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Year: 1861

No move as yet to bring out candidates for
seats in the Convention in this county. We
had hoped that mass meeting would have
been held, that two worthy gentlemen would
have been selected upon whom the people of the
county could willingly bestow their suffrages
and that harmony would for once character
ize the election, but from the backwardness
to call a meeting with this view exhibited on all
sides we fear that old party preferences and
preiudices are still rife and that such a course
will not be adopted. No doubt but there are
aspirants enough for the position, but somehow
those who aspire are not wanted and hence
unless the plan that we propose, viz: a mass
meeting to nominate, bo adopted, men will
most probably be sent TO the Convention who
the people don't want.


We would again suggest that meeting be
held at an early day at which every part Of the
county should be represented to nominate
two candidates to represent us in the Conven-
ton. Are there no citizens who will take it
upon themselves to call meeting: Some
body must lead
Year: 1861

The establishment of Provisional Govern
ment for the Cotton States by the Convention
at Montgomery has produced rattling among
the dry bones at Washington City. The Re
publlcans turn up the whites of their eyes in
wonder that such a step should be taken by 4
people when they considered so timid and i'm
becile. and they as we'll as the "aged function
ary" and old :" fuss and feathers" begin to
think " there is something in it, Some of
their members of Congress even now go so far
as to declare in their places that any interfer-
ence with slavery in the States would be wrong +.
How considerable and how condescending. Too
late, too late. The Union is not only gone but
the country is, we fear, hopelessly divided


That England and France will not only re-
cognize but form treaties of amity and comfy
with the Southern Confederacy is as sure as
that night follows day, and ere long instead of
six the new Republic will number fifteen States
During tha late Presidential campaign we dc
nounced secession as wicked and ruinous, and
so we then believed and now believe it, but the
separation having been effected and that too
without any agency of ours we now throw our
self in the current, and mean, let come what
WILL to share the common destiny of the South.
Hon. A. 81. Stephens was one of the champ
ions whom we delighted to honor and follow
when he was fighting for the Union last summer
and fall, and as we believed in his honesty, pa
triotism and sincerity then, and followed him,
so do we believe in the wisdom of his course
now, and will follow him.


Should any compromise be presented by
which the thirty-one States can again come
together, now or hereafter, we shall hail it with
joy and support it with all our might but un-
der the present condition of things we do not
hesitate to declare that we are with the South,
not only as citizen and as journalist but on
the tented field whenever our services may be
required


We would have North Carolina do nothing
hastily, but if Virginia goes out of the Union
during the present month, as we firmly believe
she will, we say let North Carolina follow
The Republican party who alone have the
power to present Compromise will do moth
ing as long as the border States give them aid
and comfort and we would rather suffer ruin
and defeat in an effort for Southern Indepen-
dence than to be constantly subject to Black
Republican threats, insults and menaces.


We begged for Compromise when Compro-
mise possible but now VIC say it is too
late. We must act
Year: 1861

A great flourish is made over the following
from Richmond on Tuesday night:


The Hon. George w. Summers, delegate from
the county of Kanawha, and member of the
Peace Conference, arrived this afternoon from
Washington. He says it is an unquestiona ble
fact that compromise has been agreed upon
in the Peace Congress.


In our own opinion any action of the Peace
Congress" amounts to just nothing.


Tennessee it is said has gone for the Union
and refused to call Convention If all the
States around her go out she will find herself
in funny predicament


Nothing from Raleigh last night of impor
tance.


The States and Union of Monday has the
following sensation item:


We have heard rumor that the budget OF
Presidential electoral ballots to be opened on
tomorrow is missing We can scarcely credit
1t; but the result involved is too important for
us to omit mentioning the rumor
Year: 1861

The more we think of this matter the more
determined are we in our opposition to it
The opinions in reference to the policy, wis
dom and justice of such law, in this commu-
nifty, are various and diversified but the ma
.jority confident are opposed to it
They feel as we feel that it would benefit Meth
er creditors debtors and as to ''relief for the
people" that can only come by restoration of
harmony in our National Affairs and return
of confidence in the stability of government
The present pressure in money matters is not
owing to any scarcity; the crops were good
last season; prices have been and are good !;
the influx of gold from abroad has been larger
than ever known cotton the great staple is
commanding good price, and in fact the coun-
try has all the elements of material and com
mcrcial prosperity in an eminent degree and
but for the political convulsions which the
country has encountered we should be tinan-
cially and commercially in the midst of pros
pcrity hitherto unknown in our history.


