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LOOKFi BTHE
PADLOCK SlUY
EXCLUSIVE HARDWARE STORE.
CRAWFORD & HEILIG,
HAVING ASSOCIATED tliemselves toppther
for the purpose of conducting a general Hard
ware business, to the .exclusion of all other
trade, take ploa.surp in announcing to tlie pub
lic and tradegenerully Itmt they have just re
ceived a full stock ol liaidwure.
SUCH AS
11 nmd Iron,
Sijuare. Tyre, Oval,
Noil Hod, Band and
Hoop Iron, Blister, Cast
and Plough Steel,
R. SINCLEAR & Go’s. Straw
Cutters and Corn Shellers.
100 Kegs Nails,
Horse and Mule
Shoes, Special atten
tion called to Curling Tongs,
Floating Scissors, Spoons
Ladles and
many other house keeping articles
too nninerous to mention.
The advantage in buying from a regular Hard
ware store. To those who purchased hardware
before the first of August and since.
Farmer wliat did you pay for shovel moles?
Gets; what now? Sets; steel shovels? from
1,75 to 2,00; the'price now 1,.50; nails 10 cts.;
now 8 to ‘J; Carriage builder wlint did you
pay for 5-4 muslin ? answer, C5cts.; price now
50 cts.; wliat did yMi pay for 5-4 drilling?
answer, 1,00 to 1,25, price now,75 cts.; wagon
and buggy tyre 10 (.'U.; price now, 8 to 8i.
We might go on and enumerate thousands
of articles which have fallen equally in pro-
porTion. Then we B.sk what brought about
this rapid and .sudden decline in Hardware?
Each answer the Hardware Store.
Now we appeal to you farmer, meclianic,
harness niakoi, carriage maker and thousands
of others who consume hardware in their vo
cations, to know if the hardware Store does not
deserve your patronage, that it may be built up
and the country greatly blessed by proenriug
tlirongh this medium, the implements to devel
op tlie resources of your fertile region. ^
Strict attention paid to all orders. We will
sell at small profit, and exclusively for cash or
bar ter.
To one and all whether you want 10 cts,
worth or one hundred dollars worth, come to
the Ilai'dware Store, where we can give yon
decided udvantagu in buying small or largo
bills.
Wtr can ho found in Dr. J. W. Hall's new
brick buililitig, fornn.ually occupied by Craw
ford & Bio. Main street, Salisbury, N. C.
CIIAVVFOUD & IIEILIG.
R. U. CKAWrOBD,
P. N. Heiuo. [oct. 28 6m-tw-l]
THE CONSERVATIVE STATE
CONVENTION.
Remarks of Gov. Vance in thoState
Consorvativo Convention as reported for
the Raleigh Sentinel.
lie conimenced by remarking that be
would bo more or less than man, if be
could bo insensible to the reception ac
corded him. TIo was nrofoundly grateful
for it.
Ho bad really little to say. Tbo busi
ness of tbe Convention was about done,
and perhaps as much discussion bad been
bad as was necessary. However, bo might
do, as the old Minister once did, when, af
ter divididg his discourse into firstly,
second and thirdly, be said that, ‘•finally,
breelberin, he would rousicatc a little.”—
Tbe argument was exhausted. If there
was any man in tbe State, outside of the
Insane Asylum, who needed any argu
ment to convince him that tbo white man
must rule tliis country, life was too short
for him to waste brcatli upon such a man.
All were agreed as to that,—as to tbo im
portance of preserving the government
and our ancient institutions in the bands
of the intelligent, patriotic and virtuouB
people of the land. Rut wc are still un
der peculiar circumstances. The military
despotism is t'ne least of our evils, because
those who bold tbe bayonets are tbe men
of our own color. When it is removed,
it is proposed to place under another,—a
despotism so mean and degrading, that
be bad a contempt for the Englisb lan-
puage on account of its inadequacy to ex
press bis detestation of it. Tliat is the
coinplcxioii of lire despotism proposed for
us, as may be seen by reference to the
cbai-acter of those arc seeking to rule
over us, —seventy thousand negroes, led
by a few vile outcasts from the white
race, whose slogan ot warfare was oppo-
silion to decent liniises, glass windows
and clean shirts. ^Vbo, llicn, in view of
such a state of things, found but see the
danger ?
