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THE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD MACE 20. mm Tbe WilmiBRton Herala. In noticing the late extraordinary speech of Gov mfe 'at Wilmington we quoted from the Journal and Herald to show the character of the speech. The Herald takes exceptions to the use which we ade of its article, ana attempts piuuuw, 1 i. 11 in rip.

es5ion that we empioyea it, as, a micas to do injustice to the Hovemor. it quotes our der languSe that we hut it dees not show, as it never can snow, aid it declared that Gov. Ellis told the peo- .1 .1 Th thft TJmhVn as the ex- pie tli word to proves. So raucD tor mat aim I that, as the Herald well knows, is the only foundation for its complaint agaiitst us. We quoted that paper oorrectl v.

We made no "interpolation." Thisfact Is shown bv the Herald itself, in the very article to which we are referring; and it was also made plain to that paper by one its correspondents in its issue the day after the Herald had done us hi iniustice. Yet the Herald persists in leaving the minds of its readers that we the impression on ni fiiirlv quoted and used its language. But all this amounts to little. The material point is that the Herald is now inciting its readers to disunion and civil war, whereas but a few short months since it was ultra Union, and abused South-Carolina with a bitterness which no other paper in this State has ever exhibited. We have never abused that gallant but misguided State; the Herald has.

In December last some one sent to the Editor of the Herald an insulting letter, as follows: "From a South-Carolinian, To the Lincoln-submission Editor of the Herald: South-Carolina despises you, and your cowardly countrymen, and hopes one of these days to have all like you in a chain gang, to cultivate our rice and cotton. (not from the I860 association.) An Enemy to a coward." The Editor of the Herald replied, declaring that "this man has told the truth in regard to the sentiment of the people of South-Carolina towards the people of this State." And he added They do despise us, and ho.d us in the most contempt; and in that, the masses but follow, as usual, the lead of their rulers. It is, to be sure, generally a source of amusement to us, to watch the peacock-strut of these harmless comedians, but matters have become too serious, now, to indulge in the accustomed laugh. We are now on the eve of a bloody revolution. South Carolina, quite as regardless of the'rights- and interest of her sister States as Massachusetts is, has undertaken to precipitate this revolution upon the proclaiming to the border States, while so doing, that, although she knows they must sustain all the loss and suffering, she does not desire to form any alliance with them for mutual protection and benefit, but wishes to keep them as a barrier between herself and danger.

This is the language, these are the very words, contained in the pamphlet above alluded to, and which is daily circulated by the thousand among the people of these same border States. People of North-Carolina, shall this programme be carried out Will you suffer yourselves to be spit upon in this way Are you submissionist to the dictation of Sooth Carolina Are your propositions, and those of the other border States, for mediation, and co operation when nccesary, to be met as the Charleston Mercury km met them in ad vance, with contempt and defiance Are you to be called cowards because you do not follow the I crazy lead of that crazy State Where is the spirit of your ancestors, so commonly invoked now a days Will it be displayed by exhibiting in your conduct, not only a tame submission to the behests of South-Carolina, but also a shameless abandonment of your rights and duty? Will you lick the hand that smites you Do so if you will, but may God save the State trom the infamy." We have nothing to add to the above. The language is much more bitter than we could think of using towards a sister Southern State but it is the language of the Herald, now an ultra disunion, fire-eating, South-Carolina sheet Let the -Herald of December answer the Herald of March. The Herald of Saturday, which we have just received, says "We would suggest to Mr. Holden that, as we have indulged in no personalities towards him, he might as well omit all such expressions as untrue from his threatened article.

That word occurs in his notice of our Act of Justice to Gov. Ellis and is entirely a gratuitous expression. We are willing to discuss any public question with the Standard in a proper way, but we cannot bandy epithets with the editor." At fault again, Mr. Waddell. You began the personalities by charging that we were influenced in our public conduct by "personal malice" towards Gov.

Ellis. That is a grave charge, Mr. Waddell. We simply pronounced it untrue. We have not bandied epithets with the Herald, nor do we intend to do so.

