BYJ. L. PENNINGTON. THE NEWBEEN WEEKLY PROGRESS, AN INDEPENDENT NE WSPAPER, IS ISSUED FROM THE PROGRESS BUILDINGS, Every Tuesday morning, at TWO DOLLARS a year for single subscribers, and only ONE DOL LAR AND A HALF to clubs of six or more. The Paper will not be sent to any one till the money is received, and all subscriptions will be discontinued when the time paid for expires Money, if mailed in the presence of a Postmaster, may be sent at our risk. WEEKLY PROGRESS "WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 24, 1860. READ AND REMEMBER THIS. All subscribers who get their papers with a cross mark, made with a pencil, on the margin with the name, are there by notified tltat the time for which they have paid is about to expire, and tf they do not send on to us by mail T WO D OLLA RS immediately to re newt the paper will be certainly stepped. Money may be mailed in Hie presence of the Post Master at our risk. Watch for the cross mark and send on money to pay for another year. "A United Soutli." A united South, indeed ! We should like to sec it for once. Our nervous friends, those we mean of fire-eating proclivities, call for a united South. Why did they not unite at Charles tn, or at Baltimore? Why don't they unite now ? Why did they not declare their willingness to unite with any and everybody, opposed to Re publicanism, before the Charleston Convention assembled, so that there could have been one instead of three Presidential tickets against Lincoln? What do they mean by a united South ? Why simply this : " We will change platforms and principles as often as we choose ; will applaud men to-day and denounce them to-morrow, see sentiments of Messrs. Cling man, Holden, Ellis and Humphrey and declare all traitors who do not follow in our lead ; and jf you do not follow us you fail to unite ; if you do we call it uniting." "A united South!" What a humbug! If the people of the South had not patriotism enough to unite to defeat Lincoln how can it be expected that they would unite to dethrone him after he is elevated, even were it right to do so? The Democratic party cannot unite neither wing of this prostrate organization will unite with the old whig, or Bell party, nor will one fifth of any party unite with any movement which avows its purpose of breaking up this government and precipitating the Southern States into a revolution. AH of the Southern people will never unite on any one thing in politics, the present state of parties is an evidence of that fact. But an iminei.se majority of them, of every State, even South Carolina, are favorable to the perpetuity of the Union under the Constitution, and will peril their lives if need be for that purpose. Hence a larger number of the people of the South can be united on the basis of a Constitu tional Union than anything else; they never can, never will unite to break it up and plunge themselves into a revolution to please a few lire caters whose chief end and aim is agitation for individual promotion. ?Wr. Kooiicc'ii Speecli. On all hands we hear the speech of our 3oung fricml. F. D. K nonce, Esq., delivered at the ; Court House in this place or Monday evening, ' .vpoken of in the highest terms of cnnimviida- j lion. It is said that his mildness and courtesy ' towards opoicnts even softened his enemiis ' into expressions of approbation. His explana tion in rvfcrer.ee to Mr. Douglas' position on the Territorial ijiiostion and his definition of popular or " squatter sovereignty " were highly satisfactory. The crowd which assembled to hear him was quite large, the Court House be ing very full, and the impression made b- the gallant young speaker will have a telling effect vvc doubt not at the polls. Court " '.! ertla y ic:i3i.ins;, etc. Court opened early yesterday and continued in session till time to adjourn for dinner when the Court was adjourned over until this morn ing. No cases were tried during the sitting worth reporting. At 3 o'clock a large assemblage gathered at the Theatre to hear Hon. Geo. E. Badger, Elec tor at large on the Bell and Everett Ticket, on the political issues of the daj The distin guished gentleman made a long speech, and one, we believe, which gave much satisfaction to his friends. At 71 o'clock last evening W. B. Rodman, Esq., Breckinridge Elector for this District, spoke at the Theatre to a large crowd. Mr. Rodman was followed by II. P. Dick, Esq., Elector at large on the Douglas and Johnson Ticket. Both gentleman made long and inter esting speeches and gave great satisfaction to their friends. Owing to the continued severe indisposition in our family we were deprived the pleasure of hearing the speeches, and hence cannot give that extended notice of them which under oth er circumstances wo should have done. The Japanese Tommy. Ever and anon, the newspapers publish a letter from the Japanese Tommy, in his peculiar style of English and ar thography, in which he givea accounts of him self and his progress, of his recollections of America, its "butiful ladis, and the navy schule at AjjapIUh" which he intends some day to enter. It is evident that Tommy has not learned much mere of character than of our language during his Atasrieaa trip. The innocent youth supposes hat the craziness which the Japanese visit devel oped in the United States are fehronic, and that we are all regarding them with the same frenzied en (husiam that marked their progress through the United States. Poor fellow ! It seems strange enough, when, in our sober senses we look back, and think of the enormous ejfeiteroent which transformed the yellow-skinned, narrow-headed, ferret-eyed and flat footed barbarians into objects of popular admiration, and we hardly know, we must admit, whether the people who made gods of such abominations, or the deities themselves, are the more absurd and irrational. But the Great Eastern and the Prinpe of Waies have long since obliterated every trace of the Ja panese furore, and Tommy may rely upon it, that if he should come back to the United States, he might ind it a more difficult matter to come with in (run-shot of a midshipman's berth at " AsPa" lish" than he seems to imagine. If it is any con solation to him. however, he may be assured that even his great rival, the Prince of Wales, will be as quickly forgotten as himself, except by the lucky m&idens who have had the honor of his hand in the dance, and who may be possibly in dulging visions which will keep them for a long iine in a state of single blessedness. Richmond Dispatch. , GEORGIA POLITICS. AroxsTA, Oct. 2L There are active move ments in progress to concentrate the vote of Georgia on pne ticket. An executive cotnnpt' tee has inyifed the Douglasjtes and friends of Mr. c to fraternization. The Breckinridge men generally oppose the movement. Official vote of Pennsylvania. The of ficial, vote for- Governpr at. the late election in PennsylvanH stands Curtin, Republican. 