North Carolina Newspapers

-frrf- BERNEi JOTJEML.i . NEW BERNE Ju - i PUBLISHED ETKBT THURSDAY .j'... - t,..v1:,Ai.t-JT , ." '' I BATCH OF ADVBT1IN.I Oc look m wrk .. "' moalti... !........ tkrwi iMtk .. Qnartr ootani on w-!........ " " jWii mow ill . r............ Hair eotama ow wk......... ; ' m taouth..., " . yr.M., On niama J. W. H ARPF.K, i II. S. M'SS, Proprietor. INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. Terixi. 0B.OO '. lot KMCMWOS' $2.00 .-.1.00 vnon Ui...w...MH. 7"-. ;. c ' una xaar. . Six MOtl...'... . . or'r.. ) Coatracu lor dvpftUInf t"t nn, r lima ma; ba m4 al tba ma of tha j Bbmsb JovaaAV. ha Iba nrlrk Ulock, fr Olrrtt, Kaw Ban,. North Carolina. VOL. T NEW BERNE, N. C., APRIL 27, 182. NO. 5. Mew . ," x - - - Y r .."-'r-'Vr 0 ;i'T1Tni--MMTME'-ilW THE STATI AND "" 1 1 IVCrrl) Coiwtt Itnd regularly attend all se-'-a'liTalaaM aa" IV th" loUowin counties : Oraven, Crte-Vi.PmUco, - Jon,Onslow. tB. lL; Gates. . j. - . - - -if . -. ? .V. WILLIAMS & Co. -T-e- ;f - AND;';-', . f.I1.3i.L2' 'DEALERS IS ' lO'IlN . (".-" " rnments . ' ' -n, I' C. !!. 4. JJUXVUAA . C "5 Mr.30, 1 T M:r.:.::.:mTALBiL f :' RiSTZ?3t CAROLDIA v 1 i ' ,--n.. f r 7 - w -r fjllA1lB;LBfiWK)-RIS AIX KINDS dilAVE AND BUILD- : ING WORK IN :rr;.u;j:&::.:niCA!i marble Orders -ill receiy prompt attention . and satisfaction gnaranteed. - : JOE E.'WILjLIS, ; c - - "" zrr- v p- rl ".Ar, 0 (Siiif e?so;tojGeqrgerij Clajpoole)!; i-.-;. Cr.mOAXI At CBAVE2J- Sts. t . . . . . - itvV-'"'-' !.nv-:::;V New Brne,' N. C. ' ifaf . 30, IX. LARGEST AHI OLDEST i . (1 0 If fWOLESALM rt.l; A iiiliU A A X, Keeps always in Stock In Lcrge - . FLOUR. SUGAR. COFFEE, RUKaSFiJt etc loont ud'fiui & Ax Snnf, " A STOCS OF mo-.wk o, c o, OODS, BOOT . - "'.1 : r- ' ' . t mm s LArbnckle Ariosa Roasted UiU"i4;rtif-i;Vr-'.--- CRACKERS AND, CAKES At- -; -1 v Of -' NOTiONS and HOSIEItV f'Xff &yI wiffTfind a large ;sf ""''aicjantrtte Lowest prices. 5. 5 itolBif fne before ' y6u buy 'ICSSLZSL KewSerne, N. C. KM.SlT Two Hands. Alittlt? band, a fair, soft hand, Dimplfd nnd sweet to kiss, No sculptor erer carved from stone A lovelier hand than this. A band asiclie and as white A lilies on their st; Imziline with rosy finper-tips, Dazzlint; with rruMed gems. Another hand a lirrd old hand, Writte.irvith many lines A faithfi.l, weary hand, whereon The peiul of gfrat drice f hines '. Forfcldfd. as the wincd fly Sleeps in the Clirysnlis Within this little plm I see That lovelier haid than this. Hahkikt PjmwraTT Si-on-oiin. High Prices?of Grajn. The thoit crop of 1881 has given the cereals and Indian corn a very decided boom. We suppose corn is rulioc higher iu Isew Berne at this time than it has for a nnmber of years j toihort crop or to specul inon is a mooted question with some. j The Chicago Tribune points out j . . that at no timesince tke estaulishmentj of railroad tianspoitation between !pns.ed. is in developing the lands ! yet light in the woods when Ewell Chicago and the seaboard, or steam i belonging to the Literary Board of pushed forward i to; assault the -.Fed-navigation bet weeu the Atlantic ports ! Nortli Carolina. erals. He found them forming in aud Lt verpo h has there been such a I coniblete-V wreck and demoralization m rates of transportation ami prices of ffrain as at the present date. Chai- ters lor, wheat and corn by rail to New Yoik and steamer to Liverpool can be had ut ;2tt cents per 100 pounds. The official rate by rail to New -York aloue is 25 cents per 100 pounds. " Steamers are taking wheat and corn from New. York to Liver, pool Wt one and two cents z. bushel, and even at nothing, for ballast. The Tribune huB this to say of the way prices are afiVcte 1: r The once inexorable rule that tlie price at the place of destination fixes the price at the point of shipment, the cost of transportation being the difference, falls under the extraordinary" condition of there being no .definite charge for transportation, f The prices here being greater than foreign purchasers are wil ling to pay no shipments are made, and there is no demand for transportation. The liolders of grain on this side are confident of ultimately obtaining all that they demand, and are indifferent whether the stuff goes forward or not. The result, however, is? most extraordi nary; - The markets at Liverpool and Chicago are wholly: independent of one another,' with that at Liverpool the low er. ' ' There being no exports or ship ments, no transportation by rail or water on land or ocean is needed, so the fact is, wonderful as it may be, that there is no market price for grain and no market price - for transportation by rail or1 by ocean isteamer. . Everything is wrecked, demoralized , and for the time destroyed. , , . The Jong and short of it is that speculators' have run the piices of grain higher at Chicago than ; they a re at -Liverpmk-i.Wheu 4 he- brea k comes these speculators wUl.proUably be 8wtpt awayif The prestntpiice of wheat in Chicago for Apiil and May delivered is about 33 1-3 per cent higher than the average price for twenty-even -years. In corn it is even worsey and is over 70 per cent higher ' than for twenty-two years past. The bad . condition; of the country' roads in the - West keeping back the supply, ttilh the short crops of last year, are assigned as the legitimate cause of the peculiar conditions of the maiket."; - Convicts Quaker Bridge. 