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1 V r - - . , - - . - - i TOL 2IL-TSIS2 SERIES . SALISBURY. HV C, IIAKCH 10, 1881. K0 2L - ; . , .- ' . . .- - - 1 ' ' . . , - ' i " fill f" , 1 - I The Carolina Watchman, ESTABLISHED IN THE YEA IS 1632. - PRICE, f 1.&6 IN ADVANCE. CONTRACT ADVRTIIKG RATES FKBUUAHX W,1S0, lmontaium sin's m's lam'sX l-i-i j inches ' ! Oneiur i i I Two rr- i i ; Three pif , F'tlr h't' i I v column for , Vv, do. ' ! t do. do. Si (tO 4, . 7.5D U.S5 4Mi r us ( ibott 7i5i) 7.5t J S.W I tt.75 i 1J.?5 1S.75 1 80.60 1 M.19 !3.t 16.r. S5.f5S 43.75 40.C9 75.S9 r I B.' R-CRAWFORD-& CO; ! ! AUK SELLING . ." -PORTABLE . iFAEM km FACT0JIY i .stem mm. - ' - -alno- laEiii'Ceriiiips : unci Caps. Tiis Hnist RIFLE m DIE mk : IFagBHS, Wagons'. uj our own and F.jreiu nia'.e iiJ v Prom Finest to Uie Chtapcsf. i Bililier BelttiT,; Cliaeji-ja- H-m Horse Jlakos, risl.ury, Jan. C, 1331. , ly . BOSTWICIOJ rfkin 3Ms Wonderful ImpMed Saw ffacMns la warranted to aw a tiro-ioot log In I lire mln and more enrit worn! or lotn of nnj mze in a day than two mm "nn chon or saw the old way. Every irHfr rtnrt T.tr m lrtm a n tef oma. (T7AUTS HAKTKK IHinM.ircnNr nd 'rrml Free. AUrra FAKMEJi: M AMTAfTrKLTO CO 1 48 Klia Mrcct, Cine Inn U, O. 17:1 'i! r gittovurjjs at atr Fkb. 3,' r 7f i ATTOUXEY AT LAU): ' i I! Prtictiees in Slate. and Federal ,' I Courts, ftg.. 12:(5m j Ml EEDSKBEST . can gt them by mail. Drop loffne and Pricws. The Olttett and moit extennve Seed $ Krntrm in thi I 'vitnl .S.'rt'e. - ! lAVlL.ADlKTii&SONS,I,HILADX.J,. i nq il tvuttal ihirtl lar f ;nTm .fc i Jias'mer nl Wmm, Attornays, Couuselcrs 9 . - and Solicitors. SALISBURY, A 'I , Jinn:iy2xl iS9-tt. H0T1GS! liOTlGEi! ; OfHcc of the Western N. C. Eailroa Company, -' Sahwurt, N. C, Feb. 23d; 1S81. An adjourn el meeting of the Stockholder of Western North Carolina Railroad Company will be held at Salisbury, the 24lh of March, .1881, for the transaction of each general or special business r.H msv be brought before it." ' - G". P. Erwtx, Treafi. 205t' W. N. C. R. R.'Cci. PAMILY GROCERIES ! :. It;will be to tlic interest of Housekeepers to-call on t P. N. S M I T H, i ' Vnere they wtiiiw snro to 'receive Tor t'?ir money all ttrst ctss Orwirles. t lowest chU prises : Such s Flour, Meal, Bvo-i, LnrJ. Fh. R-iusanres, Cf-fSWr.- Qte. Crtn. irtol isss. Kerosene 0f Tu' i!(n, SH'iT. Ci ;ir--, ,t-. C.ili and Ue convinced. . l'J:tm. -f . . 17 J k i i i i up nrriir r r na 'thv: LAHDRETHS' mm mm deferred items. Y'hcn the fashionable girl iu Washing ton laugh they can be heard a mile." ' The, funding bill was still engaging Congress on the 3d, witlran - Apparent chance of its passage! Anjf amount of frto born Americans now at .Washington,, playing puppy and lick-pittle, latlieir than win an honest living in the private walks of life. Oats. In the northern nd western markets are selling at from 35 to 40 cts. per biiKhel. In this, from produce deal ers, at (Si) to to 70 cts. In Cliarlotte they are quoted at from 50 to 55.1 - Ther'e iarf, says the Oberrcn wvr-n dis-; tinct cases of homicide on tlie docket of M eck leu bu ig S upcr ior Cou rt fi ve of t he m new cases-for which no bills of - indict nieut have as yet been drawn.' Davidson Collegk axd j Beneficiary SrtTD K.s. 3ev ra! trusteis' of -Davidson ... j College were in the city yesterday, returning. j fiom a business meeting of the executive committee of the board. They are very well satisfied with the arrangement by iwhieh the troubles between the denomina tional, colleges and the University were ad justed One of them remarked, with refer ence to- an inquiry in a communication which appeared in The ObseiiYeh some lays ago, that the coHegc extended the same privileges to students of other denomina tions as to those of the PresUvtcrian church, and that no student, worthy of confidence, had ever been compelled to leave the insti tution because he was unable to pay his tui tion. The management doe not believe in the policy of indiscriminate charity, but ex tends help in the wav of loans or bv takinir the studen's mite, wren no other arrange ment can be made. Char. Observer. Proposal to Purcluise I the State's Interest in the C. P. & Y. V. R. 11. By reference to the proceedings of the legislature on Tuesday, the 15th, it will be p.