257, 546; Foster Democrat, 225,522. , Curtin's ma- 3ority 32,025. Cpmpared with last year the Republican vo$p has increased 75,711, and the Democratic vote 60,978. : .. . v"' , , A CHEAP NEWSPAPER FOR VOLUME III. FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS. The Wilson Breckinridge and Lane Mass Meeting. This demonstration was to eclipse anything of the kind in the State. The night of the 1 8th, however, before the dawn of the glorious 19 th, the flag and streamer raised for the occasion were swept away by a heavy North-east gale, spreading gloom over alL The catastrophe was supposed by some to be ominous of the fate of the ticket in November. Be that as it may, I will not stop to speak of it, nor of the disappointment in the non-welcoming of such lights as Yancey, Wise, Dickinson, Keitt and others to enlighten the people of Wilson upon the great question of Congressional intervention. It is sufficient to say the Hon. T. L. Clingman and T. Ruffin were present. The day was stormy and few people turned out. At half past 1 o'clock however the Wilmington Cornet Band struck up and went down to the Baptist Church where Senator Clingman, in a kind of a fire-side talk for about two hours, spoke in a superficial way of the revolutionary spirit that had over thrown most of the nations ; contrasting with the existing features in our own country ; the effects of dissolution, &c; a reviewal of his po litical career ; why he quit the old Whig party and went to the Democratic ; his antagonism to Judge Douglas and support of Breckinridge ; cause of the former, the J udge's speeches in Nor folk and Raleigh the latter left mum, careful ly avoiding a committal of himself on the is sues before the country ; that he was with North Carolina if Breckinridge was defeated and Lincoln elected ; he was ready to consult with her sister States as to the course to pursue, I could but look upon the gentleman as he stood up before the audience denouncing the man whom he had acted with, and thought of the curses heaped upon him by the party he claims now, whilst he was held as the embodi ment of Whigism in Western North Carolina, and that but a few months since he uttered in the Senate of the United States a speech asser ting the doctrine of the National Democratic party which he is now denouncing, to-wit : " I submit therefore that upon a fair construction of that act, (what act ? Why the compromise,) you can come to no other conclusion except that Congress intended to abnegate the exer cise of any power over this question in the Terri tories, and to deny its purpose to legislate, whether to establish or prohibit, or restrict, or protect slavery in the Territories; and in 1856, in our platform, we expressly declared the doctrine of non-intervention with slavery in the Territories and in the District of Columbia. Where did that leave it ? Congress left it, of course, in the States to the States; in Territo ries to the Territories. Then wr ee do we stand ? The democracy of the north and the south agreed upon this principle of non-intervention. If there ever was a compromise made under this gov ernment that was one, we surrendered our claim to protection. Our Northern friends aban doned thcWilmot Proviso and everything look ing to it, and met us on common ground. Though 1 was not an original party to the agree ment Tarn bound to it by my acquiescence, and 1 hold that neither section can honorably depart from it without some pressing necessity which does not now exist. T know it is said that the Dred Scott decision has modified the question. I confess I do not think so." This being his sentiments then and in the convention which he boasted as the first that he had the honor to be in at Cincinnati, it is a little hard to be lieve such a revolution on such great questions of national policy can be sound in the men and party advocating them, and I think the people will judge of them as I do. Mr. Ruffin said nothing but what he had before said and but one point claims notice in this connection, that is he quoted from a speech that Judge Douglas uttered disunion sentiments in the last Presi. dential canvass. I have not the speech before me but believe the sentiments to be about these : In the event of Freemont's election a dissolu tion of the Union would likely be the result. Here Mr. Ruffin believes he says as far as his information goes that Judge Douglas is the au thor of the disunion cry throughout the coun try. If the uttering of such sentiments, or opinions rather, constitutes a man opposed to the Union, all Union loving men may be called disunionists, for all have expressed such ap prehension in the event of the election of a Republican President. Men should always be fairly represented. Mr. Branch and Mr. Ruf fin made similar declarations ; are they dis unionists ? Will they answer as Judge Doug las does all questions of national policy, North, South, East and West, at Norfolk, Raleigh or anywhere else ? He never falters or plays mum. Too much frankness and honesty to sacrifice principle for place, rights for popular favor when his country's best interest is at peril. The people see it and will support him as the only hope to crush out further agitation. Wilson, N. C. S. F. Goldsboro' Fair Accident, etc. Goldsboko' Oct. 23, 1860. Dear Progress: The North Carolina East ern Central Fair opened at this place to-day with a brilliant display of articles and a very fine attendance of persons from all jiarts of the State. The day is lovely and the tempera ture most delightful. The faces of all look as smiling as the unclouded sky, and every eye seems to reflect the pleasant beams of the brightly shining sun above us. Music, mirth and frolic are the order of the day. Besides the Fajy we have the Parker Family, the Baily Troupe and Nikon's celebrated Circus. So you perceive we have an inexhaustible source of amusement on hand, I will endeavor to give you some particulars in a few days. The eldest son of Mrs. Kilkelly, a little boy about 12 years of age, accidentally shot him self with a pistol two or three days since. The contents entered the foot, and made a very e rious, though not fatal wound. This is anoth er instance of the gross impropriety of permit ting children to handle fire-arms. Yours, HORATIO. MOVEMENTS OF SENATOR DOUGLAS. Jeffersox Citv, Oct. 20. Judge. Douglas' trip from St. Louis to Jefferson was a