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Official Orgma f tfce lTnltd StmtM. OOo, u th "SUfldird" fctiUdlnc. East .id. of ryetttvin strt. I THURSDAY, JULY 18tb, 1871 REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. Fob President: J ULYSSES S. GRANT, of Illinois. For Vice President: HENRY WILSON, Massachusetts. ELECTORAL TICICKT. I TOR TUB BTATK AT LABOK MinCUS EnWIJT, of Dnncombo. RAXVEL F. PmLLIPS,I Wake. FOB THE OOQBESSlOICAL. DISTRICTS: 1. EAwmrd nmm, mt Xjmll O. WlllUuat ! lectin, ! Llr. 3. xrmu A Gntnrie, f Cnmberlmad ThMU si. Atm. f Ormare . William S. IXyaum, Lineom. T Jmm G ITn T f Bewail. 8 Jaan K. JTastlcc, f Btarfr4 state ticickt. Fob Governor: TOD TU CALDWELL, f Bart. Fob Lieutenant Governor: f CtTKTI II. BOOGDO, f Wayne. For Secretary op State: XM. MU IIOWEBTOJf, of Bowan. For Auditor: JOHN BEILLY, of Cumberland. For Treasurer: DAVID A. JENKJNS, of Gaatou. j For Sup't. of Pub. Instruction : JA3IES 1IEID, at Franklin. j For Sup't. op Public Works: j ML AS DIUS, of Chatham. For Attorney General : XAZ. L. IIARGBOVEf of CrattTlU. congressional ticihlt For Congress 1st District: j CLINTON L. COBB, of Paaqnotank. For Congress 2d District:! CHABLDt B. THOMAS, of Craren. For Congress 3rd Districts KE1LL McKAT, of Harnett. For Congress 4th District j WILLIAM A. SMITH, of Johnston. For Congress 5tii District t THOMAS SETTLE, of Bocklnhana. Fob Congress 6tii District: OL1VEB II. DOCKEBY, of Richmond. For Congress 7tii District: DAVID M. FUBCIIES, of Iredelf. For Congress 8th District: IV. G. CANDLER, of Bnncomho. LEGISLATIVE TICKET. For Senate 18th District!: james ii. 1iabbis. ) For! House of Representatives Wake County: Richard C. Badger, Stowart Ellln, Joha C Gorman, Robert S. Perry. waice county tici ctct. For County Treasurer: William M. Brown. For Register of Deeds:! Williaaa W. White. For County Surveyor: ; Thomas C. Smith. j For County Commissioners: William Jinks, Heary C Janes, Samnel Rayaer, Moaee G. Todd, Robert W. Wynne. For Coroner Albert MafTila. Fob Sheriff: Timothy F. Lee. The Era, until farther notice, will be under my control. J. C. Logan Harris. the news. The continued heavy rains are damaging . the crops in the upper counties of South Carolina. The public schools in Paterson, N. J., are closed in consequence of the alarming pre valence of small-pox in that city. The dying gift of Mr. Bennett, of the New YorKJZerald. was $250,000 toward complet ing the Catholic Cathedral in that city. . i Considerable preparations of a warlike nature are being made by Brazil in antici pation of a coming war with the Argentine Republic j Mr. Alexander II. Stephens is still Relent less towrads Greeley. lie advises theDem ocrats of Georgia to nominate a separate electoral ticket, j General Gideon J. Pillow has followed the example of Mosby in refusing to sup port Greeley and declaring his' preference for General Grant, j Hon. Edward Stanley, Provisional Gov ernor of North Carolina under. President Lincoln, has been stricken with paralysis, and is dying, at San Francisco. . The Chicago Times , a leading Democratic of the Northwest, refuses to support Greeley. This detection is a heavy blow to the Copper-head cause in Illinois. f M. Biamarck has served notice upon the Jesuits that they must leave Germany within six months. The world will hardly approve so severe and harsh a measure. . The following are the customs receipts for the week ending July 6: New York, $1,002,951; New Orleans, $1,320;' Philadel phia, $104,830. Total, $,712,107. j The silver wedding of Henry Ward Bee cher, of New York, on October 10, is to be made the occasion for a four days' celebra tion by the congregation of Plymouth Church. j t The Boston Journal states that the mu sical Jubilee, thougli in every other respect a great achievement and success, has been - I - - ' - ..... i I flnancially a failure The deficit will bo $150,000. Catterpillars in unusal numbers have appeared in Alabama all through the cotton belt three weeks earlier than ever oeiore. The wet weather, which develops the worm. still continues. ! I The British Government has not made any formal demand for the return oDr. Bratton, alleged to have been abducted from Canada, and it is doubtful whether any will be made. He is still at Yorkville S.C. " ( Four men charged with robbing a wealthy lady in Utrecht, Holland, on the 24thrult, of money and valuables worth $250,000 Were arrested in New York on Tuesday night Property valued at $100,000 was recovered from their possession. J , Governor Hadley has left Little Rock, Ark-, for Pope