4 The convicts at noon yesterday' began the work of relaying the stone pavement of the rotunda of the capitol. The granite blocks have been recut and turned, while' the much worn brown stone blocks are being replaced by slabs of slate, which are ot a rich, red color. t jorimug jueasing contrast, who me '4 gray graite.JVeics and Qttserrer. A correspondent commends our prop osition to employ the convicts in work ing the public roads. We are sure the plan ia feasible', and we hope to 6ce it aaopteu. ine penitentmry roll contains tn:i t i . ... . A ,1: , . . . 1 . tem ought to be devised to secure the greatest efficiency, and then as soon as practicable the -work should be begun. Netcs and pbserver. VpV-iW'-Wtn day-, f March 1880 the L "gi.-l uuie pas.ttl an art ast-ign mg Z-) convn t- to woik lor twelve! months n a io.d fiom Quaker Bti.Igi inJtuHS cou ity to a point near liii h lands hi Onsiow.' In 1 iun;ir ce of this ;.i t the convicts wi-ie tent down and set to work Bt-foie the year Was otit 111 tl for 11 j good Ciiu.-e ilie penitentiary - iiutliojiii s witlnlmw the convicts, with .the work unfiu shed, and with a half understanding ttiat j the force would lie doiibleJ next year and the work soon liuishe.l. At the next session of the Legish; ture another act was pas sad granting I fifty convicts to finish ihis road. The I moving cause iu these acts was that the road would run through a large j body of laud nelonging to the Slate j and tl.us bring it nito market and in jcre.se the levenue ot the literary jfund. , But the convicts have never been j sent. Requisition has been made re peatedly, but in vain. The Jouknal, while published at Kinston made such vigorous complaint that Gover nor Jarvis felt constrained to get an opinion from the Attorney General t which sustained him, or at least sus ; tained the penitentiary authorities, in assigning all the convicts up to ; 500 to the Western North Carolina : raihoad, and to the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley railroad. Although we bel'eved and tried to show that the opinion of lhe Attorney General was not well founded in law, yet as it J was official, Governor Jarvis and the penitentiary authorities had a iio;ht to seek shelter behind it, aud no one could reasonably blame them foi their acts But now a new state of facts exist. (From the two extracts at the head of I this article, taken Iron-, the Xes and , Observer we find that there are now 1 some convict" not at work on the Western North Carolina and Cape I Fear & Yadkin Valley railroad. We (now ask Governor .Ifiivis to aid in I getting the peDitentiary uutliorities ! to d(i tln.-ir dtit' &ud obey two solemn I acts of the Legislature rather than I me the con7irta in beautifying and ornamenting the capitol or in work ing the public roads in VVuke county. We havrt long held the opinion , that the wishes -of the Enst have bt-n reptaieill v disregarded by some of our State jioliiifians because the Dem ocratic meTnbers ot the Legislatnre 1 from this section are few in number. We raise no crv against tlte West for cstern Democrats urged and aided 1 5 , ! in pnsciug trjsse very acts nnder 1 which tne Quaker Kridge road was 1 4, . . ... ; that. 111 tliK fii9t i.hp Stftt. an tlinrir.ipa : ! are lnrtirerent to ana regardless 01 the law and of our interests. We e proposed road would do great local good to the people of Jones and Ous- iow vet the great good to be accom- ,iighed. and for which the act was . Lincoln not to JJetire from the . cabinet We are assured on the best author ity that all the rumors relating to the alleged retirement of Mr. Lincoln from t!:e Cabinet, or to his transfer to the English mission, are wholly unfounded in every respect. The relations between the President aud Mr. Lincoln, officially and personally, are of the very best, and there has been no jar of any kind between them, from the first hour of their as sociation to the present time. Soon after the death of Gen. Gar field the President specially invited Mr. Lincoln to retain his place as the head of the War Dtpaitment, while Mr. Blaine and the others were left in doubt after having formally re signed. That exceptional mark of confidence was not divulged Uutil re cently, and it is no secret that if it had not been bestowed Mr. Lircoln would have voluntarily retired last October. Mr. Lincoln