The Greensborough patriot [January 11, 1867]

              Volume XXVIII. GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1867. Number 1,357.
PATRIOT.
GREENSBORO, N. O.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 18«7.
Ifow Advertisements.
The Philotokon, a new medicine, f»r Mia at
Oienn'u !)ru# Store.
E. M. Povue, rlillaboro, N. C.-Tia Ware, A*.,
hi wholesale and retail.
Balph Gorrell, C. M. K.—Sundry Legal no-tices.
J.F. Causey, Deputy Tas Collector, Kirth
Collector District.—Land for wale.
L. R.May.—Removal of his Original Cheap
Stor,-.— Mr. May alaoirivea notice that he is
selling his entire stock of Winter Clothing at
lOMt.
CharleH T. Wortham A; Co., Wholesale ttro-
<•• rsand General ComniiBSion Merchant**, Rich-mond,
Va. This is one of the «l*lent and most
reliable business honses in Richmond. AM will
be goon, our townsman, John A. Sloan, has
keen admitted as a partnerin the concern.
He will 1"- pleased to serve his North Carolina
ii nail- al auj time.
The i:i:i..:, n School, Mehaneville, N.C.—
Jic- S. liMd is a household word every where.
Tliere]iutation ii has earned in well deserved.
The seesioii of I •-'"•«' opens March fith.
Ei!:.it, & Shields, Richmond, Va.—Prospec-tus
<>f Tim Karnier. 'Hie Farmer is the- best
Agricultural publication in the country, and
ib spei ially adapted to the wants of the South-ern
farmer.
.1. Iliideshcimcr.—Removal.—Mr. H. has re-moved
hi- store to the McConnel building, one
door west of his old stand, where ha will be
pleated to sec his old friends and customers.
THE COAL FIELDS ROAD.
Since the adjournment of the Legisla-ture,
and even from the day the bill char,
tering the extension of the Western or
Coal Fields Railroad was passed, wo per-ceive
that the town of Wilmington is wa-king
tip to the importance of locating our
road* in such a manner as to be calculated
to convey our produce to our own mar-kets.
So deep is the interest manifested
by that town, that she even gives Fajette-ville
a gentle hint as to what is for her
benefit.
We arc heartily glad to see this lively
interest taken by a section of the State
which lias heretofore thrown allot itsvast
influence in such a manner as to promote
its own mere local interests. The sources
of the Cape Fear being is this section of
kthe State, and from many other causes,
from tin- earliest days, the trade of Middle
Carolina has generally found its way to
Fayetteville; and not only have our people
ever gives Fayetteville preference over
other markets in this respect, but so far
as relates to plans for facilitating commu-nication
with the Cape Fear section—
opening the rivers, constructing roads, and
by other means calculated to be of benefit
to that portion of our State, this section
of Carolina has over most cheerfully con-tributed,
toattain these ends, her influence,
her money and her labor. And no
section has subscribed more liberally, or
done more in this respect than has the
County of (tuilford and the tewn of
Greensboro, for the Cape Fear, Deep and
Haw River Improvements, at various
times; the Fayetteville and Yadkin Rail-road,
and the Fayetteville and Western
Plank Road. These bets are, beyond
controversy, true. And when the N. C.
Central Road was chartered the Gnilford
representatives insisted upon the impor-tance
of chartering, at that time a rail-road
from Fayetteville to connect with the
former road, al this or some other suita-ble
point -. but the scheme was resolutely
resisted by .the members from that sec-tion,
with the exception of Mr. Asbe of
New Hanover, they prefering the plank
road, which tl cy obtained, and with what
practical benefit to themselves or the peo-ple,
the best answer cau be found in the
failure of the cnteiprise, and the worth-lessuessof
roads constructed in that man-ner.
Ry the extraordinary efforts of Hon.
