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THE REPORTER. J. PBPPKR, SR., | J. T. DARI.INGTOV, fldUor. Attociutt Editor. ~ THURSDAY, JtJNK It, IST". ADVICE USASKKL). ''License or no license" is the princi pal topic in Stokes county now. From what we can learn, the majority of the citizens of the oounty are in favor uf lioense, but a majority of the county commissioners are opposed to granting them. No good was ever accomplished by forcing people to be temperate against their will. Saoh legislation will be sure to re-act in the end.—ll 'imton Sen inel. We deny the slanderous charge mado against the people of Stokes in the above paragraph. A majority here are not drunkards, and do not require force to make them "temperate against their will " The morality of our people will eompare favorably with that of the citi zens of any other section of the State, and when we succeed in destroying the pernioious influences of retail liquor Bhopa, even Forsyth county might learn lessons of virtue from us. The Senti nel* imputation is as unjust as it is un true. A majority of our people are sober and industrious; and notwith standing the influenoeof .parties direotly interested in the traffic, and newspapers whose sympathies may have been en* listed, this majority of sober, patriotic and sensible people intend to use their best efforts to crush the retail 3ystem, and relieve all classes of our people from the disgrace and evil entailed by it. We know that it is the great source of crime among us, filling jails, penitentiaries and premature graves with those who have "looked upon the wine when it gaveth its color in tho cup," but, had it not been for licensed temptation, would have been respectable citizens in their sections. We know that it brings poverty, disgrace and ruin to the many, robbing the indi vidual of his manhood, children of their bread, wives of their roofs, society of its vitality ; while the devil and the retail ers divide the spoils of the traffic between themselves. Is it any wonder that the better classes of peoplu should insist upon the abolition of this evil ? But the Sentinel says that a "major ity of the citizens of the county are in favor of lioense, but a majority of the oounty commissioners are opposed to granting them." If this is true, we congratulate the three Commissioners upon their firmness and intelligence We like to see men io> office whq will not sacrifice conscience for persona 1 ) pop ularity. We are glad that the Commis sioners think more of their county and the true interests of society than they do of the applause of this "intemperate majority" the Sentinel refers to. We are glad that the Commissioners have sufficient manhood about them to refuse to pay a tribute to vice by legalizing it, and that they think more of their duty than of their opportunity. Instances of such rare patriotism is refreshing. But from what source did the Senti nel derive its information ? If from an interested party, one who imagines that every one ought to think like him and has no right to differ from him, the I Sentinel should say so. Wc have tio idea that a "majority of tho citizens of the oounty a-e in favor of license." We have endeavored to learn the wishes of people in this respect—have conversed with hundreds on the subject, and have found not more than a half-dozen intel ligent men, having no interest in the traffic, but what is satisfied that retail license is an evil, inflicting serious in jury upon community, and should be abolished. This is certainly the preva lent sentiment among the best men in the county ; and we are positive in the assertion that the prop- of the county, being therefore most interested in the matter, are in the majority against retail liquor license. There is in this county a population, numbering several hundred voters, who favor the traffic almost sol idly. It used to be an unlawful act to sell one of these citizens a drink of li quor; intemperance was hurtful and demoralizing to them then. But within the last twelve years that idea has been exploded, and some people pretend that drunken negroes have an equal right with any other class of citizens to control the prosperity of our county and blight tho future prospects of pobturity A aegro's freedom was never more truu acendently luminous than when he is guzzling liquor at a white man's counter. It ia then and theie that they feel their dignity as American citizens, and under ) the inspiration of a free treat they are ready to vote a wholesale license to run gio-milb at every cross-roads in (ho county, an*i to demoralize, degAdc and pauperize society until it sinks to their own low estimate of a fron