Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-05-08


NIRGISIA.-Gov. Lcscher has issued his
PROCLAMATION, containing among other mat
ter, the ordinance Of secession and the cove
nants placing that noble State among those
OF the Southern Confederacy. The matter is
to be submitted to the people on the fourth
Monday of the present month, pro formd on
l.y, for the will of the people is well known
and executed in joining the Southern Con
~se1eT%cy.
The Convention has appointed the follow
ing gentlemen to rcpreseht the State Of Yir-
ginia in the Congress Of the Confederate
States, now in session at Montgomery Hon
Wm. G. Rives. Of All-emarles Judge Gideon
D. Campbell, of Harrison. Hon. r. II. I.
Hunter, of Essex Judge ). w. Broken.
borough, of Rockbridge. Walter r. Staples.
Esq, of Montgomery.
1t Is DOW estimated by those best Compel
en- to know, that Virginia can muster into
service one hundred Thousand volunteers.
and the enthusiasm which evidently yervades
all the other seeded States, as well as North
Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkan-
sas, justify the assertion, that they can raise
"a combined force Of 10000 These will
be enough TO whip the entiye FTee State
Abolition force one dczen times over.
Intelligence from tbc West IS now looked
for with marked i~ee5es.. Tbs noble sons Of
Tennessee, Mississippi, louisiana and . Az
kansas, VIZ never consent for the hwless
w~rceDarjcs who DOW eccapy Cairo, to re-
Bam in npdisurbci possession G aSosition,
where their ArrSs and othc, munitions Of var
/, are daily s'oler, and sheir commrrcc annoy
ed and destroyed.
TEsSESseE.-Vbc Nashville BroDcr, q
Q Wednesday, kast, says
The announcement. thai AOa .Iahs Bel
/ would speal as the Court House drew a large
: crowd at an carly hoT, a great deal of anx-
iety being Gels 10 know what bis position *
2 Jr ,hc crisis. Mr. Bell spoke fog about an
: hour- he took bold and uneQuivocal grounds
in a favor a united South, to resist the iBva
: SION not only NS Tennessee, bAs IS every
? Souther . Stats, either North or South Of our
br6eTs Lie declared that TeNnesses bad, in
effect, dissolved her relations with tbe Fed
II eral Union, AMI thCigh he had hoped and
Eab0 ell to the last 10 preserve the Ini0n first;
. and secnnd, if sep ration was lnevitib4e. to
wake il Psiceahle, he now Abandoned all
i such hope, asd his voice was clear and loud
81 10 every Tenness eln-to arms to arms -
He cosnse led the must effective and ener-
getic public and private measures to secare
ut the b st o.ganiEat5,n possible ef thc u~allitaTy
r strength Of the Stats
Non. Ed Ii. Ewing followed ~ ons of the
most ferv,daUd eloquent appeals to the pc
Pc pb 10 prepare Tor war, that we hove eveE
heard. lie declared himself N Esvog Of
i. r0arching upon Washington and taking pos
session Of that city. 1t Is . SoulAea city,
upon Southern soil and should neyer be in
the possession Of usuTpe1s and faraEca-
Hon -1ndrew Ewing f1lowcd in the same
IL strain lie told tho audience how ioDdly and
religious V he had chung to the hope sf pre-.
Nc serving the Union-bow he had been de
ir- ceived IN COMMON with the Union meB Of the
N, bcrder States, by the beacherous double,
to dealing Of the AdEsiniss5ation-hew he haC
been d sven, step by st9p, to mis- present DO
sitioN, and how be was NOW Es a uniteC
rs, South and for the most effective 5~esistqn c.
nd to the pbicy Of tls Aim strltJ>l.
ri A proposition has been made by the Gov
a. eynor Of Kentucky to the Governor of 0hi
nts that The Governors Of the Border States
ION propose to- sbe United States Government 1
~ become aSs'tors hstyeeD Jlae-~e..--.in
- RoAhNo piSSShs uAh@ShN NVhSGloS
an Acting under orders from the President 0
rs the United States, an expedition Of Illinoi
the volunteers crossed oyer to ST. Louis las
=; sight, advanced upon the Federal Arsenal a
St LouiS, and took off immense stores Of ar
per- tillery, ammunition and small arms, whici
had been stosed at that pest by the govern
ater went
try, There was no fighting. Go~. Jackso
hey ought to be hung for suffering it to be don
hrs without resistance
"" LoUNlASA.-Great preparations are in pr
sese grcss for the defence Of New Orleans. IT
not City Council has appropriated S2o9o90 T
NO the purpose. Gov. Moore issued a procl
nation Cd the 18th inst, for 5000 men.
we're Petersburg Express.
heir
efts 70 ~" ta.;NI.t,ra 1aann,mand;na IT, ,
de- State shall preserve a position us arm
neutralHy between the North and the S0ut
The Senate received the message, and adopte
title an address TO the ptOple Of Maryland Stair
-; that the Legislature will nos pass An ordi
ance Of secession, but if the people desire
18th. thav eball have an nnnortnn,ty of dee;di,
and Their future destiny. Tn House appoint
aem- a Committee to IepoI. 4 Convention b
One report is that Hicks has ye,igncA-
sgfes
,ent STIRRING APPEAL-Thc State Journal