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Year: 1861

On all hands we hear ore unqualified and
enthusiastic expression of praise and admlra-
ton Of the great address OF the Commissioner
of South Carolina to the Virginia Convention
1t was worthy of his heroic and noble State
worthy Preston, worthy the blood of Patrick
Henry, worthy the great occasion: Patriot,
ism, passion, power, poetry, were all combined
in this magnificent effort AT one time. the
whole audience was in tears. Some OF these
were men of iron, unused to the melting mood,
but the Prophet had struck the Rock, and
streams of sympathy gushed forth: Greater
even than the potent sway of the orator was
the influence of his sincerity, his manliness,
his purity and elevation of character. No
politician, however gifted, no man who had
ever been at all in public life, could have SO
captivated the confidence and respect as well
as the passions of an audience. Can Virginia
turn her back upon this great, disinterested
unselfsh soul, and be begniled to her destruc
ton by the smooth seductions of VIM. II. Sc
| ward ?-Rieh. Dispatch.
Year: 1861

ILLEGAL SE1zURE-A small invoice Of guns
was lately received in New York for a house of
this city. This box contained only shot guns
and sporting guns, made to private order, and
there was nothing in it that could be consid-
cred military. Such is the vigilance and keen
ness of the Custom House or Police Detcc-
tiyes in New York that this box was opened
and overhauled- and was SO carelessly re-
packed, that the guns were all injured, and
some nearly destroyed, and some of the car
fridge cases and other contents abstracted


This matter deserves, and we trust will re-
ceive, full prompt Investigations, and would OF
itself teach our importers not to import through
New York, even were we remaining IN the
Union. In this case the box was ordered by
a house that has imported directly and gen
orally does so, but the shipment was made
through New York because there was no i'm
mediate departure direct for Charleston-Ch,
NercurV.
Year: 1861




Wilson, N c.; 22d Feb, 1861.
GENTLEMEN Il understand you have copied
into the journal" from the :" Wilson Led
GER" an announcement Of my being candl-
date for the Convention The announcement
was made with kind intent. 4 very large
number Of our most respectable citizens have
desired me to be a candidate, and the notice
that | would meet the candidates at the speak
ing to morrow and next week an Inference
of the publisher from remark made to him
by warm personal friend Of mine. L have
never had such intent but expect to be preach
ing iu Brunswick when the candidates are
speaking here. am no candidate, and haze
serer been: ] am, however, profoundly inter
ested in the questions now before the people,
and highly appreciate the kindness OF the gen
tlemcn who have been anxious to use my name
in the canvass. ] shall continue to contine
myself to the close discharge Of my clerical
ard scholastic duties: Please make the prop
per correction, and request other papers who
have copied the notice to copy the correction.
It was all kindly meant, but IS all no less a
mistake.


Very truly yours,


CHARLES T. DEEMS:
MesSrS FIrLTOS SC PRICE
Year: 1861

SNEAKING INTO PLACE.-HiStory records sew
eral instances of rulers sneaking out OF place
and power, to avoid the indignant vengeance OF
an oppressed or deluded people, but A. Bllnkun
enjoys the distinction of being the first Presl-
dent elect who sneaked and skulked INTO the
site of his official Inauguration.


After public show from Springfield to New
York, and after stopping at as many places as
possible, and after general exhibition through
the Metropolis, the President of the ruined
Union, suddenly affects obscurity and skulks
incoq into Washington. AS long as he was on
Free Negro Soil, he was open to all comers,
and after his fashion and abilities, was opening
his mouth on all occasions, although not with
as much sense of his own situation as was eH-
hbited by the animal that Baalam bestrode.
When he approaches, however, the limits of
the region in which white man is recognized,
and considered as white man, and the negro
is free to work, and to be fed and clothed, the
tongue of Lincoln is silent, and he sneakes In
disguise into Washington.


The place-hunters of the Metropolis OF Mis-
rule were not be favored, as the loungers In
all bar-rooms and chop-houses along the line
West had been, with the privilege of gazing on
the mighty ral-spltter, or of hearing the elo-
ouent assurance that " nobody is hurt.


