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n 71 1 THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. RALEIGH, N. C, OCTOBER 20, 1891. Vol. 6. No. 35 PEO GRESSI V MBMER. T7 THE NATIONAL FARMERS' ALL - irorn TAT ANCE AND lwuusi nixi. UNION. President-L. L. Polk North Caro lina. Address, 311 P. St., Is. W., Washington. D. C. Vice President B. H. Clover, Cam bridge, Kansas. Secretary-Treasurer J. II. Turner, Georgia Address, 239 North Capitol jt a; vvr., Washington, D. C. "lecturer J. II. Willetts, Kansas. EXECUTIVE BOARD. C. V. Maeune, Washington, D. C. Aionzo Wardall, Huron, South Da kota. .1. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. II. C. Demming, Chairman. Isaac McCracken, Ozone, Ark. A. E. Cole, Fowlerville, Mich. .NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Th Presidents of all the State organ izations with L. L. Polk Ex-ojficio "I'.iiimian. noKTII CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLI ANCE. President Marion Butler, Clinton, X C Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe vi'le N. C. Secretary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes, Kaleigh, N. C. Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown, N.C. Steward C. C. Wright, Glass, N. C. Chaplain Rev. K. Pope, Chalk Level, N. C. Door-Keeper W. II. Tomhnson, ;"avetteville, N. C. As.-istant Door-Keeper H. E. Kmg, Peanut, N. C. Sergeant-at-Arms -J. S. Holt, Chalk I.evel, N. C. State Business Agent W. II. Worth, Raleigh, N. C. Trustee Business Agency Fund W. A. Graham, Machpelah, N. C. fCXKCUTIVil COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C, Chairman: J. M. Mewborne, Kinston, N. C. ; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C. STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. Elias Carr, A. Leazer, N. M. Cul breth, M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell. 5 TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. P.. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. ; N. C. English, Trinity College: J. J. Young, Polenta; II. A. Forney, Newton, N. C. North Carolina Reform Press Association. Officers J. L. Ramsey, President; Marion Butler, Vice-President; IT S. Barnes, Secretary, TJ A I'KRS. Progressive Fanner, State Organ, Raleigh, X. C Caucasian. Clinton, X. C. Rural Home, Watchman, Farmers' Advocate, Mountain Home Journal, Alliance Sentinel, Country Lite, Mercury, Rattler. Agricultural B e, Columbus Weekly News, Taylorsville Index, Wilson. N. I . Salisbury, X. Tarboro, X. C. Asheville, N. C. (ioldsboro, X. C. Trinity College. N. C. Hickory, N. C. Whitakers, N. ('. Gultlsboro, X". C. Whiteville, N. '. Taylorsville, X. C. Each of the above-named papers arc requested to keep the list standing on the first page and add others, provided they are duly elected. Any paper fail ing to advocate the Ocala platform will be dropped f rom the list promptly. Our people can now see what papers arc published in their interest. PROF. MASSEY REPLIES TO MAJ. RAGLAND. Mr. Editor: Maj. Ragland, in your last issue, is simply fighting something of his own creation. No oii?Jhat I know of, has ever opposed. Ce intro duction and dissemination jfci new plants and new seeds of improved sorts of sorghum, wheat, oats or corn. So all the Major's long column amounts to nothing. The only question, and the only one which Maj. Ragland will not touch, is, has the government a right to squander money in scattering free all over he country seed which can he bought at any store. All the evidence quoted simply goes to show that when the department adheres to the spirit of the law, great good has been dune by the introduction of valu able seeds. This is what the law in tended, and if this was aliiered to no one could omplain. There is no sort of contradiction in Gen. Le Due's statc raent in lvgurd to an improved variety of oats, aiid his statement to me in per son only a few weeks ago that he did his uttermost to break up the indis criminate scattering of common seeds. The insinuation conveyed in Maj. Po land's words, (Jen. Le Due's opinion assigned him by Prof. Massey." is un worthy of a gentleman and deserves no notice. Gen. Le Due is in North Carolina and can s.iy whether I quoted him aright. But the most surprising thing in this long article is Maj. Ragland's state ment that I have advised the farmers of middle Virginia and North Carolina against grassing their lands. For thirty or forty years I have been work ing for grass and more grass. I have spoken on the rostrum in favor of grass and move grass hundreds of time. and have used my pen continually for many yo:us in the effort to get farmers to grow more grass, and now here is a man who gravely tells the farmers of North Carolina, to whom I have been talking grass for several years, that I have advised them against grassing their rolling uplands. Why, the thing is so utterly absurd as to be almost laughable. " When your case is bad. abuse the fellow on the other side." . The Major, in a whole column or more, entirely avoids answering my question on the seed matter, and then accuses me of things I never dreamed of. Now I have opposed the keeping of these uplands in poverty-grass and Nroom-straw and calling it