No stay laws then can benefit US. The pan
c is national, not local, and nothing but a sat
isfactory and permanent settlement of our ma
LlOndl dlldlES w Ill IcSlOlC hhu SifO
business its wonted activity. Restore the
Union by mutual concessions which shall be
satisfactory to all sections and our prosperity
will at once return or even peaceable sepa-
ration we doubt not would do much to bring
about an equilibrium in the commerce of the
country. No legislative enactments which
defer the collection of debts by legal process
can stay the fury of the present storm, and the
injuries which would result from the impaired
credit of our business men out of the State
would be incalculable. We do trust the lower
house of our Legislature will not pass the bill.
Certainly the sense of the people in this sec
ton is against 1t.
Year: 1861

TIE ACADEMY.-We visited the Academy
yesterday and by the politeness of Prof Do
herity was shown through the rooms. The
building has been newly painted, eleansed and
refurnshed throughout and is new in comfor-
table condition. This being the second week
in the session the number of pupils is not
large but the prospects Prof Doherty informed
US were quite fattering The corps of teach
ers is complete; everything seems to be work
ing we'll, and we doubt not but under the man
agement of the accomplised principal the school
will become an ornament to and the pride of
the town.


Such of the male pupils as desire it have
the adEan tage of military drill, Col. j. Y.
Jordan one of the most thorough and accom-
plished military men in the State having been
appointed to that department.
Year: 1861

A PATRIOT. -Ex-Presidept Fillmore is at
Washington urging the "Peace Congress " to
prepare compromise which shall restore har-
mony to the country, Mr. Fillmore is a true
and unselfish patriot but we fear his efforts
will be poweriesS for good. The "Peaee Con
gress" can effect nothing, nor can the Congress
of the United States; they have let the golden
opportunity pass and now it is too late, The
people of the South who have been sneered at
and despised by the fanatics of the North have
now marked oIt their course and no delusive
propositions for peace will cause them to swerve
from following it. The die is cast and the
Union is defunct. All honor however to such
patriots as Mllard Fillmore wherever found
Our misfortune as a nation has been that we
have not enough like him.
Year: 1861

in tone, says:


The Montgomery Congress is anxious that
the border States should follow the gulf States
out of the Union. 1t solicites their concurrence
in a suicidal fate with a threat and bribe.
1t bribes them with a clause in the constitution
forbidding the African slave trade, and threat
ems them with provision for prohibiting the
introduction of slaves from any State not a
member of the confederacy.


In the bribe, the border States are offered
nothing which they do not now possess, and
while it stands, the gulf States cannot afford
to execute the threat. But threat and bribe
will prove alike Intellectual and impotent.


The six seeded States have conferred less
honor upon the Union than the Union upon
them In the eyes of the world, to history's
calm gaze their relation to the federal Union
has been, and will be deemed their chiefest or
nanent Like the fox in the fable, thier first
act, after depriving themselves of it, is to in
vite their fellows to similar excelsior. 1t IS
not related that any other foxes were so silly
Year: 1861

DoN'T LIKE IT.-The New York papers don't
like the seizure of vessels belonging to that
port at Savannah by order of Gov. Brown.
This is but the beginning however, and they
had better keep cool and begin to get used to
it. Many things are likely to happen down
South within the next year or two which it
is not to be supposed they will be very much
pleased at. Let New York seize more mus
kets and Georgia will seize more vessels.
Year: 1861

The LEGIsLATURE.-The State Legislature
is engaged on the Revenue Bill, Stay Law, etc,
The proceedings since the final passage of the
Convention bill seem to produce but little in
terest. After the revenue Bill shall have
been disposed of we suppose but little more
will be done. 1t is thought the body Will ad-
iourn next week.
Year: 1861

