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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. VOL. 1. THE GLEANER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BX PASEEE & JOHNSON, Graham, N. C« --I RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, Postage Paid* One Year *2 00 Six Months 1 qq Clubs I Clubs!! *or a copies to one P. Orl year BO 00 "6 " " " u p mo.ntbj 650 "10 - « « « iyear ; 1600 "10 " " « ' S mouthii gOO 44 30 " " " "1 year 28 00 41 20 u u > moQtbg 16 00 No departure from the cash system, .V- • • BATES OF ADVERTISING t Transient advertisements payable tn advance; yearly advertisements quarterly in advance. 1 mo. 2 mo. 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OtHee and residence at the " (irahaaij Scuool buildings where he may be foundL night or 4ay, ready to attend all callstfunleiM profesßiouaUy engaged. . Tk ? febtf-ly d P. R. HARDEN, Graham, Jf. C.. "*r DKAJ.EIt IN Dry-Goods Groceries, HARHWABK, Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffi Clothing; Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, %, Rubber*. Tebacce, Cigars, Sreis, Ten*, KEROSENE OIL, CROCKERY, Earthenxoare, Glassware, Voffees,Spice Grain, Flour, Fanning Implements. feb 16-ly J£OUSTON & CAUSEY, Wholelale ASD Rktal «' It O V K H H . GREENSB OR 0, N. C., Have now in store, and arcdailv receiving, a la fP "M** of GROCERUSS, wbieh they will sell to village and Country Merchants on better "* ~ , * n «*n bny elsewhere—which will JS3, e Jta"C3!" ■ v°' ■ Wc Jf'Y c our attention exclusively to Groccr attenUon. OrS which shaU bavej>mmpt PERSONS ( Having claims against tbc Connty of Ala mance are rcqnextoi to present them to th« Begisterof Deeds before the first Monday % i Mmj f-1075. By'order of the Board of Commissioners feb D-3m * °* ~ "■r ■ , - "' ' • * V-* King Alfonso i« giving the Carlists a lively tiuie, aud A. B * TATE & CO., T *te, in Graham, time 8 %>!!>" hZXZ a lively price. to,eM ' . ft STATU KXI'EIVNICS, »*S BIIVA TIVE V ». RABH'4I„-?,i;i illi: F1£«I>I,(! KIiAD, The Jbllowiujg ooißpurat|ve table of expenses, of the two parties AVO take fro in the Raleigh S.tulind. T lie figures are correct: Proper care and economy }n handling j the people's money is a .great virtue in any political party, Extravagance, waste and peculation should crush it in the eves ot all good citizens. North Carolina is jjoor, and tho p irty that practices economy in her administra tion seeks.her good. The fol lowing caiefully prepared table shows I who are the political lriends ot our Common wealth: ; ii 'g' £ ]£ Sls S 8 § •|S % a: J g.j: X) CN >o CO ,9 mm , o o t-H rfj T- S > ** rH CO O ll'. li ■ m _ 5 • born O -So 00 I fes . £OO *"! rH . ° 00 Ii f "21. 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CO OCO coo ® sss't t •» UGO I r—l I -• o O □Q"' O CO *0 N - r- rH -t 5 i ( £ ® hCg o OT I •,5; M OCO -# ff j—( CO | rHdooco coos .» I • a oi o ffi o -*-* o o> ci O O *—♦ £ O 3 CO* r-T »o* . 00 „ a>4>- 001- 01 o ,a X 3 H rH »Q bfS OR> t- Pa) , o-« " 51 t ■ 1 |rf M S it s hb ii 41 s«s;|oi;i .« •. £2.2f fc ß.Sß 3 4) £.3 O—" O C 5^ OMAhcjo s:^ It will be seen from the above esti mates that tho last four the administration of the State anairs has becu to some extent controlled by COJI- 1 servatives, the public expenses have ) been less by $35,775,81 than that spent ' by the radicals in two, a difference suf- ( iicient in itself to defray the entire cost ' of a Constitutional Convention. By 1 an amendmeot already made to tlie ' Constitution the General Assembly meets only ouce iu two years, (an t amendment passed by Conservative jj eflort) so that the expense of i Legislature, $109,168,80, should be di vided by two to show a proper per an- : uum fexpeuse. 1 Now let us estimate the probably cost of the Constitutional Convention : 130 delegates at $5.00 per diem, $600.00 2 Doorkeepers, at $5.00 per diem, . 10.00 2 Clerks, at $6.00 -per an num, SIO.OO 2 Pages, at $2.50 per an num, 5.00 Contingent, ' 10.00 Total, $635.00 Estimate the duration ot the Convention at 30 days aud we have 18.050.00 Mileage, 6,000,00 Printing, &c., 5,00u.00 Total cost of Conven tion, $30,050.00 Tho voting population is about 200,- 000, so that the cost of Convention will he fifteen cents to the voter. The pro perty however pays the tax, aud esti mating the taxable value of the proper ty of the Stale at $150,000,000, we find the cost of Convention but 20 cents on the thousand dollars. GRAHAM, N. C., TUESDAY JULY 27, 1875. In alluding to tlic four yours of Con servative rale wo say "to some, extent"' because they have fktt'had the en life control of the Stale. If so much is saved when only the Legislative brunch is conservative what would be the re sult it all were in their hands 'i Much of this expense also could be saved were it not forced on us by our ill-ad ylscd Constitution. It is hard to give figures a party bias. They are inflexible, but stand out a stern truth, a rigid fact, and if the peo ple ot North Carolina are wis'e they will heed the lesson they teach. C OMPETKNT "The entire expenses otiuioVbc deflnitcly arrived at; but It in (•Htiin.u.ccPliv eoaijieteui judges, that it will cuuqumu us aiueli as -yivii: »L'M>uh;ij t.'