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THE WmmWf1 WEEKLY ERA. RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 1874. Tberp w in th Clfv one SopIs, Infamous for hi insolence and vHlniny, who thought the serfection f Liberty was licenUouenesa of w Speech. Plutabcu . From the Eraj January 8th. An Olrt Democratic Proposition Revived. The ridiculous proposition of Sen ator Price, to elect some Judges, al luded to in these columns a few weeks ago, is nothing new. It is not original with that gentleman, or this Legislature. Early in the year 1 870, Hon . Lewis Hanes, in his paper, the Salisbury Old North State, originated the proposition and elaborated the idea that the Legislature had the power, and ought to order an election of a Judge to fill the original vacancy of Mr. Starbuck, he having never qual ified. v The matter was brought to the attention of the Legislature in the Spring of 1870, and referred to the Committee. The opinion of Attor ney General Olds was obtained; and he held that Judge Cloud filled, by the appointment of the Govern or, Starbuck's term. The. Judicia ry Committee adopted this view, and so reported back to the Legisla ture. The matterhere dropped for that session. J But, subsequently the wild-cat-ku-klux-Democratic Legislature" of 1870-'72 came into existence; and in framing an election law for 1872, the question of electing Judges wherever vacancies had occurred, came up. The proposition was again referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and that Committee again reported back that Judges appointed by the Governor held under the Constitution, until the next regular election for Judges in the Districts wherein vacancies had occurred, or might hereafter occur. Thus the matter was disposed of by two Legislatures, one Republi can and the other Democratic. Will Republicans of 1870, and Democrats of 1872, now stultify themselves by voting for Senator Price's bill; or have any of them, the Democrats especially, honestly changed their opinions? His Butter-milk Highness denies the statement of Evans1 Indepen dent, that he was lately with Gene ral Mahone, in Norfolk, says he does not know Mahone never saw him in his life. Very well. But the Editor of the Sentinel will not have the hardihood and the te merity to deny that his visit to Nor folk had to do with his opposition to Consolidation that said visit re lated exclusively to Consolidation. If the visit was not to Mahone, then to whom was it made? Was it Robinson ? The theory of total depravity is established and proven, beyond question, in the person f the editor of the Sentinel. He makes a slanderous publica tion against Judge Watts, in the matter of Falkener vs. Hunt. A Democratic lawyer, and personal friend of the editor of the Sentinel, Of counsel in the case, writes a card to make the correction. Turner disregards the card, and virtually reiterates the false charge. . If there is a lower deep" than this, that editor, and he alone, will find it. , . . w ; His Excellency ' Gov. CaldtyeH has, returned to . the city, is looking as rell as usual. ! Bidding foe Cheap Martyrdom Again Grand Preparation for another Martyr-making. We advised the Legislature when David Jenkins, the Treasurer, shut up the Treasury, under the false pretence that Judge Bond had or dered it, not to obey the Judge. Now we will practice what we nrpflchpd. vp will dfarfomrri lfftlo malignant ana nis corrupt Judge Watts, provided the Legislature will give us access to and permis- g'SSKSS "ttr thirty days for contempt. And having been there once by order of Holden, under Judge Bonds due process of law, the sword it would not hurt us to go under Watt's cor- rupt process of contempt. &ntfneZ ofllthinst. ThAriripeofhiirtAr-millr wonf nn ' ' - : fc fifty per cent, immediately, on the above announcement. Photographers at once looked up their old negatives and got ready for supplying the trade with pic tures of the martyr-hero, at the same old price (25 cents.) Address Box Raleigh, Post Office. The Executive Committee of the Turner Home and Printing Office Fund, organized in 1870, was called together, and runners and circulars get in readiness to send out. A Committee of indigent but pa triotic citizens, waited on the livery 8 tables in the city, and engaged all the available white horses. Turner's old friend, Captain J. G. Hester, has been written to at New York, and requested to come on and act Chief-Marshal, as