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Office la the "Standard" bttUdla, East tide of F7ttTiU Street. LEWIS - - - Editor. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1871. No paper will bo issued from this of fice next "week' We suspend a week j to give our employees a chance to take Christmas. How 13 rr ? The Sentinel of yester day was printed on State paperbook paper. By what authority was this paper used? Was It borrowed? If not, Is It to be returned, or is paper to tk overdrawn, as well as money? It ts a rignlflcant fact that The Sentinel was enlarged Just the size of the State paper as soon as that paper received the State printing. Let us have an answer. The members of this Legislature were elected under the most solemn , promises to retrench and reform. They " repeal the law which allowed the Pub lic Printer seventy-five cents per thou sand ems for type setting. They then voted down a proposition" to give out the printing to the lowest responsible bidder. They then appointed a Com mittee which made a contract to have the printing done for 87 J cents per thou sand. They then cancelled that con tract and gave the printing to The Sen tinel at ninety cents and a fraction per thousand! This Is retrenchment with a vengeance. Letts have a Federal Court IIorsE and ornER Public B l i ldings in Raleigh. We notice that Con gress has appropriated four millions of dollars for the purpose of restoring the publle buildings In Chicago. To this no objection is made. But while Con gress Is making appropriations for the erection of public buildings in other States it is hoped they will not over look the claims of this section of the Union. No where are public building3 needed by the government worse than In North Carolina. The U.S. District Court is now In session, but is com pelled, for want of a Federal Court House, to sit in tho Theatre. The building la wholly nnsuited to the bus iness as well as the comfort .of the Court. We call the attention of the North Carolina delegation in Congress to this fact. We call upon them to press with all their energies an appro priation for the purpose of erecting a Federal Court House, Jail, Post Office! Ac., in Raleigh. Two Friends in the Senate. The Public Printer has two friends in the Senate of the Sam- Houston order. Gen. Houston said that he would not give a fig for a friend who was only his friend when he was right. When a man Is right, said he, every body is his friend; It Is only the friend that stands by him when he is wrong that is of any value to him. Such friends the Public Printer has in the persons of Senators Edwards and Battle. When the resolution was pending before the i Senate, appointing a committee to audit the printers accounts, from the commencement of his term, according , to the uritten contract by the em quad. ! measurement these Senators Voted to strike out the word trritten. From this vote it Is fair to infer that they fa vored the Printer's alleged understand in of the contract, by which he drew from the Treasury several thousand dol lars more than he was entitled to for the work done. But their constituents will be gratified to learn that the resolu tion was passed and the committee ap pointed to audit them by the measure ment of the em quad., and that he will be compelled to refund. Our friend of The Salisbury Watch man, in his issue of the l."th December, says: The Era may have rendered the State some service iirthis matter. The people will be glad of good services let them come from whence they may. It is to be hoped that paper will not re fuse to go back a little further in its re searches on public printing, and bring up the parties who did the public work In lSCS-TO, and show what enormous jobs they were which cost the State $22,403 more for about one year's print in" than has been paid to the present printer for nearly a like term. $16,250 contrasts small against $38,662.92, and needs explanation. Who got that pile ; and if he got more than he was enti tled to, can he be made to refund ? We hope the Ia may have a stomach for the work and will hunt him down and choke it out of him." We have gone back In our researches, and we beg to give the result. On examination we find that Jo. W. Holden was State Printer until Dec. 12, 1870, and even after that date exe cuted much ; printing for the present Legislature, . and Jo. Holden's bill3 must be added to James II. Moore's to ' ahow the true amount paid by this Gen eral Assembly for printing. Gov. IIol den's message covers SOG pages, the Auditor's Report for the year ending Sept. 80, 1870, covers 2S0 pages, (nearly all rule and figures and therefore dou I ble-price,) Mr. Ashley's Report covers 3GS pages, much of it rule and figures ; the Treasurer's Report, 50 pages, rule and figures ; Insane Asylum Report, Report of Code Commissioners, Ac, 4c, were all printed by Jo. Holden. So The Watchman will see Jo. Holden got the "Cat" of the printing at the first session of this General Assembly and a considerable amount must bo deducted from his