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C., Buy and sell COTTON, CORN, FI.OI'R, BACON ~ LARD, AND ALI, KINDS OF COUNTRY.PRODUI'R, feb. 16-3 m QEORGE W. LONG, M. D., PIIYSICIAS aadM RCEOn Graham, if. c., Tenders his professional services to the pub lic. Office and residence at the "Graham Hi:jh Scuool buildings where he may bo found, night,or day, feady to atteud all callij, unless professionally engaged, feb 9-1 y P. R. HARDEN, Graham, N. C.% DEALER IN Dry-Goods Groceries, HARD IV ARK, Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuff Clothing; Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Rubber*. Tobncc*, Ci|»n, Meed*, Ten*, KEROSENE OIL, CROCKERY, Earthenware, Glassware, Coffees, Spice Grain, Floor, Farming Implements. feb 16-ly JJOUSTON & CAUSEY, WholelaHe asd Retal GREENSBORO, N. C., Have now in store, and are daily receiving, a large stock of GROCERIES, which they will sell to village and Country Merchants on better terms than they can bny elsewhere—which will enable them to sell at a better per cent, than purchasing North. We give our attention exclusively to Grocer ies. Orders solicited, which shall have prompt attention. * upr27-Sni PERSONS Having claims against the County of Ala mance are to present them to the Register of Deeds before the first Monday in May, 1875. By order of the Board of Commissioners T. G. McLEAN, Clerk. feb &-3m *- King Alfonso is giving the Carlists a lively time, and B. TATE & CO., at the'old stand of Murray & Tate, in Graham, are giving all who try to undersell them a lively time. Alfonso and Tate & Co.,are both bound to succeed. Tate & Co. will buy at the highest prices alt you have to sell, and at the lowest prices sell yon all you want to buy. CtPC to GH 6)/\PerDay at home. Terms ►PT* Address G. STIXSOS and Co., Portland, Maine. . ly. POETKV.; .. , I iiffi t From the New York Observer. ' IN SOUTH CAROLINA 'O winds of Marcli, how soft ye blow AcroHß this lonely land of flowers, The very winds that toss the snow On far-off Northern hills of ours! How etrange&to dream of storm and cold, Of frosty nights and days of gloom. When jasmine twines its wreaths of gold And bright azaleas gaily bloom! So musing, wandering on apart With idle steps, I changed to stray To where, against the city's heart, An ancient churchyard nestling lay. A sapphire sky was o'er my head, Fresh springing grass beneath my feet; i Tlfat quiet dwelling of the dead j Seemed nuujc for slumber calm and sweet. Great names of old, their country's pride, . Were graven here on many a stone .' passing these", 1 turned aside i To one low cross that stood, alone. I ''lie died at Gettysburg'" it said, | "An only son Aged twenty years." Down on the grass I laid m.C head And wet the grave with bitter tears. For at that moment, to my thought, Another cross appeared to rise ; Almost the selfsame words are wrought Upon the marble where be lies: "At Gettysburg; just twenty-one"— My boy, ray hero, young and brave! "He was bis mother's only son"— Her heart is buried in his grave. \/ A voice was sounding in my ears, . A voice that spoke with cruel tone: i'O foolish woman ! Useless tears! Far better had you kept your own ! Wno knows which side the right doth lie ? Dispute the question as you may, Two noble boys went out to die — One life was surely flung away !" *- • • "No? no!" I cried. "We need must take. Our journey oft through cloud and night; Yes, even at tae morning's break. We tuvn, bewildered, from the light. The eagle minds, whose steady eyes Can face the sun, alas ! are few, t But since we cannot all be wise, Thank God, we can,at least be true! "The gold is mixed with baser ore, But yet the furnace can refine ; \ In self-devotion, evermore Some sparks of heavenly metal shine ; And so the soldier who laid down His life for.what he deemed the right, He surely shall not miss the crovjn Kept for all heroes In the fight. "In years to come, when men slfeil learn To view this conflict from afar, True faith and,courage then will bnm, Amid the darkness, like a star. Perhaps the children may exclaim, • • "Our fathers stumbled in the night; Their grand devotion shall not shame Our better wisdom, wider sight." Then, rising from that holy ground, I plucked a leaf of budding palm And laid it gently on the mound, "After the tempest comes the calm ; Sleep; gallant boy—the life you gave Its precious fruit one day shall bring, As, even now; from out your grave, The flower of sympathy doth spring." * # ■ ■ From the St. Lonis Times, I>AVIS ON SHERMAN. The ci'Csnfcilerale President's Nsllaas about this Uenvral sfthc Army aad his book MEMPHIS, TENN., May 27, 1875.