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I The day was as gay in the happy sun shine, (For so much mankind on goodnature i relies) I As the Kun-kisoed land of the smootli- I flowing Rhine, I When a princess' fair hand was the lourney s great prize. The lists were prepared, t he music rang loud : The signal was given, the swift steed " sped fast; A thrill of excitement swept over the crowd . As with steady lance each bold rider past. An hundred of youus hearts throbbed wild with delight. And pleasure and hope beamed from many bright eyes. That fortune would follow their favorite ' ' Knight And grant him success in the day's exerciso. The trials are over; attention is turned; Each eager for sight of the victor Knight now, And O ! those fair cheeks, and oh 1 how they burned With, blushes, to think the crown circling their brow. For fair cheeks were blushing, and , . sweet Uds. too. smiled. With beautiful figures in silken robes C" clad, " " Soft voices that had a poor fellow be guiled. And eyes that would drive a poor fel low half mad. In all the great contests that men under ., take,. Dame Fortune says: all must by one . be surpassed. . The danger is equal, eacli mar win the , . stake i But one shall be first and one must be i blasts-" But see that proud gallant raise high on -J- his lance, His dark plumed cap: He is victor to day, , And watch as he turneth his bright eyes keen glance ' , To her, at whose- feet, now his trophy , hell lay 1 Andjwh aKall be queen in this bright realm of youth 1 Where Beauty and Love hold contin ual sway? . Some fair. lady, seated in carriage, for- C sooth; 3r1 ; . :i With gallants surrounding their hom age topay. He rides through the vast crowd, now . this way, now that; He bears not the voice of a half sup- pressed cry - Of astonishment great, when that dark plumed bat - Bends low to a maid seated silently - by. The blush of surprise that suffused that -fair face . Apd "maidenly modesty hushed the She silently bowed, with a sweet, ten der grace.: -t . The honor she felt was conferred by his choice. And who is this lady so fair to behold, w hose right is to reign o er the beau- tiful scene? Those gray eyes,, with deep light, the . - truth will unfold And that gentle face tell that 'tis na ture's fair queen. The orphan may see, in this world filled '. witn sm, The gay wheels of Fortune, as fast by they bum, She' may near the great chariot roll on thro' the din. That to Poverty's child doth so seldom -e'er come. And yet in the 'noontide of Life's gor geous train, When Fashion, and Wealth alone open the door, The generous soul gladdens in this ' world of gain. To find the true heart open wide to the poor. Sir Kiughtt that, proud deed was of chivalry true The true heart e true chivalry, deny it who cant Born with us in Paradise, but ever new, It makes us like God, for it makes us a man. And those beloved ones, in the far Land asleep, That looked on their own, and on Charity's child. Have wept tears of joy, if the spirits e'er weep, " And Heaven's bright angels looked on it and smiled. True Bravery. He ia brave , who, knowing that his act to aid another may bring peril of limb, or even of life, delib erately takes the chances and does the deed. A writer in tbe Christian Union brings out, by several anec dotes, this trait, which distinguish courage from recklessness: A little boy and a girl were playing by a bonfire. The girl was sitting before the fire, when some how her apron of cotton caught fire and began to blaze up about ber. She screamed with terror. Her little brother did not scream nor run for help; he caught holt of the blazing aprou and tore it off her, and threw it upon tbe ground and trsippled the flames out. He car ried the scar of the burns on his hands for many days. It took a brave boy to do that, a boy who was willing to suffer to save his sister. Henry Maag was a factory boy in Cincinnati. Tbe factory caught fire. Instead of running out to to save himself, he ran up stairs to tell the girls on the fourth floor. The stairway were filled with smoke, and in going down, after giving the alarm to the girls, he lost his way. Instead of leaving by the main floor he went down into the cellar. Thence there was no escape. There his dead body was found the follow ing day. It was in a kneeling posture, and his bands were clasped, as if in prayer. He was a brave boy. At tbe time of the gold fever in land to tbe diggings, and after a while sent monev for bis wife and child to follow bim. While on the voyage a fire