The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1860-12-29
WHOLE NUMBER 1910
THE NEWS, &C,

THE NEWS, &C.
! YovSG BoorH.-Mr. Edwin Booth is playing at
2 the Winter Garden ia e.cw York. On Wednesday
5 evening he appeared in ''Rcheeu," the house be-
ing crowded to excess and the audience being
1 tirey overcome By the SURPRISING powers of the
young tr.seLian. Enthusiasm, however, reached
its he ght At the point when Richelieu attempting
) to WELD the sword and flilins says
-"Put away the sword,
II States may be saved without it."
The sudi,-n gave political application to the
lines, ard hailed them with prolonged cheers
DoN,r RELISH THE IpEA-Prentice says :. 1--WE.
give n,,tice that we intend to continue the pubca
ton of The Louisville Journal until the 4th OF
March, 1865, and shalt print in the United States
We don't relish the idea OF CO. .lating New Albany
and Jetfersonvile Qnliana) items under the head Of
Foreign News"
SoAE CAL,co..rhe Merrimac Company of Lowel1s
ed IL 600, 100 yards of cloth consuming 2376 s9l.
:. pounds of cotton.
OLp iAsoxs-rropaoay NJ sr.- -osa~~t es
the Masonic order in the United States, At least IN
New England, is Ebenezer Moves. a member Of the
Morning Star Lodge at Worcester, Mass. He is
now hundred years of age. He was initial
! ed Febuary Is. 1894. In Syracuse, N. Y, there
lives another mlson, Maj. George Middleton, whose
imitation into the mystic order dates back to 1884,
/ MISSISSIPPI SECESSION.
The election for the Convention last week result
ed in large majority of delegates In favor OF lnHe
diate and separate secession.
/ How IT RECEIVED IN CoScREss.-The repor
that South Carolina had passedn ordinance OF seces-
sion brought to the House at O'Clock. ltpro-
duced intense excitement among the members and.
for long time confused the proceedings
| About eighteen Young ladies', Just seeded from
the seminaries in Pennsylvania and New York, pass
ed through Washington last week, their return to
the South. Bravo fair daughters of the South!
Lieutenant W. Hampton Gibbes of the I'm ted.
Sta. Army, has forwarded his resignation tsthS
Secretary OF War
The following is the senatorial Committee of IS
Critenuen,
Douglas Coilamer, Davis Wade Biger, Rice D'o-
little and Grimes. ;,
Tney appointed for the same PURPOSE d. lily
House COMMITTEE OF 81.
T.xAs.-Our countrymen in Texas, says an e1-
change like the notion of a dss olntion of the Union.
Mrs Marsartta Canedo sings thus IN the 0atSes'on'
News:
Sons of the brave. while shia ne the swords,
That drove the oppressors from our ,alu'
Shall we give way to Northern hofues
We tAsely cringe at their commandf
No ncver.-w while there yet remains
A drop OF that heOrie bloou
That d yed our dear bought battle-plalAs
Wei meet the foe, we'll breast the bioods
They have also, resolved at Galveston, INA .ile
Union can only be preserved ny such eus'
from the Northern States viii restore the eqnai-
inv of the States in the Union, and nrin8 pro.ce
ion 10 slave property and permanent peace to n2sn
sss.isns.1s;is.s1ss1l -; =
during the Mckenzie Rebc n, and inveterate old
Scotch Royalist and aboonist has lately been
elected to tho house of comInons in Canada;
Canada correspondent say that oir -Alah cree
ton is due the colored vote OF Chatham, whcn Il
l,rlv co,nposed of colored and they invariably
vote tor Sir Allan, they believe he can speak
good word for them with Queen Victoria; Iney
were tod that his opponent would go 1or ug'eve
Slave law felected, and OF course, tiAey "oai" ~
no parties aiding him.
N,vr wo,,n-nE MA.rrRs-Itis amusing to see tho
RE.curK are making become martyrs IN the cause
OF aboltinnis IL. They seem to be quite ensious ..
the reputation Of old Jons bhowT, n.d au nd;y
al they are craving with "a great slhnet ioI 'ne
honors of m .rt srdom. On Sunday last ooth tnsse'
gentlemen tried hard to compete win o'o ,hs
n place on the red roll of martyrs out he,nei ~
pc,.,lc Of Boston Brooklyn. II seems "ooio ooe'
them Petersburg ELpfess.
! MOBILE Dcc-The election for delegates to the
State Convention took pl.ce to-day Inc separate
State secession ticket III TINS CITY 10 s's~ -
thousand ma ority.
SOUTH CAROLINA POSTAL SYSTEM
4 spec ial committee of the South Caroi'ha hes,
isature have made a report concerning 'ns Poa Pa
system If the ,tae after secession. lhe proposeo.
arrangement with AdamsiG 20 Express Is oeciAl
cd to bc inadequate to the eAigencies OF Tue 'A'''
and therefore they submit the following A..
Resolved That avert, as tar as practicaDies lo
coo,n.r,iai .mbarrassments that would result io'
am anruut cessation Of postal arrangements IN aa .
through this State, all the persons ensas" thor;z ~
Il, r,f
cd aud requested to continus In the
such services to the community until postal .ieaay
shall have been concluded between 'nis o'''e ~
the government of the United states
i pv,,x,r s,,SsEr-Thc reporter of the London
rm.s Who visited this country with the Prince ot
w ales welded a ready pen. The grand PraLieso u
,ha wrst must have inspired HIM with remarkable
sensations He thus dagucrotypes u sunset
1t took place in all its supernatural giory-a glory
which can eyer bc described or understood by those
xxnohaye not seer,tas hc neared the richhorzon
!, t,rncd the whoe ocean of meadow into sheet OF
,od wu,cn seemed to blend with the great TRINA
., red. and pinks-pale rosy orange hues and SOL
en,n angry looking crimson clouds above, TIL not
only the skv but ali the land around swaythed
in piles af color MS if the heavens were reflected
from below or if the sinking sun shone through
the very earth like mist and turned into RAINBOW.
The inlnen<ty Of stiffness which lay IN the prai II.
then-a stiffness then profound and vast as the great
solitude its.it while not breath stirred over the
whole horizon as the great ,ransniutatlon went
slwl on the colors over the lana turned rom
ROSY 10 pink from pink to orange orange to red and
| cIlnson-darkenng always as the colors ebbed OUT
like celestial tide leaving fragments OF scarlet
clouds over the heavcn the enhcrs OF the fire which
| nau lit the prairie IN IA II lne oI Siory
VI There SUCH a uu ct, uispcakaote richness IN
i this grand fare ell of dar-sucii terrible redneSz
about the sky at last that could almost fancy
is some supernatural phenomenon had occurred, thai
the sun gone forever, and LETT deep and CORY
!. wound across the darkehng sky. Night was u re
n lief compared this dread, iurid fire heaven
fire which, like the paintings of the sunset befor'