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SATURDAY, MAY 15, 187.
CXECUTTVM CU MKNCY TWO OASES,
j.- Xnseussing a recent-editorial in the
Obeerrer;;-,which criticised Governor
Russell on account of his pardonf a
riegroyjBsjyarrisi, cofiviule at the
Jtseran of Gran-ille Superior Court
j - of secret assault and sentenced to the
,i, penitentiary, the Winston Republican
'.' expresses itself as "surprised" at the
" Paper and "submits that the Observer
might do itself credit by demanding
f and examining thv evidence before giv-
'-"big its endorsmtnt to partial news-
paper reports reflating upon executive
"" action. " Present! ns what may be as
' turned to be the Governor's side of the
esse, the Republic an states that the as
I vault was not a secret one; that it was
'? Icommitted in ord-r to save the life of
- m. brother of the defendant, and that
? the pardon was recommended by the
" solicitor and about 400 citizens of Gran
wllle county, anting them the sheriff
" And some of the jurors. This Is, In brief,
''"fiie defense, -rn reply to which It is only
''necessary to say (1) that if the case
:"vwas not one of net-ret assault it is
-strange that the solicitor so drew the
:;blll and that the jury convicted; and
; J2) that anybody can get sign-attires to
" 5a petition for a pardon for anything. It
- childish to arraign the Observer for
-Y"' having failed to demand and examine
rv.xne eviaence L-unaitrmiiig vu
'pardon. We took the word of the Ox
ford Ledger for the facts, as we would
Vjxpect It or any other paper totakeours
rr facts with which we were presumed
Ibe familiar and which we discussed
Vcalm editorial. Nothing has yet ap-
to discredit our Oxford conem-
' or to cause disbelief of Its state-
it hat there was much Indignation
nvtlle on account of this pardon.
oust commend the boldness of
Publican, however. In setting
defend Governor Russell's par-
Ad, by which he has in four
ide himself notorious;
7hout it it may well ad-
ilast act of executive
pmutation to life im-
aeain semem-e ui a
.titjgr Charles Bobo. of
of wblcn murder the Newhern
Journs
; fays, it Sks 'peculiarly atro
i, lSMt spectacular and hor
j,';and of the condonation of
I " clous.
tritole
fwhic.
y Governor Russell itUajrs:
"'It
such' acts, maudlin ones, that
into disrepute our laws, that proriPeu i tneir oarx ana leu to rot, ana
c'voV contempt, that cause hasty deeds
to eomralttea, ana swm pumsnment
tt he metKw out to those guilty ones,
tiat cause-the mob to take the law into
', is awn hands, and mock at judges, ju-
-;- KCBSIA' IRRITATED BY TURKEY.
-i Those " whoLhave been filled with .".;
'gpalr oyer" the rapid lefeats Greec; has
sustained have dubt!ss f'.t that Tur-
kln4 riinod advantar3a which would
-H 'alvs her a long lease of power for re-
Irf ncwed massacre: and rap' no. -And yet
ti D--hVrs,issv gleam -of hope in the evident
-r fact- thsi 'Turkey's very success is apt
-"tJmultaiiS sagainst her. The Csar of
' Husls is becoming alarmed at the
. r;: amazing .mHitary vitality which Tur-
key has dlsplayVd in this war. Russian
k troops hays trleA the temperof Turkish
..atA&l Bjsd know tfaat it is no easv task
, armies ef fanatics.
I 7fuv'-tukTtkvi)lmt fleatb in battle mMA8
v - Immediate entrance ifHo eternal hap
'vpifiess ad full harems. Hence, for
T"?iais; to look OB. and see these fearless
jhters,,who court rather than avoid
vath. trained la all the arts of modern
irfars. and armed and equipped with
best artllley and engines of war
military science has Invented, is
a pleasant prospect. The truth is
-iatBMsais?stfears have been excited
hat the war v-ith the Greeks has
sky vOf Turkish military advance
i t i"" t-, fears that weVe she to find
"WarUck.'Michaelflght Turkey hejselt she
tfJfJ .I?Pyuuids ftnT Hence It is
I contractor for the PTL ,
F fhNM. w LUlgirkey. by her ruo-
"mmy : 7 has made a secret
&poteued for-- its
ties from the East
duties as patron t
s view. Russia Is
Clover lture. Nort u7mlnj ""P"
v . . :inacv In the matter
v 1 ' - Ilu-t ... y f th Powers, and it
this S?4 Ua mln,ster at
secure reVrTTV"?-" . . . .
' -? nople has been ordered to
servipir r j-
ZnpereDrptorily the cessation of
?Jstyfy the Turks, which the Bul-
$sJoth to grant because he wishes
my to occupy Domokos first.
iStM:4ol - Globe-Democrat's
fgSJataa' eorrespondence Is respon--CSidI
fer ,thfolUng: i;.
Mr. TsgtT whn wss Mr. Wang
i Wn'i predecessor in the embassy, did
TS not take kindly to the bicycle. He said
jr they t were nsetf v extensively In China
V ever1 J.80S years ago, but that on- ae
count of the women of that country,
.ho rode not wisely but toe-well and
y : r selected their; husbands- and children
-" A household' affairs, . the JEmperor
i illshed the manuisctnre of wheels in
t r.e Flowery Kingdom i '.
TTils Is too thin. We are wtmn in aL
3. low 'China to claim theinvent tons of
1 prtntlng and gunpowder ocr l,e years
ij. - '.".before we of i the West had emerged
. ": from . primeval barbarism but when it
J; fi" comes to her assertion that our bicycles
rhv not a new thing under the snn, but
Litha.t.ihe had them long before we were
ivuixed?Vemust order a halt. China's
c. : claims of thisTfort must he headed off
- vmw ft rt am rut a i
1 - atHnewhere. We fiWebr ar notice that
--?as soon as' the
;p is - perreetea.
which we expect to
news of within
atrhhi
biaee
. V --a fortnight o so, w
. " straining -order to
It
-!Vcctire a re-
t;hina from
f claiming that, too, as
her ancient
As has ' been hereflof ore remarked.
' Jight is .beginning to hrenk. The Phila
delphia Timesv on of tiie papers which,
np to this time,' have een willing to
coneede - nothing '. in. Aargulng-r now
against Xre silver. 'Baya rthe. people
want a more fiexible monetary policy."
That they do. and unless v yon ;. folks
m'
4-
' give it to them they are In danger of
t- pulling '-the temple down upon their
ov n heads and your, too,
DISCBrarXATXO:!? I3I FEXIGHT KATX3.
The Greensooroj Record has' quite a
full report' of to proceedings of the
meeting of manufacj urers held in that
place Wednesday jand touched upon In
this paper Thursday; Some - figures
were prtjed at t&st time, shoiQg the
dlscrimir'ioB In; freight rates against
North CrTjDlins, fad la the Record's
report oi er; figures of : a yet more
startling character are given. Thus ft
was shown that the rats on cotton
goods from Cut lie to New York la a
cents, while Iron . Greensboro tt is .
though the dlstj nee . between ' these
points Is hardly more than ; 40 : milea.
'Again, the rate i m shoes from Boston
to Lynchburg is 4fi cents, while (to
Greensboro It is S9 cents Just double,
lacking one cent. r . - If. '
We have no prejudice against rail
roads; they are conservators of the civ
ilisation as well ks the prosperity of a
people; we have jno part in the clamor
against them because it is popular to
denounce them, ut railroads must ' be
fair, and If the jflgures given are cor
rect. North Carolina hi not being fairly
treated by them and these manufactur
ers are doing the whole public a service
when they cry jout against this dis
crimination. A part of their work was
the formulation !of a plan for the em
ployment of an expert traffic man to
look after matters and see If something
cannot be dona tjo equalise rates. Mani
festly they are sadly out of Joint.
