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WEDNESDAY.... JUNE 4, 1884.
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FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
, " The political campaign upon which the
people of North Carolina are just prepar
ing to enter will, beyond all question, be
one of great excitement as well as one of
vital importance to them. It will be no
child's play. '
All thai is needed to insure Democratic
success and continued prosperity to the
State is a plain, truthful statement of what
are now the facts of history, or are daily
becoming so. The reasons for Democratic
victory, and the even stronger reasons for
Republican defeat, are abundant, and it
is Ihe purpose "of the Register to do its
full part in laying them before the people.
As the best means in its power to this
end, and in answer to appeals, the Regis
ter will be furnished at such low rates as
to put it in the reach of every one during
the present State and Presidential cam
paigns. . .
, If we all do our full duty, victory will
surely be with us; but that duty will leave
us "no idle time. There must be early
wojrk, late work, work all the time. If
good government and a people's prosperity
are worth working-for, let us all go to
work, and at once.
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1' - ui vim in
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Address Raleigh Register,
Raleigh, N. C.
some- things about which there is not a
shadow of doubt.
If the Democratic5 Convention name
General Scales as the candidate for Gov
ernor to be supported by the Register, it
will name an excellent man, whose per
sonal and political integrity is beyond all
question; whose service as a patriot sol
dier was brilliant ; whose career as a states
man has been honorable to himself and
useful to the country ; and whose course
in the present Congress has been in abso
lute accord, not only with his own convic:
tions of public duty, but with the will of
the people as unanimously declared by the
last Democratic State Convention and by
the last Legislature of North Carolina. He
is a thoroughly good man, and if : chosen
f o that high office," will make an admira
ble Governor. There-is not in existence a
railroad officer who, knowing anything of
General Scales, would dare to think even
of approaching him with corrupt proposi
tions. The imputation conveyed by the rumor,
and printed in the paragraph, is equally
unfounded as to the Railroad. The Rich
mond & Danville Railroad Company is not
running General Scales, nor any other
man, for Governor, with or without a view
to the defeat of Governor Vance for the
Senate next winter. The Richmond &
Danville Company has its hands about as
full as they can hold of much more impor
tant business the building of the Western
North Carolina Road, for instance and
its manager in, this State has quite enough
sense to know that no man chosen by the
people for their Governor would dare,
even if he desired, to accept a seat in the
Senate before entering upon the duties of
the office to which he had been assigned.
The attachment to Senator Vance which
manifests itself in the press in and out of
season is very commendable, perhaps ; but
there is no need to make imputations upon
the character of other Democrats to sustain
him, nor to assail Colonel Andrews as de
siring to "boss" the State and the Sena
tor, simply because, in the discharge of his
duty, he successfully repelled an attack
made in haste and repented at leisure.
JST" The Register will gladly return
the courtesy of such of its State exchanges
as may find room" to copy its campaign
rates.
! V
BAIt POLITICS.
Seven years ago the Democratic party
took charge of North Carolina. Every
man knows that these last; seven years
have been the happiest and most pros
perous in the. history of the State. Her
million and a-half gf people have be
come law-abiding, thrifty and happy;
no race conflicts, no riots, no sectional
hatred, no jealousies, but all li ving together
in harmony, helping each 'other, esteem
ing each other. Throwing .off their leth
argy and catching the spirit of labor and
progress that has animated those direct
ing her affairs, her people have gone
to work with a new energy and a new
hope. Her old industries have been -improved
and enlarged until they yield up
their treasures as never before.. New in
dustries have been introduced and estab
lished, opening new avenues to wealth and
employment. Capital and labor go hand
in hand, without' jar or jealousy. Upon
the doors of the rich and poor alike is
written Activity and Progress; Onward,
the watchword of all. In material devell
opment, the State can po'intrtomore accom
plished than in any like period of her ex
istence. In the education of her people
and her children, like results have been
attained. Her credit restored, her name
loved at home and honored abroad, her
officers, her Representatives, her Senators,
richly endowed -for the parts assigned
them, working for her prosperity and glory
North Carolina "is to-day what she never'
was before. One loolfs back on the seven
years, and stands amazed at what has been
done; forward, and sees the light of a
bright future. One inquiies under what
made, and the answer comes from a hun
dred thousand and more of the best peo
ple of the State, Under the great Den
ocrauc party . ' . j
And yet, with all these facts known of I
all men, the Democratic party which, seven
years ago, counted its majority bv many
thousands, was ghd last year" to "have a
majority of a very few hundreds.
There must be some cause for this state
of things.
The Register thinks the cause very
plain. The decline of the Democratic
majority dates from the spring and sum
mer of 1880, when the people's confidence
in the Democratic leaders was rudelv
shaken by Democrats aspiring to be lead"
ers. How, it needs not to state now
Something of the same process of under
mining Democratic strength is going on
again.
The following, paragraph is turning up
'holy in North Carolina papers, giving
public notoriety to rumors that have had
wide private circulation :
' Humors r tM..L- 1.. ,
ond nnmri,, iualr mat the Kieh-
, company is pushing
J1'U,J "vemor, who to be
01 me Rreatly loved Zeb
VV e do not know that the ru-
General Scales and Colonel Andrews
are not the only public men among those
named for Governor, against whom unfair
methods, methods that will tell against the
party, have been used.
Since the above was written the Register
learns that the counties interested in the
Western North Carolina Railroad are being
instructed by letters that they must aban
don all idea of supporting Captain Coke
for Governor because of his vote on the
Railroad bill in the Legislature of 1 87C-T7 ;
that when the fate of the Road trembled
in the balance and the vote on the bill
stood 19 to 10, he voted against it.
There is no truth in the statement. The
Railroad bill passed by a vote of 27 yeas
to 8 nays. The vote of 19 yeas to 19 nays
was on an amendment to limit the amount
to be expended on the Road. Governor
Robinson had proposed a substitute fori
section 6 of the bill, to give the Governor-1
the power to buy rails and other materials
at his discretion, and to draw his warrants
011 the treasury for the funds necessarv
Mr. York proposed to limit the amount to
50,000, and,Mr. Troy to $70,000. Cap
tain Coke voted against the limitation be
cause he wished the Road built: as any of
its friends will perceive when they recol
lect that he voted for Governor Robinson's
proposition and to leave the amount sub
ject to the discretion of Governor Vance.