grass. I - e opposed the putting down of land u. ass until it has been brought up into edition to grow a good sod. But when- once in that condition, I have urged our farmers in the Piedmont hills to keep it up bv top dressing and by not overstocking. I have denounced as an insane notion the idea prevalent in Piedmont that the plowing under of a heavy growth of clover is only the loss of so much feed, and have advised our farmers to plow under clover and cow peas until their land is in condition to grow good grass. I would beg leave to inform Maj. Ragland that though engaged in teaching, I am as much a farmer as he is, and what I have writ ten has been the result of experience on the lands I refer to. On Maj. Rag land's lighter land and heavier rainfall it may be necessary to terrace, but on the Albemarle hills I know from expe rience that they can be brought into a good condition and be gotten into heavy sod without any terracing what ever. I have farmed largely in that county and know that when these steep red hills of upper Piedmont are properly plowed, there is little danger of serious washing if not kept long in in hoed crops. If a man plows these steep hills three or four inches deep, they will wash into gullies, but let him plow as I have, on hills so steep that horses could hardly get around them, with three heavy mules to a plow, and two more to a subsoil plow behind them, and break twelve inches deep, and it may lie bare all winter as I have had it lie, and simply get mellow with frost. I can show Maj. Ragland to-day hillsides in Albemarle with gullies that were bare and red when I undertook their improvement, and to-day the grass is thicker in the gullies than elsewhere. No, Major, don't accuse me of talking against gras. The only grasses I am opposed to are "poverty grass" and broom sedge. If I was in some parts of the country I would accept Johnson grass rather than have no grass. I have no objection to fair criticism of anything I may write. I have prob ably had as many years practical ex perience in these matters as Maj. Rag land. I do not profess to know every thing, but am still an earnest student, learning more as the gray hairs increase than I did in earlier and more thought less years. The seed discussion is just where it was at the beginning. I have denounced as a humbug the scattering through Congressmen of common garden seeds that anybody can buy, but have never opposed the carrying out of the law in regard to the introduction and dissemi nation of improved vaiieties, even if it be of an improved sort of tobacco seed. I have declared the present practice to be an unwarrantable use of public funds. Maj. Ragland has evaded any answer to this whatever, and goes out of his way to charge me with teaching tilings I never dreamed of. I am per fectly willing to discuss practical topics in a way that may be helpful to the readers "of The Progressive Farmer, but my own self-respect forbids me takingfurther notice of one who evi dently does not know what is due from one gentleman to another in a discus sion. W. F. Massey. PLAN FOR RELIEF. Cresswell, N. C. Mr. Editor: At a regular meeting of Salem Alliance, No. 1,88S, held on Oct. od, 1891, we, the members, en dorsed a plan for the relief fund. Our plan is that every Secretary of Sub Alliances send fifteen cents out of the quarterage instead of ten and let five tents go to the State Secretary Treas urer for the relief funds, leaving in his own treasury ten cent, and we will not have to change the Constitution. Five cents on 100,000 members would be $5,000 every quarter. If this won't do, we will do as the majority says best, for we are in favor of some plan to help the dependents. E. D. Cauoun, Pres't. II. W. Liverman, Sec'y. TO THE VETERAN CAVALRY. Richmond, Va. Oct. 3, 1801. As it is impossible to record the deeds done by the Army of Northern Virginia without connecting the names of Stuart with its most brilliant achievements, or to think of Lee and Jackson without involuntarily calling up the shade of this gallant Com mander of the Cavalry Corps, it seems but fitting that the soldier who, in his twenties, blazed the way for Jackson around the armies of McClellan and Hooker, should be made the subject of an enduring monument in this the capital city of the Confederacy, in whose successful defense he fell at its very gates. Therefore it has been determined by many of his followers, for whom this committee acts, to call a meeting of the survivors of the Veteran Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, to be held in the city of Richmond, at the Army Hall, corner of Seventh and Marshall street, at 8 o'clock, on the evening of October 28th, 1881, for the purpose of organizing a Veteran Cav alry Association, with the above object in view. All cavalrymen and other admirers of Stuart are earnestly requested to attend. C. A. Taylor, T. W. Snydor, Jas. R. Worth, J no. P. George Luther B. Vaughan, A. L. Boulware, F. D. Hill, E. C. Minor, Philip Haxall, R. G. Crouch, J. H. Ware, L. Levy, J. W. Thomas, E. A. Catlin, Jas. F. Flour noy, Fleming Meredith, J. A. Lip scomb. Committee. THE GREAT MONEY POWER. Mr. Editor: At the instigation of the money po .ver of this country and Europe, the agents of the people created the national bank system, the credit of the people was transferred to them with the powder to fix the volume of money and rates of interest. They so manage that their rates of interest is twice as great as the earnings of the wealth producers. In all their in vestments they run no risks, while evey industry takes risks. So situated they command the whole field of industry. They have no in terest in production, as they have a better tiling created by law. Their whole interest consists in increasing the purchasing power of their incomes and piling up evidences of indebted ness against the industrial class. It is their study now to secure additional legislation that will increase their ad vantage over the wealth-producers. All their incomes are re loaned on first class real estate and each year sees the wealth-producers deeper in debt to them. This artificial money powtr, outside of the channels of trade, has piled up evidences of indebtedness against the wealth producers seven times greater than the money in circu lation. Practically, they own all the money in the United States, and have a mortgage six dollars deep on every dollar. Reader, this debt has been all paid up in the last twenty five years and it all comes from loaning their debts and making the industrial class pay extortionate rents. This farce of a financial system is rapidly transferring the wealth of the country into their hands. Here is an octopus, created by your legislators, that is spunging up the wealth of the country faster than labor can pro duce it. A pensioned aristocracy cannot ex ist in this country, so the national bank system was created as a substitute. The ruling class of England and the money power of Europe, during the civil war, decided that negro slavery must die, and they would enslave white and black by getting control of the circulating medium. Hundred? of millions are drawn out of this coun try, and Europe dictates the price of the farmers' produce. The exception clause in the green back originated by this devilfish, doubled the cost of the war by enact ing a demand for their gold on which they had a corner. African slaveiy was abolished, but white and black were chained to the jugernaut of the money power. How well they have succeeded all that is necessary is to J look: : t the mountain of dent lieapv. '' upon tlie wealth producers. This moneyed devil has all the civ ilized world in its clutches. A beauti ful system indeed that lias the wealth producers of this country in debt to the non-wealth producers ten billion dollars and the industries of the civil ized world in their debt one hundred and fifty billion dollars. Lincoln's warning, in their infancy, went un heeded twenty-five years, until now this power is a mighty giant with its its fingers on the throat of every indus try. This money power owns or con trols the leading papers of both parties. They are the power behind the throne, and the politicians have not a soul they can call their own. This power has the farmers emasculated. They can not fix a price on anything they have, to sell, and they look on and see the speculators fix a price on their pro duce. There is but one remedy the farmers must speedily occupy the vant age ground where they can fix a living price on all they havo to sell. This is the issue clean cut made by the farm ers, and all parties ignoring this must be treated as deadly enemies and be wiped from the face of the country. The Republican party is irevoca bly committed to the financial system that enslaves the indus trial class and endorses the pro tective tariff to drown the people's cries for relief. The Democratic lead ers, at the instigation of the money power and solons, are doing their best to deceive the people with that huge fraud tariff reform. , The Democratic leaders know that the tariff is 10 per cent higher than it was twenty live years ago, and the people can buy all mannfacturercd articles 50 per cent, cheaper than they could twenty-five years ago. With this fact standing out in bold relief they have the hardi hood to go before the people and de clare that it is a high protective tariff that is at the bottom of their woes. The leaders of both parties know they are practicing a fraud upon the people. Politician. "Mr. Farmer, "the price of your cotton, corn and wheat is fixed in Liverpool, England, while everything in the manufactured line you consume is fixed in this country. The remedy for your woe is to repeal the robber tariff and buy where you sell on the cheapest market." Farmer. Mr. Politician, if we keep on selling cheaper and buying cheaper won't this be squeezing more of the necessaries and luxuries into the cred itor class fixed incomes?" If we buy two hundred millions of foreigners that we have bought at home, won't that bring about a contraction of the volume of money and a shrinkage of values and make our second state worse than the first? We have not in actual circulation eight hundred mil lions. Your advice would reduce the circulation 20 per cent, and bring about a shrinkage of twelve billion dollars. Mr. Politician, wouldn't this be paying dear for your