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THE GLEANER. B. I. FiBKEB, Editor. GRAHAM, N. C., JUNE 1, 1875. [ These columns are open to the free discussion of affairs. The QLEA NEli is not responsible for the opinions expressed by corespondents."] AKXI SATUKDAV. On next Saturday, the sth day of June, thcr6 will be a meeting of the Democratic-Conservative party of this county, held in the Court House, for the pnrpose of adopting a plan, best calculated to produce harmony, and in sure concert of action in tho approach ing campaign. AVe have urged (he im portance of this meeting, and the neces sity, for the interest of all, of its being well attended. Before another issue of our paper, the appointed time of the meeting will have passed, and the cam paign really opened in this county. There was never* a campaign in which the welfare of all was more deeply con cerned. The delegates, sffnt to the Con stitutional Convention, may so amend tlie present Constitution, as to render it in many particulars a new one. That Constitution will, or should be for the benefit of all. There should be sent to amend or reframe it, men whose object and whose sole object will be the wel fare and good of the whole people. A Constitution is not made for a party, nor tor a generation only, but for a State—for a people lor all time, as near as may be. /flu order that a due regard may be Bad for the high and re- sponsible duties devolving upon the delegates, and that a disinterested effort may bo made to discharge those duties, it is necessary that the Democratic par ty should elect a controlling number of the delegation. To do this certainly, requires that every county should do its duty, i Upon each individual member of the party there rests a duty. Concert of action and harmony must prevail if we hope for success. This can only be insured by tho active iutcrcst of tho - whole party. When meetings arc there are addom if ever dissentions. A few cannot then control them. The! Republicans hove made the contest of strictly party character as Tar as they have been able. Let us not by supine- j uess now, loose the victory that is with in easy reach, or worse yet by disagree ment among ourselves. The last election in this county was no test of party siren-j gtb. Voters were then largely influenced by questions that cannot again arise. There was a want ot harmony among ourselves. For the good of the State and every citizon of it, let the causes of the past division bo forgotten. If any have | wires to pull, or ill direct and secret In- j lluences to exert, let us meet in such numbers as to defiat them. The people are busy, but every one can serve his j own interest better by coming out, and lending his assistance to the important work betore the party irow, than he can by staying at home. Tho Republicans are already at work,.trying to foment strife among us. Tluit is their only hope. If we were as prompt to the calls ofour party as they are to thoirs, success would be doubly assured, and our suc cess, complete and ever) where means a blessing to all, Republican as well as Democrat—unless it is the office-holder. Ah, there is the rub I There are many officers, and mnch par now. Good for office-holders) bad for the people. We believe iu the people. When they err it is front the head not from (Tie heart, , Come out, so that the meeting next Sat r urday shall bea meeting of the people, really and in fact. Let us talk over the situation and compare views. Let those } views indorsed by the majority control the action of the party iu this county. .This campaign must not be for the pur pose of serving the ambition of a class or clique or individual. The work oi a delegate to a Constitutional Conven tion is lasting. We must scud men who f will poaforin it promptly and well, ac cording to the wishes and interests of tho people. *' ~ . 1 PLBAiAfKi LODUE ACAbK.HV. By special invitation we attended the 1 closing exercises of this institution ol learning on last Thnrsday. It is situa ted in this county, near the Randolph and Chatham liucs, and immediately j upon the Guilford line. The academy building, the upper story ot which is j also used as a Masonic Lodge, is pleas antly and beautifally located, near the public highway, in the midst of a de lightful grove. We were iuvitcd to ad dress the pupils, and had supposed we should find, of pupils, their parents and immediate friends of the school .a neigh borhood gathering of perhaps two hun dred. Tne night preceding we spent , with our old firiend George Patterson, Esq.. only a couple of miles distant, and hence were upon the ground early. Judge of our surprise,upon getting there to find already assembled more than a thousand people, and others coming in buggies, carriages, and other vehicles and on horse-back. They continued to arrive until the crowd numbered from two to three thousand people. And a better looking crowd we never before saw assembled. From an estimate,made from the seats, which approximates ac curacy, there were nine hundred ladies present. The crowd was principally from Chatham, Randolph, Guilford and this county. We are an old man, but we arc as