North Carolina Newspapers

THE; h DEPENDENT NEWSPAPER,' . . JIB 1SSUEX FROM THE .- PROGRESS BUILDINGS, Every , Tuesday morning, at TWO DOLLAE3 a iar for siugle subscribers, t and only ONE DOL LAR AND A HALF to clubs' of six cr, more. The Taper wiil not be sent to any one till the money is received, and all subscriptions will be dioHjinued when the time paid for expires. Money, if mailed in the presence of a Postmaster, piay be sent at onr risk. ' " WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 21, I860. How Very Foolisli! Some of pur disunion friends want to break r.v the Union so that the merchant and manu facturing pVinccs at the North and East who have erown rich by Southern trade and pat ronage may be made to feci that they are de pendent on us. How foolish ! Cannot this be ione as well and better in the Union than out' of it? We think so? Let our capitalists invest their money here instead of New York and Boston ; let us go to work with the money that it is proposed to buy arms with to fight an immaginary ioc, and build up manufactu ring establishments, more railroads, canals, &c. Let us learn to live economically and to produce and manufacture all that we want and a surplus for the people of the North, or anyT body else who will pay us for it. Let us in crease our shipping and open a trade at once with foreign ports ; and above all get as little as possible from the North. Let no man send his child or ward to a Northern school or Col lege, literary, medical or theological, .and let no one be countenanced who takes a Northern publication of any kind. Let us too get our school and other books from Southern publish ers. Let our bridal tours and tours for health and pleasure be made to the South, or in the South, and not to the North. These and a thousand other things might be done which would cripple, beggar &nd starve the North to such an extent that in less than four years long before the expiration of Lincoln's term they would beg us to dictate our own terms for a reconciliation. But will our people do these things ? Let the immense Southern trade that went to New York the season succeeding the John Brown raid and the tens of thousands of Southerners who visited New Port, Saratoga, Niagara and other Northern fashionable resorts the follow ing summer, answer. We- know how much fuss they made at the tim, and how many oaths they took never to have anything more to do with the North, just as they do now over the election of Lincoln, but still it wore off in a few months then, as it most probably will now ; and whether South Carolina secedes or not, her swells will continue to wear patent leathers made in Philadelphia, New York or Boston, and nest summer when the dog days approach wo shall see them flocking to North ern haunts to spend the money, which their slaves have earned, among the very enemies against whom all their curses are directed. How foolish then to talk about punishing the North by seceding ? If we have not the energy, enterprise and ability to do it in the Union we certainly cannot do it out of it. A PROHIBITORY TAX A STAY LAW There seems to be a general, we might almost pay undivided sentiment in favor of imposing such a tax upon Northern goods of every de scription which may be hereafter offered for nale, as would amount to an entire prohibiton within the States. If it be left to the private will of i he individual citizen to determine whether he Will trade for those goods, we be lieve, as we have always believed, that the virtue of self denial is not sufficiently strong or prevalent among the people to resist the temp tations of cheapness and comfort; but if the strong arm of the law be interposed, there can he little doubt that the desired result may be attained. livery good citizen is willing now to undergo any reasonable privation in order to secure the object which eveiything, heretofore attempted has failed to secure viz: the restora tion of the fanatics of the N ort h to their senses, in regard to the consequences of their mud conduct- Nothing short of a dissolution of the Union, except a most painful experience of the critifG loss of our trade, will ever convince those people of the dreadful delusion Under which they are laboring. Some persons have suggest ed in addition to a prohibitory tax a general " stay law " in favor of Southern debtors against Northern creditors which we think would be another very effectual remedy. Others still have proposed the lex talionis the law of reprisal which would give any citizen deprived of his slave by an Abolition thtef, the right to seize the vessel, or other property of any citizen of the Northern State to which the slave had been carried. We doubt the policy of the last proposal, and, indeed, we cannot see how it could be carried out while there is peace between the two sections of the coun try. It is inconsistent with every idea of peace, and must inevitably lead to as it al ways accompanies war. Our Legislature meets on Monday, and, we have no doubt, these, and various other pro positions, will be discussed, and some wise course adopted, which will reflect credit alike on the common sense and patriotism of North Carolina. Wil. Herald. The following is the preamble to the Con vention bill passed by the Georgia Legislature. The Convention is to meet on Wednesdey after the 2d of January, that being the day on which delegates are to be elected. " Wiiereas, the present crisis in National affairs, in the judgement of this General As sembly, demands resistance ; and whereas it is the privelege of the sovereign people to deter mine the mode, measure and time of such resis tance, therefore the general Assembly enacts that the Governor issue a proclamation order ing an election to be held for delegates to the Con- ention provided for in this bill." The 1st. and 3d sections of the bill refer to the time for the election, the time for the meet ing of the Convention, the manner ot election, and the number of delegates each county will be entitled to. The 4th section declares that said Conven tion, wnen assembled, may consider all griev ances impairing or affecting the equality of rights of the people of Georgia as members of the United States, and determine upon the mode, measure and time of redress. The 5th section provides the amount of pay for the delegates, and that said Convention shall, by vote, fix the pay of all their officers, and of any delegate or