!oi;#amu tills is what 1 he radical address says: Well, it says any filing that happened at the time to ouggest Itself to its framers. No sort ot estimate within the range of can reach one tenth of this amount. It is a bare assertion, a>.d while they were about it they might as w ell have said live hundred ftiilllon. Any man of common sense or reason would as readily believe the flue as the other. Why don't they, give some fig ures by which they arrive at this start ling conclusion. They dare not, for tl*t wculd be discovering the falsehood of the reckless statement, and they knew if. The cost ot the cornea l A will be something certainly, and should bo thought of iuid considered. ltcAson and probability cannot be slrctclied to make tho amount more than one tenth of what this unscrupulous addrose in the frenzy of it authors states it will bo. A calculation, which we puplish, so that all can see and judge tor themselves, arrives at.the result, that a tax of twen ty cents on the the thous&nd dollars will pay the entire cost. This may be wrong tuwonic extent. 113 it only pre tends to approximate tho real cost, but it cannot be far wrong. Suppose we double it, which the cost of conven tion ean never actually do, and we have only tort) cents on the thousand dollar 8 0 pay the entire cost. Thai is certainly beyond any limit than can possibly be readied. There, can bo no poll tax lev ied for such a purpose. The benefits to the tax payers from the amendments to ihecfiistitution will pay this back in a year. Let the unfortunate insane who arc wealthy pay their own expenses; let the Wealthy who are so unfortunate as to have children afiicted with bJint - ncss, or who arc deaf aud dumb, pay fpr their education instead of the tax-' payers doing it. The present constitu tion iorbids this. Aud let us have courts of.criminal jurisdiction at least oltncr than once in six —make the udges come once in three mouths and stay a week at the time And thus let us get lid of just one half tho jail ices which the people always -bavo to pay. These amendments alouo will in tone year rcin.bursc tbe people for all tho expense of holding a convention. Auy one wlio will think about it knows it. And, by the way, how happens it that these radicals have suddenly grown so careful of Expenses. It don't seem to have occurred to them while they were in power. Look at tho table of of two years of radical rule. I.ook on tho outside] of tnis paper and think about it. Pretended virtue is disgust ing. " Discriminations are made lietwccn the rich man and hi* poor neighbor, the tendeney of all this sort of legislation being V) add to the I strength of the strong aud trample upon the j right* ofJfe weak." ■ The above is found in tho radical! address, in connection with what it lias j to say about the recent charter of Wil- j inington, wluch lias been declared un- 1 constitutional. Tho Legislature tried to so arrange the wards, and the rcpro-' sentation in the city ot Wilmington as j ta give coutrul of the city government into the the liauds ot the whites aud i take it from the hands of the irrgspon-1 sibie negroes who had been plundering > them. How do tlic poor white men of this country like tho way the radical 1 newspapers aud speakers have of eterri-' ally classsing them with tbtf negroes. We are as poor as anybody, but wevpre not willing to bo classed with the ne groes. We think we are better than the negroes and as good as the rich man or anybody else. Don't you? The radicals are always putting the rich in one class and the poor man aud negroes and in another. If you must classify, and it is just the same to yon, won't 1 you please put the Ttegjcoes to them selves, or at least don't Htoludc a man •j in that class because he is poor. Most - of us poor men have had no offices Jo I get rich on. Don't, even in sympathy, i put us with tho negroes! We don't ,ike it. ,1 80 it in hitei.dcd lo dt away with the town ships. the governments of truo Democracy. The schemer* say this system was never heard of before the advent of tho "sciolists, Carpet