The Greensborough patriot [July 19, 1867]

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tine XXIX. GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1867.
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GREENSBORO, N. C.
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' the presence of the military I could not ent cemeteries but afterwards, leaning
iiuike any seizures, as the whole country is that the regulations prohibited the bury-in
sympathy witli those who arc defrauding ing of colored people therein, surrendered
the government, excepting a few good his claims in disgust anil in ids third effort
Union mm and the negroes. In fact the at procuring a location for Ids long home,
majority ufthe people here look upon the purchased A lot in a cemetery where no
j government as legitimate plunder." J distinction in regard to "caste or color'' is
* made, lie might have avoided much time
It is rumored that J P. Poisson, the and trouble by locating iu a negro burial-e-
ground at once. The explanation of Mr.
Mi. .:.;;:::: is BANKRUPTCY.—We arc
requested by the Register in Bankruptcy postmaster at Wilmington has been
for Uiis District to announce that Mr. P. j moved, and E. IJ. Brink appointed his sue 'Steven's solicitude is to be found in the
F. Dully has received the appointment of
Messenger.
.. .iei and Herring.
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Uurcl i;* Kiss
U IAN & BOSS.
pj ster and Cement
( hi! » < ingements made
: i mil il:.- Manufac-
; i; AM) CEMENT for
J.VMI'.S SLOAN & SONS.
Gum Belting.
■> Loafher or Gum
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SLOAN & SONS.
ARMERS.
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ailj"iiiing counties
ieult ural purpo-stal
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oro, High Point,
tlli al 816.00 ]"•! Ions
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!."AN & SONS.
Implements.
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M i nufacl urer's
LOAM & SONS.
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Hi .;:ST!:ATIO.V i.v NORTH CAKOLINA.—
Registration in this .State, as we presumed
would l»e tlie case, says The Raleigh Sen-ti/
iel, in view of further legislation by Con-gress,
has been deferred by the District
Commander until further orders.
We are indebted to his Excellency, the
Governor, for the following copy of a tele-gram
received at the Executive Office :
•' CIIAHI.KSTON, July 11, 1857,
To i.U Excellency, Jonathan Worth,
Governor of North Carolina :
The Registration of voters in this Military
^District, provided by Gen. Order No. IS, dated
May8, 1807, wil. not take place until further
orders. By command of Gea. Sickles.
J. W. CLOUS,
Capt. & A. A. A. Q.
<_leu. Sickles made a speech to the freed-men
in Charleston on the 4th of July, in
which lie said :
'•There are many plantations in these
States, not cultivated at all, or only half
cultivated. If the owners, who can neither
plant nor afford to keep their lands idle,
would divide their useless lands into small
forms of twenty acres each, and sell them
at iair prices to honest, industrious, and
thrifty laborers, the cry of "confiscation"
would .soon be lost in the glee ofbusy labor;
the noise of landless agitators would be
hushed in the repose of a contented, happy
peasantry."
The Wileon Carolinian comes to us in
an enlarged and improved form. It in the
largest sheet published in the State, and
conducted with marked ability.
An exchange says, at a 4th of July cel-ebration
in Gooohland county, Virginia, a
colored orator, answering the argument
tltat the negroes ought to act in political
harmony with the whites of the south be-cause
the whites would be constantly in-creasing
by immigration, while the black
p ipulation would diminish, declared that
there was no reason to fear such a thing—
that " arrangements were in progress to
import fresh recruits from Africa !" We
wonder if this is really a feature of the
radical programme for maintaining their
political ascendency ?
THANKS.—The typographical force of
THE PATRIOT return their thanks to Mrs.
.,, ..,! ,,: J.W.Albright for a handsome treat of
i next, I expect ;,,L. cream and other delicacies, served to
Jamestown them on ft ednesday afternoon. Mrs. A.
'1. i:""'- !"'•!'''■-; has for sale a splendid stock of Couf'ection-
'J mil HI. . ' . , f . .
w per term of cries, Toys, If ancy articles, «fcc, and is
il for those who specially prepared to serve . the Ladies
|,; L>a> il!^r "... o i
intial labor. Text with ice cr-cam. See advertisement m an-cessor.