has broken uo one of the old Rings of the War Department by the compelled resignation of Cros by, loDg chief clerk, who was Bel knap's right-hand man. That resig nation has deranged the military ma chinery, and has upeet many plans. There are officers who would be very glad to see Mr. Lincoln in England, or in any place but the War Depart ment. N. Y. Sun. A Wealthy Queen. A year or two ago the papers re -ported that an Ameiican lady had become sole heir to a fortune of $20,000,000 It was said that she was the wealthiest woman in New England. Many reports have been made of the immense wealth of the English Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Bui it is now said that Qeen Victo ria has the largest incme of any lady in the world Prince Albert invested largly in land in the immediate neighborhood of the Crystal Palaces, and the rise in value has created an immense fortune. The Queen has an iticome M nearly $2,000,000 from the State; of $200,000 from the Duchy of Lan caster; and of $1,000,000 from her own property, making oyer $3,000, 000 iu all, while her entire expenses, it is said, are not over 100 000 a year. But she is very pi n. lent and saving, and intends t leave an immense fortune. A it National pat ly the Republi cans arc appruac ing their end. The 1: psib'ii-ans of North 'arolina have t notlii'io- r. to cheer them. Thej are nut at unity amorii.' themselves, but they did live in the belief, cf the sol id u iity of the party as a national on". That hope is now gone. And if they had any hope in the State, if they hoped to get into power here, it was tliroui;b the soliditv of the neero vote, and hv the asserled stroiiuer cl.ii ns of ihat rare i consideration. The Goldsboro Convention has m de that inniossible: f r lmw pan the ui'L'iii ask to be nn hiohr than t higher than himself unfit he is wnen he I 111! S and incapable to stand where he is? John Williamson, a negro editor, member of the Legislature, a good talker, sharp and shrewd, says the exhibit of negro incapacity and tur bul ence at ibat convention is worth ! ten thousand votPs to the Democratic 1 party. Asherille Citizen. - m At the battle of Groveton Stone wall J .ckson tried an experiment whicl: nearly frightened a Federal division out of their boots. Bars of railroad iron were cut up into foot lengths and fired from some of bis hp:ivipt min3nnd flip iwiiaf tlioaa mia- i . .. ., . . , o .ow..vo,., Cx iu.uugu,, of ror, arwl Miatr nM the air was a sort of cross between the shriek of a woman and the bray of a mule. The Federals listened iu wonder at the first few which banged through the tree-tops, and presently one of the pieces fell just iu frosU of a Pennsylvania regiment. A captian stepped forw ard to inspect it, and after turning it over he rushed to his Colonel with the news, "Colonel, the.tn infernal rebs are firing railroad iron at us!" "No!" "They are, for a faci!" '"Captian, advance your company to that ridge and deploy, and the minute you find Jackson is getting ready to fire freight cars at us send me word. 1 uoii.t pi oj ose to have niv vegiineiit mashed into the mound when it canjuH as well be exterminat-tl in the regular Detroit Free Press. decently CD way I Subscribe to the Journal SIXTEEN YEAfiS AFTEB. The Last Bay at Gettynbury. The Moat Terrine Flg-htlng In War's History. A Cannonade Which ' Shook the Earth for Miles. Virgiiiia'H Grand Charge aud Bloody Repulse. At the close of the second day's fight Ewell had secured a position , . , , . , . , . Meade determined to drive him at i anv cost. While he had a lodgment among the Federal breastworks and rifle-pits he hart a base from which to . . . . . drive a further ' wedse. He knew what would come with daylight; and he had re-formed his lines and made j r r " j IN THE GRAJ OF MORN. Daybreak was stealing softly over oil nMnavtinna the hula and valleys, and it was not ! line to assault him, and the blaze of the first musket was followed by a rush from either direction. advancing, bat Ewell had not been engaged five minutes before the crash of musketry and the 'rear of cannon sounded all along the line, and. the awful work of the third day had be gun. But the real fight was between Slocum and Ewell. The one was de termined to crash the other, and the bravery exhibited by blue and gray on that flank that morning was nev er excelled in war's history. Lines of gray rushed forward through , the smoke to find lines of blue standing as firm as the hills under them, and whole companies fired into each oth er at such close range that the flames burned the clothing of the dead and wounded. When the gray lines roiled back the : blue followed, and there would be another shock and another hand . to , hand struggle. E well's first advance drove the Fed eral lines. In the rebound he lost more than be had won. Then Ew ell was pushed a quarter of a