THE GLEANEII.
eT S. PAllKKli, Editor.
GUAIIAM, N. C., APRIL G, 187j.
[These columns are open to the fre
discussion of affairs. The (J LKA A hll
is not responsible for the opinions
expressed by correspondents.']
We went to Raleigh last week.' Wc
were fticre one rlr»y only. Everything
looked dull. At the Nejffs office we
found Maj. Cameron and Capt. Stone
hard at work. Well, it takes hard
work to give the people such a paper
as the Xcws is. Maj. Dunham, we were
sorry to learn, is yet unable to be out,
though steadily recovering, lie can
truly say that his sufferings from the
late war arc lasting. We stepped in to
fcce Jo. and found hiin ar-
ranging his evidence against, the rings,
lie says lie ingoing to whip them out.
' If they Are as had. aslie savs, they de
serve whipping, 1.10 i.4 all the time
wanting a squire to prove it, as he de
clares.
Col. Brown, of the National, gave us
a good dinner ami two of the lamous
pipc-sterhs, found about Morganton.
The name of the growth is ti-ti
lieve. They possess all the qualities
going to make a good stem. \oti do
not have them to bore. They just grow
around a hole about the right size. They
illustrate the utter uselessness of pith
is the centre of trees, especially bushes.
We stepped into a store and saw a ne
gro helping himself to sweet potatoes.
We called attention to it, but were told
that-it would'nt do to interfere with
him just then;—that if molested he
might colonize in the Fifth Ward. We
then understood how it was.
There is a big hole where the Masonic
Temple, as supposed by some, will
hereafter be. We don't mean the here
after that preachers warn us to prepare
for. Stay away from Raleigh, for onh
a few months, and you will be struck
with the improvements constantly go
ing on. Wc walked slap against a fence
built across the pavement. Wc were
thinking with our head down. AVe shall
never know what wc were thinking
about. Fraps don't keep lager, and
we never knew whore any body else did,
so none of that. Wc did sit down in
one of his chairs and rest ourself af
terwards. Wc wanted that chair, and
asked the price. He said he understood
we had turned editor, and if so, that
chair was not intended for us; that it
was worth thirteen dollars. In looking
at his stock we wanted some money
mighty bad. AVe went to see R. 11.
Bradley who makes candy. Ho is go
ing to supply every hotly. As soon as
he gets fixed he will tell you all about it.
THE P. B.
The Senate brunch ot the forty-fourth
Congress, which was called in extra ses
sion on the stb of March, is any many
respects a very remarkable body; more
so perhaps than any of its predecessors.
It certainly presents an unusual variety
in its members. It lias in it two
ox-Vice Presidents, and one ex-
Prcsident who sits with those who
voted for his couviction, as well as
those who voted for his aqquittal upon
articles of impeachment, in which he
was charged with high crimes and mis
demeanors in office, whilo he was the
President of the United States. lie is
the first ex-Prosldent over in the Sen
ate, aud the first President ever ar
raigned before the high Court of Im
peachment. It has throe ex-Coufedratc
Generals of imputation for serviocs ren
dered in the Confederate Army, Gen.
Gordon, ol Georgia, Gen. Cockrell, of
Missouri, Gen. Hansom, of North Car
olina; one Commander of the Federal
Army, Bnruside, of Ilhode Island, aud
one uogro named Branch K. Bruce,
from Mississippi. So it is remarkable
for -the varied antecedents of its mem
bers. It is no less remarkable for their
varied qualifications, and accomplish-
ments. Every phase of ability is present
ed from the learned, puro, statesmanlike
Thurmau to the cunning, scheming,
vindictive, unscrupulous Morton; from
the bombastic Logan to the stupid ne
gro Bruce. It is largely republican; but
in this respect it is not equal to its pre
decessors, for the past ton years. The
republicans will jjikoly retain power
longer here titan elsewhere, on account
of the long lime for which its members
are chosen. Though the demo
crats have boon making steady
gains, and will in a few years have a
majority in the Senate M it now haa in
the House. It can then repeal obuox-*
ous laws, now it can onfy prevent the
enacting of others.
