THE ERA AND EXAMINER.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1S74.
The democratic party has been
eminently successful in keeping
immigrants out of North Carolina
by refusing to make any provision
for public schools.
The Sexate has passed a bill to
be entitled " An Act to lay off and
establish a public road in the coun
ties of Davidson and Davie, and
to establish a public ferry across the
Yadkin river." The bill was call
ed up and parsed under a suspen
sion of the rules, upon a motion of
Senator Cramer.
A Geological, poet, having
stumbled on a fossilized politician
from Surry county, on preservation
in that tn-u-s-c-u-m called the house
of representatives, set to work and
ground out the following:
H ha saylfrrmrghithu wniH imimtmjl.
And wants to fine Professer Kerr
For going off to Vienna.
"What! pay his expenses?" No, no,
byjlDeo,
Not till he learns some commoner
lingo ,
Somothat the easily-gulled people or
Surry
Can spell out In fall and pronounce in
aba
miry.
Tho Piedmont Press and
Trivett, of Asbe.
Mr.
The democratic Jonrnals aro Indulg
ing In very reprehensible comments
upon the able and efficient member of
the House, from Ashe county, lion. S.
Trivett, because Mr.TrlTett Introduced
a resolution censuring congressman
Waddell for Toting against the repeal
of the salary law. American.
Excepting a communication in the
Raleizh JSVtr and a squib on the local
page of the Raleigh Sentinel, we have
not aeon the slightest censure from any
democratio Journal In the State.
The Piedmont Pre squarely en
dorses Mr.Trivett's resolution.regreting
vonly that it did not emanate from a pro
nounced democrat. Piedmont Press.
.The above endorsement of Mr.
Trivett by a paper like the Pied
mont Press, ought to be gratifying
to that gentleman. The Press very
frequently does its own thinking,
and
someti
in'."
lion. "W. A. Smith and legisla
tive Opposition to Consolida
tion. It has been long apparent that
the opposition of some of the mem
bers of this legislature to con
solidation, grows out of their
hatred of the republican party,
and their determination to op
pose everything suspected of having
an origin or connection in, or with,
any member of that party, no mat
ter how remotely the connection,
or of how much importance to the
State the measure may be. The
fight in this instance is attempted
to be conducted by the strategy of
a feint on Wm. A. Smith, and the
cloven foot is sought to bo put
down on that gentleman.
Mr. Smith responds in this issue
to f-ome of the attacks upon him.
His reference to the mileage of
free pass-membors would have been
stroncerhad he Included theconduct
er diem right square long, for at
tendance on the legislature, when
.they were absent from the capital
of the State, and outside the bor
ders of the State itself.
The friends of consolidation and
of William A.Smith have remain
ed silent yhile the enemies of con
solidation have sought td. strike
him down. Such friends' by no
means endorse and approve all he
says and does, but when a set of
small men thus attempt to destroy
a man and blast his reputation, be
cause of their opposition to a pub
lic scheme; or a political party,
it is time the friends of the
man suspended public duty and
squared for a fight.
There is an old adage,that, "put a
beggar on horse-back and he will
ride to hell." And Horace Greeley
once said, "when a set of men start
out to play fools, there is no fore-
casting their folly." No. one who
has seen much of this legislature
will have any difficulty in reconcil-
incr the aDove ciuotations to tne
the wealth, virtue and intelligence
of North Carolina, now sojourning
in Raleigh, are desirous of making
up a political fight on their opposi
tion to consolidation and William
A. Smith, they are cordially invit
ed to the contest.
Letter from Hon. W. A. Smith,
Jo. Turner, Jr. tho North
Carolina Hail road Consoli
dation, Xrc, &e.
Notk. The following le'.ter was re
ceived by a gentleman of this city .some
days ago, with a npi'st to have it in
serted in the AVm-.s. Tho matter was
submitted to Mr. fSlone, and in the fol
lowing note to Mr. Smith, '.e deelired
to publish it: -"Owing to tho 1'ael that
it ( your communicath.-n) contains bitter
jxjrsonal rejections a id i hargrs on Jo
siah Turner, Jr., I must decline living
it, as the relations existing between
him aiivl myself -are n t of such a char
acter as to justify lne in publishing
matter from others of tho nature con
tained in your c numnnieation."
A communication ; the ISth January
to which Mr. Smith refers, 'was not
pu ljiinel, it Having been ascertained
b
9y his friends that tho correspondent of
Tnf f I
Uiu iMim!!iuiini!!lW"ihT
TVftTtT
the 18th was unmistakebly directed.
At the request of M r. Smith, the letter
now appears in this paper. Ed. Ex.
Washington, D. C,
January 23, 1874.
Elilor " Ahr-," Xctleiffh, Ar. C.
Sir: In my note of the ISth
inst., in reply to Fair Play," of
the 17th, I intimated that I would
answer his communication if he
would furnish me with his name.
Having waited -a sufficient time, I
am advised hy friends to reply to
his billingsgate, even if it should
appear to gentlemen as a condes-
R. Co. building the W. N. C. road,
lies. He knows he is a bought up
man. That he belongs, body and
soul to Mahone & Co. His cry of
-stop tniet" will not divert the
honest, neglected people of the west
from his devilish designs. If you,
Mr. "Fair Play," had not been a
eovard,you would not have written
over an assumed name yda Would
have come out squarely, like a man.
But you wrote to deceive you
wrote to humbug verdant and ig
norant democrats, for you know
you cannot deceive republicans in
the legislature or out of it. The re
publican party of the State is for
building the Western N. C. Road.
The democrats of the eastern and
middle counties are against it.
