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V A, WILMINGTON, N. C, SUN1 )AY, J b NE 27, 1897. m mt ii y w . it '9. r TOME'S LETTER-BOOKS- More Extracts From merits-Evidences of Battling foi the Interests of His State. Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel, Raleigh, N. Ci, June 26. (Special Correspondence.) Continuing the gathering of notes from Governor Vance's war letter books, itt is interesting to note that. Brigadier General A. G. Jenkins, writ ing hkn from Salem, Va., says it had been found necessary to send quite a number of cavalry hiorses to. North Carolina in order to get food for them, but that the people showed great in disposition to sell their produce for confederate money at any price. This letter is dated' January 28, 1863. General , .-Tenkins requested Governor Vance to X Vfre authority to confederate officers "to impress supplies. General Jenkins -personally eulogized Vance, saying both had served together in the old federal congress. Governor Vance replied that lie could not, consistently with the duty lie lowed his own -people, comply with General ) Jenkins' request, and added that the section where .he horses were "had been devastated by drought. He added that ne iidui wniieii uiitr seueiaiy xjl war protesting against the presence of these horses and urging their re moval. This letter, which was a very sharp one, was published in the first installment. "Colonel T. P, August, a Virginian, was appointed commander of North Carolina conscripts, with headquarters at Raleigh. A great deal of bitterness resulted. Hon. W, T. Dortch, then a congressman, wrote Governor Vance from Richmond, January 31, 1863: "Having heard that a Virginian had been appointed commander of con scripts5 in our state, I waited on the secretary of state this morning , and protested against it. The secretary in formed me that he had received a let- ter from you on the subject; that the appointment had been made- by the conscript bureau without his'' knowl edge and that he would have it attend ed to. He asked me to recommend some one of our officers,1 saying he pre ferred a man in the army. I replied I had no preference provided the appoin tee was a North Carolinian. I took oc casion to say to him that some regard' in future I hoped would be paid to the sensibilities of our people in regard to appointments. If another appointment is not very, soon made I ask that you will adivise me and we will unanimous ly demand the removal of Colonel Au gust. It is important that there should be entire acord between yourself and the commandant of conscripts." r- ; ' ' . . General Whiting complained that writs of habeas corpus were being is sued to bring before the courts the cases of persons who were in the army and who were alleged to be minors (which then meant under 18 years of age.) Whiting wanted, the issue of writs stopped and said the whole civil government depended on the military. Vance replied: "The writ of habeas corpus is the common right of every man and I have neither the power nor inclination to prevent the issuing of such process." Vance protested to the secretary of war against the appointment by the confederacy of officers bf some of the North Carolina "state" i regiments "for the war." The secretary of war wanted to know which yere regarded as the state regiments... Vance replied February 4th, sending a list of the "stale" regiments and say ing: "These regiments were organized originally for the period of the war un der a state law, and the governor was required under that law to commission the officers and to fill vacancies therein. The remaining regiments from this state in the confederate service, known as 'conscript regiments,' were orinally twelve months men and tne appoint ment of their officers is given to the president by an act of April 16, 1862, and is conceded by the state authori ties." (The list of which the governor spoke is not' given in the letter book, nor is there a copy of a letter from Colonel Avery of the 6th i regiment, which he says he inclosed to the sec retary of war). February 9th a letter was written to A. S. Merrimon, solicitor Eighth dis trict, directing him to take the neces sary steps to secure the presence of all the Madison county prisoners taken by the recent expedition, ana also io mves- tigate the shooting of a number of these prisoners, rnese are me men v gaged in the raid on the town of Mar shall January 15th. They were eon- federate deserters and Colonel Alien, Sixty-fourth North