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BALBIGH, DST. C. Wednesday;... august 2, is84 CAMPAIGN RATES. The Best and the Cheapest. will be The Raleigh Register nished at the fallowing rates : One Copy, - -Five Copies, Ten " -Twenty copies. One hundred copies, fur ; 50 I 2.00 3.75 7.00 15.00 28.00 In everv case a copy extra will .be fur nished to the getter-up of the Club, and In every case the paper will be sent un til the returns of the election shall be re ceived and published; and we invite the attention of Executive Committees of Counties and Townships, and of all others interested, to the Campaign Register as a sure and cheap means of furnishing in formation to the people. Address Raleigh. Register, May 28, 1884. Raleigh. X. C. - SEVEN YEARS- WORK. Upon its accession to power the Dimo cratic party found the Government at war with its people ; plunged in debt tq near a third of the value of the property of its citizens; with corruption existing in every branch of it ; its offices filled by men for the most part scandalously incompetent ; and as to its industries, the most fortunate ofi them were barely self-supporting, the rest in ruins. The change has been mar velous; the material results of Democratic rule simply wonderful. By what means have they been effected ? Tne State Debt was settled. The effect upon the State was great. Capital which had shunned the State during the evil days of Republican ascendancy once more sought, and seeks, investment here. The debt for the Xorth Carolina Rail road was settled. The State has regained control of the road, and the sums paid for its lease. It will not be many years before the rents will have paid the debt, and will cMuirinme aimost money -enough proba bly quite enough to pay the expenses of the State Government. The Western Xorth Carolina Railroad was rescued fronrtinal ruin. It is now in operation far beyond the I5Iue Ridge. One branch has reached the Tennessee line at Paint Rock; another is rapidly nearing the same line at a point far to the south of Paint Rock. The Cape Fear &. Yadkin Valley Road was at its last gasp. It stretches now from Xew Hanover to Guilford, and in a few months its mileage will be 232 miles, reach ing from the extreme south-east to the ex treme north-west, and passing through one of the finest countries on the globe. The Atlantic & Xorth Carolina Railroad has ceased to be a scoff, and its possession for .extension is eagerly sought for. Many other roads have been built, for eign capital largely embarked in them as the result of confidence restored. We note the Milton and Sutherlin: the Oxford and Henderson ;the Halifax and Scotland Xeck ; the Norfolk, Elizalx.th City and Edemton ; the Williamston and Tarboro; the "Wash ington and Jamesville; the Goldsboro and Smithfield; the University Railroad; the Chester and LeSfcirN. G. ; the Spartanburg and Ashe ville : the Wadesboro and Cheraw ; the Cranberry iiine Road; the Quaker Bridge Road ; the road from Hamlet to Gib son's Store ;that from Hamlet to Cheraw ; the Clinton and Point Caswell ; the Little Rock and Alma ; the Bladen, Columbus and Flori da; that from Bogue to Waccamaw; the Danville, Mooksville & Southwestern: and the V llmington, Chadbourn & Conway boro. Our Eastern Waterways have become not only sources of the greatest benefit to our own people, but of national impor tance. Our Asylums are of the best, and best managed in the Union. The public school system was a faroe, and the people held it in contempt. To day it is a source of just pride, its super intendence held in higher esteem than any office within the gift of the people. The Department of Agriculture has ren dered incalculable service and is daily ex tending its usefulness. These arc a few of the active agencies employed by the Democrat! administra tion) create anew condition of things anwhg us. Proofs multiply of a healthful influence everywhere at work giving to old industries a wider sweep, and nerving the energies of our people to fresh exer tions. In the domain of agriculture this is strikingly manifest. The two great' sta ples of our State, cotton and tobacco have been extended far beyond their for mer boundaries. The culture of cotton has, been extended to the north of the line once regarded as its limit over an average of twenty miles. To the west the average extension of its area has been far greater. It is now ascending the slopes of the moun tains in Alleghany and other counties. - few years ago the culture of tobacco was confined to few counties of theaniddle section of the State lying along the Vir ginia hne. It made its wav first deep into the centre of the same section, then wcstwardly generally through the counties traversed by the Western North Carolina Road to the Tennessee line. Before the termination of the civil war the valley of the Cape Fear possessed a monopoly of the rice croi). Tim rr... r.t .i... . mm region has been extended along the seaboard, while upland rice is grown on low.,yi fertle lands up to the ba.se of the mountain ranc As it is with our great staples so has it been with other ceops. The new orderof m , , 1 ttle increased produc- and copper mining, machinery of the most costly kind has been introduced, and profitable employment given to thousands of our people. In manufacturing, the spirit of activity ha been striking. Many new cotton mills hate been erected in different parts of the State, many are being built, and many are projected. Several, which were built be fore this period, have been greatly ex tended, and nearly all equipped with the most improved machinery. The number of cotton mills in North Carolina in 1870 was 33; the number of spindles, 39,897; the number of looms, 618. The number of mills in 1884 is 74; the number of looms, 3,000; the number of spindles, 184,294. In tobacco manufacture the pro gress has been marvelous. Our factories now command their fair share of the trade of the world. These are the fruits of an administration of our Government established and car ried on in unison with the educated thought of the State.Tand with the conviction of those who represent its great material in terests. Who would change? POLITICS AND RELIGION. The Register did not know that there was a Baptist Republican in North Caro lina, but the letter elsewhere reprinted from the New York Examiner, would in dicate that there is one, or at least a Re publican masquerading with mischievous intent as a Baptist. Our brother Bailey's reply setting forth the Baptist notions about politics and religion, and the facts of the case cited in' the Examiner"1 letter, is reprinted also, and will be read with in terest. There are some unpleasant remarks in the Examiner's letter in regard to the Presbyterians and Episcopalians, but they are not only deficient in fact; they make one smile. Those denominations are not big enough in North Carolina to be taken account of in an election, even were they ambitious of taking part in one. STATE POLITICAL