bills for 1863-'70 and added to Nr. Moore's bill, which will give the sum total this General Assem bly has paid for printing'. ' Tfcc Cifil Service A commission to consider and report upon the question of a reform in the" Civil Service of the country was ap pointed by the last Congress. At the head of this commission was placed an able lawyer and a statesman of enlarg ed views George W. Curtis. The com mission have gone deeply into the sub ject, and their labors have been pretty KAmnrh Thpv have held two ses- VUUiVUgi - slons. have brought their labors to a close, and have presented their report and their scheme to the President. In the course of their deliberations it Is understood that they several times sub mitted their scheme to the President, nnd that on our occasion it was consid ered and discussed by the Cabinet,1 the result of which was that several chan frf-i were euecested, and. the scheme eriv. We irlve the following abstract of the scheme devis ed and reported by tho commission, which wo find in The Kexo York Times: 44 The system of civil service reform thus nroDOed to be inaugurated, is comprised in the set of rules arid regu lations which have been prcscriDea to povern entrance and promotion in( the service. Tne erst ana mowi uupuiuiui rule settled at the beginning, and on strong legal grounds, is that the Presi dent retains as he must, unuer; me Constitution, absolute power of remov al, being fettered by no restrictions, so that while the term of service may be considered as duringgoodbehaviour.the President may nevertheless remove at finv time without assigning any cause. This is necessary to give the requisite flexibility to the service, otherwise it would become fossilized. There will be no temptation to unjustly exercise this power on the part of the President, nor any presure to do so on the part of partizans of individuals, because: the inducement thereto Is all taken away by the manner in which appointments to and promotions in tho service are regulated. There can never be any as surance, no matter who may be remov ed, that any particular man can succeed to the vacant position. This will re move the liability to abuse to which the power of removal is now subject, by so guarding the entrance into j the service that the exercise of it can by no possibility have any connection with the act of appointment. I The next principal feature of j the scheme is the regulations governing the operations of appointment and promotion in the service. These are: First, entrance into the service at j the lowest point; second, competitive ex aminations at that point, and at every succeeding stage; third, probation; fourth, promotion ; fifth, no fixed ten ure, leaving the power of removal un touched, as above stated. J The next feature is the scheme of ex emptions contemplated. Theseinclude first, all the diplomotic officers above the grade of Consul ; second, all judi cial. officers, Judges, District Attorneys, Registers in Bankruptcy, Ac. : third, all Postmasters, whose annnal receipts are under a specified sum, fay $0, nnd 8e eral other classes. This, it will be seen, leaves the scheme to apply to a large mass of officers outside of the depart mpnts here, or the larere number of clerks employed in the customs or reve nue service elsewhere; all Collectors and Assessors of Internal Revenue ail Collectors of Customs and their subor dinates, all Postmasters above a certain grade, all Consuls, all Indian Agents, in fact, every officer of the Government, whether at Washington or elsewhere, save as above excepted, is subjected to the operation of these .rules, j Tho report accompanying the sched ule of rules and regulations elaborates and sustains the scheme thus submit ted, fortifying it with the arguments and conclusions which have led jthe Commission to adopt it. j The President will also, at an early day, transmit the report to Congress, simply for the information of the two Houses. Although he will be glad to have Congress give the sanction of law to the proposed system, he will noUyait for its action, and long before the apple blossoms fall, to use an illustration of the Essex Statesmen, the public at large will see civil service reform in full top eration, and certain over-anxious mem bers of Congress in both Houses, now loudly advocating reform, will, find it putting the screws to the incompetent men they have recommended fori of fice." As rctrards the question of appoint ments to office this scheme seems to be one of the best and most effective that could have been devised. And after the numerous corrupt and inefficient persons, now believed by many to be In office for no other reason than their party services, shall have been disposed of, there will be no great danger, that such persons will get Into office in the future under the system of the Com mission. Iet the proposed system be adopted, as it will be, by the President and Congress, and then let all useless offices and agencies be abolished, all ex orbitant salares be reduced, and a safe and sure method of procuring accounta bility In officers and agents entrusted with the care and disbursement of the public moneys be established, and Ire form in the civil service will be well nigh complete. 