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VOLUME II.
NEWBERN, N. C.3 TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, I860.
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WEEKLY PROGRESS.
THURSDAY MOIINING, JAN. 19, 1860.
15 V JT Ji PENNnGTON.
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in the Weekly Progress, to all save tlmse who con
tract by the year and advertise iu both weekly and
daily papers:
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tion. All advertisements marked tf) till forbid, will
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A Cnllcd Session The Journal, elc.
Our only object in making the remarks we did
was that the Journal and others might not mis
understand the true character of our correspond
ents, or be lead to censure unjustlj our own po
sition. The Governor has spoken his sentiments
relative to a called session and we have publish
ed his letter ; and we coincide with his views en
tirely, or rather he coincides with ours, as our
position was first made known. If we are not
mistaken the Progress was the first paper in the
State to take a decided position for or against a
called session of the Generul Assembly, but in
doing so we conceive that we were only perform
ing a duty that the conductor of no public journal
should shrink from relative to a matter of such
moment, for no one knows better than our
friend of the Journal that the public press does
more than any, or we might say all other ele
ments, to fashion public opinion, and also to di
rect the action of those in authority.
We are truly glad that Gov. Ellis deems it in
expedient to call the- Legislature together in an
extra session, for such a step would be a most
expensive experiment, arid we all know that the
State is sadly in need of all her resources. See
ing then that his Excellency, the Journal and
oursclf all agree that there exists no imperative
necessity for a called session, and as the position
and sincerity of each is understood and conceed
ed, there can b.; no necessity of discussing the
matter further. We feel sure now, as we did at
first, that there will be no extra session.
hALKOF THK Post-Boy. The Steamboat Post-Bo
was sold ut auction yesterday and was bid off by a
member of the joint Stock Company, Mr. Spencer,
of Hyde, at $1,G')0. What disposition is to be made
of the boat we are not apprised.
MAYOR OF RALEIGH.
Capt. W. II. Harrison was re-elected Mayor of
Raleigh on Monday last, beating his opponent,
Jordan Womble, Esq., 29 votes.
BANK AGENCY".
We understand an Agency of the Bank of North
Carolina lias boon established in this place with
the following- Directors:
Rich" n Washington, President.
Wm T Durtch,
John Everett, j, Directors.
m K Lane,
W 8 G Andrews, J
E B B.)UDt;x, Agent.
Arrangements are bViiig made to put the Agen
cy in operation by the first February next. We
trust this ill give, an impetus to business nnd
be of lasting benefit to the town Goldsboro'1 Tri
bune. Riciimoxu Going Ah lad. The Richmond
Dispatch says :
The establishment of several manufactories are
in contemplation, and. if put in operation, will
render Virginia and the South independent of the
North for their particular articles of manufactures.
First of i hese is a Powder Mill, the stock for which
is about being secured, if we are not misinformed,
and the mill is to be sufficiently extensive to sup
ply the South with all the powder it may need.
Next to this is the enlargement of the State Ar
mory, the putting up of machinery and the man
ufacture of small arms, of the most approved pat
terns. Cannon, inferior to none in the world, are
now cast and bored at the Tredegar Works, and
the State can readily effect an arrangement with
Messrs. Joseph R Anderson & Co., to enlarge
their operations and supply guns as rapidly asshe
may need them. So that in the three articles
enumerated, we shall not only be independent of
the North for their manufactures, but have home
made weapons, powder and balls, with which to
repel the sympathisers ot John iirown, whenever
they shall screw up their courage sufficiently high
to attempt to follow his piratical and murderous
example.
For articles of every day use we are not long to
be dependent. Coarse woollen goods, of the best
quality, are to be made at our doors a broom fac
tory is nearly conipleted--a building is rapidly
going up to be used for making Southern sewing
machines a hoop-skirt factory is already estab
lished our clothiers, hatters and shoe-makers are
enlarging their facilities for supplying Southern
demand a lager beer brewery lias been comple
ted, and is in successful opeiation, and a sugar
refinery will soon be at work supplying our wants.
Let the spirit be kept alive, and Virginia will
soon be independent of the North.
The Great Mystery The folowing beauti
ful passage is taken from Timothy Titcomb's, or
Dr. Holland's, "Preaching upon Populor Pro
verbs,"' which the Springfield (Mass.) Republican
is now giving to the world :
" The body is to die ; so much is certain.
What lies beyond ? No one who passes the
charmed boundary comes back to tell. The im
agination visits the realm of shadows sent out
from some window of the soul over life's restless
waters, but wings its way wearily back with an
olive leaf in its beak as a token of emerging life be
yond the closely bending horizon. The great sun
conies and goes iu heaven, yet breathes no secret
of the ethereal wilderness ; the present moon
cleaves ber nightly passage across the upper
deep, but tosses overboard no message and dis
plays no signals. The sentinel stars challenge
each other as they walk their nightly rounds, but
we catch no syllable of their countersign which
gives passage to the heavenly camp. Shut, in !
