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WEEKLY PROGRESS. SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 7. 1860. LlNKOF STKAMERS TROM WltMlNGTOW. N. C , TO the North. We learn that the Wilmington and Manchester," and the Wilmington and Weldon Rail roads together with several influential citizens of North Carolina, are about to contract witli a North ern firm for the building of one or more steamers, to run uutsidi between Wilmington and New York. The arrangemei ts are all perfected except conclu ding the contracts fur bui ding Norfolk Day Book 2dinst. . If the above be true and we doubt not but it is it will prove the best investment ever made by the people of Wilmington. The only wonder to us is that they have delayed a project of such im portance so long. Steam communication with New York will give them a decided advantage over all other towns in the State. Wc are sorry that our business men cannot see the positive necessity that exists for a line from Newborn to New York. That it will be done, sooner or later, we feel confident, but now is the time. Two propellers would find abundant busi ness between the two ports and that too without taking a single pound of freight from our packets. The steamers would create their own business ; and from our position and Railroad connections with the West the existence of such a line would give ns advantages over any other port in the State. What say our business men to trying the experiment with one propeller ? Surely the stock could be raised. Had we such a line the bulk of freight that now comes into North Carolina by j "Portsmouth and over the Seaboard railroad would pass througa Newbern and over the Atlantic & "N. C. Railroad. The business men of Newbern are the parties most vitally interested in this mat ter. Wh it do they say ? Our columns are open for suggestions from any quarter. " Independent.' Wo find the Goldsboro' Independent engaged in publishing ad valorem articles from the Fayettville Obei ver. We find the paragraphs of the. Newbern Progress going the rounds of the opposition press as against the Democrats. We find the Rutherford En quirer, indulging in the same anti-Democratic tirausement. The papers above referred to are all classed, by themselves at least, as independent or no party, or something of this kind. Now we do not care how they choose to call themselves, I ut for our part we must tlu'Dk that they would come nearer to it if they aid right out that they were opposed to the Demo crats. Wilmington Journal. We have said, and say again, that there are differences of opinion among members of both partios in this county, and we presume there are in every other county in the Slate, on the subject of ad valorem. This is our offenco and nothing more. But this is not the first time that the Jour 7ial has twitted us about the manner in which we have thought proper to conduct this paper. Our mission is to give the public information, on po litical as weli as other topics, and not to bolster up and defend the action of men or parties, and if wc have the approval of the public, for whom we labor, we can't see what right the Journal or any other political paper has to meddle with our course. If it will be any gratification to the Journal, or r.ny one else, we frankly state that the editor of the Progress is and has been opposed to any in terference with our State Constitution, is opposed to a Convention, and also opposed to any change in the basis of taxation. We believe in the axiom that it is good policy to let well enough alone. We have no negroes to tax but we are not desi rous to increase the tax on that species of proper ty. Wo believe that any legislation relative to slave property in . North Carolina at this time would be injudicious. But we do not utter these Keutiments as a politician. They have been our views all along and were not gotten up to enable us to stand on any platform. We entertained and expressed them before either of the State Con ventions assembled. As we have before said our columns are open for the admission of good tempered articles for and against ad valorem, but we shall not attempt to discuss it ourself. - We are already nauseated with its discussion by the political press. As to tho independence of the Progress we don't know that it is a matter that concerns any one but our readers and ourself. We believe that our readers are satisfied, (at all events their name is legion and the number is daily increasing,) and we are eure that we are perfectly satisfied with ourself. North Cnroliua Delegation to Charleston. Below we give the entire delegation to the Charleston Convention with the exception of the 8th District, which has not yet held a Convention. A Convention will be held however, in that dis trict and delegates appointed : For the State at Large. Delegates. Alternates. W S Ashe. N Hanover, V N Edwards, Warren, W W Aveiy, Burke, WT L Steele, Richmond, Bedford Brown, Caswell, W T Dortch, Wayne, W W Holden, Wake, G S Stevenson, Craven. In the above list the names range as the vote stood. The custom we believe is that the high est alternate takes the place of the highest dele gate, and bo on, in case the Delegates don't at tend. District Delegates. First District. X A Moore, Chowan, and NM I.ong, Halifax, delegates. C II Foster, Mur frecsboro', and J R Mason, Northampton, alter nates. Second District. K R Bridgers, Edgecombe, and W I, Humphrey, Onslow, delegates. W K Lane, Wayne, and H F Bond, Lenoir, alter nates. Third District W L Steele, Richmond, and Jas Fulton, New Hanover, delegates. J P Ful ler, Robeson, and A A McCoy, Sampson, alter nates. Fourth District. T J Green, Warren, and J W Watson, Johnston, delegates. A J Taylor, Nash, and Wm F Green, Franklin, alter nates. . Fifth District. R P Dick, Guilford, and S P Hill, Caswell, delegates. C S Winslead, Person, and L J Merritt, Chatham, alternates. Sixth District. S Hargrave, Davidson, and R Ij Patterson, Forsyth, delegates. J W Elling ton, Rockingham, and J F Hill, Stokes, alter nates. . ; ; .,.. .Seventh District. W Landsr, Lincoln, an$ Jno Walker Mecklenburg, delegates. . D Schenck, Gaston, and II B II am mend, Anson