Newbern weekly progress., 1860-12-04

The New \ Ork Express OF the 22nd has the
following article to show the Black Republicans
that the South is in earnest:
ARE THEY IN EARNEST?
The Republican journals of the ultra sort are con-
tinually crying out that the South are not IN
earnest, that call their talk is mere braggadocio'
and that sin few weeks the people there Will be
as submissive rs lambs,' etc. No one could
wish to see the unnatural strife. now threatening
to involve the Union in general ruin, at an end
more than we do but the taunts and JeeTs OF
the Neros who are thus fddling while Rome is
burning can never conduce to desirable a re-
sult Upon the heads of all such men the dread
ful responsibility must rest should the worst IN
deed come to the worst.
In order that the public may judge whether
the South is in earnest or not, we give list oi
some Of the orders received within the day or
two past by Mr. Joseph Merwin, of broadway,
an agent of several companies engaged IN the
manufacture of firearms, with the remark that
never before have the dealers III deadly weapons
been so pressed with applications of that charac-
ter from the South. The following is the list, IN
part:
Hampton. Wa dozen revovers and rifles.
Petersburg Na.-Quantity OF bayonets and
Sliarpe's rifles.
II.rtf,rd \ C-50 revolvers, large size.
Robinson county. \. C.--4 dozen revolvers aud
rifles.
Currituc county, \. ca dozen navy revolvers
and rifles.
Pleasant Mount, n &c dozen revolvers.
60. do. do-lO,OOO rounds OF baii
cartridge.
Salem, N C,-3 dozen revolvers, 10000 rounds
of cartridge
Beaufort District, s. C.-i dozen reVoiFcrs' III"
600 rounds of cartridge.
Camden s. C.-3 dozen revolvers, ii ,0oo rounds
OF cartridge.
Charleston s. C.-Several dozen revolvers, to
| one firm, 10000 rounds of cartridge
| Halifax \. C.--l dozen volcanic rifles
| Marietta, Ga.-Specimen rifles and pistols sent
! Geneva. Gag dozen revolvers, 10000 rounds
Griffin. Ga.-i5O revolvers.
! Tecumseh, Ala.-Specimen sent for.
Selma Ala do do. do
Marengo county Ala. --l5O revolvers ordered
Huntsville Ala-Quantity of rifles and pistols
ordered.
Montgomery, Ala.-Volcanic rifles ordered.
Yazoo CITY, Miss $50 Adams navy revolVers
and Derrnger pistols.
Jackson Mss-2 dozen revolvers.
Canton, Miss i dozen revolvers, 5000 rounds
| of cartridge. ~
Honston, Texas-$I GOO worth of pistols, 40
900 rounds of cartridge.
Austin, Texas dozen revoivers and dozen
rifles.
Resides the above. there large orders from
Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and nearly every
slave State in the Union e.
In order to show the spirit pervading the busl
ness correspondence accompanying these orders
we quote .he following extracts:
from MarcngO Co.. 1tG)
eff the weapons come up to expectations, there
can be many a one sold here, for tell you tina
the Southern people determined to arm them
selves and use the arms, if necessary.
From Hcrtford, N c.
&" From 10 to 100 can be sold here Immediately
70, everybody is buying arms, if this excitemen
continues there will be immense quantlt.
sold here in the next four months
(Fron--CO-, Tenn.
taI To
tives iu-cotton factory.
From Griffin. Ga.)
II want $50 revolvers to arm my compan
with. AS to the times, the alarm is general, an
you may depend upon It," =,
There are many other letters written IN tn
= same vein,-all of which certainly goes to sho
: what the writers mean exactly,-the Repubhca
: journals to the contrary, notwithstanding.