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-i ! WEEKLY ERA. WEEKLY ERA. i I.-; Ifcate of Advertising-: ... , Ouo square, ana tinW, ', 1" $i '00 "- two times, - 1 50 . three times, " '' a 00 A sqiiaro is the width of a column. '?M. 31- BROWN, - Manager. H of ubcriition t ' ,,TOne vear, in auvanc?. w fl .six months, in ad vance, 3 50 Three months in advance, 2 00 .......t- One year. In a 1 vanoe, f- 00 ttt Six months, 100 and one inch deep, f . Jir Contract Advertisements taken at proportionately low rates. - Vol. 2. RALEIGH, 2T..0., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28. 1873. No . 31. Professional Cards, not exceeding one , square, will i be published ouo year for ' $15. . I - . . , ! Three monUis, 50 ......riiitciulcnt of Public In- struetioii. jii, Kxi'fllcnry, the Governor, t 'HUy conferred the position of Su , . ria! i!(It'nt of Public Instruction u.,o.iIlu". Kemp I. Battle, uC thU city. an election occurs tdfill TIic Superintendent of Public The Appointment of Mr. Battle. Instruction. i The appointment of Hon. Kemp tion or siinrintni!nt of Pnhii, ,,, 1 1 - fettle to the office of Superinten strution to Rev. Charles Phillips, of dent of Public Instruction is meet- Iavidn College, confessedly the best ing witn the general approval of the man in the State tor the position, and it , must be deplored that the Legislature in public- Of all political parties. and the partisan madness it has displayed the subject is very wisely and ap- in reference to the salaries of Republi- . . , . i . . i .. can official ha, cut down the salary of Propnately viewed and treated of of Augu-t, lsM. Liking to the good of tho ichole .j.lo, and desiring to establish a rin-in'Tit, pnieucuuir, uuunii ucvful system of common Nin North Carolina, Governor Cnidwell . has discarded all mere ii.rition Oil the first Thursday thU important ollice so low that a ecu . I I A 1 1 2 1 A tr.j from an educational and not from a partisan stand-point The Daily; Jietns says : " The "office being, non-partizan in its character, Governor Caldwell has "acted wisely and well in selecting "a gentleman'so well fitted by cdu "cation, talents, energy, practical "judgment and patriotic zeal." A Raleigh mechanic, and one of n one, of any party, will view salary and gave the office to a carpet-1 the leading Republicans among the Ueman of the learning and talents of Ir. full lips must declmce the osuioii on atH-oont of inadequate paj. Era. We are sorry to see so nnfair a state ment as the above. The Era tiuce the election has a-Msuined a fairer tone and has not descended to the Pool pamphlet Ktvle of misrepresentation. But the Era knows full well that the best Superintendent of Public Inw'rne- iiIit'uMl thought or consideration the State ever had was C. II. Wiley 1 . 1 . . i : i i i " a salary of $1,500 per annum. The in tliH matter, una it is to be hopea 1Ullkis c.4me into power, doubled the ur di-cuss the appointment in a or from a jo!itieal ...!.i..int Thfr is iwitliitK nf I"""" o - jtf,:itu-al Hgnilicituee in theapjMjint-mi-nt, and it is in no sense a iliti rll position; but amply qualified pan ttlacatioualt legal ami finan cial Hi:it of view, qualities all com t.intl, which, perhaps, no other avui!.i! gentleman, of the State js in a higher degree; and ia view of the ioverty of the sala ry, in:.ilt quate for the living of any the unfairness with which the,ome i of family and attain- ,L-t. ifs ctntmonts nnd it u ilif- bairer and cave him as an Assistant, a ne? ro on a salary of $1,7U0. If these two worthies did any thing tesides draw salaries and pick up thin its, the State is ignorant or wbat it was. Miie conserva tives abolished the negro s orlice and rcxluct-d tha salary of Jlw. J?.rineipal, but not so low as to make Nereus Mcuden- hall and Rev. Mr. Reid, both men of mark, unwilhnj? to run lor tho office. The salary is still as larjre as that which Ir. Phillips gets at Davidson College. There m ust bo sme other reason for his not accepting it. Pnbbly, ho is not " in full accord with the government." Viutrlotle ,Southem Home. working-men of the city, makes the following communication on the subject: To the Editor of the Era ; I am so well pleased at the apftoiut- mcnt or the lion. Kemp v. liattle as Sujerintendeut or Public Instruction that I must give my reasons to the public, as a mechanic, and one that hopes to see the School system of North Carolina so managed that my children may be better prepared to make me chanics than I have been. It is well known that thousands. of our people nave leit the state. Hoping to lind mints ihe I'M believes the pp puhttiiM'iit the wisest that could have lt n made under all the cir cumstances, and that .Mr. mttie u. irive perfect siitisfaction to i i viTvlsaly ; and sutxt-ssfully estali-Ji-hing a gootl system of popular One is naturally pained to witness sci,ool system that would prepare their children for, useful citizens in all departments of business. In my opinion there is Homing that will have as eood lieu It to understand how one of the effect upon the mechanical and agricul- i. ...i, i .i ,,; f turai interests oi the state as a w-ell suh knowledge and experience of L, 8VStem of public schools in the Cteiusrul D. II. Hill could have fal- hands of a gentleman so well qualified ien into such error. First, in reference to C. II. Wi ley, and his salary before the war; General Hill J-urely does not mean and so identified with all the public interests of North Carolina as Mr. K. P. Rattle. I say .to the men 'who stood by North Carolina in its darkest days to brighten up. A new era is about to dawn upon us, I believe, if the Legisla- COItltESFONOEXCE. The Western North Carolina Railroad. Superintendent Mclver refuses to The a, to-day, contains, In its give up the oflflce of Superintendent correspondence department, an able, I of Public Instruction. well written, intelligent and com- The following correspondence ex prehensive article on the Western f plains itself: iNorth Carolina K&ilroad, and the Raleih. 