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. -. !um p,ip"r , .j, t ilft . ,.iml W cuj .ii. S column j . ,ivu!iy t 2.00pI J UUILYl-Ont Inch v - , ; Ob month f P.iO; oil monthf , tWO; v dcr beadol "City Itm r each Insertion Ma will, b tnitd betweea y prise. or Pnfl, hot hi exortd li.serted fre. All additional d 10 centt per line. .. ,, ..stent advcrtimenui intut no. Regular adTrtiemoU , rvimptly at the e"d of Mca containing newt or a dUcus "r are solicited. Ho communl' K-t to bo imkUnhed that contain f innalltit; Vllhhold" the nam or that wilt make mora tbaa on JOURNAL. XEN.-C. NCTVV 17. 1882. the Pout oltice at New Berne, N O.. as econu-ciau naiier. , L lqtjitt leads in the Sena 's in Georgia. J i8 predicted as the Ee i leader la the next Senate, ; reat Erie Canal in Ifew i been made free of tolls by ; :sienlnient to Constitution. ;: is no longer a Presidential Tidal , waves and cy ..re i very .ciepressinff in : i resent National ' House of v.?-fives consists nf ; 203 .,. Of these 146 are re-elect- i next House and 147 are re 1 to private life. The Sun j to say of that incident: ra the 1st of Decern bor,there i ::;til the 4th of March, the I of business in the lower 'a of Congress will be ..; in the ; ( " a - majority jnadej ui 61 1 Republicans 'and' Demo , ; iUic servants on whom the ' ve already served notice whipped","' disappointed; in cases desperate ;'..in? further to ..yLrtLe ..J tj point t j our ts Lr tL j purpose oi tomj. ..ring iem with . the Northern surplus, thus maiing the inconsequential point that the North was taxed to maintain the mail service of the South. ... Whatever force there ver may have been in such ant illiberal comparison has been " partially, at leasts neutralized by the changed condition of k the new 'So'iith. ' Ve have not the figures at hand, but we believe our ppstoScesr are - gen erally 'self suppbrting-,' and if we tak:e the money order and regis tered letter service into account, we will and' they are, taken as a whole, entirely so. And as the use of the mails is likely to ' in crease instead of diminish, in both sections, it is altogether 1 probable that Congress may safely adopt Mr. Howe's practical and wise sugges- tion to make material i-ertuction the rates f postage. , ' in FORT AND FLEET- men, who lose " poli- 1 everything to gain per- I ; rieuce has shown that there re reckless jobber than the i:;inan whose successor Is siid ;whose "public career lie certain limit got by the 3 and the clock." ; ' , ! Clsap Postage. v -0 will probably be a' serious . i made at the coming ses '' Congress to reduce the post i letters to two cents per rate f an ounce. The fact that the 1 revenues under the present exceed the expenditures for the ' j will be urged as the princi on for making the reduc , There is no doubt . that, , the ..t rates compatible with inak C a department selfsustaining 1 meet with the favor of J the .'can people but there are pth i in which reductions could i lsides the one suggested. ' nee, the present ' rate is ats per half ounce and the for every additional half ., cr fraction of it. The half 1 i.j rather a low maximum for ' avier description of corre- ce, often entailing double ; upon a letter that barely . Le scale. We have heard it ;:d by business men that a ii of the ' charge for; addi- rates after , the first might 1 5 pat down to one cent; ; so Liter ' weighing " aa ounce 1 a sent for four cents, instead ; ;::i ouuco and' a half, five , I i;tead of nine, and so on. : i the government ; but very , if anything more, to scud a cr t! n c rate letter tban it tlinpatch one of a single (.' tainly the additional cost ' ' r rate after the first ; i ore than sufficient' to increased cost on account ve the time has come Ycnnuentcau well af 3 t!;a people cheaper country is rapidly r::-!i'Jon of States, The Federal Blockaders of the AV'ar-- Hard Work aud Neceiaary 'Vtgilauce. Some Incident Skipped by Hlitor (Detroit Kive Prow.) , ' . , If the business of blockalde-nm ning had its perils and adventures frhat of the blockaders was scarcely less exciting. 1 For three long years the blockading fleet was one of "the chief weapons in the hands of the Federal liovernmeur, out it was a weapon which every historian . . has treated in a manner bordering on contempt. Where -one ,has' given naval operations a single " page le has devoted thirty to the armies Take all the. Federal histories ,yet written, Select ;fx-om each what ' lias been said of the navy and its labors, aud the extracts would not make a book of 400 pages. Why this is so I know not, but so it is.