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TUESDAY... ....MAKCII 18, 1879. THE FORTY-SIX Tlf CONGRESS. . .." . i ; - ' ' Congress meets to-day and, for the first time in many years, is Democratic Prob ably little more than the unfinished busi ness of the last. Congress will be considered, but that is likely to make it a loDg and ex citing session. ' : ".' . ' Mr. Randall was renominated ' for Speaker of the House by the Democratic caucus last night, and will be re elected to day. Mr. Ra.sda.ix haj 'fulfilled the duties of his high office with , signal ability and j the utmost impartiality , HLs renomina- tion is gratifying and proper and politic," and will be so regarded by the Democratic people of the South with few exceptions. All doubts of a prompt organization of Congress are thus ended, and the Presi dent's mess ige will go in toVday and be printed in The Obsebvcb to-morrow morn ing. Of its character, the Washington National Republican of "the 17th vsays, upon reliable (official), authority that it "will be confined to brief " suggestions re garding the specific .objects for whico the session was called, and possibly call atten tion to the general condition of the reve nues. As at Dresent adyised he is in clined to ask for! farther legislation to pW vide against a Treasury deficiency, which may ' be threatened by the expenditures required under, the arrear-of -pensions law, but he will carefully avoid any suggestions calculated to provote j unnecessary legisla tion, as k, is his most earnest . wish not to prolong the session.' For this reason he will defer a discussion of many topics of . public interest, until his regular annual message next December." : the school la w. i i- ' ' ' Some uneasiness has been manifested about the new School Law, which; has been found since adjournment of the Gen eral Assembly to be without the signa tures of the Speaker, of the , House and President of the Senate. The law failed to be signed by these officers in I the busy moments preceding adjournment on Friday when very many laws were signed. Gov. Robinson was in town un til yesterday afternoon, and Speaker Mob ing, who is a near neighbor, came to this city for consultation. They decided not to 'affix their signatures until their right to do so after adjournment of the Assembly has - been thoroughly dis cussed by gentlemen -learned in the law and, if necessary, decided by the highest court ' on a case made up. No iocon ' venience will result from the course adopt ed, as their.. signatures may be affixed as lawfully one month as one hour after ad journment. , f To us, who are not learned in the law, there seemed no reason to doubt the legali ty of signature on yesterday. To us. also it does hot seem that the signatures of the pre siding officers are necessary to the enactment of a law. The Constitutional provision is.: "All bills and resolutions of a legislative nature shall be read three times in each House, before they pjM into laws; and shall be signed by the presiding officers of both Houses." The school bill was read three times In each House and. passed into a law, as is authenticated by the Journals Of each House and the signatures of the members df the Enrollment Committee We do not think that those who made the Constitution of 18Q3, however awkwardly they expressed themselves, intended to give a. practical veto power to the . two Speakers, nor do we think that the lan guage used gives such a power. As to the efficacy of signatures after ad journment of the Legislature, we have heard that a somewhat similar case has . been adjudicated iu Louis' an a. We could not find any record of it in such books as were within reach last evening. - We do not think that there will be any trouble about the School Law, though we should not bebvermuch concerned about it in any event The changes from the old law are good, but it ; may be doubted if they are worth the additional $30,000 to $40,- 000 of additional taxes levied. TO SUBSCRIBERS. Statements have been sent to all sub scribers whose accounts with this paper '-are over due,. and they are requested to make settlement at once These accounts, as the terms published at the head of tbisi paper show, are payable in advance, bu in consideration of the hard times we hav yielded to requests of many to wait for . more convenient season. It was impossi bleto run two systems and so, like th other North Carolina newspapers, this h; not been conducted upon the only prepei . plan, viz : to enter a name only when payv ment is made and to strike it off the lists as'soon as the term paid for ex pires. The sums due are small and would scarcely be felt by each individual, but in the aggrel gate they amount to a very large sumj, which should be in our possession at thijs ' time, and which we confidently believe would be but for the indifference or care lessness of subscribers on account of the smallness of each individual account We cannot afford to grant further indulgence, and notice is hereby given that after a real sonable time shall have" elapsed the names of, delinquents who do not mate settle- ment will oe stricken iroui iue lxjokjs. ai is 'earnestly hoped that a prompt compliance ( with this appeal will render such a disagreea ble resort unnecessary, for The Obsebvkr is - attached to its subscribers, y and believes that the feeling is mutual. It furnishes its readers with an immense amount f .matter, much of it obtained at heavy cost 0l labor' and money, and not immodesU ly or without ; good rtasons, it claims ia have done the Staje some service. Tj i labor is entitltd to pay. , . li firs notice should have been ; mace when the statement of accounts were for warded, but in the pressure of work whH - the Legislature was in session it was neg- lecte& and r only ; recalled yesterday by - reading a notice of the same kind in our esteemed contemporary, the Petersburg fndex-Appcal. IMPROVED PROSPECTS. The best informed say that at that great business centre, the city of New York, general business is 'decidedly improving, enterprise