We entertain no unkind feelings towards the Editor. We experienced deep regret when we saw him go over to the disunion ranks, but we have neither assailed him nor done him injustice. Can he say as much with reference to us? The Result Tins State. We publish to-day a tabular statement of the late vote in this State for and against a Convent-on also, of the members chosen to the Convention. We think our division of the members into Unionists and Disunionists is as correct as could be made.

In the official vote as published by the Governor the returns from Davie Countaare omitted, as they came to hand too late to be included. Omitting Davie, the majority against Convention is 194. We attempted to make an estimate of the Union majority in the State, bat found it impossible to do so. We entertain no doubt, however, that of the 93,000 votes pol'ed 60,000 were for the Union. About 20,000 votes were unpolled.

Nearly all these would have been cast for the Union. What shall we do. The cry all over the State, since the election, is, What shall we do?" "How shall we get a Convention Rough Note. What shall we do Do nothing. Submit like loyal citizens to the voice of the people.

If you had beaten us we would have submitted, and now we intend that you shall submit Watch and Wait." The medicine is bitter, but you must take it, Mr. Raw Notes. Acknowledgment. We are under obligations to the following friends for clubs of subscribers to the Standard, received during the last month E. Raper, Davidson A.

B. Blanton, Cleaveland; J. F. Jones, Franklin; M. L.

Kelly, Macon; B. F. Harding, Beaufort; Amzi Ford, Gaston W. P. Thompson, Orange a club of Ave St Charles, Johnston J.

II. Kirkpatrick, Alamance Jesse Benbow, Guilford Bedford Hurdle, Person W. P. Martin, Moore Sidney Scott, Wake; B. G.

Graham, Guilford; J. L. Johnson, Wake; R. L. DcArmon, Mecklenburg; and W.

Watson, Moore. In all, 142 subscribers. In addition to this we have recently added considerably to our permanent list in Wilmington, besides sending to that town some 22 Semi-Weeklies for sale. We tender our sincere thanks to our friends for the efforts they are making to increase the circulation of the Standard. We can only promise them to do our duty to the best of our ability, and to stand like a rock by the Union according to the Constitution.

We trust they will still continue their efforts to increase our circulation until the Standard shall have found its way into the hands of everyTeiding man in the State. That Letter. We dislike to be troublesome, but really wo mutt insist on the publication of that letter from Mr. Branch to Mr. Lewis, which the latter read to the people at Green Level the day before the election.

Mr. Branch has a perfect right to wrestle his way into Congress again if he can, but we protest against his taking tinder holt." The letter the ietter the handkerchief "the handkerchief!" Let us have it, Mr. Lewis. It is an affectionate epistle, if we are not mistaken. We think it begins as follows My dear Lewis." "Oh my prophetic soul, my Uncle." Let us have the letter, Mr.

Lewis. tf. An old Jackson Democrat writes us as fol lows from Melville, Alamance County I am a Democrat, and always have been, but not of the Spelman or Ellis sort, but an old Jefferson and Jackson Union Democrat Continue to fight in the cause of the Union. All parties are with you in this neighborhood. The day will come when you will get your reward." More English Influence.

We observe that Mr. W. late Editor of the Washington Cm- stitution, has been appointed assistant Secretary of State of the Confederate States. Mr. Browne is a learned and accomplished Englishman, who has been naturalized but a year or two.

He attended the Charleston Convention and did all he could, both theie and at Baltimore, to disrupt and destroy the Democratic party. He at length turned on Mr' Buchanan, when he was compelled to leave his post at Washington, his paper going down at once for want of patronage. He has received his reward from Cobb and Davis, whom he has served so faithfully. What he came to this country for, and what secret influence is controlling him, may never be known. The British government, which fought for seven long years to prevent the establishment of the present Union, and which again fought and diplo matized in 1812 to break up that Union, and which, during both wars, stimulated the Indians to scalp our women and children on the frontiers, would not scruple now to use any means to divide, degrade, and weaken, and thus control the States of North America.