We believe Mr.l'uissonis a native fact that his wife, or the woman with
of this State. Ofcourswxiie took the test whom he has cohabited for years, is a
oath, and so far as we know has discharged ncress.
the duties of his office properly. But it' ~ •
proves two things, viz: that native " loy- : DISCJRLNTI.ED.—The intensely loyal
a!ty" is in the end poorly rewarded, and editor of The Salem Observer is in great
secondly, that Northern men will ulti- perturbation on account ot the manner in
mately hold all the offices of consequence which we noticed the Ninety-first Anni-iu
the Southern States. versary of the Independence ofthe United
♦■ States of America. We suiely regret hav-
GKXEKAL GRANT AND THE ATTORNEY- I ing so seriously disturbed his equanimity.
GENERAL.—A batch of correspondence 1 For him we have great respect, and enter*
with the military commanders has been tain high regards, and as to the natal day
furnished by the War Department to Con-gress,
at the request of that body. On the
of our independence we can truthfully say
we venerate it as highly and with as much
23d of June, Gen. Grant telegraphed to ' sincerity as any man, while the Flag, the
General Ord : "My opinion is that it is the ' beacon light of liberty throughout the
duty of the Board of Registration to see, I land, we hold in awe and reverence, not
as.far as it lays iu their power, that no un- alone because it is our national emblem,
authorized person is allowed to register.— but also because we regard it as the finest
To secure this end, Registrars should be . specimen of heraldic device we have ever
allowed to administer oaths and examine seen. Sometimes men are inclined to joke
witnesses." Registers should not allow ap- at the expense of their best friends, or the
plicants to "register when they knew they J objects which they most admire, and in
were perjuring themselves, Attorney Gen- J gratifying our own predilection in this
eral Stanbery to the contrary notwith- J instance, we have not only raised the ire
of our contemporary, but seriously fear
have induced him to believe we are dis-loyal—
a traitor.' We will certainly heed
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NOKTII CAROLINA RAILROAD.—The an-nual
meeting of the Stockholders of the
North Crrolina Railroad was held in this
town on Thursday and Friday last, Wil-liam
Wright of Wilmington in the chair,
and Richard L. Ashe and Daniel Worth
Secretaries.
TheState was represented by Captain
John Berry, of Orange. The number of
shares of individuals represented was
7,155.
The President's salary was fixed at
Manufacturers, *2500 per annum.
u ami others who have <)n motion of Gen. Rufus Barringer, a
:]r^Vt ! resolution was adopted for mortgaging the
standing. lie added :
The Jaw makes District Commanders
their own interpreters of their power and
duty under it, and, in my opinion, the At-torney
General, or myself, can no more
than (jive our opinion, as to the meaning
of the law; neither can enforce their view*
against thejudgment of those made re-sponsible
for the faithful execution of the
law—the District Commanders.
On the 23d of May, Secretary Star.ton
forwarded, through General Grant, a cir-cular
of instructions to the five Generals,
cautioning them to exercise "great vigil-ance,"
as he was led to anticipate from
"lxcent occurrences," breaches of the
peace. General Grant telegraphed to Sheri-dan,
on the 7th of June, that there was
"not oiie word of truth in the story:" that
the Secretary ofWar and he wire displeas-1
ed with his conduct. "I was not," he says,
"even in the city" at the time the news-papei
paragraph was started. Upon the
same day Sheridan Ulegaaphed to Grant:
The result of Mr. Stanbery's opinion is
now beginning to show itself by a defiant
opposition to all acts of the military com-manders,
by impeding and rendering help-less
the civil officers acting under Ids ap-pointment.
For instance, the Mayor ot
the city notifies the Common Council that
$1,250,000 of illegal bonds has been issued
by the Comptroller of the City Treasury.
The Common Council refuse to investigate
to ascertain the facts. The City Attorney
reiuses to sue out an injunction to slop the
issue.—I fear the chaos which the opinion
will make, if carried out, is but little under-stood.
Every civil officer -in this State
will administer justice according to his
own view.