-reeived that the Governor of the State h is received overtures from General Imbo den, acting as attorney for others who are interested in the iron interests of Mitchell '. county, for I lie purchase of the State's inter est in the C. F. & Y. V. Railroad. The par value of-the State's stock is $5.0,00(VTor w hich (5cnea:il I. "llVrs ten dollars per share or ;V).00.. Sliou l the sale be coiisumrua- ,t.,d theC. F,..Y. X Uailiwvl w.ouhl at once pass into the controt ot'petRonsvho as far as we are informed are not interested in the welfare of the section of country which has made the greatest sacrifices to build this . road. I it jysj to the people of the upper j Cape Fear whose means have been1 freely uiven to this great work on the supposition j that the control of it was to be retained at j home, to deliver it over to a corporation j composed ot alicas in blood ai.J having no j ties' to connect them with our people t If I the interest of the State in the road mutbe sold, then it is right that the people who 1 ...! t. ... t ... 1 1 . 1 .!. ......I oiive c i in 1 1 on i c a 01091 10 uuiiu iuc ft'iwj should havei.in opportunity to purchase that interest. We jopu. tii General Asscndly will be cautious in this matter. Fay. Ex aminer. It is certainly right that the private stock holders should have tl;e opportunity given tliein to purchase the State's interest in the road if they desire it, and , we suppose the suggestion is all' that will be.necessary to secure them the opportunity. But these arc brisk times in Railroad matters, so that it may be important for the Stockholders to! do jjulekly what they intend to do. In any case, however, tiiey are not likely to suffer by the proposed sale; for it is quite certain that the party wishing to purchase the State's interest expect to operate the Road and will aim to make it a paying institu tion, in which case the private stockholders can suffer no material damage. fBZ. 3 COMMUNICATED. , h A. eorrespor.iUint gives the characters winch-took part in lo Mask Ball, if&t Thursday pveuing. Com munleated,. y The rIasqucrart Bail. If ever tlu? fyn and recreation-loving peor pie of Salisbury were pleasantly surirised, and if the wcll-tueauing aivd but doubting Thomases were agreeably disappo"ed. it was on last Thursday night. King Vltex," in making his first visit to Salisbury, was as tonished to find so nreny diligentind en thusiastic disciples of Momus in the gayly decorated Hall of the Boyden House, espec ially among the ladies, and he whispered to me confidentially, that they were remarka bly goodl-oking and . pretty. The utinost order jjrevailcd during the night and. si)ec tators as well as participants went home early in the morning satisfied that they had spent a night of solid fn, pure delight and genuine laughter. . The costumes were brilliant and appro priate, the acting excellent. ; The characters "present were: Miss Jen nie Coffin, Mother Shipton ; Miss Lena Sho ber, Tambourine Girl; Miss Belle Boyden, Enigma; Missldollie Murphy, Princess Car nival: Miss Carrie Murphy, Folly' Miss Jennie Earncs, Truth; . Miss Annie Erwin. Spanish Lady: Miss Siidie Murphy, Mrs. Gnmdy ; Miss Matie Murphy. Spanish Lady; Mi s Nellie Holmes, Fan : Miss Mamie Mock, Jockey ; Miss Mamie White,German's Sweet heart; Miss Ella Graham, Undine; Mrs. Walker, Child of the Regiment ; Miss Fan nie Neely, Sorcercs? j Miss BauJ.di Stewart, Tuscan Peasant ; .Miss Lotta Mock. Mother Goose; Miss Jennie Brown, Alsatian Pea sant ; Mrs. Taylor, Milk Maid ; Miss Mollie Hunt, Salisbury Watchman ; Miss May Wood, Girl of the first Empire; Miss M, Swice sood, Spanish Girl ; Sliss CI Swicegood, Tusean 'Girl ; ,iliss Fannie Shober, Maud Mulltr; Mrs. Rankin, Maid Merian. . JimXWrcn, lloinn iiooa ; Jim inn, Cavalier Louis XIV ; L. Jewtcr, King " ; . . . I Richard : John "Vell)6rn, Darkey J J. Si. Gray, Baby 8. Taylor, Clown, J nco. jfar kcr, Calico W. K. June, Uamnno; A. v, Harris, feasant II. C. Williams, Paul Pry; 1L Eamc. Jr. and C. J. Vicle, Twins; C. Waren, Chinee Will Ramsay, Jack of Hearts : B. P. Beard, Irishman ; Theo. Uuer- baum. Knight of the" Moon ; W. SI. Walker, Ki p Van Winkle ; W. C, Lindsay, Monk ; D. Lindsay. St. Valentine; I. Wallace, Prince Signr ; 'Walter Blackmer, Country Cousin; S. F. Clodfeltcr. Buttons ; Henry Foard, Phantom; Geo. Harrison; Sir Walter Raleigh; C. W. Murphy, .'Sailor boy; J. W. Wilson, Sailor; J. Hicks, Old Stan; F. P. Smith, Farmer ;'W. C. Blackmer, Black i Domino; U. L. Crawford, Ju.key ; N. N. Boyden. Turk; G. Brandretli, Fun; and last but not least, Victor Boyden as Mother Hubbard and Miss Annie Smith as Bf other Jonathan. Recapitclator. Washington letter. I report ntf to see ihePamdr. Jligtipeice for Seati and ' Windows. Senate to be or r tjanizcl by Dcmbcarte. j t - " ' - (From Our Regular Correspondent.) Washington, D. C, Feb. 25, 1831. Within the. last week Pennsylvania Avenue has assumed the appearance of a vast oblong amphitheatre, and it may be doubted if ever the Collosseum