reviving, and the outlook far more favorable than it was a year ago. As ar illustration of the change for the better, that in the great railroad interest, which affects so many others, may be cited Less than two years ago it was utterly prostrate. s Within little more than a year's time thWncreased freight and pas senger business resulting from enlarged production and economy in management has brought back to life millions of securi ties that were apparently dead. The New York roads alone, it is officially ascertain ed, increased their dividends for 1878 over those of 1877 by more than two millions of dollars. This is but an item, but it illustrates the progress to better times, and it means an enlarged consuming capacity by aj vast number of people. Progress seems slow to us who have suf fered, and still 'suffer, from the reverses of 1873, but there is progress. Cotton will be higher when the conditions in Europe change. When these permit a revival of British industries, and this in turn yields "money to feed the hungry British laborer, -the progress will be more rapid. As the New York Financial Chronicle says, the industries, of the Old World and of the New are in these latter days inseparably joined. With almost universal depression thei other side of the Atlantic, we shall fina " the process , of recuperation ion this side necessarily retarded, and more S especially in those departrne nts which arej suffering most there. On the other hand, to some extent, revival here will help revival in Europe. But not in a pay, or in a month, or in many months, is all this to be realized. Much time will be required before the world can hope to creep from under the load of debt. insolvency, and general commercial dis organization, which has been disclosed. America is so conditioned as to 'be leading the way in this recovery. But even here the early progress must be almost imper ceptible, like the change from the winter season, to be followed finally, but; inert tably, with the full realization of a new LABOR AND EFFECTS OF ITS LACK. Ths Obssbvk had occasion on Sunday td call attention to the prevalence of two evil habits retarding tna material progress of thti State. The Tvnchhnrer New at hand yesterday, has some thoughtful re marks in th3 same line. To the lack of honest work it traces much of the crime whose records abound in city and country newspapers. For a long time, says the Jeicss "we have ' been watching the ac counts of crime all over the land, and We have studied the evidence given in many cases, looking if there might be some gen eral principle some prevalent exciting cause; for theY excessive and increasing acts of violence and crime in the land. Nine-tenths are,! in our opinion, vto Obtain money, or in one way or another connected: with the use of money. (jJomparatively, very few owe their com mission to simple aDger or brutality, and when this is the immediate cause, jf ten . further back will be found the attempt to get : something for nothing, jr to ' live without labor. About the same ; number, i can ; be attributed f to the baser passions. It is strange . that When followed back to the fountain traced all through! longer or shorter lives, kn better or worse condition and circum -stances, there will be found all along evidences of a disposition to, avoid hon est, simple, square labor a determina tion not to eat bread by the sweat of the brow, And thisj if carefully examined, is not greatly more certain in the misera ble tramp who robs a farm than in the ostentatious banker who embezzles de posits. - The greedy hunt for office has much the same basis easy work larger pay living on the public salaries which their services will not near command in trade or business sometimes something for nothing gotten - at first by trickery or favor increased by peculation endingTn embezzlement. The papers are filled with these crimes in high as well as low places, from the pulpit to the gutter, and while the throng of the idle and criminal is swell ing, the fields lie everywhere untitled, in viting industrious labor. "Whether war, flush money, successful speculation or universal free labor has caused this aversion to the quiet pur suits of life, the honest tilling of the soil, the patient work at the bench, is unde termined, but the' sad and fearful fact is apparent that unless there is an increase a great increase of simple industrial pursuits of simple' hand labor, and a revival of agriculture,' this country is on the road to the "bad, its population will be. equally divided between the plunder . ers,' the plundered and the ministers of criminal justice. ." Places are daily ; get ting scarcer where reaping is a certainty after owing, or one may eat the fruit of the trees he planted.- It is -fast becoming doubtful io more places than New York whether the law. is "sufficient for these thing3." Disgrace has lost, much of its 'power to prevent crime." Oorporal punish- ment has lost much of : its disgrace. The' truth 13, the American citizen of every de ! scent has lost much of his high tone, or the country has tost ; much of its high toned tiUZ3n8.-:rV; .-:. - :' : I """"Whaveto go deeper for a cure than the criminal code-siown intpthe regions of total depravity. The remedy must b4 based upon a? general moral change in lh consciences of the people. ' A'We ire sorry to say that the tones, th style of argument, positions taken; policy defended or advocated ia public affairs, does not encourage the" fiope" for Ja speedy public regeneration. , The political governv mental policy, legislation and adaiinistrai tion, S'ita and Federal, has ra-icb mora to do with the increase of eriras and corrup tion than is generally supposed. As much as the idea is scouted, the safety of the country depends more on the morals than intellect of im statesmen," , THE COTTOS MOVEMENT. For the week ending on Friday, March 14th, the New Yoik Chronicle reports the receipts at 78,490 bales, against 83,266 the preceding week, 110,047 the previous wet k, ard 124.333 three wstks silcj. The 'otal rcctip's since St pteni ier Lt are 3,993,323 bules, against 3,1o2,25 biles last year, an increase of 246,055 bale. The week's receipts for "1879, 1878, 1877 have been: -'i- ,-i Receipts this week New Orleans....... Mobile..... Charleston. Port Koyal, Ac. ... . Savanna ti ......... Galveato... ....... Indianola, Ac ... .. 