Upon the following day he sent another
despatch, pronouncng Governor Flanders,
"a man of integrity and ability," and con-gratulating
himself that he had got rid of
Wells aud the "disreputable tricksters"
surrounding him. Upon the 23th of June
General Grant telegraphed to Sheridan ;
Enforce your construction of the Mili-tary
Bill until ordered otherwise. The
opinion ol the Attorney General has not
been distributed to District Commanders
in language or manner entitling to the
force of an order, nor can I suppose that
the 'President intended it to have si;ch
force.
He afterwards advised him to extend
the time for registration.
his temperate and graceful admonition,
and hereafter endeavor to deport ourself
in such a manner as not to ruffle his tender
and amiable susceptibilities. Certainly we
have a respectful awe for the man who
at this late day demands more "blood."
And as we have intimated, while we are
fully alive as to the importance of his high-toned
lecture, we have not?*the least doubt
but the gratuitous advice given to Gen.
Sickles iu the same connection will be
most highly appreciated by that officer,
coming from one so sagacious so erudite
and above all, so loyal,! loyal!! loyal!!!
And while our distinguished friend, in the
plenitude of his wisdom, seeks to counsel
and advise the District Commiider, would
it not be well to drop him a few thoughts
respecting his recent letter to Mr. Trum-bufl?
Does that document meet the ex-pectations
of one whose "zeal outruns the
discretion of many of the faithful "?
By the way, we fear our friend has much
cause of complaint about the Fourth of
July, in more respects than one. We have
heard he intended to develop his opinions
on that day, on the many momentous plans
now being devised by those who are en-deavoring
to humbug the freedmen into
the belief that by voting for certain men
the lands in the South will hi divided
among them ; but from some cause he did
not "come to sight." Perhaps if he could
have given vent to his pent-up j>atriotism,
the offence of little us would have passed
as unworthy his notice. Ah ! Ah !
papers and authorities were sent for* and a littleness, il not meanness that dwindles has not met the expectations of his friends
hndly the court passed the sentence. But as it is perservered in until it becomes in this re*pect. Like many others" he has
before leaving the table around which they contemptible in the eyes of honorable preached • different doctrine when ou
were seated this paper was drawn up and g ntle.nen. Of course any man is josti- of office from that "he has preached while
signed by the generals named. The an- ] liable to purchase the stud of the road at in power ' ac,,ou wu""
thorny for this statement is most reliable." public auction as the highest bidder.— L-t him in the latnre stUinnt to re-
Is or will anyone complain of this. But ward or pnnish Jno more friend* or fix-,
We call attention to the card of David the friends ot the work who stood by but labor iiianfullr touve the road and
L. Clark, Portrait-Painter and Photograph-er,
High Point, N. C. Mr. Clark is master
of his profession, and as a painter has few
superiors, having painted many pieces of
standard UlSiii, among them the well-known
painting, "The Burial of Our Savi-our,"
which attracted muchfavorable notice
some years ago. Those who may desire
to perpetuate themselves on canvas, should
secure the services of Mr. Clark.
Woolon and Other Manucfactures at
the South.
We copy the following from The Balti-more
Gazette :
Notwithstanding the political troubles
by which the Southern States are harrass-ed,
it is gratifying to know that they are
increasing their manufacturing facilities,
and that besides the cotton mills now in
operation or in process of construction,
they have largely increased of late their
establishments for the manufacture of
woolen goods. Two of the woolen mills
South, whose fabrics find a market in this
city, are the Washington Manufacturing
Company, at Fredericksburg, Virginia,
mid the Rock Island M anufacturing Com-pany,
at Charlotte N. C
The Washington Company's mill is
principally owned by Messrs. Kelly,
Tackett & Ford, and is one of the oldest,
as it Is now probabiythe most extensive
for the manufacture of woolen goods in
the Southern Slates. This mill is situated
on the Rapah HI mock river, and the com-pany
control one of the finest water pow-ers
in the United States—superior even to
that at Lowell. The machinery, ol the
newest and most improved kind, was im-ported
principally from Belgium, and is
now producing a thousand yards per day
of fancy cassimeres, beavers and doeskins.
These goods arc made exclusively from
American fleece wool, no flocks or shoddy
being used in their manufacture.