country. And with their votcß only can a majority be luund iu this couuty who "aro iu favor of licenso." Whose iutere*t should the Commissioners consult in this matter— that of tho lax-payers and business men of Ihe county—the industrious but tax burden farmers, or that of distillers, retailers, and men wllli no special iutcr» ust in thoir o >ui.ty, backed by the ne gro population, whose induleuce, dissi pation and crime costs the public thou sands every year ? Should Right and Virtue furl their colors and surrender conscience, manhood and country, sim ply because Vice and Error demands the sacrifice 1 We are glad that a ma jority of the Commissioners know bow t) answer this question, notwithstanding the Sentinel's gratuitous interference. lie!using to grant retail license is not prohibition; it will simply abate the evil by removhg temptation from the way uf the young and the inoautious, and checking the general use of liquor and spasmodic dissipation. The traffic will still continue by the quart and gal lon. No man's rights will be abridged, nor will any man be "forced to beoome temperate against his will." Some mej> may not find it so easy to beg or spooge thoir drinks, but every man will havei the right to purchase his own supplies. Men who are not as temperate at all times as they should be have expressed themselves a« being opposed to license, because they were less subject to a temptation whiah they could not always resist when liquor is for sale only by the quart. Does the Sentinel wish to force temptation upon thorn 1 OUB BOOK TABLE. The A erican Farmer. —The -Hi* number is at hand, presenting the u|ual complete ai.d varied index of contents appropriate to the season and to the needs of our farmers, who should not be without the advice and sugges tions of this now venerable farm jour nal. The us 4, the preparation and the application of fertilizers is always a prominent topic in its pages, as also are the advantages of improved stock, of which there are in this number several engravings. The staple crops, fruit cul ture and ornamental gardening all find due spaoe, and no oountry home but should have the monthly visits of the farmer. Published by Sam'l Sands & Son, Baltimore, at $1 50 a year, or SI to clubs of five or more. P terson's Magazine for July is on our table, ahead as usual of all othere. ■ l Tlje principal .steel engraving, "Cherry Ripe," after Meyer Von Bremen, is one of the most beautiful we have ever seen, even in this magazine. Then follows a mammoth colored steel fashion plate, with five figures, a miracle of loveliness. In addition to this, there are some twenty other engravings of fashions. The lit erary department is complete, and very entertaining. In fact,.this magazine is celebrated for its stories. A new vol ume begins with this number, affording an excellent opportunity to subscribe.— For terms, etc., Bee advertisement in an other column. Connecticut's Murderess A dispatch from Hartford, dated the 30th ultimo, states that on that morning it was discovered that Mrs. Lydia Sher man, of Derby, the woman who waß sentenced for life four and a half years ago for poisoning her husband, had es caped. It seems that the matron of the prison, Mrs. Waterhouse, who has been a long time in the position, was careless enough in looking up the night before to leave (he only iron door to tbe female department unlocked. The buildings are undergoing repairs, and the wily Lydia took advantage of the moment aad left the establish meat. Officers are scouring the State for her, but up to this writing she is at liberty. The matron has been discharged. Mrs. Sherman's case will be remem bered as one of the mtfst horrible in re cent criminal annals. Her victims, ac cording to her confession, made at the time of her conviction, numbered ten, all being killed by poisoa, because, as she said, "they would be better off in the other world." She poisoned ia this mauner, in the order named, her first husbnnd, Edward Struck, in New Jer sey ; Martha Ann, her six year old child ; Edward, her son, 4 yeare old ; George Whitfield, another sou, 14 years old ; Ann Elisa, another child ; Lydia, still another child, whoso murder tbe unnatural mother does Dot admit j Mr. ilurlburt, of Huntington, Conn., her second husband ; Franky, the little son of her third husband, Sherman; Ada, Mr. Sherman's daughter; aud, lastly, Mr. Sherman himself. For this tost crime she was convicted and sentenced. The victory of Gen? Miles over Sit ting Bull at Little Muddy Creek will contribute toward*, bringing the Indians to term*. He had four killed and ten wounded, whilst the Indian IOM must have been considerable, as they left