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THE GLEANER. GRAHAM N. C., JAN. 25, 1876. K. S'. PABIiSvSI Kdltor. ORGANIZE, Many of the papers of the State have urged the importance of crjanizaticn and truthfully so done. The condition of the two parties in this State such that, the one that is best organized, and doea the most effective work, in th e next campaign, will, in all probability bo the successful party. In the count 8 and speculations that are being indulg ed in by Democratic journals as to the result of the great national campaign, North Carolina, is put down Democrat ic, certain. We wish that we could feel no doubt about it. When partie B are so nearly of equal strength as in this State, the victory is to be won by organization and work. The party that excels in this will have the privilege of shouting over its own success and the defeat of the other. Homilies on the importance of organization are simply the repetition of an acknowledged truth. Every one will listen to them and say they are true, every word true, and tlia l is generally the ond of it. With prop er organization and work in the past, there would not to-day bo a radical state official in North Carolina, sav e those elected in 18TT8; - Our executive Committee is not to blame. It doubtless has dope all that it possibly could, under the circumstan ces. We well nigh lost the State last Summer, on account of the tactics ,andi hard work of the radicals. If we are to do 110 better this fall than we did' last Snrnmer the State is sure to go Radical, The campaign will soon be upon us. We are as nearly without organization in the State, as perhaps any party ever was in any State. We are all ready to say, and to write anything, and much of it, in condem nation of this passive, go to poiees policy. Many of us doubtless think } and all of us hope that when the State Democratic Convention is called, and the campaign fairly opens, that all this •will bo remedied. —That a judiciou ß plan of action will be adopted, -and earnest work will commence. That won't do. We have never yet known real work done at a nominating Con. vention, in the way of party organiza tion. There'is generally a great crowd present who are impatient to have their friends nominated and to bear Bpeeches. Theso State Conventions are not bodies suited to tlie real earnest work of organizing and planning a campaign. That the Republican party has excelled us in work and organiza tion there eau be no doubt. In tlie condition in which our party is we cannot commence too soon. Cbncert of action, must be had, united effort must be mado, if we hope for success. Wheth er. we are to be defeated ornot'depends upon ourselves. Unless we improve, on last summer especially, we will be. We need not depend uj>on any want of zeal or energy on the part of Republi. cans. It is useless, and it is folly to shut our eyes to facts and drift on, on tiie ill founded assurance that the State is Democratic, We believe, candidly believe, that whetlier the State is Dem ocratic in the next election depend* upon the steps that are taken to make it so. Would it not bo well for the / Chairman of'our State Executive Com mittee to call a meeting of the Commit tee, at some suitable point, at an early day, to which would be invited the Chairmen of the diffcreut Cuugressional and County Executive Committees in the State, together with such represen tative men of the party as might attend,- for the purpose of framing nud propos ing a pian of organization to tho &tat e Convention, when it, meets, and of con sidering of other matters important to tho party? Let it be purely a business meeting, and let it take coguizauco of all matters pertaining to the iuterest of the {tarty, subject of course ta the action of the State Convention when it meets. It occurs to us that such a meeting would be more valuable tlun , aven a State Convention, in securing effective organization, and promoting concert of action and harmony in th« part}'. It would not be large. Men would not go there to nominate or be nominated for office, but real earnest work would engage their attention, and that is just what we need. Our object in making the above sug. gestion, is to agitate the matter, and hear suggestions from others. We hav e a work before us, that we can accom plish, no doubt about that, but are we going to do it? It won't do U) de. pend upon the Executive Committee j unaided. -T : It will doubtless, as it has heretofore, do all it can, but, unless