Newspaper Page Text
THE N8RTH CAROLINA STANBARD ' WEBNE8BA Y, BEC. 28, 185. Ce 5tanliart RALEIGH: WEDNESDAY. DEC. 28. 185V. W. W. HOLDEN, Stat Printer, AND i i WH or mr nuiMn otits AUTHORIZED rul.isii ur io SPECIAL NOTICE The Standard it conducted strictly jpn the cash tysttn . All papers are discontinued at tht expiration of the time for which they hate been paid. Sub scribers will he notified four weeks before their time it out, by a cross mark on their pafiere ; and unlet the subscription it reneiced the paper will be ditcontinued. This is a rule from which there will be no departure. Watch for the croet mark, "d renew your subscription. Weekly Standard $2 per annum, in advance. Semi- Weekly, (including the Tri- Weekly during the Set ti n,) $4 i"r annum, in advance. t-Jf Subscribers desiring their papers changed must mention the Post Office from, as well as the one to, which the! desire the chance to be made. PARTICULAR NOTICE. ALL COMMUNICATIONS for the Standard, and all private letters for the editor, should hereafter be directed to W. W. Holden. All letters on business, or enclos ing tnotiey for subscriptions, advertising, or job work, may be directed simply to the " Standard," Raleigh. N. C. Arrest of Rev. Daniel Worth. Wc are indebted to Mr. Scott, of the house of L. M. Beetle, of Baltimore, for the following particulars of the arrest and trial of Worth, in (Ireensborough, on Saturday last. Mr. Scott was passing through on his way home, and was kind enough to call at our office and give us the particulars. The Rev. Daniel Worth was arrested in Guilford, on Friday, on a Justices warrant, and was tried be fore three Justices, in Greensborough, on Saturday. Messrs. McLean, Dick, and Scott appeared for the State, and Worth spoke in his own defence. We understand that he endeavored to defend his incen diary conduct, and in so doing read extensively from Helper's book. Some fifteen or sixteen witnesses were examined. It was proved that he had used in his sermons the strongest and vilest incendiary language, and had circulated Helper's book. Among other things he has declared publicly that he has " no respect for the laws of North-Carolina" that "they were en acted by adulterers, drunkards, and gamblers." And that he " would not have had old John Brown hung for a thousand worlds." He was held to bail in the sum of $5,000 for his ap pearance at Court, and $5,000 for his good behavior. He had given bail for his appearance, and was en deavoring to give bail for his good behavior. The Sheriff of Alamance, Mr. Patterson, was present, and intended to arrest him on a writ issued by Judge Saunders as soon as he passed from the ju risdiction of the Justices Court. He may, there fore, be expected here this evening to answer before Judge S. for his violation of the law in Alamance, Chatham, and Randolph. We learn that the excitement in Greensborough was very great, and that the officers of the law ex perienced difficulty in protecting Worth from the indignation of the people. Accident axd Nakrow Escape of the Pas sengers. The mail train from the north, on the Raleigh and Gaston railroad, ran into the en gine of the freight train, six miles from this City, last Saturday afternoon, by which accident the mail engine was greatly damaged and disabled ; the ex press car, next to the engine, wrs a total wreck ; the mail car badly injured and the passenger coach somewhat injured. No person (MM seriously in jured. There were a good many persons aboard; several ladies ; Gov. rJragg, Hon. D. K. McRae, Rev. Thos. E. Skinner, a number of Southern medi cal students, seceders from the Philadelphia medical schools, and other gentlemen going South. The collision occurred thus : The freight train was on the side track, in order to allow the mail train to pass ; but, the freight train being too long for the turn-out, its engine protruded over the track about eight inches. We learn that the conductor of the freight train had sent a negro man to warn the conductor of the mail train, but having no flag he waved his hat, to which the conductor attached no importance, think ing it was a sort of Christmas hurrah. The conductor of the freight train showed much presence of mind in backing his train as far as he could as the mail train approached. If he had not done this, the injury and loss of life must have been serious. As far as we have learned no blame is attached to the conductors of the two trains. , The loss to the Road is by no means heavy. " Unity." We copy from the Wilmington Journal the fol lowing account of an interesting scene which took place on the 17th instant, in the Methodist Episco pal Conference in session in Beaufort : "Rev. Mr. Closs presented to the Bishop, the Ret. Mr. Speight, of the Methodist Protestant Church. The Bishop presented him to the Confer ence. He made an address, expressing the gatifica tion his church had felt at the appointment of Mr. Closs as a friendly messenger, and regretted that do mestic affliction had prevented Mr. Closs from at tending. It might have " broken the ice," if indeed there be ice. He said he was devoted to the good old Methodist character, that he was descended from a family which was among the first to welcome Me thodist preachers in North-Carolina ; that his little church of about 7,000 in North-Carolina, had kept pure the earnest doctrines of Methodism ; that as a body his church cherished warm feelings towards the Methodist Episcopal Church ; that they had no war to wage against it, and hoped a day of greater close-drawing