Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-03-17

instant, $500 gold coin n three lots sold at $22
for one 100 English sovereigns ut $2O19 for one
$500 sterling bill at 500. for one The men CT little
faith will surely be bit. This thing will 60 on. 1t
must go. Currency must become scarce and Gear by
the abstraction of $500 900 900 by funding and the
operation of the 80 per cent. tax upon the currency
carried over.
The CouNcn. OF STATE convened at Raleigh On Fri.
day Lest The understood object of its meeting to
take into consideration the proprety of calling the L.
gslature together in extra session. The Raleigh Con.
federate learns that the Council declined calling the
Legela ture together, the financial necessity not
considered sufficiently urgent to justify it.
The BEARD MOVEMENT is no longer a mere question
of hygiene esthetics 1t enters into the mpor
tant sphere of political and personal economy. To
shave not to shave becomes compound question.
10 fact, shave is now q double event your beard
and your pocket are alike shaved. The tonsorial artist
vul carly called barber, becomes barbarous indeed
You have your dialpae scraped Of the barber mean
while holding you by what WEBSTER denominates the
style gnomon ofsaid dplate, and people in general
call the nose. The operation over. you hand the gen.
tleman who does the shaving one dollar. Like Oliver
Twist, he asks for more, and you give him another.
That's all Shaving is riz" by the first of April
some meh's faces will be 80 long to cost them five
dollars for q thave.
The Supreme Court OF Virginia has decided unani
mousy in the habeas corpus of Abrahams and
Burroughs that the act of CONSUMPTION, and the act
putting the principals of substitutes into the army
constitutional in every particular.
IT is said that the movement which. Banks was to
have made against Mobile frustrated by the weak
ness of the force withdrawn from Texas take part 10
the forward movement of which Sherman's, Smiths
Griersons and Farraguts demonstrations were parts
Banks was to have advanced against Mobile from Pas
cagoua other point, but he had not the force
The smallness of the force brought back from Texas
s accounted for by the statement that thousands have
deserted to Mexico to take part in the troubles going
on there but whether for JUAREz the French or on
their own hook, no one knows.
The Mobile Tribune thinks the story quite probable
Certain it is that it part OF the programme for
BANKS to move bis columns in the direction of Mo-
bile, and equally certain is 1T that he did no do So
For tie Journal.
MEssRs. EDITORS will you allow me q small
space in your umus to make known some facts that
I'M nv opinion ought long SINCE to have been brought
cerned :? At Convention OF the Directors of the
Rail Roads in North Carolina aud other Southern
States, held last fall winter in Southern City, a
Committee was appointed whose duty it should be to
fix upon and report the Convention the rates of Gov
eminent transportation to establish stated and
uniform price for the transportation OF soldiers under
orders, and also for officers and soldiers travelling on
fUrlough. This Committee did recommend a certain
rate of transportation which when admitted for the
action of the Convention, met their approval, and it
was determined that the rates recommended by the
Committee should 60 Into effect ON and after the 18th
day OF Dec. 1868. The following is the agreement
tered into between the Directors OF the different roads
and the Government 10 regard to officers and soldiers
who might be travelling furl0ugh under orders
100 men, less number, it shall be paid for ut the
rates of cents per man per mile voucher for any
number 100 shall be paid for at the rates of IL
csnts per man per mile. All officers and soldiers
stoned officers not on furloug aud Govt Agt travelling
with or without requsston for transportation shall be
charged full local fare" merely desire to call aten
ton to this to show that there has been breach of
pose to point it out. 1t is expressly stipulated that
al officers on }urtough shall be charged at the rate
5 cents per man per mile. Now the Railroad conpa-
nies may up to the contract In every point
one yet, they fail in this one point it is no less
breach OF faith, and such the Government ought to
be- notified OF it; for contract broken by one party
is no longer binding the other. But to the point.
am an officer 10 the army and have often travelled
over the rO2QS STATE, moo That
my experience comedies with that Of other officers
who have been ON furlough, and whom have heard
peak OF it, aud 10 single instance that have heard
IT. has iuroughed officer been allowed to travel at
he rate agreed upon in every instance full local fare
has been char ged This is nothing more less than
IN imposition, look at it you will, and shows con.
'usvey that some one 10 too blame. The Government t
pays over the stipulated price, for the reaon that
III Eroughed soldiers are furnished with transporta-
ion, and when the vouchers for transportation are
presented for payment, they afe cashed at four cents
'r mile according to agfesme"t. An officer b
a farlough is not entitled to transportation fl
nd the Rail Road Companies in this and other States
ave taken advantage of this snd hence have invara
y charged them full local fare, knowing that the gov
Frs have to pay their own fare now ASK is this fair
it honest? It certainly not, since it is charging
early three times as much was agreed upon-and p
DIV that this breach Of faith has been made known
to be hoped that the government will take notice
, and demand that the Rail Re ad Companies abide
the written compact, and that ts officers have