ITEMS. W. L. Tate, Esq., is the Democratic nominee for Senator in Henderson, Hay wood and Transylvania. J Judge Daniel G. Fowle and Gen. W. R. ; Cox will address the people of Johnston county, at Johnston Academy, on Sep- 7 , ,, tember 2, 18S4. I he working-men of the country, those a , . , r, .. . ,ir.. , , . . " The Senatorial Convention of Wilson, of them that is to say engaged in indus- j Nash and Franklin has nominated H. G. tries protected for their alleged benefit, arc Connor, of Wilson, and Joshua Perry, of . . . I -I-,: ii. EXPERIENCE AS SCHOOL-MASTER learning a useful but a very unpleasant les son. Experience is a hard teacher, but some lessons may be learned only by attending the school it keeps. Four million spin dles are idle in the manufacturing States, and day by day the iron foundries and furnaces are shutting- off work. This is the natural result of attempting to enrich a country by taxing it ; of a policy which I takes well-paid labor from work that can be done profitably in this country and transfers it to work for which the country is not ready. The protective tariff as it is called. which had for many years plundered the people of this country for the bencfifof a class that it is now ruining, was never needed nor was it ever sought for the pro tection of labor. It was needed only bv capitalists engaged in business that could not support itself, and bv them onlv be cause labor here is higher than it is abroad, and the price of their products had to le artificially increased to enable them to get labor by paying the market price for it. They got the protection and then got the necessary labor at the market price of Franklin The Martin county Democrats have nominated Col. Dennis Worthington for the House; W. J. Hardison for Sheriff; W. H. Bennett for Treasurer. The Duplin Democrats have nominated E. J. Hill for the Senate and John D. Stanford for the House. ' William Hurst is the nominee for Sheriff; H. C. Moore for Register, and John Wells for Treasurer. The Morganton Mountaineer says Captain W. M. Cocke, Jr., of Ashevillc, who was chairman of the Liberal State executive committee two years ago, has returned to the fold and is enthusiastic for Cleveland and Scales. The Lenoir Democrats have nominated for the House, J. W. Grainger, Esq.; for Sheriff, J. D. Sutton ; for Treasurer, John T. Gray; for Register of Deeds, George L. Hodges; for coroner. Dr. J. M. Kirk patrick; for Surveyor, E. JP. Loftin. CHANGE! i REASONS FOB A CHANGE IN THE NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION. Fraud and Demoralisation Supreme Scandals Sappressed and Criminals Unpaniamed. New York Sun. J Washington, August 14. A few"rceks before the Chicago Convention, a leading Republican member of Congress, and one who helped with all his power to count Governor Tilden out, said: "It was not so much that Mr. Tilden was a Democrat that we didn't want him in the White House, as because he was a reformer who knew how to reform." If half that we hear and that is sus pected relating to the discoveries that can be made by an energetic, courageous, and able President who can put into the de partments competent men to assist him, be true, a shocking state of affairs will be disclosed, even if the investigation go no further back than the administration of Mr. Hayes. 1 here is no question that a low tone of morals exists among many of the clerks respecting their official integri ty, and this has come from the example set by Republican politicians, who, the clerks see, have been making the best use of their opportunities. The clerks natu rally say to themselves, if so and so is making something in this irregular way. we don't see why wc shouldn't do the same thing. The demoralization that was caused by the seating of Hayes among the department clerks has continued up to this time. . It has always been the policy of the Re publicans to prevent . the publicity of scandals that have been discovered in the departments, and many officials have been discharged or allowed to resign without prosecution, that the nuisance of a scandal might be avoided. "Since the time of Hayes there have been a large number of criminal irregularities discovered, and yet, up to to-day, butt wo persons involved in them have suffered any punishment. That so much has been discovered and made public tends to justify the general belief that there is abundant opportunity for other disclosures. Within four weeks of the Republican Convention at Chicao-o . j i j i ... , ,r M.nuuaiuu msciosures oi criminal uis l printing and engraving were done by con- tract. j From the Supervising Architect's office ' there came a scandal last year. , Charges were made ot bribery ana corruption, ana, while the very curious investigation 'that charges were not proven, yet not long after uiai wie supervising raniiecc resigneu his place. , ! On the threshold of Garfield's adminis tration charges were made that some of the influential clerks had conspired to de fraud the Government. An investigation was begun with closed doors. The proof was ample of the existence of the conspi racy. Lamphere, Pitney, and some others were involved. Property belonging to the Government was found to have been appropriated by the conspirators. Furni ture, desks were made at the Government expense, and used to furnish the private houses of the conspirators. Fraudulent bills were reputed to have been allowed. Suddenly the investigation was summarily stopped. It was found that the disclos ures were getting dangerously near involv ing those who were very high in power. The investigation was squelched, the re port suppressed, though some of the sub ordinate officers who had been involved were allowed to resiirn It Vnw limm im possible ever to discover just how much was disclosed by5 the investigation, but it was known that enough had been learned to make it prudent for Secretary Windom to smother the scandal for the sake of his predecessor. Perhaps the time may come when the facts about the funding Of the four per cents under Mr. Sherman's ad ministration will come out, but it will re quire a complete change of officers in the Treasury Department to get these facts. Then, too, the hints that have long been afloat about some abuse of trust respecting the unclaimed bonds, and interest on them, of which many thousand dollars' worth are reported to lie in the Treasury Department, may lead to a thorough investigation. The testimony taken by the Springer committee at the late session of Congress shows widespread corruption of officers Under control of the Department of Justice. The record comprised in a volume of 900 pages is a terrible exposure of dishonesty In the United States Marshals' offices all over the countrv. Ill Georgia thrre THE BAPTISTS. NEUTRAL NEITHER IN POLITICS NOR RELIGION But Never Mixing One Buslnena With be Other. departments. i If we take a rapid glance at the record of some of these disclosures already made in spite of efforts to prevent it. wc shall find that