-, THE?' BLOCKADEES, When President ' Lihcoln issued his blockade proclamation it seemed like an empty threat. Thfere -was not naval i)ower enough at that date to blockade one Southern port. Those were the days when ship owners reaped a harvest. The pro clamation must be enforced, vessels must be had at any price, and gov ernment agents bought right and left: Ships, brigs, barques, schoon ers, steamers and propellers were purchased at any price, fitted up ra almost any way, and when the time nxed by the proclamation . had ar rived the blockade went into effect The fleet was a make-shift until other craft could be built and armed, and while it answered very well to keep up an appearance of blockade, naval officers now laugh at the ridi culous situation. ' During the first six months of the blockade at Char lesion an average oi six runners came in and out for every one cap tured, and it was about the same at other ports. Army 'operations for the first few months seemed like boys' play, i and! no ' great deeds could be expected of a navy so sud denly created and given such a line of coast to watch, ' ' THE SEAL BLOCKADE. May be said to have begun in the Spring of 1862. By this time the navy was thoroughly organized for work, many new vessels had ap peared, and considerable valuable experience had been gained by numerous officers. : From 'that date to the close of the war there were never less than six Federal blocka ders off Charleston bar, and some times the number was increased to fifteen. One day ? ' Wilmington might be guarded by two oj? three vessels, and the next by five or six, and it was the same at Smitlmile. Georgetown, Savannah and Galves ton. ON THE STATION. When, a blockader arrived on the stationj her first care was to dis' cover what forts or batteries' do lenueu the harbor, and the range of their , guns.' The next was . to survey the coast and map out the banks, shoals, channels and , to lo cate beacons and, bearings. The Confederates had of course removed all buoys, f abondoned f all ": light houses and iu many casses had cut down trees which had been familiar landmarks for years. Where it wa.s possible to secur a.negro wh6, knew anything of the coast he was paid well and kept aboard. ' When a blockader had done al this her real work had only begun Plenty of pilots who knew all about Charleston bar in 1860 could te nothing about : it vin1802i; New channels had been cut, old ones filled up, and the sea was niakin changes every month - ' - The Confederates were not to bo shut up without exhausting every Ciiort to prevent such, a calamity Forts ajM 1 --H; d't' 1 :. i - v,. - el. l-lock. r .was a sentinel on ; ost. loiiK i of low, hot or co!J,she must remain until relieved by fresh orders. It happened at east twenty times during the, war that the entire tieet off Charleston had to cut sticks,, and. ...r.im.Jtp.. sea to ride out the terrible gales. here were few days '-without ad venture, and few . nights t without perils... J.I-, ,-. -; v. . I THE WOKK BY DAT. ' ' ' As the blockade-runners seldom- ventured to make their appearance by daylight, the blockaders would either xuu in and have a brush with the batteries, or dispatch scout- boats up creeks and rivers. Again they would stand, out to sea to watch for incoming runners, and with them it was eternal vigihince without much liberty to speak of. There was ever a fear of submarine torpedoes or ''devils,'' and after the Confederate crusers got ' afloat no one could say at whath our one ot themmight appear among the fleet. t was known that the Conleueratos were building rams and irou-clads, and -their appearance might be; look edi for any day. ; j , ' ' ' THE WORK1 BY N IOHT. ; ; 1 With the 'coming - of night the vigilance must' be increased; and the dangers by no means 1 dimiu ish'ed.'1 Every runner that dipped in or out left a stain on the fleet, but men could have'done no more than was , donej . A Confederate captain told me that he made Wil mington . one night in a terrible snow-storm, and the night was so bitterly cold that all his crew were frost-bitten. He got into the har bor without sighting a v blockader, but there in the channel was a Fed eral gunboat at anchor, ; She could not be passed to port, and' on the starboard . side tne distance irom her rail to the beach' was scarcely a hundred feet." ;The ' Confederate had a1 light-draught steamer,' and he edged up at ' quarter speed to squeeze through. , tHo passed the gunboat within twelve feet, and as he passed he saw a look-out with his arms on the rail looking square at him. ' ; Th6 Confederate expected