North Carolina Newspapers

l>\. bDil irpar\ ^er w Ary; Jiioul.l, -ii,', _ ,. I /’ i»l dr. . , ■ ,n.l ,|r , vor u. thick t 7, aml ,lr.. . ; r«*pi r. n •till . e of ai ‘k an i illT. suini. r, f r hue ht w t w . til \v ^rui, I'irni, . f; •I th:n rivtv br.i OkV>’ M «*. h, , »rl\ . wh: th*‘\ . lliUg. • '•'•■-l.LOw '■aili, 111 tl ’ , Oud, >t J:. vor.' ' 'DKMV, t-r 9f III si. outh. V. E\v V; • ; . ■ ■ . lit,; ; '•.-" ■-al. :'s \ ■ ■ * K. l:iliti.' b:.rio: . hitul ' iu lo , ‘ ' ’ ■ I', i • 1 till' I; ice w ' ^ • i u eras [i-.ri:-- , . N(/ ‘ ‘ r !' i.. 'Cvu.; •»; bar •ket ! l>t’ J I4|: Chi: : EK ^ ^ ^ -1. A! ;■ Rl > 1 s\LK. rust • A • uio-i - >UUl . ‘n, I V. jrtha_ , *• 1 tsdil = f' aud . ')f 1 ned • Bor : .r W . ra as ■ M.-: ,ly a( • ^ l: ' W:i!, iJ (li:,, i- J ■ lire'l ; . ’! 'Ci'S. r. Cl - > IL. ;:»ts tlKERS. r SCT ■ y.' and - ■. . ' l,‘-r re juis coil' abuii : ' .t\l 11 m all : 1’ ■, ;r ;i,.- r - ■t n': ‘ ; piunijit .. at.-.id. ! 1V. AKftL i J-.ilN.'-iN, e t' r .'-irv ho E :i\ • A ROLl-N 1 OL’N rr 8., : ■N ■i-'iu! Hbl. 8, VS. ! 1_: T= ildei' siou ' ' ■ kCtioii ? ' -e I'liuri, fti»‘ Te.i ,ur, tw iJU- ui tL- ..iivir St*!- lei e'i •: -II I’Ui.; / it; 'li vely ti ii‘ t ayettevii-fl ,f ti-e ti.iQg it ti:C ■ iity of ti ' "■ li ll.O f ouili . r - tl. let'oil = . : ' they I;] tor ; ■ ^ ainbei ':i ;htn . I tuk’ ^ ; , Clei iiiN ar M. li II OUN T Si >5o7. on ^ ■ “■'L ‘ ahiid.: ' *ction ' laxier, r ierel'>i ■■ ade ff'i' s ,'iui'i jurt, ’ ■ lift 1! • e^rujiry Lhm i 1 to - ti; I will iasui ! . ;ic, K JU i:- ican 1II i >■ M. JlAlU ^ ■ if sa;J ' "'ii't' . : : :r D- 1'^'- luov^- ’ 7i- 't ' \ IM )LIN^' i. Noveml 1 ni r ;oL' I ; :r S.-- ^•}1. V8. ■ u Nn. • , adj":: - 'ullltlll iclioii iaxtci r lierelwrt: iiJe : * said i>:i ourt, tu urt 11 • ruary nt. i levi'-; utibly be rt L ■ lie to I, (;ier»- in N .■ icau 11 ■ >1. -- . t^r. . ven^crtT - jr : •’ = • • ■ .T-rs. . (’.-art • g- bvjxnJ . r.-i ^.n IV./ t.; . ^ held I'^r . Lambert^-- ucxi, theu :’.„iera . ,u. : .;r, A. 1>- iCudt-TM-C. M A>, * , , Vovember luster- ^ ;..v,n Acres - ; ti.e - ,V,i8 C»®* yo m *“* , im ,.h.r. A.V. p,.n.jence. OJ5SKR VEIl. FATETTEVILLE. ^MONOAY KTKMNG. DECKMBER 2:j. 18§7. ' 1858, no ,1, «*** iuUcriier will It mittrmi on our hooks mithout pai/mfnt in aihance^ * .’ ./(. fKipfr will b* Jiscoufinuml « the expira- ^ ,, , .•■//(# /'»« pm\l fur. Th* sum* rule will be ; ,.v I - iV/» 'if our present subscribers as U. j’woK Mk.mbkrs of Conorkss.—The treasu- j-v \v:i' si'arcely a complaint ^v-,, li. inl in nil the laud agaiaist the vote by the uji nil" i> Congress of a liberal salary to them- i. ,^ Kut there is a good deal of iudiguatiou iu soiiio oasc! very abusively, at anotb- .li t p:i>?ed already at this session. The bill to ^utlmriM' the i^sue of twenty millions of Treasury ti> nut’t the demands on an almost empty tr.'usui v. "US passed through with great haste. \iiJ very next day another bill was passed by wliii'li till' nioinbcrs were enabled to draw out of riu tri usury iuntautly nearly a million of tlollars 1,1 p;i\ ;.iid uiileage. The salary of S3000 a year tn Ji .'lurch 1^57 to lid March If'oy. Hut luri'ti’foM' thi> salary was not payable till the end ,t' a .'t'ssiim—the member was required to perform t mie service before he could draw pay. The act V ,\r [ i''L'd pcTuiits cai'h member to draw on the ;.r-t day of the session, nine months pay, from od >I:.roh tl ‘>d December, (besides his mileage,) and r. aftor to draw S‘250 a month. This is pay- tih iiisclvos the snug sum of S'J‘250 each before t:., V uu .e performed any service. And iu some : . it works a decided individual as well as pub- \vr»ug. Mr. Banks of Mass., for instance, has r, Mgnod his seat to take effect ou the 1st January. Hi» i iitiro service was from Dec. 7th to Dec. “23d, iuriuj: whiL'h the House sat just lo days. For t!i> arduous labor. .Mr. Banks will receive about besides mileage. His successor will serve t\r I m uths of the first year, till March 3d, and rii't^'ive $oOO and mileage. This gross injustice i- nue of the wrongs of the new act. There will bi .ithors, in ca.ses of deaths and resignations. In uit's of contested seats, of which there are half a i 2eu pending, the sitting member will draw h .'■J.’tOO, and if he should be found not entitled to the seat, the member who u entitled will undoubt- ;iy be entitled to his pay also. But the worst vvil i>, that members are permitted to draw this hirL'i sum of ?22’)0, and then neglect their dutie.s, • home, or lie about the dram shops of Wash ington. The Senate passed the bill, '26 votes to 13. In tbf H iUj'C (he i/ms ami na^s were not taken, so tL it uobody can tell who voted for it. The thing furnishes a fair specimen of demo- trutiL- ecoLomy and disinterestedness. NtW SrATE.>;.