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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER VOL. l. THE GLEANER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY TAEEER & JOHNSON, 1 * Graham, JN". CJ. ftATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, Postage Paidf One Year 12 00 Six Months 00 Clnbs! Clubs!! far 8 copies to one P. 0.1 year —.....510 00 m £ « u u- « fl months 6SO * 10 " " " •« 1 year 16 00 * 10 * « » - B months.... 800 * 30 " * « "1 year 28 00 " 20 " " " " 0 months., IS 00 No departure from tht cath system. RATES OF ADVERTISING * Transient advertisements payable lb advance; )nit advertisement* in adranoe. ~=~= —.-"r.T J 1 mo. 2 mo. 8 igo. Oino. 12 mo. 1 square $226 $ 360 $l6O $720 sloß* a " 360 640 720 16 80 18 20 S " 540 720 800 16 20 22 60 4 " 630 #OO 10 80 18 00 2700 # " 720 13 60 10 20 2260 12 40 column 10 20 16 20 18 00 27 00 46 00 Xi " 13 60 18 00 27 00 46 00 72 00 i ? 18 00 8160 46 0 ) 72 00 126 00 Transient advertisements $1 per square for the first, aad 60 cents for each subsequent Insertion. Advertisements not specified as to time, published •ntil ordered out, and charged accordingly. All advertisements considered doe from first lnm» MOB. One Inch to oonstitnte a square. ADV KIiTISEMENTS. J. P. GULLEY, RETAILEK AND JOBBEK OF T)ry-Goods, Clothing NOTIONS. BUIiT'S RAND-MADE Boots & Gaiters HATS AND C IPS, V.U.IBEB, TRUNKS,WHITE QOODS, 4E€., AC. South Cor. EayelleviUe St., and Exchange Place » RALEIGH. N. C. Graham, JY. C., DEALERS IN Dry -Goods, Groceries, Hardware, fIVBOIV, STEEL, MALT, MOLASSE OILS, DVE-STUFFB. DRV«.S, MEDICINES, LARD, , BACON, &-C.. AC. Terras Cash or Barter. feb 10-2 m New Drug Store. DR. J. S. MURPIIY Respectfully notifies the public that he has opened a complete aud well filled DRUG ' STROE at company Shops, where anything kept In a well ordered Drug Store may be found. The physicians of the county and the public generally, are invited to patronize this new enterprise. An experienced driurgist—a regu lar graduate in pharmacy, is in charge, so that physicians and the public may rest assured that all preoptions and orders will be cor rectly and carefully filled. Prices as reasonable as can be afforded, feb 16-2 m » g C ROBERTSON, DEALER IX Grave Stones AND' MONUMENTS, GREENSBORO N. C. . .. • Pumps! Pumps.!! —:o: THOMAS S. ROBERTSON, Company Shops, If. C., is manufacturing and selling the best and CHEAPEST rumps ever offered to the people of this State. These pumps are as durable as wooden pumps can be j made. They are easy' as any one wanting ; water could wiah. They are sold as cheap as ; any one who proposes to buy could ask. Pa np* delivered anywhere on short notice. Each pump warranted. The manufacturer refers to every pump of his in use. Not one has e'ver failed. feb 23-ly —— p R HARDEN & BROTHER, Graham, If. C.. •re receiving their FALL STOCK of Dry-Goods Groceries,, . HABDWABR, Drugs. Medicines, Paints. Oils, Dye-Stuff Clothing; Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes. Babbers. TrtMM, Cigar*, Seeaa, Tcai, KEROSENE OIL, CROCKERY, parthenware, Glassware, Coffees, Spice * Grain, Floor, Farming Implements. THE N4TIO.VAIi INTEIiLIGBNCER The New York Express furnishes this remini.'c ilice of the famous old jour, nal, which so long held the position ot organ of the republic, in the days when there were giants in the land, and when •.the conviction and peniienti&rying of tlie-President's whole array of intimate friends and counselors would have thrilled the continent with horror. Major Scaton Gales, a son of one of its founders and uamo'sake of the other, is to-day one of Raleigh's most esteemed and honored citizens. The National In e!li«e:icer, which hav been practically dead since the days of vagrant life between the East river and the Potomac for many years, ha degenerated into a third term organ, and, as reported, under the inspiration of the new secrc ary, Chandler, who is already cutting up in the most approved fashion by removals and otherwise. What a contrast to the old times of 1832- '36-'4O and so on 1 We recall the first political and most influential journal in the land forty ye art ago—the great days of Clay and Webster and Crittenden, of Rives und Preston; of Badger, of North Carolina, and Berrien, of Georgia; o' Porter, of Louisiana; of Poindextor, Mangum, Ewing and Corwin, of Ohio; of Bell and Governor White, of Tennes | see; and of Prentis3, Collamer and Foote ofVermont, and, indeed, of a whole troop of ether senators and rep resentatives in congress Who knew and stood by the old National Intelligencer* The editorials of Jo* Gales, on state top ics, wei'e equal to the state papers of Webster and Everett, of Marcy and Cass, or qj any of the master men ot tho cabinet sincethe days when the first John Quincy Adams was at the head of the state department. It was an organ to be proud of, though forty leagues behind the fast journalism ofthe present day. It was staid and stately, dignified and conrteous, gentlemanly and forci ble, and