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STATE NEWS.
Tho Goldsboro' Rough Notes, on and af
ter Monday next, with a change of name,
will appear under the editorial manage
ment of W. A. Hearne and Swift Galloway,
E?03.
Dead. Mrs. Conigland, tho wife of Mr.
E. Conigland of Halifax, died at the resi
dence of her father, in Northampton coun
ty, Sunday evening last.
Arrival of Immigrants. About thirty
five Swiss immigrants, consisting of men,
women, boys and girls, imported from
Switzerland by Messrs. Thomas and W. F.
Atkinson, of Wayno county, arrived in
GoMsboro' Tuesday. They were at once
conveyed to the farms of the Messrs. At
kinson, about ten miles from Goldsboro',
where thew will settle.
Going In. New cotton is daily going
into the markets from this place, and we
hope both farmers and merchants will soon
Cud relief. Weldon Neics.
Judge Osborne. This distinguished
gentleman, who is ono of North Carolina's
most gifted orators, has been invited to
address his fellow-citizens at the Grand
Mass Meeting and Barbecue which takes
place in Salisbury on the 8th of October,
and is expected to attend. He has been
actively engaged in canvassing 'the West
ern part of the State, and, we learn, has
made a powerful impression wherever he
has gone. Capt. J. J. Davi9, the other
elector for the State at large, has also been
invited to be present on the occasion and
we hope that he. too. will attend. Cant.
Jjavis is a gentleman of extensive informa
tion and an able debater.
Old North Slate.
The youug men of Goldsboro' have
formed what they denominate a "Social
Club " for dancing and other social purpo
. ses this winter.
Prolific Corn. We were yesterday
shown six ears of corn, raised on the farm
of J. P. Nelson, Esq., containing respec
tively, 12, 1G, 18, 20, 22 and 21 rows to the
f ar, and numbering from G50 to 1,200 ker
nels ou the ear. New Berne Republican.
Atiemped Murder. On Tuesday night
two shots were fired at Constable A. J. Sav
age, who lives on the plantation of H. B.
Bryan, Esq. Mr. Savage was in his dwel
ling at the time, and the evident object of
the would-bo assassin was murder. Both
shots passed through the dwelling bat for
tunately tho object at which they were
aimed remained unharmed.
New Berne Jour, of Com.
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VOL. 24.
Agricultural Convention. The Agri
j cultural Convention called to assemble in
this city on yesterday was held agreeable to
j appointment, and at 12 o'clock met in the
I Democratic Club Rooms.
On motion of D. McMillan, Esq., Presi
i dent of the New Hanover County Society,
j the meeting was organized by the election
; of Dr. Chas. Duffy, of Onslow, as Presi
dent, and Geo. E. Shepard and Jno. C.
James, of New Hanover, Secretaries.
The President on assuming the Chair
addressed the Convention in tho course of
a few remarks, setting forth briefly the
object of the Convention and urging tho
high importance of united and continued
effort in promoting the great ends of agri
culture. It wa3 ascertained that five counties were
duly represented, viz : Onslow, New Han
over, Brunswick, Columbus and Bladen.
On motion of D. T. Durham, Esq., of
New Hanover, a committee consisting of
Messrs. A. P.. Black of New Hanover,
Thomas C. Mcllhenny, of Brunswick, T.
S. Memory, of Columbus, and Henry Nutt,
of Bladen, was appointed to prepare and
submit business for the action of the Con
vention. During the absence of the committee,
Dr. II. H. Robinson was called upon to ad
dress the Convention. He responded in
an appropriate manner, urging the im
portance of agriculture; the necessity of
thoroughly studying its science and bring
ing to bear all our mental as well as phys
ical energies in advancing this great cause.
Ho urged tho cultivation of a variety of
crops in order that if one should fail a
source of redemption might be found in
another. Ho also desired a combination
of effort and a reasoning together of the
body agricultural in developing and fer
tilizing our soil.
At the conclusion of Dr. Robinson's re
marks, Mr. R. K. Bryan, of New Hanover,
responded to a call. He directed his re
marks principally to the labor system of
the country. Its unreliability was de
plored, and a remedy proposed in the in
troduction of immigrants. The health of
our climate and the susceptibility of our
soil to great improvement and extensive
cultivation woro urged as inducements to
immigration if we will bestir ourselves and
detract it from tho tide now flowing into the
Northwest. There was not only a demor
alization among our laboring element, but
there was a deficiency existing which can
only be remedied by the co-operation of
tho entire agricultural community of the
State. He therefore urged a more perfect
and general organization, especially in
Eastern North Carolina.
