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l -. . .-. :-eti!g'S. iTri rSSr- jf.eS""- V THE NORra C : SATURDAY,; DEC. lT1860; ''4 4. I 'A tt it 'Hi: Hi U if. I? lilf 1 k fii a Hi- "I ,1$ j. Si II ill it - ill it If T.T ; 5 4 V1 i ; 1-S :! . j. t. -.5 f - I- . -. Xhe8ia.i)3ar3.. Feart Mcltri Tfc Federal Fla Not a Ship in the bubor VHn Federal fUg lying, feat far down the hey item full be discerned Fort MoanTie. v 3n-cN 1 r rTJn j . - Bat Ur from Charleston, - un Ihe ty. . ..In isolated glory, VK - . ' I'odimmed amid the blue of day. - . ., Tb harbor'd vessels' tapering bight The "Slars-and-slripes "no longer beer, ; Although "free nadeaad Bailors rights" ! Have 'neath it foand protecting ore ! ; . . , CoW rem tbe bearte which whilom burned , Wilb patriotism, tried and true When every eye with pride wb turned Toward ibet eUr-gemmed field of blae. Crad is tbe mane end tbe eongs . Which tbriUed, end ererr bowm etimd ; . their &me tootber dirt belong Ho more in Caroline beerd! Her eons ask not that Federal arm ' Shall e'er again defend her coast From foreign iocs 'mid war's aiarai - Tnrr ufakats asercKsack oast ! la lurmer times it was mot i Wbea ReTotatinn's sacred train - Of lire spread, with cheerful glow, And melted tbe tyrannic chain ! Tbe Marions, Samplers, Morgans, Greene. w On Carolina's weil-luaght sotl, Hide Combox Cacsb, end from tbose scenes Fesce crowned their sanguinary toil. So long a History's records last Shall gallant Moultrie's name endure A light still fthining from the past, m From Freedom's watch-ares, brightly pare. Then let tbe Federal flag on high Still float, tboogh it be "down the bay." To mark, beneath Ibe smiling sky, Tbe fort where Moultrie " woo tbe day." lu A. GOBEIGHT. . Washington, Xor. 22, 1?0. PRACTICAL AND PATRIOTIC T1EWS. Letter from Eon. R F. Moore, of Raleigh, Forth Carolina, to the Chairman of the SalUbury Con tention. Raleigh, October, 1860. Hon. Sios H. Rogers, Chairman, 4a Dear Sir: I have receWed yours of the 20th ultimo inviting me to unite with the friends of Bell and Everett at their contemplated meeting in Salis bury on the 11th and 12lh instant I regret exceedingly that I cannot be present I regret it the more because I should there expect to meet thousands of my fellow-citizens, who, like myself, hare lived in habitual reverence of the Union, and do now regard its preservation as the greatest of political blessings, because in it are con tained, in my judgment, the only hope of a well regulated liberty, and the best protection of our rights. The times are full of gloomy apprehensions. The public mind begins to awake from its repose in prosperity and peace to tbe threatened approach of a night of blood and unnumbered woes ; an unlim ited depreciation of property of every kind, and a destruction of the whole basis of society and govern ment It feels that the first decided, irretraceable step in that direction, under the display of hostile arms, will accomplish for this favored land a heavier curse than could be inflicted by ten years of war with the united arms of Great Britain and France. The sudden shocks and pauses, the onset of mad dened disunionists upon tbe "palladium of our safety," and tbe manly defence which the counsels of Washington and the deep conviction of duty will teach us to make in the struggle, will fill the land with dismay and distress. Disunion, even under necessity, would be among the saddest of human events. A wise people will, therefore, avoid it if possible. And if brought about now for the professed cause, tinder the mad counsels which threaten it, the event would precede for a short time only the utter disappointment of the objects promised, and soon reduce tbe South, however great tbe calamity inflicted on the North and deplorable indeed it musf be to poverty and foreign dependence. In any attempt to sunder the Union on account of slavery I fear a deep agitation among ourselves. I fear that when tbe disunionist, under the plea of protecting slavery, shall demand of the people to calculate the value of the Union, not a few of them, in the agony of their feelings, in the ptospect of misery, and the increase of their burdens, will be induced in the excitement of the times to retort, and demand in turn the value of slavery. Even with a perfect Union of the Southern States after severance, the Republic would require at least" twenty-five millions for an economical Government in lime of profound peace. The portion of North . Carolina in this burden could not be less than two millions, and would be raised almost exclusively by direct taxation. This large sum, added to our present levy, would gather an annual tax of nearly three millions. For how many years in succession do you think the State could bear such an exhaust ing drain ? The result would be an emigration to some less burdened land, or a repudiation of every bond of the State. Our sister States immediately around us would be no better off. Before we assume such extraordinary burdens, which division will make necessary, if we mean to preserve our faith and protect our domestic safety against our neigh bors of the border, let us be sure that they are ne cessary to escape, and moreover that they will enable us to escape a worse fate. The apparent and probable calamities of disunion are not half told in the certain annual imposition on our people of three millions, with a certain increase of this sum for all time to come ; while the pro lucts of our industry shall be carried from us and our wants from abroad shall be brought to us in British bottoms, allowed to monopolize all the commerce of the new Republic as the price of her tavor ana proposcu protection. Among all the in juries complained of by the South to justify disunion not one of them will be red retted or mitigated ly theetent. 