Carolina, hanged and shot some of them. -The secretary of war renewed his re quest to be allowed to impress slaves in piedmont North Carolina, to build Slhe Danville railway (from Greensbo ro to Danville). The governor again refused and said the slaves of twenty counties had for months been at work on fortifications from Wilmington to Petersburg: He added: "xnis roau viewed with almost universal disfavor lina railway for operatid in this state, as entirely rmiwuMu many roads east of it, and the charter never could have een obtained but as a pressing war necessity. I feel it due candor that I should add a very gen eral impression exists here mat upon nad Deen killed; "that the completion of tne uanvuie tion as it Is termed, the eastern lines of our roads would be abandoned to Qenemy. How far this opinion does injustice to the purpose of the war. de partment I am unable to -say. I mere ly state the fact. For these reasons and the additional one that the road is be ing built by private contractors' I do not feel that I could.be justified in forc fng the labor of citizens upon it." The secretary of war wanted the gauge of the new road to be that of the Virginia These Interesting K kilt the Governor's Coi tie-Ssla- roads, but the North Carolin ture negatived that plan V Wil- - rote n Jthat ivay of President S. D. Wallace, of mineton and Weldon railw ,H o-AVAi-nnr that the traffiq handise, line" was so immense, in th tit, "and transporting troops and mef the that its rails were wearing lred that four forges were in bla .V- him while repairing laminated andi He the rafls. He asked the governor have 300 or 400, tons of new said he 'had learned that it pes, t '.e Lnd plan to despoil some of the ue nota"bly the Wilmington, Cha ity Rutherford, and that if this lie would like to .have the named. n i: rth ny- r Li a Vance asked that the Sixte! i up en- : -of- Carolina regiment be sent army to come to this state to deserters and recreant conscij e Jfom :o ti&i t a- ien ig:: Jes, ece itly . i: irth t . ieir era! Lee in reply said: "Iet fleers and men have been rl all North "Carolina regimen the state to obtain recruits tees. Two North Carolina R'amseur's and Cooke's, na been detailed from this arm ae fui do Carolina, with the hope; her ranks may be filled. At this! i not think it expedient to m of iar "February 10th the secreta said General Lee's army w V, Iiy ent on. the mfcans vf gett te from -North Carolina. Colof is brought this letter here, an : i: it: the secretary of war: "Evf It- io jr. in the intensest'eonfusion o ton Carolina railway and I can j isfactory answer from the and Weldon about transpc corn. The state holds a cor t'erest In both roads." Wa the government to assun control over iboth these I secretary of war -wanted i to take control of them. ;.' .. . . . I of t in- lit ed lute rPhe ir rnor t i t to tot i in The the 1 ' The governor urged the tl s e extremely liberal in tt ex em prions under the con the Tenth Congressional president said lie recc strength of the appeal, f . '.. Colonel 'D. K. IMacRae w; 28th from Nassau, saying) i. s ary J kf rifles Ii Jiio'Nas- 'UtUglll III. IKHftiaxiv and $17; that freight from EngTi saLix was $30 per ton bys ?Tper M rifle. eil iilng from Nassau to Wilmirigti tdn, adding $5 to the cost io i his Is He added: "There is an ail .rth- impression, of an early ipeal the opinion of Euroipeans an ern men wlio are here. February 15th General W. that there was a deploraT of affairs in Rjolbeson cour serters were plundering t and that he had sent Ct nough's company of tt North Carolina "to captt these freebooters." . . f uing Vrote co ation de jj 'b -n i n g 'M cdr Fif first or c stroy :9th, rote lrnirrence R. F. Armfleld, Februar f ted tfie peo the governor of a startlf : beiifg the which had greatly exasperi by sf band pie of Yadkin county, thilc&iwcripts. murder of two magistrate4iere was a of deserters and fugitive jnscrlpt law He went on to say that 1 and that powerful opposition to the c they would among the union friends Id be forced many of that class swore ie for them die at home before they woi voods. They off, and when the time casiilitia which, to go about 100 took to the Inally twelve made threats against the ri of 'them in r t ' sought to capture them. F a fight. The of the militia found gixteei housf! leav- a school house. There was ng on two men finally fled out of thernilitia were mg two deaa and carry ripts after- wounded. Two of the rily. Arm- killed, i Four of the cons in a part of it would be