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Year: 1860

Some Of our Southern cotemporaries have
been thoughtlcss enough to entertain and cx-
press the hope that, in the pending contest, the
Southern States will receive "material aid in
the shape of arms and supplies, if not of ar
mics and naves, from some of the great pow
ers Of Europe 4 little reflection will show
what this sort Of thing is worth.


There can be no doubt on tho mind Of any
one who has spent any portion of his life in
Europe, that the antislavery sentiment there,
especially in France, and most especially
in England, bears about the same relation
even to the fanatcism prevalent in New
England, that the pungcncy nitric acid bears
to the milder acidity of crab vinegar
ANY attempt of British Ministry, for example,
based on whatever considerations Of CONNER.
cial profit or material welfare to espouse the
pro.Slavcry side Of an Interstate quarrel, would
produce vote Of cenSurc in the House Of Com
mons, so immediate and decided as to throw
the Ministry out Of power before the lapse Of
twenty four hours. The popular pressure which
so remorselessly converted the Island OF
Jamaica into barren waste, would, with equal
readiness, sacrifice the bread ola million British
operatives rather than tolerate step in the
direction Of governmental aid to slaveholding
power, in contest involving the maintenance
or abolition Of slavery.


No. The hope Of European aid 10 the South
is an utter iaacy. Let us be heartily thankful
that it $50. It's mach better .Jcr rs and ours
that ice can and must do our oarn .fyhting.
| Thank God. We are not so weak that we have
cause to take shelter beneath the dangerous
protection Of European monarchy. If wc
were weak enough to need it, God forbid that
we should be craven enough to seek it. Our
true policy in war lis in peace, is to maintain
Invlolate the Monroe doctrine, positively re.
fusing to permit to the monarehics Of Europe
any voice in the control Of the sovereign and
and independent States of the Continent Of
America"


1t may be asked whether there is, on the
other hand, no danger that Europe may
interfere in behalf of the North We
think not The cotton string" though
not strong enough to bear the tension
of offensive alliance, is yet cogent to induce our
transatlantic neighbors to keep the peace
But if England or France shall be induced 10
put her finger in the pie, we trust that the in
truder may take sides-not with the South
but with the North. Nothing would more Ger
tainly insure for the South determined army
Of Northern allies, than would an openly arow-
cd -black-leg coalition of Monarchists
and Abolitionists arrayed against Southern
rights.
Year: 1860

The New York Tribune, of this morning, says:


The stock market to-day has two prominent features
strength and duness. The amount of transactions
quite limited while there general but unimportant
advance in prices. At the Second Board the
very strong but still inactive. The condition of the
market is such that while considerable amount of
stocks could be bought without establishing marked
advance in prices the street would take quite large
amount without any important decline. the close
there but little doing from the fact that there
but few stocks the market excepting at higher prices
has been unusually large, adding up s3lSOOO in regis
tered sales.


The receipts of the Illinois Central Railroad since tn
ST Ian are as follows
Year: 1860

The CRUSADE OF PRUDERY AGAINST ART.-As long
as We have Lord Haddo, with his annual prudish
motion against nude models, we shall never want
good illustration of Swift's definition OF nice
man. The nastness is entirely in the particular
view of the subject, not in the subject ITSELF which
suggests nothing of the kind to the pure eyes OF
science or art. We hardly know a less enviabIe
constitution of mind than in which the con-
temptation of the most exquisite work of creation
is indissoIubly connected with ''outrages against
decency and morals" Some men cannot conceived
Lucretia without Tarquin, or meet DOrine on the
stairs without Tartutes explosion of virtue against
her bare arms.
Year: 1860

An English exchange has the following Curl
Gus explanation of the origin of the practice of
the cergy's wearing black coats. 1t says that
in the year 1924. Luther laid aside the monks
costume, and henceforth dressed according to
the fashion of the world. He chose black
clothes, and consequently the color has become
the fashion of the clergy. His reason for choos-


ing this color was: The Elector of Saxony
took an interest in him, and now and then sent
him piece of black cloth, being at that time
the court fashion, and because Luther preferred


it, so his scholars thought it became them to wear
the same color as their master. From that time
black has been the color most worn by the cler-,
gy.
Year: 1860

