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Year: 1869

The Charlotte O6Sercer man is howling
about the State debt and the wickedness
ofthe Republican party in increasing it by
making railroad appropriations. This one
idea man has not brains enough to see that
the best way to pay the debt is to provide
for the increase of the wealth of the whole
State. Take for instance, the appropriation
to the Wilmington, Charlotte g. Rutherford
Railroad This road will be the means of
vastly enriching that section of the State in
which he resides. The people of that sec
tlon know it and are clamorous for thu
completion of the road. They know it will
do much to relieve them from their present
distress. Does the Obsecer dare to tell the
people of Mecklenburg and Rutherford
c,'unties that the appropriation is foolish
piece OF Radical extravaganza Does it
dare to thus attempt to prevent the COM
plction of this road2 No, it knows that
such course would bring upon it the just
indignation of the people of those counties.
Why then does it oppose other appropria-
tioDsg Why is it unwilling to allow other
sections of the State to possess the same adj
vantages as enjoyed by its section2 1t
should reflect that other sections of the
State wish to have railroads as
well as its own, and should be
willing to see them equally well
treated. For one section of the State
to want the whole State taxed to
benefit itself, and then not he willing to
be taxed to help other sections would be an
exhibition Of meanness unworthy of North
Carolinians. Let all sections of the State
share equally in the benefits of internal i'm
provements, and let all be willing to pay
their part of the taxes. Then will every
part of the State be working for the mutual
good-the best and surest way to ensure the
prosperity of the State.
Year: 1869

The Rutherford Vndicator is greatly ex-
ercised about the State debt That it is too
large will be acknowledged by every one.
But who created it? 1t is the work of that
traitorous party which claims the Vindicator
as one of its organs. 1t is the result of the
war into which the aristocrats dragged the
people of North Carolina. They created the
debt in their wicked attempt to destroy the
government of the people, that they might
rule forever. They it was who brought
about war which cost North Carolina
over $150,OO0,000. They it was who cost
the State the lives of fifty thousand of her
brave sons. They it was who have robbed
the commonwealth of its property, and
brought untold suffering upon the people.
This is the enormous debt that has been
created by the rebel Democracy. The addi-
tions that were made to it by the Leeisla-
ture were for measures of internal improve
ment which will benefit the people, and give
them back that prosperity of which these
traitors robbed them. The railroads will
give the farmer an easy mode of sending his
produce to the great markets. 1t will 90
direct and he will save that profit which is
now made by the "middle men, The me-
chanic will find constant and remunerative
employment. He has had none since the
war. The trade of the merchant will in
crease. Every branch of industry will be
benefited, and money will again be plenty.
The increased taxation will be compensated
for hundred fold by the increased value of
property and the increased reward of labor.
This is the debt the Republican party has
created. The people can Judge who it is
that has injured, and who it is that has
benefited North Carolina. The rebel debt
was created for the benefit of the aristocrats.
The comparatively small addition thereto
made by the Republicans was the unavoida.
BILE accompaniment of great future benefits
to the people.


This is getting to be better understood by
the people, and the clamor of the Copperhead
papers is losing effect. Ten years hence
there will not be sensible person in the
State who will not bless the day the railroad
appropriations were made. i.'' ~
Year: 1869

The proclamation Of, Count Valmaseda,
says the New York Tribune ordering the
execution of every Cuban who may be found
away from his home without being able to
give satisfactory explanation, will be
classed among the most infamous exhibi-
tions of military despotism recorded in the
history of countries laying claim to civiliza-
ton. Wewould doubt the correctness of
the report, if the Cable did not state that
Cuban papers received in Key West contain
the proclamation.
Year: 1869

The city of Newbern is In trouble. Its
ambition to have first class market house
bids fair to result in the establishment of
first class graveyard. judging from the
number of quarrels already on the tapis.
The act for which the Newbernites were SO
clamorous either came too late or should
never have been passed. The different
branches ofthe city government are at log
ger-heads, and all is confusion worse con-
founded" We are sorry for our friends, and
hope they will make speedy adjustment of
heir difficulties, as the present condition
of affairs is not at all creditable to the city.
Year: 1869