an alarm, but it did not come. ' His craft crept forward like a snail, one of her paddle-wheels almost on the beach, and by and by wast out oi sight and safe in harbor; As was afterwards learned in Wilmington, the I look-out who seemed to be gazing with wide-open eyes vwas a dead man frozen to death at his post of duty. ' t - While the blockade runners trusted to speed and dodging in stead of fighting, there was danger to be apprehended irom the despe rate daring of nine-tenths of the captains. They often made a dash lor it when discovered, and several times off Charleston they rubbed against blockaders in a . way to make, the splinters fly. A wooden steamer buzzing along at the rate of twelve miles an hour would have sunk the largest iron-clad in the navy if striking her right.' ;' There "were some blockade run ners who were thoroughly determ ined not to be captured, and to fight ii cornered. One captain had spar and a torpedo attached to the bow of his cralt, and both were in position whenever he'ran in or out of Charleston. : His intention was. in case a blockader barred his path to ' push ; straight at her and give her the benefits oi . the torpedoes, Curiously enough, he made seven or eight , trips, without even ! being hailed by a blockader, .... t . ; - a v f . BUN ASHOEE. .- The first ain of the runners was to get safely in or out. When it was realized that this was , impos sibie, the object was to prevent vessel or cargo irom being ot any benefit to the Federals. The run ner would be headed for the beach three or four jires kindled on board, and, in the majority of instances the crews escaped, and vessel and cargo were consumed. : When 'the war closed, the bones of at least thirty "tuiraers "could be counted within ten miles of the mouth of Chaileriton Harbor. A When a runner headed for the shore, it was out boats and pull for ner. ,.:JNow and then one ; was over hauled and the flames subdued, but in many cases the boats' crews were driven off by the infantry sent .'.to the spot from the nearest fort. , ' JON THE "WATCH. ' ' ' There was never a single moment in the twenty-iour hours that watch was not maintained. One man, provided with, the best of glasses, was sufficient by ! day, but at niglit irom two td lour wcro ou dutjr, .according to the .weather During the first year; the runners selected dark or stormy ; nights for their trips, but later on they could be looked on any sort of night. Every runner going out halted off Fort Sumpter to get the report of the look-out who was maintained there. Every-evening before c! ' this look-out. l;'-ivi-,r iU best t-A - tior s as soon ; s i.' ';t 1' but the ook-out eoula ofti i tell what po sitions they would take, beiug guided by the tides, currents and look of the weather. No soKlier on outpost used his eyes apd ears piore keenly than the look-out on board the blockaders. On a pleasant night the duty was not onerous, but in wild weather, and particularly during the winter months, much suffering was nec- ssarily endured. No man aboard could turn in at night with a feeling ot security. He realized that he was likely to be turned out at any moment, and once but there might be hot work with the guns, a pull m the boats, or a chase lasting for hours.-"- v.'! v ' " :;- s'-' :"'-' - : A CURIOITS ALARM. " ' One night in December, 1803,' a ruuuer .was creeping, along down the. harbor; in, hopes, to, dodge through the fleet of eight or ten essels when all at once an alarm was ffiven , in the Keuoral fleet. g'uickly. followed by the bang! bang! of the great grins. Tho excitement ontmued lor lull twenty minutes, drawing some of the Fedeiilla a mile from their first positions, and the runner took advantage of the furore to escape to sea Aboard oi ifr it wa) believed that some cralt, bound in, had been -captured, .but such , was not the case, A.bout 1 1 o'clock strange fogs began to rise irom tne water and sail around. Some of the look-outs took the curi ous shapes lor what they were, but aboard of one- blockader a fog-bank took the shape of a steamer slowly moving over the waterj and an alarm was the natural consequence. 1 FOOLING- THE YANKEES.' ner fuoper, Lull l.a.l peu in and .-.it three or four tries, and won' 1 have got to sea agaiu.wilhin three or four davs had not ner preseuco been betrayed. An ex pedition from the blockader started out to advauce up the inlet Irom the sea, but was driven packby.I,;v batten', the presence of which was entirely unsuspected. --- -- After taking a few days to survey the situation thecomfiiander of the blockader one night ran up the coast to a point beyoud the spot at which the schooner, was lying to load. Between the sea, and the inlet was a neck of land a nine wide, xwo uoats' crews were .tt . r XT' AT) sent ashore, and while, oue boat XX. V . i.XXi.X was lett on tne beacu, tne men I am going to suffer no lcr,; rv . niv shoes made ou that wruiiir 1 - surd priuciple, but wear lhe I.. styles manufacturea vy .