4 i -sSi r 1 sr , . . w ... . Read, and Ponder. ... ' H fi Oft the lOth of October. 18fJ9.Ufl' "Work kg Mesri Association f rWa)MC0unty7" a moat intelligent and respectable body ofcrti JBeoB, issued to thV people of the Statt,van Ad vdrees in which iherpdrttayed tbeliideu liortvi j inequality of (Air presejitTax syBtein, and jftjrtuitU the most irrefragable arguments why it should be changed. T;he Asapeiatiori is composed Of tax-payers ' helongiiig tojall parties; and -Waa 'organized to obuinjf poesi MsVstmple pasties in the laying of taxes. VemandUng IHajt slaves and lands shall be " taxed vd valorem? or according to value, j We furnish the following eittactjfrom tine of the , awphleta of flie Association! which wehave ria ourboesession: f ' r " ,4Jb hut tax bill has. fuJl convinced ' ua "twine great and inci-easine importance ofrhis subject, and the urgent necessity of bo reform , . lug i be evBtera that the burden should be e- qua! ly borne. Of its importance wearesat- :' isnej mat yon are areo convinced, x or j uie " oppresaire inequality and unjustnesfl iff' the Y-vtteitt we invite your attention td the follow ing illustrations from the last )ublished re- port fron toe Comptroller off public accounts. py reference to-. Mr. Brogden reporf to the last' General Assembly, (it ' will be eeen - that the aeffregate yaluatian of 26,133,063 acre of land, listed under the revenue bill of ''4850-7 for taxation; waa $8p,075,771 or a ' Lout $3 29 per acre. Thiflj added to the val- r uation of town property, eivea a total of $7,842,481, which paid into the State Treas ury, as taxes tbereon, the sniii of $14150, (omitting fractions.) .-'JThe aggregate of taxes pnfd by the polls listed at tjie eame time was lt)8,074, 6f which black Utta paid 75,4f.2. ' ; and free polls $32,588." Tlile number of black ? L polls given in was 150,i24 a";nnmberj bv the way, greatly below thai returned in the ' Census of 1830; according) to -which, there were in the'Stae, in JuneJl850, about 1G4, 1)00 taxable black 'polls. The blaek poljs re- turned in 1858, at alow valuation, were worth; " in round numbers, $13G,00u,0u0. And if our slave population bad increased in the same .ratio since 1850 that it did during tile ten years previous thereto, (and theta is every .. reason to believe the iucease, from many eausea, has hceu much greater,) the total Viiunaber of slaves in the State at this tirite ; would be 338,54. This ould leave 187,613 "elaves untaxed, worth, alt 'a low estimate, ISCT.BO!, making tlti aggregate- ialua tkio of tlxe tslave propertyjin the State $248,-; 567,800,' This atuount ojf property paid into . the" Stae Treasury in 1858, for the protection " it wy,' which, in our opinion, in its dupli - : cate capacity of projerty land perf-ous, far ex - ceeda that thrown around a;tiy other species .," of property by our laws, ihe sum of S7o,4G2, 0. little more uan i&lt tliie amount paid by vf97,842,48l worth of rear estate. Is there any reason why such a discrimination should Hue made between these two species of pro ' perty? - Why is it tliat 1,000 worth of land ; hould pay, as it did under the tax bill of 1856-7, $1 50, while.l,000 worth of slave I 'property paid only 50 ceints? Jn our opin ) ' " don there is no just and ood reapon for sach 'inequality ;' if there is, we have yet to hear it advanced. ' " jiAgain i The tax on interest ieceived,ka 4ounted to $70,774. Tli-is sura is paid "on Labout, 31,08000 of money loaned. Thus it is seen that our system requires $31,989, 000 leaned, or otherwis-i bearing interest, to : I pay"S larger amount of (taxes into the Trea. I. nry than $248,507,800 worth of slave proper ty. Is there any cause (why J,000 in nio Ii ey at interest, rentricteit by our law 'in its pro ifuctivenfss a$60 per atiiium, ebould be niade to pay $2 40 for the jf-tluction it en'ioys. ! while 1,000 in slave property, unrestricted i in its production, paid 50 cents, and 1,0')0 in ;land liid$l 50? Under our Lill of liights, : ho man or set of men ale entitled to exclu niye or separate emoluments or privilcrts - from their neighbors, except for food anii just reasons. Why cannotlthis just, fundamen tal principle be extendoil in its application Jikewfrte to property, arjother iuijiortant ele nent constituting a Staite'.' I Again: ine pronts or cajntai invested in t-team vessels,' in stocks' of any kind, in fhares h any incorporated br trading company wueuier in or qui oi ue otaxe, bonus ol an- Kther State, and bank dividends, paid, in 1 858, 511,043. This tax wae collected on about 200,p00 of profits. Ii 1850, according to the last Census, there was in North-Carolina more than $9,00O,OU0 if annual production, :MTnsing from manufactures, ; mining and me- ;njuiic ane, ai a pronLOl d-i per cent., or over S3,0p0,000. :.: We have- no data from wliir-h . to estimate, the increasc.of this annu.il pro eduction, since that tiiri, though we know it : 1 has been considerable .J Why our legislators excepted this very considerable amount cf profit Irom paying taxfes we cannot lei'.- If - the protits on the almnal production of capi , ital invested in varioqa ways is to bet ta'x- , edand-it 6urely ough, why not tax those. of - all productive investnents '? '. Agai n ; Under qur peculiar "system, ! ; and it w without precedent, peculiar in many rot peels, theVo was paid into the State Treasury the sun-, of $12,370 . by a pcrtion of the labor and industry Icofour citizens. : This tax 'on the euer - gy, enterprise and brains of the coin--jnunity; which should receivo iu its. de . ' veopmcnt the fostering care and pro tection of our law-makers so far as jks '.r wblo, amounts' to about one-sixth of the . ttttm paid, as we hfve shownby $248,? 