We endorse felly the declaration of
the Scotland Neck Democrat that "the
Wilmington Messenger has added new
lustre to Its already brilliant record as
a wide-awake and progressive news
paper" by "the kull and accurate daily
reports it gave pt the Southern Baptist
Convention." Tlje Messenger's handling
of this convention was such as wguid
have done credit to any paper. North
or South, By tfe way, we observe that
In a note to th publishers of our con
temporary, Revj Dr. P. H. Hoge, pastor
of the First Pjesbyterlan church of
Wilmington, s4ys: "You have set a
pace that Charlotte will find hard to
keep up in reporting our General As
sembly." Hard i Yes. And yet we don't
think anybody! can say that the Ob
server has eves- failed to rise to any
emergency.. Saiys the North Carolina
Presbyterian: f'We feel no hesitation
in saying the reputation of the Observer
for enterprise and accuracy will "be
fully sustained) In the completeness and
accuracy of tjiese reports." We snail
endeavor to live up to the expectation
which our friend of the Presbyterian,
along with thje general public, enter
tains, j r
The Washington Post says:
"Savannah,"! said Mr. R. T. Ander
son, of Georgia, at the Raleigh, "is the
greatest shipping port in the world for
naval stores, j and the wharves there
are constantly lined with thousands of
barrels of the1 product of the Georgia
pines. It is shipped in vast quantities
to Great Britain, Germany and France,
and is used toj a large extent in making
varnishes and soaps. Formerly North
Carolina was: the great field for resin
production, but in the last twenty years
Georgia has taken the lead. The trees
are bled forj the gummy distillation,
just as they tap sugar maples in the
New England States."
A party of; gentlemen in Charlotte
were talking.; a few nights ago, of the
alleged and generally-believed transfer
ef the seat of the naval stores industry
from North Carolina to Georgia, when
one of themi vho should know, said
that the receipts of naval stores at Wil
mington, always the principal market
of the State for such products, were as
heavy now as at any time in Its his
tory. The Morginton Herald .says:
The tan-bark industry in Burke has
assumed mammoth proportions. Hun
dreds of tons are being delivered to the
Burke Tanning Company. Long trains
of wagons loaded with bark is a com
mon scene on our streets these days;
besides a large quantity of bark is
shipped here. In consequence of this
industry there is a very perceptible im
provement in trade of all kinds.
Meantime' we are told that it Ib dis
tressing to see the magnificent timber
lying prone upon the ground in the for
ests and on the mountain sides of
...... . .....
tn price paid ror the bark is about
equ&lto wages for getting it out and
haullnNt to market. Short-sighted
policy. V
We have a beautiful little volume,
"Fugitive Unes. By Henry Jerome
Stockard.". which Is just from the
presses of G. P. Putnam's Sons, New
York. In it are to be found the choicest
of the "productions of the sweet singer
whose name has Just been mentioned
a son of whom North Carolina has
every reason to feel proud. The volume
is one which should be in the library of
every citlien of the State, and there is
no reason why it should not be since Its
price is- only $1. Orders may be for
warded to Prof. Stockard at Freder
icksburg, ;Va., his present home.
The Columbia State wants a "Coog
ler Day",' at the Nashville Exposition.
Well, getj it, and North Carolina will
see to It that the next one after It is
made "Dtigger Day."
MR. tt. J. HALE CORRECTS.
Be Explains That It Was Hot Because He
Did iot Ttalsk the Tarkteh Mission Geod
EaonghJ That Be Did Ma Accept at
Once, But Because It Was laeunbent te
Ceuult 'Tnc aad Others.
Editor Charlotte Observer, Charlotte,
N. C-: !
Dear Sir: My attention has been
called to the subjoined extract from the
Washington correspondence published
in your issue of the 6th instant. Refer
ring to the appointment of Professor
Alexander as minister to Greece, four
years ago, your correspondent says:
. "Mr. Alexander was fortunate In be
longing to the same Greek letter fra
ternity to which Secretary Gresham
belonged, and in" being backed by Har
vard College. One of those strange ac
cidents which men call destiny caused
his name to be presented the very day
on which Mr. Cleveland was deliberat
ing about sending Mr. Hale to Constan
tinople as' Turkish minister. A visit to
the White' House, on the part of Sena
tor Ransom and Dr. George Winston,
then President of the North Carolina
University, decided the matter in fa
vor of Mr. Alexander and the Greek
mission. If Mr. Hale had decided
promptly, a few days earlier, that thi
Turkish mission was good enough for
him. he would have had it and would
have been there now. There is no
doubt about this. One of the surest
factors I in success is seising an oppor
tunity at once."
Your (correspondent imputes to me a
motive; which did not exist. It is true
that the Turkish mission was tendered
to me in consequence of services ren
dered and influences that came from
outside of North Carolina. But I. had
sought! (and practically obtained) we
endorsement ef the State for a position
which j would .have entailed a debit
agstnsCr the -State's quota of bat "half
that which the Turkish mission involv
ed, i was very far from regarding the
latter as not good enough for me or, as
for thax, the Russian mission for which
Mr. Gresham afterwards seat my name
up. ' I desired to accept it, and so
told Mr. Gresham and Mr. Qulncy. I
could ktot, however, without dishonor,
have taken the place withent first sub
mitting the matter to Senator Vance
and other home backers; and for this
I received Mr. Qmncjrs and Mr.
Greshem's consent. , 4 am not respon.
sible for the use which may meanwhile
have been made of the news of the tender-that
drifted to their ears by the
few": tfbo preferred -nat the , State
should lose rather than that I should
win. j .
There was very likely, a, good deal of
"destiny" in the cartons coarse ef sab.
sequent events,- but not much ef "ao
cident." t think, intervened before Sen
at or Vance had hastened to report his
acceptance for me. i..;.:;..t;;.
Respectfully yenrsi
. .." R. J. HALE. .
: Fayettevuie, N. a. May U. IOT,i.
Changed Fmi rsi'liiai Js
- Washington. - May ; "4. Commander
W. : W. Kestnger has eea detached
from dnty us ordnan- icer at
J
ed:;'3 co::::rr.ciAL eevie.
WHEAT, CC""V ASS COTTOJI ADTASCE.
f Mm pr
, Ceas, P 11 ia fleesw
LsMend Faverasto-The Wlater Wknt
Bepagg is Pfatnutsi H Eneegfc P-
t. Xttk Print CMths Asm ttt
in
- New Tcek. iltar It BU :Xmrs
weekly"! review of trade to-morrow will
say: Speculators have enjoyed an ad
vance in wheat, corn, ostton and some
other products, though obliged to sell
wool and sugar at tower prices In order
to realise. Stocks have advanced 1 cents
per $100, and trust stocks lost 38 cents
without enough demand to constitute
a market, "'Imports of merchandise.
1S,S2,81 for the week at New York
alone, are M per cent- larger: than a
year ago, making the Increase 4? per
cent, for the past six weeks.; and have
affected he - exchange : markets and
helped further shipments of gold, which
amount for the week to $2,259,000, but
are practically balanced by i receipts
from the-. Interior, and cause no se
rious apprehension of financial disturbance-
Iea feel that present conditions
are only temporary, although they tend
to prevent immediate improvement in
general traoe. ana ninaer immeaiate
investments.
The government crop report estimates
the cotton acreage at 8 per : cent, less
than last year, and is considered en
couraging because so slight a decrease
from the floods may be- easily made
un. Prices have advanced an eiuhth
on Liverpool speculation, with nothing:
here to warrant the rise.
The winter wheat report.: -w hich is
supposed to indicate a yield of 297,000.000
bushels. Is contrasted witn state re-1
ports much better or much worse, but.
is distrusted mainly because all De
partment estimates of acreage for
years have been widely erroneous.