1. That one which now, for Ihe first time in the history of the Government, is demanded, namely, th-it Congrett thall past a tltte eode for the Terri tories will never be heard of in the new Republic; for no more slave territory, nor territory of any kind, will be added to the Southern Republic. All hopes in Central - America will perish, if not by emigration thither and settlement of the opponents f slavery, yet by the destitution of maritime strength in the new Republic ; and, it they perish by neither of theae, they will be crushed beneath that .universal British protection to be extended by England alike to Central America and our Southern ' Republic. All hopes 'of Cuba will vanish, and a Spanish squadron between tbe Moro and the Belize will,' I fear, appear a much more formidable arma ment than now it seems. On the downfall of Spanish power in this hemisphere tbe Queen of the Antilles will pass under the yoke of England, and this western Gibraltar will give her a naval supre macy along the whole coast of the new Republic that-will lay every strip of its canvass at the foot of the British lion. , 2. The- rendition of fugitive tlavet. This will cease with the right to demand it Great Britain receives with open arms all who can reach Canada. All other nations adopt the same rule. And the United States have ever submitted to this universal law.- The South has yielded to it in Silence, and af ter dissolution will have neither strength nor com pact to enforce or Insist upon it Fanaticism, al ways most zealous when most opposed, will lay' open ber long border of fifteen hundred miles with the promise of a free borne to every slave who can put foot pn her soil. ' Within and along all that border where now the South has thousands of friends, whose respect for the Constitution and goodaith drive-back -the fugitive slave, and give such raidsmen as John Brown neither resting place nor a hiding place from the vengeance of the law, the counsels of the fanatic alone will be heard and alone be heeded. Xbe Southern Republic will not go to war because the Northern Republic shall, like Canada, open her arms to receive the fugitive slave, 8. 7ft agitation of the quettum of tlatery. .Will taat be hushed io our Southern Republic t It is very certain that unless we .change our own con duct, it will be none the less agitated. W hen have the majority of our political orators ceased to make that their eternal and never &vgjhem??, gion t In and ouf of Congress we have had our fall share of this sin. , It has been for many escape valve of the Northern and Southern gas, man ufactured more to mlte capital at borne tUn to do nj where. Tbe only fault tea been tbe in. j culcatioo of a disastrous hatred between tbe readers of these opposing speeches the hunibie andanio-, formed voters at home. . Now, when a line shall be drawn around the sla ve bolding Republic, which will exclude all other peo ple froui lawful counsel on tbe subject of slavery, w there any prospect that agitation will cease? Will the advocates for any extreme proposition on the subject of slavery be quiet? Has it not always been characteristic of them to push their opinions regard less of opposition among the moderate of their own fellow citizens? If you stop short of their views and refuse to go with" them in their lull length, you are denounced immediatelr as unsoand on slavery. And now, sir, after the Southern Republic shall be established will the advocate for opening the slave tradi be quiet under the idea that tho area of slaverr will be then fixed, while so many millions of acres of cotton land still remain in forest ? W ill he cease to agitate the question, even though the price of that great staple may be low, and the sup ply excessive, so long as there shall be many men without slaves ? Will the slavelcss laborer in the South, taught that white men cannot labor in a Southern sun, be content that our ports shall re maid closed against the importation of Africans, and so preserve the high prices of slaves, while one free mm among us owns a hundred, and a hundred free men among us own not one apiece ? Think you that on the question of opening this mine of prom ised wealth the two classes will not be arrayed in opposition ? Tbe one to preserve the value of its property and the country from being -Africanized ; and the other to become wealthy as its neigh bor, though tbe country shal' be Africanized ? And do you doubt which of the parties will carry the day t For remember that no small number of the influential people of the South have been for several years arguing that there is more sin (if sin there be at all in slavery) in holding to bondage tu tored and civilized Africans than in reducing to bondage, in a land of Christianity and civilization, the untaught heathen and rude barbarian. Avarice, the love of indolence, and the agrarian's plea will prevail against the wiser counsels of the few ; and the pulpit even will become fervid under popular favor, and reproduce tbe buried sermons of by -gone centuries to support tbe popular sentiment Tbe question will be in our midst and in full agi tation within two years after the formation of a Southern Republic, if she can be at peace with her neighbor, unless the fear of depopulating Virginia, Marj' land, and Kentucky at once of slaves for these States will never hold slaves when they get so low in price as to cease to be valuable estate, as well in the South as at home or the fear of offending Eng lish alliance (to which all disunionists look as their palladium in separation) shall restrain the trade. These will be the only guards against the revival of a traffic as wicked as unwise detested now and de tested then by every State north of South-Carolina and Alabama. Let us not shut our eyes to The pro bable consequences of disunion. Let us look around and ahead. I have no respect for the head or the heart that would fire us to madness, and, taking ad vantage of our blindness, lead us to the precipice of danger where, unaware of the next fatal step in the dark, we would be precipitated to the bottom with out any warning of our danger. Such a counsellor tutions. He that would so delude the people by cheating them into an irretrievable position of un- ; seen peril, would drive them with the sword when- I ever such means might be placed in his hands. I . have asked those who favor disunion for their divid- j ing line and their scheme of Government 1 have seldom received any other answer than, Oh ' we i can take care of ourselves. On one occasion only have I heard the outline of a scheme of peace and ? safety. It is very simple, and would be very effi- ! cient, if practicable. It :s to have on the dividing : border a territory of one hundred miles w idth peo- j pled by pro-slavery men, without a slave in it ! An i