wo believe a judge of female beauty, and we can truthfully 6ay that we never saw together more pretty ladies in oue day. At ten o'clock the ringing of the large Academy bell an uounccd the commencement of 'lie fix ercises. The immense crowd were hushed into slleuce by a piece of vocal music elegantly rendered in which teachers and pupils joined. This was followed by declamation by the boys and essays by the girls, interspersed by music from a fine string baud, until about onq o'clock, when a recess, tor dinner was takeu. And such a dinner! Everybody brought a basket filled with good things and as large as the crowd was we think there was a sufficiency to have fed it a week. At two o'clock the bell cailed the crowd again together, when the exefcises were resumed. The declamation as a whole was line, some I excellent. The essays ofthe girls were well written, their own production,and gracefully aud distinctly roadiw-ith just enough of modest bashful cress to bring the roses to their cheeks, aud euhauce the pleasant eflect. "Boys and girls rights" by the smal ler pupils delivered in chorus was sim ply splendid. About four o'clock the writer was introduced which closed the exercises. But the young people were not yet ready to abandon the scene tff the days pleasures, so at night there was a social gathering with music until about ten or eleven o'clock. Every*- thing passed off pleasantly and to the entire satisfaction of" all. This school was organized nine months since by two-young men, Messrs N. C English of Trinity College, and O. T. Edwards of Chatham county. More than a hun dred pupils attended their school, dur ing the term, and they had an average ; attendance of sixty. Mr. English is a graduate of Trinity College. Mr. Ed wards though not college bred is thoroughly educated. They''"are chris tian gentlemen, and the neighborhood, appreciates, and is justly proud of their school. The next session com- j ineuces the third of August» The clos- j ing exercises of Pleasant Lodge Accad- I eiuy will long be remembered as a day j of enjoyment and quiet pleasure by all j who were present. The teacoers were : proud of their pupils, the pnpils .of! their teacher*, and the sunwinding j country of both. THE Philadelphia Centennial Corn uiitteo.has made among other appoint ments, that of L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mis sissippi, as one of the two special ora tors of the day, and Gon'l, Joseph E. Johnson, as Master of Ceremonies. Thisis worrying to the National Repub lican, because it looks too much to gen uine reconciliation. But the committee of arrangements is composed of wiser material. And since they show that the Philadelphia Centenmal is to be na tional, wo hope North Carolina will bestir herself to appear creditably among the list of exhibitors—For the celebrationis not of a day like that of Charlotte, but iu the nature of an expo sition lasting through several months. Xetcs. GRAHAM, N. C., ) May 24th, 1875. \ Hoy. A. W. TOUROKE, Dear Sir: —From the Wilmington Journal of a recent date, I uoticc the statement that you had expressed your self to the eoiTCfpoudeut of aCiuciuati paper, as having views upon the politi cal situation diflerent from those you are generally credited with havi'ug. May 1 askys.iLwhether this is is true? Permit me to hope it is. Will you writo me? Hurriedly you*, Ac., E. 8. PARKER. GREENSBORO', N. C , ) May 25th, 1875. \ My Dear Parker: Your favor of yesterday is received. I have bccu much nmused at the article in the Journal aud the inquiries which have ariseu lroin it. The correspondent business is a myth. lam not aware of over having spoken to any correspond- i ent in reprd to my political views. I I j am certain that I never authorized any i one to think my thougnts for mo. That, | however, is immaterial. In answer to ! your question, allow mc to say that I am not aware of any change iu my polit-1 ical faith, nor even an inclination to change. If 1 were to write my political creed it would be Lincoln's famous j aphorism. " A government of the peo- | pie, by the peoplo and for the people," including in the term " people" the en- | 1 r tiro population of the United States. ' You know, for wo have often talked ■ frocly of these matters, how broad aud ■ deep the foundations of my faith in the : people lie. I have no faitli in politicians, aristocrat*, or classes of any sort. The whole, with the counterchecks of vari- ant interests and conflicting views, is far more likely to do justice and pro mote the true interests of all, than any part or class. I consider the elements iu this definition of American Keputbli canism, to be as inseparable as the per sons of the Holy Trinity. That theory, plan or idea,of government which brings the government moat nearly to the peo ple— the whole people—allows them most directly to control and direct it, does away with political "middlemen," damns piivileged classes, and trains the people most rapidly and effectually i" the management of public affiiij#. for their own good —that theory is*the one to which l.give my unfaltering adhesion —Whatever smacks of political Phari seeism—standing upon