= Minister Ww. M. Kansom hasJeave of absence and is now inEsko North Carolina mountains.eee a3 oA few weeks ago there was abureau report as to the coitonoacreage whivhsplaced the de-crease for? this year at onlyabout 2.percent, At the, time_ that report was believed ta..befar from correct. Now anotherreport -has been made- which *- places the acreage at seventeenomillions acres for- this year_ against twenty millions for fastyear. In-consequence ; of this|ag was am adyance in pricepof several points on Thursday.aTHE 8 TO 7 DECISION.-~Jastce� Clark Dissents moa Powerfuland Convincing Opinion,2 oWe print below the dissentingopinioa of Jastice Clark in the- case of Wyatt vs manufacturing_gompany which embraced the_ question of fraud in haying thepresiding officers ot the Legisla-ture siga a bill which uever passed the lLegvisiamre. JusticeAvery concurs in the dissent, butthe fasionists agree and there-fore the law cannot be reviewed: afd any court._~ o[his case resembles much thatof Carr vs. Coke, at this term, aninvestigation of the same fraudbeing asked, and itis unnecessaryto repeat the reasons given in thedissenting opinions filed in thatcase. In this case the plaintiffsrclaim under an assignment executed i im accordance with the lawsretofore in force in this Stated which legislature after legis-~e, including the present one,g declined to alter. The plain-contend that such assign-nt is valid, and that theirts are noi affected by the pre-ad oassignment law� whieheing defeated on its pas"a the present General As-y was surreptitiously fraud-oLovsimgias to be signed bylec practiced on the3=a2[Speakers The. ~actin was� dis-returned from =Mexico --op- a.missed below on the ground that,taking the allegations to be true"and indeed they were not seri-er, |Opely coéntroverted onT the ~argu-|ment"the Court had no jurisdic"ition to right this great whoag onfraud.Tt ~would seem that certainlythe Speakers of the two Housesshould Lave been allowed to- tes-tify that. thig fraud had beeupracticed on them and that theirsignatures had not been know-ingly and intentionally placed toa bill which they Knew.--had notbeen passed, but which had beendefeated. Fhis was due to them,itp the Legislature and to the peo-ple. The people are entitled, asa saeredjand inviolable right, tobe- governed ty no laws» savethose enacted by their represen-jtatives duly and legally assem-bled. Theact of a corrupt and~hiredwillain, whose preper placeis in the penitentiary, should byno process of reasoning or re-finement of logic be imposed onthe people, in express contradic.sion to a vote of their GeneralAsssmby. The power of. consoli-dated, wealth, acting through thechannel of a purchased and _hire-ling lobby, is a growing evil inoall American legislation.- Thesolemu and unmistakable issue inthis case, brushing aside all teci-nicalities, is simply this: Shallthe law be what the representa-tives of the people declare itshall be, or shall the will of pow-ertul and menacing combinationsof capital acting through thelobbyists, with which they everywhere assail legislatiye action,override and be substituted forthe popalar will? To a fearfulextent this has beeu the result inCongress and in many State leg-islatures, but by more deviousmethods. This is the first in"stance in which ~one of thesecombinations, failing to secure itsend by infiuencing legislation inthé usual mode, has boldly: andcynically defied the action of theGeneral Assembly and set asideits negative vote by fraudulentlysubstitutang | the defeated bill as& @énuine one, and procuring the! .unintentional signatures of theSpeakers. Forthe first time inAmerican histery accumulatedcapital aad its ohirélings havedared to take so bold a step.We are asked to say that suchhave onopower to call the legislature together, and they may be unableto satisty the Govervor that theirwrongs, great as they are, are suf-ficient to-tax the public with theexpensive precedent of . re-sum-mouing the legislature wheneverthe fraud of a lobbyist is discovered. There isan easy, a cheapand