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'"'"v ' ' t " W""ll"irin 11 iai "'wmiin i - inn- 1, ' V: ' I WEEKLY PROGRESS S ATURDAY.MORNING, NOV. 24, 18C0. X11ECENEKAL. ASSEMBLY. Uellef to the Banks Resolnf Ion for and Against the Union Atl Valorem, etc. - On Wednesday Mr. Turner, of Orange, in troduced the following resolutions opposed to S'CRehcd, That this General Assembly is not indifferent to the difficulties which surround and the dangers which now threaten to over turn the beat government ever vouch-safed by ( iod to man. compliance with laws which they have enacted ,.mlr a Constitution to which all should b hh7LSth? are now ready for a ro- I seem arfxious to kift as little as possible about ly, independent -and constitutional defence of i it. &e thing.1-; c tain the people of Tennes o ir rights, interests and honor. ' fc jfill wait for a otcrt act. Resolved, That we are not ready to yield our j businSS jfa unusually dull, they say, foothold on trie coiMuumun -. , si stand upon the u ltned ptanK oi secession anu a 1 ic nn wtTl Resolved, That the old Declaration of Inde pendence is good enough for us ; wc need no iew declaration. Wc will move off unacr no Sicw banner not known to the whole American people, and to their Constitution and laws. Mr. Turner said he had not offered these rcsolatinns so much for debate as for action. Every Senator, he supposed, was as ready now as he would ever be to vole upon them. It was due to the people of this State, and to our yistcr Southern States, that they should know, and know earlv, where wc stood, and what we intended. 13 believed the sentiment and feel ings of the people of North Carolina were mis represented by those editors who spoke of the people as greatlv excited and ready tor seces sion, lie was no friend cf the doctrine of even peaceable secession. Without intending to be offensive to those who differed with him, he thought the doctrine seemed cowardly. Where a free people were oppressed, their property en dan eered, and their honor assailed, there was no time to retiro ; no time to secede. Open and manly resistance was the remedy. One of the electors for the State (Hon. Abraham W. Venable) is openly and publicly pledged to re sistance, revolution and war whenever a Black Republican is to be inaugurated as President of the United States. With long continued si lence on our part, and an elector entertaiuing such sentiments, publicly avowed, we may mis lead others, and cause them to calculate upon our co-operation in their disunion arid revolu tionary movements, when we little designed do ing so. These reasons constituted his apology for of fering these resolutions. Mr. Avery moved to lay Mr. Turner's reso lutions on the table. Mr. Burton called for the ayes and noes, but afterwards withdrew the call. The resolutions were tabled and ordered to be printed. On the same day Mr. Bledsoe, offered a bill to amend the Constitution as follows : A BILL TO ALTER THE CONSTITUTION. Wiiekas, the government of North-Carolina af fords equal protection to all the citizens aud ev ery species of property in the State, justice de mands that every ppecies of property shonld be subject to equal taxation for the support of the government; And whereas, under the present Constitution, as generally construed, the General Assembly has no power to tax slave property, equally with land and other property, in propor tion to the protection it enjoys ; And wheras, clause 2d, section 1, article 4th ot the amended Constitution provides that the General Assembly may alter the same in the manner therein pre scribed; Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by authority vfthe same. That the 3d section of the 4th article of the amended Constitution bo altered to read as fellows : J, Be it further enacted, That all free white ! males over the age of twenty one years, aud mi- I Ui IUI tj'ui D jcaia oiiuti w v fcj v. v i bis nil Lijuni 4-apitation tax, and no other white person shall be subject to such tax. 2. Be it further enacted. That all free colored in habitants of this State, shall bo subject to such capitation or other tax as the General Assembly may impose. 3. Be it further enacted, That property in slaves .hall be equally subject to taxation with every other epeeies of property, and shall be taxed as high, but not higher, than land according to value. Ordered to be printed. On Thursday in the Senate. Mr. Avery intro duced resolution relieving the Banks of this State from the penalty imposed in case of their suspending1 specie payments, which, after a good deal of diseu&sion, passed its third read ing. In the House ef Commons, a similar bill was introduced, which, however, upon it being stated that a bill to relieve the Backs had been intro duced into the Senate, was laid on the table. Mr. Ferebee introduced the allowing resolu tions: Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States is not a league, confederacy or compact be tween the people of fke several States in t.heir sovereign capacities hxat Government proper, founded on tfce doption of the people, and erea-- img aireet relations Detween itself aud indi viduals. Rcsolaad That no State authority has power to dissolve these relations; that nothing can dis solve Ahem but revolution, and that, consequently there can be no such thing, as secession without .resolution. Kesoleed, That it is the duty of the State of 1ortli Carolina, under all circumstances and at all hazards, to protect, maintain and defend, in the Union, all the l ights guarantied to her citizens by th Constitution of the United States. Fcsolred, That the elec tion of Abraham Lin coln and Hannibal Hamlin to the Presidency and Vice-Presidescy of the United State, by a fpstional vote, however much to be deplored, is not. a jsnfSwient cause for a dissolution of the Union, Air, Hoke reoved to amend by substituting ihe following: Resolved, That the Constitution of the United Uajs i6 a compact between sovereign and inde pendent States, and all nowers not therein dele gated are reserved to the States respectively : that :mong the attributes of sovereignty retained by t e several States is that of watching over the erations of the General Government, and pro ting her citizens from unconstitutional abuses -;; the one hand, and the securing to them on the : t iT a strict fulfillment of the obligations im- .jed by the Constitution upon the General Gov ..;:i.ruent. .. , Risolcci, That the people , of North Carolina, au organized political community, have the .?ht to withdraw from the Union whenever a .jority of the people ia Convention assembled ';aU decide a withdrawal necessary to protect : : iir property or persons from unconstitutional i j.p.