35th, is73. financial troubles and depressing I Hoy. Alex. Mi-Iyer, RaieigiiY difliculties which beset it. . . Itar Sir: Ilavin"- received from Ins It is gratifying to o!serve, that, 1 Excellency Governor Caldwell a Comnm in whatever writers have trj say on Blon print,n? me Superintendent of Pul- 11c Instruction of the State of xsortn Caro lina, and taken the oath required by law, I respsctfuhy notify you that I will be ready to take charge of the office on to morrow. Having derived great pleasure as well as profit froin the perusal of your exceedingly able report to the present General Assem bly, I hope, and from our friendly relations, believe, that you will continue to aid me with your valuable counsels. Truly yours. KEMPT. BATTLE, Snp't Pub. Instruction this subject, the official conduct of Governor Caldwell Preference to the matter is generally commended, in that he has but done his duty as the Executive of the State. i Reference is made, in the coin munication of "Catawba," to the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruth erford Railroad, in which the State has, or had a much larger interest and a more valuable property, be ing a line much nearer completed and producing a much heavkr an nual income than the Western North Carolina Road. Another correspondent writes the Era and asks "Why is he (the Gov ernor) silent on the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford J load "a Road in which the State has in- " vested seven millions and is en " dorser for a million more a Road that is surely worth protecting, earning annually, as it does, 'eighty miles of finished track, 'and about all the grading eom 'pleted?" The Legislature, last Winter, with all the facts before it, after a long, patient and exhaustive inves- ) I fkOllcn tllO tt hlVI n i ltirn t tO I d. - .V..1t.. V Vx., tK-h I tiw I'l ' nr tKo ava-1a unt Kr n - I firratlnn lrtit?fwl T if j oof win f nof I MJll p ' ? v j 'i -v w 1 (Tiilll I Kilt- il iHilliii kJUiKJl V itIYJ ell I fc' w n ji v mo Aniiiiv ci. wu wui 1 ii,iiiviJ j uwiutu KJjr a L J uviiUii liKiW I r!..n:ul. not only to the education- with n .lnlb.r nowa SL.W) salarv vcrrior. Divest itself of thg gt te M ff d nQ relief to officers of the Executive Department . . .r.u 1.. k., -. . " iKuiucs, ana mase a goMi scnooi law, commence on the first day of Januan I advantages 01 uic i.uiut-, uui w then With a l.OlKl sa ary now ; nor and sustain Mr. Jiattle liberally, it will ine v limiiigiou, viiimune uuu - - - ... ...ii 1 u- ww.s ....: . ,lt .;,i,,ts rr ,, . .. , , Ufter their election, and continue until the Republican pany iiirougn sucn does he forget that in the changed itumerioru, anu so events nau 10 ue , , , , . l" 1 . L ... . . umsntiuiBuiH.n 0 but induce many to return. There is . ,. . . , ' . . ... successors are "elected and qualified." ?ucts under a Lepublican aclmin- tt)miition of tlie colored race, and nothing that so blights the mechanical left to take their course, and the t- thirteen of the same Article- If iVtRiti'in of the aiiairs 01 the Male. from ti,e fortunes of war, the num The following is a petition to the iXT 0f children to bo educated in Governor, circulated by the leading maimon schools are double what interests of the State as the want of good practical education. I believe Mr. Bat tle feels tho necessity of intelligent labor j so much that he' will devote his whole . 1 niKiKm --v A.liiAniiAti tf a r t Im tin lit noti :orc.lmenori:aleigh.a.ulsigneu thcv were in 18C0: and hence the "r n-?', hv Ietuling antl stauncn uuu uuu 4f.,tipsnfn Suoorintendent of Pub- condition. Let every man that wishes .W,h1 Rei.nh'.h ans of the citv. i: t...: r f to see North Caroliua built up and her 1 " llt . . atiiwiiuiuuii v .vv waste places blossom as the roso sustain who know Mr. Rattle, ami have ti0uble those of the Chairman of Mr. Battle in building school houses U-en voting for him in all the mu . nicijul elections in which he has been a candidate: T If' Exct i'lmrj. lioNURACLK Ton R. ('ALDffELI-, 1 Jovernor of North Carolina: i We, the undersigneil, in view of tho importance of filling th ilice of Super intendent of Public la ..ruction by an appointment that will securo tho onli ii'iice of both political parties, and bt-st sulcrve the interests and pnniote the cause or Kducation in our State, having ranvacd the entire field, havoconclud M that we know of no one who can irttcr till the osition,in our views.than the Hon. Kemp P. Ilattie. We therefore resiectfully ret-ommend hini t your earnest consideration for the appointment. . In tendering the appointment, - the Governor tninsmitteil this letter to Mr. Rattle: KX KCfTI V K DePAUT.M KNT, J:alti;;h, Hth January, 17. Kkmp P. Battlk, Rs., Ikiir Sir The ollice i Superintend fnt .f Public Instruction having be- rrtnie vacant bv thodeatli of Rev. Jas, Keid. it tlevolves upon me to till the vai-.iiu-v. This is an office of great ini-prtaiu-e to the jK-ople of both races, and the-success or failure of our. common ft hools is largely dcendent upon the Ituliiications and litnes-s of the Super niundcnt of Public Instruction. After bvitnrrtt tnsidcring the matter in all itsatjWts, I have determined to tender the oitice to you. Fnuii a long acquain ting', 1 U-lieve that you Kss'ess, in an nmitiit degree, all the qualities and ;!. .