alternates. ' : ' : 'TT-. The Connecticut Election'. . The efe'etion in Connecticut last Monday result ed in tho victory of the Republicans, though by e 'greatly reduced majority. They" have re-elected their Governor, Hon. Henry A Buckingham, by 571 majority. His Democratic opponent, Hon. Thos H Seymour, was Minister to Russia under the Pierce administration, and is personally one of the most popular men in the State. The Re publicans hare also secured large majorities in both branches of the Legislature, which has to elect a United States Senator, for six years from the 4th of March next. The present incumbent, If on. L. S. Foster, will probably be re-elected. Last year the Republican majority in the State was 6,870, and at the last Presidential election. Fremont'carried it by 7.720. So the free nigger party has lost ground in Connecticut Of pourse Connecticut may be put down as doubtful in the Presidential contest iri November. Dead. Job L. Jarrnon a citizen of Jon'es ea.', died at Lis residence on Thursday morning," Mareh 29th. He leaves a wife and five-children. 8nlibury Going Ahead. We have frequently bad occasion to chronicle improvements going on in and about the town of . . . . 1 A 1 t " k Salisbury. We are glad to see inai suu anoiner important enterprise is to be added. The follow ing is from the Banner of the 3rd instant: v Important Enterprise We are pleased to an nounce that a company, consisting of Maj. J. C. Smythe, T. J. Meroney and William Murdock, has been organized, and nearly all the preliminary arrangements made, to commence, in Salisbury, the manufacture of tobacco on an extensive scale. We hail this movement as important in many re spects Rowan is destined to become, and is fast becoming, one of the first tobacco growing coun ties in the State. We are informed by comptent judges that the great bulk of the soil of the coun ty is well adapted to the growth of . the finest qualities of the plant, and the results so far in its culture, warrant the belief. It is said, also, that the lands will bring average crops, with fair sea sons, of 800 to 1000 pounds to t ha Acre, just as they now are. Farmers have been somewhat de terred from the cultivation of tobacco by the want of a market to which small supplies could be brought. This want exists no longer. Messrs. Smythe & Co., present the market. They are gentlemen of excellent business capacity and have the requisite capital and enterprise. This movement is important in many other re spects which will suggest themselves to the in telligent reader not the- least of which is in the fact that it will afford employment to a large nam ber of persons perhaps not otherwise provided for. The manufacture of tobacco is suited to female labor, and in this community there is abundance of that. Mr. Meroney has just returned" from Vir ginia where he has been to secure the services of a competent manager. The old cotton factory it is thought will be purchased for the works a capi tal building by the way for the purpose. We en tertain no doubt of the success of the enterprise. Advertising. The following remarks by an ex change concerning advertising are as true as gospel Nothing like a newspaper a daily paper to make yourself and your business known. Many think their business too small to advertise, and hence, are not willing to expend money in that way. Of one thing they may be assured, their busmess will scarcely increase or enlarge without advertising We commend the following to those of our Newbern business men who do not advertise because they think they cannot afford it : The true system of advertising is through the col umns of newspapers. There is no room to dispute on that point. The merits of handbills and circulars, under certain circumstances, are duly conceded ; but the handbill to be conveyed about by men, generally creates but a smile of irony a joke at the expense of the would-be notorious aud he and his business are forgotten. Very few people, now a days, stop to look at a hand-bill pasted on a wall, a fence a post. Fewer still look at the contents of a circular. These systems have each had their day, and have measurably lost their force. People now look in the newspapers for what they want to see and know something about. The newspaper ics circulated with out cost to the advertiser; is carried about in our pocket for reference ; it lies upon our parlor table and upon the tables or on the shelves of thousands who cannot boast of a parlor; it is read in stages, in the cars, on steamboats, along our streets and high ways; in shops, offices, stores, cellars, garrets eve rywhere ! Editors read them, statesman, clergymen, doctors, la wyers.mcrchants, mechanics, read them everybody reads the newspaper. Everybody must read it! The newspaper has oecome an estaoiisnea institution, ana a man or wo- U1U.II .1 W .1 UIWU l x.lxtJV, u " "- feVK 'V"o without it, would be deemed a nt subject tor au asy. lu t. or the penitentiary. JPor Mexico. There seems evidently to be some kind of a Fillerbustering expedition getting up in this coun try for operations in Mexico. We see it stated that a large number have already collected at New Orleans- The Norfolk Day Book of Wed nesday has the following relative to similar opera tions in that locality : Knights of the Golden Circle. The flattering in ducements held out to young men to visit Mexico, by the acknowledged Goverment of that Territo ry, has had the effect of filling the ranks of the Mystic Circle in this city, and a large number of stalwart young men are ready at a momout's no tice to start for the plains of the Montezums. In the meantime, if there are any others in this sec tion who would like to visit that very delightful clime, they can be accommodated by application to the Grand Commander. The time grows short, boys .' Correction. We were mistaken yesterday in stating that the free negroes who left ia the Schr. Frances Barrett, were bound for Iowa. Their desti nation is Ohio. We believe that free negroes are not admitted into Iowa. We would suggest that Horace Greely aud Henry Ward Beeeher get up a public reception foi them on the arrival of the schoon er in New York. There are some