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Elf 6 KALKIGH. .m. C. TUESDAY..................... APRIL W. 18TS. TO SUBSCRIBERS. Aa was well known the capital with which this newspaper was established con sisted i2rwtat the war's results had left to its editors ; their hands, Drains, and pro fessional experience. There was none to spare in furnishing papers on long credits. But the exceeding pressure of the times x. -j i: . n: tions which yet daily reach us to wait a more convenient season for the small sums one oy persons Known to us as sure to pay them when possible ; and as it was Impos sible or too expensive to keep two systems in operation,: this, like the other North Carolina newspapers, has done what it should not have done and accumula'ed on its books a large number of small accounts. How large, was unknown until now when time has been taken, to ascertain what one doing three men's work has not had time quite a large number of its subscribers, within a few score of three thousand of the many thousands on its lists,are indebt ed in various small sunn. The payment of i , - . these sums; will not seriously incommode one. The possession of the great ag gregate, amounting to many thousands' of dollars, will very materially serve us, as the lack of it has seriously inconvenienced us , . mr and others. A statement of his account is enclosed this day to each debtor. On the first day of May the name of each subscriber whose indebtedness is not discharged will be erased from the mail books. No name o t a subscriber will be entered without payment in advance, and each subscriber' -paper will be stopped when the time paid for expires. There will be no variation It is earnestly hoped that few will fail to meet the reasonable request that is made. The Obskbvxb is attached to its sub scribers, as it believes they are to it, and to part with any of them will be very un pleasant, but Thk Observes needs the money due it, and in calling for it allows l2 o mock modesty to prevent the plain statement that what is due has been amply earned by the service it has been able to render to each subscriber, to fts party, and to the State. NEW LAWS ASD CBANQBD LAWS. To provide for the payment of jurors, an act ratified March 14, 1879, levies a tax of $2 on each party convicted under indictment hi either Superior or Inferior Courts ; and of $5 oh any one adjudged to pay the costs in any civil suit in said courts. Clerks to charge said tares in bills of costs, Sheriffs to collect and pay into county treasuries, ,io oe set apart tor a jury iuna. jl uc xhcgiabci iiu9 is icjuucu uj mm ratified March 14, 1879, to 'serve by mail all notices issued by Boards of County Commissioners to Jnstira of the Peace. Road Overseers and School Committee men, in lieu of the service by the Sheriffs of .the several counties, and shall receive as his compensation his actual expenses for mailing and nothing more. The act is not to apply in any county with insuffi cient mail facihties. - . - What M Do Willi Drunkard, AN ACT EXPLANATORY OF CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN Or, BATTLE'S REVISAL. Ths General Atserribly of North Carolina do enact: - Section 1. That any person who habit ually, whether continuously or periodi cally, indulges in the use of intoxicating liquors to such an extent as to stupefy his mind and to render him incompetent to transact ordinary business with safety to his estate, shall be deemed an inebriate within the meaning of chapter fifty-seven (57) of Battle's Uevisal: Provided, The habit of so indulging in such use shall have been at the time of inquisition of at least one year's standing. Sec. 2. If upon inquisition any person shall be found to be an inebriate, the Erobate Court or the Superior Court in or out of term shall immediately appoint some one of his nearest relations by blood or marriage, such relation being a d'screet person, guardian of the estate of such inebriate, as in case of orphans. In case such inebriate shall have no relation by blood or marriage competent in the judg ment of -the court to act as such guardian, or in case such relation shall refuse to act as such guardian, the court shall appoint some other discreet person as such guard ian. ;f; - ' ' Sec 3. Every guardian of any inebriate , Bhall have all the rights -and powers over the estate of such Inebriate and shall be subject to all the duties which are con ferred and imposed by law upon guardians f minor children. Rfc 4. Whenever an inebriate for whom a guardian shall have been appointed shall hpnnmea sober person, and . capable cf managing his own affairs, the court which appointed such guardian is hereby author ized tn remove him and restore to said in ebriate all his property, to manage and control in as full and ample a manner as he held the same prior to his having Deen adiudicated an inebriate. bed 5. This act shal be in force from : and after its ratification. Ratified the- 14th day of March, A D. 1879. . ' ' - ... Frvx TBABs ago the assessed valuations of real and personal estate in New York were $1,154,000,000 j last year they were $1,098,000,000, In 1874 the rate of taxa tion was 2.80 per cent.; for 1879 it will be about 2.55 per cent ' The aggregate amount 01 tax to oe leviea mis year $4,000,000 less than it was in 1874. And now it turns out that Colonel Mosbt was not the foolish man the Wash ington letter writers represented him to be. He did not refuse to wear store clothes, only declined invitations until he could irfit them, as was decent and