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blrotate RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1859. &3$ Persons visiting the city and desi ringto pay for the Advocate, will please call at the Editors office, on Fayetteville Street. In his absence, Jtfr. S. 11 Young, Mer chant, Fayetteville Street, and the Publish er, in the old Temperance Hall, are au thorized to receive subscript ioris. 3T" Subscribers whose papers have a cross mark on them, are thereby informed that their subscription year is about to ex pire; and are respectfully requested to re new by forwarding 1.50 to this office im mediately. The JV. C. Christian .Advocate will hereafter be sent to none, except to those icho have paid ix advance. War In Europe. It may be interesting to our readers to know the ostensible causes of the war, which the latest news leaves no place for doubt. Las already begun in Kurope. Austria claims that she rightly owns and controls Lombardy and A'enice ; that she has a right to control them as she sees fit ; that in order to do this she must maintain with the several neighboring Italian States such an influence as will render her Lom-bardo-Venetian sovereignty safe. There fore, she keeps up a partial military occu pancy of the central Italian States, and vir tually rules in all Italy. Sardinia is the only large Italian province which is an ex ception. There Austria has no power.and the polity of Sardinia, which is favorable to the establishment of constitutional govern ments in Italy, is hostile to that of Austria, which tends to the maintenance of the strictest military despotism. Sardinia, and France sympathizing with her, on the con trary, claim that the Austrian occupation of Italy is injurious in its effects on the Italian States, prevents the development of that country, and is virtually in violation of the treaties and compacts of 1815. They de mand the abandonment of the Austrian oc cupation of Italy and the frontier.and that Austria shall cease to exercise any more control in Italian affairs than the other great powers. These demands Austria re fuses to comply with, alleging that her pol icy in Italy is necessary to her own protec tion in her own dependencies of Venice and Lombardy. These matters have been in controversy for three years. France and Sardinia proposed in 1856 the considera tion of this subject by the Congress of the European power-. Austria would not con sent to this. Diplomatic negotiations were carried on, however; between France and Austria, but. th difference has grown wi der and wider the longer the discussion has continued, until now they propose to settle the whole affair by a resort to arms. To these causes of the war, must be ad ded the anomalous position of the Papacy, as a spiritual and temporal power. France has made a treaty, offensive and defensive, with Russia ; has the sympathy, not only of Sardinia, but of the masses in Italy. Austria has possession of the dis puted territory, and is backed by the com mon sentiment of the German Confedera tion. England Till probably endeavor to reap the harvest of a neutral trader, in the content. What will be the results of such a war no human foresight can say. Perhaps the issue may be decided by the attack and defense of a strong fortress or two, as was the case in the last Russian war, which terminated on the conquest of Sebastopol ; or the devastation may be spread over a wider area, as in the elder Napoleon's cam paigns in Italy. While a war between the European pow ers must be a calamity which all christians should deprecate, its influence upon the material prosperity of this country will be favorable. All our staple productions, ex cept cotton, will be enhanced in price. Already provisions are in greater demand ; and if the war continue long, grain of all sorts will command the highest price. Twenty-Two Years Ago. In glancing over an old. Methodist Al manac, for the year 1837, 6ent by some unknown friend, we were impressed with the change and progress of men and things since that not very remote ne chi""u "ca soutn was tnen united. The income to the Missionary society for the preceding year is set down at $61,337, 81. The Missionary revenue is now about five times that amount. The number of Colleges then under the care of the church was seven ; now " their name is legion." The number of members of the church is given at 651,651; being a decrease, for the year, of 4, 129, over which false proph ets no doubt predicted the speedy down fall of Methodism. And yet, in the brief space of only twenty-two years. the statistics fchow an increase of nearly threefold ! In that year there were only three church pe riodicals issued: and now we suppose there are several scores of them. And in all the departments of