the street corn ers and thanking God that we are not as other men—that I repudiate. It matters not how honest a man may bo in that view—it matters not how much ho may honestly pride liityself upon Caucasian complex ion, or his unmixed Anglo-Saxon-Nor man-Celtic lineage, the very assumption ofexclusiveucss,or superior right to rule or govern in our land, isrcpellant to my instincts, my conviction,and my delib erate belief as to sound policjv* • On the other hand, it is well known to you and many others of my personal friends, of both political par ties, that I have never fully approved the measures known a's the Reconstt'uc-" tiou acts —not from any dissent from 11 to principles on which they are based, but | from what I deemed their inefficiency | to secure the end aimed at. This desir- I ed end I understand to be, the erection" of sell-regulating republican govcrn | ments ill the territory, of the late .Con-, j fedoracv, in which the equal 'rights and j privileges of ail citizens, shall be secur jed and maintained and their highest! I interests promoted. 1 entertained this j I idea of the insufficiency of these ens | ures at the time of their adoption, and I lmv'c seen no good reason as yet to change it. Indeed my views in regard ! i to the operation and results ot (his pol-1 ! icy have been fulfilled with singular j ■ accuracy. Ido hold this to have been j I " a serious error" on the part of the | j Republican party which was then in j power—an error in policy mind vou, not in principle. 1 hold it to have been i the duty of that party to have taken j such a course, to have so legislrted, as to I have set at rest forever that host of un ! pleasant issues—not to say dangerous ones, which arc crowding the near ftt ture of the South for solution. At the j same time, it was a movement, an ex | perimeut in the direction of popular government, equal right and universal manhood. While therefore I thought it insufficient and illy-considered in its details, I cheerfully co-operated in the endeavor to secure its success and am heartily glad that I did 7 so. What plan I think would have been better is as immaterial now, as were my convictions then. It has been stated, that I thought the negroes should have been educated before they were allowed to vote. In one sense this is true and in another false. I think an ignorant man has the same right to his share in self-government as a wise one. These States, eveu now, offer a significant il lustration of this truth. Had their re. habituation been left to the 88 per cent of our adult population who are educa ted, that is not illiterate —the colored man would have now no rights at alj, legal or political as opposed to the white citizen, or, in other words, none "which the white man is bound to respect." Fortunately in this State this is not a j mere matter of speculation and belief; we litjve the proposed Constitution of 18C5 to justify this conclusion. At the same time, I think that the government owed hotn education and training in the duties life, to the slave, and an education to,the 24 per cent, ot illiterate whites whom slavery had kept from knowledge, both as an act of justice and ofpolicy, having a wise regard to its own future. The whole nation was responsi ble for slavery —There is no shirking that. The nation permitted, encour aged, protected and nurtured it. It | justified the Southern man in investing | his money in, and building his future I uj>on the basis ot slave property. It was responsible, therefore, for the ills which sprung from slavery oml was bound in honor and good conscience .to repair them, so far as was possible. The greatest evil arising from shivery, and contiiiueiiig when tlio slave was made a citizen in a governmental view, was the rgnorance and inexperience of civil and political duties, which it produced. This the nation should have remedied, as speed!lv, thoroughly and safely as possible, and until it wat in a good degree remedied it should nevjr have given the reins of government un reserved lyiuto the hands of communi ties thus constituted. How could this have been done? By some modification, perhaps, of the territorial plan, by which the internal affairs of these States might have been administered under the-su pervison of the national government. 1 think by this means both the extrav- nganco and lawlessness of the past, and the danger of tlio immediate luture might have been avoided. Hut, it is urged, that this course would have taken u long time, perhaps a gen eration. * Ah, there is the 1 rouble. We have no faith in time! We think that the railroad and telegrah have an nihilated time and space! Milton said that oue oi the attributes of Deity was the power to compress eternity into an hour. The Republican party and Con gress got an idea that they also had this power. Ilcnce thi9 "serious error." You remember somebody's idea, that if a yattkee had had the contract of crea tion be would have finished it all up in five days and gone fishing on Saturday- It was so with onr Republican Congress at the close of the war. They wanted to do the work of a generation in a day. € I tell yon Captain, I cannot get