continued ovation. e was hailed w ith shouts of wel come all along the roadvand the eager multi tudes assembled at the principal stations would not let him pass without speaking, . , ' He is paw addressing a vast "crowd in front of the . eapitol. . Immense enthusiasm ' pre vails;: ' .' "-' ' -."'' . '' THE MILLION. SINGLE COPIES $2.00; TO CLUBS OF SIX NEWBERN, N. C, Amos Kendall Lecturing Mr. Bu chanan's Organ. Amos Kendall writes the following charac teristic letter to the Constitution in reply to some articles in that sheet denouncing him as a "bloody monster ready to strangle women and children" for having asserted that two hundred thousand volunteers would arise to preserve the "Federal Union" on the occasion of the first attack upon it. Washington, October. I860. To the Editor of the Constitution : Sir . It is a sad sight to see the organ of a democratic administration attempting to estab tablish the doctrine that it would in any event be a crime in the President to defend the Con stitution and enforce the laws of the United States constitutionally enacted. Disguise it as yon will, your dectrine amounts to this and noth ing less. Already the peculiar organ of nulifica tion in the South is recommending secession while Mr Buchanan is still in office, upon the assumption that he may not enforce the laws and defend the Constitutiou, which by his offi cial oath he is bound to do. Doubtless the as sumption is unwareuted, though justified by the tone of his acknowledged organ. Let it be remembered that the question is not now what the South ought to do in case of an actnal and irremediable outrage upon her rights and institutions. The threat is to secede if Mr. Lincoln shall be elected. Will his mere election absolve the people of the South from their alle giance to the Constitution and laws of the Uni ted States, or relieve the President from the duty of defending the one and executing the other ? This is the real question under discussion. You talk about coercing states. States are not the subjects upon which the Constitution and laws of the United States operate. They cannot commit treason nor be hanged as traitors. But neither can they, by any act of theirs, ab solve their citizens from their allegiance to the United States. Now. suppose Lincoln were elected, and n citi zen of Charleston, acting with or without the sanction of the state authorities, having a cargo of sugar entering the port, should refuse to pay the legal duties, and with an armed prty should resistthe oficers attempting to collect them, thus le vying war againstthe United States : do you think the President would be faithful to his duty and true to his oath if he did not, if necessary, use the militia, the army and navy, in "taking care that the laws be faithfully executed," and in preserv ing, protecting, and defending the Constitution of the United States? Could he, withfold his arms and say this would be coercing a state, and under such a pea suffer the Constitution and laws to be subverted ? If bloodshed ensued, who would be responsible the President, who would be to the best of his ability" attempting to perform his sworn duty or the traitors who were attempting to subvert the government Your doctrine, I suppose, is, that the state au thorities or a state convention may declare a state out of the Union, and thu absolve all its citizens from allegiance to the United States. Now, each state, by a convention elected by the people, agreed with every other state by the adoption of the Constitution, that nil its provis ions, and the laws passed in pursuance thereof, should be "the supreme law of the land." They all agreed to take a portion of the powers theretofore possessed by their respective state governments and vest them in a common govern ment, (based on piecisely the same authority as tlicir state governments,) whose Constitution, and the laws passed in pursuance thereof, should hi- above the the tench of all state authori'v. How. then, can any act of i state absolve its cit izens from obedience to tbis "supreme law of the land." declared by its highest authority, a con vention elected by the people, to be bindinir. "anything in the Constitution and laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.'' To u:e if is a wonder that any man can enter tain an idea to my mind so absurd. The theory of our government obviously is, that the. citizen owes allegiance to his State government to the extent, of its reserved powers, and to the general government to th. extent, of its granted powers, and that no act of the general government, can relieve him from allegiance to his State, and no act of his State can relieve him from allegiance to the United States. Let me be not misunderstood. I do not deny the right of rebcillion in the people of any State when unconst tutional outrages shall he commit ted on their rights and institutions, and all hope for redress by peaceful means has vanished. But I deny that the language of aspiring dema gogues, or the election of one of them to the Presidency, would constitute such an outrage, though a just cause for alarm. I aNo deny, that in such an event, the South would be without hope of redress. It is not to be found, however, in personal denunciations of eminent democrats, in attempting to force on the democratic party new and useless issues, or in threats of disunion. Let all this cease, now and forever. Be just to the northern democracy; in devotion to the Union, emulate Washington and Jackson, and you will rally an irresistible force, who, by the aid of the ballot only, will rescue your institutions from danger, and firmly maintain ev ery constitutional right. You say that southern men are demanding on ly their constitutional right. Do you think they have a "constitutional right" to destroy the Constitution ? Such, indeed, is the claim of a right to secede from the Union, if based on any oth er ground than a right of rebellion for gross and ir remidable wrongs. As evidence of my inconsistency yon quote cer tain sayings of Senator Douglas ! 