fourteen d>ad behind, and they, no doubt, at is their ouittom, carried off all they could. Four hundred and fifty pouica were captured, beside two hun dred saddles and uiuoh plundei It was a surprise and atampedo. Fifty-four was captured. WASHINGTON LETTER. WASHINGTON, D. C.,) June 7, 1877. J [Prom Our Own Correspondent.] The President has just done a sensi ble thing in appointing a Democrat one of the Commissioners of this Distriot. The people here are to a great extent dependent upon the action of Congress, and it is manifestly desirable that the local offices should be filled with tnSn whose political opinions are in harmony with those of the two Houses. Mr. Bryan, who has received the appoint ment, was one of the two men suggested by Mr. Corooran, the largest real estate owner of the District. Iu a late inter view here General Butler was extremely bitter rn his comments on the faot that Mr. Corooran seemed to have the ear of the President in relation to District 4 affairs. But Butler is a partisan, and spake as a partisan. With a debt of over $20,000,000 and a real estate val uation of less than $100,000,000, and particularly withoat trade or maAj faotures, the property-holders of District have something besides to think of. Geo. Butler, by tho way, has just' written a letter Wayne McVeigh, one of tho President's Louisiana Commission?" er*. Tho letter hug the vim and point of everything that comes from Butler, and something more than usual of scurility and petty personal abuse. It is interest only when we remember thot >LcV„e ;?h is not, and that the President is.'iho person that Butler is driving at ft j%well understood that war has com menced against the Administration is doing the preliminary fighting! • The troops heretofore kept in Louisi ana have been ordered to the West. ■ ' This is carrying out the President's well : known purpose not to koep soldiers in any place where their presence could be considered as a menace to the people. Those in South Carolina will probably soon follow. The good old Democratic doctrine that the strength and perpetui ty of the Union ot States depends upon the good will of all its members, rather than upon the exercise of has evidently a hold upon the President. ... There is> much opposition from fcotji parties to the stand taken by the Presi- • dent in regard to Mexico, and it will not be surprising if the order to General Ord to cross the Rio Grande with troops Uiiiils* U ahull ( be modified. i Secretary Sherman has uniformly ex pressed an idea that all questions as to losses incident to the war, by citizens of the United States, should be submitted to be passed upon by some Court, Board or Commission specially authorised for the purpose. The talk of Blaine and others during the last campaign about the doubling of the national debt by pay ment of "Southern Claim" if Tilden was elected was bosh, and was intended only to affect the eleotion then about to take place. But the party of which Mr. Blaine was, up to the 4th of Maroh, a leader, has been paying millions of dollars yearly of tbe claims of Northern and Southern men who lost property by reason of the war These payments, so far as they were made by the Treasury, have stopped by the preseßt Secretary. He has an idea, as stated above, that all of them should be referred for examina tion to some competent authority, having fixed rules by which to doaide them.— There is a clamor of claimants and some of their agents against this, but 1 believe that the Secretary's plan, if promptly adopted and put into operation, would result in benefit to proper claimants, and in loss only to those who own or control fraudulent or "watered" claims. Here tofore one court has passed upon some of these claims; a commission has pas&fl upon another olass; the Treasury upon others olasses,&c. Each of these has bad its own rules as to evidence, and? the most contradictory conclusions were reached. Tbe man who got pay through the court for his ootton was refused by the commission any payment for his mules, and, through tbe Treasury, got half price for corn and oats. Each body was supreme in its sphere, and the commission and the Treasury arbitrarily decided upon the prices to be paid as well as upon the faots in tbe cases. As there are many millions of dollars worth of these olaims, presumably just, but whieh will bear examination, Secretary Sherman's plan seems to be both just to the claimant and necessary for tht protection of the Government. In justice to the citizen, and for the honor of the nation, however, if former methods of examination are to be sus pended, the new ones should be prompt ly created. BKM. Sbreveport, Ua., ihey