Can it be that A. Blinkun can thus easily
subsde into himself? Is there no divinity
that hedges him in No effiuvium of majesty
or digdity that would reveal his real character
to any observer, just as Falstaff knew Prince
by instinct?


| In this the chosen savior, whose advent was
to bring peace to distracted Confederacy
of States? Was it not due the high and mighty
dictator Scott that the arrival Of 1.-The coming
man should be trumpeted, that the myrml-
dons could be arrayed in double columns OF
defence and honor


A. Blinkun sneaking into Washington-a fiji
SEQUEL of John Brown marching in diguise te
Harper's Ferry


How much more will it require to teach the
border States that the question with them Is
) not whether the Union is or shall be dissolved
but whether they will go North or South, and
whether the separation shall be peaceable o.
not - On EOBrieT
Year: 1861

CHICAGO REL1G1oN-A Chicago broker, a
member of the church, during the present
crisis. has been in the habit of pocketlng ten
per eent. on the specie which he collected IN
church on Sunday, by the very simple process
Of rendering back an equal amount in Western
funds
Year: 1861

The Richmond Enqujrer has private advices
from different parts of the State, which in
form it that a large number ofthe largest slave
holders in Virginia are already making prep
arations for an exodus We have ourselves
reliable information to the same effect. When
this prospective stampede shall once become
present and actual none can predict the extent
to which it will be carried. Some oplne that
some of our largest and most flourishing ag-
ricultural districts will be left as desolate as
the wilderness of Jamaica. Even if 1t shall
fall far short of this it will involve incalcuta-
BILE damage to all our interests. The large
Shareholders comprehend large quota of the
very flower of our opulaton-representm g
much of the wealth, talent, virtue and COM
mand1ng influence of the State: They will
carry away from US millions of property
They will carry away from US what Is TAR
more valuable to the State than property
thousands and tens of Thousands ofbusy hands,
which now constitute the productive labor OF
the State-Rich. Dispatch.
Year: 1861

MONTGOMERY IN A BLAzE.-A correspondent
writing from Montgomery, Alabama, on Monday
night last says:


Tonight the city is Illuminated in every part.
The most out Of the way places are in blaze OF
light. All the population-maIe and female,
white and black, young and old-are on the
promenades. | never expected such demon
stration south of Baltimore. The palmlest
times of Monumental rejoicing never equslled
any thing like this. 1t is indiscribable. The
throngs of beauty that fill the sidewalks-the
fascinating fascinators they wear-where are
they all going? All yes to the President sshrst
levee-let us go there too. Concert, Estelie Hall
is the place There it s-that tumble down old
building over there. What a hornd flight OF
steps that is, tackled on to the outside OF the
house wonder why they cannot have good
set of steps under the roof without subJectlng one
to the chance Of breaking his neck IN eiamberlng
way up yonder this narrow ledge OF steps
l feel exactly as if L suspended: W hat a
crowd there is here! What beautiful iadles =
AS live there is lady with bonnet and teatn-
ers Just look at the people! What q democratlc
gathering! Does that lady raise her dress TO
show the lace in her pettcoats or to exhibit a
neatly rounded ankle? No!-dont you see the
floor is covered with tobacco juice


Let us catch glimpse of the President no"
hazy every thing looks, Notwithstanding taho"
is plentiful, and the chandeliers are lighted.
Poor Mr.. Davis how his arm will ache to-mor-
row. I would not have the shaking he has mad
tonight not for the Presidency, and that too
of Southern Confederacy.
Year: 1861

MAYOR WooD LECTURES LINCoLN.-Mayor
Woods address of welcome to the Abolition
President, upon his entry into New York, is
too good to be lost 1t was as follows:


NJ. Lincoln: AS Mayor of New York, it be-
comes my duty to extend to you an official
welcome in behalf of the corporation. In do
ing so, permit me to say that this city has new
er offered hospitality to a man clothed with
more exalted powers, resting under graver
RESPONSIBILITIES, than those which circumstances
have devolved upon you. Coming into office
with a dismembered Government to recon-
struct and disconnected and hostile people
to reconcile, it will require a high patriotism
and an elevated comprehension of the whole
country and its varied interests, opinions and
prejudlces to so conduct public affairs as to
bring it back again to its former harmonious,
consolidated and prosperous condition.