1 : In the article in our last issue it was not meant to say that the Committee on printing knowingly contracted to pay The Sentinel " ninety cents and a fraction per thousand," but that it was the effect of their contract. The Legis lature can relieve itself, and the Com mittee of all blame in the matter! by taking the proper steps at once to have the money overdrawn by the State Printer, returned to the Treasury. Little Fire and M SnokV T Tinder " this head, The Greensboro1 Patriot, speaking of the fraud perpetra ted on the State Treasury by tne state Printer, says: 1 ."Mr. Turner is not a practical printer; knows but little about the details of a print ing office, and consequently trusts the bu iness and mechanical management to others. They might have measured long or short and made out their bills accordingly with out his knowing anything about it unless his personal attention was called to it. And when it was in this instance he promptly gave the Stato credit for the amount over charged and that's more than any radical official ever was known to do yet." ! While The Patriot cannot say any thing relative to the corrupt Legisla tion of 18C3 and I860, and the general public thievery of that era, that is not fully merited and strictly true, we are nevertheless surprised that Mr. Duffy should thus unequivocally endorse a public fraud openly perpetrated by a leader of his own party. I Mr.Turnermay be very ignorant of the art of printing, but as apolitical sleuth hound on the track of a public swindle, ho is keen-scented as the best. He pre tended to track a State official with two and a half yards of carpet, but it is made to appear that a public swindle was perpetrated in his own office, in volving many thousand dollars, and he could not see it. But the richest thing of the season, is the statement of- The Patriot that Mr. Turner has promptly credited the State with the amount overcharged. 1 nis will be news to Auditor Adams, whom The Sentinel has tried to bully into auditing tho accounts of the State Printer, ever since last September, when the Treas ure Department detecting tho fraud of the State Printer, refused to pay any more of his accounts until an invest!; gation should be had by the Legisla ture. As Mr. Duffy knows so much, per haps he can tell us something about the $5,000 .Swepson gave Turner not to open on his operations. I Perhaps ne can also give a better reason for the long silence of The Sentinel regarding Swepson, than "a pleasant intercourse between their wives." , We also call on Mr. Duffy to explain tho enlargement of The Sentinel to fit the size of the printing paper the State furnishes the State Printer, which fact becomes significant when it is noticed that The Sentinel is frequently printed on paper bought and paid for by the State. j The Republican party of North Car olino had rather convict the Democrat ic party of a public fraud, and fasten upon that organization official corrup tion, than to lay it at the door of one man Mr. Turner. Thus far The Era, and the Republican press and people of the State, have only changed this public theft upon Mr. jTurner, and his man Friday. But if the leaders and press of the Democratic party had rath er shoulder this burden of official cor ruption, we arc perfectly willing, and and shall not fall out with either The Patriot, or its party for endorsing the conduct of Mr. Turner. As things now stand, the Democratic party will endorse this thing. Let them do so. We hope they will, but at the polls next August, the people will not. We salute you, Mr. Patriot. We Decline. The editor of The Sentinel, in his is sue of the 19th December, proposes to " double the salary paid by Long Perry & Co. to Hon. Lewis Hanes if he will find any witness who will say that we Josiah Turner, Jr., had the least knowledge of the mode and manner of measuring the State work." This is a very safe proposition for The Sentinel to make, for several rea sons. -First, no sensible or honest man would say that Josiah Turner, Jr., has the least knowledge " of anything ap pertaining to printing, or that he has any other useful knowledge. Second, the proposition to " double the salary" does by no means secure the payment of the salary after it is doubled. Third, it is believed that after The Sentinel gets through with paying the bills outstanding against it, and re-im-burses the State for the money over drawn on the public printing, he will not have enough left to buy him an egg-nogg for Christmas. For the above reasons we decline fur ther to " disturb the. equanimity " of the editor of The Sentinel. There were some good people in this State who thought the accounts of Ku Klux outrages were mere partizan in ventions. But when men were con victed in the Federal Court of Ku Klux ing, many of them on their own "con fessions, and Gov. Bragg, the Chairman of the