patriotic, citizens of Wilmington, actuated by a commendable spirit of State pride, which has ever characterized the leading men of that city, voluntarily contributed $10,000, w hich paid for iron enough to lay about three miles of new track of the West ern North Carolina Railroad. When this road is completed to the Tennessee line near Ducktown through one of the most valuable mineral regions in the United States, where various kinds of ores are deposited in the bosom of the earth in abundance, and where nothing but convenient railroad facilities are necessary to unlock the stron"- vaults of the mountain, and open their golden treas- nr.i to tlw u'url rl un.T wlipn thw i dnnp and when the East and West are united bv iron ties, bv the stroni? and indissoluble ties of a common interest, a common brotherhood and a common country, North Carolina will then stand as a giant in the gateway of the Xatious, enthroned in her prosperity, wealth and power. The other branch of tlie Western North Carolina Railroad down the French Broad River to Paint Rock, on the Tennessee line, is also of great public importance, and when j completed it will enable us to extend our trade and intercourse from the Seaboard to the Mississippi Vallov and the great W est. COLLEGE FOR THE COLOnED PEOPLE. a m. ' ) The people of the State of all parties are Krl,uc" ai .e Pr'!s Y i,i trfrc the Lmversity at Chapel Hill, e trust the day will come when this institu tion will be at once the pride and ornament of the State, and when it will confer greater advantages of all kinds upon the white young men oi tne otaie, ana upon soc crj ana upon tne wiioie peop.eoy , rem: action, than it has ever conferred hereto- fore. But we cannot expect to prosier perma nent lv, gentlemen, if we violate the eternal principles of right and justice. About ten vears ago the Congress of the United States donated to this State a certain quantity of public lands, to Ikj applied to the support of an agricultural college. This donation was made on the basis of population, and colored people ot this State as included the col a part of our population as represented in Congress. The scrip for these lands has been sold, and the amount received, namely, one hun dred and twenty-five thousand dollars, has been applied exclusively to the support of the University at Chapel Hill. The people of the State, including the people of color, are annually taxed to the amount of seven thousand live hundred dollars, by way of interest on the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars referred to, and this amount thus raised bv taxation on all the people, is applied exclusively to the ben efit of the while University at Chapel Hill. Is it right to do this, while at the same tjme no provision isonnde for a college for the colored people. Is it in accordance with justice to devote all of this interest to one race of our people, and neglect the other race ? I am aware that suggestions of this kind are not agreeable to some of our peo ple, and that in making them I am subject ing myself to animadversion, and even to reproach, but I am here in the Executive Chair, not to consult popularity at the ex pense of principle, but to do what I believe to be right. I, therefore, respectfully recommend that steps he taken by this General Assembly to provide fur the establishment of a college for the education of the colored vouth of the State EDUCATION, I respect fully invite your attention to the interestingjeport of the Superintendent of . 1 1 v . . ' j-uimc instruction. Education is of th'o greatest value and importance to the people, and it should re ceive the cordial approbation, and encour agement of all. ' The following is the most reliable infor mation at present in relation to school statis tics in 2torta Carolina ; .Mala white childrca of school age, 128,580 t : : ' i , m Female white children of school 1 119,930 248,510 77,583 75,415 Total of white children, Iae colored children of school age, 1 emaie colored children of school Se Total number of colored children. 152,998 404,508 Total number of children of school age, White school districts. Colored school districts, 2,702 1,372 Total, 4,070 1,934 545 1,371 140 Public school houses for white chil dren, Private- school houses for white chil dren, Public school houses for colored chil dren. Private school houses for colored children, . Total, 3,990 169 5 22 2 Academies for whits, children, Academies for colored children, Colleges for white children, Colleges for colored children, W hite male teachers m Public Schools White female teachers in Public 1,294 l 783 529 288 Schools, - Colored male teachers in Public Schools, . Colored female teachers in Public Schools, Total, o soi It is the main purpose in any system of education, to teach the child how to think and to think accurately. When we look into the causes which-make and unmake individ uals and nations, we may discern that intel lectual and moral culture are both essential to make a useful1 citizen. All those coun