proper. See the official statement taken from the Gov rnmeat organ. ' j - RAIL AND WATER C0NSSCTI0S3. ' The Goldsboro, Snow Hill and Green ville Railroad is a northeast and southwest connection between the Neuse and Tar rivers of some fifty miles, and extended in a direct line for fifty miles more would reach Plymouth at the head of the Albe marle Sound. When the proposed railroad shall reach Greenville it strikes good water navigation on the Tar, and if it should them deflect and pass on to. Washington, twenty-five miles below, it forms a junction with the Jamesville and Washington Railroad, and secures the. benefits of a good water ter minus. The route which this road will take from Goldsboro to Greenville is through a rich agricultural portion of Wayne, Greene and Pitt, striking the Marlboro and FarmvUle section in the lat ter county, which, twenty years ago, was up in agriculture with any part of the United States, and . the spirit of im provement is still alive there. In Greene, as well as in Pitt, and also in Wayne, the progress of the farming interest has kept pace with the general movement of the age, and all the lands being fertile and susceptible of the highest state of culture and improvement, agricul ture finds here its highest type of illustra tion to be found at the South. A narrow gauge railroad through7 any such portion of our country cannot fail to be remunera tive to its undertakers. Two-thirds of the territory to be pen etrated by this line was formerly, and to a great extent is now, tributary to Wilson, and the better to facilitate the trade of that section, a narrow gauge road was proposed from Wilson via Stantonsburg and Marl boro to Greenville, and it was an unac countable oversight that the road was not long since built. The construction of the line from Goldsboro to Greenville will draw off from Wilson trade ' within ten miles of that market, completely isolate her from Speight's Bridge, Snow HiL and the Marlboro section, and cut the trade o the Stantonsburg region. The Wilson railroad will now become a vital necessity to the business of that place, and she must move in the matter along , with her rival, Goldsboro, and neighbors. Snow Hill and Greenville. If Goldsboro shal make the Tar River connection, it be hooves Wilson to make a Neuse River connection, and abandoning Greenville she should take a route by way of Stantons burg, Speight's Bridge and Snow Hill to Kinston, about the same length of line as the Goldsboro and Greenville, and through an equally eood section of the country. The Wilson and Kinston line would possess advantages for Wilson which : the other route does not hold out for Goldsboro, and crossing the latter at Snow Hill it would a least divide the trade of that section, bring perhaps as much from the Marlboro direc tion as it now enjoys, and retain Speight' Bridge and Stantonsburg. But the greatest advantage in a shipping point of: view would be the. direct connec tion this line would establish between Wil son and Beaufort Harbor. Beaufort, New bern, Kinston, Snow Hill and Wilson are on an almost direct northwest air line of hundred and five miles. Free and unrestricted communication by rail with Beaufort harbor has always been a necessity to Wilson, and although she is by rail, only one hundred and nineteen miles from that port, she is by the rule o: combination in railroad management as completely cut off from Newbern and Beaufort for all commercial purposes as if she stood a hundred miles from any line of railroad. By building from forty to fifty miles of narrow gauge road to Kinston, she establishes in connection with the At lantic and North Carolina Railroad and Neuse River at Kinston, an independent system of her own, and in the future pro gress and development of the coast towns and seaports of our State, such a connec tion is of the highest , importance to the section under consideration, and claims immediate attention. THS ARM IN CIVIL AFFAIRS. , In the last eighteen years, what has not been, done by the army in civil affairs, sometimes under act of Congress and sometimes not ? Some things that it has done were stated by Mc Tdokxb in his speech on the army bill, when he said that "by act of Congress leren States were put under the absolute control of the President through the army. Legislatures were dissolved, constitutional conventions were called, Suffrage was extended, taxes were collected, and public moneys of the States disbursed by the orders and under the control of the army. In my . own State all the Judges of the Court of. Appeals, elected by its State Government, which had been fully recognized as the lawful government by the Federal authorities, were removed and successors appointed by order ofthe military Governor of District No. 1, which was the Old Dominion. Circuit Judges were removed at the will of the military power, and replaced by others! Citizens in the South were tried by court martial, and the privilege of iho habeas corpus was denied to them. The jurisdic tion of the Supreme Court of the United States, stretched out to rescue MoCaedue from the grasp of the military, was taken away by the passage of the Dbaxi bill over the veto of President Johnson. The exection of Millioajj, an Indiana citizen, by sentence of court martial, . was only prevented by the Supreme Court's judg ment. ' And who can have forgotten the part played by the military in the legisla tive halls of Louisiana and : South Caro lina ?" . : , ' ' Thk thousand million issue of Green-; baiSks proposed by Mr. Da