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r w 1 t ; - , ."WEEKLY ERA. WEEKLY ERA. Italia or Advertising : ED Mo WM. M. BROWN,-- Manager. Ono square, one time, i 1 00 I " two times. 1 50 Jttite of SnWriptloni Titif.v One vear. in advance. $7 00 i " " : three times, it (Hi j fVintract Advertisements taken at j ,: lionaU'ly low rates. . :' j i'rt-.cinnal Cards, not exceeding one' Mix months, in advance. 3 60 Thrco month, in advance, 2 00 Wren i.r One vear. In advance. f2 00 Vol. 2. RALEIGH, K C, THURSDAY, MARCH 1 3, 1ST o O. Xo. 3S. Six months. 1 00 squajc, will Ik published ono year fr $15. .'!' Thrco months, 50 WEEKLY ERA. L I II Official Taper of North Carolina. ' Official Paper of the United State. A l'ainrul Contrast. In striking; contrast with the con- Wliat Railroads do for a State. Draw the Lines. f ft Atatimewhun the public scnti- -"The Republicans of North Caro- I tluct of the Governor in nominating ment $nd the legislation of North I Una," remembering the campaign of I Conservatives ami Democrats , to Carolina both seem directed against 1872 in their State, owe it to them- , Railroads it may- not be pat of place selves to draw the party lines close taiDstanj-e the history of an intelli- and unmistakably. "Another eam- gent and enterprising State. .' - paiffn opens in 1874 lew than eigh ThAiTliinAfa sunt TnirnaV of a teen' months and in this time of places on tho Directories of the Stato Institutioas, is the action of Democratic and Conservative Sena tors in refusing to confirm thenom- inationsof prominent Republicans late date on the subject of Railroads peace they ; should prepare, for war. There wa in tho City ona Sosis. lnfaraou far r. Jnonce and tHLiIiij", ho thonjht tit. ix -ration of Liberty -u Iic-ntUii!nc? of S h Plctamh. Til UI tS DAY, MARCH 1, 7'A. The Daily Ia. Tin Duly edition of tho Era is su-jk-ii IihI until tho Fall, when it will bo resumed. In the meantime the Weekly will ; ! enlarged to dimensions one-third over Us present size, and the time and attention given the Daily w" Ik? devoted to the Weekly so as to make it the equal of any jwditical, family and industrial paper of the country. The propriety f a Semi-Weekly inlition has been discussed, but as the Daily is to le resumed within a few months it has been deemed hj-st io devoteall available timcand Ikt'tv to the Weekly so as to - jrngthen it in the country, culti vate more effectually the masses, 'and to that extent strengthen the liiepublican party generally in the State. The Weekly will be sent to all paid up subscribers to the Daily until the resumption-of the Daily, when the latter will le sent again for the full time din any and all such patrons. iTho Era was started Daily last l ull to aid Senator Pool in bringing about combinations to defeat tho caucus nominee of the Democratic party for the United States Senate; and it continued through the ses ,?wn of the Legislature to assist the Republican minority of that body to defeat the, iKmoerats and Conservativ. s in their attempts to override the Ton-tit ution and Iiws of tin Stale, :si. 1 the Rights of the 'In ;tiioo: everything the maud the RfiiuhiMT.r.s have defeated the Heni'ierats and Conservatives, and now that then is no(-.uiirai'rii or jbliiii-al e.-itei::ent until next Winter, the M;tn.i r has determin ed to vurtui! eK-nes, and devoting all available time ami money to the prot.iriio'i of a superior Weekly only strengthen the pa- .'V against the next session of the and tl;e ensuing cam cultivate the country thereby add to the the Republican party from the masses of our laboring, honest population. p t From its foundation the Weekly 'Era has enjoyed a circulation unex ampled in Xortk Carolina journal ism, and to-day it has a weekly list of sabserllicrs unapproached by any pajHrof the State of either party, anil it circulates in every county of the Stale. With this basis to work upon, and the proud record of having contrib uted largely to the success of two of the iiKst important political cam paigns ever fought in North Caroli na, it will go on, not merely num bering its subscribers by the thirty to forty hundred, but by the ten-to twtntv thousand. in J r. not jut againsj legislature; la:n, but people and strength of of character and standing. How long the Republican party of North Carolina can tamely sub mit to be thus snubbed and insult ed, is a question for the masses of that party to determine; but that this thing will notgo much further without arousing public indignation it is safe to predict. When the Governor, on the grounds of peculiar fitness, selected a Superintendent "of Pufllic Instruc tion from the ranks of the opposi tion, ho was insulted, and his party humiliated, by the slurs, inuendoes and declarations