itself held a larger multitude than will assemble, on each side of this famous boulevard, to sec the progress from the! White House to the Capitol, of the new President. ' Ou each side the Avenue, temporary seats and platforms have been erected, and thousands of seats on these have already- been reserved, and a price averaging about one dollar per seat. Some enter prising renters have built board seats on the roofs of houses along the avenue, while all the windows in all the hotels, saloons, and shops 'along the proposed line of march, have already been rented, or are for rent at ridiculously high prices. If the weather shall prove to be tine, on the coining fourth of March,: the con course of people will be immense, but I cannot help thinking there will be room for them. It is a fill mile and aqnarter from the White House to the East front of the Capitol, tho side walks ou both sides of the Avenue are almost as broad as an old fashioned street; and these, with terraced board seats -and window?, will accommodate si host of people. The profunum rnl(jH8 will monopolize the side walks, while thosu who can pay fifty cents 'or a dollar will find seats on the platforms. If the day should prove inclement those seats will go begging for less than fifty cents. The inauguration, the procession, and tho ball, are talked about now to the obscuration of nil other subjects. The ball w ill -doubtless be a mammouth affair and it may with safety be said that the world cannot show a more spacious and well appointed ball room, thanlhat which the new Museum building will afford Gen eral Grunt's first inauguration ball was held in the Treasury building; Babel. Horace Greely lost his hat, overcoat, and temper, and swore terrifically. ' The death of Senator Carpenter will make a lively scramble for the vaucaney. Mr. Sawyer, who has just been elected, comes from the eastern portion of the State, so that the western side will now claim it. It is of course believed there will 15 Jots of eandidates, including ex Senator Howe, Boss Keyser, Senator Cameron possibly, Go Pound, and others. Owing Jo the loss of -Senator Carpenry it vj.U uvr be impossible for the Republicans to organize the Senate on, the fourth of March next. The Con stitution provides that such vacancy can be filled on the seeond Tuesday after notice of a vacancy is communicated to the legislature. It will, hence, bo the egith of M.trch before a Senator can be elected, and, since there will be harp competition for the phie, it will, in all probability, le much longer before the vacanev can be filled. C. A. S. PariLictter. (Regular Corrwspondtrjcc,) Paris, France, Feb. 14th, 1831. A novel kind of soirie was given last night at the Observatory here, the invita tions, issued by Admiral Monchey, bear ing the announcement that there would be dancing after the scientific experiments. This had the effect of attracting to the remote building beyond the Luxembourg Gardeu a considerable number of attrac tive young ladies, who must have been more astonished by than interested in the series of lectures and 1 experiments that formed the chief bnsiuess of the evening. Among the personages , present wero M. Gambetta, M. de.Lpsseps, SI. Jules Fer ry and several .1 the other Ministers. Some of the experiments were uovcl. A so-called electrophone, the invention of Maiche, was exhibited. It is, iu fact, a telephone which not only transmits the voice to a distance hitherto unattainable, but neutralizes the noise made by other telegraphic wires during the passage of messages. This noise is so loud as fre quently to render inaudible a message sent through a wire which is in the imme diate neighborhood of others. M. Maiche has invented some contrivances which, as he' showed last night, completely does away with this confused murmur, thus enabling his telephone to be worked oh a railway line to any distance, ne professes to be able to talk with New York aseasi- ly as with Versailes, bchycen which place i r .... -.4 i , . , ' End Paris, a distance of more than ten milea, the apparatus has been tried with success. ! An impudent attempt at highway rob bery, !u stylo of the last century, waa fnado last Thusilay hear Gignac, a small town hi the south bf France. An indi vidual, armed with : a donble . barrelled gnu, took up a position on tho high road, aud audaciously levied, toll on all vehicles that passed him. His lucrative employ ment succeeded some time until three carriages drove up together. The worthy follower of Dick Turpin, nothing daunted by the number of travelers, fifteen in all, demanded a blackmail of eight dollars. The money was thrown out