Here the Register might stop, but it
believes in always stating all the truth.
Captain Coke at that time represented a
Senatorial District which had virtually
instructed him in the strongest terms to
vote against this and all other Railroad
appropriations. He voted against the bill
under those instructions, having voted
with its friends for every proposition to
make the bill useful, and 'against everv
proposition to impair its usefulness, and
standing prepared to violate his instruc
tions (in so great a State necessity; if his
vote were needed. It was not needed, as
the Senate passed the bill almost unani
mously. The Senate Journals show, and the Sen
ators who had the Railroad in charge
will testify, that whilst Capt. Coke voted
against the bill under instructions (when
his vote for it was not needed) he voted
for every amendment offered by its friends
to perfect it, against every amendment
proposed by its enemies to cripple it, and
t uau tendered to its friends motion to
j reconsider and the votes of his friends and
: himself if they became necessary to save
the bill. Later on. when Capt. Coke was
? untrammeled by instructions of lus constit
uents, his efforts as private citizen and as
1 Chairman of the State Committee to secure
' the building of the Road are known of all j
' men. That the Road is nriw an amim.
plished fact is the result of the labors of I
many leading Democrats. Among them i
Captain Coke was very far from the least !
influential.
Let us all fight the enemy and quit
fighting each other The enemy will re
quire all our strength, and it is very "bad
politics" to make war on any other.
troversy is not the Register's business,
and the Register does not intend that
controversy shall be either its business or
its recreation. The questions are. these
1. Has it been wise in these six month
past, is it wise now, to tell the people?
that the Democratic party in. North Caro
lina, in advocating a" policy which has
been the policy of the Democratic party
of the Union from the beginning, has
made itself the advocate of "free drinks"
or of "free whisky?"'
2. It is wise,f it be the fact. Is it the
fact? , -
The Register's impressions are other
wise. Direct taxes and excise taxes were
rejected by the founders of the Govern
ment and of the Democratic party as the
system of raising national revenue, be
cause such a system would carry out Mr.
Hamilton's idea of filling the States with
Federal tax-gatherers, the most efficient
agents for breaking down the States and
building up a strong central Government.
Tariff taxation was adopted as the system,
because it avoided that greatest of politi
cal evils. Internal taxation was permitted
by the constitution, and has been resorted
to, only in case of absolute necessity, most
unwillingly then by Democrats, and al
ways repealed by Democrats as soon as
the necessity had passed.
That is the whole of it. No Democrat
that the Register knows of is iu favor of
free whisky, or free any thing else that
ought to be taxed, so long as the Govern
ment needs revenue. What the Demo
cratic party wishes is relief from a system
that is dangerous to liberty. When it ac-
j complishes that, it will not only have re
lieved the people of unnecessary internal
taxes and broken up the most powerful
monopoly in the country, but it will have
made tariff reduction necessary. So long
as the internal revenue taxes are collected,
there will be no need to reduce the tariff
taxes to a revenue basis, just so soon as
the internal revenue taxes are repealed,
the Government will need money and will
get it by reducing the tariff and lighten
ing the people's burdens.
The Register may also remind its
friends who object to this time-honored
Democratic dostrinc of hostility
to internal revenue taxes, that their
repeal would not leave whisky free. The
heaviest tax in the tariff laws of which
they complain so bitterly is the tax on
whisky. The tariff tax on whisky is 323
per cent, and that too on a valuation three
times as great as the cost of the domestic
article. On this high valuation, whisky
j is taxed by the tariff 200 per cent, higher
-than the tax on any other article taxed bv
: the t.irilT; the next highest being fire
j crackers, taxed 127 per cent. Reduce the
: tariff to a revenue basis say to 100 per I
cent, on whisky, GO per cent, above the j
, average tariff tax and whisky w ill come j
; in so freely that Government will derive ,
an immense revenue from ir. and drinks :
j may approach somewhat nearer a point j
; that may lx called " free." j
Would our friends like to be called the
i advocates of "free drinks " because they
; advocate '-a tariff for revenue only?" !
The New York papers are filled with
i special telegrams from Chicago in regard
j to the, Convention now in session. The
telegrams are mainly speculative, and gen
erally intended for effec t upon the dele
; gates. The Tribune dispatches make it
("plain that Blaise is irresistible and Ar
i TniR hopelessly beaten. The Times tele
! grams are as fatal to Arthur as to Blaine,
j boom Edmunds and, Edmunds failing,
' foreshadow Lincoln. The Herald still
stands by Arthur, but has manifestly
; lost neart. 1 he bun messages point dis
I tinctly to the defeat of bolh Arthur
j and Blaine. As well as truth can be
( guessed from all these guesses, the dele--I
gates stand about thus: For Blaine 323;
Arthur 306; Edmunds 73; Logan 47;
i Sherman 32; Hawley12: General Sher
; man 6; doubtful or scattering 21, Messrs.
! Blaine and Arthur am inst stir.
enough, to ensure each other's defeat. The
; chances, so they seem to the Register,
favor the nomination of Senator Sherman.
The Chicago Convention yesterday
elected a temporary chairman, with an ex
cited balloting, and adjourned to 11
o'clock to-day. The chairman selected
was Hon. John-R. Lynch, late a colored
Congressman from Mississippi. His oppo
nent was Hon. Powell Clayton,' late a
white Senator from Arkansas. The vote
was for Lynch, 432, Clayton, 387. Lynch
was an Arthur man, with the avowed in
tention of voting for whatever candidate
the ballotings should show to be the
choice of the Northern Republican States.
Clayton was an Arthur man, who sold
out on Sunday to the Blaine people.
Lynch was put in nominat ion by Mr. Lodge,
an Edmunds man, whose second choice is
Arthur. Clayton was the nominee of
the National Committee. A telegram from
a well informed member of the Convention
may reach the Register before it goes to
press mis morning, explaining the situation
there. Here, it only looks certain that
Blaine and Arthur have failed.
OUR EASTERN WATEBWAI8..
A treat Work Quietljr Dlitc, v - .