good looking mu latto wenches among them, and if any of the male members of Beecher's church, of good moral stand, iag and social position, are matrimonially inclined we doubt not but they could be suited from the cargo. They are free, but they are niggers, and, of course, there must be a kind of spiritual sympathy on the part of the abolitionists for them. Pennsylvania. The campaign for State offi cers has opened in Pennsylvania. The contest is between the Democrats and the People's Par ty. These are the two leading force. In 1856 the Presidencial struggle turned on Pennsylva nia, and as we have before declared, we are sat isfied that that State will determine the contest of I860. .And how do matters stand ? simply thus : The democrats have three members in Congres from Pennsylvania and the People's Party the ballance. What hope then has the democracy of that State in November? Shooting Affair at Kiuttn. We learn that a shooting affair came off at Kin ston on Wednesday but we are not acquainted with the particulars. The parties we believe were gentlemen of respectability and position. Both were wonnded one severely and proba bly dangerously. Pub. Doc Hon. Z. B. Vance will please ac cept our thanks for a copy of the speech recently delivered by him in the House of Representatives on the slavery question. Mr. Vance is reputed to be a gentleman of fine talents and gifted as an orator. He is very popular we learn in Congress. We shall endeavor to read his speech at an early day. Negroes Drowxed. A friend writing us from Onslow informs us that two negro b ys the property of Owen Huggins were accidentally drowned in the vicinity of Jacksonville on the 4th of March and their bodies were not found un til the 23th of the same month. The particulars of the drowning are not given. Rewaro Offered. His Excellency Governor Ellis offers a reward of four hundred dollars for the delivery to the sheriff of Orange county of Franklin C. Ford, wlio stands charged with the murder of Nathaniel H. Watson. A GOOD Paper. The Philadelphia Enquirer. a large 8 page daily, is among the best papers published in Philadelphia. Ii is an . independent newspaper, its general tone is conservative and we believe desires to deal justly - by the South. A Hoax. It need scarcely he said in this lat itude that the following despatch to one of the Philadelphia papers is a vile hoax i Washington, April 3. It is understood that a new and startling secret society has been formed in Georgia, for the purpose of uniting the South ern States, subjugating Mexico, and forming a seperate Government The members are pledged to a dissolution-theTJnion, but will support the Charleston nominee, if of their own selection. What gives color to the exciting piece of infor mation, is the lact that within the past month upwards of forty thousand of Colt's res-clve .wer Ehipped.fet.th& Stfath.. INTERESTING DISCOVERY AT ROME.; Hon. Lewis Cass. Jr.,' late Charge d'Affaires at Rome, .writes to Rev. Dr. Duffield, of Detroit, under date of Milan, February 14, an account of the discovery at Rome of an interesting relic He says : In the progress of the excavations on the palatine where stood the House of Gold of the Caesars, a fragment of an arch, covered with inscriptions and delineations, was brought to view. Furth er explorations in the same direction resulted in the exposure of a room, on the walls of which was found a sketch, cut or engraved with a sharp-pointed instrument, of a crucifix, with the figure of a man in the attitude of prayer, standing near it. The announcement of this discovery created great interest. By order of the Pope the design was removeved from its position, happily without in- iury. and confided to the charge of Monsignor Maccm, who mviiea me to juspeci , ana uy whose permission I procured a copy to be made, which is herewith enclosed. It is needless to say that this event has elicited elaborate specula tions. " In addition to various treatises which have appeared in different languages in explanation of the subject, it has provoked numerous controver sies between certain Protestant Divines in Ger many and prelates of the Roman Catholic Church ; these conflicting views concur with scarcely an exception in the conclusion that the aim of the sketch was to cast ridicule on the worship of the Christians. It presents the outlines of a cross, on which is a human figure bearing the head of an ass. A tunic envelopes the waist, and the arm and legs are partially covered with bandages. To the left, with one hand raised in the posture of adoration, as depicted on ancient monuments, ap pears the form of a man, while below is seen the following inscription: 'Alexander adores' God.' The execution of the engraving, as you will per ceive from the fac simile, of which the scale is one fourth smaller than that of the original, indicates an entire ignorance of art, being stiff and hard, without ease or grace whatever. Satisfactory evidence refers the dale of it to the reign of Sep timus Severus. There were numerous Christians in his Court, one of whom, it is supposed, of the name of Alexander, was thus exposed to ridicule by his Pagan associate or companion. It is unnecessary to recall the existence of the legend, current throughout the Roman dominions in the days of the empire, that the Christians worshipped a divinity whose head differed in no respect from that of an ass In Africa, then filled with rich and splendid cities, this was the popu lar belief. It was inculcated in the Magian schools of Asia, from the sands of Parthia to the Pisidian forests, and levelled at the converts to the strange faith in the streets of Narheordea, Amida, and Mardin-on-the-hill. The latter Gnos tics in particular, more especially the sects of Bar desanes, omitted no occasion to disseminate this calumny, accompanied with every epithet of con tempt and detestation. It is alluded to in the pages of the cotemporary.fathers, by whom it was repelled with vehement and irrepressible indig nation. The origin of this monstrous invention is lost to us. There can be little doubt, however, that it had its foundation in the hatred with which the disciples of the pure and