church enterprise and use fulness, we are enabled to see more plainly how greatly the hand of God has advanced his cause within the period named, by com-' paring our present condition with a fixed point in our past history as a church. The past and the present confirm the faith that the "Lord of hosts" will still lead his people onward to " spread scriptural holi ness over these lands," and over all lands1 Singular Definitions. A correct definition of terms is essential to sound argument : and improper defini tions are the least suspected, and the most dangerous arts of mere sophists. A Calvinistic exchange, in a communi cation on "the decrees of God, " has seve ral very singular, if not very incorrect de finitions of terms employed in the promul gation of that creed. For instance, the writer says : "By a decree, is simply meant a purpose or determination formed in the mind." Such a definition is meant to cover the dogmas which are referred to " the secret counsels of his will ;" whereas, in the lexicons, in the best authors, in the language of the civil law, and of the com mon law of the land, everywhere, except in the conventional limits of Calvinism, the word implies more than this definition gives it. It implies not only " purpose or deter mination," but also the promulgation of it. Another instance of this sort of sophis try is found in the definition of "fore-ordination. " Here it is : " When it is said that God 'foreordains whatsoever comes to pass,' it is meant that He has from all Eternity- appointed to sonic specific end, every thing that comes to pass. It is not meant that God brings everything to pass by His own efficient agency. Rut God has purposed the accomplishment of a specific end, in every event that occurs throughout His entire universe. " How is this ? The official creed is that, "God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will.free ly and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass. " Rut this definition con flicts with the creed, in that it limits fore ordination to appointing everj'thing that comes to pass, to some specific end. The creed, or the definition, must be wrong; both cannot be right. In ordaining the specific end aimed at, we are expressly told in the definition, that "it is not meant that God brings everything to pass by his own efficient agency." Ry whose "effi cient arencv " are the means to the end put in operation ? ' Nothing takes place by chance ; " all is the result of an intelli gent controlling cause. If man be a free agent, and be capable of exerting intelli gent, " efficient agency " in the production of the end sought, then might man be un faithful, or changeable, or fickle ; and the means being uncertain, the ordained end would be contingent upon the means used by man. And if this be true, Calvinism is not true. Rut if Calvinism is true, the definition given by its defender, of "fore ordination is not correct. Rut the definition of Predestination is a curiosity, in its way. " This foreordination of all things is sometimes called Predestination. Predes tination la dmply God's delertminat.on to manage His universe just as He does man aye it." Notwithstanding the gravity of the theme, this recals Rardolph's definition of the word "accommodate." "Accommo date is that whereby one may be said to be accommodated." It is a definition which totally fails to touch the questions at issue. No body ever disputed "the de termination of God to manage his universe just as he does manage it," that we ever heard of. Rut the question comes up,or, upon what principles, does he manage it. What, in the events that occur, is the work of God, and what the work of man ? Is man as free moral agent, and in what sense is he so ? To these and a dozen other kindred in quiries directly growing out of the points at issue, the definition gives no reply ; it may mean this or that, or nothing, to suit the logical emergency of a dying error. And then we are gravely told that " Election is simply God's determination to save all those whom he does save." Ah ! indeed. Rut for this information, was it not possible that some one might fall into the notion that God saved some people without " determining" or intend ing to save them ? What a definition that is ! It docs not touch the question of per sonal, unconditional, eternal election at all, which is the very question between Cal vinists and Arminians. And these are theterms.defined with such elasticity of meaning, as to be susceptible of a stretch and strain to suit any position, which are employed in grave essays. It is not our purpose to enter now into a discussion of Calvini- vro desire -o.cfj to call the attention of such of our readers as are interested, to the definitions of terms employed in the