If refer to this topic, sir, it is because New
York is deeply interested. The present poll
teal divisions have sorely afflicted her people
All her material interests are paralyzed Her
commercial greatness is endangered She is
the child of the American Union. She has
grown up under it's maternal care and been
tostered by its paternal bounty, and we fear
that if the Union dies, the present supremacy
of New York may perish with it. To you,
therefore. chosen under the forms of the Con-
stitution as the head of the Confederacy, we
look for restoration of fraternal relations be-
/ tween the States-only to be accomplished by
peaceful and conciliatory means-aided by the
wisdom of Almighty God"
Year: 1861

The following is the bill which passed the
Senate of cur Legislature to lay off and estab-
lish new county out Of portions of Craven
and Beaufort, but which was killed in the
House. A friend has kindly furnished it to US
for publication:


Il Bill to Ian off and establish new county


by the mime Of Rich1and:


SEC. /. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of the State of North Carolina and it is hereby
enacted hy the authority of the same, that new
county by the name of Richland be and the same
is hereby laid off and established out of portions
of Craven and Beaufort counties with the follow
ing boundaries to-wit: Beginning at the mouth
of upper Broad Creek IN Craven County, and run
ming up the run of said Creek as the same mean
ders to the mouth of Deep rum thence up said
run as the same meanders to the main road
thence a straight line to the head of Durham S
Creek in Beaufort County; thence down the run
of said creek as the same meanders to Pamilco
River; thence down and along with the mean
ders of said river and sound TO Neuse, thence up
the neanders of Neuse River to the beginning ::


Provided that the debt incurred by the county
of Craven for and on account of subscription for
stock in the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail
Road shall be fairly apportloued between the
said county of Craven and the proposed new
county.


SEC 2 Be it further enacted, that this act shall
be in force from and after its ratification


How WILL HE LEAVE Mr.. Lincoln had to
steal into Washington in the night time for
fear of assassination. How will he get away
VIII he be able to steal away or will he be
forced away by the fury Of the mob? Not only
is the vitality of thel Union gone but the peo-
pie are fast losing all respect for law and or
der Under the best circumstances Lincoln S
path would not be strewn with roses, and, as
it is, fearing assassination all the time he must
be supremely miserable. We very much
doubt his leaving Washington as quietly and
safely as he entered it.
Year: 1861


Again sit within the mansion,
In the old familiar seat;
And shade and sunshine chase each other
Ger the carpet at my feet. ..
But the sweetbrer's arms have wrestled upwards,
In the summers that are past,
And the willow trails its branches lower
Than when saw them last.
They strive to shut the sunshine wholly
From out the haunted room;
To fill the house, that once was joyful,
With silence and with gloom.
And many kind remembered faces
Within the doorway come
Voices that wake the sweeter music
OF one that now Is dumb.
They sing, in tones as glad as ever,
The songs she loved to hear;
They braid the rose In summer garlands,
Whose flowers to her were dear
And still her footsteps in the passage,
Her bushes at the door, ......
Her timid words Of maiden welcome
Come back to me once more.
And all forgetful of my sorrow,
Cnmindful of my pain,
think she has but newly left me,
And soon will come again.
She stays without perhaps moment,
To dress her dark brown hair;
hear the rustic of her garments
Her light step on the stair.
o lutterng heart control thy tumult.
Lest eyes profane should see
My cheeks betray the rush Of rapture
Her coming brings to me
She tarries long but 10! a whisper
Beyond the open door,
And, gliding through the quiet sunshine,
shadow Oh the floor
All! tits the whispering pine that calls me,
The vine whose shadow strays:
And my patient heart must still await her.
Nor chde her long delays.
But my heart grows sick with weary waiting,
As many a time before:
Her foot is ever at the threshold
Yet never crosses DER
Year: 1861

Solemn twilight advances over the valley /;
the woods on the opposite heights fling their
long shadows over the green of the meadow ;
aroud us arc the tents of the continental host.
the suppressed hustle Of the camp, the hur-
ried tramp of the soldiers to and fro among
the tents, the stiffness and awe that marks
the eve of battle.


When we meet again, may the shadows of
twilight be flung over peaceful land God
grant it. Let us pray.


PRAYER OF THE REVOLUTION.


Great Father, we bow before thee; we in.
woke thy blessings, we deprecate thy wrath !;
we return thee thanks for the past, we ask
thy aid for the future. For we are in times
of trouble, oh, Lord and sore besct by foes,
merciless and IMPLYING. The sword CLEANS
over our land, and the dust of the soil is
dampened with the blood Of our neighbors
and friends.


