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Year: 1861

We desire no union with those who
have declared that the Union is a league
with hell and covenant with the devil"
We seek no union with men who have de-
clared that unless Slavery was wiped out.
they would "let tie Union slide" No
Democrat will ever enter into a political
partnership with such wicked aud unpriu-
cipled politicians ss these. But there are
hosts of honest, true and patriotic men in
the Republican ranks, who are sincerely
att'ched to the principles of the Con til
tuition, and who have never been fanatics,
with whom we could gladly unite at any
time, provided they planted taemse' YES
fairly and squarely on the National
Union Platform of the good old Demo
cratic party, whose motto has always
teen-THe Union, tie Constitution, and
the enforcement Of tie Lascs.-Logon Ga
zelte.
Year: 1861

This is becoming, and soon will be the
the war-cry Of the Republican party. Its
file leaders are already raising it. They
said at first that emancipation would be
an indirect effect of the war; now they
are seeking to make it the direct result
They care more for the nigyer than the
Union.


The State Journal and other Re- uLli,
can papers reason thus: England OF
France or both, may, for want of cotton
interfere in our domestic quarrel ana as.
sist the the secessionists Then, the on.
ly chance left to put down the rebellion
will be for President Lincoln to issue, q.
"miitary necessity" his proclama.
ton liberating all the slaves in the South
This is now'oeing proclaimed in all the
North as likely to be the only means left
for saving the Union.


What the Democracy and Cnion-lov
ing people of the country will have to say
to this is, that such pretended salvation
of Union, by such an unconstitutiona
and tyranncal exercise of power on the
part of the Presideat, with the annihiIa
tion of State sovereignty and the deStruc
ton of private property held under STATE
laws, will be its sure and final dissolution
"O," say these Garrisonian Union hating
Republicans, 'then you prefer slave Y to
the Union" The people will answer at
the ballot box: 1--WE love the Union as
it is under our present { onstitution, am
will maintain it at all hazards against al
open and secret foes, Without preserv-
ing the rights OF the States under thu
Constitution, the Union cannot be main
tanned (; and they must and shall be pre-
served Statesman.
Year: 1861

Oh, be not the first to discover


A blot on the fame of a freind,
A flaw in the faith of lover,


Whose heart may prove true in the end
We none of us know one another,


And oft into error we fall
Then let us speak well of our brother,
Or speak not about him at all.
A smile or sigh may awaken


Suspecion most false and undue
Or thus uur belief may be shaken


In hearts that are honest and true.
How often the light smile of gladness,
Is won by the friends that we meet,
To cover a soul full ofsadness,


FOO proud to acknowledge defeat.
How often the sigh of detection


Is heaved from the hypocrite's breast,
To parody truth and affection,


Or lull "a suspicion to rest.
How often the friends we hold dearest
Their noblest emotions conceal,
And bosoms the purest, sinceiest,


Have secrets they cannot reveal.
Leave base minds to harbor suspicion,
And small ones to trace out defects
Let ours be a noble ambition,


For base is tho mind that suspects.
We none of us know one another


And oft into error we fall
Then let us speak well Of our brother,
Or not speak of him at all.
Year: 1861

The ship Monarch brought to the port
of New York recently some nine hundred
and forty nine Mormons who are destin .
ed for Salt Lake City. AS the Republi,
cans at their Chicago Convention left
one of the twins relics of barbarism out
in the cold to take care of itself, in order,
we suppose, to allow themselves the
moro freedom to nurse the other in step
mother style the Mormons of Europe
take it for granted that they exercise
their peculiar domestic institution with
ont any interruption from the Lincoln
Administration, and SO are pouring in
upon us.
Year: 1861

How bitingly true is the following
from the New York Journal of Com
merce! It's faihfu'ness will be rccog-
nized by all, and acknowledged by every
candid person:


at is great mistake to suppose that
a bloodhound is courageous dog. The
men who have plunged us into this war,
who have haloocd on the people, are
men that have wisely stayed at home.
And a part Of the plan to cover mp their
own want of courage, is to keep up the
cry of war. The rebels in the South who
planned the dissolution of the Union,
who advocated it in Congress and in the
news papers and on the stump, are the
men who have taken the field, while the
Northern editors and Congressman and
Senators who opposed compromise, who
let us drift into this war, nay, who drag
ged us into it, are at home making con.
tracts to supply army stores, and shout,
lug traitor at every man who venture,
to remind them of the evil they have
brought on the country, or suggested a
remedy 10 it,"
Year: 1861