controversy. And we close, as we began, by reminding them that a coircct definition of terms is necessary to the profitable investigation of any subject. '- American Tract Society. At the annual meeting last week, the old committee was re-elected by a vote of 331 to 23, thus endorsing the policy of strict non-interference with the slavery question adopted by that committee last j'ear. We wait to see whether the Society has dissolved connection with its Roston Rranch. If so, all is right: if not, then it is blow ing hot and cold, and is no longer entitled to the confidence of Southern men. We shall see. Hallucination. "An Editor (of the N. C. Ch. Advo- vocate) caujrht 2 JJiOlical Keconter. i No : we are too old a bird to be caught with chaff. JExclusivcism. Some Raptists teach that their own is the GUily church of Christ on earth ; other Raptists, with all proper attachment to Raptist dogmas, are more scriptural and liberal in their views. Rut Elder Q. II. Trotman, of the Chowan Association, is a Raptist of the ' ' straitest sect " of modern Phariseeism. That Association lately held its annual meeting at Mount Carmel, Northampton county ; and Elder Trotman preached the introductory sermon. Of this sermon, a correspondent of the Peters burg Express gives this report : ' ' The inference to be drawn from his remarks, warranted the assumption of a good many of his intelligent hearers that the doctrine which he endeavored to incul cate and enforce tended to unchurch all other denominations, except that of the Raptist Church. Certain it is that this was the impression produced upon the minds of many, both of the Raptist and Pedo-Raptist persuasion. If this portion of the hearers of Mr. Trotman gathered a correct idea of the gist of his discourse, then indeed do I consider this portion of lils aci mull exceedingly unfoi t LiiitLto. If this was not the impression sought to be produced, he was equally unfortunate be cause the Rev. gentleman failed to make himself understood before a very respecta ble and intelligent audience, upon a most vital question. It is not my purpose, how ever, to enlarge upon this topic, and I will therefore dismiss it with the remark that when such divines as Mr. Trotman, men of acknowledged ability and eloquence, and who assume to speak by authority of the great Jehovah himself, attempt to en lighten, that they should earnestly endea vor to render themselves so intelligible that "the wayfaring man, though he be a fool, cannot err therein." What a pity that one who occupies the position of an ambassador for Christ, and a representative of his Church, should have talked so loosely, or so heretic-ally ! Rights of American Citizens. Citizens of the United States who visit foreign countries, are entitled to the pro tection of the government at home, in the exercise of their rights. And no rights are more sacred than the rights of con science. The Raptist General Convention, which adjourned in Richmond on last Tuesday, passed the following resolution : Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to prepare a memorial to be sub mittedto the Congress of the United States at its next session, urging that body to adopt such measures as may be deemed proper to secure to Amerviari citizens whilst traveling or residing in foreign Spates, the exercise of the rights of conscience and re ligious liberty. Would it not be right and expedient for the other churches to co-operate with our Raptist brethren in this measure ? May 20, 1775. The officers and members of the La Fay ette Light Infantry will accept the thanks of the Editor for a polite invitation to a dinner to be given at the Dobbin House, on the anniversary of the 3Iecklenburg Declaration. Jonesvillc High Schools. The public exercises will take place on June 1st and 2d. On the second day there will be a contest for two prize medals.after which Rev. N. F. Reid will deliver an ad dress before the two Literary societies. It will be a pleasant occasion ; and were it consistent with prior engagements, we should be pleased to accept an invitation to be present. f f "Very Good. Rro. Heflin : I once heard a Rishop of our Church say, " If a man is not to be praised for doing well, what should he be praised for r" So I say. And, if we praise a man for - doing well, why not a circuit too? The Apostle commended liberal churches, and I ask to commend a liberal circuit, hoping, thereby, to "provoke" to similar liberality, the circuits and stations inat may hereafter be visited by the Col lege Agents. I have just returned from Robeson cir cuit, where I spent two clays laboring for the College, and obtained the very clever sum of $1,235. This is almost double the amount contributed by any other circuit; and I confidently expect the good people to