That street running south from the )aij
must be fixed. Oar local has to go that
way to temperance meeting. He com.
plains awfhlly. This would appear in
the local column, but self interest might
Be suspected. The street is deep in mud
and the mnd is sticky.
N. B.—lf any one finds a gentleman's
shoe, for the left foot, they will confer
• foror by exhibiting it at this office.
Our local knows a fellow who lost one.
Women can practice law in Illiaols,
wiaoonaiu, MLuouri, and Maine.
Tim PBOI'dSKB COWVBNTIOW
Yc hewers of wood, drawers of waters, and
delve is -of tlie earth generally, liear what A\ in.
J. Yates editor rf the Charlotte Ihinocrtit, has
to say about Convention and the propeetive
pay tot 1 emancipated negroes, and then bare
your backs to the lash : ' ■
" If« Convention be called let it be unre
stricted —let there be no panderim; or promise
to Radicalism or imported Yankee ideas—-let
the old time practice* lie restored,
the whipping-post and ipialilicd lint
it is understood, we think, that tin - i-\;;i-lature
cannot limit the actum of a Convention, and if
the Convention meets it can do as it phases.
* * * No member of a snverei:;:. Mate
Convention should repaid the dictation of a
mere Legislative body.
♦ "* » ' * * *
" The restrictions imposed in the Hill as it
passed the .Sen lb! are and di-fraoe
iul to the people of the fctaLe. especially in it«
panderings to the prejudices of our fanatical
eueinie-' at 'the North. NO NORTH ( ARO-
I.INIAN SHolLI) EYKK SAY THAT JIK
IS WlLl.lXfJ TOSt'RJiKNDKU 11 IS CI.AIM
Full DAMA'iKH IN THE I NI.AAVKI L
EMANCICATION AND DKI'KIYATION OE
I'KKSONAU I'KfI'ERTY, AI.TIIOI.OH WK A HI:
AI.I. NOW oi'iv'>i:i> TO HI:-I:KTAHI.I::-!IIXO SI.A
VKItY r.N ANY SltAI'K." —
We clip Ihe forcgoinir,- italicised and
capitalised as you see it, from the 2\vif
Xorth State, of the 2lj(li ot March.
I which credits it to the I'iouecr. I >y
copying without comment, it is to be I
supposed that it is adopted; and thus
the republican policy In the campaign i
for tlie election ot delegates to the (Jon-j
vention is indicated. We published (he j
the lull text ot the act palling aConven-1
I tion in ourjast. -The restrictions are
secured beyond' peradventure by the I
oath each member is required to take
before he takes bis seat-before in lact he
becomes a member. That there is no one
of the the matters that the Convention
is inhibited from intermeddling with,
that it would in all human probability
touch if left entirely free and unrestric
ted by the act calling it, is established,at
least so far as the democratic party is
concerned. Not one in the State, we
venture, who would, under any circum
stances, ever be selected by his party to
represent the people of his county in a
Convention or elsewhere, would moot
the question of the strictly legal bind
ing force of these restrictions. The
moral would be under
would be all powerful and all sufficient
with him; and especially so, as these
restrictions are the limits prescribed by
his own party, and by those who elect
ed him. Everything, the whole struct
ure of society and of government must
rest upon moral rectitude and obligaton.
We are not considering the power of
the legislature, by the -let callinga Con
vention, to limit and restrict its powers.
It does not occur to us thaf this ques
tion arise, in vjew of any probable
action or attempted action on the part
of the delegates to the Convention.
There will be a canvass. The candidates
will declare their opinions of the bind
ing forccof these restrictions; and their
determination to observe them before
the people. The pgop'e can have no
hotiortfttartintoo t/icv>o ilutifai UtIODS. J
—Tho ]Mrtr>t' tlio
and that to which particular prominence
is given is that the negroes arc to be
paid for. Who favors such a thing?
No one. The editor whose language is
quoted does not by expression or impli
cation favor anything of the kind on the
part of a Convention. There is no one of
any sort ofiutelligcnce who iora moment
apprehends even the posibility of any at
tempt in this direction. It is in keeping
with the republican policy in this State.