W. S. As-he, Hon. Edward Stanley, and
Hon. John A. Gilrocr, with the unanimous
vote of the entire West, the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad,which was then a bur-den,
and the Raleigh and Gaston lload,
which was an expense of $15,000 yearly
to the State, w* re brought to life, by pas-sing
Mich laws us enabled them to re-lay
the tracks and equip the respective roads;
while the journals of that session, will
show that with one or two exceptions,
every representative of the counties
through which these roads pass voted
against these measures .•:« well as against
chartering the N. C. Central Road.
Aud it is this road, which even to this
day, seems to be so great a bugbear to
Wilmington. We will examine into this
matter. The Road, as its name implies,
was intended to be, and we think really is.
a North Carolina Road. Tho§e by whose
extraordinary exertions in the Legislature,
the charter was procured, Western men,
be it said, with the honorable exceptions.
named, were laboring to have it a North
Carolina enterprise, and after obtaining the
charter, in the face of the prostrate con-dition
of all the railroads and the abso-lute
failure of every work of improve-ment
that hail been projected or underta-ken
prior to this time in the State, the
apathy of many of the people and the
constant discouragements coming from
portions of the East, with Herculean ef-forts
on the part of Western men to ob-tain
subscriptions to the road, it was with
them and all whe subscribed, the intention
of making it redound solely to the benefit
of our own State. And in after-days,
when the road was bein}» built, at every
point West of Raleigh the rich and poor
at great sacrifice took hold alike, and by
their combined efforts, the poor man, as-tilted
eren by his wife and clildron, in
working by hard labor on the road to pay
the stock ho had subscribed, the work,
even through the mountainous and hilly
portions of the West, was completed at a
much less cost per mile, than on the more
favorable portion of the route iu the east ;
and this work in the West was most cheer-fully
done for no other purpose but to bring
our section and Wilmington closer togeth-er.
And if this object has not been at-tained—
if it is not a North Carolina
road—if it has not yet reached the Ten-nessee
line, the fault lies east of Greens-boro.
And if produce as Cumberland
and the Editor of The Journal contend,
finds its way to Virginia markets, and if
freight is shipped by way of Portsmouth
to sll the depots along the line of the N.
C. Road, who is to blame for the results ?
The Editor of The Journal and his cor-respondent,
we fear, have treacherous
memories.
For our own part, we have lamented in
sorrow, from our earliest days, until the
chartering of the N. C. Road the suicidal
policy pursued by the east, in the locating,
the building and managing of all our
works of internal improvement. At the
risk of being a little tedious we will ven-tilate
the history of the many abortive ef-forts
made for improvements prior to the
chartering of the N. C. Road.
First, we wdll notice the attempts
made for the purpose of increasing navi-gation.
The Dismal Swamp Canal was the first
improvement chartered in the Slate, in the
year 1790, leading directly to Norfolk, and
in the year 1825 this work was oxt< nded
to connect with the North-east rivet; and
in 1828, still a further extension was gran-tod
to connect it with the waters of AI-bermarle
Sound.
The next work undertaken was an act
passed in the year 1796 to improve the
Capo Fear. There appears to have been
but little effected under the act; for we
observe by reports submitted to the Leg-islature,
December 9, 1824, that in the
year 1815 the State, persuaded of the
importance and utility of the various
plans for the improvement of many of our
rivers, which had been projected 3nd un-dertaken
by enterprising citizens of the
State ; and in order to facilitate and in-sure
the success of these plans, she first
began to take in them a pecuniary interest.
It farther appears to your committee that
between this time and the year 1819 the
State became interested as follows in the
several navigation companies then existing.
In 1816, the State subscribed one hundred
and fifty shares, and subsequently the
stock was increased by subscriptions from
various sou ices until, in 1822 there appears
to have been one Hundred and Forty-six
Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-five
dollars paid in. Of this sum there was ex-pended
exclusive of steam boat stock below
Fayetteville, Twenty-two Thousand Eight
Hundred and Forty-five dollars and Thir-ty-
two outs. On the ''anal at Buckhorn,
expended Forty-three Thousand Four
Hundred and Nineteen dollars and Sev-enty-
four cents. On the Canal at Fayette-ville,
Fifty-seven Thousand Five Hundred
and Seventy-nine dollars ami Thirty-eight
cents. And in salaries, Six Thousand Five
Hundred and Seventy-live dollars and
Ninety-eight cents.