-essive legislation by the General Gov . -ume ni. or whenever, by the failure to fulfill constitutional obligations, the people of the ;:ati hi ay deem such a step necessary in order j sx.ure the enjoyment of te righU, privileges, ..nJ protection guarantied to tbem by the Cousti utlun vf the United States; and, in such an i.ierseney, a majority of the people of North -aroliaa, acting through the organized authori-i-is ot the State, would be entitled to the sole and Individual allegiance of all her citizens. Mr Merrimon olfered the following as an amend mini Uf the amendment of Mr. Hoke : lie it Resolved by the General Assscmbly of the tmusvf North, Carolina, That the result of the iiite Preside ntiial election in the election of a purely sectional President and Vice Presideat of Tt.e Lmted States give rise to serious fears for the political safety of the rights of the people of ifcii btato-under the Federal Constitution, and ti.aUhMbody condemns the fanatical, anwar rahted.. and dangerous policy of the Black Repup i.oan party, which tends directly to brinff about dissolution of the Federal Union, and to produce t .val war. . i ' - ., .. . , .. . r . ;. , Be ii jltsotned. That it ia. the sense of this Gen t rai Assembly, that tha rights of the people of tijs State under the Constitution of the United Slates shall be enforced in the Union t all haz :uds, and regardless of consequences, and that t he ' State should be placed in such a condition Mi, to enable her to resist every encroachment upoe.the Constitutional rights of her citizens. -f , . Jicit Respired, That this General Assembly de plores the result of the late Presidential election, tint much as it is to be regretted and condemned, iiT:rtbe:eKs. the election of a President accord. -' w!T to the Federal Constitution and the forms of ,w, is nut, of itself, cause tor a aisssomuon ot St it iksohed, tlaf in view of the present po- i litical condition of the conntrv, this General as sembly recognize no "cause which renders it wise, politic, or necessary for this State, now to send a delegate or delegates, to confer with other Southern States in reference to any b4e of policy that looks to a dissolution of thi Lltion, or the continuance of this State in the san,. The resolutions aud amendments were re uu araenuujt commit&a o: V ferred to a ioint select commitlke on Federal Re - it latiuns. From Tennessee. Memiis, Tis-., Nor. Uth, I860, Bear Prog re4s : The great battle is over and the victojy.won, buf.no .by the Soutte Considerable excitement prevailed here for a few days after the election, !d cotton went down to Stents, but it hs subsided measura- ;one up to us lormer ging from about 9 to -13 ccntgi Whereas the people were anxious I . . tft, ii;nn thev now . t0 t r I me aiiui uicsai tui; wiuu ij - tain condition of money matters, and not to any apprehensions as to the safety of the Union Memphis is improving rapidly. There are perhaps more fine buildings going up now than at any former time. Besides a great many pri vate edifices which are being constructed, there are six or eight blocks going up, covering each just one fourth of a square. These blocks will comprise stores and residences for several dif ferent parties. They arc all four stories high, and most of them are constructed with iron fronts, and when completed, will compare fa vorably with the modern architcctrue of any city in the United States.- I spent several hours upon the wharf yester day and again to-day, amusing myself with the great rush and buz of business. There are now over 1200 drays running, and all anxious to be first in loading and unloading : so you can im agine that they get mixed up every now and hen. Yesterday two Irishmen " pitched into aach other," and after choking each other, one got the other down and pounded him over the eye at an ugly rate. The bystanders looked on and saw it well done, and when over all went to work as if nothing hadhappened. It is very warm and I beg to be excused from writing more now. V. For tbe Progress. Old J,ell-rs. BT EVA MAY. A slight indisposition confines you to your room, and time drags heavily. You turn dissatis fied from the window, and peruse your favorite author, until he grows wearisome and is thrown aside ; then impatiently pace the floor, and loll in your easy chair alternately. You feel gloomy nay moody, and wish for a friend, but were he to come, you would wish him away. That second glance at the mirror tells yon, you have a very disagreeable expression, and you are careful not to look that way again. The clock must be wrong that chair is not cosy as usual, and your slippers are not as easy as they were yesterday. You try to " dream,"' but neither head nor heart is in a dreamy mood ; and your eye roams restlessly round the room, till it rests on that little locked desk then quickly bright ens. The pain in your head ia forgotten as you lock the door then take that casket of treasures from its place and eagerly turn its key. It is opened, and there lay its many parcels in their separate places. Here a yellow package direc- ted in a large bold hand, and beside it a tiny one so white and elegant with your name delicate ly traced on the small envelop. There are the family letters ; your Mother's close beside your Father's: next your sisters' and brothers'. Then uncles', aunts,' cousins', schoolmates' and other friends. Your Mother's letters so long, and lov ing, are wet with many tears ere you replace them. The hand which traced them has turned to dust ; but these gentle words recall her voice, aud you almost fancy her speaking to you now. Your Father's too so kind, yet almost stern, full of admonition and advice. Then that fair sister like her own sweet self timid and affectionate ; mingling words of endearment with her meek suggestions for your good. You weep over these, but smile over that hastily scribbled package from that merry brother like himself all fun and mischief ; here awkward praise then mock con demnation. Laughable descriptions which need only his merry voice to convulse you with mirth. Kind grave letters from your uncles and aunts are read and replaced. Then treasured ones from your favorite cousins ; recalling bright scenes in the distant past, moments of sweet converse, when her kind low tones fell on your ear; and those dark eyes were raised to yours with the i confidence of a sister. There a heap from old school-mates full of fovid flattery, and expressions of changeless at tachment. You smile at many thinking how meaningless were those ardent words, then be lieved 8.0 true. But 'tis a sad smile, as you scan the faithful words of that loved one, who remained your frieno.' when the school-days were past ; as you think of fho changes which have come since you parted. Here beautiful letters from a " sum mer friend," but as false as the heart of the wri- ' ter ; letters preserv