Senator Wilson. of Massachusetts, has
introduced his bill for the organization oil
National Guard under the United States
Government, to consist of several hun
dreb thousand men. We have no OBJ
lection to the Guard, provided it is left
to the State to approve and support
If, however, the General Government is
to have the exclusive control of the mat
ter, power would be created that would
destroy state sovereignty. and give US a
central despotism, Let the people keep
an eye on the President who aims at de-
stroying the rights OF the States and the
liberties Of the people.
Year: 1861

THE o-party Republicans want all the
Democrats to Join their party and give
them the ofiioers-then they will be sat
isied The Democrats inten sustaining
the Government against enemies and
against rebellion, but they have no notion
OF going into an abolition tray, The pat
riotism Of the Democracy must not be
mistaken for greonnoSs.
Year: 1861

We are deeply indebted to the wise heads
of the Frontier for information respecting
the customs of all journals" and would
like to know where the editors of that
handbill received their knowledge. We
have been engaged in the printing bu,i-
ness upwards of thirteen years in differ
ent capacities, and we have yet to learn
that it is tie "custom among all journals"
to publish column after column of incendi-
ary political articles, 1.-THE Frontier calls
them news items for twenty consecutive
weeks, without word of comment in opposi-
ton to the sentiment expressed, but with
its original articles breathing the same per-
nicious doctrine, without intending to ap-
prove of them. Why you nimcompoops
are you entirely destitute of sense, of
shame, of respect for the intelligence Of
your fellow man, that you put forth to the
public such abominable trash. Recall the
last issue Of your full-faccd-autique clar-
ndon double-extendcd arabesque-two-l q e
mall-pica- and three font. long primer sheet.
Never let it be recorded that Illinois and
Ohio has furnished the greatest mental im.
beetles Of the age. For the credit Of your
native States, for the credit of the human
race which you so nearly resemble. gather
in your last numbers. No one will object
to giving it up, we'll warrant you.
Year: 1861

We are pleased to see the gradually
changing sentiment in our community, in
favor of permanently locating the Capital
this fall, and locating it, too, at Topeka
Heretofore, many of our citizens were fav-
orabls to postponing the final settlement Of
the question for a term of years; but the
disastrous results of such course are too
apparant to need any extended comment
from US. We want Railroad as near as
we can get it, and as speedily as it can be
built, and we know Of no better way to
" hurry up" such an institution, than to set
tie the Capital question BY giving It to To-
peka,-thcn We are pretty sure Of road to
that point. A Railroad to the Capital is
fixed fact as soon as We have q permanent
Capital. Remember that!
Year: 1861

Resolved, In the language of Senator DOUGLAS,
Whoever is not prepared to sacrifice party Or
CARNATIONS and platforms on the altar of his
country, does not deserve the support and coun-
tenance of honest people" and that We this day
declare that we know and will make no other
issue than the one forced upon us-"W must
be either for or against our Government, either
Patriots or Traitors


Resolved That we indorse the resolution
known as the CRITTENDES Resolution, which is
as follows: "That in this national emergency,
Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion
or resentment, will only recOllect its duty to the
whole country; that this war is not waged on
our part in any spirit of aggression, nor for any
purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the
rights or established institutions of the States,
but to defend and maintain the supremacy of
the Constitution, and to preserve the Union,
with all the dignity, equality, and rights Of the
several States unimpaired, and that as soon as
these objects are accomplished the war ought to
cease"


Resolved, That We indorse the resolution
known as the NcCLERSAND resolution, which Is
as follows: "That this House pledge itself to
vote any amount of money and number OF men
which may be necessary to secure the speedy
and effectual suppression OF said rebellion, and
the permanent restoration of the federal author
ity everywhere within the limits and jurisdic-
tionof the United States


Resolved In the language of the Hon. JOSEPH
HOLT we are for this Union without condi-
tions, one and indivisible, now and forever-for
Its preservation at any and every cost of blood
and treasure, against all its assailants, and
against any and every compromise that may be
proposed to be made under the guns Of the
rebels"


Resolved, That this Convention give their
hearty support to the present Administration in
its endearOr to crush out the rebellion now exist
ing in our country.