spiritual doc trine were invariably regarded by the idolatrous nations among whom they lived. But whatever the source, the first mention of this calumny oc curs in the records relating to the period interve ning between the years one hundred and twenty and two hundred and fifty ot our era, subsequent l0 whicn epoch all traces of it disappears Pre cisely during the same period the room in which the design was found was constructed. " The palace of the Csesars on the Palatine was the growth of successive reigns. That pirt of it which embraces the chamber in question was built by Hadrian, as the bricks, of which it was chiefly composed, attest. They are impressed with the names and titles of the Consuls Pactinus and Apronicanus. This coincidence the preva lence of the legend in the years already mention ed, and during that period only, and the erection within the same time of the wall on which the drawing is traced establishes, satisfactorily, the purpose of the sketch, as well as the date of its execution. Still more conclusive, perhaps, is the manner in which the figure upon the cross is pre sented to view. It is delineated with drapery, while it was the invariable practice in executions of this nature, a mode of punishment very com mon among the Romans, to expose the victim or criminal in astute of nakedness. This discrepan cy finds its sole warrant in the tradition that our Lord was put to death with a garment about his loins, and its admission in a work emanating from the hands of a Pagan, whom we cannot suppose to have been influenced by any sentiments of awe or respect, and whose experience would never have suggested such a departure from the uniform custom, indicates clearly a caricature, of which the fiist requisite is conformity to its prototype. Finally, the words f Alp 'andei adores God ' admit of no other interpretat . n; nothing iu history, longedary or monumental, tending to the idea that the symbol of a crucified being was never regarded as an object of veneration by any other sect than the followers of Christianity." MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. New York, April 4th. The Brooklyn charter I election yesterday resulted in the success of the sott democracy, Ldmund Briggs being elected collector of taxes and assessments, Bernard O'Neal commissioner of repairs and supplies, and Charles Tierney street commissioner. Of the al dermen elect, 7 are democrats to two republicans, and of the supervisors 11 are democrats to 8 re publicans. Elmira, New York, April 3. At the charter election here to-day the democrats elected nearly their entire ticket. Schenectady, N. Y., April 3 Benj. T. Potter, republican, was to-day elected mayor by 400 ma jority over the democratic chndidate. Bcfpalo.N. Y., April 3. At the election yes terday the democrats carried the entire ticket. Cincinnati, April 3. At the election held yesterday, for city and ward officers, the demo crats elected their entire ticket by an average majority of 700. The democrats elect 9 council men, and the Republicans 8. There was au op position majority in the city last year. Dubuque, Iowa, April 3. The municipal elec tion yesterday passed off quietly. The opposition elected their mayor, marshal and fivecouncilmen, and the democrats one councilman and the bal ance of the city officers. Milwaukie, Wis., April 3. At the municipal election to-day, Lynde, democrat, was elected mayor by 1,000 (majority. The democrats also elected their controller and city attorney. The republicans elected their treasurer by from two to four hundred majority. Toledo, Ohio, April 3. At the municipal elec tion yesterday the central republican ticket, with the exception of one councilman, one assessor, and one constable, was elected by average major- ities of 170. Robbing the Government. Really the com mon sums of money being expended by Congress for printing should meet an indignant rebuke from every honest man. Read the following from the Washington Constitution and see how the money goes : Within a few days past, at the instance and on the recommendation of Mr. Gurley, Rep. of Ohio,) Chairman of the Committee on Printing, ten thou sand extra copies of Gov. Steven's report (printed by order of the Senate at the close of the last ses sion) were Ordered to be printed by the House. The cost of. this book will be upwards of fifty thou sand dollars, and the Government will nav tic ice j for the composition. That Gov. Stevens' Report is a valuaDle ana interesting work we have no doubt; but having already been printed for the usf of the governmtnt, its republication is a piece of the most wasteful extravagance that has ever yet characterized the publie printing; and, if this system is to be adopted, you may reduce the prices of actual printing 90 per cent , and yet the expenditures in the printing department will run up to millions of dollars. Died. At St. Croix, West Indies, on the 23d Feb ruary, Mrs. Acgust a Waring, wife of R. P. Waring, Esq., U. S. Consul at St. Thomas, and daughter of the late Louis D. Henry, Esq., of Fayetteville. She had gone from St. Thomas to St. Croix on a vit a few daya previous to her death. Mrs. Thirza Saunders, daughter of Jler. Thomas Arendell, died 8th of 'March at the residence ef her son, Col: Wm. A; Sauodera, Marion, Ala., is-the pth MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1860. Politics in Massachusetts. . There was a Union meeting held in Boston last week. ' The N. Y; Express says of it. The Constitutional Union Meeting, held in Boston, last week, witli eight hundred and forty four delegates from two hundred and twelve towns, is a significant sign of the times. It was atten ded by the Lawrences, the Curtises, the Salton stalls, the Hilliards, the Hunts, the Warrens, the Crockers, the Kimballs, the Danas, and some of the ablest, truest, and most patriotic men of the Old Bay State the very mention of whose names carries us back to the proudest days of that old Massachusetts, when the voices Tot Webster, Everett, and Choate were heard and recognized as from the leaders of the old Whig party. The resolutions adopted also have the ring of the true metal in them, and we cauuot