Wliat we need is to cheer and cnconr-
aze each otlier. Wc have brreome to
-J J- J »,
what wc reriuiro now is courage, bold
ness, the (letermiinilion, ‘‘knowing our
rights,” to maintain lliein. Our liiuidity,
Iieretofore, has berm most lamentable.—
With 30,000 majority in tlie State, our
wliito yeojile have lieen so demoralized
that they allowed the recent election logo
by default, wlien ordinary spirit and ex
ertion would have secured them ascen
dancy and victory. How can you claim
to be freemen, if yon are willing, for fear
of losing a little remna'it of property, to
submit to the control of 70,000 negroes,
m.arshallcd by the meanest white men
whom God (for some inscrutable purpose)
bad ever made? If, with tbe power in
yur 0 yn hands, you cravenly yield to
such control, bow can you stand tbo com
parison with the good and noble men of
our illustrious North Carolina past? How
can you stand the comparison with your
own boys, who, taking their lives in their
hands, bravely bared their bosoms, in the
late war, to the shock of battle, for tbe
land of their nativity and afiTectioiis ?
Did wc submit, it would be lasting and
eternal digracc. Congress has allowed
us, by our votes, an opportunity of de
feating their work ; and, if they expected
that we would not strive to defeat it, they
must have counted largely on our base
ness. If wc fail to defeat it, they will
say, in tbo future, pointing to our 30,000
majority, you did it! What arc you
afraid oft Confiscation. Why half of
us, now, can’t begin to pay our debts.—
Rayonetr? Why we have been living
among them for years. Military law 1
Why the sacred muniment of Habeas
Corpus has grown so rusty, that tbo best
lawyers in tbe cunlry bavoto “read up,”
to know what it means, 'rberc is some
thing of which you may well be afraid.
Retter be afraid of what lies before you—
of leaving a heritage of survitude to your
children and children’s children.
It will not do to ignore the odds against
us. Seventy thousand negroes are sworn
in secret leagues and will bo marched up
by a few contemptible scalawags, and
voted, like so many sheep. Wherever
there is a mean white man, who is des
pised by his own color,—or a very timid
man, who is afraid of confiscation,—or an
ambitious man, who, having been already
defeated for office by white men, seeks to
obtain office by courting tbe favor and
equality of the blacks,—they will herd
together with these 70,000 negroes, and
divide all tbo offices among themselves.
Why tbo so-called Convention in tbo
Capitol bad already created offices enough
to give one to every white Radical self-
constituted leader who could read and
write.
When you go home, do not simply tell
the people that wo have bad a glorious
convention and a good time,—that wo met
hero some of tbe most distinguished men
in tlic State and passed a series of patri
otic resolutions,—but urge them to regist
er, to vote, and to work! If, after having
put forth every honorable exertion; we
fail, the fault will not bo with ns,—the
blood will not be upon our beads. He
hoped that wo had heart, and hope, and
courage enough loft to wake one grand
effort for the honor and salvation of the
State.
Ho knew no party. If ever there had
been, iu the past, a warm and devoted
Wing, ho waa that man. Rut he should
iD(2Md)8 despise himself, if ho could
tertaPr tno fainhest, lingering prejudge
against any of his former opponents —
Here are no Whigs,—no Democrats,—no
Know-Nothings,—but simply “an abun
dance” of patriotic, “white men."
He understood that it had been impu
dently threatened, by those who claimed
the power to “kill and make alive,” that
all who came here and participated in this
Oonvciition should’nt “kavo their disabili
ties removed.” One thing is ceriain,
“Congress will remove mine,” said Gov.
V., “whenever I ask them to do so. I
am assured that Congress will ri;movo
them on the very day that I ask for the
boon,—and that will be on the day before
Gabriel blows his horn!” The idea! —
That because patriotic gentlemen come
together to consult for the good of the
country and of their race, they shall be
stigmatized and ostracized. Let mo tell
you, sirs ; I am no prophet; I cannot
“kill and make alive,” hut the man who
supposes that, even if this State Consti
tution is adopted, the white men will go
to the bottom and the dregs and scum
will slay on lop, knows but little of llis-
tory.
[Gov. Vanco hero indulged in a strain
of unmerciful satire and hutuor at the ex
pense of the scum, who were thus affect
ing such ridiculous and impertinent airs.
It was impossible for us,—it would have
been impossible for any one,—to report
him. Tlic entliusiastic deligiit of the au
dience knew no bounds,—on tbe floor and
in tlie galleries,—auiongall sexes, —which
vented itself in unrestrained applause.—
Everybody concurred in the sentimeut
that it was “Vance’s greatest speech.”]
