Newbern weekly progress., 1861-02-19
miscellaneous.

Hon T. Butler King has been appointed by
the G5vernor commissioner to negotiate with
th,. Belgium and Savannah steam navi cation
company for the establishment OF direct trade
with Southern ports, pursuant to a late act OF
the Legislature.
Some of the Paris journals state that a dep
utation from South Carolina has arrived IN
Paris, and obtained an audience OF NJ. ThOyen-
el, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
SEcTARIAN JOURNALS NOT NEWSPAPERS
Judge Low, of the Land Court, st. Louis, has
decided that paper, published in the interest
of IA religious sect, is not newspaper, and that
legal notices published in such journals arc
nul! and void.
REs1GSED.-Lieut Boggs, U. S. A, since
1856 stationed at Pittsburg Pa, has resigned
and returned to Virginia.
FREE NEGROES ON THE WING.-On Wednes-
day last, siXty-three free negroes from Edge
combe county, North Carolina, crossed the
Ohio river at Bellaire on their way to Zanes
Vile An old negro acted as leader OF the par
ty, holding the tickets, dlsbursing funds, &c
BURNED IN EFFIGY-The students of Frank
lin College, Georgia. burned Gen. Scott IN eth
gy u few days since, and the Montgomery Ala.
Mail calls upon all the students OF the State tc
60 and do likewise.
of Manchester was nominated for Cnngress II
the Second district by the Democratic Conven
ton, in place of John H. George who declined
a nomination. A resolution was passed tC
throw off party ties and unite in favor OF the
Union and the Constitution.
Gen Scott dined with the President few
DAYS ago. They are very loving.
WAR PREPARATIoNs IN FRANCE.-Three new
iron-cased frigates are about being built IL
Tonlon. Several others will be constructed il
the northern parts OF France.
Some fifty of the negroes that went from
New Orleans to Hayti, have returned dissatls
fed with their emigration experiment.
It is said there were $369,OO0 of silver bul
lion and coin in the New Orleans Mint at the
time it was seized by the authorities of Loui
siana.
IMPORTANT ITEM-The Boston Bankers, II
concurrence with the New York Bankers, will
it seems. decline all Federal Loans to be crea
ted for war purposes.
It is rumored that Fort Gibson has beer
seized by the Cherokee Indians.
MURDER.-Geo. Sawyer Sr., a planter near
| Lexington. S. c., was waylaid and murdered
by two of his negroes, on the 1st inst. One
the murderers was sentenced to death, and the
other, boy of weak mind, to receive 500
1ashes.
An old soalzer being found in the gutter ene
rainy night the water making a clear breach
over him from head to foot, was asked by {
| passer what he was doing there, "Oh, sad he
Il agreed to meet man here"
Gov W1sE-The Richmond Dispqtch says
The letter of Gov. Wise drives the last nail il
the coffin of his gigantic humbug Yet il
is on the pretext of conspiracy for seizine
Washington, of which WISE is the alleged
head, that Gen SCOTT is concentrating the U
S. Army in tho Federal capital, at the instiga
ton, we have no doubt, OF SEWARD; thereby
! forming nucleus for an immense force, if such
should become necessary, to overrun and CO
cree the South.
| THE DFFERENcE.-The national debt of th'
United States amounts to about dollar and
half for each inhabitant, while the sum of ont
hundred and thirty five dollars each would b.
required from the British population if the,
] should pay theirs.