increase the amount to at least 2,000 be fore the close of the year. Well done for Robeson ! How easy to raise money for a good cause when the people have a will to work. Our people could make Trinity all she ought to be in a few years, if they would just try. They have abundant abil ity,but many of them lack the will. Come brethren, help ! Let us raise the $50,000 this year. We can do it easily if all will do as well as Robeson. And you can do as well, and many circuits can do better, be cause they have much more ability. Open your hearts, brethren, and give liberally of the ability God hath given you. I expect to visit all the appointments in the Fayette ville District as soon as practicable, and earnestly hope I shall find the people eve rywhere prepared to d) nobly for our Col lege. J. R. MARTIN. Rloeker's. N. C, May 11, 1859. A Letter from Bishop Early. Rro. Heflin: Please tell my good friend " Josiah," of Rladen, that I am ob liged by his kindsynipathies for me and for my cause ; and it would give ine great pleasure to visit North Carolina and spend my time in " confirming the churches;" but not for the purpose of making collec tions to educate the Choctaw youth in question, as I could easily obtain the amount needed from one generous congre gation. If I should succeed in my plan of selecting, from different tribes of Indians under our care, a number of suitable youths, I have no fear about the means of clothing, boarding, and instructing them ; for there are many just and gener ous hearts both among those who have small, and those who have large purses, who, after building their own churches, and instructing their own slaves, will contri bute freely to enterprises, purely mission ary. And if my jfriend "Josiah" finds it convenient, after taking care of the other interests of the' church, to send me ten, five, or even otm dollar, he will oblige me, umu-Icl-tlie deedand remember the native. Yours truly, JNO. EARLY. Memphis, Tenn., May 9th, 1859. MISCELLANY. Prof. Gessner Harrison. A report of the death of Prof. Harrison, of the Uni versity of Va., is going the rounds of the press. Rut it is not true. Prof. II. has the pleasure of-reading his own obituary, and is able to pronounce it premature. The American Tract Society. The anniversary meeting of the American Tract Society took place in New York Wednes day. Everything offered proposing to ag itate the subject of slavery was laid upon the table, after much excitement and dis cussion, and tlis, regular ticket for officers was chosen by a vote of 331 to 23. The annual report shows that the past year's contributions have been 10,000 in ad vance of last year, the total sum being $383,273 97. The expenditures were 380,094. The society's colporters have the past year visited 688,982 families, and found 36,229 destitute of the Rible. There are 535 colporters and 128 students in the employ of the society; and there were cir culated during the year 659,772 volumes, 10,673,954 publications, or 230,552,380 panes; total since the formation of the so ciety, 15,046,829 volumes, 215,534,995 publications, or 5,357,410,334 pages. Acquitted. On the 13th inst. the case of Rev. Daniel Downey, charged with the murder of Wm. Mullins, was conclu ded in Charlottsville, Va. The jury. after a deliberation of 20 minutes, returned a verdict, " not guilty. " Upon the render ing of the verdict, the Court house re sounded with applause from the large au dience present, and the acquitted prisoner received thWttUi-!iitious of many of his friends as he left the room. Southern Fanaticism. On the 13th inst., the Southern Commercial Conven tion, assembled in Memphis, declared after an exciting debate, that the laws against the African slave trade ought to be abol ished, from which it ajipears that there is a southern, as well as a northern fanaticism. A Liberal Donation. At the anni versary exercises of the American Rible Society in New York, Thursday, Mr. Geo. Douglass, of Douglass Farms, L. I., at the close of a brief address, announced that he now gave the sum of $10,000 to that So- 5 ciety. From China. Hon. W. R. Reed, U. S. Commissioner, to China, returned to Pt iladelphia last week. Consecration. On Sunday last two new Catholic Rishops were consecrated in St. Louis Rev. Dr. Gorman as Rishop of Nebraska, and the Rev. Dr. Whelan as co adjutor in Nashville. Dead. The wife of ex-Senator Soule died in New Orleans on the 5th inst. Out of Place. The last Sunday School Visitor has a picture of a company danc itig to the music of a brass band. Such a picture is quite out of place in that excel lent publication, seeing that dancing is prohibited by the Discipline. Perhaps it was a second hand plate, purchased by Dr. Huston without examination. What God's Grace can do. At a late meeting