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X RALEIGli, nTc! THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1859. JEW Persons visiting the city and desi ring to pay for the Advocate, icill please call at the Editor's office, on Fayetteville Street. In his absence, Jfr. S. II Young, Mer chant, Fayetteville Street, and the Publish er, in the old Temperance Hall, are au thorized to receive subscriptions. J3F Subscribers whose papers have a cross mark on them, are thereby informed that their subscription year is about to ex pire; and are respectfully requested to re new by forwarding $1.50 to this office im mediately. f The JV. C. Cltristian Advocate toill hereafter be sent to none, except to those tcho have paid in advance. Trinity College. $15,000 Proposition. It is estimated by the Trustees that it will take at least 15,000 to complete the buildings now absolutely necessary. There is urgent need of immediate action. The problem is now pressed for solution, "will the Methodist Church in this State build a College ?" A friend proposes to be one of fifteen to give 1,000 each, $500 payable Sept 1 1S59 and 500 payable Sept 1. 1860 Certainly there are fifteen men in the bounds of the Conference able and willing to give 1,000 each. Let those who meet this proposition, send the names to me, and so soon as the number is complete, I will send bonds to be signed, and I will publish the names of the donors in the Advocate. This proposition is to s'and open till the 5rst day of May. The time is too short is it ! It is quite long enough, for all who intend to help in good earnest. The prop osition is fairly made by a good man "Who will meet it? B. CRAVEN. Tbe Ceneral ?I mutes. The General Minutes for 1858 will be issued very soon from the Publishing House. Dr. Summers has kindly sent, in advance, the "General Recapitulation. For reasons which printers will understand, we cannot insert it ; but it will be gratify ing to our numerous readers to know two facts. In the Xorth Carolina Conference the additions to the church have come up to within oil of making up the loss, (to us but not to Methodism.) of our Virginia territory. And in view of the corrections already published in this paper, it is de monstrated that the Lord has given us more members within the year, than were ruthlessly wrested from us by the transfer of the Danville District. This sustains the hope of the ultimate union of Methodism in Xorth Carolina. The clear increase in the church, for the past year, is 43,398. " The Lord of hosts is with us ; the God of Jacob is our re fuge." Bishop Early. The veteran, but ever youthful Bishop Early preached last Sunday in Washing ton street church, Petersburg. The Ex press says : The venerable soldier of the cross, though somewhat weakened by in disposition, consequent upon his recent fa tiguing tour in the West, preached a very interesting sermon, upon the rewards await ing all wbo live in the fear and obedience of God. The church was largely attend ed." The Memphis Christian Advo cate. Last week a destructive fire occurred in Memphis. In the list of property destroy ed, we are pained to notice the publishing office of the Memphis Christian Advocate. The Editor, Bro. Watson, communicates the following note, in the Xashville Advo cate: "Five printing offices were burned - this morning; The Christian Advocate, Presbyterian Sentinel, Eagle and Enquirer, Avalanche, and Ledger. We lost our press, engine, type, and fixtures of ofEce,with about $300 worth of paper costing about 2400; insurance 1200. We shall fit up a new office and be un der way again as soon as possible." Furniture. See the advertisement of Mr. O. L. Fil yaw. He is a man of integrity and enter prise, and will sell furniture at fair prices. The facilities of transportation from Wil mington should secure him liberal patro nage from the interior. Obituarii s. Xo one reads them, exc ept the family and friends of the deceased. Long obitua ry notices are among the chronic diseases of journalism. Let those sent to this pa per be short, and confined to a statement of facts. Otherwise, we shall be obliged to abbreviate them. Trinity College. Attention is invited to the advertisement on next page. Send on your sons. General Hon. Aaron Venable Brown, died in Washington city, of Pneumonia, on last Tuesday morning. He was born iu Brun swick county. Va., in 1795; his father was a revolutionary soldier and a Methodist Preacher. He was prepared for college at an academy in Nash county, Xorth Car olina, and graduated at Chapel Hill in 1814, in the same class with Gov. Manly and Senator Mangum. He emigrated to Tennessee, and his political history from that period is before the country. Called to the head of the Post Office Department by President Buchanan, he had discharg ed the duties of that office with industry and ability for two years, when death call ed him away. The funeral service was attended on Thursday by the President, the heads of departments, and a large concourse of citi zens. Rev. Dr. Hall, of the Episcopal church, read the funeral