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The table in surpassed by no bouse in the
State. If you wish to be pleasantly and
comfortable located, stop at the National,
fronting the Capitol Square,
The National is located within fifty yards
of the State House, it is the most convenient,
attractive and pleasant headquarters for
members of the legislature in the city.
Terms are low to suit the tunes, fare unsur
passed, attention and accommodations the
best.
Saloon and Billiards
nbasement. Two of the best Tables in "lie
City, for the use ot guests, free of charge.
»ee. 12th. 1576.
JOHN OHAffltßEEtAlfl
t GREENSBORO, N. C.,
PBACTICAL A K E R
WATCH AND
JEWELLER
DEALER IN
FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY,
Sterling Silver, and Plated- Ware,
PINE SPECTACI.ES,
and everything else in my line.
(9* Special attention given to the repairing
and timing or Hue Watches fctiA Regulators.
I offer yon every possible guarantee that
whatever you may buy of me shall be grnu
lne and Justi as represented, and you shall
Pay "o more for it tuan a fair advance on the
wholesale coat, Good; ordered shall be fur
nished as low as If purouM«d in person at my
couuter. I have made in the handsomest
manner,
Jewelry, Dl«M«ad
•»" M««U
•IPiaritwclrr, sad
Silver Wach Cam,
«M„ etc.
My machinery and other appliances for
making the different parts of Watches, is
perhaps the most extensive in the State, con
sequently I can guarantee that any part of a
watch or dock can bo replaced witj the nt- '
most facility,
1 guarantee that my work will com
pare favorably inefliclenoy and finish with
any in the land.
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN,
W atoh Maker and J e weler,
Greensboro, N.,
A A Can t be made b» every aecntJ
\UUII every month In the business we
HJv/ty t/furnish, but those witling to
work oan easily earn a dozen
dollars a day right In their own local!tie*.
Have no room to explain here. Business ,
pleasant and honorable. Women, and boys
and giiis do as well as men. We furnish
J n u a complete Outfit free. The business
Pays better than anything else. We will '
bear enpense of starting you. Particulars
iree. Write and see. Fanners and mecban- j
ics, their tons and daughters, and all classes .
need of paying work at home, should 1
write to as and learn all about the work at 
J5? 1 Now '» the time. Don't delay.
Address True & Co., Augusta, Maine. 1
BENBUTI.ER lO DUCrEAII.
Mlmou Cn;ncren>i «on-1,,.r.nw moit
Scirutificnllr Scarilrd,
WASHINGTON, D. C.. May SO, 1877.
TV-..-. • t «.
uetjr air: i received yours of the
29th instant in manuscript, after hav
ing mid it in print.
I dictated to mv phonographic sec
retary a letter to Marshal Pitkin, in
reply to one informing me that his
resignation had been demanded by
the Eexecutive, aid to that demand
lie had refused tojfcccede. and seat it
marking it personal, so that lam in
no way responsible for its getting into
print.
Ihe fnctfl that are recited therein
were stated specially to be from in
formation which I had received from
creditable sources. Of course,l could
know nothing of the occurences per
sonally, and of course did not under
take to give ttiem either publication
or a personal endorsemet, save that I
believed them.
Ityotfpp&d addressed me even a
priuterffetter, candied in the ordina
rily courteous language which passes
between grntlemen, especially when
the one who uses it, it is rumored, is
expecting employment in the
maiic service of his country, I should
have very promptly,*upon being set
right, made reparation so far as in my
power for any injnVy arising from a
publication even lor which 1 was not
responsible.
I never thought of charging you
with using your own money,of which
you declare you "had none to spare,"
in paying the mileage of t ho deserting
legislators of the Packard House.
You will observe, reading iny Jetfer
more carefully, that I did not even
allege that "it was asserted" that any
money was paid; my phrase being,
"it is asserted that two thousand do
llars was to be paid to the leading
sorting legislators, and only two hun
dred dollars to others, disguised in
the latter case in the shape ot mile
age, so that Mr. Johnson, a colored
man, speaking out of the innocence ot
his l:eart, said on the floor of the
House, that all Iks wanted was to get
his mileage and go home."