Democratic State Executive Com mittee acknowledged the existence of the Invisible Empire, and promised to help put it down, these good people were undeceived, and they expected to see , this General Assmbly make a rigid investigation into the grave charges made against its members and officers of being in some way connected with the wicked Klans. They serious ly believed that men who were break ers of the laws should not be makers of the laws.' They therefore asked this General Assembly to enquire into ; the truth of these charges against Its mem bers and officers, but their petitions have been rejected, and those members presenting the people's petitions threat ened with expulsion for so doing. If a majority in this Legislature did j not belong to or sympathize with the i Ku Klux in their hellish deeds, would it not receive these petitions from the people, and make the enquiry asked f What Does IT 3Iean ? A bill haj passed the Senate restoring a law of evidence, enacted soon aftei the War, tried and repealed. The law in question allows defendentsu indicted in the same bill for any offence against the laws of the State, to testify in be half of each other. ' A trial of this law bo fully convinced all parties, that so far from promoting the ends of justice it only defeated them. It was believed to have opened awide the flood gates of perjury. Under its operation there were few convictions where two or more parties were indicted in the same bill-for any offense. And so it must ever be while human nature remains what it now is. The law was very properly repealed after a brief trial which convinced most, if not all men, that it only added to the crimes of the country while preventing the punish ment of other offenders. ' Why, then, is it proposed to revive the law? I But one answer presents itself. The rules of evidence in the State Courts have been adopted by the Federal Courts. In the Federal Courts there are many indictments for con pniracv and ku kluxing, in which nu merous dependents are joined. If these men are allowed to swear for each other, hundreds of them will be able to prove an alibi, or any thing else neces sary to secure their acquittal. That this is the object of the revival of the law can scarcely be doubted. Such will be the opinion of the people, and they will hold their representatives to a fear ful accountability for it. The decree has gone forth that the murderous con spiracy must be broken up and destroy ed. This is the decree of the good peo ple of the State, as well as of the Fed eral Government. It ought to be res pected. It m ust and icill be respected, and those who set themselves up in op position to it will go down before the storm of popular indignation that will be raised against them. Let the advo cates this measure beware. It can yet be defeated, if they will take proper warning. That warning is given. Will they heed it ? Civil Service Reform. Wise suggestions on the subject of a reform of the civil service were made by President Grant in his message Acting upon these suggestions, Sena tors 8umner, Tnimbull, Logan, Fen ton, Alcorn, Ferry, Tipton and others, attempted to inaugurate the movement in'a manner that could not have failed to prove effective. They proposed a Joint Select Committee of four mem bers on the part of the Senate and sev en on the part of the House, to make a rigid investigation in the .administra tion' of every department of the govern ment. Especially was the proposed Committee expected to inquire into the expenditures in every branch of the service, and report whether any and what offices ought to be abolished, whether any and what salaries or al lowances ought to be reduced, what are the methods of securing accounta bility in public officers or agents in care and disbursements of the public moneys, whether moneys have been have been j paid out illegally ; in short to overhaul the entire system so as to ascertain its defects that they might be remedied. ' The Committee was also expected to suggest the necessary leg islation for restraining the public ser vice from being used as an instrument of political, or party patronage, and to report by bill or otherwis. To the great astonishment of the country many Senators, who pretend to be the especial friends and cham pions of President Grant, made a vio lent opposition to the proposed Com mittee -on retrenchment and reform, and thus, for a -few days, succeeded in placing the administration in a false attitude before the country. But the sense of tfre country, as expressed through nearly all the leading Repub lican journals, was so decidedly with the views of the President and the re form Senators, who are the real friends of the administration, as to compel the. opposition to yield something. It was finally agreed fo adopt Mr. Trumbull's resolution, i but not without having emasculated it of the part having the reform of the civil service in view the most vital of all its parts. For a mere exposure of frauds amounts to but lit tle unless the system that gave rise to