New-York tribune., 1871-04-26
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10 sne sound OF the horn crowd Of gathered
ie,yg @ waked @ aoout among the tobacco piles stirred
,oIn' 1nroed the leaves carefully tried their texture
tested 5em and .seS sH e' hen light S %ssa e ,Ss%
OF then nv. senses as possible. Rckey little wagons,
covered Win ragged canvas or old bedquits.
stantfy arriving, driven by negroes in shreds and
patches, or lank, saowvisaged white men In butternut
nomespnn. Inc only occupant Of one wagon was tall,
drove Into the she'd unhitehed her rawbOned horses
Standing s hG unnnd Hny wn the ens for not
S & WIN the proprietor OF the warehouse. After the
Their satistaction the auctiOneer followed by clerk
WIN book led the way corner OF the platform
he had made the circuit Of the building The bidding
hnndse99 anu rapid the prices Ranging at from TO s5
often brought high s Mas s When bs .s @ ss
n morn sounded from another warehouse two blocks
take place, and to which % the Il nc crowd Ssss N i@me
tbst tSbacco went Wa. On the way farmer told me
everything depended upon care in raising and curing
One former would sell his for hundred while his
paaVe he said sasa ~ sG and
farmers who knew how to cure it could always do we'll
himself to me aud talked volmby about the condition
sa an d p e e s9, anxious
power. Northern men would be welcomed, IL they did
not as - 70 % se the IN against
money He was very bitter AGAINST and
them but that even carpetbaggcr was better than
scaawag for whom he seemed troubled 70 nd language
hood he continued had always been peaceable but over
the Carolina line the KuKlux had killed good many
men, but he reckoned they hadn't killed half enough of
the good Of the country
returned to my hotel and fell into conversation with
a gentleman who said he the State Senator from the
Counties Of Caswe and Alamance, In North Carolina
where the KuKlux outrages were numerous last year.
He was Democrat and had voted for the conviction Of
Gov Holden. He said that there were no Ku-klux or
ganizatons existing in his sections there had been,
but they all broken up. He did not believe there
was now single Ku-Klux Society in North Carolina. 10
was illadyised movement he thought, and he did not
think it would be revived IL started as political Or
ganization, in opposition TO the secret Union Leagues,
but with purpose Of violence Something In his man
and in the apologize way in which he spoke led me
to think that he had himself been a member or tho
Khan. Speaking OF the labor question he said that in
his county the planters could not hire much
labor they needed. Many OF the negroes had
left and gone further South and others did not ike TO
hire and preferred to lease little patches OF ground and
work II shares. You ought TO encourage foreign I'M
migration" said. "There the kind OF labor that suits
me the Senator replied pointing TO three stalwart ne
groes driving by in wagon understand 1t, and never
Germans had settled in his county, but they all left
in few months and went OFF West.
The season is far advanced here. Farmers Lave fn-
shed their plowng, and planting corn The shade
in the village in full leaf and in the forests the
foliage Is already half grown. Focks OF birds make the
reetops musical and the air. when escapes from tho
tobacco and guano smells of the town, IL full OF sweet
Spring scents and has the sOftness OF May with tho
warmth OF Northern June. This afternoon 90 on
southwark into North Carolina aud shall stop for the
night at Greensboro.