wanted to wards "surrendered volunt field said the leaders werej tne county so aisioyal.thar difficult to find them. Hf ne with the nd said sup- know what was to be ddVder, do you four who were prisoners af ie court will pose we try them for mil unconstitu- not believe that our supre( declare the conscriDt lai e men justi- ion? I be thinkpof the ur ui'fen the tional and thus leave the! fled in resisting its execu lieve it will and tremble tl consequences of such a , cause. of our independer that I know Judge Pearsc the conscript act and I b i's opnffon on lieve mat he ce i1; tincon- moralift! our U fi the is just itching to pronour stitutional. It would d army in the field and t a -1 ? r own poors. 'ugbt tiey ir norrors oi civil wrar to a Could these men. and t0 ini scon- ied IrI ?rea m conf rva- J they could, be turned ov federate courts, to be t the t' zen count ' al- son? I hope you know L tive and for the rights 0 9t au iaz- and the states, but fdr ml ways? and for independen it9 ardsX' ' f the H rail Governor Vance had a d feeing -&feat enroad. road directors of the North way called for the purt what could be done to rel strain of transportation u turned He urged that the parti Caro- from1 Goldsboro to Rale 3 he lat- ; etc. is over to the Atlantic an ter naa plenty of rolllDi : . . Fe'bruary 16th A. S. ported that thirteen off county prisoners (refer i were -not taken with hands, but at their horn them were prisoners wn shot; that they were 1 secluded gorge or cave tains and made to kneel J hen shot; that one wounded in the bowels was writhing in agony 4 uoa tor mercy, a sold ana Dru tally shot 'hjrl wiin nis pistol; that sq wnrpped, and that all by order of Lieu tenant Colonel James A. Keith." Merrimon added: "I Jo -riot know what you intend to do -with, the guilty (persons 4ut I suggest they are all guilty of murder. I do not - suppose they had any trder to do so 'baroarous a deed, 'but if they had the order was aTjsolutely void, nomatter by whom is sued. Such ' savage and barbarous cruelty is without a parallel in - this state and I hope in every other." ! -. FeTDuary 27 th -Governor Vance wrote the secretary of war:-"! learn that the war department has refused to accept the resignation of Colonel W. P. !By num, Second North Carolina troops, who was elected by the legislature of- North Carolina solicitor of ; the Seventh district. I beg leave ; to protest against this disrespect towards the civil government. The office is an important one and Colonel Byiium was chosen for it by the legislature, -without 'his solicitation on a deliberate con- -viction vf his fitness for tne place. Common courtesy, it seems to mel re quires that his resignation should "be accepted." - . The legislature prohibited the distil lation of corn, but there were then, as now, moonshine outfits at work. Gov ernor Vance wrote Judge Osborne at Charlotte to issue bench warrants against distillers in Lincoln and other counties. February 28th the governor wrote the secretary of war of the killing by Lieu tenant Colonel Keith of the . Sixty fourth North Carolina of the Madison prisoners, and said: "A degree of cruelty and barbarity on his part was displayed, shocking and outrageous in the extreme. I desire you to have pro ceedings instituted at once against this officer, who if the half be told is a dis grace to the service and to North Car olina. " Solicitor Merrimon sent In another statement as to the killing,' saying: Probably eight of the thirteen were not in the company Which robbed Marshall. They were all buried in a trench.- I' send their names. One named Shelton was 14; another of the same name 17, and yet another, David Shelton, only 13, while Joseph Cleandon was 15 or 16. I can't learn the names of the soldiers who shot them, some of them shrank from the brutal transaction at first.but were compelled to act. There was no trial or any hearing whatever." - The North Carolina railway officials notified the governor, February 28, 1863, of the purchase of two locomotives from the I confederate government and the rent of one from the Manassas Gap railway. i March 2nd the governor wrote Chief Justice Pearson: "You are aware that the late legislature by a joint resolution declared the office of adjutant general vacant, by reason of the incumbent Shaving accepted the incompatible Office under the confederate stacesr and that by a subsequent act the appointment was conferred on the governor. Gen eral James G. Martin, the present in cumbent, having declared his