them be so reformed as to prevent a recurrence of them. And thus the matter stood at last re liable accounts. We have an abiding faith that the party in Congress will speedily unite in support of the recom mendations of the President and the reform Senators, and adopt the most effective method to carry them out ful ly and completely. Indeed, the latest dispatches from Washington are such as to justify the hope, if not the conclu sion, that this has already been sub stantially agreed updn, and that entire harmony now reigns in the Republi can party, i " Is The Bulletin certain that J. II. Moore is an old Whig?" Raleigh Era. We are not certain. But, we did regard that person as nothing more than the key used to open the Treasury vault. The evi dence showed that he -was not pecuniarily interested in the public printing; he was a mere cat's paw, used by the monkey for the occasion. Besides, whether Whig'or Dem ocrat, ho was not a representative man, a mere public servant, and, consequently; neither party should be held responsible for his misconduct. Not so with The Sentinel man ; he is really the criminal, and upon him the disgrace must settle, and the party he has been driving and directing must be responsible, not the Democrats of North Carolina. Charlotte Bulletin, Dem.) ,' ' ' " ' " - - . Exchange of Cibcuits. Judge W. A. Moore and Judge S. W. Watta will ex change circuits next Spring. i r, . h. - .. . . 1 ' inTcstiffatioii. 'The Standing Committee of. the Sen ate, to which the emasculafedYrespiu.4 tionj of Senator ,Trumbuiloesras In structions, consist! ; of Senators Buck? Ingham, HoWe Pratt, Harlan Stewartf Pool, Bayard - and ; Casseriy Much complaint is made by the Republican Senators, who were the original sup porters of Mr. Trumbull's resolution, that not one of them has been placed upon the Committee. Without ques tioning the motives of the majority, who' opposed the resolution, the feel ing is pretty general among all parties that they have committed a blunder in excluding all of Mr. Trumbull's friends from a place upon the Committee. Every thing, it is said, should have been done withlthe utmost fairness and impartiality, and all shades of opinion should have been represented in the investigation. ; The reason given for the emascula tion of Mr. Trumbull's resolution is, that the subject matter of the portion stricken out has already been submit ted; to a special Commission of able men who have given it the most thor ough consideration, and agreed upon a most effective system of reform, at least; so far as relates to appointments to office. An abstract of tho report of said Commission will be found em bodied in an editorial in this issue of The Era. Senator Conkling, of Newr York, of fered a resolution, which was adopted without opposition, instructing the Senate Committee to investigate the management and affairs of the" New York Custom House for the last ten years. As it is alleged that many frauds and swindles have been perpe trated there during the period covered by the resolution, this is a very im portant movement. What Shall we Do? With the brilliant success that has crown ed the Republican party in their adminis tration of public affairs and the confidence imposed in it by the people as evinced in unmistakable signs in every election, there hf rianerer of carelessness and neglect in imnnrtnnt matters. Caution should bo exercised in making all nominations for office: The political hacks and tricksters n-i-rt Ii9va in riAarl v fivfiiT State of this crlo- rious Union, foisted themselves upon the party for self-aggrandizement should be treated with the contempt they deserve and none but honest and honorable men, whoso characters are above suspicion, must be nominated for all the offices of honor and trust i in tho orift of the neoole. Let our watchword be? Principles, not men ; hon est v. not policy. The above, from that excellent Re publican paper, TheNeicbern Republican is both timely and truthful. Thepnnci Tiles of the Republican party are right, and are endorsed by a large majority of the people of the State. Under their banner success is certain, if the Repub licans only exercise a proper discretion in makinsr nominations for office. Let "the political hacks and tricksters " be everv where discarded, and honest, upright and able men brought forward to represent the party. Such men can h found without difficulty in almost everv county in the State." And an as surance that such a course will be adooted will have the effect to bring a large number of good men into the Re publican party that have not heretofore acted with it, though republicans m principle. I Revision of the Bible. A meeting: of Episcopal Divines has been held in New York, at which one of ouf English visitors, the Very Rev erend Dean of Chester, delivered an ad dress in which he said : Changes of much importance could be made without impairing our general version. In the epistle to the Ephe einn rirmhts harl arisen, from the ab sence of the usual salutations, whether 11 v thA word of St.