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CHAsJr. JOSES, Editor and Proprietor "Free from the doting fcrople that fettrr our free-bora retaon." THURSDAY, APRIL 1879. TBB FB EIGHT QUfiSTl05 OKE MORE. Thq railroads arealarmed by the re strictions which have Sbeen f laid iipon them by the legislature. Some of them deserve but little sympathy, and but for the ill effects which this legisla tion trill : have upon the people The Observer should concern itself but little about the matter. So far as some of the railroads are concerned there is a grim, retributive justice in this legis lation; for not only have they courted legislative interference by their noto ionsly unjust and oppressive local tariffs, but when the bill was before the Gen eral Assembly to grant the Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line Railroad the right to extend its line to Charlotte, some of the railroads which are now howling the loudest ; against this hew freight law, were splitting their very shirts to have this very provision inserted in the bill granting the right asked for by the Raleigh & ' Augusta Toad. They suc ceeded and were happy. It killed the bill. Then the Legislature, foolishly supposing that the sauce with which the goose had been dressed was a very proper kind of sauce to serve with the gander, turned aroundanxl clapped up on them the same restrictions which they had begged to have placed upon the Raleigh & Augusta road. Presto, change! Their jaw bones drop clear down to the waists of their pants and the whites of their eyes are turned into the backs of their heads. The other ox is gored! They pulled down the walls of the temple upon the Raleigh & Au gusta road but they ; themselves are buried in the debris they and their sisters and their cousins and their aunts; themselves and their enemy :inda whole parcel of other railroads which had nothing to do with the origi nal light which resulted in re-enacting sections 1 and 2 of chapter 240, laws of While, as we have said, there is some thing very like retributive justice in these railroads themselves falling into the pit which they had digged for the Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line, and while this fact takes off the wire edge of our sorrow for this recent , legislation, this new freight law is none the less a pub lic calamitv. bv reason of facts which we were at pains to point out in our is sue of yesterday. The railroads were very wrong in leading the General As sembly into unjust legislation against the Raleigh & Augusta road, but two wrongs .riever yet made a right; and while on general principles it is very well to feed all people of the same sort out of the same spoon, there is no nc cessity just because you have given one child a bitter dose which it did not need, for you to go around and drench1 the whole family with the same medi cine. The figure might- be'traced a lit tle further but we forbear. Yesterday we spoke ot tne new freight bill with reference to its effects upon the railroads and' the people, ex pressing the opinion , which we yet hold sincerely, that these effects will be very injurious to both. To-day, we have touched briefly upon' the resuon sihility' in 'the 4ca$e, ard now, having tfted the question m nearly all fits bearing The Observer, so far as it now knows, is done with it, for the present at least. POLITICAL RIDERS KEVOLl I I0X CONSIS- TE-UT. Mr. Job was a man of parts a dis cerning, far-seeing man, and hence he oh-ed tliathis adversary would write a book. Job wanted the record on his adversary the journal, the ayes and noes, so to speak--and; it is probable that he died wanting it. We are better off in this advanced age of civilization, and of gospel - light - tmch privileges; as the Democratic and Republican parties in Congress have occasion to know, the aj . iia giet siwisiacuon ana tae other to its utter consternation. In short, when the Republicans had screamed "Revolution !' as long as the Democrats thought it healthy for them and all on account of the efforts of the former to repeal certain objectionable laws by incorporating i the repealing clauses in the appropriation bills the jJemocrats reminded them that that very legislation had gotten upon the statute books by a Republican Con gress attaching it as a rider to an appro priation bllV This tvouW eeta to be a .uock oown argument -: which would close Republican mouths, but it has no such enect. They admit the charge- since it would . be useless for them to deny it, the record being i against them but they go right straight along howl ing "Revolutionr just as though they