over the impression that our children will be fitter men to settle this " hash" than we who have looked into each other's f»c®4 over a glimmering gun ban c! or pricked ! at each other's throats with bloody I brcs. We are good friends, and find each other pleasurable companions, but there is a heap.of human nature in us yet. You know that the law counts a i man not precisely indifferent who has | merely "formed and expressed an opin ion." How would it hold one who j had fought for his opinion for four j years? j 1 doubt if this generation will sec the I end ot those questions which a mnjpriiy | of the nation fondly be!ieve to have been I settled by the war. I seriously fear that | the struggle is not only unconcluded, j bn f also tlnit it has not yet reached the | climax of intensity. I I have no idea that my views in re j gard to political ma! ters past, present ox: to come, arc' of any importance, but ! sine ! you were so courteous as to ask \an expression ot them, I could iiot do I justice to your inquiry and my own con j victid'ns more briefly. 1 remain with the highest respect, yours, A. W. Toukgee. We had bought our lii.tb boy a new knife which ho very hl-i'ly pn/.'d. He went upon the strCet with it, and mctaji older an l.sniart | er boy, wiyo wanted it..''fiiiffolttsr find.smart er boy propsod to "throw knives" Oui little ; feTIoTv ;did tint know v;ast"ks"nuJSTil,«"tivT : simply asked to see smart bay's kui.'e, at the [ same "time handing liini his own new knife i Smart-boy -took UfUia.lieeiti and left out: little f fellow with his old knife. I'lus little follow came home scarcely able to keep bue'e a cry. I and coming into the midst of tne family be exhibited an old heavy buck-born handle knife with a single blade, loose in the rivit, . and worn almost entirely away, exclaiming, and, no longer able to prevent i:. bursting | into a big cry at the same time, "I c.vrap;>e I j knives with John K —*—and here's what i got." • AVe thought the Judge had seen the error of i his way a. d wrote liim, and • 'hero's what wiv j got." ■ ■ - r EKS 8135,5. Oft fi»£2A£E. In a recent speech Hon. 13. 11. Hill, of Georgia saia The one great work of statesmanship .in this Generation, in this country, is to make peace between the Nortncrn arid Southern people. Without that nothing else can be accomplished. With that everything that is good will follow. How is that peace to be made? Mark my language, to make peace between the people of the respective sections. He is a stupid visionary w'ho supposes he can ever make peace between the politicians of the two sections. These politicians have been the disturbers of the peace for twenty years. Thev have acquired power by re ison of their suc cess in keeping the peace disturbed, and their only hope of continuing in power is to continue to be disturbers of-that peace. Tne people must bo reached, the people ot the North and of the South, and they must be reached in such manner as to show them that they have a common interest, and otfght to have a common feeling. Well* it is a very puzzling question at first view, but my friends, it is like most every other great problem, it is at hut solved by a very simple proces, very simple. What must bo the basis of .peace? There can. be but one basis of permanent ])d*ace between the North and the South. Wli at is that? It is simple. Simply, on ly a return by the North and by the South, by flic East and by the West, by States and by individual? to the com mon Constitution. The great trouble in the past has been that some of our Southern friends have attempted to save the Constitution by destroying the Union. The great trouble with the Northern people is that they have at tempted to save the Union by "destroy ing the Constitution. The remdy for both grievances is-simply for the North and the South to return to the Consti tution and to the Union the only guar antee of liberty, and the only hope of peace, while they are oneand iiiscpara ublc. , BEYEKEADV.,, 4 A little more than two months from now there is to be a most important contest in North Carolina. Tlie friends or Constitutional reform hope to be able to accomplish a great deal in that elec- ; tion towards perfecting the organic iaw . ot'lhc State. The advocates of reform [ are chiefly Democratic Conservatives. I The Radical party arc arrayed against this etlort to secure sound and impar- | tial laws and homogencouus govern- 1 incut, Out of this statement of facts grows ' this proposition: To sure work of carrying through the nn.st needful changes iu the Constitution njl who re gard themselves as Conservatives must put their shoulders to the wheel in good tjme. There must be tuil and prompt action .taken in every county and town ship. Movements Joward organization "have been made in several counties, iii one or two, candidates stre already in | the field. Let the other counties fol low the example, and by the middle of June let every county iu the State have its arrangements pretty well perfected. One point wc desire particularly to enforce. Townships are small commu nities easily canvassed. Committees of townsnips should consist ot the best working men, ot character and popular ity, in tlio township. If they are selec ted at an early day they can speedily make what preparaii n for the canvi.ss may be necessary. The great Demo cratic Senator from Ohio said in a re ceut 'speech that all depended on prop er township organization and labor. Before Mr. Thmman made this remark we urged the, point upon the Conserva tive party of North Carolina. Let us ihakeour party strung hi eneli township, and the machinations of John Pool mid his Radical associates will come to naught most calamitously for then;. WV'mington Star. James G. McCrcary, the Democratic candidate for Governor of .Kentucky, is a native of Madison county, N. C. TItJLKIURArBItC KEfl'S OF TIIE j PAST WEEK, C O!