-Paul. In several manuscripts the words Ephesus had reaa ljaocucea, or tjoiossi, uut me fiispnvprvnf the Sinai tic manuscript had -9 7 vm. " settled the question, because a blank was founa in tne.nrst verse wnere me word Ephesus stands in our translation, proving it to have been a circular letter, the blank to be filled in, according to which congregation it was sent. In the same book, chap, v., verse 9, ("For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and truth V) the word "spirit " should read "light." By this change the whole context is illuminated and made to shine in all its graceful beauty. In I. Timothy, vi : 5, the ex pression that "gain is godliness" should read ''godliness is gain." Not even a miser would pretend that the first is correct. Further on it says, " The love of money is the root of all evil." If it is tlie root mere couiu do no omer ra iKv tit should nnnear "Loveof monev is a root of all evil." In the Gospels the oft-used " strain at a gnat and swal low a camel" is evidently a misprint in the early English editions. When it is read "strain out a gnat and swal low a camel " the perfection of the fig ure is seen. In St. Luke's account of the passion of our Lord where it says, "Nothing worthy of death has been done unto him," the substitution of " by "i for " unto " is more logical and correct. In St. John. "One fold and one shepherd" should be "one flock and one shepherd," achangewiiich car ries a i wider, kindlier sense than the words of the present version. The An glican Church was not arrogating any thing in commencing this work, and the best proof of that was that Ameri ca was invited to co-operate. . , j . . , , Hoy. Thos. Settle. The Washington correspondent of The New York Times, writing to that paper under date of Dec. 17, 1871 says : , 1 Hon. Thomas L- Settle, United States Minister to Peru, arrived here this morning on leave of absence, obtained on account of ill health. It is poss'.ble that he may not return, as ho is being urged by leading Re publicans of North Carolina to accept the nomination as their candidate for Governor. Jle will probably leave here for his home, inVhat State, on Wednesday of this week. Assaulted. The Goldsboro' Messenger says, on Thursday night last Mr. John May hood was assaulted by two negro men, while in his bar-room, and robbed of all the money in his possession at the time. : We understand that he identifies Bill Ad ams and Frank Emmanuel as the robbers," and that warrants are out for their arrest. DEATI OF t GENEI&ti LEONIBA3 Polk.- An ex-Confederate, writing for Tlie: Westminster Revieic, gives the fol lowing account of tho death ot tne Bishop-General : ' I " The death of thedistinguisneaman was a melancnoiy one. it, occurred while our army lay in front of Kenne saw. Johnston, with a group of offi cers, among whom was Polk, were makinsr a reeonnoisance of theenemys lines from tne summit oi jrine iuuuu tnins. ft loftv. solitary mount, wnicn jutted out from the range, and formed tne apex oi an acuic augur, w" !j mir imp wsim mi i iiiiL; m.hk j was a verv hazardous one, being com manrlPil. or rather reached by guns,! o A? 4- V r r"t rWTTa I Snrxi trnm nn r nnrnim 111 Lilt; uujijf o "-l i amhlnre in such a con-i . 1 . .tiuinfo.! hr vncriJ - . . i j . : .-. ftvnr im lant enemy. ;jfv uaiufrj m i mfidiatelv fired one shot, which we; afterwards found out was but the pre- lude to one of the most feanui snemngs I ever witnessed. The group were coniino hptwpfn vounsr Beauresrard's battery and the Fifth company of Washington artillery, Johnson being on the works looking through a field elass. That first shot could not have missea mm two ieei, uut u"j id to it was to turn his classes to the battery that fired it. Polk . . -m 1 : .-. 4.1 r.- had in tne meantime scpanutu ii" tho rrrann nnrl VVJ1S WalkiUff thOUffht- fully away with his left side to the en emy his neaa aown anu , jus uuiivis clasped behind him. The second shell lit the crowd struck him in the arm, and passed through the body, tearing out jus utaui., anu uuou-nf- bij riaht. nrm above the elbow. He dropped on one knee, wavered, then -1-Tw-Jl- ! 1 v fell on one siae aeau. j. uau jiuiuij turned my back when I heard the murmer of horror ruu through the line, 4t Gen. Polk is killed." Johnston said not a word, but ran to him and lifted him in his arms. Hardee uttered a cry and also rushed forward. He was East all human help. The members of is staff tenderly lifted and bore him from the field. . 