La. Mattb oh Saturday, as the platform of the Green back party, is not original with him. The hard-money Radical press of the money centres which unsparingly ridicules him as next of kin to an idiot, will find the idea stowed away as a feeler in one of the messages sent to Congress in 1873 by its present Presidential favorite. To cut a ditch from anywhere or nowhere to the same place, was President Grant's plan for setting things straight after the panic of that year. . ,4 . THE COTTON MOVBUMT. The New York Chronicle figures up the receipts for the week ending on; Friday night, April 18, at 40,187 i bales, I against 44,851 the preceding week, 54,283 the week previous, ; and 60,698 three weeks since. Since September the receipts have been 4,258,541 against 4,043,751 bales last vear i increase of 214.790 bales. The detailed! week's receipts for 1879, 1878, ! . "If- 1877, are .. . .:. .Li Receipts this week at , 1879. New Orleans 9,323 Mobile S 809 1878. 10,190 8,163 1,968 679 8,485 1S77. 8,318 on 1,457 93 Charleston x,sia OrV.... Savannah. 4,479 M" 149 8,801 9 909 S.T99 S.83S 1,450 1.145 Galveston .... Indianola, Ac. 9 Tennessee, Ac. 8,925 8i 761 6,011 TS 1,633 Fionas ......... 4 North Carolina. 462 1,763 84 Norfolk City Point, Ac . a Total tor week......... 40.18T S9,oi 18,010 The week's exports were 48,933 bales, of which went to England 35,881, France 3629, other Continental States 9,428. The exports last year were 57,458; decrease of 8,520 bales. The exports since September 1 foot up 3,069,871 against 2,882,136 last year ; increase or 187,730 Dales. rneBtoca on Friday night was 418,802 bales against 504,348 last year ; decrease of 85,546 bales. The week's sales for future deUvery were 720,800 bales ; for immediate delivery 4,909 bales, including 4,588 for consump tion, 321 for speculation. The demand for spot cotton from home spinners has been good and the market closed at 11$ for mid dling, a material advance, and with large business. Favorable advices from Liver pool caused a general advance in futures also. : jj ; . ,- . The visible supply is thus located :- ii i Stock at Liverpool... Stock at London. 649,000 .66,600 Total Great Britain stock....; .... 605,500 177,000 8,000 stocK as navre . Stock at Barcelona. .... . Stock at Hamburg v Stock at Bremen Stock at Amsterdam 87,50a- .... S.50O 84,600 4500 6,500 Stock at Rotterdam Stock at Antwerp Stock at other continental porta ' '; 3,760 i 7,500 Total continental ports. 295.750 Total Enropean stocks. ... i ...... . . India cotton afloat for .Europe .j. . . American cotton afloat for Earope. .;. . . Egypt, Brazil, Ac., afloat for Earope. .. Stock in United States porta:.......1... Stock In United States Interior porta.. United States exports to-diiy 01,850 180,000 673,000 80,000 418,8 67,333 . i ,3,000 Total visible supply.. . ..bales. 8162.380 Of the above the totals of American, &c., follow: American Liverpool stock....... 443,000 870.0UO (continental stocKS American afloat to Earope ............ United States stock United States interior stocks. i ... United States exports to-day. J. .. . 672,000 418,803 : 6728 3,000 Total American East Indian, Brazil, Liverpool stock. . ...... London stock. Continental stocks..... ...bales, 1,7:3,130 die -107,000 56,50 25,750 . 130,000 30,000 399,8-0 l,7ti3,130 9,162,380 India afloat for Europe.... Egypt, Brazil, te., afloat. . Total East India, Ac....... Total American.......... Total visible supply These figures Indicate a decrease in itie cotton in sight of 435,123 bales as com pared with the same date in 1878, a de- crease of 799,409 bales as the corresponding date of compared with 1877, and a de- crease of 755,791 bales -as compared with 1876. j The interior ports received as follows: Becetpts I 1879 ..i.' 703 452 168 ... 1,003 ... 620 4,845 1,129 .J. i44l ... 141 ... 1,018 629 ... j 78 ... 69 ... 'I 72 837 Receipts 1878 Aagasta, Ga Columbus, Ga . Macon, Ga.... Montgomery, Ala.... ... Selma, Ala... Mempnis, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn Dallas, Texas Jefferson, Texas....... Shreveport, La vicKsburg, miss......... Columbus, Miss........ Eafaala, Ala Grin a, Ga Atlanta, ua. a... Kome, ua. ...... ,204 354 4,684 6,804 Charlotte, U 1X)01S, mo.. ....... Oiacinnati, Ow .... . Tata! ....... ........... J 22,940 18,843 The receipts, from plantations last week were 25,148 bales; in 1878,' 26,862; in 1877, 18,058. Since September 1, 4,344,- 855 bales ; in 1878, 4,123,243; in 1877, 3,887,114 bales. j Storms last week were severe, but in general where the storm was severest cot ton 'was not sufficiently advanced to re ceive much harm. About Indianola a se vere gale has done much injury, while Southern Texas is suffering greatly from drought. ? Middling uplands quoted at Liverpool on Friday at 6 j in 1878, 5 15-16 ; 1877, 61-16; 1876, 6d. A warns in the JLiOndon Timet draws a forcible contrast between lh progress of American industry and that of Great Bri tain in cotton weaving, the difference be ing due in a great measure to the superior inventive skill of our- countrymen and the promptness with which they take bold of and apply! new improvements in machi nery. In the twenty-five years from 1853 to 1878 the average ; weekly product of English weavers rose from 825 yards in 60 hours to 975 yards in 57 hours an in crease in productive capacity per hand of 3.7 yards per hour, br 23. per cent, in the average rate of i production. In the decade , between 1865 and 1875 the cotton operatives of the United States increased in number 150 per cent! and