Beware of English influence fieport of our Commissioners. Below we publish the letter of the North-Carolina Commissioners to the Peace Conference at Washing ton city. We have heretofore commented on the action of Messrs. Barringer, Reid and Davis, and the result of the recent election shows very conclusively that they misrepresented the public sentiment of the State, in the votes they cast. Of this matter we shall speak hereafter, being convinced as we are, that the action of a majority of our Commissioners was influenced more by a desire to fortify their disunion sentiments and proclivities, than to facilitate an adjustment which they declared to be uii possible.

The report is as follows: Washington, Feb. 27th, 1861. Sir: Under the appointment of the General Assembly, the undersigned repaired to this place -for the purpose of meeting commissioners from other States, under the invitation of the State of Virginia, and uniting in devising some plan for setting the unhappv sectional differences which have agitated the public mind and endangered the Union. A meeting took place at the time appointed, viz the 4th day of the present month, and it has been continued from day to day until the finai adjournment on this day. The Convention sat with closed doors, but a journal of the proceedings was kept, and one of the last acts was to remove the injunction against its publication.

In the progress of the meeting representatives from twenty-one States came in and after much discussion and long deliberation the consultation resulted in the adoption by a majority of the States of seven sections, as amendments of the Constitution of the United States, and presenting them to the Congress now in session, and requesting that body to propose them for adoption by Convention in the several States, in accordance with the provision in the Constitution on that subject A printed copy of the amendments is enclosed for the information of the people and authorities of North-Carolina. Upon the final question of adopting them, the vote of the State was given unanimously for the third and fourth sections. Upon the others, there was a difference of opinion. A majority of the Commissioners, viz Messrs. Reid Barringer and DavLs, were of opinion, that those sections ought not to be and would not be satisfactory to North-Carolina, and therefore felt bound to cast the vote of the State against the first, second, fifth, six and seventh sections while the other two Commissioners, Messrs.

Rnttin and Morehead, thtfught it their duty not to reject absolutely any guaranties, which the non-slaveholding States might offer for the security of the slaveholding States, but to I submit them to the people of North-Carolina for ac- ceptance or rejection upon their own deliberate judgment, and therefore they felt bound not to ob-j struct the adoption of those sections but to give I their voice for them, though not coming up fully to what they or the people might deem right or proper, The journal of the Convention is not yet printed, but it will be in a few days and the undersigned i have ordered that several copies of it should be sent 1 to your Excellency, that the various and numerous propositions under the consideration of the Conven-! tion may be seen and understood, and particularly the votes cast on them by North-Carolina. I The undersigned cannot anticipate what disposi-! tion Congress will make of this matter, but a few days must determine it Nor do the undersigned possess any authentic information upon the question, whether, should Congress propose those amendments, they will fail before the States, or be ratified by a sufficient number to incorporate them into the Constitution. We have the honor to be, with the highest respect, your Excellency's most obedient servants, M. BARRINGER, DAVID S. REID, -GEO.

DAVIS, THOMAS RUFFIN, J. M. MOREHEAD. To His Excellency, John W. Ellis.

Extract from a letter to the Editor, dated Goldston, Chatham, March 13, 18G1. We of old Chatham are highly pleased with the strong stand you have taken in behalf of the Constitution and the Union. May God defend the right, and law and order prevail over anarchy and civil war, into which some of our leaders seem determined to plunge us." For the Standard. Mr. Editor: The people of North Carolina are informed by one in authority that they are soon to be organized and formed into a grand military school, under a grand military leader.