county, to investigate the outrages which have occurred there. The militia of the county are still in arms, and have pressed arms, ammunition and horses generally from the people. ' The Orange procession which has been a subject of anxiety to the, . author! ties for some time, came off in New York on the 12th, and, in spite of the apprehensions of trouble, was concluded peaceably, Ncarcely anything worth mentioning in. the way of disorder bavins oeoaredV-r--r-.' r 'J On the first of August next the number of supervisors of internal revenue must be reduced from twenty-four, the present number, to ten, and Commissioner Doug las has now under consideration the knan ner in which the country shall be redistric- ted. It is thought seven of the districts will be located east and three west of the sissippi river. Mis- James II. George, sheriff of Reynolds co., Missouri. Jessie Allisen and Wm. Parks, who were engaged in the outrage upon the Rev. Mr. Callahan, a few days ago, have been arrested by United States officers. The prisoners were admitted to bail to ap pear for trial at the November term of the United States Court. The arrests j were made under the sixth section of the En forcement act of 1870. . " j A despatch received at Sioux City! from Fort Sully. Dakota, says that it is reported there that about one thousand Indians have collected at a point on the route to be' taken bv the Yellowstone expedition, which is to leave Fort Rice on the 25th instant, and that the Indians aro determined, ifpossi Ma tr nrovpiit a survey of the Northern Pacific Railroad through their landsj The miners of Utah are excited over a new discovery of mineral, said to be the greatest iii extent ever discovered. . It is situated in the Wassach Range, twenty-five! miles frnm Hio r?ntrfl.l Piicifie Railroad. The ledge crops out seventy feet in length with an average width of thirty feet, several assays that have been made give results in silver of from $250 to $1,000 per ton, and the value of the ore is estimated at $5,000,000. . -Three weeks ago a prisoner in the Tombs, of New York city, created an eruption on bis face, and by persuading the authorities that he had the smallpox, got himself scut to tho hospital, from which he escaped the next day. The other day four other pris oners attempted tho same trick, showing their faces covered with blisters. An exam ination by physicians revealed the impos ture, and the nrc -oTifcoecl -thnt thy bd changed heir appearance by using croton oil. j . The total amount received and disbursed by the Post Office Department from postal and money-order funds, from the beginning of President Grant's administration up to March 31 of the present year, was $178,708, 46S.G6, and the amount of defalcations within the period mentioned, was $95,3i6.49, of wliich 812.440.95 has already been collected. and the remainder is in process of collection, . n 1 A. 1 t by suit. JJuring rresiaeni uucnanan a ad ministration the defalcations aggregated $319,564.83; Lincoln's, $12o,220.28, and dur ing Johnson's administration, $291,408.31. From reliable statistics it appears that the mortality in most of our cities during the first week of the present month was unpre cedented. New York leads off with 1,509 deaths against its weekly average Of 020 for tho first six months of the year ; Philadel phia had 764 deaths, against its weekly average 420. and Brooklyn had 670 deaths-, aeainst its weekly average of 232. The death rate of New York for the week ending July 6, was equal to 84.1 per 1,000 per an num ; the average for the preceding six months being 33J2 per 1,000. The only con solatory. feature in connection yHb this alarminsr exhibit is that the death rate was not materially increased by contagious dis eases. , ' I The success of tho new postal card is al ready assured, as the Post Office Depart ment has received orders from business houses in all large cities to furnish them by tens of thousands. It is understood that thv rill at first be extensively used as a cheap means of advertising. Thel number to be advertised for is fifty millions, wit& the privilege of increasing it to one hun dred millions for the nrst year. If the de mand warrants it. The postal card is des tined to be very popular with all classes, and it is estimated that their use will be greater among the average class of letter writers than among the mercantile firms. The cards will not be ready for distribution in a month yet. They will be furnished by contract, and advertisements for proposals win v Issued bv the Department next week. ' . ' '- The Election takes place on, Thursday, the first clay of August. Judge Settle is winning golden opin-t ions wherever ne speass in ine 11 P1L l District.. .... The people are very anxious toknoty how much Judge Jtterrimon. got as Counsel for the great Railroad King. They want the Items, how much money, how many notes,, how many houses and lots, how many diajnonds? Col.' 