Newbern weekly progress., 1859-12-06
FROM OUR CoRREsPoNnElz d
ECJrespondence of the Daily Progress
SALISBURY. i. c.. NoY. 2atI. 1850

self. In view of this trusm, my repntstson fgr
the possession of that estimable quality If real
ly had any) must be sadly impaired l,y NY
long absence from your columns. 7 could 0s7er
many extenuating reasons; however the loss
1nine-not yours your readers for, Is every
one knows, have two very excellenE weeIiies
here whose local columns reflect everY Incident
of interest that transpires here from which yeu1
may Gull ad H6itun. These Stirring tslues
and paucity of items with which to stuff 9azs-
chy news letters has been cause Of MY r4eezif
taciturnity, but the reverse, rather so mnNE Sd
that | feared to commence, lest might scft Ill
ad infaitsm; until black Sam shofd eIf E5 -
room some fine morning and find me 41ai III s
looking in the tire place, with M eTs 4|I.sEs
and NIX 5N ind All pulled ont. Shtitai5l s ms IL 4
COMM evef Day more y III ~ y
right in suggesting multiplication of newspaper
issues here. Although I have resolved to
'pitch in " feel like one stripped off for cold
bath, looking falteringly at the pool 10th to make
/ the plunge. All it makes me feel contented with
my lot when think what toilirg titans you ed
itors must be; what drudging pack horses to
censorious and ungratefp public you are. Still
[ may estimate your tolls, since rapidity OF
thought and concseness of expression is your
forte, mile in my amateur attempts pleonasms
and tenuity predominate nimporte.
| The Superior Court is III session; Judge
t Heath the bench. Last week, Oscar, valua-
| BILE slave of Major Foard, of Concord Cabarrus
county, was tried for his life charge of assault,
4 with attempt at rape, the person of Mrs. Bry-
ant in Concord, young, beautiful, intellectual
land highly respectable lady, wife of Mr.. Bryant,
formerly a citizen of this place; the trial lasted
three days, and the moderation, impartiality and
feeling with which it conducted, would be
inconcevable, almost to many of the unthinking,
who are born and bred in the South; and by small
but deestable party in the North, relation of it
would be secuted at as hyperbole, or as pure fab
ricaton. The jury found him guilty after being
out half an hour; sentence of death has not yet
been passed. This is such interesting case
that will devote another letter to it.
A few days ago two abolitonists of the most
fragrant kind, from Connecticut, under the guise
r>of book agents, put in Jail here. AT their
examination before Mayor Shaver, many damnngi
facts were elected in connection with their prowl
incs through Salisbury and neighborhood, in the
shape of tampering variously with slaves, pulse
feeling of non-slavehoding whites, confabng
with free negroes &c; indeed they arrested
in free negro house, in which it stated they
had soonrned, la Hotel de Dumas! All this,
together with the incoherent and contradictory
statements made by themselves, relative to their
business and movements, warranted the Mayor
in ordering them to jail to await trial. The in
dignaton OF the citizens was so wrought up that
the miscreants begged piteously for protection
from the Office to the Jail.
The same morning the old Methodist Church
was discovered to be on fire; the fire company AID
engine were soon the ground, and efficiently
at work that fine brick edifce, the Metho
dist Church, being only a few feet from the old
one, was in great danger, and saved solely
| by the most strenuous exertions of the company
and some others the burning Church, being of
pine wood, old and dry, was completely consumed.
That it was the deliberate work of some incarnate
fiend, admits of no doubt and the point was well
selected to insure prodigious confagration for
besides the new Church side there on
the other fine train of combustible buildings
which would have inevitably conducted the Gr
to the Boyden House, after which the heart of the
town must have been reduced to ashes the en-
tire absence of wind favored the exertions of the
company. One word regarding the Fire Company i
| It is newly organised; numbers about fifty, and
is very fine sample of the better order of til
citizens here; the energetic and jocular Coffin
(contradiction<of terms, Notwithstanding is the
Captain The Engine is small, but can throw off
more water than can, by present arrangements,
be put into it many joined the company to get
rid of mastering, they could not have joined in
better time since the spirit of aboitionism seems
| 20 be abroad, looking for unguarded hooks in |
which to throw fire brand
/ Speaking of mastering, reminds me, that must |
say, the muster of the Rowan Regiment here on !
the 10th inst, really grand affair, far exceed
ing the expectations of any one, excepting CD. |
Moore, who having very properly determined to
carry out the law to the letter, had taken meas
ures and issued orders according. There were
some 100 in all, in the line and Ienly observed
three without the requisite fire arms. I saw 10
body drunk all day. 1t is curious to see that
some sections of the county produces only
scraggy oe-begone, ill-used looking individuals.
while others send only stalwart, healthy, cheer
full looking fellows the result of my theorizing
the matter is, that in the early settling of the
country Z" like followed like on the principle |
that misery loves company, and the reverse, or |
as the adage has it g birds of feather flock to-
getler." The ensemble of this grand display was
wanting in one important feature; that the
pre{ence of our fine Band at the head of the col
umn this ones fault however, for Col |
Moore in accordance with the whole soul that is |
in him, offered atone TO pay the Band any price !
they could reasonably ask; but five of the men,
bers unavodablv absent, and the remainder /
did not care to represent the whole Band before
so many strangers as were here that day.
4 store was broke open last Friday night, and |
from six to eight hundred dollars worth of watch
es and iewelry carried off; the losers are two
strangers, who had been here few days selling
at auction; neither of them slept in the store;
we have guard here; the entire righte0mS pop
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