As an humble citizen of North-Carolina, I would like to know what flag is to ware over and at the head of the people after they shall have been organized as prencribed by the act passed by the recent session of the Legislature Are the people to-have the flag of the United States, or are they to have one shaped, colored and named by some mighty Itero of the age Surely the people can not be allowed to march after the stars and stripes, for it was published in your paper that the flag of the Union was toted and refuted a resting place on the Capitol who did it? You may know but I want to know what flag are we to have ATLANTIC. In reply to our correspondent we state that we are to have the old flag of the stars and stripes the same flag which the disunion Adjutant General moved in his place in the House of Commons to refer to the committee on propositions and grievances. The old flag is good enough for the people, but it was not good enough for a majority of the last Legislature. I By faction toni, but storm-defying, Brothers, look, the flag is flying 1 Look away, look away, look away, see the flag 1" Resistance to the Will of the Majority The following resolutions were unanimously adopted by a public meeting held in Warsaw, Duplin County, oh the 11th instant: Wheue as, Having forborne for months to give a final expression to our determination at all hazards to maintain our rights, which has been manifested First, by our submittal to Congressional remedy. Second, by an appeal to a returning sense of justice on the part of our Northern brethren, and lastly, to our own citizens living in the same fold with ourselves, and having signally failed in the two first, and partially in the last, at least so far as to make us despair of Constitutional remedy.

Therefore, Resolved, 1st. As a minority having God-given rights, we declare them inalienable against all magistrates and all governments of whatever pretensions, and that we as a community dare maintain them. Resolved, 2d. That we invite all communities in North-Carolina of like sentiments with ourselves, to co-operate and to give us their aid and sympathy. Resolved, Zd.

That we recommend the formation of a new party composed of those persons who are unwilling longer to submit to Northern rule and aggression. Resolved, 4th. That our sympathies are with the South, and our desire is a connexion with the Southern, Confederacy." tThe Wilmington Journal of the 14th, which publishes the proceedings of this meeting, says There will be a meeting of the States' Rights party of North-Carolina, in on the 22d and 23d at which every county in the State is requested to be represented. Keep the hall rolling. Duplin and New Hanover are ready for another trial." -At a meeting held in Concord, Cabarrus, on the 15th, the following resolution, introduced by Mr.

V. C. Barringer, was adopted: Resolved, That every cittzen of the county favorable to a withdrawal of North-Carolina from the late United States, be constituted a delegate to the meeting in Charlotte to-morrow." The meaning of all this is, resistance to the will of the majority. On the 28th day of last month the people of North-Carolina elected a large majority of Union delegates, and at the same time voted against a Convention. We voted for a Convention, but as the people have determined not to call one, we cheerfully acquiesce in their decision.

It was for them to say whether they would have a Convention or not. They hate said, and every citizen, and especially every Democrat, will respect their decision. Those who talk about God-given rights" and about resisting "magistrates and all govern ments," are seditious and dangerous persons and enemies to popular representative government; arid those who endorse their action are no better. These God-given rights referred to by the Warsaw meeting, are paramount, we suppose, to all laws and all Constitutions. "All magistrates and all governments" are to be resisted under the shield of these God-given rights." Every man is to be allowed to do as he pleases as against "all magistrates, and all governments," and all other men.

This is the highei -lawjltfctrine, firstroached by the fanatics thij' Northern States. It is worthjr only, "of the darkest days of the French Revolution. It is in keeping with the declaration of the President of the late secession Convention of South-Carolina, who said in his opening speech, in the language of Danton, "let us dare! and then dare and then again dart We protest against these Jacobinical movements. If not arrested, they will lead first to anarchy and then to despotism. The meeting at Goldsborough on Friday and Saturday next, is intended to give shape and direction to these movements.

Let all loyal citizens, and all who respect the will of the majority, keep out of that meeting. We beg leave respectfully to bring to the atten tion of Jcffersonian Democrats the following extract from Mr. Jefferson's first Inaugural Address. Mr. Jefferson laid this down as an immutable principle in the Democratic creed "Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority the vital principle of Republic from which there no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism." In the same Address Mr.

Jefferson said If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it" Extract from a letter to the Editor, dated Coxcoro, March 15, 1800. The secessionists held a meeting here to-day to appoint delegates to a meeting in Charlotte to-morrow. The object of it I do not know, but presume it is to ask His Royal Highness Gov. Ellis to adopt some means to curb the refractory disposition of the people of North-Carolina, who have been so simple as to think they were sovereign. I think the people have taught some of these disunion schemers that they 'were neither born great, nor have made themselves great, nor even had greatness thrust upon Another one o.Fnlton's Jokes.