The committee having returned begged
leave to report, and submitted tho follow
ing :
WnEREAs, Tho fac t is painfully apparent that
under our present system, not only our agricul
ture, but all our productive interests are in a
languishing condition, not being remunerative
nor capable of supplying our necessities millions
of dollars worth of corn, bacon, pork, flour, and
even hay, are imported annually; and whereas we
should oe exporters of the articles; and nearly all
our implements and machines are also imported;
and, whereas, every consideration, both public
and private, urges us to use our best efforts to
improve this state of our affairs ; therefore,
Resolved 1. That in the opinion of this Conven
tion there is no question so closely connected with
our prosperity as that of reliable and intelligent
labor ; that we regard our present labor as unre
liable and wanting in sufficient intelligence; that
a committee be appointed to consist of three dele
gates, whose duty it shall be to consider and re
port on this question in connection with that of
foreign emigration.
Resolved 2d, That as the best means of ulti
mately securiog intelligent laborers this Conven
tion recommends a change in our educational
system; that more attention be paid to teaching
those branches of science which pertain to agri
culture and the mechanic arts than has hereto
fore been done; and it is especially insisted that
the land scrip, recently donated by Congress, be
rigidly applied to the establishing of one or more
purely agricultural and mechanical schools in the
State.
Resolved 3d, That the following additional com
mittee be appointed:
1. A Committee of three, to report on a Central
Society and Fair by the same next Fall.
2. A Committee of four to addressa the State
Geologist, and impress on his attention, and that
of our State authorities, tho importance of giving
more attention to the agricultural interests of the
State.
3. That a Committee cf five be appointed to issue
an address to the producers of the State, inciting
them to greater efforts in their respective depart
ments, and urging on them the importance of
adopting a scheme of education better suited to
their wants than our present.
On motion of D; D. M. Buie, of New
Hanover, the report was received.
Before entering into a consideration of
le report, Dr. W. W. Lane, of New Han
over, offered the following resolution,
which was adopted :
Jlescloed. That this Convention, as a body and
as indiridu&le, do cordially approve of the enter
prise and energy of Mr. W. H. Bernard, of this
city, in having started an agricultural journal in
our midst for the better enlightening of our farm
ers on the many subjects coming in their sphere,
by introducing to their notice new and improved
farming tools, and keeping them posted in all
modern improvements in the science generally.
Before acting upon the report of the
committee, a recess was taken until 3
o'clock, P. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention met at the appointed
hour, and was called to order by the Presi
dent. The report of the committee on Business
was taken up.
The first and second resolutions of the
report were passed without objection.
The third resolution elicited considerable
discussion.
On motion of Dr. Robinson, the second
proposition of this resolution relating to
the State Geoligist was stricken out, and
the following resolution adopted in lieu
thereof :
Resolve I, That this Convention concur in the
recommendation of Prof. Kerr. State Geologist of
North Carolina, in regard to tho agricultural di
vision of the State, and that we invite his especial
attention to the practical agriculture and agri
cultural products of Eastern North Carolina.
On motion, the resolution as amended
was adopted, and subsequently the whole
report as amended.
The following committees as recom
mended by the report of tho committee
were appointed :
On Labor and Immigration. Messrs.
Henry Nutt, T. C. Mcllheny and Dr. S. S,
Satchwell.
On Central Society and FairtDi, H. H.
Mi
Robinson, Col, T. S. Memory and Major J.
S. Hines.
On Address to Producers. Dr. W. W.
Lane, R. K, Bryan, A. R. Black, R. J.
Nixon, J. W. Ellis.
Mr. Henry Nutt offered the following
resolutions, which were adopted:
Resolved, lht this Convention, being impress
ed with the great importance of a local Agricul
tural Chemist, for the purpose of making a
prompt and cheap analization for our people, that
we will appoint a committee of three to make the
necessary arrangements with some Chemist for
the purpoee above stated.
Resolved, That the Convention individually and
collectively agree to give our cordial support,
patronage and influence to the Chemist selected.
This committee consists of Mr. Henry
Nutt and Drs. H. H. Robinson and "W. W.
Lane.
Mr. Nutt presented a communication
from Mr. L. Froelich, in regard to foreign
immigration.
On motion of Mr. A. R. Black, the Con
vention acknowledged its receipt, return
ing thanks to Mr. Froelich, and ordered
its reference to the proper committee.
Mr. Nutt then addressed the Societyo n
the subject of foreign immigration.
On motion of R. K. Bryan, Esq., it was
Resolved, That when this Convention adjourns
it will adjourn to meet again on the fourth Thurs
day in November next, at which time the farmers
of the surrounding counties are invited to attend
ana participate.
Col. T. S. Memory, of Columbus, exhib
ited to the Convention a species of native
grape, the discovery and history of which,
so far as known, he endeavored to explain
to the Convention. His remarks were ap
preciated so were his grapes.
After returning thanks to the President
and Secretaries, the Convention adjourned
to meet in this city as above.