of that oppositio that he could find no one in his own party worthy of a public position of honor and responsibility ; and those uiho sustained him in that instance against the evident and expressed sentiment of a large ma jority of the Republicans of the State, were assured, and felt confi dent that the bitter cup of humilia tion had pa-scd their lips for at least the ieriod of this administra tion ; but the events of last Satur day demonstrated otherwise, for we have not only been compelled to submit to insult and humiliation, but in this instance degradation as well. We have seen the Senate confirm, the Executive nomination of a Democrat and reject a Republican, when in every particular the Re publican was vastly the superior of the other. This is a blow over the head of a party friend and a party leader that the Republicans of North Carolina were not prepared to receive; and which they are powerless to resent. But that they can conceal their indignation and quietly pocket tho insult, is to pre sume an utter want of spirit and manliness on the part of the Re publicans of this State. The purpose which the Governor evidently had in dividing his nom inations between the two parties was a creditable, high and noble purpose : i o remove the charitable Institutions of the State out of the arena or pontics ; out,' he shoutu have learned by this time that tho men wno nave been in arms against all law, who have defied all gov ernment and stood in open revolt against the government of the country, not only in time of war, but through eight years of profound peace, are not the men to treat with on high, honorable, or generous grounds. lie must have known that a total want of jMIitical manliness or strict personal rectitude pervaded the ranks of men whose conduct it has been to advise and encourage the murder of their fel low-men on po litical grounds, and who say in public speeches, now, they "honor the motives" of men, who, in the efTort to acquire political ascendan- cy nave commiiieti every crime and outrage known to the laws of society and civilization. The conduct of the Executive in appointing to office and nominating for office, Democrats, aoes not meet the approbation of the Republicans of North Carolina; on tne contrary it meets with their most unqualified condemnation, especially under the circumstances of peculiar insult the opportunities ot last Saturday at- tt says: u was. poor, . overwhelmingly in debt, with a thin population, with high taxes, with low prices, with ' millions of riclii acres of land un- touched, with no way forimini ' gration to reach us, and no way V for the conveyance of our surplus " to market. Capitalists from abroaa "came and offered to build us rail 'roads. We welcomed them joy " fully. Wo gave them boundless privileges and strong guarantees "for the security! of their Invest- "the reach of mere caprice "gave them such protection of con stitution and law, as capital, ever "sensitive, has the power to de " mand. There was a fair bargain " for -quity on both sides. The re- 'sult is, we have a thousand miles ' more of railroads than any other "State. We have three millions of " inhabitants. Ours, from beinr " the sixteenth State, is the fourth, "ift importance.! ; Our State debt " can be -what is left of it, wiped ' out in a single year, if we will to "do it. Our prairie lands, not "worth fifty cents an acre then, are 44 worth fifty dollars- now. And "glorious memory how we did "turn out the supplies, the money "and the men, in the great strug gle for the union!" North Carolina is to-day behind what Illinois was twenty years ago ; and in the matter of State debt, she owes less than Ulinois'then did, and our lands, though now of much less value were then worth many times more than the lands of the Prairie State. t Twenty years ago, when Illinois was the sixteenth State in the Union, North Carolina ranked her in point of population and wealth. Where are we now in the compari son with a State that boasts of three times our population and a thousand miles more of Railroad than any State of the Union? -1 thousand miles more Ectilrpad than any State of the Union ! And poor old North Carolina has less than a thousand miles all told. Great Heavens ! A State quite two hundred years old with less than a (thousand miles of Railroad to a territory greater than New York, and or people in danger of being run over; and swallowed up by giant monopoly Railroad corpo rations ! I" Have our people caught the spirit of the times, or has the era of old fogyism dawned afresh upon us? Tire Democracy has made every thing - subservient to party like the fools" they are tne Democrats and Conservatives have carried pol itics into the business of North Car olina. There