of a 3Iethsdist Missionary so ciety, it was publicly stated that the King of the Feejee Islands was a Methodist preacher, and that perhaps no nation on earth had in the same time risen more ra pidly than had the subjects of this mon arch since the gospel had been introduced among them. . r . Martyrs in Polynesia. The Rev. S. M. Creagh, of the London Missionary So ciety, stationed at the Loyalty Group, iroiynesia, reports tne massacre ot two un offending native Christians by a party of neatnen. iney Had been out with a de putation of native brethren, to preach the Gospel to the heathen tribe to which the murderers belonged. In returning they were met and set upon with clubs, axes, and spears, murdered, and their bodies cooked and eaten. The first native con vert of the blood-stained island of Erroman ga had just been received into the Church at the latest advices from the successors of the murdered missionaries. Pronouncing. ' La ! ma, here's a hea gle. ' Ma, (reproachfully) ' A heagle ! Oh ! you hignorant gal. Vy, its howl !' Keeper of the menagerie. ' Axes parding, mum. 'tis an awk !' Raptist Theological School. On Tuesday, in the Convention at Richmond, Dr. Manly, of Charleston, S. C, made an address in behalf of the Theological School at Greenville. In the course of his re marks he said that professorships had been accepted by Dr. Boyce, of S. O. ; Itev. J. A. Rroaddus, of Va.; and Rev. R. Manly, Jr. of Va. The fourth professorship had been tendered to Rev. Win. Williams, of Ga. Killed by a Wolf. A Georgia paper announces that a man, near Lexington, Florida, was recently killed by a ferocious wolf. The man was chopping wood, near his house, when the wolf suddenly sprang upon him, seizing him by the throat His wife ran up, and, striking the wolf in the back with an axe, so disabled the ani mal as to cause him to let go the man, but not until his throat had been so badly bit ten as that he died in a few minutes. The wolf was killed by the woman. Literary Notice. The Annual Ad dress before .the two Literary Societies of Randolph Macon College, will be deliver ed at the approaching Commencement, June22d, by John Parker Jordan, Esq., of Hertford, N. C. Published by order of the Washington Literary Society. John W. Jones, Cor. Sec. W. L. Society. Washington Hall, April 20, 1859. Dead. Dr. Abbot, the collector of the valuable gallery of the Eg yptian antiquities, died in .March, near Cairo, in Egypt. He' had spent 107,000 in the pursuit of rel ics. Irish Devotion. An Irish priest was travelling on a Friday from Enniskillen to Rallyshannon, at the latter of which the coach-passengers, only four in number, were to dine. At one end of the table was a joint of coarse fat podrk, and at the other a large fine fried sole. His rever ence helped himself at once to the latter, simply observing, " It is fast day with me, geotlpraorj-," xvLlou instantly a gicat fellow with red whiskers reached across the table, and cutting the fish in two took half of it with the remark, " Rad luck to ye, do ye think uobody has a .soul to be saved but yourself?'' Re busy. You have your work to do for Christ where you are. Are you on a sick bed ? Still you have j our work to do for Christ there as much as the highest ser vant of Christ in the world. The smallest twinkling star is as much a servant of God as the mid-day sun. Only live for Christ where you are. Lord John Russell on Washington. The first volume of " The Life and Times of Charles Fox," by Lord John Russell, has just appeared in England. The Lon don papers say his lordship has dealt with his subject in a fragmentary, almost inco herent manner. His first volume is a commentary, and little more. As a com mentary, however, it is characteristic, and the concluding passage is, perhaps, the most characteristic of all : " Refore taking leave of the American war, a few words may be allowed on a top ic where there can be little difference of opinion. George Washington, without the genius of Julius Casar or Napoleon Ronaparte, has a far purer fame, as his ambition was of a higher and holier nature. Instead of seeking to raise his own name or seize supreme power, he devoted his whold talents, military and civil, to the establishment of the independence and per petuity of the liberties of his own country. In modern history no'nian has done such great things without the soil of selfishness or the stain of a grovelling ambition. Caesar, Cromwell, Napoleon, attained a higher elevation ; but the love of dominion was the spur that drove them on. John Hampden, William 'Russell, Algernon Sydney may have had motives as pure and an ambition as unsullied; but they fell. To George Washington, nearly alone in modern times, has it been given to accom plish a wonderful revoluntion, and