1S79 i 34,' 50 4,3 i5 4jSi I W 5.338 5,849 13 9.6H ' W3 ; 1,IS 8,70a 1.913 1S78 6,i6i 4--VW-11,330 ,3ur f r si j 10,481 ? 1W 8,906 1,1151 1187T 19, 3 .liS4 3,443 13 Tenifessee, &c...i. 4 41 Florida .1. .......... North Carolina..... Norfolk Cat j Point, Ac.... Total lor week .; liS : 8,168 4, OS 3S1 . 78,490 82,264 4431 The week' "exports were 143.723 bales, of which 63,823 went to Great Britain, 19,297 to France, 65,603 to other Conti nental States. , The exports last year for same week were 107,315 bales; increase for the year 41,413 bales. The total ex ports since September 1 , are. 2,745,254 bales, against 2.453,976 in 1878. The stocks on hand on Friday night were 629,975 bales, against .721,480 in 1873; decrease, 91,505 bales. Ti The sales for future delivery last week were 216,100 bales; for immediate deliv ery 2,765 bales, of which 200 were for ex port, 1,802 for consumption, 763 for spec ulation. The Chronicle thus states : the course of tue week's market : 1 "There has been a dull market for cot ton on the spot, and prices remained un changed, on the basis of for middling uplands. The demand trom home spin nere has fallen off. and shippers have con linued to do very little at this point. There has, consequently, tteea some increase in stocks at this port. To day quotations were extensively revued : Ordinary ad vanced 3-16c.: strict ordinary and good ordinary advanced c.; strict good ordi nal low middling, and strict low mid dling, advanced l-16c.; middling and good middling unchanged; strict good middling reduced c.: middling I air reduced 316c Stained middling advanced l-16c;'Jow middling, strict good ordinary, and good ordinary advanced c. Market quiet. The speculation in futures has been dull. There was an absence of orders from either party of operators, and generally little more than what is termed a -brokers market." uii, lor tne nrsi nail of the week, the statisucal position, the comparatively small receipts at the ports, and the stronger accounts from Liverpool, caused a slight improvement in " values, which was most decided for the summer months and lor oepiemDer. 1 nere was on Wednesday some depression,1 in sym pathy with a partial decline at Liverpool, and the subsidence of activity , in the markets for manufactures. ' The publica tion of the serai-annual report of the National Cotton Exchange, showing that to the 1st of March the movement of the crop was 365,000 bales in excess of the corresponding period 1 1 last season, and indicating pretty cenaiuiy a crop oi o,iw. 000 bales, according to : the statistics of that association, had also some-thing of a depressing effect. To-day, there ! was an irregular advance on the more favorable advices from Liverpool, private accounts being stronger than the published reports. The early deliveries improved most." The visible supply is thus located j ' Stock at Liverpool . I T55J.OX) htock at London. j OJ.fO Total Great Britain stock Stock at Havre Stock at Maiseilles, Stock at Barcelona........ 615,750 160,; 50 30,000 4,500 43,150 Stock at Hamburg Stock at Bremen ................... Stock at Amsterdam Stock at Rotterdam Stock at Antwerp Stock at otner continental ports. .. ., . . 800 4,2i0 S.000 Total continental porta. 281,600 ToUl European stocks S9S.5J50 India cotton afloat for Barope I06,oog American cotton afloat for Europe. ... Mi ,oon Kgjpt, Brazil, Ac, afloat for Europe... 19,000 Stock in United States ports 629,9 ;5 Stock in United States interior ports . loo,42S United States exports tonjUy 516,000 . Total visible supply. ........ ..bales. 3,500,651 Of the above, the totals of American &c. follow : ' ' "' American y Liverpool stock.. v Contiatntal stocks....... American afloat to Europe United States stock ..... i United States interior stocks. , United States exports to-day v. ....... 1 Total American. . .!.. 1 . . . .bales, JSast Indian, Brazil, die Liverpool stock.. .... 417,000 243,000 121,000 629,975 100,436 26,UUU 3,139,401 135,000 6.1,750 London stock. . ...... . 37,500 106,000 19,000 India afloat for Europe.... . Egypt, Brazil, Ac, afloat.... Total East India, Ac. Total American ..... ; 361.350 3,139,401 : Total visible supply..... t,KW,6sl These figures indicate a decrease in the cotton in' sight of 244,478 bales as coir pared with the same date of 1873, a de crease of, 539,849 bales as compared with the corresponding date of 1877, and a des crease of 519,438 bales as compared with 1876. v At the interior ports the week's receipts for this and last year were : .. .. , Kecelpta :: ' ' - : -. ' ' 1S79 Receipts 1S7S 1,463 396 Augusta, Ga ...L... 901 Columbaa, Ga .... 641 Macon, Ga 146 Montgomery, Ala. 1,301 Seima, Ala ...... i... 456 Memphis, Tenn. i... 14,321 Nashville, Tenn.... .... !3S Dallas, Texas ...J... 311 JeflerSon, Texas .1... 316 1,148 194 705 9 7S7 11 271 631 Shreveport. La..... ......... 1,344 .....i... -S6S 3 0S4 Vicksburg, Mi.... 6.25 Colamboa, Miss..... Eufaala, Ala Grim a, Ga Atlanta, Ga. i9J 311 :os T7 636 73S 243 353 87 Rome, Ga............... -j . 500 1,559 4,695 cnariotte, N. u...... St. Louis, Mo........ Cincinnati, O ....... . 6,UT 9.4S6 4,011 Total....r.......r ...j. 4165 3653 i The receipts from plantations were 72, 289 Dales in 1878, 59,435!; in 1377, 40,993 bales. , Since September, the receipts from plantations are 4.152,086 bales ; in ! 