Of this enormous sum [says the Report]
it is computed that at least two-third- have
been misapplied and totally wasted. There
has been a greater amount—more than
Three Hundred Thousand Dollars—since
that time squandered on the same river.—
It appears that the Roanoke River Navi-gation
Company was first chartered in
1812, by the States of North Carolina and
Virginia, Three Hundred and Eighty-seven
Thousand dollars, of which sum,
the State of North Carolina, subscribed,
and paid in Fifty Thousand dollars, which
was expended with more advantageous re-sults
than the amount which was expended
on the Cape Fear. For the Neuse Navi-gation
Company, in the year 1816, Six
Thousand dollars were appropriated which
was increased to Twenty-five Thousand
dollars, all of which was expended, as the
committee reported, without producing
any valuable results; and in 1848 there
was an additional appropriation of Twen-ty-
five Thousand dollars, besides a large
amount of individual subscription!1, ex-pended
with no better results. In the
same year, Eight Thousand dollars were
subscribed by the State to the Tar River
Navigation Company; and in the year
1848, Fifteen Thousand dollars were ex-pended
on the same river to no practical
purpose. About the year 1820. the sum
of Seventeen Thousand Six Hundred dol-lars
were expended on what was known
as the Club Foot and Harlow's creek Canal,
and subsequently smaller amounts, which
as others before recited, proved worth-less
expenditures. The survey and re-port
of draining the Brown and White
marshes estimated to be One Hundred and
Twenty-three Thousand dollars and Sixty-cents,
and also the Report of the Survey
of Waggamaw river, Five Hundred dol-lars,
which sums were expended to no
purpose. Next we notice the appropria-tion,
in 1821, of Twelve Thousand dol-lars
to remove the shoals at the mouth of
Cape Fear and Deep Rivers. And in ad-dition
to this there have been large sums
expended by the general government for
the same purpose, without effecting much
benefit, to say nothing of large
sums which were expended for the pur-pose
of draining the swamp lands and re
moving the obstructions from New river
and other small streams to the amount of
a Quarter of a Million. In 1850 the sum
of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand
dollars was subscribed by the State for
the Albermarle and Chesapeake Canal,
leading directly to Norfolk. These were
our first efforts at internal improvements.
They were made exclusively for the bene-fit
of the Fast, the money and appropria-tions
being voted as well by Western men
as by those of the East, and with wha»
results they have been expended to grati-fy
our Eastern friends, the sad record but
too plainly toils. The money thus expen-ded
was realized from the dividend of
banks and the sale of Western Carolina
lands.
We will next notice briefly our efforts
in constructing railroads, which will prove
more interesting and suggestive to the
reader as to the animus of the East.
In the year 1825 the Rev. Joseph Cald-well,
D. D., President of the Univer-sity
of North Carolina, visited Europe, and
while there took great pains to examine
some of the first railroads then being eon-structed
in Europe. He was so struck
with the importance of this new means of
transportation, that soon after he returned
he commenced publishing in T/ie Raleigh
Register a scries of articles urging upon
the Legislature to charter a railroad ftotn
Beaufort Harbor to the Tennessee line.—
These letters were afterwards published in
book form, at his own expense and circu-lated
gratuitously throughout the State.—
And it appears, from this book that the
first railroad meeting ever held in North
Carolina convened agreeably to previous
notice at the house of William Albright, in
Chatham county. This meeting was com-posed
of a number of citizens from Chat-ham,
Orange, Randolph and Gnilford
counties. The meeting passed tour resolu-tions
which we copy :
" Resolved, That a coninrmeo be appointed
to prepare an Address to the citizens of North
Carolina urging on them the importance and
necessity of improving the State by the con-struction
of a Central Railroad,
" Resolved, That an experiment of this kind
of internal improvements, and as its locality
would afford an opportunity to numerous citi-zens
from various parts of the State to witness
its practical utility, it be recommended to our
next Legislature to construct a railroad from
Catnpleton to the Market House in Fayette-ville'.