the charges of corruption, low tone of morals, and laxity of discipline in the departments are sustained. The Stntp Tloni fused in Michigan. If they succeed as j its dignity, conservatism, nnd propriety, last year, Blaine loses 13 votes. ; The officers in that department would have The canvass at the Xorth shows very i lx'cn horrified had they been told that little sign of life vet. The "religious''' i somebody in the office was stealings. That honesty were made from four of the. seven I seemed to be no idea on the nnrT of mr. suais ani deputies oi their duty except to mane as mucn money as nossi e POLITICAL NOTES. The Democrats and Greenbackers have North Carolina Letter in N. Y. Examiner. Although the Baptists are by far the strongest denomination in this State; have the best-endowed institution of learning; embrace in their ranks as much of the intelligence, morality and respectability as any other denomination; although they are pronounced by the present Governor of the State the best citizens in the State, yet in all public matters they seem to be completely ignored, except on election days, when they are looked upon as a good enough people to elect candidates who be long to the other creeds, and who, in many instances, have been nominated be cause of their religious connections. If your readers are puzzled at this state of things and ask, "How is this?" the an swer is this: There are two denominations in the State that aspire to furnish from their own ranks all the officers from the Congressmen down to the coroners. One of these denominations claims all the offices as a matter of right; the other justifies it by saying, "We do this to oppose the Episcopalians. We -have as much Tight to the offices as they have." Wire-pullers nominate the candidates, and then call on the Baptists to elect them "to save the party," and the Baptists are too obliging to refuse, although it is the rarest thing imaginable that a Baptist is one of the candidates. For instance; of the two Senators in Congress, neither is a Baptist; of the nine members of the House, not one is a Baptist; of the twelve judges of the State, not one is a Baptist; of the eight candidates recently nomina ted for the State offices, not one is a Bap tist. During the session of the Conven tion one Baptist gentleman's name was mentioned in connection with- one of the State offices, but he was promptly de feated because he was a Baptist. And of the eight places on the State ticket, six of them are filled with rfomince from the two denominations w ho pull the wires. This is not all. The State has an insti tution of learning maintained by the people's money. The Baptists pay more towards its support than any other denom ination, yet the school is virtually the property of a body w hose whole member ship does not aggregate G,000, but which gets out of the State school wcll-ni"h as .. 1. 1 - n iiiulii oeneni as u would get outof a de that it was brought about by any combi nation of those who differ from us. Baptists as such never seek office. And a Baptist who would lc a candidate for an office, on the ground of his connection with the denomination, would be defeated by his brethren. But -while we refuse to mix our religion with our polities, and refuse to vote for a Baptist, simply because he is a Baptist, we are ready to assure the members of any other denomination that we will vote for no man who secures nomination for an of fice throucrh his ehureh inflnrnep A nil we would not hesitate to advise our breth- i ren to strike the name of any such man from j the ticket if it were there. We keep our : religion and politics separate and distinct ! the one from the other, and we demand j that the nicmhprs nf Mch sinrJ nil fh other churches in Xorth Carolina shall do the same. The man who is nominated for an office by a church or combination of churches must be defeated, no matterwho he is nor what the consequences. The i evils resulting cannot exceed those that I would follow his election so far as Bap- j tists are concerned. ; To us the matter is plain. 1. Our creed of faith and rules of prac- tire prohibit our favoring, in anv wav : the union of Church and State, or refi- ! gion and politics either for ourselves or ! . i ior uiuers. 2. The policy of our people has been to quietly and without show pursue their lawful occupations and duties, without I asking recognition and without seeking I for office of any kind. " ! 3. The training our educated men re- I ceived under the example and instruction of Dr. Wingate has largely tended to j make them the quiet, faithful men that j they are, unambitious for office and op- ! posed to all presumption, pomp and show, j Wake rorest College is not a political training school, nor a camp ground for scheming politicians. And long may it remain what it is. CAMPAIGN NOTE STEDMAN AND FAIRclotii How the Brilliant, Gallant Major the Serlou Judge. ' f Correspondence of the Rai.kh.h Uk,.,., Webster, August,. 21. L,.;ivin ('.': eral Scales and Dr. York on then;,, j," " at Lenoir, where the latter slmu.,1 signs of defeat that it seemed imf c" ' Democratic reporter to follow I,;,,, , r 1 correspondent joined the "lr CANDIDATES FOIt I.IEl-TKNANT-i.oVH-v. on the 19th inst., at Wavnesvili,. T, ": discussion between Major" Stedm-,',, , Judge Faircloth is of the pi,,,.,,'," character and their speaking i eon,,,! , Through the delay'of the train." I u able to reach the place in time f, opening speech, which was made ,v JI DGE FAITtc I.OTII. Republicans sav that lu iii.i.. speech; but there did not appear t. I great enthusiasm awakened .;n t or his ticket. He labored hard to,-. , " mv; j.cujMt; iu;ti si protective tmitT : ,i proper thing; but with little succc'V Judge is a man of too nuiclj im, .,,!,. ,'' it said to his honor, to advocate i" which he does not believe; ,ul j J tainly has confused ideas of t),,.' question and leaves his hearers y, n ' enlightened on the subject. As to'Vi'iV record, he does not explain that '. satisfaction. In fact, he df.es n,,t' , . tain any high opinion of that -, ,,ri., !,r MAJOR STKD.MAX made a speech for an hour and l,.,i! ,, ... Mil . , . - - papers of that region, it is said, are some what excited and are making a good thing of the scandals. But we never read the , . ... . ..... oi tne scf ...i, xl wc- Hire wuicu iauor Tnrtl,Urn i;; .1 commanded in other employments. Xat- ! The secular papers are bad enough for us. urally, they made money hand over fist; and just as naturally their immense profits attracted brisk competition. Too many capitalists became manufacturers, and now there is no profit at all. The capital ists stop work and the laborer is left to starve; or, as it is in Pennsylvania just now. the laborer is put in jail and his family thrown on the community for sup- -port. The protected laborer is likely to learn in the hard school which he now attends that wages are not regulated by tariff laws, but are regulated by supply and demand. Having learned that fact, he