sevice, and Rev. J. C. Granberry, of the M. E. Church, South, the officiating clergyman, delivered an appropriate and solemn funeral discourse. We give a few extracts, as reported in the Union: To the officers of the Government he said: "The young men of this land that crowd to this city men of impressible characters, men of intelligence, men of in fluence, men of ambition, who are seeking introduction into society, seeking places, and seeking eminence hereafter in the land they watch your conduet, they imbibe your sentiments, they learn your ways, and they return to their various homes carrying with them the sentiments and habits they have formed in this city. Xot only so, the eye of the country is upon you, the ear of the country is quick to catch all things concerning you; your character ,your sentiments, your habits, are known and studied throughout this entire land. It is in your power, to a great extent, to connect with all ideas of honor, generosity in high life, irreligion. infidelity, and immorality, to make almost vice and crime respectable among the people. On the other hand, you can uphold the sanctions of morality and of religion ; you can teach men be low you in rank that the noblest title to the respect and esteem of men consists in truthfulness ofcharacter,in strict integrity, in purity, and in sobriety, above all in re ligion. I am happy to be able to say that, to the best information that I can gain that of unanimous testimony, I may sav that he whose death we this day mourn, who has so long a time occupied a conspic uous posit:on in the world, before his country, ever set an example of integ rity, of purity, fo conscientiousness, of res pect for religion, as well as the laws of the country. Would to God I could also say an example of personal piety ; but if you who occupy lofty stations would not only lend your aid in favor of morality and truth, tut also of the religion of Christ, what a holy and powerful influence would go forth to this country. But recollect, you too, must " Be ye, therefore, ready also; for at such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh." Death snatches away the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it takes men in the midst of the busiest hours, in the midst of their pressing engagements, when they are needed by the country, when they are needed by their family, when most impor tant claims are under way just then death comes and takes them. Why ? In order to impress upon the living this great truth Xothing secures you from death ; it wil not do for you to say I have more impor tant business to attend to now ; it will not do for you to wait until your public career is over before attending to this great subject the salvation of your immortal soul. I wish only to add a single word with respect to the only interview which I had with Gov. Brown. As to his private character, you were better acquainted with it than myself ; as to his public life, you are certainly as familiar with it as T. I was called upon on Monday night to visit him for the only time. I found him extremely low, and, for the most part, his mind was wandering, but there was an occasional glimpse of intelligence, and the only signi ficant thing which I observed in that brief interview, I wish to mention. He evidently recognized me as a minis ter, and desired I should pray for him ; and when I endeavored briefly to point him to the mercy of God, in Christ Jesus, and bade him ask for that, and rely upon it that God would surely grant it, and when I told his wife in her grief that Bhe must look to God, who doeth all things well, and to be ieve in this her deep affliction He was acting wisely and mercifully, he took her by the hand, turning his dying eyes towards her, and evidently saying, " Take that home to yourself, and apply the lesson to your conduct for your family." Close Communion. Opposition to the unscriptural dogma is beginning to break out among Baptists themselves. The Religious II raid with expressions of disapprobation, has these facts : "A Baptist minister in Boston recently invited all members of evangelical church es to the Lord's supper. He found, how ever, that "his church were not quite up to that mark." "A council sat, a week or two since, in East Boston, for the ordination of George Howell. The candidate passed an exceed- Death of the Postmaster His Funeral. ingly good examination, until he was ask ed if he would admit members of any evan gelical church to his communion, when he promptly answered "Yes." The council was astounded. Some of the members de clared they had never heard that answer returned to the same question before. Mr. Howell replied that if any member of an other Christian church should come to his communion, if there were any sin in it, he should not be answerable for it, but that church member himself would. lie would not drive away any Christian who believed himself baptized, although he would not include all in his invitation to the Lord's supper. The council adjourn ed for one week without coming to a vote, and are represented as