it is more ef fectively supported that will of necessi ty be but little, compared wilh what should be done. Our people and those at a distance will hardly be able to re -1 oucile the fact that North Caraolma is i a Democratic State, with fthe other ; fact that all her State offices are filled Iby Radicals, if that thing is to contin ue. How nice it would be, to bo able once more, when you go to Raleigh, to step into the Governors office and find a Democrat there, and so with the oth. er public offices in the Capitol. Don't it make you feel good just to think about it? Well now, if you want to real, ize the good feeling that starts up at the thoughts of the prospect of finding, next year, Democrats in the places now filled by Republicans, we nrast go to work, and that without delay. There is no real fun in electing our candidates overwhelmingly before the election, and getting beaten just a little that day. It has made us feel badly heretofore, and we don't want to experience it again. It is the part of wisdom to ap* predate ?/our opponent, and set about overcoming him. That we have a hard fight before us no candid man will deny. That we should at once address ourselves to preparation for it, must be admitted. We are fooling no one when, by bare assertion, we are making North Caroli na a Democratic State by a large major" ity. The State is in fact, Democratic, if the party brings out its strength. We are lulling no Republican into inactivi ty by these assertions. If in truth they have any effect it is damaging to us. Let then a meeting be called, some where, at some time soon, pre liminary to the State convention, and let at least one representative man from each county be present, and let the field be surveyed uninterruptedly, calmly and patiently, and let the cam paign be deliberately arranged, every detaii of it being weTT considered, not forgetting and branch of it The wel fare of our people, and the reputation of our State alike demand Democratic suc cess this year. We can't do too much towards it, and we can't commence too early. Organization and work are the trump cards in this year's game. They are not secondary even to a poli tic seloction of candidates. The par ties are very nearly of equal strength, } and the greatest effort will be made by the Republioans to hold the State> We should meet it. We have ofteu denounced the style ,c of shirt that open* in the oack. Wc 0 have felt annoyed that some well mean- f, iug men would wear them. Wo have A been 'provoked iuto saying that wo would not vote for a uian who wore j one of them. We have declared that v there wai not one redeeming quality p about the things. We have called a 1 them shirts, lit tor black legs and sorry 1 > village inulattoe? and no one else, f We have said everything of them g . bad that oooured to us, and by way oi 1 practicii g what we proached we abso- c ( | lutely refused to apply to a gentleman c tor a small loan r alter we had made up 1 ' our mind' to da so, because he wore a shirt that opeued in the back. Now i ' what we want to do is to qualify our t remarks. We are prepared, in the ox- ,1 > ercise ot that candor that we boast of, j i to say that we have made a discovery, , , that we are prepared to admit that i there is a convenience in wearing a • shin that opens in* the back, sometimes. This ie the way we found it out, —the , ' way wc made the discovery. We went 3 to see a friend—he was sick. Our hy in- ] * pathy for him was vqry much coohd on 1 i finding Idm envoloped in one of those j hateful locus I-backed shirts. Wo did ! . not upbraid him— he was very sick— I r but we made up our mind, if ever ' he got well, we would do ourself the pleasure of telling him bow he had fal- , 1 i ten in our estimation, iWe wore iu -0 dulging these pious thoughts when the 18 nurse announced that it was time to if dress the blister upon oar friend.