The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-02-03

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Committee on Investigation on Stationery,
saying no fault was found to exist.
The report was cOncurred IN.
The following messages were received
from the House:
Concurring in the passage OF an act lncor-
porating University Railroad.
Transmitting a resolution providing for
the payment of a clerk to the Committee OF
Investigation on Bribery and Corruption.
Transmitting resolution extending to
| sixty DAYS the time allowed the Joint Com
mittee on examination of bonds in which to
report.
Concurring in the Senate amendment to a
bill Incorporating the Madron Mining Com
pany.
Mr.. LINDSAY gave notice of bill to pro-
tect tina State against an undue depreciation
| of State bonds
Mr.. WYNNE gave notice of bill to ascer-
tain and define the privilege of Senators of
| North Carolina.
Mr. BEALL gave notice of the introduction
of a bill to prohibit the sale of spirituous Ii
| ouors near the Western North Carolina Rail
road.
Mr.. ETHERIDGE introduced bill to incor-
| porate the Currituck Club Steamboat Com
pany.
The bill was referred to the Committee on
| Corporations.
Mr.. OSBORNE introduced a bill authoriz-
| ing solicitors to administer oaths in certain
cases. Referred to the Committee ON the Ju
dietary.
Bill in relation to the Western Turnpike,
after some slight amendments, passed third
reading
Bill to amend an act to regulate the sale
of spirituous liquors in the town of Asheville
passed third reading.
Resolution authorizing the printing of the
Constitution of the State and the laws and
acts of the General Assembly for the infor-
nation of officers of the State passed third
reading
On motion of Mr.. OSBORNE, the rules were
suspended and he introduced joint resolu-
ton requesting our Senators and Represent
atives in Congress to use their influence for
the immediate establishment of the branch
mint at Charlotte.
Mr.. HAYES hoped the resolution would
not be adopted as this mint was one of those
which was recommended to be discontinued
by the Secretary OF the Treasury.
Mr.. WELLER was opposed to the resolu
ton. There was gratifying prospect of
retrenchment ct government expenses and
he hoped that this and every other needless
expense would be discontinued.
Mr.. OSBORNE said the mining interest of
North Carolina was rapidly growing IN I'M
portance, and those employed in it would
be subjected to great inconvenience and loss
if the mint was discontinued. 1t would
! cost only five or six thousand dollars a year
to run it, and it would protect the mining
| interest to the extent of many thousands of
dollars by keeping the gold from having to
be sold tn brokers, as would inevitably he
the case if there was no mint in the State
The production of gold for coming in the
coming year would probably amount to
over $2,000,000. Every day showed that
the mineral resources of the State were of
! an Importance and extent greater than we
had realized. If the mining interest was
not encouraged, capitalists would not be in
| duced to invest in it.
Mr. Rich moved to amend by striking out
| all after The word Is Resolved" and inserting
THAT our Senators and Representatives in
Congress be instructed to vote for the bill
| to alb olish the branch mint at Charlotte"
| MIR. WELLER was in favor of the amend
ment There was no danger of the IT liner
being shaved by brokers when they could
in few hours send their gold to New York
or Philadelphia The mint would cost
more than it would he worth, and he wished
to see all unnecessary expenditure stopped
MIR. DAVIS was surprised at the remarks of
the Senator from Guilford, coming as he did
from a mineral region Gold mining is a
branch of industry which was about to he
| prosecuted upon Il greater scale than ever
| l,afc and tr-h,a al, l.. Al.
value to the State. When the various rail-
roads now in contemplation should be COM
pleted, it would. become a great and pros
porous interest, and one that should en-
couraged by every true North Carolinian.
He would say that in his county Mont
gomery) in his opinion, and in the opinion
of the best mineralogists in the country, a
single acre could be found that held gold
enough in its ores to pay the national debt;
and if doubted, he had the ores at hand to
satisfy any man who was scientific miner
or judge of gold-bearing ores, that such was
the fact. He was, therefore, utterly opposed
to the disseminating of the branch mint at
Charlotte, and hoped the resolution of the
Senator from Pitt tMr. Rich) would be vo-
ted down.
Mr.. Cooke was astonished that such an
amendment should come from Republican
Senator. The continuance of this mint was
matter of vital Importance to the people
OF North Carolina. The gold mining inter
est OF the State was destined to add great
y to Its wealth and should he encouraged
we should use every means to keep tile mint
here and not let the gold be carried to other
States
b, Mr. OSBORNE was opposed to the substi-
lutte. Most OF our branches contained gold
Wnich many poor men washed from the
sand, earning from a dollar and a half to
3 three dollars day. To these men. as we'll
as to the miners, a mint was source of
pront, and no man should vote to abolish
mint which was of so much Importance to
the citizens of North Carolina.
MI. WELKER was always ready to vote
ior anything that would conduce to the in
terest OF North Carolina, but he did not con-
sldef that this resolution would at all ad-
vance her interests, and he should vote
aSainst tie resolution as unnecessary and as
productive Off good.
MI. RIcHs amendment was rejected.
Inc Resolution vas adopted by the fol
lowing vote:
fEAs.-Messrs. Barrow, Barnes, Beall, Beasley
Ceeman, Brogden, Burns, Blythe, Colgrove
Cook, Davis, Eayes, Etheridge, Eppes Forkner
Galloway, Graham, Harrington, LYMAN, Jones
tH;assiter, Lindsay, Love, Mason, NeleheF, Mar
1ndale, Moore of Carteret, Moore of Yaneey,
osborne, Richardson, Respass, Smith, Stephens
Wynne, Winstead and Wilson-36.
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