Now, how any person c?n!d find in
such a statement an assertion that he
paid any money, passes my compre
hension. I express.y say that poor
Johnson declared t!:nt "lie wanted to
get his mouey and go home." not
ihat he had got it It never occured
to me that any money was paid, only
promised; or that the fegislatois got
lheir money for deserting any more
than Wharton has got his office fjr
not "managing any business." On
the sontrar. ,1 was told that,although
the money was promised as a bribe
for th« desertion, the poor lellowsdid
notgefit, but were lequired further
to vote for Mr. Spofford as Senator
before they could get even what was
due ti' em. Now. Ido not know this
tact, but hope and believe the Senate
will ascertain it on investigation in
Hie contest for tbc Senator's seat. 1
would suggest to the Senate commit*
tee to ask certain members of the
Parka d Legislature, whose names I
will give, whether, alter all efforts to
demoralize the Republican members
and get fhem to go over to Nicholls
by the Commiq£|bn acting together
failed, a selected portion of that Leg
islature were requested bf Gel.
Wharton, a friend of Packard, to
meet Wayne MacVeagh. and did so.
-fflietirer lit addressed Mien), "saying
that the president would not recog
nize the Packard government; that
the troops would be withdrawn the
next day; that he bad a telegram to
that effect; that if they would go over
to the Nicholls Legislature they
would bo recognized, and seated, and
get tbeir mileage, but if they did not
do so within twenty-four hours their
seats would be declared vacant, and
loose all. If the committee push their
inquiry, I firmly believe upon exam
ination they will find what I have
suggested to be rubslantially true.
Now do not deny the words of this.
I see you are fond of denying
•'words.''
I read in your letter that you say
Wharton "did not manage or trans*
act any kind of business tor ine.*'
Certainly uol. Bless your soul I you
do not call such tricks as these busi
ness, do yon? Tbey ate not business,
oven if yc u should get that foreign
! mission for doing them, which I hope
von will.
You further say," Wharton was a
friend of Packard." All the better
instrument, therefore, to get Packs
ard's friends away from him. It was
well done, and does credit to your
GRAHAM, N- C., TUESDAY, JUNE 19 1877
training.
You say further: "Strange as it
may appear to some of them, politi
cal results are still attainab/o in this
country by straightforward and hon
est methods," True; it did seem
years' experience in tho wa\*3 of
Pennsylvania politicf.l "methods"
and politicians in both parties, it dtd
seem strange it this transaction was
either "straightforward" or "lion
est." You made a good point on me
there.
I frankly confess I had no evidence
then, and have none now, tbAt you
paid any money to these deluded
men after it had been promised them.
I desire, in the most solemn manner,
to acquit you ot having paid any
mo.iey. I know,-as you say in your
letter, that yon had "none to spare."
I hope the event which you
hrpe will give you command of a
large sum of money is in tho far dis
tance.
1 agree most fully that where you
are known you "do not need to deny
any silly story" about the use ot mon
ey in paying any thing; and if I had
ever asserted that you ever did use
your own inouev for any good or
even political purpose, I should nave
been guilty, as you, in your own
chaste language, say, of a "ba«e ami
cowardly falsehood." Therefore, I
repeat again, I never havo known or
heard ot your paying anything- to
anybody, and as at present advised,
without more evidence than I have
now, I never such a thing
possible. You need not make nic ex
cuses, as yuu do, for "not having
money of your own to spare." I have
known many men without money,
but I have never known one without
an excuse foi not paying it.
As you state your excuse, "it isons
ly a military commandant of New
Orleans, in lime of war, who can
safely appropriate any considerable
quainti ty of the property of olhe"3 to
his own use."
Do I understand you correctly that
it is the want of ability to do if'w/e-
I y" that lias prevented you irom "ap
propriating a considerable quantity
of the property of others to your own
use?"