Oh God OF mercy, we prSy thee bless the
American arms. Make the man OF hearts
strong in thy wisdom; bless, we besecch
thee, with renewed life and strength, our
hope, and thy instrument, even George
Washington; shower thy councils on the
honorable, the Continental Congress visit
our host, comfort the soldier in his wounds,
and Affections, nerve him for the fight, pre-
pare him for the hour of death.


And in the hour of need, oh, God of Hosts
do thou be our stay and in the hour of tri-
umph, be thou our guide.


Teach us to be merciful. Though the
memory of CALLING wrongs be at our hearts
Knocking for admittance, that they may fill
us with the desire of revenge; yet let us, oh,
Lord, spare the yanquishcd, though they
never spare us in the hour of butchcry and
bloodsEed.


And in the hour of death do thou guide
us to the abode prepared for the blest; so
shall we return thanks unto thee through
Christ our Redeemer. God prosper the
cause. Amen.
Year: 1861

Rtsolred. That the platform of the party known as the black republican party, contains unconstitu, itonal dogmas, dangerous ill their tendency and highly derogatory to the rights ot the oouth' among which is to be found the injurious and un- truthful enunciations of the rights of the African race in this country to social and political equahty with the whites.

 Pesolred, That it is the sense of this convention, from the past history of the party known as the black republican partyfrom the past action of It's leaders, and their course in the present crisis ana from the acts utteranccs and conduct of its newly elected president, that said party intends to abide 5y and carry out if possible, it's Insulting and unconstitutional platform.

 Resolsed, That the seeding States have ample justification for having dissolved the ties winch bound them to the old federal Union, in the constant and unconstitutional political warfare made by the party, known as the black republican party, upon the institutions of the slave States, which warfare has cuIminated in the election of president by that party by purely sectional Yote-upon an uncon, stitutional platform, the principles oi winch, IT carried out, would utterly ruin the South.

 Resolred, That this convention cannot shut its eyes upon the fact that the government or the limited States is now under control of said black republican party and that said party has power to use every arm of the same, except perhaps the judicial.

 Rcsolped, That in the opinion of this convention it is conclusion clearly resulting from the fore, going that every feeling of honor, interest and sympathy demand that the State ot Arkansas should discontinue her present political relations with the United States of America. and unite herself with the Confederate States of America
Year: 1861

nine feet and two inches in girth; the third
was ninety feet. There are nearly three
times as many of the giant species in this
grove as in the Calaveras cluster. Divid-
ed into two groups, there are six hundred
and fifty of them within space of one
mile and three-quarters. Colonel Warren,
the faithful and selfsacrifcing friend of
agricultural interests in this State, propri-
etor and editor of the California Farmer,
measured the principal trees of one group
on this ridge, some three or four years ago,
and found one of one hundred and two
feet, two of one hundred, one of ninety
seven, one Of ninety-two, one of eighty
two, one of eighty, two of seventy seven,
three of seventy-six, and thus gradually
diminishing, till mure than hundred trees
were on his list that measured fifty feet
and upwards in circumference.


This crowd of majestic forms explains
the disappointment in first entering the
grove. The general scale is too immense.
Half dozen Of the largest trees spread half
mile apart, and properly set off by trees
Of six or eight feet in girth, would shake
the most volotile mind with awe.


Four days afterward, on the homeward
path by another trail, I struck off the track
with one of our party to see some "big
trees" that we're reported to US as a mile
from the path, near Cranes Flat. We
found them. The first one we approached
was the only one of the species in the
range of vision, and reared its snuff-color-
ed column among some ordinary frs. How
majestic it swelled and lowered! My COM
panion and l both exclaimed, "This is the
largest tree we have yet seen; this will
measure more than 100 feet" We gazed
a long time at its soaring stem, from which
hundred feet above the branches that
shot out bent suddenly upward, like pic
lures eff golden candlesticks in tie Hebrew
temple.