They know that if the legislature
will let me I will finish the great
work. But they don't want me to
do it, believing, as they say, it will
make me governor, &c. I would
not be governor if I could, but if I
wanted to be, I could beat any man
vou have, Mr. '-Fair Play," with
out building the W. N. C. R. R. I
am not so poor or so ambitious as to
desire to be governor.
North Carolina has been striving
THE GENERAL. ASSEMBLY.
has a way, peculiarly its own, of dominant t of thi3 acmbl v
ptimps "snAiikinc out in mwt-
in tne amendments oi senators
That "Bombshell in tho Radi
cal Cain p."
It was observed in an article in
the Goldsboro Messenger of the 2Gth
inst. under the head of "a bomb
shell in the radical camp " that
statements are made relative to the
remarks of Representative Abbott,
, of Craven, on tho civil rights reso
lution of Mr. Houston, of Catawba,
that are wholly without founda
tion. The portion of the article
referred to above as being a mis
representation, is as follows : The
Messenger makes Mr. Abbott say,
here an Messrs, Trivett, Cope
land, Rhodes, Patrick, Bowman,
'Scott, Mizell and others, all white
republicans, votinagainst or re
fusing thelrsoppbrt to nine-tenths
of the party which elected them.
Oh, yes, you are high for the negro
about election time, but when you
secure your desires you do not hesi
tate to give us the cold shoulder.
He had frequently seen that the
white republican members of the
house had shown a disinclination
to support measures put forward by
colored men and inclined to seek
banning William A. South, n sen
ators are not careful they will dis
qualify their own chief clerk. It
will be remembered that he, as he
had a perfect right to do, in the
Winter of 1871, declined to answer
the question of a congressional
committee, on the ground that to
do so might criminate himself. No
one has complained of hi n, or
sought to cast any reflection for
standing on his constitutional rights
as a citizen.
But William A. Smith never re
fused to answer before a legislative
committee as he is charged with re
fusing to answer. He was never
under oath, and the committee did
not report his lanaruay-e fully or
correctly. . , '
He denied thuir right lo call
him before them, and so challenged
them, but said he would hear their
questions. Several were propound
ed, and he answered. Finally the
absurdity of the proceeding cropped
out, as absurdity can only crop out
of a democratic brain, and,
to a question as absurd in itselfps
insulting to Major Smith
and 1
us
intelligence as a business man, he
their associations with Democrats, replied, "now go back and rub out
- . . . I II r I 1 TT 1 1 A . -
In correcting the Messenger it is
proper to say that Mr. Abbott, at
no time during the course of his re
marks mentioned or referred to
either Messrs. Copeland, Rhodes,
Patrick or Mizell, and that the
statement, as to them, is wholly
incorrect.
It may be further stated for them,
that Messrs. Copeland, Rhodes,
Patrick and Mizell, as well as all
the republican members of the
house, save Mr. Bowman, willing
ly supported the substitute offered
by Mr. Williamson, of Franklin,
which was a fair proposition as be
tween the extreme views of those
for or against civil rights.
Tins was a resolution asking Con
gress to pass a civil rights bill, but
to vote down every proposition in
it looking to the social equality of
the nues. Everv democrat in the
all I have said; I decline to answer
anything, or appear before this
committee; as Bill Saunders said
the other day in Washington I
stand on mv constitutional ritrhts
I and refuse to answer any question
that might criminate myself or
friends." Every member of that
committee knew that the refusal of
Mr. Smith was not really on the
ground of criminating himself or
frieiuL, but. that his reasons for re
fusing were based on his deter
mination not to recognize the right
of the committee to call him before
them, to be trifled with by them,
or lend strength and dignity to their
childish feebleness and imbecile
folly.
The depaty-governor-m iki ng
legislature Of 1370-'71 had failed in
transferring the North Carolina
n"'lr":" ,. t bo ilULbura
cension on my part to do so, lest
some verdant member of the Legis
lature might -think his twaddle
true and calculated to injure the
great consolidation scheme and cut
off the West forever from the ad
vantages of a railroad. To reply
fully to 44 Fair Play" it is necessary
to give a short sketch of the history
of the North Carolina Railroad
Company from the time I took its
affairs in charge to the present time.
I was elected President of the
Company in July, 1SC8, succeeding
Jo. Turner, of Hillsboro, N. C. I
found the road in a deplorable con
dition in every respect. It had
great need of iron on the track, had
no credit, no system; was run
ning along without a head, broken
down, almost insolvent, crushed
by a debt of nearly a million dol
lars, with less than twenty thou
sand in the treasury. I found in
the office when I took charge an
old pine table, a sort of cupboard
containing one empty jug and sev
eral empty bottles, an old bedsteau
and mattraf-s, full of chinches, and
covered with old dirty sheets. All
was dirt and confusion. A majori
ty of the officers and employees
were drunkards and unreliable
men.
No sooner had I taken charge of
the affairs of the company, than a
great hue and cry was raised by the
vagabond Turner, that the N. C. R.
R. would be run down and de
stroyed. The spirit of blackguard
ism was invoked ana its nitny mis
siles hurled at me; and every con
ceivable lie that could be in vented
was put in circulation by that un
scrupulous, low-down fellow, sus
tained, more or less, by the demo
cratic party - . i
In the course of time, however,
intelligent gentlemen discovered
that the road was improving and
that at least eighty thousand dol
lars was saved, the first year,
over Turner's administration.
Dividends were soon de
clared and the debt reduced.
When this exhibit was made, the
Charlotte Democrat complimented
me on my management, and asked
that I should havecm ploy. After
the first year of my administration
1 received the unanimous vote of
both parties for President, no one
objecting to my re-election except
Jo. Turnerand the Hillsboro clique.