in aggregate rate of production 500 per cent. The progress due to improve ment in processes was more than ten times as rapid in this country as in England. The ability to double in the course of only ten years the number of yards a cotton weaver can produce in a given time makes the competition of the United States a very formidable thing for Great Britain. The Times writer , further; says that for some time American manufacturers have brought to bear upon their processes "an eager spirit of improvement and economy, com bined with a remarkable afiiaence of me chanical invention, and that in conse quence of this they are able to produce ! many grades of goods at a les3 cost than their English rivals can. Ih the face of the great Democratic t .volution, the distinguished financiers go on taking the Government loans as though the country intended to last forever. HW YOkK COBIKESPOMDEIUE Correspondence ot Thx Obsxkvxb. . t New Yobx. April 19, 1879. Editor Obssbvkr :Maj. ;G. W. ' F. Harper, of Lenoir. Mr. Hiram Webb, of Asheville. and Mr. Jfi. W. Jferguson, oi Littleton, are in the city. 1 ! i I H I had occasion the other day to step into the great dry goods store of A. T. Ste wart & Co., and your lady readers will doubtless be surprised to learn that it is the tnird time 1 was ever in it aunog me iweive vears of mv solourn in this city, and on neither occasion did 1 remain ten minutes. But it was marvelous to behold the crowds that spread ever its two acres of one floor, the only one that I saw. It was like a bee hive, and almost ail the Dees wno were en gaged in making honey for, Stewart were ladv; bees. Man v of them might more aptly be termed buttei flies, put Duttermes do not make hooey. It looked as if all the shoppers in town might be present, but thev were not. for on going four blocks higher up, i to ouneenin street, thronsra of them were -to be seen m f the streets and in the stores. It was a lovely afternoon, and they were probably making up for the lost time of the two preceding days, when it rained, or laying in a stock to tide over the three fol lowing days, when it rainea again, n nai a busy, bustling, gadding world it is, and how full of interest and amusement, if one xjnlv had time to look at it. Onlv ten of the torty-one walkers in Gilmore'8 Garden held out till midnight last night, the end of the fifth day. They had accomplished 406 miles, 397, 338, 374, 358J 351. 306. 267; 242, and 221. It is said to be distressing to iook upon mem. In General Taylors remarkable book. " Destruction - and Reconstruction," he says. "Ho wonder that all who enjoy the friendship of Jefferson Davis love him as Jonathan did David-" This may be so. Not being among those who enjoy his friendship I never saw him but once, and had then no reason to fall in Irve at first sieht I cannot say bow correct General Tavlor's remark may be. But it seems to me tnat it is caicuiaiea to misieaa. jut Davis had qualities to command respect in the public mind, but nothing to inspire love in the public heart. His devotion to the cause in which . his country was en gaged, the extraordinary ability of his State papers, and the heroism and dignity with whicn ne bore ine msuits ana cruel ties of his malignant captors after the con test was over, and he was powerless, all conspired to make Southern people regard his cause as their own, as maeeu it naa been throughout the four years of furious war. But I never heard that anybody outside of the circle of t his immediate friends loved him. He certainly stood by his friends, sometimes to his country's damage, and frowned upon tnose to whom he felt dislike, also to his country's loss. But I do not recollect ever to have heard any one say that be loved Jefferson Davis, Uen Taylors account or, ms rnena uen. EwelL is very amusing. He represents him as saying, "General Taylor I what do you suppose rresiaent uavis made me a Major General for r' i And Uen. -Taylor adds. "On two occasions in the Valley, duriner the temporary absence of Jackson from the front, E well summoned me to his side and immediately rushed I forward among the skirmishers, where some sharp work was going on. Having reiresnea himself, he returned, with the hope that old Jackson would not catch him at it.' He always spoke of Jackson, several years his junior, as 'old,' and told me in confi dence that he admired his genius, but was certain of his lunacy, and that he never saW one of Jackson's couriers approach him without expecting an order to assault the north pole. Later, after he had heard Jackson seriously declare that he never ate DeDDer because it produced a weakness in his left lee. he was confirmed in this opin ion. With all his oddities, perhaps in some measure because of them, Ewell was adored by officers and men. General Taylor s boot is already out of print, and I could not, to day get some copies that I wanted to fill orders, but a new edition will be ready in a day or two. About a thousand persons have applied for employment on the ' Woodruff Scien tific Expedition Around the World." Among them 82 wan- to be steward; 370 waiters Irish, . JSngiiBn, American and African ; 200 barbers ; 90 professors, one of whom proposes to teach boxing, dancing and arithmetic ; engineers, seamen, sea captains, photographers, eta, eta This is the ship on which the Bev. Mr. Deems, son of Dr. D., has been appointed chaplain. A friend who beard him preach on Sunday last tells me that he is " a chip of the old block," and, if anything, more so. 1 1 never owned a dog, and never