intention of testing the legality of the action of the legislature by an appeal to the court, I am placed ki a position rather embarrassing. To avoid the somewhat unpleasant spectacle of a law suit for possession of an office confidential in its relations to myself, I have conclud ed, with the consent of General Mar tin, to make a case and ask the opinion of jthe supreme court immediately thereon." .... General Whiting wrote Governor Vance, March 2nd, that if negroes were not sent him. to work on Fort Fisher and the other forts, he would have to impress them. .. Governor Vance sent him 500, from the' interior of the state. - - Writing to General Longstreet, who commanded the department of North Carolina, asking him to retain General Pryor as commander on the Black Wa ter. Governor Vance said: "Permit me, general, to express the satisfaction of the people of North Carolina, exhibited everywhere, on seeing the announce- men that they were to be defended by the erallantrv and skill of General Longstreet." . ... N. W. Woodfln was the. state's agent at the salt works at Saltville, Va. He had a hard time getting supplies from this state or shipping salt to it and Governor Vance wrote him that to remedy this he proposed to established a time of waerons to haul salt from Saltsville to Morganton. , - March 5th Vance wrote Secretary of War Seddon a short letter about Colo nel Peter Mailett, late commanding the camp of Instruction near Raleigh, and savins:: 4lHis conduct while in com mand gave general satisfaction. He organized a camp guard of 600 men, who were duly officered by nis assist ants and drill masters and rigorously disciplined. Ordered suddenly - into the severe conflict of Kinston, their conduct'was such as to elicit the praise of veteran troops and the wnole coun try. Colonel Mailett, their gallant leader, was severely, wounded. On hoWbling back to Raleigh he finds him self superseded by Colonel August and an order issued directing his command to be disbanded and placed in various regiments as conscripts. What is to become of hm? It is a great hardship for these brave men after ruving fought together in the field and been associated together eight or ten months to be now scattered among strange reg iments, their officers conscripted and their efficient and gallant commander out of the service. Though I am gen erally indisposed to form .new regi ments, I am constrained to ask you to retain Colonel Mailett in command of the camo as heretofore, whence he could "be early sent into the field with his entire command. It is one of the finest bodies "of men in the southern confederacy." . The secretary of the navy asked f pr 707 tons of railway iron at Laurinburg, saying the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherfordton railroad was to be built no further during the war,-the iron to be used in plating iron-clad vessels. Governor Vance said he could have it. to be replaced six months after the war ended. Samuel F. Phillips wrote the govern or that the distillation of whiskey was become so great a consumer of corn the militia ought to be used to destroy the distilleries. ...... ..- .' . 4 , . In a letter to General Bragg, .Vance asked that 4,000 troops from this state which were all from the mountain re gion and which were in East Tennes see, guarding mountain passes, and bridges and keeping the population in check, be sent further from home as they were subject to but little discip line and their nearness to their homes caused constant desertions; in some cases almost complete disorganization. These troops consisted of the regiments of Allen, Love, Folk, and . Palmer and Colonel Thomas' Cherokee Indian bat talion. The governor said there were requests for active service at the front; that he knew the men and that they were as good material for soldiers as there was upon the continent, and that under auspices they would shed as much glory on the name of North Car olina as their brothers had in. Virginia and Middle Tennessee. - . ; :-".-' General 'S. G. 