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NORTH CAROLINA. 



OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



courses of instruction laid out. No charge was 

 made for tuition or the use of dormitories in 

 the university building. The expenses were 

 paid in part from the Peabody Fund. 



The following are statistics of the North Car- 

 olina peanut crop for four years: 



Bushels. 



ISTft-'TT 125,000 



1S75- 1 76 100,000 



1874-'75 120,000 



lS73-'74 60,000 



Total, four years 405,000 



Average, four years 101,260 



The following letter from Governor Vance, 

 published shortly after the inauguration of 

 President Hayes, sufficiently explains itself, 

 and vindicates the attitude of a certain class of 

 Southern Democrats toward the new adminis- 

 tration : , 



RALEIGH, March 27, 1877. 

 Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist. 



DEAB SIBS : Your letter has been received, asking 

 my views as to the position the Southern Democracy 

 should occupy toward Mr. Hayes, and whether they 

 should apply 'for or hold office "under his administra- 

 tion, etc. 



Briefly and simply, then: In everything, except 

 the mere forms ot law, I regard Mr. Hayes as a 

 usurper. By maintaining armed intervention, in 

 States recently declared by the commission, under 

 which he claims to be so sovereign, that no act of 

 theirs could be impeached or even inquired into, 

 though tainted by a fraud that would have voided any 

 other human transaction in any court in Christendom, 

 he is flagrantly defying the Constitution of his coun- 

 try. Every day that United States troops are kept in 

 and about the State-houses of South Carolina and 

 Louisiana by Mr. Hayes's order, he is guilty of cruci- 

 fying the Constitution afresh, and putting it to open 

 shame. And all men who hold office under him of 

 political significance are holding his garments while 

 liberty is bayoneted to death. The plea of uniting 



with evil-doers for the purpose of controlling them 

 is as contemptible as it is stale. It lost its efficacy in 

 the service o* renegade native Southerners, who joined 

 the Kadicals in time to participate in the reconstruc- 

 tion era of plunder. 



The duty of the Southern Democrats, as well as of 

 the Northern Democrats, and of Democrats and 

 friends of constitutional liberty everywhere, is to wage 

 open war against Mr. Hayes and all other men who 

 disregard the plain provisions of that great charter of 

 the rights of the States and of the people. Especially 

 is it the duty of the Democracy to see that not another 

 dollar is voted to the support of the army until guar- 

 antees are given that it shall no longer be used to de- 

 stroy the States, and shear them of their just powers. 



I see no objection to Democrats filling subordinate 

 positions to which no significance is attached, except 

 in so far as the sense of obligation to the appointing 

 power may weaken the blows which an honest man 

 should always be ready to strike the enemies of his 

 country's honor and welfare. Yours respectfully, 



Z. B. VANCE. 



In January, 1878, "William Nathan Howell 

 Smith was appointed Chief Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court of the State, to fill a vacancy until 

 after the regular election in August of that 

 year. He is a native of the State, having been 

 horn at Murfreesboro, September 24, 1812. He 

 graduated at Yale College, and studied in the 

 law school of that institution, and afterward 

 practised with great success in bis native State. 

 He figured prominently in politics as a Whig, 

 and held numerous State offices before the war. 

 He was elected to Congress in 1859, and was 

 the Southern candidate for Speaker of the 

 House of Representatives, being defeated by 

 only one vote. He remained in his seat until 

 after the inauguration of President Lincoln, but 

 was afterward a member of the Confederate ( 

 Congress. His political disabilities were re- 

 moved in February, 1873. 



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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. ABEBCBOMBIE, 

 General JOHN J., died January 3d, at Roslyn, 

 L. I., aged 73 years. He graduated at West 

 Point in 1822, and in the same year was bre- 

 vetted second - lieutenant of the First United 

 States Infantry. He served with distinction 

 during the early Indian and Mexican wars, was 

 promoted to the rank of brigadier-general of 

 volunteers for his efficient service in the late 

 civil war, and at its close he was made brevet 

 brigadier-general. 



ADAMS, ALVIN, the founder of Adams Ex- 

 press Company, died at Watertown, Mass., 

 September 1st, aged 73. He was a native of 

 Vermont, and began the express business in 

 Boston, in 1840. 



ALBEBGEB, FBAirKLm A., born in Baltimore, 

 Md., January 14, 1825 ; died at Buffalo, N. Y., 

 August 24th. In early life he was a merchant 

 in the latter city, and was alderman in 1854- 

 '56 and 1859. He was Mayor of Buffalo in 

 1860 and 1861, State Canal Commissioner from 

 1862 to 1867, and member of Assembly from 

 1871 to 1874. 



AMES, OLIVER, died at Easton, Mass., March 

 9th. He was born there in 1806 ; his father 

 being the extensive manufacturer of shovels at 

 that place. On the death of their father the 

 two brothers Oakes and Oliver carried on the 

 business with great energy and realized large 

 profits from the large quantities of swords and 

 shovels supplied to the Government during the 

 civil war. They derived great wealth from the 

 Union Pacific Railroad, in building which they 

 took part. In 1870 the firm failed, their liabil- 

 ities exceeding $8,000,000 while their assets 

 amounted to about $15,000,000. They obtained 

 an extension of time from their creditors and 

 resumed business. On the death of his broth- 

 er, in 1873, Oliver became head of the firm. 

 For some years he was a director of the Union 

 Pacific Railroad. 



ANDERSON, LOUISE, Mrs. H. W. JOHNSTON, 

 actress, died in Boston, Mass., October 24th. 



ANTHON, Prof. GEORGB C., born at Red 

 Hook, on the Hudson, N. Y., March 19, 1820 ; 

 died at Yonkers, N. Y., August llth. He was 

 the eldest son of the late Rev. Henry Anthon, 



