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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. VOL. l. THE GLEANER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY PABEEB & JOHNSON, Graham, N. CU RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, Postage Paidi On* J **•• Six Honths _ go 'CI whs! Clubs!l Wvr 8 copies to one P. 0.1 year .HO 00 j 6 " " " "6 month! 660 "10 " « " "1 year 18 00 10 -urn « 6 month* gOO "20 « » « « 1 year 28 00 20 " " "8 months 16 09 JVo departure from the eaeh system. BATES OF ADmfIRIIGf Transient advertisements payable in adT*BM| |MM advertisement* Marterly in adranoa, 1 mo. 3 mo. 8 mo. 8 mo. 12 mo. lsqaan 8J 24 $ 180 $4 60 $ 720 flO 88 S 880 640 720 16 80 1810 S/i" 64t T2O *OO 1820 22 80 «/ " 880 000 1080 1800 WOO VI" 720 13 60 18 20 22 60 82 40 V column 10 20 18 20 18 00 27 00 46 00 18 60 18 00 37 00 46 00 72 00 1 " 18 00 81 60 U ft) 72 00 126 00 Transient advertisements $1 per square for the first, aad 60 cents for each subsequent Insertion. Advertisements not specified as to time, published an til ordered oat, and charged accordingly. All advertisements considered doe from first liisw Hon. One lnoh to constitute a square. AD VERTISEMENTS. T J. P. GULLEY, Retailek and Jobber op I)ry-Goods, dqthing MOTIONS. BUST'S HAND-MADE Boots & Gaiters HATS AND C VPS, VALISES, TBCNKS.WIIITE GOODS, AC., Ac. South Cor. Eayetteville St., and Exchange Place RALEIGH. N. C. Graham, J$T. C., PEALERB IN Dry-Goods, Groceries, Hardware, ISTBON, STEE'L, MALT, IdOtiASSE OILS, DYE-STUFFS. DRUGS, MEDICINES, LARD, BACON, &C.. AC. Terms Cash or Barter. v» •- feb 16-2 m New Drag Store. DR. J. S. MURPHY Respectfully notifies the public that he has opened a complete and 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 drujrgist—a regu lar graduate in pharmacy, is in charge, so that physicians and the public may rest assured that all presciptions and orders will be cor rectly and carefully filled. Prices as reasonable as can be afforded, feb 16-2 m g C ROBERTSON, DEALER IN Grave Stones AND MONUMENTS, - * GREENSBORO N. C. Pumps! Pumps.!! —: o: THOMAS 8. ROBERTBON, Company Shops, N. C., is manufacturing and selling the best and • CHEAPEST PUHPS 1 • ' I 'K *' ever offered to the people of this Stttte These pumps are as durable as wooden pwW'B can be made. They are easy as any oae wanting water could wish. They are sold /as cheap as any one who proposes to bay could ask. Pumps delivered anywhere on short notice. Each pump warranted. The manufacturer refers to every pomp of his in use. Mot one has ever failed. tab 23-ly p R HARDEN & BROTHER, Graham, N. C.. are receiving their FALL STOCK of Dry-Goods Groceries, HABDWABK, Drugs, Medicines, Faints, Oils, Dye-Btuff Clothing; Hats, Caps, Boots, Bhoes, Rakksrs. Tsbaccs, Cigars, Seeds, Teas, KEROSENE OIL, CROCKERY, Earthenware, Glassware, Coffees, Spice Grain, Floor, Farming Implements. [Washington Correspondence St. Louis r TWH.] SENATOR GORDO.Y, Hi* (•••) Example in Refusing to Let II i« Son Accept ■ (■•rcrnineHt Ap pviluient. The country i» already quite pleas autly f iu.iliar with the name of John B. Gordon, of Georgia, erstwhile a fighting lieutenant general of the Confederacy) and now a thoroughly Reconstructed Souator of the United States Perhaps it is too muuh to say that in the charac ter of John B. Gordon is embraced more true mauhnoU and genuine honor than can Le found in any other man holding impoUant position iu the govennent; but .it is not tpo much to say that in these particulars he is not excelled by any citizen )f the United States either in public or private life. i Genl. Gordon is not rich. On the other hand his circumstances are so moderate that he finds it necessary tp cut his corners pretty closely to avoid a deficit in his' domestic accounts at the end of each year. Large hearted and hospitable enough to spend the income of a duke if he enjoyed it, this gallant gentleman is compelled to restrict his impulses of generosity to the limits of Tery litle, if anything, beyond his Sena torial salary, lie has a large family, the eldest of whom, Hugh Gordon, is a young man of much promise and great ambition, now engaged in the study of the law herein Washington. Tno ne cessity of strict economy under which his father labors is a serious embarras' ment to the young men, and compels I him to foregb many of the commonest pleasures of life. Last year the ser geant-at-arms, Mr. French, a gentle" rpan whose exeelleut impulses hare suggested to me that he was in the wrong pew politically, and join the balance of good fellows who make up the bulk of the Democracy, learned of the embarrasment under which young Gordon labored. Appreciating the sterling qualities of the young man, and full of a praiseworthy desire to assist him, no less for his own than for his father's sake, Mr. French went out' side the regulations of his party caucus and tendered to Hugh a