whistle? We farmers want more monejr, but your plan proposes to take it out of the country." Politician. "Mr. Farmer, if you will buy more of those who take your surplus, they will buy of you and you will keep your money at home and the circulating medium will not be reduced in volume and you will get your manu factured articles cheaper." Farmer. "Mr. Politician, wou't these fellows across the water do as you advise us to do buy where they can buy the cheapest? It is not human nature to buy of another because he buy 8 of you unless you will sell as cheap or cheaper than others. England will not buya pound of cotton or wheat of us as long as she can buy it as cheap or cheaper in India. We have taken your advice too long, raised cotton, failed to diversify our crops, sent our money North for cheap corn and manufactured goods and failed to diversity our crops and keep our money at home and have kept ourselves poor. Mr. Politician, we are learning a new lesson in political economy to buy nothing abroad that we can produce at home. One objection is to those fellows across the big pond fixing a price on what we have to sell. We be lieve we should fix a price upon a 1 we have to sell. We know how much it costs to raise it and we are willing to take a living price, but we are not wil ling longer to tamely submit to a finan cial system that compels us to submit to the dictation of Europe. We know they have deficiencies and must buy our surplus, and as soon as we get our warehouses built so those who are com pelled to sell can deposit their non perishable produce and receive 80 per cent, of their value, we intend to hold until we can get a living price. If we have a surplus on hand at the end of the year, we will curtail production the next season, and in this way it will not effect the market. A surplus for the world is better for the world than a deficiency, and as long as we can control it, will not hurt us. As it is, the more we produce the worse we are off. We believe, under a just financial system, a large production of the necessaries and luxuries of life to be distributed among. the people, will he a blessing and not a curse, as now; each class of producers must be able to fix a living price upon their products. Until wo can do this we are slaves, the hewers of wood and drawers of water for a moneyed aristocracy. Mr. Poli tician, we know we can buy goods to day for one half we could twenty five years ago, and our condition grows worse and worse the cheaper every tiling grows. - We bave tried your plan for twenty -live years, and now we are going to try ours We intend to fix our prices and t let those Liverpool fellows hxlhem viiv .n:i;?r lhI p us u "tary out --o-.w plan or suggest one better than the Sub Treasury, but don't you forget, we in tend to place ourselves where we can control the fruits of our labor and fix a living price on all wp have to sell. Then we can take care of ourselves and feed the world. With plenty of money to put the idle millions to work, we will soon consume all we produce but cotton. Mr. Politician, the wants of the peo pie are not half supplied, and it will not do to cry over-production for exist ing conditions. It is under-consump-tion, resulting from a pernicious finan cial system, that robs the people. We know what we want, and Ave are de termined to have it," James Murdock. AN APPEAL. - Mai. Editor : At a regular meeting of Berea Alliance, No. 1,10.', held Aug. 13th, 1801, the undersigned were ap pointed a committee to solicit aid from the Subordinate Alliances for our un fortunate brother, Judson A. Harris, who is a member of our Alliance. He had the misfortune, on August (5th, 1S91, to lose his only horse. Brother Harris is a young man just started in life, and this is the second time he has lost his only horse. The loss is esti mated at one hundred and twenty-five dollars. The Secretaries will please bring this case before their Alliances at their next meeting. Please forward all donations to D. J. Smithson, Presi dent of Berea Alliance, Elizabeth Citv, N. C. J. C. Perry, J. M. Whitehurst Committe. Approved: D. J. Smithson, Pies. F. WiiiTEHURsr, Sec'y. BRO. CAUBLE AGAIN. Mabry, Stanly Co., N. C. Mr. Editor: In the plan I suggested for relief, find published in the last issue of The Progressive Farmer, I either misstated my plan or the typo mis understood me. The plan I intended to suggest was that the Secretary of each subordinate lodge pay five cents for each male member in good stand ing (not fifteen cents, as published) to the County Secretary out of the funds belonging to the said lodge; and the County Secretary pay $5 per quarter, or add to the sum total the sum of $5 per quarter out of the f und-3 belonging to the County and forward the same to the State Secretary or Busint ss Agent. I hope you will correct the error five cents instead of fifteen cents for the subordinate lodges, and $5 instead of fifteen cents for the county contribu tions per quarter. Knowing that you are a profound thinker, would like to have you suggest a plan or endeavor to have some plan put in operation, as I think relief is coming rather slow to the unfortunate sons. Long may you live to fight the