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Distress amonr tha PeonIe.

DAStIeeS among the -EeOpi6.
The federal treasury is without funds, and the
consequences is that government officers and thou
sands of their creditors in small way suffering
for money The greatest hardship, it is stated pre-
walls in New York and Brooklyn among naval off,
GERS, sailors, and sailors wives, owing to the nom
arrival of the usual monthly money from the treas
ury. Butchers, grocers, taors, and others to whom
money is due are clamorous The Herald says
terrible winter is before the working people of New
York, Philadelphia, and other Northern cities. 1t
is estimated that there are even now ten thousand
men walking about New York seeking work Some
Of these men no doubt voted for Lincoln, and now
they feel the effects of it.
In the South, too the aboring portion of the pop
ulation is beginning to feel the hard times Nearly
all the mechanics of Atlanta, for example, out of
work. The LOcomotioe of that place says "there is
indeed great deal of suffering among the laboring
classes in midst and we think something should
be done for them" Georgia has passed law sus-
pending the collection of debts This is partial re-
pudation.
We hear already in North Carolina the notes of
coming distress Under the dsunion panic which
has been gotten up specie is being boarded, the
BANKS nave contracted their accommodations credit
are pushing debtors, and the prospect is that
vast deal of property will be sacrificed under the
sheriff's hammer. Creditors will demand the spe-
Gle, and then property worth one hundred dollars
will be knocked off at twenty-five dollars for the
specie is not to be had. Mr.. Buchanan says the
election of Lincoln is not good for dissolvng
the Union the :ire-eaters say it is, and hence the
distress with which the people of this State are
threatened.
The federal treasury is really in very straitcned
circumstances. Mr.. Cobb Is straining every nerve
to meet the January interest on the United States
bonds; but it seems that even in this condition of
things the members of Congress from SouthCrro-
lima, Alabama Georgia, and Mississippi have drawn
their pay and mileage, which leaves the treasury
without money for similar service to other members"
We find this fact in the Washington correspondence
of the New York Herald. And yet some of these
members refuse to vote to serve committees,
because their States going out of the Union
We state these facts with humiliation and shame as
a Southern Editor. We beg the true men of the
North and West not to judge the Southern people
by the conduct of these members of Congress. The
government they say is sinking but they care
full to clutch the last dollar the work of Washing
ton disappears forever Oh chivalryl
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e#e The Hilsboro' Plaindedler is disposed to
censure us because we do not bow down andapprove
the disunion recommendations of Gov. Ellis's mes
sage We repeat what we have heretofore said,
that Gov Ellis was reelected as a Constitutional
Union man and that if he had announced in his
campaign the views contained in his late message,
he would have been defeated by large majority
His proposition to commit the State and consult
the people afterwards, is undemocratic and refec-
ton on the popular power and intelligence. If the
Paindealer is disposed to assa us, let it do so in
direct and manly way. The South Carolina leaders,
to whose car an effort IS now being made to hitch
North Carolina, have no respect for the great body
of the people, but would first drive them into dis
union and then establish them strong govern
ment, to be managed by the few at the expense OF
the many These leaders hold that the great mass
of the people who labor for their daily bread should
not be permitted to control events or make laws
We know this to be So And there are leaders in
North Carolina who entertain similar views. They
hold that our present system has failed and that the
masses must hereafter be controlled by stronger
government This is part of the disunion pro-
gramme. Is the Editor of the Pldindealer party
to this movement2 If he is, let him say so. Let
him tell the people of Orange in plain terms that he
endorses disunion Governor who has denounced
working-men without cause in the bitterest terms,
and who told member of the Opposition to tell Mr..
Pool that the next time he met him. he would speak
of these men in stronger language than had ever
been used about criminals in Courthouse! We
know that the Editor of the Plaindeaer is not dis
posed to be the slave of power, and we believe he
will concur with us that it is more respectable to be
a black than white slave. e-I,.s4 $50. a.
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NSES.
REM A RKS.