The Rock Island North Carolina mills
are also turning out from one hundred and
twenty to one hundred and sixty thousand
yards per annum of woolen goods of diff-erent
kinds, from the finest black doeskin
and fancy cassimeres to the plainer and
coarser fabrics for plantation use. In ad-dition
to the above there are quite a num-ber
of other branches of manufacturing in-dustry
now successfully meeting the local
demand, and thus rendering, to tie extent
ot their productiveness, the Southern peo-ple
independent ot the workshops and fac-tories
of the North.
while othe.s labored to get and secure the ben-lit the State thai Lave been brought
charter, arid contributed largely of their so low by the recklessness of partv ,p7.it
means and labor to build the road, can but and nnscnm duns partisans
be greatly mortified to sec the unanimous ,
rally that these able financiers have been
making for some years past, to enable
them lu take the road under their particu-nnsci'iip:
luus partisans.
V'ERITAS.
PUBLIC TAtRH
lar charge ami keeping. And I presume -W" ee h',-aarrnn tVh'aalt tl"h°e r»e«ttuurrnn*s ooff tthhee lliissttss
no one will deny that the plans they have °. taxab f' ior. 18e:. hy the Clerks to the
laid and been acting upon will ultimately V?,'"^!!, °'\ ,0?1 UP« for "'2 counties. •
succeed if pelisted in. That is of those ^V'-3*4: At the same ratio, the t: xet
who did little or nothing to construct the "n,lt'r Schedule A of the Revenue Act,
road continue to purchase up the stock of !: ': ,om the subjects listed directly to the
the road, at mere nominal prices, run ''"takers, will be about *'360,00o. Add
the road at a dead loss of oue or two hun- lo lhJs. "Jf P"»bable returns from subjects
dred thousand dollars per annum, and then Uxod,m ***<*'»'« B and C we will have
loan their money to the directors at eight Pro,*b%*J^l,t *300,000-the estimate of
per cent, per annum, and fund the debt the 1 ubhe Ireasurer. Considering that the
and take a mortagage upon the road—and ""•a*?™ of w«f have rendered the cen-then
some ten or twelve of these gifted s!18 oJ J»<»9 totally unreliable in its statis-financiers
may, as they have done hereto- J.RS' wc lh'"k. Mr- ?alt,l! *>** been quite
fore, club together and get up all the prox- '"^"nate in his conjectures as to the ug-ies
votintrfor them- »r^-. .*!yi. . ot the Revenue Act.
'l'"te, a-mucn tne ot 18C5-'C0, the
rule prevails that they wish to estab- [atos 0,"no^ ot the items h.ue been much
lish, that he who shall secure the highest ,0*«reJJ; 1 he poll tax is only fifty cents,
trote among the individual Stockholders is o»e hall that ot 1805-06, thus rvlehing
they can and thus by voting ■»■† wwr
selves, or each other, elect all the Individ- " llllc "",act H,' raise nearly, if not
ual Directors of the company, and if the «l«»tiV*" nmch as the act of ISGS-'OO, tin
rul
lish,
vote •"•• «"»""• «» HW« tnus releivmg
to Ub elected President, it needs no ex- tne very poor people who lost their all in
planation to convince anyone how the tb? la,c w
u
ar; Inetaxon merchandise is
matter will be decided, and who will be ,OI: -Y 0"Jpfatt,b on salaries and lees one
elected President, *C , "alt i.etT income one hall, Ac, etc. This
Suppose I loan to the company one hun- ^"'t has been reached by bringing in
dred thousand dollars at eight per cent. ""W '^"sot property and business pur-per
annum, am elected President, Secre- su,t.s ">eroa>foro nntaxed, so that all classes
tary, Treasurer, Director, or to any oilier oonWImte their jlttt Ihtrt to the support
pos*i't-ion on the road, is it not e'voidentf the Government.