will Veadily learn another, viz : that not only was the popular pretext for protection higher wages of labor absolutely false, but that In Iowa the Greenlmct-pra nnH 11ur crats have agreed upon a common Electo- 1 ral ticket. This, with the Prohibition ! movement, makes that State, hitherto so stanch in its Republicanism, decidedly ! doubtful. Seven of its thirteen Electora'l j votes may be given to Cleveland. The I other six would go to Butler. The Republican Party in Kansas has been fairly split in two by the prohibition i question. Since the adoption of the pro- i hibition amendment it has been defeated j at a State election, and now pnni.l.iru.. faction is demanding that the question be resubmitted to the people, the object be ing to get rid of the amendment. This resubmission faction has held a convention of its own and denounced what is admit ted to be the majority 'for coalescing with the Prohibition Party. The latter nas deliberately placed this issue alove all ll ! .. .1 . . -m I nrlinvo in Q 1 . . - . ' ; wiuua in mc otaif, uuu consistency seems li true it would be outrageously unjust, j to require that it should support the nat- Va ... 4 i . i . , . ; 1 r v : i ! . : . i . . i . . ii ijuiuuuii-uHias me rignrt to tax one j riuuiumuQ uckcc. vv netner it does ou or uut, n is piain that the unity and effectiveness of the party in the State has been destroyed, and it would not be sur prising if it were lost to the Republican ticket. The Democrats and Resubmis sionists have nominated joint tickets. RAILROAD PROGRESS. man to pay another man's work hands Xor is there any justice in taxing one workingman to pay better wages to an other workingman. Xor is it in the power of human logic to show that the man who works in the fields, or on the streets, should be taxed for the benefit of the man at the loom or the forge. The protected capitalist, even, stands a right good chance just now of learning that the time when any manufacture can be profitably estab lished cannot be hastened by legislation. it is unfortunate that these burdens, the creation of unwise legislation, cannot at is impossible, tney would nave said; there , are no opportunities to steal, and all our j clerks are tried and honest men. Yet a ! few weeks ago, when the accounts of the ' late disbursing clerk of the department ! i were examined, they were found to be j ; 12.000 short. Charges of dishonesty j against a number of United States Con- : suls, especially in China and Japan, have j ! been made to the St.ntu l"w.n,i - - - -- avui inn. ii i,, tlllU tV-O uiiiiit mere is no doubt that a great deal of cor- i and against O. J liuiiiuu caisis in me tonsillar service. The scandal with which Mr. Seward's , name was connected while he was Minis ter to China under Mr. Evarts's adminis- tration of the State Department is yet ! unpleasantly fresh in the memory of some j of the present officers. j The Xavy Department scandals did not end when Robeson quitted the office. The j latest discovered cases of corruption are i petty, so far as the amount involved is j concerned, compared with others. The discovery that there was a conspiracy in the Bureau of Medicine, by which fraudu i lent vouchers were paid, was made re i cently. How much money was thus cor- ruptly obtained it is impossible to esti j mate. The conspirators were the chief cierfcof the bureau, several other clerks as much monev as twissilil.. Vr. shal Fitzsimmons, Deputy Marshals Rob- " T e - j. , ', ... inson ami i rawiord, and Marshal Lon street were reported as having made false 28.000. In South -.:ur .I :Z. " nnI!'ltl"na scho"' withot any of the state of thines was found to evist V,, I ! Cait ltltltn MMon of theirown would all the derm v marshals w,re . ' : nij entail upon them: have rendered false and fictitious accounts. In Louisiana it was testified that United States Commissioner Lane was charged j with blackmail, and Mr. Woolflev. Clerk ! of the United States Courts, was "renorted ! and business men of Washington and other places. Only the most careless and un businesslike methods of carrying on the office could have made such stealing pos sible, and yet it was only discovered through the drunken anger" of one who participated in the conspiracy. Corrigan, the chief clerk, and probably the origina tor of the conspiracy, lived" like a capi talist on a salary of 2,000 a year. Every one knew that he could not afford the ex pense, and yet no one seemed to care to make anv investigation n to th,. mr..- , - O v.. llltklllllj in which he obtained his money. The method was simple enough. A business man would be induced to ttrnrl in o Kill to be $13,000 in arrears .Marshall Russell of Texas was sent to jail for sending in a flse account, while charges of fraud and malfeasance were made against Marshal Xorton of the north district of Texas and against the former District Attorney. M charges against Marshal Dake of Arizona ,ij;;u!ist v. d. Averiii, Llerk of the Third District Court of An'yot.,. in Xorth Carolina Marshal Douglass and sev eral deputy marshals were charged with frauds. ! Marshal Hall of the Western District of Pennsylvania was reported short in his accounts about 150,000. It was testified that Marshal Osborn of Alabama and al most every deputy marshal in the district had rendered false and fraudulent ac counts. The Clerk of the Southern Dis trict United States Court in Illinois was reported a defaulter to the Government in $43,000. Such are some of the cases testified to before the Springer committee. The settlement of the Ottman case by the Department of Justice was a scanda'l that made the President very angry, and which he never would have permitted had Ln bn,. f 1. . r . . 1 And vet the Bantists look' these abuses to go on unrebuked. ' What ! would you have them do?" one may ask. j Why, by all means "scratch" every can- ' didate that has been wire-pulled into his ' place by religious influence. In other j words, "scratch" every one who belongs' to a denomination that claims the right to ' run polities. For if it is wrong for Bap tists to "mix religion and politics," or' Church and State, it is wrong for others; and it is wrong for Baptists to support them in such by their votes. We rather ' look for the State ticket to be elected onlv I in "spots " this time. Biblical Recorder. August '27. 1SK4. 1 By special request we print on our first page this week the article "Xorth Caroli- ,,',l"""m oics, wmcn appeared n : hi-,. in V the Examiner of July 24th. We did not ! M'ons." know C. li.r and rather honed tht ' hC,rtalnl' sl.r' certainly," sai his article would pass unnoticed bv the u.ipusis oi .ortn Carolina. On CANDIDATES' RELIGION. Governor Vance Gives HI Experience. Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. I lil 'u - i.ii: i i mam ,.