mile, when be rallied and crushed Slocum back. So it was for hours a wave of war rolling back and forth in its efforts to beat down the living walls which imprisoned it At 9 in the morning Ewell put forward fresh troops, and then the climax came. Above the steady crash of musketry and the roar of artillery the shouts of the advanemg Confederates could plainly be heard as they advanced to the last grapple. CLOSING IX. On came the gray lines, massed for assault, some singing, some cheering -all ready to die. The blue answered cheer for cheer, and then came the shock. Slocum said it was the coolest, fiercest fighting he ever saw. Birney said he never saw such reckless fear' of death. Geary said the Confederates charged into his lines again and again; and no fire could push them back. Ewell said, as his men eloped ia for the Climax: ''Such fighting must soon decide the day or leave no one alive to fight." driven back:. Slocum stood firm for half an hour. Then, as the fire of several regiments began to slacken for want of ammu uition, the Confederates began to push him Reinforcements were sent from the Sixth Corps, artillery! advanced, and then Ewell had to give way in turn. He had done his best. Slowly the gray lines were pushed back over the winruws of dead and wounded righting grimly dying sullenly, and an hour before noou Slocum had recovered, all the ground lost the day before, and Lee had played another card and lost. He had only one more left DRAWING BUEATU. From 11 until 2 o'clock there was a treacherous armistice, broken now !n lhe r,ul "7 000m or a cannon in the center ty the Uie me cemer uy me nie oi snari - ! shooters on the lelt by a ripple of musketry. ' Kwell had lost, Lh had ! in turn Mttacked both wink's, and iDoin airacKS naa neeii reimisea. ne j bth attacks had been repulsed. He ' was now to attack thee uter. Every i man in D.tu armies Knew where lhe j blow was to fall, and one had bnt to 1 )u of liia oToa rwjdf T ri t 4 tai.fap to VUOU IIIO V- - O V V t-lllll V. II I V I L ' alize at what cost Lee would attack. Every exposed situation had been fortified, hundreds of rifle-pits exca vated, and every ravine would be packed with . Federal infantry. There were stone walls, hills and ridges as natural covers for the de fenders, aud no field of war offered better positions for artillery. The Federal artillery on Cemetery Ridge could pour in its fire over the heads of the infantry on the slopes, and ; the grim cannon in position on Cem : eterv nm wouia enniat Hill would enfilade all the f mln una rondv nf noon -T.f. tint until 2 o'clock. One by one his ffuns j-- ' were massed iu the center, his choic- and a front of gleaming steel. Lv.-u est troops put forward as a wedge, an enemy waiting with loaded imi-k-and when he took a last survey of :et can cheer such bravery sudi his lines he knew that the climax of! firm discipline, three clays of terrific fighting was at pkttiuhew' ni ri i si:. hand Every order had been carried , hfts ,)een ()fIi( i;ll v .,,.. , ,1(lt out-every suggestion considered. If . of the mpn m pHlj u-s ,., he could penetrate the Federal cen-. f, haJ nevel. b(lfoie s,,n :, ter Meade was beaten If he failed h t )md hev Wn vell.r!1Ils ; :1 illlU. to do it, he must fall back to jred fights t'liey tuusL liavt- l-t-.-i. bro- Potomac. t feen by hejl, ten.ibiu ,,.(.,.,,11,,,, ;lt tho A3 BY earthquakes. hands of the Federals. Their asanlt At 2 o'clock while there was al-: was aimed at flays, lie had t.MUO most perfect Bilence over that great 1 men down behind the stone wall- in battlefield, the sudden boom of a : his front, and on his right, a baiiery gun was heard from Lee's center. ' fully provided with giape-h t and Its echoes were yet rolling back and i canister. "Steady, men .-Ualy!'' i forth from hill to hill when there came a crash as if the heavens ami j front, ami scarcely a musket v;i iimi the earth had met. Lee had openedjnntil the Confedetates weie within with nearly 150 pieces of artillery. I pistol-shot. Then t!,.; baitery Meade had massed eighty or more j opened with canister and lhe infantry guns in the center to reply, and now"' 300 cannon began their awful din. WHAT WAS IT LIKE. ' An officer standing within thir.v feet of three six-ponndeiK which are being rapidly fired mint shout, his orders. One standing as near as that to a full battery could nol hear a thunder-clap in tho f-ky above. The roar of twenty pieces of arti'lei v will drown ordinary voices half :i mile away. McClellan had sixty or seventy guns massed at Malvern Hi I', and dishes were .hxken down in houses six miles away. The cannon ade at the first Bull Run was nothing compared to subsequent battles, and yet the reverberations were disticily heard in Washington, twenty miles away. The cannonade at Fmle'r icksburqr toppled down fatm house chimneys eight miles distant, and wap heard