to hint, but the driver of one. of t(m carriages, alive to the absurdity of fifteen people lteiog over n . .v . mmj a u Jiifvu ft Vllff ilia M'Jtfcl ctosett witu uierroyvtr, a- man of Iierciw lean strength, and finally with some Iwlp overpoweml IriinJlIewas seeurely bound hand and foot, and conveyed to the po lice office tit. Gignac. - Judgnieut was given to-day in the vit rol throwing case which caused so much sensation in Paris last August, and of which I sent you j the particulars. The prisoner Lanuoy, who for some time had been living with a woman named Marie Dubois, followvdher to the Boulevard Moutmartre one evening, and threw the c n tents of a bottle of vitriol'over her face. Notwithstanding the efforts of the medi cal men, the victim of the outrage has completely lost the sight of one eye, and is painfully disfigured.. After hearing tho evidence of Marie Dubois and that of se -eral other witnesses, confirming the rela tions between her and Lnnnoy, the jury retired for a few minutes only and brought in a verdict of guilty without extenuating circumstances. The prisoner was sen tenced to fifteen years penal servitude. Agricultnral Experiment Station. Feb. 20th, 1831. To calculate the value of a fertilizer by use of the station figures : Multiply the percentage of available phosphoric acid found by analysis by J2$. This gives the value in cents of the available phosphoric acid found in a 100 pounds. Just so mul tiply the percentage of ammonia by 18.9 and of potash by 8 and add these products together. The suni is the value of these constituents in 100 pounds. Multiply this by 20 and you have tho commercial value of the active ingredients in a ton of 2,000 lbs. This is a fair approximation to the value of the TWt.ielffeun!inercially at the present time, and the figures thus obtained affords an accurate means of comparing different fertilizers. The fol lowing analyses of fertilizers have been completed at the statation : -Stouo Acid Phosphate, manufactured by the Stouo Phosphate Co., Charleston, S. C, sampled at; Fayetteville, Feb. 7th, 1831, cash price ; per ton , contains water 13.83, -sand ' 0.07, Available Phos phate Acid 10.4 , Insoluble Phosphate Acid 3.53, Potash 0.82 per cent. Com mercial value per ton (2,(K) lbs) $27,33. Long's Prepared Chemical, manufac tured by Lour & Dugdale, Baltimore, .sampled at Fayetteville, Feb. 7th, 1831, contains Water 17.53, Sand 5.23, Availa ble Phosphate Acid 11.58, Insoluble Phos phate Acid 2.3G, Potash 1.00, per cent. Commercial value per -ton 2.000 lbs.) $30.GP Pine Island Ammoniated Plrosphatc manufactured by Qniuuipiac Fertilizer Co., New London, Com)., sampled at Ral eigh, cash price per ton $40,00, contains Water J0.85, Saud 2.23, Available Phos phoric Acid 1 l.GD, Insoluble Phosphoric Acid 2.03, Ammonia 2.40, Potash 1. 01) per cent. , Commercial value per ton (2,000 lbs.) $4 J. 34. ' Lister's Amnion iated Dissolved Bone, manufactured by Lister Bros.. Newark, New Jersey, sampled at Raleigh Jan. 27th, 1831, cash price per ton $40,00, con taios Water 18.03, Saud 2.75, Available Phosphoric Aeid 9.20, Insoluble Phos phoric Acid 2.GS, Ammonia 2.U, Potah 1.15 per cent. Commercial value per tn (2,000 lbs.) $33.43. Samples are analyzed in the order in which they come inV Other analyses will follow rapidly. Ciias. W. Dabxev, Ju., Director. New Biogkai'Iiicai. DjcTioxAuyrAn excellent feature of the New Edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, just issued, is the New Biographical Dictiona ry, iu which are given tho names of near ly ten thosand noted persons of ancient and modern times, with a brief statement of the dates of their birth and death, their nationality, profession, etc, This is de signed for purposes of ready reference, to answer questions which often arise as to . . , when and where certain persons nvru, and the character of their acluevnieuts. It contains many names of persons who are still. living, and the prouuueiatjou of each name is given. A SifOOTii Complexion can be had by every Jadv who will use Parker's Ginger 'tonic. y promptly regulating the liv er and kidneys and purifying the blood there is nothing like it, ""'I this is the reason wjjy it is bo qnickly removes pim ples aud gives a rosy bloom to the check. See notice, i ' ' ' I Git ay If airs are Honorable but their perm at ure appearance is ituuying. Par ker's Hair Balsam is popular for cleanli ness aud niomntly restoring the youthful color. i i ' ' ' " I A lilll to be IhUitled "An Act to Make Further Provisions for Keeping In -Repair the Public lioads of the State - The Otneral Atscmbly of Svrth Carolina do enact : - "' Sec-1. The persons