^ COL. W. F. MELLEN : My Dear Sir— Please accept my thanks for your kind letter of the 9th instant, and the accom panying copy of a St. Louis paper con taining an extract from the forthcom ing work of General W. T. Sherman. My absence delayed the receipt of your letter and this reply to it. The malice that seeks to revive the nefariously concoeted and long since exploded slander which connected my name with the assassination oi Presi dent Lincoln is quite in character with the man who so conducted his invasion of the South as to render ''Sherman's bummers*' the synonym of pillage, arson, cruelty to the helpless, and mur der cf non-combatants, and who closed his career of arson with a false accusa tion against Gen. Hampton in regard to the burning of Columbia, S. C. • Bat the question arises, why did Gen eral Sherman, at Ibe date of his report ed conversation with General Joseph E. Johnston, suppose me capable of com plicity in the assassination of President Lincoln? Gen. Sherman never was personally acqoainied with me; and from those who knew me either in the United States army or civil life, sorely learned nothing to justify such suspicion. In the conduct of the war between the States, despite of many baseless accusa tions, we can proudly point to a record Wnich shows a strict adherence to the usages, of war between civilized nations. On what then did the suspi cion of Gen. Sherman rest? Was it not that, proceeding on the rule of fudging other's by one's sell, he ascribed to me the murderous and malicious traits of his own nature? • A He reports a conversation with Pres ident Lincoln, from which is to be in ferred a desire to have authority for departing from the course which as a GRAHAM, N. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1875. soldier he must have known was usual and proper towards prisoners of war. Did he hope to get instructions for the the slaughter of the Confederate Fred dent and Cabinet officers, as set forth in the order of Col. Dahlgrcn, when he made his raid against .Richmond? If the good-natured characteristic reply of President Lincoln taught him that mur der was not the approved measure, it seems to have failed to inspire him with the generosity and charity which are ever found in noble minds, or with the chivalry which ever adorns the charac ter of a true soldier and gentleman. Among the articles ot surrender of Gen. J. £. Johnston, there was one prohibiting military, expeditions iu the country east-of the Chattahoochee river. That was the best consideration obtain ed for the surrender of armies, arms, munitions, and manufactories in that section, and it was in violation of that article that the brigade ot cavalry, by which I was captured, was scouring the country and .freely taking from the un. protected people the little which was left them for their future subsistence. From the statement ot General Sherman we learn that a story had been told to the effect that I had been carrying in wagons lr.illious of specie to the South, and therefore we are left to conclude was made that expedition in violation of the agreement of surrender Though the story of the millions ot specie is now admitted by Gen. Sherman to have been a Action, the admission is made in sucht crms as would leave the reader to suppose I had been traveling with wagon transportation, and had a few thousand dollars ol spe cie in a valise. But neither supposition would be true. I hail recently joined the wagon train, and was about to leave it when captured; my only baggage was a valise, which wjw packed on a mule, and contained no specie. The few thousand dollars of specie were in a pair of saddle-brigs, belonging to Sec retary Reagan. Whether that money ever reached the United States Treasu ry, Mr. Reagan, from whom it was I taken, may be able to learn after he .shall have aspnmed his functions as a | Representative in the United States Congress. .Should the course of the commanding genera! of the army, in attempting, at this lato day. to resuscitate a defunct slander against the President of the lato Confederacy, and to which slander not even suborned witnesses could give the semblcncc of truth, be taken as the ex ponent of the feeling of the army, that arm of the Genera] Government would seein to be ill-suited to the task, of late so largely assigned to It, of preserving civil order, and restoring harmony among the peoples of the United States. For public considerations it is be hoped ftiat the ineradicable malignity of Sher man may be an exceptiou to the pre vailing sentiments of the United States army. Again thanking yon for vour friendly consideration, I ain yerv truly yours, JEFFERSON DAVIS. Where is Tommy? One year ago to a fashionable mother was "born a baby boy. She got a wet-nurse, who remain ed with her six months, and