'Dockery 19 making k most vierorous' canvass "of the Cth District. Gen. Alfred Dockery, the old wp-horse of Richmond, has taken the stump for the Republican nominees, and will speak in a number of counties, in the Pee Dee Section. The Sentinel says the people would listen to Geri. Clingman better if he would refund what ho got for lobbying for the Railroad Ring. Wouldn't they pay more attention to Judge Merrimon II he would pay over to Treasurer Jen kins what he got from tho Ring-Alia- monds and all? A Good Idea: Lots .of English women jare emigrating to the South Sea-IslarjdT and become wives of the nativek HERE'S A CHANCE FOR THEKALEIGH LADIES." Jtal eigh Sinlmd, June 12, 1872. !: : ' " The lfemocratic papers say Maj. W. W. Rollins of Madison, has declared for Greeley. We don't know about that, buj;. We do know that Maj. Rollins can show! a" receipt for two thousand dollars signed by. W. M. Shipp and J. R. Batciielor of the Democratic Fraud Comniiion, for letting Swepson off from ali -prosecutions for bond swindles. - m Judge Merrimon is now living in a handsome residence on the most fash ionable street of Raleigh.." It is charged that that; residence was purchased by Geov Wj Swepson, with money which properly belonged to the people of this State, ami by him given to Judge Mer- rimon.i 1 If thfe-charge is untrue. Judge Mer rimon'can deny it', and we will cheer fully publish the denial. Those jwho had no slaves were, forced to go to ivar to fight for slavery ; Those! who had twenty slaves were exempted from conscription ; Nowjit; is proposed by Gov.'Vance to levy a ''tax on those who owned no slaves and who were forced to go to war to flght for slavery, in order that those who owned slaves and stayed at home with them, may get pay for their "nigge&." - ; . .a j Think ;or this, wooi-nai conscripts. SWEPSON EMPLOYS 3ION. MERRI- s !i Salafy; jTlirce Thousand lollars Per Annum. '-a 1 , : , n I . t. f . f i Gen.-R. M. Henry, who is claimed by TJiNexcs as a Greeleyite, has writ ten a better in which he states that Judge klerrimon told him that he (Merrfaion) resigned his Judgeship in 1867, at the instance of Geo. W. Swep son, w jib wanted Merrimon to attend to his (business; and that Swepson agreecj'jto pay Merrimon three thou sand dollars per annum ; Merrimon to be allowed the privilege of practicing in Wake and the Mountain circuit. il .What Waddell Did Say. : Mr.iVaddell said at Beaufort: " Thi he had lways condemned Ku Kluxigm in public and private, but as they had killed men, ho was sorry that, instead of killing the poor, deluded negroes, they had notf killed the carpet-baggers who had misled them, and had caused our troubles sine the war.", Giving Mr. Waddell the benefit of his explanation, how can any man who loves ueace and quiet, and nates mur der and violence, vote for Mr. Waddell? II not ail UULlU.Lt-'U lUCUIUU Ui wic KluxfKlan, he is to all intents and pur poses, a Ku Klux, and expects the vote of evpy Ku Klux in his District. Mr. Waddell is somewhat tainted with negrcS suffrage, and some such villian ous declaration, was required to get the full $ti Klux vote. Law abiding peo ple will not vote for Waddell. 4-1 - Rerclected and Re-endorsed. Thej newly elected Directors of the North Carolina road on the part of the Dri'vate stockholders, Jno. L. More- head, Jno. I. Shaver, Thos. M. Holt, nnd Tlir. "R. B. Havwood. Democrats, with; ihe State Directors, Rev. N. H. D. Wilson, Democrat, Col. W. R. My ers. Gen R. Barringer, John McDon aid. Jno. R. Harrison, W.R.Albright, W, A. Smith and S. H. Wiley, Repub- canst-five Democrats and seven Re publicans met on Thursday afternoon, orrl itmnnimnimhi T(Popt Mai. W"m. A. Smith President of the North Caro lina Railroad Company. What better endorsement of a man's official conduct do we want ? What more do the people of this Dis triet want, before whom Maj. Wm. A. Smith is now a candidate for Congress ? What Colored Men may Expect. Th coming of the Greeleyites to Weidon was signalized on one of the trains1 proyided for the occassion, by the siitempted murder of a worthy col ored man named Cook, who declared himself for Grant. One Barnes, an over' zealous Democrat, "asked Cook