all that is implied in these terms, but only'not noway. It was em phatically the state paper, and as such was found in all the missions and con sulships abroad and in all the public libraries at home.' Mr. Gales wrote with a polished and painted pen, and was always logical, if not convincing. Next to Blair, of the old Washington Globe, who etill survives him at long past tne age of eighty, he was the home liest man at the capital, but with a partner who was one of the best look ing—so that the average was good. Both partners were princes in their en tertainments, and the best of Washing, ton society, thirty or forty years ago, and more, was always to be found at their homes. Mr. Seaton, as mayor of Washington, as editor and publiser, as a disciple of Walton, and always genial and always successful, ill busi ness, and this only in later years and after Mr. Gale's death. Many a politi cal quarrel has been settled at his hos pitable board. We retnember one, after Mr. Webster persisted, wisely for the couutry, in remaining in John Tyler's cabinet to the Webster-Ash. burton treaty, and where the whig sen ate were reconciled. We remember another, where Clay and Webster, not always the best ot personal friends, became reunited. The Beaton home was a sort of conciliation hall, and Mr. S«atou himself one ot those peacemak ers who rejoiced in restored friend ship. A new set of journalists and a new class of journals have occupied pnblic attention since these good old times ot the good old whig party. Tne tele graph. over land and undci the ocean, the fast mails of forty and fitly miles a n hour, the abolition of slavery, the growing power of the west, the depart ed glory of the scuth, and of New Eng land, too in it 3 influence upon legisla tion, the millions of new comers by im migration, the annexation of Texas, California and Alaske have revolution ized the country and journalism with it but alas 1 ail changes are not improve iweu.t tVe miss the broad, clear, large- 1 type pages of the National Intelligencer. It was our oldtime mentor, instructor and Irieud. And now, fallen from its high estate, it is a third-term organ, and Chandler is its repined owner, Que que ipte miserrima vidi I Wheu a Chinese bank fails all the officers have their heads cut off and flung into a cofner with the assets; and ;t has been five hundred years since there waa a bank failure is that coun try. When the heir to the Brazilian throne was recently born, Depoul, a Paris doctor, attended for a fee of over 20,000 gold dollars. GRAHAM, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1876. iNFI.fJICNCE OF Till! NOITII. Experience nud High Cbarncter of Southern Democratic Member*- A Po»ilitc Policy Adroented by Ttiem, I From a regular correspondent of the Tri bane.] WASHINGTON, DEC. 6. The policy of inaction advocated by inanv NOthern Democrats does not meet with much favor among the South ern members. They don't believe th Presidency is to be won by sitting on the gate-post waiting for something to turn up. Standing still and rftilling a the administration does not pass with them for statesmanship. There is a good deal more political sagacity, talent for public affairs, parliamentary skill (scmewhat rusty from long disuse) among the Southern Representatives than among their brethren from the Northern States. The Southern De mocracy, eager to assert itself in nation al affairs, put its best man forward for Congress while a largo number of the Northern Democratic members were nomin; t ;d without any expectation tha' they could be elected. The tidal wave of 1874 swept them iuto office to the amazement, and often the disgust oi their own party, which took them up to fill tickets doomed, it was thought, to defeat. Thefe is 110 timber for the •nanufactu re of statesmen in these aeci-» dental members, and not much more in a score or so of muscular, loud talking men who have worked their wav into Congi ess from the back country districts : by dash and impudence rather than by brain power. With an advanfagc in the intelligence and political experience ot its represen. tatives the South will play a part in shaping legislation such as it has not played since 1860. The leading mem bers from that section have great faith in the Democratic party as the party destined to reform the evils of Govern ment and put the country 011 the road to prosperity. Thov insret that it shal' be a party of action. It should employ ' its power in the House, they say, to prove to the country that it is worthy of full confidence, that it is bold and ag gressive, as well as prudent and conser vative, and that is has a distinctive policy which it is not afraid to submit to the verdict of the people in the Pres idential election. This view was en. Urged upon the conversation to-day by a distinguished man from one of the Gulf States. He said that in the Demo cratic platforms of the past and in the utterances ot the great Democratic leaders of former days would be found tho* principles which fully meet the