" The Secretary of War has appointed
General John Jtewton, Colonel Q. A. -GH-.;
more, Lieutenant-Commander' B.- H. Mc
CalU, lieutenant T.' H. Bliss, to compose
the Board to consider the expediency of
constructing a line of inland water-ways
for the protection of the Bea-board of the
Atlantic and Gulf States."
The above announcement lately made at
Washington suggests reference to the in
land water-ways of North Carolina, their
importance as ways of commerce, their
importance in time of war, and a state-:
ment of what the State has done for them.
In considering these different headings,
the Register will be governed more by
the order of time in which improvements
have occurred than by the order in which
subjects arc stated.
To fully understand the subject head
ings in this article, it will be necessary for
one not familiar with Eastern North Caro
lina, its coasts and inland water-ways to
look carefully over the map of that part of
the State. As the reader passes his eye
up Neuse river, he will see making off to
the left Clubfoot creek. Then a little to
the south, he will see New river, whose
mouth is Beaufort Harbor. Passing the
eye along up this river he will see Harlow
creek making off to the right. If he will
take a measure he w ill find the distance
from the head waters of one of these
creeks to the other tobe about three mjles.
In 1813 a canal wim ehartered hv thn f jt-
I islature of North Carolina to unite these
two creeks and their names gave to the
work the name of
the clubfoot and harlow creek canal.
This was the first work of internal im
provement ever projected in the State, and
one of the first to receive State aid. A
narrow, shallow canal was made, which
was for awhile used by small light draft
boats, but it soon became impassable for
practical Dumoses and was abandoned
In 1871-2 the canal was rechartered by
the Legislature of North Carolina under
the name of the Newbern and Beaufort
Canal, and all interest the State had
in the old Clubfoot and Harlow Creek
Canal was donated to this new company,
and the Governor was authorized and
directed to execute a deed, conveying such
interest as soon as twenty thousand dol-:
lars should be expended on said canal.
That amount has long ago been expended
and the deed has been made. We .will-re-,
turn to this canal again presently. '' 1
THE ALBEMARLE AND CHESAPEAKE CANAL;
I n 1854-5 the Legislature chartered the
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, and in
1850-7 subscribed f 250, 000 to its capital
stock and issued State bonds to pay for
the same to that amount. This subscrip
tion was subsequently increased $100,000,
and bonds issued for a like amount mk.
ing the stock of the State in the canal
In 1880. ilOO.OOO of these Krn,l
returned to the treasury and $100,000 of
stock surrendered, leaving the State, when
the Legislature met in 188ft. with nn in
terest of .$350,000 in the company, which,
like her investments in other works of
improvement, was practically worthless as
an investment for the return of dividends,
but whose value cannot be told as devel
opers of her resources and as men nf
j transportation for the products of her
i people.
i To trace the route of this canal, the
: reader is-again asked to look at the ex
i treme northeastern corner of the map,
! where he will see North river, which
i separates Currituck from Camden county
j and empties into Albemarle Sound. Enter
j this river and pass along up it sixteen
I miles, and turning to the right he will
' enter the first section Of the canal. This
! section is known as the Currituck section.
I It is about five miles long and unites the
I waters of North river and Currituck
' Sound. Pass north, up Currituck Sound
to the mouth of North Landing river,
! and thence up this river to what is
: known as the Virginia section. This sec-
tion lies wholly in Virginia, is about nine
miles long and unites the waters of North
Landing river with the waters of Eliza
beth river. Upon entering the Elizabeth
river at the locks of the canal, pass down
the river fifteen miles and Portsmouth and
Norfolk are reached. The Albemarle and
Chesapeake Canal is irom sixty to eighty
feet wide and usually furnishes a depth of
seven feet of water. It has but one lock
and that is where the canal enters the
Elizabeth river. This lock is built of
granite, is two hundred and twenty feet
long and forty feet wide. Steamers car
rying immense cargoes pass through this
canal. It is not unusual for one to pass
through carrying one thousand bales of
cotton, or its equivalent in other products
or merchandise.
The importance of this canal to the
trade and commerce of North Eastern
North Carolina canpot be estimated ; for
until the construction of the Elizabeth j
City and Norfolk Railroad, it was about '
the only outlet for the produce and lumber !
of the North Eastern counties. Its earn- '
ings have been applied to the payment of I
the interest on it mortgage bonds, and
upon improving its navigation, and it is j
likely they will have to be so applied for I
years to come.
So the canal is not likely to be worth
much to its stockholders any time soon
but is of immense value to its patrons and
the people generally in that section re
ferred to. This company is the chief
stockholder in the Newbern and Beaufort
Canal Company, and is supplying the
money with which that canal is now being
pushed to a speedy completion, and this
brings us back to
Canal into the waters of this State.
These boats, going-, tkuth, pass down
the inland waters of the navigable streams
and through the "Delaware and Raritan
Canal," the "Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal," and the. "Albemarle and Chesa
peake Canal," Into the inland water of
North Carolina. , So that, when the "New
bern and Beaufort Canal " is completed,- n
boat may be taken from Beaufort Harbor
through the inland waters and canals to
the great lakes of the great North-West.
The Government is acting wisely in bet
tering and extending this inland naviga
tion, and we hope to see larger and more
efficient appropriations made for that pur
pose. In the light of these facts, one can
see how well
governor jarvis understood
what he was talking about, when, in June,
1882, in a public speech at Moreheacr City,
he said the State could well afford to give
her stock in the Albemarle and Chesapeake
Canal Company to any person or corpora
tion that would complete the Newbern and
Beaufort Canal. Acting upon this wise
and sagacious suggestion,
the legislature of 1883,
following his lead, passed an act, author
izing the Governor and his Council to
transfer the stock of the State in the Albe
marle and Chesapeake Canal Company to
the, Newbern and Beaufort Canal Compa
ny, upon that Company entering into a
contract, "with satisfactory security, to
open said canal for navigation by the first
of January 1885.
The contract was entered into, and the
work on the canal has been going on with
due diligence.
While this work has not, so far, attract
ed public attention to any great extent, its
projectors and promoters well understand
its importance, and its completion during
me tfARVis aamimsirauon win not, wnen
its importance is fully appreciated by the
public, be considered among the least that
was accomplished during his wonderful
An1 nntl.m 4Kn:l 1 f
nun miiTc uuiuini nil-.