- We e asked him if be bad been blistered,. which -was vory natural, after seeing the nurse with appHances for dressing one, and heating her say that wu her busiuess. He said ha had. We asked him where, and he said between the shoulders. By this time the nurse was ready to attend to it, so she )nst rolled him over with back up and theu we dia covered one nse of the locust-shir U We would like t® know something of the history of the style, but we have uo doubt that some big tnan, big in titles or money, was blistered between Lhd shoulders, and had his shirt made open in the back, whereupon some enterprising proprietor of a gentlemans lurnishing establishment, seised upon it as a; new Btyle. We shall always conclude that the man who has one O'B, either has, has had or ought to have a lister between the shoulders. ; Tr - ' i H r '; .. .. . . K xtrnrt from Jlr, Turlicr'i Speech i i Opposition to the Centennial Appro priation, WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. —1n the furth_ er course of his remarks, speaking George Washington, he remarked that George Washington was the first great rebel in the country, and he ventured to say to the gentleman troui Ohio, Garfield, who spoke the other day about perjury, that George Washington wai iu the view ofthA&w, a perjured rebel, tor lie was ah ofTOer in His Majesty's armv, and ho (Tnoker) took, it for granted that he swore to support the Crown, and then went intd rebell ion. Garfield"Did he hold a commiss sion in the British army at the time of the revolution?" Tucker: "No Sir." Garfield: "Then I think he did not commit perjury." Tucker:, "Then you claim that his oath only lasted so long as he held his commission." Garfield: "It ceased when his com mission expired. Tucker. But he resigned. Garfield. He did not resign. Tucker. He did resign. Garfield. He was not an aflicor at the time. Tucker. Why, the gentleman does not know the history of his own coun try. (Laughter.) Garfield. Did he resign to take service against the crown. Tucker. Oh! no, that is another thing. Garfield. H* was trying to get ser vice in Great Britain before the war and iailed. * Tucker. He resigned and then ho took service in the rebellion. When the gentleman was speaking f men ol the South the other day, he epoke ot those who resigned and afterwards took service on the confederate side. . Garfield. I did not speak ot those who, having resigned, took service, but I spoke o£ those who, being sail under their oath, contemptuously violated it and struck against us. Tucker —If you had so qualified your phraseology, I should not have inter rupted you the other day, tor I know of uo such person. The reason why I interrupted the gentleman" the other day was that I represent en this floor a district and a little town where sleep the remains of oue of the noblest Amer icans who ever trod (his soil, ("mean ing Robt. E. Lee.") He sleeps in death and no dishonor can ever by implica tion or expression bo thrown at his hon orable grave, that the representative from that district will not rise here and repel, (Sensation and some applause.) Comments *f L(»4in| Ncr|hern Jour, >a|a upon Blaipcs Speech and the Am nesty A Vermont republican writes to tbe Spli'ing field Journal: "Blaiue's speech is a blunder and an offense. I don't want any man capable for my candidate for the presidency. What a way to begin the centennial healing, this tearing the scabs off the old sores! Toor old Jeff/ Davis; Blaine is setting him on his feet every where. No use. These professional pol politicians always fail to connect. They are not fit to marshal in tTfe new cen tury." The doad of the Union shall never be forgotten, but the ghoul who robs their graves to make a party flag shall not be thought a hero. f l he flag to sweep the country must be of fairer bunting than can be woven from the "bloody shirt" of Morton or tbe "grave clothes" of Blaiuc. New York JSfrald The New York Btaat»Zeitung attacks Mr. Blaine with great severity for hia speech about Jcfierson Davis. It holds ( that no.good can be accomplished by li; that its only apparent object was to revive the passions of the war as a means of furthering' his. presidential aspiiations, and concludes roundly denouncing It as pure ileiniigugism. Thus far we pe>e but one result worth nothing i* Mr. Blaine's lievival Move ment —reviving cf the passions of the war period— namely, the inci cased probability of the nomination ot Presi dent Grant. New York World An a«?t of amnesty would onl> place JefiersoirDavisiu the same political con ditionas his fellow citizens, the planta tion hmids and negro whilewasher of the State of Mississippi Mr. ltlaine is hard pressed foi arguments when he is driven to rest defence on so ridiculous agronud. New York Jlcra\d: The Yislt of the National Bai my ( altlte to the ProiMcat of the Senate. etc. WASHWGTOK, Jan. 29—The memo rial cominitle of thirteen appointed by the recent St. Louis National Railway Convention, waitefd to-day upon the President of the Senate and the Shaker nf the Home and presented the memo rial and proceedings of tike convention Iu favor ot Government aid to'secure promt construction of the Texas & Pa cific Railway as a competing line to the Pacific, llou. Stanley Matthews, ot Ohio, th* President of the Convention Col. William Johnson, of North Caro lina, Hon. J. H.Kennard, of Louisiana, R. W.'l hoinpson, of Indiana, D. Fcl -Beudhcld, of California, C. K. Marshall, of Mississippi, and A. C. Clapton, of Texas, were "present. At Clio, a small village in Marlboro county, 8. C. a negro named Arch Mer ison committed a rape upon a liiehly respectable married lady in hea own house in the absence of her huspand. He was captured and hanged to the limb ol a tree. w m -'JSr^'' s CONGRESS. /SENATE.