position in the Senate chariiber, which would pay about $1 ,800 a year, and the duties of which could be discharged without se. riously curtailing the opportunities for prosecuting his legal studies. The young man Was about to accept of the position, when Senator Gordon learned of it.' The senator immediately sought Mr. French and told him he could not con. sent to the arrangement. "God bless you Mr. French, for your kind intentions," said the senator, "but I cau not consent to have my son pen sioned on the government. Do not imagine that I object to the arrange ment you have been so kind as to oiler upon merely partisan grounds. It is not because this position is offered to my sou by a Republican officer that I object to his acceptance of it. I object because lam opposed utterly to the doctrine that a senator's son should be entitled to any consideration, and be cause I can not sanction any however indirect or remote, to nepo. tism. My own resources, though limi ted, are sufficient to enable my son to complete bis studies, and if by reason of my comparative lack of resources he should be compelled to observe econo my and frugaility, it will be no disad. vantage to him in the long run." So the appointment was withdrawn. When Mr. Fitzhugh was chosen doorkeeper ot the House, it occurred to him that he would now have an oppor tunity to reciprocate in part at least the many kindnesses of which he had been the reciptent at the hands ot his old Confederate commander, Gen. Gordon an times past and gone. He knew of the situation of young Hugh Gordon* and also of the Act that the senator had objected to hi* acceptance of the ap pointraent from Mr. French. Bnt fie thonght the same objection would not prevail as to positions within the gift of the Democratic party, especially since in this case the place is not in the branch oi the government with which the Senate is connected. So Fitzhngh tendered Hugh Gordon one of the best places in his gift, and the young man asked his lather's consent to accept it. t "Write immediately to Col. Fitzhugh my son," replied Senator Gordon, "and thank him for his consideration. And say in addition, that by reason of cir. cumstances over which you have no control it wonld be improper for yon to accept any appointive office under the auspices of any political party. And to settle thfs matter once for all, let it be GRAHAM, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1876. understood that so long as I hold a position of trust and influence by virtue of the suffrages of the legislative repre sentatives of the people of Georgia, jfou cannot accept any appointment what ever. It the people of Georgia should ever require your services they wil' signify the fact by electing you to the position they may desire you to All. .But the fact that they have chosen me to represent them in the Senate does not signify that they require your servi ces in any' capacity." So this appointment vas declined. I repeat that in the era of scramble for office and of shameless nepotism in all branches of the government, this little epißodeiu the career ot the Georgia Senator stands out in bold and striking relief, and shonld be set np as au ex ample for all our public servants to imi. tate. Men who confronted the division that Gordon led twelve years ago do not need to be told that he was a soldier fit to rank with Lanues, Soult or Mas. sena. And those who have been honor ed by his acquaintance since do not re quire assurance that he is a man and a gentleman of the purest and noblest type extant in the present or of record in history. But as there are a great many people in the North who nover resisted his charge iu battle or grasped his hand in social intercourse, I have recited this little anecdote thai they may form some idea of the character of the man. 1 sometimes wonder at the flexibility of these political institutions which sea men like John B. Gordon alongside of John Logan and Simoa Cameron, and "John Sherman and Hippie Mitchell, and Spencer and John J. Patterson, repre senting, as they do, all grades of human depravity, from dishonesty to felony, and all stages of human degradation; from the discreditable to the infamous. THE CODE DDBI.LO. The recent sad occurence near Au gusta, by which a very worthy gentle man, Mr. Ghas. D. Tilley, met his death at the hands of Mr. Geo. E. llat cliffe, is exciting wide-spread comment everpwhere. Mr. Tilley was the ag grieved party; it was he who sent the challenge and it was he who was slain. They fought with navy six-shooters and at ten paces, aud there were some thirty friends oi the parties on the ground to give encouragement and ef fect to this social murder. For it was a muider aud nothing else; just as much of a murder as is that, where two men engage in a quarrel ai-d one shoots the other dead on the spot; indeed, it was moreOf a murder, in that it was the fruit of a cool and calm