delegates they may ap point to any convention, Congress or Embassy; and it also provides for all other expenses in cured by the Convention. The 6th section gives power to elect their of ficers, and do all things needful to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act and the purpose of the Convention. A Waahipctan dispatch says : "Jealousies are arising between Ex-Gov. Wise and Gov. Letcher, ot Virginia, in consequence of the course the former is pursuing with reference to the organization of Committees of Safety. Gov ernor Letcher deems the regularly constituted authorities of the State capable of asserting and maintaining all her rights, whether in the Union or out of it, and quotes the recent .fulminatious of Mr. Wise, during the John i rown raid back upon him. The Governor intends to enforce the laws and support t!3 Constitution in accord aace with his oath,. The South Cakoirja Cektrai;, We kaxn, hrough a friend, that the party now prosecu ting the surrey of the route of the South Car olina Central Railroad, will probably reach this place in a few days. Snmtct Watchman. - . A CHEAP NEWSPAPER FOR VOLUME III. From tUe Nw Orleans Picayune. THE UNION. Our present purpose is to glance at some of the causes and agencies which have contriDu- tea to produce our national prosperity, our material and intellectual advancement. As we have already said, the Declaration of Inde pendence, "that thrilling appeal to the reason and justice of nations in which a people assum ed to vindicate, upon grounds of natural rights, their claim to take their place in the great equality of States, and then announced their sublime decision to make their claim good by revolution and battle," (as the eloquent Rufus Choate once spoke of it,) gave us the Confed ation and the constitution, is ' the source of all the political blessings we enjoy. The intelligent reader of American history is well aware that the framers of the constitution had to deal with the same elements of discord as now exist: that thev dealt with them m a spirit of compromise and concession, and that the result was the adoption of the constitution, mat wise and just charter oi rignts, tnac con sumate frame of Government for a united repub lic of many States, under which we have since' prospered and attained our present vigorous growth: Before that constitution was adop ted the condition of fhe country was deplora ble. Immediately after the constitution went into operation, the country entered upon that wonderful career of prosperity - which with oc casional interruptions haa -continued to the present time. In the union and the constitu tion has hitherto been our strength, and in them is still our only safety. In them we have always had the means of upholding Govern ment, security for the steady and prosperous Eursuit of the ordinary avocations . of; life, a ond of amity which we would fain hope will be ever sacredly cherished, and our sure de fence against foreign aggression and domestic disse.ition. They are the results of the most expensive and magnanimous patriots," and un der them liberty has been . preserved, we have been happy and prosperous at home, and have reached our present elevated position in the eyes of the world. Since the Union came into existence, it has witnessed the old French Revolution, the wars of the elder Napoleon, the European upheaving of 1830. the general overthrow of 1818, and the momentous and startling events of later days. In all this period, while thrones have been shat tered, dynasties overthrown, and tyrants hum bled, while 'nations have been the scenes of revolutionary violence and have been shaken from centre to circumference by the storms of popular commotion which has only been allay ed by the strong arm of force, the Union has stood unscathed, because it was founded on a capacious and generous nationality, and in its constitution for the preservation of their rights and liberties the people had unswerving and well founded confidence. True it is that on several memorable occasions the Union has en countered rude shocks, but thanks to the un failing patriotism of the people, and to the great statesmen of the age, who had the requisite knowledge and authority to expound the true constitutional and conservative doctrines by which alone the preservation of our institutions can be secured, the danger was happily always overcome, and, the storm once past, the ship of state, with favoring gales and ail sail set alow and aloft, again careered gloriously onward in its prosperous course. Among; the agencies that have contributed to our national prosperity, none have been more potent than the patriotic and never-to-be-lor-gottcn labors of the founders of our system of government, and of the great statesmen who have flourished among us, and who, by the wisdom of their councils and their untiring de votion to the national interests, performed. such noble services in developing our resourws, giving tone and character to our representative S3steni, contributing to the strength of our government in its foreign relations by their generous and uncalculating support, and aiding in the glorious consummation of the great expe riment of popular government, so wisely and happily begun. The example of those great men has had a powerful effect upon the char acter of our people ; it has done much to wards the formation and growth of that feeling of broad find unbounded nationality which on many occasions has been demonstrated to the astonishment, aye, the admiration, of the work'. At this day we have the pleasure of knowing that the lessons of wisdom those noble states men inculcated are cherished, and although their voices are no longer heard, depicting in language of power and eloquence the dangers that threaten us, calming the fears of the timid, cheering the faithful and true, uttering words of warning to disorganizers, appealing to the most patriotic and holy feelings of the people, and stirring to the utmost depths the hearts of of the masses by their glowing oratory in de fence of the Union and the Constitution, their precepts and examples are not lost upon this generation, but live in the public memory and are cherished as rich legacies by alkthoughtful and patriotic citizens. Another powerful and beneficial agency we recognize in the ' opperation of parties. From the foundation of the Government until four years ago, our great parties have been exclu