-.liiiciti" ns which are necessary and n-'i:i:e l make our common schools and that your apiointment w.' i tive'general, if not universal ssatis 11. 1 am further persuaded that your freedom from folitical prejudice iiii l intolerance, will prompt you to tjkc ;ts much interest, and manifest as i i-h y.'.i:, in ttchalf f the edueatiAii, 1. 1 iaor.il culture of one race of our i .1 w citizens as of the other ; and that H will Lmr, or favor, or ignore, no (: on :ount of his or her race or pre ylooh condition ; but that you will ad laiuiit r liiis" otfu-e, and discharge its luiies, partially, aiul without favor r I ear. 1 trust. Sir, that you will ae tpt the .-i'conipanyiiigwiumi.ssion, and .ive me your valuable aid in an honest rt to biiil.I up, and mainbMii, a gonl "Ystcni of common schools in our State. m I am. Sir, verv truly. Your oliedient servant. Tod R. Caldwkli., Governor. Common Schools in 1800. As to Mr. Reid, he had no fami ly, and could have lived in the city on the salary; besides he was a man of substantial means of his own whereas Dr. Phillips is a poor man, and getting good teachers, and then send the children to school. ' llKXRY S. KKITIT. Raleigh, January 14, S73. Governor Iloldcn's Iisabilities. State's interest to take care of itself, or be sacrificed. The Governor could have accomplished nothing, whatever action he may have seen proper to take, and after the Legis lature had disposed of the matter, any interference of the Executive, unasked, would have been merely gratuitous intermeddling. In the case of the Western North Carolina Road it is quite different Although the Legislature has had tho tnntrpr in h.mil. p-iviho it n hnstv mi. c t .w. - I o r ! 1 in rif'ii;iii' 1 1 1 1 1 1e.11 ii iiil ii l i.uiiili . .... .... u ith n linrn fimilv to nrovide for . . ana unsatisiactory consiueration with a large iamnj 10 proiueior ft, tf; Assomb v. in a , . and educate, and could not have r menus 01 uic ltoau ami parties in ' iiiiiiiii:trii 11 iiiinii v. 1 1 1 1 1 mih 1. .... . . rontrti i home for what Air Reid . . . . ... . teresteu therein have besougnt the renietl a HO Use lUr "Hill -ir. IVilU .1, Jn-l Ku tho nnnn a nf tho Solo I Executive to bring the subject once again before the General Assembly He took such action as was neces lfidnrpd. bv the noonle of the State. could have-lived on. and disapproved at the time of all As to Mr. Mendenhall, he knew, g00apcople, saw proper, in deposing that, if elated hisparty would raise the Governor from. office, to also fix on him life-bans of political dis ability. the salary, which the Home most unquestionably knows they would have done. Rev. Charles Phillips receives in addition to SlolK) at Davidson, a house free of rent, and he feeds his family in a section where marketing is scarcely half as high as in Raleigh. The salary was the difficulty, Gen eral Hill, and your party is reston-sible. At a time when so many of our sary to procure time, and a message will soon be transmitted to the Leg lslature covering the ground anu dvimr all the information on the The President's Salary. Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts, has introduced a bill in the Lower House of the Congress, raising the salary of the President from twenty-five to fifty thousand dollars. We hoie this bill will lecome a law before the expiration of the present Congress on the 4th of March next. Should the bill pass as drawn by Mr. Ranks, it would be lean justice at the sum of fifty thousand dollars. Nearly a centu ry ago, when there were but thir teen States and three millions of Ieople, the President received the same salary that he does now. By the census of 1870, General Grant is Settin President of thirty-eight millions djcated. people were seeking the removal f sublect the Governor has been able I Sen 1? ft f inikAu1 lr fniifrrnca I . . . 