Daily Journal, '3d.
The Following was taken by a Confed
erate soldier of this city from a Southern
paper just at the beginning of the war.
He thinks that it was either in the latter
part of 1860 or not later than the first of '61.
He has had it in his possession ever since,
having carried it with him in his pocket
book all through the war. This singular
prediction is surprisingly correct in every
point except one that ' the people would
re-embrace each other in great joy and love."
However, it attaches to itself singular in
terest, which is not decreased by the recol
lection of the fact that the prophecy was
made as early as 1609:
Singular Pbophecy. We translate tho follow
ing from the Courier Des Mais Unis of tho 29th
ult:
Although many of the predictions made by Nos
tradamus (especially those concerning the deaths
of Henry IV and Louis XVI) have been complete
ly verified, they are generally discredited in our
times. But in the " Prophesies et Vaticinations"
of that great great man, vol. 2d (edition of 1009)
we find the following, which would seem to de
serva some attention.
" About that time (.1861) a great quarrel and
oontest will arise in a country beyonu the seas
America. Many poor devils will be hung and
many poor wretches will be killed by a punish
ment other than a cord. Upon my faith you may
believe me. The war will not cease for four yeaiv,
at which none should be at all astonished or sur
prised, for there will be no want of hatred and
obstinacy in it. At the end of that time, prostrate
and alinoBt ruined, tho peoplo will re-embrace
each other in great joy and love."
Now, here is something very confirmatory of the
prophetic genius of Nostradamus, but in no way
consoling for us poor devils and wretches (pauvres
diables etpauvree neres) who will have to suffer
under this war for four years. Let us hope that
the astrologer was mistaken at least on this point.
The Criminal Court. Colonel Edward
Cantwell, Judge of the Special Court es
tablished for this city by an act of the
recent Legislature, is in our city. The
matter of the removal of his disabilities
has been settled. They were removed in
the name of " Edward Canfield " which.
having been decided a clerical error, is said
not to effect the fact of the removal.
The regular time for the holding of his
Court is to-morrow, the first Monday in
October, and he is here in the city, we
learn, for that purpose. We doubt, how
ever, that the Court can be held, or at least
a trial of cases entered into. There has
been no jury properly drawn and there is
no mode provided by law by which a jury
can be obtained.
The act establishing this Court especially
provides that at least fourteen days prior
to the time of holding such Courts, the
Register of Deeds and the Clerk of said
Court shall draw from the jury-box the
names of thirty-six men to serve as jurors.
This not having been done, we can see no
means by which a jury can be obtained.
Thero is a hitch or strange inconsistency
somewhere. The law also provides that
the Clerk of the Court shall qualify in open
Court, and there having been no Courts
held since his appointment, he has been
unable to qualify, and consequently there
was no Clerk to assist the Register in
drawing a jury.
Daily Journal, 4.th.
Col Kenan Accepts.
Kenansvtlle, N. C, Sept. 22, 1868.
Gentlemen : I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your communi
cation of the 19th inst., informing me of
my nomination by the District Convention
at Newbern, as the Democratic candidate
for Congress.
I accept the nomination tendered me
with the sincere hope that the result of the
next election will place the Democratic
principles beyond all reasonable doubt,
and will insure the arrest of Radicalism in
this country. We are, indeed, from vari
ous causes justified in demanding a change
in the administration of onr public affairs;
and the people should quietly determine
at the ballot box the political issues with
which they are already familiar, and say
whether they e'esire to continue the pres
ent state of things, or place in power men
who have some regard for constitutional ob
ligations. Let us, then, in entering the
present political contest see that our acts
are characterized by a spirit of boldness,
without rashness; prudence, without timid
ity, and, with the bright prospects before
us, it is reasonable to believe that our ef
forts in behalf of constitutional liberty
will ultimately be crowned with success.
Permit me, through you, to tender my
thanks to the members of the Convention,
for their manifestation of confidence and
their consideration of my services in the
last campaign.
I am very respectfully,
- Your ob't servfc,
Thomas S. Kenan.
Messrs. Weight, Bryan, Perry, and oth
ers committee.
WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY MORNING,
THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE.
Commodore M. F. Maury, in the course
of his address on the occasion of his re
cent installation as Professor of Physics in
the Virginia Institute, in addressing the
young gentlemen of the institute, alluded
as follows to the Bible and Science :
Strive in all things and at all times to be
rightminded; and as you are conducted
along those beautiful walks in the fields of
physical research, which modern investiga
tion has made so lovely and instructive,
guard against the seductive arguments of
those authors who delight to point out
what they call contradictious to the Bible.
My dear young friends, always remem
ber the author of that -book is nature's
God that the revelations of Fcience and
the statements of that Bible are both true,
and that truth cannot contradict itself.