We concur with our friend of the Ad Valorem Banner of this place, that The editor of the Wilmington Journal must be a most incorrigible joker. Good people, what do you reckon he wants now? Why, be wants all the dele gates recently elected to no Convention to meet at at their own expense, as an "advisory body." The Notes of Goldsboro' has already called a Southern Rights mass meeting at that place, on the 22nd and 23d of this month. In order to get off a good joke the Journal proposes that the delegates elect meet at that time and place and to add to the cream of the joke he wants things "settled." Things have been settled by the people, but not to the satisfaction of disunionists, and therefore they want another trial. We trust no Union man will fall into the trap thus laid for him. The meeting at Goldsboro' is to be a disunion meeting.

That is well understood. The object is to get a few Union men there, run over them, make them ridiculous, and them tell them to go home and report proceedings. We guess they have reckoned without their host The voice of about 94,000 votes is more potent than that of 120 delegates. The Union majority in North-Carolina is at least 30,000, and those who will not believe that voice, would not believe, though one rose from the grave of disunion to preach Union sermons." For the Standard. Mr.

Holden Permit me to present to the consideration of the electors, the name of Gen. Thomas J. Person, of Northampton, as eminently a proper person to fill the office of Major General of this Division. Gen. Person is a native of North-Carolina, a man of ability and experience, loyal to the soil of his birth, and the Constitution of his country, and one whom the militia of the division would cheerfu'ly obey in times of need.

'Tis true he has not the prestige of being THE candidate of the Commander-in-chief and Adjutant General still, if he will consent to run, he will he supported by none with more pleasure than by the immediate neighbors of THE candidate, announced in General Orders, No. 1." AN O. C. GUARD. March 18th, 1801.

The Canvass in Carteket. Mr. Thomas, the Union candidate in this county, ably sustained the cause of the Union in the late canvass. He spoke in Beaufott, at the Straits, Davis' Shore, Smyrna, Newport, Morehead City, tin Banks, and on the day of the election at Hunting Quarters. The canvass has added greatly to Mr.

Thomas' reputation as a speaker, and the discussion at More-head between him and Mr. Herring evidenced bis skill as a debater. Beaufort Banner. Fr the Standard. Mr, Editor Our country though Still in Ha infancy as a nation, furnishes some few specimens of political antiquities interesting, if not positively refreshing to the reflecting student of the changes which have since our Independence so rapidly followed each other.

And although it is true that our antiquity in comparison with olden nations is as of yesterday yet the thoughts, sentiments, and deeds of some of our patriotic citizens have found in the period, short as it is, ample time to change more than once, and that without cause. I shall continue Mr. Editor, to send you now and then a specimen or two. The following I commend to the patriotic citizens of Wayne County, and especially to the attention of the htte Senator from that constituency. On the 25th day of December, 1832, it being Christmas day in Wayne county, a public meeting was held and a committee appointed to diaft resolutions, "The committee after a short absence returned and reported the following resolutions, which were adopted without a dissenting voice Resolved, That we view with utter abhorrence and detestation the doctrines ef Nullification AND Secession, as set forth in the Convention of South Carolina, as tending to anarchy, confusion, and the utter ruin of this glorious Union the work of the greatest patriots and best men the world has ever produced.

Resolved, That we fully concur in the sentiments expressea oy the President of the United States in his recent proclamation That we have full confidence in the present administration, that their measures will be duly honorably and wisely directed to correct all existing differences between the States, consistent with the honor, dignity and integrity of the United States. Resolved, That we will support the Constitution and Union of the States at every hazard. William K. Lane addressed this meeting in earnest 1 support of the purposes for which it had assembled. When he had concluded, On motion of Jno.

