Newbern weekly progress., 1862-09-13
NEWBERN, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER l3, 1862

Mr.. Jesse Sharp, a citizen of Mon
rovia, Liberia, in letter dated June
10th, says his crop Of sugar this year
amounts to 10000 pounds. He made
his first sugar in January, 1859, and
hopes soon to raise a hundred hogs
heads. This is doing nobly, and others
are also progressing well in raising
sugar, palm oil, &c. Liberia is pro.
crossing.
Gen. James Appleton, formerly of
Portland, late of Ipswich, Mass, died
in the latter place, afew days since,
aged n. He was man ofnote, held
a Colonel's commission In the last war
with England, and in Maine was the
gubernatorial candidate of one of the
political parties of that State.
State Rights is very lively ghost
still stalking abroad in the Southern
Confederacy. Mr.. Foote, the blood
thirsty inventor of retaliation bills,
tells jeff. that he must not raise men
by general conscription, but leave to
the states the work of getting out the
men wanted. A conscription by the
Confederate affair would be nothing
less than an act Of military despotism,
and Foo'e is opposed to despotism-
when it cores his OK.
William II. Seward, Jr., the young
est son of the Secretary of State, and
the only one at this time not in the
service of his country, is about to 20
into the field as lieutenant colonel of
the I'd New York regiment.
William Matthews, Esq, formerly
of Boston, and the editor of literary
paper once published there, called the
Yankee Blade, has been appointed
Professor of History and Rhetoric in
the University at Chicago. This will
be agreeable news to his hosts of ad.
mirers in the army and elsewhere.
Tsss Uousatonic, Conn., Repu6lican
has 5Vn discontinued. The editor
says ~ l..
"E6r months we have combined in
ourself the vocations of editor, com
positor, pressman, and have sometimes
been necesstated to be "devil." Our
record is that of a toier, and we think
the balance.shcet of labor and reward
intimates a decided lacking on the
part of reward
The poor fellow has at last found a
more profitable field, for he has enlist
ed in Connecticut Regiment.
Hon. John Morissey, Sergeant al
Arms of Massachusetts, has obtained
leave of absence for nine months, ap-
pointed deputy to serve during Ills
absence, and accepted the captaincy Of
the Standish Guards, Plymouth.
The schooner Actor, Of Washington,
N. c., of about sixty tons, went ashore
on Body's Island, just opposite Roa-
noke, but outside, a few days eince.--
She was laded with liquors, onions,
etc. We learn that the authorities
destroyed the liquor, but the onions
were saved. The boat has since gone
to pieces, being very old. No lives
were lost that we can ascertain.
Gen. Butler hits the nail on the
head often. Happening to get hold Of
a list of subscribers to the million and
a quarter confederate loan for the de
fence of New Orleans. he has issued ar
order containing it, and an assessment
on every firm and individual named
of one quarter the amonnt subscribed
for the benefit Of the starving poor o
the city. lie says that the duty o
providing for the poor, clearly belong
to those who have brought this calam
ity upon them. The Citizens Bank i
called upon for $4,000, under this OF
der, and the firm of Abat, Generes {
= Go. for $52,5OO.
In a recent letter, Hon. Robert j
y Walker. late of Mississippi, and ex-See
retary Of the Treasury, makes the 70
lowing statement, which will astonis
9 a great many persons: "From lon
residence in the South, and from ha,
: ing traversed every Southern State,
know it to be true, that cotton is raise
there most extensively and proftabl
8 by non-slaveholders, and upon farm