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Year: 1860

To the student Of the Bible and the
church history there are few current sub.
jects OF more absorbing interest or oil
deeper Significance than the events al
most daily transpiring, which point tc
the re-possession by the Jews Of their own
land. The tide Of progress after lapse
Of centuries, may be said to have fairly
turned in that direction, and the prayer
long offered by that chosen but now
scattered people. Judah may be saved
and Israel dwell securely, and that the
Redeemer may come to Zion" The
Philadelphia Press thinks is undoubtedly =
Fastening to fulfilment.


The Sultan os Turkey is encouraging
Jewish emigration to Palestine, and is
offering to sell them as much land as
they choose to buy and it is said, has even
expressed his willingness to dispose OF the
Mosque Of Omar to them, which, it will
be recollected, stands upon the very site
Of the Jewish temple of Mount Moriah.
This mosque is one Of the Mohommedans'
most celebrated shrines, being scarcely
inferior in national importace to those OF
Mecca and Medina.


Politicians and statesman look upon
these indications as a legitimate conse-
quence of the liberalizing influence ot
Mohammedan intercourse with Christians
and SO they may be; but, to the reader oI
the yet unfulflled pages Of Revelation,
they also point to what, as it respects
the Jewish nation, prophets and kings"
have long waited for, "but died without
the sight" That the Mosque of Omar
should be in fair way of passing into
the hands Of the people to whose fathers
the site on which it stands was once Civ
en- in an everlasting covenant, is what no
reader of secular history fifty years ago
could even have dreamed would ever
come to pass. Some Of the hills around
Jerusalem have already become Jewish
property, and it is by no means improba'
BILE that some of the present generation
will see the entire city of Jerusalem again
in the hands of its ancient owners
That mighty revolutions will follow in
wake of such an event is probably as
certain as that the Jews will return at all
at all events, affairs in that immediate re
gion of the East must ere long becom'
an engrossing theme among the nations
Of the earth.
Year: 1860

The SABBATH SoHcoL.--President Har-
rison taught for several years in humble
Sabbath school on the banks of the Ohio.
The Sabbath before he left home for
Washington to assume the duties of Chief
Magistrate Of the nation, he met the BIZ
BILE class as usual. And the last counsel
on the subject to his gardener at Wash
ington. it may be hoped, will never be
forgotten by the nation. When advised
to keep dog to protect the fruit he re-
piled: "Rather set Sunday school
teacher to watch the boys"
Year: 1860

Those are only some of the many
changes that have taken place in the op-
position to the Democratic party. T .e
Democracy have added all the new terri
tory TO this Union, They have fought
the battles of the country. They have
admitted nearly all the new states. Dur
ing the Mexican War Lincoln opposed
the American army, and for this and be-
cause he split few rails. when he was
young, his sectional followers ask the peo-
pie to elect him President of the United
States.
Year: 1860

New YORK, Sept. 13.-There was a slight
fire at the St. Joseph Catholic Orphan Asylum
last night and during the alarm the children
to the number of hundred, being frightened
rushed to the hall, when one of them fell forty
feet to the lower floor, killing it instantly.
Year: 1860

From the celebrated mandatory of Cornelius Baker


shall continue be in receipt of these Goods the
patterns out, at all times keeping on hand the
best stock to be found in the city and at the lowest
prices
Year: 1860

BY SOL SMITH.


The title of ''Reverend' has frequently been
tackled to my name on letters addressed to me
and reports have been circulated that during
my peregrinations, | have been in that habit
of holding forth to congregations of sinners.
The truth Of the matter is, ! never preached
but one regular built sermon in my life, with
the exception of an Address to the Encamp-
mont of Patriarchs, and the Lodges of Odd
Fellows, from the pulpit of the Unitarian
Church, in Mobile, andsN few remarks to
congregation Of passengers, on the taking up
a collection for a poor woman on the Alabama
river, many years ago The following sketch
will contain a true and faithful account OF my
whole ministerial experience.