are rais ing oats with stalks measuring over five feel aud well headed. Letter from Reicjsville. VILLI, N. C, June 1,1877. Edif ort Dun bury Reporter : Pursuant to promise, I send you a few line* for your valuable paper. There is nof much transpiring in this part of the moral vineyard worth writing about. The farmers are all just now very busy preparing and planting their land in tobacoo. Already, wo learn, a very large crop has been planted, and the general testimony is that thuy are n t ha'/ done. And right here, if you please, a word of admonition to the farmers. We know that it has nearly oome about that the person who under takes to give advice to the planter is considered as dabbling in matters which he knows nothing about, and seldom ..ever meets with anything more than a sneer from the average farmer. But still there would be a great deal more prosperity among the farming classes if they would heed some of the wise ad monitions thrown out by tho newspapers ; "and just at this time there are aocumu ' ijlted reasons why tho farmers and plant ers If the South should consider well these admonitions. We do not wi'h to be a prophet of evil, but it is our oandid opinion that the farmer who rashly goes *lieadlong now, giving his whole atten tion to tobaooo, has bankruptcy and ruin staring him in the faoe at no great listance in the future. With the cer tainty of war and oommotion of a severe nature in Europe, which will, in all probability, oontinue until after the pres. cnU year's crop will be marketed, our farmers may expeot lower prices for to 'baoco. It will be ruinous for sny man this year to attempt to grow enough to bacco to buy bread and meat. An over production of tobacoo, which hardly briogs the money it costs to buy the fertilizers to mako it, is what is the mat ter with the oountry now, and the cau.se of our business and financial depression. Business is very dull here now. Our merchants find but very little to do.— One man in town is advertising for toad frogt— offering one dollar per dozen, and is cultivating a half acre patch of these animals. He does a jwnpiny business, and does not croak about the hard times. ' 'And JJanbury has a prohibitory liquor law' 4 lam glad to hear it. Sober peo ple have suffered much for waot of means through which to defend them selves. It is unjust for tbe sober por tof the country to be compelled to Judge) cleric, etc., Ibr uting the law and punishing a crime would not have been oouimitted but for whisky. No thrust is hero made at those who sell whisky. Their business is legalized in form, but never can be in fact. Why 1 Because it is a principle established by reason, revolation and civil law that no person or persons have a right to authorise a known wrong.— That drunkenness is wrong, none can deny; and siooe it is wrong, whatever contributes to its existence is wrong, just in proportion to its contribution. conclude with this remark—write it down as an axiom : Less whisky—less crime. JEE WHILIIUNS. Battle to the Ladies The following is well worthy of being reproduced. It is the speeoh of Dossey Battle, of tho Tarboro Southerner, at the banquet given to the Press Associa tion in Charlotte last week, in response to the toast, "The Ladies." Bead it- Quoth tbe gentle Battle: MR. CHAlßMAN: —ltseouis you havn't toted exactly fair in giving me tbe biggest subject of all, on such short notioe, and I can but give you suoh impromptu reflections as may suggest themselves on the spur of the moment. Tbe subject is vast and engulfing, syr and sought; the rook on whioh ■Vre men have split than ships on Cape JjWomaa, whether takon in the abstract or concrete, is simply overwhelming— something delightfully destructive, sweet ly sad. Ido not allude to the type of feminine loveliness represented by Dr. Mary Walker, who had his cheeks slapped in Washiagton the other day, but to the softer sort, on the velvet of whose seraphic cheek no blow ever falls harder than the adoring pressure of loving lips. Why, there's a woman in every case ! Every old man, young man, and middle aged man totea one in his heart, if ho it worthy to wear pantaloons. I suppose, •ir, the reason of my selection for this stupendous subject is beoause I have shown my appreciation for it by taking a woman for life. How vastly are we indebted to woman 1 Where would have been this feast and champagne guzzlitig, to night, had it not been for our mothers, who spanked us from the cradle up to such active wickedness and energetic editorial cussedoess ? Where would we luiva been to-nigLl ? This is not a uo nundrutn. Man is called the monarch, but there are some speoialtjos, (a writer says), in which woman is