was at hand He closed feelingly. The Bishop said, it is known that I have been up wards of 50 years in the ministry, and never had controversy with another church. His parents were Baptists, and he could but speak respectfully against them, that he had long prayed that Ephraim might cease to envy Judah, and Judah to vex Eph raim. When your church, sir, sought to set up its organization, I granted its right, and thought it should not be pursued. We have the same doc trines, and generally the same institutions, and I bid you 'iod-spced. I am of that class of men who be lieve the Methodist Church has enough to do to take care of iu own business. I am glad to see you, meet you with pleasure, as representing one of the wings of God's great army. Rev. Mr. Closs said that at the last Conference he was appointed to attend the Conference of the Me thodist Protestant Conference, and he never had had a charge in which he more delighted. In the Providence of God, I was prevented from attending and tendering our fraternal salutations. He bowed to that Providence. He rejoiced that notwithstand ing his absence, the Methodist Protestant Church had sent a representative, and he hoped to see the day when the two branches of the Methodist church may be one." To which secular Editor though we be leave respectfully and reverently to add : -we beg "Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard; that went down to the skirts of his garment As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that de scended upon the mountains of Zion ; for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for ever- A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to ail our patrons and friends. Congressional. In the Senate on the 21st, the following Standing Committees were appointed : On Foreign Relations Messers. Mason, Douglas, Slidell, Polk, Crittenden, Seward and Sumner. On Finance Messrs. Hunter, Pearce, Gwin, Bright, Hammond, Fessenden and Cameron. On Commerce Messrs. Clay, Bigler, Toombs, Clingman, Salisbury, Hamlin and Chandler. On Military Affairs Messrs. Davis, Fitspatrick, Johnson of Arkansas, Chestnut, Lane, Wilson and King. On Naval Affairs Messrs. Mallory, Thomson, Slidell, Hammond, Nicholson, Hale and Anthony. On Judiciary Messrs. Bayard, Pu h, Benjamin, Green, Powell, Trumbull and Foster. On Pott Offices Messrs. Yulee, Gwin, Rice, Uright, Wigfull, Hale and Dixon. On Public Lands Messrs. Johnson of Arkansas, Johnson of Tennessee, Lane, Pugh, Bragg, Harlan and Bingham. On Private Land Claims Messrs. Benjamin, Polk, Wigfall, Grimes and Ten Eyck. On Indian Affairs Messers. Sebastian, Fitch, Rice, Haun, Hemphill, Doolittle and Clirk. On Pensions Messrs. Thompson, Clay, Sauls bury, Powell, Durkee, Harlan and Grimes. On Revolutionary Claims Messrs. Toombs, Crit tenden, Nicholson, Durkee and Ten Eyck. On Claims Messrs. Iverson, Mallory, Bragg, Simmons and Foot. On the District of Columbia Messrs. Brown, Mason, Johnson of Tennessee, Yulee, Kennedy, Hamlin and Wilson. On Patents Messrs. Bigler, Thomson, Toombs, Hemphill, Simmons and Trumbull. On Public Buildings Messrs. Bright, Davis, Kenneday, Clark and Doolittle. On Jemtories Messrs. Green, Douglas, Sebas tian. Fitzpatrick, Haun, Collamer and Wade. To Audit Contingent Expenses of the Senate Messrs. Johnson of Tennessee, Powell and Dixon. On Printing Messrs. Fitch, Davis and Anthony. On Engrossed Bills Messrs. Lane, Bigler, and Harlan. On Enrolled Bills Messrs. Haun, Saulsbury and Harlan. On the Library Messrs. Pearce, Bayard and Collamer. In the House, on the same day, an exciting dis cussion took place on the sul ject of the Speaker ship between Democrats and South Americans. Mr. Etheridge, Know Nothing, of Tennessee, made a speech, in which he said he would vote for a Demo crat for Speaker only in the last resort In the course of his remarks he gave " aid and comfort" to the Black Republicans by the following expressions : " He Mr. Millson so'ight by his vote to bring into the Union a State under a constitution which the Legislature and the whole people thereof solemnly remonstrated against. He sought to give effect to the wishes of the Executive, who tried to crush with the hand of despotism the aspirations after freedom of a brave and noble people. (Applause from the republican benches.) I have been solicited to lend my aid in organizing the House by suppor ting the demoii-atic candidate ; but I say, never shall I do so except as a last resort, under con tingencies, which I will not state here. To vote for a democratic speaker is the last thing I would do (great applause from the republican benches) be cause I am opposed to the administration for that act of despotism to the people of Kansas." Now the Lecompton Constitution was framed in accordance with law. It recognized slavery. The Black Republicans of Kansas refused to take any part in the Convention which framed this Constitu tion, because they adhered to their revolutionary Topeka Constitution and repudiated thd Kansas Nebraska act, under which the Lecompton Conven tion was held. A "brave and noble people." says Mr. Etheridge meaning the black Republicans were " crushed by the hand of despotism" that is, by the hands of the President in their "aspira tions after freedom." Applause from the black Republican-benches.