broke out in the ship. With their utmos efforts tbe sailors could not extinguish it The boats were got out: the strongest pushed into them, and the weak were left to their fate. As the last boat was moving off this mother pled lor her boy. The sail ors said there was not room for both; tbe.v would take one. The mother kissed her son, band ed him over tbe side of the vessel, and gave him this message to bis father: "Tell him," she said, "if you live to see bim, that I died to sive yon." He escaped; she died. She was wiling to die to save another. FORT AND FLEET. The right at Grand ttnlf-One of Pluckiest of the War Victory the for I Both -Defeat for Neither. j (Detroit Free Press.) I A year or two ago the great I Gather of Waters began eating its way into the blatis at uranct uuii, and there were those who predicted that the scene of one of the great naval fights of the war would soon be transformed that no one could recognize it. But, as if the sight of the sinking and dilapidated earthworks ou the bluffs had been an appeal, the current of the mighty river swerved away and lelt the relics to stand for a while longer. Every fort and wall and parapet and ditch can be traced to-day al most lis easily as tbe day after the memorable fight and there are hun dreds of men yet living who took an active part that day on the gun boats or in tbe fort. THE SITUATIONS, Farragut had passed down, but when Grant was ready to follow with transports and troops Farra gut could not return to assist him, or at least did not, It being known that the place bad been greatly strengthened and was considered almost impregnable. To give Grant a dear passage down this position most be silenced, and after it bad been decided that a land at tack was out of tbe question Admi ral Porter collected his seven gun boats and prepared for a light. . Why a laud attack was not made is something of a mystery. Con federate officers stationed there agree that there were no serious obstacles iu tbe way, and they were looking forward dreading such a movement. Grant had halted his transports three miles above tbe batteries, and there was nothing to prevent a brig ade from making its way down through the woods and making such a demonstration as would have given the fleet much less to do. The woods were thick, fulll of water here and there and tbe mov ment would bare called for extra exertion, bat 4,000 Federals could have walked into the back door of the Confederate position that day without more loss than was incurred by the fleet in partially silencing the gans. The series of works on the bluffs mounted an aggregate of eighteen gans some of them very heavy, andat least four pieces having a raking fire op and down the river. There could be no landtag along the front for a mile, and fu case tbe fleet silenced every gun it could not hope to drive the Confederates oat. GETTING. BEADY IN THE FORTS. Confederate scoots had brought news of the situation above the. forts, and Jtbe assembling of tbe gun-boats could mean nothing bat an attack. The orders at every battery, were to use shell alone, and tbe men were instructed to fire coolly and slowly and only after taking careful aim Ammunition was placed handy, the work of mounting a gun received a few days before hurriedly finished, and at dayligat on the 20th of April 1863, every Confederate was at his foot and ready for what was to come. One of the scouts had mounted a tall jtree on the bluffs to act as lookout," and about 6:30 o'clock he signalled that Porter's gun boats were moving down. ON THE FLEET. The position of the works on the bluffs was known to the comman der of every gun-boat; and a close estimate had been made of the num ber of guns and strength of troops within the forts. The boats must look out for swirls and eddies and a current running seven miles an honr. The advantage of position was with the Confederates tbe ad vantage ol gans with tbe fleet. While it was almost gun for gun in the count, one eleven-inch Dahl gren on board an iron-clad was more than an offset for two thirty two pounders iu the fort. MOVING INTO POSITION. When the first attack was made on Fort Sumter by the irou-clads not a gun was fired by tbe Confed erates until every craft had reached its assigned position. So it was at Grand Gulf. Tbe works strung out for a mile or more, and there were weie seven vessels moving to the attack. There was front suffi cient to maneuver,and orders were passed that not a shot should be fired until the last was in position. This order was strictly