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' -" - r ) ) ' it. BER1TE JOURNAL. -PUBLISHEI EYXSY THURSDAT 1 Al U AIHr, y Editor and 'Proprietor. V Om Year, . .... aim sis ,jtouui-,..,..r,,,.:, ,, , " " ijbo 49- Xagtetratea Blajika always on kaad. NEW BERNE ADVERTISEMENTS. v. .mxox8. CtBMKKT HAWVT. ? G Opposite 6 as ton Bmw. N-f Berae, N- C WILt ' PBACncB'TW THE STAT AND FwOml Oowt-. and repnUriy attend all -ion o( tha Court r .th fuliowina eounti-e : ?ravn, Carteret, PamUeo, Jooea, Onslow, Leaoir. . - i M t vtMar. 80-w-4y. ;. WILLIAM LORGH li i pealeb Hf ' . -. - - GENERAL MERCHANDISE CAST ACCC . .: - --- .- ... '- ; -. Mar. 30, 1 y SMALL PROFITS AXD QUICK SALES. ii nc it d u n ncno t ni er s; v ? Corner Eroad and Queen Streets, NEy pERNE, N. c. KlIUipi SOTSp TllM I). W.' r:::.::::.:iT toloil old T .A. N D, n hhIim3 ' A 2HDDLE STBEE New Berne, H. a -Jfar.30,Sm 13 EI HTf loo :luible WORKS ; - KZTT BE2SE, IT. C. . ALL KINDS GBAYIL ANTTBUlLD- Crder rBye ptompt attention ; JOE IIVIS(gg (Siccessof to George W. Clajpoole) fim- T.TiOAxJ A C5AYEX Sti '- ' - Wew Berne,vir. C Mar. 30; I y.r ' O T1 P 1 - IN THE i ?; Keepa I wi)b I ti Stock in Lai gre . ; t POBK, X)KQ C'l-EAKS; -, ;vFIAUK. 8UU A R. COPFKK SYatUP, MOL-ABSES, SAL.T etc t--.f I-.4 --.".' '-'VA,-' A LASSS STOCK 07 T 0R A C C O, - " DRY GOODS, BOOTS, At '.'4- ArbticUe- Aliosa ,: Roasted ; -.0 :0. E E C It AC KEH S AND CAKES - in great rarietya t - ? f A large Stock of . "V? NOTIONS TandrHOSIEItr : " Wliolesale' buyers will find a large KTOCK and the Lowest prices. Dqn't fail to see me before you buy ' -?:tv:-UlC58Xa St. Vtw Ssrne, V. C Var.23.lv ,5ew J. W. HARPER, 4 H. 8. NDNH, $ .Proprietors. VOL. V. Congressman at Large. A communication on oar first page mates a very fair presentation of the claims of the 2nd Congressional Dis trict for the naming of the ninth Congressman to be elected by the State at large next fall. The point is well taken there that this district if entitled to this recognition on the part of the State, siuee by means of the clubbing together of Republican counties bere the remainder of the State is enabled to go solidly Demo cratic While there are ' numbers of other eminent Democrats in other parts ot the district, as also in the city of New Berne, yet the name of H )n. C. C Clat lc Jor the piiion iu one emi m-ntly fit and proper,; and if nomina ted and electi d. the interests f North Carolina iu the House of Ueprefenia trrea conld bo placed, in no ptnei iur bier hands. - . .. i ... Excise. tur lioveruiueuii removes i iaig" revenue, from import duties, a tax laid on certain articles of commerce brought from - foreign countries which tax al though paid by "the consumer is indirect and often unknown. The next source of importance from which it secures in come is' what is called !u this country Internal -Revenue, and called bv the English, Excise. Excise duties have ever been unpopu lar, and snuggling or i3 more modern brother "blockading," .has been prac ticed and: encouraged in every land. Xota single session of ; Congress goes by without a struggle to repeal the internal revenue system, and the examples of European opposition to the Excise laws are often made use ot by our Cougress- The .--system is a very ingenious one and waso introduced during - the great civil war Purine the year . I860 more than three - hundred : millions of dollars were? collected ta this department of the revenue; but since tnen tne government has gradually been" reducing the taxa- fion;T'; - ,."''' i There are now but few taxes laid on V- . i . . ... - i' iii'".- ''' .x. our mternai. iraue ana maumatmie. The largest tax is on the manufacture and sale of spiritsi followed next by the tax oo tobacco. . .- t New the Protectionists, . whoavor costom duties, oppose, in theory, the internal revenue : system because it is a direct tax upon home industry;' while the Free Traders advocate it far the same reason, -s-. , ? The Free Trader.it will be rem em bered, holds that only a part of the tax levied on imported goods reaches the croverument: and maintain? that .. -. v ....... the .whole of ; the internal tax, if the collecting officers are honest, fiuds its war into the treasury. Hence under this system the tax-payer pays. less. ' rThe Protectionist disputes the theo rv that the custom duties are not all ... . . . - ... received by the government. And in addition be insists that the foreiguer and not the citizen really pays the duties. . For this reason he- declares the cnt-toms system is'Uie easiest 'and the best. Here again there can, nev er be an ngieeruent leiwfceu? tlmFree Trader aud the Protectionist, and it U s; fe to presn n'te v that 'the true gtonnd ionietthere between the; two as itidirated by us ill a former article, Mot goverumenla iuijMtse interna lanes or excie. Very few of them are less