sively national, organized for the common wel fare and differing only as to the means where by " the greatest good of the greatest number, for the greatest possible length of time," might be most certainly, and in the best manner, at tained. Each party advocated the measures it deemed best calculated " to form a more perfect union, establish justice,insure domestic tranquil ity, provide for the common defence promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity," and no matter which party was victorious, it was a notional and Union-loving party that triumph ed. Parties, puerly national in their objects, are essental to the preservation of our liberties and the permanence of our institutions, and such contests as they engaged in, have been productive of the manifold advantages and blessings which result trom the trutn oi opin ions and the severe and political questions. strict investigation of We must not omit to notice another and most influential cause of our national prosperi ty and national greatness. It is the deep-seated reverence for the Constitution and devotion to the Union, which exists in the hearts of all true American patriots, which has ever animated them, and which in times of difficulty and danger as in times of quiet and repose, has ever promp ted and guided their action. There have been several occasions in our history, when, under the influence of artful appeals to prejudice and passion, feelings of animosity and alienation have prevailed among the people of different sections, but their sober judgement and patri otic impulses have always overcome such feel ings, and they have been succeeded by further united endeavors to add to the prosperity and promote the glory of our beloved country. In all the differences which have occurred among the people of different sections, love of country and the determination to uphold the Constitu tion and the Union, have ever been the potent influences in allaying sectional excitement, and restoring peace and harmony. So long as the people looked "to the true ob jects of th government and the true purposes for which it was instituted, instead of exhaust ing their time in distracting topics and discus sions npon abstract questions, to the neglect of the great vital and material interests of every section of the Union, to the disparagement of the country, and to the withdrawal of vigilance and watchfulness from the conduct of public affairs ;" (we quote the words of John Bell, at Philadelphia, after his nomination for the Pres idency,) there was public harmony, and no country m the world presented such a cheer? ful and noble spectacle b& the United States of America- - The ; remains of , Mrs. Lumfedenw ad- adopted daughter, lost in the Lady Elgin, have, been re covered, taken to New Orleans, and buried. , . THE' MILLION. SIN6IE. COPIES S2.00; TO CLUBS OF SIX NEWBERN, N. C., STATE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. - This body is still in session in the Town Hall.' The official proceedings for yesterday have not yet been c rnmunicated to us. We understand that yesterday morning officers were chosen for the ensuing year. Mr. Symthe, of Lexington, was elected President. The subject of Normal Schools was under dis cussion yesterday, and a Committee appointed to report to the association a plan for the establish ment of Normal Schools in this State. The report was received and this morning a Committee was appointed to memorialize the Legislature on the subject. Last night the addresses of Mr. Wright and of Major Hill were listened to by a large and atten tive audience Major Hill s topic was " Military Education,' showing its necessity and its advantages. Wars never weald cease, and the nation that carried them on scientifically, would inevitably assert its superiority, while it economized its resources. He alluded to the great superiority which sci ence gives to the French nation referred to the adaptability of the Southern people for the recep tion of military training and the observance of military discipline. He adverted to Southern glories in the Revolution, and the slight justice done to them in Northern histories and school books. The lecture was highly interesting and warmly applauded Wil. Jour. ' : " BANK SUSPENSIONS. ' The Richmond Whig, "noticing the report that the notes of Virginia banks are at a dis count of 6 and 7 per cent, in New York, says : "Now, if that be a fact, our own alternative is an instant suspension of specie payments of our Banks. Better do it nwc, than wait 90 days, when a suspension will be inevitable for want of funds. A Virginia note is intrinsically worth as much as a New York one of the same denom ination and this depreciation is little better than a swindle. We can maintain the worth of our notes by suspending before the specie is withdrawn. Immediate action is the true remedy. CALIFORNIA ELECTION ! Glorioun Uncertainty ! ! Fort Kearney, Nov. 19. The Overland Ex press is in from California. The election returns are contradictory. Some say that. Douglas had a majority of 3,000, and others that Lincoln was 2,000 ahead, and was likely to carry the State. OPPOSED TO SECESSION THE PRESI DENT'S MESSAGE COMPLETED IN SPECTION OF ARMORIES AND ARSE NALS. Washington. Nov. 19. Judge Wayne, of the United States Supreme Court, has, it is said, written a letter to a friend in Washington, say ing among other things, that four-fifths of the citizens of Savannah are opposed to secession. President Buchanan has completed his annual message. In the absence of Col. Ripley. Col. Craig has been ordered to proceed immediately to the ar senal and armories of the United States Exports. Notwithstanding the political dis ruption of the country, and the stringency in monetary affairs, the exports oi cotton from this port, for the week ending 12th, was twelve hundred and fifty bales, the greater part of which was exported to the city of New York. A large quantity is now on shipboard ready for shipment. We have been told by good authori ty, that North Carolina Cotton demands higher figures abroad, than that of any other State. A much larger crop has been raised this year, than at any former one, and cotton will, here after, constitute one of the chief articles of ex port from the port of Wilminton. Wilmington Herald. Cotton Fkom Tknnksske. Every train on the N Sr. P. Railroad, bring i: large instalments of the cotton from Tennessee destined for