1 f'L 1 . T . . t .1 I anu wnen me atate legislature was It is painfuny apparent that little clamoring for the reHef of divers or nothing can bc tlone to protect prominent citizens of the State, tne damaffed and sinking interests that Legislature banned the only of the st t in thLs Iload but verv A 1 1 i 1 1 X 1 I " manintne wonuu nau xne power littie harra can. result to anyone to touch. The mistake is now ap- fm f,irther investigation of the parent, and since Congress hare- subjdct b the Legislature and if uiovL-u me uisauiiuira ui iui, at nothinf, f.un h donp whv thpn the k. i! !i! i I O siignt t'Aeepiioiis,iieuis1siuon is galeof the Road musfc tako placef maniiesiouinepartoi mis i.'gis- nnl thoro sllflll ho fmind 1 lature to correct tho mistake of the other by removing the disability imposed on Governor Holden. A resolution has already been in troduced, anu the matter is in proper shape before, the Legislature. That it will promptly act favorably to the relief of Governor Holden, no one entertains a doubt, and as an earnest of a better era of feeling in our State, and a disposition to re pair the mistakes and forcret the errors of the past, the public senti ment of North Carolina is strongly the direction above in- nr 1 . MR. UATTLK'S LKTTKR OF AtX'EPTANCE. RAtKloil, Jan. 11, 1S73. lit Excellency, Tod R. Caldwklt Governor of North Carolina: Dear SVr . After careful deliberation, I deem it my duty to accept the position of Superintendent of Public Instruc tion which you have so unexpectedly tendered me. " The cause of popular education should be raised above all partizan considera tions. Reciprocating and honoring your motives in endeavoring to effect this great object, as shown in the appoint ment of one not your party, I shall labor with rarnest desire, as the consti tution provides, to diffuse the light of knowledge equally and impartially among all the youth of tho State, with out bias of politics or bias of race. .To aid in relieving the intellectual famine of the rising generation, in re moving from the State the blight of ig norance, in re-kindling the extinguish ed fires of our venerable University, once no honored and so useful, iu plac ing North Carolina abreast with the most cultured of Knglih speaking peo people, is surely worthy tho ambition of any man. : Deeply impressed, notwithstanding . Jtur favorable opinion, with a sense of my want of the requisite qualifications to accomplish the task, yet, intending to bring to the work, industry and zeal, twill enter on my duties, relying on your efficient aid, as well as on the co operation of the Hoard of Kducation, the Trustees "of the University, and most of all the Legislature of the State. ' Thanking you for the kind terms of praise with which you accompanied my commission, I am very respectfully yours, . Kemp P. Battle. They hired out the paupers in Jones county, and Mrs. Lucy Locky. VeT respectable white lady, was bid tff by a colored man. of people! There are thirty-seven States and nearly a dozen Territo ries ! The duties and responsibili ties of the position have increased an hundred fold ; prices are four times as great as when Washington" was President ; arid a gold dollar in those days would buy six times as much as the " Almighty dollar V will buy in this, the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. Therefore, if the Congress should see fit to in crease the salary to one hundred thousand dollars, it would not do more than meet the requirements citizens of justice. The Republicans, always first in amnesty, will vote unanimously for this relief, and the Conserva- ground for litigation. The people of Western North Car olina, so much interested in the completion of their Road, and so manifestly impatient under the ex isting delay, are assured that the Governor is not hostile to them or their interests in this matter, and he will do nothing in the premises he does riot feel that his duty to him self, his high office and his State shall make it obligatory on him to undertake ; and if there is found no cause for litigation on the part of the State there will be none, and no unnecessary delay caused or useless obstructions thrown in the way of the early completion of the Road under the auspices ot that associa- tives will do honor to . themselves tion of capital said to be ready, who support this measure. It is hoped that the desired action may not be delayed a day ; and let the Legislature of ,North j Carolina, with one voice, speedily send up an appeal to the Congress for the relief of the last one of our fellow-citi zens, that President Grant may en- anxious and amply prepared to finish the Western North Carolina Railroad to the Tennessee line. The salary of the British Minister soilofthe United states howhere Western North Carolina Kail- road. For some months wo have leen col lecting the facts connected with this road, its mortgage and its managemeiit. At last Gov. Caldwell has waked un to ter upon a second term of his high the fact that the State has an interest in me roau. xo-morrow we propose to ci vp such facts and fiirures as we have With not a single one Of his fellow- been able to collect. The mortgage was under political bans the ruin of the company. Gov. Cald- I well wue q l&Qilinr TiiPtnlkAr nf tnA nnnrH the foot of a bond-man pressing the 0f directors when the mortgage was made and the money borrowed. - Se7i- tinel. Between politics, mismanagement and; the mortgage, the Western North Carolina Railroad has been ruined, and that is the simple truth. Governor Caldwell was a Iead- " ing member of the board of Di " rectors when the mortgage was says the Sentinel, but that paper neglects to state, that, TLr. Cald well, when a member of that board, in all our broad, peacefu domain. ' ; and free Vaccination: ;in the tiary. Peniten- to France is eighty thousand 'dol lars per annum, besides his outfit and other sums which make up an hundred thousand dollars. Tho picayune notions which have de terred the Congress from increasing the