567,b00 wvrth of one spet-ies of proper tr. We are satisfied that this distinc i tire feature in purj revenue system is 80 unjostly oppressive, so utterly sul 0 verifive of every tasonab!e and' estab lished principle Oi apolitical econemv, and so Openly at war with the best i'n tertsts ofour Static, that it requires no . . illustration in detail to convince you ihat a rcfoi m at last in this respect is : imperatively demanded. Still, that ; -j you may nioro ibrpib 'y comprehend its .unjusiness and. In equality, let us for n moment look to its operation. Every citizea except ministers of the. G'o&pol - and our Judges, (md wbycxempi the latter, when all oher State officers .an T taxed J) whose annual income from their labor is o've $500, paid, as a tax, 1 pr cent, on their respeeuve receipts . The cerk, tho doctor, the mechanic, tho lawyer, the pferseer, your county officers, oven one, though by untiring industry ana ktiijting economy ihey " may be' barelj- able to. Minport their ' faiuijiea, paid intq the Treasury- of thV State 1 upon cvry hundred. do!a!rs received,; The foreman in tbo nvdrk f frhop, if in the receipt of $500 as wages, paid, besides his poll tax, five dollars to the sheriff; wlule.his neighbor, Own ing ten s ave medianics at work in the ame shop at the jycarly wages of $ 2, 500 or more, paid'to the Sheriff only live dollars and hts poll tax.- The'over- r I tr, with 20 hand wider him', makr ;; ing lor his enipoyer 10,0 bags of cotton, worth.jOUO,' receiving six hundred V,', , dollars, paid six dollars, and tho : eai- " ployer, tor that "which; produced - him f v 5,U00 paid ten dollars.' Theemidovees of,onr different jliailroad Companies each pay 1 per cent, on their receipts, if tby amount to $500; the individual r etockholdertj, though they may receive 0 or per cent.- act their investment, ' amounting in the aggregate to a large -sum, pa", with t'eyr exceptions, noth ing. . The plpik, n the receipt of 5(00 per annum, paid seven dollars to the Htate ; his employer with $100,000 of State bpnda tn his safe, yielding him f6;00Q cr, annum, paid nothing. - These illustrations might b indefinite ly multiplied, la 1834, bur Eieeutive, in Us message to the General Asscm: bly, reviewing our revenue system, re marks thus upon the Inequality: then existing : "The poll tax on the' day la borer and the capitalist is precisely the same ; and it sometimes happens, that the latter, likelhe former, is subject to uo otner species pi comnDutiorr. 1 in the one case' it is an onerous imtiosi- tion :Jn thettKer, a- ,tax :& thonaind fold greater might occasion iio "sensi- rde .inconvenience:. If in X831a rea- Bon existed " for c6m plaining against the inequality ot the system, how much more have' -we to complain of now, when the poll . tax, though much in creased', i Dut'a di op in the bucket, compared to that assessed on our la bor, , .-. . :';." ! , ... .J: Az&ini Ihe amount paid by mer chants und others engaged in selling goods, wares and , merchandize, "was 37,881. ' This sum was' levied on $1L- 365,000- of purchases; it making no di'erence under our system whether the same was ever sold, or ever return ed the purchasing dealerany profit or notr .This amount is move than half of that paid-by S24S,56700 worth of slaves, and nearly half as much as was paid by, $3 1,989,000 of money at inter est, 'l bis ovr ,881 is paid, not by tne mer- cnants tnomselves, nut, as everyone knows, by the consumers a large por tion of 'vhom are those very nien who pay 1 per cent, of their wages into the State Treasury. i.Qf this merchants' tax, dealers in ready-made clothing paid 1 I per cent, ontheirpnrchases-ten doljars i' . !i trn iL i-.J'i iur every ?i,uw worm yi guous jouuguu further, 40y,000 (m round numbers biuployed in the purchase-r-(not sale) ol liquors, paid 0,448 tax, or .5 per cnt. on the amount biuht. Further still, 384,000 employed in buying and selling slaves, paid 1,279 ; 893,000 employed in other trade, paid $1,780. Upon ' what principle of adjustment these tarious rates were agreed to. we are unable to ascertain. If some were, intended to operate, in the nature of sumptuary laws, we are of the humble opinion that our legislators did not give that time and attention to the consid eration of the subject, demanded by its importance and its ultimate effects. Again: 01,952,400 worth of carriages, buggies and other vehicles, most of which are as necessary at this day to the comfort and convenience of our cit izens, especially those out of our own towns, as their sugar and coffee are, paid 19,524, or on per cent, on their assessed value, and a greater sum than was paid on '$11,706,7 10 of town pro perty. Further, 2,150 pianos certainr ly as much an article of luxury as the bugy of the farmer which conveys his Wile to church, paid $3,225, or of one per cent, on the cost, estimating that cost at two hundred dollars each. These palpable and unreasonable in consistencies and unjust discrimina tions might be multiplied, until every source tram which our revenue- is tie rived would, in the illustration, be ex hausted.; The limits of this address and your patience forbid any further (fitai's. To more fuHy substantiate tle justness of, our complaint, we will rcpeat the rates as above exemplified. Under the tax bill of 1856-7 $1 iO0 worth of lauil paid 1KH1 Uvrs 1.D00 in nimiey loaned paid , 1,000 of divldeud and profit paid 1 .000 in lulxir and inrtn-try " 1 0K) is good purchased " l,0iiA iu clothing " 1.0t!0 in liquors t 1.0(a) of capital in buying alavea, paid l.ttou other trad-.!, "' l.