Col. W. J. Green, of Warren, next ad-
drPMicd the Coi^eoAiuii^ iu a finished uikI
exe^leiit speocn. nut our liuirit.s prevent
any I'cport of his or the subsequent speech
es of tlie Convention.
Messrs. Tluto Durham, .Tolin W. Gra
ham, Geo. V. Strong, W. L. Steele, Jno.
Hughes, 1*. C. Cuiueroii and Russ, and
the Hons. Chas. Manly, D. G. Fowle, M.
E. Manly and J R Mcl.ieau were all suc
cessively called out, and made, respective
ly, brief, pertinent and appropriate re
marks.
Valedictory remarks of Gov. Graham
upon adjourning the convention.
Gov. Grahau', the President, returned
acknowledgements, in behalf of himself
and associates, for the complimentary vote
of the convention. Ho had no remarks
to make, except to rc-iteratc the expres
sion of bis delight at the distinguished
and patriotic character of the convention.
There had been assembled together aged
citizens,—middle-aged men,—and the gal
lant youth ol the State, fresh from deeds
of fame on battle-fields that would be his
toric. He was especially proud to see
tlie latter. McCauley, the Euglish His
torian, has said that, (iftcr the war of the
Protectorate, if one wanted to find the best
artizans of any kind, and the most useful
citizens, he might look for them among
those who served in Cromwell’s armies.—
There was never a war, from which a sol
diery had come out so uncontaminated, as
(rum the gigantic struggle from which wc
had just emerged. It is to those young
men that we look for the present preserva
tion of our rights and liberties in the fu
ture. They have lain down their arms
and gone quietly to work,—only asking
to admitted to their constitutional priv-
ilegea. If this waa not done to-day, he
had a thorough conviction that it would
yet be done. All that the country now
needs is a little true statesmanship and a
spirit of magnanimity,
Weatherford, one of the greatest of the
Creek braves, had waged a terrible war
against the whites, conducted with all the
atrocities of the savage nature. After the
battle of the Horse shoe, he surreudered
to Jackson, who, fixing upon him that
stern brow and eye, whose severity so few
could withstand, asked him how he dared
to appear in his presence after such deeds
of enormity and outrage. Weatherford
returned his defiant look with one ot eqnal
pride. “'I’rue,” said he, “I fought you,
with all my power, as long as I could.—
Having failed, I (Mime and surrendered.—
1 deny or excuse nothing that 1 have
done. 1 am in your hands. Do with me
as you please I” What did Jackson do ?
Did be order a guard to take him into cus
tody to bo punished and perhaps execu
ted ? No—his brow relaxed, and he said,
with ardor: “Youand I arc friends. So
bravo a man can be false to no promise
that ho makes.” Weatherford never again
raised his hand aghinst the white man.—
‘I’hat is the way—by magnanimity and
forbearance,—in which peace is made.
Wishing ihe delegates a safe return
home, and expressing the hope that they
might find their families and friends in
health and safety, he declared the great
Conservative Convention of 1868 adjourn
ed sine die.
RANK.UUPTCY.
Iu answer to nutiieroiis inrmirios on the
subject (says the Raleigli Standard) we
would BtatBj. for the iufoniiation of corres-
pnlidenta Others, that followiM ex;
einption ia made for tlie benefit'”*
rupt, viz :
Poinded however, That there shall be ex
cepted from operation of tlie provisions of
this suction—
Tlie iiece.ssnry lionseliold and kitchen fur
niture, and such other articles and necessa-
ri(‘B of such bankrupt as the said assignee
shall designate and set apart, having refer
ence iu the aiiiouiit to the family, condition,
and circiiinsances of tlie bankrupt, but al
together not to exceed in value iu any case,
tlie sum of five hundred dollars :
And also tlio wearing apparel of such
bankrupt, and that of liis wife and children:
Aud the uniform, arms, and equipments of
any person who is lias been a soldier iu the
militia or in the selviceof the United States;
And siicli other property as now is, or
hereafter shall be exempted from attachment
or seizure, or levy on execution by the laws
of tlie United States :
Aud sucli other jiroporty not inclurled in
the foregoing exceptions as is exempted from
levy and Hiilu upon execution or other pro
cess, or order of any court by the laws of the
State iu which tlie bankrupt has domicile at
tlie time of the coinineneemeut of the pro
ceedings in liaiikruptcy, to an amount not
exceeding th.at allowed by such State exemp
tion laws in force in tlie year eighteen hun
dred and sixty-four ”
Under the exemption of the State laws,
the liiiiikriipt is entitled to the benefit of the
homestead act, ratified February 10th, 18.59,
wliich establishes a freehold homestead, not
to e.xceed in value five hundred dollars.—
And in addition to thi.s he is also entitled to
the usual exemiitions provided for in the Kc-
vi.sed code. All these taken togethi*r, will
iimomit to about twelve liundred dollars.