then, as the child liked the bottle best, the wet nurse was discharged. When the baby was born the granmother was there from her distant Western home, and shortly thereafter returned, to come no more till this summer. In the mean time the young mother has seen ber child sometimes once a day, sometimes once a week, as the case might be. The first thing on grandma's arrival was a loud call for Tommy, and Tommy was forthcoming. He was kissed and hug ged and praised and petted, and grand ma just lugged him about till finally, j old lady like, she stripped him to see j bow much he had grown. Then came a | shriek, Where was Tommy's extra' toe?" Tommy was born with six toes; grandma knew it. The family doctor was sent for, and when an examination of Tommy was made the M. D. unhesi tatingly pronounced it not the Simon pure Tommy by any means. There had been a malformation of the original Tom's feet that time would not have remedied. Then all sorts of specular tiona were in order. But one servant 1 had anything to do with the baby, and she had been six months away, no one knows in what direction. Thomas sets up in a dubious position. If he ain't Tommy, who is he ?— New York Cor to Bt. Louit Republican. The colored Emigration Convention, recently in session in Nashville, unani mously recomended that every negro in Tennessee should leave that State as soon as possible. ABRI,P-CONFRB«BD BI.4NDBRRR «KN. RIIERMAN AND W ADR HAMPTON. There have been some terriable ex coriations of Sherman's memoirs, nota bly by George Wilkes, ex-President Davis, the New York Day Book . Gen. Boynton, Montgomery Blair, and Gen. Hooker; but nothing they have uttered paints the man iu such black and dam ning colors as lie has portrayed himself. Take this sample referring to the burn* ing ot Columbia: [From Sherman's Memoits] Many of the people thought that this lire was deliberately planned and exe cuted. This is not true. It was acci dental and in my judgment begnn with the cotton which Geu. Hampton's men had to oil leaving the city, (whether by his ordera or Tiot is not material.) which Are was partially sub dued early in the day by our men; but when night came, the high wind fan ned it again into fhil blaze, carried it against the frame houses, which caught like tinder, and soon spread beyond control. * * * In my official re port of this conflagration I distinctly charged it to Gen. Wade Hampton, and confess I did BO poin'edly to shake the faith of his people in him, for he was iu my opinion a braggart, and pro fessed to bo the special champion of South Carolina. Quoting the above paragraphs, the N. O. Times thus puuetures the Gen eral ot the Armies: "He says, in the extract above quoted, and in clear and unmistakable language, that when he officially charged General Wade Hamp ton with burning up his native place, he. General Sherman, knew him to l»o innodent. He acknowledges to have said this solely to injure a gallant sol dier and gentleman with his own peo ple I To every true soldier who wore flic blue, this statement of General Sher man must be mortifying in the extreme. How cau it be otherwise, when an officer of General Sherman's rank confesses to have knowingly misrepresented a /han who had done no wrong to him?" Without a word from him, Genera) Hri/ipton can let tho public decide be tween himself and Shernrin upon the. confession of the latter. ■ But it required no publication from Sherman, nor even a denial from Hamp ton to decide the question of who was responsible for the pillage and burning of Columbia. The military exploits of these two commanders will tell the tale. Hampton's march iu Maryland and Pennsylvania shows how be regarded the rights and property of enemies. Sherman's march to the sea is In mark ed contrast thereto. Towns sacked, houses burned, farms despoiled, prop erty stoleu, women outraged—a broad blsck (rack of desolation and ruin marked the route of Sherman from Chattanooga to the sea, and ft-om Sa vanah to Raleigh. But with all these horrid recollec tions we were not prepared for the un blushing and shameless confession ot baseness and falsehood which is con tained in the above extract from Sher man's Memoirs. A self-confessed false tier to injure a man who bad done him no wrong, will rob bis writings of every sting with which lie has attempted to wound the most humble and the most sensitive ot those trbo may have provo ked his wrath. A correspondent of the Courier- Journal succeeded in gettiug up an in terview with Spotted Tail on religious topics. The noble redman said: " Most Indians believe in the Great Spirit, in a heaven and in a bell. But some are unbelievers, and thiak that, wheu they die, they are no more, just like the dog and the