However, I shall not affect fo mia
nuderstaud the allusion which you
thus make, but pardon it and the ap
parent loss of your temper, which
makes you at once nnjust, illogical,
and iin perspicuous. If you believed,
what you are brave enough only to
ins.nuate—because, although vun
were young and able-bodied, I fail to
recall the number of the regiment in
which you served in the war for your
country's safety—certainly you could
not, as managing member of the
State Republican Committee ofPeuiis
svlvania, have invited, with pressing
letters, which I now have, one who
had appropriated wrongfully other
people's property to come to that
State, to speak on the same platform
with yoursel. traveling together
many miles to attend meetings to in
struct your people oil public affairs.
Besides, iny dear Mr. McVeagh,the
insinuation was unworthy ot you. It
is neither novel nor useful, and
therefore not patentable. A half doz
en dirty newspapers have been ena
bled to preserve themselves from
bankruptcy for the la»t dozen years
by printing the assertions about ine
which you only insinuate.
Every has his own taste in
choosing his way to acquire money,
but if I was obliged t#choose one of
the two ways, either to "appropriate
it as mili.ary commandant," or to
inarry into a family where I was
neither wanted, nor by which I should
be respected, to get "money to spare,"
I certainly should choose the former,
strange as you may think it. because
at least 1 should have the money, after
having committed a disreputable act
to get it. and not be liable to bo dis
appointed as I might be, after I had
waited loug for "dead men's shoes"
by the other method.
t There is another denial of yonrs of
an assertion that I did not make. "I
have not asked the President to aps
point him (WhattertT" Marshal." I
never intimated that you hadsodoue.
I jad always supposed that yoa had
never asked President Haye3 for tho
appointment ot anybody except your
[ self, and my knowledge of that idio
syncrasy of yours would have pre s
vein ed ine from asserting that you
had asked fcr the appointment of
Wharton. i Certain it is that Gov.
Packard has not. Who, do you think,
is so pressing Col. Jack Wharton, of
the Confederate army, that Pitkin.
the Republican and good officer, is
called upon by a Republican adminis
tration to resign his office to ninKc
room for Ihe rebel ( What service lias
Wharton (a brave man, it is true)
ever done for tho party of the conn
trv foearu high office, except to help
kill some ot our gallant soldiers,whose
lowly graves wc were decorating the
day I got your kind note?
Let me advise you, lry dear sir,not
to lose your temper in discussing po°
lilicnl matters. If you do you will
[trove yourself unfit to be employed
to manage diplomatic affairs even
near the smallest court in Europe, say
ot Monaco, where I hey have a stand
ing army ot sixty-fhreo. men only, so
that you need not be afraid to go
there because of any danger ot war. I
should be grieved if vou (lo anything
which woulu by any possibility less
sen the blianco that you will leave,'
very soon, the country to be away at
least four years.
For tlio rest, as to the disputed
questions ot fact relating to what was
sahPhnd dono by tho commission, ot
w Irch you were a member, when in
New Orleans, wc will renow the dis
cussion after a committee of Congress,
of which it may be my ill-fortune to
be a member, has made a full investi
gation. Then, and not till then, if
you please, wo will renew our cor
respondence, unless indeed you should
like to practico upon mo to educate
yourself to formulate diplomatic
notes. 4
I must apologise to you for the
seeming delay between the date of
this note and your reception of it. 1
began the reply as soop as.l was fav»
orcd with you.ts, but as I reserve mat
ters of Ibis sor* for recreation, I could
not finish it sooner, as X have been
very hard pressed with professional
engagements. Pray hold me
cused.
I only "truly," but very
truly yours,
BENJ. F. BUTLER.
The Hon. WAYNE MACVEAGH, Philas
deiphia, Pa.
Hob, Wayne MacVeagh to General
Under. Short. Mhnrp and Incisive
—A. Warning ta Yanng Men.
PHILADELPHIA, Juno, 6.—Hon.
Wayne MacVeagh furnished the fol
lowing letter in reply to Gen. Butler
to "the Press this evening.
Philadelphia, Juno 6.—Gen. B.
F. Butler, Washington, D. C.: I fear
you have overworked your inventive
faculties, for your long and labored
letter of to-day shows signs of failing
power, and will go far to destroy that
reputation for effective scurrility
which you have so sedulously fostered.