'French, writing from Petersburg, told Vance he had sent or ders to Colonels Martin and Cantwell to move on Plymouth. Neither of those officers "happened to be with his regi ment and so the letters were forward ed to them, as they were marked "per sonal." Then Colonel RadcTiffe was or dered to make the advance with Mar tins', in place of Can t well's. March 11,1863; Governor Vance wrote to James M. Mason, confederate states commissioner at London (of Sl'idell and Mason fame) that he had sent John White to England as agent for this state for the purpose of effecting a loan and 'purchasing supplies for the North Carolina soldiers, who by agree ment with the confederate states were to be equipped by this state. The gov ernor says: "I met here the Hon. Francis T. Lawley, of London, who said he could perhaps secure a loan of $1,000,000 on favorable terms, Iby the means of some official and family in fluence which he could 'bring to bear, at 8 per cent, interest on bonds re deemable in cotton at the present prices in the confederacy, (about 17 to .20 cents), to be delivered at Wilming ton within three months after a treaty of peace. You can issue the ibonds yourself, having them printed, etc.I send you a power of attorney authoriz ing you to represent me in the matter. If the money is loibtained, pay to Mr. White at least half the amount, or enough to purchase a steamer and cargo of such supplies as he is to buy." The governor wrote Mr. White to buy cotton cards, also machines for making them and added: 4,Cards are now. the want of our people." .-;." ".' The governor wrote Colonel D. K. MaoRae that he need purchase only 2,500 rifles, instead of 10,000, the num ber at first proposed. He gave as a reason the refusal of the' legislature to raise any state troops. (..Lietter dated March 12, 1863.) The governor added that ihe wanted Colonel MaoRae, and not Saunders (who had also been sent- abroad) to have the negotiation of the state-script; that he had "no intention i x -ac- ir i ii. v ... a. of letting Mr. S. hawk our paper about through Europe. You and Mr. White must put your fortunes together, ship your purchases together, etc." Jdhn Pool was tendered . the com mand, with rank of lieutenant colonel, of a battalion of partisan rangers raised' in the counties east . of the Chowan river. - - - March 13th, John C. Wilder .tendered his resignation as captain and assist and adjutant general in the state ser vice. . .. v - - - March 14th Daniel G. Fowle was ap pointed adjutant general. . - The governor wrote General R, E. Lee that he had ascertained that cer tain soldiers belonging to Riaimseur's and Hoke's ibrigades' were .being tried for desertion; that the cases of these men came under the terms of his offi cial 'proclamation extending a full par don to all who returned to tneir colors by March 5th, and be enters his sol? emn nrotest against the pumisnment or these men as a gross violation of jus tice and good faith. . .. ; . - Trip. statP of Georeria bought a half interest in machines for making cot ton cards. Governor Vance sent a man to Georeria to see the machines and make drawings, at Governor Brown's suggestion. There was intense friend ship between Vance and Brown ana the letters of each are full of compli ments and kind words. . Brown declar ed that "if a supply of clothing and provisions can be made we "can fight for a score of years." Here is a characteristic telegram from Governor Vance dated March 25, 1863,to Secretary of War Seddon: 4Gen- eral Pillow has sent a detachment of cavalry into western North Carolina to enroll and arrest conscripts, without the shadow of law and in defiance of the Draper authorities. Please order it stopped, through Colonel Coltart, slstance and blood shed." ... The most interesting of all the letters in Vance's letter book is the following from him to President 'Iavis, dated July 6th: "Last week the steamer Ad vance, purchased by this state In Eu rope, arrived at Wlwnington With a cargo of soldiers clothing. I went to visit her and went on board. Before doing so I obtained the permission of the commissioners of navigation and the military authorities (she being be- I low town, on a sand 'oar m compliance I witn tne quaranxine regulations, un returning- to the wharf Lieutenant Col onel Thorium, who was in command of the town, refused to admit me to land, alleging that the regulations were vio lated. Upon "showing nim the permis - - w; him of the assent of General Whiting, and remonstrating with him in person, he - replied that he did not care for Governor Vance nor t Governor Jesus Christ; that I should not come off that boat in fifteen days, and accordingly placed a guard on the wharf, with or ders to shoot ; any i one attempting to get off. I was so detained until the chairman of the board of commission ers came to my relief, and thus lost the train for Raleigh. Having- thus deliberately, wilfully and without ex cuse inflicted a gross, insult upon the people of North Carolina, through