The Tarboro' Southerner contains a long
article in reply to the article of the STAND
ARD, regarding the protest of the bar. The
deserved severity with which the STANDARD
exposed the hypocrisy of the signers of that
protest has evidently been felt by those
against whom it was directed. From every
part of the State comes up the cry which pro-
claims that some one of these huckstering
legal politicians has been hit. The Sout1erner
roars with impotent malice-impotent be-
cause it cannot deny the truth of the criti-
cisms of the STANDARD. We say the South
erner, because the article appears in its
columns as an editorial. 1t was not
written by the editor, because he is away


That any employee of the paper wrote it, is
not for a moment to be believed Then who
did write it9 Why Mr.. Biggs, to be sure
one of the signers of the document. His on
ly argument is a feeble defence of the bar of
North Carolina. His opinion upon the ques-
tfon is not of the slightest importance, for
it is the statement of one of the guilty par
ties The document to which they have
affixed their names declares far louder than
words the depths to which partizan malig-
nifty has disgraced the lawyers of North
Carolina as a body. There are some hon
orable exceptions who refused to dishonor
their profession by prostituting themselves
to aid a low malignant party scheme. They
have the proud consciousness of knowing
that they have done nothing to degrade the
bar of their State. Of the other
gentlemen we do not intend to again ex-
press our opinion. We have done so
once, and time will prove the correctness of
our views. But they can rest assured that
they are not forgotten, and that they will
yet regret their criminal folly in being
made the tools of disappointed and vim
dictive political mountebanks. The article
of the Southerner as reply to the STANDARD
amounts to nothing. 1t is simply an at
tempted vine'ication of Mr.. Biggs. Of his
motives the people know little and care less.
Ii he ever did any good, its remembrance
has been ohliterated by his late actions.
Year: 1869

A COOP MoTHER.-S Sometimes
one hears it said Of 4 good wife and
mother that "she's a irregular home
body" The phrase is simple, but
what a world of ennobling quail
ties it indicates, and what a uni
universe of hivoEties it excludes.
The mat only homelbody is sindeed
Heavens best gift to man.


Dashing ladies, whose mission it
is to set. the fashions, won't YOU
look in upon your gentle sister as
she sits In her well ordered NURSERY
making the children happy with
her presence2 Note how she adj
iusts their little difficulties, and
admonishes, encourages, instructs
and amuses them as the case may
require. Do You think any nurse
maid could produce such harmony
in that little circle ? is she not
an enchantress2 Verify, yes, and
her charm is love stronger than
death" for those sweetyoung faces,
where you may see her smiles and


rowns Though she seldom has
occasion to frown,l reflected IN
glee and sorrow like sunlight and
cloud-shadow IN a quiet pool
What she is she win teach her
daughters to be, and blessed are
the sons that have such a mother,
Year: 1869

Our State has two great through lines OF
Railroad-one of them admirably managed SO
far as the interests of its stockholders are con-
cerned; the other rather harder on its stock
holders, rather worse, if possible than it treats
the public. Each line was constructed, and has
hitherto been operated, under charters which
allow the stockholders to choose directors once
a year. This is a part of the compact on the
strength Of which they parted with their money;
and it is but the simplest justice to leave it
intact until they shall indicate desire that it
be changed.


But why should they wish it changedF How
can it be imagined that they would consent to
have their present directors lcgislated into two
or three additional years Of cOntrolY If the
stockholders wish to give those directors
new lease of power, what can be more easy
than to re6lect tbem7 And if they don't want
them continued in office, what an outrage TO
compel their retention by law!


Yet this our Legislature has just dOne-the
Assembly by vote of 70 Yeas to 40 Nays.