he did on a former and well remembered oc casion. General Ransom has been special ly invited to play orator of the day ; the Committee of arrangements ex pressing the hope that the condi tion of his throat is better than on the occasion in 1870 when he was compelled to disappoint the Turner procession here in Raleigh, and thus deny himself a great and pa triotic pleasure. (The Committee add in parenthesis, that, the privi lege is reserved to the gallant Ran- som to accept again, as he did in 1870, Turner's draft for $2,500,00 through Mcllwaine fc Co., of Peters burg.) i Ilillsboro haa been communicated with, to know if Governor Graham, will again meet the martyr at the depot with his carriage ; and if the admiring citizens stand ready to !.a , . , unhitch the horses, and (making Jackasses of themselves) pull the martyr-hero, and the dignified ven- erable and illustrious William through the streets of Hillsboro to the banquet at Graham Hall, as they did in 1870 on the martyr's re turn from Alamance jail. ' Altogether the grand martyr-ma king occasion of January 1874 prom- ises to eclipse the affair of October 10 u, in every respecc ; ana n is conn- rM a m m tr dently predicted that the sale of the Turner photograph will double the grand picture sales of that year; tn Kflv nothintr nf thA Turn at to say nothinsr of the " Turner Home and Printing Office Fnnd " and " Clubs " and scores of subscri bers to the Sentinel. P. S. The Turner Martyr Aid Soliciting Committee got nothing from Swepson. That gentleman positively and abruptly declined to whole State, that he was so well re contribute any more money in aid ceived, handsomely entertained of Turner or the Sentinel concern, and has eo fkvnrablv imDressed the jamxiy relations (as Turner uset Am m -m -m mm t w plead in excuse for not attacking Swepson,) to the contrary notwith standing. He (the Governor) urged Brown to get up an injunction and man damus before Judge Settle. Senti nel. This is absolutely and unquali fiedly false. The Governor gave Mr. Brown the appointment of State Printer, and had nothing further to say to or do with him in the matter. ' - Mr. Brown's counsel, Geo V. Strong and T. M. Argo, Esqs. ; of their own motion, amd accord, went to Judge Settle Tor a restraining order, that, the case might be heard and determined,-without delay; be- fore the SuprtmeCourt.,r Mr. Brown nas not spoken , to Judge Settle since, he returned to" temporary bitterness of party Jprej the Supreme "Court Bench. " , , udices and political hatreds,incidBri X Grand Achievement. Tn vn?nplnr thaoer diem of the jlu icv"0 Marshal of the Supremetourtfrom three to two dollars, this Legislature has at last struck the key-note of retrenchment and reform. By this performance the State is saved nearly "ONE HUNDRED I a nTfmrrATT ADQoCV. ajnutw11 uyjuux year! MembeiB. Clerks, Door-Keepers, and assistant door-keepers getre dollars a day, ten cents mileage each way, full pay for Sundays, and free passes on ail the Railroads, T . ifc of pickayuneness as . . a sp " . -ki Plfcil as it is contemptible and small, this great Legislature of North Carolina falls upon , a poor Marshal of the Supreme Court and reduces his ridiculously small sala ry of three dollars to the niggardly sum of two dollars per day. Their own door-keepers they al low five, and their pages, servants, water-carriers and fire-makers they allow three dollars a da. The annals of recreant littleness and contemptible meanness are chal-' lenged to produce a pareliel to this niggardly supercilious paltriness of a Democratic Legislature, in this matter of the per diem of the Mar shal of the Supreme Court. Such legislation as this, people of North Carolina, was what made it manner in which the junior mem necessary for this Legislature to ber speaks of Captain Samuel T. come back to Raleigh after Christ- mas. Behold your political picayunes of the Democratic party I The Snecial Court at Greens boro Hon. JT. L. Henry. The late special term of the Su - perior Court finally adjourned, last Thursday, after a session of nearly four weeks. A vast amount of work was done, and the crowded docket was disposed Of, greatly to the re- to the re- 1 ? of rvf narrloa onrl o tf nrnmra T'V-i cx executive ability of Judge Henry is extraordinary and. bv com in or here, he has rendered the county of Guilford a real service. In his rulings he has been prompt, and so pleasant withal, that even when rendering