1 might, with propriety, demur to this testimony ; but I adopt those quotations as in the main mv sentiments, then and now, unchanged and unchangeable. I believe that fidelity to the Constitution in the North and in the South is the only means by which the Union can be long preserved I do not doubt that when the theo y of Senator Seward, false in fact and treasonable in effect, that slave labor and free labor cannot exist in the same community, becomes the settled rule of action in the general government, the Union will come to an end. But my faith is equally strong that it is in the power of the friends of the Constitution in the South, by a cordial union with its friends in the North, to avert this catastrophe and its conse quent calamities. In conclusion, I implore you. and those who act with you, to abandon your denunciations of men with whom you must ultimately act in pre serving the Constitution and State institutions, if they are to be preserved at all. Do not further verify the old maxim, that "whom God intends to destroy he first make mad.' That cordial co operation of the supporters of Breckinridge, Douglas, and Bell might preveut the triumph of Black Republicanism, and may hereafter ren der its triumph transient and innocuous, no ob serving man can doubt. Why, then, not labor to bring them together, instead of thrusting them further apart? Is the new fangled dogma on which the Charleston Convention split, or any theoretical claim to a right of secession, of more importance thau the preservation of the Union, the Constitution, the peace, the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory of our country, hitherto unequalled by those of any other people on the, face of the earth 1 or shall Black Republicanism in the North and Secessionism in the South be allowed to cut asunder our bond of union and di vide us into hostile States ; occasionally drench ing our now joyous fields tn the blood of their cultivators ? Any man who thinks this Union can be peaceably broken up. or, if it could, that peace could always be maintained between its fragments, shuts his eyes to the events ot our owu age and is deaf to the lessons of history AMOS KENDALL. ANOTHER ROBBERY. J. W, Ball, the same rascal who stole 13 mules and a trunk in this, city some few weeks since for which he has been publicly whipped three times in this city, was released from pris on on Monday last and on the evening of the same day stole a horse from Mrs. Henry-Jones of this county --swapped the horse for a mule, getting $15. boot and was arrested the next day and lodged in Hillsboro jail. -; ... ,. That is going itdecidedly.strorig on the horse question and we should not wonder if the young, stor finds it more, difficult to get clear of this offence than stealing the 13 'mules.- ; He must be1 a hardened sinner. RaleUili Press. TUESDAY MORNING, THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 25, 1860. Messrs. Rodman and Wick. On all sides we hear the speech of Mr. Dick, on Tuesday evening, spoken of as the very best of the campaign. He riddled the schemes of the seceders and disunionists at Charleston and at Baltimore and made an appeal for the Union which elicited shouts of applause. This distinguished gentleman made a decided impres sion here, and one we are confident that will have a telling effect in favor of Douglas and John-, son at the polls. Mr. Rodman spoke first and occupied about two hours. We heard neither of the speeches,' but have heard Mr. Rodman's spoken of as a strong appeal for disunion in the event of Lin coln's election. We regret that the distin guished gentleman felt called on to take such, a position. We are certain that, the people will not sustain him in sucl sentiments': -'" Do Tell" US. Will the Standard and Press tell us why Messrs. Haywood and Clingman did not speak at the Court House in Raleigh on Wednesday evening of Fair week as announced ? Was it because only about a dozen sovereigns could be induced to assemble, or were the gentlemen really sick ? We have heard that they were both very well during the daj and that they were out next day, and so we are at a loss to know to what to attribute their sudden and alarming illness, unless the failure to get up a crowd to hear them had something to do with it. The fact is there is no enthusiasm among the people and the 6th of November will show our Breckinridge friends that the masses were not ready for the new tents which have been thrust upon them. Clingman we look on as already politically dead, but had our young and gallant friend, Haywood, been announced to make a speech at the same time and place in favor of Douglas and Johnson we feel sure that he would have had an enthusiastic crowd. We have not forgotten that you (the Demo cratic Press) were for ad valorem but a few months before the Convention instructed vou to oppose it. We confess that we lack faith in many of your part)'. Xeirbrm Progress The editor of the Progress knows the fact that this paper has never advocated ad valorem. It also knows the fact that this paper was the first in the State to take a position against it. If the editor does not know these facts he is excusable for making the above statement but guilty of making an assertion that facts will not sustain. The Progress tells us that there are many in the Democratic part' in whom the editor of that paper lacks confidence. It is not at all surprising. We have long noticed that the Progress lets slip no occasion to injure the Democratic part'. It does not surprise us to see it now in open hostility to its nominees and to its principles. Least of all, docs it sur prise us, to see the announcement that the edi tor lacks confidence in members of the Demo cratic party. The Progress lias taken up the idea that there are but two very smart individ uals and consistent democrats in this great Union, just about this time: the one Stephen A Douglas the other Joint. A. Pennington, and hence our friend's vanity and egotism. To set ourselves right, this paper has not been tin unconditional supporter of Douglas, at any time nor has it, at any time, advocated ad valorem. Ih in. Press. We by no means object to the company in which our friends of the Pass places us. We think, however, with a full sense of our poir. rs and those of Mr. Douglas, that there are other smart individuals in this great Hepublic ; and some who are consistent, but we by no means class our friend l. II. W. of the Pnss rwith the latter. He is smart easy to be led and obe dient to follow, hut with consistency lie has parted company long since. He is benevolent, at times, too, for at one time, very recently, he surpassed us in admiration for Mr. Douglas, who he now abuses and traduces. If we strut in vanity he should bow himself in hu mility, for verily his sins have been many and grcvious. Thc Newbcrn Fair. Recollect farmers, mechanics, artizans and citizens of Craven and adjoining counties, next Tuesday is the first day of the Newborn Fair. All articles intended for exhibition should be on the Fair Grounds and entered at the Secre tary's office on Monday so that the committees can go to work on Tuesday and examine them so as to be able to make the awards. Our citizens owe it to themselves and to the cause