We learn with pleasure that the Legislature has passed bill authorizing loan of $l00,- 900 to the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad Company, to aid the Company in completing the road This sum is appropriated out of the fund donated by Congress to aid improve ments in this State, and is to be secured by the bonds of the Company payable to the State ten years from date, bearing interest at eight per cent, and also by mortgage on the Road We have no doubt but that the Road will be rapidly hastoned to completion, and in running order by this time next year. By such acts as this the people of our State may hope to prosper, rather than by wasting their resources in the horrors of civil war.
Year: 1861

We learn from Little Rock that the bill for the eIectionof members to a State Conyen- tion, after having passed the House, was killed in the Senate Report says that one of the Senators made telling speech in opposi- tion to the bill, appealing to their patriotism, and demanding of them how they could so perjure themselves, after having sworn to sup port the Constitution of the United States, as vote for call to destroy it.
Year: 1861

PROPOSITION TO MAKE TWO STATES OUT OF VIRGINIA.-The people of the eastern and western portions of Virginia are almost is different in their ideas as natives of South Carolina and New England. Several propo- sitons have recently been talked over to divide the State It is understood that . new movement has been set on foot in the northwestern part of that State, for the pur- pose of calling a convention of the people 10 take into consideration the expediency of separating from Virginia in case of her with drawing from the Union to join in the form ation of Southern Contederacy. The lead CTS in this revolutionary scheme contemplate the erection of new State, embracing that portion of Virginia lying west of the Blue Ridge, and destined to include as many coun- ties east of said line, along the upper Po- tomac gear it, as may be induced by identity of interest, to cooperate in the project. Considerations of an economical character, determined partly by the arrangements of the present constitution of Virginia, (deemed by many in the western part of the State to be unequal in respect to the rates and objects of taxation,) are represented to be at the bottom of the popular movement, which awaits only the opportunity and protext to assumed formidable proportions
Year: 1861

TIE PRESENT AND THE FUTUEE.-Ihc Louisville Journal, in an article on the new year. lt the close of it has the following:

 " But beyond and behind the clouds we can detect g little patch of clear sky, from whence we may, by the blessings of Provi- dcnce, in time see the glorious beams of pa cifcation shining; but at present the eXpecta- ton is as faint as the echo of a whisper The intelligence of the people, if they will take these matters out of the hands of the polti- clans, will bring peace and rcposc to the coun- try. To the people of the Union Is sacred, the Constitution, the ark of our fathers cove nant, and the Federal Government a glorious creation of the wisdom of our early patriots and sages but factionists are impcriIling the Union, fools and traitors are laying polluted hands on the ark, while imbeciIity and cow ardice in the Executive chair are bringing the government into contempt and endanger- ing its existence. When will the people know their power and exercise it? When will they be prepared, in their might and ma jesty, to rebuke these schemes, crush the trai- tors, and denounce the extremists and faction ists The Union of the People for the sake of the Union a stirring up of all the foun- tains of original power, thorough purifca- ton of the government from those who coun- sel anarchy and rebellion, are imperatively demanded. Let these be accomplished, and fron out the darkness and conyulsion and storm the morning will come breaking in eff fulgent beams; a newborn year of jubilee will be commenced, and then we can greet our friends and our now estranged brothers with the good and kind and loving words of old, |" A Happy New Year'
Year: 1861

MAKING FOREIGN GOLD CoINs A LEGAL TENDER.-We learn from the New York papers that some of the bankers of that city have made application to the Treasury De partment at Washington and also to Mcsrs. Hunter of the Senate, and Sherman of the House, to obtain the re-enactment of the act of 1843, (since repealed making sovereigns, doubloons and Napoleons, a legal tender, so that the imports of gold can be used at once on their arrival in this country. The value of the sovereigns under the old act was about S4 IT, it is proposed to make them current at rate less the seignorage of half of one per cent. for coinage, so that there would be no loss to the Treasury if they were left on the hands of the government. The parties applied to are said to have forwarded favorable response; and it is presumed that bill will be introduced through the respective Con- gressional committees to carry out the object
Year: 1861