forbear, therefore, to copy so many of them as relate to "national topics now before the country : Resolved, Tli at the time has come when it is the duty of conservative aud patriotic, men, all over the country, to unite in the formation of a party in which Northern men and Southern men can act harmonious ly together for ends in which all parts of the country are alike interested. Therefore, we desire and propose to form a Union party, mainly designed to put an end to useless, and worse than useless, agtation ; at the same time we .hold open the door for the entrance of membeis of any present or lormer pany. - e ncn-uuic au who come under the banner of the Constitution and the Union ; making no reproaches tor the past, and no bargains or conditions for the future. Resolved, That there is no issue before the coun try at this time demanding the maintenance of a po litical organization which from necessity must be sectional; that there are no territories where the question of slave labor or free labor is not already ef fectually settled; therefore, all efforts by th" leaders of parties to excite the people of different sections against each other on this issue are misdirected and mischievous iu their tendency. Resolved, That we consider it the first duty of every nation to protect its own industry, thereby se curing to the producer a home market and good prices ; and to the nation thut prosperity, wealth and independence which can be secured in no other way. Therefore, we are in favor of the protection of American industry, and we deprecate that system of duties which affords inadequate protection to home manufactures and opens the door to enormous frauds upon the National revenue. Dispatch. Promptness and dispath, being indis pensable requisites to success in business, our ship ping merchants are directing and governing them selves accordingly. The Schooner Edwin, Gordon master, arr"vedat her wharf in Newbern at nine o'clock on Friday morning, heavily freighted with merchandise from New York, for Newbern and Western merchants, which was discharged forth with and cargo taken in for New York by Saturday night and she left early this morning. The Edwin is a quick bUl of flight and her agent W. C. Whitford, an energetic man; but, perhaps, not more so than the rest of our shipping merchants, for they all make it a point not to let theii vessels lay at the dock au hour longer than is necessary. Ouu Own Position. Our readers will recollect our remarks a few days ago concerning the publica tion of deaths aud marriages. We copy the follow ing as containing similar sentiments, from the Augus ta (Ga.) Dispatch : Obituary and Marriage Notice. Announcements of deaths, are acceptable as items of news, but obituary notices are always eubjct to charge. Our idea m reference to this class of matter is illustrated by a Yankee editor, who said he didn't mind record ing the deaths of people without being paid for it; but panegyrics on the dead must be paid for for, said lie, " we positively can t afford to eend people to Heaven for nothing " Marriage notices are always charged half a do'lar. That, with the license fee, makes a wife cost only about two dollars and a man who wouldn't pay that for the article ought to live single, and be bit ten to death by bed-bugs. The Daily Press. Mr. R. II. Whitaker for mer sole editor and proprietor of the Democratic Press, Raleigh, has associated Mr. J. H. Avent with him in tho future management of the paper. The last number of the Press received pays: The Democratic Press will, from and after this date, be edited and conducted by R. H. Whita ker and J. 11. Avent, under tho name and style of Whitaker & Avent ; Mr. Avent having purchas ed one half of the establishment. Tiik Fashions. We see some beautiful dre.?s pat tenio in the windows of the dry goods meivhanis on Pullok street, and would you Relieve it, the prevail ing fashion is only from cucn to thirteen ihiunces. Oh ! for the gowd old days of Quaker simplicity when women were satisfied to be rationally dressed. IToop? and flojnees how they lighteu a fellow's breeches pockets ! Mortality. There have been several deaths in the neighborhood of Bay River, in this coun ty, recently. Mrs. Caraway, wife of Benjamin Caraway, we learn, died on Friday evening last. Mrs. Caraway was raised in Newborn and was educated iu the Griffin school. The Hotels and the Convention. We have no doubt that our position, says the Charles ton Mercury, with respect to the Convention and the cry against the landlords, is perfectly under stood. We admit the following letter, which has been handed us by a valued friend, from the general raciness of it3 style and its good humored satire : What, my dear brother, ia the matter with the city of Charleston ? Is it in an iuherent corporation al weakness or the infirmity of years is sue in her dotage or is it that the Yankees, your friends, have taken possession bodily of her, and thrown down the ancient household gods chivalry and hospitality and reared up in their stead New England's Idol expressed thus &P$ ? Who ever heard such a cla mor about the expected arrival of a few guests in a city ? I would suggest that your papers publish your State enactments (I belive you have statutes on the subject) regulating the diet of your inhabi tants ; and require each guest to conform to require ments i. e., at least a pint of boiled hominy for breakfast is to be eaten before your touch anything else ; and repeal your city ordinance against eating small hominy ior supper. You will perceive by this course that you will, in obedience to law, be able to provide for two meals in the three. For I never saw any one but a South Carolinian that could eat a pint of small hominy and not feel that he had. made a fair breakfast in quantity. He uses it only as 'filling." Enforcing the breakfast statute and re pealing the sapper ordinance, you will have only to provide for dinner. Now can't the negroes on the rice estates furnish fowls enought to make pillau ? I think it requires only an ounce of poor chicken (he must not be fat) for a peck of rice. Thus you see you will b able to stuff the whole delegation and not go an inch beyond