hdrsc. There but ttfo worlds, the oue where the Great Spirit dwells. The spirit world is more than ten thousand times larger than this, its bunting fields have no end, and thegftme there is inexhaustible. Its flowers are more beautiful and fragrant than any we have ever known, aud its mSfdens are lovely as the color of the clouds before a setting sun, and never grow old. Tbe land does not have to be cultivated there, but every kind of good flruit, and iu the greatest abund ance, hang upon the trees and vines continuously waiting to be plucked. Hothiug ever dies there, and the wants ot all who go there are constantly and forever supplied without the necessity of any work. All good men, whether they are white or red, go to? heaven, but agreat difference will exist between the conditions of the races of men aud individuals." Commodore Vanderbuilt is eighty one years old. He says he has always been a temperate man, and does not feel a day older. A TRBBIIIIIR EARTHQUAKE ! Whole C'itlea Destroyed "ad Ulsay Thoaaaad* ofLive* Lost Withia Oae Monacal S PANAMA, June the 4th.—The Royal mail steamship Balue, which arrived at Aspin wall to-day from Savaugillo, brings the following particulars publish ed iu aa extra of the Barranguilla"Ship piiig List" of May 29, ofa terrible earth quake in Andes "The steamer Isabella, which arrived yesterday from the interior, no&rcd our city with her flag at halfmast, indica ting that she was the bearer of unwel come news. While there were various conjecture? as 1o its import, none had for a moment pictured the colossal mag nitude of the awful calmaity which had tnken place. The information which has reached us on the subject is contain ed in a letter dated Salazu, 7 leagues from Curcutta, the 19th inet., from which -we extract and translate the following: At 11:10 a. m. yesterday the IBth, severe earthquakes visited this city and region. In this city a large' part of the church fell, several houses were destroyed and some people The eity of Curcuta is entirely destroy ed, only a lew families being saved. A German drug store was sot on fire by a ball which was thrown out of a volcano which is constantly belching out lava. This volcano has opened it in front pf Santiago in a ridge called £1 Alto. De Eagiracl.a San Cay etano was destroyed. Siyitigo in a larger part. In Giarnalote thero vm great destruction. Arboleda, Cucurta and SanCrastobal are nearly destroyed. The population of these towns is esti mated by persous well acquainted in that region, more or less as follows.* San Cayetona 4,000; Santiago 2,000 ? G ramalote 3,000; Arboleda 5,000; Cu cutilla 2,000; San Crastobal 16,000. The section of country above referred to embraces regions found about where Colombia* and Venezuela join, the Col ombian portion embra nngitke State of Santander. It is in some respects the most productive part of this republic and the coffee of this section is famous all the world over. One of the destroy ed cities, San Jose De Cucnta, the city of the.most importance of any ip that section, waiiitnatM on the boundary of the republic Solitude, seven degrees and thirty minutes north, longitude 72 tie. grecs and 10 mfliutcs west, and was founded by Juan De Maaten in 1534. It was a port of entry, if an inland town can be called a port; here was establish ed the Custom House. The population of the city at the time of the disaster estimated at about 18,000. It had large commercial business and was a great depot for coffee aud cocoa for shipment. OKCLIITINa AR OVVICE. ♦ in Not many Americaus decline a pay ing place or position of distinguished honor. One gueh person is exGov* Charles J. Jenkins, of Georgia. Urged by all the influential newspapers of his State as the most suitable Democratic candidate for Governor, a nomination being the equivalent of an election, he declines iu a graceful letter to permit hi* name to be used in that connection in any manner wbatevor. The letter concludes: "1 an not nngrsteful for past horibrs. 1 know that they are immeasorablv greater than any service I have render ed. But I know, also, that "to every thing there it a season, and a time to every purpose under the tun" —a time to be active, and a time to be quet. My manhood has been active, but its day-dream throughout has been quiet in the evening of lire. Quiet 1 now have, and in it I rejoice. Commend as to Jenkins—commend as ever to the nun who does not want j an office "flt is a philosopher "greater than a King," true enough to be relied upon in emergency, and is the very man as a rale upon whom to confer the illustrious and responsible honors of Btate and Cbnreh. A lady well known in Paris society lately cured Iter husband from stopping away from home at night. She wrote him an anonymous letter to this effect: "Coward! We bare heard what you said of the Commune and the Republi cans. We will not be insulted by such a fellow as yon. And though we are at work till night, be sure that when we meet you will be revenged. Long lire the Republic.