''Resolved, That though the attention of
this meeting has been directed more particu-larly,
to a central railroad, yet they recommend
to our Legislature a continued perseverance in
other important improvements in which they
are engaged, and which promise a successful
termination and especially those ou the Cape
Tear.
" Resolved, That the proceeding* of this
meeting together with the Address to be pub-lished,
and that the editors within the State be
requested to give them one insertion in their
respective papers.
"JAMES MEBANE, Pros.
" DK.VNIS llr.AKrr. .Sec."
It will be seen that the people of Middle
Carolina were the last to give up improving
the rivers in the East, and the first to b<-
gin a scheme of railroad improvements for
the whole State. But notwithstanding
their efforts to secure a Central railroad,
it appears that the first railroad chartered
in North Carolina was the Petersburg
Railroad, to some point on the Roanoke
river, in North Carolina, in the year 1*"5
to be extended further in North Carolina,
to a point to be selected by the company
thereby chartered. The next was the
Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad com
pany chartered in 1832 ; the next wa-tthe
Greenville and Roanoke Railroad in tin
year 1833 ; and in the same year the Hal-ifax
and Weldon Railroad was also char-tered
; and the Wilmington and Raleigh
Railroad company was chartered by the
same session of the General Assembly.—
The Cape Fear and Yadkin and Pe Dee
Railroad company was likewise chartered
in 1836 ; the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad
company was chartered in 1835 ; the Koa-ndfte,
Danville and Junction Railroad,
leading from Norfolk aud Portsmouth, Va.,
up the Roanoke and Dan Rivers, in North
Carolina via Danville, Va., Leaksville and
Madison in this State, and via Wythville
and Abingdou to the Tennessee line, with
a view of being extended to the Mississip-pi,
in 1835 ; the Charleston, Louisville and
Cincinatti Railroad, chartered the same
year ; the Norfolk and Edentou Railroad
was chartered in- 1836 ; the Raleigh and
Columbia Railroad was chartered in the
same year, as also the North Carolina
Central Railroad, the Roanoke Valley
Railroad from Ridgeway to Clarksville,
Va., in 1844 ; from Rocky Point to Tarbo-ro
at a more recent date ; and also the
road from Haywood in Chatham county to
the North Carolina, in 1864 ; the Pied-mont,
Railroad in 1803. These are the
roads projected, and which have been com-pleted,
leading out of the State, which
may well be termed as our Wilmington
contemporary applies to the N. C. Central,
Virginia roads, to which we may also
add the Wilmington and Manchester road,
evidently a South Carolina improvement
and also the Charlotte and Columbia Road,
and the Statesville and Charlotte Road.—
And in addition to this it is curtail: that
the great antagonist of the N. C. Central
road runs much nearer the South Carolina
line from its commencement in Wilmington
to its terminus, than does the N. C. Central
at any point to say nothing of the Western
Extension from Salisbury to Asheville.
The above sketch of our efforts at im-proving
the State of North Carolina, is a
fair specimen of the zeal manifested by
many of our eastern friends to build up their
markets, and can be excelled only by the
strenuous efforts made by our Fayetteville
friends, for several years to secure a Ma-cadamized
road direct from their town to
the city of Petersburg. Mr. Fulton, in
his interesting report of this project says ."
u This road being the greatest thorough-fare
from South to North in the State of
North Carolina, and being the route on
which the Southern and Northern Mail
Stage will have to travel, it will be very
important, that ar^jinprovcment that may
take place on the road should intersect
the whole of the towns through which it
will pass. And although these towns do
not lie in a direct line, yet the deviations
are so trivial, that little sacrifice of distance
will be made in embracing them, provided
direct communication is made between
each. By referring to the plan it will be
seen that the Road from Fayetteville to
Raleigh diverges from seven to eight miles
to the eastward of the general direction,"
«!fce—and that " a straight line from Fay-etteville
to the po.nt of intersection with
the Virginia line leaves all the towns to
the Westward."