l/u-rgers and negroes." hut Charles H. Fisher, a leadiiu; Ueinocrat, in tlui General Assembly of 18-M, iutnuluced int> the Scna/u, bill pro viding for the appointment of a council of Se lectmen for every county, with the Haute pow oi-s aud authority, and ill lus elected.' in the same manner, as* onr prosent trus tees. Besides being n system thpthas worked well tn other states, it was thus not a novelty in North Carolina." This is what the radical address says. We have nu township system now. Every body knows this. W'" l ' do the magistrates and clerk of the townships do? *1 hey list the tax and assess the property. T hey always did this; we mean the magistrates. Thev do nppoint riverseer# oi* the road, ami that is all they do, as a township system. The constitution Would seem to establish a township system, but, like many other uMsuitcdto oiir people that the Supreme Court virtually set it aside. When in the eastern portion of the State a town ship in which the negroes largely pre dominated, by its boapl of trustees lev- a tax of $"20,000.00 to bo collected ouf of 0110 siuglo township, why, you sec something had to be dene and so tho Supreme Court legislated » spell, and effectually destroyed the township sys tem ill this State. The necessity cf the case required it. Wliat is your town ship system uow? Yon all livain town, ships aud ask yourself, wliut do your magistrates do more than ttiey always did ? Ah, your township trustees appoint o?'crßcerfcf-tbe reads and lilla the place to some extent ot tho old common school committee aud isn't that all? It needs yo argument, you know it is. Tho sys tem would not work well, and so the j Supremo Court, from necessity had to j take the authority to abolish it. What j do you think of tho township system? 1 Wnv, you don't know anything about j it. Wo liavn't got it. - *• '-When the legialfiture assembled, a majority of that body were opposed to the call ; but at once the agitation commenced. For u long thno it was in doubt whether or not tho plotters would succeed, he cause, the dominant party, knowing the tcm|>er of the people, fear ed to risk the passage of a convention bill.' liartical address. Not a word'of truth in it. There was uever a moment wbeu more tlrauamajor ity were not in favor of calling a con vention. The democrats had barely a two thirds majority in tho house, and some of these—a very few only—doubt ed the policy of a call as a "parly meas ure ; the rudfcals before having plainly intin\nted their intcntiou to force it as party issue, aud these few, alter during the holidays* having seen their constit uents, camo back in lavor of calling tbe convention in obedience to tho will cf the majority who sent them there, and ev ry domocrat in the legislature alter mature deliberation, and full consulta tion with his constituents, savo two or three voted for the call, aud every radical sa\ v e two or three voted against it. Itemcmber that it took two thirds of each botiso to pass the bill. coiv«wmioN. That same radical address says: "Great complaint was made because of the establishment of the Code Commis sion ; and after much clamor, It was abolished, lint one of our rcceut legis latures appointed Judge ihUtle to do tlio same work, requiring it to be dono within a specified time. The Gent ral Assembly pretended to paas upon his labors; but so little knowledge had our law-malaw s of what had been accom plished, that the 6ta ute law lias beeu throw 11 into contusion, and best of law yers are uncertain bow to coustrue it." Judge ltattlo was not to do tlio sauio work as the Code commission, nor any thing like it. Ho was to collect the stat ute law aud put itouo book. Tho Code commission was to makeliew laws. Tho constitution is in much worse con fusion than the stature law. Where there has been one decissloa on the statute law, as much of il a» there is, by tbe Supreme Court there has Ijccn at least three to find out what tho con stitution is or means. Let us get con tusion and contradiction out of tbo con- stitution, which la the ground work ot all statute la*s ai4 then wo can take coufusiou oat of tho statutes, and not belore. Let us commence at tbo root of the evil. WHITE HEX OK Noirni CABOLIXA.— j Remember that the Radical party pass ed the infamous Civil Rights Bii' through Congress in spite ol the oppo sition of the Democratic party. Can you trus4*tladicals to make a cons tita tiou for you?