her chief magistrate, in their name I de mand his removal from the state and that he be no more placed hi command of her troops. - If it be deemed Indis pensable that North Carolina soldiers should be commanded oy (Virginians, I should regret to see the Old Dominion retain all her gentlemen for her own use and furnish us only her black guards." : . It is interesting to note the fact of Thorburn's departure in forty-eig'ht hours. It is said Vance was literally "the maddest man on earth." The steamer" Advance,! it will be remember ed, 'had been bought In England py John White, Esq. lacked Out In Distress . He is a sensative man and ; lives in one of the picturesque rows uptown on the west side, in which no two houses are alike. On Monday his wife and daughter went up to Newburg on a visit, and when evening came, the cook1 went out to call on another cook, and the waitress took a spin on the tandem on the Boulevard. He was left alone, and, the night being quite warm, he shut himself in his room and stripped down to his underclothes and stockings, feeling sure that he would not be disturbed during the evenine. A little "oeiore J.U o'clock he 'heard a dog whine, and remembered that his daughter's Skye was out doors. Feeling certain that the dog was on the front stoop, he hurried down stairs in undress and opened the front door far enough to admit a dog. There was no dog in the vestibule, and, as it was quite dark there, he 'stepped out to look on the stoop be yond the outer door. As he did so a gust of wind from somewhere slammed the door shut, and he realized that he was locked out. He said, in telling the story to a friend: . "I did not know my utter, helplessness until I reached for my waistcoat pocket to get my latchkey. Then , I began to think hard, and the more I thought the less I liked my predicament. The cook and housemaid would come home in time, but I couldn't see that their arrival held out any promise. I didn't want to see them a little bit, and I knew that they wouldn't care to see me. They had keyy to the basement door, and would go in that . way. Then I thought11 of way of getting out of my dilemma I have a friend in the I third house west of mine. In fact, he is the only man I know in the whole street. I felt that if I could reach his house 1 could at least get some clothes and be In condition to meet the servants on their return. "The street was apparently deserted, and I thought I would make a dash for the shelter of Jim's doorway, but just as I stepped out of the door a man and a woman turned the corner and walked slowly by. while I cowered behind the door. Another start was interrupted by a couple of girls coming up the street. and a carriage drove by lust as I was eretting ready to make the third break. Then the frowsy little cur that caused my trouble came trotting ; up the steps and I could not resist tne temptation: I kicked him on the stoop. He howled, as he went bumping down to the side walk, and It was evident : that he old not recognize me, for, putting his front paws on the bottom step he began DarK- ing. He kept at it until i tnougnt ne would have the whole neighborhood al armed, and I tried persuasion to get him I in the vestibule. He seemed to recognize I - i --. I Vtto foil r Knfnraan my voice, and, putting his tall between his legs, crept down the area steps. I thouerht I had been locKea out ior ai lfiflst. an hour and mechanically felt for my watch. Then the 10 o'clock bells rang and I knew that 1 had -not Deen more than fifteen minutes In my predicament. It occured to me then that it would not be long before a policeman came and I could send him to Jim's for the ciotnes. Nobody came along but ordinary men and women, however, and I think that the street was considerably livelier that night than I ever knew it to be before. I fret ted myself warm in spite of the fact that the open air was ratner . cniny ior my light attire. "At last when the coast seemea -ciear, and I was about to make a dash, ior Jim's I thouerht of the fact that I had not latched either of the parlor windows, and I wondered if I could reach them. To mv ereat Joy I discovered that from a treacherous footing on the ledge which ran across the front of the house I couia cling with one hand to the side strip of the window frame. The, windows are heavv. one-pane affairs, and there was no way of raising them except by press ing the palm of the hand against the glass and pushing mwara . ana upwaru until" I could -get my fingers under the ah