The issue between you and mo was
your own seeking, and is so plain
that you cannot obscure it by any
amount ot misrepresentation, however
irrelevant or vulgar. You delibers
ately wrote and published about me
some sheer falsehoods, witheut a
particle of foundation for any one of
them. Thereupon I promptly put
you on the national pillory with a
very legible statement of your ofs
fences upon your forehead.
As you have endured your punish,
ment for au entire week, and now
virtually confess that every statement
made by you was untrue, I have no
objection to your getting down, but
you miisVnot suppose that I placed
you there in resentment only. My
chief purpose was to exhibit you as
a warning to younger men, by showing
them that in spite of great ability and
energy you had become the lejter of J
our politics by reason of the general
conviction that you habitually disre
gatd the eighth and ninth command.
niv.nts. That purpose has been fully
answered by the comments of the
country upon your character, and 1
have no further interest in the matter.
I will not even teko the trouble to
deny any new falsehood yon may
think it to y«,ur advantage to invent
about me, for those who know me
will not believe anything you say
against me, and those who know you,
of course, will not believe anything
you Bay of anybody. ,
WAYNE MACVKAOH.
■ ]
A Frenchman has been arrested for
compelling his wife to swallaw a live
spider every Monday morning. His
object was to care her ot flirting.
STRANGE WOMAN.
i From the New Yoik Correspon
dence of The Observer we take the
following extract:
A curious case of un old lady who
died in Boston lately, aged 80, is
mentioned. She hud been house
keeper at a hotel, and it was not
known that she had any property,
but on examining her effects after
death, it was found that she had the
noto of the proprietor of tue hotel for
$5,000 loaned to him, $1,700 in bank,
and twenty-three large trunks and
packing cases full of expeusive ar- |
tides of wearing apparel and house- J
furnishing. Among all these valua
bles were eighty-nine dresses, new and
perfect, made of sHk velvet, satin and
all kinds of plaid . silks, black and
colored thibets,, poplins, alpacas,
brilliantines, cashmeres, &e., 3 silk
velvet cloaks; 19 shawls, from com*
mon to the richest Paifeely and
wrought crape; 106 skirts of all col
ors, 114- pairj of hose, undergarments
too numerous to mention, table linen,
towels, handkerchiefs, counterpanes,
blankets, coverlets, sheets,' live-geese
feathers, sets of elegant china ware, a
large lot of table and tea-spoons of
best, coin n:lver, silver knives and
forks, a fine gold watch and chain
and a large lot ot fine jewelry, &c.
All those goods are perfectly new and
in the best order, never having been
used at all.
Who will pretend after this that a
woman can't keep a secret? The old
lady had probably given up the ex.
pnetation of marrying, and was col
lecting her wedding trousaoau with
housekeeping necessaries. Her
fondness fortress reminds me of the
bank clerk who proved to be a default
er a year or two ago, one item of his
wardrobe being seventy-two pairs o*
pants.
Women have taken to horse
whipping men. Two cases have
occurred within a few days.
H.
AVTvmnr PLOWING,
Plow Among grapevines and ir«iit
trees late iu autumn. In all clay
soils there is a yearly chemical bene*
fit resulting from rough exposure of
the soil by upheave), late, very late
in autumn. My own experience i»
that a shallow plowing next to vines
or trees, turning the furrow towards
the tree or vine, deepening the fur
row little by little as the distance
from the tree is increased, is worth
in clay soil, one year with another,
the full value of live tons of manure
to the acre. Again, if you plow late,
say 20th of October, to lOih of No
vember, you cover a large amount of
fallen leaves, each of which is a nat
ural manurial agent. And again,
this throwing of the earth toward
the tree or vines, assists in dr&fning.
inasmuch as it takes to the centre
furrow all superflnous surface mois
ture and thus leaves the most sensi
tive or surface roots in a steady,
active condition.— F. R. E., in Coun
try Gentleman.
farmer in St.
Lawrence county, K. Y., desired to
pay the debt on their homestead, but
they preferred not to do it by hard
work. They hit upon an idea that
suited their purpose, and have made
enough money to remove the debt.