W. Sasser, the thanks of the meeting were voted to Wm. K. Lane, for his very eloquent and patriotic Address, delivered at this meeting" And for the purpose of exhibiting to the world that the above resolutions meant more than the bare expression of their patriotic sentiments, History further informs us, thaf "The State's Guard, of Wayne County, taking into consideration the alarming situation to which the agitations of South Carolina are bringing our beloved Country, feel themselves bound to express their abhorrence of the doctrines of Nullification AND Secession, as adopted by the convention of South Carolina and, Resolved unanimously, That we will, in our cor- porate and individual capacities, support the Constitution of the United States hold the Union sacred obey and enforce the laws our Constitutional Federal Government has or may enact Resolved, That the President of the United States is worthy of our full respect and confidence and shall command our support and services, if the exigencies of our country require it. Resolved, That these Resolutions be signed by the Commissioned Officers of the Troop, and copies sent to papers in Raleigh, Newbern, and Fayetteville, for publication.

S. A. ANDREWS, Capt L. II. WHITFIELD, 1st Lieut.

2nd Lieutenant absent. J. C. SLOCUMB, 3d Lient WM. K.

LANK, Cornet Waynesboro', Dec. 23, 1832. And this Company was the only one in Norlh-Carolina that volunteered its services to march against South Carolina, "to coerce and crush her." Now, I hope Mr. Wm. K.

Lane will have the foregoing resolutions copied in a neat round hand, and present them to the meeting, to assemble in his town of Goldsboro' the present week, for their thoughtful consideration. ANTIQUARY. March 18, 1861. For the Standard. Mr.

Holden: You very forcibly remarked upon the spectacle the Governor of our State, making a seditious speech at Wilmington, and trying to stir up our citizens to "mutiny and race," but this is only of a piece with other demonstrations equally abominable; for instance, we are credibly informed, that when the distorted version of Lincoln's inaugural address reached Oxford where the Superior Court was in session, it was hailed by the leading disunionists there present, with manifestations of joy and exultation, because it was understood by them as declaring for the coercion of the seceding States, and as the harbinger of a bloody solution of our difficulties with the people of the northern States. And we are told that an ex-member of Congress, a member of the present Legislature of the State, and several important gentlemen of the disunion persuasion, gave vent to their jubilant feelings by serenading the town of Oxford with that emanation of "cotton genius and taste, called the "land of Dixie." Not in the glorious strains of that air as you have lately heard reverberating through the gloves of this patriotic city, but in the true nigger dialect, improved by an infusion of a little more treason and a little more slan the coinage of the fertile brain of the chief minstrel the Honorable leader of the cuffee band. I do not wish to disparage the younger and more inconsiderate actors in this exhibition by naming them but as to the chief actor we are not disposed to spare him, and when we get an account of the affair somewhat more cinfcmstantial, we expect to pay our devoirs to him again. GRANVILLE. Since the fourth of March, the nartisan Dress of I the country has opened afresh the gaps and sluices of abuse upon the President.

Beginning with the Pre, and ending with the Tribune, it has had the ill grace to assail in the most relentless terms an old, white-headed man, retiring from office forever, and possibly soon to exit forever from the sphere of men. No longer in a position to triumph, he is powerless to retort, or to defend himself. He has fallen from all his greatness. The word which but yesterday might have stood against the world, is now as mute as a gravestone's inscription ho is, in the sense of politicians, dead. Give him a little earth, for charity." Old, decrepid, and careworn, he has quietly sought the rural shades of his own home, no more to mingle in the stir of strife, nor dabble in the affairs of current politics.

He now belongs to a posthumous generation, as it were. He has becomes a character for the contemplation of future historians suffer his closing years to glide out through the glass of time peacefully and smoothly. Let him rest; cease mangling him. He has' fought his last battle, and will ere long sleep his last sleep. The dead should be sacred "in peace let him rest; The preen turf is holy that covers his breast.

Give his faults to the past; leave his soul with bis God 1 Washington States. The Result in North-Carolina. At length we have the official result of the recent election in North-Carolina. It is more auspicious than the most sanguine friends of the Union had hoped. The majority against "Convention" is about twelve hun-drcd none, therefore, will be held; and this may be said to settle for some months to come the question of secession in that State.