that if I am selfish enough, I have the op- The only complaint of the Revenue act. t.it*i ii i .i;ti . >. i 11 -1 i v .i>'i._ii. i it.it i i i.i- »»•»- «- J | i ——
portunities with my semi-annual interest We T"?3St '"'" °m li,|Uor ,leal*
and salary, and reckless management of c", but their complaints are founded more
the road to force both the State and indi- °". . V'V op^tion ol county taxation,
vidual stockholders to sell the road. And ££* ,s' t,"s *"*•}* tl,c '^building •*
by making the proper combination ulti- l)lM^C8> support of the poor and other
mately to purchase the entire road-and its P»>poscs very heavy. The State tax is
franchises. Certain it is I can in no event be '«-maikab|y light—ten cents on the *100
the loser under such a programme. viUi.eot land, moneyed capital, merchan-
I do not propose to protract this com- «'sf. *c.; one had ot one per cent. on
munication, as I might do with profit per- watches jewelry, pleasure carriages, sala-hapstoyour
reader*. I will simply add, 'ies and lees,_net income, d:c.; fifty cents
and save it from bankruptcy if possible, ?'e .y ecommenuauon ot live ,>er c
while there were others who" worked to re- "Vf*..'!?^ J ?* l
A98enibv-notwithstanding
the above facts, it is
charged by hungry office seekers against
to their in
property of the road for the purpose of
:' ':%r- "'"" '-':- borrowing money to pay the old debtsand
'"-:':::i-i' , v «• ' meet the'current necessities of the Road.
i-.:. The mortgage is to be for *.->00,000, and
Y1;;, $800,000 iu bonds be issued.
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ill lo
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: lira uly v. ill ob-ml
Asses-sor
permit '. o
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li month if il
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The following officers were elected, viz :
John L. Morehead, Thomas Webb, D. A.
Davis, and William Murdoch, Directory
on the part of the individual stockholders.
The Directors on the the part of the
State are O. G. Parsley, It. S. Tucker,
Capt. Allen, Peter Adams, John W.
Thomas, J. M. Coffin, Gen. William Means,
and Hon. Josiah Turner.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors
■ ion ;- to hond lhe ! ? ,. T - . n-cteO
and then afterwards held, Hon. Josiah Turner was
' '" M win '"' ; elected President, F. A. Stagg, Secretary,
tilled and W.-A. Caldwell, Treasurer.
; "'',''• :i!'l' ! The next annual meeting will be held in ij hi told, '_ a
done. _ Raleigh.
j nilio ■'. ■ \\hero Attention is called to a communication
' ho distilled.
Honded Ware- in another part oi this paper on the suo-
' i;! iect of the late meeting, the-condition of
lily i msidered.
full i lie loca-
I in be used as a
■††- lion of room, &e.
li ilic- lav. i-- ;il!
i-i.ii-iit will
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ll' nil Leniency
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the road, its-management, &c.
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NORTH CABOLTSA COIXECTOBS.—We
understand that"lhe report of the special
a<'ent of the revenue bureau, sent to in-vestigate
the condition of the collector's
office in the fifth North Carolina district,
will soon lie made public. It is said that
Thompson, the former collector, a native
ot'this sta'e, did not make any seizures
during eighteen months that he held the
office, but his successor, John Crane, Esq.,
*re£2dwui i formerly an officer in the Union army, has,
gi nerally, and during the last seven weeks, made eighty-
ILM :,'i'.;vi;:;;; three aeisure*, including fifty distilleries
and two extensive tobacco factories. Col-lector
Crane writes: "If it were not for
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In another column will bo found a letter
from Major General Sickles to the Chair-man
of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
It will be observed that the District Com-mander
calls attention to the necessity of
some authoritative decision as to the bear-in"
of the reconstruction laws ; that he
favors an amnesty more liberal than that
contemplated under previous Congression-al
enactments ; that he deems the people
of this District to be trustworthy as re-gards
the election of loyal officers ; and
furthermore that in his opinion THE most
reliable and capable of the citizens of his
District are at present among the dis-franchised.