> i»EI*SIiI>. | The Secretary Oi' War lias given for- ; mal permission to the Southern Memorial Association to decorate the gravcs r of Confederate dead at Arlington 011 J-une John Goforth has. resigned as assis tant Attorney General. llie Court of Claims has awarded the payment of about $259,000. to Col. | Itobt. M. and Stephen A. Douglas, for cutton, seized during the war, on a plantation, belonging to their mother, in 011 the 21th the British Associa tion of Virginia,in Richmond,celebrated the birth-day ot Qifeen Victoria. Genl- Barton, late of army presi ded. vafejfc-'' The new Attorney General, Pierre pont, on the first of, June wilt inaugu rate the following bureau: The Su preme Court,-Court of Claims, Legal Investigations, Official Correspondence. ' Chief Clerk Council of law. The chief of each bureau will be designated. The Pope i s seriously ill. Baltimore races postponed 011 account of rain. Hon. John Vail of N. J. of Congress, and at one time Consul to Glasgow, is dead. Tht" cerebo spinal meningitis has ap peared among the horses in St. Louis, but the disease is not spreading.-v* A Nashville despatch savs the Su preme Court has decided that tho State is not bound lor the payment of the war bond, of the new issue known as the war issue of Tennessee money, amotwl ing to $8,000,000. - • The Government at Berlin, forbids a procession, in honor of the Popes jubi lee. • The Presbyterian general assembly, J at St.Louis, appointed a special r.ommit i tee to consider of the matter of friendly I relations- between the Northern and j Southern church, Regrets were ex j pressed that the conference, at Balti -iiiore""last Janua.iv, was not able to | bring these two great bodies together !in Iriendlv relations. Tile position of j their committee, as the only one it could ! have taken under the circumstances,was endorsed. The bearer of an anonymous letter offering a million llorius for Bismark'a assassination, has been arrested. The Pope is not dangerously id. * Maj. Clias. I. Grayes of Ga. has gone to Egvpt to enter the Khedive's sur vices as Col. ot Engineers. He is a graduate of West Point, but an ex-con fedcrate. It is thought the mining business o Pennsylvania will be resumed the firsi day ot June. The heavy rains have drenched niill ions of grasshoppers in the North Wej^ ' The Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania was called to order by Russell Everett, Chairman of the State Committee, at 12 o'clock. John G* ; Essna was elected Chairman. After I the roll call several committees, inclu i ding one of thirteen 011 resolutions, and ; platform were appointed. E. McPher ■ son is chairman of the committee on platform. | The Convention adopted resolutions affirming their continued adhesion to the party, and declare the fundamental , principles of their political faith as fol lows. First, the equality of all men; ; before the law, equal justice to all, and ; especial favors to none-; second, tho harmony of the National aud State Government, both are parts of a system | alike, necessary for the-common pros- ! | pcrity, peace and security Third, the | unity of the nation, we arc one , the Constitution of the Uuited States] forms a government not a league; Fourth, a tuithlal execution of the laws, an economical administraticir of the Government integiity in office, hon esty in all branches ot the civil service and a rigid accountability of public 'iffi | ccrs; Fifth, protection to home imlus : try and home market for home products; ; Sixth, the l ight of the laborer to protec tion and encouragement, and the pro motion of harmony between labor and capital; Seventh, cheap transportation , and the advancement of closer inter- Tcoumsc between alfparts of the country; ; Eighth, free banking, a safe' and uni form national currency adjusted to the growing wants oflthc business interests , of the country, ami a steady reduction of the national debt; Ninth; the public domain being the heritgc of the people should be reserved for actual settlers exclusively; Tenth, the equalization of the bounties of soldiers aud a speedy settlement of all just claims arising out of the late war; Eleventh, honest men in office, meii with brains enough to know dishonesty when they see it, and courage "enough to fight it wherever they find it. The resolutions also de clare against the third term, but eulo gizes the administration ot Grant, j The convention was permanently or