salary of many government of- The Physician to the Penitentia ficials should have played out ere ry desires the Era to state, that, the this. Board had ordered the convicts to It is extravagant economy to fix be vaccinated 'ome days since, and salaries at amounts which by no he is only waiting for some non means compare with the services humanized vaccine virus ordered rendered and required. Salaries from New York,and daily expected, vehemently opposed tho mortgage, should be liberal that is at fig- The omission to have the convicts and in the meeting at which the snfficipntiv krcp. thniifh not vaccinated as thev enter was an er- morteasre was resolved upon he extravaant, to insure the very ror in the first Board, but hereafter predicted that the mortgage would best talent the State or Nation af- that matter wjll be attended to. be the ruin of the Road, and calling fhrriss- Thpre are eountv offices in A nest-house, remote from the for the ayes and noes when the this State which pay more than the quarters of the convicts, has been question of mortgage was put, voted salary of the President. The dig- provided against contagion; and against the mortgage, all the other nity of the position and the gran- the Board hai very properly agreed Directors voting for it, except Cal- deur of the Republic demand the to allow the f Physician fifty cents vin J. Cowlcs, Esq. immediate passage of Mr. Banks remuneration; for each convict and Can't the Sentinel do scant Justice bill. employe vaccinated. in this matter ? Office Si p't Pi-b. Ixsteuctiom, Raleigh, N. C. Jan. 16th, 1S73. IIo.v. Kemp P, Battle: Dear Sir: I have I lie honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your letter of the 15th inst., giving notice of 3'our appointment by his Excellencv Governor Caldwell. Assured as I am from an acquaintance with you of more than twenty years, of your eminent fituess for the 'dntic-s of the office of Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, I would cheerfully surrender the office to j'ou, if I believed that my term of office had expired, or that the Commission under which you claim is legal. 13 y the first section of Article III of the State Constitution the term of office of all shall i next their By the office of any of the said officers shall be va cated by death, resignation or otherw ise, it shall be the tint- of the Governor to ap point another nntil the disability be re moved or his successor be "elected and qualified." An officer is oae who is invested with an office. Mr. Reid had not been invested with the office and therefore he was not an officer. The office of Superinntendent of Public In struction never became the office of Mr. Iteid and therefore it was not vacated by Ids death or otherwise. The Constitution continues the term of the present incum bent and no vacancj has occurred. It is reasonable that the Constitution should de signate the person, if it has a suitable per son on nana, to continue in omce in case the person dies or refuses to qualify; and the Constitution of North Carolina does this very thing. It continues the term of the incumbent until his successor is "elected and qualified." No vacancy occurred, and Ilia Excellency had no authority to grant the' Commission to whicji you refer; and for that reason the Commission is null and void. I. therefore, most respectfully decline to surrender to you the office of Superintend cnt of Public Instruction. Sincerely yours. ALEXANDER McIVER, '. Sup't Pub. Instruction. Peril;! !ous and Malicious Con duct ot Militia! Col. Kuss Im posed, j To the Editor of Tlie Era: Sir Enclosed I send you a letter fro ,T. "H. BryantjEsn.. to me ex-! plai.ni. why he Signed" thoVcard! with J. T, Harris to Col. Russ.j Please insert. This proves beyendj "Wliose Ox? It not unfrequently makes a deal of difference whose ox is gored. Whenever the Federal authorities have taken a citizen of one State to another to stand trial before a cir cuit court, we have heard the howl of "centralization" from one end of the country to the other, whether such arrest and conveyance was ac cording to law or not. v Mr. Alvin Bettis, of Cleaveland countyrliviug within a few hundred yards Of the South Carolina line, was arrested by Federal authority and taken to Yorkville. This was an outrage.and Governor Caldwell business of the railroads, inquiring promptly resented it, and in vindi- into their rates for passage and cation of the dignity of the State transportation , meir receipts ana ui-.r--r.ii- ? 1 1 i expenditures, the running ot trams, had Mr. Bettis released and return- the amount and oualitv of rolling ed to his State. In this case, Presi- stock, character of accommodations dent Grant acted like the chief mag- for passengers, and such other mat istrate of a great:nation should act; ers 5s m.any h necessary in order but tnis uia not sausiy "ine menus whereon to hflsft wui.iHm, D. C. Murray. Esn. of good governments they still I the public interests may bo found Sir When I signed the noto insisted that the Federal govern-(to demand.' rithj. T. Iliirris to Col. J. P. H. This is a step in the right direc- ivuss, uateu January v, itj, in rei- tion, and has been taken none too erenco to the peas, 1 1 told Col. Russ soon, for the people are now pretty that tho gentleman from tho