The Salisbury Old North State is some-what
discomfitted at detecting in a copy
which it has seen, the omission of seven-teen
chapters in the Acts ol the last Gen-et
al Assembly, just issued. We have ex-amined
several copies sent to this county
and find them, in this particular all right ;
though a friend at our elbow says the
omission of sevent, en chapters, even in
every copy would be a small matter,
while many mure could have been omit-ted
witho'it any serious detriment to the
public. It is further suggested, that
should the Legislature convene in August,
none of its acts, especially such as may
be passed during "dog days," shall be prin-ted
; and especially grattfj ing to the peo-ple
would it be to omit a statement of the
amount of mile-age aud per diem of the
members.
Thurlow Weed publishes the following
damaging letter on Judge Chase, written
at the time of the compromise attempted
just prior to the war.
Mr. Chase, in a letter to Ohio, said :
"WauHNOTOH, Fell. 0, 1861 —Dear Sir *—
There U » greater disposition to compromise
than 1 like to see. Hut 1 hope the best. Half
a dozen of the border Stategentlemen have been
in our room to-night—Ktheridgo and Stokes, of
Tennessee : Adams and Bristow, of Kentucky ;
Gilmer, of- North Carolina, and others I real-ly
sympathize with them, but sec no reason why
we should sacrifice permanently a large power
to help them, for the purpose of gaining tempo-rarily
a little one.
'Yours, cordially, S. P. CHASX."
In this letter, self- and party, rather
than Government and Union controlled
him. Mr. Chase is always running for
President, and that consideration alone
governs him. He did not cave how many
States went out of the Union.
JlEiKiB.vniiHi FEMALE COLLEGS, CUAK-LOTTB,
N. C—We learn that thi? Annual
Commencement in this Institution, of which
Rov. A. G. Stacy, A. >I , is President, will take
place as fellows :
SUNDAY, July 28.—Sermon by the Rev. B.
Craven, D. D., President of Trinity College.
MONDAY, July 29.—Forenoon and Evening-
Exercises, Literary and Musical. Addresses
by Maj. C. Dowd, of Charlotte and Dr. Craven.
The next session will commence October 1st.
MRS. SUKBATT'S INNOCENCE.—The let-ter
of our correspondent (says 2'he New
York Express) revives an important state-ment
on the trial of Mrs. Suaratt which,
as he states, appeared in the columns of
The~Express, some eighteen months since,
and which was at the tittle laughed at and
denied. The particulars of the case are
For The Patriot..
EDITOR OF THE PATRIOT :—I attended
the annual meeting of the Stockholders in
the North Carolina Railroad Company,
held in your place on the llth and 12th
instant My object in attending tho meet-ing,
was to ascertain if possible, the pre-cise
condition of the Company, and what
are the prospects of its success for the fu-ture.
These being the main objects I had
in view, of course I listened to, and read
with great care and attention, all the re-ports
made to the stockholders, and the
explanations and discussions had thereon.
And yet, alter all that was said aud done,
I regret to say I was left in a profound
fog as to the actual amount of money
the company owes, to whom it is due, and
what the debts were contracted for, aud
when, and by whom the various debts
was contracted. Ami here I may remark,
that this information never has been, if it
can be given to the Stockholders. The
result u confusion confounded. A never
ceasing cry on the part of the deluded and
swindled Stockholders and tax payers for
retrenchment and reform,—bitter denun-ciations
of all the previous administrations,
except that of the first, and schemes de-vised
by the out-going ad ministration to
oust the incoming at the next annual meet-ing
of Stockholders. To ellect this ob-ject
the enterprising magnets along the
line invariably commence their never
ending work to hold on or to get into
some sort of position place or office
connected with the North Carolina I tail-road.
To this class of our fellow citi-zens,
without distinction of race or color
no corporation, work, or party was ever
so popular, or its interest aud prosperity
so tenderly cared for and guarded as that
of the North Carolina Railroad interest.
It is so tenderly beloved that it is evident
that it is in great danger of being actually
nursed to death by its new born
friends. I do not know when I
have been more amused than I
was otrSaturday last to see the great zeal
that was manifested by several of our N.