Instead of appealing to the reason and
judgment of the people, its policy is and
has keen to influence them by appeals to
their fears; and for this purpose it con
jures up all sorts of terrible things. There
would be as much reason in telling the
people that a Convention of democrats
would make it a capital felony in any
one to attempt to vote or hold office
who had not been a slaveowner. There
would bo as much reason to suppose
and apprehend anything, wild, absurd,
and utterly impossible as to suppose
and apprehend that a Convention of
democrats would cither disregard, if
in its power to do so, the restrictions in
the act calling a Convention, or that it
would propose or even consider, if per
mitted bo to do, the question of paying
for emancipated negroes.
THK dIANOK OF OU.iOE
"We notice a communication in the
Wilmington Journal of tlfe 27th March, '
in which it is stated that there were
only two members of tiio Supremo Court |
on the bench when the decission was
made by which it is claimed the Rich
mond and Danville railroad company,
wore authorized to tear up the track
and change the guage of the North Car
olina llailroau from Greensboro to
Charlotte. Tho correspondent of the
Journal says that Judge Bvnum was
with a sick daughter in Charlotte, that
Chief Justice Pearson was sick and that
Judge Hodman beiug a stockholder de
clined to sit upon the case, llow is j
this? Will out Raleigh friends tejl us?
It might have been considered by some,
that one object in increasing the num
ber of our Supreme Court Judges to
five, was to have tho united opinion of
throe instead of two upon all disputed
questions of law. It does seem to us,
that upon a question of such consequence
and about which the members of the
court were known to be so divided it
was indelicate, and in disregard of ap
pearances that the two Judges took it
upon themselves to file an opinion in
the virtual absence of the other three;
if the information of said correspondent
is correct.
We do not believe in throwing even
a shadow upon the high integrity that
should characterize all bur courts, and
especially tlie one of Supreme Jurisdict
toion ; unless the.circumstances arc such
as to unquestionably warrant the nisinua
tion. Upon tlie other hand, the members
of tlie court owe it to themselves, and to
the high position they fill,and to the rep
utation of the Court, and ofthebtate to
avoid, even (lie appearance of motives
improper, and influences extraneous 111
the matter of their opinions,-and the cir-
I cuinstances under which they arc con-
I sidercd. Can two members of the Court
sit as a court? Does it not require a
majority 0!' the Judges to constitute the
court, and consider -any opinion to
make it the opinion of the Supreme
Court? At least we take it a majority of
the Judges should actually be upon the
bench, and participate in the hearing
and determining. The Court does not
now enjoy the confidence of tlie people
that their Court of last resort should.
This may not properly be attributed to
, the Court, but it is *o. A mistrust in
: its Courts of justice is a sad thing for
any people*. Nothing should be done
| (o bring it about, and everything to
| prevent it. Tlntt the matters should be
1 reheard by a full bench would seem
I but proper and just to the Court
itself. The insinuations may all be
unfounded, but they, should be
shown to bjj. We don't think it be
neath the dignity of the two members
of tuc Court to explain. Some may re
gard it as a duty to themselves.
THE €E.\TEI>'-
\ 1 Alj,
In our last we published the proceed
ingsof'tiie Executive Committee for this
county to aid in this. celebration.
Township cornmittfees were appointed,
and requested to meet the county com
mittee in Graham 011 Saturday the 17th
day of April, for consultation. We
hope there will be a full meeting, and
wcjirge upon the. committees appoint
ed, and others feeling an interest and
pride in the past history of what now
constitutes our county, the importance
of prompt action. We arc in receipt, of
a letter from a native ot our county
now a citizen of Charlotte, in which he
says; • That while we accord full hon
orfo Mecklenburg for the heroic action,
of her -people, in declaring, formally
their indepencence of, and freedom
from Hie tyrannical measures of the
Government of England, yet we claim,
that upon the soil of Alamance, and by
her people, and by others, was the first
forcible resistance to oppression." Then
in fact, in our county was shed the first
i bjood of tho rp-Vivllit iui>- duseendmitS,
_.luaUA'..o.t- fheiU-of 4hH»-6H who had
the "hearts todaro-.ind the will-Is to do"
arc among us. It would be criminal in
them to neglect this, the only opportu
niJLj- that will ever present itself to show
to the public their pride in, and appre
ciation of the fearless spirit of their an
cestry, who, against the most powerful
government in the world, forcibly re
sisted injustice and oppression. We
shall never see another occasion so fit
and proper. Let us not neglect if. It
is a duty we owe to ourselves, as well
as to the memory ot the "regulators"
and their friends whose acts reflect
honor upon the section that was their
home, ami upon the people of that sec
tion. We shall never see another cen.
