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NORTH CAROLINA. 



NORTON, DANIEL S. 



attended by about 45,000 children; of this 

 number, 32,650 were white, and 12,350 colored. 

 The number of school-houses is 709 ; and the 

 average monthly pay of teachers is $24. The 

 Insane Asylum has been conducted with ability 

 and success. It is now crowded to repletion, 

 and there are hundreds of insane throughout 

 the State who should be cared for, and who 

 cannot be received into the institution for want 

 of room. There are now 220 convicts in the 

 State Penitentiary, "and there are probably 

 200 more," says the Governor, " in the various 

 county prisons who should be in it." The con- 

 tractors are progressing rapidly with the main 

 building, which will be completed as soon as 

 the resources of the State will allow. 



As a large proportion of the people of North 

 Carolina are farmers, the subject of agriculture 

 is one of prime importance, and in no year since 

 the war has there been more earnestness to in- 

 crease the productive capacity of the land than 

 during the last. But an obstacle exists in the 

 lack of thorough knowledge of the principles of 

 successful farming; and it is thought that the 

 State would find it greatly to her advantage to 

 afford facilities for instruction in agriculture. 

 The Governor called the attention of the Le- 

 gislature to the importance of this subject : "It 



is the duty," he says, " as it is to the interest, 

 of every State and every community, to en- 

 courage the acquisition of knowledge in farm- 

 ing. The simple elements of agriculture should 

 be taught in all our schools, both public and 

 private, as well as in the university and col- 

 leges. I respectfully and earnestly appeal to 

 you, gentlemen, to give this subject your at- 

 tention, and to devise such means -as may be 

 in your power to spread the knowledge of 

 agriculture among the people, and to benefit 

 the farming interests. The State fairs and 

 the county fairs should be encouraged. An 

 annual appropriation of $25,000 to these fairs 

 would repay the State fourfold in increased 

 production, and in the excellence of production 

 of all kinds." 



The subject of a constitutional convention 

 began to be considered at the close of the year. 

 One of the contemplated objects was to revise 

 the present constitutional provisions relating 

 to public schools. The question of a conven- 

 tion would probably be submitted to a vote of 

 the people, and at the same time delegates 

 be elected, who would act if the convention 

 should be approved. 



The following is the federal census of North 

 Carolina, taken in the years 1860 and 1870 : 



NORTON, DANIEL S., a United States Sena- 

 tor, born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, April 12, 

 1829; died in Washington, D. C., July 14, 1870. 

 He was educated at Kenyon College ; served 

 one year in the war with Mexico, in the Second 

 Ohio Regiment, and subsequently turned his 

 attention to the study of law. In 1850 he went 

 across the plains to California, spending a part 

 of that and the following year in Nicaragua. 

 Returning to Ohio, he renewed the study of 

 law, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and, after 

 practising his profession in that State till 1855, 

 removed to Minnesota. In 1857 he was elected 



to the State Senate, and served in both branches 

 of the State Legislature during the years fol- 

 lowing until 1865 ; in that year he was chosen 

 as United States Senator for the term ending 

 in 1871. Senator Norton was a delegate to 

 the Philadelphia National Union Convention 

 in 1866, and in Congress served on the 

 Committees on Indian Affairs, Engrossed Bills, 

 Claims, Territories, Patents, and the Patent- 

 Office. Though elected to the Senate as a 

 Republican, he had ceased to act with that 

 party in 1868, ami on most questions of na- 

 tional policy voted with the Democrats. 