1 PROCEEDINGS OF THK : North Carolina Lfiiislatnre. SENATE. TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY. " Friday, Dec. 22, 1S71. Senate xnefat 10 o'clock. President in the Chair. " The Journal of yesterday was read and approved. On motion of Mr. Love, the rules were suspended in order to take up the bill in relation to county claims, provid ing for their payment according to the order in which numbered, except when specially ordered to the contrary, there by guarding against partiality in set tling these claims. The bill meeting with considerable opposition, Mr. Love moved that it be amended so as to apply only to the forty-third SenatorialJDistrict, and be ing so amended, it passed its several readings. On motion of Mr. Graham, of Orange, the rules were suspended and the bill incorporating the Bank of Hillsboro' passed its several readings, and was engrossed and sent to the House. The bill for the relief of the W. N. C. R. R. Co., authorizing the Treasurer to pay certain creditors of the read, com ing up, Mr. Gilmer said that as the bill calls for a loan of $225,000, to be secured by the bonds of this Company, the Senate should consider whether the condition of that road were such as to justify us in making another effort after having expended $9,000,000 on it, Per haps it were better to let it go into the possession of those able to manage it. Mr. Flemming said the rolling stock was worth $1,225,000, an amount suffi cient to pay the, loan asked for and leave a handsome balance. Mr. F. ably supported the bill. Postponed till the 2d of January, 1872. Mr. Albright, from the Committee on enrolled bills, reported. Mr. Waddell, from a standing Com mittee, reported several bills. On motion of Mr. Edwards, the rules wrere suspended and the bill to allow the Sherifls of Granville, Washington and Beaufort counties till the 1st day of April, 1872, to settle county taxes, passed its several readings. On motion of Mr. Albright, the rules were suspended and the bill to incorpo rate the Cape Fear Iron and Steel Com pany, and the bill to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors within two miles of Sylvan Academy and Cane Creek Church, in Chatham county, passed their several readings. Mr. Linney, a resolution to allow II. W. May, Sheriff of Alexander county, till July, 1872, to settle county taxes, passed its several readings. Mr. Jones, from the Committee on Judiciary, presented a bill to amend the charter of Newbern. (Allows the Aldermen to prevent the erection of wooden buildings within certain limits of the city). Passed under a suspension of the rules. By the same, from this Committee, a bill to allow the Commissioners of the city of Wilmington to authorize the Mayor to issue bonds for payment of old debt. Passed. . Mr. Jones introduced a bill to amend the charter of the city of Charlotte. Calendar. The bill to exempt the active Fire men of Charlotte from jury, militia and road duty, passed its several read ings, was engrossed and sent to the House. i By Mr. Whitesides, a bill to change an alley in the town of Shelby. A message was received from the House that that body had passed the bill extending the time in which cer tain tax collectors are tosettle,and other bills. Referred. J I Senate bill in relation to the probate of deeds, having been amended by the House, the amendments were concurred in. On motion of Mr. Brogden, the bill incorporating the Farmers' and Me chanics' Association, and that incorpor ating the Guilford County Co-operative Association, passed their several read ings and were engrossed. Sir. Albright reported several bills as enrolled. I Message from the House stating that the bill incorporating the Falls of Neuse Company had passed. Calendar. Mr. Graham, of Orange, a bill to pun ish the purchasing of goods under ialse pretenses. ' On motion of Mr. Murph v, the rules wTere suspended and the bill to incor porate the Fayetteville Building and Loan Association passed its several readings. A bill concerning public highways placing the same under control of County Commissioners, was appropri ately referred, i I Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Cornoratlons,' reported tho bill 1 Incor porating the People's Bank of New bern. . The amendment in relation- to interest was stncKcn out, anu tnen iiuv bill nassed. ?' Mr. Bobbins, of Itowijn, bill to amend section 4, chapter 1 1, private laws of 1S70-'71. t - i He also offered a resolutl nvdirctjtii. the Printing Committee to,jiave prim ed and laid on the desks of member.-, the report of the Shipp-Mitrtin-15at h elor committeo, which resolution passed. ' ! Leave of absence was grnnhd to tl Assistant Secretary. : 'I : A resolution was adopted ojilerinc that extra copies of? the Librari-in's Keport be printed. - M I ! . Several bills wero report x as prop erly enrolled. 1.1- On motion of Mr. Fleram ing, t Jie en ntPfldiournod till the second daybf Jaiw uary, lbt-. nOLTSE OF REPBESENTATIVi:.-. TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY. i Friday, Bee. 871. T rem met at 10 o'clock Speaker Jarvis in the CI liair. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Gntyson, of t!.e T.nr.nl nf vnstrMihiv was read 'and ontirnvivl ! I Vnrions rommittces submittal re norts. ! INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTIONS. Afr. 