tries where every child is instructed, control and govern other lands where only a partial system of education is put in practice. The position which she will in future hold in the Republic must greatly depend upon the correct instruction given to the people. Our children must be elevated m the scale of intelligence ere the perpetuity of the Repub lic can be well assured, and nothing should be permitted to swerve us from our efforts to popularize education. The plan of giving a free education to every child of ordinary mind in the United States is a noble one, and deserving of the highest commendation. But in this State more especially there is great need that many ot our teachers snouia De better taught. Therefore it is of prime importance that there should be some few High Schools or Graded Schools established where our teachers for both races can be instructed how to teach. Every child has a right to an education, and that education should be such as will qualify the child for any position in life which it may be called to occupy. Every one knows that an intelligent work man is always worth more than one who is ignorant of even the rudiments of his voca tion. It is the purpose and aim of a com mon school system to-prcparc pupils to dis charge the duties of life with credit to them selves and their State. hen this is ac- complished, it will promote the happiness and safety ot the citizen ana tne nation, a good system ofcomuion schools, well carried out, will prove itself the friend of man and the best of human agencies for thepreserva- tion of free government on earth. GRADED SCHOOLS. Allow me to call vour attention to the importance of graded schools. Several of these schools have been established in tins State and they are conferring signal benefits on the communities in which they exist. The education which is received in these schools begins with the rudiments for the little chlidren, and gradually ascends until the larger and older scbolais are thorough instructed in the higher branches of learn ing, thus fitting tHem r tne actiTe busi" ness of lffe without further instruction, or preparing tbein for college, where they may make still further and higher progress in teaming and knowledge. We should have , ... . . ... St t f bothracjes; and earnestly recommended that a law be passed by the General Assembly authorizing cities and towns of more than fifteen hundred inhabitants to tax them- majority vote to support graded . . -. . omortuI1ity for an -" VI" t-IVi u shall lie free to all. the whites to - . . A, themselves ana tne coioreu peopiu io ciu- sevives, accoruing io iuu v,uiuiuuuu an laws of this State. 8ERETABT OF STATE. The Secretary of State, in his report, . . hg which j think wortUy of vour attpu, consideration. 1 believe that" the records, books and papers in the oh?ce ot Secretary of State have been properly ar ranged in regard to order, system and con venience. The Secretary has with much labor arranged the records and papers: of his office according to counties in an alpha betical order so that they can now be con veniently referred to. I respectfully call your attention to the limited space allowed to the Secretary of State for keeping and preserving the records of his office. The Legislature authorized the Secretary to sell the surplus laws, journals and docu ments, which he has done. Letters are freouently received from for- .frrn frnvornm Ants &kin" an exchange of official publications with our State, which requests cannot be complied witl as there is no law authorizing such exchange. They frequently offer in exchange for our books, valuable "and interesting works, but wc cannot exchange without means and author ity I respectfully call your attention to the purchases of stationary made by the Secre tary for the State for tire year 1876, and of Carpets for tlie Supreme Court room. I recommend that a thorough and searching investigation be made into his official deal ings and transactions involved in the pur chases referred to. The Secretary of State demands this investigation in the name of justice that the truth may be known in re gard to the manner in which he has dia: charged his duty in this respect. BTATE LIBCART. I recomraped to vour consideration the re port of f homM H."Puroell. late State Libra rian, repeating former recommendations fqr the erect jn ..of a suitable building for a Stat a Library, f recommend the erection of ft suitable Supreme I building on Capitol Square tor a 1 Court room atida State Library. RESIGNATIONS AND A PFOIXTMEXTS. . . Anderson Mitchell, Judge of the 10th Judicial District, resigned June 2S, 1873L D. M. Furches, was appointed bis succes sor in office, August 2, 18757 Stephen D. Pool, Superintendent of Rib lie Instruction, resigned June 30. 