(tOi) worth of bnggi, carriages, 4c, paid 1,00!) pianos paid $1 60 2 40 10 00 3 33 10 00 r5 oo 3 33 2 00 7 50 Such are some of the inequalities of our existing revenue system. We ask vou, can it be defended '( Can any con sideration, except self-interest, urtre a solltai 3- argument in favor of its con-1 tinuauee: To every tax payer in the State -we address ourselves, and appeal to them for an ansver after mature de liberation." Speaking of the Democratic Plat lorm the Raleigh Register says: "But J it is to a vital matter of State concern that we wish to call the especial atten tion of our readers the following isj one of the planks of this ricketty plat- form : ' j 11. Jltnlvcd. That we are: opposed to dis! turbinw any of the sectional compreJBises.ol'. our Constitution, State or National, arid thai we especially deprecate the introduction ai lh;; tune by the Opposition party of KortH j Carolina into our btate politics of a qtiestiori of constitutional amendment affecting, the basis upon which our revenue is raised, bej lieving it to be premature, impolitic, dangers ou8 aid unjust ; at the same time - we deem i, the duty of the Legislature when passingact for the raising of revenue, so to adjust taxa tion 3 to bear as equally as practicable withv in the limits of the Constitution, upon th various interests and classes of property inali sections 01 the rotate. Now, when it is remembered tha this party was the first to "disturb the compromises-of the Constitution":-i that the fact is notorious that a ver large number .of them their Organ! the llalttgh &tan4ardy among th number were for an alteration of the Oonstifntionby legislative amendl mcnts, so as to secure ad valorem taxi ation and when, it is well known thai if the Whigs had failed in their Con vention to advocate an alteration of the Constitution' for the purpose abov& indicated the Democrats would have come foi'StJ with the proposition, w cannot be charged with a want of char ity, fov saying that tjlie prate, about altering the Constitution or disturbing its compromises is all sheer humbug and an attempt to dupe Hhe people. But let U3 look at' this resolution a lit4 tie more closely. ! The resolution "deprecates-the Introduction" aV this timel by the Opppsition'party of North Ja"r olina into our -State politics of a ques-l tion of - Constitutional amendment af4 fecting the basis on which our reVentte; is raised, believing it to be pretnature5,! impolitic, dangerous and unjust ; at the same time we believe it to be tho dutv! of the Legislature; when passing acts for the raising of revenue so to adjustf taxation as to bear as equally as pos-f sjoie-wiiiim tne limits ot tne rconstituM tion, upon the Various interests ond classes of. property in sections of the: estate. We are net disposed to be byporcritipal wnen ?we have so much! that is the subject of fair criticism to? deal itith; but ; we fake leave to tell the! authpre of the above resolution, that by using the wrft-'ttyematwre" they! h,ate conceded that the alteration off the Constitution for the'purpose gf se curing adhvlorem taxation in. a rreri question of t im ith hem-that the1 time mil come when they will be ready to '"disturb the compromises of the Constitution'' which i they are now so careful of, and o; alter it us to place negro property upon an exact Tooting ot equality, as iar as Dearing ine uur thlns of taxation is concerned, with the rest of the property of the State, Again, with 'what reason ..can these Democrats speakof a measure as "un- jut,' ' and yet,hy using the word "pre- m&ture. mj in substance tnat wtien in their opinion the proper time arrives thjey will resort to it, "unjust", as jit may be; and turther, we ask, why wulcl the measure be more unjust now thjin when they trill be ready to advo cate it; epme two, . four, six, eight, or ten years hence ? Are not these men or the horns of a dilemma, from which thlere is no chance of escape for them? But once, more, if there can be a time wjien equality, of taxation can be just ly; resorted to, it is . this - very present titiwr "when, for the purpose of meeting tne state ueot, taxes are, in we course of constant and rapid increase, and this is the time when equality, of tax ation would stop the just complaints of those who protest against the junjust discrimination made in favor of slave property, by the present Constitution. But to go on the latter part of the resolution proposes to raise revenue by j tixes which will bear as . equally as possible upon all the subjects of taxa tion vrithinthe limits of the Constitution.