—It is now evident that at the present session of Congress three applications will be luude for admission of new free States into the Lui'iu—Kansas, Oregon and Minnesota. Their applications will probably be successful, and the I niiiti will consist of 34 States. Of these, 14 :ire Slave States, another (Delaware) is nominally whilst ID will be free States. Add Delaware, aud the sections will stand in the Senate, 20 to 14. The equality of the South in the Senate, already lost by a small majority will be gone for ever. A wide gap will be between them. The N irth will have the power to do as it will, in buth branches; for we all know how powerless is the (Constitution when a political or sectional party chooses to construe that instrument “as they understand it.” Ordinarily, we doubt not that rbt right.-; of the South will be respected; but will.El the ever-recurring agitation of the sectional ■jur'tion shall intfame the public mind of both 'u tii.us, we look for the obliteration of all just ami kindly feelings. The very weakness of the ' lUth will make her proud and defiant; whilst the fiiiuiicism of the North will imagine that it will “doing God service” by trampling on the rights aud institutions of the slave-holders. We would ’ .VO more hope of the future, if Congress were tilled with the best and wisest and most patriotic mon, who would impress upon the public mind :iuJ ft.jliugs their own conservative sentiments. Hut such is not the case to any considerable ex- tint, and the tendency is from bad to wor.se in r'-.'pL'ct. >'■' Til Carolina.—The Legislature adjourned II M inday last, having passed the moderate num- ■ r ,f ri7 laws An act relative to the banks was finally passed s^u-p. nding till Jan. 1859, the penalty for sus P riding specie payments, on the express condi- ’i'lri that the banks shall not be allowed to collect y xfcution any debt due them until they resume ■p'.cii payments. After the l.st Jan. 1860, no ijank ‘1 be allowed to issue more than S3 for very in specie, under a penalty of $500 a day. Weekly accounts to be rendered by the bank to ihe Comptroller deneral, and by him published That after Jan’y I8ti0, no bank shall issue notei . than 810, under a penalty of 8100. mentioned in our last that the Ijegislature hu'l unanimously passed resolutions denouncing 'bt KaU'as policy of the President aud Governor ulki r. Later accounts state that the whole sub j' i-t was indetiuitely postponed. ^^\v York Leoislation.—TheN. Y. Courier K,' luircr, remarking upon the early resumption payments by the N. Y. banks, says, “\\ ir have reason to believe, that a regular ■ "iiuiij entered into some weeks .since ' V tb"Mj who infest the lobby ut Albany, to pre '^■iit aiiv 1' jrislation in behalf of the Bank.s until ^ '‘‘ry lur'N; ilouceur or bribe had been extorted ir'iiii tb in It was said and we believe it to be fruo. tfiat a million and a half of dollars would Democracy.—It can scarcely have escaped the observation of any one who has mingled much in politics, that^he most loud-mouthed preachers of democracy are generally the moat thorough aristocrats in their manners and feelings,—the most despotic in the exercise of authority. It appears to be a trait of human nature, confined to no age or country. W’^e need not go back to the period of the French Revolution, to cite the thou sands of instances of monstrous oppression, com mitted under the banner of “Liberty and Equal ity.” Our own country abounds with similar characters. Who ever ruled with a more despotic will than Andrew Jackson, the leader of democ racy? Who ever practiced democratic habits less, than gome of the leaders of democracy, dvad or living, in North Carolina? Gov. W ise of Virginia has just furnished an in stance of assumption of authority, which would put to shame even Gen. Jackson himself. The Virginia Senate unanimously called on him by royolution to state the reasons which induced him to loan 2000 muskets to the Governor of Mary land in October last (to arm the Maryland militia in the event of riots in Baltimore.) The Govern or gives as his only reason, “comity to the Gov ernor of a sister State,” which did not admit of his inquiring into the object for which the mus kets were wanted; and frankly admits that there “is no legislative provision bearing on the ques tion of the power exorcised” by him and that he “did not pretend to act under any statute.” But he says he did it “under the ‘Chief Execu tive power of the Commonwealth vssted by the (institution iu a Governor,’ and under the speci ficd power ‘to conduct cither in person or in such other manner as shall be prescribed by law, all intercourse with other and foreign States."’ According to this democratic doctrine, there is no conceivable power which Gov. W’^ise may not exorcise. lie may be as thorough a despot as ever existed. lie hae only to get up a correspon dence with Brigham Young, or the Governor for the time being of Kansas, to enable him to march an army of Virginians with muskets in their handt; to those far off regions, to assist in putting up or putting down Mormonism or Slavery. So also the great head of democracy, President Buchanan, who is standing up manfully, on paper, for the right of the people to self-government; when a public officer takes him at his word and proposes to exercise that right in the election of a Mayor for New York city, the President’s practice differs so essentially from his preaching that be removes the officer for the avowed reason that be means to set an example that no office CONGRESS. In the Senate, on Saturday, Mr. Crittenden oflFered a resolution in favor of revising the pre sent tariflF, with a view of raising the duties on imports, Jka. The Treasury Note Bill was debated at great length by many Senators, and finally passed, 31 to 18. Of the negatives 4 are leading adminis tration Senators: Davis, of Miss., Pugh, of Ohio, Johnson, of Tenn., Broderick, of California. As the bill pass«d, the notes issued are not to be of a less amount than 8100, and the time of issue is limited to Jan’y 1, 1859. It is proposed that notes for six millions be im mediately issued to maet the pressing exigencies of the peblio service, by the Secretary of the Treasury, who is al.so to fix.the rate of interest they are to hear, not exceeding, however, six per cent, per annum, aud the aotes for the remaining fourteen millions are to be sold at par to the bid der or bidders who shall agree to exchange them for specie at the lowest rate of interest, not ex ceeding six per cent. In the debate, tho necessity of some such meas ure of relief was explained by the advocates of the bill, and its immediate passage urged to meet the imminent demands of the Government. The discussion on the other side of the question took a wider range, embracing in its scope the policy and expenditures of the Government duriug the past ten years. The present condition of our Na tional Treasury and of our monetary affairs was instanced as a legitimate conseijueuce of tho politi cal system inaugurated by the subtreasury and the tariff of 1846. It was argued that this system, having arrogated to itself tho credit of the pros perity enjoyed by the country during the last dc- cade, should now be also held responsible for the collapse which had followed. On Monday, Mr. Bigler of Pa. replied at great length to Judge Douglas’s Kansas speech. He also would have preferred to have the whole con stitution submitted to the people, but au the Con vention had decided otherwise he agreed with the Convention. lie attacked Judge E‘ouglas for want of consistency. Mr. Douglas replied with his usual ability. So far he has not found bis equal in the ranks of his assailants. Tha debate was continued ou Tuesday, M Fitch, of Indiana, assailing Douglas, and the latter replying effectively. On Wednesday, Mes.srs. Stuart of Michigan and Broderick of California (both democrats,) spoke in opposition to the President’s Kansas course and in support of Mr. Douglas. In the House OF Representatives, on Satur- bolder shall oppose a regular nomination of the day, the Treasury Note Bill was discussed, but democratic party for any office from President: little progress was made. been 'iftnanded from the Banks of the State a Cdndition precedent, for the enactment of ^ucb laws as would have been necessary to pre- tb. ir going into lijuidation.” ^uch proposed conuption among the lobby nietiibors of course indicates corruption among the gular members. It appears to bg necessary, at Albany and at Washington, to bu^ the enactment of laws. A Southern man may say with pride, l^at no such infamous system prevails here. down to constable, on pain of removal. Such is democracy! ‘‘Distinguished Democrats.”—W’hat a cor rupt set of scoundrels the leaders of tho Demo, cratic party must be! that is, if we are to believe the accounts given of them by the Democratic papers. We make the remark with a copy of the last Raleigh Standard before us, in which three “distinguished Democrats” are “shown up” by ar ticles copied from the Democratic exchanges of that paper. And we are reminded by reading them, of the article which we copied last week from tho Richmond South, showing up Judge Douglas. The Standard copies an article about Mr. Mc Rae, in which that gentleman is compared to a log, who lost the substance by grasping at the hadow; and is npoken of as one who disregards be public interests in his eager efforts to clutch public honors. Another article speaks most con temptuously of Senator H. S. Foote; his conduct and his motives are impugned, and he is dismiss ed, along with Mr. Polk’s Secretary of the Trea sury, follows It \s said that this weathercock statesman and turner ^f-political-summersets, designs rounding off his public life in a series of lectures vindicatory of that great and good man, Robert J. W’^alker. If any thing could sink little Bob yet lower in the estimation of every Southern patriot, it would be his defence by the hoary traitor of ’50-’51. They are worthy of each other, the advocate and the criminal; and it only needs this final folly of Foote to sink both so low, that the hand of the resurrec