abolition element of vast power and activity intro- j duced into a slave State to secure slavery ! Let not j the absurdity of the device protoke a smile, but rather encourage our hopes for an evcrlast ing Union, i The scheme, if practicable, may perhaps be an eqiiiv- j alent for the present constitutional provision for the i surrender or fugitive slaves. But seriously, I think every man ought to look this question of disunion full in the face. If it be clear that a severance will permanently improve our condition as a people ; if after it we can as peacefully ana cmcientiy shield our institutions against a vnited, as now we can against a divided North ; if ! we shall then be as independent of the powers of the earth and as able to secure ourselves against their attacks as now; if we shall, after inviting the oppressed of other lands to seek an asylum here, be as able to give them the protection of citizenship wherever, over the broad surface of the ocean or j land, they may be insulted or aggrieved, as we are I now, then mighty impediments to disunion are re- ' moved. But if there is not absolute certainty that we shall be in this situation after that event then let every patriot turn quickly from the mad seduc tion, lest his country be precipitated into imbecility and dishonor, and her star fall to rise no more. ; I shall not stop to argue these propositions. They carry with them their own conclusions, and the ' madness which would afhrm them has no cure but the judgments of God. These will come in the very day and freshness of the greatest folly and crime of the a;re. Reared in the conviction that our form of govern- j . P- 1 . 1 ,, meni was peneci, uu wie union inuisitnFaoie to the common welfare and liberty of the whole country, I have imbibed as true, as unquestionably true, the sage teachings of Washington in the most admirable of all political papers, the Farewell Ad dress that paper, which, however torn and beaten in tbe storm of disunion, will yet stand out of the waters, high above the deck, a'ter the ship of State is gone down to the bottom ; not indeed to proclaim to his countrymen his paternal and solemn warnings against a dismembered empire, but as an endless ! monitor of the endless woes to come. He told you, ! and me, and all his countrymen, and he spoke for i this tery day, that the Union was of "immense value" "a main pillar in the edifice of our real ! independence, the support of our tranquility at home, our peace abroad ; of our safety and our very liberty." And he warned us " that from different oivtet and from different quartert much paint would he taien, many artificet employed to teealen in our mindt the conviction of thit truth." He warned us that the " Union it the point in our po litical forlrett against which the batteriet of in ternal and external enemiet will he mott constantly and aetiiely (though often cotertly and intblioutly) ! directed. ! During difTerents periods for thirty years past, ' certain men have filled the place designated by the j Father of his Country as its " internal enemies," and they have been engaged with more or less con- I stancy and activity, sometimes boldly, "though I often covertly and insidiously, in depreciating the value of the Union. J About thirty years ago, in opposition to the ex- ercise of a power used from the foundation of the j Government through almost every year of its exist- j ence a period of fifty years, a parcel of these in ternal enemies proposed to dissolve the Union to rid I themselves of the common duties imposed on itn- j ported goods. And now. those of them wbnsurvivo i with the aid of fresh recruits, on another account propose and insist on disunion if they cannot elect to the Presidency a roan who will say that it it the duly of Congrett to pass a tlare code for a Terri tory, although it is admitted there is no need for such a code at thit time; and it it apparent there will be none at any fature day, so far at we can tee. And if the non-election of a President with this opinion should not be sufficient cause for disunion, then they insist that sufficient cause will arise, upen the election of one who may be adverse to the in troduction of slavery into Territories, although there are no Territories into which slavery can be intro duced where the question is not already settled either by human law, or nature, stronger than human law. I do not desire to underrate the cause for the dangerous excitement which now overspreads the country. Every candid man must admit however, that these objectionable opinions upon tbe subject of slavery in the Territories have been common in the free States since the foundation of our Govern ment Within twenty-five years that portion of the South which now clamors most loudly against them has freely bestowed its votes on one who had openly and emphatically committed himself in their favor, and, within fifteen years, has submitted, without a murmur, to the application of the Wilmot proviso by a President who was a citizen of the South, and the special choice of that portion of the South. In view of these facts any attempt to dismember the Government for tbe alleged causes is rather a surprise a a people as staid and sedate es we are, and we lave a right to demand some time for sober deliberation upon this new turn of sSaira. In my , opinion there are more excitement panic, and hatred than there is just cause for alarm. . Tbe domestic elements of terror and the artifices of misrepresenta tion have for many years been employed, without scruple, by those men so truly described by Wash ington, until hatred has spread a cloud of prejudices over the land. I trust however, that their means for mischief are nearly exhausted. The practical material is nearly consumed, and I believe we are not yet mad enough to break up our Government on account of tbe errors, real or supposed, of specu lative opinions. But in truth, is it wonderful that men's fears should overcome their reason, and hatred teize the fraternal bosom, when public speakers are constant ly talking of war of States marching their armies over our borders to foment the butcheries of servile insurrection? - It would seem to me that if the dan ger proclaimed is really apprehended, it should be our policy to keep all the friends we have, and add as many more