1873, 3,905,419 ; in 1877, 3,796,207 balea! I The ; weather has been seasonable and generally favorable for cropl parposes. The price of middling uplands in Liver- pool on Friday was 5; in 1878, 6 l-16j in 1877, 6 5-16; in 1876, 6 7 16d. f Mb. Ses atos . Mkrritt's constituents, and the constituents of other gentlemen will read with interest hjs speech on the Geological Surrey, elsewhere publishedl The sketch of his remarks came into ou hands after the subject had passer from consideration of the Assembly, and publi cation was delayed by the necessity of keeping up with -current legislation. ' Gra. Thomas L, Cusoxas Ib ia Wasb- iOgtOfl. PIEW 1'OBK COnlfcsPO?IDE?ICE. ' 5 , CorreBpondence of Ths Obskbvxk.1 : ' Nkw Yobk, March 14, 1879.; Editor Obsxbvkx :To the uniniat- ed the enterprise of the daily papers here may seem marvelous, i inia t mornings World, for instance, contains upwards oi five columns in small type, purporting to be an account of the royal wedding yester day in London, the marriage of the third son of Queen Victoria to a Prussian f nu- cess - 'lo transmit ad Una matter oy caoie telegraph would cr, perhaps, some thou sands of dollars. But the fact probably is. that much' the larger part of the London telegram waa prepared in tne woria omce where the description of the ceremony and of the costumes were interwoven with the historical facts. Perhaps I ought not to "tell these tales out of school;", bat the Wot-W oueht to thank me for relieving it of the suspicion of spending thousands for such a purpose. 1 would oe sorry to have to read it all, ' much ' more so to have to pay cable rates for it. A lady who has read it tells me that amonr other notable facts was this,- that the bride's train was four yards long, and that it was held up by four attendants! 1 notice m a Uhicigo paper an account o: a testing machine' recently completed a . Chicopee, under the direction of a board of U. S. Army officers, of which oar old friend. CoL T. T. 8. Laidley, (formerly in command of the Fayetteville Arsenal) is President,' -which must be a wonderful machine. It has taken three years to per feet it, and f the Chicago paper says: "Probably no greater triumph of mechan ical art can be found in the world to-day. It has a pulling or a pushing power of 1.000,000 pounds ; sufficient to lift four teea thirty -six-ton locomotive engines, or lift a column of water one foot square thrf e miles high. And yet it is so delicate that it weighs the stress that breaks a hiir or crushes an egg. A round bar of Boston Forge anchor iron five inches m diameU-r was broken by a total stress of 722.800 pounds, which is equal to but 36.900 pounds per square inch, whereas it is claimed that this iron will stand a stress of 60 000 pounds per square inch. - It is well under stood that iron bars of large cross secil ns are not as strong per square inch as smaller bars ; but this machine enKbies us for the first time to determine the amount of this decrease in very large bars. This test and others made by the Board give results un iformly less for the strength of iron birs than those heretofore obtained, and for the simple reason that the stress is accurately determined exclusively of the friction in the press, which has always been weighed in with the stress applied to the bar tested This is a startling fact when considered in its relation to the iron bridges all over the land, proportioned with reference to a strength which their parts do not possess." O.ber , important , results are expee'ed from the experiments Of the scientific offi cers on this Boaid, and especially of its very accomplished President, who ranks at the head of his profession. There are many things which ought to reconcile poor people to their condition of poverty though it is to be feared that they all fail of that effect and among them read the following, from a city paper : " The two richest men in New Yerk City, probably the two richest men in the Eastern States, who made '.heir money by fneir own skill and industry, were A. T. S ewart and Cornelius Yanderbilt. And the body of the former has be in stolen from its resting place, not despite his wealth but because of it : and the memory of the latter has been sedulously defamed tnrougn all tne public prints, mired in a campaign ef scandal by his own children and this, too, not in spite of his wealth, but because of it." , . . - 1L Nbw Yokk, March 15, 1879. Editor Obskbver : Mr. Jennings, the London correspondent of the World, in-a letter about rare old books, relates some incidents which bring to mind some of my own experiences, lie says that whilst searching for a certain volume to omplet a set he went to a very dingy and dusty shop, where were not only all the shelves filled to the ceiling with books, but piles of them lay oa the floor, covered with dusL ( ilr. Jennings says "an inch thick with dust," but that of course is a figure of speech ) In answer to his inquiry for the needed book, the little old proprie or told him that he had it, but did not wish to part with it. Lie. led Mr. Jennings through thousands of volumes of which he confess ed that he knew nothing, up stairs to a bck room which seemed to be his private snuggery. Ue unlocked a small book case and from its back part produced the book; but he refused to sell it, would only let his visitor look at it. Some 20 years ago, on one of my visits to New York, my friend, the lie v. Dr. Brantley, a great book-worm. gave nv the name of a rare old classic which he wished me to hunt up for, hira. All my inq rries for it were met by the assurance i bit if any one had it, 'old Gow an" was the man, so to Go .van's went, "ls, said he, l have it, come with me." I f lowed him to the base' ment, in the far part of which he removed a small box,, thrust his hand beh nd it, and drew out the ldenacu book, which proba bly no one had seen since it was thus hid den away. The wonderful memory which enabled him thus to know where to find each particular volume of the hundred thousand which he had collected, was the admiration of the trade, as it was, the foundation of his fortune. . Some ten years later, since I have lived here, I had anoth er experince with him. A customer wrote to me to send him a rare old book, which could only be bad at Gowan's. Ha de manded and received five .dollars for it, For gome reason or other it was returned upon our hands ; we sent to G.iwan toseil it back to him, and he offered for it