Western receipts continue larger than j
last year, being 2.109,123 bushels, as i
against 1,870,337 a year ago; and Atlantic
exports also increased, amounting for
two weeks in May to 3,106,900 bushels. '
flour included, against 2,083,414 last
year. Exports of cora are still large.
5,566,855 bushels for two weeks, against
3,004,181 last year, and in part account
for the small demand for wheat.
The output of pig iron for the week
ending May 1 was 19,528 tons, against
173,379 April 2. and the stocks unsold,
exclusive of those held by the great
steel making companies. Increased only
8.808.000 tons. Several furnaces, espe
cially those.-. producing foundry iron.
have stopped production for this month,
but no important changes appear in
pig iron," which 1st quoted at $8.25 for
grey forge at Pittsburg.andS9.25 for Bes
semer, and $12 for No. 1. at New York,
though only $10.25 is asked for South
ern. Reduced Southern rates here have
not altered the market materially, and
at Chicago the local prices have been
reduced. The demand for finished
products is below the capacity of works
In operation, and the award of the con.
tract for the Montreal bridge, which is
said to be at 90 cents for beams, against
$1.55, demanded from consumers in this
country, nas occasioned trouble in the
beam association, and there are re
ports that it has dissolved. Angles are
quoted at 95 cents per hundred pounds,
a shade lower, and steel plates are
quoted lower here than at Philadelphia.-
Copper is active, with large sales
of lake at $10.35, and tin plates are
quoted at 10 cents below the prices fix
ed by the association and 50 cents be
low the prices of the same grades of
foreign plates.
Nothing new can be said of the cotton
manufacture, which still lacks demand
enough to lift print cloths above the
lowest point ever known, and prices f
other grades of cotton do not improve.
In general the sales of cotton products
are but moderate. Woolen-goods are
doing better than for some weeks past,
and yet there is hot enough demand to
create enthusiasm or to raise prices,
while there Is great uncertainty regard
ing the future of the market. Sales of
wool have sharply decreased and for
the week have barely exceeded a week's
consumption, while prices are weaker
in Eastern markets, according to some
reports, nearly 1 cent per pound at
Philadelphia; and at the West the
heavy buyers for speculation have be
gun to sell at some concessions, with
good reason.
The failures for the week were 264
in the United States, against 224 last
year, and 31 in Canada, against 33
last year.
BRAD8TREET'S.
A Period of Comparative Calm at a Time
Wben m Geaeral Revival in Demand Bad
Been Expected.
New York, May 14. Bradstreet's to
morrow will say: The unexpected fam
ine and request for staple goods within
a month results in a period of compar
ative calm at a time when a general
revival in demand had been looked for.
Wholesalers report that the volume
of business consists of filling-in orders,
even Chicago not claiming more than
to have held its own in volume of goods
distributed. Interior merchants con
tinue to buy for nearby wants only, and
in many directions farmers are too
busy with field work to supply their
wants at the country stores.
The' continued subsidence of the
floods In the lower Missiseippi river
valley has encouraged wholesale mer
chants in that region : growers report
an unusually large distribution of can
ned goods West and Southwest, and
the extreme depression in pig iron
prices is followed by large Western
purchases. Wholesale dealers an
nounce an increased demand for gro
ceries and hardware at Duluth. St.
Paul. Minneapolis. Kansas City and
Memphis. Exports of wheat (flour in
cluded as wheat) from both coasts of
the United States and from Montreal
this week amount to 2,183.875 bushels,
as compared with 1,799,000 bushels last
week: 1,903.000 bushels in the week a
year ago. 2,397,000 bushels in the week
two years ago, 2,240.000 bushels three
years ago and as contrasted with 1
096,834 bushels compared with 3,127.000
bushels last week. 1,663,000 bushels In
the week a year ago, 1,110,000 bushels In
the week two years ago and as con
trasted with 1.247,000 bushels in the cor
responding week of 1893.
There were 261 business failures re
ported throughout the United States
this week, compared with 228 last week,
2(5 in the corresponding week one year
ago. and 210 two years ago, 186 three
years ago and as compared with 255 in
the like period of 1893. There are 31
failures reported from the Canadian
Dominion this week, against 39 last
week. 34 in the week a year ago, 28 two
years ago and a contrasted with 25 in
the like week of '94.
WADE8BOKO N1S8.
The Steele' Kew Building Nearly Com
pleted -Kev. J. W. Little to Bold a Meet
ing. Correspondence of the Observer.
Wadesboro. May 13. Rev. J. W, Lit
tle, who has Just closed several very
successful revival meetings in this
State, arrived here yesterday with his
tent and will begin a meeting immedi
ately at the factory In South Wades
boro. The Steele's new building on East
Wade street, is nearly completed, so
far so, that the" Western Union Tele
graph Company have moved their
office Into one of the rooms. This puts
the telegraph office In a very conven
ient place.
Rev. Mr. Gaddy, of Texas, brother of
Sheriff J. T. Gaddy, s here on a visit to
trienda and relatives.
Mrs. T. R. Tomllnson left on the ves
tibule this morning for Charlotte, where
she will visit the exposition, after
which she will visit friends in Spartan
burg, 8. C.
Mr. J. F. Medley is in Spartanburg.
S. C to-day, transacting- some business
for the firm of Temlinson A Medley.
THE BUTE STOCKIirog LOST.
Oak BUdge Won By Scare of S to S The
Winners stsemg la the Bx.
Bpedal to the Observer.
Mebane- 1I 14.-The Preahvtertan
High School and Oak Ridge played the
scroti o: .game to-aay. oak Ridge was
more fortunate this time and won by
a score of I to 2. Oak Ridge ewes her
victory to the .magnificent pitching of
Barker, hue With the Norfolk League
team Only three hits were made off
aim. . Jack Hopkins, who pitched, for
the Presbyterians,' had an off -day, 14
hits being made off him in five rning,
but sharp, clean, fielding held the score
to eight- run a In the fifth inning Old
ham went -in "the box. with Tuck
hind the bee After this Oak -Ridge
failed to score- The Blue Stocking Pres
byterians play the Methodists at Trinity
Fare- Saturday.- Trinity and Durham
win giv. Captain Oldham a royal wel
come and a good crowd. .
i win
and On to
Washington. May 14. Breker Elver-
ton Chapman, of New York city.
will surrender himself to United States
Marshal Wilson -at t o dock next Mon.
day afternoon, positive assurances to
this effect were given, the- district at
torney by Chapman's attorneys to-day.
He Will enter at once on the serving of
thirty day sentence for refusing to
iswer qnections before the Senate
;gr trust investigating committee. '
Y&CZ i: tzz confidihacy.
THE SOUTH S GREAT WAS COTERKOB.
; . ..... - . ..
the Legtalataue
Piwum pto
Secretary ef War Seddaa Btrinwi Iir
: ing the War Varied The Governor the
Pefnnder at the Hseens Corpaa to the
MorUX Carolina
She) Was Sasps eted. By ska Coatfaaerate
Onversaaeat and Her Officers Get the
Mewer-fi esuetlea By Beasna.Vjhf rIt
Taaca Pretested With ri rjpr
Agates Any Sncav Cear H 1 kntt
eaved Oaat te. Inn srwdinnea CaU
Ing the Kerth CaMliaa Traoas Boas
Bated Tn eta-Own State, U Certain acta
of Rigk-Handed OSesee on the Fart at
Cnnrederate Troops Were Vat Stenned
Tke Cenacrlpt Act (Miens Btraut mt tke
Way it Was Enforces Ooeine Tssm a
Tallest Befenaer ef the Eights ef Hie
Correspondence of the Observer.
I Raleigh, May . One of the interest
ing chanters ia North - Carolina's war
history is the clash between the State
government and the Confederate gov
ernment. It began so early as 1861. In
the administration of Governor Clark.