ed only to warn you in the fu. ture. Well may your lip curl in scorn over those deceitful words ; and you wonder how you ever loved one so false. For relief you turn to those earnest, honest letters froun sincere friends ; who profess less friendship than they feel, but whose actions speak instead of words. Perhaps there's another package there more treasured than these, which you read and reread with moist eyes, and beating ht art but if so that is your secret not ours. . You may feel sadder when the devk is agaiu locked but 'tis a pleasing sadness; and you can dream now in the once more easy chair and slip pers while the old elock ticks away the moments but too fast. Goldsboro,' N. C. Squally Times. A letter from Philadelphia contains the following gloomy intelligence: Philadelphia, Nov. 19, 1800. Norn's, our large engine builder, luusjust dis charged all his hands, somewhere about 800, for want of business. Conover & Bro., a large shoe house has fail ed, with liabilities of $500,000. Things here are in a very gloomy condition, FROM WASHINGTON. Washingtoji, Nov. 22. The President has repeatedly expressed himself against the seces sion movement, believing that before the revo lutionary measures are adopted all constitution al and legal means should be exausted. The President to-day received a dispatch from Judge Williams at Warsaw, Mo., relative to the alarming state of affairs in Kansas. Ad ditional orders were transmitted to Gen. Har ney to resort to all available means to crush the insurgents. ( The receipts into the Treasury for. the week have been upwards .of $1,400,000, mostly the proceeds of the new loan. - It is understood that many of the contrac tor for the government loan will forfeit, their contracts. Lt. A. Armstrong U. S. N., a native of Geor gia, has resigned his commission, ACTION OF THE NEW YORK BANKS. New York, Nov. 22.Thy Banks of this city hare resolved to make a common stock of their specie as long as it lasts, and if insuffi cient to mceilhe demand," then all suspend to gether. The balance between the Banks will be settled by certificates based on national .and State Kecurities. From the Richmond Dispatch;.! JLIncoln dWcl Nullifieatioii. The nearest approach to any exposition of the President's views upon the momentous questions which now agitate the country, has just been vouchsafed by the Springfield (111.) Republicans which is considered the home or gan of the President elect. According to that journal, of the 13th inst, the business of Mr. Lincoln will be to see that "the Union is pre served at all hazards, and from all assaults," and " that those who would destroy the law would be dealt with by the strong arm of the law." That Journal does not state whether this applies to nullification at the North, as well as secession at the South. It refers to Mr. Lin coln's Leavenworth gpeech, in which he said : You Democrats greatly fear that the snccess of the Republicans will destroy the Union. Why T Do the Republicans declare against the Union ? Nothing like it. Your own statement of it is, that if the Black Republicans elect a President, you won't stand it. You will break up the Union. That w ill be your act, not ours. To justify it, you must show that our policy gives you just cause for such desperate action. Can you deny that ? When you attempt it, you will find our policy is exactly the policy of the men who made the Union nothing more, nor nothing less. Do you think you are justified to breakup the gov eminent rather than have it administered by Washington, and other great and good men who made it and administered it ? . If you do, you are very unreasonable and more reasonable men can not, and will not submit to you. While we elect aPresideut.it will be our duty to see that you submit. Old John Brown has been hung for treason against a State. We cannot object, even though slavery is wrong. That cannot excuse violence, bloodshed and treason. Jt could avail him nothing that he might think himself right. So, if constitutionally we elect a President, and therefore you undertake to destroy the Union, it will be our duty to deal with you as old John Brown was dealt with. We can only do our duty. We hope and believe that in no section will a majority so act as to render such extreme measures necessary." According to a Springfield telegraphic dis patch of Nov. 17, published in the New York Herald, Mr. Lincoln remarked on that day to a visitor, in regard to an expected public defini tion of his policy in advance of his inaugural as follows : "During the last six years I have placed my views on all public questions so fully and frequent ly on record, that all those desiring may learn them by simply referring to it. If my past as sertions obtain no credit, present ones will be treated no better." Whatever may be the variety of opinions in the South upon the right of secession, there is no interruption of the mutual regards and affections of the people of the Southern States. If it is the calculation in any quarter, that nine of the Northern States shall be permitted to nulify the laws with impunity, but that if a single Southern State imitates their bad exam ple she is to be visited with the pains and pen alties of treason, and that the South itself, as intimated by the Republican, is to perform that duty, we imagine they are calculating without their host. The subjoined table shows the penalties im posed in the several Northern disunion States on those officers or citizens who may aid in preserving the Constitution intact by enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law, viz : States. Imprisonment. Fine. $1,000 2,000 5,000 5,000 1 ,000 5,000 1.000 1 ,000 Maine, 5 years. Vermont,.... ..la years, . . 5 years, 5 years, 3 months, . . .14 years, ..10 years, Massachusetts, . . Connecticut, Pennsylvania,.. Indiana Michigan, Wisconsin, 2 years, Iowa, 5 years, 1,000 It will be seen from the above that the Northern States are nearly all in a position of practical disunion ; that if, they have refused to sustain the Constitution which their fathers adopted. Is the Federal Government going to put down nullification THERE, and will the North stand with drawn sword at its back, ready to sustain the laws, even if it has to desolate its own firesides and spill the blood of its own children as the South is expected to do V That is the question. Let us have even-handed jus tice all round. From the Petersburg Express. WHERE WE ARE DRIFTING TO. We have always thought that whenever the disintegration of the Union of these States com menced, it would subsequently ramify into other seperations. The huge mass once broken, the fragments operated upon by the force of the dis severing: blow, will also fly to pieces themselves. We mean by this that the agency through which the