tennial celebration of the action of North
Carolina and her people in Revolution
ary affairs. Let us not be careless of
this one.
The actors arc dead. Wc must give
them their prqger place in their States
history. The opportunity is offered,
and we are earnestly asked to do it.
There is no more sacred duty than do
ing justice to the dead, and this demands
it. Let our action in some sort e
qual the opportunity, the occasion and
the memory of those wlio went before
lis. If,they could do, we certainly
should honor.
Let us have a rousing meeting on the
'l7th and deftermiiie what wo will do,
and then do it.
Judge Emmons, of the U.S. District
court in Tennessee, has recently given
an opinion which spoils the. civil rights
business as far as that State is concern
ed. The grand jury asked him for in
structions as to the course they should
pursue in cases brought to their atten
tion under it. In reply he gave the o
pinion that the act was unconstitutional
and that they need not be governed bv
it- lie reviews the case at some length
and cites several decisions by the Su
preme Court, sustaining bis position.
This will probably bring the question
speedily before the Supreme Court,
which will undoubtedly endorse the ac
tion of Judge Emmons.
F. E. Spinner, treasurer of the Uni-'
nited States whose name ire see, if we do
find difficulty in making out just what
it is, upon all greenbacks, has resigned
to take place the first day of next July.
He has filled the position for a long
time, and has never, that we are aware
of, been charged with corruption in of
fice. It is understood J. M. Ncwof Indi
anapolis will succeed him. We hope he
may prove competent and faithful.
."A resolution endorsing Senator
Merrimon did not pass the legislature."
These two lines we flixt in the 2\ew
North State of the 20th of last month.
Whether intended to do so or not, they
are calculated to deceive; and make a
fa-lee- impression upon the reader. Any
one who did not take the trouble to in
form himself, would naturally infer
that a resolution indorsing Senator
Merrimon had been introduced into
the legislature and failed to pass. A
stranger would regard this a negalive
pregnant, as brother Ball would say if
talking law, and amounting in iact to
a censure upon Senator Merrimon.
Every one, not totally ignorant of his
course, and of the legislature, knows
that a resolution indorsing him had but
to be introduced to be passed. His
conduct has not called for such a pro
ceeding; it indorses itself. No dissat
faction has been expressed, and therefore
110 public demonstration of indorsement
was necessary. The truth is, resolutions
approving his course would have been
a shadow .011 his bright reputation.
They always presuppose dissatisfac
tion or accusation. There was no
ground for such supposition in his case.
Domocrats all indorse him so far as we
have ever heard. Newspapers ought
not to try to deceive, and if they do so
unintentionally they ought to explain.
Now brother Ball tuts fair, and toll
your readers that no resolutions in
dorscing Senator Merrimon were intro
duced into the legislature, and if there
had been you have no doubt they would
have passed. ***
Til. T) p('«Wrii r—Tlir Pf 11 Mupci-M'dctl
—Our 1:1 £tuccc»Nful Operation iti AI-
Innta.
We called at the depot of the AVest
crn and Attlauta Kailroad yesterday,
■ and witnessed The operations of the
type-writing machine recently brought
out. It was deftly managed by C.K.
Maddox.
The type-writer in size and appear
ance resembles the family sewing ma
chine. -Its appearance is graceful and
ornamental.
HOW ) T IS OPERATED.