But in 1842 what may be termed an ir
repressible conflict began. Governor Z.
B. Vance, always Jealous of the rights
of his State and its soldiers, in bis mes
sage to the Legislature, dated Novem
ber 17, 18S2, said;. "On this State's agree
ing to sell the confederate authorities
ail the surplus supplies that could be
procured in the State they agreed to
withdraw their agents from our mar
kets and leave the State agents the
whole field, without competition.; This
would have enabled the State to clothe
and shoe her troops comfortably and
could have furnished the Confederate
States all that was to be had anyhow
at reasonable rates. But It was imme
diately violated. The country was soon.
and Is now, swarming with agents of
the Confederate government, stripping
bare our markets and putting enormous
prices on our goods. We agreed to re
ceive the commutation clothing money
for our troops and clothe and shoe
them ourselves. In consequence cf
the action of the government our troops
get only half supplies from home and
nothing at all from the Confederate
government. I earnestly recommend
an embargo upon leather. Speculators
are allowed to carry our leather beyond
our borders." The Governor sharply
criticises the woolen factories In the
State for the enormous profits they de
mand of the State, on the cost of the
raw material, and he says: "It is to be
regretted that they put themselves in
a position which will cause them to be
execrated by our people on the return
of peace. But as the free trade policy
oppressed them in time or peace, so
they seem determined to have no mer
cy upon the net profits of all persons
who during 1862 have speculated upon
the necessaries of life."
Governor Vance was strenuous in his
Insistence that the habeas corpus must
not be interfered with, and says: "In
rthe great abundance of military r'l'trs
and arbitrary authority people iiie be
ginning to forget there is such a thing
as civil law. A Confederate oif'..er re
fused to permit he execution of r. -vi:i
of habeas corpus in his camo -iMl irovi
the officer from his presence ith de
nunciation and abus'. The ns;. l.' K f
lature unwisely suspended the regular
sessions of the Supi-i-m an 1 upctior
Courts. I recommend that th'?-s; '; ti -stored.
The property of the sj'.'litr in
the field should he protec-1 TV'-iu t-el
ure. I think it will exert a favorable in
fluence on prices if men are compelled
to part with their surplus property to
satisfy their creditors."
The Governor goes on to say: "There
are confined in Salisbury, by order of
the Confederate authorities, a number
of citizens "of North Carolina, arrested
for alleged political offences. How long
they are to remain incarcerated no one
can say but those who apprehended
them. What their guilt really consists
in I do not know, but this much be
comes both you and me to know that
tkey were not arrested by lawful pro
cess, and as citizens of North Carolina
they are entiled to a speedy trial by a
Jury of their peers and to be confronted
with their accusers. I learn from the
newspapers that Congress has given
the President "power to suspend the
writ of habeas corpus in all cases of ar
rest made by Confederate authority. If
this be once admitted, no man is safe
from the power of one individual. He
could at pleasure seize any citizen of
the State, with or without excuse, throw
him into prison and permit hini to lan
guish there without relief a power
that I am unwilling to see entrusted to
any living man.. To submit to its ex
ercise would be establishing a precedent
dangerous and pernicious in the ex
treme. Among a people so united and
faithful to their cause as ours, where
disloyalty is the rare and solitary ex
ception to the general rule, I can see
but little good, but a vast tide of in
flowing evils from these inordinate
stretches of military power which arc
fast disgracing us equally with our
Northern enemies. A free republic that
must needs cast off Its freedom in every
time of trouble will soon cast it off for
ever. Freedom cannot be embraced to
day and spurned to-morrow."
The Governor refers to the claim of
the Confederate government that it
had the right to commission the officers
of all regiments, and the refusal of the
Secretary of War to commission com
pany officers. He says he called in per
son on President Davis, and adds: "It
is mortifying to find entire brigades, of,
North Carolina soldiers in the field com-'
manded by strangers, and In many
cases our own brave and war-worn col
onels are made to give place to colonels
from other States who are promoted to
the command of North Carolina troops
over their heads to vacant brigadier
ohlp8. Some of these promotions are
charged to North Carolina, which en
ables the Confederate authorities to say
we have had so many appointments,
when we have not. In fact the ap
pointees not being citiens of our Statr
This is fast breaking down the pride
and patience of our officers, many of
whom are reporting to me their inten
tion to resign, alleging that the road
to honorable promotion is almost closed
to our citizens. This is not right and
forms a Just cause of complaint both ir
our army and with our people at home
We are witling that our-soldiers should
follow any general capable of leading
them, but we contend that as a matter
of sheer Justice our soldiers are entitled
to receive their fair proportion of tht
honors won by their gallantry and en
durance." Governor Vance says the two dangers
to the State are a depreciated currency
and a lack of food and clothes for the
troops, and adds: "In our intercourse
with our young Confederacy, having
firmly demanded the rights which are
due our State, let us yield no grudging
support, but sustain and strengthen
with our whole hearts."
In Governor Vance's message of No
vember 23, 1S63. he says: "The most
dangerous crisis of the war is upon a;
that crisis which Is incidental to all
revolution, and which is most difficult
for public -officers to surmount. The
novelty, confusion and enthusiasm
which filled our armies and exhilarated
our people having long since passed
away, the winnowing foe of privation
and want and suffering begins to sepa
rate the particles. The noisy are silent
the faint of heart begin to despair and
the disloyal, though few, to grow bold
in the presence of national ills. The
great mass, thank God, continue hope
ful and earnest."
But it was in his message of 1864 that
Governor Vance took the boldest stand
for the people of his State and its sol
diers, to whom he was devotion Itself.
He took up first the- matter of "running
the blockade," and said: 'The power
given the President of the Confederacy
to impose restrictions in commerce will
effectively prevent this state rrom
importing any further supplies for the
army or people, i he port of Wilming
ton la now more effectually -blockaded
from within than from without, the
terms imposed upon ship-owners being
such that a heavy loss is Incurred by
every voyage. Yet the act provides
that this shall not be construed to pre
vent the -Confederate States or any of
them from importing any articles on
their own account. Private persons
importing supplies for the government
by contract. lor enormous proms, are
not taxed by these regulations, yet
North Carolina, importing almost sole
ly the same articles for the same pur
pose, is compelled to submit to them,
and clearances are refused and the
guns ef the forts brought to bear upon
oar own vessels to compel a compliance.
The general government has no right
to seise any part of the interest or a
sovereign State in the vessels employed
in importing her supplies,: or to Impose
such regulations as will destroy instead
of regulating commerce.
- Then the Governor, took np another
great arierancei He said: "The im
pressment of property ef eitiseas by of.
Seers" and agents of the Confederate
government, harsh enough in itself, has
become doubly so toy the constant dis
regard of the provisions of the law
reeuLlating seizures, - in addition to this.
the flagrant outrages -committed; by
straggling soldiers and other, persona
-to' the Confederate service, having no
shadow of aotnority to Impress proper
ty, has become a grievance eJ most in
tolerable. This grows worse and re
duces our people almost to the verge of
starvation. It must be stopped.",
- Governor Vamce said as to the matter
of exempting from service
I have
ken the ground that the exemption of
gtate officers from conscription into the
Confederate service is not by favor of
Congress, but it is a matter of right In
herent in a sovereign State,- and that
for the same reason the State has an
Indisputable right to the; services of
laborers and. other- persons to her emv
poy. not u ci vngrra mpemi
)ng the habeas corpus has most thor
oughly aroused TpnbHc attention. Nei
ther the losses incurred bjr the r-3i .
and radical changes In -the curi-c;..
nor the cenacrtptioav of the principles of
Substitutes nor the extension of con
fscription to such an age and upon such
terms as to place the Industrial pur
suits of the country at the feet of the
President, nor the heavy burdens ef
taxation aone of these nor au Ox tnem
together have : so-awakened the public
feeling as the withdrawal or tan ume
honored and blood-bought guard of
personal freedom from the people when
H is most needed for their protection.