This gives a summary review of our ef-forts
at improving the State, and the mon-eys
expended in most instances, with the
exception of Lumber river, Broad river,
Yadkin river, Catawba river, and the Bun-combe
Turnpike, with a few inconsidera-ble
dirt pikes, and plank roads by the doz-en,
both in the East and the West. As to
these we have not had the time to investi-gate
and ascertain the amounts expended
upon them ; but suffice it to say, with the
exception of the Buncombe Turnpike, all
proved a failure.
We have shown, sufficiently, we think
that prior to 1835, nil legislation tending
to the improving of this State, at a time
when the East was in power, and when
that section succeeded in carrying every
measure devised by its own people to the
exclusion of more feasible plans emanating
from the West, and which were calculated
for the benefit of the entire State, wero
failures. And, as we have shown, the lib-eral
and magnificent scheme of Dr. Cald-well,
even thus early in our history, prior
even to the conception <f the Baltimore
and Ohio Road, and which, could it have
prevailed, in preference to the many paral-lel
cross roads which the East were con-tinually
projecting, would have redounded
to the benefit of th>- entire State, and in-stead
of being behind her sisters would
have long since outstripped them all, and
her towns—inland and seaboard—been
prosperous. The money squandered on
navigation schemes was misapplied. Ev-ery
road which was chartered prior to the
chartering of the North Carolina Central
Road, as lor instance the Raleigh and Gas-ton,
the Greenville and Roanoke, the Ports-mouth
ami Roanoke, the Petersburg and
Halifax, the Wilmington and .Manchester,
<£c, to say nothing of the Pike from Fay-etteville
to Petersburg, whatever may have
been the intention of these schemes, could
have no other effect, as is shown by those
in operation, but to divert trade to dis-tant
markets.
And more. It should be remembered
that the last dying effort made in the Leg-islature
of 1835, under the old Constitu-tion
to have a great Central Railroad from
Xorfolk and Portsmouth, running in
North Carolina parallel with Roanoke and
Dan rivers, via Wythville and Abingdon
to the Tennessee line with the hope of
extending it to the Mississippi, was char-tered
by the last Legislature under the
old Constitution of this State. It was the
chartering of this road and a refusal to
charter the N. C. Central road that arous-ed
the people of the west, almost to mad-ness
and led to the convention which soon
after amended the Constitution. And it is
equally noteworthy that the first Legisla-ture
under the new constitution chartered
the Central road from Beaufort to the
Tennessee line, and also the Fayetteville
and Yadkin road.
Then why should there be such violent
opposition, and especially from the quar-ter
whence it comes, to the North Caroli-na
Central Road, and schemes devised for
its benefit, to the advantage of the en' ire
State? If Wilmington and her section
have heretofore shown themselves incapa-ble
of devising and maturing plans calcula-ted
to have the desired effect, is it safe or
prudent to listen now to their counsels?
The distance from Greensboro to Egypt is
not exceeding fifty miles. The route for
the road lies along a comparatively level
country, and the bed can be constructed.,0
Wednesday. A committee was appointed
to make an estimate of the cost of erecting
buildings, *tc, and also another to confer
with the committee appointed by the
Board of Trustees, in regard to making
preliminary arrangements. It is hoped
the work will be hastened to completion.
THE UNION REGISTER.
The initial number of this paper, the
publication of which has just been commen-ced
in this place, was placed upon our table
last Thursday evening. The Register
makes a neat typographical appearance, is
radical in politics, and its editorial depart-ment
shows evidence of being conducted
with ability Price$3.00 per annum.
The names of the editors of The Regis-ter
do not appear, but they are evidently
Northern men, with extreme radical opin-ions,
and politics, sent by the '• Union
Publishing Committee" as missionaries
among us to propagate their f.iith. If they
are honest in their convictions, ami will
deal with the great questions now agitated
throughout the country, with candor and
courtesy, no one has a right to c>>mplain.
We respect the honest convictions of any
man, however much we may differ from
them, aud shall bo the last to complain of
fair and honorable efforts to diffuse them.
