THE GLEANER, - . . if - K. S. PtnKER, Editor. GRAHAM, X. C., MAY 18, 1875. [ These columns are open to the free discussion of affairs. The GLEANER is not responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents.] OBOitnriZATion. Proper organization fa essential to success in almost everything. In con tests, of whatever character, where numbers of individuals are ranged on either side, it is absolutely necessary. The highest type of of organ ization is perhaps to lie lound'iu the strength and efficiency it gives to con tciidingarmics. The next place where it is most useful, aiid where its benefits are mosi plainly seen, is in connection with political parties. The organiza tion of military bodies, and the ability effectually to do so is reckoned one of the highest scientific accomplishments. To organize political forties extending throughout a country, especially one f, the extent of ours, isja no less difficult j task. In the military, the Captain must sec to the organization and discipline ot hw company, and to do this docs not require afly very considerable skill; iu politics ca:h county must look to its organization. We are now on the eve of one ot the most important campaigns that has ever engaged the attention of our people. There has been issued a call lor a mass-meeting, to consider of, and adopt a plan of organization for this campaign, for our county. This meet ing is one in which every member of the party sliouWfeel a livelyJnfercsl. Upon the action of this meeting large ly depends the success of our party this summer. It will have to determine the whole plan of organization, includ ing fcbe/nanuer, and time of bringing out a candidate for the Convention. It may be that nominating Conventions, as taey arc generally held, are not the fairest and best means of selecting can. didatcs; then wc should seek the fair, csf and best object ij to defeat the republican party at all points, and in our efforts to do so we believe that wc are.scrvfng the best interests of all. We are steadfast in this belief, — wc arc fixed iu the conviction. Anoth er object is to put worthy, competent, honest men in place and power. To insure reasonable prospect of accom plishing these objects, or either of them there must be concert of action; there must bo harmony. Now the very ob ject of our meeting on the fiflh of June is to adopt a plan to promote these. "We hope to sec a full meeting. We want all to participate actively, and to freely views. We want no cut and dried plans and resolutions. "We want a full, free and goucral inter change of views,* to the end tint what is done, may truly be the work of tiie party and not of a low individuals. It is impossible for this to be so, unless our party friends will attend. The many must come else the few will rule. Now don't stay at heme, inactive aud careless; aud thou complain of every thing. If you see wrongs and partiali ties. and unfairness in the past, why, seo to. it that thoy do not occur again. Attend tho meeting, and exercise your rights and your voices iu it, aud let Alainauco resume her proud stand among tho democratic counties of the State. Don't stay at home, aud then fiad fault with the action of those who attend. Give that day to the best interest of your party. Arc you going to bike less interest iu your party than republicans do in theirs? Are you go ing to permit wrong and radicalism fo triumph, because of your indifference? Are you going to permit your co- uty to pass from her positiou, as the banuer democratic couuty iu the State, into the Iwnds and control of radicals, because c f your carelessness, or bocausc some member of your party has said or done something, which you disapprove, and it may be was unjust to you? Your iHiliticai priuciples are more firmly set. Think over tho matter, every democrat and conservative in the county, and in your o#n minds fix upnn a plan that is fair and and advocate it., It is your meeting. r ;— t CMKci anirxKMT Some months ago the Cornwall Iron Company of Cedar Bluff, Alabama, un dertook tiie experiment of shipping pig irou to England, aud although to many tho experiment would look very doubt ful, they entered upon it with the ex pectation of realizing S4O per ton. Their actual return was *35 per ton net, and this was so satisfactory that tlusy are eoutlnning the experiment. The first consignment was conveyed to Liverpool from the furnaces at a cost Of only one dollar per ton more than it cut for transportation from the same furnaces to Cincinnati. We look for ward with pleasing anticipation to the time when whole cargoes of North Carolina iron will bo shipped to Europe tbnougjithe seaport ol- Wimington.