let it remain. Let Republicans encourage politics to stay in business, since Democracy has so decreed it, and in the end let those laugh who win. The Charitable and Penal Insti tutions of the State are now in the hands of Republicans. Let not one We cent of that patronage find its way to any Democratic merchant or dealer whatsoever. If the purchas ers of supplies for those Institutions cannot find what they want at the stores of Republicans, let such sup plies as are needed be ordered through Republican merchants from the North. And if any Re publican steward of a State Institu tion is found giving the patronage of the Republican party to Demo crats, let him be at once removed. Republicans of North Carolina have suffered too much in the past not to take advantage of the oppor tunity the present hffords. Compare the advertising columns of Republi can papers in North Carolina with Democratic sheets, and say if the men who have thu3 deliberately made business a matter of politics are to have, now, the public patron age of the Republican party ? ' Business is business; and the bus iness of the Republicans of North Carolina now is to take care of themselves, and bestow the favors of party patronage on party friends. Rather let every Democratic mer chant of the country starve than that one crumb of Republican pat ronage shall reach them from the hand of the Republican party. Nathan Broaden, of Wayne, is 70 ' rears old. and ai uncle of lieutenant Governor Brogden, and still follows the plow nantilo tor a living. Era. We are decidedly of the opinion that the Lieutenant Governor should train a subsistence by the same means'. He i well fitted for such labor. JVews. But the Democrats of Wayne county were ofquiteadifferent opin ion in 1838 when they took Curtis II. Brogden from the plow and put him in the Legislature. And their first action in 1S33 seems to have met the approbation of the Demo cratic party of the State, for,twenty- seven j-ears after, we find Brogden in the' office of Comptroller of the State, where he had remained for years, having been continuously in public life at the hands of the Dem ocratic party for a period of twenty Seven years." It won't do for the JYeir and the Democracy it now represents to thus sneer at old veterans of ti c Democratic party men who for twenty-seven years served that party faithfully and acceptably be cause, forsooth, such men 'happen to differ with the Xetcs and the De m ocracy i t represen ts to-d ay, which, by the way, is not the Democracy of old. Furthermore, the Lieutenant Gov ervoris still known as "Farmer Brogden " and doubtless does to this day take a hand at the plow. As the uVetvs suggests 4i he is well fitted for such labor," and if we are to believe Senator Ellis,; of Colum bus, a Democrat, (see his Resolution of thanks to the Lieutenant Gover nor) Mr. Brogden is not totally unadapted to "such labor" as pre siding in the Senate of North Carolina. The firmness of the Governor in regard to the Asylums and Peniten tiary from the day on which he first appointed their Directories, ae cording to law, may seem like " characteristic impudence " to the Ku Klux ; but the manner in which the Legislative pets of 1S70-'71 hang their heads at the result of the suits at law they protracted in the hope of further legislation, is painfully suggestive of a humiliation keener than the biting frigidness of any impudence Governor Caldwell is capable of assuming, and doubtless these poor fellows would prefer to have their wheezing, cracked organs blow quirt for awhile. Gold Mi n in ir in North Carolina. A Senate Rejecting Executive Nominations. What does it 3 lean forded. llretlircn Dwelling in Unitj'. Joxcs Wats-ox, Esq., Represen tative of Orange, has published his speech on Ku Klux Amnesty a speech in which he said: "3Ir. "Speaker, this is a party matter, "and I put it "to members of the " Democratic party on party ground 4 entirely. I ask no favors and ex pect nothing at the hands of the " other side. There are forty thou " sand Democrats implicated in this "matter, and unless you relieve " them by passing this bill they "will go to the Republican party. "Therefore if you would save forty " thousand votes, Democrats, vote "for the passage of this Amnesty "and Pardon." jThe above is just what Mr. Wat son said, and the jeopIe of North Carolina are asked to take the mat ter home with them. The Southern Railway Security Company is informed of the purpose of ilahono to advance the. money necessary to release the mortgage and take In the mortgage bonds and other indebtedness of tho Wes tern North Carolina Railroad. President Howcrton and his Board of Directors will doubtless resist any movement to disturb the mat ter as it now rests In the