twenty five cents I We were content to take that, rather than nothing, and it is quite likely that it was sold after his death by his ex ecutors for a nickeL He died some years ago and the mere catalogue of his stock filled a large volume. lie was a singular character, and here let me enter a protest against the habit, by far too common, of returning goods of any kind, dry goods, books, or aught else, which one has delib erately bought. This should never be done, except where the merchant has de livered an article which was not bought or ordered. The dealer's gxxl nature may induce htm to receive it back, but it is gen erally at a loss of money, and always of temper. Ladies will please make a note of thiS. . . ;-, , ., v.: ... i Ah old gentleman recently did in this city who had been an assiduous collector of rare books, to which he ia said to have reiused access, even to his friends' This may have proceeded from selfishness, but more probably from his knowledge of the propensity oi people to Dorrow books and never return them another bad habit against which I would warn the reader. I once inserted an advertisement in the Ob i tener requesting the return of lent books, and it brought in quite a number but by no means all. The experiment might ha tried to advantage by some of i your read-; era. You will recollect how several law books belonging to Mr. Badger were sold here some years ago as part of the library of another lawyer. They had been borrowed : both lender and borrowe had died, and the executor of neither had any knowledge of the facts that we pessessed showing the rightful ownership. - !.., t Our venerable friend Jas. Kyle of Fay-i etteville is here, purchasing his stock' of goods. , Doubtless there ia intense excitement in and arr und the Hippodrome as I write, at P m . iu view of the near termination of the in enational walking match. . Some apprehenfioa eeemsto prevail of a distur par.ee z tie close, at midnight, and 60 a large police force has been provided to keep the peace. It can hardly be possible that people will be so .ungenerous as to ill use Rowell because he is an ' Englishman and carries oil the prize to his own country. It is said that O Leary was rudely treated in England ; but that should be a reason for a more decent treatment of RowelLj And I hope it will be. But you vwill know, and will have printed all about the result before I hear of it to morrow nrning. I rejoice at the prospect, as it was bulletined at 5 o'clock this afternoon, that even liar- rinian would come in for a share of the te money, a very large sum. H Fron the Fajetteville Gazette. , Our representative in Congress for eighi jears. H n. A. 3L WaldelLof New Hani- over, surrendered his trust as the public serj ant of the people of this district with the expiration of the present term. In 1870 be led a forlorn hope," as it was then conv sidered to be, against Oliver H. Dockery This district . waa considered honel9elv "Radical, and Dockery was indeed a great leader in bis party a powerful speaker, a shrewd politician and an unconscionable demagogue. Few of us hoped for success. and Wad dell was thought to stand only m the breach; to : be "a sort' of jCurtius of modern times, plunging with all Jb.e pano ply oi war, into the -yawning gulf of de feat But the keen rapier of the finished orator and cultured scholar was more pb tent than the sledge hajimer of the re doubtable son of the 'Old Wagoner " and with the ides of NoTember Alfred stood over the prostrate form of the Radical Go liah. Oliver. Again and again be has been chosen by the Damocricy of the Cape Fear section to represent them in the council hills of the nation in Washington, leading the party to victory by increased majorities with each succeeding election -In 1878 he was defeated By Daniel L Russell, by default, the Democrats failing to go to the polls. Of this we will now say nothing long since those who failed him in the last campaign have bitterly regretted their too great security and confidence, i Wortb Carolioa needs the services of such men as CoL Waddell, and the day is not far distant when he will again be called 10 the front if not for Congress, for sme other high pOSlUOn. .; I r ;S , -i Faie pretencew Law - AH ACT TO BB KXTirUEO AH ACT TO DSFlNK MB&NING OF FAX3B FKBTBSC. THE The General Assembly of North Caro lina do enact r J j baoTips 1. That if any person shall pb ;aia any advances in m)ny, provisions, goods,1 wares, or merchandise, of any de scription, from I any other person in this 3f ate, upon any representation that Itbe said person so" Obtaining has any article of produce or other property of whatever natora, which, pr the proceeds of which, the said party will apply to the discharge of said debt created for advances, , as afore said, and the said party shall fail to apply said produce or other property upon.! the strength of which said advances were ob tained, or the I proceeds thereof, or shall dispose of the same in any other manner than that agreed upoa by the parties tq the transaction, tne said party so railing or disposing shall be deemed guilty of ob taimng goods under false pretence, the same wbeiber the party so obtaining did or did not have the produce or other prop erty as represented Section 2. All laws in conflict with1 this Act are hereby repealed. Section 3 This Act shall be in from and after its ratification. AMENDMENT. orce , The following is an amendment to the abTvect : The General Afmbly ofNyth Carolina ao enact: -. Section 1. ITbat no person shall be in dicted or punished f r violating any of the provisions of an Act to define false pre tence, rattfled llth day of March, A. D lotv, unless tne representution upon which the credit was given, or the ad vances obtained, shall be in writing and 8ignea oy tne party making such repre sentation. Nor shall any such person be punished for failing to apply the property upon wnich be snail have obtained ad vances in the manner so agreed upon, un less such failure shall be willful. Section 2. This Act shall be ia i force from its