— Journal. j u, ~1 . KB P.ISrfSD TllKOl'Oll AM» BIiPOKTED. The statement of Judge Kelly, ns to the condition of aflairs in the South, which was made iipou ihe authority of liis own personal observation, is not in keeping with radical desires. They have been unable to cteate disturbances in the South, and the next best thing is fo manufacture accounts of them and to keep it before the .North that the South is just about to blaze forth in another armed resistance to the pow er of the government, more formidable than tiie last. Just so soon as the true conditiou of the; South is known and understood. the radical_party is gone, and its leaders !;now it. Only ? partial knwoledge'of the true state of affairs iit the South has swept tliem Irom power in the great majority of Sta#». When it is fully known and understood, you can scarcely find floating upon the surface of popular favor, a timber from tiie wreck of the cruel, lawless, money making party that has held sway over the destinies of this great country, which is gfffiit today,2in spite of incompeten cy, injustice, unfaithfulness and dishon esty in its government by republicans and the republican party. Senator An- ; thour, was among the excursionists to Mexico. He found out that the people of the South were rebellions still and that all their professions of good laith in accepting the situation are false. He has an inquiring mind and inquired. He has a logical turn, and lie sought reasons upon which to base his conclusions. He gives those reasons, that every one may be satisfied 1 of thte correct estimate fliat he, the Rhode Island United States Sen ior, places upon the ti lie situation at the south and the temper of the southern peo ple. Kelly is only a nsember ol'the House of Representees. Anthony is Senator. Authonyis correct'for'hejgivcs facts from which no other than his conclusions can be logically drawn. The natives tcld him their curse was the carpet-bagger, the carpet-baggers told him that the natives were false in their professions, and were rebels, and blood thirsty un ion haters yet. These conflicting state ments left the Rhode Island statesman in doubt. So he goes to the officers of the United Statesaimv, and they inform him that cardial hospitalities, for which the South had a reputation, had not been extended* to them and their'families in manner and degree equal to their pre conceived notions of genuine Southern social untied conflict ing statements of natives£nnd carpet baggers/they were of equal weight be forehand was proof conclusive - South was now secretly engaged in arming and organizing for a second attempt it secession. There must be legislation to regulate social intercourse and Southern hospitality. The goVefig ment is iu danger. The society of Uni ted States officers and their families is not appreciated as it should be. What is to become of Ufr? Tire carpet-baggers rob us of everything and then we are disloyal, rebel, ku-klu.\~, because we are not grandly, and magnificently hospita ble. Tass another civil rights bill forbid in r any social destinctions because of nativity,standing or occupation; and en forcing South a hospitality to wards all, that shall not disappoint any. That is about the only remedy that we sec for the discoveries made by the Sen ator on his excursion. ■ ■■ - THE PBIM The annual meeting of this Associa tion commenced in Wilmington 011 the 11th inst. It was largely attended, and its proceedings are reported to be of importance to the press. The hospital ities of the people of Wilmington were unbounded. We have not room for the accounts furnished by the Wiliniugton papers. All exsureiou to the Forts and other point* of interest below the City, and out upon the oceau, was among the pleasant and interesting features ot the occasion. The address of James Baron Hope, of the Norfolk Landmark, is de scribed as being what all expected it would be, MI eloquent and entertaining production, notwithstanding the feeble condition of health, in which lie found j himself, made au attempt to speak, in | his own words a sacrifice of himself, j Then too, those in attendance had the] benefit and pleasure of listening to'the udmirable address or lecture ot Govern or Vance, upon the "Scattered Nation." Nothing'appears to have been lost sight ot by the good - people of Wilmington, which was likely to render the visit of the members ot the press instructive and plcasureable. Jews and gentiles seemed to vie with each otlier, in their courtesies and hospitalities. After, by special imitation from the proper parlies,every place of iuterest in the city was visited,J the pleasant meet ing was wound up by a grand ball, complimentary to the editors The sin > gle ones cf course enjoyed it. It would ; be a reflection upon