coun- generally aroused to the necessity try who came in and offered us of using the governmental machin- $1.23 for tho peas which 'I had of- ery, which, in their collective ca- fered to you for $1.15, was Joking, uacitv. thev control, as a means of I knew he did not want tho peas, grappling with those monster cor- and he did not buy any from us at porations in whose presence, as sep arate individuals, they are power less and without defense. The con stitutional right of Congress to control such corporations has lately been ably argued by Jugs Shella barger, of Ohio, in a letter which has been extensively published: From Washington Chronicle. Governmental Control Over . Railroads. Mr.HawIey,of Illinois, on Mon day introduced in the House of Representatives a' bill looking to the exercise of such governmental control over the railroad monopo lies of the country as to compel them to pay a proper regard to the convenience, comfort, and safety of tho shadow of a doubt tho fact that the public, and at the samo time the Colonel will resort to any means protect the latter againstexorbitant tn --.itf,. Ka ,it,:irta fnoiinmil i,J charges for. the services rendered, to gratify his malicious filings; ho, After declaring the power j of Con- has had no cause or excuse for mis-; gress in the premises over roads representing mo in any transaction, Iron one State into another, the Except my refusing! to pay him 25c. bill provides for the appointment extra busnpl for hl, nntatops ! of a commission to investigate the exlra per ousnei ior his , potatoes. ins pe r-iuiousncss is snown in vio lating the promise made to Mr. Bryant not to publish tho card to! which his name was signed. Respectfully, j j 3. C. Murray, i Raleigh, Jan. 14, 1873. I ment was a "centralized despot ism." ' Mr. David A. Rautsour was ar rested at Wake Forest College, charged with Ku Kluxing in Cleaveland county, and taken to South Carolina for trial where the offence was said to have been com mitted. Mr. Ramsour was given the choice of going on to South Carolina without delay, or wait in Raleigh for an order of transfer from the Judge for the District of North Carolina. " The friends any price, for either himself or you. I explained this! matter to Col. Russ, who insisted upon my sign ing the paper, which I did, with out the explanation accompanying it, under a promise from Col. Russ that it should not bo published. You may imagine my surprise,1 but, even if this right did not exist therefore, when 1 found it had been nnripr thofVineritntinn w if ij mih- published, and oA its publication lie sentiment would Boon demand unexplained is calculated to mis- srood government " convulsed th nation with their indignation on fan amendment whereby the right lead the public and injure you, I fi L nppooinn ' would be expressly guaranteed, feel in honor bound as an aet,of simplejustice to mako this state ment to you. tliiis nppflsinn. Captain W. II. Trezevant, of The necessity lor its exercise may v,ap . . . ,, , .. at any moment become so lmpera- Charlotte, was arrested in that city tive to overrulo all other con'sid- last Spring under a warrant from erations, for, as population is dis- South Carolina, and taken to that tributed under our modern civili State to have the charges inquired dorg into. The transfer of Captain Trez- ence upon the regular and unob- avant, under the circumstances, structed operation of the railroads. I am, res .'spectfully , yours, "cc. B. Bryant. Fists. ' " ru bet -7j can drink six glasses more," cried Amos Boswick, a was unlawful, as this writer pro- Sorae idea of the power of the latter New York boy, who had already drank tested at the time, and Governor yer ire interests o vast coinmuu- . ; . . .. xi ltiesmaybe formed from the posi- Caldwell, apprized of tho occur- tion in which New York, Philadel- rence, took the proper steps to have phia, and other great cities were lrinters Monument Greeley. to Mr. The printers of the United States propose to erect to the memory of Horace Greeley a strictly printers' monument, to be casttf types from all the printing offices of the United States, each" office being requested to contribute two pounds of type; and on the third day of February, which is the birth day of Mr. Greeley, every printer in the country is requested to contribute the worth of a thousand ems, say fifty cents, toward the erection of the monument. The Era will at once forward the type, and the compositors of this office, on the third of February.will all forward their mite to the parties authorized to receive it. It is hoped that no printing office in North Carolina will fail to do likewise. Farm-Yard Scraps. During the past year .2,000 pounds of walnut kernels were shipped by rail from Broadway depot in Rockingham county They sold at 30 cents per pound, bringing the handsome sum of SoOO for these small and seemingly worthless things. The Register says: "These, walnut kernels twere gathered mainly by poor children in Brock's Gap, who had no other way in which to turn an honest penny." They are used in making candy. The Charlottesville (Va ) Chronicle says: , " we learn witn much pleasure that parties exploring this county in search of iron ores have recently devel oped a deposit on the lands of Dr. John li. woods, ana mere is every reason