--. jr'IDVRKELL. Repairing' done H the neatest laa -- ner: invisible patcnes pui ou ana war ranted to stay. Dont forget 'the place south of the Central Hotel.. Middle street. New Berne, N. Q... .... . : - , Send your orders and save money. eep21d4wtf. .. J. W. HAERELI carried the other across the neck and launched it, and then seven men started down the. inlet to cap ture the schooner. The 'Confede rates did not dream of such a 'Yan kee trick as this, and 'apprehended .dauger only from the opposite di rection. ; The boat's crew bt seven approached without discovery,' charged and carried the Confede rate camp ou tshore,'., and. iU' ten minutes had possession if schoon er and all, without having a man wounded. , ,y The number of Confederates wa about twenty-five, most of them be ing engaged in the' nlaimlwl uro of salt. There was an infantry; camp about two miles away, mi which were about 150 soldiers, but none of those came up to take a hand in. The salt works and4.. whan 'were given to the flamesand as it was found impossible to get the schoon er out she was also lired. The ar tillery was spiked and the carriages destroyed, and when : it came to All sorts of ideas were worked to 'disposing of the ten prisoners cap- draw the blockaders Off the station ! tured a ludicrous incident occun-ed, or jrive them a scare, and many of Not one of the prisoners would give the nut-iii) iobs were successful. ! his rank, and as: all were dressed One night the hull of a Vessel was ; alike the Federal ofticer selected drifted down ; with . the tide and : three of the best looking whom produced the greatest consternation i he thought must be officers, and ior a time. It drifted down upon a i took them away in his boat, alter blockader. beiusr almost aboard be-"! paroling the others. These three fore it was discovered. All hands turned out. to be privates. At were called up to 1 repel : boarders, iSavahnah I met' one of the ten the. guns fcurn(.d loose," and as the I men captured there, and ho said "dreaded monster" drifted awav Ithat after the boat had' -departed the whole fleet took hand in and ! the paroled nien sat. .down among finally sent her td the bottom "with : the smoking ruins and had a every soul on 'board." It Was be- laugh over the , trick hcy (Succesftor to E. H. Wlndloy,) ' DISTILJLERS' AGENT FOR Pure Rye and Corn Whiskv 1 AT WHOLESALE. 1 ' "VOTES', AND .CIGARS IN GREAT VARIETi: , y'-,. ;i -ii-J i-i'' ""0'1 ' '. . ! i- - a . I".-.- ' , ! '' , j.; Ginger Ale, Pale- Alp, Beer ! and Porter, ; '. -CIDER, Bergner & Engel' Beer, ' - Pui'O 'Friich lid y " ' ' II. W. WAllAf!,' Corner South' Front and MiJule sta., eep20-d&wly 1 New Berno: N. C. THE lieved for many hours that a "rebel Merrimai;'' had been done for, but ng the next .forenoon a negro made his escape to the fleet in a skiff and not only revealed the true character ,of the "monster," but stated that i two runners got duringthe excitement.; , , Another plan was to drift a raft down after having set up a couple of sticks for masts; and in one case at least it was so arranged that sinoko and sparks issued from a smoke-stack. As soon as the raft was sighted the fun began, and runners were always on hand to take advantage of a change of po- sitioh by the fleet. It is uoubtlul it any - blockade ever recognized by the world was more strictly enforced or of more damage to the blockaded.' No one expected that it could be made so stringent (jthat nothing conld slip through.: That was the ; aim, - of course,; but the Federals: labored under many burdens. . In the first place the, Confederates , purchased the very fastest craft; afloat. .. in the next, bad weather was an. ad vantage to them. Again, ; they would take such desperate chances as dumbfounded brave men. - In a dozen instances they came down the harbor at a speed . of fourteen or htteen miles an Jiour, and plunged straight through ' the fleet and took the chances. Some were not even hit by the hot fire instantly : opened, while ' others took from three to six cannon-balls into Nasau as relics. Federal history fawns upon the Admirals, puff's the Commodores, and pats the com manders on the back, but it stops there.; There is never a word