ganized by the election of General Har dy White as President. Grant advises the Indians to give up i.the Black Hills country to the whites, j and says that the difficulty of keeping the white, man out of their country will grow greater every year, and that the J, Indians had better enter into some ar .J V rangement by wliich they should evacu ate. Spotted Tail got mad and denied having called the Secretary of Interior a liar. The; Attorney General Pierrepont has issued a circular that—"hereafter the practice of the District, attorneys of em ploying substitutes'must be discontin ued, and 110 compensation for such ser vices rendered to the Department will he sanctioned. The International Convention of the Young Mens Christian Association as sembled in Richmond Va. 400 dele gates representing thirty states present. Joseph Hardee ot Sclma Ala. was elec ted President. At Columbus Ohio, while some men were at work on a scaffold putting a truss roof on the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, the scaffolding gave way pre cipitating six men,.a distance of seven ty feet to the ground. Three were in stantly killed and the other three fatally injured. The Biennial session of the Synod of the Lvangeiical Lutheran Church in ses sion in Baltimore. It represents a hundred thousand members and 700 ministers. The 92nd , annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Dio cese of Maryland i:i session In Balti more. The question of prayers for the i dead will be brought betore Bishop | Smith, of Kentucky, B'shop Whitting- I ham having to take action in arranging the rectors of Calvary church. An explosion took place in Dows drug stare in Boston 0:1 Washington street. The wall fell. Two are dead j and three have been taken out fatally 1 hurt. Twelve have been sent to the j kospital. The street was crowded with i people and vehicles. A street car was l thrown on its side by the explosion. A horse and buggy was found under the the ruins. The adjoining buildings were shattered The cause is unknown. Commissioners for the United States Centennial desire to say that they have made no selection of orators, or of marshals. The President and his family go to Long Branch 10-day. The Black llill Indians dont care about going to the Indian Teritory. Spotted Tail wants to know if that coun4vy-w"SO beautiful why the white man dont go there, and let the Black Hills alone. The Boston Post has been organized into a stock company with a capitol of $300,000. in shares ofsloo each, and the stock has all been taken. Evarts has commenced his speech in the Beecber trial. The tarred body of a man was found floating yesterday in the East River, New York. The French Catho'ic church at South Ilolyoke was burned. candles on the alters fired the drapery. The ser vices had nearly closed and vespers were being sung. Those in the body of the church narrowly escaped. Those in the galleries mostly perished There was but one exit from the galleries. There were seven hundred worshipers in the building. Seventy five met a horrible death. The details are heart rending. Death oflix-Meunior Jcme D. Bright [Baltimore ti&zutte, 21st.] Last evening Hon. Jesse D. Bright died at hi* residence in Baltimore, No. 92 West Madison street. He was born at Norwich, Chenango county, New York, December 18th, 1812, received an academic education, and studied law as a profession. Jle was Circuit Judge ot Indiana, State Senator, Mar shal of the United States for the district of Indiana, ahd Lientenant-Govern- or of that State. lie was United States Senator from 1845 to 1857, aud President of the Senate during several sessions. lie was elected for an ad ditional term in 1857, and was Chair man of the Committee on public Build ings and Grounds, and a member of the Cammittee? on Finance and DJ.C Pacific Railroad. lie warmly espoused the side of the South at the commence ment of the war, aud, on account of correspondence with Hon. Jefferson Davis, he was expelled from the Senate by the Republican majority. Since that time he has taken little part in public life. •' . j > jW Clem C. Curtis gavens some Irish potatoes, " of his own raising last week, which were as fine as we evqr oaw from the North. They were of the White Mercer variety. They were of last years crop aud wc have planted them. Whv cannot our people raise their own seed potatoes as Mr. Curtis does? Some do, but then a good deal of money is spent for Northern raised potatoes for planting purposes, which might as well be kept at home. We can raise as fine potatoes here as perhaps anywhere In the world, and they are easily raised, and a very profitable crop. The true principle is to boy nothing from abroad that we can raise at home. It is all wrong for people to get any thing from abroad that can as well be raised at homo—There should not be occasion for a single Irish potatoe to be shipped to this state nor a single pound of bacon, or beef, nor a single barrel of flour or bushel of corn. The longest bridge in the world, on the Harrelsville and Athica branch of the Erie Railroad in New York, was burned on the sth. ulfc
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