pretty nearly equal ly divided on the question of ordination under the circumstances. The Chronicle says: "Dr. Murdoch, af Bowdoin Square has, we learn, stated that he agreed with Mr. Howell's views, while Dr. Stow and Rev. Mr. Stockbridge are understood to go at least as far as Mr. Howell, if not considerably farther." China Mission. We are authorized to state that the Fay etteville District will respond to the prop position to give 200 annually, for the support of a Missionary from the X. C. Conference, in China. We have a letter from Bro. D. W. Doub, preacher in charge of Robeson circuit, from which we take the liberty to make a few extracts. "The Advocate announces Bro. M. L. Wood as our Missionary to China a no ble volunteer a suitable representaiivepf Xorth-Carolina Methodism in that distart land. The time has come for action in raising funds for an outfit, and for a year's support. Upon what plan must we operate, to collect the funds needed ? We would also be glad to know what time can be allowed for raising the funds?" According to the light we have, we au swer the questions of our correspondent, consecutively ; and we thus answer, be cause every member of the church within our Conference bounds, has an equal in terest in the great enterprise of the church to evangelize China. 1 Xo particular plan to raise the funds has been prescribed by the Conference, or the dicipline ; and therefore, each pastoral charge is left to act upon such a plan as may seem most expedient. We suggest that each preacher give prominence to the China Mission, in his regular, annual appeal to the people, for aid to the Missionary cause ; and that he solicit, both publicly and privately, special donations to support our own Missionary. 2 As to the time allowed for the redemp tion of pledges to sustain a Missionary to China, we presume there can be no diffi culty. Our own opinion is, that as Bro. Wood has not been ordained an Elder, he should not be sent to China, until after his ordination, at the next session of our Conference. If this view be sustained by the nuthorities of the church, who have this matter in charge, the time for collect ing the amounts pledged is extended to the next session of our Conference. But should the Bishops and Missionary Committee deem it Judicious to send Bro. Wood to China at an earlier date, doubt less the necessary expenses will be advan ced by the parent Missionary Society. And in this event also, the circuits and stations will have the interval up to the next session of our Conference, to contrib ute the amount appropriated to the support of our Missionary to China. We beg leave to suggest that each preacher solicit special contributions for this purpose, both publicly and privately ; and that in taking up the general collec tions for missions, due notice be given that the amount necessary to make up the sup port of our representative in China, in ad dition to the special donations for that pur pose, will be taken from the general con tributions. As a Conference, it is due to ourselves to the church, and to the Head of the church, that we support a missionary of the cross to China. And by the blessing of God we will do it. A ' Symptom." Zioii?s Herald says, "The Central Christian Advocate," or gan M. E. Church, and "The St. Louis Christian Advocate," organ of the M. E. Church, South, are both published at St. Louis, Mo. , the former being three years old, and the latter eight, and yet the Cen tral has the larger subcriptions list. The Southern organ, with the darling institu tion, is bound to disappear. One symptom ominous of its downfall is, that it does not exchange with Zion's Herald." A singular symptom, that. Its citation by the Herald, indicates the darkness of its own vision, as the cause of its failure to know, that the St. Louis Advocate is as sound and safe in its financial condition. and in its position before the public, as any Journal in the South. About the " CcntraV we know but little, and care not at all. By the way, what a very ex cellent paper Zion's Herald would be, if it could only get rid of its monomania about negroes. Glen Anna. We are pleased to learn that the excel- ent Female Seminary at Thomasville has more pupils, than ever before, so early in the year. A New Book. Dr. Taylor, the efficient Sunday School Secretary, lately spent a night at the resi dence of President Rivers, of the Florence University. Dr. Rivers read him a chap ter of a forthcoming work on Moral Science. And Dr. Taylor, iu the Xashville Advo cate, speaks of it in this wise: " If one may form an opinion from the specimen I heard, it will, I think, supply a desidera tum as a text-book on that subject for South ern schools and colleges. The arrange ment of the work i npressed me as remark ably simple and natural; the order in which the several divisions are discussed, as the general style and manner, appeared to me singularly fe icious. I shall look for its speedy publication with much interest." Wayland is defective in clearness and force of view and expression ; Payley is as clear as a sun