observed. Four of the fleet ran past the chain of forts and rounded to in front of the fort before a shot was fired, al though all were fair targets as they passed down. Men who were in the forts that morning saw a strange panorama. The stillness was most profound on shore and on the river. The boats moved slowly and grandly down, not a man iu sight and with no sign of life, and a flock of ducks moved out of the path of the ad vance without being alarmed. The trees up the river were black with Federal spectators; and the chirp of birds was all about tbe men who stood waiting beside the buge can non. THE FIGHT OPENS. Porter went at his work with a vim which made the forest tremble and the river bubble. That fight stands on record ahead of all lor rapidity of firing by irou-clads, and this Confederates do not deny that tor a tew miuutes they were ap palled by its fierceness. When tbe torts had got down to work in earnest there was a roar so tremen dous as to be painful to the Feder al infantry three miles away. And there was a fierceness beneath this roar which at times made the blood chill. There were hate and spite iu the whip-like crack of the nine iuch guns aud the scream of the monster shells from tbe forts seemed the voice of a lion Jsure of striking down its prey. WHERE PORTER WAS MISTAKEN. Auuiirai 1'orter s plan was to en gage every Confederate gun at the same moment. He had counted on silencing the lower guns first and gradually moving jbis vessels up stream. His plan worked as anticipated, but not from bis line of reasoning. When the Confederates found t hat there was to be no at tack by land, and that in case they were lucky euongu to disable a gun boar, she would either float out of their reach or to be towed above they ceased to expose themselves so recklessly, and as a consequence their nre slackened. Porter laid this to the execution of his own guns, which was far from being the case. One may stand to-day and look from the sinking parapets straight down upon the spots where the Louisville, Carondelet, Pittsburg, and Mound City took positions and opened one of tbe hottest fires earth-works had ever been subjec ted to. Tons of screaming shells rusbed at the isolated forts as if walls of earth were dust to be scat tered, and tons of shell went streaming across tbe muddy waters to rend oak aud break iron and splinter planks and beams in a manner gun-boats had tveverstood before. It was by direct orders that tbe Confederate fire slackened at the close of the first hour, and that during the second the guns were fired only at long intervals. Be lieving that tbe Confederates bad been demoralized and driven to cover, tbe gun-boats moved on up the rivers to assist m the re duction of tbe other forts. THE FEDERAL, FIRE, For two hours and more four Fed eral gunboats pounded away with rifled Parrots and eleven and nine inch Dahlgrens at close range, and yet Confederate official reports and tbe assertions of men who were in side the works show that but little was accomplished. The parapets were from sixteen to twenty-two feet thick, the dirt well packed down, and though tbe explosions ot tbe great shells moved tons of earth at 3, the men were not even driven to the bomb-proofs. Shell after shell tore away at the walls, but it would have taken three days to beat them down. Not a gun was dismounted, and only two or three men wounded. ANY WAY FOR A FIGHT. Owing to the swift "current and the numerous swirls and eddies, none of the boats had any such positions as were taken before Forts Sumter or Fisher or Wagner. There they dropped an anchor or rode placidly upon the smooth sea. Here, it was bow down stream or up stream one moment broadside on the next whirled around or carried away in a half-circle. Under such circumstances the fire could not ap proach accuracy, but as an offset the moving targets offered the Con federates a poor show for home shots. Many of the shells from tbe gun-boats passed over the fort and created havoc in the timber half a mile away, and plenty of the mis siles from forts, plunged into the water alongside of tbe target aimed at. The four gun-boats engaging the lower works were repeatedly struck before moving up, the Pittsburgh losing three men by a single shell, but none of them had received any damage to machinery or guns, and had plenty of pluck for what was to come. THE UPPER FORTS. It has been claimed that the Ben ton. Tuscubia and Lafayette the three gun-boats detailed to engage the upper batteries, fired more rounds per hour than