at tended a dog show, but think 1 would go some distance to see such dogs as those owned by Sir Walter Scott ; that is, sup posing the following account of them to be truthful: ! Sir Walter Scott was a great lover of dogs, and always had many fine ones around him. One day, in conversing with a friend, he said: "Those dogs," pointing to two fine hounds lying on the hearth. U understand every word that I say." The friend expressed his doubts of this state ment. Sir Walter, to prove it, took a book, and began thus to read aloud: "I have two lazy, good-for-nothing dogs, who lie by the fire and sleep, and let the cattle ruin my garden." Both dogs instantly sprang up. ran out of the room, and find ing no cattle in the garden, returned and lay down by the fire. The Baronet again read from the book the same story. Again the dogs ran out. and again returned dis appointed, and lay down. The third time their master read the story, when,. instead of going out, the dogs came up to him, looked in his face, whined and wagged their tails, as much as to say, " You have made game of us twice, you cannot doit the third time." H. Prof. Slmondi at jnebanerllle. Correspondence of TnOssxavKB,! : fL-... llMMkSsruXM, April 20, 1879, Editor Observer : We have just had a very pleasant, and, to us, a very profitable visit from Prof. Simonds, of Chapel JtluJ. He came upon invitation Of the faculty of m iinguaui ocuoui vu icv;iuic lur me ca dets, which he did most suocessfully. : His subject the blood and the blood vessels was auij uaoweu. . m auu , umuucf are attractive, his knowledge extensive and thorough. He makes very skillful nse of the blackboard. By the use of red, blue and green chalk, the working of the heart was made plain to the eye and so to the mind, and the audience was delighted with the lecture. His skill, too, in drawing all kinds of things is wonderful and was very entertaining to the cadets, as were also the various things he showed with his micro scope after the lecture was over, I The young professor made a fine impres sion for himself and for the University. In re-establishing the University, the trustees have shown nowhere more wisdom and eiven nowhere better omens of suc cess .than in the infusion of - vigorous. young blood into the : faculty, thus com bining the old and the new and getting the benefit of both. From what we have seen of and heard from Prof. Simonds. a happier selection for his specialty could hardly have been " made, for with a thor ough knowledge of his work he unites en thusiasm. which alone can make abstract knowledge available. . - T. JJL 8tlckin to It." "My dear " said; a vain eld man to his wife, 'these friends here won't believe that I'm only forty-five years old. You know I speak the truth, aon t you r "Well," answered th simple wife, "I suppose 1 must Deneve u, woun, aq you've stuck to it for fifteen years." - i W1SUI.GT01. iSpecial Correspondence ot THx'OBSxaySBj WAjHWQTosr; April 19, 1879 EDITOR ObskSVU The' nnlitiriil hati tie was fierce and desperate in the ' House to-day. ,5 S , -1 f Ibe mornine hour was ennsnmed in the discussion of the bill offered by Mr.' Steph-; ens, from the committee on coinage, mak ing silver com or less denomination than one dollar a legal tender in the sum of ten dollars, and requiring the Treasury to ex- cnange lawiui money of the United States for silver coin of less denomination than one dollar, when presented in the sums of ten dollars or any multiple thereof. , jot. mius, 01 Texas, offered a substitute for the bill, which provides as a prelimi nary step to maae all saver a, legal tender, and exchangeable at the Treasury for law iui money ; and compelling the same to be paw out to Donahoiders and all creditors of the Government alike. H :l 1 y To understand the force of this substi-i tute, it is well to explain. In the first place, many people suppose that all sliver is now a legal tender, but this is a great mistake. - Only the silver dollar as recent ly coined,' called the new silver dollar, is a legal tender. j? or instance, the Govern ment has coined for circulation, sav about $180,000,000 in silver, while ot this sum only about $3,000,000 are in the denomi nation of one dollar, the balance being naives, quarters, ten .' cent: pieces. &c Wow the $ 8.000,000 is a legal tender. be ing in, dollars, f while , the balance is not. except perhaps to the extent of five dol lars. Ho that if A owes B S100 he can compel B to take the same in silver of the, denomination of one dollar, but if the 9100 is composed of halves, and quarters, B is not ' compelled to receive' the same. Now. it is the true policy for all the money issued by the authority of law and having the stamp of the Government on the same, to oe on an equality, men "utneuo s oc cupation is gone" from the greedy money J oro&er. xoia wouiu, nowcyer, nuuu 11 necessary to recoin the halves and quarters, for while the legal tender silver dollar con tains 412$ grains, . troy, . the aggregate in two half doliars . is only about 330 grains under the present coinage, law. ? The two half dollars, or four quarters, should be equal to one dollar in intrinsic value. ; BLACKBURN VS. VRTE, Ot MA.1HE. At the close of the morning hour the House went into Committee of the Whole on the legislative appropriation bill,. Mr. Blackburn in the chair. Mr. Frye, of Maine, got the floor and proceeded to read from a paper published in Okolona, Mississippi, in which Black burn's speech recently made in the House was construed to mean that all laws passed since the war should be repealed, and con struing the argument to- be that even the various constitutional amendments should and would be ignored by the Democratic party.;? ; - v .jr . f f fcU Mr. Frye read from this crazy news paper edited oy an Umo! carpet-bagger with great gusto. . , Mr. Blackburn called lieiBterUiymer to the chair and took the floor, and denounced the newspaper report as a .total, misrepre-. sentation, and 'that' the .conduct-, of the member from Maine was no less reprehen sible.. : . iJn-in.,-; u --v . In the . meantime, . Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, who read a garbled extract from Mr. Blackburn's speech, came to the rescue of Mr. Frye, but Mr. Blackburn charged Mr. MciUDley With willful and deliberate garbling and that for a purpose. " ' And in the most severe and withering language exposed the vile attempt of the Republi can leaders to willfully misrepresent the Southern people, rerhaps, said he, the gentleman from Maine could tell how much was assessed on government em ployees to pay this Ohio emissary to go down to Mississippi and misrepresent the people of the south. The excitement for a time was very b:gh in the House. Demecratic members from all parts of the House crowded to the f rent and formed a compact mass in front of the Chairman. Mr. Frye and Mr. McKinley and a few friends around them looked chopfallen and sat down, evidently morti fied and whipped, while applause' from the floor and galleries clearly iodicated,tBat the victory was on ine eiae ot sax. umc&Durn. But the greatest sensation of the day was the splendid speech of Walter L. Steele, of North Carolina. Colonel Steele "went up head" to-day in the best speech of the session. He took a new line of argument, "carrying the war into Africa," by arraigning the Republican party for its glaring deeds of misrule and plunder under the infamous carpet-bag governments of the South. At : the early beginning of Colonel Steele's speech. Mr. Frye, of Maine, not being satisfied with the castiga-' tion from Mr. Blackburn- few hoars be fore, rose and said t "I wish to say to the fentleman from North Carolina that when made my speech, a few days go I-was not informed of the condition of affairs in North Carolina, but now, If he could have a few minutes' time,-he, was prepared, to show thatNortb Carolina was noUtn excep tion, and that mnrder.intimidat ion, violence and ostracism .to an alarming extent pre vailed in that State that the -elections were there; too, carried by Intimidation and fraud.". Col. Steele listened quietly to this torrent of bloody .charges from the bloody-shirt s pouter from Maine, and ex claimed "Good Lord deliver us, and may the Lord have mercy on his soul;" at this the crowd on the floor and galleries indulg ed in loud and enthusiastic cheering. Col. Steele had his speech carefully a$d neatly prepared, and delivered the same with great self possession, and the effect was quite visible on the Republican side, and in the progress of the speech they reminded one of a gang of frogs slipping from log they would crawl out to the cloak room, one by one,, in order to avoid the: terrible missiles from CoLr Steele's battery. He explained the rise, progress. and final downfall of carpet-bag govern ment in North Carolina, and in that way accounted, tor the origin or Jul Jviuxism that since the Government had passed into the bands 01 honest men. peace prevailed, confidence was . restored, "and the State now on the road to prosperity, ICoL 8teele I was several tithes Interranted bv nneation 1 irom the other side, but he quickly turned all their eftorta into ridicule? and ihen nro- 'I ceeded with his speech,-which waa replete" i who argument, and. clothed in the most apt and appropriate language.-; A1 the con elusion ox - the r speech -1 ot. - Steele was warmly applauded, and the !congratula lions continued for some time after ad journment. 80, the 401d North 8tate. as in the days of the past, is. now, through her noble delegation in Congress; at' the front. Her people need no sentinels p; greater watchfulness and vigilance. - s t , W. H. At. A Is obthwistkb Democrat named Pkiok sp jke in the House on Saturday.. A correspondent says that near the close of his speech he let the American eagle on t of its cage. and. as he followed the bird la its unres rainediflight from the rack ribbed coast of . the Atlantic to the eoJdea lands - ox ine racinc ana the oraage groves of the eouth, even the enthused Democrats jgate a m roocas or gooa-aitmea applause. ' Noethxeh Weathke.---A heavy snow itarm set in in northern New York and neighborhood at noon on the 15'i instant. ine spring season IS a month later than i was last year. In the Adirondacks two xeet or snow remain. Lake George is cov ! e ed With ice thirty inches : thick. Men and teams still cross Lake Cbampli n in t e ice. In S3 ne Darts of Saratoga county th highwavs are impassable from bdow- d-ifts. . -i Col.movny and Ills "Swal low-Tail." Fr mtbe Washington Bepabllcan, Slat. " Recently published reports of certain al leged cantankerous social proceedings by Colonel Moe by. United States Consul at Hong Kong, prove to be grossly eiaeeer- ated and to have very little foundation in fact. They are to the effect that he bad created some scandal among the American and other foreign residents at Hong Kong Dy rudely reiuaing to comply with the rules of social : etiquette, which require that the guests of the Governor-General and all of the English " officials statidned there shall appear .in full dress