-.. This man Etherirlojj a traitor to the spot that vc him birth. Mr. Gilmer votes for Mr. Etheridge for Speaker. In the Senate on Thursday, the 2'2nd, it was re solved that when this body adjourns to-day it will be to meet again on Tuesday the 27th, when it will adjourn till Friday, and again till Monday the 2nd, of January. In the House, on the same day, Mr. Harris, of Maryland one of the blood-stained members from Baltimore nominated Mr. Gilmer for Speaker, saj'ing he could be be elected if the Democrats would come to his support Messrs. Garnett, of Va., and Burnett, of Kentucky, declared they would not support him. The vote for Speaker was as fol lows : Sherman, black Republican, i5 ; Millson, Democrat, 79 ; Gilmer 30. Thirteen black Repub licans voted for Gilmer. During the session Mr. Grow incidentally re marked that $5,000,000 were due mail contractors, who will throw up their service if not relieved by the first of January. An ineffctua'. effort was made to adjourn over for the Holidays. The Washington correspondent of the New York Etcning Post a black Republican paper, throws ! some light on the first black Republican vote cast ! for Mr. Gilmer : "The complimemtarv vote of thirty-six given to Mr. Gilmer Friday meant more than outsiders sup posed. It enables the South Americans to meet their democratic colleagues upon the stump, with the claim that it was once at least in their power to have elected the largest slaveholder in the House Mr. Gilmer Speaker." In the Senate, on the 23d, Mr. Davis introduced a bill for the temporary government of Arizona. After an excitive session the Senate adjourned till Tuesday. Speeches were ma le in the House, on the fame day, by Messrs. Barnsworth, Cobb, Miles, Stanton, Reagan, Bonham and others on the slavery question. The House voted for Speaker as follows : Sherman 103, Millson 27. Gilmer 19, Bocock 10. Remainder of votes scattered among 24 others. Necessary to a choice 107. Washington, Dec. 24, 1859. The Senate was not in session to-day. In the House Mr. Bonham gave notice that he would endeavor to obtain the floor, to move that the House proceed to ballot for Speaker throughout this entire day ; and failing in that, he would endeavor to offer a resolution that from and after to-day there shall be no vote taken for Speaker until the ninth of January, and that when the House adjourn to day it be till Wednesday. Hon William Smith, of Va., read the remarks of Mr. Sherman in relation to the Helper book, and put the question to him directly does he disclaim the doctrines of that book ? Mr. Sherman mado no reply. Mr. Smith, after a pause, resumed The gentle men is silent he is dumb he is mute as an oyster. Mr. Nelson made some further remarks, saying when Mr. Sherman rose in the House and stated that he had five times disavowed any intention of interfering with slavery in the States, he considered that that was repudiating the doctrines of the Help er book. Mr. Morris, of Pa., remarked that he was a sup porter of Mr. Sherman, because he knew him to be eminently conservative, and referred to a speech de livered by Mr. S. in 1856, in proof of that Mr. Smith could not allow the candidate of the republican party to speak-by deputy. If that gentle man wanted to be vindicated before the country he should speak for himself. I ask him now, does he endorse the Helper book ? "Speak or forever hereafter hold your peace !" Laughter. No response being made, Mr. Smith proceeded to say that it was the duty of the House to protest against the election of any man as presiding officer who declined to denounce that infamous book. He then alluded to the remarks of Mr. Grow the other day, and went on to show that Mr. Grow was re sponsible for the defeat of the post office appropria tion bill at the last session. Mr. Branch coroborated what had been said on this point by the gentleman from Virginia, having been a member of the committee of conference on that bill. He declared that the sole responsibility of its defeat rested on Mr. Grow, and believed his object was to compel the President to call an extra session of Congress, in order that he and his friends might, at an earlier day than was allowed by law, get possession of the organization of the House. Mr. Grow desired to reply; but other questions intervened, several motions having been made to adjourn over, which, however, was subsequently withdrawn. There was a call of the House as a preliminary to voting for Speaker. The twenty -first vote was then taken, with the ' following result : Whole number of votes, 206 necessary to a choice 104. Sherman Received 100; Bocock 20; Gilmer 17; Houston 17; John G. Davis 11; Maclay 9 scattering 32. So there was no choice. On motion, the) House adjourned. Mr. Larrabee's Speech. Mr. Larrabee, of Wisconsin, delivered a very sensible speech in the House on Saturday last, in which he thoroughly exposed the black Republi cans and put- some pointed questions to Southern Americans. We do not concur with Mr. L. in all he said, but we commend him for his soundness and fidelity generally as a national Democrat. Mr. Lar rabee was one of those Northern Democrats who voted against Lecompton, but, unlike Hickman, '. Haskin, and other malcontents, now that the ques tion is at rest, he has returned to his allegiance and is standing fairly and squarely at his post Among other things Mr. Larrabee said : " Now, Mr. Clerk, it will not be denied by gentle men upn the other side, that there is a large and controlling element in the republican party which is in favor of making aggressions upon the rights ol the people of the South. They will not deny that there is a large and controlling portion of that par ty which is opposed to the execntion of the fugitivi slave law. They will not deny that