The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-01-13
SENATE.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6, 1869.
Mr.. MOORE, OF Carteret, from the Commit
tee on Corporations, reported favoraby
upon the following bills:
Bill to amend the charter of the town of
Elizabeth City.
Bill TO amend the charter of the Richmond
Manufacturing Company.
Bill defining the duties of County Com
missioners.
Billincorporating Lebanon Lodge F. A. NJ.
Also reporting favorably from Committee
on Townships
Report ofCounty Commissioners of Edge
combe, Hyde and Person counties.
The reports were cnncurred in.
The reports of the County Commissioners
of Northampton, Halifax and Warren were
received and referred to the Committee on
Townships.
Mcssrs Sinclair, Downing and Argo were
presented as committee from the House to
announce the death of the late Richard
Short, a member of the House, and trans
hitting resolutions deploring his death.
Mr.. RICH said
Mr. President: Once again in few short
months, are we called upon TO mourn the death
of one of the members of this General Assembly.
shadowy land where all the doubts, peplexities
and problems of this world are finally and for
ever solved. The fears, the cares, the labOrs and
the responsibilities OF this earth Tor him are over
"Aiter lilies titfu fever, he sleeps we'll"
Mr. Short lett Raleigh, upon our adjournment,
for his home in Pitt County, remaining over
night, with his mother in Nash. In the morn
ing not feeling well, he laid down upon the bed
to rest, and scarcely had he done so, when Death
claimed him for his own One gasp and the ami
mating soul was gone. He died in the full
strength OF early manhood, leaving young be-
loved wife and one child. Looking forward to
long years of happiness with the woman of his
choice, he was suddenly taken from her without
an opportunity of ever bidding her farewell
Anxiously awaiting his coming imagine the
paDgs that must have rent that wiie's heart when
she beheld him, whose return she had so long
looked for, corpse Our sympathes must be
hers. For her our hearts must bleed
"She weeps loss, for ever new,
void where heart on heart reposed
And where warm hands have pressed and
closed,
Silence, till she be silent too"
" She weeps the comrade of her choice
An awful thought life removed
The human hearted man. she loved
Spirit, not u breathing voice"
Mr. Short was emnently an honest man, firm
I'D his convictions, true to his principles, TO
amount OF calumny or abuse could make him
sWerye from the path OF duty. Once having DELHI
erately decided upon what was right, true and
Just, no sophistry could turn him aside, no Hat
terry could change. no threats appall, there ne
stood " firm as the everlasting hills" But inns
hrmness never degenerated into obstinacy. Con-
vince his reason and his Judgment and no man
would more readily or more frankly acknowledge
his error
As a citizen, he was above reproach; as a
neighbor, he was kind and generous; as poll
tician he was just and honest. and us lriena, he
was true as steel
But he is gone, and we shall no longer see his
manly form, no longer behola ms sG Rma s se
we shall no longer greet him, wnat 10 US Is loss,
is to him gain
Let us weep not for him. the Thracians wisely
Tears TO the birth couch, triumph to the grave"
Mr.. BARNES said: l have known the de-
ceased well Tor many years. He removed
from Nasl, county to Pitt county about two
years 400. i have known him from boyhood
to manhood. and can speak of him as man
of truth. honor and character. He died
without leaving an enemy, and of him we
can truly say IAN honest man is the noblest
work of God"
Mr.. BRoGDEN said: arise to add to the
tribute which has been paid to the deceased
member of the House of Commons AL
though my acquaintance with the deceased
was somewhat limited, l always regarded
him as q gentleman and an honest man. We
should be reminded by his sudden demise
that in life we are in the midst of death,n
and shadows we are and shadows we pur-
sue" This dispensation of Providence should
be warning to US to prepare for that
day which is rapidly comiag upon US all.
The resolutions were unanimously concur
red in
MIR. LAsslTER moved that the Trustees of
the University be allowed the nse.of the
Senate Chamber in the afternoon. Agreed
to.
Mr.. SWEET introduced resolution auths-
rizing and directing the Public Treasurer to
pay witnesses summoned by the Fraud In
vestlgation Committee pay and travelling
expenses as witnesses. Passed first reading.
Mr.. REsPAss moved that the Senate wear
the usual badge of mourning in respect to