as possible. Instead of that it is the marked policy of the tiroes with many political lead ers in the South to cast off former and constant friends, and to shut the door against all mw acces sions. Why, for instance, is an old platform of principles changed to maintain an abstraction ? Why is the ticket for Bell and Everett denounced as unsound on slavery ? Why are the friends of this ticket composing hundreds of thousands of the intelligent citizens and slaveholders of the South, who have approved of Mr. Bell's public career for thirty years, and now rejoice at the opportunity to manifest their approval of bis public career, why, I say, are he and all his supporters denounced as un fit to take in charge the slave interests of the South ? Why are those of the North, who glory in the name and'renown of Edward Everett, and propose to give him their support, why are they denounced as un sound? You will sometimes even hear it objected that there are many men of freesoil opinions who will support the ticket Yet these cavillers will swear that they are for the Union, and would give the world to beat Lincoln. If any conservative man in Massachusetts or any Union man of moderation in the South, shall be able by the sublimity of his character to diminish Lincoln's strength and draw off voters, who, though opposed to slavery, are yet moderate and devoted to the Union, these same cav illers will cry out that he cannot be sound enough for the South. For my part. I am rejoiced when I see a man able, like Fillmore, to discharge his con stitutional duties, notwithstanding his freesoil senti ments. I would rejoice to know that all Massachu setts would go for Bell and Everett r for sny sound Union ticket I would be truly glad to see the free soil men retui n to their former conservatism. They suported Adams and Clay, Jackson and Van Buren, Harrison and Polk. Taylor and Cass, Pierce and Scott, Buchanan, Fremont, and Fillmore. They were divided in former times on other Issues than slavery ; and would to God that I could divide them now. Every body knows that Webster was a frec soilcr, and every body knows that he was a magna nimous patriot One part of the South' has been for years engaged in endeavoring to prove the other part unsound on slavery ; and now the attempt Is to show that the entire North and West arc so. If this be true, our case is hopeless indeed, in or out of the Union, to preserve the institution of slavery. So far as re spects ourselves, the candid and moderate men among us know this to bo untrue. So far as re specU the North and WeM, they likewise know that in these sections of the Union, we have more than a million of friends. Indeed nearly, if not quite, one hall the entire population, who, while the Union lasts, will rally under tbe Constitution and around the ling of our common country in support of our rights. They know that when the Union shall be dismembered, and tbe Constitution gone, and the flag of our common country struck to the dust " our friends in these sections, who, upon the ques tion of slavery, now rally with warmth and zeal to our aid, w ill be dispersed and lost under the mighty tide of a victorious and sectional party. Now we can count of American citizens a vast majority on our side ; we can reckon tho entire South, and one half, or nearly one-half of the whole North ami West But when the Union is gone and the great motive for its integrity and the mighty impulses in its favor are buried in ruins, we may expect a concentrated sentiment and strength pervading those ranks, which division now distracts and enfeebles, and renders powerless for iiermanent mischief. In the name of Heaven, let not our conduct invite such an union. It is manifest then, that our true position is in the Union. While we are here, our enemies will have enemies at their own door. In it we .shall have the physical strength ; and the battle, when ever it may come, will be fought by an united South and her ally against a divided section. But when we pull down tbe common flag, one flag will rise over the South, and one flag another flag will rise over a North and West no longer divided, but uiade one by our folly. Agiinst this fatal conclusion of American inde peni'.rnce and American liberty 1 pray that every man of our party may lift his prayers and his coun sel. I am sincerely, yours, B. F. MOORE. Tub Right or Secession. The right of a State to secede from the Union would appear to hnvc been considered and decided by the fraincrs of the Con stitution. New York was unwilling to accept that instiument and join the Union which it created, unless she could terminate her connection with it at pleasure. Her proposal was to join for five or six years, with the right then to withdraw if she desired. Gen. Hamilton was for a time inclined to favor this proposition, and he wrote to Mr. Madison in regard to it in July, 1778. This was Madison's reply : New York, Sunday evening. Mr Dear Sir: Yours of yesterday is this instant at hand, and I have had but a lew minutes to answer it I am sorry your situation obliges you to listen to propositions of the nature you describe. My opinion is that a reservation of a right to withdraw, if amendments be not decided on under the form of the Constitution within a certain time, is conditional ratification ; that it docs not make New York a member of the Union, and consequently that she should not be received on that plan. Compacts must be reciprocal; th's principle in such case would not be preserved The Conttitution reqviret an adoption in toto and forerer. It has been so adopted by the other States. An adoption for a limited time would be as defective as an adoption of some of the articles only. In short condition whatever must vitiate the ratification. What the new Congrs, by virtue of the power to admit new States, may be able and disposed to do in such a case, I do not inquire, and I suppose that is not the material point at present I have not a moment to add moro than my fervent wishes lor your suc cess and happiness. The idea of reserving the right to withdraw was started at Richmond, and considered as a conditional ratification, which was itself abandoned worse than rejection. Yours, JAMES MADISON New York finally abandoned her claim, and " adopted the Constitution in toto, and forever." And