Many recurring dangers of serious con.
Oict with the Confederate government,-
especiatly in regard to the seizure of
the nrincipals of substitute after dis
charge by a Judge, have been upon me
since your last session.": -n
The great war Governor -of North
Carolina, for by that name did his peo
ple delight to honor him, then went on
to say: "Nor have I (this wsa written
May 17. 1S64) amid all the embarras-
ments end perplexities of the situation
been unmindful of the great object 01 ;
all our blood and suffering peace or
neglectful of all the proper and honor
able efforts to obtain it. knowing the
great desire of our people to save the :
precious blood of their children. If by
any possibility and opening might be
found for the statesman to supercede
the soldier, I approached the President
on the first opportunity presented by
the cessation of hostilities last winter
and urged him to appoint commission
ers and try what might be done by ne
gotiations." Then Governor Vance
says to the Legislature: "I respectful
ly recommend that you; as the repre
sentatives of the people of North Caro
lina, should lay down what you would
consider a fair basis of: peace and call
upon our representatives In Congress
and those to whom is committed by the
constitution the power of making trea
ties, to neglect no fitting opportunity
of offering such to the enemy. These
terms,' In my Judgment. should be
nothi ageless than the Independence of
those States whose destinies have been
fairly united with the Confederacy by
the voice of their people, and the privi
lege of a free choice to those which
have been considered doubtful. I pre
sume that no honorable man or patriot
could thmk of anything less than inde
pendence. Liess would be subjugation,
ruinous and dishonorable.' Nobody at
the North thinks of reconstruction,
simply because it Is impossible. With
a constitution torn into shreds, with
slavery abolished, with our property
confiscated and ourselves and our chil
dren reduced to beggary, our slaves put
in posession of our lands, and Invested
with equal rights, social and political, .
and a great gulf yawning between the
North and the South, how can there be
any reconstruction, or how can It be
desirable, were It possible? Lincoln
himself says it Is not possible. The
only terms ever offered us, contained in
Mr. Lincoln's infamous proclamation,
were alike degrading in matter and in
sulting in manner, being addressed not
to the authorities. Confederate and
State, of the South, but to individuals,
who, by the very act of accepting its
terms, would have proved themselves
the v ilest of mankind."
In the official documents published in
1864 are some letters from Governor
Vance, which show the fine
temper of the man. In one to Secretary
of War James A. Seddon. he said: "1
asked you to order the removal from
the northwestern counties of this State
of a lot of broken-down cavalry horses
of Gen. Jenkins' command, which were
devouring the substance of a people
threatened with famine. I have had no
reply. Their depredations still continue,
and they are becoming not only a nui
sance, but a terror to the community.
I decline to permit these horses to re
main in that section. When the ques
tion of starvation Is narrowed down to
women and children on the, one side
and some worthless cavalry horses on
the other, I can see no difficulty in
making a choice. Unless they are re
moved soon I shall be under the pain
ful necessity of calling out the militia of
the adjoining counties and driving them
out of the State. I hope, however, to
be spared such a proceeding.''
Another letter to Secretary Seddon
speaks of "an evil which is inflicting
great distress upon the people of this
State and contributing largely to the
public discontent, this being Illegal
seizures of property and other out
rageous depredations by detached bands
of troops, chiefly cavalry. It is enough
in many cases to breed a rebellion in a
loyal country against the Confederacy
and has actually been the causeofmuch
aliecnatlon of feeling in many parts of
North Carolina. I ask rf this stealing,
piilering, burning and sometimes mur
derous conduct cannot be checked. I
3ive you my word that in North Caro
ina it has become a grievance, damn
able and not to be borne. If God Al
mighty had yet in store another plague,
worse than all others, which he intend
ed to let loose on the Egyptians in case
Pharaoh still hardened his heart. I am
sure it must have been a regiment or
so of half-armed, half-disciplined Con
federate cavalry. Had they been turned
loose amonlg Pharaoh's subjects, with
or without an impressment law, he
would have become so sensible of the
answer of God that he never would have
followed the Children of Israel to the
Red Sea. No, sir, not an inch! Cannot
officers be reduced to ranks for permit
ting this? Cannot a few men be shot
for perpetrating these outrages, as an
example? Unless something can be
done. I shall be compelled In some sec
tions to call out my militia and levy
actual war against them."
Secretary Seddon expressed regret, but
said that Governor Vance's letter was
general and did not implicate any of
ficer by name.
Gov. Vance wrote President Davis,
and sent him a letter from Wilkes
county about the matters complained of
to Secretary Seddon. He said: "It is
a sample of many I am daily receiving
and about which I have lately com-plained-to
the Secretary of War without
effect. Is it strange that disaffection
to the government should be engender
ed by such conduct? I can only say,
sir, that if no steps on the part of the
Confederate authorities are taken to
protect our citizens from illegal im
pressments of this kind. I shall be com
pelled to take such measures myself as
may be in my power for that purpose."
One of the most Interesting letters in
the series is to President Davis, com.
plaining of refusal, after assent, to al
low conscript's the privilege of choos
ing their regiments. Governor Vance
says in the letters: "I make this the
occasion of telling you a few things of
a political nature, which you -ought to
have. The people of this State have
ever been eminently conservative and
jealous of their political rights. The
transition from their former opinions
anterior to our troubles to a state of
revolution and war was a sudden and
very extraordinary one. Prior to Lin
coln's proclamation the election of dele
gates to our proposed convention exhib
ited a popular majority of upwards of
30,000 against secession for existing
causes. The late election (this letter is
dated October 25. 1862). after sixteen
months of war and membership with
the Confederacy, shows conclusively
that the original advocates of secession
no longer hold the ear of our people.
Without the warm and ardent suport of
the old Union men North Carolina could
not so promptly and generously have
been brought to the support of the se
ceding States, and without that same
Influence, constantly and unremittingly
given, the present status could not be
maintained 48 hours. These are facts.
4 I allude to t hem nnt tf remind vmi of
any heretofore political differences
(which I earnestly hope are buried In
the graves of our gallant countrymen),
but simply to give you information.
The corollary to be deduced Is briefly
this: That the opinion and advice of
the old Union leaders-must be heeded
with regard to the government of af
fairs in North Carolina or the worst
consequences may ensue. I am candid
with yon. for the cause's sake I be
lieve, sir. most sincerely that the con
script law could not have been executed
by a man of different antecedents with
out outbreaks among our people. And
now, with all. the popularity with which
I came into office, it will be exceeding
ly difficult for me to execute - it under
your recent call, with all the assistance
yon can sender me. If, en the contrary,
West' Point generals, who knew much
less of human nature than I do of mil
itary service, are to ride rongh-shod
over the people, drag them from their
homes and assign them, or rather con
sign them, to strange regiments and
strange commanders, without regard to
their wishes r feelings J must be com
pelled to decline -undertaking : a - - task
which will 'certainly fail.,"-.-.-- I
should also tike to knew what ear sis
ter States are doing in support of the
conscript law. as a very general Im
pression prevails that this State is doing
vastly more than, ner narevT:5s- ji
.'53Cr.-Xav1s "replV was verr--frienaly
and said he expected the eonscrlps to
choose their regiments and that the dis
appointments referred to should be cor
reeled by- transfer-?- He then says:- "I
feel grateful to you for the cardial man
ner in which you have susti
ed every
proposition connected with
s public
wi.l !-
defence, and 'trust that
ta-fways be such accor-iance a
ligence as win enable us ta co-operate
for the public good. The conscript act
has not been popular anywhere out ef
the army. There, as you are aware, it
serves to check the discontent which re
sulted from the restraining ef . the 13
months men beyond the term of their
original engagement, and wan fairly
regarded as a measure equitably to dis
tribute the burden of public defence,
but the State aathorle have nowhere
r rertjil any opposition to its execution,
. Y -R thheld - their aid, except, in - the
State of Georgia, and no far as the oa
dets of the Virginia, Military Institute
are concerned,?!;" -fr fc .