Writing with the machine is done
simply by touching keys, which are
compactly arranged in four rows ot
eleven each, and may be operated by
any linger of any hand. On each key
is plainly primed the letter or charac
ter it represents. By depressing any
key the corresponding letter is printed
011 the paper. The action is fully as
rapid and much easier than that of the
piano. Any desired letter or character
is completely transcribed in the same
time and by-the one motion that is re
quired to bring the pen into the first
position. Its rapidity is therefore man
ifest. Its simplicity is such that any
one who can spell can write with it;
and its manipulation is so easily under
stood that but little practice is required
to enable the operator to become expert
iu its use.
The size of paper which can be used
is practically unlimited, as it is adapted
toitnywidthfrom three to eight inches,
and to any length from one inch to a
continuous roll. Envelopes can be read
ily addressed with it. It is equally a
dapted to any thickness of paper, and
the quality of the paper used is unlimi
ted, as it w ill write legibly upon the
commonest wrapping paper. The al
phabet numerals, and all necessary
characters for punctuation, italicising,
and reference, are made by it. It is in
stantly adjustable to any desired spa
cing between lines. The typo receives
ink from a moving ribbon one and three
eighth inches wide and thirty-six feet
long; and as each letter takes but one
eigth of an inch ot space for a single
impression, there is practically over
four hundred feet of available inking
em-face. The ribbon is eo prepared
that it can be usoi for months without
being reinked.—With proper usuages
these ribbons will last for many years.
ITS ADVANTAGES.
The advantages claimed for it is legi
bility, rapidity, ease, convenience and
The average speed of the pen is from
fifteen to thirty w r ords per minute.—
The average speed of the type-writer is
from thirty to sixty words per minute.
Any number of copies from two to
twenty cau be made 011 the type-writer
at once by the manifold process. It is
fast coming into general use. some
eight or ten have been ordered in At
i lanta. — Atlanta Constitutionalist.
A THOUSAND MKKI.ETOIVg.
The Wilmington Star of the 27th
says: A Chattanooga correspondent
tells a singular story of several acres of
skeletons laid bare by the recent floods
in the Tennessee river.
The high water of the recent flood
washed about four feet of earth from
ten or flfte n acres of land lying along
the Toiniosaoc on the farm of Mr. Oainos
I Prater, near Louisville, in Blount conn
ty. About two feet of soil was remov
ed from the same ground by the high
tide of 1861. ~
When the waters subsided after the
last flood, a strange spectacle was pre
sented. the whole of the denuded area
-was covered with skeletons. Some
were straight, some reclining, some
doubled up, and some in a sitting pos-"
I ture. There were the osseous forms off
infants, of children, and of full grown
persons. Mr. Prater has counted over
a thousand forms.
Persons who have lived in the vicini
ty of this mysterious cemetary for sixty
five years never heard of human bones
being discovered there before.
The skeletons, we uuderstand, are
not fouUd in a mound nor in what ap
pears to be an artificial formation of
the earth.
We understand one or more mounds
were partially washed away in Meigs
county, disclosing skeletons, some
hatchets, and pipes, and implements
common among the Indians.
The skeletons in Blount county prob
ably occupy a burying ground,
which, perhaps, centuries ago, was cov
ered up by the same agency which has
now exposed its occupants to view.