if he was for Greeley. Cook said he was for Gfrant. Barnes ordered him not to get on the train. Cook refused to obey the prders of the would be master, and Barftes showed his ' authority and the principles of his party by cutting Cook's throat. It is said that Cook cannot possibly recover. Barnes is In jail in Weidon. What does Tipton and the other Northern guests think of the tetical enforcement of Greeleyism in the South? The first Greeley meeting in the South is thus signalized. What must colored men expect if Greeley is elected President? But the same merciful providence that led the colored men out of bondage, and raised up the great leader, Gen. Grant, to strike the shack les from his limbs will not allow such a calamity as the election of Greeley, and the practical re-enslavement of the colored race in the Southern States. They may cut the throats of a few but. the masses of colored men5 have tasted liberty, and they cannot be de ceived into putting the shackles again upon their limbs, and upon their wives and children. P;?S. We learn that Cook is dead. . : ... .. , w ; ; j , ' The Election takes place on TlMjrsday, the first day of August. v ' ' " : -?:x Vindicated. V'"" Tho Democratic Directory of the North : Carolina s Railroad . vindicated Maj. Smith very handsomely On Thurs day. ::- . , i ."; Smith called on the chair to aopomt a committee of , five Democratic Stock holders, opposed to the lease, if so many could be found, with Thos. H. Webb as chairman , to investigate his official conduct relating to the lease, and he would answer any question they might ask him. -,- The meeting refused to have the committee. When Tom Holt said, "I take upon myself the entire responsibility of the lease of the North Carolina Railroad, for I could have prevented this lease," the bottom fell out of the opposition, Maj. Smith was' vindicated, and Jo. Turner, when he heard of it, took a big bite of blue-mass. Let it be Known; : That W. M. Shipp and J. B. Bateh elor, while members of the late Demo cratic Fraud Commission, and drawing $5 per day for services as such, signed a recommendation to release Swepson from alt prosecutions on his returning six cents in the dollar, AND THESE SAME COMMISSIONERS RECEIV ED THIRTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE DOLLARS AND SIXTY-SIX CENTS FOR SO RE COMMENDING. These 'Democratic Fraud Commis sioners generously allowed their friend and brother Democrat, Swepson, to RETAIN NINETY-FOUR CENTS ON THE DOLLAR OF ALL HE HAD dOT FROM THE STATE FOR HIS TROUBLE, upon condition that they receive the'above mentioned sum. W. M. Shipp is the Democratic can didate for Attorney General. Why don't The Sentinel call on him to pay back that money? Four Ballot Boxes. The sixteenth section of " an act con cerning the election and registration in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two," is as follows: "Sec 16. The State officers, viz: Govern or, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction, Superintendent of Public Works, and Attorney General, shall he voted for on one ballot. The members of Congress for their respective districts, shall be voted for on one ballot. The members of the General Assembly for their respective counties land districts shall be voted for on one ballot. The county officers, viz : Treas urer, Register of Deeds, Surveyor, five Commissioners, Coroner, and Sheriff, shall be voted for on one ballot. The ballots shall be on white paper, and may be printed or written, or partly written or partly printed, and without device." Every voter should be familiar with this section. Voters should be careful. to deposit their ballots in the right, box. Ballots deposited in the wrong box will i0t be counted. Reg istrars ;and inspectors of the election should see to it that every ballot is de posited in the right box. Gen. Rufus Barringer. We understand that this gentleman has consented to accept the Republican nomination for Senator in Mecklen burg; and that he will enter upon the canvass so soon as his labors before the Supreme Court will permit him to do so. . We are pleased to note the fact that the Republicans of the State have gen erally nominated their best and strongest men. Gen. Barringer is a gentleman of ability and experience. He is truly conservative in his views ; and if elected will make a valuable member of the Senate. ; j Mecklenburg refused to sanction by her vote in 1871, the Democratic Revo-! lutionarv attempt to overthrow the Constitution and abolished the Home-; stead. It is to .be hoped that she will