"Going to do it" never made fortune, built
house or won name. "Going to do it" has
been the bane of more people than would fill the
census of a dozen New Yorks. The man who
is always 'going to do it." rarely, if ever, does
it. The only thing be does do is to go out Of
the world without doing it. If be has task
which must>be done, he at once announces, with
deal of boasting and great waste of words,
time and breath, that he is "going to do it,
And while he is thus ''goipg to do it" somebody
else who is not suspected of "going to do it, y
does it and reaps the reward.
Year: 1860

No occupation can be more favorable to the


cultivation of those qualities which are the


charm of the domestic circle, than the life of q
farmer. He is much more at home than is DOS
sible with any other man. How many are there
in our cities who only see their families at
evenings or on the Sabbath! They live for
their business, and this, from its location. takes
them from home early and late. How many,
from the same cause, forsake house. keeping and
huddle into boarding houses and hotels, where
the charm and beauty of the family, as God
constituted it, is entirely lost and children fall
under thousand unfriendly influences that
would never touch them at home. With the
best arrangements wealth could command in the
city, it is well nigh impossible to keep children
under the influence of their parents, so that they
shall have distinct family character, and bear
the moral as they do the physical image of their
progenitors. Parental influence is dissipated
amid the varied social influences to which they
are subjected from their earliest DAYS.


Ninety-nine failures in q hundred among most
business men in the city, tell q tale of the per-
plexities and sorrow, the corroding cares and
anguish of mercantile life. I. How can father,
goaded with these anxieties, from the beginning
to the end of the year, do justice to his children,
even if his business allowed him to be with them
part of the timea He is not in frame OF
mind to superintend their education, to perform
fathers Office. 4sqa ~


The farm preserves che family in its integrity,
The home has in it that charming word, and
that more charming thiDg-the fre-side, around
which parents and children gather, and where
the bright and cheerful blaze upon the hearth is
but a type of the fame of love that glows in ev-
cry heart. The parents have been drawn to-
gether, not by sordid motives of wealth or. the
ambitious desire of social display, but by the per-
sonal qualities seen in each other. The glory of
the 6reside to the husband, is that the wife is
there: and to the wife, that he is there who is
the bead of the woman, and the bond of that
home circle. Here they gather at morning, and
at evening and at noon. Their board is almost
always surrounded with the same circle, and
here they spend the long winters evening to-
gether. fa3s
Year: 1860

Most persons are particularly spiteful against
those foibles in others which they themselves
have. They remind US of monkey scratching
and grinEing at the mimic monkey in the glass.
Year: 1860

An exchange thus pathetically describes the
fainting of young lady:


Down fell the lovely maiden,


just like slaughtered lamb;


Her hair hung round her pallid cheeks
Like sea weeds round a clam!
Year: 1860

CHANGED HIS MIHR-The Washington
correspondent of the New York Times says
that Senator Latham has expressed the opin-
ion that there are not five hundred men in
California who will favor Pacific Repub-
lie in case the South secedes from the Union.
In his speech last year, be stated that the
Pacific coast would set up an independent
government In the event of disruption OF
the Union; but it seems be has changed his
opinion on this question, and has now gone
off on the other extreme. We presume there
are not less than five thousand men In Cal
ifornia who would favor Pacific Republic
in order that they might have chance al
some of the numerous offices which would
necessarily be created by the establishment
of separate government on this coast; and
there are others that would favor the mea
sure for different reasons. But as it is no"
pretty evident that very large majority
of the voters are opposed TO an independ
ent government on this coast, the question
is not likely to be seriously agltated in Cal
ifornia. Latham undoubtedly begins to seC
this, and Is now preparing to run along will
the popular current.
Year: 1860

MAsroDoN.--A portion Of the skeleton of
mastodon was recently found by some
miners on klamath river. It was found
forty feet below the surface, aud the bones,
though extremely porous, were in good
state Of preservation. The animal when
living must have been from eighteen to
twenty feot 10 height
Year: 1860

LlBEL.-The proprietors of the San Fran
cisco Mirror have been arsested on charge
OF libel, preferred by ). S. Maxwell. The
arrest was occasioned by the exposition
made by that paper of the Pacific Life
Guard and intelligence Office affair, Of which
Maxwell was charged with being the head.
Year: 1860