As preliminary, it must be known that my
brother, who had succeeded me as the mana
ger of the West Tennessee theaters, where |
had accepted an engagement in New Orleans,
with the Emperor, (as we called manager
CaldwelD in answer to the numerous and pres
sing enquiries respecting the whereabouts of
"Old Sol had universally asserted that had
been converted and had gone to preaching
By this answer he got rid of any further en-
quiries from the West 'Henncsseeans, who had
been accustomed to laugh at my stagejokcs
for wonder succeeded 10 curiosity, and many
a smile accompanied the astounding iRforma-
ton. is it possible ~ ''Who would have
thought of his turning preaciFr-'F can
scarcely believe il II wOulFslike to see
him try his hand at" were Some of the eStila-
nations called forth by my reported conveI-
sion. Requesting the reader to remember
that | was totally ignorant of these reports of
my backslidng from the stage, / shall proceed
with my story


My brothor and his company were at Mem
phis where | had an engagement of six
nights A week before the close Of our en-
gagemeut in Nashville, | obtained leave TO
commence my southern journey giving myself
time to fulfil my promise to my brother, and
yet be ready at my post at the commencement
of the campaign in New Orleans.


About O'Clock one afternoon, the stage
coach stopped at the village Of B..
where had performed the year before, and
where | was well known to eveyman, woman,
and child for six miles round The landlord
expressed great joy at meeting me, and ush'
cred me, with great respect and ceremony
into the family parlnr whore he left me for q
few moments to attend to the other guests
The landlady and her daughters received me
T with great cordialty, but could not help OBJ
serving a sort of seriousness in their eounte
nauces which had never seen before Ms
cloak was hung up, and my oversh6es taker
care of--the fire was stirred uI,-and, in short
l found myself very comfortable, and 1 fell
assured, by every action Of my host and hii
family, that was considered somebody


Dinner was soon announced and ! aros,
to Join the general rush for the diniug-room
but the laudlady iuterposed with pressin,
, invitation that ! would join the family dinner
! which would he ready in about ten minutes
A most superior meal soon engaged my atier
tion in room adjoining the parlor--with


cup Of excellent tea, than which / know G
nothing more refreshing while travelling,
Year: 1860

in all the other slave States hope to see
that done; and expect to see il done before
very long! ..,..


.e-iN ritz FATE on SLAVERY. ..
{ You can no more perietuate slavery,
and will no more dissolve this Union,
in order to perpetrate it, than you
can stop the shining Of the sun, or the ripple
of the sea, the descent of rain or the
blowing Of the wind aye, no more than
you can spbdue the ocean, when it lashes it.
self into fury and dashes its crested noun
tain billows against the rocks. II is as pre-
posterous TO think of taking slavery down
through the civilization of the ages as it is 20
think of floating nn iceberg through the
tropics.


A WARNING TO SHAREHOLDERS.


It is a well-known physiological as well as
psychological fact, that ancestral character
istics reappear after a long interval of years,
and even ofgenerations as streams disappear
and gush out at a distant point. 1t is also
well known that the Saxon blood is being in
filtrated into the blood of the enslaved. BY
and by some Marion will be found calling his
guerrilla troops from the swamps and ever
glades of South Carolina; and Patrick Henry
will reappear in the Old Dominion, shouting,
as Of old, "Give us liberty, or give us DEATH"
Then will transpire those scenes which
troubled the prophetic vision of Jefferson,
and made him tremble for his country, when
he remembered that God was Just, and that
his justice would not sleep forever, and that
every divine attribute would be arrayed
upon the side of the struggling bondmen.
And he justified the uprising, by saying the
little finger of American slavery was thicker
than the lion of British dcspotism.


Sir, Virginia cannot afford, the country
cannot afford, to continue n practice fraught
with so much of peril. 1t is better to remove
the magazine, than TO be kept evermorc in
dread of a lighted match. The future glory
and usefulness of this nation cannot be sacri-
feed to this system of crime. The nations of
the earth are taught by our example. The
American Republic must repose Queen
among the nations of the earth. Slavery
must die. Cdthdrgo est delendd. The philos-
ophy therefore, and the lesson which the
slave States ought to have learned from John
Brown, and from all these events, are not
these expressions of rage and vengeance
Instead of being stimulated to revenge, Vir-
ginia ought to have learned the lesson Of
penitence. Instead of arraying herself in
sleeps gray, she ought to have put on sack
cloth and ashes. Instead of imbibing the
distillation of corn, mixed with the products
Of the poultry-yard, she ought to have drunk
the waters of bitterness, in view of her sin of
slaveholding. I'll.
Year: 1860

There are just TOW larger number of vessels than
usual in our waters and the activity about docks
and wharves indicate visible and marked increase
in our shipping business. The hotels have both
been doing well of late the lists Of arrivals which
appear daily in columns viii testify and the re-
ceipts OF cotton naval stores aud other products
tnue to arrive quite freely. The receipts of cotton
for the present will far outstrip any former
years business. We intend to publish statement
of the shipments early day.