Supreme vwunui we cnueuoiatcs. Those who delight to see brethren dwell together in unity can but read the following correspondence with pleasure : From Mr. Turner to Mr. Sroxn. "Jtaleigu, N. C, Feb. 23, 1873. Jordan Stoxe, Esq., Sir : I propose that we ask the Legis lature to appoint some citizen of this citv and empower him to send for per sons and papers, that I may make good tho charges brought against the News. Respectfully yours, Josiaix Turner, Jr.' mr. stone to mr. turner. " IUlkioh, N. C, Feb. 2Sf it73. on. Joniah Turner, Jr., Sir: I have already publicly pro nounced the charges you have made against the News, willful, deliberate, malicious falsehoods. If yon have noevidenco to substantiate these charges, you are a calumniator and a slanderer. If you hare the evi dence, let it be made public. I have no objections to your taking any step you may think proper to pro cure evidence against the News, its Kditors aijd Proprietors ; but I do not propose, myself, to ask the Legislature to take any action in the premises. Respectfully, Jordan Stone." By the way, it is rather remarka ble, that, in all this war on the Printing nothing has been said about the blowing up of the Sentinel office last Fall. Among other rea sons why the Sentinel should have had the Printing, the blowing up of that office last Fall by the Radi cals!?) constituted an absolute title to the public patronage of the Dem ocratic party. Why have the friends of theSrn tinet had nothing to say on this sub- iect? Whv has the Sentinel itself discarded such an opportunity for I I rnn on-fwl mart VTfl nm I In (J rant's inaugural, he has frequent occasion to refer to the late war between the States, and yet ho never onoo uses the word " rebels "of " rebellion." He speaks of a "great internal revolution," the "late civil strife,! " the Shuts lately at war," Jtc, tc, but never onco says "rebel" or " rebellion." Our Radical politicians and writers will now have to take their cue and jchange their baao likewise. The real character of the war will become known and acknowledged after a while. Raleigh Scntirwl. And perhaps the Editor of the Sentinel will see fit to send for and revise his petition for pardon sent to Andrew Johnson in 1SG5, where in the glorious Confederate (?) Edi tor of the Sentinel frequently em ploys the term " rebel," "rebels," "rebellion," and every known abu sive epithet to the soldiers and leading men of the Southern Con federacy, and the Democratic party. The document is styled " A Bill of Indictment against the Democratic Party." , )' Peace-men in war, and war-men in peace, none caii ' take their cue and change their base" with more facility, and to greater advantage than such men as the Editor of the Sentinel, -who didnt get mad until the fight was over, but amused himself through the darkest days of the war with writing Union let ters and seditious communications to the Standard, arid in every con ceivable manner aiding and en couraging the soldiers of the South to desert from the Confederate army. This is a pretty man to be now sug gesting "cues" and "changes of base" to men, who, doing their duty as they saw it, in the war, have the good faith and manhood to sustain and support the estab lished government which the Tur ners for eight years have been kick ing against, but which. they are quick to call to their assistance when their riotings and seditions get them in jail under the State laws and by State authority. : Characteristic Falsehood. The Sentinel, with its characteris tic regard for truth, says: "Tho "Governor, again in contempt of "entire old Board of Directors of ' rio T'nn Wnnf iiti Ann rf " whom was rejected when sub- "mitted for continuation to the "Senate." The public, which has become accustomed to the reckless assertions of the Sentinel, will not be surprised to learn that there is not one word of truth in the fore going extract. The Governor made no appointment of Directors to the Penitentiary since the Senate re fused to confirm the nominations made by him. The present Board, having brought suit to get posses sion from Bledsoe and his co-usurpers, and having, by a decision of the Supreme Court, been declared entitled to the possession of the In stitution, are holding under their original appointment, and will con tinue to hold until their successors are legally appointed and qualified. The Sentinel also says that Gov ernor Caldwell re-appointed Tim Lee a Director for the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind after he had been rejected by the Senate. This statement is as des titute of truth is that made with regard to the Directors of the Peni tenitiary. Still the Sentinel has the effrontery to say that it never makes charges which it cannot prove. Now