Shut in .' Between this and the other life is a
great gulf, across which neither eye Kor foot can
travel. The gentle friend, whose eyes we closed
in their last sleep long years ago, died with rap
ture in ber wonder-stricken eyes, a smile of inef
fable joy upon her lips, and hands folded over a
triumphant heart ; but ber lips were past speech,
and intimated nothing of the visit that inthralled
her." .
Noble Sentiments. Daniel Webster, years
ago. gave utterance to good sentiments in the
Senate in the following brief paragraph :
' I am against agitators JSorlh or fcotrth I am
against all narrow and local ideas North or South,
and against all narrow and local contests. I am
an American, and I know o locality in America.
My heart, my sentimentr, my judgement, demand
of me that I should pursue such a course as shall
promote the good, and the harmony, and the
union of the whole eountry. This I shall do, God
willing, to the end of the chapter "
The London Court Journal notices'tlra death of a
Mrs. Anne Wallington. Therlady was formerly
the beautiful and celebrated Ann Rochforth, with
whom George IV., when Prince of Wales, w-as
madly in love. It is due to her memory to say that
she successfully resisted all attempts made by his
Royal Highness to compromise ber honor.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS
GoldsBoro', Jan. 17th, 1660.
Dear Progress Tho truly pitiable condition
of our estimable friend Cosmo as portrayed by
himself in his last communication, would not
have failed in enlisting my deepest sympathies,
and extorting a prayer for his speedy recovery,
had the simple, unadorned story of his sufferings
been related. But, unfortunately fur himself, as
regards the matter of sympathy, after announcing
the fact of his afHiction.be proceeded to expatiate
in so humorous and witty a manner upon the
mental disquietude occasioned by the deprivation
of his locomotive powers, that I almost wished
(not with malice, but with selfishness aforethought
I confess) that the " thorn in his flesh." otherwise,
the sore upon his fovt might " hold him " so long
as such mirth-provoking emanations were the re
sult thereof. But if the " healthful reaction,"
" the friendly spleen," which he says is subse
quent to a fit of " blues," should embrace within
its indiscriminate sweep, the read en of the Pro
gress, and exhibit its bitter fruits in withdrawing
from them the rare, and pleasurable epistolary
productions of his ready pen until a restoration
to soundness of his impaired parts, I will imme
diately and most earnestly pray that a speedy
cure may be effected, and the privilege of locomo
tion again restored to his pedestrial appendages.
The institutions of learning established in this
place have all assumed exercises after a short ces
sation for the enjoyment ot Christmas holidays
and the completion of arrangements for the pres
ent year. The Wayne Female College has com
menced the present session under more favorable
auspices than any previous one. The classic
schools under the direction of Mr. Ray and Mr.
Gulick have also made a good beginning. Suc
cess to them all !
Yours, &c, HORATIO.
I'apcit on Jlusic. IVo. XIV.
BY W. II. NEAVE,
Musical Director at Salisbury, North Carolina.
" Music," as defined by Malcolm," is the science
of sounds whose end is pleasure." Now all pleas,
uro has got to be paid for in some way, and the
members of amateur Bands, must devote nearly all
their leisure hours to study and practice, if they
would be good and lasting ; they must also pay
much in the shape of money for instruction, instru
ments, music, rent, light, music stands, uniforms,
&c. And their doing all this at their own expense,
at the commencement, is the best test of their earn
estness and a guarantee of their continued applica
tion. But to insure this latter clause they should
be liberally compensated when occasions occur,
or can be made, at which their efforts will give the
ohief zest and pleasure. In this way the public
pay the contingent cash expenses of the institu
tion ; while the Band contiues to pay their quota
in time, study and much physical exertion, very
often.
In large cities the rivalry of many civic milita
ry companies, friendly societies, general rejoic
ings, Sec , create and nourish fine Bands. There
are also the regular military stations, having in
variably passable, and -often good Bands attached
to them, tho salutary and softening power of
whose music on the rude soldiery, but too often
entirely isolated from the humanizing and restrain
ing presence of women is incalculable, indepen
dent of the benefit derived by the people in gene
ral. County towns possess the germs of musical
excellence equally with large cities, but not the
potent vivifying agents which are theirs only.