your own market house. J make these suggestions for two reasons. First: you will be able to tell the aboliton delegates that they have been fed on the perquisites usually claimed by the slaves on the plantations. Second : in the heat, and smoke, and din, and dust of battle, soldiers sometimes are seized with a panic and fail to see the strength of their position. This seems to be peculiarly your situation at this time. I hope some master spirit will yet be found in time to save your city from disgrace. Why, brother, some half-a-dozen years ago we were called upon to entertain some six hundred guests in a notice of three days. It was done, we thought entirely to the satisfaction of our guests ; and w went so far as to insist on set tling even the hotel bills. And we have never claimed for ourselves anything higher than " fron tier gentility," which you know is not a high claim. But what has .taken possession of your people ? Why, really ever Southern man is ashamed and disgusted. You have had a year's notice of the gathering. Couldn't you prepare, in a year, for a half thousand of people 1 Do you realize your geo graphical position ? Do you know that you have the Atlantic ocean on one side of vou, with a coast' ex tending from Portland, in Maine, to " Powder Horn " Landing on Matagorda Bay, in Texas ? Do you know that you have railroad communication ex tending over eighteen degrees of longitude and twen ty of latidude ? That you have steam' communica tion and telegraph wires extending from the orange groves of tropical Cuba to the fire freezing parallel of 54.40 ? With the means in your reach? and the notice you have bad, it seems to me you might have given your guests choice between a polar bear and a ring-tailed monkey an ei ber duck and a screaming parrot :& dish of elephant's tail or reindeer etew B-.np from seal, or an oriental " bird's nest" a cod fish from Massachusetts or a prairie-hen from New Mexico a sheep's head from Florida, or a trout from Lake Superior. The products of ocean-, sea, gulf, and lake--.all the islands of the Antilles of a conti nent embracing every variety of climate "and soil, eitecdinefroin ocean to -ocean, oueht to have 1iti at your tfborV It Juiry' wanted a little enterprise -to nceliss'Ia Onr. Afriend has kindly furnished the following notice of a political meeting, recently held in Onslow, for our columns. I5"d. Pbogress We understand that a large and enthusiastic con course of democrats of Onslow county assembled in Jacksonville on Monday, the 2nd of April, for the purpose of taking into consideration the practicabil ity of convoking a conveutin to nominate candidates for the Legislature. E. WV Fonville, Feq., call, ed the meeting to order, acting-in the capacity of Chairman of the Executive Committe. James M. Wooten, Esq., was made President of the body and Z. H. Coston, Esq., appointed Secretary. The propriety of having a convention the present year was entrusted to a selected committee com posed of one delegate' from every captain's district in the county to be appointed by the delegates themselves. This committee through its Chairman, Joseph Ethridge, Esq., reported favorably to the holding of a convention upon a certain plan. This method is to authorize seven out of ten electoral pre cincts to call a convention and make nominations providod they send at least five representatives to be elected by ballot iu the primary meetings. F. D. Koonce, Esq., was called upon for a speech, and having replied briefly, Dr. E. W. Ward was next solicited to appear. Having declined, Col. L. W. Humphrey was requested to come forward and address the meeting. The Col. complied, aud made one of his happiest efforts, in a speech of upwards of one hour long. He was listened to with the greatest attention, and loudly applauded at his conclusion. E. W. Fonville, Esq., and J. H. Foy, Esq., also spoke to the meeting in a telling manner. The time selected for the primary meetings in the districts is the last Saturday in April, and that for the assembling of the convention the day upon which the New Kiver Navigation meets, being the 23rd of May. Onslow has set the example to her sister counties of proceeding early in these matters, and we notice one remarkable, and we must confess, in our judg ment commendable diversity in this from all pro. ceedings of a like character which we are familiar with, and that is the appointment of a day for hold mg the convention which is not.in court week. On oc casions of this sort the people especially at this sea son of the year are so deeply engaged ia other mat ters as to be disabled from attending the meetings, even thougthey maybe present on the ground, with out sacrificing time and private interests. Farmers and many others attend court to settle business aud it is not at all desirable to leave that business disar ranged. Politicians and lawyers of course will ride miles under a broiling sun, over a sandy road, to be at a tax gathering or at any point at which a move is J to be made upon the political chess-board. j LATER FROM EUROPE ARRIVAL OF TBIE ItAIVGi VIIOO. New York, April 6. The Kangaroo arrived this morning with Liverpool dates to the 21 st. The question of the annexation of Savoy has been definitely settled by a treaty between Sar dinia and France. The proposition to submit the matter to a ballot was rejected by a large majori ty of both houses. The municipal council of Nice voted against annexation, and sent a deputation to Turin on the subject. Signer Farina had formally presented to the King of Sardinia the votes of the Eniilian Provin ces in favor of annexation to Piedmont. The King said in reply that he accepted the vote, as also that of Romagna, but at the same time would not falter in his deep devotedress to the Pope. The Pope had addressed a monitory epistle to the King breaking off all relations with him and excommunicating him. It is reported that Piedmont wants a loan of 15U,000,0U0 francs. Austria declines to renew diplomatic relations with Sardinia, owing to flagrant violations of the treaty of Zurich. A squadron of four ships of war, headed by the screw steamer Hero, is to escort the Prince of Wales to