so did all the other States. Mcrder. Noah Turnage was mortally wounded by Wm. Sauls, in this place, on Saturday night last, from the effects of which he died the following day. The circumstances are, that Sauls went into the Tenpin Alley of Mr. Waiters, to roll tonpinsT'Tur nage, who was game-keeper, was ordered by Mr. Waters not to let Sauls, who had been in the habit of playing and not pay ing for bis games, roll until he paid for them. Turnage was remonstrating with him, endeavoring to enforce his orders, when Sauls, who is a powerful man, struck him with all the force he could command, with a second size alley ball, splitting the scull bone about four and a half inches. Turnage was a very small man, and was peaceable and inoffensive. Sauls was arrested on Sunday by Sheriff Thompson, and is now in jail awaiting his trial. Golds, Tribune. Georgia. Tbe convention bill, which has passed both houses, provides that an election of delegates shall be held in the different counties on the first Wednesday in January; that each county having two representatives in the legislature shall be en tilled to three delegates, and those counties having one representative shall be entitled to two delegates. The convention is to meet at the Capitol on the 16th day of January, 1881, and the per diem and mileage of the delegates shall be the same as members of the legislature. lJSGmTU OF yORTn-CAEOLmjL "V V SENATX:''V:YCv--'." , . . TncBSDAT. Nov. 2fHh, 1860.'-:,; The Senate was called .to order at 9 J o'clock, jt,J m. Prayer: by Rev. Mr. Tucker, of the Methodist Church. On motion of Mr. Barringer, the Senate adjourned To 11 o'clock Friday. . : " " HOUSE OF COMMONS. ' ' ; " House met at 9 o'clock, A M. Mr. Person, of New Hanover, in the chair. Journal of yesterday read and amended. On motion of Mr. Fcrrcbee, the House adjourned to meet to-morrow at 11 o'clock, AM. SENATE. Fkidat, Nov. 30, 1860. The Senate was called to order at 11 o'clock, A. M. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. WalthalL. The Journal of Wednesday was read by the clerk. Mr. Street introduced a resolution to consolidate the offices of Clerk and Master in Equity and Clerk of Superior Court into one. Referred to judiciary committee. - - BILLS. Mr. Burton, a bill to increase the salary of Judges of Superiour Courts of Law. Passed its first read ing, ordered to be printed, and referred to the ju diciary committee. Mr. Turner, a bill to incorporate the Hillsboro' Academy. Passed its first reading and referred to committee on corporations. Mr. Bledsoe, a bill to amend chap. 101 of the Re vised Code it exempts all free while persons under the age of 21 from working the roads, and to make the man who sends three hands under the present law equally liable with the non-slaveholder to work the roads. Mr. Walknp, a bill to reorganize the militia system of the State. Referred to committee on military af fairs. On motion of Mr. Winstead, Mr. C. H. K. Taylor, Senator from Granville, was qualified by the Speak er and took bis seat On motion of Mr. Dockery, Mr. Rogers. Senator from Northampton, was granted leave of absence for a few days. A message was received from the House inform ing the Senate of the passage of a bill with amend ments by the House to incorporate to Gardner Val ley Mining Company. On motion of Mr. Morehead, the amendments were concurred in and the bill enrolled. Ihe Speaker asked leave of absence on to-morrow on account of important business requiring his pre sence at home. On motion of Gov. Morehead, it was granted, and the Speaker designated Mr. Walker of Mecklenburg, to act as pro tempore Speaker during his absence. On motion, the Senate adjourned toll o'clock Saturday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. House called to order bv the Speaker at 11 o'clock A. M. Prayer by Rev. Mr. WalthalL Journal of yesterday read and approved A communication from Mr. Cantwell, Clerk of the House of Commons, in relation to the resolution of Mr. Ferrebee, offered on Wednesday last for a com mittee to inquire into the legal organization of the House, was presented and ordered to be read Af ter the reading had progressed for a lime, Mr. Men denhall arose to a point of order. He thought the House had nothing to do with this communication in the present state of the question. He therefore n.oved to lay the communication on the table. Mr. Mebane offered an amendment referring it to the special committee on the organization of the House, which was agreed to, and the communica tion was referred accordingly. Mr. Baxter from committee on propositions and grievances, reported back to the House the following bills and recommended their passage : A bill to prevent obstruction to the passage of fish up Salmon creek in Bertie county. A bill allowing the sureties of Wra. Pollock, late sheriff of Jones county, to collect arrearages of taxes. KEsoLrnoss. By Mr. Mcrrimon, a resolution instructing the committee on the Judiciary to inquire into tho pro priety of erecting an additional judicial circuit and the election of another Judge of the Supreme Court ; to report by bill or otherwise. Referred to commit tee on the Judiciary. By Mr. Davis of Bladen, a resolution in favor of the estate of George Cralton, deceased, of Bladen county. Referred to the committee on claims. By Mr. Hayes, a resolution in favor of Cooper Prince, and John II. Harwood, of Cherokee county. Referred to committee on Cherokee lands and Wes tern Turnpikes. By the same, a resolution in favor of Leah Cole man. Referred to committee on Cherokee lands and Western Turnpikes. By Mr. Waugh, a resolution proposing to raise a committee of tire, to be called the committee on corporations. Adopted By Mr. Wright a resolution in favor of the sure ties of John S. Willis. Referred to the committee on proposition and grievances. BILI.S OX TUEIR FIRST READING. By Mr. Davis of Mecklenburg, a bill to amend the charter of thj town of Charlotte, in the county of Mecklenburg. Referred to the cotrtnitttee on pri vate bills. By Mr. Gaither, a bill to allow less than a major ity of the magistrates of the county of Iredell, to transact business. Referred to the committee on propositions and grievances. By Mr. Hayes, a hill to incorporate the Yalley River Gold Mining and Aqueduct Company, in the county of