And now let us see for a moment
what Turner and his board of di
rectors did. They mortgaged the
road for one million and a half dol
lars, and issued bondsto the amount
of eight hundred thousand dollars,
when there was no necessity for
mortgaging it at all. Why then
mortgage the road? It was for the
purpose of "grabbing" two hundred
and forty thousand dollars of its
bonds. As soon as the mortgage
was registered, this same honest Jo.
Turner (the great enemy of rings
and thieves) and his board, declared
a dividend of six per cent, on the
stock, payable in the bond they had
just put noon the mad ! Was this
honest? I think not.
This broken-down vagabond dem
agogue, Turner, continued to lie
and make charges against me,
whilst the private stockholders, a
large majority of whom were dem
ocrats, continued to vote for me
SENATE.
Friday Jan. SO, 1S74.
The Senate met at 11 o'clock.
Lieut. Governor Brogden in the
chair.
Journal of yesterday was read and
approved.
PRESENTATIONS OF PETITIONS.
Mr. Ellis, from Columbus, a peti
tion from the citizens of Columbus
county praying a prohibition of
liquor law within two miles of
Christian Plain church, colored
congregation. Referred to com mi l
mittee on Propositions and Griev
ances. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMIT
TEES. Mr. Allen from Judiciary ; Mr.
McCotter from Propositions and
Grievances; Mr. Morehead of Rock
ingham, from Internal Improve
ments; Mr. Johnson, from Enroll
ed Bills.
REPORTS FROM SELECT COMMITTEES.
Mr. Cunningham, from commit
ra i 1 roa 1 co n n ec t i o n, w JvMie,, Wes
tern States. That her efforts have
failed up to this time has been in a
great degree owing to the miscon
duct of some of her own people. - It
looks as if there were men in our
State who were determined .that we
should always be kept in the rear
of Virginia. Last winter
Virginia paper, published in
Richmond, made a grand boast
that Gen. Mahone had so managed
matters at Raleigh that he pre
vented tho Western North Carolina
road ever being built, or at least
delayed it for a long period of years.
Is be to be allowed to play thej
- io xi i j "4
same game again : x nave oeenm
formed that one of his associates
said last winter that he had better
pay five millions of dollars than let
our North Carolina road be built.
The individual who sometimes
calls himself Appltton Oaksmith,
and sometimes passes by other
names, who was his great manipu
lator at Raleigh last year, has lately
been in New lork for some days,
while Mahone was there. From
there he went down to Raleigh.
Perhaps he is Mr. "Fair Play," or
perhaps "Fair Play" is only one of
his strikers. How much does he
get for his share in fooling tho leg
islature? If the members, after all
that has passed, continue to act
against their State and in the in
terest of Mahone's Virginia road;
the people will not let them off so
easily as they have heretofore done.1
"Fair Play" attacks me for re
fusing free passes to then
members of the legislature
for going over the railroadsj
These members compel the1
State Treasurer to pay them twenty
cents per mile for going to Raleigh,
and yet they complain of being
charged by the railroad less than
five cents per mile. They and their
good friend 44 Fair Play," or Oak
smith, or whatever name he may
go by, insist upon going to Raleigh
without paying anything. Then
what right have they, by false pre
tenses, to make the treasurer pay
them twenty cents per mile out of
the money of the heavily taxed
people? Is not this worse than the
"salary rab" of the last Congress,
about which they have raised st
great outcry? They can travel to
Ifnh'icrh frir Irs3 minev now thrfir
their predecessors' did, who iV
old times received onlv ten cents
per mile and paid their own faref
without complaining. And yet
according to 44 Fair Play," the pres
ent jnembers, who get twice as
much, must go free! Verily they
may be called 44 Solomons," and
when they and their friends go,
44 wisdom will die with them."
I have reason to believe that those
who are acting against the interests
of the State, fearing that the pres
sure of the people will drive the
legislature up to do something,
have changed their tactics
They are said - to be about
makinir a combination with the
construction bondholders, with a
view of getting, through the action
of the United States Courts, the
control of the road. If they sue
ceed in this, they mav then sell it
out to the bight st bidder, and if
Mahone should be the man he will
of course be smart enough, when
he owns the road, to prevent its
ever bcinsr finished. His five mil
lions will then have been well spent,
and his frieir4- can then giv him a
grand ovation. But what will the
people of North Carolina do with
tin? men who have been his tools or
his dupes ?
44 Fair Play" says I wish to be
elected governor in 187G. Was
there ever anything more stupid
than his declaration that I will not
build the road? What chance
would I have to be elected if I were
to fail. But if I get the power I
intend to finish tiie road whether it
of Trustees for University, reported
as follows:
from Jackson says, the Governor
could appoint, our amendment
would amount to nothing,, and
would make us look ridiculous. He
did not sympathize with any; man
or men, at any time before' the
committee of investigation ap
pdinted by the Legislature, who re
fused to answer questions, and
would oppose appointing them to
office. But it there is constitutional
questions here, and the Governor
has the power, all of our amend
ments are futile and of no force.
Mr. Norwood said this amend
ment raises a constitutional gush
ing suddenly to his mind. If the
place of Directors in this corpora
tion is an office, then it would seem
that nothing can be incorporated
into the act which would exclude a
class of persons, otherwise qualified
under the constitution to hold of
fice. He proceeded to state and
argue the question, and .said he did
not consider he should, and in full
view of the constitutional difficul
ty, would vote for the amendment.
Mr. Worth advocated the amend
ment. Mr. Welch epposed it.