their tastes and ua t tnres to conclude otherwise. It was a 1 grand affair;—all beauty, splendor and - enjoyment. (The first description applies I to tlie ladies.) The married ones went > of course, and no doubt before this 1 have told their wives, that it was a very - splendid affair, that the ladies were be witching If beautiful, jutd lovely, be - ..." \ ;/ ' I r they did not fully enjoy themselves ill their absence and that they slipped off just as soon as they could, to indulge in sweet thoughts of home and the loved one there. All this or something like it wC hare no doubt they have said,- when we expect the facts arc that they weie about the most conspicuous and gallant of all present, and perhaps much in the way of more than One bashtul young man. Though not a member of the Association we know of 110 place we should have more liKed to attends The next meeting will be held in New Berne, when and where we hope to be present and enjoy a repetition of the good time, ot which we have/been reading for the last few days in the Wilmington papers. The following officers were Clcetcd J President—Col.Johir D. Cameron , of the Raleigh News. Vice-Presidents— Bernard, Wilming ton-6'tejyMann A, Newborn Times and Malone, Ashcville Expositor. 11. T. Fulghum, was elected Secretary and Treasurer, and Capt, It. A. Shotwell Corresponding Secretary. Messrs. Englehand, Stone, Manning, S. D. Pool, Jr.,-and C. It. Jones were elected as the Executive Committee. TBLERBAPIIIC JVKWM OF TIIK WKEK COXDEMSEU. On the night of the 7th this montli another one of those terrible marine disasters the mere relation of which is horrible, occurred ofl the Scilly Islands. The Eagfe Line steamship Schiller, Capt. Thomas, which sailed from New York April 28th for Hamburg by way of Plymouth and Cherbourg was wreck ed, in the darkness and fog of the night, upon a rock. She had a large number of passengers 011 board from difierent countries, among them we notice the names of several from Georgia. The vessels boats were all stove but two; and her vast cargo of human freight in the darkness of night, far from help, out 011 the ocean, nearly all perished. Many women aiid children are among the lost. No blame for the disaster is attached to any one. The Captain lost his life While yet trying to aid others iu preserving theirs. The full accounts present a scene of the most r.ppalling character. Of the large number of passengers only forty rour were saved; three hundred and eleven were drown ed in the Sea.- A telegram from Washington City says: That in striking the medals for the Mecklenburg Ceutenuial at U. S. Mint in Philadelphia, the Government .must not be understood as having as sumed that there was a declaration of independance on the 20th of May 17/5. That the preparation is simply a busi ness transaction. - Daniel It. Goodloe of this State has written a letter to the New York Herald arguing that the declaration at Charlotte on the 20th of May 1775 is apocryphal. Judge E. Ml Pitts, of Nortolk died suddenly while pleading a case in the Court House. Iu Ohio, a discharg d conductor sawed through the end of an express car, while t.ie train was in motion be tween Seina and Forrest, and getting inside commanded the express tncssen- J ger to surrender, and upon refusal shot j him twice hitting him both times. The j messenger, named Price, then shot the robber, named Brinklev, dead. The Washington printers who struck j in the Chronicle office in Washington ■ c City, arc makiug arrangements to start | a daily paper there. „ c The new Attorney General Edwards t Pierrepout assumed the duties ofliis'( office. j New Presbyterian Church in New York dedicated. It seats twenty one ' hundred persons and cost one million ' \ of dollars. I; - *r- J j The condition of winter wheat in i three hundred and thirty counties has ] been reported to this department of i j Agriculture. An average ot about 63 per ceut of a full crop is reported, from j the valleys of the Ohio and Missouri i rivers. The condition is better in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, ' though below anaveragc. A few wheat | counties in New York make excessiye- ! j I ly unfavorable reports. T Advices from all the capitals of Eu-1 1 rope are of a pacific tenor, and peace j ideas are everywhere in the ascendant.! Two uukuowu men hired a boat at the 1 foot of West 34th, Street New York j and went a short distance out into the - river wliou the boat was upset aud both ; drowned. A storm passed over Green Springs Ohio, blowing down two bouses and every chiu.ncy in the place. Two chil- J drcn were killed. A campaign against the wliiskpy ring , . culminated in the Seizure of more than I thirty of the largest distilleries