iiaa nc set the example. Tnis is .Republican consistency, r It is highly patriotic to attach a rider to an r At. ms - ' . - appropriacion mu- ior the purpose of lorcing a certain law upon the statute books, but it is, "revolutionary !" to at t ich a rider to an appropriation bill for the purposeTof wiping that law out. Tjna WmiElREMEbTi-The - Southern press has don4 its part' Kow for ludgesi-juries and gorernortf' The haugtugof: tWtfr.threQ "genteel" mur derers war stop the bloodvbistol busi ness; Toothing else wilt: Every one of the assassins relies on Ins money or his connections to save him. Treat the rich anajinnuenciai as the poor and friendless are created, and tiinv win think twice1 before they shoot once. Charleston jxews ana uourier. Our contemporary plumbs the track gquarely. The ; press may preach, and the public roll its eye4 in horror, but this shooting business wU continue until somebody gets hung. V The Raleigh News appears dressed in hexf tree and with . face, as fresh and clean as if it' were a babe instead of a TOteranl lts iaake-up j ia modeled on hafc of flrstelass journals, it is as hand - .mAfi newspaper as we have in the State, and it shows now what it has not thown for several-months past sys- .tematic work. I The Gay DECEiVERS.-The Green- backers in Congress, after some of them had pledged themselves to, the support of Democratic: measnrea. where the lines were drawn between the two leading parties, hve . played the Democracy false and are bothering everybody in their futile efforts to in fluence legislation according to their peculiar notions. It is well enough that the Democracy are independent of them in both branches of Congress, and can ignore their threats and despise their! Cajolery. Their silly ; claim that they hold the balance of power has come to naught and a fusion with the Republicans cannot help them in Con gress, while it damns them at home, since 5 the Democrats have more than once i!sbbm ithat they have a clean majority; 07el all opposing forces. "We regret to see it stated in the Washington correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch, that our distin guished fellow-citizen, Hon. James M. Leach, sustained a fall in Washington, last Sunday night which resulted in the breaking of one of his legs. J8 ReDresentative Scales, of the fifth district of North Carolina has ex pressed to a reporter of the Washington Sunday Gazette, the hope and opinion that the extra session of Congress will be short. THE F1TZ JOHN PORTER CASE. Its Salient Points The Defendant Unanimously Acquitted. Wasiiinoton. April 2. The follow in 2 are the salient points in the official report in the case of Gen. Fitz John Por- . 1 t II A A 1 J? ter, as caKen irom .cne repon liseii Tliat the recorder has used creat dili crence for evidence, especially such as might appear to nave a oearing adverse to the claims urged by Gen. Porter ; that due care has been exercised not to in quire into the military operations or conduct of the officers of the army of Vinrinia further than was necessarv to a full elucidation of the subject of the investigation : that new evidence, in addition to the old, has placed beyond question many important facts before the suujecc oi dispute, in respect co . . i i n i a. o a. which radically erroneous opinions were entertained, bv Porter's accusers and doubtless by the court martial that E renounced him guilty. J lie result has een to establish bevond reasonable doubt all the facts essential to the for mation of a correct judgment upon the merits ot uen. 1'orter s case. The re port is, therefore, made by the board, with entire unanimity, and without doubt in their minds, with reasons for their conclusions and what action jus tice requires should be taken bv the President. The board state the evidence, as pre senting itselt under several distinct heads, viz: 1st. Imperfect and in some respects erroneous statements of facts due to partial and incorrect knowledge in possession of witnesses at the time oi thejcoiut martial, and extremely inac curate maps and erroneous locations of troops thereon, bv which erroneous statements were made to convey stil more erroneous impressions. 2nd. The opinions and inferences of prominent othcers based upon this imperfect know ledge. 3rd. it or more complete and ac cuiate statements of facts now made by a large number of eye witnesses from both contending rorces. 