tionists can never reach them. Douglas, Walker, Foote, McRae, all these, and many more distinguished leaders of the party, are denounced for pretty much everything that is bad, by those with whom they have for years most intimately associated, by those who for years past have been holding them up to the country as most able statesmen, most exalted patriots, most honest men. They have, one and all, dared to differ with the prevailing notion on some one sub ject of public interest. They have thought this a free country and have dared to make known their dissent to a party dogma. In doing so they have merely anticipated the party *by a brief space; for the party changes its dogmas at least once in four years. They gain nothing by their course: they rather lose. Judge Douglas was the favorite for the Presidency, and if read out of the party loses his chance. Mr. Walker gives up an office to gain the right of free speech. Mr, McRae differs with his party when that party has an overwhelm ing majority. Yet every one of them, siding with the weak against the strong, is accused of being governed by corrupt motives. Every one of them is accused of changing for the sake of office, which in the estimation of their assailants is the highest earthly aim of every public man. For all we know, these men may be denounced not unjustly. But appearances, to disinterested spectators as we are, are against their assailants; aud the country suffers by their course. Good men, men who would think for themselves, and ^act out the conclusions of their judgments, are driven from the public service by the knowledge that any such course of conduct will subject them to the coarse invective and slanderous abuse of a party press which recognises no rule of action but party success. The places which should be theira are filled by the small men who are not only con tent to be, but are only fit to be, the machicos which execute the party will, change as it may. Specie Monday and Tuesday were occupied in di.scu&- eiug the same subject. The Senate Bill was sub stituted for that of the House, and finally passed 118 to 80. The House has passed a rebolution, 107 to 70 to inquire whether the Delegate from Utah should not be excluded fie » his seat ic the House on the ground that Utah is in a state of rebellion. [This is giving the man more inportance than he de serves.] Both Houses adjourned from Wednesday the 23d to Monday the 4th of January. Gen. Cass, Secretary of State, has replied to Gov. W'alker’s letter of resignation, as Governor of Kansas. The reply has been sent to the Sen ate by the President, along with other documents relating to Kmsas. The Secretary, under date of the 18th inst., objects that Mr. Walker’s letter resigning his place is accompanied by a long argu ment on the affairs of the Territory generally, and intimates that if every officer of the Government who felt himself constrained to refu.se obedience to the instructions of the President should pursue so unusual a course, and thus place on the files of the Department a criticism on the policy of the Administration, that no person better than Mr. "W. knew to what consequences such a course might lead. He says, further, that the President never entertained or expressed the opinion that the Convention was bound to submit any portion of the constitution to the people except the portion on slavery, much less that the other portions of the constitution would be invalid without such a submission; that had be entertained such an opinion it would have been in opposition to nume rous precedents th it have occurred since the adop tion of the Federal Constitution by the different States. Preaching an’j Practice. Cotton Receipts.—The total receipts of cot ton since Sept. 1st have been 944,804 bales, against 1,325,021 last year. The falling off is consequently 380,217 bales. The N. Y. Journal of Commerce asserted its belief, some three month."? ago, that there was no foundation for the reports of a short crop, but th,at it would reach 3,300,000 bales, or even more. Its estimate was violently attacked, and the maxi mum yield fixed as low as 2,800,000 bales. The Journal of the 19th inst. says, “We have now reached a .season when estimates can be made with some degree of certainty, and" there are few who place the total below 3,250,000 bales, whilst many of the best informe 1 make their estimates almost in the very words of our article of three months ago.” This declaration takes us by surprise. Whilst we have not believed in a short crop, wo are yet unprepared for one almost ecjual to the largest ever made. If it be reliable, we would a.sk what is to lone with the crop? With factories stopped in this country and in Europe; with pecuniary trou bles which oblige people to diminish their con sumption, even of clothing; and with a lack of means, of credit, and of demand, among merchants which forbid their buying largely of cotton goods, why should we look for