of Agriculture to exert themselves to make our Fair successful. Don't let private business or the excitements attending the approaching election keep you from the Fair ; come your selves and bring your wives and daughters with you, and let us improve on our first efFort not only in the Exhibition itself but in point of num bers in attendance. Recollect we are to have some of the finest and fastest blooded stock ever exhibited in the State present at this Fair, while all the other departments it is believed will be wdl repre sented. The Executive Committee have labor ed hard and zealously, and now we call upon the people to come up with their stock, agricul tural productions, specimens of mechanical skill and everything else which they can bring which will prove of general interest. We learn that a large number of persons will be in attendance from a distance, and we bid them come ; they shall be welcome and be well treated. Two Southern Parties. If Lincoln be elected, of which all good men arc fearfully apprehensive, there will be but two parties in the South after the conflict is over one for Union and one for Disunion, and then it will be found what were the real objects ol those who produced the trouble at Charles ton in April last. It is needless for us to say that we shall be found battling for the Uniqji as long as the federal government respects the rights of the citizens of North Carolina. Now is the time for all patriotic men to choose posi tions, for soon they must be found on the one side or the other for the Union or against it. D. K. McRae, Esy. We invite attention to the Card of this gentleman in to-day's Progress. Can't see how such a report ever obtained cur rency ; but then when we reflect that the same parties who started that have done many other unreasonable things it is not so remarkable after all. : ; : : The cost of the ball at the Academy of Mu sic, " N. Y., in honor of the Prince was $32,000. $40,000 had been raised by the Committee of Arrangements to defray the expenses,' conse quently there remains $800 to be disposed ol PKO&BESS. OR MORE ONLY S1.50 A YEAR OCTOBER 30.1860. Judge Douglas and the L.ccompton Constitution. The Norfolk Herald says .- Who ever heard that Judge Douglas was the author of the Lecomnton Fraud which has so long constituted both the pride and the shame of Mr. Buchanan's Administration. At this expiring 'stage of the canvass, the Ar gus publishes the statements, of certain Kan sas jmtriutis who heard a dead man say that the story of that crowning iniquity belongs justly to Douglas and not to James Buchan an. .At the request of several friends of Judge Douglas, (who, " as yet, have no organ in Nor folk,") we publish below Judge Douglas' denial of this stupid roorback which has gone the round of the Abolition press, and is now travel ing through Virginia. The following extract is taken from Mr. Douglas recent speech at Milwaukee " desire to nay to you that it is false in ev ery particular. (Immense' applause.) I nev er sav the1 Lecomptoh ' Constitution until after ' it had' been adopted in Kansas by the Conven tion, and sent to the President of the United States for acceptance. I never saw the schedule hy ichieh the slavery clause was submitted un til after it was forwarded to the States for2ub Uration. I never heard, nor conceived, nor dreamed, that any man on earth ever thought of such a scheme. I male these statements dis tinctly, without equivocation or mentrl reserva tion. I appeal to God, in the presence of high Heaven and this audience, that the charge is false, 1 cure not who made it. (Tremendous applause.) It seems as if the disunionists of the South and the abolitionists of the North are determined to hunt me down by all the means that malice can invent. TCliat Say Union ISreekinridgc Men to This? AYe copy the following as it appe irs in the Charleston Courier. Comment is unnecessary the plot to "precipitate the Cotton States in to a revolution " in the event of Lincoln's elec tion, is all arranged, and the "thirty Congress men" alluded to have been assisting in the election of Lincoln as a part of the plot: Prepared to Ficut. We have seen a pri vate letter written by a distinguished gentle- mail residing in Oglethorp county, to a gentle man of high standing in a neighboring county, from which we take the following sentiment uttered by Senator Toobms. We are not at lib erty to give the names of the parties, but if denied, they "can be obtained : " I beard a Georgia Senator say the other day in private conversation, that in the event of Lincoln's election, be would resign before Buchanan's time was out, come home, raise an army often thousand men, and when he crossed the Potomac agan, it would be with his drawn sword. The Senator said there were thirty members of Congress pledged to this position, and would go with him, some from every South ern State. lie talked about it like it was a small matter ; it looks very gloomy, indeed, to me." Stimjter (Ca.) Republican. The Pkckidextiai. Election. The New York Kiprers publishes the following private letter from a citizen of Georgia, who is said to be no fire-eater, no fanatic, no disunionist or disorganize!, but an intelligent, conservative Union man : Savannah, Ga., Oct. V ISfiO. My Dear Sir : What I write for the papers is too apt to be set down to a desire for political licet, and therefore I drop you tbis private note that you uv.iy know the real condition of things at the Sauth. The result ill Pennsylvania has electrified this whole section of the I'nion. The friends if an i ndependent confederacy are jubilant, while the neirs has fill, u as the al tf death on us, who, through every trial, have stood by the work of our fathers and hoped f r an era of peace. 