The MGevemor4 had s, tilt with Oea.
Gabriel JY Raines, Chief ef the Confed
erate Bureau of Conscription, and told
him plainly. "God forbid that the rights
and honor and - the existence itself of
the State should rest- only upon the
grace -and mercy of a bureau of con
scription." -Chief Justice Pearson, of the Supreme
Court, decided in a writ of habeas cor
pus and Secretary Seddon wrote Gov
ernor Vance: - The opinion is not re
garded by the War Department as a
sound exposition of the act of Con
gress and will not be officially regarded
as such." This aroused the wrath of
Governor Vance, who wrote Secretary
Seddon; "But I wish to inform you, or
rather to remind you, that, though the
War Department may not be bound by
the decision of the State courts, yet the
executive of that State Is.' Being sworn
to. execute the laws, and the lawk be
ing expounded by the courts, an at
tempt on the part of the Confederate
officers to seize citizens in defiance of
their, decisions in the absence of a Su
preme Court to decide between the par
ties, might lead to unpleasant and un
profitable consequences."
September 10, 1863, Governor Vance
telegraphed President Davis that a !
Georgia regiment had entered Raleigh
and destroyed a newspaper office, and
requested that troops passing through ;
Raleigh shall not enter the city. It
concluded: "If this is not done, the
most frightful consequences may en
sue." The next day Governor Vance
wrote the President, demanding punish.
ment of the officers who led the regt; I
ment, and saying if this were not done,
he would demand the persons of these
officers of the State of Georgia. He a'.s j
said: "I feel very sad in the contem
plation of these outrages. The distance
is quite short to either anarchy or des- ;
potism. when armed soldiers, led by
their officers, can with impunity out
rage the laws of a State. A few more
such exhibitions will bring the North
Carolina troops home to the defence of
their own State and her institutions. I
pray you to see it does not occur again.
I thank you for your orders regarding j
the passage of troops through the city."
But on the same day. September 11th,
he wrote Mr. Davis the following spicy
letter: "This afternoon, in spite of
your orders, a large number of infu
riated soldiers from an Alabama
brigade entered this city and
spread terror in their path by threaten
ing murder and conflagration. I rode
with all speed to the depot and got a
Col. Scruggs to march a detachment in
to town and restrain them before they
had done any damage. They even
threatened my life if I interfered with
them. This thing Is beconng intoler
able. For 60 hours I have traveled up
and down, making speeches alternately
to citizens and soldiers, without rest
or sleep, engaged In the humiliating
task of trying to defend the laws and
peace of the State against its own bay
onets. Sir, the means of stopping
these outrages I leave to you. It can
be easily done If the officers will but
try- If not done, I shall feel it a duty
which I owe to the dignity and self
respect of the first State in the Con
federacy in point of the numbers and
good conduct of her soldiers and In all
the natural resources of war, to Issue
my proclamation recalling her troops
from the field to the defence of their
own homes. Already threats are being
broadly proclaimed of ' burning the
bridges and destroying the roads .lead
ing by this place."
President Davis wrote that he had
taken steps to effectually prevent a re
ccurrence of such disorders.
March 7, 1864, Governor Vance sent
Secretary Seddon this telegram: "The
enrolling officers are arresting men who
have been discharged by competent
Judicial authority. Will you for the
sake of about 80 men force me to resist?
I warn you of the consequences."
January 8, 1864, President Davis wrote
Governor Vance, expressing fear "that
by an over-earnest desire to reclaim by
conciliation men whom you believe to
be sound at heart, but whose loyalty Is
more than suspected elsewhere, you
will permit them to gather such
strength as to require more violent
measures than are now needed."
April 11th, 1864, Governor Vance wrote
Secretary of War Seddon: "I call your
earnest attention to the importance of
suspending the conscript law in the
mountain counties of North Carolina.
They are filled with torles and desert
ers, burning, robbing and murdering:
they have been robbed and eaten out
by Lc.ngstreet's command, and they
have lost their crops by being in the
field nearly all the time, trying to drive
back the enemy. Now that Longstreet's
command is removed, their condition
will be altogether wretched, and hun
dreds will go to the enemy for protec
tion and bread. Please consider their
condition and relieve-th"m if possible."
Seddon replied that Mr. Davis con
curred with him in the view " "that
grave doubt is entertained of the rt
lediency of such apparent yielding to'
the disaffected classes."
Seddon wrote Governor Vance a letter
May 23. 1864, In which he spoke of "the
too ready interposition of the judiciary
authority." This was a hit at Chief
"Justic e Pearson. Governor Vance's re
ply was that tnere exists among ur
neighbors a too ready disposition to be
lieve evil of this State, when it is
known that North Carolina is the only
State in the Confederacy which em
ploys her militia in the arrest of con
scripts and deserters: that she has bet
ter executed the conscript law ; that she
has fuller regiments in the field than
any other, and that as the two last
great battles on the Rappahannock, in
December and In May. she furnished
over half the killed and wounded it
seems strange, passing strange, that
an impression should prevail that de
sertion would receive official counte
nance and protection in her borders. 1
regret to see that the impression will be
made by letters of yours and Gen. Lee's
that desertion is greater among the
North Carolina troops than those of her
sister States, which I have every reason
to believe Is not true. Yet has any
other Governor been applied to to issue
proclamations and employ the militia
in arresting It? Has 'the too ready in
terposition' of the Judiciary of South
Carolina and Georgia been rebuked for
almost similar decisions rendered?"
The most interesting letter in the se
ries bears date February 9, 1864, and Is
to President Davis. Governor Vance in
this says: "I hear with deep regret that
a bill Is certainly expected to pass the
Congress suspending the writ of habeas
corpus throughout the Confederacy,
and that certain arrests will immedi
ately be made In North Carolina. Of
course if Congress and Your Excellen
cy be resolved upon this, as the only
means of repressing disaffection In this
State, it would be a mere waste of time
for me to argue the matter. And yet I
should not hold myself guiltless of the
consequences I fear will follow did I not
add yet another word of expostulation
to the many which I have already spok
en. If the bill be in violation of the
constitution and revolutionary in Itself,
It will be resisted. Should it become a
law soon, I earnestly advise you to be
chary of exercising the power with
which it will invest you. Be content to
try. for a while, at least, the moral ef
fect of holding this power over the
heads of discontented men before shock,
ing all worshippers of the common law
throughout the world by hurling free
men into sheriffless dungeons for opin
ion's safe. , I do not speak this face
tiously or by way of a flourish, nor do
I believe that as an enlightened law
yer and a Christian statesman you
would feel any pleasure in the ' per
formance of such an ungracious task. I
am on the contrary convinced that you
believe It to be the only way to secure
Noith Carolina in- the performance
ef her- obligations to her con
federates. The misfortune of this be
lief is yours; the shame will light upon
those unworthy sons who have thus
sought to stab their mother because she
cast them xrft. If our citizens are left
untouched by the arm of military vio
lence, I do not despair of an appeal to
the reason and patriotism of the people
at the ballot box. , . I expect myself
soon : to take the the field . . - .
and exert every influence to restrain
the revolutionary . tendency of public
opinion. - . , . I do fear to trust bay
onets and dungeons. . - . I have tried
to - make .y-- you-'',;' aware . ,of ; . the
tact I , of , ' disaffection in this
State.' and the cause of ft, and have
twice visited Richmond especially to
give yon information. The truth is, the
great body of ear people hare been sus
pected by their government,: perhaps
because of the reluctance which they
gave up the old Union, and 1 know you
will pardon me for saying : that ' this
consciousness ef their being suspected
has been greatly strengthened by, what
seemed to he a studied exclusion of the
anti-secessionists from all the more im
portant offices of the government, even
from those promotions in- the army,
which many of them had won with their
blood-:- Was this? suspicion Just?:-1' And
was there sufficient effort made to dis-rr-ve
that it jrealiy existed, tf it really
" 1 not exii- dx TUthmond? dseession,
It is true, has been unlimited and bit
ter and unrelenting criticism of your
administration has: been indulged In,
but where and when have our people
failed yen ia the battle or withheld
their blood or- their vast resources? To
what exaction have they not submitted?
