Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-04-01
DEMOCRATIC Meeting in Wake.

they desire the change to be made.
Democratic Meeting in Wake.
A large and enthusiastic meeting Of the Democra.
cy of Wake was held in the Town Hall in this City
on Monday last, W. W. Holden in the Chair. and
Edward Cantwel'. ESQ.,, Secretary. The meeting
was addressed by Messrs. Holden, Cantwell, Dear
teret and Thos. G. Whitaker; and after the passage
of the resolutions, which were reported by MIR.
Cantwe, as Chairman Of the Committee, Com
miteec was appointed to wait on the Hon. L. OBJ.
Branch, and request his presence on the occasion
Mr. Branch soon after entered the meeting warmly
cheered, and proceeded to deliver very able and
interesting speech. He spoke for about an hour en-
various topics, giving most satisfactory account
of his stewardship"
Fifty delegates were appointed to represent Wake
County in the District Convention, and they were
unanimously instructed to vote for the nomination
of Mr.. Branch for re election to the House. res
oluton also adopted warmly approving of the
course of Mr. Branch as the Representative of the
District.
The meeting suggested Frank'inton the place,
and Wednesday the 22d of April as The time for
holding the Convention. Proceedings in our next.
Common Schools.
1t affords us pleasure to record every item Of
intelligence showing the progress Of our Common
Schools. and the interest taken in them by the pub
lic We copy the following from the last Western
Sentinel We trust that the example Of Mcssrs
Masten and Rominger will be followed by other
gentlemen of intelligence and influence, and that
the interest which they have thus manifested in this
in,
ton of our beloved State. Exhibitions like that re-
ferred to in Forsythe have excellent influence on
scholars, teachers, and the community in which
they take place. No obligation is more imperative
upon good citizens than that of fostering and
tanning our Common Schools and praise
worthy patriotic duty be performed than that
Of encouraging and aiding, by personal presence and
by voice, those who have charge of our Schools,
and those who attend them, the only means
which they have of acquiring knowledge. Here is
4 work in which persons of all parties can engage,
the only rivalry being as to who shall do most to
perfect the system and increase the of its
benefits The Sentinel says:
at was our fortune to be present, on Saturday
the 2lst inS at the closing exercises of the Pleas
ant Fork Common School. We were very agreea.
bly, entertained with the rehearsal of many short
speeches and dialogues by the pupils The exhibit
ton showed that both teacher and student had been
faithful to their duties. There large assem-
bage of people in attendance. who We're, after the
close of the exhibition addressed by John Masten
ESQ.,. one of the Common School Suserintendents in
this County, Jordan Rominger, and Others on the
Importance of education and Common Schools.
We not yet willing to be called bachelor-or
at least not an oil bacheor-but even within
own recollection, there has been great change in
the country in the facilities for acquiring education.
But few , ears ago the means of u common educa-
ton beyond the reach of many of the poorer
classes Of the people in the community. Now there
nune so poor inconv cnientiy situated but that
they can if they WILL give their children t.,e benefits
of Common School education. How high is the
privilege and how imperative is the duty devolving
upon parents to see that their children not de-
privcd Of this great blessing, noby provided by
the State! Once it was All excuse, pausibiy urged
by the poor man. that he not able to educate
his children: but school house has been built
and teacher provided in every neighborhood. and
what excuse can be offered for the neglect of this
important duty!"
Wharf.-The wheat crop of this county last year
according to calculation made after careful inquiry
by one of our most intelligent business men, VINO is
heavy dealer in the article, was fully sixty thou
sand bushels. The crcp is becoming very impor
tant one ard it is exaggeraton to say that there
are now five bushels raised where there on,
Patton's Steam Mills, in this vicinity, has taker
rank No. /, in every market to which it has beer
sent. Ashecttte Ne'cs
The cultivation Of wheat is increasing rapidly al
along the line Of the North Carolina Railroad from
this point to Charlotte; and the increase in thi
valuable staple has been marked and steady in sew
eral Counties that do their trading by way of thu
Raleigh and CASTOR Road 1t is no exaggeraton
for to haf he farm n Granville
County now SOW more wheat than they raised il
1910.
As general rule Railroads cannot be expected
to yield eight, seven, or even six per cent. and a
tie same time produce sufficient profits to keel
them in good order, and to add to their machinery
and rolling stock such improvements as are being
frequently made; but the benefits which they con
fer upon the country through which they pass, ant
the stimulus which they give to business of all kinds
cannot be overestmated.. Let the Western North
Carolina Road penetrate the inountains-let it reaci
Ashevile, as we trust it will in the course of few
years. and we venture the prediction that the whea
- crop Of Buncombe will be increased twenty-five pc
cent per annum. Western Carolina contains with
in itself all the elements of wealth and power; ant
the day is not distant when, under wise and liberia
legislation, those mountains and valleys will "bios
SOM like the rose" All the people there ask is Al
outlet to market their own native energy and en-
terprise will do the rest. ~
"THE SoUTH"-We hcve received the first MUIR
Der Of new Democratic PAPER established in Rich
m,nd, Va, under this title, by Roger A. Pryor, Esq
1t presents handsome appearance, and its Edtor'a
columns characterized by ability and good taste
We wish Mr.. Pryor The most shnrdant success.
The Hon. Kenneth Il. ynet addressed Kno,