1 do not even yet despair, but our friends, almost unanimously are firm in their conviction that the election of Lincoln is no lon ger a problem. What is to come after it. God only X notes; the idea of peace is utterly prepos terous. The more conservative men in the South, arc now for setting our houses in order, for calamity in some form, is obliged to come upon the country, should a sectional govern incut be placed over us. We the Union men of the South have heretofore fought gallantly and with success; but now our arms are stric k en down and our hands tied. My honest conviction is, before God, that the election of Lincoln will not be submitted to by a majority of the Southern States, and such will be the fury and excitement, that is sure to follow the announcement of such an event that all the conservatism of the South will be but as a feather before the storm. The North now has the hopes and the destiny of all the coun try in its hands. Death of a Tennessee Heijmit. The Minn ville (Tenn.) New Era announces the death on the 2Jrd ult. of Daniel West, the well-known hermit of the mountains, at the age of seventy eight. He had lived for a number of years in the hollow of a large American poplar tree, in the opening of which he had fitted a rude door. In the centre of tbis hollow he would build his fire in winter and for cooking bis plain meals. This hollow also served as his sleeping apartment, and it is said he slept in a sitting posture reclining against the wall of tbis house. Adjoining or near to this tree he had a rude shed which he used as a workshop, where he manufactured chairs, boxes, cider mills, ivc. He was a North Carolinian by birth, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was at the Mobile station when the battle of New Orleans was fought, and heard the booming of the guns when the old "General was whipping the British. Tiuutnkss in the Monev Market. There is much complaint in business circles about the stringency in money matters ; and the general apprehension is that we have not seen the worst of" it. Such times are useful. They teach us economy and prudence, although we do not willingly receive such admonitions, or such 4 a short jerk up" Augusta Constitutionalist. This is but another of the innumerable com plaints which almost daily reach us from every commercial centre of the South. It proves nothing but the timidity of capital before even the threat of revolution. Mohile Register. The Wtntc m. V. A. H rjiy nnd I'nlTin "Perry. This case which excited some little interest wasried yesterday The defendants were tried on an indictment which charged them with tak ing the life of a negro slave some months since in this county. The evidence however did not sustain the charge and the defendants were ac quitted, the Solicitor after hearing the evidence consenting to a verdict of not guilty. Messrs. Gen. Green and D. K. McRae appeared for the de fendants and Solicitor Houston for the State. oitr.-o SENATORIAL. ELEC- A Douglasile Elected for the Eon; Term, and a l&epubliean for the Short One. ARRIVAL OF THE PONY EXPRESS! . St. Joseph's, Mo., Oct 2-3. The Pony Ex press is in from San Frsncisco. The Senatorial election in Oregon came off on the 2nd in due form. Nesmith,' Douglasite, was chosen for the long term, (six"years from the fourth of March next,) and Baker, Republi can, for the short : one,' (the ensuing , session onlyr). - INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. NUMBER 9. SOUND SENTIMENTS. The New York World accompanies the publi cation of a communication from South Carolina with remarks of a highly conservative character, such as the times call for. It says, " Resistance or evasion of federal law at the North is just as really treason iu essense ns any defiance of the federal authority at the South can be. A mob in assault upon United States offi cers is no worse in Charleston than in Boston ; and a south Carolina ordiDanredesigaed to nulli fy one article of the Constitution no worse thau a Massachusetts personal liberty bill designed to nullify another. The Constitution is unquestiona bly an entire instrument. No part of it can be in tentionally infringed w ithout bad faith to all. Whoever the trespassers, the offence is alike a crime. There is no loyalty and no security but in carrying out every clause of the Constitution just precisely as it stands, and its sanctions are uni versally binding. The constitution throughout is a system of checks and compromises, framed in mutual good will, and with more or less sac rifice of interest and opinion. History makes it certain that there was no possible mode of form ing1 the Union except upon the identical basis which the constitution now presents ; and it is even more certain that it will be impossible to preserve the Union on any other basis. - As for any disposition upon the part of a majori ty ofthe northern people to humilate the South, or to encroach upon its constitutional rights, it does not exist. Many individuals have it; some communities have it ; probably there is a State or two wjnch may act under its icfluence; but no intelligent man here will pretend that this is the prevailing disposition of the northern people. The great body of them are as willing as ever to meet every obligation of the constitution, as their fathers construed j it and would hail the day when all tiis fierce, aud worse than futile, slavery agitation should cease. The South should await developements calmly, and judge calmly. Let this spirit be exercised, and whatever may be Mr Lincoln's personal policy, we believe that the election of the last Congress of his administration will show a clearer under standing and better accord between the two sec tions than the country has at any time seen since the repeal of the Missouri compromise. . The N. Y Commercial, also, fKepblican,) re garding the election of Lincoln as certain, 'there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," says of him. , "A friend of the fugitive slave law. and impreg nated with a devout, veneration for the constitu tion in all the breadth and grandeur of its provis ions and its safe-guards, there can be nothing in his elevation to the Presidency which should create a moment's distrust in the mind of any citizen of the South who desires only that consti tutional compact and stale rights should be faith fully observed " Put the commercial adds that we do not all credit if, as follows : "It is now well understood that already appli cations from the Soutli to the future President for perspective offices under his administtation are sufficiently numerous to relieve Mr. Lincoln's mud from any apprehension that he will lack good and worthy agents at the South to car ry on the details of government in that quarter." The New York Times, also Pepublican says: ".After Mr. Lincoln shall be elected we think he will very promptly take steps to dispel the fogs that have ln-mi thrown around his political position, and that he will present himself to the country as a Conservative, devoted to the Union, considerate equally of every section and of every State, and resolved faithfully and with firmness to maintain the Constitution in all its parts. We have no doubt that he will proclaim himself opposed to the extension or increase of Slavery, and equally opposed to any interference of Congress, or of the North, with Slavery in the Southern States. He has repeatedly declared himself in favor of an efficient Fugitive Slave Law, and opposed to ne gro suffrage and the political equality of the ne gro