Now we do not know that every member
who voted for this bill took his pay in money
for some had axes Of their own to grind, ana
merely swapped votes with the mercenarles
who had been bought to support this bill
but we do say that whoever voted for such
bill without being paid for it is too innocent
70 be set adrift in such a wicked place as AL
bany. Keep him at home religiously here
Year: 1869

There may he few Spauiards of common
sense in Cuba who have managed notwith-
standing, to keep ont of Jail, but we would
not like to commit ourselves to any precise
statement of their number. II such there be-,
they must have seen straight from the start
that the question of the island was the very
simple one whether it should choose the United
States for protector or should hold to Spain.
No man with sight or foresight could have
quite believed in the absolute independence Of
its unschoolcd, heterogeneous elements. Cuban5
who had the welfare of thcir cause most at
heart were never unmindful of the insane ex.
ample Of some Of their well-mcanng, but
rather reckless, neighbOrs. 1t is far from our
intent to say that the pous tolls and sacrifices
Of any struggling people can be in vain, or
that any now nation, with proper self-knOwl-
edge and solf-pOssesslOn, aud n greater faith
in God and in the moral code than in the
astutencss Of men, may not ausune and sus-
tain indcpcndcncc. Our fear with regard to
Cuba is that she does not know herself web


enough TO stand alone, and has not sufficient
intelligence and moral unity among her common
people to fortify the most Independent
and important position which she can hold
DCIOIc INC NOIlu. Inc tuDoll5 may nave WHAT
virtue is necessary to endure n long and bitter
war, and rather SEQ their island ruined in that
way than be put to n lingering death by the
tortures Of Spanish rule. They may keep up
the elusive warfare thoy have begun and fret
tho soul ont Of their angry and not too saga
cious or ovcr-daring enemies. We would like
to sec more abundant proof, direct from the
provinces of the rebellion, that they are bound
to do this, while, at the same time, we are
earnest in our constant suspicion that anything
said to the contrary by the Captain General of
the island and his inyetcrato toadies of the
Havana press parlal,es moro or less Of the ma
ture of hard lying. For one reason or other,
the question of the actual situation and
strength of the Cuban war has been so much be-
logged upon both sides, that We are now quite at
the climax Of anxiety to know the whole truth
about it. We have considerable faith in the
facts that the Cubans lack no gall to make
their oppression bitter, and that they have a
strong principle Of cohesion IN the hearty and
ineradicable hatred they bear to Spaniards.
Nevertheless it is time that whatever unbelef
Year: 1869

ANYTHING may serve to indicate that the good of
the service will be thereby promoted. We
gladly accept this as an earnest that the
pledge is to be kept to the letter. Let us have
no tender dealing with official delinduents,
official incompetents, or even official laggards.
Let it be understood from the outset that the
terms on which any man holds Office, especially
Internal Revenue office, under this Administra-
tion are fidelity and efficiency in dischargng
it's duties We want no man kept in because
he is some other mans friend, but every officer
retained who proves himself friend to good
and economical government. No matter how
sudden and frequent removals may be-if they
are only made on this basis, the country will
cordially sustain them.
Year: 1869

The English Government yesterday intro
duced a bill into the House of Commons to
disquallfy the Mayor of the City OF Cork from
acting as a magistrate The Mayor has shown
himself on many occasions as an outspoken
and ardent sympathzer with the Fcnians,
though he dissuades them from using force, and
carefully refrans from any utterance on ac-
cout of which he could be charged with trea-
son. Whatever may be thought Of his Fenian
sympathies, the prosecution begun against him
is likely to make him appear in the eyes of
large portion of the Irish people as n martyr,
and increase his popularity. The Government,
by this act will hardly gain one new friend,
while it is likely to ALLEVIATE many WHO were
at least ready to act as its allies
Year: 1869

Weishter words are rarely used in formal
reports than those in which the CoronCr's jury
on the six victims of the late Long Island
Railroad accident render their verdict: owe
" find that they came to their death on the
"morning of April 90, 1869, by
can accident which occurred on the
Long Island Railroad near Willow Tree
Station, in the town of Jamaica, in conso-
"quence of car being thrown from the track
by defective rail- and hold that the Long
" Island Railroad Company are responsible for
said accident by negIecting their duty in
3" Keeping their track in proper order" We beg
Mr. Charlick and his associates to understand
that the community accepts that as a verdict
against them for completely in murder.
Year: 1869