was ever ac complished before or equaled after. Tbey were closer to the works and in a better current, and they went iu to win. If the Grand Gulf forts could have been battered down by Iron nothing but their clean swept sites would have been left when that fight closed. There were three and four minutes at a time when the smoke hid tbe boats aud the river completely from view, and the Con federate artillerists took the red flash of guns as their targets. It was a square stand up-and-take-it and hurt-bim-all-you can affair be tween the three boats and tbe boats and tbe forts, but the white beat was to come when the whole fleet got to work. THE GUNS IN THE FORTS. In all that five hours' figthing not a shot entered an embrasure or struck a gnu, although scores of them just missed it. An artillerist who was atone of the big guns said of the fight: "There was not one single minute in all that five hours in which I did not expect death. We all worked away as if in a nightmare, but we all felt that any moment might be our last. TheBeuton fired repeat edly at my gun, and as many as twenty of her shells struck the opening, tearing holes in the para pet teu feet back. Twenty times we were almost buried out of sight under the clouds of dirt, and the loose earth was knee-deep around our gun when the fight closed. Not one of us was hit hard enough to draw blood, and yet we all felt ten years older for that five hours' work. I sighted the gun, and I saw fourteen of my shot hit tbe Benton, and six plump into another.'' When the gun-boats changed from shell to grape and canister, which they did now and then in hopes to drive the Confederates from tbeir guns, the screeching and screaming ol'these missiles, as they cut their way over the forts was enough to send a brave man to grass until he could rally bis nerves. THE BENTON. Porter's own ship might have been expected to take the lead with Gen. Grunt at hand as a spectator, and the way the ship was handled and her guns worked were subjects long talked about in army any navy circles. She fired upwards of 5u() rounds, and not more than teu of them went wild. Iu return she counted sixty shot-holes iu her hull after that tight, aud at least thiry other shots created more or less damage above her deck. Her loss iu killed was under ten, and her wounded not over twenty, but every man aboard narrowly escaped death a dozen times over. It was a wonder to those who inspected the Beutou after the fight that she brought a single mau of her crew out alive. The Confederates fully expected to see her go to the bot tom, and that there were good grounds for these expectations le comes plain when it ia stated that! the Benton was leaking in thirty different places when she dropped1 the fight. i THE MOUND CITY. While all the fighting was done at rifle range, tins did not satisfy the Mound City. Having been repeatedly struck by a particular gun, she ran in so close to tbe shore that her bow actually stirred up tbe mud, and lying in this position she opened with grape and canister nn til the Confederates at three dif iereut guns were driven to cover. The gun-boat fired so fast that after the first few rounds she could not be seen by friend or foe, but she bad the range and kept hammering away until there was no longer a reply. A perfect shower of bullets was rained dowu upon her by the infantry Without avail. She had a man or two wounded, but suffered no great damage. THE PITTSBURGH. Atone time in tbe fight as many as ten of the guns in the forts were trained upon the Pittsburgh alone, and she was hit twenty-eight times in thirteen minutes but her fire never slackened nor would she be driven from ber position. She lost three more men killed at tbe upper forts, and bad iu all about twenty men wounded. the Lafayette.' The reply to the first gun fired by the Lafayette was a shell which crashed through her side and ex ploded in a wardroom' knocking everything into kindlings, and when she left tbe fight she counted up over fifty scars. Three different times she was repoited to be sink ing, and each time the reply of ber commander was: "Very well, sir; keep right on firing until the guns are under water!" Two shells from the Lafayette which cleared the parapets struck the same tree half a mile away, but again she buried five or six shell on top of each other iu the wall and nearly breached it. THE TUSCUMBIA. The Tuscumbia was hit fifteen times below the rail and more than a score of times above, but got off witn only three or four wounded men. One