Newbern weekly progress., 1861-01-01
FROM THE NEW REPUBLIC!!


South Carolina unimportant. In secret ses-
sion on Wednesday the following was passed ::
An Ordinance to make Professional A53onge-
ments for tie Continuance Of the CoDa,ner-
rial FdciIities of South Carolina:
WHEREAS, 1t is due to the late cOnfederates
of South Carolina in the Federal Union, as also
to Cardinals citizens engaged in commerce,
that no abrupt or sudden change be made
in the rate of duties imports into the
State; and whereas it is not desired by this
State to secure advantages her own ports
above those of the slaveholding States-her
late confederates in the said Union and where
as this ordinance for considerations indicated
is desired to be provisional merely, therefore
we, the people Of South Carolina, do declare
and ordain:
FErSt.-To continue in office those citizens
now holding Federal offices in South Carolina
''eXclusive Of any condition with the United
States"
econd-That the Governor shall fill vacan-
cies occurring in said offices
IHird.-Adopting the revenue laws of the
United States no duties to be collected on
imports from other States of the ''late" Union :;
declaring void the United States laws with re
ference to foreign vessels; all revenues to be
paid into the State treasury all U. S. proper
ty in the State to be delivered by its officers
into the hands of the State officers.
READ THlS.-''1 am starved. have had no.
thing to eat for several days"
This the dying exclamation of poor man
named Luther Shaylor, aged sixty years, who
committed suicide by cutting his throat in Lon
don the 2Ist ult The same journals that re-
cord the coroners inquest in this see,
full ofre oicings over the prospective improve
ment of the poor negro in America under the
Republican administration of Mr. Lincoln" Let
these transatlantic philanthropists mind their
own business and let ours alone. If they have
any superflnous charity, looking up for invest
ment, let them begin at home" Pompey or Sam
bo, in his worse estate. South, we undertake to
say, is infinitely better off than the white slaves of
England, of whom the unhappy l.. Shayor was
a representative man. Who ever heard of plan
tation negro cutting his throat for want, or ayin-
L am starved l have had nothing to eat for
several days
sERENADE TO SENATOR PUGH.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Pugh was
serenaded last night While thanking his friends
for the honor conferred he said the peace of we
country could not be restored by the sword. :. e
shedding of single drop of blood would make
dissolution inevitable. and the Reconstruction of
the Union impossible. 1t only by conces-
sion that peace could be produced.
Messrs. Crittenden, Fallandigham Pendleton.
Mallory, Woodson and Segar also made speeches,
sustaining the views of MIR. Pugh, whose Senate
rial speech has been much commended
An ITEM FOR LAprEs.-A partisan fashion
writer furnishes a list of dresses which are now
in vogue in that famed city A new dress for
an evening party is a robe of pink gauze de
Chambery, with five goffered founces, which
are placed round the dress in such a manner as
that the ends of three of them are brought up
| on one side of the skirt, where they terminate
graduatingly. These three pieces of founee-
ing finish with large simple bow without ends.
The corsage is round, with plated front, the
sleeves (of tulle) having three rows of narrow
goffering descending from the base the should
err To the back of the waist is attached a bow,
from which depend two streamers of silk ribbon
of the same color as the dress. The head dress
consists of garland composed of tufts of flow
ers of different hues, the back hair being fast