T Several otner"mierments
son of Swain, Bryan of Pitt, Bry
ant of Halifax, Bryan of Wilkes
Brooks, Bunn. Byrd, Cobb, Cope
land, Corson, Cox, Dickev, Dudley,
Dula, Foster, Gudger, Hampton,
Heaton, Hughes, Jones of. Caldwell,
Jones of Camden, Jones .of iSorth
ampton, Jordan, King. Lindsay,
Lloyd, McLaurin, Mizzell, Patrick,
Paschall Reid of Randolph, Set
tle, Shackelford, Sneed, Todd,
Trivett, heeler and Whisnant
Neas Messrs.. Anderson, of
Davie,; Ballard, Bennett, Black
well, Brown of Mecklenburg,
Bry son of -Jackson, Bryan of Samp
son, Bryan of Alleghany, Carter,
Costnor, Craige, Davis, Ellison,
Fietcher, Gant, Gidney, Gilbert,
Gilmer, Godfrey, Gorman, Gray,
Guyther, Planner, Haynes, ilin
nant, Houston, Johnston, Jones of
Orange Jones of Tyrrell, Joy tier,
Liitterloh, Luekv, MarJer, Max
well, McGehee, McNeill, Miller,
Michael, Morlng, Moss, Norment.
Outlawj, Perry of Bladen, Perry .of
YY
ake,
burg.
tion a proposition against the
'much talked of social equality.
The Republicans in the Legis
lature Jacob r. Brown, Esq,
of Oavidson.
So far as the observation of the
writer has extended, the republi
can senators and representatives o
the general assembly have de
meaned themselves well, and have
met the issues presents! to them
Mjuarely
Among the most faithful of the
eoples' representatives is J. T.
Brown Esq., of Davidson. He is
an unswerving republican, of sober
habits, a faithful jersevering repre
sentative, ami always to be found
on the .side of economy and reform,
;ind against every species of extrav
agant legislation.
The people of Davidson are as
sured that, hr Mr. Brown, they have
a true, pains-taking and industrious
member of the lower house, as
they are no doubt, ere this, fully
satisfied. Mr. Brown has now
served the people of his county for
four years, and if they shall see fit
to return him again in August, the
republicans of Raleigh and of the
legislature will welcome him hack.
The Examiner does not wish to
be regarded as invidious to other
worthy members in thus noticing
Mr. Brown. It is the first time he
has had the attention of a republi
can paper at the State capital ; and,
not to be misunder
stood in this instance, the Exam
iner would say that what is here
aid of Mr. Brown, may be said
with equal truth of his colleague,
John Micheal, Esq., and of David
son's efficient and industrious sen
ator, John T. Cramer, Esq.
junta;.,, tno junta wing. of
the committee w.e; soiviy disgrun
tled ; a State election was criming
on, and thedemocrais of that legis
lature, natHJ and dreadel iluam
A.Smith; and the opportunity pre
sented itself to strike him, and
through him the republican party.
The occasion was improve 1. But
in the Summer of that same year,
all (save seven hundred votes of a
million dollars ot stock) J tne -i
rate stockholders in the ruad, nine-
tenths of them deiitcrr,,re-( nd r.ed
William A. Xtni'h, by re-electing
him president of the railroad, and
thei approved the leaf he mu
which'has been so oft ami flihly
rapeated and charged to have been
effected under a bribe.
The legislature may attempt to
place William A. Smith under as
a . a. A
many bans as tney please, our tney
cannot prevent the private stock
holders electing him a director;
nor can they compel the said stock
holders to accept any amended char
ter to the road that proposes to strike
down their friend and insult them.
As has been before stated, demo
crats may defeat the consolidation
scheme if they wi II. The responsi
bility will be theirs. And when
they again go before the people they j
will find that in attempting to
trikedown William A.Smith they j
uwe destroyed themsel ves.
William A. Smith is stronger be
fore the private stockholders oftl.e
North Carolina railroad than the
democratic members of this legis
lature are before the people.
No one is so poor for consolida
tion as to accept it on any terms.
And if these representatives of all
session bi the legislature ana thenT me u private citizen. , taxes in townships,
me aevn, i urner, commences on iva.un, eral readings, and w
them lo disregard the law, the v m. A. smith. I be engrossed and sent
charter of the company, and the
constitution of the State, and make
him President. The private stock
holders became alarmed and au
thorized me to d.-.'eat his nefareous
plans, if po.s-.ibie, as they knew that
il'thi-i fellow, 'turner, got posse
sion of the road again with his
drunken brigade, nil dividends
would cea-K ami their stock would
become almost entirely worthless,
as it was when 1 was first elected
President. A fear that this man
Turner would, through his legisla
ture, again ger possession of the road,
was a chb'f impelling motive in the
stockholders basing it out. The
road was i cased to the satisfaction
has no reason to
representation in
Pres-
f tl
ie stockno.oi
law
, and
Fair
(hi
Piav
accord niir to
courts will sustain it.
in Ins co warn; v at
tack, insinuates t hat I have acted
d:-ho:ie-tiy to the North Carolina
Iwtilroad Company. 1 leave vouch
ers for every cent that the road has
made since July, Isbs. My vouch
ers have been regularly eva mined
by the finance committi e, composed
oi' both parties. They have always
reported that every cent received
by me was correctly accounted for.
During the time I have been Presi
dent more than three millions of
dollars ( I have not the exact fig
ures bv me) have been received
and paid out, and I have vouchers
for every cent. Can Tamer my as
much f
I was appointed Receiver of the
Western N. C. 11. R. last Spring.
That road was run down, and never
had to my knowledge, paid expen
ses. In less than six months I had
irreatlv improved the road, and cn
! the 31st of December last had twei -
ty-eight thousand dollars over ex
penses ; and I believe I can, if I
had the -opportunity,, make that
road pay six per cent, interest upon
the debt required to buy it, even if
it be not finished.