CoNvICrED OF MuRDER.-George Ward,
charged with the murder of his wife, had
his second trial at Stockton, last week, and
was convicted Of murder in the first degree.
On the FIRST trial the jury stood nine for
conviction and three for acquittal.
Year: 1860

SHAVING CHEAP.-The residents Of Red
Bluff are to be envied. In consequence OF
lively opposition between the two tonsorial pro-
fessors OF the town, a man can get shaved twice
for bit.
Year: 1860

Be IL rssOlred By The Legislative Assembly
of The Territory Of Washington, That a
copy Of tbs foregoing report be sent to our
Delegate in Congress, that he may submit
the same to the proper department, and
earnestly urge that measures be at once
taken for our relief That he respectfully
request the President to appoint officers who
will attend to their duties, and that they be
provided with sufficient clerical force to bring
up what is now behind hand, so that the
business of the Registers and Receivers
Offices may hereafter be properly and eff
ciently conducted.


Can single individual be found who has
resided in Olympia for the last four years,
who will dissent from the above report, de-
ny its truth, or refuse to urge in common
with this committee the appointment of
better men in their stead? We believe
not. Yet the House thought proper to
strike out the word Receiver" wherever it
occurs in this report, thus leaving the en-
tire odium of that investigation TO fall upon
WV. b. RANKIN, now absent from this Ter
ritory upon leave. Although that leave
Year: 1860

We have have been led to allude to this
subject from the absence again, at this time,
of the receiver. His return y daty shall
be noticed. Until then, such as may have
business connected with their lands might
as well stay at home. Their business can
not be attended to until bis own has been
disposed Of.
Year: 1860

gzFH Ladies who are in want OF very
nice shoes for themselves or children can
find at HUGAEs' very choice stock from
the very best factories. 1t is only necessary
to buy one pair of those very nice kid boots
which he recommends so highly, to be con-
vinced that he has not said one word too
lot of hoop skirts from the East in few
days, which he will sell for less money than
the watch steel springs they are made Of
cost
Year: 1860

BsIJ- JOHN RAscm, the old and popular
shoe manufacturer, on Second street, is on
hand again this spring with large slock Of
custom made boots and shoes for gents la
dies and childrens' wear. JOHN is too well
known in this community to require any
putting from rs. A mere mention of the
fact that he has received his spring stock
will secure him plenty OF customers
Year: 1860

The presentation speech was made in a
clear and distinct voice by Miss VIRdIEIA
BATENtAN, and was responded to, on behalf
of the company by its Captain, Fl. G. DER
RICK.


GENTLEMAN OF THE (" AEMoRY GUARD


COMPANY


congratulate you for the deepfelt in
terest you have manifested In our personal
and general safety, by your organization, and
[ appreciate the honor conferred upon me, IN
having been appointed for the presentation
of this American Flag. Tho motives and
their cause.-The circumstances and their
birth, out of which have grown the duty, /
am about to perform, are of no ordinary char
acter or secondary moment. We have only
to make monientary review upon the pages
of our national history and note the events
chroniclcd of recent date, that have trans
PRED in our midst; by which our great con-
federacy was convulsed from ocean to ocean
with the most intense excitement; to obtain
full and satisfactory answer to the cause of
the present interesting occasion Permit me
TO resyaru this exhibitions Of your patriotism,
as demonstration of ysur recognized duty,
to preserve and perpetuate the inestimable
legacy of liberty and safety entrusted TO your
keeping; by our revolutionary fathers, who
purchased It upon the battlefield, with the
pricecof blood and life, may the.s same spirit
that inspired the pilgrim heroes of s,Seyenty-
Six" when it ..tried mems souls" be felt to
yibrate upon the alter of your hearts with
renewed energy and viyaeity; in view of the
fact, that in the gift of this appropriate em-
bIen of our national freedom and indepen-
dence You have expressed the appreciation
and many lasting obligations, the Ladies of
Bolivar and Harpers Ferry are under for
the noble and patriotic object of your mill
tary organization. We tender you our sim
cere thanks for the protection you guarantee
to us not only against the invasion of the
peace and sanctity of our fre-side, by insid-
iops and transporting foes In the stiffness of
the midnight hour; hut against attacks upon
the defeneeless citizens of our town, by any
savage band of merciless outlaws