of praisei for the thousands . who endured the hardships and braved the dangers of the blockading sta tions.' Indeed, but for an occasional magazine article ;;br a newspaper sketch, the country would have for gotten that We had anything afloat except a few iron-clads. , y. .; r v . i CUTTING OUT THE FASHION. News having reached the fleet off the mouth of the Chattahooche liiver that ,a schooner up the stream had loaded with cotton aud was waiting a favorable opportunity to inn the blockade, a. fleet of eight or nine launches was made up and sent up -the river, and not only was the -valuable schooner captured with a' valuable ; cargo , on ' board, but niuch .damage , w,;is created , by burning and, destroying, m near had tho launches approached the schooner when discovered that the men who wcro below were captured. Those on deck had to move lively, and two or three who leaped into the water in their excitement would liave been drowned Is ad rait t i ' . ; :. :.. .1 r i up. good ; liad played. The infantry stationed on the iiecki were in ; fault for the inisfortutie; 'Although pretending to manitiUn a pohoi, they were nil in catnp and asleep when ' the schooner was attacked. but If may be bitter ill for certain people Jo swallow, but it i8 never theless a solemn fact, t hat this same, schooner, ran i at least three cargoes direct from New York and Philadelphia into blockaded ports, each time being furnished a cargo by men who were making them selves hoarse by hurrahing for' the glorious Union and against traitors. M. QUAD. WAR IN EGYPT IS ENDED, BUT ' iiutsiphrey 6 Ifaxiui ( : . ; Are wagiiiK a . 4- Terrible Warfare with High. Prices, And will never rest until they have . It outed The m. t- Cull and erala ;;!'.i--'.f.'i.,.,li.ri Ree how we slaughter Goh- NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. , ' Hancock's ' Pile Remedy. TJIK GREAT INFAI.LlHI.ti 1IKMKDY KOIl HE- MKVINO AND CIIIIINO BLIND, KT.KKIIINO, 1TC1IINU. ULCKKATEH OU PllOI'KUOINO. PILES. , 'riTUSVlLLE.OiawrordCo.Peiiii. ';;.::, ItfcenibiT lHtli. 12. ..MisssBU. Hancock Kuos: While in your cily several yonrnago, I wiik Kliflerliig very severely from Piles, mid bought a box of your file uumeny, wmcn l ftin umiiKiui lo-siiy, Have me great rener, una i thliiK has miule a complete euro. I cau highly rocomluend It to any one Runenng from tuts umcaHo. ; , Hesneetfully.' Bkknakd Boson. . Sold by all driiKKiHts at 50 cents per box a sample box will ue given away to anyBuft'erer from.this disease who will apply for it; , "Try ii'i ianuit-,nireo ano mm oy .,. , ' 1IANVOOK BnOS., DruKKlnt, ):,k , f '.,;.,!; New. Berne, IV. !, P. IIolLAND, Jr. : O. H. GDION. HOLLAND & GUI0N, (At Simmons & Manly 's Law Office.) REAIi ESTiffl AGEITTS; Land tmrchasod and sold on short no tice. Groceries, ' , ( , ", Provisions, , , Dry Goods, Soots, Shoos,1 ; ; ' Hats and Caps, AND HELP US TO BURY THE DEAD. , 'HUMPHREY & IIOWAIIU. ; Brick Block, Xew Berne, N. C. oiio. He the Icelfoune. 1 -ilSdw:iu TH0S. J. LATHAM, , i Late of Newbern, N. C, -. ROUHTRHE fi GO., Cotton Factors and Conimlsslou Mcrrli'tit BOITNTUEK k Co . Commission MertlianU, ! 12 Old Slip, a.Y. '. Consignments solicited. . h Prompt and faithful attention guar anteed to all business entrusted to them. 1 " ' ; ; ' : ' sepl9(iw3m NORFOLK, VA. SKS SSStt1 THE NEW NUM BER of houses and collection of rents 1 P. O. Box 464, NEW BERNE, IT. C, For references apply to National Bank , ijeo. ii. (iuion, Simmons ot Manly. sep4-dtf - '..''.: ' -;' : ' ,: : OIl&hd'RdbtbXIasii yHEELEB.'fi-CIL The Neuse River Navigation ' ; Company , ;. SEWING XIACHINE Will run tho following Schedule : . , " Steamer Kinston Will leave the Old Dominion Wharf Tl'KS DAYS and FRIDAYS, and arflvo at Kinston WEDNESDAYS aud HATURD AYS, and leave Kinston MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, nniv- tna in New Berne the same day, , Will touch at all J,andiiigs .along the Klver goljig and coming. .. .; . '..-; .; . ... . y Steamer Neuse Will inako THREE TRIPS a week, leaving tho Old Dominion wharf MONDAYS. WED NESDAYS and FRIDAYS at KK111T A." M Returning li-nves .Tolly Old Field TU1 DAYS, TIHT.SIWYS ' and SATURDAYS, tmicliii!g nt nil points, ' ' -.' Is the ' MOST DESIRABLE OF, ALL The Lightest - Running, the Least Noisy, and, Warranted to be mad.'; ' ' the VERY BEST MATERIAL. It, can do all kinds of irorl, ; 1 COMPLETE IN EVERY Er.TZCr. Office .';;, KEZT DOOR TO 4 ' ' : ' 1IANFFS JlfUSIC STOIl L : . ;. ' middle street., new berk;:', ... ct agents wanted. : 1 - '1 ! ; ia i'"- E. Tn
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