Experienced and thoroughly qualified teachers give their
entire time to their respective departments
Extra charges and needless expenses strictly pro-
hibed-necessary purchases made BY the teachers
Pcayune pedars not allowed to enter the premises and
pocket money is required
Oxford is situated on the healthy hills Of Granville IL
miles from the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad and is
neced with Henderson Station by daily line of stages
The scholastic year is divided into two sessions The
first opens the first Monday in July and closes the
last Thursday in November The second opens the first
Monday in January and cses with the annual commence
ment on the last Thursday in May.
Students received for sessions. Cores
pOndents will direct their favors to
..--1. MILLS d CO., Oxford, N. C.
December II, 1860. lOl-tf
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Hon. F. W. PfcKENs.-Ths gentleman, who has
been abroad four years as Minister to Russia, has
returned to his native State South Carolina and
the evening of the 3Oth of last month he delivered
violent disunon speech at Columbia The repre-
sentative of thrtyone States has dwinded to the d.
mansions Of an orator urging one State to secede
without good cause How would flag bearing one
star be received in the waters of Russia? What great
power in Europe would respect it? But the dream
of Mr. Pickens life is about to be realized. Twenty
seven years ago he determined with Duff Green,
that there one question which would unite the
South and dissolve the Union, and that was the
question of slavery. He labored with Mr.. Calhoun
to break down Gen. jackson an6 the Democratic
party, but failed. The work. however, went on,
and Mr.. Yancey finished it; and now Mr.. Pickens
returns from Russia, where he had consideration
and respect not because he was South Carolinian
but because he represented the great Republic of
the EARTH and takes steps to destroy that Republic
and to overwhelmn with anguish the friends of free
institutions in all lands. Better that he had frozen
to Russia than to have returned to engage in such
work.
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The Georgia and South Carolina Contention.

CHARLESTON, Dec. THE Georgia Senate has re-
jected the bill calling Convention of Southern
States. This is viewed as an indication of the in
tention of Georgia to secede separately.
The election of delegates to the South-C Carolina
Convention was quiet one. A very full vote was
poed. The result will not be known till to- morrow
1t is generally conceded that Judge Magrath will
head the ticket W. Porcher Miles, it is conceded,
is elected
There is a rumor on the streets to-day that the
Federal Government is engaging laborers for Fort
Moutrie, and drilling them as recruits.
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81 The State Journal speaks of the courtesy
which he received, or could have received as State
Printer at the hands of all the other offices in this
City, with the exception Of the Standard and then
adds, I've consider them incapable of the meanness
to which we have been subjected" Now, in the
first place the State Printer asked no courtesy at
hands He knew that the manner in which he had
obtained his place had deprived him of all claim on
us. He was elected by combination and by
sort TO means which placed him outside the craft
One member in caucus voted for Mr.. Avent another
for Mr.. Whitaker another for Mr.. Smith, and anoth-
er for Mr.. Spelman; but at last a bare majority
united on the latter. What part of the plumber"
those who were defeated are to have we know not.
But who is this fellow who has suddenly dropped
down in Raleigh to lecture US on "meanness ~
Where the evidences of his holiness of DISPOSE
ton? Are they to be found in the fact that he is
now the white slave of men in power, who will use
him as long as they can proGtby him and then cast
him aside? Can he even call his soul his own? Is
it not true that he has been set up in business by
parcel of arstocrats who using him. not because
they like him, but because they hate us? And is it
not true that the freedom of the press has thus been
State that this is So The State Journals the organ
of clique, who using it to advance themselves
to power-of clique who care nothing for the peo-
pie so they can obtain the offices and honors-ofa
clique who TO advance their unholy ends, would
rush this State into the vortex of dsunion now open
ing to receive South Carolina These men have
usurped here at the centre far they can do it
the control Of the Democratic party. Every Demo-
crat who will not bow down to hem-who will not
go with them for disunion,-and who will not laud
them the ablest the purest and the most patriot
ic in the land is at once marked as a dsorgan-
izer. And this fellow Spelman is their tool. Gov.
Ellis brought him here, as he sent him to Salisbury
He was about to starve at the latter place. at the
head of an establishment which cost him nothing,
and part of which is owned by the Governor him
self; and hence the late movement by which he was
transferred to Raleigh, and put on the State for sup
port. AND yet this concern lectures us on "mean-
nessi"
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BOOKS.

VUIHE LIFE, SPEECHES AND MEMORIALS OF
Il DANIEL WEBSTER BY Samuel NJ. Smucker A. ~
MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF HENRY CLAY :;
By A. II. Carrier.
TOWARDS DOMESTIC MEDICINE FOR THE PEO-
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and will be offered for few days in the City of Raleigh BY
the undersigned agent whOs canvassng for their sale
Now good time TO copy of each of the above
popular works. and the Agent hopes obtain large list
Of subscribers. The books recommend themselves.
T. A. FUTRAL, Agent.
December II, 1860. lOl-'f
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HTGHES, ACAnRMV.

