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Raleigh 'as a Cotton Market,
We publish the fobbing letter from Messrs.
Williamson, Upchurch & Thomrs, which ful
ly sustains what we havo heretofore, taid edi
torially Raleigh, N. C. April 21st, 1874.
R. T. Fulghum, Esq., El. State Agricultural
Journal:
Dear Sir : Please parMon us for assing a
small spaco in your valuable paper in ojder,
to some extent at least, to correct a very gen
eral misapprehension that exists on the. part
of the farmers, or rather more especially the
cotton producers t that), section . ol country
that lies contiguous and fay to within fifty to
one hnmlred miles of Raleigh. We allnde to
the version oK idea formed of Raleigh as a
cotton market' compared with that of New
York or any of the northern markets, derived
from the quotations as given fin The newspa
pers of the day. To illustrate, we give the
quotations of the New Tork cotton exchange
market report of fo-day.W ;Say, iiplaids 17
5-8, Orleans 18. TJiese quotations are for
middling cotton, the former price being for
the productions of the more northern cotton
State, the. latter price for the extreme South
ern States. Now the quotation as given in
our dailies, and other papers in tho city, of
this date, is. for low middling (oftentimes no
grade given at all) 15 5-8 cents, vhile mid
dling wonld bring here 10 5-8 cents. To one
not thoroughly understanding the New York
quotations of 17 5 8 cents, compared with the
Raleigh quotations of 15 5-8 cents, wonld very
readily arrive at the conclusion that there was
two cents difference or margin between the
New York market and that of our own,
which would be inviting to ship your cotton
North. Now there is really only one cent
difference or margin as to grade (and some
times even less) which we' .-will here ex'plain.
Thfi nress notations for uplands (middling in
A -A , .... '
w York of to-day is 17.62 ; quotations for
lowuddling. 16.62. Quotations arid sales for
low mickjling in Raleigh of to-day is 15.G2,
thereby slibwiiag a difference in favor of New
York of onlyne cent per pound in low. mid;
dling cotton, wnnit is a well known and in
disputable fact to. all those who have tried it
(andthey. aroJesseninK every season) that In
shipping cotton to ITeV-Xork; -it cost from 1J I
to.l4.cita Pr pound Le lattejgff
P;;;jXrJ. ri"r,wsyin'vveilit.
Sc., and at least 30 days before you can get
returns for sales of your cotton, thereby show
ing clearly, that Raleigh is your best market,
by from to cent per pound,- which is a dif
ference of $2.25' to $3.37a gain ta Jau iQ a
bale of 450 pounds. Or, say - a gain of from
$75,000 to $100,000 in cotton that will be sold
in Raleigh during this season, over what it
would have ' brought by shipping North.
Those who persist in sending their cotton
North do not participate in this gain, and of
course suffer to the extent of their shipment.
' Now these are incontrovertible facts, and
as such, is it not clearly to your ihterest. if
not your desire, to ship to' our market ? If
you do not wish to sell, and desire to realize
on your cotton,, we have ample Jbankino . and
storing facilities, and a number of good cotton
commission merchants to afford you everj ac
commodation needed. We would here re
mark, that while the banks in New York,
Baltimore, Petersburg, and many other cities
suspended during the panie we are just emer-
srinsr from, there was not one of our four
banks that refused to pay every and all demands
made upon .it.1 The steadily increasing re
ceipts of cotton at our city, is an evident fact
that the farmers' andshipperJ3 of cotton are
beginning to and out it is to their manifest
interest to ship and sell in our .market. .We
verily believe when the people of Wake, Or
ange, Alamance, Chatham, Moore, Harnett,
Johnston, Franklin,,Granville, and the more
Eastern i counties of our State, find out by ac
tual shipments, that it is to their interest to
sell in our market, the receipts will soon be
50,000 bales, nay, 100,000 bales during the
season, instead of 30,000 to 35;000 bales which
is the accepted estimate of receipts for this
season. We could say much more in justifi
cation of Raleigh as the best cotton market
for the people of our State, but fearing we
have already trespassed upon your space,:we
are, lours most truly,
Williamson; UrcHURcn & Tiiohas,
Cotton Factors and General Commission
Merchants. .
A Snccessful Home Institution.