and . rectifying houses iu St. Louis, Chicago I aud Milwaukee. The situation iu the Pennsylvania L Mining regions is growing daily more I critical. Men who are willing to Work R dare not uudcr threats of death, t Seventy Indians have been captured and among them Lone Wolf, anu other Chiefs distinguished for mauv murders y j and cruel deeds. Kicking Bird who h i betrayed them was disposed of by pris u on given by a squaw. ? y ... . " •* v . - .J, •. • - ' ' „ In a quarrel over a board bill, at Cln'l lon Wis., Geo. Miller, a one armed soldier, shot Geo. Naines, a hotel pro prietor, and Henry Kuehls, hostler, and then went to the Cemetery and shot himself. Kuchls is the only one that can possiblf recovers Three ladies were drowned in at tempting to cross fcandusky river in a wagon. 111 1 eavenworlh Col. D. C. Anthony editor of the Times and Post Master was fatally shot By Win. Embry, editor of the Appeal. The value of dislillery property seized on the 10th is over one million .. Otlier distillery seizures have been or dered in Pekin 111. Cincinnatti Ohio elsewhere, and directions have been gi ven that legal sltfps be taken whenever Iraud has been discovered and flfat ar rests be made where there is sufficient evidence. Men who have resumed work in the Pennsylvania coal mines have to go to their,work aimed with rifles and revol vers to deter the mob from aJtadving them. The Carlist Gen. Aquirre has issued an address, invitiug the carlist to turn their arms against their leader. He says that Don Carlos has lost the right to the crown of Spain before God and the world. It is stated that the instigator of the plot to assassinate Bismark has been ar rested abroad. • Secretary Bristow accepts an invita tion to deliver an addresss upon the oc casion of decorating the graves of union soldiers at Cove Hill. The fourth annual meeting' of the Un derwriters Association ot the South. Commenced, at Savanah Georgia 011 the 12th. / . All important surgical operation was performed upon General John C. Breck enridge at his home at Lexington, Kv., 011 Tuesday by Dr. Gross of Philadel phia, and Dr. Say re, of N. Y. His chest was penetrated by . tubes.insei ted between his ribs, and some relief was afforded. The physicians are of the opinion that the Generals's Liver was injured by a blow received during the war from a fragment of a shell, and tlmt his present suffering is due entirely to that cause. The physicians entertain hopes that the operation will prove of permanent advantage to the'patient. Hie Spanish Government has paid Caleb Cashing Minister from the U. S. thirty live thousand dollars, it being the last installment of the Virginias in demnity. Genj. Breckenridge sinking rapidly and his death to be expected a>iy moment. All attempts to reach the wreck of the Schiller failed. The London Post maintains that the Itite war rumors were not groundless. Germany is alarmed by the rapidity of the French Military reorganization, and had arranged everything for, and was ou the point of inarchingagaiust France, but the danger is avct'led for the'mo ment. v . . The raid against the whiskey ring vigorously prosecuted. Orders for sei zures daily issued. A large establish ment in Cincinatti to be seized. U.S. Attorneys and revenue officers not ac tively engaging in (he raid to be repor ted. An underground tank, holding twenty five thousand gallons belonging to a Milwaukee distiller discovered. Gangers and store keepers being remov ed. The Senatorial elections contested cases, iu N. H. were referred- to the Judges of the Superior Court for their opinion, provided it could be had before three o'clock yesterday, if not the Gov. ernor was fb gel such advice as the cir cumstances admit. The decision of I . these cases involves the political su premacy iu that State. The striking miners in Pennsylvania kept up a straggling fire the Sher iffs posse all night, hoping to frighten them aw"ay. While a freight train was passing through an arch at Sing Sing S'ate pris on, N. Y. four conyicts jumped on the engine, presented revolvers at the en gineer and fireman, compelled them to get off, cut the engine loose and started Southward abandoning the engine three miles north of Tarrytown. On Monday the 10th iustant there ! was a reunion of Maliones Brigade in Petersburg. They organized under the name of "Memorial Association of Ma hones Old Brigade" President Wm. Mahone Vice-Presidetits G.R. Rogers, E. M. Field, John H. Gayle J. P. Mine tree, John T. West; Recording Secre tary, G. F. Edwards; Corresponding St&rctary ; L. S. tdwards; Treasurer* T. A. Williams. The occason was one of pleasure. The delegation was large. The New Internal Revenue Commis sioner assumed the duties of his office - on the 15th Officials of the Treasury Department are searching for crooked whiskey, a large amount of seizures are reported daily, and in many cases distillers and sellers manifest a disposition to appeal to the courts. * C. H. Davis, late Postmaster at Uni on Springs, Ala., plead guilty in the U. S. Court of the embezzlement of fnnds .! irom litters received by him. By re ' quest of the District Attorney, wliosta ted that there were extenuating circum stances, the lowest punishment, which was a sentence ot six months imprison ment ami aline to the amount of lionev abstracted was imposed. Davis was a Republican member of the Legislature iu 1872, and took his scat at the Court House which elected S pen cor to the Senate, and voted for hiui for Senator. Soon afterwards he was appointed Post, master, Olio of the officers of the wrecked Ship bchilldr, hay intonued a corres pondent of the Standard ,( London) that many persons on board that ill fa ted Steamer were drunk when she struck, and that several firemen, and many steerage passengers lay helpless until they were swept away by the waves. EXFOU'I'ATIOI* OF TSFREGBO THI! KADICAI, *JK\V DEPinT- en it. Wo noticed a week or two since in these columns a pamphlet published by Mr. Alexander Murray, of Griffin, Georgia, a Federal office-holder and a supporter of Gen. Grant, in which the writer contended that a separation of the race? would be of advantage to the whites, and pledged himself to advocate Grant's election for a third term pro vided he would favor the exportation of . the negro race from the United" States. Mr. Murray -enforced his ex portation policy with arguments and facts of a character that showed he was terribly In earnest in his desire to get rid ot the negro, whose presence nere is, according to his view, operat ing-as a practical bar to white immi gration South, thus depriving the whole Union of the wealth which would result from a full and economical cul-~ tivatimi of cotton, tobacco, 1 ' lice and sugar cane. 111 support of his theory ha also adduced some startling rnor tunary statistics, showing by the dea~.li per cGnt, that the negro race iva> rap adly approaching extinction, which could only be prevented by removing him from contact with the superior White soul. The views ot Mr. 'Murray, which were first received by. the Radical press at the North with denunciations, appear now to have attracted attention and sympathy in an unexpected quar ter. A Washington . correspondent of the St. Louis Globe aminounces that schemes are 011 foot at Washington looking to the colonization of the ne gro, 011 the ground that he has not sffi- cient ambition in his present standing in the country to distinguish hiinseit, and will suffer extinction if he remains here. Leading men,- it is said/ are privatly eonfering together as to the best means whereby this object can be accomplished, and colonization socie ties are to bj organized to assist Sambo to emigrate to "Sail Domingo, Cuba, and other Southern countries." The correspondent says? "The rid of President Grant is count ed upon in this humanitarian underta king, not because of any promises or expressions lately made, but for the reason that ho has fitated to certain individuals that his chief purpose in urging the purchase .of Sail Domingo was to enable this government to throw the island wide open to negro* immigration from the United States.- This movement has now assumed shape and is expected to me.it with hearty endorsement and salutary success." Commenting on the statement of the Globe's corrsepondent, the Mobile Register says: "We may therefore conclude that the Republicans, having exhausted their efforts to build up a party in the Southern States by array ing the negroes against tlic whites, are now casting about to see whether they cannot retrieve their lost fortunes by arraying the whites against the ne groes. It is very probable tliyt Presi dent Grant may lend himself to this new scheme, just aa he lent himself to the recognition of Coke, in Texas, and Baxter, iu Arkansas, under the plan of Mosby, Stephenson & Co. lie can lose nothing, and may probabh gain somctuin* by advocating any scheme presented him. It is sad to reflect that only ten years ago the negro was deen.- eJ to be "the ward of the nation." aid now the unnatural guardian is consid ering the propriety of banishing the , ward to his native Africa or the isies of | the sea.