a sale of 3,250,000 bales, ut fair prices? The consumption of the United States will be reduced from 000,000 to under 500,000 bales. Aud if Great Britain, with every ■Spindle iu full operation last year, had enough from a crop of 2,'^00,000 bales, what will she now do with a crop nearly half a million of bales larg er, and many of her spindles stopped or working half time? A cotton planter” writes to the Columbia (Tenn.) Herald a very different story. He esti mates the crop at less than 2,500,000 bales. The Journal remarks,— “In the sacie connection, we also noticed the bounteous harvest which had tilled the granaries in every part of the country, and urged the far mers to forward their crops to market before the close of navigation, not only as a meaus of relief in the settlement of debts, but also to equalize the prices, it being for the benefit of neither pro ducer nor con.sumer that a temporary scarcity and high prices with much cou9ciuent suffering among the poor, should be followed by an extreme of an abundance, and a decline that would dis courage future production. This appeal was widely copied, and in spite of the contradiction of some who ought to have kuowu better, was not we trust, without its influence for good upon the the movements of produce. The exports of bread stuffs, although far behind the totals for last year have been cousiderably above the average of lor mer years, aud have left but a moderate surplu at the seaboard. There is no fear, however, of scarcity, and speculators will not be able to con trol the market. We begin the winter, it i.-, true with only a moderate supply of desirable flour iu store, but if we had not a barrel the railroads aloue could keep us in food, and leave some sur plus for export. In addition to this the whole South will bo open to us throughout the winter and not only from every port below us on the At lantic, but also from the outlet of the West the Gulf, we shall have a liberal supply. If at any moment during the winter tho prices should increase, such an advance would instantly put the produce iu motion from the farthest Western limit of the i'^ou track beyond the Mississippi, and we may tLereforc set the speculators at de fiance. Besides, there are few who would wil lingly incur the riak of hoarding breadstuffs iti view of the probable course of the Spring trade. There is every indication of a mild opeu winter which will enable the producers at the West to collect their graiu together, and prepare it for au early start m the Spring. Prices will doubt less be low, but this cannot stop it, as the sur plus must be sold, aud there will be no promise of future improvement. The channels of com munication with the seaboard will be flooded with wheat and corn, the b.;tter iu greater pleuty thau ever before known, seeking a market at the East, or an outlet on the Atlantic. A golden tide it will prove to the great commercial centres, for if nothing now unforeseen interrupt its progress, for the observer. MASONIC CELEBRATION. The 27th of December, St. John’s Day» falling on Sabbath this year, was celebrated on Saturday the 26th by the Masonic Fraternity of this place. The ceremonies were of an unusually interest ing character: In addition to celebrating the day a.s a Masonic Festival, Phoenix Lodge No; 8 avail ed themselves of the occasion to dedicate their new Masonic Hall, an elegant and beautiful struc ture recently erected on the site of the old build ing, which we learn was dedicated in 1794. After the dedication ceremonies, which were performed in the Lodge room, the members march ed in procession along our principal streets, pre ceded by the LaFayette Saxe Horn Band, to the Baptist Church, where after an appropriate Prayer by the Rev. James McDaniel, Grand Chaplain, a ^Iasonic Address was delivered by Deputy Grand Master William K. Blake. The address of Mr. Blake was happily conceiv- d and admirably delivered. In chaste and ele gant language he portrayed the virtues and beau tifully delineated the tenets of the Order, graphi cally described its antiquity, and ably urged its claims to the confidence of all who loved a system of pure morality, or revered an institution whose leading aim was the inculcation of Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth. His allusion to the past bright history of Phuenix Lodge, and her eminent mem bers, touched a tender chord in the breasts of the descendants of tho.se to whom he referred. The Address was an effort of which Mr. Blake’s friends may all feel proud, and of itself would rank him among the foremost Writers and Orators in the State. The services at the Church were heightened in interest by the truly beautiful and appropriate anthems performed by the Organist, in which she was ably a.ssisted in the singing department by the other members of the Baptist Choir. The procession returned to the Lodge, where the officers for the ensuing year were installed, via: Mr. H. C. Lucas, W^. M. Rev. Jas. McDaniel, S. W. 31 r. W. II. Haigh, J. W. “ P. A. Wiley, Sec’y. “ W. Prior, Treas. “ W. B. Shemwell, S. D. “ R. M. Orrell, J. I). “ D. Wemyss, Tyler. Mes.srs. pi j. Hale & Son:—Please publish the following ticket: For Mayor, Archibald McLean. For Commissioners, W’’ard No. 1, J. Sundy. “ “ 2, M. McKinnon. “ “ 3, E. L. Pemberton. “ “ 4, J. McGilv; ry. “ “ 5, A. A. Mcl|ethan. “ “ 0, Wright Iluske. “ “ 7, W'illiara Warden. MANY CITIZENS. We hear nothing of the Rail Road from Fay etteville to the Coal Fields. Are they sleeping over that enterprise? We have often wondered at the apathy of the Fayetteville people over a work on which their salvation depends. Snubbed by the Legislature, they should have doubled their energies, rather than to have relaxed Jn their efforts.— Clinton Independent. The work on the rail road is progressing steadi ly, not so fast indeed as if we had plenty of mon ey, but still unfalteringly and with a determina tion not to be put down by the unkindness of the Legislature. FAYE'TTE VILLE MARKET.—December 28. BACON— 16 a 00 COTTON— Fair to good, 9^ » Ordin. to mid. 9 a 9i COTTON BAOQINQ— Gunny, 20 * 00 Dundee, 18 » 00 FLOUR— Family, 6 25 a 6 37J Super. 6 00 a 5 10 Fine, 4 75 a 4 86 Scratched, 4 60 a 4 60 GRAIN— Corn, 0 70 a 0 75 Wheat, 1 00 a 1 10 Oats, 50 a 0 Peas, 1 00 a 0 00 Rye, 1 00 a 0 00 14 a 00 35 00 aOO aOO LARD,— MOLASSES— Cuba N. Orleans, Liv. Sack, 1 25 a 00 0 FL.\XSEED 1 10 R 0 00 IN. C. SPIRITS— P. Brandy, 1 26 a 00 Apple do, 1 00 a 00 Whiaksy, 50 a 56 WOOL— 00 a 00 TURPENTINE— Yellow dip, 1 80 a 0 00 Virgin, 1 70 a 0 00 Hard, 0 86 a 0 00 Spirits, 33 a 00 REVIEW OF THE MARKET. Bacon—Receipts light, demand lesa. Cotton—We reduca our quotations, and, judging from last New York news, the next sales will be less, but not as low as they will be at a future day. Flour—Quotations fully maintained; sales this morn- iug at highest figures. Corn—Wanted. Peas—In demand. Whiskey—New begins to come in, and has to com pete with the low priced Northern, which sells at fr»m 35 to 40 cents, in immense quantities. Extract from a private letter from New York, Dec. 23d: “Our cotton market flat; uo sales for shipping; quantity increaging and pressing on the market; small sales for spinning at 10 cents. Flour market as bad as that of cotton. Correcteil by James G. Cook. At Cheraw, for the week ending on the 22d inst., sales of 306 bales of cotton at prices ranging from to lit; most sales ranging from to 9J. Flour 5 25 to 5 50, supply good. At Charleston, Cotton 9 to lOJ; extremes. •Middling uplaud Cotton has fallei. below 10 cents at New York; sales at 9^, with downward tendency. Southern Flour dull at 4 75 to 7 25. New Corn 6(5 to Ol!. Spirits Turpentine heavy at 39 to 40. Common Rosin 1 35. COMMERCIAL RECORD. ARRIVALS. C F Line. Dec 23, Str Flora with goods for Cook 4’ Johnson, C T Haigh & Sons, D & W McLaurin, J M Worth & Son, Smitherman & Spencer, Murchison, Reid 4' Co, J I) Williams, G Deming, A A McKethan, 5 J llibsdale, R Jones, Presbyterian Church, Dr J McRae, J Worth ^ Son, Tysou & Kelly, Deep River Co, Worth J" Utley, W H Carver. Dec’r 24—Str Rowan; Dec’r 27—Str Magnolia, with goods for C J Jones, Geo McNeill, C E Leete, E J Hale 6 Son, R E Heide, W C Troy, P P Johnson, S W Til- linghast, Wm Bell, J Otterburg, H L Myrover ^ Co, J li Prittchett. PORT OF WILMINGTON. ARRIVALS. Dec’r 20.—Brig Sarah Peters fm St. Thomas; Schr H P Ston^^y fm New York, J C Manson fm Shallotte, Agnes McLean fm Tar Landing, Lavinia fm Jackson ville 21.—Schr Mary Abigail fm Lockwood’s Folly, Senora Isabel and Laura fm Shallotte, Araminta from Baltimore. 22.—Schr Pearl fm Smithville, Agnes H Ward fm Little River, Jas E Bayard fm Martinique. 23.—U S Mail Steamer Carolina fm Fernandina, Fla Dividend.—The Bank of Washington has de clared a semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent. State Bonds.—We note sales of a few thousand N. C. Bonds in New York at 89. North Caroliaa notes are quoted at 3 to 3i per cent discount iu Baltimore, and at 7 to 7J in New York. TEACHER WANTED. 4 GENTLEM.\N well qualified to teach the English, /\ Latin and Greek Languages, will find a situation with a liberal salary, on application to JOHN C. S.MITH & BROTHER, 20 miles North of Fayetteville, or by letter addressed to Averasborough. Dec. 28, 1857. 71-*5t Mrs. Penelope Swann will open a School for small girls, in the house formerly occupied as a school room by Mrs. Ward, on the first Monday in January 1858. Dec’r 26. 71-lw rimOSE indebted to B. F. PEARCE & CO. are no- titied that their bills will be rendered to Jan’y 1st. Interest will be charged oa all accounts (at present due) after that date. Dwc’r 28, 1857. 71- Tue Eclectic Magazine.—One of the most attractive pictures that we have looked upon lately, adorns the January No. of this work, which we have received from the publishers. It is “Sir Walter Scott and bis Literary Friends at Abbots ford,” representing the literary magician of the Nortb seated at bis own table, at the dessert, reading a manuscript to a dozen of his friends. lil TTER! BUTTER!! BUTTER!!! LBS. MOUNTAIN and GOSHEN BUT TER. For sale low for CASH by P. A. WILFY. Dec. 24. 