Interested as we are in the tuccess of all
home institutions, we learn with pride and
satisfaction that the N.'C. State Lite In
surance Company, noWat the close of its first
year's existence, has done a business beyond
its most sanguine anticipations. It has writ
ten over 900 policies, and has sustained no loss.
Heretofore, its operations have been confined
to our own State, but we are informed that it
wjll now proceed to establish agencies in ad
joing States, and we do not doubt that a few
years will give jt, a national reputation.
Wo advise our readers all to insure
their lives. Every man, we think, ought to
insure. Men, who are deeply in debt, and
whose death would ruin their families ; and
men whosa? personal services are valuable,
and the solo, or main stay ot whose families
are those personal services, we think should
take out life policies. Be careful in insuring.
Do not take any greater burden on your
shoulders than you think you can walk under.
Don't be importuned into insuring by.agents,
unless you really are persuaded yon ougnt to
insure. But should you so decide, yen may
safely trust the N. C. Insurance Company,
to whose card in this issue, we call our friends
especial attention. '
' We say that the merchants of Raleigh- that
is the thoroughgoing merchants are the
friends of the N;. C. Agricultural Society.
The.wcll known merchant, Alex. Creech, has
subscribed, and has paid $525 to the support
of the State .Fair 1873-74. '
Officers of tlie State Grange :
Jas?er-CoLUMBUS Mills, Concord, N. C.
Overseer Richard Williams, Greenville, Pitt Co., N. C
Lecturer J. S. Long, Newbern, N. C. - (f
Steward E:C. Davidson. Charlotte, N. C.
AssH. Steward A.jJ. Galloway, Goldsboro, N. C.
Chaplain Rev. Colin Shaw Black 3iver Chapel, Sanjp
60n County, N. C a ' '
Treasurer T. L. Vail, Charlotte, N. C.
Secretary G. W 1-awkekce, Fayetteville, N. C. ;
Gate Keeper J. M. Campbell, Jonesboro, N. C. '
Ceres Vacant.
Pomona Mrs. S. A. Mills, Concord, N. C.
Flora Mrs. E. C. Davidson, Huntersville, N C.
Lady Am? p. Steword Mrs. A. T; Vaii.. Chiotte, N.C.
,1V,E?' locust Hill, CasVelf County, N.C
AjuflL, Kahili, n.C. , . . y '
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MATRONS
It is reported that the merchants of Ral
eigh are opposed to the ,K. C. Agricultural
Society, and the Fair, because . the railroads
"will take the passengers to the Fair Grounds
instead of "unloading" jn Raleigh. Can this
be true I We don't believe the merchants of
our rapidly growing city are so selfish. Poor
:, tcctyon. A word to the wise, &c.
CAROLINA STAT
OF HUSBANDRY.
FICE, ' J
LE, N. C.i-
i, 1S74. )
; Secretary's Office,
FAYETTEVILLE,
- . ' March 20th,
fCIRCULAR NO. 7.
Notice is' hereby. given that T. G. Garrett, Esq., a worthy
member ot our Order, has been appointed Purchasing
Agent for our State at St. Louis, Mo. He will also attend
to making special arrangements lor lreiaht to different
points in N. C. .
li. W. LAWRENCE,
, , Se6retary.
Extract from the Address of the INa
tioiml Grange.
"We emphatically and sincerely assert the
oft-repeated truth? taught in our organic law
that the Grange, National, State, or subordi
nate isnot a politicaK or party organiza
tion. No Grange, if trueto its obligation,
can discuss political questions, nor call i po
litical conventions, nor nominate candidates.
por even discuss their merits- in their meet
ings.
m Patrons, beware of politics and politi
cians
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Progress of the Grange Movement.
The advancement of the wonderful Order
called the Patrons of Husbandry, is riot to
be measured by the accumulation of Gran
ges,or the almost miraculous accession of
members. This, it is true, is a very start
ling and stimulating feature of the move
ment, just as the quick enlistment and drill
ing of soldiers, would be an encouraging
sign of a satisfactory preparation for war.