-ij. y unce leiiingiiow l he captured the votes of a backwoods set- ' tlement in Xorth Carolina when he first ' ran for Congress. He said he had never j been in that settlement and didn't know j the boys. He didn't know their politics nor their habits nor their religion. But j he sent them word he would be there to see them on a certain day, and so he rode ! over the mountain and got there and found 1 about sixty of the sovereigns at a cross- 1 road grocery, and he got down and hitched ' his horse and began to make their ac- j iiuaintance and crack his ioU. and thought he was getting along pretty well with them, but he noticed an old man withshaggy eyebrows and big brass spectacles sitting on a chunk and marking in the sand with a stick. The old man didn't seem to pay any attention to Tance, and after a while Vance concluded that the old man was the bell-wether of the flock and that it was necessary to capture him; so he sidled up close to him and the old man got up and shook himself and leaned forward on his stick and said solemnly " This is Mr. Vance, I believe." "Yes sir," said Vance. "And you have come over here to see my bovs about their votes I believe." " Yes" sir"" said Vance, "that is my business." " Well, sir," said the old man, "afore you proceed with that business I would aid Vance. you belong to." j Iron on the C. F. Jc Y. V. R. R., has i been laid one and a half miles beyond Shoe i Heel. It is thcinrrht Kr o rrr.A ..-. j it w ill be through to Bennettsville by the ! Pense- anl yet no one seemed I 1 . f . f I .,..,! . 7 i r i ... - ' , . - 'i I - i i j hi ui niuiKT. nrtoe itcel rrint. The Albemarle and Raleigh railroad frorn Williamston to Tarboro is doin a ! good business. It is said that the pros i luidtu r, r v. . ... OTIC. on fr. nmiinil l... 1 e . , .WTO, o icpeai oi ine aws I to K.i cifih Falcon. " " " ! lellow conspirat The Railroad to Warsaw is on i boom i ' .V!" woul1 l0 l)aid- tho Subscription books wercncd TueXy ' l tU j" evening and $9,000 subscribed before I Si meht. $1.1000 will inc., th.. 1 st,is I ,"-'""""" ) nese means. . .u... of the road and will doubtless be raised. Clinton Caucax'uin. which made them. Having existed long, and great interests having been established on the faith of them, they cannot now be repealed, without vast injury. The work of restoration must be very gradual. Be cause a thing has been wrongly done, it doeT not follow that it can now be undone. less, it is said that the pros- ! a Tu " ' ' ' ' senu in a Din e ultimate extension of this road i " , , had m'vt'r bpen bought or are very good.--Eliwheth Citv I , , lvered- ('omgan, with the aid of his ' " '! fellow conspirators, would mark the bill The local freight train leaves Raleigh on at 9:00 the Raleigh Jc I rt O. 1 - e r,. u inu- ijuieiui oi team rJngineerui" there is no doubt that there have been dis" honest contracts awarded for boiler plate iron, and eharo-es of recL-l gance, and dishonesty have been' made re- i .. . - . . uu i.-t, . " I"". .ugusia Air-I.ine . u-niy, except Sundays. It makes cose I snectino- the nmnarmmt .i... connection at Sanford with trains on the 1 ton Xavv Yar R..V Vi,l 11 7 " v" ! :nm,:nt ,,.. I......:i,- i K5I1 ' ".: - I". I --" I Quite a number of Eastern Xorth Caro lina papers the Wilmington Star, New hern Journal, and Kinston Free Press, for instance have taken issue "with some re marks attributed to Mr. rfiTcniN, Demo cratic Elector for the State-at-large, in re gard to the colored Voters. They have heard that Mr. Kitchin has proclaimed that "the Democratic party does not want the negro's vote," and it is alleged in reply that the party would like very much to have his vote, and that Mr. Kitchix errs in fact and makes a mistake in policy. The Register printed Mr. Kitchin's speech in full, and just as he spoke it. He did not know that a stenographer was tak ing down his words as he uttered them, nor did ho see the report until after it was printed in the Register. He used no such language as is attributed to him any language that will bear such construc tion of its meaning. He only said, in sub stance, that he had at last become con vinced that appeals by Democrats for ne groes to vote for Democrats were nnW than useless, and that he would make rib more such appeals. With very strong attachment., to th colored people, thoroughly recognizing their many good qualities, and fuller n derstanding the causes which have made them hostile to the whites in all political matters, the Register thinks that Mr. Kitchin is right in the fact stated n.l wise in the policy Judicated. That the negro will become a Democrat at an early date is not likely, nor has the Register (unlike Mr. Kitchin in that respect) ever ! C F. & Y. V R T? fori.,,n. y......:n. j and Oreensboro. It arrives at Sanford at ! 1 :30 p. m.. and at Hamlet t .oo ... The through freight train on thisline runs in-weeKiy. it leaves Hamlet at 8:20 a m., arrives at Sanford at 12-4.5 and ar rives at Raleigh at 4 :25 p. m. Makes close connection with trains for the Fayetteville travel Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays Fayettetille Oiiserter. r-.-V VTVl oeen disnoserl tn c..i, ti.in i v jjiuhhc- i iuiH.e mm so by I um jcugion won and higlcr quality of crops, but in I any other sort of appeals than the quiet I " -law8' ma8Sa 1 ' the improvement and greatly increased ! aPPeals mad to his sense by his improved ' ' l1 l"e .ana Use f. - Condition nnrb-r n, , :. ... . una I Banged Since Then. FARMING FACTS. The Wilmington Star reports the army worm at work in Brunswick. The Clinton Caucasian says that "the crop prospects now give promise of a vastly larger yield of corn and considera bly more cotton than last year." The farmers in this bounty are busy cut ting and curing their tobacco. A promi nent farmer told us this morning that at least 300,000 pounds of tobacco would be raised in this county this season. Visitor. NO RELIGION AT ALL "Jest ole 'PlBcopel.'' Harper's Magazine Drawer, A minister of the Gospel who once journeyed on horseback through Virginia in the antebellum days tells this story"- Overtaking an old negro on the road, and" feeling m the mood for a chat with the old man, he slowed his horse to keep pace with him, when the following dia logue ensued : "Do you live about here?" "Yes. massa, I belongs to Colonel 1I7-. "e lib 'bout two miles from yer." It is a beautiful country. Are" the people about here religious?" " Yes, massa; dey is a powerful sight of bgions 'bout yer. Dere is Baptisses. Mefodesses, Presbyteriums, and some Quakers." ' What reliSion did you choose?" ' 1 1 . 1UWH. III1IRKH I Olii . 1 1 1 . - . mo. .-.I,. .r: 1 i, Value of thn ;.... t , J - .llSe.i. - i -.u..uiuon under Democratic rule. Always "reTnJ.0t aSriculture "lone 'i this ! wiUinS to 'counsel from Southern minin rtnt V1SibIC" " CXttncls t0 tfae 1 whitM in other "crs, to political advice "ing interests of the State, i he has ever turnpd rinof ..- . All these h. i gold. ' " mie poUtical inter- 'nterprise dan "'7, 6,irU f 1 T , k f t,mC aud I'nse daring the last few v. vu . be hindered mtho fi . . . nines are now i J'- ! . . ""' p"ioieu Dy- m- m ;rked and ones are j terference on the part of whit Democrats. ."