this market, which has been for some davs past ac cumulating on the farther end of the Va. & Tenn. Railroad, detained there in consequence of the recent breaking up of a small portion of that road by the floods. The handling of these receipts, and others which are daily arriving from North Carolina by railroads and canal, in their transmission to store or the various points of shipment per steamers northward, imparts an appearance of activity and bustle along Water street and the wharves, which must be gratifying to every believer in commer cial growth cf our city. Norfolk Herald Da Tyxu Censured bv the Churchman. The Churchman, the organ of the High Church Episcopalians, has a severe article upon Rev. Dr. Tyng for having assisted in laying the corner stone of a Methodist chapel, and for having ap peared in the pulpit of a Presbyterian church as a participant in the proceedings of the Evangeli cal Alliance. It uses the following language: "The public behavior of the Rev. Dr. Tyng is grossly inconsistent with his obligations as a presbyter of the Church and quite as disgraceful to himself as if it were intended for the purpose of deriding Christianity. We most earnestly and seriously beg to draw the attention of the Provi sional Bishop of the Diocese to the conduct of one of the presbyters under his charge. This is a case in which the Bishop is imperatively bound to exercise his Episcopal authority, and we trust that Dr. Potter will at once bring his erratic and unruly presbyter to an account for bis conduct." Douglas vs. Lincoln. Hon. S. A. Douglas, in his speech in Mobile, answered the interrog atory, whether he would take an office under Lincoln in the following style: "I have only to say, that I cannot believe that any man re puted to be a gentleman, could put such ques tions to me. Immense applause. There is no language with which I can express my scorn and contempt for the wretch who would inti mate that in any contingency I would take of fice under Lincoln. Applause. The man who would propound such a question to me would sell himself in an instant to Lincoln or any oth er man who would offer him his price." Great applause. FRESH OUTBREAKS IN KANSAS. Leavenworth, IL T.; Nov. IT. The Times, of this city, publishes a letter from Linn coun ty, Kansas, giving an account of a new out break in that region.- At the date of the let ter, one man named Russell Hinds, after a trial by Lynch Law had been hung; and others or dered to leave the Territory immediately. The cause of the outbreak is alleged to attempts at kidnapping and threatening towards free State men by Hinds and his associates. The American Eagle DAD.--The American Eagle, a paper published at Gordon ville, Va., in its last issue, clothed in the weeds" of morning, announces its own demise and that of the Union. Hear it : 'The dissolution of the confederation' of States, and the death of the Ameiicau Eagle,' causes a feeling of parting sorrow, and makes this paper appear, in this the last hour of its existence, in the solemn garb of morning. The Amercan Ea gle bids a final adieu to its patrons find to the Republic" , Alas! Poor Yorrick. Humors of the South. Dear Post Why is South Carolina at the present time like a hungary Canary Bird ? Because she wants to' "See Seedy Yours1 ever, AJAX. You sec we print you,' Ajax, amiable young man, but you must try to be sharper another time. Soar above a canary bird, as, for instance, ask why is South Carolina like a suffering Pttle boy in school ? Because she wants to "go out." You perceive, Ajax, what, perhaps, you may do in time. Good-bye, Ajax. Write on,' write ever. Boston Post; ' The Son of Abe Lincoln and the Harvard College Students. Young Lincoln, eon of the Presidentelect, now in Harvard College, was called upon by a large body of the students in that institution, anct congratulated oB the suc cess of his father. - - '- - --"' TUESDAY MORNING, SELECTED POETRY. Apfteltl to Bachelor. BY J'HN ii. SAXE. Dear Charles, be persuaded to wed. For a sensible fellow like you. It's high time to think of a bed, And muffins and coffee for two ; So have done with your doubt and delaying. With a sul so adapted to mingle. No wonder the neighbors are saying, 'Tis singular you should be single ! ' Don't say you haven't got time That business demands your attention There is not the least reason or rhyme, " In the wisest excuse you can mention. -Don't tell me about "other fish," Your duty is done when you catch 'em,' And you.never will relish the dish. Unless you've a woman to fry 'cm. ' You may dream of poetical fame, B"ut your wishes may .chance to miscarry, The best way of sending one's name To posterity, Charles, is to marry And here I am willing to own. After soberly thinking upon it, ' T 1 I'd very much rather be know a By a beautiful son than a sonnet ! Then, Charles, bidyour doubting good bye. And dismiss all fantastic alarms I'd be sworn youv'e a girl in your eye, 'Tis your duty to have in your arms ! Some trim little maiden of twenty, A beautiful azure eyed elf, With virtues and graces in plenty, And no falling but loving yourself. Don't search for an "angel" a minute. For, granting you win in the sequel. The deuce, after all, would be in it. ; With the Union so very unequal ! The angels, it will be confessed, In this world, are rather uncommon ; And allow me, dear Charles, to suggest, You'll be better content with a woman. Then, there's the economy clear, By poetical algebra shown If your wifa has a grief or a tear. One half by the law is your own ! And as to the joys by division. They're nearly quadrupled, 'tis said. (Though I never could see the addition Quite plain in the item of bread ) Then, Charles, be persuaded to wed, For a sensible fellow, like you, It's high time to think of a bed, And muffins and coffee for two ; So have donejwith your doubt and delaying, With a soul so adapted to mingle. No wonder the neighbors are saying, 'Tis singular you should be singla. " Swear Not at All." ' Swear not all " My ear is pained. To hear Jehovah's name profaned. "Swear not at all," for so said Christ, Whose words were ever gems unpriced. '"Above all things, swear not.' said James. That message was of priceless worth "God's throne is heaven his footstool earth," Swear not by these before that throne Our words, our very thoughts are known. Swear not by thine own hand or head Not by tho living or the dead ; Nor yet thy life, nor soul, nor