at formal receptions; and further that Mosby bad de dared his intention to wear North Ameri can clothes or none at alL - The truth of the matter is that immediately on his arri val at Hong Kong he was invited to dine with several xif the leading English officials and was compelled, , as he writes . to a friend in Alexandria, ( to; decline the invitation,? for (. the . reason .that he .VrVhad . no swallow-tail? k with :" hint' As the letter containing ihs explanation was written directly after he had declined the invitation, and before, the -reports7 re ferred to were made public, it, is . evident that; instead of refusing tq comply ' with . me auguai socuu requirements ot ine occa sion he was simpTy a victim of unfortunate circumstances. Subsequent letters from him, also written before these reports were printed, contain the further information that .the Colonel had succeededjn getting a swallow-tail on shott . notice, and tiiat he bad worn it at a dinner given by the admi-- ral of. the "English .flset in the harbor, and uo one ur iwu uiuer v-. ! - . I 1 uevea py so.meoJilQneULP3bv'8 friends circulated by et Vice-Consul "Loring, who .was removed by him, and who, it is known. dees not entertain the most kindly feelings- to mm on tnat account.:; And this is.; the true story . of ,;4&osbj And his . swallow tail." ; - v' ' - .--"i ' OneTheutattd milion Dollar. ' Special to the ' Baltimore Gazette; 81st ' -1 WASFiNCrroir. ADril 20: ReDresentatlve De La Maty r to day .filed a petition em bodying a bill to establish a "greenback cumncy" and to relieve the financial dis tress of the country' by granting aid to cer tain j Companies incorporated by' State authority for works of Internal improve ment, it provides that the Secretary of the Treasury be required to have prepared at the earnest practicable period cotes and obligations' of the United States to the aggregate amount of 9 1,000,000,000, to be known as "crcenoack currency, for een eral circulation in such amounts and in such,' form as the bill provides, which notes or obli eat ions when. Issued shall con stitute a legal . tender for ; all . debts and shall be- . ; receivable for all United States 4 t-overnment dues, the Secretary of the Treasury is author ized by the bill to loan from such "green back ' currency to' the corporatiens here inafter named: UDoh ' aDDlication of their properly authorized officers, providing said corporauons snan nie meir bondvror the same, DeariBg TheTr corporate i seal, on the foyowing terms ' Said 'bonds "shall be payable 50 years from the date .thereof. Ann Rhnll rwnr nrt IrtlVfBr fnr" ntra rorii from said 'date; but at. the explratioti of five years shall bear interest'at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum, legal money,' the interest to be paid semi annually. Among the corporations mentioned who brail have the advantage bf the loan above de scribed are the James River and Kanawha caDal,$60, 000,000 : the Atlantic and Great Western canal ; $50,000,000 ; the Florida Uoast canaK S 12.000.000: the' Fort St. Philip canal, 10,000,000. &C. The Ilpoiiloii of lite Itondv. i (Special to the Riohmoaa Dispatch, Slet 1 WABHiNOTOit, April 2 1. --Mr.: Sherman to day said .that the syndicate got $110, rjQO.OOO of the 4 per. cent, bonds, and that the remainder of the $150,000,000, to use round- numbers, went to parties whose bids were received in advance of the bid of the syndicate. When asked whether he will give the' banks any Chance to take the $44,000,000 reserved under the circular of April 16th for the ten dollar certificates, he replied that at present be was inclined to ktep that for the purpose for which it was originally designed The baDks, however, want it, and will ultimately get what is not taken promptly by the people. Tbs Nkw Yotx Dby Goons Tbat.e. The main features of the dry goods market are unchanged. The continued advance: in cotton has arrested ibe attention of package ouyers. ana given an impetus to the de mand for Bearly alt cotton fabrics, in which there was a large' movement during the past week. Prints also were distributed in liberal ouaatUies. and, stocks, have been re duced to a remarkably low point in first bands. H iron areas goods and other season able fabrics there was only a moderate de mand by , package! buyers; and 'woolen goods: were devoid, of , animations The tone of the cotton goods, market 1 waa - ex ceedwgly strongAndmanyjnakeaof plain cottons, . prtntea (MX)es,,&a, were sub jected to a further. advance, which was in most cases "acquiesced in by buyers, who continued their operations without hesi Dcy. . xoe jooDrng iraae was uneven and, on the whole, sluggish, but;, large quantities of prints and cotton goods were disposed of in package Iota by a few of the leading- , nrma, . and .department goods met wun moderate sales. The export movement in domestics was unusually .large, 9,666 packages having been ship- pea - irora this-, port to loreien mar kets during the week erding April 15, There was rather more Inquiry for .over coatings and low grade heavy fancy cassi meres Dy the clothing trade, but transac tions were only moderate in the aggregate, as agents ate not yet ully prepared to show their new fall styles. J There was ;. a sluggish 'demand for, imported good at first bands, and selections ' were mainly restricted, to small parcels- oil the most staple fabrics and specialties infancy dress goods silks afidVlmilBnery goods; There was -a continued 'pressure" oti the part of importers , to dispose, of, silks, and . some