there is a large element of that party which will never submit to i the admission of another slave State into the Union. And, sir, they will not deny that, without that ele raent, that strength, they cannot carry a singh . Northern State, or a single congressional district. And yet. how is it when they come here ? Has a man got up upon this floor to represent the pecu liar views of Horace Greely ? Has anybody got uj to enunciate the opinions of the Wisconsin repub lican party, or of the republican party of Minneso ta, of Michigan, or of Iowa? No, sir; not one. Ij there a man upon that side of the House who will ! say, in his place, that he will never vote for the ad mission of another slave State into the Union ? Is , there a man there who will say that he will resist the fugitive slave law ? Not one of them has risen in his place to say these things. Why do they keep silence? Why is it, when they know the fact that the South is justly indignant and excited at the sen timents of the republican party in the North, that they allow two or three men, who have hearts and . intellects moved with a love for the Union, to speak for them ? Why do they keep silence, and permit sentiments to be expressed as theirs, when they do j not entertain them ? There is one other significant fact ; and that is, that you never hear a Republican speaker, either here or at the hustings, denouncing abolition senti ments. I never heard one in my life, and I have , seen it in no republican press. Do you denounce Wendell Phillips? do you denounce the treasonable utterance of Clieevcr V No, you do not. You ap ply them to you own elevation to office ; you apply them to the strengthening of your own party, and for the purpose of placing a man of your own kind in the presidential chair. The country is nothing in your view. The rights of any portion of it under the constitution are nothing in your view. You march over them, trample them down, carry out but the single idea of mere ambitious projects to at tain tfieVontrol of the government. Do these men ever v)te the Democratic ticket ? Did Chcever ever vote it ? Does an abolitionist ever vote it ? Never. But these gentlemen on the other side these na tional, conservative men from Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio, who have spoken here, will act side by side in the political battles of the country, with those men who, they know, are preaching treason to the country and to the constitution." How is it that Mr. Larrabee, a Northern man who opposed Lecompton, considers that question at rest and votes for Bocock, while Mr. Gilmer, a Southern man who also opposed Lecompton, refuses to be satisfied, and prevents, by his amendment, the con servative portion of the House from denouncing the endorsers of Helper's book ? Turning to Mr. Gilmer and other Southern Amer icans Mr. Larrabee said : "Now, gentlemen of the Southern opposition, those of us, few we may be, who are here from the North, are here after having successfully overcome this abolition idea, this sentiment of aggression up on your rights under the federal constitution. Is it not the time now for those who are lovers of the constitution and the Union to act together ? I sub mit it to you, whether J shall go to my home and hace these republican charge that when J went for the rights of the South, under the contituion, the South rejected my efforts and my sacrifices T And, Mr. Clerk, I want gentlemen of the Demo cratic party from the South to recollect another thing ; and that is, that the Democratic party of the North, in the proportion of two to one, exceeds the Democratic party of the South. We do not carry States, you will say. But, gen tlemen, the time is near at hand when we will carry them ; and I tell you, gentlemen of the South, who believe that there is an all-pervading sentiment at the North which is determined to drive slavery from the country, that there is positively no such all pervading sentiment. It is confined to that wing of the republican party which is represented by Gid dings, Greely, Cheever, and that class of men, and not by that part of the republican party which is represented by the gentleman from Ohio I mean Mr. Corwin : and as far as Mr. Sherman, the candi date of the other side for Speaker, is concerned, he is now the incrustation of abolition ideas, unless he gets up on this floor and denounces that doctrine. I want to say to you, gentlemen of the South, that I am not a slaveholder, as you know, and I do not propose to discuss here the merits or demerits of your institution of slavery. If I lived in your midst, as I said before, I would own slaves, and yet not deem that I was doing a moral wrong to any one. But, gentlemen, there is a necessity, a great necessity, that you and wo should bury all past differences, and unite upon some common platform, in order that we may overcome those who are op posed to us. Will you do it ? You can do it if you will." Black Republican Committee. The recent meet ing of the National Black Republican Committee, to fix tie time and place for their convention, was held at the. Astor House, New York, on Wednesday last Besides those in attendance from the non slavcholding States there were committee-men pres ent from Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Mis souri. Gov. E. D. Morgan, of New York, who sub scribed $100 to Helper's book, presided over the committee. As already stated, the convention was called to be held at Chicago on the 13th of June next Helper is said to have been present in