the Era calls upon it to prove the reckless chargen above speci fied. It will fail in its effort to do so, and when "cornered" will say that it obtained the information from some one who professed to be posted on the subject. For Senators to reject Executive nominations on political grounds is a most extraordinary proceeding something unheard of in the his tory of American governments, State or National until the Demo cratic Senate of North Carolina wrote the history of its later infamy last Saturday. Under the recent decisions of the Supreme Court in the Asylum and Penitentiary cases, it became the duty of the Governor to make nomi nations to the Senate of persons to fill the places of Directors of these Institutions. He did so, and of twenty-nine nominations the Sen ate confirmed fourteen and rejected fifteen. Of those confirmed many of them were Democrats or Conservatives, and at least one of these had a his tory, with which the Legislature was perfectly familiar, that ought to have caused his rejection, but he, as did all the other Conservatives, received the unanimous vote of his party on the floor. But for political reasons men of good character were rejected by a partizan and politi cally indecent, Senate. Such conduct merits and will re ceive the unqualified condemnation of the honest people of North Carolina." One of the richest gold mines iij North Carolina is the Crowell mine in Stanley county,- owned by T. J. Crowell, Moses L. Holmes, R. J. Holmes, LukeBlackmer, S. J. Pem berton and E. and V. Mauney slate vien, rich deposit and easily worked. The gold mines in North Carolina are found to be almost, if not quite equal to those of California, and with the aid of Northern energy, capital and modern appliances, gold mining is becoming one of the lead ing enterprises of our State. The reader will not fail to read the admirable and able article from the Greensboro State showing how completely the Democracy in the Legislature identified itself with the Ku Klux on the Amnesty ques tion, and how thoroughly the Re publicans routed and defeated the Democratic majority again, as they did in the Senatorial contest. As the Ku Klux Amnesty Bill did not pass in the form Mr. Wat son, of Orange, said it must pass to relieve his forty thousand implica ted Democratic voters, the question recurs, is this army of Ku Klux going to march bodily into the ranks of the Radical party, as Mr. Watson said they would ? Good luck, deliver us. For. Sale: The grist-mill, that runs by water, that ground the corn meal, that fed the prisoners, that got the scurvy, from eating all corn- bread because the said mill would not grind wheat to make flour bread the owner having no further use for it. For further particulars, see Supreme Court Reports, Har grove, Spring term, 1S73. The Republican party of North Carolina will Challenge the closest scrutiny into the management and conduct of the public Institutions in the hands of Republicans, and if an v such official is caught in the practices of their predecessors, the Republican party of the State will demand his immediate exposure. The Contrast. TnE defeat of the Ku Klux am nesty bill issures j domestic" peace and quiet in North Carolina ; and the State now safely in the hands of the Republican party beyond peradventure, the time has arrived when Northern energy and capital may securely look to North Caroli na. But it has not always been so as the Northern people have been well aware. Falsehood always flies faster than truth, and is seldom overtaken before much harm is done. I rind the infam ous communications which were so promptly denounced as false by Messrs. Murray and Gant, believed here as rep resenting the true condition of a portion of North Carolina. I have been at pains to correct the misrepresentation and. give the right explanation of, and foun dation for the slander. Editorial Cor respondence in Hillsboro Recorder from Richmond. It has been shown, by the Court records from Alamance, for week before last, that the statements in the Era were true, for the men pub lished as rioting and Ku Kluxing In that county, were presenieu io the Grand Jury, and indicted there for. So Mr. Cameron has " been at pains" to circulate a falsehood him selfa falsehood for which the Era denounced Messrs. Murray and Gant a3 public liars. We understand that James II. Harris, colored, elected by tho Caldwell Board, for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind As3'lum, Supervisor of the Colored Department is to receive a salarj-'of $1,200 per an num. During the administratiou of the Holden Board this same man held the position at the salary above named, but when the Democratic Legislative Board came into power he was continued in office for a