ratification. Concealed Weapon Law. AS ACT TO MAES THE CtBSTIxa OF CONCEALED WBAFJNd A M1SDSXKANOR. The Geieral Assembly of North Carolina ao enact: Sectios 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person in this b ate. except when upon his own premises, to carry concealed about his person any pistol, bowie-knife, razor dirk, dagger, sling shot, loadsdcane. brass, iron or metalic knuckles, or other deadly weapon oi use Etna. Section 2. That any person offending against section one of this Act s&all be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con viction thereof, shall be fined or imprison ed ia the discretion of the court. : : Section 3 The following persons shall be. exempt from the provisions of section one of this Act : Officers and soldiers of the United States, while in the discharge of their official dutie; officers and soldiers of the militia of this State, when' called into actual service; officers of this State or of any county, city or town 6f . this State charged with the execution of the laws of this State, while in the discharge of their official duties. j . Section 4. Any person being off his own premises and having upon his person any deadly weapon described in section one, such possession shall be prima facie evi dence of the concealment thereof.) Section 5. This Act shall go into effect on the first day of July, Anno Domini. is u. - . A boat Dogr. . : Correspon dence of The Observes GkeenoBoro, March 13, ,1879. Editob Objebveb i Are there no rights granted to a citizen of North Carolina, that (a dog ia bound to respect?.. We ask the 'question in all seriousness.' Are dogs, yal lowdogs, fice dogs, hound dogs, sheerer killing dogs, suck-egg dogs, to run at large ? And is there no protection against them ? It has eve rbeen the proud boast of the Englishman, that his dwelling was -hia castle, and that no one dared come upon ' and attack him there - with out ' incurring . the penalties j of ; r the strong arm of the law. A man may not do so, but his long eared - hound paayi come, with . impunity? and : break up all the setting hens , that ? a far mer's wife may have, or suck the; eggs she is carefully husbanding for the market, and if said farmer dares to protect his wife in her property,; by poisoning shoioting or snaring said bound,. is there no enactment in i "Battle's Revisal." or amendments thereto, that will bear hiaaont in thus free ing his own premises, at least, of a public nuisance? , j 5 " Anxiously awaiting your reply, I sub scribe myself. ' - ... ' -A Person Iktkbbsteq is the 1xte$mi- ; HATION Of THE WOHTHLKSS CCB. ' AN8WER.The trespassing dog may be lawfully killed.' ' : j t - Long lived. Mies Fanny " Dean,' fjf South Raynham, Maw., died suddenly on Monday 1 evening, aged 85 years.." Her; sister. Miss Corinda Dean, died Dec. 28,; aged 88. - Another sister, MUs Sarah Dean j died about a year since. aged 9L One sister survives, Mrs. Godfrey Robinson, iq fier eighty ecooa year. TH-fi GEOLOGICAL SlOFEY. REMARKS OF 1TB MERRITT. OF CHATHAV. DELIV. EKED IN THE VENATB, FEB. 13, OH 1 Hit PROPO SITION TO ABOLISH THE Q KOUH3ICAL 8UBVST. . Mb. Pbesidest: I approach this sub ject with misgiving. It is one of great importance, and 1 am no orator, as these Brutuses all around me are. but a plain. blunt man. slow of speeci and of a slow tongue ; and yet I am c unstrained to enter my protest against the abolition of the Geotogical-Survey- of- North - Carolina-1 1 he action of the lio jse in passing this bill I must characterize as hasty, incocsid " erate, ill-advised and uolust It was rushed through under the cry of retrench ment. and reiorm, without stopping tq ex amine what effect its passage would have upon the State. It was trying the accused without allowing him any defence. And I am astonished to find that a portion of the press of the B'ate, that ought to be the exponent of an enlightened opinion, hail this' action of the House as a glorious mote," and declare that this Survey is a "costly luxury," "by no ihean neceary" and a "useless burden." All these and similar declarations do most steadfastly not oeueve. - North Carolina has the credit of being the first to inaugurate these geological sur veys, cnau we tore? upon her the dis credit of being the first to abandon them i Alas I it would be a deplorable step back wards. Do we, as legisla'ors, appreciate what we are doing ? Natural science is a power in developing the firiunes- oi a State. Are we willing to arrest this power under the delusion that ws are already sufficiently developed ? it is thw same power that is to make North Carolina's true worth known to the world, - and to show her right to be considered one of the favored lands in natural capabilities upon which the sun shines. Are we ready to lay our rude hands upon this piwer, turn off the lights, and sit down in darkness ? We stand here as the custodians of a great property. " Now it would be the part of wisdom, in an individual owning a vast mine of wealth, to expend something to develop that wealth, and bring out its capabilities and concealed treasures. So of a State. The 'Legislature of 1852 acting upon this principle, passed a broad and comprehensive act, requiring the Gov ernor to "appoint a suitable person, whose duty it shall be to examine and survey each and every county in ' the Siate, . and ascertain the different geological formation of each county and section of the state the nature and character of its soils, and the best mode of improving the same ; the nature and kind of its productions and their relative positions and values its facilities for manufactories ; the extent and value of its water power, the character and value of its timber, and all other facts connected with its geology, mineralogy, botany and agriculture, which : may end to a full de velopment of the resources of the State.' The scope of the survey is obvious'y wide and includes in its purview everything tha' relates to the material development and progress of the State. . Now, have the provisions of this act been1 carried