The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-03-01
NORTH CAROLINA.

WHAT THE IEgrsI, AZURE HAS BEEN poINo-
IMPORTANT LEGISLATION AT THE hEhci w
Tur BfIcAxs--RAILR0AD chAhihno
Tryy REcrryEpsUIP OF TIN. A. AND NJ c' u.
R.-BOw THE DEMOCRATS PROPOSE ~ IN ="
A FREE DALLoT-PERsoNAL, ETC.
,corresuonacnce of The Richmond Dispateh.l
RALEIGH. N. c., February %, 1883.
There l. n mania for incorporating COM
panies Of MI sorts this session. FROM .n'
Town OF KiIlquick. In Edgecombe county,
up to q railroad with name contineh.'
enough TO belittle the Central Pacihc, ih-
corporation is asked. IL Is this priVn.e,
municipal, and corporate Legislation tna'
has clogged the calendars ana mas denv-
cred over TO the tender mercy OF Repuon-
cans the important measures which the
General Assembly was chosen to carry out.
By legitimate use OF parliamentary
laws and the rules of both houses
the Republicans can obstruct and de-
Law business until the sixty DAYS Tor
which legislators are paid for their SER
vices expire. Then there is apt to be a pre-
cipitate adjournment, with very imperfect
and somewhat scandalolls record lett be-
hind for the delight OF Republican orators
In 1884. For instance, to show how 1t can
be done, when the Code, book OF 1,2O0
large pages, was put upon its readings yes
terday, Senator Clarke, OF Craven, as he
had q right to do, demanded its readings
perbati,n. Those upon the Senate passed
n cut-ofl-y o u r-nose-to-sp ite-your-face-reso-
luton that no senators should leave the
chamber during its reading. Late in the
afternoon an accommodation was reached,
and the Senate adjourned to get very cold
and unsatisfactory dinners.
The High Point and Randleman railroad,
from High Point, on the Richmond and
Danyille railroad, to Randleman, a pros
porous manufacturing village Of Randolph
county, has been chartered. Ii is within
the near probabilities that this road will be
built very shortly. rs there is a reason for it.
Major W. T.. Sutherln has had amended
his charter for the Danyile and New River
road to suit his present plans, and, il pros
porous times come this year, good deal OF
that section OF the State.
The receivership OF the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad hangs fire. Mat
tiers are under compromise, but they seem
rs far from settled as in the beginning.
The present status OF the case is this: The
Judgment OF the court is that the road be
placed in the hands OF a receiver. The
parties litigant agree that Major John Cat
ling, under 100000 bond, be made re-
ceiyer. The counsel OF the defendant, w.
j. Best, who represents the Boston syndi-
cate, lessees, decline to sign the compro-
mise Judgment. Mr.. Best requests them
to do so by letter and by telegram. They
still decline. There is good deal of inter-
est manifested, and no end OF curiosity.
II Mr.. Best is not trifling, Mr.. Calling will
be the receiver. Ii he is appointed the
whole road from Raleigh to Morehead will
be put under one management, and run
with the view OF accommodating its pa
irons.
1t is said that The Democrats have deter
mined in caucus to change the election law
and to perfect the machinery OF elections
so as to give every voter fair opportunity
OF casting free ballot. There is no
trouble about the COUNT This is to be
done by means OF isolatng the voter while
casting his ballot, and permitting no one
but officials near the boxes during the
voting. The voter is to put his own vote
in the box, and is to receive no aid from
pOll-hOlders. II is thought that in this
way the brutal watch that Is kept on ne
grOes by the local bosses ut election-pre
cincts can be deprived OF its terror, and
that they can exercise a reasonable degree
OF independence. Illiteracy may make in
favor OF the whites in this arrangement,
because negroes may put their votes in the
wrong box: but when it is remembered
that the whites are paying 80 per cent. OF
the taxes that are used 10 educate the ne
groes and to remove this disability, and
that there are 10000 white Republicans in
the State, 1t is not an unfair race or party
advantage that is obtained.
Hon. George Davis, whom Richmond
people will remember as one OF the North
Carolina senator's in the Confederate Con-
gress and the able and affable Attorney
General Of the Confederate Cabinet, is at
tending the Supreme Court. lie is greatly
respected in the State, and has declined The
Chief-Justiceship and all'political prefer
ment rendered him since the war, but fol-
lows his full practice with zeal, and is an
industrious and learned student OF the
States history.
There has never been as much activity,
as there is now in The mining operations OF
the Piedmont country. Smelling works OF
large capacity have been established at VIII
mngton, Charleston, Salisbury, and other
points accessible to the mines. Whenever
the true method is found OF separating the
gold from the sulphur in low-grade ores,
so abundant throughout this part OF the
State, there will be immense fortunes made
in mining.