burdensome to the people than ours. - The excise of Great Brit ain U heavkr and laid on more artic lea than Uiat of the United States Fiance gs beyond ; both; and if the pjMtMuple be followi d , out to lay: this duty on tnxuries Ouly, it is about as etttv a plan of collectincr revenue as can. adoptel. . , '". Star Route Prosecutions. There has been much, discission. Of Ut caneerning the prosecution of the Star route" swindlers, and the greater interest attaches to it on ac count of the etanding of some of the defendants. The U. S. mail is carried by rail road lines, by steamboat lines and in stage coachep or wagonp, Thee last are ; marked with a star or asterisk (), in department reports, and from this cus tom has arisen the habit of referring to such routes in public documents and appropriation bills, as "Star routes." The meaning of the term is practi cally, all mail routes which are served neither by railroad or steamboat. The Star routes comprise much the largest part of the post roads, so far as length is concerned. The railroad and steam boat lines together are only a little over one . hundred thousand miles, which the Star routes are over two hundred thousand miles in all. These lines are very numerous, but the most of them are short. The country is so covered with a network of railroads, that in the populous States, the lines over which mails are carried by horses cannot be long. In the Northern States, for example, the localities are few where a traveller can go from one village to another, that is fifteen miles from it, without crossing at least one railroad. In this State the routes are longer, and much the largest part of the mail service is done by horse power. Every year Congress appropriates a specified sum of money to pay for the transportation of the mails on each class of routes. As the country grows there is need of a constant extension of the mail service. Population goes in advance of railroads, and also spreads out on each side of the rail road lines. It may therefore easily happen that a sum which is supposed to be suf ficient to pay for mail transportation in a certain St&te at the beginning of a year, may prove to be .totally in adequate for that purpose before the year is endtd,f New routes .must be established arid additional-mails must be given to rapidly increasing centres of population. tn these "Star route prosecutions" it is charged that the postoffice officials under Mr. Hayes' administration did the work of extension recklessly and dishonestly ; that straw bids were made and by collusion among post office officials high in government employ, arge sums of money were dishonestly squandered. It is to the credit of President Arthur's administration that - these prosecutions are being pushed vigorous- y and earnestly. It is unpleasant to wage a warfare against ricn ana in fluential men and especially when by so doing odium attaches to one's party and political friends. Army Efficiency. It is proposed in Congress to retire the army ofiBcers from active service after reaching a certain age, and this is urged on the ground of making the army more effective. It is generally conceded that ef ficiency in the" army can only be se cured by selecting as commanding officers men in the freshness and ripe ness of physical and intellectual vigor, and great generals over the age of fifty five or sixty are the exception rather than the rule. We quote from General Upton's report some interesting statistics on tne subject showing what has been ac complished in; .military : renown , i by.' young t captains,' in the world s past: history: . ". ' ' ' : Philip of Macedon ascended the throne at thirty-two, was the conqueror of Greeoe at forty-five and died at forty-seven. , "-t- Alexander the Great . defeated the celebrated Theban band att-Cheronea before arriving at the age of eighteen, ascended the throne at -. twenty, had conquered the world at twenty-five, and died at thirty-two. -, Julius Caesar commanded a fleet be fore Mitylene and distinguished him self before the age -of twenty-two; completed his first war in - Spain and was made consul before the age of forty; conquered Gaul, twice crossed the iihine, and twice invaded . .Britain before f the'age of forty-two ; fu wons the battle of PharsaJia -and Obtained su preme power at "fifty-two.