—Duplin llecurd. A friend lately called npon the bisto ! rian Ranke, in Berlin, and observed; Well, Professor, you work as hard a# ever in your old age?" "Yes," re plied the veteran tenderly, "yes; my wife is dead now, you see, and I have less annoyance and can accomplish more. ,v While politicians arc exclaiming that the-ox istiug constitution is iui|>erfect and need- re vision, notio of Oiem inform the people in wlmj rosmxK it should be amended. Ev. a the Ad- issued by authority of the Dem ocraHc* party, deals in general expressions, gravely advancing the idea that tbo "necessity for changing many of the provisions of the ex isting constitution is generally admitted, and is.Jvo apparent Jo leipdre extended argument. —JiaiHcal address. - . t They want specifications do they? Well, every democratic paper and every democratic speaker lias been giving j^hem. The old farmer wants rain I His crops are parched, lie says ho wants rain and thinks it is admitted by every one that he needs it. lie is told to spec ify his reasons. He points to his twist-, oil corn, and .wilted cabbage and says why, sir, I want rain and need it. The people are suffering; they want relief, they want ft simple economical consti tution aw) they need ft.—Ono that they can understand, suited to their wants, promotive of their interest aud protcctive ot their rights. They are and have beon suffering for it. ~ RAMICAIi ADDRBM. "It seem# that certain politician? arc deter mined to ovcithow tho organic law. Since 1870 —a JWJ ioU of only flvo yearn— they have throe several times worried Hie upon the question of aaiendlnir the consUlu union. It is high time the people had res pite f,om tiu'.in. Not the the politicians gentlemen. The people want an organic law that will be less expensive, aud will give to the pool 4 man with his small matters the same rights that is given to the rtch man with liis large ones. The present con stitution don't do it. When tho senti ment of tfie people was arrived at, they ratified every alteration and amend* meat submitted to them by nearly if not quite forty thousand majority; and they arc cagor fbr more alterations, and Jf you will direct your appeals to their judgment aud common sense instead of to their tears nnd prejudices you will find another forty thousand in favor of amendment aud alteration. Spcakiug of the restrictions the radi cal address says: "Tlicre is nothing within tbcm to prevent the restoration of tuc cuuuty courts; nor the abol ition of,tbe townships ; nor the ro-establlsh incut of tho whipping-post { nor the require ment of a residence of twelve month* in a county, before acquiring the rfcjht to vote j nor tno fixing u i excessive rates of poll-tax in the various counties ; nor forbidding the forced production of tux-receipts to enable a citizens to cast liia ballot; nor the creation of a stringent landlord aud tenant act; nor the tubing away from the tiller of the. soli his rights and property ; nor the creation of llfe olftccM ; nor tho appointment f Judges, solici tor- and magistrates by the legislature ; uor the taking away from the people their right tp Choose their own rulern. ' Xor to prevent the natural increaso ot the human family iu the natural way. Why didn't they put thai iu? it would haro been equally sensible and might havo made a vote, or scared somebody from the elocUon. now KAMV TIH'.Y DO iff "And while there is exempted tint twenty live dollars upon agricultural iuiplotnents and the. tools of mcchaiucs, there is no tax what ever upon the Isxiks of kwyors and profes sional men."— From thai rtuiUral uldrr*». (Hit tho machinery aud revenue acts of the last legislature and iu tho flnit read subdivision three of section nine/ iu tho last read section twelve, and you will bo ready to exclaim with us, in the language of the Hon. J. M. L., "My O—d fellow-citizens, what a lie!" v , . . . TUB LQJUIAttD CUO% The Iron Crown of Lombardy is so called from a narrow band of iron within it, said to have been beaten ont of one of the nails used at the Crucifix ion. Tins baud is about three-eighths of an inch broad aud ono-teuth ot an inch in thickness. According to trad£ tiou tho iiail was lint given to Con stant Sue by his mother, who discovered the crort. The outer circlet of the crewn is or beaten gold and set with precious stones. It was preserved with g.crt care at Monza, near Milan, aud Napolcan, like his predecessor Charle magne, was crowned with it. After the war between Austria and Italy, the Iron Crown was delivered by the form er power to Victor Emmanuel. THAT AUD REM. "Why were the restrictions placed at all within tlie convention bill? The pro moters of the conspiracy havo time and I ajjitin denounced the very measures they now pretend to preserve. They I were insincere before, or treacherous ' now." Not a word of truth in it. A gratui