twenty five miles. Think, then, of 230 pieces of artillery, many of them Parrot guns, massed on the crest of hills and all firing as fa si as men could serve them ! An earth quake could not thus have shaken the earth. Men became giddy ard staggered, and houses seemed to lift off their foundations. In ten min utes after the first gun was tired, one could no longer distinguish single reports. All reports were consoli dated into one terrible roar, which alarmed cattle in the fields fifteen miles away, and was plainly heard by human ears forty miles away. Regi ments on the flmkj of that awful cannonade could not believe that any one would live through it. what it effected. vance an I detei mined not to retreat. In talking with Confederates who but. reinforcements came to the Fed were in the center that day I have erals and the assaulting column was many times asked for the particulars broken and ushed back. of the damage done by the federal fire. All auswertd a ike. Its effect was terribly demoralizing, but not 80 destructive as one would imagine. Hundreds of shot and shell flew over their beads and hint no one Others struck into bodies of men getting into position for a-eault, and tj Bayonet garirers, nut when the re opened lanes through whole brigades. ! ?und crres they are swept away. were asd mere snen mutuateu a dozen men, killed three or four hors- es, or dismounted a cannon, but Lee's entire loss by the whole canno did not amount to 500 men. On the Federal side fbe loss was no greater the demoralization about the same. The best troops in the world will not stand in line under artillery fire. If they are moving it isdifferent, and the whirr of shot and scream of shell are pai t of the pro gramme. Tbe Confederates plant ed almost every shot into the Fed eral position, and for a time every living thing sought cover. Showers of dirt, flung high in air by the shells, descended upon men lying in the ia vine, and it is a singular fact that two of the artillerists in Thomas' battery were killed I y stones Hung bnt by Bhot or shell. A Confeder ate', shot which struck a breastwork flung a jagged Eplinter more than 200 feet at right angles nnd killed one man and broke the arm of a sec ond. The Federal guns were short of ammunition on the start, and throughout the cannonade the fire was slower and more regular than the Confederates. Thomas alone had four caissons hit and blown up, and some of our batteries lost half their horses and a fourth of their men. pickett's advance. As if by mutual consent the til ing on both sides began to slaiktn, and iu ten minutes more every gun was silent. Then Federal regiments sprang from cover, and in a mom ent Cemetery Ridge was again doi ted with blue. Left win g"ing to a sault. It is close np u 4 o'i 1 k, when a long line of Confederate skirmish ers move out of the woods beyond the Emmettsburg mail. Not lar in rear is Picki tt's division of Virgin ians in double-line of liatile, flags rippling and '-ayonets gleaming. KeniDer. Garne tt. i mislead, Wil- Lempe Cox an 1 Pt-ttigrew aie there, and Heth s division protects the led fl.nik. Look cart-fully now, for ut vur again on ibis Continent wii Mich an ai vance be Seen. it is lue tint.! iav l of the fieic st battle in our history. Lte has assaulted the ii-lil il:e h ft I the centei 1 he met; le of overy man has been iiied, and theie is i ot a coward among them Tliis is lhe last assault, and it will be made on the Fedeial left center, where Han cock is watching and wailing. Here comes the tkirmisli line, creeping nearer and nearer and ur.dulat ng like a serpent. Behind them are the solid columns of Virginian swinging out of the Woods are the best brigades in I.ee's army a col nmu of assault 18,000 st rong. Tlooe is deep silence as a bundled thous and pairs of eyes look at the picture. Eveiv line in that column ir nettVi.1- ly dressed eveiy officer at his post. ; ThfiV do IlOt COI1IC Wltll the IUSU O ! Hood Or the freUZV of EweH. It is .. ,, :, ' march! march! with a steady ?:cp j was the command all along ll iys VoIlys7':niid iu a Cfiu federate ten was tmnnreH lian! left on his tt-.-t. At such eloi' tauge the canister iped out. men by the dozen, and ir seemed as if almost i,-ve.ry bullet found a Irving target. When lhe sie; . lifts Pettigrew has fallen, aiei t..i him three-fifths rf hi.s comtuiM-i iiid officers. Compa nies are uiji-d out. regiments re duced on. - r. and those not in re treat are 'nrg flat down to In eBM nn the bullet Bit Woodru 1 ft, whose halt-rv lias ret dered victorv so rl eisive, is mot -illv wounded, an l the lusty mad Ho l uodden fields are diluting tin 1.1 !)d of v.any a Fed eral heio. A I ; M I T E A I S R USH. The advance of Armistead first struck agatnsi the First Corps, but obliqued to j-cape t he tire and ftruck Gibbons d.vi i n.. Here was also a ptone-wall, aid h re Gibbous had tlnpwn two r. gimeiits out in advance of his main hue. 