shell passed clear through her before exploding, and the fragments of one exploding in her hold dashed a package from the nands ot its earner without wound ing mm. THE RESULTS. As a fight, it was a drawn affair. Both sides bad pounded awtay as hard as they could, and neither had been whipped. Porter had realized that if be succeeded in silencing the forts Grant would not send his in fantry to take possession, and the Confederates had discovered that if the transports could not pass down the river Grant would land his troops and march them across the neck to a point below the forts. As soon as the fight closed the forts began to make repairs, and in no instance had they been driven out of their works. Porter said of them: "The enemy fought with a des peration I have never yet witnessed, for, though we engaged him at a distance of fifty yards, we never fairly succeeded iu stopping his fire but for a short time. It was re markable that we did not disable his guns, but, though we knocked bis parapets pretty much to pieces, his guns were apparently uninjured." At dark the gun-boats formed in ine, the transports on the far side, and as the flotilla passed down there was more or less firing, but withont serious results. Porter had put his fleet where no other fleet bad ever been tested, and the fact that the Confederates fought as tbey did gave him an opportunity to compli ment each commander for Ins courage and staj'iug qualities under such a baptism of shot and shell. M. Quad. "A Little Nonsense." There is a town in Dakota named Billings. It is named after tbe great "Josh," but it hasu t bad a bad spell since it was founded. A question for lawyers: If a flea bites a dog, and, and so enranges the animal that the dog bites a man, can the flea be indicted as and ac cessory before the fact! Edith The reason that editors' wives don't load themselves down with diamonds is because they fear that strangers will think their husbands are pawnbrokers. 'The Pendleton Civil-Service bill has passed;" remarked Mr. Wig- gleswortb, from the interior of his paper. "Well, I m glad ol that," said his wife; "and now I hope our girl will have a little more man ners." A London scieutist calls attention n the Times ot that city to a second tail which was noticed in Gould's comet. Pretty soon a comet won't amount to much unless it has as many iong tails as a New York weekly story paper. 'Why don't you come to Sunday school?" said a superintendent to a boy. "'Cause pa owes my teacher for a pair of boots, an' the teacher got to sending notes home by me, an' pa said 1 needn't go any more till he paid for the boots, an' I don't reckon I'll go any more. An old colored man, with his legs twisted about like corkscrews from rheumatism, and also partly paralyzed, sirs on the steps of the Austin court house and solicits alms. "You must have a pretty hard time of it uucle," remarked a sympathetic stranger, handing him a nickel. "Yes, boss, dat's a fact. Dar's six obus iu de family, and I'se de only one able to get about and e:irn a libin'." "In our country," said the En glishman, as lie leaned back in his chair, "before we marry we arrange to settle a certain sum upon the wife." "Yes, I knew, replied the American, "but with us it is differ ent. It is after we are married that we settle everything on the wife aud arrange to beat our credi tors." "Haw! 1 see. And how do the creditors take it?" "They never find anything to take." LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS (I ncleii.sml nom New-Oberver.) FORTY-EIGHTH DAY. SENATE. CALENDAR. Bill to amend the law concern ing the charter of tbe town of Stonewall parsed third reading yeasty, nayso. Bill to incorporate tbe town of Staunton, in Beaufort countv, pas sed t hird reading yeas 33, nays 0. Bill to authprize tbe commission ers of Lenoir county to levy a spe ciai tax passed tnird reading yeas 21. nays i. Bill to relieve the sureties of John McArthur, late treasurer of Duplin county passed third reading. HOUSE. tnt BILLS. For the completion and finishing ot uie masters JNorth Carolina In saue Asylum atGoldsboro. To fix the term of standard-keeper. The uufinsihed business of last night's session was resumed, being the bill providining for working tbe roads by taxation. It passed sec ond reading. NIGHT SESSION. The special order, the Parker Peebles election case, was taken up and discussed by Messrs. McLoud, Simmons and Peebles. A vote was not had until nearly midnight. On the resolution of the minority of tbe committee, that Mr. Peebles