"Fair Play," when he says he is
in favor of the North Carolina R.
Ohio certainly
complain of her
the hign piaces ol the nation
ideut Grant was born and lived
must of his life, prior to the war, in
Ohio. The general of the army,
Sherm tn is an Ohio man, and so is
Sheridan, the lieutenant-general.
Secretary Dciano is a citizen of
Ohio, so is Justice Swayne, of the
supreme court, and so is Mr.
Schenck, our minister to England.
The late Chief Jusi ice Chase was
from Ohio, and now the new in
cumbent, Chief Justice Waite, is
taken from the same state. Thus
Ohio men stand at the head of the
civil, the military, tho judicial,
and diplomatic departments of the
government. Since the organiza
tion of the government, we doubt
whether there has boon a time when
men from any one state filled no
many of the highest national posi
tions. And there are still several
men in Ohio who would accept of
fice under the national government
if pressed to do so.
FrKST DISTRICT.
D. M. Carter, Miles S. Eure, W.
F. Jartin, Wm. B. Shaw, Louis
Hilliard, John A. Moore and Dun
Can C. Wilson received 137 votes
each. ,
i SECOND DISTRICT.
Wm. H. Johnston, John E. Dug
ger, George Green, Wm. H. Day,
D. E. B. Hoofer, Robert B.
Peebles, Benjamin L. Hardy 132
votes each, W. T. Faircloth 98
votes. Mr. Faircloth received the
vote of the House, and N. F.
Dortch, the vote of the Senate 21.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Fourney George W. L. Sanders,
R. W. Nixon B. F. Grady, Rev.
Neil McKay, Dr. John Mclver, T.
D. -McDowell, R. W. Willard, 132
votes each.
" FOURTH DISTRICT.
J. H. Thorp. J. S. Amis. P. C.
Cameron, C. B. Sanders, John Man
ning Jr., Jos. J. Davis, K. P. Battle,
w. A. Graham, lz4 votes each.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
H. Clay, Thomas, Rufus Fraizer,
M. S. Robbins, J. A. Gilmer, John
Kerr, J. L. Dusenbury, D. S. Reid,
J. A. Graham, 122 votes each.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Archibald Purcell, J. C. Marshall,
Walter L. Steel, S. II. Walkup. Z.
B. Vance, John F. Hoke, Paul B.
Means, W. J. Ewing, 120 votes
each.
tJEVJSNTil DISTRICT.
R. R. Pnttersnn J. F. Omvps."
Joseph Williams, W. Kelly Gibbs,
Geo. B. Wetmore, E. H. Davis. C.
L. Cook, G. H. Hamilton, 120 votes
each.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
D. Coleman, C. P. Smith, S. McD.
Tate, M. S. Twitty, D. D. Hyman,
E. W. Jones, W. C. Bowman, J. A.
Hicks, 112 votes each.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
t By Mr. Allen, a bill in relation
to holding of courts for the fourth
judicial district.
MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.
On motion of Mr. Allen, rules
fere suspended and the bill in rela
tion to holding of courts for the
rth -fttdiciM - district; pnased- kt
several readings.
Mr. Love, a resolution for the re
lief of Samuel Cabe.
Mr. A vera, a resolution to his
Excellency, the Governor, request
ing him furnish the Senate with an
itemized statement of the number
of warrants issued to the State geol
gist Adopted.
On motion of Mr. Avera, the
special for 10:30 in relation to the
abolition of the office of State geol
ogist, was postponed and made the
special order for next Tuesday at 12
o'clock.
On motion of Mr. Gudger, a bill
to authorize citizens of Caldwell
county to vote as to whether they
will subscribe $60,00( for the build
ing of a narrow gauge railroad,
passed its final reading.
On motion of Mr. Morehead of
Guilford, the bill for an election of
superintendent of public instruc
tion, was made special order for to
morrow at 12 m.
The general election law, special
order lor Monday at 12 m. ; consider
the school bill for Tuesday at 12 m.,
and the omnibus liquor bill for
Wednesday at 12 m.
Mr. Cunningham moved to in
clude the bill for the sale of swamp
lands for 12:30 Monday.
On motion .of Mr. Cramer, the
rules were suspended, and the " bill
in relation to commissioners of affi
davit" passed its several readings.
On motion of Mr. McCabe, the
bill in relation to the storing of fer
tilizers passed its several readings.
On motion of Mr. King, the bill
rtiftTTwfrinr
Presson, Reid of Meckleu-
Richardson, Rhodes, Shaw.
Shirm of Iredell. Standford. Stowe.
Turner Warlick, Waddill, Watson,
; 1 1 y t t t i n rm
were
offered, when upon motion of Mr.
Waring, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Speaker Robinson called the
House to order at 10:30 a. m.
Prayer by the Rev. J. M. Atkin
son, of the Presbyterian Church.
. The Journal of yesterday was read
ana -appro vea.
QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.
Mr. Brown, of Davidson, stated
that in the election of the trustees
of the university Thursday he had
maaea mistake in regard to Mr. H.
u. i. nomas, one oi tne nominees
from his county, when he stated
that that gentleman already heid an
omce, md whose name was there
upon stricken out of the list of nom
inations, lie now moved to rein
state the name of H. C. Thomas in
the place of A. M. Scales, whose
name had been substituted for that
of Mr. Thomas.
Agreed to, and the House voted
to make the desired substitution.
There was no contest, Mr. Scales'
name being readily withdrawn by
his friends.
PETITIONS.