The latest acquittal for n murder, committed
in revenge for an infamous crime, occurred
Yesterday at Quebec. How much longer must
the advocates of the death penalty thus
see men discharged wholly unpunished
for the taking of human life, be-
cause they insist on punishment
against which the moral sense of the public
revolts, and which no average jury can be
brought to inAictf Men are not acquitted for
numbering the seducers of their wives or Sis
ters because the public regard such murder as
praiseworthy or innocent, but because they
consider the punishment monstrOus.
Year: 1869

1t is not probable that the discovery OF a
new use in everyday business for Internal
Revenue stamps will add largely to the Treas
ury receipts. In ninety-nine cases out OF
hundred-quite probably in much larger pro-
portion-the contract on the blanks for tele-
graph messages is of no practical service any
way to the Companies. Rather than suffer the
increase of five cents in the cost of every
message delivered them for transmission, they
will be sure to find some method of getting
ON without such contract
Year: 1869

1t is one of our truest pleasures to agree
when we can with those from whom we are
often obliged to differ; and the following,
from The Evening Post, is in exact accord with
our long cherished convictions. 1t is an honor
to our State that she allowed herself to be
persuaded by her greatest statesman and his
friends to risk her means and credit in the
construction of the Erie and Champlain Canals;
but the risk is at an end, the hope
Of an earlier day is now realized
certainty; the Canals are a property, as
clearly as any bank or factory; and it
is high time they were RENTED to the care
and vigilance Of private interest. Let rates of
toll be specified which cannot be exceeded save
by express consent Of the People of our state,
and let each Canal be sold at auction TO the
highest bdder-any bond of our State, whether
due or not, being receivable in payment at par.
The Canals, thus becoming private property,
will be better managed than they ever can be
by the State, and, if they ought to be enlarged,
either now or at any time hereafter, they surely
will be.


The Post, after affirming the failure Of the
attempt to procure S10,OO00OO from the State
for their Improvement, proceeds:


Suppose the Canal men now try another plan. Let


them ask the State 10 sell the Canals We have been as
sured that II the state would sell at fair pFice. cnongh
money could be got In this city I'm twenyfour hours TO
buy The Canals, n the hands Of n private company
would be made useful to theirfu extent We should 1e
boats moved faster repairs made more quickly ara AURA
by improved locks put where they needed, ANA
but few years would pass before We should see ia


And we should have great and fertile Of
rupton removed from our state politics our dtD, gieag
decreased: State bookkeeping simplhed; ana nu.
merOus gang Of political strikers and adersseht adrliI
Year: 1869

The decision of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue concerning one of the appointments
for this State is doubtless warranted by euch
facts as have come to his knowledge. But
what we have especially to commend is rather
the spirit IN which the action is taken than the
action itself. The Administration is under
pledge to make removals from Office, no matter
how recent the appointments may be, whenever
Year: 1869

We trust members of the House at Albany
will look sharply to-day at our City and
County Tax Levies. We are told that the
aggregates haYe been reduced, since the bill
came from the Senate There was room Tor
reduction-to the tune of at least million.
Don t let the bill be crowded through so fast
that there will not bo time to make sure that
there is no hOcus-pocus in the matter.
Year: 1869

Our facetious Mayor doubtless Thought he
was making a joke in saying that he had APP
pointed to the new Board Of Education three
"members of the so-callcd Citizens Associa-
" tion, who, having complained of misgoyern-
"meut can now have opportunities for show
"ing whether they are practical men or the
"Orists, and can facilitate rather than Obstruct
government" We appeal to these gentlemen
to show the Mayor, once more, that he does
not always make joke when he tries
it. The list of the members appointed to the
new Board, which we print elsewhere, will be
scrutinizcd with eager interest by all, Of what
ever party, who have at heart the interests Of
The community. Amid the general prOiligacy
and demoralization of the City Government in
all its details, our School system has hitherto
been preserved measurably uncorruptcd. We
have advocated the organization of this new
Board, and we now have a right to ask Of il
a scrupulous care to maintain the purity and
advance the efficiency of the system.
Year: 1869

supposed to have sailed from Yucatan, on the
south side of the Western Department, and
Yesterday fast steamer sailed from Baltimore,
supposed to carry cargo of munitions for the
Cuban patriots.
Year: 1869