con sultation with the committee. Books for receiving subscriptions to the capital stock of the " Oak City Savings Bank," are now, and will remain open at the Banking House of John G. Williams fe Co., until the 14th day of Jan uary next The corporators have fixed the shares at $50, and have provided for a call of the stock holders to meet on the 14th of January, when the Bank will go into active operation. Proceedings in our next Old Buown's Pike. We have in our office, one of the pikes with which old Brown intended to arm his peculiar friends. The curious are invited to call, and examine it The Primitive Baptist. No denomination of Christiana in this country is sounder on the question of slavery than the Prim itive Baptists. Amid all the mutations of the times they cling to the old landmarks and walk in the old paths. The following reply of the Rev. Burwell Temple, .Editor of the Primitive Baptist, explains itself. It is h i ghly creditable to that venerable and patriotic man : Br. C. Bualcee, New York DeahSik: Your communication of Nov. 19th, is at hand, and its contents duly considered. Your proposals to me for advertising for you relative to yeur medical line of business may be of good intent to relieve the afflicted ; but I deem it unnecessary to apply for your medicines to cure the afflicted in the South, when we are to be killed or threatened with death after being reviled for our adherence to our Southern Rights, to wit, Slavery. A very large majority of the money sent and carried to the North for news-papers, medicines, merchandise, &c, is the product of slave labor. Many of the specula tive craft of the North have made large fortunes off of ("abominable !") slave labor, without the least re morse of conscience for trafficing on the product of said labor. Your factories would stand almost idle were it not for the labor of Southern slavery ; and yet the people of the North aie threatening the soil of Southern States with drinking the blood of their owners ! Such a state of things, without a reforma tion, must necessarily turn the attention of the Southern people to the encouragement of Southern factories, our own trade directly with Europe in stead of the Northern part of our own Country, and instead of the patronization of Northern news-jiapers we must entirely support those of the South alone. (We except all periodicals published North that contend for and advocate our Southern Constitution al Rights.) It is true, my paper has an extensive circulation from Maine to California but little aid from the Northern and North-western States ; while they have many subscribers to political and religious papers printed there from the South. If you dis dain Southern prints, you, to be consistent, should disdain Southern dollars the product of slave labor. When there is a better state of feeling manifested toward us by our Northern brethren, nationally or sectionally, then we may publish for you, and not before. B. TEMPLE, Ed. P. B. Milburnie, Nov. 28, 1859. APPPOINTMENTS Of the Preachers of the North-Carolina Conference for the ensuing year ; Raleigh District D. B. Nicholson, P. E. Raleigh Ci y Joel W. Tucker. " " Mission Dugan C. Johnson. " " Col'rd Mission Jno L. Newby. " Circuit Jas B. Bobbitt, R. C. Maynard, supernumerary. Tar River Jos B Martin : Jas Reid, Supe'y. Henderson B. F. Long. Person T W Moore and Junius P. Moore. Granville Williamson Harris. Hillsboro' Circuit John W. Tinnin. Hillsboro' Station Oscar J. Brent Chapel Hill Jesse A. Cunninggim. Louis' urg T. P. Ricaud. Nashville Geo. E. Wyche. R. T. lleftin, Editor of the North. Caroliua Christian Advocate. Greensboro'1 District. N. F. Reid, P. E. Greensboro' L. U. Hendren. Guilford James 15. Alford. Davidson John W. Lewis. Forsyth D. W. Doub. Winston James E. Mann. Stokes Clarendon M. Pepper. Wentworth D. R. Bruton. Aliimannc Charles H. Phillips. Yanceyville William Barringer. L?' sburg Alfred Normar. Eranklinsville R. T. N. Stevenson. Trinity College Braxton Craven. High Point James F. Smoot. Ashborbugh Jos. C. Thomas. B. Craven President Trinity College. N. H. D. Wilson Agent for Trinity College. Salisbury District Wji. H. Bobbitt, P. E Salisbury Thos. W. Guthrie. Rowan Robert A. Willis. East Rowan James J. Hines. Moeksville M. C. Thomas, T. B. Reeks, Sup'y. Iredell W. C. Gannon ; W. W. Albea, Sup'y. South Iredell R. S. Webb. Alexander John W. Floyd. Jonesville Isaac F. Keerans. V ilkes Charles M. Anderson. Surry Isaac W. Avent. Blue Ridge Mission Marble N. Taylor. Sauratown Solomon H. Uelsebeck. Washington District Ika T. Wyciic, P. E. Washington Wm. E. Pell. Roanoke Adolphus W. Mangum; T. B. Kingbury. Warren John N. Andrews. Williamston Abraham Weaver. Plymouth John W. Jenkins. Greenville N. A. H. Goddin. Columbia Wm. F. Clegg. Mattamuskeet H. U. Gibbons. Bath Washington I). Meacham. Neuse Charles P. Jones. Tarborough Robert S. Moran. Neuse Mission Nathan A. Hooker. Portsmouth and Ocracoke Mission W. H. Wheeler. Cape Hattaras F. H. Wood. Robeson W m. M. Jordan. Marcus L. Wood, Missionary to China. William Carter, transferred to the Virginia Con ference. John S. Davis, transferred to the Tennessee Con ference. Newbern District Wm. Closs, P. E. Newbern Centenary Jus. H. Brent Andrew Chapel Colored Mission Wm. H. Burnes. Newbern Circuit Berenice B. Culbreth. Snpw Hill Jas. B. Baily. Wilson H. T. Hudson. Contentnea Jno. R. Brooks. Smithfield L. Shell. Goldsboro' R. G. Barret. Everettsville Jos. H. Wheeler. Jones Jno. M. Gunn. Trent Thos. L. Triplett. Beaufort Ann st. James L. Fisher. Purvis