required by law to work on the public roads shall be compell ed under the rules and regulations now pre scribed by law to work on .their respective roads for two days and no more, in each and every year; and any clause of a law requir ing or allowing them to be worked for a greater number of days in any one year ia hereby repealed. - Sec. 2. To provide for the additional work on said roads, necessary to keen the same in good repair, the supervisors of reads hall meet annually on the first Saturday of pepieaiocr, ac some, place to, be named by 1 their chairman, in their respective town ships, and levy a tax upon the peoperty and poll of their respective townships sufficient for that purpose, observing the equation be tween property and poll, not to exceed ten cents on the one hundred dollars worth of property. The same assessment of property inhe township made by the assessor for State and county taxes shall be taken as the assessment for the said road tax, and to this end the assessor of each township shall, at the time he assesses and lists the property for State and county purposes, make a copy of the lists of assessments according to a form furnished by the Auditor of the State, and this copy he shall deliver to the said board of supervisors of his township, at the time of their said meeting on the first Satur day in September. Then the said board of supervisors shall compute the amount. of taxes on said list duo by each tax-payer, and shall make a duplicate of such tax list One of said tax lists shall remain with the board of supervisors, and the other shall be delivered to the constable of the township, on or before the first day of October in each year, and he shall receipt for the same. The chairman of the board of supervisors shall endorse on the copy given to the constable an order to collect the taxes therein men tioned, and such order shall have the force and effect of a judgment and execution against the property of the person charged in such list. Such order shall be in the fol lowing or some similar form : State of North Carolina Franklin Co Boad of Road Supervisors. .. .Township lo the vonUibleoJ . luwnmtp. . . . (Jountv. You arc hereby commanded to collect the taxes herein mentioned, according to the provisions and requirements of the existing law. In witness whereof I have set my hand,. lay of. . . .185. . Chairman Board of Road Supervisors. Township, Sec. 2. The same lien shall attach on property for their road taxes as is provided for State and county taxes. Sec. 8. The constable of each township shall, at the meeting of the board of county commissioners, when he shall qualify, exc cute a justified bond in the sum of one thou sand dollars, with at least two sureties, in addition to the bond he is now required by law to collecting anil paying over to the person en titled to receive the same, the road tax of his township; and he shall be required to annually renew said bond on the first Mon day in Decern bcr: Provided, however, That the bond for the collecting of the taxes for this yea shall be yiven by the constable at the mcctingof the board of commissioners on the 1st Monday in August. Said bond shall be approved by the board of commissioners, and, if accepted by them, shall be recorded in the book of official bonds by . the register of deeds, who shall also file and preserve the orixiual. No constable shall be allowed to qualify until he shall have given the said bond and the same shall have been accepted by the board. And for failure to renew the said bond annually, as herein provided, the board of commissioners shall declare the of fice vacant, and shall fill the same by ap pointment until the next regular election for constables: Provided. That this shall not be construed to prevent the board of com misioners from rcq'uiring the constable to "ive other and better security after tdu day's notice, at any time when in their pinion the security is insufficient ; and, if the con stable shall fail to give the additional secu rity required to declare the office vacant and till the same by appointment Sjv I The constable shall collect the said taxes under the same rules and rcgula tions, and mhnll have the same power and the name commissions and fees as are pre sented far the sheriffs of the State in ca io ;n.r th. Stnto and countv taxes. He v.i...0 - - shall, on or before the 1st Monday in De cember, collect and pay over to the treasur er of the roitd of his township the amount of said taxes. The settlement shall bo made under the direction of the chairman and one other member of the board of supervisors, Sec. 5. The board of supervisors shall, at