The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-15
NoprH CAROLINA.

~,,. ,pa,v, .rtvp eEsslON NEARING ls
-, oer.-T,,r NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD
BuJ.-coyTHs ELECTION CASES. ' .',,.,
AprE RESULT TO THE REPUDLICASs--IhE
SALVATION ARMY, ETC.
Icorrrspondoncc OF the Richmond Dispa'ch.'
RALEIGH, February Ia, 1855.
The Legislature Is waking up 10 ,le i".s
that it has only about two weeks more III
which to complete It's work, ana u n.'s
beoun 20 hold night sessions IN oruer W
helm forward public business. Oi course
the principal measures have to DC shapeg
In committee. After they are mouioeu
there II takes little time for them TO receive
the impress of formal action by the sena,c
and House. So IL happens that tue mar
road Commission bill only came up ON Us
second reading yesterday in the senate.
There was some speaking on IT, ana there
will he more to-day: but It will no. DC Sc
riously changed in It's important proNi-
SONS. an abstract OF which the Dispatch
has printed.
Tho Committee on Internal Improve
monts sat with closed doors yesterday
afternoon In order TO conclude the con-
sideration Of the bill authorizing the west
err North Carolina railroad to change the
forms OF It's contract with the State IN some
essential particulars. The whole sublcct
has been very fully discussed. The CON-
nfttce did not rise until late in the eve
ming. They agreed to report a substitute
for the bin prepared by Colonel sam. Me-
Dowel Tate, OF Mcrganton. This morn
inr,s Nelrs and Observer makes the follow
Ing abstract Of the substitute: II pro-
yidps that II the Western North Carolina
Railroad Company completes IFS road to
the Tennessee river, ut the mouth Of Nan-
tahala. and pays To the State the SJ2l,O0V
Of mortgage bonds and accrued interest
NJ mar on or before the Goth OF March,
1881. that then the provisions of tbe
Best contract. declaring that the bonds
shall not be- iorccIosable until the road IS
finished TO Murphy and Paint Rock, shall
be stricken ont; but that no part OF this
ac. shall have any force or effect unless tic
road is completed and the payments made
on or before the Goth o. March, 1884. That
upon It's completion and the payments as
above stated they viii be authorized to
build down and ND the Tennessee river
branches Of The road, and Shall place q
force OF conyicts and keep them coniinu-
ouslv at work upon the line west to the
town o. Murphy until completed.
The general tone OF the Assembly IS fa-
yorable TO q reasonable modification OF the
! terms OF the contract, because all sensible
men know that unless the West Point
Terminal Company had undertaken The
conlnletion Of the road that to-day it would
have been useless property on the States
hands, increasing its debts and dividing It's
necple into factions. IL had come into poll
! Ties, and was arraying the people OF the
mountains aganst the people O. the plains.
III anybody can pass the bill Colonel Tate
can. lie IS no speaker, but clear-headed,
practical businessman, an eT-railr03d pre-
sidcnt, and lie IS deliberate and careful
talkcr.
The contestcd-eleciion eases will be de-
cidcd his week. it looks IS II both The
Republicans will be seaicd--3io0re, from
Granville, in the stead OF Captain a. IL. Il.
Williams, and Parker, 4 negro, in The stead
Of CAPTAIN Robert =. PEBBLES, OF North
amptcn county. The elections turned on
technical points in the election law. Our
PEOPLE are Just a little too generous IN Civ
ing contested seats TO Republicans because
the Democrats are in a majority and TO pre-
vent comment. IL the lay is to stand on
the statutC-hooks Il ought to be observed IN
form and spirit and ii il is not, he who IS
entitled to advantage by its necessary ope-
ration and construction ought 10 have il,
whether he is Republican or Democrat
DR.. Moses ID. Iloge, OF your city. VIII
lecture here next Tuesday. lie is popular
here, as he is everywhere.
The Salvation BummerS or Army, or
something. will make an Eruption on our
peaceful people next week, and there is
more disgust over 1t than curiosity to see it.
Mr.. W. j. Best, OF the Boston syndicate,
is here in the interest OF the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad. and to put spoke
in Richmond and Danyille peoples wheel
if he can sec The opportunity.