If they have truth on their side, they will
certainly prevail at last—if not, they will
certain!v fail.
at a much less expense than can the same
length in almost any other portion of the
State. The road would be in a direct air
line, and would secure for Fayetteville and |
Wilmington as much trade from the Cen-tral
road as if it connected with that road \
at any other point. The idea of running
the road to any point a considerable dis-tance
West of this is so infeasible as to
appear perfectly absurd. To take it to
Thomasville or Lexington would give a
route costing thirty per cent more per
milo, than the one just cited Take it to
Salisbury, and the impassable hills of
Caraway and Uwharrie' offer an impedi-ment
sufficient to stagger the most uithu-siastic.
And granting that the road wore
run on this hilly, expensive and unnecessa-rily
lengthy route to reach the Central road,
wouid we not have the same results, .is it
it intersected at Greensboro? If the
Rowan farmer wishes to send his produce
to market, he will not consult .the roads
so much as the prices he can obtain. If
he can procure a better price in Richmond
than in Wilmington he will ship to Rich-mond,
and if vice versa he will ship to
Wilmington, either of which he can do
with as much ease as if the Coal Fields
Road tapped th? Central at Salisbury.
If Wilmington does not afford as good
a market as other towns, in this or even
in other States, she cannot expect the
trade of our farmers, let her railroad fa-cilities
be ever so extensive and complete. ]
And if our friends in that section will only I
take th» proper view of the matter, they
cannot but perceive that an airline from
Richmond to the head of navigation on
the Cape Fear, will, from its practicability,
be more beneficial to them, the benefits
being realized, too, at an earlier day, than
if their scheme of a kite-tail, zigzag route,
should prevail.
We are not so partial to the route which
we advocate simply because Greensboro
might possibly be the terminus of the road,
but for other reasons which are apparent,
some of which we have cited. In our
present prostrate condition financially, the
link of but fifty miles can be completed at
an early day. Intersecting here with the
Piedmont Road, we wouid then have di-rect
inland communication from our prin-cipal
sea-board town to Baltimore.—
Freights from. New York, Philadelphia.
Baltimore, «&c, for Middle Carolina, would
then come by way of Wilmington and
Fayetteville, increasing the business of
these two places, and at a considerable
saving of expense to our inland merchants.
Besides giving an impetus to the work, nt
Chatham Coalfields,—opening at an early
day a market for the products of this
rich deposit,—it would also insure, as our
correspondent Madison intimated last
week, an early development of the rich and
inexhaustible mines of Iron and Coal in
the Piedmont country.
VETO OF THE DISTRICT OF COI.I'MIUA
NKOKO SCFKRA<;E BILL.—President John-son
has vetoed the District of Columbia
Negro Suffrage Bill. His Message return-ing
it to the Senate is a lengthy document,
and is said to be one of his ablest
and most patriotic State papers. We
shall publish it in our next. The Senate
has overriden the veto, and the House will
most probably do the same. Still, the ir-resistible
argument of the President
against an unqualified negro suffrage and
its disorganizing t.-ndencics will meet the
endorsement of all patriotic people in eve-ry
section of the land.
GREEXSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE.—A
meeting of the subscribers to stock in the
Greensboro Female College was held on
We agree with The Register in its esti-mate
of the Stevens Bill, introduced in
Congress " at the instance, it is sal,!, of a
delegation from this State." Our neigh-bors
have been here long enough not to be
imposed upon by the absurd professions of
a depraved set of political prostitutes who
now seek to revenge themsclvea upon
their own people lor having time and again
repudiated them as unworthy of trust.