As certain as we write to day, many who
read this article will live to we the head
waters of other creeks and rivers in the
eastern part of the State connected by a
system of canals, thus giving a system of
inland navigation to Wilmington and be
yond. The Newbern and Beaufort Canal the
old Harlow and Clubfoot Creek Canal of
1813 will form a part of this important
system.
A GREAT STATE INSTITUTION
Dolus It Work Well The Report of
the AcrteaJtaral Experiment fetation
for 1883. , ,. ' -:. --
STATE POLITICAL ITKITIS.
FREE DRINKS-FREE WHISKY.
a
made Seuator In
nlon B.-Vancr
mor i corral" , ni"
Lrft.?f X? x,to 8taIat home, by a larjre ma-
The distinguished Democrat whcMs the
subject of the rumors he is also named in
one of the papers circulating them is
General Alfred M. Scales.
General Scales is not, this year, the
Register's choice for Governor. The Reg
ister has thought that Colonel Wiliiam
... 0ACHDKR8 was thi most available can
" We heard one of our most intelligent
citizens say this week that if the Demo
cratic party at the State Convention de
clared for free whisky and free tobacco
and nominated a man who believed in
such a platform that he could not support
the ticket. And he is not alone. There
are many hundreds in the State who en
tertain these views, and although they
might be induced to vote thP t,Vu "
j choice between evils, they would not give
i if ft knA. A.
oany support and would vote the
ticket under protest. In our desire to gain
he vote of the West there is great danger
that we will lose the b i . .-
I f,. If. the Democratic party in North
didate. in that, whilrf 1 u . : li
, ' wum maKe n I Carolina is to follow . ' T.
"wuai ch 11 vii km a nmM ,.r u" iuc ichu ui aTl Knn.
' cuecuve canvass i: dall and to taVM . "
. ... . tllgU umn and tne
g ;nc tax off whisky and tobacco
-f will pursue a course that will inevital
could be, and would be, made for him than
or any otner Democrat. Colonel SiCN.
mm out of the question by his own will,
the Register has thought, and thinks
that Captain Coke will mat fha . 1
candidate whom the Demo ! ne 5 the
put u t. . .. . r ij 'moeratic 8ta exchano-P,! .vj, ....
. . - v ww vr CI . MHIIf'O ft m. I. . ,.1. 1 .
, , . U1UU lms ,at appeared in
ITER unv mn ( 4.1. ... - . J "1'iH-areu in
"7,U1 Ulcm' lree drinks"' occasionally
substituted for free whi(lkv v
two questions. They arc asked with no
purpose of useless controversy. for eon
it
bring defeat."
The above paragraph clipped yesterday
from one of the Register's most valnl
One can turn to the consideration of
no interest of the State or its people with
out seeing the effects of Democratic ad
ministration which began seven years ago
Read in to-day's Register of what is go
ing on in Eastern North Carolina- of the
work the Experiment Station is doing- of
what has been done for the colored schools
as told by Mr. Neathert, a capable pub
lic officer who knows whereof he speaks.
Read these, and the details of State work
and State improvement which have filled
every issue of the Register, and when
you are asked to change, make sure to
know a reason for change.
EDUCATION Alt NOTES.
The Catalogue of Davidson College is at
hand, showmg: OS Seniors 23; Juniors 13
Sophomores 33; Freshmen 27; Post-Grad-uate
1 ; Eclectic Students 13 Sub-Presh-
.0; South Carolina 25; Georgia 11; Louis
iana 2; and one from each, Alabama Mi s.
sour,, Arkansas, Virginia, Siam, Florida
Texas and New York. '
maer of opinion. The Register may
right and it is very well assured that i't
s; the Register may be wrong, though
. not at .1, think. . BuMhere
The Wak, Democracy met in Conven
tion on Saturday. The results of the
Fowul'Tr S,atUrda la8t- 8 been
estimated A S"" are variousIy
awen tt -A Co man says that Cox
swept the county; a friend of Fowle
Wa,hen?rried the count to one
We shall know on Saturday.
J TOE NEWBERN AND BEAUFORT CANAL.
It is the purpose of those in charge of this
work to make the canal sixty to eighty
feet wide, with a depth of water of eight
or nine feet. b
When this is done, the distance between
Newbern and Beaufort will be immensely
shortened. The shortest water route at
present must be at least one hundred miles
and this is throno-h P
only a depth of five or six feet of water
can be found. By the route of this canal
it cannot be over fifty miles. But this is
not the greatest advantage of the work
At present, a vessel bound from New
bern to Wilmington, Charleston, the"
West Indie8; or to any Southern port, has
to go to Ocracoke and out to Sea through
an Inlet vastly inferior to Beaufort, and
then around Cane Loot rw t
, X- - ' X V7 uu mis,
she must travel at least three times fifty
miles, and in unfavorable weather, often
be several days at it.
Whgi this canal is completed, she tan
pass through it and out to sea at Beaufort
Inlet in less than fifty miles, and do it 1n
uuuik. rori8tnis its greatest ad
vantage. When it is completed, all small
coasting vessels (either propelled by steam
or sail) not more than forty feet wide, and
not drawing more than seven feet of water
can enter RpahW w.i .
tLi, i. . uu passing
through this canal and the inland sounds
and the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal
pass out at Cape Henry, or up the Chesal
peake Bay and its tributaries, thus avoid
ing Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras
So much for this inland navigation in
time of peace. If war shall ever come, its
importance will be infinitely multiplied.
,1UV lo acxena our coastjn
trade against the depredations of the ene
my s navy, our inland navigation would
become of vast importance for the trans
portation of supplies, and for the trade
and commerce of the country.
Jt is a fact well known to those who are
at all familiar with th traAa anA
merce of the Albemarle and Chesapeake
Canal, and the vessels by which thi com
merce is carried, that a great many canal
boats from the Erie Canal are seen passing
through the Albemarle and Cheiapeakf
The Warren County Democratic Con
vention declared for Captain Coke for
Governor.
The Forsyth Democrats recommend
Scales for Governor and C. B. Watson for
Congress.
The Graham County Democratic Con
vention met on May 23. The delegates
are instructed for Captain Coke.
Cumberland is for the renomination of
Col onel Wharton J. Green at the Burlaw
Convention for the Third Distric t.