A BILL has passed our State Legislature forbidding free negroes to remain in the State under the penalty of being sold into slavery. This is as it should be, for they are a pest and constant source of trouble to cur citizens. Under this law the free negro is allowed to choose a master, without his having to pay one-half his value into the Treasury, but 1t places the free negro on the same footing with other slaves. This act goes into effect at once.
Year: 1861

ARREST OF AN ALLEGED MURDERER Officer NJ. Pecora, says Saturdays New Or leans Picayune, arrested yesterday afternoon, on the steamboat landing, man who is sup posed to be Leo Lena the alleged murderer of policeman Laferandrie, but who gave his name as Salvador Griolo. If not the real murderer, the prisoner is at least identified as one of the party that Laferandrie tried to arrest. He had just landed in skiff with two other men when officer Pecora came upon him another policeman who wore a crescent was coming along the wharf and was seen by one of the men, who made a sign to the pris- oner to hide himself, at which he darted among the steamboats, but Pecora gave him chase and caught him. He denies everything and blubbered good deal when locked up,
Year: 1861

THE Editor of this paper has been unavoid- ably detained in Memphis on business, and will not be back before the first of next week. We are are alone again this week, so We hope our readers will be indulgent.
Year: 1861

rJyHE SECOND SESSION OF THE ABOVE

 ! Academy will open Monday, the 4th day of February next. The Principal hatcrs himself that, having an experience of many years in the profession of teaching, he will be enabled to give satisfaction to the patrons of his school The Academy is located in healthy region of coun- try, remote from all those localities of Dissipation and vice, so destructive 10 the morals of youth, and in the midst of community, combining all those virtues that compose good neighborhood. No pains will be spared by the teachers to advance the pupils entrusted to their charge. Special attention will be directed to have them thoroughly to understand the elementary principles of all the branches of Science taught in the school No pupil need apply for reception who is unwilling 10 De either governed or instructed. Pupils will be charged from the time of entrance. No deduc ton will be made except in case of proractcd illness
Year: 1861

The United States Arsenal Was taken at daylight this morning, by detachment of troops from this city. It is rumorcd that Fort Morgan was taken last night The Arsenal contains six stands of arms, fifteen hundred barrels of powder three hundred thousand rounds of musket cartridges and other munitions of war
Year: 1861

TIE New CLUE MOVEMENT Union
Clubs" are now in the course of rapid form
alton in this city, intended TO overawe Sc
customary principles aud counteract the
movements of an ofIshoot of that party
which, having been defeated at the last
election, is now coospiring to equip a force
for the seizure of the government works at
Benicia and around the Bay of San Fran
cisco, TO prevent the Lincolnites from taxi
ing Office. In one ward, there is club Of
three hundred young and ardent spirits,
painting to testify their devotion to the
Union. We believe the plan will be SINH
larly popular throughout the State Mir
rOr.
Year: 1861

The following mothcrly letter written
by the wife of 4 mechanic in New York to
her son, who is worthy member of Col. Els
worth's Fire Brigade. The many misrep-
reservations to which that regiment has been
subjected touched the mothers heart and
called forth the advice which the letter con-
tains