Men who were blatant secessionists before
the war,—who did all in their power to
school the people of the State in the de-plorable
heresy which has brought so
much misery on the country,—who were
so intolerant of Opposition to their nefari-ous
schemes as to propose visiting "with
the swiff venge.ir.ee of vigilant commit-tees"
all those who would not go with
them.— who voted for secession in 1801,—
" and were for giving the. last man and
the last dollar" to make it good, and then,
when the cause became hopeless, cowardly
deserted their neighbors and friends whom
their teachings had seduced into revolu-tion,
and who now are eager to take the
bath prescribed in the Stevens bill, devis-ed
by themselves and for themselves, and
in taking itf will swear falsely now, if they
spoke truly when they avowed most sol-emnly
time and again eubeet/uenily, to
March 4th, 1801 that they were good and
true Confederates,—these men, in the opin-ion
of The Register, are unworthy of the
confidence of any party, and certainly " do
not deserve any special consideration at
the hands of the Government." It is op-posed
to offering a "premium to those who
were the first to back out of the rebellion,
though they may have been the first to
embrace it, and the most influential in in-ducing
others to go with them."
We have always expected that the polit-ical
profligacy which we have character-ized
will sooner or later meet with its
proper reward in theabhorancc and detes-tation
of all honest men, of all shades of
opinion everywhere ; but the time has
come rather sooner than we anticipated.
In welcoming our neighbors to the pro-fession
we hope their fullest expectations
may be realized pecuniarily, however
much we may differ from them as regards
a plan of the restoration of the union of
the States.
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6A Cl'»°^ near the Pi8eon House, and hill,
ed. A Coroner's inquest on his remains
was held this morning. We hnve hea? d no
particulars, but it is supposed that the un-fortunate
man was lying asleep on t'je
track, probably in a state of intoxientiea.
—Raleigh Sentiml. I
We learn that a company of Federal
soldiers have been ordered to this placed—
Goldsboro NitBt,
We arc requested to state that Ju.be
R. P. Boston is incorrectly repreeenXo
by The Washington Star as favoring Rue
disruption ofthe present State govern mfnt
of North Carolina.— Charlotte Dtntoe
A negro child, about two years of .
was brutally murdered by its step-fat
in Anson County, last week, loon an
animation of the body it was found |
the child had been brutally whipped
body presenting bruises and sear- fron
feet to the head, and its skull was era*
almost into a jelly.
HIGHWAY ROUBKRV.—A white
named John Rraswell was robbed ii
early part of last week, iu the upper tl
of the county, (says The Wadeeboro .
g'is.) by a negro named Bill,
property of Colonel B. T. Bennett,) and
another negro, under circumstances ,\hieh
justifies the confining of both of then in
jail until court on the chaige of hii ha av
robbery. .. '
THE WEATIIEB.—It commenced -low-ing
here on Saturday the 2'Jth D.'cemlur,
and continued at intervals for live dfys.
Consequently, the ground was oovTied
with snow and ice several indi I deep
Such a severe spell ot weather has loot
occurred in this section within tbepasfteu
years.— Charlotte Democra'.
COMMISSION TO WASHING ION.—Hi*;
celleney, GoV. Worth, has app >inte fthe
following gentlemen a Commission toEro-ceed
to Washington and consult tlif an
thonties upon the subject of the
Land Tax, <tc, viz : A. S. Meririraii
Buncombe / John A. GUnser, of! Guilt
Jas. M. Leach, of Davidson ; P. 11 1
ston, of Bertie; Bedford Browb, oj
well.—Raleigh Sentinel
Ar.isEsT OF A HOUSE THIEKJ—A 1
thief who gave as his name F. 8j
Samson county, X. ('., was grrej )
we learn from The Old Xorth St.a.
committed to jail in Salisbury Moit. ay
night. He stole ahorse from * man in
Rowan county, took him to Statesville
and sold him, and returned to Salisbury
per railroad, just in time to be am-te.l.
BrDDtm DEATH.—An old man ij;ac
mar the plantation of the late Hojlom
Sturdivant, named John Taylor, wr.il
ting by his fire on the night of the
ult., was seined wvy suddenly and wq
in a few minutes.— Wadeeboro Ann
SMAI.I. Pox.—We learn from The '
1'iitc Guardian that thi> fearful seoni
in that city, and tliat many virulent
exist. \\ e. also hear of its existenc
other towns.
Annans m MOUTH CAUOUNA.—'jl.bt.