Cherokee. Referred to committee on cor porations. By Mr. Newby, a bill to amend an act of 1849 in corporating Perquimous Male and Female Acade my. Referred to committee on private bills. By Mr. Marsh, a hill to amend the Revised Code, chap. 107, sec Cti. Referred to judiciary committee. By Mr. Merrimon, a bill to auicnd the Revised Code, chap. 31, sec. 15, in relation to courts, coun ty and superior, in ceitain counties changes time of holding. Referred to committee on the judiciary. By Mr. Burgin, a bill to incorporate the Bun combe Powder Manufacturing Company. Referred to committee on private bills. By Mr. Wondard, a bill to increase the salaries of judges of the supreme and the superior courts. Re ferred to committee on the judiciary. By Mr. Goirell, a bill to incorporate the Greens boro' Gas Light Company to committee on private bills. By Mr. Siler, a bill to incorporate the Chattanooga Gold Mining and Aqueduct Company in the county of Macon to committee on corporations. By Mr. Love of Haywood, a bill to amend the charter of the Western N. C. Railroad Company to committee on internal improvements. By Mr. Williams, of Cumberland a bill to prevent damage by camp fires to the committee on propo sitions and grievances. By Mr. Fagg, a bill incorporating the Ashville Water Company in Buncombe county to the com mittee on private hills. By Mr. Love, of Jackson, a bill regulating crimi nal prosecutions in the County and Superior Courts. Placed upon lhc calendar and oidcred to be printed By Mr. Jenkins, a bill to amend the Revised Code, chapter 62, section C, and section 11, of samo chap ter, in relation to the stay of executions to com mittee on the Judiciary. By Mr. Logan,-a bill regulating the election of committees of common schools to the committee on education. By Mr. Folk, a bill to abolish jury trials , in the courts of pleas and quarter sessions in the county of Watauga to the committee on private bills. By Mr. Hynum, a bill to repeal chapter 40 of tbe, revised Code, so far is Chatham county is con cerned to judiciary committee. By Mr. Merrimon, a bill to incorporate a company to build a turnpike road from Mitchell's Peake in the Black mountain to some one of the public roads in Buncombe county to committee on internal im provements. A message was received from the Senate con curring in House bilk No. incorporating the Garden Yalley Mining Company. Mr. Logans resolution fixing tho time for the meeting and adjournment of the House, which lay over under the rules, was taken up, when Mr. Yeates moved to lay it on the table. On this motion Mr. Waters called for the yeas and nays, which being ordered, the motion prevail ed yeas 58, nays 82. Mr. Folk moved to adjourn until to-morrow 11 o'dck. 4tjed to, s tbe Hoist adjourned - ' -JTrom tbe Democratic Press. -' . - MESSRS., BROWN AND 'GILMER-'-,-. " T .V-'-NiTmBM 10,1860,?;" Messrs. Editors: Last Monday.' the 5tfrinstiv I heard pronounced in" the Court House in Yejieeyt Tide, by the Hon. John A. Gilmer, one of the most "remarkable, harangues it has ever been my misfor tune to listen to. Mr. Gilmer, instead of advocating the principles of the party to which be professes to belong, employed all bis time in a continual denun ciation of Mr. Breckinridge and his party; and in unlimited praise of Mr. Douglas and his wing (as he chase to term it) of the party. - So little did he refer to Mr. Bell and his party, and so lavish was he of his praises of Stephen A. Douglas, that some of his hearers were enquiring among themselves whether he had left bis party and, gone over to Douglas. He characterised the Breckinridge party as the " dis union party" the "nullifying party' the "seces sion party," and was nnderstood to say that he re garded the Breckinridge Democracy - as being as dangerous, or as no better than Lincoln and his coadjutors. He said with profound emphasis that ' there is not a single nullifier" 44 there Is not a single disunionist" "there is not a single seces sionist but what belongs to the Breckinridge party." He entered into a long course of reasoning, (such as it was) trying to prove that Douglas and his fol lowers stood where the Democracy stood four years since. His mission into Caswell, judging from tbe purport of his harangue, was to tell the Democracy how to vote on the following day, or in others words, to tell them who best represented the true princi ples of the Democratic party. Great ' Heavens ! John A. Gilmer, a Representative in Congress from the South, congratulated by that arch fiend of aboli tionism Joshua R. Giddings one who never once voted for a Democrat pending the election for Speaker in the House of Representatives, after hav ing received repeated assistance from Democratic votes even from Ohio. Yes, John A. Gilmer came to Democratic Caswell to tell who best represented the Democratic party 1 Upon the whole, his speech was most insulting and presumptuous one fraught with the greatest injustice and misrepresentations, that ever was delivered in Yancey ville. Dunng tbe delivery of this philippic he was greeted by no ap plause. After he had finished, loud and continued calls were made from all parts of the house, (now the house was full, the people expecting a reply.) for that "Old War-horse of Hickory Democracy," the Hon. Bedford Brown. " He arose and divested him self of his greatcoat, (for his feelings were tho roughly warmed by the gross injustice and almost personal allusions of Mr. Gilmer) and took the ros trum smid great and continued applauses. He be gan by referring to the speech just then made as one of the most remarkable he had ever heard delivered either in or out of Congress on any subject (Up rorious applause.) He looked upon the gentleman who had just preceded him as a poor messenger to instruct the Democracy. During the delivery of his speech. Col. Brown was interrupted time and again by great cheering and the most enthusiastic ap plause. Never in my life have I seen the people more exultant over a victory than they were over the victory of CoL Brown over Mr. Gilmer, ne not only successfully refuted tbe great misrepresenta tions of facts and history set forth as truths by bis opponents, but he went far back into the political history of our country, and gave the history of each party up to the present time. After achieving one of