- j Now, we ask the reader to note two tilings : 1st. These Democrats are rpady to lay the burthens of taxes e qfcally on all subjects of taxation in the Htate, save audi except slave property, f4r that property Z cannot, "within-the limits of the Constitution,' be subject ed to, equal burthens, and the Demo cracy think it would be "premature" jst now, so to alter the Constitution as to make slave property pay an equal ajmount of taxes according to its value with other property. I 2d. What becomes now of all Gov. Wilis' tremendous criticism and corrus cating within his speech on Friday night when he said the Whig platform ould tax child's toys, and medicines, and spoons, and forks, &c, &c, when Ike has accepted, and now stands upon 4 platform which proposes to taxequal- all interests and classes of property n all sections of the State, save and xcept Slave Property ? VV e will thank is liXcellencv it he will send us a Special "message, and tell us how he will g6t out of this fix ? We call his Special attention to this matter, and rill await patiently his answer. Gov. Ellis's Speech. It is seldbm that we have rad a more undignified and less truthful tiarangue than that delivered by the jovernor of North Carolina to his larty friends who had just nominated lira for re-election. We copy it in mother column. As a specimen of dignity, see the very small and twice repeated asser tion that the Opposition Convention jwhich lately met in Raleigh was "a iband of suneranuated. disannointed foiiuuitiiis, aucieiit oiuce seekers, &c. , V hat a pitiful exhibition of spite, against a body of two hundred and fif ty respectable citizens of North Caro- una, wno naa assembled to exercise the dearest rights of freemen, and who would probably have escaped the de nunciations of txov. lilhs, and bean re garded by him as marvellous proper men, it tney naa assembled to nomi nate him. Let the reader pass over in his mind the numerous eminent men who ,were prominent actors in that Convention, who have served their oountry in public and bear unblem ished reputations in private, "and then let him say if such men were fit sub jects for the low and little aspersions of the Governor of the State, merely because they happen to differ from him m politics, and were assembled to nominate a gentleman to oppose him for the high office! which he fills. It seems to us that a centleman ofanv delicacy of feeling or nobleness of heart would treat a body assembled for such1 an object with most scrupu lous courtesy, even supposing its mem bers to bef less deserving than thev were of the' respect of the Governor of the State.- His sneers at those mpn of age and experience and wisdom and patriotism, remind us of a passage in the Book of Kings, where it is recor ded that a parcel of irreverent "little children," (tHe " Young America" of that day,) mocked the prophet Elisha, " and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head ; go up; thou bald head." Be fore the Summer ends, our present Governor; who thus sneers at age, may meit, politically, a fate like theirs. As a specimen of the recklessness of truth in this harangue, ' see the as sertion that the opposition party "mainly consists" of superanuated, disappointed politicians. The party mainly consists, as all parties do, as every candid manrwIU admit, of young andr middle aged," not superannuated men j ancfcso far !from any, party in North Carolina'; mainly "consisting of disappointed politicians', it would Scar cely be true to assert that one in fifty of any pjarty in North Carolina had ever aspired to political 4 distinction. We are not. "among those who ever asked or desired or expected -office, and we think that, in the main, the post of honor is the private station ;" but it ill becomes one who, like Gov. Ellis, has been 86 often a candidate and has lived upon the public e ver since he grew to manhood, to indulge in any reproach of those who, like himself, have aspired to.political hon ors or emoluments. '...- AAgain: Gov: Ellis says, " He re gretted that the grave body of antiqu ated politicians and office 'seekers, which assembled a short time since, h,ad said, thai they perceived no differ ence between Bbclc Bepablicahs and Democracy."- The Governor might have epared his regrets: no such thing vat said; it is a fiction of his own. Further:) Gov. Ellis makes a stjidied effort to place J Black Bepublicans, Freesoilers apd Oppositioiists" upon the same footing,1 as holding the same opinfons and advocating the same mea sures. If i there were no insinuated falsehood in this of which the gentU man shoujf be ? ashamed, there is im policy in it, of which the Qovernor ought not to have been guilty ; for, if he is believed at all by the iJlack Ke- punncans ; ana jreesoiiers, tne enect must, be to encourage them - with the false and delusive hope that the Op positionists of North Carolina are their friends, which no man with either pa triotism or honesty can assert or be lieve. - .. V : - Once more: Gov. Ellis said - l The ancient office seekers who met here on the 22d of February last, nominated two candidates "for the Presidency from this State. - There arelready in 'nomination for this of fice, bv this party, sixty-six candi dates, and yet they say the Democrats want all the offices, Surely no man who heard Gov. El lis was quite so ignorant as not to know that this 'assertion about 66 can didates was a fiction. It is about one sixteenth part true, that is, four per sons are already in nomination, viz : jiessrs. wanata, Jtiunt, ieii, ana urit tenden. it .L And finallypffor the present.) Gov Ellis said "That party also advocates infernal improvements, and yet they selec. man to enunciate and detend their platform who has invariably voted a gainst every- railroad proposed to be built during his term