present demands ot tfcc people. Thus the theory of civil service reform was enunciated by Calhoun and Ztenton in their speeches pointing out the evils of concentrating power and patronage in the of the Executive, and the true principles of currency were ex pounded by a long line ot Democratic statesmen. Iu fact, there was scarcely a public question of the day, he said, fof which the conect solution could not be found in the principles of the old-time Democracy. The luminaries of the past had only to be looked to for light to guiae the party 011 its future career. In answer to aquestiou as to the atti tude ofthe Southern delegation toward the national debt, he was very positive in bis assurance that all the Democratic members from the South were deter mined that nothing should be done lending in the remotest way to impair the financial honor and credit of the nation They desired to go open re. cord early in the session, on a plain declaration to that effect which would quiet nny apprehension that might be lelt by the people ofthe North or by the public creditors abroad. He hopfed to sec an unanimous vote of the Demo cratic members of Congress that would pot it out of the power of ibe Republi cans to charge the Democratic party with favoring any measure looking di rectly or indirectly to repudiation. It is expected that 300,000 barrellsof lager will be sold 011 the Centennia gryind next year. The Philadelphia firm who have obtained the privilege have a capacity for 135,000 barrels, and are sob. contracting for an additional supply. A Milwaukee paper says: '• What is ib wanted in Kansas is more telegraph poles, or stronger ones. The savage pole holds only about four horse thieves comfortably." A little five year old Wisconsin boy was heard saying to his little brother: " 1 know what Amen means. It means that' you musn't touch it.' Mamma told me so." Which was his childish but literal interpretation of "so let it be." citv society,—J tr» temptations, A. C. Duel, in a letter to the St. Loui s Times gives a graphic picture of the demoralization of Washington City society,ar.d the temptations, to which those weak enough to come under its influences, are suspected. We suppose the account is not overdrawn. Hero is an extract: It \\ ai disreputable to be poor, axd discreditable to be plain and unosten" tious. In official society the Williamses, Stewarts, and that ilk, set tho fashions and established the customs. The result was that gaudy display and meretricious show became the rage and 110 one need aspire to" lead itf society" unless there was wherewithal to sustain the estab.. lishment of a dukedom and dispeuse the hostility of a prince. Of course many people came here into official fife, like Fish, CVnktiiig, Chandler, Swann Fer nando Wood and olhers, whose private fortune enabled them to sustain all this extravagance without contriving to make the government pay their bills- But they were the exceptions while those who spurgled ou the proceeds of derelictions and malfeasances were the fHIK 'T eotrtd weary you witn individ ual cases of this sort: but 1 will stay content with three,'which may be taken as samples to cover a\\ ide diversity of circumstances. To begin with, there was Dorsev, of Arkansas. Dorscy came here two years ago, bringing with him a fair repute lor an Arkansas curpct-baggcr, credentials to the senate, and a young, beautiful and ambitious wife. Of course the Dorscy establishment must " lead in society." They bought a house of Shep herd, filled it with rare furniture and gave magnificent entertainments. Their style,including coach and horses, cham pagne, balls, banquets, floral decora, tions, and so on, could not have been gauged by a smaller figure tfifi&i $20,000 a year. It was short-lived. The "epi demical era of reform" so patheticully and so eloquently described by Joyce had set itf, and all a senator could get out of the government was his salary. The consequence wag that Dorsey's establishment soon evaporated, towards the end of the session the sheriff" held a reception in those elegant parlors and that was the last of them. The next case, in a somewhat differ ent line is tLat of Schenck, Schenck went t4*Eng)and an honest, man as men go in these times, lie had two daugh ters, growing a trifle pame, and he wanted a fortune for them. Trenor W. Park came along and held out the silver bait ofthe Emma mine. Schenck loan, cd the financial strength of hisdiplomat ic name and standing for S6O,(XX), and now see where lie is and where we are, with the British press denouncing our representative at the court of St. James as the confederate of common swindlers, if not one himself. The arrival of Col. Ilobfcit Des An ges, deputy collector ofthe port of New York, at the Albauy penltary, to which he was sentenced for swindling the government out of $200,000, brings to mind some other distinguished prison, ers now iu that institution, such as tx Senator William M. Graham, who swindled the Walkill Bank ont of $135,- 000; Frank