was entitled to tbe seat, the vote was :" Teas 16J nays 88. On the resolution of the majority that Mr, Parker was entitled to the seat, the vote was: Yeas 88, nays 14. Mr. Parker came forward,' quali fied and took his seat. FORTY-NINTH day, SENATE. PETITIONS. Mr. King, of Pitt, from citizens asking for convict labor to drain swamp lands in Pitt county. Mr. Caho, from citizens of Lenoir county, asking! for a stock law. BILLS. Mr. Caho, making an alternative method or constructing ana keep ing in repair tbe public roads for Forsyth, applicable' to the State at arge. Mr. Caho, supplemental to the act to provent live stock from run- ,ning at large in the counties of Greene and Lenoir,' also bill to pro vide for the removal of causes in the inferior courts, and regulating the proceedings therein. THE INSANE ASYLUMS. Bill making appropriations to the insane asylums of the State came up as unfinished business of last night. " The bill passed its third reading. Yeas 28, nays none. NINE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. The President announced that the hour of 11 a. m. for the special order had arrived, it being the bill to divide tbe State into nine Con gressional districts. Passed its third reading. Bill to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county, passed second reading, yeas 32, nays none. CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS. Mr. Loftin's bill, entitling Con federate soldiers to the benefit of the act passed, giving those of them who bad lost eyes, hands or feet, Vo a mouth train the date tbe ct was ratified in 1879, passed third reading. Bill supplemental to act at pres ent session making February and August terms exclusively for trial of civil cases, allowing jail delive ries at these terms, passed third reading. THE STATE GUARD. Bill for the encouragement and support of the State Guard. Mr. Dortcb's bill. Authorizes tbe Gov ernor to pay S150 a year to each active company; not to exceed 25 companies iu the State ; tbe Adju tant General to be appointed by the Governor; and gives bim a salary of six hundred dollars. Mr. Dortch, at the request of the Senator from Burke, explained the objects of the bill. Tbe money paid to the companies was to pro vide them an armory. Mr. Dortch said unless these gentlemen received something they would be bound to disband. Vote stood yeas 19, nays 17; so the bill passed second reading and then passed third reading. Bill to throw the State lands into the Board of Education, so that tbey couid sell them, passed third reading. HOUSE. BILLS. Mr. Newby, to enable the quali fied voters of Pasquotank county to elect all county and township offi cers. Mr. Page, of Jones, to empower the proper authorities of Jones county to assign hands to work on Trout river in said county. To allow the comissioners of Lenoir county to levy a tax to build a bridge passed its third read ing. An act commendatory supplemental to an act to live stock from running at the counties of Greene aud passed third reading. of and prevent large in Lenoir, To change the corporate limits of the town of Jacksonville, in Onslow county. Passed its second read iug. Act to regulate and repair the public bridges in Onslow county. Passed its third reading. Act to establish a mortuary table, passed third reading. Heavy gales and floods prevail throughout England and Ireland. William D. Chaudler will be the Chairman of the Republican Na tional Committee. Commander Francis Morris, of the United States Navy, died at Newport, It. I., last week. Kew Berne Advertisements. H. W. WAHAB, (Hocoeaaor to K. II. Windier.) V DISTILLERS' AGENT FOB V r ... . ' Pure Rye and Corn Whisky AT WHOLESALE. . WINES ,AND. ClOARS , .v a UFA T VA ItJRTY; . (linger Ale, Pale "Ale, Beer .; - - a r j AND PORTER. '.' .v.- .''''' - J'.d BEEGNEB. BEER, PURE FRENCH CRA::DY; , II.; W.' WAHAB. South Front St. iKew Berne, 3T. C. ep29-iAWir. ; ... . f: ' J : : ' . .,! ..A , ..., a Iniorder to aiaka rom for oar SPRING; STOCK, For the next xt .,r sixty; dIys V wt offer oar of Ladle' Cloak WaJklos ; JaokaU ; jfcud Shawta, Black, kml Faaojr OuliiwrM, Man Fine Caaslraerec, Clothing, Bonta and Shgo, HattandCapa. A iU stock of 2 1 ) GeutV FuriitHliliig GoodnC Trunks, Satchel and Oarpt-AT COAT.' . ' Alo,a large assortment of Ladlo', Black and Undressed Kid Gloves, at MJoeM a'palr. Also, two thousand yard of Wanted at 10 ' -' ' . ' - cent per yard. . ' ' ' : ' C Come at once (or Bargains at " YU. SULTAN & CO., WF.tXHTiai' building! ' V' oetUdAw ... t "!'