yet to remain to all future times the theme of a people's gratitude and an example of vir tuous and beneficent power." The Austrian Line of Defence. All accounts agree that the Austrian army is well officered and abundantly pro vided with the munitions of war. The two great lines of Austrian defence, says a re cent writer, are the line of the Mincio, and the line of the Adige. Of these two, the former is the strongest; it is difficult, in deed, to conceive anything stronger. " The Mincio, Virgil's river 'smooth sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds' runs with a deep, sluggish stream right across the plain of Lombardy from the bot tom of the Lagodi Garda, on the north, to the Po on the south. Just where it issues from the lake is Pessecheira, a fortress al ways formidable, but by the efforts of the last ten years, rendered almost impregna ble. At the other extremity of the line of defence stands Mantua situated in the midst of marshes, which in a few days can be concerted into a lake by the simple management of a few dams and sluices. Mantua, thus strong by natural position, has been trebly strengthened by art. It is practicably impregnable ; its earth -works defy artillery, its swamps are mortal with malaria. For a weaker force to endeavor, in face of a stronger force, to pass the line of the Mincio with Pesscheira on one flank, and Mantua on the other, would be among the most hazardous of militacy enterprises; and yet, until the line of the Mincio is forced, Austria remains strategically the mistress of Lombardy. The line of the Adige resting on the vast en trenched camp of Verona is at least equal ly strong. The command of the Austrian troops will devolve upon Gen. Hess. " NOKTH CAROLINA ITEMS. - Fort Macon. It is a strong fortress on an island at the mouth of Reaufort harbor. The garrison consists of one man , a ser geant in the U. S. army. The Reaufort Journal announces that sergeant Daly, who has had charge of the fort since 1851, is relieved by sergeant Alexander. What a contrast does this military movement in our State present to the gigantic armies and evolutions in Europe ! And how sug gestive is this contrast, of the advantages of popular government, over the rule of the sword. Mr. Everett's Lectures in Notii Caro lina. The following extract from a letter of Mr. Everett's received here, shows the nett proceeds from the delivery of his Washington Address at the four points in North Carolina where he delivered it. " This completes my return from North Carolina, the nett amount of which is: Wilmington, $1,091 80 ; Newbern, $590 04; Raleigh, $515; Chapel Hill, 615 60. Altogether $2,812 44, which I cannot but think very honorable to the Old North State' for one week." We agree with Mr. E. most decidedly. Wilmington. Journal. Launch. The new schooner, Nancy Spruill, was launched from the shipyard of W. F. Martin, Elizabeth city, on Satur day of last week. j A Scotch Dissenter. A correspon dent of the N. C. Presbyterian has pub lished, in the North Carolinian, a strong dissent from the opinions of Scottish men and things, sent to the same paper by another correspondent, on a visit to that country. The dissenter signs himself " Scottish American," and defends his na tive land from aspersion. Quarterly Meetings. The Eagle, in noticing the late Quarterly meeting at Louisburg, mentions the P. E. Rev. 1. R. Nicholson, in terms of appreciation which are well merited. And the Progress speaks in proper terms of Rev. W. Closs, in a notice of his late Quarterly meeting in Newbern. Methodist preachers, are not often complimented in the secular papers perhaps because secular Editors are too busy to go and hear them. Injudicious. The mail has been car ried between Plymouth and Williamston' for some time past by steamboat. The P. O. Department has now given a contract to carry it by land ; an advance backwards, in a small way. Another very injudicious retrenchmeut is the discontinuance of the mail agency between Portsmouth, Va., and Plymouth. This agency was estab lished a year ago, and its cessation will be very inconvenient to the people of Gates ville, Rartonsville, Winton, Murfreesboro', Coleraine Hertford, Plymouth, Edenton, and to all . the Albemarle counties of the State. ' Episcopal Convention. The State Con vention of the Protestant Episcopal Church before adjournment in Goldsboro' last week, fixed upon Charlotte as the place of the next annual meeting. Washington (N. C.) Dispatch. This paper is published in Washington, by Richard G ranger. It is neutral in politics, and is one of the best news-papers in the State. The proprietor proposes to enlarge it in June. Warrenton Saving's Rank. --The Stock holders publish notice that they have ac cepted the charter granted by the Legisla