The Swain Democrats in County Con
vention have instructed their delegates to
vote for Captain Coke for Governor.
The Democrats of Rockingham held
their convention on Mav 27. Delegates
are instructed for General Scalps for
ernor, and for James VV. Reid for Congressman.
The Mecklenburg County Convention
recommended Scales for Governor, Walker
for Attorney-General, and a telegram to
the Stir says that the delegation will sup
port Bain for Treasurer.
The Durham .nWrfVrearnestly advocates
the nomination of Judge Fowle for Con
gress from this district. It knows of no
one in the district with as much strength,
and no one more deserving.
The Asheville AJtanee thinks the lest
ticket is "Scales, Stedman, Saunders,
Bain, Roberts, Davidson and Abernethy!
With it, we can carry North Carolina by a
sweeping majority, and send the Honor
able Tvre York, his blac k Fines n-ii,.,
and his white Boss, Mott, with all their
black-and-tan up Salt river."
The Ashboro Cmirxer says that "as
things now stand it is probable that the
contest for the Congressional nomination
in this district will be between Mr. M. S.
Robins, of this county, and Colonel R F
Armfield, of Iredell. Randol oh and Mnnt.
j gomery will cast a solid vote for Robins
! and he will probably divide other coun
! tics, if not on the "first, on the second
j ballot."
j The Beaufort Telephone savs that "the
old Third Congressional District, of which
Carteret county formerly occupied a part
is unanimously in favor" of Major Charles
M. Stedman, than whom no worthier or
1 more popular candidate has Wen named
, for Lieutenant Governor. Carteret is well
acquainted with the merits of this gentle-
man, and will probably give him a solid
: delegation."
j One by one, the Democratic papers of
North Carolina are finding out that there
I is work before us this year; and they are
making it plain that "thev will do their
I shae f U- Tho ntion that the canvass
I ended when York was nominated is mass
ing away. Good! As each one Tails into
the line of right judgment the Regis
ter b confidence rises. "Solitary and
alone," when it set the ball in motion it
was made fearful of results. Now its ho'pes
are high of a full vote, and a full vote is a
Democratic victory.
The Pamlico Enterprise savs that " the
Western people have hithert3 been some
what divided between Scales and Gilmer
In the Eastern portion of the State the di-i
vision has been hetv
But as Gilmer is not now to be considered
a candidate, we think the East will unite
on Coke. The First Congressional Dis
trict, we know prefers Coke to any man
m the State In this district the people
all know who and what Octavius Coke is
and if they could have the opportunity to
vote for him, the lukewarm, the oareless
and indifferent men of the out-of-the way
places the honest, but mistaken farmers
w.io nave Decome somewhat disgusted
with party issues wherever they might be
found, would to the last man of them in
the b irst District, turn out en masse and
deposite their votes foi Octavius Coke
After ourgreat Senator, Zebulon B. Vance'
honored and loved above any other son of
our good Old North State, there is not a
man from Dare to Cherokee, from New
Hanover to Warren, who can go before
the people of Jorth Carolina and enthuse
them as Octavius Coke can and would do
if nominated."
The Concord Reghter says that "the
only man now among those prominently
talked of for the nomination who will
ikc me --Dun oy the horns" as Vance
did in 1876, and has both the mental and
physical strength to make the whole can
vass with success, is Captain Octavius
Coke, of Raleigh. Captain Coke has the
physical vigor to take the banner in his
hand and march from Cherokee to Curri
tuck and walk right over Dr. York and
all the Liberal-Republican speakers that
the mongrel party can trot out. He is an
able statesman, and ' is rwr)i
posted man, as to resources, industries
and agricultural interests of the State, in
her borders, and he knows the wants of
the various sections an well tr s. j
lawyer and a successful farmer, and he
would make a successful candidate, and a
good Governor. He would pick up the
VaTl0 -h Democrcy ist where
k 1 - ue woum bring
it back, after carrying it over ninety six
counties, stirring up the people with his
enthusiasm, having inscribe upon it the
figures, 15 000 majority. The Democratic
prestige of North Carolina must be re
stored: no mim fri. j . ..
f . . V, , ureu majorities
! for us: Captain Coke is the man to do it."
' A copy of this Report has just been e
ceived. It ia a neatly printed pamphlet
of 104 pages whose, contents wilt interest
all of. our fanners and' more particularly
those who use fertilizers. The Report
takes quite a wide range, and embraces the
analyses of fertilizers, of composts, of
marls and soils, of phosphates, of feeding
stuffs, minerals, ores, etc. Some of the
larger classes of substances analyzed are
the following: commercial fertilizers 205,
samples of composts and composting ma
terials 12, marls 24, phosphatic marls 15,
phosphates 55, soils 8, minerals 53, drink
ing waters 32, mineral waters 27, with a
large number of other samples, making a
total of 453 analyzed during the year.
These analyses are made free of charge for
citizens of North Carolina when the results
are of public interest and free to publish.
Every citizen of North Carolina has a right
to call upon the Station for assistance.
Afl th' Director Sflva in t.lw introrlnfirin
' 'Let each one write and state what he
wants. The Director gives his personal
attention to every request and specimen
which comes here. It may be impossible
lor us to comply with all the requests
made; but write out your wishes in full,
send your samples, and we will do what
we can, or think is best to be done in the
case. Every letter is acknowledged and
filed, and every specimen entered on the
list, examined and reported upon. It is
frequently unnecessary to make a regular
chemical analysis of the specimens, as a
determination of the mineral character of
the specimen is often sufficient. In every
case, however, enough will be done to de
termine the value of the specimen for
warded." This is certainly a most liberal policy on
ine part 01 rne state which established and
supports this institution, and we are glad
to note that it has its fruits.
In another place Dr. Dabney says : "The
experience of the year has well established
the wisdom of our policy of examining
every sample or specimen whatever, sent
11s from North Carolina soil, free of charge,
at least so far as ascertaining its general
character and value. This policy has re
sulted in bringing to light a great many
interesting things, but nothing of so much
importance to the agricultural community
and the industries of the State as the phos
phates and phosphatic marls which were
first discovered in workable Quantities this
year."