And this State is worse of in this respect than
tho majority of her sister States ; having no, really,
large towns in it, and with no regular military
depot, whose Band might farm a nucleus of pow
erful and varied out-door harmony. And while
Virginia on one side has four and South Carolina
on the other side has often two, it is therefore in
cumbent on North Carolina, as a matter of pride
and self-respect, that she make every exertion and
propitiate all existing auspicious means by which
she can render herself equal and even superior to
those States, and self-sufficient and reliant in
music. By resolutely doing so, the art will soon
have an elevated character and positive foot hold
in her midst, dispensing blessings among her peo
ple. Suppose we ignore the preparatory process,
and anticipate such a consummation ; we will
then find in every town and village a body of
men, of the right stamp, with good instruments
and a thorough practical knowledge of them and
of music, with an endless variety of printed Brass
Band music. Then would the Band room be a
sort of elysium, a happy and secure retreat from
the distracting cares of life for thg'inembers ot the
Band, two or three nights a,;feeks. But music,
like charity, is twice blesse3": it blesses those who
give and those who revive ; hence, if the Band
room is central and it a proper elevation, the in
spired thoughts,,!" great composers would radiate
in every direction over half a mile, floating through
the mansions of the rich and penetrating to the
firesides of the lowly, finding a ready response in
the breasts of the good, cheering the weary, sof
tening the obdurate, animating the supine, re
fining the gross, raising the failen, rejuvenating
the aged and inspiring the young. Thus for the
time all animated nature is in a genial mood:
hopes sanguinely. breathes freely, will sleep re
freshinsrlv and dream divinely ! These are not
vain imaginings, no utophian rhapsodies. Giles
says " the mere capacity in man of perceiving
sound, renders the rftusical element a necessity in
nature and in life. It is t he language of the heart.
The evidence of its power is in the calm, the quiv
ering or the joyous pulsation. Feeling in music
is a memory, a sympathy, or an impulse ; words
are but the history of a by-gone thought; music,
its most vivid presence." ' It is the voice of love,
because it is the highest type and aggregate ex
pression of passional attraction ; therefore it is in
finite. And what tone is to the word, what ex
pression is to form, what affection is to thought,
what intention is to ar&rument, what insight is to
policy, what holiness is to heroism, what religion
is to philosophy, what moral influence is to power,
what heart is to head, what woman is to man, so
is music to the universe. And again : " the songs
which Drimitive people sing, in which they nave
their best social interchange, are frequently poor
in diction and bald in sentiment. It is the waste
that gives-them life, transfusing energetic inspi
ration into the meanest words. Tet, of necessity
their melodies are most simple ; but they are their
purest instincts, seeking to put themselves into
measured sound ; the feelings singing of them
selves, making an orchestra of the brain, yot with
little to fill the ear and less to reach the mind,
still they are good for the mind and pleasant to
the ear. And if a rude musical sensation is of
value of bow much' more value is a refined one 7
Like a sensible people we import from abroad
rare articles of rertu, &e the products of art, soil
or manufacture, peculiarly the creatures of other
climes and people, but acceptable to this, whether
for profit or pleasure for our intellectnal ad
vancement or commercial aggrandizement. As a
pre emi uehtly prosperous people, it is ow blessed
privilege and prerogative, as it is a dnty to our
selves and to posterity, to transplant aud engraft
all that is good and true of other countries as we
ought to cast oat the evil and cling to the good
that is in nnd among ourselves. And shall we
neglect that great and only redeeming feature, in
some down trodden countries, music ? To delibe
rately entertain such an idea would be babarous;
for its resources are endless, while its develop
ments ever body forth, only the higher and purer
beauties of soul and clime, which distinguishes
one nation from another; all of which are suscep
tible of being transplanted in and engrafted on
ours. For instance the music of Italy, like the
country, is dreamy, seductive and passionate and
cannot, of course, instantaneously influence the
people of more rigid climes and habits ; but man
is man in all meridians ; and that which is found
ed on or akin to nature, as Italian music certain
ly is, will forever touch the keynote of humanity,
whether civilized or savage. This of music,
though of language differently. Under the
wretched condition in which music now is in this
country, the highest end generally contemplated
in the cultivation of music is display ; it is humila
tiug to concede ; it is true, however. And yet,
thoHgh unapparent to the mass, this involves a
contradiction of terms For to make a real ?nusi
col display, one mnstfeel, and when one feels in
music, he icill make an effective display ; but it
will be unconsciously, and not from a desire to
make a display of his or her power ; this is tho
secondary motive : the first is that all shall know,
feel and admire the music, as he or she does.
Thus, in the proper cultivation of music, one must
have the patience of a scholar, the fondness of a
child, or a lover, and the enthusiasm of a wor
shipper. From the American Journal of Medical Science.
Extract lroin a Ifevievr of the " Transac
tion of the North Carolina State Jledicul
Society at it late Session.