again be true to her best interests, and roll up a substantial majority for the whole Republican ticket. There are no better or more active Republicans any where in :the State, than in Mecklen-; burg. They should bestir themselves and place their county permanently in the Republican column. . The Conservative party went into power in 1870 pledged to retrench andj reform, and here'e the way they did it j The books of the Auditor's and Treas urer's offices show that the impeach ment trial cost the people of the State the enormous sum of . sixty-one thou i sand five hundred and forty-eight dolj lars and fifty-five cents. Here are the items:, ' J ! Three extra lawyers, 44 days, $ 3,000 00: Reporting, 1 man and staff", 44 days, 4,375 DO ; Printing and stitching, 5,615 51 Paper. I 2,840 40 Pay of witnesses, 5,6. 20 j Pay of members, 170 at fo per uay, w Pay of clerks,' doorkeepers, fcc, 2,464 00 Fuel and - lights, $24 00, 44 cords wood, $176 00, 200 00 61,548 Op. 35OO9! 1 : j Add, for a clerk and messenger for tlie lawyers. And we have ; 61,898 00. I 1 i Gov. Graham Gov.- Bragg and Judge; Merrimon : received at ; the rate of $22.1 72 per day each for their services to ne!? seven other leading Conservati ve; lawyers, appointed by the House, to. nrosficntft Gov. - TTnlden. 1 Seventeen thousand eight hundred and thirty ,dol- lars of-this money was wasted or given away to party favorites. Three thou sand of it to extra high-priced lawyers to help seven others appointed by the House who, it seems, couldn't help themselves. ; - ' -; ; ' Twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars for making a book of the proceedings arid speeches in the casei which the people will never see, unless they buy it from the Conservative I'up lie Printer. J You cannot register on election day. Senator Pool and Judge,. Merri- 'V -7:, moil. ... v , Read the correspondence j between Senator Pool and Judge .Merrimon on the fourth page of to-day's, paper. ? Many of tho articles in th circular complained of are articles cupped from this paper ; and all of them, either in exact words or substance, had appear ed a& editorials in the various papers of the State, long before the circular appeared. - By Judge Merrimon's fail ure to answer them, or to lodge his complaint with the authors, they had fiilly and legitimately become a prom nent element in the' present campaign. To single out Senator Pool and assail him for nothing but allowing the com mon newspaper discussions of the State to be circulated under his frank, as is and has always been usual with all members of Congress of all parties, is sjmply absurd. It is an after thought a,nd a subterfuge, and must be regarded by the people as bordering upon the. contemptible. We are glad that Sena tor Pool has resented the outrage in way it deserves, v ' . 1 . , j The threat to bring suit is decidedly refreshing We. are "curious to see whether the "suit will be cominenced before the day of election! The Sena tor's remark upon' this point is ludi crously suggestive. i But perhaps the threat will answer the same purpose, Merrimon's proposition to denounce in " strong terms," instead of refuting in " plain and temperate terms,",. will hardly be; relished by the people of the State. No matter how innocent he maybe, his connection with Swepson and Littlefield renders it exceedingly improper in him to be made Governor cjf the State, while their prosecution is still pending. It was an outrage upon the people to nominate him. His own sense of propriety ought to have pre vented him from accepting the nomi nation. But the people will take care that he is not elected. - Again we invite attention to the cor respondence. It - was sought by the Democratic candidate for Governor, nd is a thing of his own .concocting. Will the Democratic papers publish it ? Come, gentlemen, don't back out; let your readers see it. You are certainly iot ashamed of it. No garbling or per verted extracts. Let the people have Ithe whole and judge for themselves. jNo dodging, if you please ! . How they Lie. During the campaign of 1870, the Conservative-Democratic party charged that there was no money in the State i Treasury that even the School Fund had been stolen or squandered by the 1 Republicans. ; As soon as the Legislature met at the session of 1870-'71 the Senate appointed ! a committee consisting of Dr. Love and ! Dr. Worth (both Democrats) "to ascer i tain the amount of money in the Treas ury " and they reported as follows : The committee created by a resolu tion of the Senate, adopted ' December 8th 1870, entitled a resolution to "ascer tain the actual amount of money in the Treasury," report under three dis tinct heads, to wit : 1. Amount of general fund, 2. Amount of special tax fund, ? 