SENATOR RAiVNOn'B GREAT
SPEECH*
The Richmond Enquirer says: "A more e
jiborate or exhaustive argument could not
have been made, while in beauty of style and
elegance of diction it will compare favorably
with the most celebrated orations that have
been preserved to us either from ancient or
modern times. The simple object of the ora
tor seems to have be'eu to lay before the coun
try a full and calm statement ol the whole
cause of quarrel—or rather, to give all the
reasons that could be adduced to show why
there is na further cause of quarrel, between
the North and South ; and it is to be regretted
that a copy of the speech could not be placed
in' the possession of every family in both sec
tions of the country- We have read the grea
er portion of it over, and find nothing wuich
should not meet tlifi approval of the most pre
judiced and unreasoning partisan, if he still
have the smallest- particle oi love of country,
veneration for its past, or hope for its future,
left in his selfish constitution. While we can
not give General Ransom's speed! in full, thero
are portions of it Tjhieh we feel we should be
derelect in our duty not to reproduce, if only
to afford our readers the judge
of the merits of the whole by the strength and
beauty of its parts
The reply to the apparent assumption 011 the
part of the Republicans of the North thattTie
Southern people are still dangerous to the
peace of the country—that tlnfy are a band of
traitors, red-handed murderers and assassins,
staiued with barbarism, and, guilty of the
blackest deeds in human history, he said:
Perhaps there is something in the history of
this Southern people that justified this frightful
suspicion and tills the minds of Senators with
' alarm and dread. That cannot be. For they
arc the children of the br»v« English ances
tors who, for love of civil and religious liberty,
left tho shores of Europe aud settled the New
World. They are the immediate descendants
of the bold and wise men who helped to estab
lish American to frame this
grand and magnificent government. Their il
lustrious fathers have eerwuly banded down
..to them the passion of liberty and" the principal
of Constitutional freedom. We have inherited
it for eight hundred years from our ancestors ;
but those ancestors have hot transmitted any
taint of or example for se«ret treasons. In the
English heart the spirit of never
found genial home. It is the growth of other
soils. But have not recent events, you will
say, furnished reasonable grounds for these
apprehensions of a secret colossal organiza
tion hostile to the government ? Has not the
South just emerged from a gigantic war which
menaced the very existence of the. Union ?
That is very true ; but remember that it was
open, bold, defiant war—tlrreatencd for years,
proclaimed here, published to the world; de
clared by the prass, from tho pulpit -and hust
ings ; theopinion of mankind and the blessings
of ileaven invoked in its behalf, and the lives
of a people offered to vindicate its justice. It
was no concealed, hidden, mysterious masked
conspiracy. Had it been, never, never could
it have enlisted the devoted hearts of the noble
people who sacrificed everything but honor
around its shrine. Its purposes were spoken
here i.they were never concealed or denied. Its
lines of battle stretched across the continent.
Brave hearts in broad day were its defenses,
and around it clustered the hopes and pride of
a pure and patriotic people. Are courage,
truth, honor, consistency, fortitude, and un
sullied virtue evidences that the people who
possess them will descend from that high es
tate, and, forgetful of all duty, resort to the
lowest practices of cowardice and crime ? If
this be true, human character is indeed worth
less, national honor a mockery and an impos
ture ? „
Senators, if you will think for a moment: if
you will reflect upon the character tf the peo
ple whom you denounce, their history, their
associations, the language they speak, their
great ancestors, their brotherhood With you
for nearly a century, and their position now,
you cannot believe this calumny. Do you, can
you, believe that a people from whom have
Bprung in each succeeding generation for one
hundred years a line of statesmen, divines,
schollars, and heroes inferior to none in any
portion of the Union have suddenly descended
under the. shadow of your civilization to ihe
depth of barbarism ? Does history or human
experience justify any such conclusion ?
An,d yet you call now upon the public opin
ion of the world to believe that one-half of our
whole nation, brothers in blood with you,
sharers of the same inheritance of your fathers,
honored American freeme'i, educated, vinue
ous, and associated with you—you call upon
the world to believe that they are now guilty
and habitually guilty of darker crimes than
have ever been committed in human history.
And instead of devoting our energies, our pa
riotism, our intelligence, and our virtues here
to develop, reform,, and improve this great
country, we are now carrying on a war on the
floor of the Senate with each other almost as
bitter, and I fear not qute as manly, as that in
which we were engaged a few years ago upon
tiie Potomac and the Susquehanna.
Senators this is wrong. Before God it is
wicked. Cannot we stop it ? An incident in
history occurs to me now wbicli I do not know
that I havp thought of for twenty years. I re
member the story, told I think by Thueydides,
of the two Greek generals who had not spoken
foi years. A bitter and hereditary fned sepa
rated them. The Persians were at the gates
of Athens. The lines of battle were drawn in
fiont of the city. The Persian hosts, vastly
superior in number, confronted the thin line «f
the Greeks, and the great fear with the city
was that the dissension between the two gener
als might cause defeat and ruin. Just before
the battle'commenced. the historian says, frOm
either wing of the Greek lines the rivrl leaders
were seen approaching in f rout of their troops,
and simultaneously reaching the centre Impul
sively seized each other's hands and exclaimed
—I remember the,old Greek words—" Let lis
bury our anger." Need I repeat that victory
shone upon that god-like act of patriotism."