Now, when you fancy you discover, as
many say they do, descrepancies between
Ecience and the Bible, be not fast, as Co
lenso and others have been, to pronounce
the Bible wrong. Keep from presumptu
ous sins, and behove that the Bible is true
that science is true, and that if there be
discrepancies between these two records it
is not the fault of either, but of yourself,
their interpreter. The records are right,
but the interpretation has on many occa
sions been wrong.
Science is progressive, and for its health
ful advancement speculation is often neces
sary. The boldness of such speculation,
uttered in the shapo of hypotheses, has
sometimes startled the world, and need
lessly disturbed the minds of Christian
people. Sometimes the reading of the
Bible has been wrong, and sometimes of
the volume of nature, but in the end the
dark sayings of each have been found to
throw light upon the other. Gallileo, in
advance of his time, maintained that the
earth turns on its axis ; and ' Mother
Church " in those days was offended. She
pronounced the doctrine a damnable here
sy, and required him to renounce it. As he
signed the recantation and turned away,
he muttered : ' Yea, remember, but it
tump for all that." So, too, with the Ne
bulae hypothesis, about which you are yet
to learn, but which some good men have
been disposed to regard as a modern
heresy, because of its author. Recent dis
covery and scientific investigation are now
presenting it in a new light, without in the
least disturbing any religious belief what
ever. First, hypothesis, then theory, then de
monstration thesj are tho steps by which
tho science of astronomy has reached its
present advanced state. At first, the hy
pothesis was that the earth was the centre
of the universe ; that it stood still, and
that tho heavens rolled round it from East
to West. But discovery and research soon
convinced astronomers that this theory
was not consistent with the results of ob
servation. Then, tho theory was that the
heavens stood still, and that tho earth
turned around daily on its axis from West
to East, and annually, in orbitual revolu
tion, round the sun. Observation and re
search furnished data by which the truth
of this theory, a3 far as it goes, was de
monstrated. Finally, it was discovered
that the sun is moving through space with
the velocity of cannon balls, carrying in its
train the earth and the whole retinue of
planets, asteroids and satellites, and so
hypjthesis was brot.ght to the dignity of
a theory, which reconciles ail the known
facts of the case.
Though we may not claim that the Ne
bulas hypothesis has, as yet, attained to
the dignity of a theory, nevertheless its
plausibility appears to be such as to bring
it within the range of probability, and,
therefore, it may or may not have truth for
its corner-stone.
The Nebula) hypothesis is the concep
tion of a great French geometer named
Laplace. This hypothesis is more pro
found in its reach than Newton's laws, for
the Englishman with his beautiful theory
of gravitation only dealt with tho heavenly
bodies as he found them. The French
man, soaring beyond that, attempted to
deal with them from "the beginning," to
comprehend chaos and to show how, when
the earth was without form and void, the
various physical processes took place by
which the inorganic matter of the universe
was condensed into suns, aggregated into
planets, thrown off and converted into
satellites, sent wheeling on their orbits
about the sun, and then turning on i'ieir
axis. In comparing these two philoso
phers, I speak of their intellects, not of
their characters. .
You know all the planets revolve in tho
same direction, how they go round the sun
in a direction opposite to tho hands of a
watch, and have their orbits nearly in the
plane of the sun's equator; that they also
rotate on their axes in the same direction,
and that with the single exception, per
haps, of the two outside, and most distant
planets, all their moons do the same.
They could not move as they do by any
chance, for there is no chance in nature,
neither in the heavens nor in the earth;
moreover, according to the doctrine of
chances, the odds are millions and millions
to one against such an arrangement as that
which wo actually behold among the plan
ets as they move in their orbits.
It is assumed, as our point of departure,
that this arrangement in the planetary
world must be according to design, and in
obedience to law. Upon other assump
tions equally plausible, its author founded
his hypothesis, and then proceeded by
analogy and illustration to develop it, and
that with a degree of probability, which,
if it do not carry conviction to our minds,
must at least challenge our respect and ad
miration. It assumes that in the begin
ning " the earth, sun and moon, with all
the planets, were in a gaseous state ; that
when this was the case the planetary spa
ces were filled with this rare and attenua
ted matter.
What are tho reasons for these assump
tions ? Chemistry tells us that all the mat
ter of which thi3 earth consists the rocks,
the metals and the mountains is made
from sixty-one or sixty-two simple substan
ces; that the greater part of all the solid
matter in the world is gaseous ; that one
half of the earth's crust consists of oxygen
alone, and that all the water in the sea is
composed of but two gases, and nothing
else, and that all the other substances
known upon the earth may, by heat, be
either volatilized or converted into fumes
or vapors, as rare, light and attenuated, as
the gases themselves. With such materials,
which the Frenchman called nebulous, he,
with his theory, filled the planetary spaces.