premedita tion, and the shot which cut down a hu man life in the midst of a vigorous manhood was not the hot blooded re talation for a word or a blow. Yet there are people who defend the duello and affirm that it is the only equitable method Of adjusting difficul ties between "gentleman"; Let us see how this works. According to the workings of the code Mr. Tilley was the aggreived par ty, and his demand on Mr. Ratcliffe was for "satisfaction." This' 'satisfac tion" was to be afforded him in the op portunity for taking a shot, at close quarters, at his adversary, exposing himself, at the same timo, to the others fire. Thus were they (amusing for ar gument facta ot which we know noth ing) the man who was iujured and the man who injured him, plaeed on an equal footing, but with the advantages in favorofthe man who bad wronged the other, as the challenged party has the choice of weapons and can there fore choose those with which be is most expert, when, it may be, his adversary the man who has been wronged, knows nothing by use ol the weapons selected. As is already known Mr. Tilley was I killed while his adAerary escaped un harmed. Where then is' the satisfaction to the challenging party? and is the man who was wronged righted in his own death at the hands of the man who wronged him? The code is a relic of barbarism and as such should be confiined to the char nel house of the past. It is unworthy of a Christian people, and it may be that it is a murder oftbe son! as well as of the body. In the decaiougnes, among the commandments engraven by the finger of God upon the tables of stoae there is the injunction, "Thou shalt not kill," and be who is slain un der the fire of his adversary, himself seeking that adversary's life with a pis tol iu bis ha|»d and with murder in his heart, is hardly fit to be ushered in sn instant,into the presence of Him whose most righteous laws he is then break ing. It is a matter of congratuhon, how- ever, that the murderous code is fast going into disrepute amond us. It is not a sign of bravery in any one either to send or accept a challenge or to fight a duel; the veriest coward, confident of his own nerve and his own skill, can thus coolly face one over wtom he knows he has the advantage. The real Courage necessary is that which is re quired to decline an invitation to a hos iile encounter; the moral courage to face the opinions of those who hold that no gentleman cau feuiain a gentle* mau after having refused to fight. It Is "gentlemanly," to shoot down yonr mau in cold blood, by rote at the call of another gentleman who seconds yourself or your opponent in the affair; it is the correct thing to resent a hasty word or an unguarded expresson. re pented perhaps as soou as uttered, to shoot down one who may have proven himsolf in many ways yonr earnest friend; a mourning widow cf a happy wife and sad-eyed orphans of r uddy children, but it is not "gentle manly" to refuse to fight a duel because you conscientiously - believe it to be wrong; because you may be a profes sed Christian and have a tew days pre viously at Christ's table confessed to your God that yon were at peace with the world and in charity with all men; because, mayhap, you are yourself a loving hnsband and father aud hold the happiness of your wife and the welfare of your children as superior to the hon or, falsoly co-called, of "gentlemanly" world. Let the people of the south take such thing to hear(; ,et them look at a vigor ous man shot down in the bloom of youth and strength and usefulness as well as at him from whose pistol sped the fatal bullet, and whose life may be one long scene of remorse and regret and then let them force down, socially, and put down with a strong hand, le gally, that miserable murderism known among us as the Code of Honor.—Even ing lie view. Of the 17 new senators 11 are law. yers, 4 are ex-Governors, 8 were in the Confederate army, and 1 was a Con federate Senator, Ot the 176 new Rep. resentatives 122 are lawyers, 81 mer chants of various grades, 4 physicians* 3 bankers, 2 editors, 6 farmers, and 2 college professors. Twenty-seven of them served iu the Union army and 1 in the navy—this last being a colored man, Robert Smalls, of Charleston fame —during the war. Twenty-six were Confederate soldiers, so that in the matter ot veterans who have seen ser vice there would be a tie were it not for Smalls. Several of the Southern members were in the Confederate Senate. Only 7 of the new members are foreign born. Sixty-nine received a college education, and with the exception of two or three colored mem. bers from the South who have learned to read since the war, nearly all bad a fair education. Of the 366 in Congress so that the proportion of" green bauds*? to use the sailer's phrase, is unusually large. An auctioneer in Michigan was selling a quantity of life invigorator, and takiug a package in his hand cried "How much am'l offered?" "Fifty cents," said a bystander.