] now present You this Flag, indnlging In
the hope, that the God of battles may smile
prosperously upon you and upon our happy
land, may he long preserve us from the pesti-
hence of war either by civil or foreign strife,
and peTpetuate your company enly as a safe
guard 70 our town and our homes Gentle
men of the Armory Guard company in
conclusion, be faifhfu be true to your trust
I and may the sun Of your prosperiits-tffiat
military prowess, ever shine bright and
] cheering in the sky Of your destiny, may
Year: 1860

A YOUNG HEENAN.-Iu order to amuse The
children on the Sabbath, a lady was engaged
recently in reading to them from the Bible, the
story of David and Goliath, and coming to the
passage in which Goliath so boastingiy and de-
family dared the young STRIPPING, little chap
almost in bis first trousers, said, "skip that
skip that-he's only blowing l want to know
who licked"
Year: 1860

US Somebody says that lady should al
ways ask the four following questions before
accepting the hand of any young man
Is be honorable


Is he kind of heart


Can he support me comfortably


Does ne take paper and pay for it IN ad-
vance?
Year: 1860

A fire broke out in the lumber yard of Alex. Mitch
eli. ESD on Craven street. ON Monday night last,
lust before o'clock The lot was full of lumber,
obinpIes and other combustible material, and there
being quantity of powder stored in warehouse
on the lot the of which spread rapidly through
the crowd which collected, it Impossible to
make any effective efforts to subdue the flames un
til after the powder had exploded; and when the
fright was subdued and the crowd collected around
the raging flames the fire had gotsueh headway as to
prevent the possibility OF arresting it until the large
warehouse on the next lot entirely consumed.
The warehouse being near the Progress building the
kitchen in the rear caught and entirely
sumed together with the fences and the passage
leading from the house to the kitchen The Progress
building was fire several times and it was only
by the almost super-human exertons of gentlemen
who remained in the building, applying water all the
time, that the building saved. AS it was the
windows were burned and broken, and the house
being flooded with water the plastering is nearly
entirely ruined. But for the extraordinary exertions
made to arrest the fames the whole block in which
the Progress office is located, would have been
sumed. and how much further it would have gone it
is impossible tor US to tell.


The editor of this paper had just fitted up the 2nd
and 3rd stores,-above the offce,-for residence,
and it becoming necessary to remove the furniture
and also the printing materials, his loss is Serious
anart from that sustained the building The en-


tire loss to him not less than 81 800 50 OOO which
is partially covered by Insurance.


Messrs Mitchell & Son estimate their loss at
g. 500 on which there no insurance.


We are not apprized as to what Mr. Geo F. Fish
ers loss is, but we suppose from s4Ot to 5000
Year: 1860

l must be permitted to express my gratitude to
the citizens ofNewbern without any exceptions,
but especially to my near neghbors for their kind
hess to myself and family and for their cxertons to
save my property on the night of the 4th instant.
l have never seen any occasion, greater efforts
made to stay the devouring element, fire, than on
that OCCASION and l assure my friends that they
will have the gratitude of me and mine to our
latest breath; and pray heaven that none of them
may ever be placed in similar position


| was informed on yesterday that number of
my personal friends. being actuated by the purest
motives [ am assured, ana anxious to make me
feel my loss lightly possible, raised. by sub
scription, on the previous evening" some four or
five hundred dollars to be presented to me. For
this renewed or additional evidence of esteem by
my fellow citizens have much cause to be proud
but hope that they will realize the delicacy of
my position and appreciate the propriety of my
motives when I most respectfully but firmly
decline to accept their most generous assistance.
All that ask at the hands of my friends and the
citizens of Newbern is, that they will continue. If
they deem me worthy of it, that generous patron
age to my business which has been so willingly
bestowed on it heretofore. Let them DO this and
will not only weather this storm but will be able
to encounter half dozen such, provided
they do not come in too rapid succession.


If those who wish to help me will exert them
selves, modesty, to increase the circulation of
my papers and the general business of my estab,
Iishment shall be profoundly grateful.