That this assumption may receive from
you it3 due weight, it is necessary to state
that we have recently discovered, and can
now prove almost that the nebuke are of
just such materials as that hypothesis calls
for.
As this chaotic mass of matter began so
runs the hypothesis to radiate off its heat,
(for the assumption is, and it is supported
by many analogies) that the centre of our
planet is still in an incandescent state as,
therefore, this chaotic and highly heated
mass began to radiate off its heat and to
cool, it began to contract, and thus motion
was generated izm that motion, tho hy
Wit
OCTOBER 9, 1SGS.
pothesis derives the primum mobile or the
power which first gave the planets the mo
tion in their orbits.
Such, in brief, are the assumptions of
Laplace, and, being granted, tho rest is
philosophical deduction. Newton's laws
took no notice of the great first cause that
sent the planets wheeling round the sunjn
their peculiar orbits, and sent them all re
volving and rotating in the same direction
on their axes ; nor did his laws attempt to
account for the satellites and rings which
attend some of the planets.
In going beyond gravity and grappling
with first causes and primum mobile, the
Frenchman stalked forth into dark regions
and traveled proudly upon ground3 which
the Englishman, as great and as gigantic
as was his intellect, had not ventured to
esay. To explain the nebulas hypotehsis
upon the basi3 of these assumptions, let us
avail ourselves of familiar instances for il
lustration. You have observed, while
driving fast along a muddy road, that the
carriage wheels throw tho mud, not straight
off from the carriage to the side of the
road, but forward and nearly in the place
in which the wheels turn. If you will
watch the larger pieces of mud closely you
will discover that they have a rotary mo
tion, like the wheel, and in the samo di
rection. Bearing in mind this homely il
lustration, let us return to the original ne
bulous mass. It is highly heated and
easier of attraction by being globular in
form. Consider it to be at rest and the
process of cooling to have commenced, and
see when it takes place. The cooling is
from the outside, the condensing is conse
quently on the outside wherefore a move
ment commences from the circumference
towards the centre and because it is from
the circumferoDco towards tho centre, it is
a rotary motion.
It is such a motion as we see in the whirl
wind on laud and in the whirlpool in the
water. This begets a revolving motion
either to the right or to the left, and in
tho nebulas of the solar system, it was from
the right to the left. Thus the nebulous
mass was set in motion.
As it continued to cool and contract, the
outer particles continued to flow inward,
and, as in all revolving bodies, the par
ticles at the circumference travel faster
than the particles near the centre these
in-rushing particles oarried their momen
tum from the circumference to tho centre,
impressed it there, and gradually acceler
ated the revolving motion to such an ex
tent that tho centrifugal force at the cir
cumference became greater than tho cen
tripedal, and so a lump or a ring was
thrown off, first ono and then another ;
for, as the nebulous mass continued to cool
and contract, its velocity of rotation con
tinued to increase, and so, first the matter
for Neptune and his satellites ; then for
Uranus, then for Saturn and his rings, was
thrown off all in and near -tho plane in
which the great central mass itself was re
volving. These fragments were not thrown off in
the solid state, but as liquid or gaseous
matter ; for wo know that Saturn, Jupiter
Mars and tho earth are all spheroids, and
of such shape as a mass of matter only in
tho fluid condition revolving about its own
axis could assume, and we know that the
interior of the earth is still in a fluid state,
which is quito consistent with the idea
that the whole was once fluid.
Saturn is still in the sky with his rings
to attest this mode of sloughing of matter ;
nor is the sun altogether without them.
These rings so holds the theory were
afterwards broken up into one or more
planets with or without moons with or
without rings ; all of which continued to
move nearly in the samo plane, and to ro
tate on their axis ; they revolve, every one
with the exception already mentioned, in
the same direction around their prima
ries. Tho stream of the asteroids between
Mars and Jupiter now stand out under this
grand and sublime hypothesis, not as frag
ments of a broken planet, but as pieces of
a severed ring.
November and August meteors constitute
a ring. The zodiacal light is also a ring,
and some of the most remarkable nebulae
in tho sky are rings. Striking analogies
are afforded by some of them in favor of
Laplace's hypothesis, as the nebulas in
Canes Venatici with its central agglomera
tion, its rings and planetary nebulous mass
in the distance.
Then againia Leo, Lord Ross' telescope
reveals nebuloo that make still more plausi
ble the great Frenchman's hypothesis.
In other parts of the sky, and as if to
show that nebulas do grow into stars
and suns, that monster telescope has picked
up planetary nebulas that are apparently
stars in tho process of formation.
But Saturn presents the most grand and
striking example of all, though wo find in
the heavens nebulas of more fantastic forms
and curious shapes than Saturn with his
rings and moons.