4th. Ac curate maps of the field of operations and the exact positions of troops there on at different periods of time, by which statements otherwise contradictory or irreconciiauie, are snown to De harmo nious, and opposing opinions are shown to have been based upon different views of the same military situation : and finally, conflicting testimony, rela tive to plans of operations, interpreta tions of orders, motives of action and relative degrees of responsibility forun- iortunate results. Concerning the charge of which Gen. Porter was found guilty of not having moved his command on the night of August Vh 1862, in obedience to an or-. der from Gen. Poie the board report that it was manifestly a physical im possibility to march over that road that night ; that nothing could have been gained by the attempt, and that it would have been wiser if Gen. Porter had de layed the attempt still longer than he did: that he exercised the very ordina ry discretion of a corps commander, and that it was his plain duty to so exercise it. The report recites at much length and in detail the important events connected with the military opera tions of the ; 29th of August, 18C2, and among other important facts it is made clear that Torter's display of troops in the early part of the afternoon of the 29th gave rise to the belief on the Confederate side of an attack about to be made, and that under this belief Longstreet sent his reserves from the extreme left to the extreme right of his army and in . front of Porter, thus re lieving the Union army under other commanders from this Confederate force. Porter's duty during the after noon of that date, the report states, was too plain and simple to admit of dis cussion and the board are unable to find anything in it subiect to criticism much less deserving ot censure or con demnation. He had made freauent re- Eorts co ms superiors stating what he ad done and what he had been unable to do; what his situation was in respect w me eneujy ajm wuiii cueir screngtn ; wnac ais impressions were irom the sounds of action toward his right: how he had failed to get any cpmmunications from any commander in the Union army or any orders from Generals Pope or McDowell; as to his designs for the right ; sending an aid-de-camp to Gen. Pope for orders and receiving no renlv. hoc even lmormation tnat the vital 430 order had been sent to him. and finallv mtorming his superior omcers that if left to himself without orders he would have to retire at night for food and wa ter, not accessible where he was lhese reports were sent not onlv fre quently, but early enough to insure the receipt or orders irom .fope or correct lniormauon irom Mclowell if thev hart any to send him. The remainder of the report is a virtual exoneration of Gen. Porter.. The exoneration of Gen. Por ter gives him the right of reinstatement mm uiw army. At is generally under stood that he does hot desire this, how ever, and will not apDlV for it. He onlv wants a vindication. The report of the board ,will: be sent to Congress and a pin passed relieving uen j. .forcer from all his present disabilities. The report, which is? addressed to the secretary of war, is signed by J. M. Scho field, Major General U, 8. A.; Alfred H. Terry, lirigadier-ueneral U. S. A.; Geo. vv. uettv, ungadier-tienerai u. . A, Colonel Third Artillery. Wholesale Ktwlnr. A Cincinnati Etiaiiirer reporter, who has ; been investigating ' the : charges against 'Dr. Keif er, superintendent of the Soldiers Orphans Home; at Xems, 0- states that out of nineteen matrons in the institution sixteen admitted that they had been hugged and kissed by the 1 doctor, some twice and others thrice. The superintendent says in defense that he intended nothing wrong but did it to make mends with tne ladies, an oi whom, however, declare that his kisses were exceedingly unpleasant. ONGRESS'S EXTRAESSIOX I JEASMVB1LL DEBATE 2f EARLY (ftl B. 6.7 To fce plosed jPriday-sHoar's Jiesolu- House Committees Monday. Washington, April 2. Senate. Various bills were introduced, among them one by Harris, providing for a eaty with the republic of Mexico, 't . Hoar's resolution, condemning as un- constilutional "and revolutionary,' the Democratic programme of legislation, was laid on the table yeas 35, nays 25. Blaine said at a future time the Repub licans would ask for a direct vote on the resolution. Saulsbury made a report against the admission Of Bell as Senator" from New Hampshire on the appointment of the Governor. It will come up for consid eration to-morrow. At 12.45 the Senate went into execu tive session. House. Efforts were made by Sparks of Illinois, to fix the time for closing the debate on the army appropriation bill. Suggestions were made to have ight sessions, and to restrict speeches hiteen minutes eacn, and to ciose tne debate