large offerings were made at auction with poor success.irl Ti Financial Chronicle. Naw, Xokk. Bbbadstcws Mabkkt. Ihe flour market has been quite depressed in the past week; and a material and gen-i erai reduction is made in quotations. ; The action of railway companies, requiring the prompt removal or nonr received as freight, has contributed to depression caused by, dull foreign advices and the tie - dine in wheat, i Yesterday, there was more steadiness, and todav a fairiv active; mar. ket at firm prices. Corn meal has declined. leading to, more business .at i $2.50 for Brandy wine. The wheat market steadily aecu ncci. under ouil foreign , advices and the pressaTe to realize on stocks in store : and It waa not until yesterday that a check was . given to the pownward course or values.' Then, with better foreign advices, there was a partial recovery, and consider- able activity." ".To" day, the advance of yesterday was mostly lost, but at lc de-? cline the close; was steadier. Indian corn was -also considerably depressed early ' in the week- but -recovered yesterday, with more activity for both spots and , futures. To-day,, the market was dull and scarcely so Cut - Rye declined, with large sales of State and, Canada, v Barley remains un settled. New York Financial " Chronicle .. 1 - ..- - " . - .... . . A luckv dog in Georgia lately recovered a k?jr containing ' $12,000 in gold- from a mill pond, ictq , waich it was. rolled thus teen yea s ago, wb 'n Jefferson Davis was e ndaavoring to es MPe from tha Ft deral Uoopa. .j..t i sj DRY GOODS. TO- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ,.. And all Persons Interested In Isliicill in; - WE WILL OFFER FOR THE Spring and Slimmer 'Trade A LARGER AND MORE VARIED STOCK OF II ATS. 7 IIOK, , TUUVKS, OTIOS , : " c Ac ;! TfiAi? EVER BEFORE. tn consequence off the rise in cottoa Cottnn Fabrics have advanced from to si" per "f?r Spring powhases? decided fto r to advance our orices hut tn e the trade the beneot of the low P e a Ij the MaDDtactttrers' priced preclse to match for Five Cents T uu v'ouar LADIES! DRESS GOODS OF EVER V STYt ; SHADE AND PRi7iaKI TYLK, SHADE AND PRICE. threads to th.r !. k.-T V.uu' more a oii. nnisa vamDric that in a lOiTperyart; ) jcLot-aouara i-neetingat80o. by the nteop variety of ,mMim. iwno, A. U1CB ime or i:l RSlir-XlQQ SnitS fDr Hm We buy direct from the Mannfa.tn. ffiwEtrpcU."6 prepared 40 .-i t H" TEARGAN. april-tf. . PETTY A Jo.Ns. . SPRING TRADE, 1B79. AN ENTIRE NEW STOCK OF SPRING GOODS. AND AT LOWEST PRICES. Everything sold at a bareain. and nn mic... reaentation. I respectfully invite a. look Win all who buy - , FIRST-CLASS COOPS. SHOES A SPECIALTY ! LADIES', MISSES' -AND CHILDREN'S ALL DESCRIPTIONS. OF WHITE GOODS. BLEACHED, AND UNBLEACIIED DOMEu ' TlC'S-r-A VERY FULL LOT. Corsets, Hosiery & Gloves. I offer many new attractions In this Hue this season. . PAEaSOLS M UMBRELLAS, IN NEWEST DESIGNS AND BEST MAKES. Gents' tShirts;, LAUNDRlED and TJNLAUNDRISD, BOUUUT TO BE SOLD VERY LOW. I am just in receiptor new and select styles ot Bojelen'a Hand-Hade Shoes, The best in the country, which I am soiling very low. tvP101r.pt attention eiven 10 orders. Thaak'wr the liberal nnblic for their fa vors, 1 solicit a continuance ot their patronage. Respectfully, J. 1 i OULLEY. marift-tf. Sew Us! HewStflis! FOR SPRING, 1871). IX EXTEX, MX tjUALITY, IS BEAUTY. OUR STOCK EXCELS. - GOODS In aU th..leadilnir,.de8iaTis. and Faohionab Fabrics : Paris Novelties, Black and Col ml ,BiiKs, inpe and Cheesed silks, silk tsrtr vbucb, ai oireaiiKS, reKin ratios, nam u oatioB,' 'iTimming milts, satin . -. Slrljo fpnges. Mammy : , Cloths. ; " Spclaltlea in 8Ufe and Wool Fabrics. Binges, i'lain ana Maxed, for walking and tfavt-liing cosiumes, Monairs, i5nntingA in an snactes and ounlltles, Colored Grena- mnes, slack Uuadines. Plain .' , .and Fancy, and Ladies' Linen Suits. t - BarjrsfnW in Bleached and Unbleached Dorces- tica, Hheetlngs, Ac wjnon . iriinmlDfrs, Hamburg Edgings anu Insertions, specialties of 86,000 yas. Novelties in PARASOL, 8UN UMBRRLLA9, latest Bhapea, styles and materials. . uur 01a mouo : t "BESU&OOBS AT10WEST FIGURES." W.H.&R.S. TUCKER. feb9-tf. ; M 18 CELL AK E O U S . TO ;.THE LADIES! : MADAME BCeSG.'l Informs'the laflleg of Vaieie-h that she lw juf retnrned from-New York, where 911 yel-de! with great care, a new an-1 fiae sio- k f .-tADIES'.I'TO? J.SHIN G GCODS "Oriilat&il&Il-Made Clothing 1 OF. TAB V1RY LA 1 EST 8TTLKS. This stock slifchas eDei! at her store fonrerfy Mrs. Karrer' taad. -ruer, of Salisbury an Martin atreeta, Unmediafc l in rear of the I'oi offlce. I adies are resp. cifu:iv Invited t,;x" mine her assortment aprl-nno-toiu NOTICE. TBK TJND ERWGFED WILL 8BLL AT COD. D. M. O ARTKK'a late residence in Bi leigh, on Tuesday next, a pair o' ctnme horses, two buj. le, phaeton an! harness sua otner property. Terms cash Aprfi 19. 1879 , K. W. WnAUTON, '.' apratu atui ? - m - aajut. Notice to Bondholders. INTBVET 2 UPO ftaZ PAST VVS FIR&T Mrtirago Bo-'ds of the Nonh Carolina road Compauy will be paid at the National Bub or Greeuoooro oa or aftr the 1st day ci proximo. L ; ' :- .- -Holders-oi-ths boodn wl!l please Vvl tam and rtcelre tie interes-t due upon twin. :-i ' N.- U. 1. W1UON, Truitee. GbKKN8BOk6.v"V. C, AprUlS, I'jTS. api-m-i4 "i" nVli ATiNTICANb KORrRCARO rt.UUU Una First Mortffa M m Ccpt Bontis. - . A pply at Citizen' National Bank to r,wlV hbui 11 GOODS
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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