TIME NFXT SESSION OF THIS SCHOOL, UNDER
IL the charge n the subscriber Principal and II. Nor
wood Joint Principal, will begin MONDAY January
9TH, 1851. Terms 1 heretofore Tuition in Classical de-
parment $2i In English department SIS co. Board
the hill ST 5n elsewhere from s49 90 A. 90 per
session. Religious service at the Academy often
vrnient. s. w. UGHES.
December II, $50. S0-w3t.
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AR. CLNGxAN-One of the Washington cores
pondentS of the New York Herald says: South
carolina has spoken through Hammond, Chestnut
Nett and her federal officers; Davis and Brown do
not exaggerae the stern resolve of Mississippi to Sc
cede any way; CIingman has afforded abundant
proof of the great anti-Union revolution that has
aken place in North Carolina" This correspondent
Is mistaken. If Mr. Clingman is for disunon for
existing causes the people of this State are against
n'm by an immense majority.
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eB" We have nothing definite from Washington.
The Republic is in peril, and all good men there
ought to labor and make sacrifices to save it 1t
seems to be regarded almost certain that four or
five of the cotton States will secede. The large
jority by which the House Committee of thirty
three the state of the country ordered to be
raised, is good indication. The result of the de-
alterations of this committee will be looked for with
intense interest
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COMMISSIONER FROM ALABAMA.-We learn that
lsham W. Garrett, ESQ.,, is g. present in this City
as Commissioner from the State of Alabama, to
consult with the Governor and Legislature of this
State on the condition Of the country Mr., Garrett
is native of Arson County, in this State, aud re-
ceived his education in Raleigh and Greensboro and
at the University at Chapel Hill, of which he is
graduate.
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sw- William Benjamin Smith, of the Tarbo-
rough Mercury, attempts to be witty at our ex-
pense. The sad Benjamin is a mere adventurer in
this State He amounts to nothing, look at him
and weigh him as you will We feel complimened
by his abuse. We entertain very sincere con-
tempt for him. We say to him, go, poor creature
the world is large enough for both thee and me- !"
Do not be concerned Benjamin-your large negro
property is in no danger. FssH-..
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SALE OF LANDi @a
NTORTH.CAROLINA- COUNTY.-Court

II OF Equity, Fail Term, 1861.
Pursuant order of the Court of EQUITY for Wake
county, in the of B. W. Sarke Mark A. Upchurch and
Others the undersigned Clerk and Master of said county,
will proceed to SELL the 9TH day oS January next 1884,
the premises the lands in the pleadngs mentioned and
described witt One House and Lot Harge street. sd-
joining the Lots Of W. C. Holleman and B. Perkinson
known in the plan of the city of Raleigh part OF Lot 1873
and another House and Lot the East side of Blount
street. adjoining the Lots of David Register aud the Misses
White and known in the plan aforesaid part of Lot 1853
and also tract of 80 acres Tippers CTBss Roads
The above Lots have good houses Them and are ioca-
ed in healthy part of the City.
TERMS SALE:-Fify dollars of the purchase money
will be required 10 be paid in Cash and q credit of one and
two will be given to purchaser for the balance the
purchase money by his entering into bond with approved
surety for the same.
&c. LEWIS, CINE
December 8, 1860. IO0-w&swtJani.
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LADIES FAIR.

TNHE YOUNG LADIES OF THE METHODIST
Il Church in this City will hold FAIR on the evenings
Of the 18th and 18th December at the Hall of the Raleigh
Female Seminary, HilsborO Street, commencing at
O'Clock.
December IL, 1860. lOl-It.
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AHdira in TsrGs

New ORLEANS, Dec cit is the understanding
between the members of the Texas Legislature that
they will meet at Austin on the Nth of December
without any formal call by the Governor 1t is un-
derstood that convention of the people will be
called on the Sth of January.
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OXFORD FEMALE COLLEGE.
IITERARY SCHnnI.