4 The State Medical Organization of North
Carolina dates only from the 27th of January
1849. Its subsequent progress has been one of
constant and increasing prosperity Though
feeble in the commencement of its career, it is
now recognized as the legally organized organ of
the profession throughout the State, and includes
among its members the greater portion of the
respectable medical practitioners of North Caro
lina. In the fulltillmentof the objects of its organ
ization it has succeeded in inducing those who
would otherwise have withheld their quota from
the general fund of medical knowledge, to embody
their cliuical observations in proper form, and to
present them, through the pages of the Journal
of the Society, for the benefit of their contempo
raries and success, and in this manner it has con
tributed to the advancement of medical knowl
edge ; by exercising a constant, judicious over
sight over the conduct of its members, it has ad
ded its influence most effectual to the elevation of
the character and standing of the profession,
while by enlarging, through the reports and med
ical communications made to it, and through it
to the public, our knowledge of the character,
causes, pathology, prevention, and treatment of
the various enolemic, epidemic, and sporadic dis
eases, which the physicians, located in different
sections of tha country, are called upon to con
tend with, the Society has not failed in the ac
complishment, to a good extent, of one of the
great objects of its mission, the protection, name
ly, of the health, tho promotion of the comfort,
and the prolongation of the lives of the commu
nity. And, finally, by bringing together, at
stated intervals, physicians from all the counties
in the State, and under tho most favorable oppor
tunities for their becoming acquainted with eacTi
other, and for the interchange among them of pro
fessional and personal courtesies, the Society has
established that harmony and unity of action be
tween the members of the profession generally,
throughout the State, upon which so essentially
depends the security of their individual interests,
and the triumph of the entire profession over
those evils with which it has had so long to con
tend." COGKKSSIO.AI,.
Washington, Jan. 16.
SENATE.
Mr. Bigler, of Pa., introduced a bill for the sup
pression of invasion of one State or Territory by
another. Referred to select Committee on the
Hamper's Ferry affair.
Mr. Clingman made an able speech in defence
of the rights of the South. Vo. said that he pre
ferred secession to dishonorable union. The Sen
ate then went into Executive session, in which
the nomination of the flon. C J Faulkner as Min
ister to France was c nifirmed.
, HOUSti.
Mr. Underwood, of Ga., (dem.) spoke three
hours and a lncf in support of Southern rights,
and in condemnation of the South Americans and
anti-Lecomptonites.
Mr. Morris, of Illinois (A. L. D.) defended his
position.
c o iv c; is s s i o iv a r. .
Washington, Jan. 17.
SENATE.
The Senate elected Mr. Bowman, of the Wash
ington Constitution, Printer to that body, by one
majority.
HOUSE.
Mr. Hutcheson offered a resolution for the adop
tion of the plurality rule in the electiou of Speaker.
Mr. Branch wished its withdrawal.
This was opposed by the Republicans in a de
bate which ensued.
Mr. Hickman accused the Northern Democrats
of being under Southern influence and in factions.
Mr. McClernand said that Mr. Hickman was a
traitor to the Democracy, a follower of Seward
and a tool of the Republicans.
Mr. Pry or denounced Hickman's language as
false, and then followed quite a lively time.
COIS'fcJICES.SI OJVATj.
Washington, Jan. 18.
senate.
Mr. Brown offered a resolution for the protec
tion of slave property in the Territories. A dis
cussion followed on the power of the Senate to
pass upon bills before the organization of the
House.
house.
Nothing was done, except the usual amount of
speech-making.
Mr. Clopton, of Alabama, favored secession as a
means to procure justice to the South.
Still, for War. The Charlotte Democrat
says :
The . Mecklenburg Dragoons " were on pa
rade last Saturday. The Company is of very re
cent formation, and turned out on Saturday 30
members. Their appearance, if not very military,
was not altogether without the pomp of war ;"
and vte could not suppress the exclamation, as in
double file they went plunging dovn the street.
" my kingdom for a horse !"' When Capt. Har
rison getson all his" fine soldier clothes,'' he will
make a gallant looking otficer, and with his knowl
edge of Cavalry tactics, the Company will doubt
less become an efficient one. Long may ft wave !
Superior Courts. We learn that the Judges
will ride the Spring Circuit as follows
Judge Bailey,
Edenton.
Manly's sucessor,
" Saunders,
" Shepherd,
" Drck,
" Caldwell,
' Heath,
Newbern.
Raleigh.
Hillsborough.
Wilmington.
Salisbury.
Ashville.
Trv-Tic'rTir?nrRw. TTspnrr.lt TV Va. It is
proposed in the Legislature of Virginia to lay a
tax of S10 on each and every bachelor residing in
tho Stai.