their annual meeting in August, elect a treas urer of public roads for their townships, who shnll hold his office for two years, or until his successor is elected and qualified. The person so selected treasurer shall, at the meeting on the first Saturday in Sep tember, execute and deliver his liond, paya-; ble to the State of North Carolina, in? the sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, and to pay out the money received by him as treasurer on the order of the board of supervisors. There shall be on said bond at least two sureties, who ia.l justify iu the aggregate to the value of double the amount of said bond, and said bond, if ap proved and accepted by the chairman there of, who shall deliver the same within ten days thereafter to the register of deeds of the county, who shall record the same in his It 1- - M fT oKoiomciai bonus, and shall file away j and preserve the original. The treasurer ' shall qualify before the board of supervis ors by taking the usual oath of office. SecO. The board of supervisors shall Contract for the necessary work in exce&s of I ....... " iv,u viuuc uj me regular road hands to keep the roads in good condition, in such manner as shall seem to th?m best; 'and it shalHw their duty to keep said roads : ...... ,r in goou condition, and they shall pay for tne work done on said roads by orders on the treasurer of roads, who. shall pay said orders and retain the same as vouchers. The said treasurer shall make annual settlements with tho board of supervisors at their mcc- "S3 ,n August, Seo.c7. The boards of supervisors shall be paid by their order upon the treasurer. Compensation fpr the services required by this act at the rate of two dollors per day. and the commissions allowed the treasur er shall be the same as those allowed county treasurer. Sec, 8. Suits on the official bonds of the treasurer of public roads and the constable for failure to discharge any one of the du ties required by this act, or for any breach or said bond shall be prosecuted in the name of the supervisors of public roads -of the township, and the constables and said treas urers shall be liable to the same penalties and subjected to the same remedies as are now given by law against sheriffs and coun ty treasurers for failure to discharge their duties. Sec. 9. If the said treasurers or the con stables shall misapply or fail to account and pay over any part of the money so raised by this act, which shall come into their hands as required by this act, then the party so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined or impris oned in the discretion of the court. Sec. 10. If the board of supervisors shall fail to keep their roads in good condition or shall fail to discharge any one of the du ties required of them by this act, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convic tion shall lc fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. Sec. 11. This act shall be in force fn.ni and after its ratification. The Funding Bill. The Agony it Has Caused Reaction " Against the National Banks. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun telegraphs, under date of 25t!i : Within the last 21 hours a strong feeling has been de veloped in Congress against the na tional banks. The verge of disaster reached in New York and the resis tance to funding is charged to an at tempt by the banks to coerce the government. Friends and defenders of tlie banks aave been hi a measure overawed by the tiemendous preju dice that lias been generated, and the chances arc now that the more the banking iutcrcst resists the measure, the more likely is it to clinch the matter. As a specimen of the feeling arous ed, Senator Plumb, one of the three Republicans who voter for the Sen ate bill, said to-day : "I am a nation al bank president, so I can speak without prejudice. I tell you the crisis has come when we shall see whether the banks run the govern ment or the government the banks. I think the government has a right to fix the rale of interest-it will pay, and it is no business of any set of men. It makes no difference to the people if Wall street gamblers do lose money or railroad stock stops rising. It would make a diflerence if the hoes in Western cornfields should stop, and it is will) the producer that the prosperity o the country ret". Let the bottom fair- out of it, if it will. It is an attificial movement to coerce the government." i Senator Bayard said to-day that he thought the distress would be rclicv ed as soon as the bill was passed and had become a law. There was un doubtedly great hardship being ex perienced now, and he did not know what would