!. memods of min- - . J3ERseb, of Pennsylvania, makes it plain how Mr. Bi.aiki? accUmbted a very large fortune out of the snvin r ' small salary. " - 7 - . -- ucmoui ng have been superseded by late r ones, in skill he been bro,,.,.,. to r.. . , ,ar fortune C .-T.UI. J gOltl f Pittsburg Cbronk-Je-Telgipl j 'Has he gone, uear?'- Yes', grand- i- v. 1,,B en- ami wiiar : was that -sound in tho hghtenment aa to his true political inter- i ba. fMit.? "Why. it musi have bc-en "uur "wuiiing, grandma." "Your grandma may be old and deaf, Jesuic, but doors did not shut with a sound like that when she tu a girl." "Did the men were mustaches then, grandma?" "No my dear." "Well that makn the differ ence, probably." U, G. week. J)un & Co. report 197 failures last! hills to a mountain compared with the ,,a,m' " ie expenditure oi Jf.500,000, 000 in fifteen years for the alleged purpose of building up a navy, and yet not a de cent ship to show for it. In the War Department Captain How gate furnished the public with a most shocking scandal. He was living like a profligate prince in Washington, as chief signal officer, yet he was known not to have ranch property aside from his income as an army officer. He had a fast steam yacht, champagne dinners, an establish ment for one not his wife that .was so openly conducted as to be a matter of common talk, yet he was allowed to o-0 his way until by accident the disclosure came Then he was put Into prison, and they found he had stolen 150,000, and in a manner that the simplest business meth ods would have prevented. When it was found after his arrest that somebody else would be hit if he was tried, he was con veniently allowed to escape from jail His present hiding place is probably known to half a dozen officers of the Government but he is not wanted, and so is not recaptured. The revelations of the swindling by army officers who raised money by duplicating and in some cases triplicating, their pity accounts.dmve resulted In the court-mar-tiallmg and dismissal of some, and in the T1U' !l )url martial of Col. Morrow, The Judge Advocate-General is under court martial orders on a charge of a prac tical attempt to swindle, though in his case the Government was not the intended victim. Paymaster Wasson stole several thousand dollars, for which he was dis missed the army and sent to jail. The low tone of morals that is found to exist among some officers in the army is very largely due. to the fact that they have spent some time in Washington, and have been influenced bv thu mora)s that prevail in some quarters hero, F The Treasury's Department's latest scan dal was the disclosure that the disbursing clerk of the Bureau of Printing and En graving was short in his accounts Tlie amount of shortage was alleged to be a little less than $1,000. The defaulter was allowed to resign. If ever there comes an opportunity to make a thorough examina tion of this bureau, some unpleasant dis closures are sure to orpxr. It is impossi ble now to learn what it costs tQ run it The system of keeping accounts is confus ing. It was intended to be. It has a--"" " .ni wiroan ot the Treasu.- he know u of it before it was niiwiimm.t,.,i The Post Office Department furnished the great public scandal of the present Administration, although the frauds were committed under Hayes. It is so familiar as to require no other reference than that the present Second Assistant Postmaster General reports that the conspiracy cost the Government $2,100,000, besides the large sum expended in pros -outing some of the contractors. A recent scandal in the Post Office De partment was caused by the discovery that Col. Burnside, the disbursing officer was a defaulter. Col. Burnside had been in the department about eight years. He was an ardent Republican, subscribed lib erally to the campaign fund, lived in princely style, drove tine horses, opened his purse to all anneals fnr ,.i,..,;f.. commander and contributed handsomely 1 to the expenses of the track military com'- ! pany, and yet his salary was only $2,100 a I year, and he was known to have" no i.mn. i j ?rtv- H4 explained his income bv assert- i I nig that it came from fortunate "speruia- ' tions. There were not a few w ho suspect- ' eu mat h he speculated he did so with i money. How hirsre his de- ! iinnot now ! told but it i. Ollr r.i cent visits to Granville county we learned that many of our brethren had cither seen the article or heard of it, and that some excitement had been caused' bv its state ments. A paragraph of the article demands a word from us. Nothing has been farther from our plans than to take part in the political excite ment incident to the approaching election. We deprecate such excitement and have dreaded the coming of the occasion for it For many years the election of a President of the United States has so absorbed the attention of the people as to damage all their interests, both temporal and spiritual besides flooding the country with demoral izing influences and causes of alienation and strife. Our religious interests have been paralyzed and our Boards and insti tutions greatly hindered in their work. Politics as such is a calamity and a cur.se to the people. Our aim w as to counteract these influences as far as it was possible nnd to continually exhort our readers to devote their time to their individual, ma terial interests and the building up of the i wisi in me Mate; and this r uu, Knowinn- mat it i mt What church moot said the old man. That was a sock dologer Vance didn't belong to any church. He knew that re ligion and meeting was a big thing in the backwoods, and controlled their politics but he didn't know what their religion was, for Xorth Carolina was powerfully spotted and had a nest pf Episcopalians in one place and Presbyterians in another and Baptists here and Methodists over yonder, and they never mixed, but were all one way in a settlement, and so he was in a dilemma. But he squared himself for the responsi bility and says he : "Well, now, my friend, I will tell you about-that, for its a fair question Of course it is. Well, you see my grand father came from Scotland, and vou know that over in Scotland everybody is Presby terian. " Here he paused to note the effect, but saw no sign of sympathy with his grandpa. ' But my grandmother came from En"- j land, and over there everybody belongs to ' the Episcopal church." Here he paused1 again and the old man marked another 1 mark in the sand and spit his tobacco I away off. - I ' But my father was born in this coun- .,.: i "Ul y miner was Porn in th s oonn- iluty but their best interest, to do as we ad- ' ' m Methodis.t settlement, and so he uic u j a juetnonist sit ..: , -wll guj niuM a,. uiougiiL to lie nearly $ 100,000. A business-like system in the Post Office Depart ment would have prevented this scandal. Col. Burnside's accounts had not beeii audited for three years. The Interior Department has escaped scandal for some time. Pension Commis sioner lientley, it is