In addition to the above remarks of
tlie .Standard, we will state, on the authority
of a prominent lawyer, that Judgiaents ob
tained in our Courts previous to the filing of
a petition for bankruptcy, must be satisfied
Iu full, I lit of the IvniiKinipt. 'rh«r«Ai*ru the
necessity of persons filing their petitions
before a judgment is obtained against them.
I order for a bankrupt to obtain the bene
fit of tbe iirovisions of the State Homestead
law of 1858--’9, he must have first applied
to the County Court, and liad the homestead
set ajiart liy order of the Cnurt, and due no
tice given. The Homestead Act of 18.58-’9
provides tlial tiie Courts of Pleas and Quar-
Se.ssioiis shall, iijion tlie petition of ttie own
er of real estate, cause to be laid off aud al
lotted to the petitioner, liy metes and bounds,
a Iioinestead not exceeding five hundred dol
lars in value ; and it further provides “that
the homestead or house and lot so laid off
shall not be subject to execution for any
debts contracted or cause of action arising
after the same is registered, except for State
and County taxes.”
So, tlicse will) have not complied with the
State Homestead Act in this respect, cannot
now get the benefit of it in taking advan
tage of the Bankrupt Law.—Charlotte Dem
ocrat, ^
Alledgcd Insanity of Mrs. Lincoln,
Private letters received from Chicago state
that Mrs. Lincoln is insane beyond all doubt.—
She reoenlly sold all tlie furniture in lior bouse
and has two'old men as body-guard, belivmg
she will be robbed and murdered. Her mania
is for selling, and a dread lest she come to want.
All her friends are said to be conscious of her
mental condition, but think, so long as she is
harmless ber removal to a lunatic asylum
would increase ber derangement.
lioelon Herald.
Life in Montana Temntory.
Montana Territory has bcixime demoraKzed.
Murders are of alarming frequency, and yet the
courts fail to convict the guilty. A corres
pondent of the .Saint Faul “Press" writes as
follows:
I am sorry to say tliat crimes runs rampant
in may portions of our young territory, and
I fear the Yigilantes will be again compelled to
take the law iu their own hands, as in the win
ters of 1863 and 1864. Scarcely a week passes
by now, but wo hear of some one being shot
or stabbed. Without going further back than
the months of November or DocembBT, I can
cnuiiierale some six or seven killeiTand as ma
ny more wounded. Acd are the murderers
brought to justice? No. In the many mur
der trials wliich hare come before the United
States courts within the past twelve months,
not one lias been convicted.
Spirit of the Itcpuhlican Press.
The Rump Congress Radicals are driving
their macliino altogether too fast for even their
own party. Thus, the Albany Evening Jour
nal asks:
“Do tbo Republican leaders in Congress
wish to justify the charge of tbo Democracy
that they are bent upon n‘iirpatioii and revolu
tion ? Have they become so iiidifforent to
popular opinion that they are prepared to re
move any obstacle which may bo presented to
tlieir policy, regardless of every constitutional
provision? Wo are not ready to believe this;
yet we shall be compelled to do so if tlie pur
poses now atiiiouucod are really earried into
effect.”
Tbo Springfield lieyuhUean (saroostically)
says!
“The new Supreme Court bill is too narrow
in its scope, and we suggest that it be amend
ed so as to prohibit that court, from meddling
in any way with any act which this Congress
may pass. In this way if will provide lor all
possible coMtiiige ncies, and establirilB pvece-
deut wliich will be of inestimable vaht* to any
party that may control Congrtas hervmlWr, and
want to pase measures of unqoeeHeoaMe un-
constitutionidity. l£aob Oongreaa osD IlM lake
cere of itselL . . i',..
The Na^ is perfectly eatiifle
publican party p’thaf Ihef wHlWRIltt'liol
backward;" but it fears Uieir action will bring
men into power who will take several “steps
backwards," which will amount to about the
same thing, so far os the welfare of the country
is coucerued."