health. Nor yet the flittering phantom wealth. Nor swear by earth; as we explore, (rod's footprints tell on every shore. Nor by the stars nor orb of dav. Nor gems that, nave the milky way. Nor vt more dKtnnt realms above, Made vocal by Jehovah's love. No by the Saints" nor Seraphim : These are. of God and BOW TO HIM. Not by the balmy breath of spring, Nor feathered songster on the wing, Not by the monsters of the deep. Nor raging storms that o'er us sweep, Nor by the lightnings flash on high, Nor by the thunder roaring by. Not by angelic harp nor lyre ; And never on the Atlantic wire. Nor by the King, nor Queen, or both, Nor yet by any other oath, " Swear not at all.'' This was the original ending of the poem. The following lines were added in compliment to the Bunyan Tableaux, which will be exhibited in Newbern in a few days : Swear not by the Pilgrim whose progress we show. Nor "Bunyan," nor "Greenwood" whom all the world know. Nor Christian, nor Hopeful, nay think at their load And that wicket gate where they enter the road. Swear not by Evangelist "Valiant for Truth," Nor Great Heart the Guide of those women and youth. Swear not by Apollyon, nor his firey shield, That Christian so gloriously drove from the field. Swear not by the Lions nor Giant Despair, Nor swear by the City of Vanity Fair. For that Doubting Castle, it is not for thee. Like Hopeful and Christian we too have the key. As Christian " Interpreter " Greenwood shall stand. For the g teen fields of Beulah and Immanuel's Land ; Whose ' Mountains " shall grace his " delecta ble theme The thousand to cheer, "go I saw in my dream." Lorenzo D. Grosvfnor Legislature of North Caroliua! ORGANIZATION OF BOTH HOUSES LARGE ATTENDANCE-NO EXCITEMENT. Raleigh, Nov. 19, 1860. The attendance of members is very large, and there seems to be no excitement concerning the question of secession which is now so deeply agitating the States of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. nOUSE OF COMMONS. The House was organized by the election of the following officers : Speaker W. T. Dortch, Esq., of Wavne. Clerk T. Cantwell, ofRaleigh. Assistant W. M. Hardie, of Buncombe. Doorkeeper W. Webster. Assistant W. R. Lovell. senate. Speaker H. Wilson. C. Clark, of Edgecombe and Clerk J. W. Alspaugh, of Forsyth. Assistant W. L. Saunders, of Rowan. Doorkeeper James Page, Assistant C. C. Tally. There appears to be a fine spirit among the members, and there is no doubt that the session will be one of entire harmony and good feeling. There are several important offices to fill, but as the Democratic majority on joint ballot is 20, no difficulty will be encountered on this score. - There are a great many visitors in the city, and Raleigh now wears an unusually busy and lively aspect. F FORBID TO LAND. The Mayor of Charleston, S. C, has forbid den the landing at Charleston of Steerage pas sengers from Northern Ports, That is right keep off paupers and mere adventures at the present time let them remain with those who have no doubt used them to bring about the election of Lincoln. Charlotte Bulletin. LIBERAL ACTION OF THE NEW YORK v . BANK. Washington, Nov. 19. Sixteen of the-princi-pal Banks of New York, to-day agreed to pur chase two and a half million dollars of sterling exchange bills for the benefit of the holders of produce.-, Also to expend from five to 6ix percen tum over the receipts of the present week. ,011 MORE ONLY S1.50 A YEAR NOVEMBER 21, 1860. THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 22, 1860. . . "Prom Raleigh. We returned from Raleigh last evening. Bet little had been done in the Legislature beyond the organization. John Spelman, editor of the Salisbury Ban ner, wa3 elected public printer on Tuesday. This office had been filled for several years by Mr. Hclden, editor of the Standard, who now goes overboard because he favored ad valorem and sympathized with Douglas. W. A. Jenkins, Esq., was elected Attorney General. The Governor's message was read before both Houses. It is an able paper, and will command universal attention. A bill was introduced in the Senate, which pro vides for the call of a Convention to so alter the the Constitu tion, as to provide for an ad valorem system f taxation. Tho message, we learned, advised the hold ing of a State Convention to determine what the State ought to do in. tho present crisis, and also the appropriation of one million dollars to arm the State. , .The message had not been printed when we left but we made arrangements which we hope will enable us to lay it before our read ers to-morrow morning. Clingman is there working the wires for the Senatorship. Mr. Avery is also a prominent candidate for Senator. Some' think that there will be a majority in the Legislature in favor of secession, while oth ers think that a majority will stand by the Union. Stormy times are expected and con siderable excitement prevails. More to-morrow. taoldsboro.' We spent a few hours with our friends at Goldsboro' yesterday. County Court was in session and the man Ogle, the pickpocket, was tried and found guilty. Will receive thirty nine. A portion of tho citizens of Goldsboro' run up a flag on which was inscribed " Southern Confederacy " while we were there. There was no public demonstration, and but a dozen or two people were engaged in it, but from what we could see and hear there is consider able disunion sentiment in Wayne. They are a patriotic people and mean well, but we beg of them to consider everything well before they go too far. Let us have concert of action, or no action at ail. OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE. We are indebted to Graham Daves, Esq., Private Secretary to Gov. Ellis, for the official vote of the State of North Carolina in the late Presidential election. The following is the vote : Breckinridge and Lane, 48,539 Bell and Everett, 44,990 Breckinridge's mai. 3.549 The Electors on the Douglas and Johnson ticket received only 2,701 votes in the whole State. We will republish our table of cc unt;es, with the official vote of each, in our next pa per. On account of informality in the returns made by the Sheriffs of Bladen and Madison, the vote of each of those counties was thrown out, and the Sheriff of Alleghany failed to make any returns of the vote of that county. Kiginte-r. Says the flippant penny-a-liner "we" in the New York Herald: " We of New York supplv the Western hem I - isphere, and