What draft upon their patriotism have
they not honored? - Conscription, ruth
less and unrelenting, has - only - been
exceeded in the severity of its execution
by the impressment of property, fre
quently entrusted to men unprincipled.
dishonest and filled to overflowing with.
ail the petty meanness or small minds
'dressed In a little brief authority.' . ,
Perhaps X am unduly biased In ' my
Judgment concerning a people whom I
lore so much, but I trust not. Our suv
cess depends -not on the numbers engaged-
to support our cause, hut upon
their seal and affection. Hence I have
every hope in persuading, not in forc
ing, the sympathy of an unwilling peo
ple. . . . If there be a people on
earth given to the sober second thought,
amenable to reason and regardful of
their plighted honor, I believe I may
claim that it is the people of North
Carolina."
F. A. OLDS,
XilH THB STKKJtT TOO W 1BKOW.
The Jfew Brick Boildlng Oatog Vp en
Sixth aadTryoa Is a Serlena Waaace to
PrrvMMt Improvement eX the City It
BpetnaohesToo Much on the Street.
To the Editor of the Observer:
I desire, through your columns, to call
the attention of our city fathers to the
fact that there is now about to be erect
ed on the corner of Sixth and Tryon
streets a brick structure, which, owing
to its position with reference to Sixth
street. Is a direct violation of the prom
ises made by. the former administra
tion to numerous citizens living and
owning property on -this street, as well
as a serious step backward in the way
of permanent street improvement.
Within the last year Sixth street, which
is a prominent thoroughfare for the
first ward, was macadamised., and at
the time, the citizens living along this
street, and especially those residing be
tween College and Brevard streets, were
positively assured that If they would
give enough of their lots to widen the
street the same width should be main
tained through the block between Try
on and College. To this they assented,
though in some cases it was a hard
ship, for it meant the loss of very al
uable shade trees, and a serious curtail
ment of front yards, but to get a wider
street clear through to Tryon all oppo
sition was finally withdrawn. The
street was accordingly widened, save as
to the south side of the Wadsworth
block,' and the sole reason assigned for
not setting back the fences and walls
along this block was the lack of money
at the time. Promises were made that
in a very short time this should be
done. Competent contractors, stated
that it would cost but a small amount
to do the work. The last administration
beheld the removal of the old wooden
buildings extending almost half the
length of the block, and saw prepara
tions for the erection of a new brick
building In its stead, but, for reasons
not necessary to mention, it was con
venient to forget alike the Interests of
the town and promises made to resi
dents of this street. None hail yrlth
greater delight than I the enterprise of
the Messrs. Wadsworth in tearing
away the old and giving us a new
structure here, but to place the outer
wall where I am reliably Informed that
it is to be placed, means that the very
entrance to this prominent street is for
ever to be scarcely more than an alley
way. The street at this point Is nar
rower than elsewhere, and this building
will be in advance of the new line es
tablished recently. The opportunity
for making a beautiful street and a
much-needed Improvement is about to
be lost. Much dissatisfaction- exists
among the citizens who gave their land
that the street might be widened and
straightened, and some threaten to
move out their fences to their former
lines if the compact is thus to be ig
nored. I earnestly ask an investigation
of this matter before itels- forever too
late, not upon the ground of promises
of a former administration,, but solely
because it is a matter of deep concern
to the city and especially to the citi
zens of the first ward. PROGRESS.
Charlotte, May 13. 1897.
WHO KNOWS ?
Mining Engineer Wm. R. Bogg Doesn't
Know What the Boston A Carolina De
veloping and Mining Company Is.
To the Editor of the Observer:
Who knows? I do not. and therefore
plead as an excuse for bothering you
with this answer to your editorial of
this morning the fact that the "Eames
process," originally started in North
Carolina, but has not yet been devel
oped into a paying proposition. I have
no Patent Office reports at hand, and
cannot say whether No. 502,431 is the
Eames patent.
You might refer your questioning ed
itorial to the Kngineerlng and Mining
Journal, of New York, which certainly
published something on the Eames
process some years since, and also
something about the Acetylene Com
pany, organized in the North, but with
works in Rockingham county. N. C.
Yours respectfully.
WM. R. BOGGS, JR.
Charlotte. N. C. May 14, 1897.
Str.
Caruahnn Saya the Process Described
and the Plant Arc Actualltie.
To the Editor of the Observer:
Without professing to know any
thing nt the enterprise, the Boston and
Oarolinas Developing and Mining Com
pany, the writer as well as several
hundred others in this community and
elsewhere knows of the existence at
Indian Trail of a plant similar to the
one described in the prospectus as
printed in your article this morning
under the above aption. It is also
well known that apparently pure sul
phur is reported to have been extracted
at the place by application of an elec
tric current to ores mined in the neigh
borhood. Also that the rocks of that
vicinity in great quantities carry Vary
ing amounts of sulphurets with gold,
silver, and other metals.
As to the process it has been noted
in the Engineering and Mining Journal
on several occasions since 1888. In the
issue of that journal of July 11. 1896.
two communications will be found re
lating to this subject.
F. W. CARNAHAN.
Charlotte. N. C, May 14. 1897.
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.
The best salve In the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
soresT tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,"
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satis
faction or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by Burwell &
Dunn.
DR. KING'S NEW DISCOVERY FOR
CONSUMPTION.
This is the, best medicine In the world
for all forms of coughs and colds 'and
for consumption. Every bottle is guar
anteed. It will cure and not disappoint,
It has no equal for whooping cough,
Asthma, Hay Fever, Pneumonia, Bron
chitis, La Grippe, Cold in the Head and
for Consumption. It is safe for all
ages, pleasant to take, and, above all, a
sure cure. It is always well to take
Dr. King's New Life Pills in connection
with Dr. King's new Discovery, as they
regulate and tone the stomach and
bowels. We guarantee perfect satis
faction or return money. Free trial bot
tles at Harwell A Dunn's. Regular size
50 cents and tl.
A VALUABLE PRESCRIPTION, i
Editor Morrison, of Worthington.
Ind., Son, writes: "You have a valua
ble prescription in Electric Bitters, and
I can cheerfully recommend It for con
stipation and sick headache, and as a
general system tonic it has no equal.!'
Mrs. Annie Stehle,. 2,825 Cottage Grove
avenue, Chicago, was alt run down,
could not eat nor digest food, had a
backache which never leit her- and felt
tired and weary, but alx bottles of
Electric Bitters restored her health and
renewed her -strength. Prices 50 cents
and $1. Get a bottle at BurweU &
Dunn's.
' Absolutely lur
- Celebrated for Its great leavening
' Strength and heajthfulness. Assures
: the food against alum and all forms
cbesr brands. ROYAL BAKING jfin
POWTIf Rro K Tnrt S7 I
textile
THE D. A. TOMPKINS
f- -
CHARLOTTE, N. 0.