tew months at a salary equal to about 400 per annum, and after a while his services were entirely dis pensed" with. Now here comes in a Republican Board who revives the of fice, and gives the same exorbitant sal ary which their Republican predeces sors did. The office is a ususeless one, and can very well be dispensed with, without the least detriment to tho insti tution. Daily News. Is not this the position, and the salary, filled, and drawn, under the management of the Legislative Board by that friend and champion of the News, Mr. Osborne Hunter, (col.,) whom the re-instated Board saw fit to remove and replace by Mr. Harris? The Democracy might as well withdraw its opposition to the peace and progess of the State under Republican auspices, for the politi cal rule of that party is now fixed indefinitely in the State and Nation, and the youngest of us will hardly live to see it supplanted by another organization. It took two years to undo the lawless legislation of -187671, and the expense of the multiplicity of suits arising from that legislation is greater than the boasted economy and saving of the body of retrench ment and reform (?) elected in 1870. Silent Co-partnerships. Divers and sundry propositions for co-partnerships, silent and oth erwise, are making to Republican officials of State Institutions in this City just at this time, from Demo cratic merchants and capitalists, and if Republicans are not sharp some of them will fall into traps. For two years these silent-copartnerships have been known to exist here, and the distribution of peresntsand dividends has been general. The Era will keep an eye in the direction of this comraercial corrup tion, and if Republican officials are found trading off the patronage of the party thus, such will be prompt ly and severely exposed. From the number of Democrats and Conservatives ready to support Senator Pool last Winter wanting only two of his election it is safe to predict that the Legislature, which, the other day, adjourned Democratic, will, next Winter, re turn Republican. -' Buying grist-mills and opening grocery stores by Asylum and Pen itentiary officials has played out ; and it is too late in the day to talk about making credit-mobilier con tracts with the stewards of these public Institutions, now in the hands of the Republican party. "To the victors belong the spoils!" said the Legislative usurpationists as they invaded the Penitentiary and Asylums two years ago. Let Republicans remember this; and, themselves now the victors, let the " spoils" be divided accordingly. The New United States Senate. Gjnrened on Tuesday Last List of th e Members Their Age, Nativities, Cr. In accordance with thePresidenl's proclamation, the Senate of the United States of the Forty-third Congress convened on Tuesday last, at Washington. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, whose term as Vice- President will begin on that day. will preside. As will be seen by the following list the administration members (in Roman) number 41. ana the liberals (in italics) zS; va cancies 2. The figures indicate the year in which the Senator's term expires, and an asterisk () denotes that he is a new member.: Alabama 1877. Gcoroe GobUhuaile. lsyy. w syke. Arkansas 1X77. Powell .Clinton. 1S79. Stephen W Porsev, Camfoujua 187a.. .Kitaeak Caxjcrhi. i&( y. Aaroa A. aargent. 1 Delaware 1S75. T Francis Bayard, lbi 4. Eli baulsoun. Connecticut iS7". W A Buckin ham. 1879. Orris iff Ferru. Florida 1875. Abijah Gilbert. 1S79. Simon B Conover. Georgia 1877. T Manson Xorrcood. 1879. Join 11 Gordon. Illinois 1877. John A Logan. 1S79. Richard J Oglesby. Indiana 1879. Oliver P Morton. 1875. Daniel I) Pratt. Iowa 1S79. Wm B Allison. 1877. George G Wright. Kansas lS(y, Jnhu J Ingalls. 1S77. Alex Caldwell. Kentucky 1S79. Thox C McCreciy. lSu. John IV Stevenson. Rodman West. Maine 1877. Lot M Morrill. 1875. Hannibal Hamlin. Maryland 1879. George R Dennix, 18o. Wm T Hamilton. Massachusetts ls7. aeaucj". 187o. Charles Sumner. i aiichioan-187. Tiionms iW r.erry 187 o. .acli cnaiiaier. Minnesota. 1877. William Windom 1875. Alexander Ramsej'. Mississippi 187. James Ij Alcorn 1875. Adelbert Ames. Missouri 1879. Loais Ual Bogy, 18 o. Carl Schurz. Nebraska 1877. P W Hitchcock 1875. Thomas W Tipton. Nevada 1879. John PJone. 1875. Wm M Stewart. New Hampshire 1879. Ii Wadleisrh 1877. Aaron II Cragin. New Jersey 1877. F T Frelinjjhuy- sen. ISiO. John 1' Stockton. , New York 1879. Roscooj Conklin 1S75. Reuben E Fenian. North Carolina 1879. 'Augustus S Memmon. 1877. M W Ransom, Ohio 1879. John Sherman. 1875. A G Thurman. i Oregon 1S79. John II Mitchel,! 187. James A Kellii. Pennsylvania JS79. S Cameron. 180. John Sicott. Rhodk Island 1877. II B Anthot 1S75. William Spraaue. South Carolina 1879. Jihn J Pat terson. 