ture, at its last session. Democratic Meeting. On Thursday night of last Pitt county court, the Demo crats held a meeting, and endorsed the course of their representative, Col. Rufiin, and then nominated Wm. R. Rodman Esq., of Washington. Distressing Accident. A sad accident occurred a few days ago, near this place. Mr. Henry Hodges, his little son, Mr. O'Merry and a negro boy were in a wagon, when the horse took fright and ran. Mr. II. fearing injury would result to his child, proposed to Mr. O'Merry, to take his lit tle boy and get out of the wagon. Mr. O'Merry on attempting to" jump out, fell upon his head, causing a concussion of the brain, of which he died in a few hours. The children were saved. Mr. Hodges is greatly distressed at the occurrence, and we learn, he has generously offered to take the child of Mr. O'Merry and treat him as his own. He was a laboring man employ ed by Mr. Hodges ; he leaves a wife and one child. He was a poor but worthy mau. Washington Dispatch. A sad Accident. John Mann, a boy of about fifteen, was drowned at the Gard ner Mine, in this county, on Friday the 6th inst. He was employed at the time, in a level, some eighty feet below the sur face, filling the bucket, when he lost his foot hold, and fell twenty feet perpendicu larly, into a slide containing fifty feet of water. Greensboro' Times. Dr. Deems. A correspondent of the Greensboro' Times states that Dr. Deems has been obliged, by prior engagements, to decline the invitation to deliver the an nual addressat Emory and Henry College ; and that Hon. John Dell, of Tennessee, has been invited to make the address an next Commencement. Election in Newbern The people of Newbern voted on iuesday for a Mayor and six Commisioners, and for Commis sionersof Navigation and Trustees of New bern Academy. Frederick Lane, Esq , was chosen Mayor by the following vote : Lane 118, Robt. S. Primrose 112, J. R G. Rarrow 72. Messrs. Carmer, Single ton, Miller, Guion, Hay and Matthews were elected Commissioners. Messrs. A. T. Jerkins. R. R. Lane, T. J. Hughes, R. Ellis, and W. C. Whitford were elect ed Commissioners of Navigation ; and Mes srs. Jarvis, J. D. Flanner, II. J. R. Clark, W. Hay, J. W. Carner, R. S. Primrose, C. Kelly, and J. Hutchison, Trustees of the Academy. Gov. Rragg, of N. C. We learn that Gov. Rragg was in Warrenton last week. The News says : We understand he has removed the re mains of his father from Jackson, in North ampton county, and had them interred in Warrenton graveyard, with the remains of several other relatives who have been for years resting in private burial places in the village but. me now all placed in one grave, over which it is the intention of the Gov. to erect a handsome monument. Chowan Raptist Association. The next session, in May 1860, is to be held in Edenton ; and Rev. W. Kone is to preach the introductory sermon. Dead. Walter R. Leak, President of the Rank of Wadesboro,' North Carolina, died at Terry's Landing, Arkansas, oa the 5th instant. Eclectic 3Iagazine. Mr. T. R. Kings burv. of Oxford, whose opinion is of val ue, in the premises, says : "An acquaintance with the Dacres of the Eclectic for several years past, fully patis fies me that it is superior to all similar pub lications in the world, me exquisite per fection of its typography, its beautiful, al most unique Engravings, with its admira ble selections from the ablest standard pe riodicals of Europe, make it a most desira ble companion, and places, for a very mod erate consideration, a small, but uncom monly select library in the possession of each individual subscriber." Warrenton. The last News says : " The following gentlemen were last week elected Town Commissioners of Warren ton Messrs. John D. Thorn, T. Reynolds, lfc D. Williams, P. J. Turnbull, J. M. Price, R. E. Cooke, sen., and John R. Johnston. At their first meeting, they elected Thos. A. Montgomery, Esq., Mayor; Henry T. Uzzell, Town Constable; and R. R. Rrowning, Clerk and Treasurer.'' The President Coming to N. ('. President Ruchanan has sent the fallowing reply to a committee of invitation : Washington City; May 12, 1S59. Gentlemen : I have been honored by your very kind invitation on the part of the Trustees of the University of North Caro lina, to vist Chapel Hill at the annual Com mencement in June next. It affords nic pleasure to say that I cor dially and gratefully accept this invitation. I have long desired to visit "the old North State," and become better acquainted with a people for whom I have ever entertained the highest respect and esteem. Tho oc casion being literary, and not political, i just such an one as I should myself havo selected. Yours, very respect full v. JAMES RUCHANAN. State Medical Society. Tthe Stan dard of yesterday says : " The Medical