present republic shall be extinguished, will go on, untill the same result will be effected in the new organizations. If a Union of 33 States cannot be hel l together by the ties of a com in on constitution, then a smaller Union cannot be. But this is not all. Sectionalism is a plant whose growth is confined to no particular soil. It takes root wherever government is organized. It is just as apt to spring up in a Single State as in a Confederacy ot btates, and is just as sure to do so in the one case as in the other. Yea, the smallest county in the smallest of the States may be torn to pieces by its discordant and pernicious excitements. There is not a state in this Union that has not in its own bosom the seed of section al strife abundantly sown and waiting only for a favorable season to germinate and grow. In the light, then, of such a startling fact as the dissolu tion of our Union, what guarantee would any State have against its own similar disintegration? New Governments mightand would be establish ed, but certainly with no more brilliant and cer tain prospects of success and durability than were the prospects which lay before the present repub lic when it came forth from the hands of its great architects. In fact, no new government could be carved out of the original one that could have half the promise of a long continuance, that the one, in the present case. had. It is therefore not only possible but extremely probable that the disruption of our present Confederacy will be but the beginning of a multitudinous series of sub-disruptions of the different parts into which it may fly, until at last (and that at a not very remote day,) there will be hundreds of little ephemeral governments scattered over the noble expanse now covered by this magnificient and mighty re public. How much then, does it become the people. North and South, to reflect carefully upon all the aspects of disunion, and to act in the present emergency with the utmost consideration ! How important is it for them to avoid precipitancy, and have an eye at the same time to the Past, the Present and the Future ! Let them bear in mind the axiom which is no less true in the political than tbe philosophical world, that like causes pro duce like effects, and that if new governments are tormed out or tne ruins or that we now live un der, they will severally and inevitably be ex posed to the very same perils that have proved fatal to the present case. The New i'ork Express of Monday, in an ar ticle upon "The State of the Country," tarns its thoughts to this very subject, and impressed with similar views to our own, appeals in the most earnest terms to Northern agitators to beware of the consequences of their reckless courses. The following extract from this excellent ar ticle will be read with interest. Says the Ex press r Our Republican friends will doubtless, some sixty days hence, begin to agree with us upon the reality of tbe crisis, however much they may differ with us as to the causes of it, and however laughingly or sneeringly they may talk of it, just now." Meanwhile, we beg them as brethren in this our Northern land, to pause, and reflect, and see where they are drifting with us all. What security have they, that in sneering on revolution, Sonth, it will stop in the South ? What pledge have they, that when once the bonds of Govern ment are broken, that the break will be on the Susquehannau and Ohio rivers and will not reach us even here at home ? What certainty is there that .the immense masses of Union, anti-Republican people, that are South of the line of the Na tional Road in Illinois, Iudiana, Ohio, or South of the Central Railroad in New York, will drift on with the new Seward, Lovejoy, Sumner. Masssa chusetts Republic, and will not cling to the old Constitution and the Southern States with it? Once sever the bonds of Union, and a new Union may be formed of people in the North, that can live in peace with the people of the South. Once sever the Republic, aud States may be sev ered, too. Revolution once started has no dikes or dams-but becomes a flood, overthrowing all dikes and dams. Oh, let Republicans pause, before they push this thing too far. Let us address our South . era countrymen, alarmed, excited, even if not justly exasperated, in ether terms than in the bit terness of the Republican press of the North. ; Sale 6p BasK Stock. -Eight shares of stock in the Back of Cape Fear were sold on Saturday last by Col. J. II Cook, Auctioneer, at $118. , Fay. Observer. ORIGINAL POfitfRY. Une for-an Album.. : ' . 'J;. -.'jBY JliasS. .-'HANCOCK. 1, ' , This book ia like thy hearlrdear maid, Unsullied, pure and fair ; Oh ! may no passions wild and dark E'er leave rude trace there. , , 'Oh, would that heart of thine ' . Was spread before my gaze A blank, unmarked by deed or thought, As this unspotted page t -And to my willing hand The sacred task was given, r xo write each thought and feeling there In sunbright hues of Heaven. . i Forgive a wish so wild, - Nor spur n my humble lay j ' 'Twere sacrilege for earth born child A thing of time and clay To crave so high a boon -; r As moulding one true heart To be in evVy thought his own And of himself a part. No, rather like this "book" That heart forever be A shrine for friendship, holy thought, From every passion free. May hallowed "Truth" divine, Love, pure and undefined, On it's fair pages shine In heavenly .radince mild. Better a blank remain, In virgin beauty fair, Than hand of "Time" should ever trace One earth-born feeling there. But as the placid stream, In its silent onward flow. Reflects the azure of the skies In its glassy depths below, Thus may thy life, dear girl, Its tranquil measure keep, Nor cankering care e'er fade the rose Now mantling on thy cheek. May sorrow never wring From thy gentle breast a sigh, Nor disappointment's sombre shade Across thy pathway lie. Thus would I have thee blessed Had I the power to shed The glowing rays of happiness Upon thy youthful head : But like the shifting scene, By magic lantern wrought. That fade and vanish all too soon Scarce we one look have caught, So, life doth ring its change Upon our waiting ears : Ere hope has dawned upon our path 'Tis clouded o'er with fears. As summer with its bright-hued flowers . Is followed by decay, So certain are our brightest hopes To fade and melt away. 