Canada. The London Times strongly recommends that the Prince should make a tour of the United States, and feels assured that a vis it to the President would be appreciated. Mrs. Jameson, the authoress, is dead. Miss Florence Nightingale is seriously ill. Prayers are offered up for her recovery in the gar rison chapels. The commercial treaty between England and France is in full operation. COMMERCIAL. lillLKIUUL, illijltll HI. .UltUll UU11 HUU OI lt-- t ... ww. n-v,-.T Hi. .1, .ii r.. l : generally unchanged. Breadstuff firm. Provis- ions dull. I he money market active, but gene- rally unchanged Cousols 94. Wants to 12 et on Douglas. We find the following iu the Washington "States" newspaper. While we don't feel in clined to .gamble on elections we mast confess that we entertain about the same opinions as to the ability of Mr. Douglas to carry the Southern States. UTio Dare Accept the Proposition ? Mr. Edi tor : I have heard it asserted that Judge Doug las, if nominated at Charleston, could not carry a single Southern State. Now, to test the sincerity of those so asserting, I will wager $200-to $100, or five times that amount, on every Southern State excepting South Carolina; and $1,000, even bet, that no one can name a Southern State ( ex cepting South Carolina) which he will not get if nominated at Charleston ; all to be taken togeth er. I except South Carolina merely because she votes by her Legislature, and might find her vote not wanted, and throw it away. 1 he above is from a responsible source, and the agreement can be consummated at this office. Ed. States and Union. PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION. The Columbus (Ga.J Enquirer noticing there commendation of the Hon. William A. Graham of N. Carolina, for the Presidency and the Hon. Hen ry M. Fuller, of Pennsylvania, for the Vice Pres idency, by a correspondent of the National Intel ligencer says : ' We have not seen any ticket yet proposed which suits us as well as this, and we believe that it could rally a powerful conservative support from all sections, if nominated by the National U.iion Convention. Both are sound a'nd enlightened statesmen, irreproachable men and patriots on whom all parts of the Union could confide." TOIL IN THE NORTH COMPARISON BE TWEEN FREE AND SLAVE LABOR. The Concord (N.H.) Standard has the following : -i "Many tender-hearted, fanatical Abolitionists, who have traveled South, have been shocked, or pre tended to be, at the sight of female slaves working very lazily in the com and cotton fields of that sec tion of the Union. They think nothing at all of white females laboring in the fields in the North. In fact, they never take notice of such scenes. But we have seen them often. During the past summer we have witnessed the following scenes in New Hampshire, and in one of its wealthiest and most enlightened counties We have seen a white mother holding a helpless infant in her arms while she was loading a load of hay, her husband pitching the hay on the cart, and the woman, with the child in her arms, trampling it down. Next we saw an aged white man, very near seventy years old, bent over with infirmi ty and decrepitude, with one arm amputated to the very shoulder, pitching bundles of wheat on a cart, while his wife, nearly as old, was on the cart catch ing the bundles, placing them properly, and tramp ling them down. We have been much in the South, but we never saw a scene bo touching among the slaves. There, such old, decrepid people among the slaves are relieved from labor, or put to light and easy tasks. The truth is, poor humanity has a sad destiny everywhere and the white man's destiny ii fullv as hard as that of the black man. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. Washington, April 5. The Democratic Na tional Committee held a meeting this morning, and unanimously resolved not to change the nominating convention from Charleston. The committee adjourned to meet at the Mason ic Hall, in Charleston, on the 21st April, at noon. CONSERVATIVE VICTORY. . Providence, R. I., April 5. The Black Re publicans are routed in this State, horse, foot and dragoons. The majority of Sprague Conservative candidate for Governor will probably reach 1500. 4i.Tlier.egi3lature will be largely auti Black Re- i 'publican. : . .- . Abolition Moralilr. It is a humiliating fact that a portion of the Black Bepublican party in Congress defend the abomnible practice of Polygamy by the Mormons in Utah. Rut those who steal negroes are mean enough to do anything. The Baltimore Sun says : The bill which has been under discussion n the lower House of Congress for several days past, for prohibiting and punishing polygamy in the territories, passed that body yesterday. It of course .is more especially designed to reach and obliterate the abominable iniquity in Utah in dulged under the pretence of a religious creed by the Mormons. The discussion of the bill in volved the whole subject of the right of Con gress to legislate on the domestic affairs of the people of the Territories generally, some claiming that Congress had no moreright to prohibit polyga my than they had to prohibit slavery others, that they had a right to prohibit both and' others, again drawing a distinction and claiming that Congress has the right to provide for the put ishment of crime, though debarred from interfer ing with the citizen in his rights of property in slaves. The bill has yet to be acted on by the Senate. A Good Officer Re-Appointed.