Another illustration, though not con
nected with agriculture, of tbe wisdom of
this policy of free analysis at the State
office, is found in the discovery of Cassit
erite or tin-stone, a mineral unknown in
North Carolina hitherto, and found only
rarely and sparingly in America, which
came to light at King's Mountain in con
nection with the collections for the Boston
Exhibit. We could scarcely conceive of
two more important or interesting addi
tions to the State's mineral wealth than
phosphates and tin stone.
We are pleased to know that this
rSEFl L institution
is now jiermanently established on proper
ty owned by the State, and thoroughly
furnjshed and equipped. The Stationhas
ten handsome apartments, wi tb OfAar nnrl
1 More-rooms. Jn tne Agricultural Depart
i ment building. The Laboratory is thor
j oughly equipped for rapid and" accurate
j work. A scientific library is .gradually
i being collected together, and collections
! illustrating Agricultural chemistrv, the
j. constitution of the soil, the manufacture
I of chemical manures and the general a'ii
; cultural resources of the State are be7nr
! gradually accumulated. "
! We have the customary long chapter on
. the rules and regulations the analysis and
j valuation of commercial fertilizers. This
continues to be the part-of the Station's
: work which interests our people most.
1 Glancing -through the list of fertilizers
i licensed to be sold in this State, we find
1 that out of ninety-two different hranL
j our market only four are registered as
" in wuu vuruuna. it mav
V. .. 1 4. . .1 . -
lua .MJiue 01 inese were manufactured
outside of the State for North Carolina
dealers. Ninety-five thousand tons of
these ninetv-two difffrpnt nrtir.in,, ...
! sold in the State, nn average, we may say.
' ue mousanu tons ior each brand. It
is impossible to get ,any accurate averatre
of the cost per ton of these fertilizers,
they are so various; but as ammoniated
fertilizers form the larcrpcf mrt t,
: ber we may safely-jssume that the average
j of all was not less than $30 per ton. Then
; nearly three millions of dollars were paid
! for the fertilizers uscl in tw c:tni
ich only about $100,000 remained in the
State. This should not be. All of our
neighboring States have been doing more
than we have in this business of manufac
turing fertilizers for home consumption
South Carolina mnk-ps the x
,1 , '"'g"-"! pail Ul
the fertilizers we use. Her phosphate beds
enable her to do this. Virginia has not
the resources for the production of fertili
zers which North Carolina has, but we
find fourteen brands credited to that State
in the list of fertilizers sold in North Caro
lina They are manufactured at Norfolk
Richmond, Petersburg and other points'
from material imported, most probably'
from irutL n. 1 , , 1 .
I V . v,oiuuuH ana other States
I Again, a large number of the fertilizers
j us;d 111 North Carolina are manufactured
j in New; "i ork, Boston. Baltimore and other
, maces m tne north. Theso tnn,fnt.n
we suppose, buy their phosphate in the
south, ship it north, manufacture it into
fertilizers, and then ship it south again
Common sense would seem to.indicate that
they could not compete with the southern
manufacturers, if the latter were able to
employ the same facilities. Even if all of
the material had to be imported into North
Carolina we should think that all of the
fertilizers used in the State might be made
here to advantage.
We deem it very wise, therefore, that
Dr. Dabney has devoted the largest part
of this Report to the discussion of
NORTH CAROLINA RESOURCES FOR COMMER
CIAL FERTILIZERS.
After reading what is said upon this
subject one is constrained to ask Why
should North Carolina import a' single
pound of fertilizing materials, much less
the manufactured article? We have long
known that our fisheries, cotton-seed oil
mills, etc., would supply us with all the
ammonia we wanted. Our wood factories
oil mills, etc., supply ashes rich in potash!
while German Dotash snltu ul
. L "Miilll H UU
imported into North Carolina as cheaply
as to New York or f!hnrlocfr.r, ami il y
ouiiuuus-
phates, which are the foundation material
of all fertihzers, were wanting until the
magnificent discoveries were made in
Sampson and Duplin last year Now
thanks U Dr. Dabney 's persistent efforts'
we know that workable phosphates exist
over an extensive territory in our State
and that we need nothing outside of the
State, therefore, in order to produce the
VV V - c c lurxe mllin dollars worth
of fertilizers.
It is with a special interest, therefore,
that we have read the exhaustive treatise
upon the North Carolina phosphates con-
k m tbiS. reprt- The Phosphates
ioney s attention by
Dr. Hogg of Raleigh. This was in Feb
ruary of last wnr Th-0 Z
tt , , J cnuic irom jjr
,5 d -ere
.v. ,aFmi UJ discoveries at other
tiesCeaSnd eWrHanr Pender coun
ties and by discoveries of a still better
grade in Duplin and Sampson. Phosphate
rock has been found so Pfar, in larZ Tr
sma Icr quantities, in Sampson, Duplin
Onslow, New- Hanover, Pender Bladen'
Columbus and Brunswick counties The
largest known deposits of workable phos
phate, suitable for manufacturing" are
found m Duplin and Sampson. The phos
. phates of Pender and New Hanover are
imbedded in a limestone which will make
an admirable phosphatic lime for local use
Upon the swamp soils and sand barrens.
THE PHOSPHATES OF DUPLIN AND SAMPSON
are of a different character, quite free
from earbonate of lime, very massive, and
easy to mine. The latter occur in sand or
loam in large lumps varying from two or
three pounds to two or three hundred
pounds in weight, six to twelve feet below
the surface. A test pit yielded fifty tons
of crude rock or forty-eight tons of clean
rock, earth excavated 681 cubic yards,
covering 11-100 of an acre. Total cost of
the 48 tons, loaded on the cars, $165. Dr.
Dabney says that the mining was done in
the crudest and most expensive way, and
the hauling in country carts. This indi
cates,, however, that this rock can be very
cheaply mined. Taking only the interme
diate analyses, omitting both the lowest
and the highest, we find that the rock thus
obtained contains from 45 to 65 per cent,
of phosphate of lime, 3 to 4 per cent, of
carbonate of lime, and 20 to 30 ner cent.
Of sand. The phosphate is said to vary
very little at any given locality. It con
tains very little iron or alumina, the dilut
ing material consisting almost entirely of
sand.
The most interesting part to us is the
record given on Dace 78 of thp
X O
ments, made at the Navassa Guano Com
pany's works, in producing
ACID PHOSPHATE FROM THIS ROCK.