TTNHIS SCHOOL COMPRISES EIGHT PERMANENT
Il LY organized classes whose studies commence with
the alphabet and continued in the Elementary Branches
Mathematics Languages English Literature Natural Sci
ences and Moral Philosophy until the minds of the stu
dents properly trained for the duties of Ie The
vestgatons and discussions thorough and compehen
sve Necessary apparatus is freely supplied The Libra
res and Cabinets embrace and collections.
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The State Journals now the only Democratic pa
per in Raleigh-the Standard having gone bodily
into the arms of the Opposition. Journal
The above is an infamous falsehood, and the hire
ling of Gov Ellis and the disunion clique knew it to
be false when he penned it
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TO THE PUBLIC.

HAVING GIVEN TO WILLIAM F. FORT OF RA-
leigh, my note for sixty dollars, payable the LIST of
January, 1851 and the conditions which the said note
given not having been complied WITH hereby fore.
warn all persons against trading for said note, will not
pay the same.
THOMAS X. HOWLE.
December 8, 1860. lUl-3tpd.
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December s, 1860.
STATE OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA.--Ro
- HAM COUNTY-Wiliam w. Roper and others vs..
Glenn, administrator of Charles Roper deceased-In
Equity -'t-ss ssd
In this case is referred to the Master to state the
count of c. L. Glenn, the Admir- of Chas Roper, decd
and that be advertise for all of the OF kin Of the said
Chas Roper decd to appear before him at the time ana
place of taking the same and prove their relationship
In obedience to the foregoing order notice is hereby civ
en- that have appointed my office in the town Of Went
WORTH Rockingham county the place. and Saturday be-
foreabe last Monday in March, 1861 when and where
shall proceed to state the above mentioned which
time and place all persons claiming be the next Of Of
said Charles Roper requested make their appearance
and proof to make before if proof they their
said relationship TO the said intestate. - -.
"A N. SCALES C. n. z.
Dec. z, 1850. Pr. adv. sls,1 looTtapl.
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In 1851, Henry S. FoOte took ground against the
Democratic States right party of Mississippi, and
fused with the Wings in what they termed the
Union party. For this he was mathematical by
all good States Rights men, and by the Editor of
the Standard Foote succeeded in defeating the
Democratic States Rights party once, and by small
majority. Soon thereafter Mr.. Foote "heard some
thing drap," and the country has heard very little
about Mr.. Foote since. Begging pardon Of Mr.
Foote for the association the Editor Of the
Standard and others of that ilk.-tState Journal
In 1851 the Hon. Howell Cobb and many other
Southern Democrats pursued the same course which
Mr. Foote did; and Mr.. Cobb has since served near
ly four years n trusted and honored Democrat in
Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. The Union safe in
1851 compared with its condition now. At that
day there was no necessity for fusion with the
Wings to save it and the national Democratic party
so decided at Baltimore in 1852; but now the dan
ger is imminent general, alarming, and plain to ALL
The fire-eaters declare that on this question party
lines are wiped out; but if Union Democrat hap
pens to say the same thing and to act accordingly,
he is denounced as a disorganizer and reminded Of
the fate of Foote and others. Now, the Editor of
the State Journal was Wing in 1851, and thought
and knew more about Mr.. Foote and the general
state of the country than if he had ben in hold
HiHgldnd. He must therefore, have obtained his
information about the course of Mr.. Fooe from some
one of the clique. But his informant stopped at the
very point where the secret of Mr.. Foote'S fall be-
gins Mr.. FoOtc joined the KnOW Nothings, and
scds run By them for office in California. That de-
stroyed him as Democrat. 1t is true, the fate of
those who joined the American" party in this
State has been different Such persons are now at
the head of the party, leading and controlling it;
and they will doubtless remain in this position as
long as they think the party has majority. Our
Democracy is not Of that stamp. On all questions
which properly belong to party we are Democrat;
but on the questions of Common Schools, internal
improvements, ad raIOrem, and slavery and the
Union, aoe knOao no party. This has been our po-
sition since 1s4s, and it is position now. The
man who cannot elevate himself above party at
time like this, and look alone to his country, is
sparrow hawk among eagles, and would "mouse"
and plot for his own advancement in the midst of
the ruins of his countrys liberties.
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n The Select and Common Councils of Phila-
uePha have passed resolutions by large majority,
calng on the Mayor to assemble the people OF that
COy in public meeting, to declare their devotion to
Inc Constitution and the Union, and to advise such
acts Of justice to the Southern States as will re-es-
aoiSh the Union on better and more lasting founda-
tons SOD