Year: 1873

der the tortoise-like movements OF his pencil !
Finally he finished. Then raising his head
he gently sighed:


"Our account was overdrawn just exactly
sixteen dollars and ninety-three cents +


Then came over my agitated soul sweet
and balmly calm! Then did | sink back into
a state of absolute repose, and l looked out
upon the surging street with feeling OF IN
difference that was lovely to behold. 1t is no
advantage to have nothing. Blessed are the
poor. But l did consider it my duty to
20 to the president of the bank and assure
him of my undiminished confidence in the SOL
vency of the institution, and to say also that
in case of a run I would not join in it. This
seemed to give him new courage.


THE CHARLOTTE OBsERvER.-The Char
lotte Observer is out in an article against the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad in general, and
the York county subscription in particular:


While we give our cotemporary credit tor
sincerity in its zeal against county subscrlp-
ton and high taxes, we think its sympathies
are wasted, and the people Of York county
are abundantly able to manage their own af-
fairs without outside interference from any
quarter. Mecklenburg county has taxed her.
self to the tune of nearly half of million
of dollars in building railroads for the benefit
of Charlotte and her citizens, and no doubt
some of the sympathy shown by the Observer
for York county might be bestowed on people
nearer home.


The advice to the people of CASTOR, Lin
coin eud Catawba would certainly be good If
it was disinterested, but as county taxes are
only :s be considered by the people who are
to pay them, and they are the sole judges of
their propriety, we beg leave to decide the
matter for ourselves. If the proposed road is
a good thing for the people along the route,
and to the citizens of York and Chester, as
the Observer admits, we think they should be
allowed to build it. Perhaps if the road ran
by Charlotte we would not hear any opposl-
tion from that quarter. They have monopo.
lized the trade of this section so long, have
bought our produce at their own price, and
sold the same to the southern planters with
profit to themselves, that the citizens of the
future London look on this section of the
country as their own, and anyattempt on the
part of our people to seek nearer and more
direct road to market as an attack on their
rights But we claim the right to trade with
whomsoever we please, and if South Carolina
will aid us in building a railroad that will be
materially beneficial to both parties, we ex-
pect to do so. While we admit the enterprise,
energy and public spirit Of the citizens of
Charlotte, and the glorious record of Neck
lenburg in the past, we still claim that those
things do not give her the right to tell our
people how they should vote on purely
county matter, or how they should expeud
their own money, or where or with whom they
shall trade. The people of this county are as
fearful of taxes as those of any other section
of the State and the Observer need not be
afraid they will overburden themselves by
county taxes, or any other kind imposed on
them by their own votes


A short time ago the Observer published an
article saying that Charlotte was the proper
market for the Catawba valley. On the same
day the price of corn in Newton and Char
lotte was the same-55 and 60 cents per
bushel-and in Chester it was worth 81. ~
per bushel, or twice as much. If, then, it is
our natural market, why this difference
Will the Observer answer ?-Ne,oton, N. e.,
Viadicator.