'Atw-iiter. a resolutio n in favor of John H. Hill, Sergeant-att arms m tno House. Calendar. Also, a resolution in fav or of );ihm 1' Latta. Calendar. INTRODUCTION OF BJEIA Air. Tlroiidfoot. a bill tJ incorporate the Fayetteville Road Steamer we-riv rfirrMl : vom- Mr. Atwater, a bill in ritaird to imu riage license, lteferreu. Mr. Crawford, a bill to 118,. private laws 1S70-'71. On motion of Mr. Craw hnu'iulj eluii. Vv-tll'IIUtll . ' brd, the biil kou im and nhnvfi mentioned was1 ti Twissod its several reading. r -- - - - . r t " Un motion oi xr. joiit-sj of Caldwell , the resolution of instruction to tlu Treasurer, in regard to thp Sparta :mi Tai'OKv.l1aiiiirl Morion naul AslliiVill" !xjtav. .o . ...v. - - - - Turnpike Company, was taken lip nn l passea its several reauiiig.-i. On motion oi -ur.-.vsiu.,om io aim m. phnn. ... nrivate laws 187(H'71. taken t'U and passed its several reauings. J On motion of Mr. Broadfoot, the U, lowint? bills were taken ut and i;m- 1 fl.oir cnvprnl rpj-idiiifrs '., mill to incornoratc; tho Brother Manufacturing Company of Cu Innrl roiintv. I n!;er- TUll to incorporate the Murphy Milis Manufacturing Company, Mi the con n Iv or Cumberland. ' i,.,, On motion of Mr. Houston, tlju bill to incorporate the Catawba and Liieo! ri Mininerand Manufacturiiig Company,. ,was taken up and passed its third read ing. 11 I i On motion of Mr. Withers, tho bill .to amend the charter f the orth Western N. C. Railroad (bmpanV, vr.s taken up and passed , its inor ' ' I lscver.il read- j V. .- r t..J.-v r n motion oi Air. jo.Miier, ui , john- etnn tho. rfwolutioii instructing the Ipubiic Printer to have e:ctra copies of 'the Librarian's report, printed lor the lmr. of the Librarv. passed. Mr. Lucas introduced U bill to i.re-; Tar of Ovsters M Creeii. livae county, ltqierrcu, . . " . -.. i t On motion of Mr. Ashq a bill o in Uornomtf. the Raleicrh Fertilizing I and Manufacturing tympany j wasuiKeii up rn i : . . " , . ... nnrl phrswI its several rcauinirs. On motion of Mr. Withers, the hill to incorporate the Bankbf Hilbboro', was taken up ana passed us huvenu 'reulinrs ()n motion of Mr. JUcAlee. tne tilt.) incorporate the Literarv and Drai inati-' Association ot Jb avettevnie. was aken 'up and passed its several! readings, i Mr. Gregory introduced a bill to pro hibit the sale of certain ajrticles dmlMg the night time. Referred. A (Mr. McCauley introduced' a Mill in -plation to dower: Referred. r . - i Senate bill in relation to jouU con- racts passed third reading. i -r-r . 1 I P Tuesda.k 2d nouse uuiourueu mi lay of January, 1872. Dickens. An ingenious romanwr kAv.tn 4Via v-kllrvL-f rtrr T5totiwv ? j:" Oliver Twist," wiio hailHomcj Times" in the "Battle of Li e," and 1' li:jYi:iMr been saved from " The Wred k of tho Mary " by " Our Mutual Friend," " M' ii:- las Nickleby," had Just finished, reading "A Tale of Two Cities" to "Martin Chu..l - wit,' during which time the Hearth" had been "The r Cricket m chirping inchily, while "The Chimes" frori the adjacent church wero heard, when "Seven I'oo Travelers " commenced to f ing a " Christ mas Carol." " Iiarnaby Itddge," thcfi IT- . rived from the " Old Curiosity Whop some " Pictures from Italy ', and " Sk with m bv IJoz" to show " I.ittlo Dorrtt ." wIkv OS uuav Willi JL - J v jl ci -.- , when "David Copperfield," who had beeit taking "American Notes' entered and'iik formed the company that the "Great Kxl pectations of Dombey &fe.n" regarding "Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy'1' had not been re alized, and that he had seen ''Boots at tho llollytree Inn" taking "Somebody's Lug gage," to "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings,"!, in : 6treet that has "No thoroughfare," oppofcite "Bleak' House," where mo " Haunted Man," "who had just given one off Dr. Mangold's I'resenptions " to an - " uncom mercial Traveler." was brooding over '.'flu Mystery of Edwin Drood." CLAIMS.. Tho U. S. Claim Com in in kion reported to Congress on tho 14th 0S0 eases. The following claims of r State, were allowed : ! psidents of rhi- North Carolina Wm. Pice, 395 ; Ilrn- ryC.Lashlee.R18; IraOliv e,i)5; Win N. Andrews, 1,095; Jolm l Adams, W)j ; Mrs. Malinda Howell, f iw. The Tollowing were disallowed : iNortn Carolina Jonn t . I'hiler. Ktai 'lU'V Unchurch, T. B. Smith, K.Tl Norris, Jaiu -i II. Rhodes, Daniel (Jooch, George A. Hoalt, Martha Jones, A. M, Nelsoh, M. P. -Stone, James flower, Anderson Glenn, Willifont Unchurch, Ambrose Overbaugh, Arthur Hill, David U. Gardner, TlJomas Wonible, Miss N. C. Stewart. James M. Boll, Wmi II. Bennett, T. T. Dail. Samuel Dupreo, wxKinson, jona.. xr. juevy. MonE Impeachment. :Qn Tuesday ust. Mi C. C. Bowen, member oil the South Cnr- olina Legislature, introduced a resolution to imj)each Got. R. K. Seoti of that State. In the course of his speech, that he meant to impeach Mr. Bowen said he guilty State officers seriatim, and stated that Scott had confessed to twenty-two roil ions fraudulent bonds. The resolution wad postponed tin- til after Christmas recess. It is rumored that Scott admitting his j Conviction, by Senate, if House, wilt resign. impeached by the ; If Scott has been stealing , he fchould he , : impeached and driven from the State. Ofll- j cial rogues snouia not be ger than it is required by tolerated no lon- law to get rid of ! I them f