'J he rush Of the (Vnfedt rates nu t with a feeble fire, and they .surged over t'he; defenses and sent the Ft derals flying p the hiH. For a m ment it seemed as'- if the 'main line would be swept back, but lh fu mi'-ss of two or three reg iments allayed the panic and pre vented disaster. Armistead pressed on. encouraged !,y what he had ac complished, ami although the fire 'of musbetiy was terribly hot, his rush was not checked until bine and gray were fighting breast to breast with the bayonet. For a quarter of an hour he 1 lung there, unable to ad- ALL ALONG THE LINE, It i theme with Kemper with Garnett with very column of as sault. In their. first rush they swarm over Fedenfl breast works, capture rifle-pits and leap through the flumes ", "V.7Y- :" wlK "fern nary luoge to represent a com - i Pa,,y iniimreu teiiiru 10 repre-;t repre- ponied in th-' nadei8ent a reg,ment. Out of brigades scarcely a full regiment can be found ! Pettigrew, Armistead, Kemper and Garnett are dead or woundedfield officers aie among every heap of i deal reg'mei.ts with scarcely a cap 1 tain left. The picture of 18,000 men ! marching forward with waving fl gs ; and steady step had been framed in ! blood and veiled with death. Lee hail p'ayed his last card, and lost. Tin; rouRTn da v. As the gland assault was beaten j back every soldier lealized that the ; battle of Gettysburg had ended. Lee 'had done his bcst,"and many looked ' for a spefily retreat. At sundown j word was passed along the lines that the retreat had begun, and cer tainly but few expected to see more than hi reai-gnard when the morrow i came. But 1 e was there and in i position. He hail not sent off a man : or a wagon, and he was defiantly waiting for Meade to attack' him in j turn. It was only when night came and he found that he was not to be attacked that he gave the ordtrs for a leisurely retreat. lee's situation. In leaving Virginia to invade the North the Confederate commander could not btmbn lhe march with too many wagon liains. The great point w as to cany a "tipply of ammunition, ;anil ibis point was cureinlly seen to. i There was moie or les fighting frviin the P.-t mac 'o Gettysburg, and something t.f ;iu inroad had been I made n 1 he supplies before the first day's fiohr.v t 'nsiderable ammuni tion wa 1'hi u the load, more cap tured by Ft dcral cavalry, ami at the end of tho thin I day's fight there was not enough t.iumutiou in the Confed erate ar y t ake it through six hours of fight ng. In the retreat to j the Potomac many caissons contained only two or tlireo round-ehot, nnd 'thousands d the infantry had no more than from five to eight cartridg es left. To this must be added the want of rations. The Federal cavalry had sadly demoralized tlie wagon trains, , and made many captures, and when night fell on the fourth day of Get tysburg, not one Confederate in ten had even a cracker in his haversack. Lee could wait no longer. He must fall back for food and ammunition. what he gained. Lee hail counted on a great battle, and it had come to pass, but it was a bailie in the North i'-stead of the oo h. lie had lot. no more than h might h'ie lost by waiting for Hook?r to attack him in Virginia. Instead of standing tin the defen sive behind Southern breastwotks, he had proven to the world that the Confederates had strength to be come the aggressor, and that they could tiht as well in Pennsylvania as iu Virginia. The eflect upon the South was to increase confidence in the g')Vi rmnont While the North 1 1 j .-, ii did not f invasion was a ami in the army, shouted its hosan- rget that another possibility. The English and French summed up the campaign to the general advantage of the Confederates. Those who argued that, lhe Con federate army could never stand be l'ote Meade again had only to wait. until lhe first frosts of autumn to see thai same army, again numbering hardly more than half his strength pressing him back upon Manatsas from the Rapidan. M. Quad. The best society and conversation in that in which the heart has a ureaier share than the head Impnre Milk ; The importance ' f pure milk can hardly'. he exaggerated. It . is the only complete food, eontaining'jaU the elements essential. to the needa uf the body, whether of nutrition, heat, or organic action, for a year or so it it tbe only loxl nfour. race Through childhiKxl it is the safest and tmt forKl as the. chief , article of IlieL Through life it is an iiuiHirUnt stanle 1 r ii i..iit i .t 1 ior mi 111 neniin; nan lorine (ICK gen erally'it is being more and more re- cognized as the best means ' of suste nance. ' The adultaration of milk should he held as a crime , for .which the law should be severe. Hardly less crimi nal is it to allow it to be charged with the seeds ofiliease and death through carelessness. ( v ;..ts .J. r