Resolved, That when the authority of the
Federal Government shall have been re-estab
lished, and peaceful obedience to the Constitu-
tion and Laws prevails, We shall be ready TO
confer and cooperate with all loyal citizens
throug hout the Union, in Congress or in Con-
vention, for the consideration of all supposed
grievances, the redress of all wrongs and the
protection of every right, yielding ourselves, and
expecting all others to yield TO the will of the
people, constitutionally and lawfully expressed.
distinction between those men at the South, who
are in open rebellion against the Government,
and only ask :" to be let alone" and those men
at the North who believe "the prosecution of
the war should be accompanied with the most
liberal offers of peace" and consequently We
denounce the resolutions passed by the Conven-
ton held in Junction City on the third Of Sep
tember, 1861, as base in their conception, ruin
Gus in their tendency, disgraceful to district,
and if carried out, destructive of all our inter
ests and that We will prove by our votes at the
coming election that our district repudiates the
resolutions and the candidates connected with
them.
Year: 1861

The charge is made by the semi secession
lists of the opposition party, that the Union
party is controlled wholly by Republicans,
and that it is only dodge of the Republi
cans to get control of our county affairs -
Were this true. we should not consider it
worth refutation; because We care not
whether man has been Democrat or a
Republican, so that he is now good Un-
ion man, and willing to make sacrifices to
convince US of his sincerity.


But the charge is without the least shad-
ou oftruth! We do not make this asscr-
ton without Offering the proof to uphold it.


One evidence in condemnation of the
charge made by these traitors, is given in
the Union ticket at the head Of our COL
ums. It will be seen that out of the ten
candidates presented for county offices, fire
of them have heretofore been members of
the Democratic party, and five Of the Re-
publican party; and we all know the Re-
publicans possessed the power, were they so
disposed, to have filled the ticket with men,
bers of their own party.


Numerous lies are in circulation concern
ing "packed caucuses" and convention
skullduggery," which we deem of no i'm
portance. Most any knave can make such
assertions" and none but knaves would
have the audacity to do it. Rail on, Messrs.
Traitors, and you, ye disadected, disap-
pointed aspirants for official positions. On
the 5th of next month the verdict in you1
case will be rendered at the ballot box
The people are your judges, and weanxious-
" await their lust decision.
Year: 1861

We neglected last week to call the atten-
ton of our voters to the name of Mr.. A.
q. Case, as candidate for the position Of
District Attorney for this Judicial District.
Mr.. Case has been recommended to the
popular favor by nearly every convention in
the District, and judging from our limited
knowledge of the gentleman, We believe him
to be eminently fitted for the position.
Year: 1861

Under the above caption, the voters of
Davis county will find quite a list Of the
names, in another column, Of gentlemen
Who wish to conduct the affairs Of our
county for the next year or two.
Year: 1861

A correspondent Of the Rural New
Yorker gives the following account Of the
mode Of making cheese which goes by
this name. in some of the counties of
Western New York. He says il is made
mostly by English people who emigrated
from Lancashire. We are inclined to
think it IS not precisely the same process
as that by which the so called English
dairy cheese Of Ohio and other sections
is made:


This cheese is a single meal, or, in
other words, the milk is "run up, or set
directly from the COW, both night and
morning, no artificial heat being used 10
any part of The process. The milk is
collored by annette, rubbed down in milk
and added defore the rennet The prep
aration of the rennet, and the quantity
used. is the same as in other good dairies
The milk stands an hour after the rem
net has been put in. The curd is then
cut up in the usual way, and worked
moderately as il begins 10 settle. The
whey is gradually Withdrawn, and as il
begins to harden so as to hold together,
it is put into cloth and gently washed
and pressed till the whey is well out. It is
then broken up again, salted at the rate
Of an ounce Of salt to three pounds of
curd. and pat into a hoop or net, and
moderate pressure put on. The hoops
are Is TO Ia inches by five or six inches
deep, but the cheese when pressed should
not be over 4 l-2 inches thick. The
rnannipulatiOns are much as in other dali
RES, except that when the cheese is turn
ed the first and second time, it is well
rubbed with salt, and stands in the pres:
three days. In one dairy. instead Of rub
bing on the salt, after standing in thG
press for twelve hours, the cheese vas
put into strong brine for twelve hours
taken out, wiped dry and put back into
the hoops, and pressed for two days lon.
ger.


'No grease is used upon the cheeses
and they are cured in cool, damp room
if possible. They get a very hard rind
are sent TO market in bulk, about the frs
of November, and handle as safely a:
so many pieces Of plank. They weigh
usually. when taken from the press, about
50 pounds, and when cured, 90 or 81 lbs.
The cheese is expensive to make and to
handle, as compared with the larger and
two-meal method. It is, however, rich,
mild aud easily cured and much sought
after in the cities, among the English
population"
Year: 1861

Bulwer eloquently says: Il cannot be-
lieve that earth IS mans abiding place.
Il cannot be that our life is cast nP by the
ocean Of eternity, to float moment upon
its waves, and then sink into nothingness.
Else why is it, that the glorious aspira-
tlons, which leap like angels from the
temple of our hearts, are forever wan
dering about unsalis6ed Why is ii that
the rainbow and clouds come over us with
beauty that is not Of earth, and then
pass off and leave Us 70 muse upon their
faded loveliness 2 Why is it that the
stars, who hold their festival around the
midnight throne, are set above the grasp
Of our hmned faculties, forever mOcking
US with their unapprOachable glory 2 and
finally, why is it that bright forms Of hu-
man beauty are presented to our view.
and then taken from Us, leaving the thou
sand streams Of our affections TO flow
back ~ Alpine torrents up0n our hearts
We are born for higher destiny than
that Of earth. There IS a realm where
the rainbow never fades; where the stars
viii spread before Us, like islands that
slumber on the ocean, and where the be-
ings shat pass before Us, like shadows,
stay in our presence forever
Year: 1861

l. We know not, beforehand, when
and how, and By what means we or others
shall be brought to death by what road
we must 60 the way whence we shall not
return, what disease or what disaster will
be the door to put as into the house Of ap-
Poinimens for all living.


2. We can not describe what death IS;
how the knot is united between body and
soul, nor how the spirit Of man goes up
ward, to be we know not what, and live
we know not how. With what dread
full curiosity does the soul launch out into
the vast ocean Of eternity, and resign IT.
self to an uniried abyss Let Us make it
sure that the gates of Heaven shall be
open to Us on the other side of death,
though it is a way we are to 60 but once.


3. We have no correspondence 81 all
with separate souls, nor any acquaintance
with their state. Il is an unknown, un-
discovered region, to which they are re-
moved we can neither hear from them,
nor send to them. While we were here
in a world of sense, we speak of the
world of spirits, as blind do Of colors, and
as we move thither, we shall be amazed
to fnd how much we have been mistaken.
-yNaftheaU Hsnrv.
Year: 1861

Writing. ink may be oblilerated from
ordinary paper by chlorinated carbonate
Of soda By a solution Of bromide, by
solution Of chloride Of bromide By chic
ride Of lime; by bromide Of lime by a
solution Of chlorine; by chronic acid, or
BY oxygenated water.


With an average annual rainfall Of
thirsy-one inches, the quantity Of wafer
thrown down upon each acre Of ground
is nearly three thousand tons.


Sailing wheat in The sheaf is said to
be Of marked benefit to both grain and
straw.


MiIIet was first known IN India and
Abysinia.


Il is as cheap to raise one ton Of grass
or clover as a ton Of burdocls or pig
weeds.


To get rid Of and keep rid Of lice
about chickens, use sassaffas roosting-
poles, and litter sassafras abOut the nests.