of service in- the Legislature." - .We' have not now a copv of the Journal to search out Mr. Pool's votes, but the Editor of the Western Advo cate, who attended both the two last Legislatures as a Reporter for the press, and therefore had peculiar fa. cinties tor knowing, nas a copy and AW- says, "It has been said that his record as to the West is very bad ; upon exami nation we learn from the journals that he voted for the bill to allow- county subscriptions to the .French Broad Road, that he voted for the bill to a mend the charter of the Wilmington and Kutherford Road, that he also vo ted for the Western Extension bill If the Governor of the State thus sets an example of misrepresentations of facts, what may we not expect frOm the less exalted organs of the party? The fountain being foul, the stream will not be pure. Fay. Observer. Scarcity of Printing Paper. A New York correspondent of the New Orleans. Courier, thus writes res pecting the scarcity of material out of which printing paper is manufactured, and the necessity of looking to some new source for a supply : The demand for printing paper has brought a new material into notice, from which very good paper is made, and which deserves to be widely known to our southern . friends. It is sugar cane, from which the juice has been pressed,) after having passed through the rollers of a sugar mill. It is called, in the South, bagasse. On all estates where mills are driven hy steam, refuse of the cane is used as fuel ; but on those estates where horse power is used as the motor, the bagas se may be had very cheaply. But, if t,his hbery-texture may be employed in the manufacture of paper, we are led to inquire if there are not other stalks, leaves or roots, from which this necessary article can be made. Florida and other; sections of the South, no doubt contain vegetable tex tile materials, growing wild, which, on a proper trial might be found valuable materials for the production of paper. Every year 4he supply of rags be comes less abundant. Many of otir paper-mills have for some time past, been supplied with linen mummy-rags from Egypt, but the supply from this quarter is on the decrease, and in a few years, we will find ourselves in want of'tags, and, consequently, of paper. It is M orth while to examine the sou thern wild shrubs, and bring the ba gasse into use. -. Late From Europe. The annexation . of Savoy to France has been definitely settled by treaty. , The. Reform, bill continues under consideration in Parliament. . A squadron of four vessels, headed by the screw steamer Hero, is to ea cort the Prince of Wales to Canada. The London , Times strongly recom mends'' the, Prince to take a tour throughout the United States, a.nd feels sure, if he will visit Washington and the President of tie United 'States, he will he properly, appreciated. Mrs. Jameson, tne authoress is dead. ' 7;p ' ' Florence Nightingale continues se riously ill. Prayers are daily offered for herj restoration, in " the Garrison chapels. , -: The Municipal Councils of Nice have voted in opposition. to annexa tion.'1 "i -.J " . . : The commercial i r e a ty hetween France and England; is in full opera tion. : ' ' ", j . he ' ""'-.; The Paris Bourse had been much depressed, but closed firmer at 67.90. The Armenian; provinces voted in favor of annexation to France. V. The Pope of Rome has excommuni cated Victor Emanuel. . .-' ? "Austria has declined to renew diplo matic relations with Sardinia. A sail inrolvinsr the title ' of th p 1 hole city of San Francisco, is to balSTX ,"r?ansm?f commenced in the Supreme Court at Washington next Monday.4 The claim is made under a "Mexican grant to a Catholic Priest,? and the case rests npon .the genuineness of Jthe grant. There is a fornpdabhv array of emi nent lawyers on he hide of the claim ant. r . ' Latest from Zlexlco. ' . . -J"-: ' " Pensacola, April 6. The latest dales' from yera Criix in forms ns thatrMiratnon" iad commeii- ced withdrawing his j forces" from be- ore the valla of that city on the morn ing of thecSlstu-of Marcfe,f : Juarea iorces were sy ueany vuk vi puwuc that it 'was believed that if iliramon had remained but a little 'longer he pould,havp jcaptured he city y On the evening of the z6d Marcn the. steamship - Indianola brought to tne ancnorage on tne city a narK, wmcu she had captured tb the Southward, in the neighborhood of AlvaradoV'" The bark bore bpanish colors, and was professedly bound for GalvestonV Texas. !r She ' gave ' as ian excuse for being found sojieaira Mexican port that her compass was in a disordered condition. She -is thereby suspected of being the "third vesssel mentioned m the intercepted dispatches oTGen. Miramon, as having supplies jfor that General. -' The steamship Indianola has been purchased by Juarez, and placed in the service ot the government. , . ; What's the Difference? A large portion of the Democratic party Seuth say that Douglas is nq better than Seward ; whilst the Nash ville Union and American calls him a political gambler" Now we would like to know the difference in support ing: such a man as Douglas and a pro fessed .Black Republican.. -The only umerence we van see is, tnat jjougias wotld give the spoils of office to Demo-?, crats, whilst J3e ward or any other Re? publican Vould not. Is not that the only. difference tJAVe tell the honest, yeomanry of - the democratic party that their leaders have noj other mo tive in governing their political ac tions than the spoils of office, and nine tenths of them could be bought up any day for a consideration. Richmond Whig. " an aw EUGENE B. DRAKE & SON, EDITORS AKD PROPRIETORS. STATESVILLE, . y O FRIDAY, APRIL, 13, 18 CO. Our Terms:. T HE "IREDELL EXPRESS" U published upon the fol lowing Tekjis, from which tltr witl ! no deviation. Subscribers therefore will govern theraaelree accordingly. 