Judging from the tone of leading journals, the Union sentiment so largely preponderates in North-Carolina that nothing is now needed on the part of the North to keep her fast to the stars and stripes but the exercise of that magnanimity and justice to which North-Carolinians are entitled, and which they have fairly earned oy the manly and successful fight they have made against all the odds and obstacles that have been arrayed against them. It has been the fight and the victory of the people against all sorts of deui-gogues and adventurers. New York News. The Truth. The New York Courier and Enquirer says The Charleston Mercury and the New York Tribune and Herald, each and all go for disunion, and advance the same arguments in its favor.

In truth, neither of these presses now take any pains to conceal that their interests and opinions are identical" Fire is Salisbury. The Veranda House, at the depot in Salisbury, was consumed by fire on the morning of the 15th. The fire is supposed to have been communicated from the burning out of a chimney The house belonged -to John Shaver, and was kept by Mr. S. Benjamin.

Insurance on it $4,000, but not enough to cover the loss. Most of the furniture was saved. VOTE OF NORTH-CAROLINA For Delegate to a Convention, and for and against a Contention, COUNTIES. 1 a i LAshe and Alleghany, 1 259 293 620 246 718 ,1219 627 138 .590 480 '692 149 447 204 415 '1038 898 '186. 918 3270 891 283 41 .1252 263 366 1013 4 Alamance, 2 noH 460 Alexander, 1 Burke, 598 4 278 389 61 'Buncombe, 1 IM Bertie, i Beaufort, 2 Bladen, 1 632 fc 653 460 137 Caswell, 2 Cherokee, 1 901 1 Currituck, Km 86 222 Carteret mkA.l.nJ f.

ll 894 959 306 Vaoarrus, Caldwell, 1 Catawba, 1 -1 651 158 183 117 362 1795 Columbus Cleaveland, Craven, Chatham, Camden, Duplin, 3 1 i 2 i 2 1 3 3 281 71 T-v 1 754 1 iaviuson, Edgecombe Wilson, 1806 17 79 1409 106 2771 743 166 141 307 647 161 39 1588 ranKlin, Forsythe, Greene, Guilford, Granville, Gaston, 794 286 .457 113 .1056 864 307 504 573 ,476 '1049 239 191 741 Gfctcs, Haywood, Henderson, Hyde, Halifax, Hertford, Iredell, 2924 1818 621 71 83 195 86 Johnston, Jones, 1 1 1 ,259 jacKson, 435 447 708 Lenoir, Lincoln, Montgomery, Martin, Macon, 81 ,062 250 345 1448 135 638 576 "1781 989 631 -458 986 593 299 159 1332 882 383 45 808 490 85 204 972 207 134 548 774 72 ,238 51 1250 J406 34 556 870 22 359 Madison, 532 252 1257 Mecklenburg, Moore, McDowell, Northampton. New Hanover, Nash, Onslow, v. Orange, Pitt, Person, Perquimans, Pasquotank, -1 217 327 210 93 89 1436 177 167 182 426 Rutherford Polk, 431 Kowan, 1150 251 Richmond, Randolph, 2 2 2 1 1 Stanly, Stokes, Sampson, i Surry, Tyrrell, Union, Warren, Watauga, Washington, Wilkes, Wayne, Wake, Yadkin, Yancey, 570 871 763 SU0 530 1136 158 483 33 536 418 1890 242 1246 1490 598 47,333 46,072 1 1 2 1 1 83 37 46,672 661 Unofficial, but believed to be correct United States Senate. Washington, March 15. Mr.

Mason introduced a resolution calling on the President to inform the Senate what number of troops there are in Washington, and the respective arms of the service to which they belong and also the reasons why they were brought there, and how long they are to remain and if they are to be continued, for what purpose and whether they are to be increased. It was laid over. Mr. Douglas moved to take up his resolution. He believed that the President did not meditate war, for if he did there was no provision for such a movement.

He said that the government had no right to collect the revenue off Charleston harbor, and could only do so at the Custom House. If Mr. Lincoln should attempt to collect the duties on shipboard, he would make himself liable to impeachment He could not put a collector in the Southern ports, without first conquering them. To do so would require 28,000 men, besides 30,000 to protect Washington, at an annual expense of three hundred and sixteen millions of dollars. Mr.