3. Amount of Literary fund, that they find in the hands of the Treasurer $531,213.21. Of this sum $55,213.50, are special tax deposits of Sherifls on account of taxes for the year 1869, and $20,354.23, special deposits of Sheriffs on account of tax for the year 1870. These deposits $75,566, 73, are not available. because they can not be apportioned among the several funds, until these Sheriffs pay in their several balances. Your Committee further find that $484,859,69, were col lected under the " special',' tax acts during the Autum of 1869, and paid in to the Treasury. That under authority of law, the Treasurer had up to Janu ary 20th 1870, paid out of this fund $208,470, when he was forbidden by the General Assembly to make further pay merits. That of the residue $276,389,69, he was directed by acts of the General Assembly, ratified March 12th and 28th 1870, to borrow and use $&o,uoo oi said sum for , certain purposes specified in said acts, and replace the same out of any moneys which might come into the Treasury, by way of dividends of cor porations or of taxe3 heretofore or here after to be levied. Of this sum so used $172,172.76 has been replaced in the Treasury, from the sources mentioned above, leaving a deficit of $77,827,24 of the .sum borrowed, under the acts aforesaid. Your Committee sum up as follows : a Money in the Treasury ' Dec. 10th, 1870 531,231,21 AlUOUUtUl UCU11UUU, f Am't of spec'l tax fund, 198,502.45 Am'tof literary fund, , 257,083. 1,3' Special deposits by. Sheriffs, for the year " 1869, 55,213.50 Specials deposits of - , ' Sheriffs; for the year . 1870, ' 20,354.22 ? . ;. , 531,213.21 All of which is: respectfully sub mitted. W. L. LOVE, Chm'n. Amount of Gen'l iund, It- K i J. M. WORTH. tThe special tax fund of $198,562.45 collected under Republican rule was all used by the Democratic; Legislature. . Gov. Caldwell had not been in office five days before he made requisition onv eight Governors of States for the ren dition of Swepson and Littlefield, who were charged with a conspiracy to de fraud the State and with embezzlement of its revenues. Finding no avenue of escape,; Swepson, sooner than be ar rested and brought back as a felon, re turned to the State and was on theoath of Gov. Caldwell, arrested on a warrant issued by Chief Justice Pearson. Judge Merrimon and other leading Democrats appeared as Swepson's coun sel and got him released On bail, to ap pear and I answer the indictments against ; him in Buncombe Superior Court. ' . t Before that court assembled W. M. Shipp and J. B. Batchelor, (who con stituted two-thirds of the Democratic Fraud Commission) secured Swepson's release from all prosecutions, on their being paid a big fee ! North Carolina Railroad Meeting ' Thet annual meeting of. Stockholders in this Road was held at Metropolitan Hall Thursday, June 11th. , i ;. ;The question of the Lease came before the private Stockholders and was ratified by a vote of six thousand for, to seven hundred against, the Lease ; the State voting her thirty thousand in addition, for ratification. : . ; -. ' ''. Jo Turner was not in the meeting to claim his "homestead" on the Road, but his patron saint, Governor Graham, and bis man Friday, , Thos. H. Webb, were there." Jo was unavoidably ab sent, not dead drunk,' as was malicious ly reported, but "as it turns out'J was engaged in writing a. letter to a gentle man, as a desperate attempt to obtain a nod or a kick from some respectable person. . '! Gov. Graham stated his objections to the Lease in his usual; dignified, res pectful and able manner. He was re plied to by Col. A. S. Buford, President Richmond and Danville Railroad, who completely demolished the arguments of the Governor, and showed conclu sively that the Lease of the Road was its salvation, and in the very best in terests of the Stockholders," tlie freigh t ing and travelling public, and the people of North Carolina, generally. . - Thos. H. Webb, Esq!, haying had the misfortune to be a constant reader of The Sentinel as fan atonement perhaps for the sins of some of his ancestors got up in the meeting and by way of opposing the Lease, rehearsed in a very denunciatory manner all the articles that have appeared in The Sentinel on the subject. "The Lease," he said "was conceived in sin arid corrupton and brought forth in fraud and iniquity." Mr. Webb asserted that "money" had