bean, but very defective in principle ; Sidney Smith is Sidney Smith, attractive, witty ind versatile, but not to be trusted. We do want, good work on Moral Science it is a desideratum. Are we to have it from the jen of President Rivers ? Dr. Taylor's report makes us hope so ; but Dr. Taylor was a guest, under the blandish ments of the author's hospitality and so, we will wait and see what we shall see. Authority to Preach. Bishop Asbury wis once treated as an interloper into the sa?red ministry, by a devotee of High Chu&hism, who insisted that to himself exclusively pertained the cure and care of tie sduIs in his parish. He also denied tie authority of Bishop Asbury to preach, and demanded to know by what right he ninistered in holy things. The reply of the ood Bishop was, "I have authority froii God, and I am com missioned by him tc go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." As it is a beautifil thing for a man to be disobedient to the divine call, so also it is perilous audacity in men to reject the miuistry of those who are called of God to enter upon this ministry. When tempted to turn from the ministers of God because they offend artificial taste, or assail the prejudices of a corrupt education, men would do well to pause, and recollect the saying of our Saviour, "In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me. Whoso rejecteth you rejecteth me." Our Quarterly lSeviev. We are indebted to Dr. Summers, the accomplished Editor, for a slip, giving the contents of the forthcoming April num ber. It is inviting send $2 to the Gen eral Agent, J. B McFerrin. D. D. or pay over to any travelling preacher, and get the April number. Its contents are. I. Bishop McKendree. II. The Pulpit. III. The Messianic Idea of the old Tes tament . IV. Baptismal Regeneration. V. Moral Obligation. VI. Dodd's Mathematical Series. VII. History of Methodism. VIII. Brief Reviews. This department alone, is worth more than the price of the Quarterly. Dr. Summers has the happy art of conveying a just idea of the value of a book, in a few pregnant paragraphs; and he thus gives invaluable aid to all who are forming libraries. IX. Xotes and Correspondence. X. Repertory. To Agents and Others. We have to pay the expenses of publi cation, in quarterly instalments. A large amount will be due the publisher on the first of April. 'We are under the necessity of requesting agents and all others who are indebted to this office, to remit the amount immediately. The present patronage of the Advocate is sufficient to meet the expenses of its pub lication : but quite a large proportion of the receipts for the present year have been necessarily applied to the payment of the old debt. In view of this statement, we trust all will see the propreity of forward ing all that is due, and all that they can collect, without delay. If our friends will respond to this call, we shall not apprehend future difficulties. A word or two more, (jd ITlll the preachers, and the sub scribers, make an earnest effort, to place this paper in every Methodist family? Why not? Even partial success in such an ef fort would add thousands to its circulation, and do incalculable good. Try it. Appointments for the Agent of Book and Tract Depository. the Brice's Creek, Trent circuit, Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20. Trenton, Jones circuit, Saturday and Sunday 26 and 27. Wilmington Sunday, April 3. Scotts Hill, Topsail circuit, Saturday and Sunday 9 and 10. jCST" Bro. Harris will please meet me at. Wilmington Wednesday, April, 6 and have appointments for Thursday and Fri day, 7 and 8. Elizabeth, Smithfield circuit, Saturday and Sunday, 19 and 16. Smithfield, Sunday, at night. South Creek, Xeuse circuit, Sunday, 24th. Washington, Sunday May 1. At each place a collection for the Tract cause will be taken up. Editor's Tahle. "The Methodist; or, Incidents and Characters from Life, in the Baltimore Conference. By Miriam Fletcher, Xew York: Derby and Jackson, 1859. It is in two volumes; the first, of 384 pages ; second, of SCO pages. We are in debted to Mr. Pomeroy, book-seller, of this city for a copy. We entered up on its perusal, with some predilections against it. But such is its beauty of style and truth fulness in delineation of character and in cident, that we are induced to advise all our readers to procure a copy. We fully endorse the following no tice, from the Baltimore Advocate, not only because it expresses our views of the book itself, but also because we coin cide with the views of Dr. Bond, in sever al incidental matters which the perusal of the volumes has suggested : "We pronounce it to be a good thing and capitally well done. It is a good thing because it will do good. It is a fair, brave and powerful exhibition of Methodism as it is. There is no cant in it, there is no narrow minded bigotry about it ; and there is no sneaking or dodging, no apoligizing nor ducking before the non-Methodistical notions of others. It is refreshing very refreshing, in these days when we are sick ened with the puling over our ' 'respecta