we can justly claim to be the em pire city ot America, but as yet we have only just commenced. By -and by, when we have secured the success of the fusion ticket, and defeated the Black Republicans ; when we have finished our Central Park, and laid out the up per part of the island properly ; when we have settled Dr. Cheever as Bishop of Congo river ; elected Beecher, vith a sharp's rifle in his hand as captain of a company of Conneticut militia; made Tyng tell a straight story about Ball and Black's diamond customers ; got the items of the Japanese bills from Brady, and the littie account of the Prince of Wales' ball from Peter Cooper 5b Co., we intend to show our rural friends a city with at least two millions of inhabitants a metropolis une qualed since the palmy days of old Rome, the mistress of the world." HARD RUN FOR GRIEVANCES. The Times, Tribune, one atid all, re-state the facts, as if to ward off their own responsibility, that only the Executive Department is to be Re publican, Congress and the Supremo Court being "Union," &c. "At the worst, the friends of Slavery will con trol two of the four great depositories of Federal power; more probably, three of the four. Trib. But the great facts these journals ignore, and they are these : 1. The Northern State Personal Liberty bills, which violate the Federal compact. 2. The Northern Underground Railroad the organization of thieves and robbers, supported by Republican public opinion in the North. 3. Ibe abduction even of black nurses of in fant white children, when traveling in the North ern States, as well as the abduction, forcible or otherwise of all Southern servants, if brought temporarily North. 4. The monopoly, by the Lemmon and other Northern State Judicial decrees, of the rivers, waters, and coasts of the United States, which make it impossible for Southern men to travel on them, as Northern men travel on them, with their households, &c. 5. Incendiary publications from the North, which sanctioned by Northern public opinion, stir up insurrection and servile war, South. 6. The now threatened convsrsion of the Su preme Court of the United States into a political tribunal, to decide tdave questions by geography bv latitude and longitude instead of by law. The Federal Congress cannot change, alter, amend, or acquit the Government of any of those " complaints." The State Governments alone can render justice here. What Congress can do destroy the equality of the States in the Terri tories, by shutting off from them the Southerners who bled for, and paid for these Territories, as well as ourselves the Republican party is ex pressly enjoined to do, and means to do so it says. A. Y. Express. A Delicate Reminder. The National Intel ligencer says : Indebted as we are to our able contemporary, the Charleston Courier, for much interest ing information with regard to current polit ical events in South Carolina, we have thought that our obligations would bo increased if that journal Could find it convenient to reproduce a series of editorial essays which adorned its col umns more than three years ago, when the as sumed "right ot secession," in being subjected to a critical review, was made to suffer a masterly refutation, whether regarded in the light of con stitutional law, of history, or of authority. We read those essays at the time of their appearance with equal instruction and, if we might signalize any as of superior excellence, or of peculiar op portuneness at the present day, we would desig nate the articles which appeared in the Courier of April 9 and April 22, in the yar J8o7. Bat the whole series is eminently worthy of reproduction if our contemporary can find room for it. THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. New York, Nov 20. About $700,000 of Ster ling bills were taken to day by the Bank Com mittee, who will hold a session daily until the en tire $2,500,000 are regularly drawn out. Rates to-day 104-21106. There were heavy discounts to-day by the Banks, but paper outside is still near ly unsaleable. Nearly full returns show a majori ty against negro suffrage. 6f about 112,000. Among the recraitg who left the Carlisle Bar racks, Philadelphia, od Monday, for Texas, was an old Scotch Crimean Bcldier,. wearing the medal an I clasps. INVARIACLYIN ADVANCE NUMBER 13. t ' Soulhei 2 ImitlUy.. We feel that the keading ot this is hardly srppropriatdUbr the idead we intend wri -o - - . -. ting. Yet we cannot drink Jpf anything that would better express the spgition offtLpub lic Southern press at this time,. That portion of it which is singing pscans.tohe Un'ion seems to be affected with some dy Viptic afflictioS&f the mind, and their song smacks of uncerlahf t3' in the conception of its opinions' and pVc forth but a feeble sound. That crjnserratiW portion of intelligent Southern men, wh.o' forfnS the nucleus of safety around whiahigte Confi ding and noble are wont to assemble and whdse words are looked to as the Watch-wdrd 6f ac tion in a time of peril, are undecided, and seem to falter between fwo opinions- whether the exigencies of the times, resulting from the elec tion of a Black Republican to the Presidency .of the United States, together with the failure of Black Republicans to restore our slaves under the Fugitive Slave Law, and the passing of laws by their State Legislatures locally nullifying that law whether these are grievances that would justify a dissolution of the American Union or not The public press of South Care lina and a part of the press of several other States, form an exception to this timidity. But the gravity w ith which their conclusions are jumped at, the hasty and determined man ner of action advised, lead us to the opinion of a want of reflection and cool, sober thought on the consequences of dissolution. Recklessness aided by a selfish State pride takes the place in too many bosoms of untiring devotion to a government, under the administration of which we have been prosperous and happy, and it is an exhibition of a dwarfed mind and heart to witness a regard and affection for some State or small locality; while our country grows too voluminous for the capacity of our patriotism. But yet this timidity in the minds of the conservative is the best index to their appre ciation of the value of that compact under which our laws are made and executed. They weigh the subject well, admitting that South ern honor demands re'lress that a