true, estimated that iw v wiiii i iudUL-i?, ituv wt1 cxiiort rnom n one-quarter of the enormous pension roll ! the excitements of the times was fraudlllpnt- .m.l ., n,,.l ,.r I ...... . units was fraudulent, and a number of pension ..g.i,;, uu uncovered last tall to be col lecting illegal fees. But if the time shall ever come w lieu the door can be opened to a thorough examination of the records of the Land Office, and the methods of conducting business that have prevailed there and if the Indian Bureau record shall be brought to the light, it is proba ble that the revelations will justify any pains and perseverance. ' vise. The 'lection of a President is a very small matter, so far as the interest of the Baptists of North Carolina is concerned To obey the laws of our country and to labor for the well being of our fellow nun and the coming of Christ's kingdom is and should be our chief concern, no matter w ho is elected or defeated. That we should pray for those in author ity over us and vote for good and honest men for the offices to be tilled, are duties imposed by our relations both to Gon and our fellow-men. Therefore we do not ex hort our readers to takenointerestinthe.se mailers, our we exhort them not to nllnu- to rendei i . . ' ; approval irom the old man, and so Vance i took' his last shot and said : "But mv good i old mother was a Baptist, and it's my j opinion that a man has got to go under ; the water to get to heaven." ! The old man waked up and taking him ; by the hand said, " Well vou afe all right , Mr ancc," and then turning to the crowd j ?ald' "l,0.ys nc'U do, you may vote for him I thought he looked like a Baptist " Vnd j the old man slowly drew a flask from his ! coat-tail and handed it to Vance to seal his faith. Lively Polities In the West, f Asbeville Citizen. During the discussion between Messrs Kitchin and Trull, at Hendersonville Mr Trull alludeiLto the question of taxation as involving a burden imposed by the Demo cratic party. Mr. S. V. Pickens, of the audience, interjected a question, relative to the relief to taxpayers by the payment into the State Treasury of $600,000 by the purchasers of the State's interest iii the western Aorth Carolina Railroad, The question was an answer and a retort which brought several to their feet w ith the voice of plaudit. Among these was Mr J A Bryson To him Mr. Trull in reply most pointedly alluded, and demauded from him the exhibition of his tax receipt Mr Bryson told him he would exhibit it after the adjournment of the discussion; and when that was over the parties met at the foot of the stairs, and then Bryson told 1 rull that his interruption was only occa sioned by his excitement in responding to the act Qf Mr. Pipkeus. Mr. Trull, as Mr firysun understood, remarked that it was 'all right," but as he moved gn. a friend asked Turn -Did yp not hei,r TniU ;ly that he did not feel called upon to answer the questions of every jackass?" Bryson turned and asked Trull if he had used such language, and when the answer was in the affirmative Trull was knocked down and then quite an active row animated a crowd Of several hundred people for the next five mfnutes, Jfo weapons were drawn ; noth mg but fist and sfeuf was fought ,'nt tfJ Vs sonic pxpitp, j iw ii'iHUT them unfitted for the rp.monsil.;iitwi. . - I 'WJWVOVl Ulf hour, or indifferent to the great work God has assigned them as his servants Of all people the Baptists have less of personal interest in politics. Since our fathers se cured for us and the people of this countrv Religious Liberty, we as a denomination have w ithdrawn from politics and all' the entangling alliances with States and governments. And if allowed bv others to enioy this liberty. We shnnlrl , i pie attend to our religious duties and have ; as little to do with politics as possible As good citizens we should vote, and do so seeking the best interests of our State and country. Whatever part other denominations mav . take in politics, nothing less than proscrip j tion and persecution will ever force Ban I tists, as such, to take special or separate action in such matters. That we have ! been proscribed as a denomination is not j certain, notwithstanding the seem in" evi j denc-es in that direction. Should such a I tiling be attempted by any man or combi ; nation of men, such action could hardly ! escape our notice, und we should most , piuuiiiiiy ami cieariy make known the fact I to the Itaptists of North Carolina ! The Hon. John C. Scarborough, Super i intendent of Public Instruction, to whom ; the writer in the Examiner refers, was de- rented as a candidate for renomination but because he had held the office eight years, the usual term the party allows an I officer to hold his office. And quite a I number of men opposed his renomination j cause he favored the Blair Education I tu ' "",L" was "tore the last Congress. These added to the fact that a few men desired his defeat ant managed to divide his friends, were, as far as we have been enabled to discover, all the motives that led he convention to the action reached That no representative of the denomi nation is on the State ticket looks a little -imi.ge ai me nrst glance, and yet we do . i ,. , r jci uo inirsiv i ravel not behove that there was anv special de- ! for a dollar " slim or intention in i tu: i .. ' rv Deoartment Z' '.a' ' IP rcnaui i ,nen for a while, it was subdued WitW mongering Lreau, nd ptbSiKJX : 1 wlWBrf to n, sign or intention in it Thia i,o been a mere accident, or may have grown out Qf the fact that none' of our brethren, espept the one referred to above were candidates for office. That no one I connected with the denomination wji op. J t-upy an office in the gtate during thenct I : na r may not bo ft misfor tune Rf If an St m;. 1 .. DIGNIFIED AND MAGNIFICENT, And ITIIsltiy Fond of Brand). (Harper's Drawer. Another new anecdote of Daniel Web ster is recorded here merely to illustrate his unfailing dignity of manner and the magnificence of his liberality in common things. Journeying once from New York to Boston in the cars, he occupied a seat with a gentleman, who relates the storv to whom he said not a word until the train was approaching New Haven. Turning to nun then, in his profoundest voice he asked, "Can you tell me, sir, of anv place in New Haven where I can get a glass of tirst-rate brandy ? I am not. fWlimr .nii ii ; His companion did happen to know a j little house opposite the station, famous I ,n t',ose dilvs to the initiated, where the unadulterated could be had, and it bein without sign, he told his inquirer how to timl it to enter the door and "o up stairs to the littlo , iouui, iiuo. asK ior a glass of the best brandy. "And stay ' tell the man to give it you out of the "black bottle under the counter." There was not much time to lose, but Webster found the place, and mounting to the littlo room, astonished the keeper by the magnificent depth of tone and air of authority with which he asked for a gloss of brandy, and that, too, without delay And stop, sir," said the statesman, slow ly raising his hand and pointing with his eloquent finger: "I want it from that black bottle uuder the counter." The awed keeper obeyed. The great man poured out a nearfy full tumbler poured it down with exnandino- SHt;cfa' tion, threw a bill on the poimtcr, and I turned to despend, j 'Stop, sir," cried the man "your ! change." Webster turned with portentous solem- : ntty and in the tone that often thrilled I the Senate exclaimed: "No, sir! A man ! who gives a Ulass of brandy like that to a thirsty traveller should never "ive change hoc- viw.li' 1. ...... ll. 1 ,,,,n,a"-l.i Kvi-n i.