Mr. Corson, from citizens of Beau
fort concerning roads ; Mr. McNeill,
against the passage of an act estab
lishing a new county from Robeson
and Richmond ; Mr. Richardson,
fromCerro Gordo,to be incorporated;
Mr. Haynes: From citizens of
Buncombe praying removal of ob
structions in Sandy liottom Creek.
Jr. Freeman, from JcDowell,
authorizing certain citizens on the
Catawba river to erect a water-
gate.
REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEES
3r. Bennett from judiciary; Mr.
Joyner from Engrossed ..Bills ; Mr.
Jarler from Enrolled Bills ; Mr.
Jones of Orange from Aagriculture.
RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. Marler, resolution in favor of
widows of deceased soldiers of the
Mexican war.
Mr. Gilbert, resolution in favor
of John Armstrong.
BILLS.
Mr. Bennett, a bill amending the
act incorporating the Weldon and
tltimi 4eck Jtmlroad.
Mr. Lutterloh, a bill to be enti
tled an act concerning the removal
of civil actions from one judicial
district to another.
Mr. Richardson, an act to incorpo
rate the town of Cerro Gordo.
Mr. Freeman, a bill to erect gates
across public roads.
Mr. Moring, an act amending an
act to charter ISewTliver Canal.
iiinhi ViuVu ""lilt1, -'-J-t-i j?.''-- .l'i"t:.'.'; jri-i!ifr:
Williamson, and WKitmire. G3. 1 eaTJnTptnUo dkwiod pano
The amendment of Mr. Bowman
did not prevail.
The -amendment inserting 100
did not prevail.
Section 9 then passed yeas 92 ;
nays 10.
On motion the House, at 3 p. m.,
adjourned
iij Tlie Sew Chief Justice.
At last we have a Chief Justice,
and one too who will honor the of
fice quite as much as tho wftice will
honor him. Without doubt the
selection of Morrison R. Waite for
the vacant justice was the very best
and "wisest appointment at any
time made by the present adminis
tration,: and the Senate's action in
voting unanimously lor his con
firmation was a graceful recogni
tion of the fact. The appointment
has not been very warmly received
by the tnore violent portion of the
partisan press, it is true; but that
fact only proves,- if it proves any
thing, that Judge Waite is a man
eminently fit for the office. Some
of the papers which favor the ad
ministration would have been
better pleased, doubtless, with the
selection of a more pronounced par
tisan, some man who would have
been obnoxious to people of other
political: faiths; while similar news
papers in opposition to the Presi
dent would nave preferred that the
choice should fall upon some one
wfiom they could Tieartily con
demn. As it is, we have a man
whom men of both parties are
forced -to; approve as in every way
worthy, i And that is, above all
things, what the country wants.
The Supreme Court should be pre
sided over by a man whose habit of
mind is eminently judicial: and
men, in the very nature of
the case, can never be found among
strong partisans. -
!;Ju2e Waite was born in Lvme.
Connecticut, in the year 1810. His
father was eminent as a lawyer and
a jurist, serving as a judge of the
supreme court of Connecticut for
thirty years, during a large part of
which h0 was chief justice. At the
age of seventeen the present Judge
Waite entered Yale College, and at
twenty-two he graduated in the
A Rainy Day.
BY MAROARK T K. SA3TGSTKR.
All day against the window pans .
Tho fitful dashes of tlie rain
Keeps up' in dreary monotone
A minor musk; of'its own ;
A weary moan of restless pain.
This chorded anthem of tho rain. 1
My tired heart within me hears
Too tired to-day for easeful team
And well interpret every sound
lrom sobbing sky and barren pround:
Like one who from the oicran-keys.
Awaken threaded harmonies
To tit in pauses of the strain
tVnother smijrs, I list the rain
And trv.throinrh woven words of mine,
lis evidenced melody to twine.
All dav it falls on little beds
fhat pillow softly baby hea ls
From mother's tend- r ! :irsii;jr crone.
While vet their life u as in its dawn.
Alas how many a in Jier feels
I ;ie eohbies.s ot earn drop that steals
Through that tfrcen eoverlet. that lieM
JJetweou hex dai:i.-; ai.d her eyes!
All day it shuts tho cheerful sun '
l'rom many a loninjr, lonely one ;
Xo sparkling rift of heaven's' bluo
breaks regnant all its mystery through;
No golden radiance cleaves a way
All daj', tho sleet, the storm, tho rain I
Yet think, impatient soul of ml no, i
That somewhere still tho sua must
- -shine, X
That somewhere other hearts are glad,
And days are not forlorn and sad,
And Uiat God's benedictions still
Fall from stem lipsof seeming ill.
In memory's light these drops may bo ,
xjko guiccrrn ttrnecijt to Mie,
And all thy being yet may bless
His patient care and tenderness,
Who bids thee trust Him not in vuiii
For clays, clear shining after rain, j
Judge Benjamin C. Franklin, one
of the founders of the republic of
Texas, died recently at Galveston,
being nearly 70 years of age. Judge
Frankliii arrived at Velasco, in the
Mexican province of Texrs (Gal
veston having then no existence,)
about forty years ago ; took part in
the revolutionary councils of the
colonists ; joined the Texan army
under Houstonf'ind carried a rilleac
.the famous little battle of San Jac
into, a battle which wasat oneo the
overthrow of Santa Anna and of
Mexican power on this side of tho
Rio Grande. After the. close of the
war he returned to the profession
of the law, and stood always in tho
fro nt rank. At the timo of his
death he was a state senator-elect.
nbi th ivhioh Mnnwrf PVln-nrriJ KlUS and il'TlfUlfnnil JUKM.-S.