out ? How hat the Geologist done his duty? Take his book, "The Geology of North Carolina." read it care fully, see how full and accurate it is with regard to its soils, its fertilizers, its metal lic ores, its minerals that are not ores, its mountains, and valleys, and rvers, and lakes, and springs, and winds, and clouds. and frosts, and snows, and every other ma terial resource of the State. Think for a moment what ah immense amount of labor and research and science it would take to get it up. Go to the museum, examine those magnificent maps, lojk through the cases of specimens of marls, minerals and ores : then consider the fur: her fact that he has material . for another volume that awaits our order for publication. D j this honestly and intelligently, and tell me not that Prof. Kerr has done nothing. IS ay verily, he has. done much. And consider Ing the unfavorable, adverse, and often maiigr. influences under which he labored I undertake to say that he has done won derfully well. But it is said that this survey is a costly luxury. Look at that for one moment It costs the State $5,000 per year. One thousand goes to pay the rent and expen ses of the museum; leaving. four thousand dollars for the salary of the officer and his working capitaL There are sink holes for the people's money that ought to be cork ed up, but I declare to you that this is not one of them. The incumbent ot this of fice is not only a geologist, but a miheralo gist, a botanist and a chemist, and such a combination of attainments and science is not easily; found and always commands high wages. Why the Geologist of Ohio gets $9,000 a year, and she has spent $200. 000 on the present survey and $30X000 to publish results oaiunrma spent $ au.uoo, Kentucky $22,000, while .New Jersey with one seventh of the area of North Carolina, pays $5,000 for her survey an! then gives $6,000 to publish results. Peun sylvania spends $50,000 per year in the survey and then gives $100,000 to publish the results to the world; while our State gives $5,000 for the survey and not a cent to publish. Brazil, Spain, India, Japan. and nearly every civilized country in the world are feeling the importance and utih ty of ideological Surveys, and making lib eral expenditures therefor; while the Senate of North Carolina is now gravely discussing the propriety of abolishing her survey as a useless burden on the body politic I A what, I pray, would be the moral effect o its abolition ? . All of our boasts about cli mate and soil, and resources of mines. minerals and water power, would at once be discredited as but brag and bluster vox preterea nihil. Immigration and capi tal would be turned from our borders, and the leer that North Carolina is but a strip oetween south Carolina and Virginia, might have some foundation in truth. Bat says one, our geologist is under no one's supervision.'; The very reverse ol this is true. He is one of the moat super tied men in America. Everybody super vises him,5 The Governor supervises him. The press, with its teeming thousands of anonymous writers ' supervises him. The Legislature with its committees of retrench ment and reform comes along every two years and supervises him, as we are doing today. . He has stood subject to $he dis placement pf e very Governor and of every Legislature! since first he received hia coru miasion. ;Hubertp they have 1 said that the survey must go on, and that be must carry it on i But there are complaints against the geologist. Oh, 'yes,"' there - are. - Gram blera have . not yet died out, . Everybody wants his . own lands geologized. But as there are near a . hundred . counties in the State, and as the geologist,' do the best he may, can examine only a dozen or so counties and a d z n or so farms in each county during the year, '; somebody ba3 to wait. Somebody's patience gives out and homebody says cross Words. Somebody finds a glittering stone and roundly abuses somebody else for calling it iron ; pyri'es instead of gold.; Somebody- thinks he has found a diamond, and is mad bee 'use somebody else says it is nothing but quartz. Thus it comes to pa?s that our geologist is not only the most supervised. -- but the moat abused of men: -He stands high in bis pro fessiou . among scientific men,, but alas! how true it is that "a prophet is not with out honor save in his own e qitry While North Carolina has been in some respects a laggard in the race, : she has al ways been able to beast of a fe w sagacious statesmen and patriots of broad aud en lightened views,;. who have kept in the very van of j he- world's progrest 'These men, almost 'without exception; have not only been favorable to this work, but have urged it trpoo us with - emphasis and I power, " la trusting nod foUowing Murphy and Dudley1 and Mmr-h and Gra. nam ;we would not go far wrocirV n nam, mat stately old n 1846 : I trust no hnnmZ- 18110 nduce a longer delay in duvMino . r cultural, geological and mineralogicai n ' vey of the State," while that Sd Roman the brilliant orator and far; paUiJohn MMorehead. emphaS declares that .The same amoantrr could not. be.se. usefully applied in 111 other .way as procuring these snr I And Vance, whom we all deliirht r, af'er watching the progress and p.J this department from its inceDtion n. pronounces it to be "a most valuahi'p important work." Think you, Senator, that if these men were here tn.H vi!? they would go back on their record 2 vote to abolish this aurt ev ? VPni I". Their sobs and successors may, but'th old patriots, neverl Deae The collections of specimens in the Mm seum is worth lo the State manv over what it cost. Shall it h ..' and allowed to be Scattered, to th wiaust. auc tui aiug apparatus and pliances of the office are worth fiv n i Tu u: Jur ap- thou. nanr! Hntlara Shsll ihoos ik;. i , . mould, to rust and become worthWa ? i - .UV9rf UAllilfH IP -BTt " such a course the part of wisdom or ecoao uij tu a oiaier ... . VYithin the past decade this denrtm. has caused a million and a quarter of dol lars to oe invested in the Htjt short time