a pre-eminent, first-class, boundless success. A wet nurse, for Instance-. In this spcoialty (he has few equals and no superiors among men. There is another line in which she is proficient to a startling degree: As a kicking machine. In this respect she far surpasses the limberest heels of the most enterprising specimen of the progeny of Balaam's riding horse. Why, sir, I know a man—a likely fellow —in my county, who has lost $537,000 since the war from being kicked by rich girls I Now, you may think this like the school boy's compo sition on l'int. "Pins have saved the lives of many women and children." "How?" asked the teacher. "By not swallerin' uv'ein," replied tho boy. And yet, sir, the philosophical stoi cism, with which my friend (he some times wore my boots and shirt collars) sustained his reverses, was admirable to look upon. Still be WHS not happy. Sir, there are well authenticated in stances wherein the dears have, in the abundant goodness of heart, worn their husband's breeches! I might go on tul infinitum chroni cling her excellencies, but I fear I will be poaching on some other speaker's preserves. So I will conclude with an honest sentiment : Woman, whether "bossing" tho nursery, a nurse at the sick bed side, a wife at the hearth, or a coquette in the parlor, in tho esteem of editors, stands, FIKST, LAST, AND ALL Til K TIME Will tho Policy of Puvchaso Suc ceed P That the policy of the present Ad ministration is to be the puichaso of po litical support by means of liberal ap propriations, wo regard so well settled as hardly to require further discussion The next question is, Will that policy succeed ? Let us consider some of its elements of strength. In the first place, it is popular now to talk about doing somcthiug for the South. There is a prevailing, loose fueling that the South has not had "its share" from the national treasury, and that something ought to be done for our despoiled Southern brethern who had the misfortuuc to be led into a rebellion against the Government. Appropriations for the South will be in order, 'fliey will be looked upon as pence measures, (eminently meritorious on that account —as a kind of atonement which wc owe our Southern fellow citi zeus for our part in the little transaction at Appomattox. Sentiment goes a good way in legislation, and the sentiment that the share of the gray ought to be made up so as to equal the share of the blue is a pretty strong feeling just now. Hand iu hand with this feeling, the great pecuniary interest iuvolved will work very powerfully. The great for tunes made out of the Union Pacific and tho Credit Mobilier may be reproduced out of a Southern Paoifio lltilroad— Members of Congress from the Southern States may be expected, as a matter of oourse, to support the most comprehen sive system of internal improvements for their owu section of country. Many members from the Middle, Western aud Northern States will be likely to give in their adhesion, under the impression that gpeuding large sums iu the South will prove an effective measure of recon ciliation. Others, as the past history of Congress teaches us, will be ready to sell their votes for a price; and the promo ters of the great schemes can afford to make that prico exceedingly liberal and tempting. Beyond these elements of strength the great power of combination will be employed to carry through the most ex travagant appropriations. We look to see the Southern Pacific and Northern Paoific Railroads enter Congress indis solobly united, and both crying, with one voice, like the daughters of the horse leech, "Give, give 1" A little reflection will satisfy any one of the tremendous force with which the Northern Pacifio interest can be brought to bear upon the legislation of Congress. The bonds of that company have been scattered everywhere. Scarcely a little village can be found whioh is wholly destitute of them. Many a farmer was drawn by the offer of high interest to mortgage his homestead to raise money for investment in these illusive securi. ties. Some small towns where they were negotiated through little national banks, furnished customers for them to the amount of soventy-five or one hun dred thousand dollar*. These bonds are now almost, if not absolutely, worthlees, as it the stock in the new N.jrth Pacifio Company, for which a large portion of the bonds have been exchanged. The loss sustained by the holders of both bunds and stock is keenly felt, and the prospect of giving a new value to them woahl at oncu evoke into being an ac tive and determined pecuniary interest. The opposition to all these influences,on the other hand, will have no personal ends to gain, and will only be based on a correct understanding of Political Economy and u general patriotic feeling. Can an impartial observer say that Mr. Ilayes' policy of purchase has not a reasonable prospect of success '( We mean success so far &9 obtaining appro priations is ooncerned ; how much po litical support he will gain by it is an other branch of the subject.