Our retail Dry Goods trade is not only much larger
than ever before but is steadily increasing; and this
is not to be wondered ut when consider the extent
variety and superiority of the stocks kept by our
leading merchants. We know that general i'm
preston prevails founded actual experience that
Dry Goods can be bought cheaper in Newborn than
in any other market in the State. We expect to
this branch of business largely increased in the next
few years.


Our GrocerS, though not doing large business
could wish doing Well. The amount Of
sales at Wholesale are much larger than at any
former period and this branch Of trade still in
crease for the increasing wants of the citizens of
Craven and the neghborng counties and the de-
nand from the interior counties, whose people are
pressing forward to Newbern for market lit being
the nearest point at which they reach water
will compel GrocerS Increase their VIII olesale
facilities or give way to those who will Rome was
not built in day, town resuscitate its bus
mess and regain trade which it has lost in year
Newoern is doing Well and her people have much
cause for congratuaton. Every department of bnsi-
ness is looking up her mechanics are more energet
c and active while the Der is seailv increasing
by the influx of new ones, her merchants and other
businesss men are throwing off those old fogy Gus
TOMS antagonistical to progress, and most graft
tying change is gradually working its way through
out entire comm unity Let press forward,
each one relying ON his own strong arm and stout
heart and distant day may expect an era
still more bright and prosperous


Our readers land we number them by thousands }
whenever they visit Newbern fnr the purpose of buy
ing selling may safely refer to the Progress ii
reliable Directory, for the names and business of
nearly al our leading business may be found in
its columns and those who expend large SUMS in ad-
vertsing generally do heavy business and can al
ford to give good bargains. For Dry Goods, Groce
ncs Drugs Books, Boots and Shoes, Hardware
Clothing and nearly every other article that may be
desired friends have only to examine the columns
of the Progress to rd where to apply for what they
Year: 1860

The Fayetteville Observer says that the follow.
ing resolution was passed By recent democratic
meeting i'll Baden County We think it is {


lite too severe on the war horse of the Guilford
legion:


"Rcsolvet 81. That see practical diff
ference between Black Republican, Gilmer of North
Carolina, an, Eiach Republican Sherman, OF Oiiio


and the election Of either of them would be ns ut
to the South"


HAND HIM RouHD--A gentleman, that is q man
tall and straght, with black hair and fine nous
tache got upon ,Le train Goisboro Il short time
since, on his way to this place who, upon exanIina
ton by the conductor, found TO be mlnus ticket
also its equivalent, whereupon the conductor took
his shawl in pawn until his passage could te paid
On arriving at Newbern he to of our respect
able commission houses, WHO had been selling Flour
for John w Thomas Esq., of Davidson county, and
told the proprietors that he in Nj. Thomas en-
ploy and had got out OF money and desired them to
loan him ten dours. They after examining him
pretty closely were persuaded that lie might be
worthy Of sympathy and granted his request. He
took the money and redeemed his shawl with part
of it and supplied hnF elf with liquor with the bal
lance. Next day he about = hOv g0u SO. -
That night he to another merchant and jockied
him to the tune of seven dollars, and the next day
anoth er made him donation of fifteen in goods, after
which he fled to parts unknown


Mr. j. w. Thomas has been written to, who says
he has such employee. but that filling the
description and calling himself Watson, by prOfes-
sion tomb stone cutter, recently left that count V
for some misdeineanor, manfesting agility superior
the Sheriff. and thinks it likely that this is the
same person. he notorious for drunkenness and
rascality. Keep your hands your pocket books


How THEY TALK-Somc miserable Black Re
publican demagogue. anxious to be thought a
big man at home, made speech some time ago in
which he threatened to have the North whip the
South in certain event. One of Senator'S
Mr. Iverson of Georgia instead of laughing at the
fool or treating him with contempt, retorts in the
following blood and thunder style:


Now sir when the Southern States shall in the
exercise of their sovereign will and power deter
mine to dissolve this Union seperate from the
North, and form government for themselves,
gadocio Hotspurs assemble their abolition army
Iinas to Georgia, to force US back into the Union
if they dare They threaten who may secede
with the halter and the gailows. Sir, should
dignity them, such as would be unfortunate
as to reach us, with such decent exit from
this world should not show them even the
respect extended to their faithful friend and ally,
J Ohm Brown, but, by the Eternal, should hang
them up like dogs to the trees of forests
growing ready to our hands Sir, in such
and in such a war, the South would plant her
feet upon the firm basis of her rights and her
honor and, i'll the language of the ancient knight,
exclam:


Come one, come all; this rock shall fly


From its firm base soon as II
Year: 1860

HUNGARY.-The Augsburg Gazette has the
following singular article the state of public
feeling of Austria in general, and of Hungary in
particular:


As the national feeling of the Hungarians is
becoming morbidly fanatical. it is natural that
people in the Danubian city (Viena) should think
of giving constitution to the other races of the
empire, in order that fraction of its population
should no: become preponderant.


five are we'll informed, there is at present in
Austria-as well among the Germans as among
the slaves-such very bad (pess'mast'Sche) teel-
ing, that people do not object to the encroach-
ments of the Magyars, they hope, through
them, to obtain reasonable concessions from the
State


Every patriot must hope that the Imperial gov
ernment will give "a constitutional reform to
the whole empire rather than an exceptional po-
sition to the Hungarians. Government must be
able to depend the support of the whole EN-,
pire, the patriotism of which can only be reused
by fitting representation, as powder and pan
are paliatives to which recourse cannot be had
except in extreme cases.
Year: 1860

LOOK TO Tive have been requested to call the
attention of the authorities to the fact that the
Ordtnduce prohibiting negroes from congresating
about shop doors ounging in stores Is constantly
beng violated in the vicinity of the Court House
As a matter of courtesy to our friends who have
called our attention to the matter allude to it,
but with no expectation that the town authorities
will take any notice of what either of US may say
for notwithstanding the official publication few


ago that all volators of the ordinance mention
cd would be punished, we have not heard of single
instance in which it has been carried out though is
notorious that it is violated almost hourly IN many
of the most public places about town Only Yester
day a very modest gentleman, comparative stran
Ger in the community, spoke in presence of hav
ing seen the publication and expressed his astonsh-
nent at the fragrant violations of the ordnance which
came under his observation daily. Our own people
having been accustomed to walk around groups of
negroes at certain corners and to share the side
walk with them so long, and have seen them loung


ing inside the doors, about the counters and in the
hack rooms of certain stores and shops for many
years that they have become accustomed to it and
think nothing of it, but can assure them that to
strangers who have been accustomed to well gov
credtable to community.


We are satisfied that our city fathers" mean we'll
hut 10 be honest we think that they exhibit want
Of nerve in not breaking up old abuses of long
Year: 1860

TRANSMISSION OF MONEY by MAIL-It is sta
ted that the Senate Post-Ofice Committee have
under consideration plan or SYSTEM OF greater
security for the transmission OF money and val
liable packets by mail The cohlmittee have also
under consideration other postal reforms of great
Importance, with view Of making the department
selfsuStaining.
Year: 1860

Rev R. J. Breckenridge has published letter,
addressed to his nephew. the Vice President of
the United States, taking him to task tor his late
speech in which he alleged there was possibility
of a dissolution of the Union on the slavery ques-
ton The reverend gentleman scouts such an
Year: 1860

We are requested to say that the friends
of the Sabbath Schools have made arrange
ments to have PETER SINCLAIR, the famous
Scotch Temperance Lecturer, visit several of
the Sabbath Schools in the forenoon of to-
Dlorrow. In the afternoon he will address
the Mission School, at Crescent City Hall, at
half past one o'clock. At four o'clock he
will hold Union Meeting of all the children
of the city at one of the churches, TO be an
nounced tomorrow. At night he will adj
dress our citizens at the Baptist church.