to believe the vein continues: through the adjoining lands of John Wood, Jr., and perhaps on to adjacent lands. These discoveries are within one-half a mile of Iw depot, ou the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad." Every farmer knows, or he thinks he knows, how to take care of potatoes for winter use, but we will describe briefly our methods. Dig the potatoes, if pos sible, when the ground is dry; but if this cannot or has not been done, they should be allowed to dry on a barn lloor, the adhering soil removed, and then the roots may be carried to the cellar. We provide large boxes which will hold about twenty bushels each, (cast off three boxes) raise them a few inches from the cement floor by cross pieces of scantling, and then fill them with the clean and dry potatoes. A lid excludes them from the light. If there happen to be a few wide cracks in the bottom of the box the ventilation will be better; and if the tubers are clean and the cellar cool there will be little rOt. !. Mr. Trezevant returned to his State. The charges were speedily inquired into, and Mr. Trezevant released, but " the frienqs of good govern ment" will never recover from the great injury done them by the ar rest of the Captain. But here the scene changes : A party from Robeson county in this State crossed over to South Car olina the other day, and without warrant or color of authority, ar rested some citizens of the latter State on the ground that they were in some way connected with the Robeson outlaws, and they started temporarily placed a year or so ago by the action of the railroad and canal companies which control the lines of communication entering the anthracite coal region of Penn sylvania. The amount of public inconvenience then occasioned by the sudden imposition of prohibi tory freight rates was incalculable, and had those rates been maintain ed a few weeks longer, a coal fam ine must have resulted, stopping hundreds of factories and carrying distress to tens of thousands of homes. But we need hot refer to extreme cases in order to find warrant fgr governmental regulation. 1 The simple fact is that the principle of competition, relied on as an ade- with their prisoners to North Caro- J quate security for mutual justice in lina. . ' The South Carolina authorities in terfered, arrested the kidnappers, and fined them. "The friends of good government" dash promptly to the rescue, and the officers of the law in South Carolina are severely denounced for their action a city paper this morning characterizing an officer there as a "miserable sheriff." transactions between man and man, is now, in most cases, altogether inoperative in transactions' between individuals and the great carrying companies. What, then, is the pro tection of the individual against ex tortion and other oppressions ? E v idently.he has but one resource, and that is to combine with the mass of his fellow-citizens and use, for the control of the corporations the same cigtit glasses oi uouriion wnisitey. Ilo staggered home and as lie seated himself near the table, his mother slapped him two or threo times on the head w;th her open hand. Tho boy at tempted to throw up j his hands, but fell on the table with his head resting on his arms. After a few minutes his motherl ordered him to getj up. As she took him by the arms he gasped, and rolled from the chair to the lloor, dead. . Oh, no, she xcoiddiiH marry1 again. A beautiful girl sho was, living in Georgetown, D. tV when a' young man there fell in love with her and they were engaged.! But after all sho married a dashing young officer who ifi the late war throw his fortuno in favor of tho South and died lighting under the Stars and Bars. She named her first boy after this first lover, and the widow and her son moved away out West. The other day the old Georgetown bach saw the death of this boy, aged 12 years, published in the newspaper, and ho went right out .'there,' and' tho old flames wererekindledj and they are now living, man and wile, together in Georgetown,: and not oven the teeth aro wanting to enable tho wife to chow on tho cud of her firsx love. , ! XT" Col. Keating in his travels gives tho following of how they fatten their women for tho African and Asiatic kind of agency which was used for markets : As soon as betrothed sho is their creation, viz: that govern mental organization through which can combine their strength for their mutual benefit and protection. The parties apprehended in South alone the great body of the people Carolina by the Robeson county vigilance committee and outlaw hunters, may be guilty of crimes against the State of North Carolina committed within her limits, but there is a lawful way of reaching them through requisition, of our Governor, and guilty or innocent, no citizen or officer of North Caro lina can invade a sister State, or in terfere with the liberty of her citizens. cooped up in a small room, with gold shaekels on her ankles. If her proprie tor has lost a wifo by death or divorced, one, her anklets aro sent forward to thej matrimonial candidate. When sho has attained a desirable! sizo, indicated byf The last rail on the northern di- filling the pattern rings, she is carried vision of the Cairo and Fulton rail- in tHmnh to her new homo. Tho pro- road, connecting Little Rock, Ar- par3ti f fo . that actually produces kansas, with St. Louis, has been laid. The southern division of this road extends from Littie ; Rock to northern Texas, where connection will be made with thelnternational railway,- which in turn connects at llearne.. Texas, with roads extending to the Gulf of T , fPI.!, . 