1S77. Thos J Robertson. Tennessee 1877. II Cooper. 1877, 1875. Win G Brownlow. I iesas i. .iU u Jiammon. io. J W Flanagan. " Vermont 1879. Justin S Morrill 1875. Geo F Edmunds. Virginia 1877. John W Johnston. 1875. John F Lewis. West Virginia 1S77. 1I G Davis. 1875. Arthur I Boremau. Wisconsin 1875. M Hale Carpenter. 1879. Timatliv O Howe. I) tw '! Sys,) are physicians; A iKiiuiiy and Schurz,) an? journaiisi.s ; 'i wo (Hrownlow and liptonjareclergymen; 3lr.Spr.tg io is a manufacturer, Mr. Chandler a merchant, Mr. Ames an army offi cer, Mr. Clayton a civil eng"ineir, Mr: Jones a miner. Mr. Pinch buck a waiter, and Messia. lSuekingham, Caldwell, T. W. Ferry; tlilb-rt and.' West, engaged in general business. AH the rest are lawyers. Senators Alcorn, (Jordoii and Ransom were generals in the Confederate army during the war. Messrs. AteoVn, Anthony, IJoreman, Hrownlow, Rackingham, Clayton, Kenton, Hamlin, L. M. Morrill, Morton, Ramsey, Spraguc, Oglesby and Ste venson, have in tho past been gov ernors of their respective Slates. . From Charlotte Observer. Knd of Kit Klux Prosecutlonr. The proviso to the first section of tho Amnesty Act was mounted to the L"i.lature by .our llepresi nta tive Col. John E.'llrowil. It is one of the most imiKirtant : features of the bill, as it extends tho bentit of the act to "all persons who were not personally present at, and ac tually participated in tho crimes of wilful murder, arson and burglary. or who were not present at or did not assent to the decree or order for the same." - The amnesty bill, restricted as it is in its application, will be produc tive of much good, and bring relief to thousands, whom' to punish for their connection with secret orders would not only work evil to the general welfare,1 but would be a most cruel and unnecessary enforce ment of the law. At the same time that 1 the Stato has thrown tho jnantlo of charity' over the offences of a majority of the members of secret orders, tlm Federal Government seems animat ed with the same spirit of leniency. From the Piedmont Press we clip the following communication which was 'handed to it for publication: Office of Lulled Males JIarsiar, Rali:k;ii, N. C, Feb. iI. 1S7.J. Isaac A. .Pearson, Kxy., I U. S. 1). M. Dear Sir: You will not execute any more capias or Kubixrnu in any case or cases wherein defendants are charged with violations of the Enforcement Act, (K. K.) None of the witnesses summoned by you on processes for next Court need at tend. I refer only to K. K. cases. Very Truly, iVrc, S. T. Caiirow, U.S. M. From The tho Golttsboro Nows.l Cioldsboro News. As the Senate, on Democratic mo tion, put off action on the Gover nor's nominations to the last actual working day of the session, Demo crats cannot throw the responsibil ity on Governor Caldwell. Let the people of North Carolina know that the cost and expense of the cheap Legislature of 1870-'72 foots up in the end a greater amount than the total of the extravagant Legislation of lSGS-'GO. If a Democratic merchant will give a Republican Asylum official five per cent, what may he not have given the Stewards and other officials of the Legislative Demo cratic Boards. The people of Raleigh and of North Carolina are not as progres sive, energetic, liberal and interest ed in the State Fair as they ought to be. . '- '. .' - The passed which years. State Institutions have all out of the lawless hands have held them for two Read the Amnesty and Pardon Bill as it passed the House and Senate amended. The seat of Mr. Sykes of Ala bama, is contested by George F. Spencer, but the United States au thorities have recogmzta the Leg islature by which Dir. Sykes was chosen. The Kelloggwing of the Louisiana Legislature has elected Polonius B. S. Pinchback (colored,) but his seat will be contestjed. The vacancy irom iviassacnusetts win be tilled on the 11th of March. The oldest Senator will be Simon Cameron, born in 179;), and the two youngest Mr. Dorsey, born in 18411 and Dr. Conover, 18 10. Mr. Cam e- ron is the only Senator j over 70 years of age. Between GO ami 70 are Messrs. Bogy, Brownlow, Buck ingham, Flanagan, Gilbert Goldth waite, Hamlin, Hamilton f Texas; Morrill of Vermont; Stevenson, Sumner and Thurman. Between 50 and GO years of ajre arej Messrs. Alcorn, Anthony, Boreman, Cas serly, Chandler, Cragin,! Dennis, Fenton, Frelinghuysen, Hamilton of Maryland.; Howe, Johnston, Jones, Kelly, Lewis, McCreery, Morrill of Maine; JMorton, Ogles by. Pratt, Ramsey, Robertson, Saulsbury, Sherman, Tipton, West and Wright. Between 40 and 50 are Messrs. Allison, Bayard, Cald well, Carpenter, Clayton, Conkling, Cooper, Davis, Edmunds, ! Ferry ot Gordon, Hitchcock, Ingal