FRIDAY MORNING. JAN. 20. I).
IHIJ of ffrfe People.
Congress' has now been ehgagaged nearly two
months in ineffectual attempts to organize and still
they seem no nearer the accomplishment of that
object than at the outset. Meantime mail contracts
are being thrown up because the necessary appro
priations cannot be made, and tha the post of
fice department as also other departments of the
government are suffering serious inconvenience.
How, we ask, are these difficulties to be over
come 1 We confess- that we can see no possible
hope of electing a Speaker with the present com
plexion of the House. What then is to be, what
can be done ? For six or seven weeks they have
ballotted day after day with almost the same re
sult. Is it desirable to continue this state of
things 7 Nothing is to be gained by it, for none
of the public business before Congress can be
transacted. What then I
We see but one remedy. Let the pecple,
North and South, East and West, rise in their
might and hold overwhelming and overpowering
mass meetings and request their representatives
to resign their seats and leave the halls which
they have disgraced, and then let the Governors
of the different States order elections to be held
to fill the vacancies. The Representative is but
the servant of the people and when his constiu
euts call upon him to resign it is his duty one
too from which he cannot shrink to comply
Let this course be pursued then and let the peo
ple see if they cannot elect men who can organize
the House and transact the public business.
Speed the Work.
We learn that steps are being taken to raise a
Steamboat Company into whose hands it is proposed
to pass the Post Boy, which boat after undergoing a
thorough overhauling will be run regularly, twice a
week, between Newbern and Washington touching
at one or two points in Hyde county. This is indeed
a step in the right direction, and if euccessful will
only be carrying out the plan we suggested sometime
since for keeping up the line. Let the boat be put
in complete order so that she can make the run be
tween Newbern and Washington in a day let her
leave Newbern in the morning and arrive at Wash
ington the same night, and returning run the same
schedule, and she can secure the entire travel, which.
with a eemi-weekiy mail, which cannot be refused.wf rue tueut8' a.nd farnishedsome , of them
, , . , . , , . . , with tunds sufficient to pay their bills here and
and what freight she can command, Will not on t, if traveli expenses. To one person, who
pay running expenses, but. if properly managed, yTill
aff.rd a dividend to the Stockholders. But to -"talk
about running it uuder the old syatem, making one
trip a week and take two days to go and two to re
turn, would certainly end in another failure.
We do trust that the people of Washington, of
Hyde and the citizens of Newbern wilft make this
project one common cause and determine that the
line shall be kept up. It will benefit the trade of the
two towns, tend to strengthen tlx . ood feeling which
we believe already happily exists between them, and
afford our friends of Hyde the benefits of the two
markets and a rr.ehrs of communii ation with the
outer world. Let us all put our shoulders to tbe
wheel and push the boat ahead.
Correction. As an act cf justice we desire
to state that we we were mistaken a few days ago
in charging that the New York Ledger had, un
der the head of "book notices" a recommendation
of old Brown's Life. We were led into the error by
getting the Ledger mixed up with another week
ly from New York and a copy of a Southern lite
rary paper. The three ate gotten up so near alike
that we were sure that it was in the Ledger that we
read the notice of the "Life of John Brown," but
on examination we find that the Ledger gives no
notices of new books. We shall endeavor to find
the paper, which has been mislaid, that the pro
per party may be censured. Our opinion how
ever as to the worthlessness, and even the bad ef
fects of the Ledger sensation stories on weak and
susceptible minds, i unchanged. And the South
should drop it.
Ten Mohk. A friend at Sn ill Creek handed us
a club often new subscribers to be sent to that office
yesterday. Speed the good work. Our publications
show tor themselves, and the increasing approba
tion and patronage ofthe public only stimulate us
to renewed exertions to increase their merit.
Five More. Our worthy friend ntKinston, S. H
Loftin, Esq., the excellent Post Master at that place,
sent us by last night's mail, four more subscribers
which makes eleven he has sent us within the last
few days. We now send over fifty copies of our
Weekly and several Dailies to the Kinston P. O.
All hail gallant Lenoir. We receiveu also last night
an order to send one copy of our Weekly to Wash
ington Citv. These with the names received at the
counting room during the day foots up sixteen new
subscribers entered on our books yesterday. We
have still room, and still our cry is, and shall be, let
them come; we'll give them a good paper.
Painful Accident. Yesterday afternoon a
youth named Piver. while gunning not far from
town, met with a most painful accident by the
bursting of his gun. One of his hands was terri
bly mangled, and he will probably iose a great
part of it. It was dressed by Dr. Wm. P. Hill.