'Twere sweet then 'mid the change Of sunshine and of shade, To think that from one faithful heart My image ne'er shall fade, But that in future years My name, uudimmed by age. Shall there be graven firm and bright As now upon this page. Newbern, Nov. 23, 18(50. Tlie Soutli Arming. The following is from the N. Y. Journal of Commerce of a late day : Extensive Purchases or War Munitions fok thj; South. Those Republican editors, preachers, and lecturers, who think that the indignation of the South is best put down by ridicule, and who, therefore, lavish the resour ces ot their bulfoonery upon every reported at tempt of a, Southern State to arm hc-r citizens for an impending conflict, will timl in the fol lowing facte more evidence that th South is in earnest, and that the cal.imitie r-r Disunion, which they woul.l laugh away v. it'.i their ill timed jests, are actually iinmincr.t. Ycsterdav there arrived bv the steamer Cifv j of Hartford, from Hertford, 1 0 cusi ol'Sharp's I patiut ca: bines, containing ID piece-; eacb, in;i- kin.: in all arms for l.fc'00 men, and 10 e;i:-es of ! conical b:-.lls. oaeh c-onti-inint- l.t'Oo hiau ts. v I... .i . rtw 40,!0j -iriru:;:es r.i tin' atrgresriUc i iivse arm.; and ammunition wore ordered by tele graph from the Governor of Georgia, and will le sent to Savannah by the next steamer. The same factory has also received orders from Alabama for 1,M)0 stands of the same death dealing weapons. Cooper it Pond of this city receive from twenty to fifty orders daily from South Caro lina, Alabama, and Georgia and people who suppose that the South is not a paying cus tomer mav be astonished to know that their j business transactions in this line are strictly i on a cash basis. Cash within thirty days is their invariable rule. Most of the orders are for rifles and navy revolvers, though Cooper & Pond supply an immense number of flint-lock J muskets. They lately sent 20 gun-carriages j to Georgia, and" have done a brisk business in all kinds of small arms and ammunition with all the principal Southern States. Another large house in this city has filled orders for about 5,000 stand of muskets of the U. S. pattern, and has sold large quantities of artillery swords and army pistols. Its orders come from all the Southern States ; but main ly from those in which secession is regarded as the only remedy for Southern grievances. A third extensive establishment has supplied an immense number of Colt's revolvers and ri fles to Georgia, principally to Columbus. All the wholesale houses and agencies in the city have been hard pressed to supply the orders for every imaginable species of weapon. To the above list may be added Ames's Manufacturing Co., which has furnished Georgia with cannon and with 300 artillery swords, and has done a large miscellaneous business with all the ag grieved States. The Southern States, living until recently in peace and happiness under the roof-tree of a common Uunion, have neglected the establish ment of fire-ana factories within their own bor ders. During the past year Virginia first re cognized the necessity of starting a State Ar mory, and appropriated $100,000 for the work. Some commencement has alreadj" been made on it, but it is certain that the Armory will not be completed within one year, and in the mean time she must depend on the North. Various statements have been circulated about the present armament of Virginia. It is believed that she can, as asserted, bring 25,000 men in to the field, but the tremendous batteries of rifled cannon which have been said to belong to her, do not exist. We understand, from good authority, that she has but one rifled can lion. Indeed, in the matter of heavy ordnance, all the Southern States appears to be far behind the North. South Carolina is the only Southern State which has an armory of her own. It has been in operation some years, and turns out good work, though at a "cost not less probably than that of the same class of arms at the North. Important Official Inform atin I rom Kan sas Murderous Outrages in Kansas by Montgomery's Band of Abolition Out laws A. Raid on the Frontiers of Mis souri and Arkansas Threatened. Washington. Nov. 21. Official information has been received here that Montgomery and his company of lawless miscreants have commenced operation by banging and murdering inoffensive persons in Kansas. This lawless band number about 500 men, are well supplied with arms and ammunition, and are in the receipt of material aid from the North. ' The demand to adjourn the land sales, which are advertised to take place during December, was it is stated, a mere pretext for this armed or ganization ; and farther, it 13 stated, that the real object is a raid on the frontiers of Missouri, Ar kansas and Texas, to avenge the punishment of John Brown and other abolition emisaries. Orders will be forthwith despatched ordering the United States troops in Kansas to such points as may be necessary for the protection of the land officers in the performance of their duties, as well as of the public property menaced, including Fort Scott. GOV WISE TENDERS HIS SERVICES TO - .JSOUTn CAROLINA. V Norfolk! 6V:".-GoV. Wise has offered his services to Gov. Gist, of South Carolina, in case of an emergency, and if not required by Vir ilONDAY MORNING NOVV 26, 1860. What will be Lincoln's Policy ? Well really it is difficult to tell ; old Abe himself don't seem to be very communicative, and as to the platform of principles upon which he was elected, it means everything or nothing just as you please. . All we have been able to gather from the purposes of the President elect and those who it ia supposed will be his counsellors is embod ied in the following extracts from the speeches of Lincoln himself and Senator Trumbull, who, it is supposed is in his confidence, from the same State. , At the Republican jubilee at Springfield, HI., a few da3rs ago, Lincoln made but a few re marks, but in them he is reported to have said : ' Let us at all times remember that all Amer ican citizens are brothers of a common coun try, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling." This is very good as far as it goes, but we would have been glad he had gone a little far ther, and declared that it was the duty of those nine States which have nullified the laws by their personal liberty bills, to repeal the same and give assurances that fugitive slaves should be delivered up in future. Senator Trumbull, who also spoke on the ac casion referred to, and who it is thought is ful ly in the confidence of Lincoln and authorized to speak for him, was a little more full and ex plicit : He says we arc all interested alike in guid ing the ship of state "through the boisterous icatcs of these tempestuous times." Speaking, then, as the friend of the new President, and in full view of the momentous conjuncture, he declares that "the Constitution in all its parts has not a more faithfnl supporter, nor the Union an abler defender' than Mr. Lincoln. In the following passage he scarcely disguises that he is speaking as the authorized representative of the President elect: "Mr. Lincoln, al though the candidate of the republican party, as chief magistrate will neither belong to