1 copy one year, ii paid in advance, ft 00 ; If paid within 3 months, . 2 25 ; If paid within 6 months, 2 50 ; If not paid till the end of the subscript Ion year, 3 00. . Justice Demands that Like "Values in Staves Should Pay, Equal Taxes with Lands and oth er Taxable Property. PEOPLE'STICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, ? - JOHN POOL, OF PASQUOTANK. .- Democrats' Opinions of Democracy. Tl. - i- II : i a -ix auc junwwiiig la wnai democrats nave said of Buchanan-Douglas- EHja-Deroocracy as it was, as it is, and as it ever wilL be, so long as the party shall maintain power. We invite the attention of honest Democrats to examine the record. Not a-word of it was uttered by any but Democrats, who had be come disgusted with the corruptions of their party : .-.- Senator Irerson, of Georgia, sneak tng of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, .nd its consequences, says The loss of Kansas was th legitimate and inevitable fruit of the Kansas Nebraska Act. Even Gov.wPierce put over Kansas a whole batch of Free Soil Governors, and the present Administration has followed the ex ample of its illustrious predecessor. Thus Kansas was lost to th South." Vt Senator Toombs, on the floor of Congress, said "I do not believe to-day, there is as corrupt a-.fjrvernment under the heavens as that of the United States." The Charleston "Mercufy-' says io conciuae tne wnoie niattei Naaonal Derobcrapy iscorrppt, vacillatxng and fak-e; it wears the garbofeanctit?, that hideous de formities may be concealed ; it "woos but to rum, and wins but to destroy.-"- " Ex-Gov;, Foote, of Mississippij says "In fact the Democratic party' now in ex ietence, i dishonest, corrupt and imbecile in the extreme, confessedly so.. Party organs anfl party leaders openly avow it the Wash ington VStates" liad reoeatedlr charged it. and had exposed the peculations, frauds, and to.etts otfctovernment omciaU. Gov. Wise, of Virginia, says - "I would proteet her" (the Soutli) "from ihe authors of Kansas Nebraska Acts, from" the false protection of Non-intervention; &om tha Lecjuuipton ' policy "which had not the-wisdom even of Esop'a cock io the fa- ble i-from the Compromise of F.ncrliah : Rilla which tripped us of every particle of pres tige wnicirwe naa leu, is tn south . isany portion of our'conntry in a situation to rush into war wars invited by the Prrsident with three .European and fie American pow ers? Are w to be a grand ConsolidatedV elective North and South imperialism. ?"- V Hon. Pierre Sottle., of-Xouisianai !jiW.e taeaa to disentangle oureeWes from the thraldorn in which we have been kept' for years oy an unprincipled gang-of political "peeulators and blacklegs. That the time has. come. for . os to assume that position ia made manifest bt the disgnet with which the more patient and endurinj: in eurmidsthave witnessed the scandalous and,r revolting cor ,! rurrtion and fout dealing introduced ia our party proceedings, under the direction 'and management of the few miscreants who claim absolute control over it - .. M J - '.i . . The Charleston "Mercury" again says.. , ! 'r-4 "The existing organization ealling Itself uo vju'cibujciii ui wjo tju i Leu oiaiej?, wiin its Abolition a?kation and Ststxaxen' no more like the government established ly the Constitution than the . Roman Republic under Augustus Ceesar was Eke the Botnaa Republic under Scipib, will etroggle hard for ita perpetuation. Nothing but th instinct ? Klf prwerration, & the higher impulse of it. But the contest is lnevitable--fbr it ham been gathering fox thirty years.' : .' , , At a Democratic meeting in Jfew. Orleans last year, the following was adopted,"yiRt " ; ' w t Holdmgf in peculiar detestation' the .em. ployment o Federal patronage afad. Federal power, to. influence or control political result in the several States in the Union, for the benefit of Individuals or of factions, we pro- sw mm claim undvinz opposition alike to such icfiu- encefl, and the evil-disposed, venal "and i&d 1 men or wnom w as ongiaaieu, ueieuae ya Ex-Got. 4.dams, Of bduth varoli says--V itv'v;! r- -.- . ' -.'riuetiassword. hereafler, it seeraSr hi no janonai imocracyio wnicn - wi' i indebted for the lYoclamation Force-lW V iolatiotf of the Tariff Campromise-4he sent Tariff the Wilmot Proviao -the losifof California the dismemberment of Texas-in ADuaai expenauuxt oi seventy miuion8-3UO- A 1 1 i . . . ' ' t ' mission oi fcoosutution u me people of JgAn eas the black catalogue, in hot haste tU -be enlarged and embellished bv ther admirkion of Kansas with less than hiaetv three- lou- ...j :.l...l,!t.nii ! : J' ' -. Ti-i And Mr. Pryor. tfhom tho iMt ligencer ty ies tne yanant yonng ? Bts eru oi ui owuvu, uue. eainnera n . it. . o: 4V. .-; i.:t..