the most brilliant victories ever achieved in a po litical disquisition. Col. Brown left the stand smid wild enthusiasm. He was immediately surrounded by numerous friends desiring to shake hands with him, and to congratulate him upon demolishing his antagonist in one of the most stirring and powerful speeches he ever delivered His speech was regard ed by some as one of the greatest efforts of his life, while others thought it equal to, if not greater than his celebrated Jackson speech. CoL Brown, in voice, gesture, and intellect appears stronger than ever. One of the most unwavering, unflinching, and un erring Democrats as he has always been, he is emi nently worthy, to say nothhing of his superior qualifications and deserts, of the cordial gratitude of every good Democrat in the Old North State. He has fought hard and manly for the last two months in defense of true Democratic principles. May he long live. Yours in haste, "AMICUS." TO THE FARMERS AND PLANTERS OF VIEQINIA & NOETH-CAE0LIHA, FOWLE & CO.'S SOLUBLE PHOSPHATED PERUVIAN GUANO, THS BEST, CBRAPEST A.XD HOST FERMAXEXT FERTILIZER TET OFFERED TO THE AGRICULTURISTS. NDORSED bv Dr. R. H. Stabler, of Alexandria, Ta and Prof. Campbell Mi-rtil. of .New York, two of tbe moat eminent Chemuls of I lie United Slates, ss tha only cumbinaiion of Pnphatic and Amtnointed GUANOS, yet offered in a real It soluble form. It is composed of No. 1 Pernvisn and Sombrero GUANOS, of onr own importa tion, from tbe Chincba and Sombrero Islands, and warrant ed free from all imparities. It bas been severely tested by many of tbe moat successful and intelligent farmers, both in Virjrioiaand Maryland, side br aide wilb Peruvian Gua no, and ifa superiority alone fully proved, being 18 per cent, cheaper. The Sombrero Guano, before being added to tbe Peruvian, is rendered immediately soluble, by a process, bnt recently dircoTered, and pecnfiarlv our own. Tbe value of Peruvian Guano combine! with tbis Super Phosphate, can hardly be over-estimated, as an important constituent is supplied by tbe Sombrero, which tbe Pern visn does not pussess in so hiph a degree when used alone. Price $50 per ton of 2,000 ponnda. To those who prefer it, e will be prepared to famish No. 1 Peruvian and Sombrero Guano, direct from the Is land. Also, Columbian, Mexican, and African Guanos FOWLE & CO., Alexadrla, Va. niLL A NORFLEET, Sole Agents at Richmond, Vs. August 1, 1360. 31 w&sw4ai. GEO. W BLOUNT, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, XASHVILLB, X. C, ILL ATTEND TO BUSINESS ENTRUSTED TO w bim in asb, n ilson, tdgeeombe and Franklin Counties. Feb 81,1860. "15 wiswly. UILLSBORO' N. C. THIS INSTITUTION, OF A THOROUGHLY Sci entific and military character, is nnder the conduct of Col. C. C. TEW, formerly Superintendent of tbe Stats Military Academy at Columbia, S. C Circculars will be forwarded on application. February 18, I860. 7 wAswIypd. ALL PERSONS JIAYING IN TUEIR POS SESSION borrowed books from my .'jbrarv are re quested to return tbera. As it now becomes absolutely neoer ary that they should be replaced bv the 1st day of January next r JOHN KERR. Oct. 18. 18S0. 48 wAswSw. NOTICE. THIS IS TO CERTIFY that I sra no longer agent for any person, and. in ibe future. I shall conduct bust, ness on my own account. In winding up tha agency that baa existed for tbe past three rears, it is necesxarv that all persona owing bilia on tbe old score should settfe np without delay, and for that .purpose I have made I hem out to date, without respect to person or property. Hoping that none vf the above delinquents will give me ud necessa ry trouble, I beg leare to subscribe mvxelf, Your Humble at-rrant, J. B. FRANKLIN. P S. In retiring from tbe above agency which I bar conducted with a great deal of t nccet for the past three years, I would return my warmest thanks lor tbe very lib eral patronage heretofore bentowed upon me, and I promise for the fulnre to so deal and conduct my business that I shall at least enlist Tour wannest gud wishes, and to a very great extent your future patronage, for I shall be bvtter able and more willing to keep on band the largest stock of every article in Ihe Confectionary and Fancy Goods line tbmt'bss ever been kept in Raleigh. COllE ONE! COME ALL! ! " . FRANKLIIPS. Nov. 28,1800. V5 tt , TTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AP 1 wl PLICATION will be made to ibe preseut session of Ibe Legislature for the enactment of a law to proh-bit the sale of spirituous liquors within two miles of the Reynold son Institute, in Gates county. Kuv.,84, I860. 95 lm. NOTICE. APPLICATION WILL Bg MADE TO THE LEGIS LATURE of North-Carolina fir an act to incorporate tbe town of Boon Hill, Johnston County, N. C. November 80, I860. - SS lm. ' BETWEEN THREE AND F0UP HUNDRED HEAD of Cabbage and Greens for sale. Price two eta. a j.Tes, Afply at tbfs office. JO It. COLLARS! COLLARS!! , NEW STYLES. UWTOW GARROTE, 5ATI05AL BYRON. BAT. DENE BYRON, . ' BAr- ' - ' Just reoeired. . At HARD1HG8. fTEW STYLE OF CA SSI MERE SUITS AND Riru iM til Lai Y EL VEX VESTS, , K,CH ' " Jnst received, -.'r,-.:.;.;; ai Harding's. FRENCH BEAVER CLOTH OYFB-SACKS-Bl., Brews and Bbie colors. Lined thriugbout with eVchiac Kent and baodsome style of Garment, v Just received, At HARDING'S. S; ATIXET PANTS FOtt SERVANTS ' . . 809 pairs Just received, " At IIABDIXG'S. ATDfET COATS FOR SERVANTS .150 just opened - cbeap sod gnod. At HARDIYrw Raleigh, V. C, Kov. 1. I860. !2 w"i7,' Register and Spirit of the Age copy. OIL! OIL!! OIL!!! A. wnrTlVPRttCPSnviiii-T. E I LINSEED OIL, - - TANNERS OIL, TRAIN OIL, ELEPHANT LAMP OIL, COD LIVER 01I-. AXLE GREASE, IN B0XE3. FINE LIQUORS AND CIG ARS.