But the real development of our power is
seen in the increased moral influence which
we are bringing to bear upon the hallucina
tions of primitive agricultural -methods,'
upon the stubborn ramparts of commercial
prejudice and speculation, and upon tlie-corrupt
agencies and systems which have so
long ruled and ruined this country. The
Grange theory thrusts itself in among the
diseases and chronic ailments of the body
politic as a fresh medicaL treatment, divest
ed of all quack nostrums, and patent mockeriesand-having
formed a sensible diagno
sis of the complaints of the sufTerers, address
es itself at once to the purest and noblest
principles of the healing art. If it becomes
necessary to use the knife, as in the old ul
cerous manifestations of the railroads and
middlemen, the surgeon's skill is employed,
notio kill the invalid, or to serve the pir-
bring back thes3stem to its highest standard
of regulated vitalitv and force. Hence we
find the moral convictions of the people ev
ry where, which must ever underlie their sol
id prosperit- and improvement, turning to
this mammoth organization as the endan
gered traveller turns to the pilot in the
storm. We are expected to remedy all er
rors, cure all abuses, rectify alimistakes, and
accomplish all successes. If political trou
bles have come upon the country, although
we are not political, and steadfastly set our
forces against all interference with political
questions, yet we are expected in some sort
of unaccountable way to remove dema
gogues, restrain corruption, anxl purify leg
islation. We are required to jdose powerful
corporations with a. kind of moral opium, so1
their deliberations may be ionfused, their
jesuitical plottings forestalled, and order and
harmony produced out of the chaos of sel
fish entanglements. .
. Now all this is very well, provided it does
not lead to extravagant and impolitic hopes,
founded on a narrow and unpatriotic basis.
But however this may be, there is one thing
particularly plain, tht these sanguine expec
tations indicate the broad holdi which the Pa
trons of Husbandry haveuponthe conscience
and intelligence of this money-loving age.
It proves that the nation gives uscredit for
honesty of purpose, purity of character, and
fullness and thoroughness of organization.
And it shows beyond doubt, that in keep
ing ourselves free-from. the local and bitter
issues of partisan warfare, we j have placed
ourselves'upoh the high and royal road to
honor, influence and usefulness. Here is
tlie key to the arithmetic of our rapid growth
and amazing development., An enlightened
public sentiment accepts us as aif honest
guide, sagacious in our policy, catholic.-in
Our opinions, but obstinate in iour integrity.
It knows that; if Providence lias bestowed
any potent wand to part the waters in our
front, or to arrest the embattled hosts press
ing on our rear, it has been given to an or
ganizalion 'f ree from sectional strife, and
seeking the uni versal good ; that if there is
anypillar of cloud or flame to guide , the
weary footsteps of a'people struggling to be
mte pity goes with the devoted brotherhood
of farmers, who have so long endured hard
shippoverty and suffering.) And so it
yields a generous confidence to our motives,
principles and plans.
And then, in the legislation which' has al
ready been effected for the improvement of
the farniers' , condition, millions of dollars
have" been saved' to 'the farms of this country.
In North Carolina we have j been able, as
yet, to' do ' comparatively little. Though
numbering over three hundred Granges, our
State organization is not. yet a1 yearv old. It
requires time, experience, money, and infor
mation -to complete plans of intercommuni
cation. But we venture the opinion, that
there are but very few members of the order,
however isolated, or inconveniently situated,'
who'Jiave not'had their current expenses re
duced by, the facilities of trade estp,blishjed
between the buyer and thel 1 s 3ller. Well
methodized local agencies ar6 springing up
all over the land. Extravagant profits upon
drysgoods, agricultural implements, and gro
ceries,, which used tojburden the revenues of
the farm beyond endurance, are now being
strucklbflT for the benefit of agriculture, and
well'established mercantile houses are glad
to put in their bids for the patronage of our
Granges. Very st)o.n the productions of the
Westernfarmer will come to us directly by
theshortest routes, and with- the cheapest
transportation. The Northern cities, in
stead of being vast, greedy hives of avari
cious middlemen, plucking tle last dollar of
the oppressed tiller of the soil, to. glut their
plethoric treasuries, shall become the great
centres of. an honorable and independent
commerce, "living and krt" live7 and purer
and , better days shall dawn both for trade
and agriculture. This may be thouglit to
be a fancy picture, but wTe had rather paint
Oilill lAll-iitAn nn 4-1-. '4l-.Sv- 4-r -liT".r-i 1' I i 1 1
piULUlL'O ila 11115, Ultlll IU Sll UUIVU;HlUi
a meau pipe in a smokv corner, arid grum
ble all day because God did not make the
world to suit us. . -
At the Cape Fear and Decn River
Council.