1 - ' " 111 1 .,, . . . i I xuexjco. xius uivisiou win ue euui It IS a graiiiyiiigtiieuiiisuviiuu mm nIpfprl vv;tilin th nrwnt venr ... i - 1 - T.1i A I t his writer to oe aoie to state ma :t:i V.-vl I 4tiof -fl-ia -lir Viaa . , t.ii m ..mi 1Ilc Skeleton. passed wnen r euerai umwia n. uC A distinguished physician of this city permitted, under any circumstan-L . t - u t kindiv furnished us ces, to transport the citizens oi one the following anatomical facts concern State to another without warrant of law ; and " the friends of good government " may as well under stand that they will not be permitted to exercise or assume an authority paraxon of food that actually produces that'eoveted dimension a mountain of' fatness is called dough, made of tho seeds of a vegetable peculiar to thi country. Some positively die from exj cessive fatness in an effort to surpass hi a system of that bewitching accomplishment rival candidates for matrimonial positions.- These famous mortals are not the pooj: girls. They are the higher orders In society, and therefore are ambitious, like fashionables Sn Koran civilized States, of securing an elevated position with a rich husband, Bruce tho traveler, saw a great queen in Africa a gem of women, the envy of her sex anawue ing the human frame. Tho skeleton of hunters-who weighed over lour, nun ureu. an adult person consists of two hundred and forty-six distinct pieces as follows : Bones of the head, 8 Kar, 0 Face, 14 : 32 24 Ribs. ' 24 Tongue, ' 1 Upper extremities arm, wrist and ringers, ; 04 Breast, sternum, 1 Pelvis hip, saerum and coccyx, ; 4 Lower extremities leg, instep and toes.j CO Sesamoid, 8 rrtf o-rantorl nnvwhprp iii law: ron- I Teeth, ilV t &. ..... vv ..... , t -... - , I , . . . . uucl which uicjf iittvc su re nounced as an outrage in others, and which never has, and never will obtain the sanction of the great body of the American people ; for here, as in, England, every man's house is his castle, and as the En glish Monarch dare not cross the threshold of the humblest subject against the will of the occupant, except by warrant of law, so the President of the United States, or no officer or citizen oi a fotate, can invade another State, or de prive the meanest citizen of his A Johnston County Farmer. Robert F. Faucett moved from threo miles of Haw River in Alamance coun ty in 1807 and settled on an old worn out place in Johnston county where Jim Pearce used to live, and he has about paid for it this year in cotton. Mr. Faucett tells us that with only the iberty, but by authority of the law. help of his family he made fourteen T,Pt all the oeonle of the United bS of cotton last year and has already States, and all other liberty-loving 1 hundred and ten dollars for . A i ,i i tuu. vji u( n tuo .uvut:j wail people rejoice that we have passed . . , a Sl . ftan. ii i ii i i r .1 I J - inrougu mi me pnastes ui a, iiangex- ous revolution, and if we have sometimes resorted to dangerous practices, our free institutions are at last vindicated, peace and har mony prevailing everywhere, and father. regularly constituted authority the only law now known to the General Government, the Government of city, and the other bag as soon as he is through picking will bringH him be tween seventy and eighty dollars. The secret of this farmer's success is: he had four sous. And they worked with Robbie Foard,' one of Rutherford (X. C.) amateurs, will do the tragedy in the town of Rutherfordton I With his he States or any of the law-loving nappy Twelve The villagers and their people thereof. sweethearts are so glad they've come. JEST" Edys, this U oj a Utile sailor boy who was sent up the main mast to furl a sail while the: storm was raging read it, and it will tell you why the little fellow wasn't afraid ; . j "Why did you send him? He can not come down alive." 44 1 did it," replied the mate, " to save life. We've sometimes lost a man over board, but never a' boy. See, how ho holds liko a squirrel. lie is more care-J ful. He will come down safe, I hope." Again I looked till tears dimmed my eyes, and I was compelled to turn awayj ' expecting every moment to catch n j. glimpse of his last fall. , In about fifteen or twenty minutes, lid came down, and straightening himself -up with the conscious pride of having . performed a manly act, ho walked off with a smile on his' countenauco. j In the course of the day, I took occa sion to speak to him. j " Why did you hesitate when ordered aloft?" I ' I I went sir," said the boy, to prai.u " Do you pray ?" I i " Yes, sir. I thought that I might not come down alive, and I went to commit . my soul to God." j- , Where did you learn to pray V "At home.. Mv mother wanted me to go to Sabbath-school, and my teachor , urged me to pray to God to "keep me, and I do." j "What was that you had In your jacket?" - " My Testament, ! which my teacher gave me. l thougnt ir i am perisn, i, would have tho word of God close to my heart,'' X: i -