bility," and "position," and "ministerial cultivation," and "social elevation," and "denominational refinement," and all such degrading stuff, to find a writer like 'M iriam Fletcher" holding up Methodism, before the refined and literay world, as it is. We like the truthfulness and good taste with which this noble woman takes the reader to Camp-Meeting, and leads him to the "altar" and to praying tents, and bares before the refined and critical eye of the most fastidious, all the pecularitics for which we have been most reproached, and from which our dandy Methodists are so eager to turn away the curious, unedu cated eye. We consider Methodism re spectable aye the most respectable thing in this disreputable world. We regard its "position" as the most elevated on this earth next to the Redeemer's cross. We regard the "society" of a true Methodist circle gathered at a Camp-Meeting, as the most perfect social union, out of a Chris tian family, which this world can show. It is a society of soul and sympathy, and of intellegence, too, with legard to the highest matters of thought before which the most brilliant court circle in Europe sinks to contempt. Our "respectability" owes nothing, and never will, to church edifices, or music, or showy rituals. The building of a great extensive Book estab lishment in Broadway, as has been sug gested, will not add to our respectability, though it may minister to the vanity of some who have a plenty of it already. Our respectability lies in our piety ; our distinc tion in the independence with which we do our work ; our "postion" is determined by our faithfulness to God. Let us hold to our pecularitics which have made us what we are. There is nothing for which we have been reproached that will not as far as possible, be imitated by other de nominations as they become more and more aggressive in their evangelism. Our Class-Meetings and Love-Feasts are esen tially in common use already. The power ful preaching of personal experience is now common all over the land. Our hymns and our manner of singing them are become catholic, and our long denoun ced Camp- Meetings, which, by common consent of all but ourselves, had been con demned as useless in rural regions ordina rily provided with churches, were trans ferred last summer, by non-Methodist christians, to the very midst of the city of Philadelphia, and, "mirubile dictu," kept up all summer. Our lay preaching, after having been so long mocked, is be ginning, to find place among the Presby terians of Scotland, and will soon be adop ted hereby all evangelical sects, and we hope to see, before many years, Presbyterian itinerants traveling all over the land, after the fashion of John Knox and his glorious coadjutors. When we become ashamed of Methodism we may expect that Christ will be ashamed of us and by Methodism we mean the living, active thing, and not the miserable dried skin, stretched over the pulpit ' drum' of a costly city church and tapped with an ivory hammer, with gingerly descretion, lest perchance even in that forlorn condi tion, the old spirit might stir in the dead hide and a movement of Methodist life dis turb the "respectability" of a congregation refined by the accident of wealth, and ele gant by the costliness of costume. May God bless the author of this book for her faithfulness to the truth, and her glorying in the real worth of Methodism. We do not know who she is, but as far as our matrimonial relations leave us at liber ty, we love her and we don't care who knows it. As a literary performance the book is highly creditable. The language is cor rect, clear, and well chosen. The storv i is very interesting, and will be read by many merely for the amusement it affords. As to the propriety of writing religious fictions, we see no reason why this power ful variety of literature should be abandon ed to the devil, and we are pleased to see any Christian " fly on the prey and seize the prize," and " plunder the carnal lover." All things are Christ's." " Sacred Melodies, for Social Worship. By Rev. H Mattison, A. M., of the Black River Conference. Xew York: Mason Brothers, 1859." A beautifully printed and well bound i little volume, of 432 pages. It embraces i five hundred select hymns, with the largest ! collection of popular religious melodies I ever published. To form this co lection, contributions have been obtained from over j three hundred per sons, in all portions of the i Union. In every case, the notes accom j pany the words. It is a gem worth its j weight in gold. The price is only 50 cents for a single copy, 4 a dozen. Send orders to Mason Brothers, 46 Walker St. Xew York. IteVi Nathan Anderson. Dear Bro. Hefllx : Our excellent bro ther, Rev. X. Anderson, departed this life on Monday, 7th, inst. His sickness was brief. In the field on Friday he was at tacked by violent pain and carried to the house. Under proper treatment he was relieved, and on Saturday evening appear ed convalescent. At midnight he relapsed. For a day his sufferings were very great. The disease fell on his brain and he sank under it speedily. He was in his forty first year. After serving the Church in the itinerant minis try a short time, he became an efficient la borer in the ranks of the local ministry. The last fifteen years of his life were spent in Wilson county X. C. How earnestly he had preached the gospel through this section, how fully he had discharged the duties of neighborhood, aud of brotherhood, and how his industrious, faithful, and reli gious life had endeared him to those around him was affectingly manifested on the day of his funeral. A large concourse of people assembled to do honor to his memory. Members of his own curch and of others, his brethren of the Masonic fraternity, persons not connected with him beyond mere acquaintance, bore testimony to his worth and his excellence. do not re member to have preached to so many weep ing men on any previous occasion. He sleeps the sleep of the just and his memory is precious. CHARLES F. DEEMS. Wilmington, X. C. March 11, kS59. MISCELLANY. Transfers. The X. O. Advocate says ; Rev. John B Rarb has been transfer red from the Alabama to the East Texas Conference. He is a faithful and able preacher, and will do well an where. Rev. G. A. Shaeffer has been trans ferred from the Alabama to Ouachita Con ference. He is the son of Rev. Geo. Shaeffer, one of the best men tho Alabama Conference ever had. Rev. John C. Kolbe, who transfers from the Texas to the Pacific Conference, and is now in this city awaiting the arrival of Bishop Pierce, is not a German.as the Pacific Methodist supposes, but a middle aged and well-tried American Methodist Preacher, who can do good work any where. His excellent wife is a true help er in the itinerancy. Strict Discipline. A writer iu the Xew Orleans Christian Advocate suEcts that an annual church meeting should be held in every Methodist conjrrecration, at which the character of all the members young aud old may pass in review, and such questions be aked as will secure in the life of each an example creditable to the causs ot God, or purge the church and keep it purged of a leaven of member ship that corrupts its usages. The plan might work well, if adopted by Chris tian denominations generally . Monument to Bishop Asbury. Ar rangements are making in Baltimore, to erect a monument to Bishop Asbury, the first Bishop of the 31. E. Chuuch, in Mount Olivet Cemetery, near that city. Perseverance. A beautiful oriental proverb runs thus : "With time and pa tience the mulberry becomes satin." How encouraging is this lesson to the patient and desponding ! And what difficulty is there that man should quail at, when a worm can accomplish so much from a mul berry leaf? A Persevering Disputant. The late Henry Hanaro, the historian, was noted for his love of disputation. It is told of him that after a night of contradiction at Holland House, with "My Lady" Lnttrell, Sam Rogers and Sydney Smith, Hallam returned to his house, Xo. 07 Wimpole street, his tongue still tipped with ready contradiction. It was late, and the histc- rian not in full health. A watchman went by. "Past one o'clock," cried the watch man, loudly, with a yawn. "Xo," cried Hallam, tartly and loudly, and throwing up the sash of his bedboom, watch in hand, "it wants three minutes." Ex-Senator Hanxegax. The tele graph has noticed the death of ex-Senator Hannegan, of Indiana. He was a man of talent and a popular speaker. During the debate in the Senate on the Oregon "fif ty-four-forty'" question, he rendered him self conspicuous by an outburst of impas sioned eloquence in reply to Mr. Benton, which was vehemently applauded by the gal leries. After the expiration of his Scnc torial term he seems to have become a prey to evil habits, and killed his brother-iu-law iu a drunken spree in Indiana. Great efforts were subsequently made to restore him to usefulness in society, and they so far succeeded that he escaped pun ishment for the murder. Jews in Parliament. On the 15th ult. Baron Meyer de Rothschild was returned a member of Parliament for Hythe, unop posed. His election, with that of Alder man Solomons, makes the third member of the Jewish community now in the House of Commons. "Alas! Poor Yorick !" Mr. Hans ford, for years the proprietor of the best Hotel in Williamsburg, Ya , committed suicide last week. Xo cause is assigned for the deed. He was one of the best hosts with whom it was the fortune of a traveler to meet Called :The Baptists of Suffolk. Va., have secured the pastoral services of Iter. George Bradford, lately pastor of the Bap tist church in Goldsboro', X. C. Death of a Minister : The Hov. P. E. Bishop, pastor of tho Pr -bt. rinn Church at BennettsviUe, S. C. died r.t his residence in that town last week. . .j NORTH CAROLINA ITEMS. Candidates for Congress. Mr. M. Q. Waddell has announced himself a can lidato in the 5 District, (Mr. Gilmer's-.) Hon. Warren Winslow announces himself a can didate fr re-election in the Fayetteville District, fubj ct to ihe decision of a Dem ocratic convention. Remarkable Fossils. The Wil.ning ton Journal of the 3d inst., says. " We have now before