L. Traiutor, cashier of the Atlantic Bank, New York, who swind led the bank out cf $70,000; Major Dodge, pension agent, who swindled the government out of $300,000; Charles Phelps, deputy treasure of the State Of New York, who swindled the State oat of $360,000. Iu addition to the we have a number Vf mail agents, posmasters. government clerks, &c., the whole forming the most interesting and aristocratic body of shoemakers ever seen in this or any other conntrv. Many a man is making boots to (lay who would have tainted away at - the sight of wax a few moulhssiuce. THE I.SR WHO'S TO HAS THE « »RCMRATIOff, Colonel Richard Henry Lee. who baa been selected to read the Declaration of Independence at the opening of the Na tional Centennial, resides at Millwood, Clarke county, Virginia,and is actively engaged in the practice of law as well as farming operations. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1820, is a eon of the late E mund Jennings Lee, (a distinguished lawyer ol that city) and a gnuid-son of Richard Henry lief, of Revolutionary fame. He is also a nephew of Charles Lee, who was At torney General of tho United States dur ing a part ot Washington's administra tion, and of "Light Horse Harry Lee," and a cousin of General Robert E. Lee Colonel Lee entered the Confederte ser vice as a Lieutenant ot infantry in the Stonewall brigade, and being wounded, afterwards served as a judge advocate of the second corps, Army of Northern Virginia, until the dose of the war. sitree which he has pursued his profes sion with success. | HOW THE WIDOW CAI'OffT 31 Iff, [From the Providence Journal.] A gentleman of an autobiographical fnrn relates how he was instruct erf in the custom of taking toll, by a sprightly widow, during a moonlight sleigh ride with a merry party. He says: The lovely widow L. sat in the same sleigh, and under the same robe with ine. "Oh I oh! don't, don't!" she exclnfm cd, as we came to the first bridge, at the same time catching me by the arm and turning her veiled face toward nic, while her little eyes twinkled tbrough the moonlight. *• " Don't wnalT' I asked. " I'm do l doing cnythiug." ' " Well, but I thought you were going to take toll," replied the widow. ♦•Toll?" I rejoined. " What's that?" " Well, I declare I" cried the widow her clear laugh ringing out above the music of the bells, " you> pretend yon don't know what toll is I" " Indeed I don't then," I said, laugh ing; " explain if you please." " Yon uever Iteavd then/' said the widow, most provoking!)-, "♦'you never heard that when w® are on a sleigh - ride the gentleman always—that is> sometimes—when they cross a bridge -Oaim a kiss, and call it iolL Cut I never pay it. I said that I never heard ot it before; but when we came to the next bridge 1 claimed the toll, and the widow's struggles to bold tho vail over her face were not enough to tear it. At last the vail was romoved, her round rosy face was turned directly towards mine, and ;n the clear light of a frosty moon toll was taken, for the first time in iny ex perience. Soon we came to a long bridge, with several arches; the widow said it was no use to resist a man who would have his own way, so she paid the toll without a mur mur. " But you won't take toll for every arch, will you?"she said to archly that I could not fail to exact all ID J dues, and that was the beginning of my court ship. CATCH CBOP«. The experience of every successive year shows that those crops known as "catch crops" may often be the most valuable. When a field is idle and not producing anything, then the farmer's money is not drawing interest. When the rye or oat stnble lies idle from Au gust uiUil May. hall a year's interest 1" lost 011 the value of that fi Id. It might have been sown to turnips, and if three roots weighing but four pounds each were raised on every square yard, there would be nearly thirty tons, or 900 bushel* of roots—without counting the tops—to every acre. Or a peck of rape might be sown in' August ou a oa stubble, and cuough feed raised 111 two months to feed ten or more sheep, or two cows, per acre, until after snow fail. There would be a mass of roots and refuse left on the ground t> |ayal. the cost ot the-crop, leaving a handsome profit. It is in thia way that a farm may be inadc to carry more stock, to produoe more manure, and consequent ly increasing crops every year. Tho soil ought to be kept always producing, and if the term "catch crops" leads l a fanner to suppose that such crops ar: of no value, he makes a Very great inis- I take, — American Agriculturist. Paitirn, Hcsdswt aad Laws*, A Southern Indiana correspondent writes: "Orchard Kentucky bine grass and white clover, and, if the ground it low or moist, add red top. and you have the finest and most pro ductive pasture known among exten sive slock growers a* it requires no re seeding but improves in quantity and quality, carrying m&re stock each sue-, ceediug year—invaluable for woods and pastures, and'should be extensively sown in the burnt forests. Leaving out the orchaid grass (as it is too rank and rapid a grower,) you can have the best mixture that can be lormed lor lawns, yards, etc. Orchard grass alone makes the most profitable meadow, asil is inr mensely productive, makes excellent hay, and twice as much of It as timothy' and clover cut only about two good crops, and frequently but' one. The farmers need reliable meadows- To sow corn, millet, Hungarian grass or some other substitute every year or two, to make up for his lost clover or timo thy crop, is very discouraging, it being expensive as well as annoying. Or chard grass is the remedy, ai d is des tined at no distant day to stand at the head of all grasses for pasture or hay.