71-tf lOOO throughout all the Spring and far into the beats ^yjjoge earnest, thoughtful countenances show the of summer, it will keep the marts of trade aud every available wharf crowded aud thronged with a press of business iu striking contrast with the dullness of the past.” The Cincinnati Courier of Tuesday, P. M .,say There was a good deal of animation m the Ho, power that he had over them as over the whole reading world. They are Mackenzie (the only homely man of the whole group,) Wilson, Crabbe, Lockhart, Wordsworth, Jeffrey, Ferguson, Allen, Wilkie, Campbell, aud Constable. We presume market to-day, aud 4,000 sold at prices ranging ! that they are likene.sses, (taken apparently when from S4 75 to S5 12, the prevailing rates beiuf^ S5 for those averaging from 200 to 215 lbs. The receipts during the week were about 00,000, against 37,000 the corresponding week last year. The Ohio aud Indiana Hogs are now arriving Sir Walter was about 50,) anc’ they are worth studying as noble specimens of intellectual and physical beauty. The Eclectic is edited and published by W. quite freely and we may look for large arrivals . II. Bidwell, No. 5 Beekman street. New York, -Tho New York banks have upwards of twenty-eight millions of specie. The democracy contend for a larger specie basis for issues of pa per—say one dollar of specie for three of paper. See the President’s Message and Secretary Cobb’s Report. Now the government has less than four millions of specie and has passed an act to issue twenty millions of notes—that is one of specie fo- five of paper. So we go. The Navy.—The Courts of Inquiry which have been sitting at Washington have reversed the de cision of the celebrated Secret Navy Board in the cases of 29 officers, (including Lieuts. Maury, Maffit and Fabius Stanly,) who are all recom mended to be restored to active service, and the Preeident has accordingly nominated them to the Senate. 5 other officers who had been dropped have been placed on the “reserved list;” and 22 others have been changed from “furlough” to “leave pay.” Mortality of Congressmen.—Since the ad journment of the last Congress, three Senators and three Representatives have died, a greater number, says the Intelligencer, than in any simi lar period of our history. The Senators were Butler of South Carolina, Bell of New Hampshire, and Rusk of Texas. The Representatives were, Montgomery of Penn., Lockhart of Indiana, and Bren ton of Indiana. Rail Road Accidents.—All the passenger cars on the train from Wilmington to Weldon were thrown off the track and upset on Monday night last, 3 miles north of Goldsborough. There were about 200 passengers, yet only one person was seriously hurt. The accident was caused by the breaking of a rail as the Locomotive passed over it. the coming two weeks. Kentucky continues to send in Hogs quite liberally, nearly y,000 having arrived from that State during the past week. Provisions are drooping, the regular demand being quite small, and tho market is in au unsettled con dition. The Europa, from New York on Wednesday, took 82,337,742 58 in specie which is the lar gest amount for many months. The North Star, at S5 a year, and is well worthy of patronage. There was published iu the last Observer, a long aiivertisement for the Richmond County Ag ricultural Society. The adverti-sement had been iu this place nearly 2 weeks—during three issues of the Observer—before it appeared in the Ob server. We are in the habit of making such for BTemen on Saturday, will doubtless take a ! publications promptly; and not choosing that our moderate amount of specie. MARRIED, In this county, on the 22d inst., by J. P McLean Esq., KING P. II.\MM0ND, of Chatham co., to .Miss ELIZABETH daughter of Hugh Gilmore, Sr Also on the same evening, GEORGE McKAY to Miss M.\R- G.\RET McDUFFIE, daughter of M. J. Buie, Esq. In Centre Church, Robeson, on the 21st inst., by the Rev. Dan’l Johnson, Mr. JOHN K. BKOVVN, of Wilmington, to Miss J.\.NIE, daughter of the late Benj. L. McLauchlin, of Columbia, S. C. In Sampsen county, on the 17th inst., by Jno. B. Robinson, Esq., Mr R.VNDAL POWELL, of Duplin, to Miss SUSAN R. JOHVSON, of Sampson. In Moore county, on Sunday evening, the 20th inst., by Thos. Rollins, Esq., Mr. HENRY IIUNT to Miss MARY ANN GODFUEY. Richmond friends should think that an exception had been made against them, in a matter whose chief interest was dependent on its prompt per formance, we stated that it was published as soon as it came to band. This statement, concerning our own business, and our business alone, has roused a deal of un necessary wrath in our neighbor, the Argus; and a long defence is made to free itself from “blame” which it imagines, or pretends to imagine, that we laid upon its shoulders for not publishing the advertisement sooner. We beg to assure our neighbor that the “blame” is altogether a creation of its fancy. It is not a matter of the slightest TRUSTEE’S SALE. Y virtue of a Deed of Trust, to me executed. I will sell at tho Market House on Tuesday, the 12rh day of January next, 1 HOUSE and LOT on .Vlumford Street, occupied by Mr. James Branin. The house is in excellent repair, with a good well of water. —ALSO— 3 New Buggies; 1 Rockaway; 1 tine Close Carriage: 2 Sulkies; Several untinished Bodies; Paints, Oils; &c.; Wood Work and Blacksmith’s Tools. JOHN H. COOK, Trustee, C. E. LEETE, Auct’r. Dcc’r 28. 