(iiaiieii in th.- t..'r f Waynesville. With an exalted ,' "j this great State and familiar acquaint-,.,, with its history, he presented a I,,,, ,' trast between Republican and 1), i,,. r l ' administration. He marshalled the Republicans who ruled this s, an array of facts as forever con.'i.,',,' ,!', ,'! to an infamous grave from which th, , no hope of resurrection. The ',',, .'. revenue system he handled with skill and to the delight of his aiidi,, Stedman is master of the tariff, and the ablest and most explicit expo-iti, , r that question that has been ni.-,d, -n , man since the campaign opened '., ,' withstanding a great pait of hiv'.,,,'.,.,'.,, was taken up in refutation of tin ments of his opponent, vet he i, !;,'.,(.", ,' down new facts and original id-- -T'i showed him to be an airgressixe sinvk, , as well as potential in the defer, j ', ., ocratic doctrine. All the main i,i, . ,!f the canvass were thoroughly disci;.-, ,1 man of great natural gifts and liberal , ul- uire inat .Mednian is, his opponent , , not, does not hope for success in tin i., against him. Convincing th minds .,f audience of the strength and justice f hi cause, he, besides, led captive their heart, by his magnetic personality. Not .-vH, , Republican can help likfnff him. v.h, , they try. It is no depreciation of a-iv else to say that Major Stedman is ,' ,'f most accomplished gentlemen in thi-..re-,t State of ours, where the native rjftr manhood of our statesmen are unsurpa...-, I by any State between the waves of tin-t-m. oceans. AT W EUSTER to-day, the opening speech was mad.- l.v Major Stedman, and he rose to the fni' height of his great capacity. His .,., , h was essentially different from that which he made at Waynesville. His thought was more vigorous, his arguments in.,,,- u., i-iiuiiusiasiu oi tne orati.r possessed him. I would not have anv one believe that it was rhetoric or passion that triumphed in his effort; but at times ,. strains of eloquence were like a rush ..f inspiration in which the speaker lost hi. own consciousness in. the' great messa-r,. ) delivered. It is said, remarked Major Stedman' in the beginning, that no one ever made anv thing out of politics, either in -monev nr pleasure. Certainly he expected no mo'in v but had already had mueh pleasure The best of it was the trip through this b, aa tiful country. Before, he had no idea f the magnitude of this great western em pire. Nor do the people of the Wc.t know the greatness of the East in which he lives. In the discussion of the county govern ment, he left no fair-minded man, "uncon vinced as to the justness of the present w tern for the whole State. The Internal Revenue he handled in a masterly manner condemning the evils of the system. and' declaring the purpose of the Democrats to have it repealed. It fosters a set of ro-in-. and encourages corruption. It imposes unequal. and unfair taxation. When tin Republican party tell you that thev mean to repeal the law it is all false. Vvh, n a Radical tells you, unless he is a -rood, honest man like Judge Faircloth, that In' favors the repeal, you may put it down a bare-faced lie. Ou the subject of popu lar education, he made one of his strongest arguments. To pro e that the Democratic party is a friend to education and the Re publican is not, he showed that the li. -publicans in this State, when in power stole the school fund and did nothin- t.. enlighten the people; while the Democrat, have put out nearly $3,000,000 for educa tion. To give greater encouragement p. common schools, thev have established normal schools all over the State. The part of Mninr Sfn,i,..-. i. i - J ' in-uuiiiu slice.. II ! which strikes the people with greatest force is his admirable treatment of tin "nigger" question. He baffled his oppo nent here and came off with tremendous applause. He turns the light on Dr. York and shows the ludicrous position which he occupies with regard to civil rights Sted man quotes Judge Russell as saying that -with the negro larceny is no crime'; their religion is only a degraded superstition; and in the courts they ought not to be held responsible in the same way as tin white race. Judge Faircloth also admits that they have "loose morals." By a high protective tariff Major St. ,1 man claims that the Radicals are robbing the people, not openly and blushinjflv but secretly and insidiously. They do it un der the influence of political- chloroform. To illustrate: A suit of clothes which he bought in Scotland cost him $18: the same sun in New York would have cost him $6o. . A hat in London cost him 41. lo: in New York, $6.75. Nothing can le more ingenious than Sted man's CONCEPTION OS" l lnr.rs.. It well deserves space in this renoft. give it in full. Stedman Faircloth's question, What is" a Radical.' uubwereu as ionows: There are four ferent kinds of Radicals, as I classify th id 1 dif- When the astonished l the incident, he learned who his imposing customer was. 8 First, the moss-back Uadieai antiquated political smell of R iiou ituu. vounscation acts. 2. The Internal Revenue Radical, has been a Democrat of weak moral slim purse and whn baa hnon , the Internal Revenue Department at a hi-ii ni-i in, I" , . .. II . .11 , i""- ivauicai service, 8. The mongrel Radical who is hall' Radical and half Tti estly docu not know to which party he lelongs. 4. The nondescript Radical, who talk like a Radical, acts like a Radical, ami smells like a Radical, yet will never call himself a Radical, but generally stvl himself "The same old coon." i" shouM call Dr. York a shining and illustrious specimen of n nondescript Radical. has an Who ami IV tune n it ii ' , " -, my )uu oj nis suolects tune. Re it Hs ,t may wp mt know , port to The King of Ashantee died the other day of small nox. which Js raging there. .,cr mveu mm nanasomelv, slaughter, mg 800 of his , subjects to serve as his ea- The Dowager Countess de la Torre, who is devoting herself to the rescue in Km; land from a life of hardship of all tli" houseless cats she can discover, durinvr period of nine months has placed 70 eat. where they will be permitted to earn -m honest living. In her own house she ha a sort of hospital where the kittens can l placed on bamboo chairs and soft cushions.
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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