1870. Hon. John Pool was appointed his suc cessor in office, July 1, 1876. Hon. Thomas Settle, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, resigned July 81, 1876. W. T. Faircloth was appointed his succes sor in office, November 18, 1876; Thomas-R. Pumeli, State librarian, as signed November 6, 1876. James F. Taylor was appointed his luccea sor in office, November 18, 1876. A Hon. D. A. Jenkins, Public Treasurer, re signed, to take effect November 22, 1876. I have appointed Dr. John M. Worth, Public Treasurer, from and after that date. CONCLUSION. In closing this my last regular message I commend to your care and protection the interests of the people and the honor of the State. All our State Institutions have been well conducted and I cheerfully bear testi mony to the manner in which all the officers have discharged their duty. Let us, gentlemen, begin the second cen tury of our existence as a free people with feelings of devout gratitude to God for the manifold mercies and blessings with which he has crowned us for the last one hundred years, and with an unfaltering purpose tods as much for our posterity as has been done for us by ouf ancestors during the century ou of whose glorious light we are now pass- m;;. iua una ugut increase in spienuor and punityjhrough alt the coming years, even the light of civil and religious liberty; and may our State, the land of our life, and the home of our affections, be among the foremost in that career of prosperity and greatness which shall characterize the States of our common Union, and thus participate equally with all of them in the benefits and blessings which wc trust the-future has in store for us. CURTIS H. BROGDEN. Executive Department, Raleigh, Nov. 20. 1876. , T HOOPS AND SHIPS CONCEK 1 HATING AT WASHINGTON, Washington, Nov.19 Whea Con gress comes together on Monday, the 4th of December, the Senate and House of Representatives will find themselrea pretty much in the condition of the French Chambers on the 2d of Decern ber, 18.51, made memorable by-Louis Na poleon's coup d'etat, by which iu a night the Republic was transformed into the Empire. That is tu say, Coogtess will then be surrounded with troops. The artillery companies which started from Kansas on Friday last, and others from various points, are intended to con centrate either in this city, or within call. A portion of the troops in the South bare been relieved from imaginary duty there, and ordered up to Washington. Indeed, many have arrived already, and fully half the whole army can be gathered in or around the capital at a few hours no. tice. Similar preparations are making in the navy, and on an extensive scale. . Offi cers commanded to silence iu regard to tliefe movements may say what they pleate. but the stubborn fact still remains, aud wil! soon be verified in a form to si lence all denial or evasion. People be gin tK say, "What does all this mean ?" Lt iheReluriiiiig Boards in the three contested States count iu Hayes, and the explanation will ? peak at the point of the bayonet. . Or let the Senate in another contin gency, suggested openly by Republican leaders as possible, postpone the fiual counting in presence of the two Houses, and elect a President of that body to step into Grant's shoes on Saturday, the 3d of March, through a preconcerted resigwa rf .ath.r ' .nUmtiin of thU . . r T .7 unrwn menacing couceuirauen oi troops womui furilisue. Everything is quiet. Nobody prop ses to break the peace, and while there ia a deep anxit ty as to the result of the Presidential complication, the moment it is fairly declared and the suspiciou of fraud j removed, the public mind will settle down to its accustomed calm, and. accept Tildeii or iia yea, as may be de termined. It is only conspirator, vbd geek to rxitain power by unfair weans and to keep tbejr grip on the Treasury, wkt raise a false cry- of danger so as to protect 1 their deigns by oice. It alarm is created, ihe J'resideut ii re ppontdhle. He and hiH-kleaa aduier have disturbed tranquility, aud forced men to look at the immediate XuUtfe with dieirust and painful forebodings, fasi Liliiiea are discussed which I he American pttipje. ha vjb always rejected, boles! one f ihe tbree Slates now held lu suspense slioylJ clearly ejet Tildeii, or all of them as dxiiv.eJy elect Uayes, the scene now witnessed ju tjU ujui.b wlj bo Ju$erre4 here. Oushing a ad Taft.arui axiowd of roU unteers are ifagM iu eiilotf old statutes and watering theConstilution, to brace up U rant with technical formal in m-et any one f various emergencies which may or may not come to pass. The general idea is to give him the color of maintaining the laws, if extreme meas ures should b adopted, wjih or without provocaiiou. AU revolutions are begun iu that way. The situation is grave, and mast be looked squarely-iii the face to avoid the perils i hat-a few wet-kn may briug forth. Tlie mm who have held power for fifteen year, enjoyed ihe patronage attendant upon fjve or fix hundred iRiona of.au nualieceiyu and r.xpeitfiw,, sjanipa fated the great operaUfn ap Uu ltttj aud praelbdly iui jhe Government I ihemselves aud the party which they control, will not give up; unr fey the pmjpulsioii 'f public option. ! i , f 1- i "A 1 r'l ' j I:'- 1 ft -St i 1- ill!!'- I