us several speci mens reccut'y dug up in Sampson county, near the Six Runs, by James King, E-q , while digging down for Marl. One pet re faction is a plain, distinct tooth of some ferocious fish, that must have been very formidable. It looks like a spear head, and might be taken for one, but for its marks indicating its junction with the gum, and the distinction between the thin pd ished enamel and the coarser or more open surface of the tooth where that U broken off. It is about five inches long by four wide at the base. But the strangest thing is, that in the course of the same explora tions, they have struck upon what appears to be the deck of a vessel, perhaps a part of Xoah's Ark. They have found already about forty feet of it evidently some sort of floating craft. One of the boards dug up was carved in the fashion of an cage's wing, or had an eaglcs's wing carved upon it. Upon being exposed to the air, it crumbled down. We have soiup of the fragments, which are more like lignite than anything we can think of.' Appointed. Bartholomew Fuller E-q. , of Fayetteville, has been appointed by Mr. Buchanan fifth Auditor of the Treasury. His salary is $3,0U0 per annum. A. X. Zevely, Esq., formerly of Xortli Carolina, who has been for some yers a clerk in the Post Office Department, is to succeed the late Mr. Marron as Third As sistant Postmaster General. High Prices Mr. H. B. White, of Auburn, Xew York, recently sold twenty four chickens of the silver pheasant breed, to a gentleman in Xorth Carolina, for 110. A Long Courtship. Married In Ire dell county by Jacob Fraley, Esq., on the 20th of January last, after a close courtship of 23 years, Mr. Ruben Carhour and Mi-s Sarah Thompson, both aged about tsiity years. Iredell, J'. C, Express. Church Improvement. A Moe -plr. end a bell are about to be added to tlu Metlio dist church in Tawboro. Mr. Moran, the pastor, attracts large congregations. Suicide. The Newborn Progress says. " A Mrs. Bervo in Onslow county, ih mother of four children, committed t-uiciJn a few days ago by blowing her brains out with a gun. She leaves a husband with whom she had lived on tho best terms, and an infant child. It is said that she had attempted self-destruction once or twice before, and th.it she declared before the net was committed that she would do it. We are indebted to a legal gentleman of this place who has just returned from Onslow Court for these particulars. Greensboro Femalk College. We are pleased to learn that the Hon. E. G Il-a lo has accepted an invitation from the young ladies to deliver the literary address before the two societies at the Commencement in May. Tho numerous friends of Mr. Kendo will have a fine opportunity to hear what no doubt will be a most excellent address. We are pleased also to learn that the College is in a most flourishing condition, and that the patronage is on a steady in crease. Each and every session the num ber of pupils in the Institution is larger than ever before. This is as it t-houl 1 be, for there is not a superior Female College in the United States. 1 he Faculty is large, able and strictly attentive to duty, and the Institution will continue to flour ish under its presiding care. Tines. L A T E S T N E W 8 . Europe : Franco and Austria arc talk ing of peace, and preparing for war. Eng land and Sardinia are also arming, and a general war is possible. The .new Postmaster General. In the preceding pnjre is a notice if the death of Hon. A. V. Brown, late Tost master General. His successor, Hon. Joseph Holt, thn new postmaster Oeneral. is a native of Kentucky, but acquired fame and fortune by the practice of the legal profession at Yicksburg, Miss., where he often antago nized at the bar with the renowned Pren tiss. Jiy reason of impaired health, he soon retired from practice, and up to the time of his acceptance of the Commission ership of Patents, two years since, resided first at Louisville and then in th"i3 vicinity. While Mr Holt has ever been a democrat of principle, he has taken but little part in bitter partizan contests. His most con spicuous political service was at the Bal timore Democratic Convention, in the year 183G, where his impassioned appeal in be half of Col. Richard M. Johnson, 60 turn ed the tide of feeling as to procure his nomination as Vice President. California. The Star of the West ar rived at X. York on the 13th inst., bring ing nearly one million in specie. The news from California is unimportant. The British frigate Alarm arrived at Panama on the 23rd. from the coast of Mexico, with a half millie-n of treasure for Europe. Guayaquil was Mill under blockade by the Peruvian fleet. Xothing of importance from Chili. 1 Another revolution was daily expected in Peru. J 1 Mexico. On the 13th inst., the Steam er Tennessee arrived at X. Orleans, with advices from Vera Cruz, up to the 9th inst. A battle is reported to have taken place near Cordova, and the left wing of Mira mon's army completely routed by the Lil cr ate. Miranion lost 100 men killed, threj i o
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