::(. m.- B" snnnWnnWsWInnnnntnnl nnnnlnM nftnVelnnfaSJ MMKn"haaM nMnW1M
Mannfaciorers, EDgincers-Vand; Contractors,
m Cotton Mill Machinery. :
. Cottoa Mill Repairs, cGetr Cutting. Roller Coming, - etc. ,
ONE BY ONE
The blossoms drop; one by on Hay fruits are formed; one by one May visit--
on will soon fill the enormous space of the Exposition quarters; one by one vis-
itors who come partly to purchase wtll wend their way to the COKNER OF -f ,
TRADE AND COLLEGE STREETS, where ONE by ONE car lend lotsof .
fresh new goods, bought last week expressly for May bayers, are being empti- '
ad Infei th want Mmivin9 dmartmnt af tnaanaplnne ; . : . i . .
BEE
The Cheapest and Best Arranged Store in the State ;
WHOLESALE
Our Soot Cash Lever did doable duty
The whirl pool of depression which has
nrices on stanle drv goods searched by
loads and loads of staple dry goods
Hive at SOo. on the dollar.
Dry Goods, such as Dimities, elegant new spring styles; Ducks, White Piques.
Percales, Bleached Domestics, India Linen, Moils. - j . ,
Clothing and Hats In Profusion. f
Shoes, too, have shared in the whirlpool - of depression which has wrecked
prices on staples. Ladies' button shoes, with patent tips, 49c ; ladies' shoes, fi ne
worth $1.25, at 75c; ladies' shoes, Zeiglefs, Cousin's, Fonst's:.and other ne,
3.00 ehoes, small sizes, in li, 8 and, 8 s, at 98c., Oxfords, discs ana nun.
Ladies' Shirt Waists, Laundered, at 25 Cents.
Men's fine shoes at 75c.. 83c and 98c. Job lot shoes, solid leather. Men's and
ladies' fine and coarse shoes at 48c.
Finer hand sewed shoes for men. i :
Ladies' and men's shoes 35 per cent, lower1 than yon can buy them else
where, i ,
Ladies Oxfords at 25c. ; children shoes at 18c. j - .
HATS Boys' Straw Hats 4c. ; Hats 4c , Sc., 10c., 18c, 85a and np. Our Hat "
worth $1 at 50c ; Men's Hats worth $2 at $1.25. '
Enormous Stock of Clothing Suits 25 per cent, lower than yon can boy them
anywhere. Men's Pants 17c np. Pants worth $1 at 49c Men's Socks 2c, np.
Laundried Shirts 24c Alamance Plaids 2J c. Watch the crowds next week, one
by one, column after column, will pour into the BEE HIVE because VOX
POPULI IT IS THE CHEAPEST STORE IN THE STATE,
JOHN D. COLLINS.
LIST OF PRESSES WE BUILD-
Boss Press. s I
Boss Press with steam tramper.
Boss No. 2 Press.
Boss No. 2 Press with
Boss No. 3 Press.
Boss No. 3 Press with steam tramper.
Steam Tramper. for attaching to Boss Presses.
Boss Press with No. 3 press gearing. ' j
Boss Single Screw Press.
Graveley Press.
Double Screw Hand Press. .
Doable Screw Hand Press mounned on wheels. '
Direct Acting down-packing steam.
Press 80-inch cylinder.
Direct Acting up-packing steam. 1
Direct
Press
Revolving Box Press with steam. 1
Tramper and Screw Power. J
Revolving Box Press with steam. 1 .
Tramper and 30-inch Steam Cylinder.
Presses for Cotton Waste.
Warp and Yard Presses.
Cloth Presses.
Presses for Hay, Excelsior, Tobacco Stems,- Hides and other materials
built to order. - .
LIDDELL
Charlotte,
aft ho i
Drink
Keep
HIRES
PootbeerCool-Drinh
HIRES
H V fa-'
WelbDrinRy
HIRES lotwjuhvs
HIRES
Gail Borden
Eagle Brand
Condensed milk.
BEST INFANT FOOD.
Why Will Ladies SUFFER
from being 'Run Down'
When they can so
easily BE CURED.
tfdenton, N. C, May 8. 1897.
Until February 1892. I was a physical
wreck, and had been so for over twenty
years. No one can ever know what -I
suffered from Rheumatism and Neu
ralgia in different parts of my body,
but principally in mybead. Ieuffered
so much with pain in my back that
often I would have to lay. with bottles
of hot water to my hack, te gtn me
what little relief it would. I suffered
with indigestion for years, which gave
me often such chokinir spells that the
doctor uld have to be summoned in
taste. I ceuld not eat-a mouthful of
meat or solid food of any kind, and
the erudition of gas from my stomach
was dlstressinav My system was com
pletely nm down. I had no strength and
was oistressinciy nervous. Sometimes
I would f he unconscious i -from these
nervous spells, and would have to
have hot hatha applied for relief. When
I had been la this condition for over
twenty yars, Mrs. Joe Person visited
our townf In February, '92. and per
suaded, me te try one-half dosen bot
tles of her Remedy, as she told me
she had never known -it to fail te re
store a broken down -ayatem. I anew I
would have to. try nomethlnr and
thou gilt tt might as well bp her Remedy
as anything; but Z had no faith in any.
thing curing roe. I bought one-half
dozen bottles, and when I was on the
second bottle, X began to feet better,
and by the time I took the six bottles
I WAS WELU Indigestion was per.
fectly cured and I can now eat any
thing X Want, and it agrees with me.
It cured me - entirely" of Neuralgia,
and . X have never had it . since, it
cured me oT hemorrhoids," from which
1 suffered agony, rheumatism, hack,
ache, headache, nervousness, all cured.
Whenever X see anyone suffertng from
anything. I ask them why don'f they
take, one-hair dosen : bottles, of , the
llbmedyv that It would cure tnem. I
nenld - not . take hundreds of dollars
r what It did for me. It restored me
to health, and I now enjoy 1'fe.
--. . mrs. s. :u BO..vrs.
iiAcnur.y
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AlND RETAIL.
last week in New York suction roomaX
recently drawn down and .capeixe;
the Bee Hive's Snot Uaah Probe, an
dropped one by one but week, into the Bee
t J.
Think of it, men's fine shoes at 43c -
steam tramper.
Acting up-t
30-inch cylinder.
COMPANY.
N. C
-THE
H I V h
i- 'it""-'
s Exposition v'
Is the topic or conversation every
where just now, and so will the
exhibit of Shell j & . Harinon at the
exposition building, ' after the visitors
have once seen the charming line .
oi ouverware, men vnr uiw vruoos.
Watches and the Handsomest Display
of fine North Carolina Gems ever shown
in the State Souvenirs of all the His
torical Buildings and Spots in the City
will be on sale at reasonable prices. - -- j
1 l
Shell j Harrison, h
MANTELS) MANTELS! HAXTELSI
Come and see our new line Mantels,
Orates, Etc., Tiling of all colors, i
Mantels from $1.50 np to 176.00.
E. D. TESSIER & BRO. i
Phone 80. . Corner College and Third.
WE have Just put in another new and
NOTICE.
You can get a -good set of upper or
lower teeth for $7.50. The best made f 10.,
Gold fillings $1.60 up; Amalgum 76c;
Cement 60c. Extracting - teeth 25c.;
painless extracting 40c Crown and
bridge work done in the most approv
ed style. ! -j ." . .
DR. J j H. NEWELL,
ROOM 4, DAVIDSON' BtTrLTJING.
CHARLOTTE, N. C. '
DRINK
1 I
Bavarian Hops,
Canadian Malt.
R. PORTNER BREWING COMPANY,'
Charlotte Branch, . ,
i 4. a Valaer, Agt.1
: Phone No. 5. '1 v ;. '
CALL FORJ..J
Extra Finn Draught and Export Beer ,
. also all kinds of soda waters and
dder. il - i.
CHARLOTTE BRANCH, -J
- " BINDEWALD, MgJ v
AXXi ORDERS for Job printing sent to
the Observer Printing House will re
ceive tbe best attention &ni the price .
wlj te t yery lowest. - '
HORRUI
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