Piver lives some distance from town, at least so
we heard, and being without means, could not
remain here, nor yet well go home. Some pro
visions for cases of this kind would meet one of
the demands of humanity. Wilmington Journal
Thanks. Col. S. L. Fremont, General Super
intendent of the Wilmington and Weldon Rail
road will please accept our thanks for a compli
mentary ticket to pass over that road until the
31 st Dec. 1860. We promij. him not to be an illibe
ral deod-htadv q only travel when compelled to.
Hope to be able however to visit Wilmington
once during the year
Non-Intercourse Tht Fhisic Working. The
following is an extract from a private letter fiom
a gentleman residing in New York to his son tem
porarily on a visit to Virginia. It was not written
for publication, and yet it furnishes unmistakable
evidence of the working of the non-intercourse
physic :
"Times in New York are very dull, and many
of our large importing merchants are discharging
their clerks on account of not receiving their cus
tomary Southern orders. Many have overstocked
tneir stores, and cannot find sale for their goods.
There are large numbers of otfr ships clearing
every day for Southern ports without freight to
pay express, but hoping to find employment for
them, as the Southern States have but little ship
ping of their own. Business here is at a complete
stand."
Runaway Wives. The Charleston Mercury
says" that careful observation and calculation from
reliable statistics show that more wives of North
ern men. In proportion to the number, annually
run away from their husbands, than there are
Blavei who flee from thr masten.
Hkaltu and Bkauty. In order to have its
full effect, beauty must b? natural and connected
with erfect health. A fir skiu and rosy cheek
are calculated to excite ad-miration ; but if it be
discovered that they are produced by paint, then
admiration becomes contempt; orif owing to
disease, it is changed to pity. The grand pre
servation of beauty are the means which impart
health to the body. The reason is, that the sVn
is everywhere, except on the palms of the hands
and soles of the feet, pierced by innumerable lit
tie holes, which are the mouths of a set of curious
little organs, which pour out upon its surface an
unctuous or oily fluid, which lubricates it, and
renders it soft and whining.
The greatest quantity ot this oily matter is
poured upon the skin in warm weather, nnd gives
a decidedly greasy feeling, especially on to face;
and if water be sprinkled on any par, of the skin,
it will he seen to stand iu Iirge drops, instead of
spreading equally as on paper or dry linen. Un
less removed from the surface from time to time,
it accumulates and causes light dust to adhereto
it; and if long neglected, obstructs its heajihy
function. If the pores of the skin be stopped rtp,
theopperations of digestion must be impaired,
acridity and corruption of the skin mustensue,
ruining its surface, and laying the foundation for
acute diseases.
One great object js to keep the pores of the
skin open for cleanliness, and to give it tone by
bathing and gentle friction. It is a good plan
one that conduces eminently to health and beau
ty of person to pass a wet sponge over the whole
surface of the body every mornhig, commencing
with tepid water, and adopting cold water as
soon as it can be borne ; theiif he body be thor
oughly dried with a soft tow-'l, and rubbed with
a soft flesh brush. The habit will not only beau
tify the skinj and give it a fine transparency, but
it will be found a most effectual means of guard
ing against colds, aud other interruptions of the
system.
Swindling. An incident in connection with
the recent flight of he students deserves to be
mentioned. A cortMn Southern city, which
boasts of ayounAnd not very deserving or pro
fitable medical college, was anxious to tnke ad
vantage of the, ebullition in the Philadelphia col
leges, aud seCire a share of the st udents that left
them. A sufn of five thousand dollars was appro
priated by he City Councils to defray the expen
ses of tho that would go to the college in ques
tion. Tuis sum was placed in the hands of a
young -Boutherner, who immediately advertised
in a Philadelphia morning paper a most enthu
siastic but not very well written appeal to the
Southern students, inviting them to call on him.
yk understand that he received a good many
(alls from enthusiastic SouthernerSjSome of whom
represented that he came on behalf of a large
number of students that wanted to go South, he
gave nearly the half cf the five thousand dollars
appropriation. All the young men thus provided
were to meet him at the Baltimore Railroad sta
tion at a certain hour on a certain day, and they
were to proceed together proudly to their native
Sunny South,"' as he poetically aud originally
described it. The disburser of the five thousand
went to the station exulting, but not one of "his
friends joined him. He waited till the List moment,
when it flashed upon him that he had bveii cruel
ly sold, and getting into a dark corner of a car, he
started for home, a wiser, though a much poorer
man. Philadelphia llulltlin, lUiA.
The Ancient Mint of California. It seems
that they had in the vicinity of Santa Barbara the
original California Mint. The Indiaus of the Tu
lare country generally came over once a year, in
bands of twenty or thirty, male and female, on
foot, armed with bows and arrows. They brought
over pauoche, or thick sugar, made from what is
now called honey dew, and from the sweet Carisa
cane, and put up into small oblong sacks, made
of grass and swamp flags ; also, nut pines aud wild
tobacco, pounded and mixed with lime. This
preparation of native tobacco was called pispeaat,
and was used by them for chewing.