dissolution would entail a crash in our finances ; confidence would be blasted and sufferingas a consequence would be inaugurated in the palace and minds of the rich and in the cottage of the poor. That interference and agitation upon the subject of slavery within a f:.w months has retrograded from a consideration of the extension ofthe in stitution to a consideration of existent protec tion. And such must ever he tho case when the majority opposes and exasperates, and the minority becomes vindictive and exceeds its I bounds in returning the blow. Agitation is not the friend of the institution, and yet in those States where its prosperity is most to be desired we find the most rabid excitement. Bad as are the results to which we have aluded consequent upon a dissolution we may not yet hope to find a terminus an ultimatum at which we will be able to say, " Our honor is vindicated, our institutions established on a sure basis, and our character as a distinct and separated organization known and respected by nations." Such is the consummation hoped for, but what guarantee have we of the attainment of such a result y none. While agitation, invec tives and hard names arc the weapons with which we fight no change will be wrought for Southern advancement, no consummation effec ted in Southern enterprise and improvement. Civil war is a subject but seldom Contemplated in this connection ; and though the idea of a brother with his bayonet in a brother's breast is a condition of things from which our nature recoils and the heart is sick, this nevertheless must be thrown into the ballance iu contem plating the course of action now to be pursued by the conservative men of the South. But why contemplate scenes of carnage and blood shed? of broken-hearted wives, mothers and sisters, and desolated firesides V Wc ask in re ply what mean those demonstrations so nu merous in our land ? money appropriated by the million, military organizations, formation of bodies of "Minute Men." What means that clause of the Constitution regulating a body of "Minute Men," which requires that every mem ber shall arm himself with a pistol, musket, or some defensive weapon ? Are they to be used as the Chinese use gongs td scare their north ern enemies, (brethren rather, ) by a mighty sound of resistance. If we Wbuld construe their meaning literally all must admit that ft means war to the knife: 1 But the conservative inei of our Southern country, while jealous of the rights of their beloved South; are more jealous of the boon committed to their keeping by their sires of the American Revolution, and while battling peacefully for local rights, are willing to make concessions when the great public good of their country is imperiled and demands it of them It is from this view of the existing difficulties i . . . i that conservative Southern men are timid not j with the timidity that springs from cowardice, j but that feeling of reserve which fears its own j penetration into the political darkest thsrf sur- j reminds us at this tine; They ate timid frecausc they love the South they arc timid because ! they love the L nidn, and arc pledged to its niaintainancc and perpetuity. Tho triumph of right and justice fur the suppression of error and the preservation of our institutions is best confided to calm and sober legislation. Let men reflect and act from pure motives, aided by a desire for the welfare of their ichole coun try, and State pride and State rights could be easily compromised to the welfare, the pros perity and ultimate aggrandizement of the South, and her honors remain fair and unim peachable. This they mean to do. REPORTER. A Well Pleased Max. If the reporters are to be credited, the Prince of Wales must have been the best pleased young man on this contl- the United States affords him "the highest iann iaw u.tuiii is always, according to . these local authorities, that in which he has been best received. Undoubted ly, however, the Prince's progress through the j Republic has been marked with extreme cordi-' ahty on both sides, and its effect must be to greatly increase the two countries. On our part we have done the proper thine, and the British public will heartily appreciate the kind feelings that has been shown towards the young Pnnce. Baltimore American. New Jersey has been very wrongfully class ed with those States which have passed laws hostile to the execution of the Act of Congress concerning fugitive slaves. New Jersey is loy al to the. Constitution in regard to this matter. An act of her tegislatute passed April 18, 1S46. makes full provision for the surrender of per- ; sons oi mis ciass. Journal oj commerce. RATES OF ADVERTISING THE WEEK L Y PRO G R EV , The following are the only Rates bf A d veil is.;: in the "tveekly Progress, to all save those who r. traCt by the year and aMrertise i both weekly 1 daily papers: , . ; - One Bqnare (12 lines mimonj on Insertion, $1 W Subsequent insertions, each .KI cents. Any number 6f squares will be charred in p'r portl6n. AH advertisements marked (tf) till forbid will be continued tfll ordered out and charged aj above. T -LlL - IKromthe Hume Jouruat.) AN AMERICAN IN THE HOLY LAND. It was at Bethel where jfbrhham, on his re turn from Egypt, tfarted, on friendly terms, with Lot. The lattef journeyed to the .plains of jlordan, while Abraham dwelt in the land o: Clnaan. It was here where Jacob had his me morablc dream, w horf he said, "This is no otW but the hduse of God, and this is thc gfjft of heaven." At the- time we visited it, ito inhabmhts were engaged in the midst cf their harvest j some were reaping the grain, whil-i thers were threshing it out. This process i The same now as it was thousand of years ago. Their threshing-floors are Usually a flat rock or ground prepared expressly for the purpose, and the grain is threshed with dAen. cows, ox horses tied together and driven aro :nd the floor, in some instance drawing a rudesle3. made tough on the bottom, with the drive: seated upon it. Tlie grain fsfrVe'd frtfJn the liu-;; and chtyf by laborers, who tvith , shovels itinto the air wlfen the wind is blowing li sh, which carries away the Jirrht cbati while th. full grain falls on the threshing-floor. All thi ; work is necessarily performed out of doors, - they have no barns or stables in the counm ; and, as no rains or storms occur during tlu summer montlis, there is no apprehension felt that the grain wiJJ be damaged by exposure t the weather. . Tho wind was favorable for threshing the day we were there, and we could see fro'ni our elevated position-, the chaff flying in every direction as fat as the eye could reach, reminding us by its appearance of the flurries of snow which we were hot unaccostomed to behold in the winter season from our homo iu the Highlands' of the Hudson. Every where about its the farmers were industriously en gaged Jn the labors of the season. No Mechan ical contrivance like the reaper, tho threshing machine, or. the fanning mill, have as yet been introduced into this country ; and, as th peo ple are greatly attached to their ancient hab its and customs, there is little probability that these or similar labor-saving articles will b employed in this country ftr centuries to come. The reaper could be daed to advantage in the iiumetdus arid extensive' valleys and plains. On dur jdur'riey wc paSscd through the beau tiful valley of St. John and Labona, or Leban. These valleys Were covered with fields of wheat; ripe for the harvest, and judging . from what we could scet- thev promised to yield an abun dant and excellent crop to repay the husband men for their labors: , We halted for our lurich, undtr the shadow of a fine ojd olive-tree . in tlie latter valley; which marks the b'rtunuaj-y line between Sama ria arid Judea. Beneath" the wide-spreading branches of ihis hbblt? tree, protected froiu the heat of mid-day sun, our dragoman had spread his matting; carpctting, and cushions, thus en abling us to rest in comfort and at our ease. Our tent had been sent forward in the morning to the Spot selected for the night's campaip ii ground, sd that we could not, even had we de sired it, hate obtained better accommodations, since, there arc no public houSefc Mi the route, nor are the private dwellings spread over the faco of the country a3 in our own fair land, but aro confined to rural towns built upon the summitsi of the mountains, and hence,- oftentimes most difficult of access ; besides, the dwellings are not such as could afford the traveler any com forts, for they rarely contain rhorc than one room, and that poorly furnished and indiffer ently protected from tho scorching sun of summer-time or the heavy rains of the winter season. The travellers in Pallcstine must, for these and similar reaghns, dwell in tents, as did tho patriarchs of old; and must select pleasant weather for their jourrifcyings; since it ts not an agreeable 'ask t travel during the day in tho drenthlni fain or; when night KomeS", to pitch your tenfaud .spread your bed in the yielding, mud. The fain season; which commences lit October and enus in March, and the burning and unclouded summer sun, mhould alike bo avoided: During the sufnmer thctiths' the. land scape assumes" an aspect of barrenne?, the re sult of drought, cheerless to look upon. Tho Scriptures express it perfectly and forcibly when they say "the hea vans become brass arid the earth Iron.-' The spring and part of the autumn alone remain in which the traveller may pursue yHth pleasure his journey ings in the Holy land. . The Ialminess of the air at these Peasontf Is unsurpassed; and gtldbm docs anything arise to ihf the1 enjoyment of tho tourist; We have not been detained H, single moment on account of unpleasant .weather. Tho ther mometer seldom rises over sixty-five degrees, except during the mid-day, in these moun tain regitfnf?, and then hever higher than seventy-five or eighty degree's. The sirocco winds, so destriictil'e to the constitutions, 6T the unac climated, cense about the twcntieili of May, from which time to the beginning of July, the prcvailiiR wind is frtfm the nttrth, and commen ces, usually; evHv afternoon at about three o'clock; thereby rendering the air refreshing arid agree? fle, and adding to the comfort of travellers: It was at tnis hour, after resting and refretfb'ng ourselves iiuder tho olive-tree, we left the valley of Leban and descended into' the plain of Afofeh. A PRACTICAL SUGGESTOIN. Th following Is Wriat is generally denomi nated "a practical Suggestion," by Mayor Swan, of Daitimorej in' a speech recently delivered in New York cf ty : " In case the danger grew greater, he would advise a convention, not ofSddthern States but of all States, and the settlerifcnt of the distur bing question, by pledging tho North to tho tollowmg propositions t "1. That hereafter the North should re cognize, without qualification, tlie institution f lavery as has existed tinder the Consti- tution. '2. The honest enforcement of the Fugi tive Slave law. " 3. The equal right of the South to a full participation in the occupancy of the Territo ries. "He believes upon the basis of these prop ositions, all present evils would be corrected. ana our government move on in harmony for- ever, PRECALTIOXS OF Napoleons; The Paris cor respondent of the London Times ftllndcs to th constant fear of his life in which the Emperor of the French lives, of the Cirbcmarl. J Jurin his late trip to his new dominions, every cafo was ta ken to get suspicions characters out cf the way. One very curious means of efisur?rg his Safety was resorted to : it was that of forcing tho Own ers of houses within n certain distance of fhe im perial residence td jfive tin the feevs cf their eel i lars to the police. These individuals were forced j dnrinp the whole Visit and for some days before, I to ask for their keys ever time they needed a bot i tie of wine; and on gridi occasions a policeman wa3 sont with them td fetch it. A certain housd in sho Place Victoirp, in Nice, was emptied of all its inhabitants whilst the imperial visit lasted. Ho proprietors, for Vacating it, received from the me au thorities the snm of 00,000 francs the hohse, it is supposed; having been iu sOme way usoful to the police.. . ;; , - A fellow was doubting whether or not he should volunteer to fight One of the flags, waving before , his eyes bearing the inscrip tion, ' Victory trr Death," somewhat discour aged him--4'Victory is a very good thing,' said he; "but why put it Victory or Death? Just put' it Victory or Crippled and I'll go thatr - ? THE VOTE OF. FLORIDA. AcGtsTA, Nov. 17. Returns from sixteen counties in Florida, (Official,) indicate that Breckinridge will have a majority in the State ot 3,000. .Tpb Fast -Alexandria packages have been re ived at that post office directed to "Alexandria, Y., Southern Coufedeiax-y." . ; ,-