eaemy and strengthen the brethren. Yours fraternally, J. A. Cauble. OUR PROGRESS. Weekly Record of Manufacturing and Other Enterprises StartedRip Van Winkle no Longer in the Old North State. Manufacturers' Record.l Alma W. E. Miller and E. S. Lath rope have, it is reported, established a planing mill. Mt. Airy Lowry & Yokley will erect a tobacco factory, as reported in our last issue. Washington B. F. Rodman will re build his iron works, reported last week as burned. Weldon Paul Garrett, of Littleton, is reported as to remove his wine dis tillery to Weldon. Statesville D. A. Miller has, it is reported, purchased site and will erect a tobacco factory. Reidsville The Reidsville Fertilizer Manufacturing Co. will erect a factory, as previously reported. Reinhardt It it is stated that J. E. Reinhardt & Co. have put in their cot ton mill -ISO twister spindles. Gold Hill A $25,000 stock company will, it is stated, be organized for the purpose of erecting a cotton mill. Morganton The Burke Tannery Co. has, it is stated, let contract for the erection of a tanneiy in South Morgan ton. Harden The Harden Manufacturing Co. has doubled, the capacity of its cot ton mill and put in the electric light plant, so it is stated. Maxton The Maxton Manufacturing Co. has, it is reported, changed the lo cation of and enlarged its iron foundry and machine shop. Burlington P. L Sellars is erecting a tobacco prizery, as reported in our last issue; the Burlington Tobacco Co. has leased same for three years. Statesville The Statesville Brick Co., .recently org nized with J. C. Steele as president and W. J. Lazenby, treasurer, has started brick works. Tarboro The Farmers' Co operative Manufacturing Co. contemplates the establishment of an oil refinery in con nection with its cottonseed oil mill. Gastonia--The Gastonia Cotton Man ufacturing Co. has completed its new mill, previously mentioned, and will start operations about Oelober 15th. Tillery The Carolina Lumber Co.' has, it is reported, purchased the town of Tillery, including a large tract of land, lumber mill, etc., from J. R. fil lery for $10,000, and will improve the property ar.d mill ai. operate same. Tarboro The stock company lately reported as helving been organized by E. V. Murphy, George Howard, Jr., and others for the erection of a peanut cleaning mill has been incorporated as the Tarboro Peanut Co. Mr. Murphy is secretary and W. F. Hargrove, treasurer. CALUMNY REBUKED. Editor Keifs: Allow me space in your valuable paper to express my in dignation and that of many friends for the unmanly, ungentlemanly, ma licious, brutal and inhuman editorial which appeared in the Register of the ISth in relation to Col. L. L. Polk and and his compeers of the People's Party. It certainly bears the imprint of the maledictions that we might expect from a fiend when forced by omnipo tent power beyond the pale of a para dise whose purity he has befouled and betrayed In our judgment, nothing but the knowledge of a once high estate being ruthlessly torn from the grasp, by reason of one's own misdeeds, could provoke such malicious misrepresenta t on and abhorrent calumny of a politi cal opponent. May we not now justly conclude that the sale of the share in the Register, recently made to one of the family, at a fabulous sum, was only a decoy to induce a "tender foot" to take the plant at a big figure, as was said to have been the case, in order that they might unload the decaying institution before it becomes utterly worthless? If this be true as alleged it is unlucky for the Register that the "tenderfoot" in business, as in politics is getting scarce. This, too, may in part account for the chagrin, which begets this howl of rage. As for myself just allow me to say that I am one of the so called " Democratic stool pigeons " spoken of and that there are others, like myself, such as Madden, Gue, Jakaway, Wy man, Band and many others that I might mention, citizens of Des Moines, who have never voted other than the Republican ticket and who are now in the People's Party there to stay be cause we are no longer willing to keep company with men who lack the moral decency to treat men and measures fairly ; and also because we believe that in this iarty rests the hope of human ity. More than that I am one of the old soldiers " who honored Iowa," both by meeting Col, Polk in honorable warfare upon tt e battlefield as well as in "preserving my self respect" by giving him a fraternal greeting and a brotherly hand when he comes in peace to agricultural Iowa as the honored representative of the greatest indus trial organization the world has ever known. And how did this self-assumed dictator and maligner who wields the faber in the dingy editorial sanctum of the Register "honor Iown ?" Lacking argument, he resorts to mis representation. Being without prin ciple, he scruples not at the publication of falsehood. Too dishonorable to ac cord justice, he tramples upon the sacred rights of character, and thus Iowa is dishonored, manhood maligned and humanity disgraced. I woler not that Mr. Lindley says that "the -brains of the paper has been buried in the grave." Oh, Register! once exalted to the skies, thou art become the abomo ination of men. Certainly the shade of an honored sire must weep when he beholds a degenerate son dishoixorijrcjfr his State by offering insult to the mil lions in that honorable calling of which that sire was so distinguished ; X2ext her, and of which Col. Polk isth.