race. Wo regard these as eminently con servative views, and if his Administration ad heres to them with firmness and fidelity, we be lieve it will contribute largely to tho restoration of the public, peace, and fortify the Constitution and the Union still more thoroughly ill the affec tion and confidence of the American people. "Of one thing, moreover, we are very certain : The moment Mr. Lincoln shall indicate any pur pose to commit aggressions upon Southern rights, he will lose every largo Northern, Middle and Western State, which may have aided his election." Per Contra: The Philadelphia Journal (Hell and Everett,) utterly discredits the candor of the Republican professions of moderation, and of re spect for the Constitutional rights of tho Soutli. It plainly charges that all these professions are made to lull suspicion of the party's designs in New York and Pennsylvania to put conservatives off their guard, and to help Lincoln carry the. States necessary to his election. Tho .Journal says that the party " has been struggling for near half a century, and spending millions of dollars to get. possession of the Federal Covernment. For what ? To enjoy the offices that will satisfy only a few greedy place-hunters, who could be taken out of the great mass of the party and not be missed 1 By no means." Aud the Journal goes on to cite the resolutions of tho Chicago Convention, the ravings of tho Ttribuno and oth er ultra papers, and tho speeches of Seward, Sher man, and others, as indicating the real designs of the patty, from which it thinks there is uo reason to hope for a retreat. The N. Y. Express also doubts the frankness of the avowals of moderation, iVrc. All this may bo so; but with both Houses of Con gress opposed to him and to such designs, he, cannot corry them into effect, if he Irishes to do so. Fuyettc cilte Ohsrrccr. New Youk Dki T.UMiXF.n'ro Fk;iit it hit? The tone of the N w York papers is like any thing else than a striking of colors to Black Re publicanism. They avow their ability to save the country from a sectional triumph, and their determination to do it. The Express ( Whig) has letters from nearly all parts of the Statr-, which say that our fiionds are not at all discouraged by the newa from Pennsylvania Tho very fact that upon New York depends the issue, stimulates them to redoubled exertions. The Albany Argus (Democratic) says, that " intelligence from nil parts of the State tends to one end that New York can and will be redeem ed, and that by its vote Lincoln will be defeated 1 Disaffection and defeat in other States, instead of discouraging the 1 omocracy, has served to arouse and invigorate them In every county heard from the intelligence is that the Democratic ma jority is to be increased or the Republican major ity diminished. Mr Lincoln has none oi" the pop ularity of Fremont; and that candidate, with all his apparent success, was still in a large minority of the popular vote in the State." Tho Democratic Journals in New York exhibit great confidence in a favorable result. From all parts of the State, says the News, we hear a good report ; confidence aud determina tion exist in every quarter, and the combinations w hich have been made among the leaders have been responded to by the people with a patriotic ardor ana an uuseiusu narmony w men inspire the brightest hopes. IIourK Pakdoxed. We learn that (iov. El lis pardoned Hoguc, who was convicted .some time since in the Superior Court of this county of the murder of Pai ish, and that he has left this State for Georgia. Standard. Ex-PrESII)KXT FlI.l.MOKK AND SENATOR Doll las. The Buffalo correspondent of the Albany (N. Y.) Argus and Atlas in giving an account of the Douglas demonstration in that city, savs : "One of the most gratifying incidents of Mr. Douglas' visit to Buffalo was his interview with Ex-President Fillmore. That gentleman has retired from public life, and takes no part in politics ; but he was one of the lirst, after the excitement of the reception and the speaking was over, to pay Judge Douglas a visit at the Clarendon Hotel and welcome him to the city. The interview was on both sides marked 'by most cordial feelings, and Mr. Fillmore express ed himself deepl y gratified at the magnificent reception that had been tendered to Mr. Doug las iy the citizens of Buffalo, and at the tri umphant succes that had marked his progress through so many States of the Union." TORCH LIGHT PROCESSION. Baltimore, .Oct.-22. jTlie friends of Breckin ridge and Lane had a grand torch-light proces sion liere to-night ; -The , men were equipped with red Zouave glazed caps, and torches. It is claimed that there M ere 1200 men in, line. - RATES OF ADVERTISING ' . ix , . ' . --. THE WEEKLY'PEOGKESS. The following are the only Sates of Advertising in the Weekly Progress, to all tare those who con-, tract by the year and advertise in both weekly anU, daily paper : . One square (12 lincmjiiioii) one insertionv $1 00. r " Subsequent insertions, each, e0 cent. Any number of square will be charged in pro portion. All advertisement marked ftf) till forbid will be continued till ordered out aad charged a above. TO THE PITH LIC. I have been informed by several friends with in a fv.nv days past, that the report is being ex tensively circulated that I have abandoned the cause of the National nominees, Douglas and Johnson. Such an idea is a simple absurdity. I have not faltered for a single moment in the earnest and conscientious support I have given to this cause, and I would not notice a rumor so utterly baseless, but that I ran unwilling for this secession faction to devise to its sinking cause even the small profit it mht make from such a fabrication. As far as my course is concerned it shall be as it has been, a decided protest against the breach of faith, the violation of duty, which dis rupted the Democratic party, smoothed the way for the triumph of the Black Republicans and brought to our very doors the perils of disunion. D. K- McRAE. A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE. A fair epring moon was gliding far up in the azure beauty of the sky, taking cogiiizanee of tht earth and its inhabitants ia the absenco of tho sun, and sending her silver winged messengers hither and thither on curious dainty errands -Over the white sail far oat at sea. the still broad prairies, the grand old rocks, tho wandering water, those fairy workers strayed, lifting the mist-veil from the valleys or lighting the purple darkness of the silent' wood, and lending a wondrous grace and softness to all they touched. They kissed an orchard white and pink with blossoms, then with pearly fingers