Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-10-24
THE LATE STATE FAIR.
October, 1855.

day to the Address of Hon. Thomas Rutin, and to
the list OF premiums awarded at the late State Fair
The Address of Judge Ruffin will have wide cir
culation in the public journals; and we trust our
Northern contemporaries especially will lay that por-
ton of it which treats of the institution of slavery
before their readers No man in the country is bet
ter informed than Judge Rufn is as to the charac-
ter and workings of the institution and one has
ever spoken of it with more calmness, dscrimina-
tion truth than he has on this occasion. He has
never been politician On the contrary, he has de-
voted himself for nearly half century the practice
of the law, and to the exposition of the law on the
Superior and Supreme Court benches OF the State;
and he is now in private life, scientific farmer the
owner and controller of large number of slaves
their master and best friend-fully informed by
perience and observation, of the nature of the in
stution, and competent in every sense to judge
rectly to the benefits it has conferred on both
We trust, therefore, that this voice, uttered
by such man and under such circumstances, will
be heard and needed 10y our Northern brethren, and
be productive of lasting good.
We learn that Thursday night the Constitution
Of the State Agricultural Society so amended as
to reduce the number of the Executive Committee
to seven, and to make the President (Judge Rufin)
Chairman &c cbfcio. This Committee consists of the
following gentlemen Messrs. W. R. Poole, Chas L.
Hinton, and w. H. Jones, of Wake; Mr.. R. A. Ham
ilton, of Granville Mr.. John S. Dancy, of Edge
combe; Mr.. Paul c. Cameron, of Orange and Mr.
R. H. Smith, of Halifax. DR.. E. A. Crudup the
late Chairman of the Committee and who has serv-
ed the Society from the first with praseworthy ZEAL
and with much benefit to its interests was eXcus
cd at his own earnest request, from further service
The fee for membership of the State Society was
reduced from So to So We learn that the total re-
ceipts of the Society during the Fair, up to Thurs
day evening, including the 81 800 State donation,
amounted to 81, 522 90.
We now venture to predict, as the result of some
observation and reflection, that the next State Fair
will be by far the most imposing and successful ever
held in the State
We have few extra copies of this weeks Stand
ard for sale containing the address of Judge Rufn.
STATE TAXES FOR 1855
We inadvertently stated, in giving a week or two
since, list of the taxes for 1885, that the large adj
dition to the revenue of nearly $4,000, was ''
ing in considerable degree, to the increased tax
on merchants and to the reaSseSsnaent of ldnds.'-
An esteemed Edgec0mbe friend has called our at
tenton to the mistake in relation to the re-assess-
ment of lands; and the Greensborough Patriot has
also corrected US as follows
''The re-assessment of lands had not taken place
when the last summers taxes collected, The
augmentation of the revenue from the lands and
polls owing to the increase Of tdres on these
sources, asprovded for by the last Assembly, viz:
II cents on the hundred dollars valuation of land
and 40 cents the poll, instead of and 20, for
merry.
The increased tar the re-dssessment which will
be collected next summer, will still further increase
the revenue of the State"
We knew perfectly well that the land and poll tax
had been doubled but we wrote hastily the heading
of the list of taxes with the idea of re-assessment
predominant in our mind without looking to the
law, and emitting reference to the increased tax
land and polls. Our Edgecombe friend says truly
The reassessment of real estate will not affect the
revenue until next year. The taxes collected this
year on land were levied according to the assess
ment of 1947. The large increase of is at
trbutable mostly to the added tax on merchants,
lands and polls, and not to the re-assessment of
lands learn that the late assessment of lands in
this County is at least 80 per cent above the previ
Should there be corresponding increase
elsewhere in the State, the revenue of next year
will be largely increased on that account"
In the table heretofore published there typ
ographical mistake to the amount of taxes paid
by Edgecombe. The amount should have been
printed So, 1856 81, instead of So, 1856 81.
FIRST PREMIUM CARRIAGE
The carriaoe To which was awarded fret nra.