Tt was sometime before l succeed ed, and I was thanking my stars tnat the street was clear when I heard a shout and the sound of hurrying feet un toward the corner. I had doubted un til that moment tnat l wovua nave strnerth enouerh left to crawl into the oMnrinw hut that shout settled It. I Ann? mvselfln and felr on the floor. exhausted and panting for breath, as the runner stopped in front of the house and commanded me to come out and surren der. I recognized that it was a policeman, and, sitting up so .that my neaa was above the sill, I began to explain. Just then a female voice floated across the street saying: 'Officer, you ought to lock that lunatic up. I've been watching his Tn.icrar aotinns for half an hour, and its a Aiatrrant tA thft whole neighborhood. "I went to the iront aoor anu t-aueu me --"o . , r j n.j nAiinamon nto the vestibule, wnere a fully satisfied him that I was the tenant nf thft house ana men nreu a uan vi two into him." ."Whatffihnt hfm?" " Oh, no. He wasn't even half shot when he left me. They were balls out of the decanter on the sideboard? I just managed to get him out and skip to my nnm whpn i neara ine cuun wuie I quickiy, followed by the household, and downstairs and lock up the parlor,! heard them talking ohrmt the open window and speculating about burglars being in tne nousc, xney tn think that the dog was acting strangely just because ne wa '' 6""- - .111 Ing over his nrst . kick. ew .. Monarchy In England WfrtTn ThP- Toronto Mail and Empire.) There is in England today more of true riATnnraev than is to be round ia any other nation, and yet England is a won- archy The position oi monarcny m juub- i government unaer tne regime oi seces land is one of the best evidences of the I sion. The convention awakened great ex- oontinuitv. the conservatism, tne progres- I civnpss and withal the practical political I wisdom of the isngusn peopw. j. ue tinuity is Illustrated by the fact that Vic- toria has In her veins the blood of Cedric, ,hn iimMl nvw hft West Saxons in the vear 493. and first gave English kingship dlffnlty. ine conservaiwm o " "J the forms of expression; for we still say iiiv m. v w - mr w - of her majesty s -courts, ner ajcaijf ar-mv ami naw. The orofirressiveness is manifest in the limitations put upon the irai rtrmroi drift nreroeatlves. until to day, according to the maxim, "The king reigns, but does not govern." Practical Tvniiftmii wierfnm has accomplished the roTrAiiiftnnarv chanee from the old absolu tism to the modern democracy without revolution: and has given to the popular will the most direct and most complete control, and yet has put upon it the re sralnts or traaiuon. GREATER NEW YORK Cot of thV Municipality Compared With ' . '-: That of London (New lTork Sun.) The municipal expenditures of Lon- - don, the largest city in the world, amount to about $80,000,000 yearly, thus divided, roughly, among the various - items: Water service, $10,000,000; police ' department, $10,000,000; -public chari ties, $12,500,000; schools. $10,000,000:- health department, $3,500,000; fire de-' partment, $1,000,000; department of streets, io,000,000; gas, $3,000,000; inter est on -municipal debt, $5,000,000, and miscellaneous expenses, the "balance, --' $15,000,000. Paris, with about one-half the total population of the city of Lon - xlon, , spends in a year $75,000,000, or considerably more per capita. The question has been asked how the ex penses of the Greater 'New York are likely tx compare with those jof London and Paris. 1 The present population of London Is, - roughly, 5,500.000, and the population of the Greater New York is, rougnly. 3,300.000, the relation of the two cities to each in respect of population being f as five to three. The population of Paris is 2.500,000. The total expenses of the city of New York in a year amount, approximately, to $47,000,000. Those of- the city of Brooklyn amount, approxi mately, to $13,000,000. The expenses of Long Island City are about $600,000 a year, of Richmond county $500,000, and of the Queens county towns to be an nexed to the Greater New York, $150,- 000, making a total of $61,250,000 for the whole of the territory to le included, on - Jaunary 1, 1898, in the Greater ?New York. This is a larger ratio of munic ipal expenditures to the population ! than prevails in London, but a smaller one than is the rule in Paris. The po lice department of New York city costs $6,000,000 a year, and the police de partment in Brooklyn, $2,300,000, and the total cost of