— Ex. 4 NO. 47. WHY IIK WftKG A Wl«. k lirgiviug reminiscences of Col. Levi Boutwell. a noted mait in nfe day, » - Montpelier, Vermont, writer, 'ells the following story: "The Colonel was itncornmcrly l>ald» and without hrs heavy dark wig looked not a hit like him-telf. Once lie was in the wash-room of the pavillion, and for convenience ol his ablutions had laid his wig aside. Presently a yoring spruce chap, with extremely red hair, came in. N >ticing tho Colonel's nude head, Jio enquired: "'Well. Colonel, why don't you have some hair on your head?" "It was an iiivpndent question, and the Colonel knew it. Looking savagely on the red head of the saucy young stranger, he replied: "When they made me and had me all finished except my liair, they told me they had nothing left except red hair. I toid them then, egad! I wouldn't have any, I would rather go without. They might save that for impudent young popinjays and fools," "The young inquisitive and joker was perfectly willing to drop the sub ject." And Justly thei'e is poor Avery, with one foot iu the penitentiary and drag, giug the other over the threshold," About four years ago Avery married a young widow who aepired to "high so ' cial position In Washington."' The era . was one of slibwand splurge, the woman was handsome show bright, and ambi tious, the man indulgent and vain, and > the salary only $3,500 a year; enough. God knows, tor plain, honest comfort; enough for a cozy quiet hoine, and fo*" such ••social position" as (rood behavior aud sterling manhood and womanhood can always And if they seek it iu the proper places enough for any two young people who love each other better than they love fuss aud feathers, and who recognize it as their duty to please each other betore they try to please anybody else, licit it was not enough lor Avery and his ambitious, brilliant partner. Weil, that romance will soon be ended; aud, though It takes a ruined man and a woman with all her hopes blighted and all her ambitious dashed into des pair to illustrate it, it will yet be worth the sacrifice to the American public. Once in a great while in this maddest of mad eras a bible-leaf is thrown up permost iu the whirl, aud, though torn and soiled by much buffeting around in gutters and garbage places, it still holds legible and immortal sentence. i know a man who is now serving a ! term iu the Missouri penitentiary. One of those "epidemical eras of reform'' [ hit hiin right iu the region of the dia [ phragtn. As lie was getting out ot the > wagou which hud conveyed hiui to the penitentiary gate, a torn corner of print ed paper blew along the ground iu front of him. lie stooped and picked it up. It contained the •entente, "The way ~ transgressor is hard !" That Keulcuce is siiii'iug the hearts of a good many people about these times of epidemicul reform, • The following letter from a young man was lately addressed to a Judge of Probate. " Sir— My father departed this life not long hence, leeviug a wife and live scorpions. He died detested, and his estate is likely to provo insov ent. 1 was let executioner, and being told that you were judge 01 reprobates I apply to you for letters of condetnub tion." Two lovers at Wilmington, 111., liave (alien out. The girl was about lo mai* ry a man, when her former suitor re pleviued a sewiitg machine ho had given her. She responded by suing him for the value of meals eaten at her house* and now lie has sued her tor the time occupied in courting her. A colored woman. in Macon, Ga.r wrote to her husband in South Carolina: ** Poo rote me word you Mas coinuiin' 'hum soon, and you have not kum. 80 I ain korting now; I ain goin' to get marrid, and goin* awa' from Gregory. I remain vure wife. • * A suit of the State of Louisiana against Gen. James Longstreet, ex- Confederate, to recover 162,000 paid to bim for " militia" services, is now peuding in the Supreme Court of Lor* isiaiia, aud will be recognized as one of the fruits of the political troubles in that State. A lady journalist is reponsible for the following juxtaposiliou of itema: "On Monday, April 10, Ave hundred bar rels of Cincinnati whiskey were landed on the levee at Louisville. On Wednes day, the 12th, the Louisville Courior- Jourual appeared without a line of edi torial.
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