The Erening Post closes dissertation on the
May exhibit of the National Debt in these
words:


"The nation is living its capital; and 1t would be
folly indeed TO regard the present aiuent wealth OF te
public treasury permanent, or 10 imagine that the
Government afford TO expend nearly all u Is now re-
ceiyng OF the vast OF 100000 paid INTO the
treasury this year. very large part is taken from cap
tai not profits; and is merely so much poverty lau
III for the future"
Year: 1869

The news that a Constitution for Cuba has
been formed, probably by the exiles in Wash
ington, makes more plausible the story that
the leaders of the island itself have declared
outright for annexation. Whatever opinion
may have been at first entertained Of the ex-
pedieDcy Of this act, there can be little qucs-
tion that the Cubans earnestly, if not alto
gether unanimously, desire such connection
with the United States as shall save it from
the grasp of Spain. Our Washington kilograms
say that the new Constitution divides the
island into three States, which will some day
knock at the door of the Union In that case
we would have to add to our banner three
stars instead Of one out of the large extent
Of territory represented IN the names of Cuba,
Havana, and Camaguey. But let us not be
hasty to count our birds before they are
hatched. The Cubans have still very serious
work before them. They have to apprise us
defnitively that a republican government and


state is held by them. While they are striv-


ing to do this for us, no sympathy and aid we


can give them as a people should be withheld.
Year: 1869

TIE CoNIc BLACKsToNE-A wife cannot be
sued without the husband, unless he is dead
in law. and law is really enough to be the
death of any one. A husband or a wife can
not be a witness for or against one another,
though wife sometimes gives evidence of the
bad taste of the husband in selecting her.
By the old law husband might give his
wife moderate correction but it is declared
in black and white that he may not beat her
black and blue, though the civil law allowed
any man on whom woman bestowed her
hand, TO bestow his fists on her at his discre-
ton. The common people, who are much
attached to the common law, still exert the
l privilege in beating theiriwives and wo-
man in the lower ranks of life, if she falls in
/ love with man, is liable after marriage to
/ be a good deal struck by him.


Heirs are especial fayorites Of our courts
4 Of Justice, much as the lamb Is the especial
1 favorite of the wolf-for the heir with mint
sauce, that is to say, with lots Of money, is a
dainty dish indeed to tempt the legal appe-
tite.


By the law of England girl may be CIV
en- in marriage at seven, but surely this must
mean the hour of the day at which she may
be married, and not the age at which the
ceremony may be performed.


Land means anything substantial, but il
don't mean a substantial dinner-tenement
means anything that can be holden, though
1t don't mean women's tongue, which the
owner can hold sometimes.


Some conditions are void First, if they
are impossible; as, if an estate be given tc
Lord Broughsm, on condition that be keeps
himself out of mischief. This would be clear
" an impossible condition and Brougham
would have the estate.


Every man may appear by his attorney.
except an idiot who must appear in person ;
for the law regards an idiot, as one who is
naturally qualified to enter personally into a
lawsuit.


Counsel guilty of practicing deceit are
punishable by sentence of perpetual 81
ence in the courts; but there are some coun-
sci who are doomed to perpetual silence BY
their utter brieAessness. These unfortunate
individuals, so far from practicing deceit,
are utterly precluded from practice of any
kind.


Nuisances are of various kinds; for In
stance, it is a dreadful nuisance to meet IL
mad bull in cul de sac; and, indeed, this
nuisance which might affect ones corpor-
cal hereditaments.


The policy of Alfred was to bring the law
home to every mans door, but the policy oi
every man ought to be to Ike ep his door Shut
and on no account let the Jaw in If he can
help it


What an attorney is, everybody who has
got an attorney will no doubt be aware, but
those who are ignorant on the point may
feel assured that ignorance is unquestionably
bliss, at least in this instance. We however,
are far from intending to stigmatize all attor-
neys as bad and the race of roguish law
yers would soon be extinct if roguish clients
did not raise demand for them. No man
need have knave for his attorney unless he
chooses and when he goes by preference to