Says a writer in the - London Lan cet, "Since tha discovery, by J)i. Bill iard, that milk ; contaminated;, with sewage water causes typhoid fever, the attention of the whole ; profession has , leeu directed ifff this subject; and, there, is little doubt that many other sffections are produced ; from the same Cause. ' -' ' r ; ; In 1869. many - cases of inflamation of the glandl of , the ,, mouth, were traced by him, iu a small district near him, to the . milk sold by ' farmers whose cows were suffering "... from disease. ' J Last year, two cases of diphtheria having come under his notice, he visit' ed the farm-house . from which the milk of other . families ' came, and found tbe pig sty adjoining the dairy and the place the: dirtiest 1 he bad ever seen. ; .. : Ou visiting another, farm, which supplied the milk to two other families in which deaths from diphtheria had occurred; he ' found that - the K milk utensils were washed in water serious ly contaminated with sewage, : , n aavises in every, case ot tom- atitis (inflamation of the mouth) to change the soorce of the milk supply. " wivia, j-'uiiu vuv last v wo yean I have always been- able to find that .1 ; . . . uie niniaies oi a oouse wnere a case - i J.. -..ui ,,1; v : 7 . y , , , f , " Companion. St. Vitus' Dance. This disease is sometimes describ ed as "insanity of tbe muscles."; In its worst form it u very distressing, and often fatal, At first there may be only a twitch ing of the eyelids, or the muscles of the face; but at length, for days to gether, or until the person, utterly worn out, is relieved by death, the limbs are fearfully ' convulsed, being dashed perhaps against the' bedpost with tremendor a force; Or the body is suddenly forced upwadrs to its ex tremest tension, and as suddenly thrown in the opposite direction; . or the head is rolled from side . to . aide incessantly. A. strong linen bed cov ering will be completely destroyed by the violent movements in a tingle day. The body: becomes braised and ex coriated from hand to foot .- It most. frequently attacks children of from ten to fifteen' years of age Says William Smith, Eq , Fellow of the Kpyal Medical and Cbimrgical Society, London, "I consider the di sease one-of increased nervous action, deriving its source directly from too much Btimulatiou of the nervcua yf; tem aud the brain especially." During childhood tbe great, object' aiuie at by nature to overcome tbe disease is nutrition and growth. Play, pure air, good food, and free dom from mental excitem nt, are what the child should have at the ex pense of everything else. In case: a child shows incipient chorea, let all attempts to excite its intellect or its sensibilities lie wholly avoided. Secure, without fail, the normal activity of the stomach-and bowels. Sponge the body daily with cold water, for its general tonic eff.ct But he tbe feet with wa m water every night before retiring, for its quieting effect Guard constantly against all frights. Shun wines, biers, and every form of spirits. The Minister And The Dojrs The late ttev L. W. Alexander was once holding a protracted meet ing at a country church in Virginia, and every day there was a full attend ance of dogs. He was much annoyed, and wLen at last a fight between two terriers at tracted more than ordinary attention, said, "Brethern, I did not know before I came here that my preaching was beneficial to the dog; but I suppose the people here think, it is, from tbe way they (lersisl iu bringing their dogs to church. Now if you think your dogs must hear preaching, I pro pose that we have a separate day appointed for them, nnd 1 will give them a lecture ou how lo behave in (hutch. I Tlie Kxperleiioed Hliormuker. I Tim Pari.intl shoemaker is thus tnnde fun ot by a French journal: His bootmaker brought Imn a number five' and a quarter boot to go on a number six and a half loot d the process of trying it i n convinced him of the tortners he would LaVe to j undergo in what SbMkeHw arr has call ed lhe Tami- e of the Shrew."' Too small." he n 'lbev hurt." "Hurl?'' rep'iea the artisl, liilterly; Ihurt? They can't hurt! I made 'em mvself from measurements I look ! myself, and they mut I fit." be a roomy ' Butthey do hurt." "How do j'ou know ainthi i ' Are you a shoemakei? g about What experience have you had anyhow? Two pleasure boats were capsized by a sudden squall on Lake Gennva. and live students were drowned. ' A NtwCtrrrlh . Of late years the attention of ii.. tors has been directed to th norfW Of a car coupler because of the danger of life and limb consequent i the operation of those now in um. wards of two hundred kinds have I patented and each thought to be t safest and . beat. As accidents f; coupling cars happen daily it 1m but f to presume that so far each IiiTt -has . over estimated the safety of 1 contrivanceii. . f But a Oreensboro genius, cli ; guiahed as a statesman end. a f hi: thropist, has hit upon the right iJea. la forty per cent. cheaper than other, and yet combines the very t life and limb naving advantage of i the others.' The idea of this new invention i t regular drawhead, with a'ppiral t; s which works a plug or trigger, suit allows the link to be set to any ar,,: and the cars to be coupled automata h!