to-morrow. Objection was made to all these propositions, Conger, of Michigan, stating that a number of gentlemen on both sides have given notice of a desire to speak ; also, that many have prepared speeches and wrouid not like to be restricted to fifteen min utes, and also that but few members would be present at the night session On both sides it wfas declared that there was no desire to shut off the debate, and the Speaker gave it as his experience that an unlimited debate was the short est debate. That opinion was endorsed bv Kellv. of Pennsylvania, who quoted the proverb, "the longest way round is the shortest wav home." and who also suggested that as this session was a self- imposed luxury, there was no reason whv that luxury should be cut short. The opinion of Hawley, of Connecti cut, was, that as the subject was of a most important character, it would be ungracious to cut the debate short, or to compel the members to attend night sessions. A motion by Stephens, of Georgia, that a vote be taken at 2 o clock hatur dav. was voted down. Finally, on motion of Dunnell, of Minnesota, all general debate was or dered to be closed at 8 o'clock Friday, leaving five minutes debate still open The House then, at 12.35. went into committee of the whole. The debate was opened by Williams, of Wisconsin, who stated that two things were absolutely indispensable: the purity of the ballot-box and peace at the polls. If it required all the pow er of the State and general government, that power should be exercised, wheth er it be put forth under national or un der State jurisdiction. He had heard mnch talk about "bayonet government but he knew of no government which did not rest ultimately on the bayonet Whoever talked about government without that final, ultimate resort in case of resistance to civil law, talked about Utopia. CONFIRMATIONS. The Senate confirmed Andrew D. White, of New York, to be envoy and minister of the United States to Ger many ; Cornelius A. Logan, of Illinois, minister to Central Amenca ; O. a. IS or- ton, United States marshal for the Northern district of Texas. The Sen ate rejected the nomination of E. B. Turner, to be United States district judge for the northern district of Tex as. NOMINATIONS. David T. Corbin.of South Carolina, to be Chief Jnstice of the Supreme Court of Utah ; Thos. S. Wadsworth, of Illi nois, receiver of public moneys at La- Messita, New Mexico; Marshall K. (iet- tings, postmaster at Carrollton, Mo. some officers not removed. lhe uemocratic senators m caucus this morning unanimously agreed that the Senate should permanently retain Capt. Isaac Bassett, the assistant doorkeeper, and the venerable Wm. Johnston, well known as the keeper of tae main door ot the Senate chamber, both ot whom have been m the service of the Senate forty years or more, and also Mr. Amiza Smith, the superintend ent or the document room, together with two of the acting assistant doorkeepers who are crippled i nion soldiers. nri-: house committees. kpeaKer itandaii will be able to an nounce the standing committees of the House on Monday or Tuesday of next week. The Democratic members, it is understood, are already placed. m i i m The English Cotton Supply and the Fu ture of the Staple. Liverpool, April 2. The cotton cir cular of Smith, Edwards & Co., cotton brokers of this town, says: "The visi ble supply of cotton is 350,000 bales be low that of last year. Probably spinners throughout the world hold a surplus of from 150,000 to 200,000 bales, and there may be a little more shipped from In dia for the remainder of the season but in any event there must be a mate rial reduction of consumption to carry us through the autumn. Whether there wirrtre such rettucrcotrarthe present level prices of ;raw material, will de pend very much on the action of the government as bearing upon silver and Eastern exchange. Even the slight im provement now noticeable at Manches ter is due solely to the proposal to les sen the drafts on India by borrowing in London ; but a series of such expedi ents would reduce the already deplor able finances of India to hopeless bank ruptcy." Wreck on the North Carolina Coast. Washington, April 2. A report to the signal office from Hatteras Inlet says a small craft, the Wyanoke, the captain a negro, name unknown, leit Cape Hatteras Sunday morning bound for New Berne. The passengers on board. Mrs. Rue and daughter, Mr. Whitehurst and one other man, name not known, it is supposed were all lost. Up to yesterday evening the body of Mr. Whitehurst had been found. A cratt also was found bottom up near the point of the beach on the north side of Hatteras inlet. The Terms Upon which the Blackburn Operatives Return to Work. London, April 2. The announce ment that the Blackburn cotton opera tives .of all branches of trade at their meeting yesterday agreed to submit to reduction in their wages provided the masters would consent to restore the reductions both this year and last year, Upon1 the revival of trade, was incor rect They decided to submit to the reduction unconditionally, but declared their intentiou to insist upon the resto ration of the prices paid previous to wb jrcai o leuuucion, wnen trade vives. . re in Extra Term of Court to Try the Mur derer or Judge Elliott. Cincinnati, April 2.