A lot of the lowest grade rock was taken,
ground and treated with sulphuric acid in
various proportions. We will not go !nto
the details, but the results show thnt pvpn
the poorest of this rock can be made into
a couiiuciciai superpnospnaie. 1 ne dilut
ing material being sand, which i nontrnl
and does not take up any acid, a muoirless
amount 01 suipnunc acid is required to
dissolve this rock of ours lhan most other
crude phosphates. For example, rock
containing 40 per cent, of phosphate re
quired only 600 nounds of ftC'id - fid npr
cent, strong, and made a superphosphate
tuuuunuig iv per cent. 01 soluble phos
phoric arid. We are told in the Report
that 900 pounds of acid is usually required
io me same amount 01 south Carolina
phosphate. This must cheapen our pro-
uumpureu witn others. very much.
The higher grades of North Carolina rock
give correspondingly better results.
EXCELLENCE OF OUR PHOSPHATES.
The points in favor of our North Caroli
na phosphate as compared with others are
stated to be
1. Its massiveness. The rock occurs in
large, heavy pieces, which make the yield
pci acre run very nigu.
2. The freedom from clay. The rock
lies in sand or loam which can be easily
brushed or washed off, and does not need
to be broken at all to get it free from the
earth. - The expensive machinery usually
found at the phosphate mines for cleaning
the rock can be almost entirely dispensed
with in our field.
3. The great case with which the rock
can be mined. It occurs near the surface,
the sand is easily due-, and it u tnnnA
mostly in a high, dry country, the drain
' age problem will be a simple "one.
I 4. The chemical composition of the rock
1 is such as to admit of its being worked
j easily and profitably into superphosphate
as we have already described.
For these reasons we should judge that
it c annot be long before acid phosphate
will be manufactured in North Carolina
from our own material. This simple, Un
mixed acid phosphate is becoming more
and more popular with our farmers, and
promises to be still more largely consumed.
It is greatly used in composts and other
farm mixtures, especially in the cotton sec
tion, so that the outlook is. that acid
phosphate factories in the phosphate coun
ties would find a large demand for their
first product, immediately at their doors.
Dr. Dabney goes on, ho'wever, to discuss
111 a very clear manner th,e
STATE'S RESOURCES FOR AMMONIA.
Various materials are used to supply the
nitrogen or ammonia of fertilizers and
these are found to exist abundantly also in
the State. Our fisheries, already yield
ing a considerable amount of material for
.these purposes, could be marlp h C!,
supply all of the ammoniate, as it is called
used in fhe 95,000 tons sold in the State'
The gas-works connected with the cities
are throwing away a great amount of am
moniate in the "gas liquor," which could
be saved. The slaughter-houses about the
cities could be made to yield a large addi
tional amount, while the cotton-seed oil
mills, if they manufactured one-fourth of
the seed produced in North Carolina, could
supply the whole fertilize- trade of the
State, after feeding all the milch-cows with
all the cotton-seed meal they could eat.
The refuse of tobacco factories is noticed
as another possible source of material for
these uses, and it is clearly shown that if
we saved only a small part of these mate
rials, now going to waste, the State would
have no need to buv aincrl
r,:4..T I ...,inlll-
"iimu.-u icriuizers.
OUR RESOURCE8 FOR POTASH
are taken up next, and it is made to appear
that even if wc did not have the cheap
German potash salts we should be fully
equal to the present demand for potash
Analyses are given of hickory, dogwood
cypress, oak and pine ashes, and from va
rious large saw-mills and wood-workin"
establishments, which burn their refuse"
and it is shown that all these are valuable
materials. Cotton-seed oil-mills generally
rind that their hulls suffice for fuel. These
hulls yield remarkably rich ash. This leads
xi. uiiumry 10 suggest that as these cotton-seed
oil-mills have in their meal a
source of ammonia, and in their ashes a
source of potash, they should all have fer
tilizer works connected with them. As
the phosphates are found in the cotton
country it would appear that the problem I
18 an exceedintrlv cimnL t-: .1. !
--o-j -i" nt. uiu me
phosphate and treat it with acid, collect
the cotton-seed and crush them, mix the
meal, the acid phosphate and the ash pro
duced, into a fertilizer, and sell it to the
cotton-producer, and you have a trade
based entirely upon home materials and
upon home labor. Such operations must
-uuUuUlcij, euncu me community which
will engage in them.
This subject is one of the greatest im
portance to our people, and we sincerely
hope the work so well done by the Experi
ment Station, and the instruction so forci
bly given, mav hear fmif on
.to the advantage of North Carolina agri-
.,v m uw-uuiiuiug 01 our manu
facturing industries.
This valuable Report may be obtained bv
applying to the Experiment Station.
WASHINGTON.
E.l New Mpaper Men Demi s.M ,.
Correspondence of the Raleioii Kk.i ti ,.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 31. 1VK.1
Printers' types and ink are indip,.,ii,.,f,
civilization, and never were they m ,
better use at the nation's cnj.ftal nM
when Ben Perley Poore, the veteran
nalist of Massachusetts and Washin-V,,,,,
began the regular annual issue f;',
Congressional Directory. That pampl,;,
whose latest edition has two hundred i:, r
inside its pink covers, is a
BETTER DIRECTORY TO THE STIiA,( f i;
visiting Washington than the bir v.,1,;,,,,.
that tells where people live, and "v.-hi n- ;,,
find butchers, tailors and drv-good
you wish to know the record of "the n '
bers of either House, here it js c opit . r,',.
you. If you prefer a stroll, a drive, ;1
or a railroad trip, they are all here.- B,n
especially, if you wish to know when- !l
LEADING NEWSPAPER COHREsFoXDhvr-
are to be found, consult Ben PcrlevV 1,()(,'
1n.1t you win nna tne names of the nim-t
nine quill-drivers (none of them use quilu,
who are entitled to the privileges of u.
reporters' gallery. These men repri s llt
something like one hundred and fifty jour
nals between the Atlantic and Pacific t!.