1t seemed profane to put measuring
tape upon such piece of organized sub
Unity. But we wanted to know how
much more than hundred feet could be
claimed for it, and l made the trial. 1t
was just fifty six feet in circuit, and little
more than half the size of the monarchs
in Mariposa, which it seemed to excel, so
much in majesty. There were hundred
trees in Mariposa grove larger than this,
and all of them together did not make
half the impression on me that this one
stamped into the brain at first sight.
Year: 1861

The designs for the great exhibition
building of 1862, to be erected at Ken
sington, London, are now completed and
drawn. The building will cover little
over twenty-six acres. There will be some
five hundred thousand feet of flooring
more in 1862 than in 1851. The greatest
height of the proposed building will be
two hundred feet, and the nave will be
twelve hundred feet long by eighty-five
feet wide, and one hundred feet high. The
dimensions are to be twelve hundred feet
long by seven hundred broad, exclusive of
the place set apart for the display of ag-
ricaltural implements, which is in rough
numbers one thousand feet long by two
hundred and twent broad. Messrs Kelk
& Lucas contract to furnish, the edi6ce for
two hundred thousand pounds, though in
reality it will cost three hundred thousaad
pounds, but the payment of the extra one
hundred thousand pounds is conditional
on the gross profits exceeding five hundred
pounds, as they did in 1851.


Taking one of the main sides of the
building, on the Exhibition road, as an ex-
ample, it will present lofty recessed facade,
from the center of which will rise suburb
dome of glass and iron to the immense
height of two hundred and fifty feet, with
the base of the dome not less than one
hundred and sixty feet in diameter. These,
for there are to be two, one at each end of
the building, will be the largest domes ev-
or built. That of st. Paul's is only 1Os
feet in diameter at the base, and even St.
Peters is only 139. These domes are to
be reared over the intersection of the nave
and transepts at right angles, and, as the
floors beneath both will be elevated above
the levels of the floors of the rest of the
building, an unequalled view will be got
from here through almost every part of
the vast interior. One magnificent nave
will be continued from the enterance in
the Exhibition road to the extreme end of
the building in the grounds of the Hortic-
ultural Society, and at the termination of
this the second dome will rise. The nave
is therefore to be twelve hundred fee tlong
by eighty-five wide and one hundred high.
All ths roofs will be of wool coated with
felt, and meeting ip the center at an angle,
like the roof of Westminster Hall and
most of our old cathedrals. The ef
feet, however, from the interior will not be
that of an angular roof as the girders will
will be arched and colored, and on these
the eye will naturally rest. The whole de-
sign and all the plans connected with the
building are the work of the Capt. Fowke,
R. E. The time fixed for the exhipition
is the same as that 1s51-vis., from the
1st of May to the 18th of October.


The guarantee fund now amounts to
nearly three hundred thousand pounds, and
it is anticipated that it will extend to
much larger sum in course of week or
two. One fact sufficiently illustrates the
progress made by this country since the ex-
hibition of ls4l. In that year the rail
ways to London were only equal to bring
ing and taking away forty-two thousand
persons daily; now one hundred and forty
thousand travellers could be brought to the
metropolis by rail, and the same number
taken back each day.-London Paper.
Year: 1861

EwThe following is said to be a SEN
timent expressed by Jas. K. Polk: "No
treason to mankind since the organization
of society would be equal in atrocity Of
that Of him who would lift his hand to de-
stroy the Union.
Year: 1861

The ROMANCE OF A CELESTIAL KrrcHEN.-Charles
Dickens in his weekly paper is telling curious and
cruel stories about Chinese cookery. When anx-
ious to cook lamb in the highest style of art, the
Chinese it is said, build low mud wall, incosing
space two or three feet across, and another wall
outside forming circus or about two feet wide, in
which they set pots containing wine vinegar soy
sauce and so forth. In the inner space they light
good fire, and in the circus thus prepared, put a
live lamb. The lamb naturally becomes thirsty
from the great heat of the fire, and drinks what he
finds as he runs backward and forward in search of
means of escape When the drinks are all swa.
lowed and dried into the animals flesh, the lamb
becomes exhausted, falls down dead and in very
short time is completely roasted. Turtle may be
prepared, according to the same authority, by
placing it the fire in pot of water, in the lid
OF which there is a hole large enough to allow the
turtle to put out his head. AS the water becomes
hot the turtle naturally thrusts his head out to get
at the cooler air, when he is fed with spiced wine
and soy-sauce, which he drinks readily as relief
from the heat This goes long as he has
strength to keep his head up, and the turtle does
not part with life easily, he seldom fails to 60 on
stuthng himself till he is cooked.


Mrs. Burch, of Junius, Seneca county. N. Y.