be the result. He had done what he could to remove the ob jectionable elements from the bill be cause he was a conservative man, aud thought it unwise to give a shock to the money market. The relations existing as to currency were so deli cate he thought it unsafe to experi ment. He was opposed to the .Car lisle section and thought it a dama- . TT 1 1 .1-1 gmg measure, lie tiia not line to make any predictions as to the near future. TheTreasury officials arc very much incensed at tlie turn affairs have talc- en. The Secretary ordered the pur chase of ten millions of bonds to re-' -lieve; thedistress, "and it is known thatjheis determiued to do alf he ' can to protect the public, so that tho banks may expect that as fast as they lock up their money he will -pout it j out in every possible way; -Mrv Gil- hllan is of the opinion that the action ; of the banks is hasty and unwarranted I and that the circnlation will be taken - out again. Comptroller Koox is much chagrined, and U about the only on about the department-who docs not ! opeuly condemn the banks for. the im-. . pediments they appear to ba putting m the way of the success of the operatFons of th goverumcntT The feeling geucr ally in the departments that while tho" bill was not what it ought to be, any ; attempt to resist it to the embarrass- ment of the public is to be deprecated ! and denounced. Persons who have lately been in conversation with the : President profess to believe that ha ... . . i win ! permit the funding bill tordio i without his signature. r J A press dispatch from hence says : : "There seems to be a growing, im- i prei-sion with many members of the House who voted for the funding bill j that the measure was ill-advised, aud , j some have acknowledged that had, they fully realized the effect of the ; fifth section they would not havo i voted for it. It is even intimated to night that sufficient opposition will be developed in the House (if the bill. .: can betaken from tho Speaker's table) to defeat it. Pending action by Congress, Secretary Sherman will ex- i ercise discretionary power, witli which 1 he is. vested, to relieve, as far as pos sible, the threatened stringency in tho money market." The Herald 8 correspondent writes as follows on the 26th : The funding billl has but a slim chance of becom a law. The House has become almost as panicky as Wall street yesterday, and whenever the1 bill is called up it may, be smothered beBeatha masiof .of amendments good, bad and in different. In the present mind of tho House these amendments will creito" discussion. Some of them will probab- - ly be adopted, such as one which has been drawn di reeling the Secretary of the Treasury to issue greenbacks to ' the same amount as national bank circulation withdrawn. Any amend ments or changes in the bill will send it back to the Senate, and the time is now short that the delay would prob- ably be fatal the bill, and might even cause some appropriation bills to f;il. It is said also that the itf publicans in the House have very generally determined to oppose the bill, and that they may conclude to j filibuster against it. i It is the opinion of some cautious j and conservative men here that tho ; opposition of the national banks to j the bill and the means some of them '-.j have taken to show and enforce it, : j are likely to have far reaching conse- ! qnences not of a nature to benefit the j country. Some congressmen who were" originally opposed to the clause in the bill of forcing the banks to re deem their bonds with their own j bills, are now 6trongIy iu favor of if; i They say that the events of the pat week have shown a hitherto unsus- i peeled power of combination in the i national banks, and have disclosed j that a number of bunks may at any time by combining cause a sudden-,:" contraction of the currency which ; would derange not merely .speculation, but the legitimate jMisinos of the country.' They say to prevent this danger is one of , the first and most , important duties of Congress, and that the Carlisle clause, interpreted as the baiiks have understood it,' is the shortest way that now offers to pro tect the business of the country in this day of .gigantic combinations against attacks on the general btabiJi : ty of trade and industry. Oftentimes could I wish that I hx:l held my peace when I have spoken ; and that I had not beeir-in company Why do we talk so willingly when notwithstanding we seldom return to silence without hurt of -couscissrre '( - We might enjoy much peac if irj would not" busy ourselves irrih i r words aud deeds of other ia:n t(y appertain not to our charge. ' v i A. Keinyti.