Half Eare 7urpentin vs. Earmiitn Iieso
. luiions on Protection of Sheep- State Ag .'
ricultural Jbiirnal Commended. Scc.. &c.
i - y - j - i v . i
The Western Rail Road is proverbial for
the accommodating spirit of its officials.
First, the polite conductor warns you that
the train will soon start, in order that the
shrill whistle may not find you unprepared
It is said that they stop on this road for the
passengers togather 'huckleberries. It being,
too early in the season for this delicious fruit,
I can neither affirm nor deny this assertion.
I can say they made good time, and the
ride was as agreeable as the small number
of passengers, and the barren country
through which we passed, would allow.
It seems that this, road purposely avoided
"every mans door'-'for very few dwellings .
relieve the monotonous desert of pines which
everywhere nieets the eye. With nobody
on the train to talk to, and no houses, farms,
or stock to arrest , the eye it is not difficult
to philosophize or to sleep.' In looking, on
this never ending waste of pines some say
orchard the question presents itself to what
extent are these pine barrens capable of be
ing converted into fruitful fields ?, One has
very i little fo found an argument on, as al
most no farms are visible. Evervwhera i -
the turpentine running down the skinned
faces of the lofty pines, in - the barrels read -for
shipment, at the distilleries, to have its
oil separated from it, one sees it, smells it,,
breathes it. Evidently there will be fno
farming on those pine ridges, as long as tur
pentine bears a high price.:
But even sand hi lis and pinebarrens will
have an end, and at length we1 reach Fay
nttp.ville nnd the Council. The members of
this body, of farmers had the look neither of
the dandy nor the politician. c They looked
rather like earnest, business men who came
there for duty. There was certainly no dis
positionto, delay business by much' speak-
lT-irr1 i 'PInftAr Tinrl nof 'frvro'nfton flioir fnrmc nf.
"'to' -"J o
home, and were evidently quite willing that
everything should - hex dispatched without
unnecessary debate. . J
A resolution, from "Chatham f Central" '
- Hin mfnraafa nf ahnoiv Jiiial. I... ...XT ,.-(.
X . r - T- -f
that they be protected from the ravages of
dogs, and calling on all bodies of Patrons of
Husbandry to unite with them in petition-,
ing the Legislative bodies to" grant the need
ed protection,' received the hearty support
of the Council,, and it was .resolved to send
this resolution to the State Ag'l Journal,
with request to publish, and call the, atten
tion of Granges throughout the State t it: .
The State Ag'l Journal- received a word
of commendation,and all Granges were urged
to subscribe' for a copy , to be' preserved for
reference. - ; 4
Committees were appointed to report at the
next meeting in September next, on schools !
and on a co-operative store. v
I do not intend to give the proceedings of
the. Council a copy lias already, been sent
you, I presume. . .
The Western Road returned delegates
ree. The fare on this road is low 1, from
Egypt to Fayetteville, about two cents a
mile, I think. ,
I regret very much that the'Councit ad
journed so soon I wished much to mAke
the personal acquaintance-of more of the
members. It is to be hoped that, at future .
meetings, everyone will come prepared to
stay longer, and. that much real work will
be done in the interest of the farmer. V
Commendable.
The Grange at Banks', in this county, has
offered a preminm of $25 for the largest yield
i cotton on one acre. A statement of the
manner of manuring and mode of cultivation
will be required from each, competitor ; and
the Secretarv of the Grange will have the
pose, 01 a mere protessional notoriety, but to same published. ,
II.
The demands upon our columns this week
hare been so great that ;.we arc again com
pelled to omit the By-Laws and Constitution
of Cape Fear Council.' They will, however
be given space in our next.
. Hi ,. mm ,;
Resolutions on Slieep llusuanoiT.
SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
Chatham Central Grange, No: 224, V
Pittsboro, N. C., April'18, 1874. J
Ptcsolved, That it is highly important to
the interests of Sheep Husbandry, to protect
them from the ravages, of dogs, and that
this Grange earnestly: requests all other
Granges and Councils of the P. of H. to
unite with this body in petitioning our leg
islative bodies to pass such laws as may be
necessary to this end.
Resolved 2d, That a copy of this resolution
be sent to the State Agricultural- Journ
al for publication. .
The above resolutions were unanimously
adopted at a regular meeting, held on the 4th
instant. .
N. A. Ramsey, Sec'y. .