Carolina magnets to be elected directors
of the Road for the ensuing year. Each
one of the gentlemen seemed to be im-pressed
with the idea that the fate of the
road depended upon his being elected Pres-ident,
a director, or to some position on
the road. This idea was so completely im-n
the flexible brains of sever-tain
their places and to keep on in the old
confused juggling selfish, aristocratic way
that has .been so long in vogue, and high
favor among the officers and bondholders
of the company. Hillsboro presented two
candidates for the Presidency of the road,
Thomas Webb, Esq., and the Hon. Josiah
Turner, junior, and the contest between
then was earnest enough to make their
friends exceedingly active. Neither of
these*gentlemen in my estimation are as
well qualified to discharge the duties of
the office as they should be, and I feel
confident that another member of the
board would have been fir more accepta-ble
to a large body of the stockholders
than either ot the gentlemen above
named. Hut it seems to have been de-creed
that either Jlr Webb or Turner
was to have th
decided to*on
contest upou the
now president of the great North Carolina I —■ ; -•-
Bail Road. And now let us be patient ,,.,.,..
and see what he and the new board of| ^ hile it is right and proper for the
Directors and other officers of the road . Southern people-to obey the powers that
will do in the way of reform. I am ho- \ be, whether military or civil, and acquiesce
ping almost against hope that they will . m such terms as Congress and General
have the nerve to do Something that will ! Sickles may prescribe, it ought not to bo
tell for the interest of the road'and Slate, 1 expected of us that we will quietly submit
and the cause ofinternal improvements in > to the teachings ol bad, sneaking, ounniag
the State. No President and board of .men who cine into this State AMI go
Directors has ever had a more favorable . **hout tae country deceiving the colored
opportunity to imortali/.c themselves than j ma" with false promises and arraying him
has the present board if thev will but "» feeling against the white man. We do
resolve to do so. As an humble individn- not Ixbeve that those who control the
al I conjure them to come up like men to j Government expect the Southern people
the task and forget themselves and j to submit to such conduct, and we hope
feud-', and labor l*e' men to ellect such
the present State government, that it is
grinding the people down by unnecessary
taxation. No government can lie suppor-ted
more cheaply. We have repeatedly
denied the Statement, made by certain or-atOTS
iu the General Assembly, that there
will be a large surplus of money iu the
Treasury. The 1300,000, raised iu the
Fall of 1807, is to support the State gov-ernment,
until the 1st of October 1KCB.—
The orators aforesaid blundered by adding
$:i00.000 more to be collected in the Fall
of laoy, being unable to understand that
this latter sum must be applied to the ex-penses
of the year ending 1st of January,
1809. It is unfortunate those orators did
not fill Mr. Battle's place, as, according to
ear the
the
e place, and it was at last ■ ,l!Klr ■*•**«* one-hall of the year
inter the mighty boon i,, : i^isury would have been as dry as
he latter. And Josiah is IDwert rf Sannrav-Jfcifcfo* Sentinel.
ucmeu. x.iep.m.e.n...* vi ...c „OT ™« pressed upon the flexible brain-ot aever-now
thus stated, and with good auihon- £j ^the new friends of this great State
ty:
"After her counsel had concluded his
work, that they had gone to work, and la-bored
to the last, hour, by bringing the
il-4w
Thaddeus Stevens has found it a diffi-cult
matter to find a suitable burial-place
for himself. He bought lots in two dilier-argument
in -Mrs. Surratt's behalf, the j telegraph into requisition to aid them in
Judge advocate General (Mr. Holt) ap-! getting up proxies for them to vote for
proached him and said: "Although you; Directors. And shall 1 publish it ?—
and I may differ as to Mrs. Surratt's inno- Many of these large proxy holders,
cence, I wish to say that your effort has \ who have bought up considerable amounts
made a decided impression upon the court,'; of the stock ot the road, at very low fig-
When it came to makeup its finding, six : ures, either voted or had others to vote on
of the members—Genls. Hunter, Ekiu, j all of their own stock and the proxies
Kautz, Foster, Tompkinsand Clendeuiu-, they held so as to elect themselves- - ~ These things must be atten-were
opposed to the death sentence The ! It will be seen at a glance, that one SS^JS^^steMaVe taken to eflect
Assistant Judge Advocate Hon. John A. \ who has a little surplus cash at the , dedto and when t p
Bingbam, argued the case in the absence present time can soon purchase a large , them "[^'? ,, , as to place
of her counsel, and, to use General Han- amount of the stock.at present prices say |^8^Jl~rk above party and party tri- them to the military authorities.- Cha
cock's own expression, 'There was plenty at sixteen or seventeen dollars per share , J™|"»*J kmds t aft times_ OoV^ortb ,Qtte T)emocnU
of discussion on the subject.' Bouks and . Here is selfishness personified, tinged with, outers ol au Kinas an nme.. v*o ygmu uemocrM.
reforms as will pat the road and its credit
on a permanent ami solid basis.