! i' i ALEX MILLER, WHOLESALE & RETAIL ' ! ' :''QfibcER.""4-;,,,'1,t:' Constantly receivmu a full lin .,, CJlioictj (i-rix)eflet'Ml aud ' FARMERS' SUPPLIES, ; which wc offer tut low as any house in the city, and warrant all rothI na rp resented. f " ' Call and examine onr stock nd prices. Stables furnished nee to all opt country customers. Goods' delivered free to any rt o the city. 12 W. A D. A. H. HOLTON, DEALER IN"1 Foreign and Domestit WINES & LIQUORS, , T0BACC0S&CIGARS. MIDDLE STREET, OXXoai Ioe XXo-ULfpo NEW HERN By . C aprlydiw ' " C. B. HART & CO. 0N2 PRKE CASH ST01E. ' Nortbei.it corner Middle sod Soatb Front iumu Kite E H. Windier and K. K. Jon. DBALBBS I Stoves, Honsa Furnishing Goods, CROCKERY ait.i GLASSWARE, LAMPS in frreat variety. BURNERS, WICKS, CHIMNEYS, KEROSENE OIL Fratt'i Astral Non-Expiotivs 90, Machine and Train Oils. W ar now prepared to maaufaetnr Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware. Special attenti'A finn to repairing. Ooo old low and warranted to be as reprtd. April 14 It d w WM. LORCH, VEAXXB IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE CAST HOUSE ACCC1QI0DATI0NS. Breed St. New Berae. H. C. dwMar. IU. EASTERN NOITll CAROLINA MA71BLE WORKS NEW BERNE, N. C MONUMENTS, TOMBS, And all kind Grave and Uulldlng work In ITALIAN&AHERICAN MARBLE Orders will receive prompt attention and satisfaction guaranteed. JOE K. WILMS, Proprietor, Suecoxaor lo George W. Claypoole) Cor. BROAD & CRAVEN Sts. nia30 lyd New Berne, N.C Gost -ox. IWHWI H !,", weeTWg P , M lasa 'fCi Professional Cards. ' 7 iHMMlit MA wt.r ' ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Will f.rnH l In (1n(V,iin..f rMriti i vim nt iw im'mi. IV, MTJEPKY , f EAUr ALL. ',' ATTORHICr AT I. U , fTUKNTON, JOyu CO., N. C. ! Will srjina In fha fvu,.,f( .,r IMolr. iniulln. HniniiwMi mil J... Cnikiolliig a specially, st-i .y-d tf '"'GEO. XI. LEJD34Y, -A. L t o TJ oy itt Jan v, . ftefereikAff i firm. A. a i4 t?,.., r Will practice xi-fiorever m rr.f.-..i...,,,t e. Tie vUH. mtlfcuiiap-iitr. ' WH ' .1 ATTORNEY AT L A 17 ( " (OSlee eppel Oeete Me. i oil e, jti, vi. . Will prsIVetn the CVmntM nt niv.w, I, hoir. Jone. nUw. Pain I km ana i in the U.H. inmrh-t Court. I Prom Dl attention nnid ta the n..ii.,m,, ..r elaline. .............. -v . ini.i. New' Berne Advertisers When vna some to Nrw li.nuif,,r furni ture be sure to call at , " JOHN SUTEI rs , t-QS MIDDLE STREET, Seeoml doer above. K. K. Jwim', He ki on hand 1'urlor Hull, 1.ri . Ret, Walnut HmlkUuule, li II ?'( 1 1, V llhi'i' MiiUrew., fhHire, louii;e, fuinm t . i , hies, eta. For sal at ' ROt K IVOTTOM nut JS. Jangwb .t, . - . . lYMi;TIlANHY. " South Fkont tvnu i t. , j ; - DEA1.KH IN GENERAL IIARDWAi: I", '' SASH, BLINDS A Mi In.: , Cart ' and Wagon Material, im ,; raddles. Lridlrs. Cookinr an 1 ' , mating clove. !wd MM for CAfcH lSLT.ii.il fl i at low prtoe. .. ji. . . SAV.CLV.Cr::::: Commission MctcIi.!!;! t-Cmnmm Cravest V Keeth Front , 1 , NEWHICltN, X. V. Prompt ntd Mrfm.ii4ntinrt win u Ml wnaiirnnienu of Ctll.i, Or in m.a .,., The attention of tluno tnnn , , t to utock of Rustproof Oats and Y7h::.t, whlrh we are handllna on xmmlt n. k. i offer- CURAP for t AMI , a. 1 1 GEonce' cic:::?, iewbehilii.c.. Reft obiiataiitlr ' m l.iuid Hi f jvi.'-f (" "".. . , ttnALmr of MeteJUte Beurlel Cask ui Ca, nee We4 aaWI Wl( Casket em4 Teaee, Itt alt slscs, baneaoineljr mounted, -' " ' -a.uio- . " FepUr Ceanas mf ell Size. ' Order by telnaraDh Bv or nlirlit nromi.lly IiIikk1 by f!rl train after ordtsr I reoeived. ...enunrir .-.' " F.-Bbe . r ' w w nAs tiik I- r. I 1(1 js.,jr jun i' jt'wwAi. FURNITURE In the City of New Berse. Ha baa always In - ( stook -. ,., Parlor1 Suit. Bedrccm Beit, Mattreasei, Chairs of " erery description In fart verrthlng usually kent In a Klrrt- clae Kurnllur Blurs, and will le , , . ,. Sold Very Low : . Comer of Broad and Middls Streets FEW BERNE," N. C. L J 1et , . f. '.w ,,'' D. W. 1IURTT, MERCHANT TAILoh. ":f ''- - old. 4 ..X' ... MT AN 13, MTUDLI STBEIT, .... " . . -. New Barn a, V, a Mar. 9. mw . ' . '. GEORGE Ai. OLIVER, , COTTOnDROUEn. OFFICE ADJOIHIKU C0TTC1T HCMOE, s Tli very Highest Market ITtoe Uuaianteed. As- OonalgnmenU ofOntto Hultelted" opt.'JAdwW FABIEBS AND rOL'XTIT MEECUASTJ, ' TAKE NOTIOKI We are attain at our old ataoil, la oar KEW 8TOHK. We bare a full line ef . Gxocorios, Dry Good. Boots and Shoes, . all of which w era ofrerln: vry low t wholesale and retail. ()all and tak a lo.. at our good end set our low prtee. tier oflclted. raitlfaotl" etmrtii.nwvl. cUw ROUtHIH t UO, .