They buried their anger; and why cannot
you and I, the North and the South, shake
hands and bury our anger? 1 think I know
the South. I was born south of the Potomac.
My ancestors have lived there for two hun
dred years. I was raised there; I was educated
thare. I hardly know of any other place.
Everytning I have is there I love her people
and lam with them. I see them at home. I
see them I** Umtaluuu I i,r,r thorn in Texan.
I Know them in Virginia I am in the very
bosom of the South, and I think the sentiment
I utter here to-day is the sentiment of her peo
ple. Ido not think —1 know it is their senti
ment. ; ' ' .
in rep] v to Senator Edmunds' allusion to
General Lee, Senator Ransom said:
I was not present When the discussion took
place between my friend, the Senator from
Georgia (Mr Gordon), and the distinguished
Senator from Vermont, (Mr. Edmunds), I
did not hear the Senator when he alluded to
the name of General Lee. i regret that I did
not, and fo> a very different reason from what
that Senator may suppose. The mention of
that name, Mr. President, can never give me
anything but pleasure. If a moment at
any time in this debate I bad lost sight of my
duty; if I had permitted personal resentment
and sectional passions to obscure the path I
should tread; U I had forgotten the high .char
acter that should attach to a Senator of my
country, let me assure the Senator that he
could have mentioned no name with more
talismanic power to bring me back to the line
of my own and my country's honor. The
- very memory of tne name of.Lee now reminds
me (hat this Is not the place nor the time to
vindicate a life that has passed to the tribunal
of history; but 1 will say that name now in
spires me with higher and purer devotion to
my country. It elevates me above sectional
lines, it lifts me over local and temporary pre
judices, it animates me to embrace the nation
in the sentiment of patriotism, aud it "com
mands me to be constant in laboring to unite
the American people. Far from feelino- any
mortification at the Senator's allusion, 1 thank
him for presenting to my mind an image of
transcendent virtue, which can never cease to
•excite my highest aspirations for excellence.
Mr. President, there was not a soldier in the
Army of the Potomac who did not render to
that graiyl impersonation of courage, dignity,
virtile, and manly and Christian grace the
homage of a soldier's respect. It was my for
tune at Appomttox Court-house to see General
Lee and. General Grant side by-side. .That
scene can never fade from my memory. I see
them now as-.they then stood. I remember
both—the one for his majestic serenity under
defeat, the other for his quiet,magnanimity in
victory; qualities 'which, if exercised by the
American people,, would long since have re
stored every heart within its limits to affection
for the Union.
COMMERCIAL
Graham Market.
CORRECTED WEEKLY BY
SCOTt & DONNB'M.,
Tuesday, April 6, 1875.
Apples, dried, IMb... 8@1()
• green, 13 bushel, 1.50
Beans, ? bush 1.25@1.50
Butter 1? Ib 25@30
Beeswax $ tt> 25
Bacon sides lb 12^(3)15
"
" hams 15@lt>
Beef? lb 5@6
Blackberries, dried 7®B
Bark, sasafras rocts ? Ib ........ 4a5
Castings, old V lt» 1
Cloth, tow and cotton, V yd 20a25
Corn ? bv»h '.... 90@1.00
Chickens each 20@25
Cotton, lint, ?tb 14(2) 14>^
•' in seed 04
Clover seed, ? bushel . 8.00(2)9.00
Ducks 1 pair : 30(2)50
Eggs ? doz 15
Flour, family. ? bbl .. .7.00@7.50
"
Feathers ? lb. \ 30@50
Furs, rabbit, ? d0zen,.......... 25@30
" opossum, each, 05@10
" muskrat " 10@!5
" mink » 50@2.50
coon " 25@30
•' fox " 20(2)30
" house cat " 05(®10
" otter. ■, : .- 8.00a5.00
Hay? 100 lb 50a60
Hides, greeen, ? Ib. 05(2)06
•' dry, ?lb 12@15
Lard ¥ lb 16®20
Meal, corn, ¥ lb 2a2V
Oats, seed ? bush 75@80
Onions ¥ bush ... ;. 75@1.00
" sets ¥ quart 06@10
Peas ? bush 1.00@1.25
Potatoes, irish ¥ bush. 1.00@1.25
" sweet " 75(5)1.00
Pork ? lb 08(2)10
Peaches; dried, peeled, 15(2)20
" " unpeeled, 06(©08
Rags ? lb 03@2}f
Shingles ? thousand 2.50@5.00
Tallow ?