The Strange Story—Powell~-Bitm-
ham.
Some ot our exchanges doubt the truth of
the strange story wc published not long since
in regard to the wonderful change of sex of
Mrs. Ellen Powell, of Broadhead, Wia, from a
woman to a man, slie being a few years since a
wife now a husband—then a woman, now a
man/ We cannot blame people for being cred
ulous. but the story is a true one. It is too
wonderful for belief—it startles oven the med
ical world. Wo published the article, know
ing it sounded too strange to be true—know
ing it would be deemed a hoax ; but the story
is a true one, stranger than fiction, and those
who deem it otherwise are tbe only ones sold.
Wo repeat,—on our honor as a journalist, on
tlie honor of a man—the story is true, the for
mer woman is now a man, the former wile is
now a husband, etc.—La Crosse Democrat.
We know nothing about the children spoken
of by tlie ‘Democrat,’ and wo are not surprised
that tlie Press knowing “Brick" Pomeroy
should doubt tlic statement, but we are per
sonally knowing to the fact that the above per
son, was a wife and is now a husband. We
were well acquainted with the parties while
engaged in journalism in Wisconsin in 1860.
JFil. Post
CONSERVATIVE STATE EXECUTIVE
COMMiriEK
for TUB STAtf AT LAROZ.
Bon. W. A. Graham, Hillsboro.
“ George Howard, Tarboro'.
“ Daniel O. Fowle, Raleigh.
• Ttioiiias Bragg, ••
A. S. Merriraon, “
" J. R. McLean, Greensboro’.
“ Lewis Hanes, Salisbury. i
Gen. Samuel F. Patterson, Patterson.
Robert Strange, Esq., Wilmington.
Hon. W. N. II. Smith, Murfreesboro*.
“ Z. R. Vance, Charlotte.
“ B. S. Gaillier, Morganton.
F. B. Sutterthwaite, Esq., Washington.
Ralph Gorrell, Esq., Greensboro.
Hon. S. J. Person, Wilmington,
“ A. T. Davidson, Franklin.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Henry A Gilliam, Esq., Edenton.
Hon. Jesse R Stubbs, Williainston.
Col. Wm. F Martin, Elizabeth City.
8EOOHD DISTRICT.
George V Strong, Esq., Goldsboro’.
Jno, H Elaughton, Esq., Newbern.
Col. E D Hall, Wilmington.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Jno. D Taylor, Esq., Brunswick Co.
Hon. Thos. S Ashe, Wadesboro'.
Jesse G Shepherd, Esq., Fayetteville.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Hon. William Eaton, Jr., Warrenton.
Jos. J Davis, Esq., Louisburg.
R C Badger, Esq., Raleigh.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Wm. L Scott, Esq., Gieensboro’,
Hon. Bedford Brown, Locust Hill.
Uoii. James M Leach, Lexington.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
James E Kerr, Esq., Salisbury.
R F Arrafield, Esq., Wilkesboro’.
Andrew C Cowles, Esq., Haraptonvillo.
BRVEMTII DISTRIOT.
L S Gasli, Esq., Hendersonville.
Gol. Jas. R Love, Webster.
Plato Durliam, Esq., Shelby.
The New York Evening ‘Post’ is trying hard
to reconcile its free trade, hard money doctrinea
with Republicanism.
State of North Carolina,
ALEXANDER COUNTY.
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions,
Peoember Term, 1867.
Petition for Partition
of Land,
Aaron Barnes, &
Sarah Barnes
vs.
Solomon Burns
and others.
I N this case it appearing to the satisfaction of
the Court, that Moses Barnes, Joshua
Barnes, Solomon Baines, Nathan Austin and
wife Mary, Burton Brown and wife Ruth, and
Benton Payne, defendants in this cause, are
non-residents of this State, It is therefore or
dered by the Court that publication be made
six succesivo weeks in the Watchman and Old
North Slate, a newspaper published in Salisbu
ry, Nortli Carolina, notifying said defendants
of the filing of this petition, and that they ap
pear at the next term of this court to bo held
for tlie county of Alexander at the Court-
House in Taylorsville on the 1st Monday in
March next, then and there to show cause if
any tliey have why the petition shall not be
granted, otlierwiso the sarae| will be beard e*
parte ta to them.
Witne.ss, K. P. Martin, clerk of our said
Court at office, in Taylorsville, tlie 1st Monday
in December, 1807.
R. P. MATUBSON, Qevk.
l:«l:pr f. $8.