UNITED STATES SENATORS.
William Few,from1789to1793.
James Gunn,”1789”1801.
James Jackson,”{1793”1795.
1801”1806.
George Walton,”1795”1796.
Josiah Tatnall,”1796”1799.
A. Baldwin,”{1796”1805.
1805”1807.
J. Melledge,”1806”1809.
George Jones,”1807”1807.
W. H. Crawford,”1807”1813.
Charles Tait,”{1809”1813.
1813”1819.
W. B. Bullock,”1813”1813.
William W. Bibb,”1813”1816.
G. M. Troup,”{1815”1818.
1829”1833.
John Forsyth,”{1819”1819.
1829”1837.
F. Walker,”1819”1821.
John Elliot,”1819”1821.
Nicholas Ware,”1821”1823.
T. W. Cobb,”1824”1828.
O. H. Prince,”1828”1829.
John P. King,”1833”1837.
W. Lumpkin,”1837”1841.
J. M. Berrien,”{1825”1829.
1841”1851.
A. Cuthbert,”1837”1843.
W. T. Colquitt,”1843”1849.
H. V. Johnson,”1848”1849.
W. C. Dawson,”1849”1855.
Robert Toombs,”1853”1861.
R. M. Charleton,”1852”1853.
Alfred Iverson,”1855”1861.
Joshua Hill,”1871”1873.
Foster Blodgett,”1871”1871.
Thomas M. Norwood,”1871”1877.
John B. Gordon,”1873”1879.
NORTH CAROLINA.

A Florentine navigator, sent out by Francis I., King of France, first published an account of this region. He visited it in 1524. Ribault, a French protestant, sent out with a colony by Admiral Coligni, in 1564, named the southern coast Carolina, from Charles IX. (in Latin Carolus), King of France. The colony was not permanent. In 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh made an unsuccessful attempt to establish a colony on Roanoke Island. Some fifty years later the colonists of Virginia made a settlement in the limits of this State, called Albemarle. This territory was patented to a company of noblemen. The first colony, founded before this patent was issued, and enjoying entire liberty, became an asylum from the religious intolerance, almost universal at that time. In 1666 they numbered 800.

Many French Huguenots, attracted by this freedom and the mild climate and extreme fertility of the soil, settled here and added greatly to the industrious and virtuous elements of the population. The revolutionary struggle was singularly bitter and bloody in this State and South Carolina, from the number and sanguinary character of the royalists and tories, and from the partisan or guerrilla mode of warfare adopted.

The majority were, however, determined and valiant patriots, and rendered it impossible for the British to establish a firm control over this part of the country.

The eastern surface is low, the western mountainous, and much of the midland is covered with pine forests which produce large quantities of turpentine. The soil is favorable to agriculture. Yams, rice, and cotton, in addition to the cereals, are raised with success. The fisheries in Albemarle Sound are an important source of wealth. A large number of minerals are found in the State. Like most of the Southern States, its resources have been but partially developed.

This is one of the original thirteen States, and has an area of 50,704 square miles, equal to 32,450,560 acres, with a population of 1,069,614 (one-third colored), and entitled to eight members of Congress. North Carolina, by act of 1866, was located in the fourth judicial circuit, which is composed of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina; and is divided into three judicial districts, called the districts of Albemarle, Pamlico, and Cape Fear. The collection districts, and the ports of entry and delivery in this State have been so often modified and discontinued that there is some uncertainty as to the number. There are, as near as we can determine, ten districts, ten ports of entry, and nine ports of delivery.

Raleigh is the capital. There the Legislature meets biennially on the first Monday in November. The State election is held on the first Thursday in August.