THE PUBLIC DEBTINCliEASIN.
Knormuu Public Kxpentlltures Radical
Tricks Kxpoaetl Old Balance! of Appro,
priations Used Average Expenditure
Yearly Since tne War Over $460,000,000
A Deficit of Sl51,OaO,O0OKriglitul
Deficiency Bills to Come 20,000,000
Olven to Manufacturers Agriculturists
to Pay it.
The Treasury Department has let it leak
out a little in advance of the official state
ment that there will be " another small in
crease of the national indebtedness " this
month. We use the language of the Wash
ing telegram as to the small increase ;"
but the correspondent says " it may pos
sibly reach two million five hundred thou
sand dollars " that 3, at the rate of thirty
millions a year. We should not be sur
prised, however, if the sum named were to
be below the figure when the official state
ment is published. It is said that this in
crease is owing xrincipally to the unusual
heavy expenditures of the War Depart
ment in carrying out the Radical measures
of reconstruction. We learn, at the same
time, that the receipts from internal reve
nue are surprisingly small, and that the
cash in the Treasury has been pretty well
reduced.
This is anything but a flattering prospect
of our national finances.
How could it be otherwise ? The expen
ditures of the Government continue to be
enormous. They are war expenditures in
amount, though the country is at peace,
and has been for more than three years
past. The heaviest is for the War Depart
ment in carrying out the reconstruction
measures of Congress. It would be better
to say, however, that tbi3 vast expenso has
been for keeping the South in a disorgan
ized and disturbed condition, for that is
what this so-called reconstruction amounts
to. Then the enormous appropriations by
Congress for all sorts of schemes, bounties,
Freedmen's Bureau, and private enterpri
ses must soon drain the Treasury dry when
the income is falling off. The stupendous
frauds in the internal revenue, and the de
woralisation of that department through
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NO. 35.
the dead lock between Commissioner Rol
lins and Mr. McCulloch and the President,
threaten to reduce the incoma from that
source far below the estimates. A ha ad red
million-i or taxation were taken off for the
benefit of a fevr New England and other
manufacturers, while tho expenditures and
appropriations remained on the largest
scale. We see this extraordiuary anomaly
in the condition of the country, that while
the crops aro most abundant and general
prosperity prevails, the debt is being in
creased and the Treasury approaching
bankruptcy. N. Y. Herald.
REMARKS.
Mr. McCulloch made a public statement
when Congress had under consideration
the party electioneering bill of the Jaco
bins, to take off taxes from manufactures,
as follows :
" Should the bill referred to become a
law, I think it may be fairly estimated that
the total revenues for the next fiscal year
will fall from a hundred to a hundred and
twenty millions below the estimates made
in my last annual report. It is exceedingly
desirable that taxes should bo reduced, and
I should hail with pleasure tho proposed
reduction if I felt assured that it would be
accomplished with a corresponding reduc
tion of expenditures. I am free to say that
j. am greatly apprenonsive that such a re
duction of expenditures will not be made.
and that the revenues of the country for
the next fiscal year, if the bill now before
the Senate, or in the hands of your com
mittee, should become a law, will be insuf
ficient to meet the interest on the public
debt and the current expenso of tho Gov
eminent."
' But this warning," says the report of
Mr. Delmar, " was ineffectual. The bill it
alluded to was passed on the 31st of March,
1868; and the public service, instead of be
ing cut down, was increased by the crea
tion of new functions and the appointment
of new officers. In a word, the amount of
service to be performed, whether actual or
nominal, is more than it was last year, and
it is therefore vain to look for any reduc
tion for tho present.
The consequence, as states the samo re
port, "is, if tho Treasury endeavors to meet
its current expenditures this year (to say
nothing of matured claims deferred, or of
the Post Ofiico deficiency it will show a
deficit of $151,339,202 25 at tho end of the
year, to bo obtained from increased taxes
or loans."
Mr. Delmar's report of tho financial con
dition, published yesterday, show the ex
penditure for tho last three yeara, a3 fol
lows: For 1865-C , . .$576,477,103 C2
Forl8fiG-7 392.444,291 34
For 18G7-8 414,913,604 19
The expenditures for the last fiscal year
were not actual war expenditures, but were
those made in time of profound peace, and
in the third year after the war, and -when
its great incidental expenses had ceased.
This statement also shows that our expen
ditures are increasing, having been $22,
469,612 85 greater during tho last fiscal
year than the year preceding. The great
est mistake in former unauthorized state
ments was, in omitting from expenditures
authorized tho sum of $144,778,472 25, be
ing unexpended balances of former appro
priations. The expenditures specially authorized
for the current fiscal year will be $482,059,
202 23, thus showing an increase of expen
diture in the current fiscal year ending
30th June, 1869, the fourth year after the
war, of $37,145,598 04, as compared with
the year preceding. Here, too, we find
balances outstanding of old appropriations,
July 1, 1868, $150,417,522 77.