-r vf$ Statesin! Washingfonlast j0j; "From the by ways and r the higliwaW ol tne uovernmeaine ruuennesa oi corrap jou senos forth an insufferable stench. :"WhJjae tie people so ; patient ? Why : slnmbereVth indignation of the Democracy i , - A Momentous Danger. J -The fact is well-known, that tan organza tion exists throughout tlie Southern tes whose "Chiefs are leading and- in fitted tia Democrats, with an. avowed object to diell ve the Union, and with the Southern, Mtraad afragment which is to be detached hotaoor distracted llexieo, forma a Sou then ercy whichV ;vrhen accomplished, .twjfj be governed by some niiliitary despot- Tii r- ganization, the number, of which is ssfl exceed 30,000, and oath-bound to nefe de sist till they accomplish, the evil deed are 'scattered oyer the ASooth em ' States,' jioiding wittun its chanued circle, many ot ll . oWt influential Democrats and 8worn-in desjpxa doea all eager for thejeaterprize. Oniiate ment goes on ta-sayif " No organizatK of this kind has in, this country comihii)d so much talent with such immense' financial resources, and under me present aspect polit ical affairs, we do not deem it too niu h to eay that the whole nation may soon be ;ome interested in the. ultimate labors .of vtije K. G. C's" (Knights otthe Golden Circie? This doubtless, will be Fillibustermgapon a larger scale, and more dangerous-ti f( the peace of the country; than was ever Mfore attempted, the chief ol)je.ct. being o f j-eak up the American Umton l ' The expedition of Aaron Burr, was nothing iftcoiuparisoi with these plotters of treason against the 0oh. Oaths-have been taken by thirty-thd&and and more men banded together, who ht4itate not to proclaim their dJabolicarMntttion. and who assert that (the high Officialafit the seat of the Federal Government, (meaning the President and Jii Cabinet omcrs..fi6v- ernors of States, and members of Congress, oeiong to.tiie uruec. . . 1 ; And now, we call upon Gov. MKb; ?deny that he has jojned (this oath-bound sagocia tion, having subscribed and paid fund jlo ad- vauce the objects thereof ? " . - ' " Important Warning. !Sii. It iswelI-known tliat the citizens, ol ' south Iredell for years ha;ve desired a division of the County, for no Uher reason than.rhe dis tance which they are forced to trave in at tending upon the Courts and other puflic bu siness, in Statesville, is considered 'toi'lgreat incurring the loss of much time andeavy expene8. We hae been informed, rntly, by gentlemen residing in the soutbes por tion of the County that if a, Railroad, Rising th rough their section to Statesville wejy con structed, it would; obviate all desirt Tor a County division, inasmuch a$ thejf then would exist uogreiat'eecessity for it. icktead oT'expending ada to reach Statesvilfllwitii the outlay 'of a horse, one :hour1ytlfetrain would fetch" them to1 town, one hoiri land them at home, aud at corn para lively 'tt ding xost: Hence the citizens of the souther t por- Uon of the County have subscribed liberally for stock in the A.' T. & Ohio Bailrtf d, in cen- tne belief that their feliow-citizetia. Ih'tfi tral and northern portionsof the Cjjunty woura go ana ao lKewise. t ' If thisKad ibiould miss SUtesvWfe, it will wholly apbrffieir expectati and desires,' and eatirely fail.to set aside th' nec esity that will still exist wih M?m for divis ion of the County. make this, t mely warning, as a maitfcr of too grea unpnce. to be longer neglected. ' ' ' '-1 :-s : B- The Raleih Standard persists Tde- clanng vociferously by tlie" Beard 'Mat hornet" that Mr.lPool was -a member ' the a.nw iNotning party, without, iipwve?s ad vancing a particle of proof to eetabSdlr the i . - - j. . ... ('. cnarge more man the standard s Dudetisser tionl Well, suppose, for the saVe of llrgu ment that Mr. BSol wasi at any time afnem ber of a know nothing lodge, what oft ? The order of Know Kothings, as we inifer'"by what we have saw published io'. tbe ISand ard whose Editor must at one pefiod-liave himself belonged ; to the .order, ''oiberwi Jt he would not know so Biuch as: he preteV'ls of themhad for their obje&he jreeertiifiitoi of ,u' i-.iyi.i ruLtv, mi uunestaaministrauOn of the Government, the enforcement f the Laws. of, Congress, and Equal Justice all the States. Is there any thing wrong it&hatt TbfiStaKdard thfnts so ! says so, wMn " it condemns the American party. ' ''. ' ' Wherein has harm been inflicted Upi the country by the A uerican -organlzatU ! Were they ever n power ? No ; bugjthey Were too intensely Iniericario suit thefiiiewg of modern Demacyr What cartft Las held pOfier pxt'M'fjmlptmng to save the country, and where standi the country this day!!! j Upon the'veeloilfisso latioa andvuin 1 Who hath done thisiieedl O Democraev f thpu art hypocriticaM and wicked as Beelzebub.' ... m -- Railroad Spirit in- Alexanderil We, leant tbsft tihe citizens of Alext nder. unhke the feruwrfrjf Iredell, f?el a int ereet tf eecure (ibe'A T. A Ml ad to pass to TeylorsjviUei and hare subibed 25,0qqriB 1 stocfc of the Company! en will increase- their ubseripdon to $7000r as much is shall be oeeessary .to build thiroad. to Taylorsville; We canhui admir i hV wi. dMir and forecast of our neighbors altblngk' vueir gain win prove to oe our Jees. We tave received the K. C. Jhntw for Ma . Aausualfhe Ranter ifwelt supplied with a '(u'p(Vajuakfjijtu few fermerej ' Price SI yeart-Addre4 the Publisherat Balleigb. ' f.y'fm.-Uz Capt. Carapbe.! and Lieut.