—A Workman.." The husband took no notice of the letter to his wife, bnt he is carefal not to go out at night now, but remains at home, much to his wife's delight, who rejoices at the success of her stratagem. The Empress ot Japan cautions her young lady friends about "talking loudly on the street like the vulgar American girls NO. 20. A BOVAf, ROAD TO TDK BAR. An ancient sage was once charged with the education of a scion of royal ty. The young gentleman, appalled at the labor of mastering the mathematics and accustomed to have things made easy for him, asked his instructor to have his path to knowledge smoothed 1 away. A very couclse and matter of, fact answer was given. " There it no royal road to learning." What the ton of a King could not find has been easily attained by tne negro in these Halcyon days of the African. "The gates of the Temple of learning fly back on their hiuges to invite hu easy careless entrance. The paths leading to it are strown with flowers and all the forbidding features of access are care fully concealed by the drapery of luxu rious ornament. The Temple of Fame no longer frowns from its accessiblo height. Tho forbidding inscription " Oh! who can tell how hard it la to climb, kcS' j has disappeared, and the Goddess of the Temple emerges from her sacred secln* siou to meet the indoleut aspirant for tier favorti. It is stated on what appears o be good authority, that at the recent uutniini»uon 0i i/iuwwwf ior. jioeuse by the Supreme Court, two colored ap plicants were admitted to practice who failed to answer correctly a single ques tion, and one of the Court being asked why these weie admitted, when a yonng white applicant was pat back, replied, Ob t these are colored men, and' if we had rejected tbem, it wouJd have been said that the Court was influenced by prejudices of race and oolor." j Ho it seems, that all that is necessary to disarm the court o( its terrors, is to appear in the proper color. The favor ed tints of Africa are an " open ses same" to the portals ot the bar. Nor learning, nor character are required, only the right oomplection.— Ruleigh Newts 't ■ ) The papay, or "forbidden fruit,!' grows to the weight of three pounds or more in Florida. It is of light yellow' color when ripe, aud has a flavor aim* tiar to a musk melon. The juices of this tree tend to separate the fibres in meat when immersed therein, and the vapor of the tr£e answers the same purpose. The toughest jpints ot meats, .poultry, etc., are rendered tsndfer by being hong Among the branches. ' Under the ruins of the old castle of King Dagobert the Abbe Deuia found a ben's nest iuU of eggs. They bad been there 1.900 years, hidden from the light the air and the changes of the tempera ture, and the hen herself, had, perhaps, barely escaped when the falling walls sealed her eggs, hermetically for fttture times. Abbe Denis put three eggs un der a bee, and they were hatched. A lady returnng from an unprofitable visit to church, declared that "when •he saw the shawls on those Smiths, and then thought of the things her own poor girls had to wear, if it wasn't for ' the consolation of religion she did not know what she would do." An ex-Ctonlederato soldier and an Federal met in the top of Bunker Hill monument, a few days ago, and formal ly shook hands at the top of two hun dred and ninety-fire steps, "over the bloody chasm." They were perfect strangers. A woman in Manhattan, Kansas wished to plaster a room, but she oouid boy only the lime and sand. Then she sheared her dog to get hair, pnt the plaster on herself and papered the walls. That's the way grit work* in Kansas, j The word " put," meaning (he righ of delivery of stock in the future at a price named, is generally supposed to liave originated in Wall street, bnt was in use in London in the same sense du ring the " South sea" excitement. . Oneot Tennyson's Mends quoted one of Tennyson's lines to the poet as the natural expression of a spontaneous thought, and the poet said: "I smoked a dozen cigars over that line." An interviewer triad to get something. out of Butler touching Grant's letter. "Nay" said Bully Bea;"l renounce the Devil and all his works." This is said to be the moat sudden conver sion on rfoord. Jefferson Davis baa been invited to deliver an adress before the Bartholo mew county, (Indiana,) Agricultura Society this foil, and wi l aeoept. McMahon's coffin warehouse in New Orleans broken into and thirty ooffins