Society of the State of North -Carolina held its tenth annual mee ting in the town ofStatesville, commencing on the 10th and closing its labors on the 12th. We learn from a friend that the number in attendance was much larger than of any previous meeting, and that the best feeling prevailed. Dr. Alexander, of Cabarru3, offered a prize of fifty dollars for the best essay ou the effects of tobacco on the system ; and Dr. Manson, of Granville, offered a gold medal for the best written essay ou any medical subject These offers were accept ed by the Society. The most important business before the. Society was the acceptance or rejection of the charter of incorporation and the act au thorizing the establishment of a Medical Hoard, passed by the last Legislature. The act was accepted, and the Society, having the appointing power, fleeted tho following gentlemen to constitute the Roard: Drs. J. II. Dickson, Charles E. Johnson, W. II. McKec, O. F M mson, C. Winslow, J. G. Tull, and Hapioldt, of Morganton. This Roard will servo for a term of six years. The following gentlemen were chosen officers of the Focie'y : Dr. N. J. Pittnian, of Edgecombe, President; Drs. Henry Leach, Whitehead, and Winborne, Vice Presidents; Dr. W. G. Thomas, Secreta ry; Dr. C. W. Graham, Treasurer; and Dr. W. T. Howard, Orator. The annual address was delivered by Dr. J. J. Summercll, of Salisbury. It is represented as a fine specimen uf eloquence. The next meeting of the Society will be held- in Washington, Reaufort Co., ou thw first Wednesday in April, 1800." The Peace Institute. Such is to lo the name of the new Presbyterian Female School in this city. The Standard of yes terday says: " The subscription list, is headed by the venerable William Peace of this city, with 10,000; and the institution takes it name from him. We learn that a sufficient amount, about $30,000, has been raised to justify a beginning; and it in expected that $20,000 in addition will be readilv obtain ed. The intention is to jytablish a superior school for ymintr ffTlT w :----:'n'rv.ii which will furnish thorough instruction, and prepare,young women for an intellig ent discharge of the duties and responsibili ties of life. We learn that the building will be erected just without the northeas tern limits of the city, on grounds obtained from the Hon. Kenneth Rayucr and Dr. T. D. Hogg, near the residences of A. M. Lewis and C. R. Harrison, Esq. High Prick fot Land. The .Vrw states that four acres of laud were lately sold in Warren county, for 101 00 per acre. Good for Warren, but there uro gentlemen in Hyde county who have re fused that price for whole tracts, cinhni. cing hundreds of acres. North Carolina is the garden spot of earth ; and Warren is not least amonir her sister counties. Rank of Cape Fear. The Journ il of Friday says : " At thcmeeting of the stoek holders "f this Rank, held here yesterday, the former Roard of Directors, both State and indi vidual, was chosen, the only change being the election of James Anderson, Ilsq , as an individual director in the place of ,')r. A. J. Dcllossct, deccas,xl. The amendments to the charter ma h; by the last Legislature were accepted." Episcopalians. The number of com municants of the Protestant! Ehiscopal Church, in the Diocese of North Caro'ina, as given by the secretary of the late Con vention in Goldsboro', is C03G. Negro Rurnfd to Death A ngro woman at Goldsboro' was burned so severe ly on Friday night last, by her clothes ta king fire, that she died early in the day Saturday. Louisburg. The Ea-yle proposes that the old female academy, in the College grove, be converted into a town hall. Granville Tobacco. Thi leisure Hour says, " Mr. Ja. R. Holcrood, sold his crop of tobacco to Mr. G. A. Reams, (both of this county,) at the following re muneratina: prices: "For ric';cd leaf $62,66, and for the balance of the cmp round, 12,60. Who can beat this ? We pause for a reply." Nag's Head. This ponulnr pummer resort will be open for visitors on the 15th June. There "All, but the spirit of man, is divine." LATEST X E W S . The European War. Since our last issue four Steamers have arrived from Eu rope, llie latest news is the following: New York, May 15. The If7.-, with Rremen dates to April 30th, and the Bo russia, with Southampton dates to May 4th, arrived this eveuing at half-past mx o'clock. The American clipjer ship Pomona, which was wrecked at Wexford on the 28th, proved a total loss. Three hundred and vgnty six lives were lost A royal proclamation had been issued from Indon, offering ten pounds bounty to seamen, with a view of recruiting 10, 000 men. Great activity prevailed in all the dock yards. England is preparing for war.as she will in all probability be engaged in tho con flict at an early dry. " a-