the police in the Greater New York will be about $9,- 500,000 a year, or nearly, as much as that of the city of London. The street - and water services are joined in this ' city instead of being separated, as is the case in London. The expenses of -the department of public works in New York are $3,500,000, and those of the de partment of city works, wnich, corre sponds to it in Brooklyn, $2,100,000. and when to this the expenses of the department of street improvements in the future .'borough of Bronx, $630,000, is added there Is" a total In excess of $6,000,000 In the Whole territory for these items. The expense of the fire department in New York Is $2,300,000. In 'Brooklyn it is $1,300,000, and in all of the Greater New York it is, sub stantially, $3,500,000. The Item of in terest on the public debt amounts in New York to $5,500,000 and in Brooklyn to $3,500,000, and in the other local! ties Included In the Greater 'New York 'to $200,000, a total of about $9,000,000, or about twice that of London, The extent of $6,000,000 In the budget of New York city, and to the extent of $2,700,000 in the budget of Brooklyn, irrespective of the contributions of 'these two cities and of the other districts of the Great- I . . . . . - er New York to the state educational fund, which brings up the total amount to J10.000.000. Long Island City ex pends $115,000 a year for educational purposes. : Wanted to Know His State Men in public life who think their names are household words . through out the country sometimes find that they have been laboring under a pleas--ing delusion, says the New York Com mercial Advertiser. Senator Berry of Arkansas, who is the only one-legged member of the senate, tells a story on. himself which illustrates this point. He says: "I was seated in the senate chamber one morning, when my col league approached me and said that there were some folks from down home out in the marble room, and they had asked tos ee us. Of course. I was willing to receive them and together we repaired to the recep- ttoni room . and welcomed them. Among the party was a preacher and his wife, living about eight miles from my own home, a very Intelligent cou ple. They presented themselves, and we chatted for half an hour. After extending them a farewell shake of the hand.I started" to return to the senate, whenjl was Interrupted by a call from the worthy preacher's wife' whom I had been talking. 'Oh, senator,' said she, 'there was a question I wanted to ask you before I left,' and then, some what timidly, she inquired: "What state did you say you were from?' ". . The Secession Ordinance (Prom The Macon Telegraph.) The following bit of gossip recently ao beared in The Savannah Morninsr News . The story is an old one. perhaps, but Ma- conites who remember Judge Eugenius A. JNisoet.one or tne nrst Judges or Georgia's supreme court, ana otherwise distin guished as a member of the Macon bar, will read it with Interest; " ;; 'Little more-than thirty-six years ago the Georgia Secession Convention ad journed in Savannah," remarked an elder ly citizen yesterday. "The convention had held its first meeting in Milledgeville, hav- j ing met January 16, 1861. The ordinance of secession had been framed by a commit tee of seventeen, appointed at the In stance of a resolution by E. A. Nisbet. a leading member of the convention. George . W. Crawford was president of the con vention and Albert Lamar, secretary. The adjourned session was called to order in Savannah, March 7, 1861, and lasted here until March 23, the principle work i beine the - redisricting of the state of Georgia, and the arrangements for state i cltement In Savannah, for here it was I that the flush of war at its height In Georgia, xne guns ai oumier nau ufreu I men's souls with thrilling eagerness to I rush into the fray, and the troops of I Georeria were eettintr ready to march off I to battle. The secession convention was i neiu in w jutu w.s vgcumupc uuu j room. 3 . As to Grabs. (From the Indlanapolie Journal.) The London Globe says of the Hawaiian treaty: "This American grab is a breach of good faith, if not a violation or treaty rights." The difference between this "grab," which is not made yet, and the scores that England has made is that in this case a regularly organized and recog nized government ; asks to be annexed, while British grabs are always made In defiance of existing governments.
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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