MY DEAR SoN Il am in receipt of your
welcome letter. To be in the iGioyment of
good health, along with hard beds and still
harder fare, is much better than to be laid up
on sick bed. Dear son, will give you a
little advice; will you hear, as it we're my
voice whispering to you, as 1t did when yon
were little child at my knee, lisping your
childish wants, or rubbing your little cheeks
to mine, as if to steal the roses that could a
bundantly spare then Now listen. You
have engaged in a struggle that may be des-
perate on both sides. l know you are right
in the path your treading, you are young,
healthy and willing to run every risk for your
cause. You have proven yourself cook fire.
man; now, my dear son. prove Yourself a
true Cristian soldier. Mover look at the
quality OF your victuals, nor complain of hard
beds. The life OF soldier is made up of
privations. Remember the hard bed of your
blessed Saviour on the Cross, suffering for
your sins, and lredeeming you with his pre-
cious blood. He that could command the u
inverse, craving drink of water, when in an
swer they gave him vinegar and gall. \ on,
my dear son, must season your food with
these thoughts. Your country requires your
aid and my blessed Mother gave up her
son for us, so give you TO sustain the good
cause. You have sworn to defend the flag of
our Union, and trust you will do so with
honor, to the shedding of your last drop of
blood. Do nothing that will bring a blush to
my cheek or to your own, if it should be the
Will of God TO spare you to return. Obey
your superiors with willingness that may
show a good effect upon your comrades.
Good or bad examples have each their own
effect on large body of men, and l know
you would like to hear your companions
praised for their good conduct. Let every
thing you do be to the honor and glory of
God, to the aid of your country in her need,
and for the salvation of your own soul. My
dear son, if you could the tears | shed at
this moment as | write this letter, which may
be the last shall ever write or you receive,
you would be everything fond mother could
wish to welcome home, should it be the will
of God to send you back when the war is over.
For want of time, will conclude by giving
you the consolation to know that pray for
you day and night; your friends and neigh
bors also pray for you and the cause you are
defending. May you and your comrades sue
ceed, is the constant prayer of your fond


MOTHER.
Year: 1861

My cottage home is filed with hght'
The long, long summer day
But. ah l dearer love the night,
And hail the singing ray
For eve restores me one whose smile


both more than morning match
And life afresh seems dawning while


His hand is on the latch
When autum fields are thick with sheaves,


And shadows early fall,
And grapes grow purple meath the caves


Along our trellis'd wall
1 dreaming sit-the sleepy bird


Faint twittering in the thatch-
To wake to joy when soft is heard


His hand upon the latch.
In the short winter afternoon,


threw my work aside,
And through the lattice. while the moon


Shines mistily and wide,
On the dim upland paths peer


In vain his form to catch
/ startle with delight. and hear


His hand upon the latch.
Year: 1861

CoLLoDIoN An exchange advocates its use
as follows dissolve gun cotton in ether, and
it forms one of the most useful articles for
wounds in trees. With brush, cover the
end of cutting, or the stump from which it
was taken, and in less than minute its forms
an impenetrable skin, Theoretically sealing up
the pores of the wound. Laid over wounds,
or scalds of the body, it wilt stop pain, and
rapidly aid cure. 1t is known to medical
men by the name of collodian. Whenever the
skin is removed, it is highly useful, as it forms
an artificial skin, and excludes the air.
Year: 1861

There is no better definition of an enemy to
his country than is found in the following
words of Daniel Webster ssAny man who
hesitates in granting and securing to every
part of the country its just and constitutional
rights is an enemy to the whole country"
Year: 1861

The blood of man should never be shed but
to redeem the blood OF man. 1t is we'll shed
for our family, for our friends, for our God,
for our country, and for our kind. The rest
is vanity the rest is crime.
Year: 1861

tits stated with great confidence by those
who have tried it, that cloth kept always
moist with water and spread over the face Of
the person afflicted with small poz, will pre-
vent the pitting Of the face which ds6gures
it, 1t Is simple and worth trial.
Year: 1861

has won for itself such renown for the cure of
every variety Of Throat and Lung Complaint that
it is entirely unnecessary for us TO recount the
evidence of its virtues, wherever it has been en-
poyed. As it has long been in constant use
throughout this section, we need not do more than
assure the people its quality is kept up to the best
it ever has been, and that it may be relied on to
do for their relief all it has ever been found to do
Year: 1861

SPA1N.-It is intimated that Spain will
reject our Minister to that government
Although this seems to be the opinion o.
Representatives from Spain,ip in Washington
we doubt whether that government will
think it for her interest to take so unreas.
enable step at this time. There has
teen i'll feeling against the United States
on the part of Spain ever since the Mexi
can war. Perhaps she may think it will


be wisdom on her part to act thus rashly


in rejecting our Minister. We shall see.