-Jj( t; oi the,U. Srmy,wBbhad4ri ingiunong Irjinenm t "uce inenr reiurn irom utan, nati re ceived order o j joln jieir !com nt nds aAid proceeded! hen'ce i H''.ffM Tho proceedings, in Congre8S,i,;with the exception of the developments mak. uig by the InVigalory Couinittees, "vu mue oi inveiesi. : AiXt xacnanan wrotd aViolent v'proiet gBtibe aothori of sCongrestc investigate niragency; in paisapplying " the public 111 Till M In!" 0lOntlnnnMnM nlL..! proper; prpoWs bttt it not, antt proceeds in tha regtilar dia charge of an important! duty ib tho ' One item, the 'printing' of post office hlankSj seven bukdred thousand bol-" lars, it is proved, was paid to favorites Muajt inan xno worK vasiv'ortn ; We: will give iho tstimonyjin fthis case next week. - . - ?:-4 ;- .. A bill" haB passed thel House, to pro hibit poligamy in the territoriea. The Spring 'Term '-of. the Superior Court for bedell, Judge J., W0sborrie, presiding, is, in session : alfctesvilje wv,. AB vurge : aeiiyereq by his HonorEo the Gratd Inquest bf! the -County waa; able" and .comprehensive. The State docket was? cleared1 ebtfrciv on Monday, and the Civil dockoilwUI' be fin-shed by Thursday-evening, per P8 ftwn.tothe rapidity xnth'wliich hia. Honor dispatches business- :,Judge Osborne will do credft to the Ermine. ;'. . I . ,. Hot and Dryi";';' " The thermometer during the forepart of the present week Vas up to?summer heai Mondtiithetncrmonterranffed high asr6 in the snadevjyhile astiff wind ytds ''bowiiigfjfVpbinVtjoatu. Ttio high winds that' prevail daily has rendered Jtbeeartb very; parched and diy, so much soHharcorn-plariting has been quite suspended by many tarm- ers. Rev. .Daniel Wortli waa tried in Rajidolpir County last weekcro the charge of circulating incendiary doenroents )and using 'seditious language.. He was found. guilty, aad sen terMjed to.iinpriaonment for "12 - months. A new; trial was asked for and" refused, and the counsel for the prisoner took an appeal to the Supreme Court. The Judge offered to admit theprieoner to bait in the sum of $2,000, but being unable to givceenrity for hVappear. ance, b was remanded to jail; v The Raleigh Standard saSen itself to be terribly exercised end frightened by ht ghost of Know Jtothingismpnce in a while, like a L horse half blind starts at shadows cast by the nghtlol tfteJnoon. Several times, the,8an dard has published what it says are the ifiret and second .Degrees of the Ritual, bij pertin aciously refuses to publish the Third Degree. Why is this? We would much like to see the Third published abo, that the people may know "how to appreciate the Aruly conserva tive and Union senthneutscontaihefj therein, and understand whatthe objects of tjieknow Nothiogn were, aright Will 'the 'Standard comply? . i Examination at Olin High School. The annual Examination of Olin High School will taktf place 6a the 22, and,23d, May, nextJ' ' Col. B. II. Mooi-e, of Salisbory, will deliver the'Aunnal Address. Rev. Thomas E, Mann of the N. 0. Conference, will pracbTthe.annual Ser mon bxdbre,th9 twolLiterary Societies. ' - -. - i : : 'Blackwood.-:- . Wc have received: from L.. Scotc k Co. the aboyenAmcd pdicarYor"'Uareh; it is. one of emeries of foreign periodicals published by them, and afforded at A much less'costthsn is charged across the water. See advertis't. B-,Hon. J.i Lea,Ch win accept of thanks for sending us'several Coiressional Speeches that luive been made by various .members, ch iefly DemocV t. j JtefirThanks to ilrs. 0 Gillespie for a sal ad of fine lettace sent bur family 4 Tuesday. In whatldoes the Governor's (jEJlis) aris tocracy ioriskt, Mr; Express Ahiy fy ymricr. $ For taxing the land 0 the rhan in inod ate circumstances, and exempting from equal taxation the; slaves f She rich: 7s not that a good sign for an amtocrat' Mr, Courier! .---4 v ' ! . ' '-"i ;' . - . We wiHpnbli8h..the'Xist of Premiu ms off ered by th Mecklenburg .Agricultural Socie ty for their 'next ,Fair benwe can obtain a copy..' ThV pa'er containnig hwas abduct ed from our office. "I V ' . 't; Sappoled io he Zillei, 'As the ail.iiraVM?.tng op from Weldoh yesterday ?cening, a man isTsupposed tolltaye been killed in the .folloVing'manner TUe 'train was approaching Tar River bridge, ; when te engineer sa w a man on the oppo site end, hut, -of Cpursg," thought he vojild get ;o5 before the train Veached him. rinstead of. getting off,! hoVever, the man 'stepped to one side and backed himself up against the' Tailing; or wall of the bridge supposing ihat the train would miss him - but unfortunately for hua, hs head was rstrttck hji the mail coach, it is supposed he waaj instantly killed. litThe; train hein behind lime, did not stop for the'mattertj) beinTes- Hedical Examinera." We see by advertisement" in the Raleigh Standard that- the Board of Medical; Examiners ; of Korth Caro lina", thrill meet in Raleigh on the inX Hpni&j Jjn ,Mav ;fbrfthV purpose of examining candidates for the practice ofmedicine, The act of !tKe Legisla ture authorizing this jBoardl provides that' from ;and after the 15th1 of April, 859j noperson shall practice ,Medi eine or Suigery, or in ny case pre iscribe fo"r,the curerpf diseasefor fe or reTrardr unless he shall bave been first licensed to dd bythe Board of Medical Examiners; though persona practicing in viobition of the. Act re not held guilty of a misdemeanor, but they r cannot recover their! bills by l&w-Churlotte Democrat, i I Hovt Heenan and Sayers make their money IIao4 oyer fiW j jyhb kUling'bee'3 like a, confe- swas. xecauc vuuuuuuit,uiu. , -

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