Chapel and Look-out Mission Isham H. Hill. Straits Jno. C: Brent S. M. Frost, Pres't Wayne Female College. Roanoke Colored Mission Moses J. Hunt. Tar River Colored Mission Medicus H. Hight Edgecombe Colored Mission Wm. M. Walsh. Morehead City John Jones. S locum Creek Mission P. W. Yarrell. Cape Look-Out Mission to be supplied. Wilmington District C. F. Deems, P. E. Wilmington Front street John S. Long. " Fifth street Joseph Wheeler. Topsail Geo. W. Deems. Onslow Simeon D. Peeler. Duplin B. F. Guthrie. Sampson P. J. Caraway. Bladen W. B. Richardson. Elizabeth Alexander D. Betts. Whitesville Caswell W. King. Smithville J. H. Robbins. Cape Fear Colored Mission Wm. M. D. Moore. North East to be supplied. South River Mission Daniel Culbreth. Fayetteville District Peter Doub, P. E. Fayetteville Lingurn S. Birkhead. Evans' Chapel Robert P. Bibb. Fayetteville Circuit to be supplied. Cape Fear Gaston Farrar. Haw River John Tillett Pittsboro' James W. Wheeler. Deep River Washington S. Chapin. Montgomery Thomas C. Moses. Zion P. H. Scovillc. Rochingham S. D. Adams. Uwharrie Zebedee Rush. MR. McRAETS LECTURE. By far the most eloquent, entertaining and in structive lecture of the season was delivered before the " Young Men's Christian Association " on Mon day night last, by the Hon. Duncan K. McRae, of North-Carolina. The subject was " The Equality of Talent and Genius " an old theme, nay, a hack- neyed one, and presenting to the lecturer all the difficulties intended by the Horatian maxim : " Difficile est wroprie communia dieere" Every such difficulty was more than surmounted. The lecture was the effort of a strong man well prepared for his work. We were unfortunate enough to lose the exordium of the discourse. When we entered the hall we found the speaker in the full tide of oratorical suc cess. The whole attention of the audience was riv eted on the meaning glance, the graceful gesture all the more impressive because unstudied and the full tones of the voice, combining unusual compass and sweetness. The whole action was exquisite. It would be impossible for us to describe the mat ter of the lecture. The topics were so various, the illustrations so versatile, the transitions from philo sophic' dissertation to mirth-moving humor, from interesting narrative to the full pathos of impassion ed appeal, so frequent and so rapid, that it required all the effort of the speaker himself to harmonize the thousand colors and forms into the unity of a single discourse. It was altogether a rare and favorable specimen of eloquence peculiarly American in its style and type. Mr. McRae' s lecture bears on its face the nation ality of its author. It was written by an American statesman, still a young man, who has, nevertheless, mingled long and actively, and won distinction, in the political, social and business relations ot Cis Atlantic life ; and yet, has not only found useful hours to devote to closet study, in the enthusiastic pursuit of literary, scientific and historical lore, but has also seized opportunities for inspiration before the shrines themselves of classic taste and artistic triumph among the great trophies of the Old World. Thus it is that he nnus himselt equally at home, in an enthusiastic dissertation, well tempered with critical accuracy on the great masters of poetry, from Homer to Horace, from Virgil to Dante, from Tasso to Shakspeare ; or nicely distinguishing the com parative merits of the great Columbus and his cun ning rival ; meantime, finding marked justifications for the scepticism of Castilian sages, in the no less ludicrous pronunciamcntos of modern wisacres, or following the world's military chieftains through the inner mazes which disclose ths secrets of their tri umphs and defeats; or, calling up in one mighty panorama, as it were, before the very eyes of his audience, the lines and labors and deathless works of Michael Angelo and of Raphael ; or causing the same audience to thrill again with the mere descrip tion of great achievements by the orators of different ages, from Demosthenes to Patrick Henry; or searching deep into the great policy and greater mo tives of comprehensive statesmanship. The success of the effort was complete. From first to last, the audience seemed to keep pace with intense and animated interest, which the speaker himself did not for a moment cease to manifest. Not a whisper from the crowd broke in upon the orator's tones, except when they were drowned and hushed by thunders of applause, varied by loud shouts of laughter which hailed the not unfrcquent sallies of quiet humor or cutting satire which occa sionally relieved the serener parts of the oration. Towards the close of the lecture, Mr. McRae pro nounced an eloquent allusion to the present political crisis. Like a true Southern statesman, he dwelt with especial enthusiasm on the great blessings which the Union, as created and cemented by our fathers, had entailed upon their children, and ap pealed to a union of all patriotic energies, genius and talent combined to rally to the maintenance of the Union in the purity and integrity of confederate faith, uncontaminated by fanatical outrage. The orator thought he saw the sunlight of awakened con servative sentiment at the North breaking through the storm cloud of abolition intolerance, and congrat ulated the people of Virginia that the first blow of the tempest had stricken the State at a moment when the' bark of Virginia's destiny was guided by a helmsman who not only united the highest orders of genius and talent, but