that or any other party. When inaugurated, he will be the President of the country and the whole country, and I doubt not will be as ready to defend and protect the state in which he has not received a sol' t try vote against any en croachment upon its constitutional rights as the one in which he has received the largest majority ; while they, by whose votes he has been designated as chief magistrate of the re public, will expect him to maintain and carry forward the principles on which he was elected they know that in doing so no encroachment will be made on the reserved rights of any of the states.'"'' He again says, assuming to speak for the Re publican party, and, it is believed expressing: j the sentiments of Lincoln, " When their po litical opponents, he syas, " have charged them with abolitionism, or attributed to them a desire to interfere with slavery in the States, or some fanatic has insisted they ought to do so, the reply has invariably been that the people who made the Federal Government did not think proper to confer on it such authority, and it has, therefore, no more right to meddle with slavery in a State than it has to interfere with serfdom in Russia. Nor are the people of tne non-slaveholding States in any way responsi ble for slavery in the States which tolerate it, because as to that question they are as foreign, to each other as independent governments. I have labored in and for the republican organi zation with entire confidence that whenever it should be in power, each and all of the States would be left in as complete control of their wn atTairs respectively, and at as perfect liber- ty to choose and employ their own means oj pro- recttiig property, ana preserving peace ana or- I drr l;th;n.thr;r-rsl,'r.tir,. limit, ax the,, har.r. r. i- been under any administration. Those ' i . - - . ' " f : who have voted for Mr. Lincoln have expected, , received only a minority of the popular vote in ;md stilt expect this, and they would not have ! the Southern States. The majority of the peo voted for him had they expected otherwise." , tje Sovth rotcd agil;n(cf On tho mlier great question, in which the the people of the Nrll: are no less interested than thse f the South, more reserve is practiced, r.iul rrnuul- of hope are indicated that them will be no collision between ai)3" of the states and the I-Vdcral Government. We quote: "The Constitution provides no way bv which -i stato may wnlulraw from the L-nion no way for the dissolution of tho government it creates Tilt's gmieml government, irterfers hut little with the individual rights of the citizen, except for protection, lt is ehietiy felt in its benefits and its hlessings n t in its exactions. If every Irdrr al tijfircr in South Carolina were to resign, dirir offi ces remain vacant, and its legislature declares the state. nut of ihe Union it would all amount to little, except to incuHcentcur.e the c.itizfus oj that state, so long as the state did not interfere with the collection of ! the revenue on the seabord. The people in other portions of the Union would not be in the leasf j menmmeuueu. v uar. is me outii Carolina army to do when raised ? Who is it. to fight? Mani festly if it commences a war on the United States iV 11 . , omcers engaged in collecting me revenue. 11 oe- i coines the aggressor. This would be revo lution, and making war without a cause, for South Carolina makes no complaint against the present revenue laws." But if secession should be attempted by meth ods involving forcible resistance to the Federal Government, a significant intimation is given of what Mr. Lincoln's policy would be in that event. Mr . Trumbull says : "Should the conservative and Union men in any particular locality be unable to cope with their adversaries, and South Carolina, or any oth er State, under the lead of nullifiers and disunion ists, who have for years been seeking a pretext for breaking up the government, plunge into re bellion, and without cause assail by force of arms the constituted authorities of the Union, there will be but one sentiment among the great mass of the people of all parties, and in all parts of the coun try, and that will be that 'the Union it must and shall be preserved.' and woe to the traitors who are marshaled against it-" So from the policy of Lincoln as foreshadow ed by Trumbull, South Carolina will be per mitted to do as she pleases so she does not at tempt to interfere with the Government officers whose duty it will be to collect the revenue on the seaboard. Should South Carolina deter mine to go out alone, without asking or wait ing for a conference witht he other slave States, we hope she will be left undisturbed, so that she may try the experiment of taking care of herself. If she scorns the counsel of her sister States of the South, as the Charleston Mercury, in referring to a proposition of Virginia for a conference, intimates she will do, then we say that other Southern States are under no obli gations to go out with her, or to stand by her. Let there be a conference of the Southern States, let the North be appealed to for the last time to repeal her personal liberty bills and give us assurances that fugitive slaves shall not on ly be rendered up but our rights respected in everjr other particular, in future, and in the event of a failure on their part to respond to our reasonable demands, then we say let the fifteen slave States declare themselves absolved from the Union. Ilere is our mode for demanding redress, and in the event we do not get it when thus demanded, then we say let us strike for our rights and liberty outside of the Union. The Legislature. The letter of our correspondent failed again on Saturday night but our readers lose nothing thereby,' as nothing of importance is going on. The banks and the State of the Union are both up and being discussed. We hope they will do something for the relief of the banks, or for their protection against brokers, without which they must prove useless to the country. A number of Union, saving and Union de stroying resolutions have been introduced, and when they come up for general discussion "any amount of gas will be let gt :Hope our Correspondent will hot neglect us 'tico days at a time aain-. we can tar, Is too rsucb. T - ' " Pyramids. : . The followins qrand. -flourish has been sroinn- the rounds of the Breckinridge press in North Carolina : . " THE DOUGLAS PYRAMID. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ooooo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 0 0 0 0 oooooooo So far so good, but we think we can "a tale unfold." &c which will show that their nrt Breckinridge, is the fourth and last man in the race, to which pyramid we ask their prayerful attention. THE LATE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. From a rough statement of the popular vote for President of the United States, made up partly from actual returns and reported majori ties in the different States, (not including Cali fornia and Oregon,) the Anti-Republican vote stands at 2,500,736 Republican vote; 1,763,902 Short of a maj. for Lincoln, iiiiiuiina. uicjuu arc noi lnciuaea in this table, as nothing definite has been heard from them. The popular vote as indicated above is 4,324,638 108,000 4,504,638 4,054,453 Add for California and Oregon, The popular vote in 1856 was Increase of vote, 450, 1 85 It will be seen by the foregoing that Lincoln, although elected President, falls at least 800, 000 short of a majority of the votes of the peo ple of the United States. Thus, tnrough the unfortunate divisions of his opponents, a sec tional President has been chosen. The Douglas State Central Committee of Ma ryland in their address to the people of that State, make the following estimates and calcu lations of the vote of Judge Douglas. So far as we are in possession of the returns of the recent election, official and unofficial, they present the following results : Another Pyramid. Douglas has received, votes 899, 183 Bell " " " 452,630' Breckinridge " " 395,370 Thus showing Douglas' majority over Breck inridge so far to be 504,109 votes, or about two and a half to one, which majority in favor of Douglas, the National Democratic nominee, will be still further increased by the returns yet to come. And in the five border States of the South Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware, the conservative Union vote cast for Douglas and Bell together execeeds the vote for Breckinridge 136,000, or more than two to one, and will be still further increased by the full returns. While Breckinridge has carried but three Southern States, by a majority of votes so small as to deny the popularity of the prin ciple he represents, even at the extreme South ; on the other hand Douglas has received in many Southern cities and towns, where the Democra cy has not hitherto prevailed, large majorities over the candidate of the Seceders. It is also instructive to add that a majority of the popular vote of the South, to the num ber 150,000 at least, has been cast against that candidate and the sectional principle which he was made to represent upon the allegation of its necessity for the protection of their peculiar rights. . So it will be seen that our prediction that Breckinridge would be the last man in the race, made before the election, has been fulfilled. j Another fact to which we wish to call the at- ' j. r ii ...u :j "" "l " " " r!'"" i j.- t i i tirpt above mentioned, is, that Breckinridge has Tlse IVortli Carol inn ISaiiRs. The Bank of North Carolina at Raleigh and all its branches have- suspended specie pay ment ; the Cape Fear Bank and branches have done the same, and it is but reasonable to up- pose that all the other hanks in the State have ', K session during the present week T. T. llo!-suspeiv.-led or will suspend in a very few days, low-ell, Esq., Chairman. The nul case of ji'.-n-This is done by the hanks for their own pro- 1 erill interest tried was that of Daniel Noblts tection, and wc advisa those who hold bills on any of our North Carolina Banks not to part with them at a discount, as it is not probable j tiat tjlere js a Dant jn tle (State which is not able to redeem all its issue. It will be recol lected that the same thing occurred in 1857 probably not quite as bad and still bill hold ers lost nothing, nor is it likely they will lose anj-thing now. We therefore advise our friends, especially those in the country who will hear all kinds of exagerated reports, not to submit to be shaved, on any bills thev mav hold on banks in the State. We think they arc all rood. A Suggestion. Believing that it is the duty of every com munity to speak out and let their sentiments be known in the present excited state of public affairs, we would suggest to our citizens that they consider the propriety of holding a public meeting at the Court House in Newbern, at an early day, to give expression to the sentiments of the people of Craven relative to the present alarming condition of our national affairs. Nearly every citizen who we have approached agrees with us as to the necessity for such a course, and as a public journalist we are only discharging our duty to the public by calling attention to the matter. Let the meeting be held and let every citi zen, regardless of former party prejudices or associations, attend it and give utterance to his own views. Mk. Mcllixs. We see in the papers of yes terday a notice that W. S. Mullins, Esq., of S. C, will speak this evening at the Town Hall, on the political state of the country. Mr. Mul lins is a gentleman of talent, a fine speaker, a native North Carolinian, and is personally known and esteemed here, and will no doubt have a large and attentive audience.- Wil. Jour. Mr. Mullins is from South Carolina and comes among us to excite the passions and prejudices of our people, and such being the case we pro test against it. If he extends his mission to Newbern ho shall be met Our people know their duty and will perform it, both to them selves their State and the general Government. Trial Continued. ' The case of the State vs. the Messrs. La thams, at Washington, was not tried last week but moved to Pitt county on the affidavit of the prosecution. The defendents were admitted to bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and are now at liberty. These facts we learn from a gentleman of the bar, a citizen of Newbern, who returned from Washington on Saturday evening. State Banks Suspended. Wo see it stated that all the Banks at , Ral eigh suspended specie payment on Wednesday last. Of course all the other' Banks in the State will follow. .'; ' '.. ; . Panic makers will soon begin to realize some of the-fruits of their work. ., SUSPENSIONS AT THE NORTH. -'-Philadelphia, Nov. 23. The Banks of Tren ton, N.J., have suspended. ' - . " HAtTtMOBE.XoT. 23S'im 1.' Harri JSr. Son. bankers, have suspended. I? Is ur.