These articles were exchanged for species of
money from the Indian Mint of t he Santa Barbara
raucherias, called by them ponga. This pvnga
money consisted of pieces of shell, rounded with
a hole in the middle, made from the hardest part
of the small, edible, white muscle of our beaches,
which was brought in canoes by the barbarians
from the island of Santa Rosa. The worth of a
rial was put on a string which passed twice and a
half around the hand i. e., from end of middle
finger to wrist. Eight of these strings passed for
the value of a silver dollar, and the Indians al
ways preferred them to silver, even as late as
ld:3. This traffic the Padres encouraged, as it
brought them into peaceable connection with the
tribes ofthe Tulare valley. Santa Barbara Gazette.
Spirited Rebuke. In a letter to L. Maria
Child, on the subject of sympathy for old Brown,
written on the 11th of November, Mrs. M. J. C.
Mason, of King George county, Va , srrys i
But if. indeed, you do lack objects of sympathy
near you, go to Jefferson county, in tbe family of
George Turner, a noble, true-hearted m.m, whose
devotion to his friend, (Colonel Washington)
causing him to risk his life, was shot down like a
dog. Or to that of Mr. Beck man, whose grief at
the murder of his negro subordinate, made him
needlessly expose himself to the aim of the assas
sin Brown. And when you can equal in deeds
of love and charity those around you, what is
shown by nine-tenths ofthe Virginia plantations,
then by your " sympathy " wet the knives for
our throats and kindle the torch for our homes.
You reverence Brown for his clemency to his
prisoners! Prisoners! and how taken 1 Unsus
peering workmen, going to their daily duties ;
unarmed gentlemen, taken from their beds at the
dead hour of the night, by six nu-u doubly and
trebly armed. Suppose he had hurt a hair of
their heads, do you think one of the band of des
peradoes would have left the engine-house alive 7
And did he not know that the treatment of them
whs the only hope of life then, or clemency after
wards J Of course he did. The United States
troops could not have prevented him from boing
torn limb from limb.
" Annie Laurie." Mr, Chambers says the
verses of this song, which are in a style wonder
onet of Maxwelton, by his second wife, who was
a daughter of Ciddle of Minto. As Sir Robert was
created a Baronet in the year 1785, it is probable
that the verses were composed about the end of
the 17th or the beginning of the 18th century. It
is painful to record that, notwithstanding the ar
dent and chivalrous affection displayed by Mr.
Douglas in his poem, he did not obtain the hero
ine for a wife. She was married to Mr. Ferguson,
of Craigdarrech.
A Southern League. There has been formed,
in New York city, a "Union League." composed
chiefly of Southern peop'e residing or transacting
business there. Their main business will be to
inform their brethren iu tho slave States of all
suspicions characters vistingthem from that part
of the country to disseminate abolilionism on pre
tence of prosecutingjegitimate business as sgents
for commercial bouses. The league is thorough
ly organized, and embraces within its ramifica
tions a portion of the New England States.
Lecture. The first lecture of the series before
the Wilmington Library Association, was deliv
ered last night at Thalian Hall by tbe Eev. Bish
op Atkinson. The character of the lecture was
j historical and the parallels which the distinguish
ed speaker drew between different ages and coun
tries and the social and political developements
in each, displayed that learning, judgment and
reflection,- which ail concede to him. The very
intelligent andjeiice was both pleased and In
structed. Jmrmal cf Wednetdag.
fully chaste and tender tor their age, were written
by Mr. Douglas, of Finland, upon Annie, one of
the four daughters of Sir Robert Laurie, first Bar
31EDICINES.
MR. U'lXSLOW,
Ad experienced Ncrse zrul
Female Physician, presents to the aiteutioicf mcth
ers, hr
SOOT2IIXG Sl'Pl'P,
Fcr Children Z'uthin?,
which greatiy facilitates the proves-, of tet-t i.ir.g. v
softening th gumo, reducing nil inflammation wi"!
allay all.4ais and ipdinotiie RCti n, and ij
:5CItE TO RLGtLATE THK BCWCI.3.
Depend upon it, mothers, it wi.l jive u-tt tt vcur
8oivfc5and Itclief and Health in i'cur Infants.
Whave put up and sold this article n-r nv?r ton
yeus, and can say, in confi Jence and truth f it , wi: it
vi wave never hJt.;. 'ile tu
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the infant is t-ufieirne from pain and exhaustion, re
lief will bo fuand in fifteen or twentv minutes after
the tyrup is administered.