- hon ored and worthy representative. R G. Scott. MAJOR FINGER'S LETTER- Below is a letter that has the nail hitting character about it: RALEKiH, Sept. 22, 1NL Mr. W. J. Swink, Secretary awl Tas - urer, Concord N. C: Dear Sir : I enclose check for Peabody money, to be applied Uj yoai city public schools. You will bear iiv mind that this money cannot be used.. for any other purpose than the pay ment of teachers for both raced. The intention of the Peabody trustees to help such communities as wiB help themselves and will so conduct the schools as to be most helpful to the general public school system. In some communities in which an nual taxes are levied to Vuppkrusnl: the general school fund I havo not- , found such support to the general pub lic school system, as I thought there ought to be in the use of the State list text-books. This, I think, is an impor tant matter. The State list books -artr non sectional, fair to the South, ami' Os good as any books published. A3 far as they meet the wants of the city schools I think they ought to be used; in fact that is what the law contem plotes. The city boards ought to ad such other books as the additional length of school and the additional studies desired indicate to he neces sary. I take it, of course that jout board will add the high school course. There is a disposition on the part, oi publishing bouses to pressint. the schools of the South books that ar& en tirely unfit for use by Southern people. . You may set it down as a fact thaf it is impossible, in the very nature of the case, for a Nor, bom man to write a United States history that will bo fair to the South. Even if he. were dis posed to write an impartial history,, the probability is that lie would he ignorant of the facts or w--uld lay less? stress upon them than is due. As an . instance, 1 refer to Eggleston's history,, which has not in it even a reference ta the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde pendence nor to the battle of Knv: Mountain, which Jefferson ii wW the turning point of the iWvoaitiwriar war, and it has not even a copy of the general Declaration of Independence This is only a specimen of the sLns, of omission that Northern authors are guilty of in reference to the South. You wilPfiiid the same thing runniu through their geographies, readers and all other common school books. The houses that publish these books not unfrequently secure their introduetson by unfair argument and other ".id air means as well as by pleading specially their fine mechanical execution, etc. Some years ago, when I first came into the office of Superintended; Public Instruction, I negotiated for the revision of Holmes1 readers, anu one request that I hpecially made was that the books should be thoroughly non sectional and should contain in the selection of the matter as much recog nition of the South as to its products, character, resources, etc., as of the North. Upon examination 1 think you wm find that this request was com plied with, and, besides, tli-?. t he books are thoroughly well graded and adapted to our schools. The proof sheets passed under my own eye. As to Maury's geographies, they cer tainly have no e qual ii!. thii? country. Holmes1 history cictAinf: more facts of United States history, than can be found in any bock in the same compass and at the same price, and it tells the truth in a fair and im partial manner, and is well written.. For higher classes I think Stepbna history cannot be excelled. San lord's, arithmetics are the product of a South ern man and are most excellent books i indeed it may be said that all th e looks on the State list are excellent. Upon examination I think you will find that the prices at which the State list book& are to be sold to the children are IoTvr and that the business arrangements by which the books can be obtained from, one depository by merchants aU oveir the State and at reasonable discounts -to them, are all that can be desired. I send you a marked copy of the school : law for information on these points I would not write so much at length on this subject but for the fact that when the city schools and country schools use the same books there lar. harmony, much less confusion, and the public school interests are thereby bet ter advanced. I do not know who your superintendent will be; if I did I would write him in the same strain. This is an official letter to you as secretary of the board. Do me the kindness to lay it before them and your supermteri dent when he is elected. Trusting that your schools wiii meet . with abundant success, I am, Very truly, S. M. FlK-l-ZR, Superintendent Public Inst?'ActioM- If there was no relief for the p-'icpk in the Sub-Treasury planr all ths old. party papers would support it. Thejj are always on the side o monopoly, and when the people see them on one? side the safe way for the people is ta get on the other side. Eaulkrzer-r County Wheel.