Respectfully, the Publics


Obedient Servant,


] /. PENNINGTON.
Year: 1860

Though the fiery elements destroy our proper
ty and leave us homeless and houseless, the pub
lie must have paper and not being willing that
our patrons should suffer account of our misfor
tunes they are hereby informed that the issue of
the Progress will go regularly on, notwithstand-
ing the heavy loss which we sustained Mon
day night last. We will not loose single issue.
Our Weekly goes out to-day filled with its usual
quantity of interesting matter.
Year: 1860

PLAYING CARDS FOR A WIFE.-A constable in
young lady a few miles away, proposed game
of euchre as the evenings entertainment, which
was accepted by the young lady. When the
cards were dealt the young lady proposed 'fyer''
of fifty dollars, to which the constable demurred.
The young lady protested that she would never
play with gentleman unless there was some
stake up, the gent still demurred, when, as a COM
PROMISE the lady proposed that they would play.
and if she beat him he should marry her, which
the gallant constable couldn't do otherwise than
accept. At it they went, and the lady proved to
be the winner. The constable was invited to
stay all night, and in the morning they would
proceed to the squire's and be made one flesh-
He plead pressing business and went away. She
followed him to ibis fathers and stayed there
three days without seeing the young man. when
a compromise effected by paying the diseon-
solate lady two hundred and fifty dollars to fill
the breach.
Year: 1860

The young lady about whom the love troubles of
the young Prince of Wales have begun, and which
have led according to rumor, to his visit to the
North American Colonies in order to avoid writ
of breach of promise of marriage, is the Lady Car


oline Villers, daughter of the Earl of Jersy. and
grand daughter of the late Sir Robert Peel. Of
whom the Countess of Jersey was the eldest
daughter. She is very young, not over seventeen;
the Prince not nineteen until November next
Year: 1860

Tag REVERE House. Frns1ruRE.-9his sale
will be continued to-day. Much Of the most
desirable furniture still remains unsold, and ne
advise all in need Of any article on the 'cata-
logue to give their attendance at the sale day
It Is rarely that such an opportunity OCCURS
Year: 1860

Not one inch of territory has ever been pur-
chased or acquired of any foreign power, since
the Constitution was adopted the instance
of the Free States, or which was intended for
their benefit, yet the Free States have paid
more than two.thirds Of the entire cost of all
these acquisitions Of territory.


How has the Free Territory been divided ?
From the territory thus purchased, and aid
for by all the States, five new slave S,ates
have been admitted, having the following ex-
tent of territory and representation in Con.
press:
Year: 1860

The wealthy banker sat in his velvet
cushioned chair, looking over bis pile of
letters by the soft light that s.reaned
through the stained glass windows of his
library. The gilded ceiling above, the
superb oaken furniture carved in gothic
aplendor, the rare pictures framed in gold
and full Of blue light and sunset gloriss
Year: 1860

NiSIlING TO REMOVE SOUTH, OFFER FOR
w sale my valuable plantation NINE OAKS on which
j reside, containing ONE THOUSAND and TWO ACRES
of LAND lying both sides of Flat Creek Immediately
on the road from WamsbOrough Oxford The location
is highly desirable one being elevated and beautiful and
in neghbOrhOOd proverbal for its healthuuess morality
and intelligence No effort my part has been spared
being in excellent repair and high of Improvement
offers unusual inducements farmers 1t is an accessi
BILE region of country, being in and half miles of
WillamsbOrough; seven miles from Townsville Depot,
the Roanoke Valley Railroad and nine miles from the
of Henderson, on the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad.


About hundred will set in clover about five
hundred cleared and admirably adapted the produc
tiOn Of Tobacco Wheat Coru and Oats the balance in
original growth, is of the first gu ty and could be made
produce the very best Tobacco There fine young Ap
pie and Peach Orchard attached the premises which is
in a very iourishng condition.


The Improvements inferior to in the Sate there
being all the outhUuses necessary for carrying
tensive farm large wheat grainery just completed and
Tobacco barns sufficiently large to fifty thousand lbs
of Tobacco The dwelling house is two story edifee
containing thirteen above and two in the basement
swell proportiOned and handsomely finished The yard
has been recently paed with heart spiked palngs There
is neat Office in the yard. There about twenty good
springs the plantation four within two hundred yards
of the dwelling.


will also sell my STOCK consisting of about thirty head
of CATTLE about hundred and thirty head of hogs of
which seventy ttenng hogs and forty head Of sheep
of an improved stock


anime the premises such plantation is seldom offered
for sale Terms made easy to suit the purchaser.


For further information address,


Wiamsborough, Granville County, N. C.


Sept %, 1859. s4-tE