— "F i fty cents I am offered; going at fifty, fifty, fifty-five, sixty, sixty-five, goiugat sixty-five, going, going g on t," and fell dead while pronounc ing the word. JVbw, the question arises, bad he been selling a cook-stove instead of life invigorator wonld th accident have occurred. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, the anther of the anti-third term resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, was warmly congratulated upon the success of bis movement by his fellow members, and asked how be had come to intieduce bis resolution, to which be responded: "I am a Metho dist, but I am opposed to the thirdterm. So when Bishop Haven, down there in Boston, the other day, put Grant up for another term, I thought I would show the country that all Methodiste were not for Grant, and I wanted to see jnst bow Congress stood on the same ques tion.'^ A young girl in Chelsea, Mass., while waltzing at a public ball the other night, fell down dead, and all the ministers in Chelsea " improved the oscassion the following Sabbath. But the ver.. next day, a boy iu the same town, try gto get a great heavy family Bible o an exceeding high shelf, pulled it dew on him, and the corner jabbled out his ve. And yet nobody said anything about its being a dreadful warning. A YOUNG WOMAN'S ADVENTURES —KNOCKING ABOUT THE UNI. TED STATES IN THE CLOTH ING OV A MAN. * Miss Alice Holmes was detained in the police statiou, in Astoria, says the New York Sun, togiveofficers an op portunity to procure suitable wearing apparel in which to seud her to her home, in Massachusetts. She wore a midshipman's cap. a heavy pea-jacket bfue flannel sailor's shirt, pantaloons and men's boots; and her hair, of au burn shade, was short cropped and parted on the sido, making her appear as a stoat and cvmely lad of sixteen or seventeen years. She was taken to the policj station on Sunday for disguising herself in male attire. Her sex was discovered in the boarding honse of Alfred Horn, to whom she was sent as a boarder by Mr. Anton Pearse, the pro. prielor of the Carolina Chemical Works ot Dutcn Hills. The latter was crossing t e ferry to Hunter's fcoiut 011 the Bth inst., when she was accosted by a boy, as she supposed, who asked fo 1 ' employment. The boy said he wonld work as a farm laborer tor his board and clothes Mr. Pearse offered to provide him with board and clothes and give bim $8 a month if he would work for him. He aocepted the offer, and was employed in the department for making chloroform He gave the name of Walter Holmes. He was sent to live wiih Mr. Horn, who keeps a boarding-house for young men. On Sunday last he was accused of stealing a shirt, and it was then that he was discovered to be a yeung worn, an. Miss Holmes is between eighteen and nineteen years old, with blue eyes and fair complexion. She is five feet five inches in height. Her story, as told to Recorder Parsells, ol Long Island city, and to others, is that she is from Marion Mass., where her mother lives. She was secretly married wheh she was about fifteen to a young telegraph op. orator named Barnstable, and went with bim to Indiana. She has a child three years old that her mother has the custo dy of. She deserted her home in Mari on nine months ago, because she could not get some money that she thought belonged to h(r. Her adventure! iu male dress began in Providence. Sh 0 tried to obtain work there suitable .'or a woman, and, failing to do so, she hired herself to a farmer. She deserted him to go on the Sound steamer Schnltz as a deck hand, and was afterward stew ard on the coastwise schooners James town, Cxar and William Ig. Baker. She kept her sex a secret wherever she went. In August or September last ahe became acquainted with two young men named Jackson and Brien, oneof whom told her that be had ran away from jiis father, taking a large sum of money. Tbey persuaded her to enlist iu the Uni ted States navy, and she then revealed to them who she was. She was taken as a ward room boy on the steamer Pow hatan at the navy yard. She alleges that her two companions paid the ex amining surgeou 926 each to pass her without exposing her sex. She over stayed iter leave from the vessel one day and on her return she and one of her companions were pnt iu the " brig" under arrest. On her release she de serted. She told Recorder Parsells that sh e had never tasted intoxicatiug drinks. Her hands show bow she has toiled. The palms are hard and calloused. She says she belongs to a good Massachu setts family. After bearing her story Recorder Parsells discharged her, and Police commissioner Bodine gave her some money to take her heme. A Harrisonburg, (Va.) dispatch of the 23d instant says: As two young girls 01 highly respectable parents were on their way to school near MeGauet ville, Virginia, they were stepped by a mulatto negro, and