-A Frankfort, ?atph sav3, Ju(Jge McManama has called a special term of the crimi nal court to try Thomas Buford for the Sler $ Ju?SeElliott. It is set down rlnd?7t APnl ?8th- ; Governor Mc Creary has v t ordered an elec tion to be heldMav 12th to splert th successor of J udgellUott PROPHECY. The Depression 1 Great Britain Create r Thta lcivhere Else ana a rros- j ! pect for Worse fines. li z. ...... .. i. - .-.-x. LbNDON 'April 2. Mr. David Mclver one or the proprietors ot tne uunara Line, and member of Parliament for Berkenhead, writes to the Times de clarine unhesitatinrfv that from his Dersonal exnariHnm as a carrier he does not knowt of any nation whose trade. prpsita. at, present Great Britain's. ' The depression m jsova Scotia and elsewhere does not at all approach the depression here. The British exports to the United States: are comparatively nothing, either as re gards volume or value, ine urrasu food importations are steadily increas ing and the balance of trade is so over whelmingly against Great Jintain mat he sees nothing except ruin for home industries, whether manufacturing or agricultural, , if the present state of things is allowed to continue. The ex port trade from Liverpool to tne united States is so small that whenever the re strictions on imDortations of United States cattle are removed, gentlemen who are Drenared to nut additional steamers into the'trade deliberately in tend to make outward voyages with water ballast onlv. without joining in the scramble for the little outward freight which other owners have been recently carrying as ballast at merely nominal races. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS TESTEKDAT. How Then Went at Different Places Throughout the Country. St. Louis, April 2. Warrensburg, Missouri, yesterday elected a Republi can mayor and three out of four coun cilmen ; Sedalia, Mo, elected a Repub lican mayor; Kirksville elected the en tire Republican ticket; and Carliles- ville, Illinois, elected the entire Repub lican ticket except the city clerk; Paris, Texas, elected the people's candi date for mayor he is classed as a Re publican and four Democratic alder men; Texarkana, Arkansas, elected the people's candidate. Schenectady, April 2. liraham, fte- pubhean, is elected mayor. The Demo crats have elected the treasurer, asses sor and justice of the peace. The board of supervisors will probably stand six Democrats, three Republicans and one Greenbacker. The common council shows two-thirds Democratic. St. Louis, April 2. Complete returns now show that the Democrats elected all their council men yesterday, which gives them a majority of one in council. delegates by a small majority over all. The anti-charter party, composed of Socialists and Greenbackers, polled about 5,000 votes and elected at least one member of the house of delegates. Chicago, April 2. At 1.30 this morn mg the returns give Harrison, Demo crat, for mayor, 22,356 ; Wright, Repub lican, 19,003 ; scnmiat, socialist, about 8,500. The whole - city Democratic ticKet was elected by majorities rang ing irom 3,500 to 4,500. The vote on the aldermen cannot be given, but the Socialists elect several. About 20 pre cincts are yet to near irom. The Silver Question in England. j-iOndon, Apm 2. The siiver Ques tion is exciting great interest through out Lancashire and opinion is steadily tending in the directioh of bi-metalism. But interests in London opposite to it - C 1 XI . 