Piereioht nd William M. Evarts. 2
Doiroi wnom naveoeen mermoneu
A little difficulty about the con
summation of a wedding inClay
ton county, Iowa, and how it was
overcome, is thus described in a
western paper: w hen the guests
had all asscnmled to witness a mar
riage ceremony, it was discovered
that the justice of the peace, who
was to officiate in making tho twain
one, resided in another (J'ayettel
county, and therefore, could not le
gally solemnize the marriage.
1 hereupon the bride and bride
groom, accompanied by the guests,
adjourned to a neighboring corn-
held, which was in Fayette county
and there, amid the rustling stalks
and the wondering cattle, tho knot
was tied. The wedding party then
returned to the house and ban
queted. This corn-field wedding:
was a fitting prelude to the.uturo
of the husband and wife, who,
from such sowing, ought certainly
to reap a goodly harvest of farmer
as fit men for the office to which
... .
their classmate has just been ap
pointed, i Mr. Wake began the
practice of law in Maumoe City,
but afterwards removed to Toledo,
where he! continued to follow his
profession, refusing repeated oppor
tunities to win distinction in poli
tics, and Choosing rather to devote
his entire time and energies to the
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
Mr. Marler asked leave of absence
for Mr. Waugh from and after to
day till Mondav next.
Mr. Gorman asked leave of ab
sence for Mr. Perrv of Wake until
Jbn dav, and Mr. Heaton asked
leave of absence for Mr. McLaurin,
from Saturday till Tuesday morn
ing next.
Mr. Luckey moved to reconsider
the vote by which the bill establish
ing the new county of Lillington,
was defeated yesterday.
Mr. Rhodes moved to lay that
motion on the table which motion
prevailed. Yeas 52 ; Nays 48.
Upon motion of Mr. Craige,
Senate Bill incorporating the North
Carolina Gold Amalgamating Com
pany, was taken up, and passed its
final reading.
Upon motion of Mr. Cox the sub
stitute for the bill prescribing the
duties of the Clerks of the Superior
Courts, andof Justices of the Peace,
was taken up. He explained its
merits, in which he was sustained
by Mr. Bennett. The bill passed
its several readings.
mastery
Walk of 1
of that learning which
fit him for eminence in his chosen
fe.
From th6 very beirinninsr his abil
ity and his industry made him a
successful lawyer, and on several
different becasions he has declined
a proffered seat upon the supreme
bench ot j his State. He was chosen
bV the government as counsel at
Geneva, and won there that nation
al reputation for eminent legal abil
ity and high character, to which he
owes the marked favor with which
his elevation to the highest judicial
position ih the world is received.
The regard in which his charac
ter and liiis ability are held at home
is attested in the fact that when it
became necessary last spring to call
a constitutional convention in Ohio,
he was "Unanimously nominated.
not by one, but by both political
parties, and when the convention
assembled, was made its president
almost by acclamation. From the
chair of that convention the presi
dent ?hasi called him to the seat
of Marshall, and Jay and Taney,
and Chase!, and the whole country
says amen. Hearth and Home.
Tempering" copper to tha hard
ness of steel is set down as on3 of
the lost arts. Our most skilled me
chanics cannot from eopner, pro
duce the finely tempered mining
tools, now being found in tho Iiko
Superior district. The art is lost,
and the people who mastered it
have an unwritten history. With
their chisel of copper, and largo
mallets bf granite, they cut out tho
virgin copper, as we of to-day are
doing with steel chisels, and ham
mers of iron and steel. There aro
many evidences all over tho Supe
rior country of extensive mining
having been carried on, as well a.s
mining of other ores in many other
States, Fast and West,-by a people
much more enlighted than those
found here by the American di-coverer.
Hon. S. S. Cox recently remarked
in the House that the growth of the
newspaper had dwarfed tho impor
tance of the right of petition; that
thepeople" were coming more and
more to see in the newspaper the
most convenient channel for bring
ing their wishes and grievances to
the notice of the law-makers. This,
is true; and the time is abotif past
for congressmen or other public
men to sneer at "lampblack and
rags." J laving been a journalist
himself, Mr. Cox knows fiow to ap
preciate the power of the press.
Rev. T. K. Beecher speaks out as
follows on the subject of emotional
infinity in murder cases: "It is
extremely difficult to commit the
crime of murder in such an accurate
and honest way mat it snan saiisiy
the specifications of the statute.
Unless the would-be murderer take
legal counsel beforehand and follow
instructions minutely, he will fail
nine times in ten, howeversincerely
he may try. Anybody can kill a
man, but he cannot do it in first
degree murder style without coun
sel and care."
Few people have any idea of the
extent of the coal fields of Iowa,
the state geologist estimates them
to embrace 7,000 square miles, or
more than the erea of the entire
stataof Massachusetts,
passed
as ordered to
to the House.
On motion of Mr. Ellis, of Cataw
ba, a bill to authorize the town of
Hickory, in the conuty of Catawba,
to issue bonds lor the purpose of
aiding the Carolina Central Railway
in extending their railway, and for
other purposes, passed its several
readings.
SPECIAL ORDER.
Bill to repeal chapter G3, laws of
1871-72, except Randolph county.
Passed its several readings.
"Bill to amend the charter of the
North Carolina Railroad Company
and for other purposes."
Mr. Morehead, from Rocking
ham, said he did not agree with the
majority of the committee in this
respect against the HLuse bill. lie
preferred the Senate bill provided
all the sections of the House bill
were included in the Senate bill.
Several amendments were offered
and adopted.
Mr. Todd ofkred an amendment
prohibiting any person from hold
ing any appointment, commission
or office, in the said corporation
who had refused to answer any
question before any fraud commis
sion in the State, upon the plea of
self-crimination.
Mr. Harris opposed the amend
ment and demanded that the
amendment bo so worded as to say
who it was intended to strike at.