I would advise that the board forthwith
give notice to all the creditors to present
their claims immediately, that they may
be passed upon, and the exact amount of the
indebtedness of the company for once
ascertained,and then that correct books
and accounts be hereafter kept so that the
indebtedness of the road may hereafter
be ascertained exactly at any time that
such information may be desired. Then
iu the name ofjustice and humanity, and
above all for the sake of the original and
true friends, friends of the road and the
cause of internal improvement in North
Carolina, let them all call upon the Gov-ernor,
and tho next Legislature and in-struct
them to so amend the charter as lo
prohibit any stockholder from voting on a
proxy of more than twenty shares, and
also preventing any one from transferring
his proxy or proxies to any one to vote
upon. I am aware that this thing was
attempted to be remedied to some degree
by a by-law, but the remedy is but partinl
and tow not be permanent unless engraft-ed
in the charter. This plan will
compel tho, individual stockholders
to attend the animal meetings, and not
surrender the entire management of the
road to the latter day saints, as they were
called in the late meeting, aud their
friends, the financiers.
Another thing should be done to save
the road; the State should join the stock-holders
in a mortgage ofthe road and also
pledge the faith and credit ofthe Slate to
effect a loan in Europe at a moderate rate
of interest and pay r ft" the present indebt-edness
of tho company and not mortgage
it to the present creditors lor their debts
bearing an interest of eight per cent per
annum. If this is done, with the increased
rate of labor and the great scarcity ol
freight aud travel it wiM be a very dif-ficult
matter to make it pay any one
but tho new 8 per cent, bond-holders—un-less
it be run exclusively tor the benefit
ofthe original tiro million loan of the
Congress or (Jen. Siekles will afford us
protection against the d signs and machin-ations
of evil-disposed political adventurers
who are doing a great deal of harm, and
really retarding the v. oik of reconstruction.
W CMIO not believe that such Congress-men
as Judge Kelly and Senator AN ilson
endorse the conduct of Northern men
who come South for selfish purposes and
engage in the mean and wicked work of
arraying class against class.
Iu speaking of this matter we do not
allude to those who merely "make political
speeches to sustain the Republican party,
but we allude to those who, publicly or
privately, lead the colored people to ex-pect
or favor confiscation, and cause
them to cease exertions to purchase land
and support th.inscKcs by honest industry.
Judge Kelly, in his speeches in ihis State,
told the colored man plainly that if he ever
got l*t:d he must work for it. He spoke
the truth and his speeches did good. But
bad men are phi) ing the devil in ceitain
localities and engendering and encouraging
strife and contention. Some, we presume,
are instigated by a de-ire to supplant
native Union men and have themselves
elected to prominent offices, whilst others
are influenced by a spirit of robbery and
plunder. All
enemies to
union.
We call the attention of Congress to
the matter, and hope that body will adopt
some method to protect the people of this
State against those who are working to
stir up strife.
Since writing the above, we arc grati-fied
to learn from the Fayetteviilc New*
that one nutobief-maker has been arrested.
The New* says:
'•The Provost Court, established in ac-cordance
with a recent order of General
Sickles, convened here on yesterday, W.
II. Porter, Chief Justice, presiding. The
Court now has on trial one Jasjier Wil-liams,
arrested under charge of persistent-ly
and systematically uttering incendiary
speeches, and inciting the negroes in this
section to engage in riot and lawlessness."
We advise people who know or hear o
incendiaries of this character, to repo
u tty ;% njiirii. i»i IUUIWIJ i»n*» -■
I are dangerous characters and 'I
peace, good-feeling and re- J