parted the crocus loaves from a chamber' window, and rested reverently ou a young child's head. A sweet thing at her mother's knee, singing her evening by inn. pra -ing her evening prayer. It was as it a holy lamp illumined that room, so peacefully bright tho heavenly radiance shone, revealing the calm motherly face, the richest bloom of which had been born into the face of the child, and into which had passed, with passing years, a serenity that told of a mind dwelling in react with God and good will towards all his children. " Our Father, who art in Heaven," came in sweetly lisped accents from the infant mouth. Not a breath of wind stirred the crocus blossoms, and yet iheir golden leaves were gently shower ed over those two, mother aud daughter. Was 1 leaven so near that its angels had come crowding about the open casement? - Hallowed be Thy name.'' With a thrill, na ture breathed the sweet response. "Thy Kingdom come." The blood of martyrs cried out for it from tho ground, and weary of warring with every contending wrong, a million sorrowing hearts united in tho pious supplica tion. " Thy will bo done on earth as it is heaven." The words went forth music-winged, and not alono from infant lips. Give us this day our dnily bread." Every where hungering and thirsting souls awaited tho down-dropping of the Heavenly manna. " Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debt ors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliv er us from evil.'" Thus the low whispered words ran on, dropping sweetly from lips scarcely con scious of evil, while over the earth the voice of the sorely tempted and down troden was lifted up heavy with this supplication : " Deliver us from evil. "For thine is tho Kingdom." The kingdom of good, oh. Father; responded the mothers soul, her heart filled with a divine rapture. "The power," continued the little one. The. power to work but thine own right purpose, said the mother. And the glory," said the child. The glory, for thou wilt; whispered the mother's faith. The kingdom, the power, and the glory. Tho angel chorister rung it over the eternal hills, and the depths of the jasper sea sent forth their glad acclaim. "Amen," concluded tho infant pleader. The mother's kisses pressed down upon the amber curls, the rose red mouth, tho rounded cheeks; and then creeping very close to that gold en ladder, whereon the angels ascend and des cend, the fair child slept and dreamed of heaven. SNOW ! "SNOW ! SNOW !! The last one of our citizens, a ad the rest of the poor animals, in this aud tho surrouudiug coun try, were taken w ith rather a snap on last Sunday morning, upon witnessing and feeling tho effects of a snow storm, that fell during tho night, aud which continued until 'J or 10 o'clock on Sunday morning A cold and chilling wind followed all day, and indoed it was a cold and chilly time up on man and beast, This is rather early for such a cold visitor, but this latitude always stands No 1 for its contracts in that line ; and on Monday moriiing we were visited by Uncle Jack, (a per fect killer) for the lirst time this season. Tho distant mountains look white aud cold, and wo may expect, and will, no doubt, receive cold dis patches from the North, with all nigh cuts, for a few days. I lendcrsonzille. Pressure,, Mth. OYSTERS. Godey for November has tho following on oys ters : " It is not generally known that the oyster is a species of food combining the most precious ali mentary qualities Through quality peculiar to it self, it favors the intestinal anil gastric absorp tion; mixing easily with other food and assimila ting with the juice of the stomach, it aids and fa vors the digestive functions. There is no alimen tary substance not even excepting bread, which does not produce indigestion under certain given circumstances but oyesters never. This is a hom age, due, to them They may be eaten to-d.iy, to morrow, forever, in profusion: indigestion not to be feared, aud we may be certain that no doc tor was ever called in through their tault. We do not speak of cooked oysters, which are of ten mado highly indigestible , but of the oyster per se. The Ohio Statesman says : " We desire to urge on our Democratic friend.- in Ohio in every county, township, and ward in the State that we can certainly poll for tho electoral ticket of July 4, 1 8fi0, two hundred thou sand votes at least, (and we think we can do sev eral thousand better,) if all our voters are at tho election ; and that vote will carry the State. Let all our voters be out, and let the votes polled for tho Republican ticket on the 9th of October which are known to be illegal, he excluded, ou the Gth of November, and there can be no do'iht about the result. We will carry the State with out doubt. A vigorous, united, and constan ef fort, is necessary, and that should be every .vhero made." Crinoline Done. As Paris gives t!e f-ish-ions to every place boasting of high tivihza tion, it is fair to presume that the days of crino line are numbered. A new style of skirts is meet ing with great favor there, as it supports tho dress without whalebone or steel, relyinc for his purpose merely on the harmonious and skilful disposition of the plaited muslin of which it in composed. Tho multiplied skirt, orjup"1 "l,dtiple, as it is called, supports a series of volants, tapered and grouped like a fan, which arc moved at will by means of metallic eyelets. For traveliug it is quite agreeable, as it occupies little space. What a boon in a crowded horse-car ! . A lady in Philadelphia, last week had a silk dress torn, by its hitehing against a box. ou tho sidewalk in front of a store. She sued the store keeper for damages, and though he proved that ho . was only occupying only so much otthe sidewalk as the law allowed him and that the box bad been there only an hour and a quaiter. the Conrt gave judgement in favor of the plaintiff for five dol lars aud costs, thus legally dcciJh'K that every. thing out of doors must stand clear, of hooped skirts. . -'; Tho Louisville Journal says ' "The Philadelphia penn-ylvaniah argues that the defeat of I lend rick in Indiana shows the weak ness of Mr. Douglas in that Slate. ; This is not fair, for Mr. Douglas' friend was opposed by the Republicans in a body, and by nearly aU the par tizans of Mr. Breckinridge." ; . N. C. Stock. $25,UOO sold in .New-York on Wednesday last at , . ys;s v, - Treasarer Court.-? advertisers for bids till 7th Nov. for $100,000 of States ' bonds, the last of the $400 000 loaned to our Western (coal fields) railroad. t ' , . Dividend. The Wilmingtsn and. Weldon Railroad ; Company has . declared . a diyidend of 4 per cent. V : J