- He died at fifty-six; th' victor "of five hundred battles and the conqueror of one thou sand cities. f '- Hannibal was made eommander-in-ehief of " 'the Carthaginian army in Spain at twenty-six, and had won all his -great battles in Italy, concluding with Cannae, at thirty -one. y. . , V ScJpio : African us v the., elder, distin guished himself at the battle of Tioious at , sixteen, and at twenty-nine over threw the power or Carthage at Zama Frederick the Great ascended the throne at twenty-eight, terminated the first Silesiah war at thirty, and thfe second ! at" thirty-three. Ten years later, with' a "population of but 5,000,- 000, " he triumphed 'over a league of more than 100,000,000 of people. : Cortes effected the conquest of Mexi co and completed his military career nerur-e tne age or mtriy-stx. Piaarro completed the conquest of Peru at thirty five and died at forty. Lord Clive distinguished himself at twenty two, attained his greatest fame at thirty five, and died at fifty. Wolfe was conquerer of Quebec at thirty two. Napoleon was a Major at twenty fmir, ileneral of brigade at twenty-five, and commander in-chief of the army of Italy at twenty-six; achieved all his victories and was finally overthrown before the age of forty-four. The Mississippi - The dispatches tell us that the wa ter's of the great river are subsiding and tl.at the planters are making great haste to get in their crops. Unless the overflow has demoralized labor and destroyed the means for making a crop, there is no good rea son why there should not yet be made a bountiful harvest in the Mississippi valley. There is time even in this State to make preparations, plant and cultivate a col ton crop; and farther South, where the seasons are longer, ample time yet remains for the cot ton crop of 1882. And iustead of couuting the oveiflow a total curse, there may be found some good results mixed with the evil in that the sedi ment left by the turbid waters forms Berxe Independent in NEW BERNE, N. an excellent coat of manuie for the submerged plantations. Oaths of all Nations. The Forms of Oatha In Foreign Legis lative Assemblies. The following summary of the forms of oath in use in foreign legis lative assemblies is extracted from the reports .received at the British foreign ofjice in Now York. Bavaria I swear So help me God and His holy gospel. Denmark I promise and swear So help me God and His holy word. Greece I swear in the name of the holy and oonbubstaatial and indivisi ble trinity Hesse Darmstadt I swear So help, me God. ... w Saxe Cobnrg and Baden -I 8 wear. So help me God. Holland 1 swear. So help me God. Porlugal I swear oa the holy gos pels. Prussia I swear by God, the al mighty and omniscent So help me God. Saxony I swear by almighty God. Servia I swear by one God and with all that if? according to law most sacred and in , this world ( lea. est. So help me God in this and that other world, h Spain after swearing the deputy on the gosoel, the president says: "Then may God repay you; but, if yon fail, may He claim it from you." .Sweden and Norway I (president or vice president only) swear before God and His holy gospel I will be faithful to this oath as sure as God shall save my body and soul. Switzerland in the presence of Almighty God I swear So help me God., United States I do solemnly swear So help me God. In Bavaria, non-Christians omit the reference to the gospel. In Hol land and the United States, affirma tion is optional. . In Prussia and in Switzerland, affirmatiou is permitted to those ' who 'object on religious grounds to the oath. In Austria, a promise is in every case substituted for an oath. In Belgium and Italy, the adjuration is used without any theistic reference, and in France and Rouniania, the j German Reichstag and for deputies in Sweden and Nor way, naither oath nor affirmation is demanded. News & Observer. , From our regular Correspondent. WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C, Apr. 4 1882 The past week in Cou&rress has been devoted 'largely to a discussion of the tariff question. Mr. Carlisle made a very powerful argument in favor of the immediate and direct action on the part of Congress. Mr. Kasson conceded the necessity of the revision or tariff duties, but advocates refei ring the question to an extra legisla tive body for investigation and report. The reputation of both these cen tie- men, and the ability with which they discussd this great economical ques tion, held the attention of the house as it has not been held before, this session. The debate was continued throughout the week, perhaps the most noteworthy speech being that of Mrr' . jUnnueli, . who, deserting the ground occupied by the Republican partv, took the position that congress, and congress alone, was competent to act iu this matter. fJ Reviewing the disasters which overtook the Demo cratic party in the forty-fifth and for ty sixth Congress, he attributed them to the failui e of that party to redeem its pledges to revise the tariff and he warned hi; colleagues that the same disasters would overtake them if they shrink. this work. The reduction of the public debt by $16,462.47 for the month of March is - the largest monthly reduc tion, except that of last September, that has been recorded for several yearB. These enormous monthly re ductions of the debt show, the