C. Kehoe, United States Deputy Medial
for the Eastern District of North Ci.rl t,a,
reports the arrest of the following | ,i fjes :
Hodge Owens was arrested at Rjai&Le
Island on tin- 18th of December and was
taken to Elisabeth City on the .'.'d of
Dec. Jordan Parker wasarresti d « i !' >w
ell's Poinl not far fram Currituck Sound.
John Parkerwas arrested st Buck Horn
plantation, Cnrritnck county. Dr.a« eph
Baxter was arrested on the 2:id ofDecem-ber,
.-.t the place called Sligs ;,, i urrituck
county. David McLinscy was arre. t. «i on
the 21th of December, at h .- ovvi i,;
in Currituck county, near the courtIhcikise.
They were brought before His !|
Judge Brooks, at Elinaltcth City fore fam
inatioti on Christmas day. The <>u
lion lasted three days, and the aociujaed'
were bound over "in the sum of * i
each, for their appoarau-o at Raleghlb
tore the I'. S. Circuit Court to be fa Idlthe
first -Monday in June, 1867. I
The above parties are charged with lob-bingand
plundering the Suhooner Lltio
in Currituck Sound, iu the year ISOI.P
The charge before Ron. Geo. Ilrtks.
Judge of the District Court, wm Pirael —
Norfolk Day Book, ™
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KAI.EIOH XATIO\*.I. BANK.—This bank has
declared the handsome dividend of 12 per cent.,
over and above all taxes. This exhibit aiteaks
well for the efficiency and skill with which iis
operations are. conducted.—[Raleigh Bentim I,
And it speaks long and loud in favor of"
a State currency,which would curtail these
" handsome dividends," derived from loans
at from Seventy-live to One Hundred per
cent per annum, the ''efficient"' and "skill
ful" managers having an exclusive monop-oly
of the money market. It is time the
people were Bpeaking cm this important
subject.
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.
ODTBAGB IN- FUASKUW.—Some mis-creant
set lire to Mr Henry Pearce's barn,
near Franklinton, on the night of the 28th
ult., and burned to death three hi rses and
nine cows, besides destroying all his fod-der,
oats, peas and fanning UtCIlbils. His
loss is about 12,500.
The object of the incendiary was not
plunder, as nothing was taken from the
barn. We learn that no clue has been ob-tained
as to the perpetrator of the deed,
and it is probable that the diabolical affair
will always be shrouded in mystery.—Ra-leigh
Sentin< I.
KILLED.—We learn that a young man
named Smith, son of Mark Smith, a resi-dent
of this county, was cutting down a
tre • on the 3d, when it fell and struck aim
• •n the he id, killing him almost instantly.—
Goldsboro A • •
EJLLBD.—We learn that a man, by the
name of Cooley, was run over by the Ra-leigh
and Gaston train, last evening, about
Six men, whits and colored, r to tly
tried, eonvicted and sentenced to be fa ng-ed
by the Courts of South Carolina, i;Tr
house-breaking, boras and cotton srenliog,
have had their sentences commuted hv
Qov. Orr to confinement in the Pel itontia-ry.
Bather mild'punishment for the mid-night
robber and assassin; but si h are
some of the benefits of a Penitential .
Charlotte JJcmocrat. \
TBBMASSACU AT FOUTLAUAMI
dispatch from Fort Lnramie confirm
account of the recent masns -re o>' ll
troops. A detatchnient went out Igi
the Indians, and Wl re gradually draw
until they were f .ur mil. s from I ie
when they were surround..I and |
tered. Not a man escaped to tell the
ry of the disaster. Th- bodies we -e
[.ed, scalped and mutilated. Thirt
dies were found in a space not large!
a good-sized room. Nearly all tin 1
were recovered and hurried in the ljft.
Markets, Marriages, Ac, nna\ o.Btbly
omited. '
T) I:.TIOVAL : RE.VIOTAILTI-
L. R. MAY'S
JJrij»ina! Cheap Store
Ha* been removed.
Store.
oj.rio*it« Porter'' T'nii/
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pilAHMI OIT! CLOKIVt. Oil!!
OCR ENTIRE STOCK Or
Winter Clothing
AT COST!
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