- y. This spring fits in any bimqwr, a ' can be made at a cost of about se vei.; - five 'cents. We hare receivsl r-. model of the invention through Cyu E. H. Smith, of the N C. It. II. o. TL - inventor 'is Hon.- D. F.: Caldwell. Ortendxfro A'eirs. ilaieraaMMl raal BalnM. . As another encouraging indication rf Wilmington's increased prosperity er. I progress, to add to the many ,:' which have from time to time be- n j sented throngh these columns, we wo- ' mention the fact, based upon the su tv ity of Postmaster Brink, that the I u nest of the postoffloe in this city is 1 1 least 84 per cent, better now th&n It v , . two years ago, having increased to t' t extent since the close of the fU id j r 880. This is important. In that iuhovt an evident increase in the general I ni nees of the city to an extent M h should cause croakers to take a k seat and- keep quiet for awhile. T5. large increase abjoarguesaconitiJert.! addition to our population as comj (.i i 1 with the census reports of 1680; but th fact is so self-evident that our popula tion Is largely tn excess of the num!r given ns in those reports, that ther U hardly any use in alluding to this view of tha matter at all. The demand for house-room, which has scarcely vr beenso marked and noticeable, is evi dence' enough of this fact. W'il. Star. RepaMleaa State Bi, Conana!tt. Pursuant to the call of the chalrm&n, the Republican Btato Executive Com mittee met in this yesterday afternoon, with the following members prnneiit: W. A. Moore, Mansfield Thornton, W. P. Canaday, C. M. Rogers, Thomas It. Keogh, John B. Eaves, D. A.'JrrAius and I. J. Young. "Dr. J. J. Mott pre sided, F. M. Sorrell acting as secretary. The chairman explained the object of the meeting to be the determining the time . of holding tbe State Republican Convention. .Some discussion was had upon this point, which was finally fixed, upon motion of Mr, Young, at the sec ond .Wednesday in June next, at Ral eigh. It was advised, also, by a major ity of the. committee, to form an alli ance : with the liberal movement. No other business was transacted, and the committee ; adjourned. AVirs n4 Ob- $erver. , - s... '? , . ':.. '. Cape rear aa4 TaaTkla Vallay R B. ; Meeting yesterday President Julius A. Oray, of this road, some inquiries wre made as to its progress. Mr, Gray aaye that the grading is being rapidly puhhed, and is completed to t point thirty -ft ve miles from Oreensboro, and. only. Ave miles from Walnut Cove, Stokes county. At present 117 convicts are there em ployed, Canados failure to "come to time?, in the . matter of purohase does not 'excite, surprise, as but few. people expected that he would comply with the requirements. Nor' doe there exist any great disappointment at his fail are. There appears , to be some' regret that there , was . no special session of ' the Legislature, says Mr. Gray, as it Va thought that that body would make some arrangements for ironing the road. The work of grading will be continued, and much will be done daring the corn ing eight months. AVvs and Cbemrvtr. - la argta.:' , S, . A few days ago the ferryman at Meal's ferry, on the Chattahoochee Rirer, while putting some paesengers over in his flat, discovered a box floating down the river. The ferryman seized a hatteaa and made' way to 'the box," which he soon overhauled. ( On , reaching out his hand to grasp it he was astonished that it contained a sweet little babe, which raised its head and smiled at iujeecuer. It was a white child, well dressed, with , plenty of good clothing besides.' Some old people who live in the neighborhood have Uken the little 'ilaf.SplrU cf the Age. - t . ' j 6aTcraarUl4fs. . , In company with a friend we railed on the above named gentleman thia morning, and we take pleasure In in forming his hosts of .friends ia this city and throughout the Bute, that he 4a much better. We spent a few momenta with him during which he conversed very freely. Ills mind seems to he strong, clear and vigorous,' and-if he continues to improve, we sincerely hope he will be up in a few days. Rcimgh Viitor. A Saaae Stery ' Mr. W. D. McAdoo's tine old gray home. General Lee, has been sick for six months, unable most of . the time to work. Yesterday he gave the General two packages of hone powders,, expell ing a live black snake eight Roches long. The General is much better to-day, and it is believed his troubles were all owing to the snake being in his stomach.--Ureenboro Bugl. ' 7TD 7U TK TV tvoti im