-rtoo3 that ? It rtiu Le or.ly t-R:porury. or Cttin. Inc proeramroe ! Conviction last JtTT- 110 Cha 1 fiLr t trm w r rv T v UY T Sncoir bv Ynn.r UL -i. ' Toombs & Co. Sec what tb, cZJ Mercury, the mouth-piece of lb unionists, fiays ia answer to a proposition from Virginia for a Conference of (be Sbut&cnr States. If North Carolina favors such senti ments and follows South Carolina in such a course, nothing but common- ruin awaits us. Read the remarks of the Mercury : SOUTHERN CONFERENCE TOO LATE ' ' T fe lt in paPers' thlit' y th j Legislature, w hich, we believe, is" summoned to J11"' 111 oanuary, lrgiuia wui propose a meet ing of the Southern States in conference. This is the measure which South Carolina proposed to Virginia last winter. It was hooted dowiv and rejected as a disunion measure. If it had been adopted, an Abolitionist Would1 not, in all probability, have been elected Prcsrdent of the United States, and the seetictialrtm of the North might have been alarirted-. It was an exceedingly conservative proposition, whiclir Virginia was unable to appreciate. The times have now passed beyond it. Virginia may now call, but the South will not answer. She in completely demoralized in the estimation of the South; and no Southern State, intent on vin dicating her rights and preserving her institu tions, would go into a conference with her. She has placed the Union above the rights and institutions of the South, and will only seek conference with the Southern States, in order to bring them down to the level cf her fatal Union policy. Virginia and the other frontier States may as well at once understand their position with the cotton States. They are not expected to aid the cotton States in protecting themselves and redeeming their liberties They will practically aid the Northern States in attempting to obtain in the South an acqui escence in the rule of Abolitionists at Washing ton. The Southern States, however, will dis regard their counsels. They want no con fer ence but in the Convention which will assemble to frame the Constitution, and complete the or ganization of a Southern Confederacy. They intend to secede from the Union, and construct a" Union amongst themselves, and will be glad to find Virginia and the other border States in counsel with them, after this great revolution. But if these value their own dignity, or respect our wishes, let them keep aloof from us until the' are prepared to dissolve their connection with the present Union, and to unite their'des tinies with that of the other Southern States. If they will not be our friends, let them not be our enemies, by unsolicited and undesired ef forts under whatever amiable pretext of pre serving an abolished Union, to subject us to the sectional despotism of a consolidated gov ernment under the control of Abolitionists at Washington. The day for new guarantees is gone; Henceforth we are two peoples. Ch. Mercury. Thc Two Issues Position of the Ed itor of the Standard. The Editor of the North Carolina Standard, YV. W. Holden, Esq., has taken a bold stand in favor of Ad Valoram and against Secession for existing 'causes. The following is copied from the last Standard : THE ISSUES OF THE DAY, There are but two leading issues at this time before the people of this State, all others having been settled. These issues are. 1st The alteratien of tbe Constitution of thi.t State, by the legislative mode, so as to place slaves as taxables on the same footing with land. 2d. The preservation of the Union according tc the Constitution We shall discuss these issues at length in future numbers. We are in favorof altering the Consti-- tntion in the mode and for the purpose designs i red : ana win e we wi 1 not cnhnin tn tRi mlmm. .,. , tlltt fa,,, i.. . ) v.. w ... i publican principles, we are in favor of tiyrnpr Mr. ; Lincoln and opjHsed to breaking up the govcrii j met at this time and for existing causes. Several bills have already been introduced into ' the Legislature with thu view of filtering tiie Con ; stituMon. We have no hesitation in saying thrit ' we prefer Mr. Bledsoe's bill, which we putli.h to-' day, to any bill which has been introduced. (:io;.-T.)o Nov. 24th. 18('.('t. , Dear Progrtza: The Court of Pleas ami Quarter Sessions for Wayne County has been alias James Ogle, for picking the pocket of ( 'ol. M'llae in this place a few weeks since. After two or three days of consultation by the Court, interspersed with numerous speeches from the eloquent tongues of Ceo. Y. Strong, Esq., for the prisoner, and Jas. II. Everett and E. A. Thompson, Esqrs., for the prosecution, the Court pronounced the sentence of the law upon the guilty man, which was that he should re ceive nine and thirty lashes upon his bare back j at the public whipping-post, and be returned to prison until payment of costs. The first part of the sentence was carried into effect this morning in the presence of a large number of spectators. I presume he will pay costs to- j day, and be off on the next tram. Considering j that he is a professional thief of the most dan gerous characte, I think he has gotton off with much less punishment than he really merrited. Being a young man, however, it may suffice to deter him in the future from his nefarious practice. Yours, &c, LENOX. A TXan Killed at Cioldsboro.' Goldsboro,' Nov. 26, 1800. Dear Progress: Noah Turnage, familiarly known for many years in this community as Scute Turnage, a very quiet and inoffensive 3'oung man, was most brutally murdered in this place on last Saturday night, by William Sauls, a notorious trifling and troublesome young man from the country. Sauls has been arrested and committed to jail. The facts as far as I have heard them, are as follows : Sauls had been playing ten-pins the greater part of the day in an alley kept by Turnage, ami having failed to pay for the games he had lost during the day, Turnage requested a person who had been challenged for a game by Saul.- at night, not to play with him, alledging as a reason, the fact just stated. Whereupon, Sauls picked up a large ball, and without utter ing a word, brought it down with the force of both hands, upon the head of Turnage. Sauls then drew his knife, and would have dis patched his victim immediately, hut for the interposition of persons who -were present. Turnage died the following morning. The Masonic burial services in honor of the Mr. John M. Thompson, who died " J 1 7 I a few weeks since, were performed in this ! place on yesterday by the members of Wayne ' Lodge. The sermon preached on the occasion by the Rev. Joel Tucker, of the Raleigh Station. was replete with profound logic and true clo- ! n nonce - Yours. LLNOX. South Carolina Money. Our attention has been called to the fact that it was one dollar notes which were thrown out at the Merchants Bank on Saturday, which by the law of this State they could not take at any time. We most cheerfully make the correction as we have no desire to depreciate South Caro lina currency or create a wrong impression rela tive to the Merchants Bank. . Some of our merchants are taking South Caro Una .money, and we learn some of them are ie fusing it. We will take it in payment of dm s to this office for the present ; or,; if wc cannot get it. in that way arid any. of our friends have any tliat they wish to grt -kc of tvc wv; them our pepev at v", "'(.' or V!i days for it.
Newbern Weekly Progress (New Bern, N.C.)
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