an advexstj . decision, the lawyer against whom he pro nounced liittement. was obliged to trt I be pleased! although defeated. He has made an exceedinelv fine im pression throughout the com muni- Opacity, bJut for the that his manners have been uniformly ur- bane. During his stay, the Judge and members of the bar have had various re-unions, at the residences of Hon. R. P. Dick. Col. J. A. Gil- merr Judge Tourijee, Judge Settle, Uoi. J. l. Scales, Thoma3 B. Keogh and Uol. J. hL. Dillard. These so cial meetings nave been very pleas rant, and will long be remembered, all the more, becauso of the pres ence of the Hon. J. L. Henry, who carries away with him the best wishes ofe&ll classes. New North State. Such is the general estimate and feeling toward Judge Henry, wher- ever he ffoes From the above it appears that tne pe0pie 0f Greensboro, of all political parties, made much of h.- .ni.. ttti. una rising young uiau 01 uie vvsxi; and it is as it should be. Judge Henry has few legal supe riors in the State, and none of his years ; and it must be gratifying to his personal friends in the West, and his nolitical associates of the cultivated, intelligent and discrim inating people of Greensboro. , He must, indeed, have presided with very great ability as a Judge, to have called forth such high praise from the Greensboro Bar, a Bar not only of the first ability of the State, but one which , has for six years had, in the person of SbnP A. W. Tourgee, a Judge, v?ho7 the estimation of the leading Iaw yers of North Carolina, has but few equals as a Judge and learned law yer. As i notably exemplified--in ''the persons of Judges Henry and Tour- sree. sneelftiiw fcpw the nublic senti-, ment of North Carolina is begining to settle down to a recognition, of the fact, that ti in aUi the present judiciary of the State isquite 'thd equal of vbM it (wasin the bestiol the old days irone by, and when-the tal to the scenes of revolution through which we have lately come, shall have passed away, we shall hear nothing but; the old familiar praises of by-gone days for our North Carolina judiciary, which, a3 in the past, is but an i index of our North Carolina people. The East congratulates the West in her nossession of such a man as Hon. J. L. Henry, and the people of the whole State may wTell be proud of such an able and worthy member of the judiciary. It is the almost universally ex pressed wish that Judge Henry may soon be called further East than Greensboro to preside at some of the special Courts. "Deweese and Turner with Us." are It appears that the Honorables Josiah Turner and John T. Deweese are working together in the same harness. They are doing business under the firm-name and style of Deweese and Turner, blackguards, defamers and dealers in cadetships. Spe- cial attention given to black-mailing and the manufacture of falsehoods. Offices at Raleigh and Cincinnati, The date of the organization of this firm is not given ; but from the Williams, whom Deweese defeated for Congress in 1868, it is evident that Deweese and Turner were to gether at that tfme, and before. It is also a very significant fact that Turner never opened onSwep Bon until Deweese had indicated the -noint. manner and time of at- U ' , , . If Jo, Turner would insure a good character for Judge Watts, reference to. and the production of rfofamatorv letters from his friend. partner and associate, Deweese, will ao it. In 1872 the Sentinel office was commissioned to print the Jaws. Little Malignant, the Executive StXk they weres. recnt- i " . Mrr- . J o Moore, his newly appointed Judere, Ointed Judge, Ramsay, in to enioin and forbid Ramsay, in whose name the con ract for print- in&r was made to do t tiework. Sen- net. The Editor of the Sentinel is either a most hopeless ignoramus, or wil fully, a great liar. . He cannot even tell the truth, when the truth would better serve his purpose. He never does tell the truth if he can possibly invent, or procure to be invented, a lie. Now the statement of the above is just the reverse of true. The Sec retary oLState. Dr. H. J. Men- ninger, recognized Mr. Brown, the appointee of the Governor, as the lawful State Printer, and Banisay, the Legilative appointee, appealed to Judge Moore to enjoin and forbid Brown to do the work. When this fact is a matter of re- cord and public notoriety, and ought to be familiar to the Editor of the sentinel, n ne nas tne sense to com prehend a fact, and