The receipts from all sources are then
given, showing a deficiency on the 30th
June next of $154,000,000," which can on
ly be supplied by new taxes, or another in
crease of the public debt, to the extent
of one hundred and fifty-four million of
dollars.
The manner in which actual expenditure
have been so much above the purposely
limited appropriations of Congress has
been, by the use of balances of old appro
priations, and by the use of immense sums
coming into the Treasury from sales of
enormous amounts of material of war. The
modus operandi is thus explained by the
Commissioner of Statistics:
" All that expenditure that occurs after
the close of the year goes on the next year's
account, so that though, if a series of years
bo taken together, tho back receipts and
expenditures are included, yet, if it be do
sirable to ascertain the total revenue and
cost of the government for any single year
by itself alone, it cannot be done from
these figures alone. For this reason they
are not aggregated in tho Secretary's re
port. Recourse must be had to tho Treas
urer's receipts and expenditures, which
also include all receipts from sales of cap
tured and abandoned property, confisca
tions, prizes, sales of quartermasters'
stores, and other property, sales of war
vessels, fcc, &c, items which do not ap
pear in the Register's accounts as pub
lished, and which items during the past
three years, with the back receipts and ex
penditures have averaged nearly fifty mil
lion dollars a year."
In respect to tho enormous gratuity to
manufacturers at. the last ses&ion, it is only
to be said that had not Congress done thus
much for them they WDuld have revolted,
as they threatened, from tho Radical par
ty. True, agriculturalists, mechanics and
laborers have to make up the deficit, but
they had no poinpous agents with well
lined pocket-books to operate upon Con
gressmen in their behalf. The biil should
have been opposed by every means and
device known to parliamentary proceed
ings. It should have never passed into
legislative form without full exposure of
its enormities. Think of it, men of toil,
that a gratuity of $80,000,000 a year was
given outright to the manufacturers who,
during the war, heaped up their gains to
mountain heights, and wore thus enabled
to purchase government securities at from
forty to sixty cents on the dollar, bearing
gold interest on the full dollar. If the in
famous bill was passed through the menace
of the manufacturers of leaving the Radi
cal party, why should not the laborer, me
chanic and farmer adopt retaliatory meas
ures? The latter interests, in view of the
situation, ought to rebel as one man from
the party of the corrupt Congressional
rump.
Of course, under the operation of the
bill referred to, the revenues for excises
diminish and the public debt becomes aug
mented. The deficiency bill at tho next
session will be frightful. Meantime all
other interests except manufactures must
be taxed well on to $100,000,000 a year to
make up the gratuity to the former. The
outrage was hideous beyond any other
thing that our legislation records.
; The national debt is now kept down by
refusing to do justice to public creditors,
thousands upon thousands of whom are
how in want because tho Government will
not pay them their just dues. To keep up
the policy of the negro party to enslave
the whites of the South, a great deal of
really necessary legislation is denied to
the people. All thin in order that Con
insertion, 1.
Srxjcial NoticoM will bo filmi-p-ml 9 nn nor unnsrn
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f "reach and every insertion.
All Obituaries ami privato publications of every
charactor, are charged as advertisements.
-No advertisement, reflecting upon prlvato
character, can, under axy ciecumstances, le
.admitted.
gress may purchase support for themselves,
or the corrnpt Radical party, by giving
$80,000,000 a year to manufacturers by
raxing on tneir taxes, borne dav tho debt
will work up to $4,000,000,000, when the
Government shall havo done its whole dutv
in tho respects wo havo referred to. Thad-
deus btevens often set the figures at $5,
000,000.000, in which.wotakoit. ha inclndod
State, city, conuty and town war debts. Wo
are not qui to sure, However, on this head,
as ho did not speak of them as required
to carry up tho debt to $5,000,000,000. But
let the toiling masses think of what tho
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vjovemmcut uuraen oi laxauon win uo n
tho Radical policy of paving principal in
gold is to bo tho law to tho country. Tho
interest on the last named sum at prosent
average Government rates would bo yearly,
in gold, $300,000,000.
It is clear, then, as wo st ated yesterday,
that wo shmd on the brink of a precipice,
and at tho bottom of the dark abyss will
be found, under tho Radical policy, finan
cial oanKruptcy and national disgrace
xuucvUf uuiuiuu can save us irom impend
ing ruin but an immediate chanco of rnlers
and policy. Elect ono more Radical Con
gress, sustained by a Radical Executive,
and national repudiation is inevitable.
Tho people can change tho position by a
chango of policy, as indicated by tho elec
tions this fall. After that it will be too
late. Uational Intelligencer.
STATE NEWS.