Mr.. SINcLAIR's fame has gone before him,
until now he is known all over the country
as one of the most eloquent Temperance ad-
vocates on either continent His labors
among the children are especially successful
and he is perhaps Accomplishing more fol
the future morality and sobriety of this
country, by these very labors among the
rising generation, than any living man.
Year: 1860




hG-It seems that our last Monday pa
per' was worked off on Sunday night late,
contrary to our cypress orders. We directed
the work to be done on Monday morning,
and supposed it had, as matter of course,
been 80 done. We shall take care in the
future to have our directions implicitly car
ried out.


We are determined to have no Sunday
work done about the establishment unless it
is rendered necessary by some accident in
the office or some important news outside.
If Ifanything of moment happens on Sunday,
either here or abroad, we shall give it on
Monday morning; but as rule, the Journal
office shall have rest on the Sabbath.


A Daily paper here can bepublished with
out Sunday work, with occasional excep-
tions; and no such epithet as "piOus Jour
nal shall deter US from observing the
morsl and physical laws which require the
observance of the Sabbath.


If it is " meddling" to set ourselves right
before right-thinking community, the En-
guirer can make the most of it.
Year: 1860

BsB-The work of setting out Shade Trees
is still going on in some localities about
town. We noticed, yesterday, wagon
load of native saplings from the country.
designed to be replanted in town Any
man or woman who sets out a shade tree in
front of property, We consider a public bene-
fnctor. Shade trees improve property
wonderfully, and make it more valuable.
Who would not pay more for lot with
trees on than without them
Year: 1860

The death of John G. Boxer, a wealthy
German merchant of New York, is an


nouneed. He was owner of the famous
Dusseldorf gallery of paintings, which lie
sold to the Cosmopolitan Art Association a
year or two since. He was also father of
the celebrated Mary Ann" whose freak
of marrying her fathers coachman, John
Dean, created such sensation in the fash
ionable world some two or three years
since -
Year: 1860

EE The Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald says the acquisition
of Cuba will be brought forward in the
Senate soon, when another vigorous debate
will take place on that subject.
Year: 1860

The question whether Mr.. Bell or Mr..
Breckinridge is the greater Shareholder, is
still discussed at the South. The IIicLs-
burg Saa sets up for Breckiuridge as fol
lows:


Gas much as the Bell-ringers have
vaunted over the fact that John Bell was
the only candidate for the Presidency who
owns a nisger-as if that made him any
better or any more worthy Of Southern
couGlence--it turns out that be does not
own the hoof Of one. Like great many
mcn We know in Mississippi, he is very
poor man himself, but has a very rich
wife His niggers all belong to his better
half, and he doesn't own single one in
bis own name. His property is all under
pet,icoat government"
Year: 1860

MUrroS AS AN ARTICLE OF FooD.-The
ARsrioaR AgTieuiiHraiisl says ......


We mean 10 repeat thousand times,
or at least TIL what We say has some effect
apOn our couhirymen, that pound Of lean,
tender, juicy mutton can be produced for
half the cost Of the same quantity Of pork ;
that it IS infinitely healthier food, especially
IN the summer season, aud those who cat it
become more muscular, and can do more
work with greater ease to themselves than
those who eat fat pork. We know nothing
more delicious than smoked mutton hams
Of the southdown breed Of sheep. Yeui-
son IS not more delicious
Year: 1860

A UsEFuL HNr FoR SWNmERs.-A cor
respondent Of the Fiold says that cramps in
the legs may be easily and instantly cured,
thus


"0n the moment Of its seizure in the
calf Of the leg, the instep should be forci
bly, drawn up or fixed on the leg, tor, to
speak in plain English, turn your toes uT
towards your shin as far as you possibly
can, and the cure will be as sudden as The
attack. l have tried this very many times,
and it never falls
Year: 1860

As ILLIBtRAL LAw-Among tho many
peculiar laws Of the Russian Empire is one
which eompels oil female subjects who are
Of any real estate to sell it the
moment they marry q foreigner. A case
recently occurred Of the Countess de Nor
neg, who was compelled TO dispose Of con-
siderable property, in accordance with the
provisions Of law. BY special permission
Of the Emperor, she was allowed year to
effect the sale. r.t
Year: 1860

center Marker U street. Marysville, the subscriber
would respectfully solicit continuance OF the patroa
age so literally bestowed upon his predecessor and
as much more as generous public may see 6t TO fa-
vor him with


All those purchasing their meats at the CENTRAL
STALL may be assured that they getting as good
as can be had in town.


oc18 If VALENTINE GROH