Mr. Worth said he was not afraid
to say it was W. A. Smith, j
Mr. Murphy said he was for open
and fair dealing. That if Senators
were determined to eut at anybody
underhanded, and in a circumcula
tive way, he hoped they would have
the manhood to come out and say
what, and who they meant do not
do indirectly what ought to be done
directly. If certain names are
meant, put them in. It is beneath
the dignity of the Senate to pass
li us amenameni. xi a wrwin umu
- i rn i i t I f At. . . II . .
its sev- mu lo proviae ior me couec-
Y tion or
taxes on pronertv, poll, ttc
in. the several counties of the State,
generally termed the " Machinery
Bill," was taken up as the special
order and considered by sections.
In the consideration of the sev
enth section of the bill providing
that each tax payer shall be allow
ed an exemption of fifty dollars in
the value of personal property,
Mr. Blythe offered an amendment
allowing an exemption of three
hundred dollars, and supported it
in a brief speech.
Messrs. Stanford, Jones, of Cald
well, Whitmire and Bryan, of Al
leghany, opposed the amendment.
Mr. Bowman offered an amend
ment providing that the head of
the family lie allowed exemption on
a house and a cow and calf, and in
advocating his amendment said he
wanted the poor man's work-horse
and cow exempted and hoped the
House would give him the yeas
and nays on it.
Mr Standford took issue with Mr.
B. He said in some sections this
would apply unequally, especially
where a man owned no horse or
cow and calf, but owned sheep,
hogs and other property. He was
opposed to this latter substitute
more so than to that of the gentle
man Mr. Blythe.
Mr. Williamson was in favor of
the fifty dollar exemption as in the
bill reported by the committee, and
no more. Tf vou take all the tax
off of personal property, it goes then ,
on the land, and that would injure j
poor people who have their little
houses and lots. If a man, accord
ing the gentleman from Mitch-;
ell, owns a bull and the bull is j
worth a thousand dollars, he is ex-;
empted under the gentleman s
amendment.
The question being upon the
amendment of the gentleman from
Henderson, Mr. Blythe, the inser
tion of $300 did not prevail.
Nays Messrs. Abbott, Anderson
The Railway Monitor publishes
some interesting and valuable sta
tistics in relation to railway con
struction and traffic in the United
States, fnim which we learn that
the total mileage in actual opera
tion at the present time is 7 1 ,00 1 ;
but this includes miles of
double track roads, making the
whole length of track used 8o,07(
miles. The capital stock invested
in these roads amounts to 2,072,
2ol,0o4, which i s a bo u t $2! ),000 per
mile. The floating and funded
debts are almost equal to the capi
tal, and the estimated cost of
all the rbads is $:J,72S,41G,9"0 a
little more than $."2,000 per mile.
It has been impossible to obtain the
gross earnings of all the roads dur
ing the past year. For the latest
year for which reports were obtain
able, the roads extending o 1,000
miles earned $nti,:W).)7. This is
estimatedito be nearly 317o,000,000
above the; running expenses. The
earnings for the past year show a
considerable increase over the year
before, notwithstanding the large
falling off in traffic on account of
the panic during the fall months.
I Vice-President Wilson recently
concluded a neat little speech at a
woman-suffrage meeting as fol
lows: "Twenty years ago I came
to the conclusion that my wife,
my mother, and my sisters were as
much entitled to the right of suffrage
as myself, and I have not changed
my mind."
is intended to be affected, why not of Clay, Bean, Blythe, Bowe, Bow
uame him? And if, as the Senator man, Brown of Davidson, Bry-
! One of the most venerable quar
rels now going on in this country
is between the towns of Glasten
bury and Wethersfield, Ct., about
a boundary line. It is a hundred
aud twenty years old.
Mr. William Welsh, of Phila
delphia, a member of the Board of
Indian Commissioners, publishes in
letter addressed to the President of
the United States, on the subject of
Indian affairs, in which he ex
preses himself confident that, if the
entire Indian service could b5
placed under the sole control of the
Society of Friends, the many forms
of demoralisation, now so baleful
in their influence, would be checked,
tho civilization' of the aborigine
promoted, and a million of dollars
a year saved to the government.
Thelotal rail shipments of ore
and pig iron from the Lake Supe
rior district last year, amounted
to l,10i,S27 tons of ore, and .'J1,2PJ
tons pig iron. The figures given
for pig iron do not, however repre
sent the total shipments of the dis
trict, some half a dozen furnaces
situated at lake ports : within the
district having loaded - ditectly on
boats, without the aid bf railroads.
The product of these furnaces swells
the aggregate shipments of pig iron
by several thousand tons.
f
- The three-foot narrow gauge rail-1
road system is rapidly becoming,
popular in this country, and but
few people are aware of the fact
that since it came in vogue, uring
the last threo or four years, no le-s
than 1,41-) miles of narrow gaugo
railway have been built in this
country and in Canada, which
roads, when completed, will have a
mileage of 4,;"(I2i miles, while there
are 1,201 miles uuder construction;
; Mrs. Bolivia, sister-in law of the
Secretary of state of Illinois, and
Miss Fanny Wallace, a niece of the
late President Lincoln, have been
appointed librarian and assistant
librarian of the Illinois legislature.
Many a mickel makes a muektc.
The five Cents savings bank of
Boston has accounts with six-four
thousand depositors, and tho
amount.standing to theic credit is
upwards of eleven millions. Tho
unit is the basis of tho million: '
take care ofjthe dimes and the dol
lars will take caro of themselves.
According to the last published
figures, the number of grangers is
751, 123. They exist iu every state
e ccept Delaware, and the number
of granges is lo.olo. ,