-AH persons everywhere who have anything to do with the Collector's office at this port will be glad to learn that our worthy townsman, WTilliam G. Single ton, Esq., has been re-appointed Collector for the port of Newbern. We can only say that as lono as Mr Singleton retains the office it will be wor thily filled. We can only regret, for his sake, that the profits of the position are not larger : Appointment by the President. Collector of the Customs Wm. G. Singleton, at Newbern N. C, re-appointed. Surveyor of the Customs A. J. Galloway, at Wilmington, N. C, vice Hiram R. Nixon, re signed. The Canvass. The last Standard contains a letter from Gatesville dated April 4th, giving au account of the discussion of Messrs. Ellis and Pool at that place on the 3rd, in which it is made to appear that Mr. Pool was thoroughly demolish ed. Of course we shall look to the next Register for a letter giving an account of the total annihi lation of Governor Ellis at the same time and place. And so the thing will go on until the day of election, and the victor will be but poorly com pensated for the toil, drudgery and lickings re ceived in the canvass, after all. Tarboro' Items. On last Monday week Mes srs. L. D Pender, II. A. Dowd and Jas. M. Red mond were elected Commissioners and Geo. W. Whitfield re-elected Magistrate of Police of tho town of Tarboro' for the ensuing year. The Southerner learns that Dr. B. W. Mabrey, has sold his Dwelling House aud Storehouse, on the corner of Granville and Main streets, in that town, to Dr. Donald Williams for $8,000. Dr. Williams takes immediate possession of Dr Ma brey "s office, who' retires to the country at the end of the present year. A Local Item. Steps are being tukeu we learn to get up a grand May Day Pic Nic. for nn excursion to Carolina City, the other City, Fort Macon and Beaufort, when and where bright eyes, gallant knights, cold chicken, music, dancing, singing and other seasonable coolerilics and luxuries will be gen erally mixed up. A stock company is being formed to carry out this great enterprise. The Progress has taken one share. Stock may be had of the mana gers who may be found ut almost any corner around town. Early application is necessary as only a limi ted number of ki shares '" will be sold. Mosley Hall. We publish an interesting let ter to-day from Mosley Hall a flourishing village on the A. it N. C. Railroad, I"J miles cast of Golds boro', in Lenoir county. We shall be pleased to hear from "Bear Creek" often. Lest and Easteu. The Services for the Season of Lent and Easter dosed at the Episcopal Church on Sunday lust by an impressive Sermon by the Re -tor. Rev. A. A. Watson, and the admini; tiniion of t! e Holy Communion. The attendance on the eleven o'clock services was unusually large. Lost. A small Buckskin Bag containing Fever I " , . . ,, ... . 7. , - -,. lilCAfiS ivfc.is. ine nnaer win oe Jioeruiiv r ,uuu ' ? i ' ' . Obituarr. Jamks Miller, the subject of this obituary notice, died on the first day of April, A.D. 1S60, after a very short illness. He was iu the prime of life, although time had whitened his locks ; yet good health, unvj. ried kindness aud placidity of disposition seemed to have retained to him all the mental capacity of vig roUJ manhood. Having been the architect of his own fortune endowed by nature with a good under standing taught by example the precepts of moral ity, he ever so conducted himself through a long and active ltfe as to gaiu the affection of all with whom he had to do. His life, though varied by iucidei t and checkered by change, has no stain or "blot upon its page. The most unpretending ever williug to listen to the connsel of a friend never presuming to lead never aspiring to anything but to do good and justice to all men ; with ear ever open to the tale of distress, and baud everready to succor acknowl edging all the claims'of humanity performing with tender affection the duties of a husband, lather, friend and master, secured to himself the friendship of all whoknew hiin and who appreciated true worth and merit. Against his inclination his fellow-citizens elected him in 1806 to represent Craven county in the Senate of the General Assembly of North Caro lina. The same traits there aistinguished him as in 1 private lite ; shunning publicity ever at the post of duty disregaraing ine iime poncy or politicians, he ever voted promptly that which his judgment and conscience dictated as right. But a short time elapsed after the expiration of his term of office before death claimed his victim. The summons went forth and he obeyed its' call, leaving an affectionate and sorrowing family, his im mortal spirit has sought the felicitous realms above to enjoy the high reward to which his terestial life of charity, mercy, and religion most surely entitled him. Felices ter, et amplius Quos irrepta tenet copula ; nec malis Divusis queremoniis Suprenia citius eolvet amor die." E. J. B, Mt. Vernon. 1 he ladies have paid for Mount Vernoa, but now will have to procure the sum of $15,000, the interest of which will keep the place in repair. Miss Pamela Cunningham, the Re gent of the Association, writing on the subject, says : Practical men whom I have consulted on this subject, estimate that it will require from $8,000 to $10,000 annually to cover the expenses which must be incurred if Mount Vernon is to be kept in repair, and provided with a force sufficient to protect and preserve the house and grounds in security and good order worthy their future na tional position. Of thi sum, the annual receipts from visitors may furnish from $1,500 to $2,000 although those of tho past year only amounted to $1,226 25; but the remainder cannot be safely re lied on, except from a principal invested so as to yield the requisite interst. The safety of invest ment, as a general rule, is in inverse ratio to lu crative interest. If we estimate at 6 per cent., it would require a principal of from . $-125,500 to $1 40,000. As we have $20,000 in possession wo are already in a position to meet one of our obliga tions to restore Mt Vernon to what it teas in its palmy days. We have yet to require the $140,000 needed for annual maintenance. m ;1 ORR NEW DKV GOODS, iVI (AT THE DRY GOODS EMPORIUM.) Per Schr. Messenger just arrived 120 pieces New Styles Calicoes, . 25 " New Style Servant's Plaid and Stripes, 40 " Bleached Shirting, 10 " lPi Sheeting Bleached and Brown. 6 " Fine White Flannel, 15doz Hosiery. 50 doz. Coats' Cotton, &c.,Ac. Feb 16 E.CUTHBERT. EW CABPETS RECEIVED. 1 Piece beautiful ioweli lnree .Fly ; 1 Hemp uarpet ; , " Cocoa Matting;- i "84 Floor Oil Cloth -r , Also on hand, lO -Pieces Bruseells, New Choice Patterns ; lO " Ingrain Tapestfyt &c, ice. - '. - ' Hugs to match. - FootMats-nl Dnrgcctst -- E.-CUTHBERT. " Yb 17 ..
Newbern Weekly Progress (New Bern, N.C.)
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