healthy condition ol ihe national fiuances and the marvfeloua growth of national re sources, but they do not fully show the results that is being accomplish ed, and it is only when the results of a term of years are aggregated that we can fully realize what has been accomplished. In 1865 the interest bearing debt was the greatest iu the history of the country, viz: $2,381, 530,000 and the interest upon it 8151,000,000. The interest bearing debt is now only $1,514,752,700, and theaunnal interest about $61,!00, 000. This shows that within the last sixteen years the bonded debt has been reduced $866,787,000, effecting thereby a saving of 890,000,000 per year in interest. In the same period there has been a reduction of the non interest bearing debt of $163,377,000 making the total reduction since 1865, over oue billion of dollars ! The daily decrease since August 31, 1865, on which day the public debt was greatest, as averaged over! $142,000. The total receipts Treasury for the present month show an increase over those of March, 1881, of $4,3UO,000. It may be said with out exaggeration that history does not record a rinar.cial statement that compare with that of the United ! States 8,,lce the war- b" WEST VIRGINIA. nfc;Tiv! men captured the steasner Sallie' Freeze at Raymond City last night and went to Winfield, took a negro man, Joseph Smith, out of jail and hanged him to a tree early this morning. He had an outrage two weeks ago on the wife of a section hand on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. The shock was so great that the woman was reported dying last night. Smith acknowledged his guilt. all Things. 0., APRIL 13, 1882. Song of the Silent Land. BY HENRY W. LOXflFELLOW. Into the Silent Land, Ah ! who shall lead m thither? Clouds in the evening sky raorp darkly eat her. And shattered wrecks lie thicker ou the strand. Who leads lis with a gentle hand Thither, thither. Into the Silent Land ? Into the Silent Land ! To you, ye bonndless regions Of all perfection ! Tender morning vision Of beanteons souls ! The Future's pledge band! Who in life's battle firm doth'stand, Shall bear Hope's tender blossoms Into the Silent Land. O, Land ! O, Land ! For all the broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted, Beckons and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a geutle hand To the lftna of the great Departed, I nto the Sili.nt Land ! aad Sixteen Years After. Wliy Lee Invaded tne North. What Brought en the Battles of Get tysburg'. . How Fate Decided the Positions. Historians of the war have seemed determined to look upon Lees in vasion of Pennsylvania as a cam paign of retaliation, but such was far from being the case. Two years of bitter war and a close blockade had commenced to tell heavily upon Con federate resources. Recruiting . went on slowly. Confederate money was terribly depreciated, and the outlook for the South was gloomy enough. She would have been thankful indeed for assurance that she could defend her own soil, let alone invading the North. It was a stragetic movement, pure and simple The Federal army was getting ready for a grand move ment. Lee must either fight it be tween the Rappahannock and Rich mond or draw it away from Virginia. It was easier to draw it away than to fight it. There was an element in the South that cried for- retalia tion, but Gen. Lee did not consnlt that element in laying his plans. By a move northward he would threaten Washington. That alone would movo the Federal army concentrating at Fredericksburg. It had been as serted that Maryland needed only the presence of the Confederate ban ner to rally by the thousands. The banner would be carried there, and the recrnits would go to swell the army of invasion. Lee could pene trate Pennsylvania before the Fede ral army could hrlt him. If it attack ed hire he could choosse his own bat tle ground. The sight of the Con federate flags in the North would csyuse intense excitement at home, aud perhaps give the Southern gov ernment the European recognition it was longing for. The movement was canvasr ed and discussed for long weeks before a step was taken. Lee could not hope that his progress northward would be unopposed; but he could hope to postpone the great blow which the Federal government was preparing to strike to upset the plans of the Federal commanders. He would be attacked in force sooner or later. If he won, so much the better. If he lost, he could fall Lack, and would be no worse off than losing a battle in Virginia swell's advance. Milroy, at Winchester, was first to feel the advance. Ewell rushed through Chester Gap iuto the Shen andoah, and was upon the Feder als at Winchester almost before a bugle sounded. His advance was tak en for a raid by a flying column, and Milroy prepared for battle. But as brigade after brigade