brought to their aid the great prerequisite of unquailing courage, tempered with the skill and prudence of a practiced master. This sentiment was received with vociferous and long continued cheering. The peroration of the lecture was addressed es pecially to the young men of the Association. Rising above considerations of worldly interest, or even of patriotic duty, the speaker closed his dis course with a most impressive appeal to the high religious motives which incite that untiring industry and ceaseless devotion to duty which alone can raise talent to the highest pedestal of exalted genius. We earnestly trust that this is not the last lecture which our people will hear from the lips of Duncan K. McRae. To those of our readers who have not seen nor heard him, we can give the full assurance that there is " pluck and pith and niarrow " in this son of the Old North State. Rich. Enquirer. WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE LYN N' ADAMS as a candidate fur Commissioner in the Eastern Ward of tbe City of Raleigh. w E ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE MILLS H. BROWN as a candidate for Commis sioner in the Eastern Ward of the City of Raleigh. 1860. 1860. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE FOB THE GREAT SOUTHERN WEEKLY! The best Talent of the South is Writing for It. THE SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE, published every Saturday, at Augusta, On., acknowl edged to be "the bett family paper in the South," contains, in each issue, eight pages (forty columns) of Choice Reading Matter, devoted to tbe instruction and amusement of the friends of Soul hern LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND ART. jgy Subscribers are presented, semi-annually, with an INDEX, or Table of Contents. TERMS TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. Address JAMES GARDNER, Augusta, Ga. Dec. 28tb, 1859. lll-3t. JIMEj, PLASTER, CEMENT, COAL AND sSOu casks fresh burnt Eastern and W. City Lime S0(i tierces and barrels Land and Calcined Plaster and Hydraulic Cement. 600 tons Euglisb and Virginia Bituminous and Pennsyl vania AnthruC'te Coals. Fine and G. A. and Turk's Island Coarse Salt. For sale by H. V. NIEMEYER, Portsmouth, Va. Dec 28th, 1859. Ill St. JM. sest LOVEJOY'S ACADEMY. THE 39th session will commence the 9th of January. I860. for particulars address tne rnncipal. Raleigb, N. C, Dec 28th, 1859. Ill td. WAYNE FEMALE COLLEGE, Goldsboro', N. C. HE SPRING SESSION WILL COMMENCE ON Thursday the 12th of January, 1860. No Institution in the State offers greater facilities for a thorough and ac complishec education on more reasonable terms. Diligence in study, perfect propriety in deportment, and prudent economy in expenditures, are cardinal principles in our sys tem of government. Board and tuition per session in tbe College course, $70; in the Preparatory department, $60; Music, Painting, Embroidery and other ornamentals at cus tomary prices. Pupils will be charged only from tbe time of their admission. The daughters of all ministers who devote themselves exclusively to the ministry, of whatever denomination, will be educated free of charge, for tuition. For s catalogue applv to tbe undersigned. S. M FROST, President. Dec 28th, 1859. Ill lit. FROLIC MASTER FOR HOLD. EVERY HOUSE TECS SeeiABIE; Or, Ons Thousand and One Hons Amusements. CONTAINING Acting Proverbs, Dramatic Charades, Act ing Charades, or Drawing-room Pan tomines, Musical Bur lesques, Tableaux Vivants. Parlor Games, Games of Ac tion, Forfeits, Scivnce in Sport and Parlor Magic, and a choice Collection of Curious Men'al and Mechanical Puz zles, Ac ILLUSTRATED with nearly 300 ENGRAVINGS AND DIAGRAMS. Tbe whole being a fund of never-ending .entertainment. By tbe author of "The Magician's Own Book." Nearly 4.00 pages 12mo. Price, cloth, gilt side stamps, $1 00. The Sociable ; Or One Thousand and Ons Home Amuse ments, is a repertory of games and other entertainments calculated for tbe use of family parties, tbe fireside circle, or those social gatherings among friends and neighbors, which pass away the winter evenings with so much anima tion and delight. It is impose, ble for any company to exhaust all the sources of irreproachable mirth and mutual enjoyment pro duced in this volume. Published by DICK k FITZGERALD, No. 18 Ann Street, N. Y. Also, for sale by all Booksellers in this place. Copies of the above book sent by mail, to tmj address, free of postage, on receipt of One Dollar. December 27, 1859. 52 w2t. HARDING'S COLUMN. FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING ! New aid Handsome Styles of Clothing bow Ma king and Daily Expected, FXH EZPBS88II 1 sf SUPERIOR OVERCOATS OF HE A- -H-W ry French Bearer Cloth and Black French Do Skin and French Twilled Clotht, mad in tbe beat style, will be received in s few days, HANDSOME BLACK FRENCH CLOTH Frocks for Dress at the low price of 1C dollars, worth 20 dollars, to fit every body, daily expected. KfEW LOTS OF 11 ceired. BUSINESS SUITS-Jnst re- OUR ASSORTMENT OF BLACK FRENCH Doe Skin Casaimere Pants Is Urge, comprising all sizes. 100 pairs just opened. HANDSOME FANCY VELVET AND SILK Vests tur $7 50, worth nine dollars .ff ERINO AND LAMB'S WOOL UNDER if .1 Shirts A new lot just received. MERINO AND LAMB'S ers, all sizes. Very cheap. WOOL DRAW. MUSLIN SHIRTS WITH BYRON COLLARS Just opened. Iff USLIN SHIRTS WITHOUT COLLARS lul With French-wove Bosoms and English Wrist. OVER SACKS FOR YOUTHS A LARGE LOT on hand selling at cost to reduce stock ; also, youth Casstmere Frocks and Sacks, having an over stock. Call and supply yourselves early. CJATINET FROCKS-A GOOD ARTICLE FOR Servants now receiving at tbe low price of four dot lart very cheap. CHEAP OVERCOATS FOR SERVANTS At prime coat, to close tbe lot. BL'K. SATINET PANTS FOR SERV'TS. To close tbe lot at tbe low price of two dollars per pair. E. L. HARDING. Raieigh, Nov. 14, 1859. 