been paid to obtain the lease, and that "Wm. A. Smith, the; President of the Road, received a bribe to lease out tne Road." Mr. Webb was very sweeping in his charges, and denounced every thing and everybody in any way con nected with tho'Lease. This brought President Smith to his feet with the declaration that "whoever asserts or intimates, directly or mdirectlrf, that. TImve received money for thelea e of the North CarolinaRailroad is a liar a scoundrel and a coxcara;" ana appeal ing to Dr. R. B. Haywood, John I. Shaver, D. A. Davis and Thomas M. Holt, Directors on the part of the pri vate Stockholders, all Democrats, took his seat. , Mr. Davis said he was an old servant of the North Carolina: Railroad, that it was the first time' his character had been .aspersed, and lie was surprised that Mr. Webb should indulge in such charges of bribery and corruption to ward him and others j with whpm Mr. Webb had been associated in the busi ness of the road, and whose characters he well knew were. ; above .reproach. He had supported and voted for the lease, but he had; done so for his own, the interest of the private stockholders, and for the good of thb whole people of North Carolina; and o far as he knew no money had been paid or promised by any one or to any 011$ connected with the road. 1 . ; Thomas M. Holt, Esq., of Alamance, said" 1 take upon myself the entire re sponsibility of the leasq of the North Car olina Railroad 1 for I could have pre vented this lease ; but I voted for it, because I saw that if we held out and forced the Richmond and Danville Railroad to build its competing connec tions through the State, we should soon have to take up our track and sell the rails as old iron." Mr. Holt "went for that heathen Chinee" from Hills- boro' " in a way I despise " in the style of Senator Nye. f Colonel Buford said the lease was the result of a business negotiation bet ween the North Carolina Railroad : authori ties and the Richmond and Danville Company, that r no money had been promised or paid to Major Smith or any other individual and that none would be paid;: that His Coriipany con sidered that they had paid quite enough money when they gave a. rent of six and a half per cent.' on the capital stock of four millions. ;: John I. Shaver had voted for the lease, but he was opposed to it if the Company could have helped itself. The Legislature was! responsible for" the complications that forced the Lease. Having granted charters that run round and cut off the road there was nothing elso to do -r but savo their-property- &s best they could.' No money bribes had been resorted to to his knowledge. Dr. R. B. Haywood, was not in the meeting when the discussion came on, but as he entered Mr. Webb hastily approached him and appeared to " rise and explain." - . . -The four Directors on the part of the private stock-holders , Col. Buforcl and President Smith, all stated that the late Governor Bragg, Ralph Gorrell, Esq., A. S.! Merrimon, and S. .F. Phillips Esq., had given their legal opinion that the Danville Company had. the right to take the lease and the North Carolina Company had ! tho right to make it. "Vf-'.'-'-1 !; - This settles the .' question ' of the legality of the transaction,' and . when a man like Thomas M, Holt,assumcs the responsibility of thp lease, and Dr. R. B. Haywood, D. A. Davis and John I. Shaver sustain him and take , their part in the matter, it j is time for such little disappointed. and thwarted as pirants for. the Presidency of he road, as Thomas H. Webb and Josiah Turner, to shut their mouths as to the " fraud ulent lease of the road,'.', and the cor ruption of Maj. Smith in the transaction. The result of the meeting was a glo rious triumph; for Major Smith. ; His administration as President . wa3 en dorsed by the meeting, and at an elec tion of the Directors five Democrats and seven Republicans the Major was unanimously elected President of tlio Company. - ;. j The denunciation of Major Smith relative tojho charge of bribery, was emphatic and proper. Hereafter those who makd charges of bribery, will do it in the face of tlie declaration of Major, Smith that 'they are "liars, scoun drels and cowards." . j "Work." Four years ago, when party spirit was running high in tho State, and ev cry insane paxtizan writer seemed bent on strife and mischief, a drunken. ad venturer, unfortunately at the head of The Raleigh Standard, wrote and pub- , lisheda most infamous anddastardly article, believed to reflect on the virtue and purity of the ladies of North Caro lina. '-.,.