came tramp ing up, he saw that he was iu for de feat. The Confederates scarcely made a halt before striking him. Columns obliqued to the right or left to form battle lines as they marched, and when they attacked they were as sured of victory. Milroy has been charged with many ugly things, one of which was in knowing more about browbeating non-combatants than handling soldiers, but it will always be remembered by friend and foe alike that he did not leave Winches ter that day without a tight. He was in the same situation that Banks was at Strasburg the year before, but un like Banks he did not show his heels until obliged to. He bad five to oue opposed to hi iit. and yet he did not give way until pushed wiih the bay onet. When he did go it was a hel ter-skelter to avoid a force already ou his flank, and Milroy an1 staff were first at the Potomac, leaving over 3.000 prisoners and n arly ail bis ar- (illery in the hands of the Confeder ates. Lee had planned this very move among a dozen others. He did not want the prisoners, but be wanted the 6,000 muskets and the four batteries of artillery and the train-load of ammunition and sup plies which tell into his hands and were used against the Federals all through that campaign. A LONG ANIMAL. -, ,- .... i over inmojf anu nan uunniug iui iuhi in the: .1. .i. tT7..i. ymuu luui inu uf n icoiutu obiii- iugton. Lincoln realized what it meant. Taking down the m.tp he saw that Lee's army was scattered over :i froiit of more than seventy- R rrn a-k.ilfi.Ci art il lit lWOltlitl I VQ Q O ; Hooker8 flank!l He a,8), Baw hat i an attack would break that front at I . . T . any point ana cut Jjee in two, ana n was this that caused his famous dis- patch to Hooker, asking1 him if he could not break the lonjr, slim aui- mal poinewbere. Hooker could have done it but the hue and cry about pivtpcting Washington brought him orders to fall back. BEHIND EWELL. Ewell had not yet reached the Po tomac when the head of Longstreet's . . pa ieiitvd in Winchester. With I a liii) tun! Heady tramp they pushed ou, bcuice.) halting to prepare their mealtt. The iuvasion once begun ; ilit re must be no lagging. Hooker : was alieady falling back from in j front of Fredericksburg,' and ere long jEwell would need support. "Long ! street att only out of the way when A. P. Hill xwung in behind him from ; Fieder ckulmrg, aud the; tne grand movement was unfolded to all. A thousand K. deral cavalry could have passed from the Rappahannock to j Richmond, but the Federal Govern j ment no longer cared for the capture j if that city. Washington, Baltimore, i and other great Northern cities were !of more conveqaeuce aud iu more TOO MUCH FOB HIS HEAD. EweU's cavalry had already reached Chambersburg, : PaM before Hooker would credit Lee with the in t teution of invading the North. - While j lie 1 ad iiivHued while one corps was already in the Keystone State, a ' sec ond hMgieuing through -Maryland, and the head of a third tramping down the Shenandoah and headed for lh Potomac. Houker sent a cavalry force and Htmck the on federates at Ash by 'a Gap. It was only then that he realized that Lee's whole - army was moving. He had all along flat tered hinntelf that Lee was making a feint at Maryland to rover some move on the other Federal flank. He had once tried the plan of getting behind Lee to draw him oat, but Jackson had got behind. him, with serious results. Lte was now retaliating. ., This much for Hooker. He was lutmpered and handicapped in a dozen ways. ' Each day brought hint suggestions and in structions from the citizens at the bead of the government, who knew so little of war that they .could not have put a Vq dad of men through the simplest ' maneuver. Everything must be sacrificed to protect Wash ington. - ; W hen McClellan followed Lee in 1862 he had no control over the force at Harper's Ferry, and Jackson 8 wept it away. ' When Hook 6r started to follow Lee in ' 1863, he found the' same queer state of affairs. TheHwo full brigades there were or dered j to. join .his1 force.. Halleck ecountermauded the order. Hooker moved when he realized Lee's plans moved with amazing celerity, bnt he had offended Halleck. The Fed eral army was' massed iu "Maryland. everything in band and in the best shape to follow Lee, when Hooker's head came under the ax. As the commander of a grand army he had met with ill-luck at every move, but who can say how much of this wis the fault of the well-meaning but un- military President, and the jealous- minded, overbearing and blockheaded citizens wno nad innnenoeT As a hard fighter Hooker had no aa perior. TOWARDS THE SUSQUEHANNA. While Longstreet and Hill halted at Chambersburgh to see what steps the Federal army now under Meade would take, Ewell pushed on for the Smquehanna River. He had long passed Carlisle he would cave been in