Fire. About 12 o'clock last night tho
barn of John I. Shaver, Esq., of this city,
was discovered to bo on firo. The flames
had already made such headway that it was
impossible to arrest their progress. Tho
whole barn with its contents, including
four valuable horses and mules, was en
tirely consumed. The firo was undoubtedly
the work of an incendiary.
Salisbury Old NvrtU SlalcK
Forty withdrawals from tho Union League,
noticed this week I ! Bully for Duihani ! ! !
Hurrah for Seymour !
Rutherford I 'indicator.
A Railroad Conferonco wa3 held iu this
place on Tuesday, boiwecu tho officials of
the Richmond and Danvillo and North
Carolina Railroads. Presidents Smith and
Buford wero in town, but wo are not ad
vised as to tho result of the meeting.
Greensboro' Patriot and Times.
Sorghum. Wo aro glad to seo that a
goodly number of our farmers continue to
raise cane and to make their own molasses.
It is certainly a great advantage to them to
do so, and we doubt not thoy havo so found
it to be. Salisbury Old North State.
Premium for the First Bale of Cotton
from Franklin County, N. C. Tho first
balo of cotton from Franklin county, N.
C, was received last week by Messrs.
Marks & Litlleiohn, grocers and commis
sion merchants, Old street. It was grown
by Mr. B. J. King, ono of tho most expe
rienced, skillful and successful farmers in
the county, and who received from Messrs.
Marks & Littlejohn tho premium of a ton
of guano, offered for the first balo from
the county. Petersburg Index.
" Specimen Eiucks " What they say of
each Other. A gentleman, who heard a
discussion, a few days since, betwoen
" Judge" Tourgeo and " Windy Billy "
Henderson, the bolting and regular Radi
cal candidates for Congress in the Fifth Dis
trict, describes it as exceeding, in personal
vituperation and billingsgate, anything
which ho ever heard on tho stump before.
It may be amusing, if not profitable, to
hear what these specimen bricks of carpet
bagism and scallawagery, respectively, in
North Carolina, havo to say to each other.
Wo learn that Tourgeo charged Hender
son with having stolen the law books of tho
late Benj. Kittrell, of Lexington ; with
having forged a note on tho old Branch
Bank of Cape Fear at Salem ; and, also,
with tho mule business.
In reply, Billy accused Tourgoe of hav
ing been ca saed by a negro, and ejected
from a tenement which ho had rented, and
for which ho had failed to pay, and with
disgracing tho bench of North Carolina by
partisan exhibitions and personal depravity I
And of such i3 Radicalism 1 Thero is an
old adago that when "rogues fall out, hon
est men get their dues !" Ral. Sentinel.
Afewvhito men on la it Tuesday night
tried to instigate tho negroes to tako down
the flag from the stand whore tho Conser
vative speakers addressed tho assemblage,
and to mob P. F. Duffy, Esq. Tho ne
groes prepared for tho undertaking, and
their white allies took an observation and
concluded their cowardly hides would bo
safer at homo than in a row, and failed to
como to time with tho negroes, who being
left without assistance, concluded to defer
tho undertaking. Winston Sentinel.
One of Vance's Best. A fow nights
since, in Salisbury, when Vance was ad
dressing a large and enthusiastic audience,
somo scallawag tuddcnly and malicously
turned off tho gas. Almost any ono but
Vance would havo been frustrated by tho
circumstance. But not ho. IIo at onco
cried out, in tho midst of tho darknes.1 :
"Heroes of America! Come to order!"
This created shouts of applause and laugh
ter, in the midst of which fa btray dog, as
tonished at tho uproar, set up a howl.
'Turn that scalawag out !" said Vance ;
and the merriment grew "fast and furi
ous." Tho lights wero soon restored and
Vance resumed.
Arrested. Josso Mitchum and James
Arrington, whites, citizens of this
county, wero arrested last Sunday charged
with firing Lanesboro', in this county,
on the 9th cf August. The evidence was
sufficient against them to send them to jail
for trial at onr next court. Others aro
charged as participants, who aro still at
large. The principal witnoss against them
is a negro. Mitchum is supposed to bo
the ringleader of a gang that has been do
ing much mischief hereabouts for some
time past, and evidence hereafter may fix
many other crimes upon him.
Wadesboro' Argus.
The Comet Visible. Our exchange tell
us that Encke's Comet is now visiblo
through a glasa. It is located near tho
constellations of Gerrnini and Cancer, and
can be seen between 3 o'clock and day,
light in tho morning. If this tho caso wo
may soon look for it in tho evening, as as
tronomers havo said that in tho latter part
of September it might bo seen with the
naked eye from nino in tho evening
three in the morning.
TTVin Wm RtrrTirr .Tndn-A of the Supremo
Court of Pennsylvania, has resigned his