— A T eu> York Sun. The Truth About Grant. The reception that European snobs and fools may extend to Grant is not a matter about which Americans possessed of a thimble of brains need care a baubce, and it is only when flunky journalism on this side of the water attempts to make it appoar that tho recipient of aristocratic and royal favor merits the distinction, and that it gives tho titled fools who bestow it a warmer place in the regards of Atnoricans, that the subject is entitled to any considera tion whatever. The send off that Grant received at Philadelphia was in no senso a tribute of respect to him as a man, a soldier, or ex-president. The affair was deliberately gotten up by the Don Camerons of Pennsylvania as an insult to Hayes. It was intended to say, "We prefer Grant, the despot, the sot, tho bribe taker, the associate of thieves and tho debauchee of the government, to a Presidential fraud who accepted power from crime stained hands and had not the courage to stand by Giant's bayonet policy." The ovation to Grant had this significance and none other. The papers that were tho most bitter in their hostility to Grant—who charged him with the design of making himself dictator, with all the collateral crimes necessary to such a coup d'etat —are now overflowing with gush about his reception by the snobs and flunkies jf England. All of this is unfortunate for Grant, however much he may desire to be regarded as an "ex-sovereign for it makes it necessary for reputable journals to go back a little in the history of Grant, and show hiui up in his true light. No one is disposed to disparage Grant's military record, though it is too early to fwrite it. It may ijruw dim or brilliant pn th light of advancing years, ainatter about which there may be a diversity of opiui)ns; but one thing is certain—his administration as President is black with the record of crimes. It was con spicuously an era of fraud, peculation, stealing outright, of rottenness every where, and in everyihing with which the Government was lirectly or remote ly connected. It was an era of nepotism, of ignoraocc, of imbecility, and of bribe taking. It w.is an era of utter disregard of constitutions, of law, and of the rights of the people. It was an era of military despotism, in which crime-begrimed uiisereauts were maintained in power by bayonets. It is quite likely that a full knowledges of these things will give Grant caste in tho aristocratic circles of Europe, and that the Bpawns of rotten dynasties may fawn about a uian whoso native instincts strengthened by close proximity to slaughter houses and the insufferable stench of raw hides, qualified him for work which earned the disgust and loathing of the decent part of the Radi cal party, thousands and tens of thou sands of whom abandoned him, and for which tho whole oountry condemu ed him. In addition to thin, we have declara tion from the highest authority that it was only because his term of office had so nearly expired that he escaped im peachment. It were better to let such men get into obscurity as sc*pn as possi ble, or at least cease parading theui be fore the publio as objects of special _ regard. This, however, the Neic York Tribune , an organ of flunkyism, is not disposed to do, and among other foolish things, in noticing Grant's reception in England, it says: "The judgment of strangers resembles somewhat tho judgment of posterity. As he is now regarded in European oountries, so, doubtless, he will stand in history, when th 3 bitterness and tho littleness of partisan strife have passod away, and his real services to his oountry and his real character are better un derstood." it matters precious littlo what the judgment uf strangers may be, or, for that matter, what m.iy be the verdict of posterity. The living present knows that Grant consorted with thieves ; that be Was the del'euder and supporter of oonspirators ; that he girdled the Louisi ana Keturuing Hoard scoundrels with bayonets, while the perjured orew was plotting frauds with which to reverse the will of the American people. The Atlantic ocean, were its waters soapsuds, could not in a thousand centuries wash out the stains from Grant's record. His friends should let him re|s and rust,— hulianwpoli* Sentinel.
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