is not hopeless ly a nincompoop, why has he not given a true version of the Ramsay -Brown Printing suit ? Judge Settle decided against Brown and the Executive Owl. Sentinel. This is monstrous and worse than false. Judge Settle, at the instance of other members of the Court, raised the question of original ju- risdiction requested argument of counsel on this point, and decided that the Supreme Court, under this Constitution,had hot original juris- diction in civil f causesthat the Supreme Court was organized to reew cases ( tried in Courts below, wiXo fry cases itself. The question of the State printings was not even before the "Judge at that sitting. Qtofc, tne shadowof a decision in the case. ' Jud&e Farror of Virginia Is ex- pecked to leciurei iA this, city early; thaugna'ilajio Jfuia elegant ' buiid hext months i ii ingi toosnmUtoaccornote 'iiA ?BAVITY makes. fellp ws, see Jo Turne: Deweese lying together, The People's Outrage and the J : PoMic N lilsanco. . ' A part of it got back on Monday, the 12th, the day adjourned to. The Senate barely had a quorum. The House had only fifty-one mem bers, ten less than a quorum. . They will all come in, doubtless obtain leave of absence from the grst day a Democratic precedent and practice prove attendance and take pay for Monday, a day they were not here, as has been hereto fore jdone. The perpetuation of this public nuisance, called by strained courtesy, a Legislature; is to be excused before the people on the ground that a great deal of the valuable time of the session before Christmas was spent in reducing the pay of the Marshal of the Supreme Court, from three to two dollars per day, during the sessions of the Courts that offi-1 cer recievincr nay for no other time. The result of this was to save.the State! nearly one hundred and twenty dollars a year ! This outrage of the peoples' is rather an expensive luxury, costing the snug sum ot twelve hundred dot-, fars a fay or about Jour, hundred dollars per hour ot actual working daily sessions. But when we take into account, that, by cutting down the pay of the Marshal of the Supreme Court, the sum of one hundred, and twenty; dollars a year is actually saved to the State, it is believed that the people will say to their Representatives:-" Well done thou good and faithful 6evants" you need not go to Raleigh any more. Under the amended Constitution this Legislature has no right to bo in session, but at the call of the Governor, Every thing done is null and void, and it is to be great ly feared that the State, may, after all, not save the one hundred and twenty dollars from the pay of the Supreme Court Marshal. The people are very anxious to see their Representatives at home ly Wliu meta wmi mauy-xina nofc erotback on Monday, but it isscarce- i . ... . 1 a 1 nrnhAhlA thf. thmr will Tiavatlia -i . pleasure ueiuro uiu lunor pare 01 February. Five dollars a day, and free passes on Railroads, make up a pretty strong inducement to the majority to remain in Raleigh. Reflecting persons are sorry for he PePIe J but then the PP1 uave a ; say 01 ineir own next AU gust. It is a very sad thing to contem plate the certainty that several very clever fellows, at present compo- u n r 5ai ? a gST the Capitol menagerie, are to 156 snatched away from us next August, and that we are doomed never to see them again in Raleigh. Tn majority of them, by their acts in this Legislature, have enti- tied themselves to that kindness at tne hands of the people and the world which comes most assuredly and effectually of OBSCURITY. Contesting from Points. Different It is now pretty well ascertained that the Constitutionality of the Constitutional amendments will be contested before our Supreme Court Also, that the question will be carried up, whether the Legislature had a Constitutional rirht long its session after the proclama- ; w wv XA w tionof the Governor declaring the amendments a iart of tho nnnt it i, tion one of which amendments substituted bi-ennial for annual sessions. :s. "' ; Should the Courts 'decide against the poli and action of the Democ racy,' our'lJeocraiic iCciends would be in a Sony ftx iiu , V ' " , ;New Cuioinbers nf , th o,;.Uj.u jt.-,v are-talking of 'the erection ofan; other Church The -Mncrease orrnember&tiirAnothet Strang pedr Episcopal C&urch: is alsa i6tnteml r and Jofca plateoViina 1 Weaitne' n4tv - r 4 one.wiUbe freej ri :!
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