They bad a large qiiantiy of porous
stone saved into small pieses and
throughly soaked in an odorus pre
paration, which imparted to them
durable ecent. These they have ped
dled throughout the State, at twenty
five cents e&vh, representing that they
were cut from the rock of a wonJetful
perfumed cave of South Anterior.
The girls are so demure and pretty,
and tell their lie with such an ap
psarance ot simplicity, that the sales
are very large. They have just put
a fresh lot of stone in soak, prepara«
tory to an extended Western
tour.
The lllndoos have 13,685,509 gods,,
and its two years now since the cen
sus taker ha 9 been aronnd making
out a list of them.
A FIM Dlatinctloa,
A yonnj? man whose aittire was
clean and neat, and whose general
appearance was rather prejHwessiisjr,
stood before the bar of the Jefierson
Market Polico Court, yesterday morn
ing. liv his side stood a young man
of about the same age, with a coal
black face and wooly hair, and who
was dreised with all thegorgeousiicsa
of a "swell."
"What's vonr name white man?"
asked the Court.
"McFiniiignn, sir."
"And yonrs, my man and broth*
er?"
"Gawge Washin'ton Jones, sail."
"What was the matter, George
Washington ?"
"Sah; I'll tell vo' do truf, sab, I
wasagoin'np de street, sab, las'
night,when ] u»et this man an'l kinc'
or jostled again 'im and he turn' right
rouu', sah, an' fetch me' a clip on de
nose, sah, den I calls an' offisa' an'
had dat man arrested, an' data all do
troof, foa' God. sah."
"How was it, McFinnigan?"
"Shure, yer Ouer, an' it was all tbe
nayger's taufy. sor. I was a coming
down the av'nie, quiet as a lam' sor,
saying nothing to noboddv, whin that
sphalpeen came forniust me sor, wid
his elbie, an' Inp an'hit him upontho
spur av the momiut"
-No, sah, he hit me on de nose,
sah!" ' t
"On the spnr av the momint"
4 'Ou de nose, sah I"
"JVcver mind flue distinctions"said
his Honor, "it oosts a roan ten dollars
in this court to hit a man whether
it be upon the spur of the' moment
or upon the nose. George Washing
ton, you are discharged."—Aeir York
\Yor\d.
Th« Postmaster at Corpus Christi,
Texas, has very properly decided that
the King snake, the deadliest reptile
in that region, is not legitimate mail
matter. The serpent war sent from
San Diego to Corpus Chriati to be
mailed abroad, and had therefore
already travelled a considerable dis
tance in charge of the mail Carriers.
Alligators are sometimes forwarded
through the post office, but when it
comes to handling venomous serpents
the best-natured postmaster in the
world may hesitate.
Col. John 17. Staples of Greens
boro, announces that it is a mistake
that his business in Washington was
for the purpose of organizing the new
party movement. Tbe country feels
easier since that announcement, and
can now give it* undivided attention
to tbe unpleasantness between the
Turk s and Rnssians.— Winston Sen
tinel.
A bachelor and a young lady
bought some tickets in a lottery at
the recent Sanitary Fair at Milwau
kee, agreeing to divide the proceeds
equitably. They drew a double bed
stead a baby crib and lunch basket,
and the question is how to divide
them.
The real nice young lady will leave
a small spoonful of Ice cream in her
dish when she and her yonng man
rise from the table and then go back
and scoop It in while bo is pa vine the
bill.
It is a solemn ibing for • penniless
yonng man to lead a blnshing bride
op to the altar and promise to en*
dow her with all hie wordjy goods.
In a New Orleans Sunday school
the question waa asked a brignt bov:
" Who was sold by his brethren?"
and the answer was "Packard."
A negro's definition of a bigot—''A
man as knows too much lor one nig.
gab, and not enull for two."
Job never bad to commence feeling
In his left breast-pocket and rqn bis
hand on down into his boot leg after
a pencil; which is probably the why
of bU amiable reputation.
A son of Ben Bntlerand two sons
of prominent Confederate Generals
graduate at West point-this sum
mer.
The young Eai I c£|hrewsbury,no w
17 yean old, will hdlro an income of
about £90.000 when he comes of
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