tous statement without foundation in fact. The matters preserved by the res trictions havo never been opposed by any party, and never urged as objec tions to the constitution. Every one knows this is so. Tbey have deceived the people so long that they think that they tlflnk you cau tool them with any thing eh? • NO. 25. T(IK AV«(I»T EtKCXIOJ*. The importance £f the approaching contest at tho polls in this State cannot be over estimated. It will be a joining of battle, between the Republican and Democratic hosts of North Carolina. A strict jvfti'tv fight, we will see a tremen dous struggle for the mastery. will win the victory? The Con- ) servativca must win. Their continued dominance ia an absolute necessity to tbe fuiure welfare and prosperity ot the State.. Without it, we shall have high taxes, plundered treasuries, f ppressivo legislation, and a discordant and unhap py people. Radicalism means for North •Carolina, as well as other ot the South ern States, negroism, and nothing short j of it. The triumph of Radicalism at this day our country is a victory ;or the negro over tho white man. Tho . great body of the Republican party ot North Carolina arc negroes. The whito men who lead .them arc but the captains of the black host, tbe men who reap tho fruits of victory.—the spoils, the offices, the honors, the plunder. The dusky rank and file the soldiers of the line, tho voters who are pulled about by tho nose by their shrewd and selfish whito leaders, get nothing. The triumph ot tho itfgro party iu any Southern State means ruin to that State. Wo have but to look upon our sifter States of the South to know this. Their condition is a woeful one. South Carolina has been subjected to the des tructive and unhallowed influences of the most wretched thief-govcrnmont the world ever saw. Louisiana has becn'ovcrrun by a horde ot white ciul black scoundrels, and only by open for vfcas succeeded iu partially extricating herself from the grasp of the robbers* Mississippi with her very life crashed out lies even now prostrate and supino at the feet of her barbarous and rapa* ciops masters. The fate of Mississippi, of Soath Car olina and of Louisiana, may befall our own beloved State, should we agaiu sink under the power ot a party that rules to plunder, and plunders without mercy, when (he people are foolish onough to trust it with power. A republican victory in August would bo a calamity to thc-old North State that angels might weep over. Such a calamity must bo avoided. It can bo avoided if the Conservative* will be true to themselves and their party. With a heavy white majority, it would be an oyerlasting stigma on onr race, if we suffered the black mnn's party to win and get control of the Convention. Should the Conservatives allow our ad veroaries to carry the nay, wo would richly deservo to be pluudered and i 'rainpled down as Ix>uisiana, Mississip ! pi and Carolina have been. Let us then take warning by the de plorable condition of our sistor States, and by oat own bittqjr experience iu tho past, and make ready to beat the Repub licans oat of their boots iu August. Tho triumph of Conservatism iu the coming contest, is, wo repeat, an abso lute necessity to the future welfare atkl prosperity of North Carolina; and a Republican victory means ruin to tho best interests of tin) State and dishonor to the Conservatives. It shall be our foremost object to aid iu achieving Victory for the party under whoso glorious banners we are proud to do battle. We have no fears as to the result. ' The above we take from tbe Raleigh ' Sentinel edited for the present by John stone Jones, Esq. It is the truth. Can our people be deceived forever? A word with those Democratic-Conser vatives who opposed tbe call of a Con vention, at this time: You did not op pose tho feall except on the ground of party policy. You admitted tbe grca importance of a revision of our present Coiistitntiou; and, almost without ex ception, you declared iu favor of begin ning this important work at tbe earli est practicable moment. The Convention lias now been, called, absolutely and unqualifiedly, and no power cau prevent the assembling of that body. The only question, there fore, for you to determine in this su preme moment ol tidal is tins: Shall the Convention be a Conservative or a Rad ical body? Shall the work of remod elling our Constitution be entrusted to yonr own people or to the party that foisted on you the Constitution of 1868? This is the issue—'the only issue. And you will be recreant to duty and to principle if you fail to use overy effort to secure tho election of Conservative delegates. — Star-