The potato is a well-knogn native Of
Peru and Mexico


The brain is divided into two paris.
big and little or front and back; 81 in-
tellect and animal.
Year: 1861

THERE is to be no standing back in New Or
leans. Officers have been appointed to so from
house to house, and bring out every man and boy
who is capable OF carrying mnsket. Shoult
any proprietor of house refuse to have his plac,
searched for men, the officer is to report .ht
premises as under suspicion"
Year: 1861

Secretary Floyd has resigned his seat in the
Cabinet and cid Buck is in great tribulation
Nearly or quite all the Southern men at Wash
ington now despair of the Union. and project
is on foot for all the slave States to secede and
form a new Confederacy with such Constitu
tional amendments as may be thought neces
sary. In this movement it is supposed that
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Hi
nois and New Jersey will unite.


The Cabinet has had several stormy sessions
since the reception of the news of Andersop's
taking possession Of Fort sumpter The "aged
fupctiqnary" seems daterwined to take no re-
spensibility, and should troubles continue we
should not wonder if every original member OF
the Cabinet should leave him before his term
is out. Cabinet appointments are now going
begging.


Everything at Washington is in bad way
and we should not be surprised at any moment
to hear that the Government was broken up
ty the Southern members Withdrawing in >
body. We have hoped against hope. but now
we are confident that there is no possible hope
for the preservation of the Union, and so the
entire South had better prepare for the shock
Year: 1861

We expect to be in attendance on Lenoir
Court at Kinston next Tuesday we make this
announcement so that our subscribers in that
county can avail themselves of the opportunity
to renew their subscriptions. Our Weekly
paper is 81 to single subscribers but we send
six copies to one office for So, Any person
sending us club of ten with $l5 will have the
paper sent to them gratis. We hope our
friends in Lenoir will exert themselves little
in our behalf We give the latest news and
moreofit than any other paper, as our paper is
devoted exclusively to news.
Year: 1861

All persons having unsettled accounts at the
Progress Office for job work or advertising are
requested to settle the same by cash or note
Immediately. This is no appeal for money
under very distressing circumstances. True
we need it. but still we probably not much
worse off than others who are compelled to
continue their business in these hard times
We want to square books to the 1st of
january, 1861, and we mean to do it.


OF course this is not intended to apply to
our regular patrons who advertise by the year
and who pay when called on.


Work done for all others however is cash, or
should be, and all outstanding bills must be
settled at once
Year: 1861

Ems amall P0x-Cnrd from Mayer H.ane,
The first time that we heard that there was
or had been q case of Small Pox in Newberr
was on Monday, Dec. "a, and believing that il
It existed as an epidemic that publication should
be made of the fact we at once called on DR..
Primrose. town Physician, and others, who in.
formed US that there was No earthly cause for
alarm either among the citizens or the people
IN the country who desired to visit Newbern,
as the few cases that had occurred had been
removed beyond the limits of the town and
were closely guarded to prevent its communi-
ting. That we were right in not creating an
unnecessary panic both in town and country
we think the following card from Mayor Lane
abundantly proves. Our friends in the country
may be assured that whenever the existence
OF the Small Pox or other disease shall render
1t dangerous for them to come to Newbern the
Progress will acquaint them of the fact. At
present there is no danger wha tever, as there
is not single case of Small Pox in town-the
few cases that have occurred having all been
removed beyound the limits, where they are all
doing we'll:


MAYOR LANES CARD.


ED. PROGRESS :-DeGr Sar My attention
having been called to an article in the Kinston
Advocate, relative to the prevalence of small
pox in Newbern, which is calculated TO create
unnecessary alarm in the minds of the people
of the country, think it is necessary to give
the public plaiRstatemento OF facts as they are:


About six weeks since a case of Small Pox
broke out in the suburbs of the town, in To-
cality inhabited almost entirely by free negroes,
since which time there have been new cases,
some of which were varieloid and the balance
mild type of Small Pox. The patients were
promptly removed outside the town limits, at
least one mile from the business part of the
town and the most of them are now conva-
lescent. FRED. LANE, Mayor


Jan l. 1861