21 1 . Li.l iUB SO poWBHUl UliiL lb IS UOUDCIU1 whether anv uractical .steiis can b taken in that direction for a long time to come A Squadron Swept Away. London, April 2. A dispatch from Lahore to the Reuters company : "A squadron of the tenth hussars was swept away by the current while cross ing the cabui river near Emelsalabade on the 31st of March. A lieutenant and forty men are missing. Sixteen bodies have been recovered up to the present time. Four Vessels Sank. New Bedford, Mass, April 2. Re ports have been received that four ves sets are sunk off Tuckernuck shoal and three sunk near Muskeget. A Prosperous Enterprise. Baltimore Sun. The profits of theLangley Cotton Fac tory, at Graniteville, S. C, for the year 1878 were $50,991. During the year two dividends of four per cent, each were declared, and the company has now to its credit a surplus of $151,988. The pro duction of the mill for the year was 122,683 pieces, 2,078,533 pounds, or 6,216,- 364 yards ot ciotn. uotton consumed during the year 1878, 5,527 bales, with an average weight 01 456 pounds 2,- 520,431 pounds. It is questionable whether there is a single cotton mill in the North of similar capacity that can make as favorable a showing either in regard to profit or product. Betting on the Oarsmen. London, April 2. Betting on the race between the Cambridge and Coc ford crews, which takes place Satur day, is two to one, on Cambridge. ' There are Millions m It" said a drurartst, when asked about Dr. Brill's Cough Syrup; it Is difficult for me to keep up a stock of It, tot It sells faster than I c .in procure It Price 25 cents. Everyone who has once used Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup invariably resorts to It In subsequent attacks 01 co colds, coughs, c Price 26 cents. f NB car load Choice white Virginia Bolted Heal wmcn we will seu at a very low ngure. apr3 F. B. ALEXANDER 4 CO. LOST, A Gold Sleeve Button, with cuff aftached. It has on It the Initial letter "M." The finder will be liberally rewarded by. leaving It at B. M. Miners score or at this vr lis. apr3 It , IANO WANTED. Dr. Bidez wishes to rent a good Piano for his own use. An upright preferred. Apply by letter, r.v.Boxst. tue-thu-sun. JpBENCH BRANDT Guaranteed to be TWENTY TEARS OLD, - AT CENTRAL HOTEL SALOON. SPLENDID LINE OE Fine Teas, all grades, lust In, at . , LeROY DAVIDSON'a Jan60 A GREEN HOUSE AND SEEDS T ORE GLOOMY AT YOUR POST OFFICE. ROSES ! ROSES ! .Send and get my catalogue of choice Green House and Bedding Plants - We can send plants through the maU to any port of the countrr. 1 1 C B. FAIRCHILD, . " . Seedsman and Florist, -March 26Vam. . , Baleigh,N.a r I EM,ARGfIENI,, u v8 7 ! 1 C R OC K ER Y -AND- GLASSWARE BUSINESS. MR. A. W.LUDOLF, OF BALTIMORE, MD., a man of unlimited experience in this tmssesa, having traveled for 17 years in tne West and South selling Crockery, Ac, for some of tne most exten sive Crockery bouses North, has been nmwrtatwl with JOHN OHN BROOKFIEL"pv rookfijclU, of this cmr, in the above business, and the firm thus constitu ted will be known as JNO. BROOK FIELD 4t CO. Mr. Ludolf left last Tuesday for the North to lay In the most extensive stock of QUEENSWARE, China, Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Goods, Deco oraled China and Porcelain, SUver and Sliver Plated Ware, Fine Fancy Goods, Wood and Willow Ware, House Furnishing Goods, CuUery, Bar Fix tures, and many other goods too numerous to men tion, for our Wholesale and Retail trade. In fu ture we wUl handle SHOW CASES, &C. Particular attention paid to having goods decora ted to order, with any name or monogRM, 4c, on each article of China. Give us your orders. We sell nothing but first class goods, and sell as cheap as you can buy at the North anywhere. LOOK OUT For Mr. Ludolfs return, as it will be a treat to ex amine his line of fine goods. JNO. BROOKFEELD A CO., Trade Street, near College, March 27. Under Democrat Office. ROCERLES CHEAPER THAN EVER. NEW GOODS ! NEW FEATURES! Come to me for Bacon, Corn, Sugar, Coffee, Mo lasses, and other Family Groceries. Just received, a few barrels of Berry Foster's (Da vie county) BEST RYE WHISKEY. Also a fine lot of Country Hams. I sell for cash. All goods delivered In the city free of charge. W. H. CRIMMINGER, Trade Street; Next door below Wilson & Black's old stand. aplS. R FINE WINES, And Pure Liquors, Three Years Old, go COCHRANE'S, Central Hotel Saloon. F. B. ALEXANDER & CO., GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, College Street, Charlotte, N. C , We handle more general country produce than any house In the city, and still solicit farther con consignments from all parties who are willing to be satisfied with the best Job we can put up on this market. All those who cannot be pleased with our best efforts, are respectfully requested to send their goods to somebody else. DON'T FAIL TO CALL AND EXAMINE The splendid line of WINDSOR MANOR- PICKLES, VIZ: Autumn Cluster, Stuffed Mangoes, Tiny Tims Gherkins, Martynias. Also the finest line of . CRACKERS Ever seen in Charlotte, at LeROY DAVIDSON'S. 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