71-2t Presbyterian copy and charge Trustee. ~ I. n. SEWING MACHINES. Ailinittcd to be THE BEST and MOST DURABLE Miirhinc made. rWlHE Subscriber has taken an agency for the sa!« jI of these .Machines, and having used them for 18 months, can say there can be no doubt that every family or planter, having from 10 to 15 persons to clothe, will find them very profitable: a good operator bting alile to do as much and as good sewing with thin Machine in osk day as can be done by hand in tkn. Persons wishing to purchase can see two of thes« machines in use at my factory Circulars giving full description and prices will be furnished gratis on application. ()rd«rs solicited. A. A. McKETHAN, Agent. Dec’r 20, 1857. 71-3m I.AST NOTICE. A LL persons indebted to Moore & Bro., either by Note or account, must positively settle before the 4tli Jan’y 180S. or after that time they will have to settle with an ofiicer: for 1 cannot, neither will I, wait any longer. 1 can be found at the store of E. F. Moore. JO. J. MOORE, Surviving Part. Dec’r 2G. 18.". 172-2t t’arolinian 1 time. At Charlotte C- H. Virginia, by the Rev. R. C. Vaughan, Mr. HASEL W. Wilmington, ug it publishes any thing sent to V n 4^^ \1^os VAWTV’. kI IKKR.TS( iM ijinrntQr nt Winslow Robertson, of Charlotte. it, or whether it publishes such things at all. W'e attend to our own business. If our neighbor pur sued the same course it might be better for it, and would have saved us the space occupied by this paragraph. Mlledgeville, Ga., Dec. 22. The Georgia Bank Bill.—'The Governor ve toed the bill legal' ing the recent suspension of the Banks, and the Legislature subsequently passed DIED, At Opelousas, Louisiana, of disease of the heart. Dr. MARSDEN C.\MPBEIiL, a native of Wilmington, N. C- aged 45. His death was very sudden. His family were summoned to prayer. He was reading from Bishop Bloomfield’s Manual of family prayer, the service for Tuesday morning, these words: “And finalty bring us to thy kingdom in heaven, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Just as the last word was uttered, his heart ceased to beat, and he fell lifeless upon the floor. _ - i i He was one of the most prominent and esteemed it again by a twO-thirds vote of both branches, citizens of Opelousas, and the Courts and public bodies paid the highest respect to his memory. At his plantation in Sevier county Arkansas, on the 11th November, of Pneumonia, THOM.AS B. BIZZEL, leaving a wife and three children to mourn his loss. Mr. Bizzell was born in Wayne county. North Carolina, on the 4th September, 1817, emigrated to Arkansas in 1852 ‘ warm friend. In his death the community has lost a worthy citizen.—Paraclifta {Ark.) Times HARPER’S WEEKLY. rrMIE next No. will commence the 2d volume. We I will furnish it here, free of postage, at $2 50 per annum, payable invariably in advance. Those who ^ wish to rencT^ their subscriptions, or new subscribers. He was a loving husband, kind father and are requested to call immediately^ at the Book Store, as no paper will be ordered till paid for. Dec 28. E. J. HALE & SON. I.OSr OR .MISLAID. A NOTE on Solomon McOoll, Principal, with John McColl as security, for Seventy Dollars ($70,) pfiyable to myself one year after date, January 1, 1857. .All persons are cautioned against trading for sai 1 note, and the finder will receive niy thanks by return ing it to me. ARCH’D PRIEST. Laurel Hill, Dec’r 24. 71-2tpd ANOTHER INSTANCE OF THE EFFICACY OF BIERHAVE’S HOLLAND BITTERS. N. M. Poi.N’DE.xTER, at Union office, September IGth, 1854, says— “Some weeks since being seriously affected with pain and uneasiness at the stomach, loss of appetite, and at times strong symptoms of dyspepsia, I was induced to try your Holland Bittebs, and I feel it but an act of justice to the article, as well as for the good of those who may be affected with like derangement of the stomach, to state, that the use of on« single bottle of this medicine proved of incalculable benefit, having freed the stomach from all sense of depression, and removed every symptom of dyspepsia. I would also remark, that two other members of my family, who were afflicted in a ‘’imilar manner with myself, were entirely relieved by the use of a single bottle each. Dec. 26. 71-2tpd YEAST POWDERS For «ale by S. J. HINSDALE.