Gulf of iMexico and the Canadian border
whose readers would not have appetites f,
their breakfasts if they missed on anv se,
ular day their paper with its pithy report
of w hat w as done in Washington "tin- tl l v
lefore. But these are but a fraction of ti,'e
whole lMdy of Washington journalists
They are the ones who do liiKinr. .1
o., nil Ulf
jump, so to speak. They record the d ,
doings vith the utmost accuracy, onh
that every man of them gives to his'budgi-t
exactly the shading to suit "
THE POLITICAL COMPLEXION
of his paper or papers. Now as some ,.f
these really bright accomplished gentle
men have to serve daily several papers ,,f
antagonistic politics, thev must be com
pelled to keep their minds ou the alert f.
they would soon come to grief were thi
to give a Republican caste to the pcei'i(j's
sent a Democratic paper, or rice rrr,.
The great body of ready writers for th,
press are, however, in no danger of fi(;n..
into any such trouble. Most of then. ,,v
specialists rather than new s-garhere; -Among
them are many men of libcndYil'i
cation, who take advantage of the (,,
gressional library, which is ever :a
disposal, and one of the best in the worl.:
for getting at facts relating to Amcric-n:
interests of everv descrint ion TV,
are the society and gossip people, genera Ih
ladies, who give weekly pen-pictures ..'l
the ms and outs of Washington life. S i
entific fellows take in the National Museum,
with its numerous imnnpini 1,. 1
gather stores of information there to U
popularized in weekly letters, or confr.il in-
tions ta the monthlies. Scarcely a day
passes that one or more specialists'mav not
be found at the Fdiicntinnni n, ' ... .
ting data there for their journals; and" s..
it goes all the time Congress is in session
Tl 1 -
1 uc regular correspondents are not
THE NINETY AND NINE
that went not astray," for some sixty of
them left here yesterday morning for Chi
cago, some leaving "subs" to watch Con
gress and the departments, but the tnajor
ity trusting to the Press Associations to
wire whatever occurs to their journals
while they are absent.
DECORATION DAY
was duly observed. As is the custom, all
public offices were closed, the veterans
paraded, escorted by the uniformed volun
teers, and the graves at Arlington and in
all the National Cemeteries were decorated
with flowers and flags. Hon. Stewart L.
Woodford made a brief 'and patriotic ad
dress, and Will Carlet. n read hi
w hich is published in Harjter's Weelly.
Old residents say that Arlington was
never so beautiful as now. The foliaov.
the grass, the flowers, are all at their best!
It was a pretty scene; the thousands of
mounds above which the little flags flut
tered in the breeze, while garlands and
bouquets gemmed the nicely-kept turf, and
the white headstones gleamed in the bright
sunshine. Around the monument to The
unknown dead, the grass was covered with
rose-leaves, a mass of vivid color encircled
by verdure. After the exercises were over
many of the assemblage formed little pic nic
groups, dotting the surrounding grove
with varied bits of color, and making a
scene most picturesque and attractive. "
Standing on the grand porch-of
THE LEE MANSION,
and looking down the sinuous shining Po
tomac and across to Washington where the
national colors were floating gaily, then nt
the happy groups scattered everywhere
through the grounds, it was hard to real- '
ize the fearful scenes enacted in this vicin
ity twenty years ago, when all the heights -around
were covered with forts bristling
with cannon, while the adjoining plains
were white with the tents of tens of th'ni
sands of soldiers.
"IT SEEMS LIKE A DREAM."
said a gallant .Confederate, as we looked
out upon the glorious landscape. "I can
not realize that twenty-three years ago my
Company was hurrying out of Alexandria
yonder to escape the Ellsworth Zouaves, 01
that for four years and a quarter afterwards
I was fighting and flying all over the coun
try from here to the Mississippi." It was
a fearful time, but it was the making of
the nation, for, the devotion and bravery
of the men on both sides prepared the w ay
as nothing else could have done, for that
good understanding and mutual respect
which has made usan truth one and indi
visible.
CtfLONEL SAUNDERS.
What They Think In the Went.
QUESTION AND ANSWER.
A ud all Unbeknownst.
fState Chronicle, 31st.f '
What room then for immigrants and I
what a chance for the fecund '
Franklin, N. C.TtMay 26, 1884.
I endorse everv word von have said
about Colonel William L. Saunders He
entertains liberal views, is a statesman
comprehending the needs and interests of
the whole State, ha a heart and will to
grapple with injustice aed wrong, and has
the manhood and viaA
liberal things. He richly merits all
you have claimed for him, and it would
be an injustice to tbe Secretaryship he fills
and the State not to reelect him His
claims to universal support are unanswer
able whether they be placed upon fidelity
and business tact jn the office or journalistic
courage and ability in vindication of con
stitutional and right government. There
is no place within the gift of North Caro
linians of which he is not worthy.
Press on the good work you hav e so nblv
begun in the Register.
IREDELL COUNTY.
Frankllnton Weekly, 31st.J
There is a woman living near Franklin
Un who is the mother of fifteen girls and
tl VI1 lli y CKa 1 . ..
.,11c was uorn iuiy a, 1846.
The Hickory Pre says that " before
the nomination of Dr. York by the Re
publicans, there was a general impression
f . rPa,f the Statu that General Al
S,M' ,8caleS-R Senleman eminently
worthy 0f the &test honors J
State can conferwould be the most
avaiUb e candidate but the nomination of
Dr. Wk has turned attention to Colonel
Armfield, and we have no donht S
' Vu,onei Armfield is the
nglaman to receive the Democratic nom
i
onTha,Sl,fniP'"C reports m,Mhld wheat
on hand and an extra good crop or new
Corn is looking well 1
Amity Htll items.
Correspondence of the Raleigh Rkoistkk
Amtty Hill, May 28, 1884. Corn and
cotton are growing fie; the gardens look
healthy ; we have very little sickness ; earl v
wheat is turning and looks splendid ; cher
ries are about ripe.
Our grog-shops and government distil
& e ceased operations.
The Democrats of old South Iredell are
going to war in earnest.
ine communion meeting at Bethesda
(Presbyterian) church on last Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday was very tfrgelv at
tended. Rev. P. P. Winn was agisted bv
Kev. Mr. Ramsey, of Rowan. We have four
well. conducted and largely attended Sabbath-schools
m this neighborhood.
Jl'STICE.
The Snow Hill Telegraph reports of
crops in its own neighborhood are that
they are magnificent. From Wilson countv .
it hears that present prospectsareofVntire
failure. 1