98 fjf Register and Spirit of the Age copy. WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE K. R. WEATHERS as a candidate for Commis sioner in the Eastern Ward of the City of Raleigh. WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE Col. W. H. H. TUCKER as a candidate for Com missioner in the Western Ward of the City of Raleigh. WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE THOMAS H. BRIGGS as a candidate for Commis sioner in the Western Ward of tbe City of Raleigh. WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE W. R. RICHARDSON at a candidate for Commis sioner in tbe Western Ward of tbe City of Raleigh. SANTA CLAUSE HAS COME! CALL AT THE WELL-KNOWN STAND, HERETO fore known as BAIN'S HOTEL, on the west side of the Capitol, and you will find a large variety of TOYS! Suitable for the little folks at Christmas. Also all kinds of Stick Candies, fresh Nuts, Pickles, Raisins, Prunes, Brandy Peaches, all kinds of Preserves, Figs, Apples, Cocanuts, Citron, Currants, Ac, Ac. FRENCH CANDIES, Ladies' Cream Drops, Chocolate Cream Drops, Gum Drops, Brandy Drops, Burnt Almonds, Sugar Almonds, French Kisses, Popping Kisses, French Sugar Cream Figs, Sugar Cream Dates, and a large variety of all kinds oi French Candies. FANCY GOODS, snd a great nnrnber of other articles- An excellent assortment of Wood and Willow ware. I am determined to sell as cheap as any one in tbe City ; and, I hope every body in need of any thing in my line will give me a call. HENRY FENDT. ST Remember the place Directly West of the Capitol, formerly Bain's Hatel. December 20, 1859. 108 St. NORTH-CAROLINA MILITAET ISreTITTTTE, Charlotte, N. C. rfjlHE NEXT SESSION OF THIS INSTITUTE WILL JL open on tbe 1st of MARCH next. Applications for admission will be received until tbst time by Maj. D. H. HILL, Sup't N. B. For Further particulars spply for a Circular. December 23, 1859. 108 wAswtMarchl. ar. j. cHAPiLinr, BOOK BINDER & BLANK BOOK MANU FACTURER, RALEIGH, N. C, RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE CITIZENS OF Raleigh and tbe vicinity generally, that he will promptly and punctually attend to the binding of Ktws pupert, Magazines and Periodicals of all kinds and in any style, plain or ornamental, on moderate terms. 'December 23, 1859. 109 wAswly. IfaJORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL LIFE IN- 1H SURANCE COMPANY, Office, Raleigh, N. C This Company insures the lives of individuals for one year, a term of years, or for life, on the Mutual principle, the assured for life participating in the profits of the Company. For policies granted for the whole term of life, when the pre mium therefor amounts to $30, a note may be given for ons half the amount of the premium bearing interest st 6 per cent without guaranty. The prompt manner in which alt losses hsve been paid by this Company, together with the low rates of premium, present great inducements to such ss are disposed to in sure. Slaves are insured for s term of from one to five years, for two-thirds their value. All losses are paid within 90 days after satisfitatoiry proof, is presented. DIRECTORS. Charles E. Johnson, Wh. D. Cooke, Wm. W. Holds Wm. H. Jones, Jno. G. Williams Quinten Busbee,. H. W. Husted, K. P. Battle, Wh. H. McKee, D. G. Fowls. P. F. Pescud, R. H. Battle, Charles B. Root. OFFICERS. Dr. Charles E. Johnson, President, William W. Holden, Vice President. R. H. Battle. Secretary, William H. Jones, Treasurer, H. W. Husted, Attorney, W. H. McKee, Medical Examiner. Q. Busbee, ) Charles B. Root, Executive Oom W. H McKee, ) mittec. Charles E. Johnson, M. D. 1 Medical William H. McKee, M. D. Board of Bichd. B. Haywood, M. D. ) Consultation. For further information, tbe public are referred' to ths pamphlets, snd forms of-prepoaal, which may be obtained at the Office of the Company, or any of it Agencies. Communications should be addressed, (post paid,) to B. H. BATTLE, Secretary. Raleigh, June. 86 THE 8ANCTU8 A COLLECTION OF CHURCH Music, fully complet in every department; adapted to the Worship of ad Protestsut Denominations. By Ed ward Hamilton. The tunes in this volume ire toty to learn and easy to ring, being written within the compass of ordi nary voices, snd distinguished by s natural flow of Melody, sustained upon chords which are simple without weakness, and rich without redundancy. Price 76 cents. Per dozen, $7 50. Published by OLIVER DITSON A CO., 277 Washington Street, Boston. December 28, 1859. 109 It. BANK OF THE STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA. A DIVIDEND OF FOUR PER CENT. ON THE Capital Slock has been declared out of tbe profits for the last six months payable to the Stockholders eu ths first MONDAY in January aest -ALSO- A Dividend of fifty per cent, of the Capital Stock of this Bank, has been this day declared payable to the Stockhold ers on MONDAY, the lth day of January aers, at their Banking House in this City. The above Dividends will be payable to tbe Stockholders st the Branches as heretofore. Stockholders will be reonired to have their Certificates of Stock present when snptying for tberr Dividend. C. DEWEY, Agent. Rsleigh, Dec. 14, 1959. 1W lm.