the suburbs of Harriaburgh in another day, when be was recalled Meade wus moving. Lee was to be attacked. When the order was vent to Ewell to fall back no man knew where the battle was to be fought, but a battle was to come somewhere and all realized it. Meade was com ing up l-ee was planning. If Hook er had been puzzled when Lee began his movement, Lee was now puzzled to know what Meade intended. The intention wan to cut his line of com raunication and then fall upon him with all force, and Ins moving to checkmate this plan brought both Arm ies face to face at Gettysburg. Prison ers capture.! by the rederal cavalry reported that Lee had ordered his three cors to concentrate east of the mountains, and Meade at once has tened his advance in the direction of Gettysburg. Buford was first in with his cavalry, and he found Hill'i infantry already on the ground. The First Corps hastened up as the roar of battle reached them afar down the dusty Foad, and an hour before noon the hills of Gettysburg were shaking under the steady crash of musketry and the oellowing of artillery. NOT A CHOSEN FIELD. No one battle of the war has been the subject ot bo much acrimonious debate and stubborn dispute, and yet friend and foe have ever agreed on one thing that Gettysburg was not willingly chosen by either side aa great battle-ground. Meade moved to cut Lee's communications Lee pushed Hill forward to prevent. As Hill's men poured through the moun tain gap on the Lashtown road Bu ford's cavalry were coming up. Fed eral and Confederate had found each other a fight was the natural result. The Frst Corps came up Hill brought his last man into action. A single shot from a Federal trooper's carbine had brought on a conflict which was to invohe 200,000 men in a whirlwind of flame and mnke and death. From noon until 2 o'clock Hill's corps stood up against the two Federal Corps, giving ground here gaining ground there, and at one point having three entire regiments captured at a dash. Ewell was com ing he was there before 3 o'clock. He sent two divisions into the fight, and Howard was flanked both right and left. There was nothing to do but fall back, and right gallantly did his men contest every foot of ground. ; Howard's heaviest artillery bad been j left on Cemetery Ridge as he passed through the town to attac't Hill. This ; precaution saved it, and his com mand as well, no fierce was the Confederate attack when Ewell got into position that the gun would doubtless have been captured. As 5 Term $Q.OO Per VeAr. NO. 3. Howard was pushed back through the town this artillery was let loose upon the Confederate pursuit, and that pursuit was checked. Howard fell back behind his guns and would not yield another inch. He thus, al most by accident, selected the Feder al position for the fighting to ' come. When night fell Howard and Hill confronted each other both waiting. They were out two cards iu the great game being played. The band of: destiny was to deal them out no one could say who would win. "ON TO GETTYSBURG. . . Meade and Lee were sepal ated by; the mountains, but they moved as if one voice had issued orders to both. Each knew what had transpired at Gettysburg each pushed forward to be there on the morrow, lhey were marching under the hot afternoon sun when night fell when the . stars came out when midnight cast its grim shadows upon mountain and valley. The Federal position bad been selected by accident; Lee must search for ms. Through the gloom the lines in gray hurried on-throngh the gloom the lines in blue pressed forward. Gettysburg had been sprinkled with . blood Fate had waved its gory hand and the shadow had been seen against the summer sky twenty-five miles away. OBEYING OBDERS. No man could have been persuad ed 90 the 1st of July that Ewell'a failure to drive Howard beyond Uem, etary Ridge was to defeat Lee , two days after, yet such was the case He had orders from Loe to be cautious. Repulsing Howard's attack and driv ing him beyond Gettysburg was as far as he dared go under, orders re ceived. A part of his corps had hot fired a gun to accomplish this, ' Had he brought up his whole command and hurled it upon Howard at sun down he must have earned the b ed eral position. With Lee on . Ceme. tery Ridge, and holding the key hills, Meade would, not have attacked him. Had Ewell gone beyond his orders Gettysburg would have scarce! been mentioned in history, but be obeyed the letter and the spirit,, and waited. v - NOTHING DECIDED. . That first day's fight decided 4i0th- ing. xne gallant iteynoias nan been killed and Howard - bad been driven. Each side had -captured about the same number ot prisoners, and the loss in killed and wounded was an offset. Howard had taken a strong position Ewell was satisfied to leave mm mere ior me nigu.. xue . 