speedy remedy by settingaside the signatures, as _" fraud-ulent, apon the testimony of. theSpeakers to that effect and theverdict of a jury» Uponthe ver-dict of ajury, every man is de-pendent for the protection of higproperty, his reputation, his ilb*erty aud his life. Surely it is acompatent tribunal to decidewhether the signatures to a pieceof- paper were knowingly and in-tentionally affixed by the Speak-ers with the assent of their . re"spective Houses, or whether thebill had been defeated on its - at-temptea passage and notwithstandiug such defeat the signa-tures and certificate of ~he Speak:ers had been thereafter procuredby a hold and shameless fraud:Reduced to ite last analysis, thequestion 1s simply whether Leg-islaturers shal legislate, andwhether. time honored institution.of otwelve guod men and true�shall be:tensted to declare, uponthe testimony of the presiding of-ficers of the two Houses, that agross frand was. perpetrated onthem in procuring their signa-tures toa bill which had not beenenacted by the two Houses, buthad beer tabled.It-is not an occasion when pub-li¢ policy or individnal rights cantolerate the suppression of an in-vestigation. The investigationshould be full, free and searching.oThe lights should be tarned on,�not off. Nothiog that 1s honestand pure and of-cood repute, needfear. an investigation. Othershave no claim to be pro tectedfrom it.� 7Avery, Jd. concurs ip this diasent.eeeDEATA UF DR. C, T. BAILEY.Rev: Dr. C. T. Batley died athis residence in this city -yester-day morning: at 8 o'clock, aged 60years. Dr. Bailey was-one of thein the State. He wae for nearlyComte p besatwenty years editior of the Bidli-"_"bal Kaabii the fadibg Baptistjournal of the State, and one ofthe foremost expuxuents of that de-nomination in the Soath He wasan able, original and interestingwriter and nado of the Aecordera great pewspaper as well as upopular denominational vorgau.He occupied a bigh piace in tirecouncils of his church, and was asafe. conservative and wise leader.During his twenty years resi-dence in Raleigh he endearedhimself to onr people generally,aad was held in the highest es-teem by them. He was a pro-found thinker, a scholar, an ablepreacher, a fearless, pungent, in-teresting editor, an honest, up-"right man and a genial amiablefriend and neighbor. Dr. Baileywas borp 1n Williamsbarg, Va.He was educated at William andMary and atthe Richmond Col-leges of Virginia, he entered theministry immediately on tue com-pletion of his education, but wasduring the last two years of thewer, @ private in the Confederatearmy. ter the war was overhe re-entered tho ministiy, andafter serving. several leading Vir-ginia churches, he was called toEdenton, N. ©. Fiom bere heweat to Warrenton, and was pis-tor of the Baptist Church there,when calfed'to. the editorial chairof the Biblical Recorder. He wasavery charmiug man, was full ofgood humor and good cheer. Itwas his nature to look on thebright side of life, and althoughhis latter days have been filledwith inténse suffering, he hasborn, these sufferings with Chris -tian fortitude and characteristicpatience.Dr. Bailey was stricken withparalysis on March 6, 1892, fromwhich he never fully recoveredalthoagh up to a year ago he wasable to look after his work. Dur-iag the past year he has beengradually growing weaker, andthe fact that his valuable life wasfast ebbivg awav has beenknown to his family and friendsfor several months. ~The endcame yesterday morning aud oneofthe brightest ininds went out,one of the noblest hearts ceasedbeating aud one of the Statesbest citizens was no more.Dr. Bailey leaves a widow, whowas Miss Aunie 3S. Briley, of Vir.ginia, three sons, Messrs. ©. T.Bailey, J. William Bailey, whosucceeded h~s father as editor of|the ecoraer, and E. L.: Bailey;and one dau; hter, the wife ofMr. Wesley N. Jones, of tinis city.In the bereavement with whichthese good people have beenstricken thes. ha ave the. sympathyof @ very wide circle of friends inRaleigh aid throughout theState."Raleigh News and Obser-ver 6th.