-R. A. WHIT. AKER keeps ou band tbe largest stock of Fine Li! quors io tbe City. ALSO, Fiae Chewing Tobacc aad Havaaa Cirara. E. Am WUITAJfER REEPS THE BEST SELECTED STOCK OF FAMILY Groceries in Ibe City. , -Kaleigb, Nov. 2166". S5 St. A GRAND VIRGINIA DISCOVERY. SOME FOUR MONTHS SINCE, OCR EXCELLEXT townsman, Namttali Exskibl, informed us that he bad prepared a hair restorer with which be was enri. menting upon bis own bead, whose top was entirely bald We saw bim two days since, and on tbe place so bald fi,Ur months since, a line crop of bair baa sprang np with arir. on his growth So conn Deed is Mr. Ezesiel i.f ibe efiica. cy of his discovery, that be bas named it "The Infallible Virginia Hair Restorer." Mr. R. is sbont going into an extensire manufacture of ta article which is destined to prove of snxinus interest to our bald pated friends. From Itichmend uuirtr, Becmhr litk, 18i,. , .... This famous article can now be Dad of the principal Druggists. Tbose persons who desire a fine bmd of hair bare only to nse tbe restorer according to printed direct tions on the bottle. Those wbo hare sny doubts of its effi cacy, can have them removed in a short "time, br using lbs INFALLIBLE VIRGINIA HAIR RESTORER, proVing that it is all that it is claimed to be. Wholesale depot for orders, 69 Mais Sireet. N. EZEKIEL Richkokd, Xorember 14. 1S59. I. N. EZEKIEL, take oath on tbe Holy Bible, that I bar been bald fr the past 13 vears. and hare restored mr bair by using EZEKIEL'S VIRGINIA HAIR RESTORER. NaPHTALI EzEKIEU This day sworn to before me, by Naphtali Ezekiel. .. Joseph Mato. Mayor of Richmond. For sale by- P. F PESCrD, Raleigh. N. C. January 1 8, I860. 5 wAswly. STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA, A PE0CXAMATT0S', By Hit Excellency, Johs W. Ellis, Gozernor of the State of North-Carolina. WHEREAS, tbe return of the election of tbe Electors for President and Vice President of the United States, held on Tnesdsy next after the first Monday ol No veniber instant last, the 6th day ol the month, the time appointed by tbe Act of Congress" and in conformity with the regulation- of the Statntes of the State, have been re ceived at tbe Executive office from the Sheriffs ot the sever al counties (Alleghany, Bladen and Madison excepted,) and the same having been examined and summed np, tbe result of the said election ia Kinnd to be aa follows, that is to say, A. M. Scales and Ed. G- Ha wood e&ch received fortv eight thousand, one hundred snd fifty-three votes; John w. Moore, Wm. A. Allen and J. R. McLean each received for ty-eigbt thousand five hundred and thirty-eight voles; W. U. Rodman and J. M. Clement eacb received forty-eight thousand, fire Hundred and thirty-nine votes; A. V Yen. able and Junius A. Fox eacb received forty-eight thousand : ve hundred and thirty-seven votes ; and John A. Dick son received forty-eigbt thousand Cre hundred and thirty two votes: And that Geo. E. Badger received forty-four thousand four bu' drc-d and sixty-one vutes ; R K." Speed received fiirtv-fbur thousand four hundred and fiftv-ntne votes : J. W.Uinton, Charles C. Clark. O. H. Dockery, L. C. Ed wards, Henry Walser and W. P. Bynum each received for-ty-fiur thousand nine hundred votes ; A. G. Foster receiv ed fortv-four thousand, nine hundred and ninety votes; ana B. S. Gaither received forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-eight votes. And that K. M. Henrv received fifty-two votes. And that D. K. McRae and Kob't. P. Dick eacb received two thousand six hundred snd fiftv-nine votes; S. W. Watts, F. D. Kooi.ce, D. McDoagaid, Henry W. Miller, John Morrison, T. W. Keen, snd W. R. Myers' eacb receiv ed two thousand seven hundred and one votes; and that J. D. Hyman received two thousand seven hundred votes: Nowtherefore, I John W. Ellis, Governor of tbe State of North-Carolina, do berebv proclaim and make knows that A. M. Scales, Ed. G. Haywood. John W. Moore. Wm. B. Rodman, Wm. A. Allen. A. W. Yenable, J. R. McLean, J. M. Clement, Junius A. Knx, and John A. Dickson, bare been duly chosen as electors of President and Vice Presi dent of ihe United States, on behalf of this State for four years from and after tbe fourth day of March next. And I do in like manner nntirr and warn them, and eacb of them, to attend in the Cnpilol at Raleigh on tbe first Wednesday in December next, it being the 5th day thereof, to form an' Electoral College, and to vote for President and Vice President t aforesaid, according to the provisions of the Constitution and Laws of the United States. rt a 1 I" 'estimoiiv whereof I have hereunto set my I-1" "- hand and caused tbe Great Seal of State to be affixed. Done at the City of Raleigh, tbis tbe 10th dsy of Novem ber, A. I. Ifi0. By he Governor, JOHN W. ELLIS. - Gka'baii Daves, Private Secretary. November, 2o, I860. t3 wAswtd. NOTICE. - APPLICATION WILL BE MADE TO THE NEXT Legislature of North-Carolina, by the citizens of Rockingham and vicinity, (Richmond county.) for the pas sage of a law to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors with in two miles of tbe Courthouse. November 13, 1800. SI lm. NOTICE. A LARGE SALE. HAVING DETERMINED TO REMOVE TO ALA BAMA, I will commence selling my property st pub lie auction on Thursday, 2Mh day of December, and con tinue from day to day, until all is disposed of. I expect to ell between 300 and hOO barrels of corn, 10 pens of shucks, 40 stacks of fodder, between ISO and l.Vi fat bogs for pork, a few fine sows, a number of cattle, among tbem a thorough bred Levoo Bull, and some Devon Calves, half breed Also a large supply of farming utensils and kitchen and house hold furniture, a fine Piano, Melodeon, Ac, Ac Tbe pork will be sold for cash ; tbe otber property on a credit of nine months. Bond and approved security re quired. . LINN B. SANDERS. ' t?f Register and Press copy three times and send bills to tbis office. Nov. 27, I860. . : 95-td. J. X. 6ECA3?I.irr. BOOK BtNDKR & BLAHK BOOK HAST- 7ACTUBEB, RALEIGH,' If. C, RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE CITIZENS OF Raleigh and tbe vicinity generally, thst he will promptly and punctual! vat tend to tbe binding of Aef paptrt, JUaoatimf and PtriodUaU of all kinda and in any atvle, plain or oma menial, on mndera'e terms. Or All BLANK BOOKS ordered from me are manu factured by me, in the City of Raleigh, K. C. December 2S. 18.'. - 109 wAswly. HOI TOR . CHRISTMAS. PLEASE THE CHILDREN! PLEASE THE CHILDREN. CHRISTMAS TOTSTCHBISTICAS TOYS ! AT COST fAT COST!! .', FINE SEGA RS GOOD CHEWING TOBACCO. ' ' -..; -,'-atao," ... A LOT OF FINE SHOW CASZS. : AU for cost at tha old Store of ; i . w ,. -. DODD k BCHEIB. Sor. 87, 1360. ,. " ' -lt . - PUBLIC NOTICE. MIOTICS 13 HEREBY GIVEN THAT APPLICATION IK will be made to the next session of tbe Legiseature of S C . for a law prohibiting tbe sale of intoxicating li quors within two miles of Sew Hope Academy, Chatham ounnty.N.O. . P. fEARINGTON. JOrremberSOjlSffd. 9-)u)-