This valuable preparation is the prescription of ora
of the mou experienced und ykilful Nuies in New
England, aud has bceu used v:ih nevei tallin-'t,u
ceflj in
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orates the stomach and bowels, con et t- aciJitv. av
gives tone and nortry to the whole stem. it wi.l
almost instantly relieve Griping in the Uowels. and
H ind C holic, in.d overeoin.-
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in the world, in all cases of Dvsente.rv and ;airhai
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any other cause. We would say to everv mother
who has a child suffering from any of iho. foiepoiiiir
complaints do not let your prejudices, lmr the pre
judices of others, stand between your sr.fierii.i; l,i d
and the-relief that will be sure yes, absolutely .-urn
to follow the use of this medicii.e, it timeiy used.
Full directions for u.-ing wifl accc.n panv each b. ti..
Xone erenuine unless the fac simile of CURTIS iv;
PERKINS, New York, is on the outside wrapper
6olu by Druaryists throughout the world.
Principal office, No. 13 Cedar Street, X. Y.
Price only 25 Cents pti Bui tic.
dec 13. 18.j9-d&vlv
Dr. Bronson having been ro far reduced by con
sumption, as to Lo considered beyond all hope of re
covery by the most eminent Of the ine3:.' H r-.-fcs-sion,
and also by himself -a regular physician of
twenty vear practice as a last report, "conceived
the idea of ANALYZING THE BLOOD, and apply
ing the subject of phy.-iology to the more immediate
connection, and effect ofthe Ptate of the blood upon
the health and svstem. Tire r-utlt ha been the pro
duction of this ""BLOOD POOD," from the use of
which Dr. Bronson wa restored to perfect health.
Within six months after its introduction, over tvro
thousand consumptives were effectually cured by it.
If you have any complaints of a con,mrtive ten
dency, Covga, Cold', Head ache. Palpi fat inn rf the
Heart, Loss of appetite, or pa?t in the side, lo-e no
time m procuring a bottle ofthe "BLOOD FOOD."
If you are suffering from Kcrvcus IJiiiir :, or your
sleep in broken and disturbed, if your tpi-iis a: c lie
pressed or your Organ relaxed, you will find in this
an unfailing remedy, by commencing with tint hr-p;.
If your hirer is torpid or diseased in any manner
whatever one or tiro bottles will be pure to invij'or.v -.
aud brirrg it into lively and healthful action. I:i t iu
most inveterate cases of Dyspepsia, the patient cr.n
here find the most efficient and grateful relief. A
benefit is always experienced after taking ndv one
bottle. In Jila'e cr Female Complaints and Ilri
neses, the sufferer, after trying other remedies ir-.
vain, may rest assured, that a certain ure willr-M it
from the r.ie of tiro or thcc bottks. The " BLO' D
FOOD" is effectual in all cases of Pri;piotu-t Salt
Ilfteitm, Scrofulas and other like co.nphunt s.
and emaciated children add adults are immediately
benefitted by ifs use. It gives f-trenvtli to the b"iy
and color and beauty to the skin. I'tiisu-ian tf ail
schools are using it with wonderful success.
For full directions Fee circulars. Price $1 per
bottle.
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LkVjINI "tia hav noA ruiiu...; i u'i
Sold by CLTUKCH& DCPOXT, Dry-gist,.
No. 20 JIaiden Lane,
New Y-rk,
And for sale by i". S. DUFFY, Newbern, and by tl
respectable Druggists throughout the country,
nov 7-d&wly
EVEUY VABIETV OF IIAUM-.s SAD
dies. Bridles, Collar, Whips and Ti arks ; ti.l
kinds of Leather, Calf Skin, OH; Condition Pi. wdera
for diseased Ilnrses end Cattle: Coach tri:in:,!vcrs,
Carpet B'igs, Valines, Ac. The largest stock in the
State, sold whoieHif e or retail ct the lowest New York
Price. Ilari.e38 and Saddles repaired.
JAJIES WILSON.
Ab 5 Market st . Wilmington. X C.
Oct 13 dwlr Near the Wharf
1 HO ACKES op I;A"VO for Unit.
JL J J The subscriber offers for tale a valuable
Tract of Land, 'lying en Adams' Creeks, c ontaining
about eix hundred acres, and taid by judges to ne
equal to any land in the State.
Also, another tract lying on Hancock creek, about
twenty miles below jiewbem and t'.ree miles from
Havelock Depot, A &. N CKniLoad, containing 500
Acres, and is well timbered with long t-traw pine,
hickory and oak.
For further particular address the undersigned
at Newborn, N. C.
d 8 Uwtf JOHN X. WYMAN
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