Is, Logan, Mernmon, .Norwood, Patterson, Ransom, Sargent, Schurz, Scott, Sprague, Stewart, Stockton, Sykes, Wadleigh and Windom. t Between the ages of oO and 40 are Messrs. Ames, Conover, Dorsey and Mitchell. ; The nativities of the Senators are as follows ; Messrs. Boreman, Cald well, Cameron, Clayton, Kelly, Mitchell, Patterson, Ramsey and Scott, were, born in Pennsylvania; Brownlow,' Flanagan, Johnston, Lewis, Stevenson and Thurman in Virginia; Conkling, Fenton, Gil bert, Hitchcock and Stewart in New York ; Ames, Hamlin, Howe, Lot M. Morrill and Pratt in Maine; Goldthwaite, Ingalls, Sargent and Sumner in Ma&saehusctts; Allison, Sherman, Tipton and Windom in Ohio; Carpenter, Cragin , Dorsey, Edmunds and Justin S. Morrill in Vermont ; Conover, Frelinghuysen and Stockton in New Jersey ; Da vis, Dennis, and Y'..T Hamilton in Maryland ; iVnthony and Sprague in Rhode Island ; Orris S. Ferry and Buckingham in Connecticut; Bayard and tjaulsbury in Delaware; Merrimon and Ransom in North Carolina; Gordon. and Norwood in Georgia ; Morgan C. Hamilton and Sykes in Alabama; Morton and Wright in Indiana; Alcorn and Logan in 1 11 i nois ; McCreery and Oglesby in Kentucky ; Robertson in South Carolina ; West in Loui siana ; Thomas W. Ferry in Michi gan ; Bogy in Missouri, and Cooper in Tennessee: Casserly in Ireland; Schurz in Germany, and Jones in Wales. " ' Forty-six of the Senators are law yers; live (Cameron, Davis, Dorsey and Patterson,) are interested in railroads; four (M. C. Hamilton, McCreery, J.S. Morrill and Robert son,) are farmers; three (Conover, We would respectfully ask the at tention of the reading public to con sider tne merits ot tno cuum wuicii our unpretentious hebdomadal has upon' their p.itrohajje; ' tho more f that republican principles are be coming daily more widely dissemi nated, embraced and avowed. i I la. that com pas-ion to which"ignoran e, and its obdurate child, prejudice, is so justly entitled, we have studious ly avoided the ruts and channels ol abusK so much -traversed by the partisan press throughout the land. The Republicanism . under which ice claim the right to think and act, fully accords toothers the same. But prejudices cannot becomhattcd, nor ignorance uiipaied wncie people deny themselves tin? means. To promote general intelligence is not only a work of rational, but more eminently of religious duty, in the former it is a work of patri otic pride, in the latter, it assumes the suouiner luncuons oi nrisiutu . charity. Jo labor in this held is our principle object in the columns of the Xetrs; and we would ask ev- erv lover oi ins Kino, ei-ry wen- wisher to the happiness, prosperity and greatness of North Carolina to give us a helping hand.; With yes terday's proceedings commenced the second term of our chief magis trate. That Goil may so direct him in the execution of hi. onerous du- ties, so as to extirpate evil, parly j bitterness, and brni about the con summation of his memorable brief ejacu 1 a t i on ," L i: r us 1 1 a v v. Pea c i: '. " Emphasis. wonie there was a sttt- Theological Seminary who had an excellent years ago UCiil. l HIV. at Andover oninion of his own .alents. On one occasion ho asked the professor who taught elocution at (he time, 'What do I especially need to learn in.thi.s department?' " You ought first to leani to read," said the professor. "Oh! I can read now," ivplicd the student. The professor, h aided the young man a Testament, and point ing to the twonty-Iifth V'-r-e of the twenty-fourth chapter of Luke's Gospel, ho asked hiui to read that. The studeht read : " Then he said, unto them, Oh loo's, a nl slow of heart to believe all that tio prophets have spoken." "Ah," said the professor, "they were fools for believing the prophets, were they?" Of course that was not right, and o the young man tried again. " O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken." "The prophets, then, aresometimes liars?" asked the professor. "No, O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the propa ts have spoken." "According to thi, reason," the professor suggested, "the prophets were notorious liars." This was not a satisfactory conclusion, 4 and so another trial was made. 0 fools and slow of heart to believe all tho prophets hme spoken.11 " 1 see now," said the professor; "the prophets wrote the truth, but they spoke Iies.V This last criticism dis couraged .the student, and he ac knowledged that be did not know how to read. The difficulty lies in the fact that the words, " slow of heart to believe" applies to the whole of the latter part of the sen tence, and emphasis on any particu lar word entirely destroys the mean ing. Neivburyport Herald. The ladies are tittering mightily at thayoungmen in Asheville. They'vp got tho mumps, j t i '! '