—Gordon presented ths peti tion of Goul. Beauregard for the reraoy al of bis disutq^ties. Thurman presented the credentials ot Jas. B. Eustis, as senator from the State of Lousiana, and asked that they be re ferred to the committee on privileges and elections. The matter was isud over. It is said that PJnchback, ths negro who has been so troublesome, orEustis one will be seated, as Senator. Cameron presented a petition from citizens of Pennsylvania favoring a sub sidy sor the Sou thern Pacific road. Davis introduced a resolution to In vestigate the treasury. 2so action upon it. Conover of Fla. bill to provide for a uniform duty on su gar. Sherman presented a petition of* peo. pie of Ohio asking the construction fof the Southern Pacific Railroad. Wallace presented petition of citizens of Pennsylvania asking aid for Southern Pacific liailroad. Davis Treasury investigation bill was discussed but laid-a£ide for Mortou who commenced his Mississippi inves. speech. He read it showing its careful preparation. He usually speaks extempore. The levee committee considered fav orably the three million appropriation bill. The nomination of Billings for Dis trict Judge in Lousiaua has uot been considered. Two resolutions looking to the ex action ot money duo from the Pacific railroad to the government. Morton resumed his Mississippi in vestigation speech hut did not conclude en account of sore throat. A resolution looking to an amend ment of the 22nd joint rule of the Sen ate and House. This rule prescribes the mode of counting the votes tor President and Vice-President. The financial committee will report favorably on the bill for commission on alcoholic liquor traffic amended to iu clude fermented and all kinds of liquors in the proposed inquiry. HOUSE. —Upon the call of Joyce introduced a bill to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors i n the Cen tennial buildings and grounds during the exhibition. Banks, for the remov al of all polijioal disabilities. Vance, for open navigation of the French Broad River. Scales for granting pen. sions to soldiers of the Mexican \* ar. O'Brien an amendment to the Constitu tion prohibiting, among other things preachers holding office under the Fed eral or Sta'e Governments. Savior, to amend the steamboat act. President caJlod upon lor correspon dence with Spain about Cuba; The Judiciary committee, reported an ameudment to the constitution of the U. S. limiting tbe Presidential term to four years, and making the person once holding ineligible afterwards. The Judiciary committee reported a bill authorizing the Court of Claims to take jurisdiction of the claiu.s ot all per sons whawere infants, married women, idiots, lunatics, insane persons, or he yond the seas at the lime of the seiztlre of any abandoned or captured property; provided, that such claims are already on (lie, or shall be on file, witbiu two years, liclerred to tbe committee of the whole. Bills were introduced by Riddle to pay half customs in lawful money. By McFarland to allow planters to sell leaf tobaceo without licence. By Cannon lixing a penalty for mailing obscene matter and 'excluding lottery circulars from the mails. Tbe House went into Committee of the whole ou the Centenuial appropria tion. Waddell ot this State advocated the appropriation jn a.speech abounding in humor, in the course of whicb he toucli od up Mr. BLuue on his anti-amnesty speech. » The Committee rose without action. Several speeches on the Centennial appropriation, but two against it, Tuck er of Va , and Cochrane of Pa., on con stitutional grounds. Tuckers speech said to b« the finest of the session. Unfavorable report on tfyo bill reduc ing first class mail matter to one cent on the half ounce. Strange of Pennsylvania* and -Cook and Feltou of Georgia spoke agaiust th e Centennial appropriation bill. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The levee Committee unanimously agreed to report favorably on a three million bill, the distribution to be as follows.- Lonisana IJ. Mississippi J Arkansas 7rlo, Missouri 5-10 million' The majority ot the House Military Committee opposed the reduction of (he army. W. W. llolden wrote Blaine a letter to be read i|> his closing speech against amnesty. Holden thinks the Demo crats ougbt to have been mindful of his ease before being so strong for univer sal amnesty. Holden evidently wants to be eligible to office again. So tar as wfe are concerned wo think he would do the Radical party, if foot loose, a pre cious sight more harm thau he would the Democratic party. ; JGI NEW advertisements. , "T • "t- • Alamance, Oaswell, Person, Qranville and Orange: Bring your TOE AC GO to wsm t wmmmm, - Hillsboro. N % 61 Vtr ift —-*•*»•,-•• - ~ . The undersigned have opened WEBB'S WAEEHOTJgE : ; : : • 'TV *v under such auspices and with such arrangements that they can fully protect the interes of the PLANTER We will have regularly on the market a full corps of .BUYERS, who are willing to tiro the Farmer the vulue of his Tobacco, some of them with very large orders to All, for first class Mangfacturers. Our ■ '" .'• •. ■ r 7> " ■" . . ••; B. B, alone has orders from Manufacturers for an unlimited quantity of all grades, and will pay full prices. He needs in next three weeks 100,000 Pounds, Bright Smokers and Wrappers and will pay PRICES which cannot fail to delight the Plan ter. Ybu may rest assured that Hillsboro, will be at Vie head of the List on '.Z v V. ' ■■ " \ ..-?iat BRIGHT TOBACCO. Try us on Blights, and you will he convinced that n>» other inland Market can excel this. The Money Is here ready to pay for any quantity. Bring in yonr Tobacco early and when possible the evening before the sale. Sale days Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays of each week. We will hare a MAiMMOTM SPECIAL SAKE 011 Tuesday and Wednesday, the Bth and 9lh of February, and will be prepared to handle 100,000 lbs. Tobacco. We have tlio promise of the co-oper ation of Buyers, from other Markets. Some large Houses in Baltimore and Richmond will Tobacco to Hillsboro aud save time and distance, and we will see that you are treated right, and that you get the very '* The Highest Market Prlee on all grades, and we feel sure «re can ruu ahead on fine Bright Wrappers, Romeih'ier we are prepared to pay in currency, for all the that can be brought to Hillsboro. POGUE fc €O., Proprietors. 1875. 1875. Fall and Winter Stock. I wish to inform my'friends that I am now receiving my fall and winter stock of DBV'GOOD«, NO HOWS, HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES Ready-Made Clothing, &c. c.'„ t ssss vsfi. s»"s!r" : yards, at fire cents a spool. All varieties of LADIES DRES £ GOODS „ . nnrt i on n f mY eoods I buy direct from the manufacturer. I also keep con liberal share of trade I have reeeived, I an) very respecttnily, yy ALBRIGHT. Graham, N. C., November 9th 1875. ly N. 8,—1200 acres fine land for sale la parcels to suit purchasers wR A Drugs, Paints, GLASS & C. . ' - ■" -. . 7 . . i, /( . Wo keep constantly on hand a good asort -1 meat of KBKHiI VKVGA AMP tHKJIIICAMi different brands of white Lead, a large stock of WINDOW GLASS, whioh we are now selling for less money than they have ever been sola for In this section, we will supply Tillage & country Merchants a better article than they buj North for'the same money. Also we h»i» a large stock of TRUSSES AND SUPPORTERS, together with a full and complete line of TOILET AND FANCY ARTICLES. Come and see us, inspect our stock and satifsy yourself of the truth of what we say. The Se nior member of the Ann has resumed practice and oan always he found at the Drug Store .to. »OL £ SON., In the Benbow House, Greensboro, N. C. BROUGHTON & CO Prlateri ft Bind era, RALEIGH, N.»C. Don't Forget —THAT — . Farmers' JFarehouse, iV I s* si DUUnAM, N. Ci ■ ■lke Bauer Wartkoiac •( (he Stale. Sold on last Wednesday, November 17, tf-"** »•- -r%~) - ■ Tw» Biairrd and Fifly-Panr Parcel* LOOSE TOBACCO. More than any other house during the present year. Has more BUYERS WITH PLENTY OF HONE V. All grades of old fillers and wrappers exc ted and wanted at ► \ , > *. *■ \ I j * ' ' - . , -j ' - Top Figures. New bright wrappers in great demand. Come along and be sure you atop at. FABJIEB'M WABEUOBSKi E. J. PARIS IL
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