ago capitaltats paid Si7S(vw for a bit of our mountain land, and since we have been in session there was a man from CanadU eximioing the museum and thence went to Chatham with a view of investing $250,000 within our borders I submit that it is the reverse of wia,w. the reverse of economy in us to abolish the Survey, and cut off this icflux of capital. x spiral tu you, Denaiora, not to abolish the oflioe of Slate Geologist. In beh.iif nf scientific investiatbn in North Carol'ma lmake this appeal. In behalf of the A-i' cultural Department that would be cnppiei u iw wiKniKjuj iuu rrnuerea almost uf- less, I oa.ke.tbis appad. I appeal, too ia behalf of the StAte at iwge, which would suffer a blow in aU its material develop, ment Finally, I appeal in behalf of th'a Legislature. Let it net be pat down to the discredit of the Legislature of 1S79 that it abolished a department, that it will htm a rtAt an4 An v. Legislature to restore. Tlte Hew Yrk World Ballad. TH WCIa Or TBI HAPLXSS MAIU WUO , DtJie, listea ad tearn ye ladies all To han the dreadful fate . Of tae nas4n fair who sp , but I Most not aaucapate. 'i Her father dwelt beide the Ctiarles, a. mercoaat .ooa was De, Who had SjG.ooo made ia bu last Uso vency. She was a maiea tall and dark, Anl statuesque of mien And pose and erer bore herself LiWe an Oriental queen; She had scarce a tained her twentieth y oar And was named Eranreline ' And she was .an accomplished girl, For fcbe could aing and play, A1 in German. French aud English too- Wu f-ertc'ly auait. " And Spaniflh, Latin Greek she knew, Italian soofce wtUt ease -She conld have hollered &i a mouse .In BCTen lar gnig- s. And she was lu nonsehold art, F.xm painting fwzes down To sucku.g muli s and butterflita On 1 Ule Jugs of bro n Nor did she s.-orn a t's higher walks, To decorate a room Not wiih he ancient masters' brush Bat the tuojtra servants" broom; And she cnld make, this pa agon al range. I mean wl h taste. Tart 8mphoni-8 in crai. berry jam With Katlake bands of phste. LUewise sne knew as dout, in point Of fact, moat niMdens young The science not nly how to talk, Ba . when to hold her tongue. Iu soo:h she waa, as Chaucer would He 8ul, had he ner seen, 1 A Tery pari ait gentle dame 1 he fair Evangeline, ' Lovers a many entered the lists, Lovers a many withdrew Till at last ttiere came to that quiet town A maa whom no one knew. Whence he came or wna waa his lineagi-, Or name, was none coald tell. But he had the beat apartments in The Washington Hotel, lie was tire&sed tu good and quiet taste, Waa neither clown nor f p. Bis balr was ye low, hia eyes were blue And his whisXers mutton-chop; And what he d d or where he went, One thing was always clear H s manners had the roose that marks - 'The casie of Veie i-e Vere . Indeed the hotel laundry mains r To I heir familiars swore i Thit his kerchiefs of the cambric Que A "j ukal cornet'" bore. And he had i ot been there but a wtek, A week, or two, I ween, Ere he .gave signs ot fallingln love With the fair Evangeline. Indeed, I may go farther Nor oass the limits of .The li mb Evangelise gave glgns ' With him of falling in love. V I don't de cribe the courtship. My long experience shows Ho one writea on this subject . ' Its principles that knows Readers who have been there before Will k ow it all, no doubt; And those who've not had better g ) v And for themselves find oat. Shall 1 omit the description ? S.-R V. P. The reply From a thousand assorted voices And nve hundred chairs comes "Aye '. : , "O love ! O joy! 6 rapture!'' Her to hu breast he dah clasp in an embrace 1 trow would tuaWe A boa-constrictor gasp. . , B t she rather aeems to like it, Aud In a caressing tone Assures her lover that she is . His owneat owny own. And he aaya gently to her: -I am no base-born churl, But I am the heir of broad, oroart lands And of a noble Larl. Than 1 there ia not in Merrie EnglacU . A bluervblooded petr. And the laxniiy estates are worth ' A coot sixty thon. a ear. : : Oh. I have wandered far and wule, HfttS, South and East and West, And many women- have 1 seen, But the fairest and the best Had one defect loid de ect i Which caused me to faint anl flee A tatal defect which would have wrecked My love had it bten in thee - But tliou art a queen, Evaagetln". And oevr dost gp' then she -Upspoke, wit a kiss from her red, red moa t ! " ove, grant a boon to me. And now that we twain are erggt" - And married aooa will be, , : Call me my pet name, dearest love, Mnce iDoim r Aral was Uvy'- ' (I Just putt at line in to rhj me) i "And aay yon love your Jivie ' Then up a d sprang that ?over i And dropped her from his knee As she bad been a reJ hot stove. And in despair cried he: , "She ta even as the others were, I And spells it with t-e!" 1 Then down the maid fed IB a swoon, v i-lf Tearing her nut-brown hair. i But for her grief the man distraugni . v I A a bit he did not care. . ; "Farewell, farewell, O fair and frau iTt Woman; what did enslave thee i That thou sDoaklst mutilate ' he name 1 1 h .t thy god-parents gave tnee . Oh, I mu wa tder v.tde again i Aer-a the iaud and aea. FntilJ flad a woman that . j Won't spell her name i-e. gave a sob, a nsig-ty sob , wr., s p r - That hia heartatringa wrenched ana k Then like a b ast away he piwaed , ; Out th ough tlie opea cloor. ' 1e paid hia b il at the torel f He took the earliest train, m -! !An i ner r bj ibe q uel Charles . . Was hia iod htp seen again ' nd on and ala for Evaugeline Wh i might have aOcunt-s as She u g oin io ha a ol i ma u i Wl h a Mi aiou and a cat Waits; fJ. j. Uwg1 The wife to her husband : Ob, ho .,: you are how generous-how HMt, ff it was of yon o buy me this JoveiJ dress I But; ckarest, ao yo thut ilia nnhannir 8ilk-weavers w r . aiorcinv f tarred ? 1 prcier uttia m.wi hnmhiA thoueh it may be. to lend'1 rrotifvlrcf mTSt'll. IHae e-i ' " this ?P merino dress back to the s"ore 7 A fit- tb m chanjje it- a strcpie . a wUl do for me. Let os ieuieuu-T T
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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