1 . , . .1 .1. l mi camp fires of Federal and' Con feder ate twinkled in the summer evening, and the wounded men who could crawl, dragged themselves -to Wil- lourhbv Run in search of water. At ten o'clock there was scarcely a sound to tell men that war had raged across those fields. In the ripening wheat where the pickets lay . hidden 'the crickets chirped without fear, and in the tall grass ready for the scythe one heard the, whirr of insects as thev sailed about. What would the morrow bring ? MAKING THE BEST OF IT. Meade had sent Hancock forward to insoect the Federal position and pronounce upon it Hancock's "re' port as to its strength brought orders to mass the army there. One of the Federal corps was thirty miles away, but when the order came the march was begun and no man rested until the lines swung into osition at Get tysburg. Lee bad sent forward to learn of the fight, and Ewell s report hurried up Longstreet. The choice of positions had gone to the Federals. Lee must take the poorer one and make the beet of it. He has been censured for not retreating. During the night of the 1st of Jul v Lwell and Hill could have fallen back without molestation, and before noon next day the whole Confederate army could have been massed. But he did not know until the morning of the 2d the real strength of Meade's position. He could not know that Meade would be able to bring his whole army up before the Confederate attack. There had been no close inspection of the ground by Ewell or Hill, aud their reports go to show that tbey deemed the Confederate position the most ad vantageous. SO THE NIGHT WORE ON, And the wemen and children of Get tysburg beard no sounds to break their slumbers. Half a regiment of Confederates could have crept out in the darkness and seixed Round Top and intrenched themselves there. The other half could have taken pos session of Chip's Hill without firing a shot. Those were the keys of the Federal position, and yet they were unguarded. Next morning it was too late. When the eyes of the Con federates turned that way Federal bayonets glittered among the thick ets. Detroit Free Press. M. Quad. VIROINIA. Petersburg, April 7. The semi annual report of the tobacco inspectors of this city shows the sales of loom tobacco from the different warehouses from October 1st, 18X1. to April 1st. 1882, to have been 3,'.M5.H1(! jwiunds, an excess of 103,776 Hunds over the sales of last year. This tobacco sold at an average price of 85. 50 per hundred weight. There were insx-cted iu the different warehouses during the p:ist six months 2.338 hogsheads; one hun dred and fourfeen hogsheads loss than were opened during the corresponding period last year. , Charlottsvii.e, April 7. Win. W. Baker, Esq., who was ajoiuted by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of the Faculty, and Librarian of the Universi ty of Virginia in the year 1825, and who tilled that office ever since, died hist night, at his residence in the 85th year of his age. His appointment to orlice began in the year of the establishment of the University by Mr. Jefferson; anil he fillel that position with great fidelity and universal satisfaction. NEW- BERNE JUL f . , -r RATES OF ADVKKTl Oeslaeh aa -fli...ji... " TJLH btlOBtllJ..... i f ' UirM moo tut...... - Quarter column on wwk w month ........ '" om j-r. Half cold-na os wk........ " os month ' " on jrcr....-i........- On column on wf.. " on moatb ........ '"' ' on yaru.'..i... S3T1 OoatrseU lor sdrartUinv t r s or Urn may b nad at 1h offl of the N Bkmbb Jocbkal, In tb Brick Block, Cr" Street, Wow Bern. North Carolina. .TKJjJiUltAnii'C WiiWU. ' FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WOU J. Reported Exprea1 for New Brne Jowouil. '.; TatNNKSSEH. ., New Yobk, April 8. The ITeml.l' Nashville special says: It is rnernny anderstood in legislative circl H th-.ii the State's creditors will prem-nt a projo sition next week to settle the!U.r f Tennessee by the new issue of Ixm.U of the basis of sixty per cent, of ti n in debtedness. - The Chairman of the i: ut Democratic Committee said too a y ; 1 1 t he believed that 'such a roiH.iuwii would be accepted. - ' ' '. . LOt7ISIA.lt A .,' New Orleans, AprQ 7. A Ti - Democrat Morgan City (ipecial says: The situation here is fat "becominsr dj rate. The water continues to rie Mow ly, the current through the street run ning at -least five miles 'an hour.. In many places it in auiicuit to nuinito boats. A. large schooner is now an chored on' Second street. Tho watrr from the swamp is corauig in tnroiu the rear of the city in a perfect torrent. Everybody that can get away is dwinj so, ' A steamer took over one hundred to-day.. She went to PUuruemine to connect with the New Orleuna l'aciitc road. - New Orleans. April 7. The graven of the Confederate dead, were drorat-l yesterday, and interenting cere'; iniin held at the Confederate mormon .t in Greenwood Cemetery. Three lurui,omo floral offerings were made by Uener&i Badsrer. Captain Woodward and t!ers on behalf of the Grand Army of tho U public one to the Ladiea' Monumental Association, one to the wasmnFton Ar tillery, and one to the Army of Northern Virginia.'