the elder, about fif teen years oi age, despite her cries, was dragged to a body of woods nearby and brutally The yonnger girl immediately ran off to give alarm, but before assistance oould be rendered the flend bad accomplished his interna] purpose and escaped. A party of young men armed tbemselve with shot guns and immediately went in pursuit, but at latest accounts the negro was still at large. If caught, the probabilities are favorable for a short, swift and speedy end for the scoundrel. ' ° Grandpa Grant didn't forget Nellie and tbe baby in his message, but invited the attention of Congress to some law regulating the status of our girls who marry foreigners and our DOJ-S who happen to be born abroad. Grant ain't going to forget tbe family, yen knew. TMAOCA ccxTiritir IN ROBTB CABOI.INA, The New York Daily Bvlletiu of the 25th remarks that the successful raising of fine quality of tobacco in the Western portion of North Carolina is the lates agricullural achievement in that Slate. Such an attainment was until within a few years past, little thought of and indeed would have, been ridiculed if mentioned ten years ago. But with the constant development of the capabit lities of the soil this, as well as other Southern States, impossibilities of the past are being proved possibilities Of the present, rbe fact that "thousand fr of pounds of fancy wrappers are new produced where (North Carolina) ten .years ago thecrop was scarcely known, *> is certainly demonstrative of these facts. A new method of curing is introduced which will add materially to the success of the tobacco interest in North Caroliua. Thia is curing the leaf ef the stalk. The advantage obtained this wise is shown in the following yield of 230 pounds of green tobacco, one halt ol which was cured on and the other half off the stalk: That cured off the stalk, 12 lbs 10 ozs; stalks weighed Gibs llozs; total, I9tbs sozs. Cured on stalk, lllbs llozs; stalk on this top, Btbs total, 19tbs llozs. It will l»e observed that the grand total is just the same except 6 ounces, and iu this let cured off the stalk 15 ounces, or something like 8 per cent, on the leaf is gained, while the other gains 1 pound: but that gainisina worthless stalk. ARRBHT OP A BAND OP 808. bbbsin west Tißsinru, For several years tlie people of Mason and Putnam counties, West Virginia, have been subject to the depredation 'of a regularly crganized band of robbers, who styled themselves the "Friendly Brothers," or "Ited Legs,"and who had their headquarters in the mountain, six miles irom Winfield, the county seat of Putuam. Last week a citizen intro duced himself in the band, pledged fi delity to the cause, and procured evi dence of their complicity in a large number of robberies. This informa tion was communicated to the citizen* of Winfield, who organized a company and started in pursuit of the thieves, nineteen of whom wore captured and lodged in jail. Several of the ring leaders, includiag the captain of the band, made theft escape, but are being pursued. A meeting of the citizens of Putnam was held, when it was resolved to rid the county of all suspicious per sons supposed to be connected with the band, and notices have been posted de manding their departure, otherwise they must abide by tho consequen ces. Gen. Colquit of Goorgla, in a recent address, said: "To remove stumps from a field, all that is necessary is to have one or more sheet iron chimneys, some foar or llvo leet high. Set fire to the stnmp and piano the chimney over it, so as to give the requisite amount of draft at the bottom. It will draw like a stove. The stamp will ooon be consnm" ed. With several snch chimneys of different sizes, the removal of stomps may be accompli hed at merely nominal labor and expenses." Uncle Levi—" Now, Sammy, tell me, have yon read the beantifal story of Joseph?" Sam—"Oh! yea, nncle.'' Uncle—" Well, then, what wrong did they do when they sold their brotherV' Sam—"They sold him too cheap, I think." "As to opening oysters," said Old Ilarricaric, "why, nothing's easier, if yon only know bow." "And how's bow?" inquired Straight. "Scotch snuff; bring a little of it ever so near their he set, and they will sneeze their lids off." A general movement is in progress, the Meridian Metcury says* on the part of the colored citizens of that State to bring before Congress a scheme for the colonization of such Southern blacks as desire to emigrate,on some separate territory or preservation In the sixteen States which have held elections last year, the Democrats have an aggregate vote of 1,923,111, and the Republicans 1,907,293. The Democratic gain over last year's vote in the same States is r The mercury stood five degrees below zero outside when Jones feelingly re plied : I wouldn't tnrn a dog away to night, Brown. Would you?" r W —well, no," replied Brewn^ hesitatingly. " At 'cast not ii he was worth anything." NO. 48.