Wood ? cord 2.00@2,50
Company Jhops Market.
CORRECTED WEEKLY BY
J. Q. OANT & CO.
Tuesday, April 6, 1875.
Apples, dried, ?Ib : ' 9(5)11
green, ? bushel 1.28@1.60
Beans ? bushel 1.00@1.25
Butter ? Ib 25
Beeswax ? Ib 25
Bacon, sides, ¥ Ib 12%5>15
i' shoulders,.. 10(S)12%
" hams, r.VT*; 7 15(5)17
Beef ? tb 5(2)6
Blackberriese ? lb 7(2)8
Corn ? bushel,.. .•. 90(2)1.00
Chickens, each 15(5)25
Cabbage, ¥ head ■ 2@7
lirtt,.. 18K@14
Clover seed ? bushel. .... 8.00@9.00
Ducks ? pair 30@40
Eggs,? doz 15 a 20
Flour, family, ? barrel.;' 6.75
" super. " 6.50
Feathers, new, ?1b... 60
Furs, rabbit, ? doz 25
" oppossum, each, „ salo
" musk rat " 10al5
'• mink " 20a2.50
" coon " 25
" fox " 20a25
Hides, green, per lb . v 3a6}£
" dry, " 12a15
Lard per Ib 15a17
Onions per bushel 75a80
" setts per bushel.... 2.00
Oats per bushel 75a90
Peas per bushel 1.00
Potatoes, irish, per bushel 1.00a125
" sweet, per bushel 75a1.00
Peaches, dried, per tb peeled... 15a20
" " " unpeeled, 8
Pork per lb BaBX
Tallow per lb Balo
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
~~J. P. GULLEYT
RETAILER AND JOBBER OF
Dry-Goods, Clothing,
NOTIONS,
BURT'S HANI)-MADE
Boots & Gaiters,
HATS AND CAPS, VALISES,
TKIJNKS, WHITE GOODS,
4fcC., Sec.
South Cor. FayeUevitle St., and Exchange Place
RALEIGH, N. C.
The undersigned, having closed his Hotel in
Graham, desires to return his thanks for the
liberal patronage he received while landlord.
He parts with his guests with pleasant recol
lections of past associations, and hopes to
~ meet them often, and to learn of their ever
continued welfare ; though his relation to them
may never be that of landlord again. Ho
wishes to inform the public thathe has opened a
PiWE BjQ)A\RjDJtNjCj HjOjUiSiE
in the building formerly used as a hotel at
Qgnpany Shops, where he will be glad to see
his old friends, and where those heretofore in
the habit of stopping with him, can find accom
modation. At his Boarding house, meals and
lodging can be obtained when It snits the pro
prietor to furnish them, at terms to be regula
ted by special contract in each case.
JOHN H. KLAPP.
- March 16th, 1875. tf -
jgAR AND FIXTURES FOR BALE~
J. wish to change my business, and will sell
cheap, my Bar and Fixtures, consisting of all
necessary furniture for a complete Bar? Also
one Bagatelle Table, one set of oyster plates,
with alcohol amps. My license will be out
the Ist of April. I wish to sell before then. I
will also Bell cheap a pair of fine he&Tj
Wagon Horses*
together with an excellent two-horse wagon
and good harness.
Until I effect a sale I may be found at my old
stand, on the Court House square, Just the
same.
"T JOHN HUTCH ISO*.
Graham, N. C.
JUBT RECEIVED.
Two Hogsheads old fashioned Cuban Mo
lasses. New crop. 3
W. R. ALBRIGHT.