- ' ' ' ' ' ' The anil Is here have cooho1 cniKinnjr cotton, on account of .the demand for planting. , ' . JNEW ORLEANS. Apra B. A f eeial dated yesterday from Morp-an t ityto the 2V-iDcmocraf says: The ouU'k is regarded i as more cheerful. Th Water has only risen ten inrhe in tho past ' twenty-four hours. ' The water slacked up at about a o'clock p. m, n.i there was no rise after that hour. The gauge now stands 87 inches above lht floodof 1874. ' Later The. Mississippi, river is fall ing, and is now fourteen Indies below the flood of 1874, and nine inrhen below the highest point this seanon. The water bas Xallen fax teen inches in tne 1 ciiww and over a foot in Black river, un l fif teen inches at Vidalia, although Oi town is still under water from one t four f eet. . The waters of Lufourehe and Upper Tensas are falling slowly, lotions Bufticient for fifteen days have len shipped td all points filing application. w . . , .,,.roisoi'Bi. . ; St. Lodfl, April 8. Jacob Bolios, ar rested here a few days since as old man Bender, is not that person but a well knpwn citizen of Fort Scott, and he hun been released. ;'.'..'.. , 'r.V,:-. OHIO. ' . CrJTCliraATL April 8.A Memphis d ! patch to the Timet-Star says the Urand Jury last night found indictment for involuntary manslaughter apaint-t ("apt. S. Y. Mc In tire and mates Doc Houduruut and J. C. Hull of the burned steamer Golden City. - Cincinnati, April 7.-At 12:45 th in morning an alarm of fire was sounded, which was discovered in the roof rdove the altar of St. Zarier's Roman Catholic Church, on Sycamore street. Every thing of a combustible nature aKmt t i building was bunted, and only the, -.vail and tower remain standing, and they are badly shattered. The churth 1 longed.to the Society of Jesuits. The building , and . connections oont nearly J150.000; insurance about $20,000. How the fire originated is a matter of conjec ture. . . ... '..( .,(!?.; .. TEXAS, " . ' ' OALVESTOif, April ,8. Lfcut ntr;ht a passenger train on the Gulf, California & Santa Fe Railroad was borer ded near Blount Station, Hill county, by five unmasked men, and the paMMmgem robbed, . . - . ' " '" "ri8consiPf.v" Milwaukee April 7.- -Considerable excitement was created this afternoon by the fact that the workmen In tho factories which don't employ union men received an anonymous communication with a rough engraving of a skull and cross bones, and over the representa tion the word "scab. V The communi cation is considered as threatelfK ooauy itarm w nuu-uuivu mru.r j , PPSSSYLVASLA. ut . , ' Reapino, ' April 7. The ' accounts of Adam M. Dundere, f ex-county treas urer of this county are short about $30,000, of which amount f 23,000 is due the State for taxes and mercantila li censes, and $3,200 due the- oounty for taxes, When Dundere retired from of fice his defalcation amounted to $50,000, but $20,000 was returned to cover a por tion of the deficiency in the county ac counts. The bondsmen of Dundere have been notified, and will pay the loss. Tha cause assigned for the defalcation' is guilty speculation.- ' .1 CANADA- H Toronto, April 7. Ths Trunk Rail road authorities refuse .further con ferenoe with the striking freight men, ' oh kan otv1atm1 "immadiatfl t-aVment f and diHrniaaal of the Stalkers. ' .,' The female shoe operatives are still out, but a new bill of prices- was sub- nutted last night night which UJikely I to prove aaiituaciory. jm. - r( . . KKW YORK. y . -,r New York, April 7. -In the cane of Franklin J. Moaes, ' ex-Governor of South Carolina, indicted for obtainine money by false pretenses, which was on Recorder Smith's calendar" in the Gen eral Sessions Court yesterday, the coun sel for the accused asked for the ad- journment of the case. - n - ' Assistant District Attorney Fellows said that he would willingly consent. "I dont think: vour honor." said Col. Fellow s, "tlatl could try this .am im partially, as I myself am one ofthe vic tims of misplaced confidence in JMoaea. Under these cinrumstanotw, I think the case should be transferred t .another part of the court." r. The case was then sent before. Judge Cowan, and set-down for trial on the Uth. . ; . jnAMAC-HTOBTT. - Washington, April 7. Weatern des iwtohes report severe tornadoes j-ea-terday at different points Of Kanaaa arid Michigan, attended by some remarkable evidences of the power of the , wind. Houses were demolished in many plaoett in Kansas, Illinoia and Wiohigan, and. lives were lost in all there States. ( O-
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