- Truly, Republics arc ungratc ' ftil. It remains for the white people of ; the South to" protect the negro from j this new scheme*, which, under the I tence of saving him rom extinction, ! will subject him to the benign patron ! age of the liumafiiti.rl.ins whose monu-' j ments exist all over the South in the shape of empty Frecdinen's bank.?' — Savanah A'ewn. Another four spot. A remarkable birth occurred in Jersey City on Satur day night. The wifeot Heinrich Strok jncyer/watchman employed in the sit gar houses ot Matthieson & Miechers, : was delivered of four children, three girls and one boy, all alive, at a birth, and all living and apparently doing j well up to yesterday afternoon. They attracted many visitors.—jV. Y. I World. a. « j Ben. Hill of Georgia has been elected to Congress from the 9th District, to fill ths vacancy caused bv the death of McMillian. lie was the successful one of four candidates. lie is a man of ability aud courage. s | Memorial day in Greensboro 13 on ■ the 22nd of this month. v j-' • . ADVERTISEMENTS. |1875. 1870. i Spring and Summer* I ® ®§ P | Pretty and Cheap !! f L ARRIVED j AND CONSTANTLY ARRIVING:. * We would respectfully inform our custo mer", friends aud the pubi c, that we are re ceiving a large, complete and well selected stock of Spring and Summer Goods. We selected ourselves, paid the cash, and can afford to, and will sell as cheap as the same goods can be bought in the State. When you come to the Shops don't fail to come to' |he " Yellow House" where -every one coined to get cheap,-pretty, durable goods, at the very Cheapest Prices. Come in and Isok at them, they will astonish • you. So pretty anfl gafclicip !. JOHN Q OANT & CO., COnmatiy Shops, N. C. GRAND, SQUARE & UPRIGHT 3?I A.3STOS Have received 1 upwards of Fifty First Premi- • unis, and are among the best now made. Eve ry instrument fully warranted for five years j Prices a* low as the exclusive use of'the very i best materials, and the most thorough work ] mansliip will permit. The principal; pianists I and composers and ihe piano-purchasing pub-' | lie, of the South, especially, unite in the unan imous verdict of superiority of rthe Stieff Piano. The durability of our instruments is I fnilv established by over sixty schools and' I ColFejr& in the South, Usii.a; over 300 of our rijMßfer"" Sole Wholesale Agents for several of the ! principal manufactures >t Cabinet and Parlor Organs, prices from to Ss6;)o. A liberal dis content- tfo'Clergymeh and Sabbath Schools. A large assortment of second-hand Pianos, at prices ranging from $75 to S3OO, always on l hand. | Send for Illustrated Catalogue, containing the names of over 5}.(,'00 Southerners who have bought and are now using the Stieff Piano. 'hMk/i ' CUAS. M. STIEPF, Warerooms, No. 9 North Liberty Street. J§ - Baltimore, M- D. Factories, 84 & 86 Camdem Street, and 45 & 47 Porry Street. Mew Drug Store. wPS'*- Vfyfi zr . u " • DR. J. S. MURPHY Respectfully notifies the public that he lias' opened a complete and well filled DRUG STJROE at Company Shops, where anything kept in a well' ordered Drug Store niny be found. The physicians of the county and the public generally, are invited to patronize this new „ ~ enterprise. An experienced druggist—a regu lar graduate in pharmacy, is in charge, so that physicians and the public may rest assured that all preeeiptions and orders will be cor rectly-and carefully filled. Prices as reasonable as can be afforded, feb 16-2-m '*s*. « , |J|UO«A«I &. COBBIiTT, (at the McCray Oftl Stand,) Alamance.COUNTY, N. G., General Dealers in DRY-GOODS, GROCERIES, HATS A- CAPS, BOOTS 6c SHOKS. i Hardware, Tinware, Leather, DRUGS, MEDICINES, DYE-STUFFS, Ready-Made Clothing, etc., &c., which they will sell as cheap as can be bought elsewhere. f TERMS CASH OK BARTER. AT MtJ R R A Y ' S OTuT> STAND $ .-.i Keep constantly on hand 'fj • DUY-UOOOS, OROCERIES, QUEENS WARE. BOOTS, AND SHOES, PIECE GOODS, Sit., AC. All of which we will sell as low as can be had elsewhere, for Cash or Barter. Ail kinds pf produce wanted'. Look at our ! Stock, compare with others and buy if you ■■will. ~ . . W. G. HARDEN. feb 9-3 in F. JONES & SONS, GRAHAM, N. C., Buggy and Carriage Makers, Arc prcpared to fill at the shortest notice all orders in their line. Repairing promptly and neatly done, at F 1 MODERATE RATES. They also keep constantly on hand for sale at their bhop, an assortment of ' Iroa, SaiU, BugST material. Prepar ed Paintn of all colara, Plcusb*. nod Coffin.. Any style of coffin furnished at two hours notice. All kinds of produce taken at market prices. We are thankful for past patronage, and ! hope to merit its continuance. /- feb 16-2 m King Alfonso is giving the Carlists a lively time, and* B. TATE & CO., at the old *tand of Murray & Tate, in Graham, are giving all who try to undersell them a lively time. Alfonso and Tate & Co.,are both bound 1 to succeed. Tate & Co, will buy at the highest prices all you have to sell, aud at the lowert prices sell you all you want to buy.