-M" j ' ; Vengeance followed swiftly on tho heels of this offender. Paige was "kick ed out" by his own. party, and this scurrilous article was the last he wrote in The Raleigh -Standard, or any other Republican paper. He was driven from the State by h is own party. - " But what do we now behold ? This llli.llilUUn (li L1L1U HUH OUIUUU .v torial head of The Raleigh Sentinel as though it had the approval ; and en dorsement of that paper. w ' i -m 5 I r liut wnetner reprouueeu now ior p- provai orcoiiuiiiiiauuii, me pivy wn reproduces it for the purpose of arous ing new strife in this campaign is more dastardly than the adventurer Paige, who first j wrote it, and we brand the republication of this article in The Sen tinel and Other papers as infamous and dastardly. The malicious editor of The Sentinel heads the article as though the paper it originally appeared in was still in existence, and on the more ig norant of his rcadersand the uninform ed generally, the impression is sought to be made that the article is of recent date. . " ; 'f ; ! It is enough that the Republican par ty of North Carolina repudiated Ixtli the article and its author at the begin i 1- -XI tu,. . ...1... ning, and they repudiate it now with the same; emphasis they repudiate tho conduct' o The'Sentinel reproducing such stuff in a spirit of mjschievoiis desire to create strife, dissension and bloodshed in our State. j . The Editor of The Sentinel better return to his Ku Kluxing. By tlio way, that effort of his to get his Ku Klux down to Goldsboro, toijvenge tlio UUllIlil J1 lHU iAULVlfl ii.Tl OUIIIIlll I, failed. One of the first gentlemen of that town, a prominent Democrat, has informed us that Turner approached him on the subject, and insisted on taking down the Ku Klux whether or no. We repeat Turner's question to; Col. S 4-J of Orange, the day beforo the last August election : ! ' "Are not the Ku Klux go'ing o rfdo to-night?" "No." "Whvinot? Do vou want to loso this election? Then let them slay at home, and be damned." 1. Western North Carolina Jtailroiul -Merrimon and Vance. It is charged by the people along the lino of this road, that Merrimon and, Gov. Vance? as Directors, played into the hands of Swepson and Littlefield, and enabled those two gigantic swin dlers to get possession of the road and bonds. When this had been, accom plished mainly through the efforts of Merrimon and Vance, the road bank rupted, tlie bonds squandered, Merri- mori and Vance resigned as Directors and left the road to take caro of itself so far as they were concerned. Instead of remaining with the sinking ship and ' using every exertion to relieve the road of its embarrassments, these two worthies! resigned their positions to which they had been elected by - the private stockholders, and left the road to the tender mercies of Littlefield, Swepson, and their co-conspirators.! . This i3 the charge that is mado ; against the gentlemen mentioned, by ; the people along tho line of tho road.. These people are determined thatS wop son's Friday shall not be elected Gov ernor. They do not desire that the road shall be again placed in the hands of swindlers, and therefore, they will ex ert themselves to defeat Judge Merri moni and elect Honest Tod Caldwell, who is a true friend of the road. 1 ! 3Icrriinoii and tho Homestead. The-records of the Homestead ques tion are unfortunately against Judge Mernmon, notwithstanding his windy letter to The Telegram, - j . Who 'Hvas present, aiding and abet ting" counsel before Judge Brooks, when that official overruled the divi sion of Judge Reade and Associates as to tho operations of the homestead clause in our Constitution in relation to old debts? Who rejoiced at the de cision, and publicly congratulated Judge Brooks on his decision ? Finding it popular, and the chances of promotion hanging on the question, Judge Merrimon can well afford tod proclaim himself a friend to the prin ciples of a prospective homestead, but f he will not tell tho: people of North Carolina that he sustained the decision of our Supreme Court when the matter first came up ; and as Governor of the !! State, in case of a vacancy, he would most assuredly appoint to tho Supreme Bench (i lawyer of his kidney, pledged to upset and overrule the decision that has and will save a vsist number of our peoplofron'i .starvation and ruin. Let the people understand that in voting! for Judge Merrimon, they arc endangcring their homestead property. Let them beware of this enemy and put him down as they did himself and fellow-consiirators last summer. . ;