Douglas introduced his three propositions, before rejected, and advocated the first as the only means of keeping the border States in the Union. Mr. Wilson responded, charging Mr. Douglas with desiring to dictate to the administration the course to be pursued. He was very personal in his remarks.

Mr. Douglas was frequently interrupted, in a similar manner by Fessenden, Holt and others. His remarks were very unpalatable to the ultras. No other business was done and the Senate adjourned. Important Statements of the President.

Washington, March 15. A member of the Virginia Convention called upon President Lincoln this morning and had an exceedingly satisfactory interview. The President assured him that no vessels had been sent South with hostile intentions. The vessels that had been despatched contained only provisions and supplies for troops in Texas, and also for the Home Squadron. He stated, further, that there would be nothing done in regard to affairs in in the South for sixty days, and that it was his purpose to restore peace and prevent tbe shedding of blood.

The Virginia left fully impressed that President Lincoln was a peace man, and would not allow himself to be drawn into adopting a war policy to please a few radical republicans. Reports from Charleston. Washington, March 15, 1861. Intelligence received here this morning from Charleston states that there exists a pretty strong party in South Carolina opposed to ratifying the Montgomery constitution, and it is understood that they will resist it at every point. The announcement in Charleston on Tuesday last that Fort Sumter was to be evacuated, produced the most intense excitement Work was for a time suspended.

Then came intelligence that this report was intended as a mere ruse on part of the lepubli-cans, and that attempts would be made to secretly throw reinforcements into Fort Sumter. Then again was heard the busy hum of preparation to prevent the attempt They immediately doubled the harbor force, and tbe strictest watch was at once instituted. Harrisburg Municipal Election Hakrisbubo, March 10. The Democrats, at the municipal election in this city yesterday, elected their entire Council ticket Fort Sumter. Washington, March 17.

It is not yet ascertained that any order has been issued under Presidential authority, with regard to the evacuation of Fort Sumter an event, however, which as still considered as inevitable and soon to occur from circumstances beyond Executive control; but from what is actually known, a formal surrender of the fort is no anticipated. A-A-nAlJDIy At Liberty, Va- onredoeadar evening, tbe 13th, at the honse of the brideVMber, Iflrthe Ber. T. Leftwieh, Mr. A.

M. McPheeters. of Norfolk, to Mte 8. fcnnie Left, wich, only daughter of Thos. L.

Leftwilefc. Em. Near this City, on Wednesday evening laat, by Ber. W. E.

Pell, Mr. James B. Jordan to MiM Mary W. Lie, de0(b ter of W. E.

Lee, all of this county. In Alamance oooty, on the 7th fait, by Bev. A. Mangam, DeWitt C. Roberts, of Onage eounty, to Miss Maggie h.

Holt, of Alamance. THE MARKETS. WILMINGTON JtABCH 16, 1881. TURPENTINE. Farther sales yesterday of 150 and this morning 700 do.

at $1 80 for yellow dip, $1 44 for virgin, and 95 cents for hard, per S80 Wk SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Sales yesterday of 58 bbla. at 83 cents and this morning 200 do. at 83 cento per gallon for straight. ROSIN.

278 bbla. Common sold yesterday at 8SX onto per 310 lbs. Ck TAR. This morning 600 bbls. changed hand at $1 SO per DDI.

No transactions reported fa other articles. Jcmrnai. PETERSBURG MARKET. CAREFULLY COBUCTBD BT MARTIN, TANNAHILL 00. Maboh 16, 1861.

TOBACCO. The market to-day was not so active as it was last week, and for rome kinds we did not think price were quite so good. For old there is bnt little demand, and except for very good Leaf prices rule low. Planters having their Lugs now prized we think bad as well tend them down. COTTON.

The tone of the market, owing to tbe last news, is more favorable, and we quite strictly prime lota at 1 though the bulk of tbe stock is held at 18c. WHEAT. There is but little doing owing to very high receipts. For common and medium grades prices continue low, say tl 151 40. We quote good to prime Red at 1 301 35, and White at (1 501 55; choice samples of White $1 58gl 60.

CORN. Market very dull, with no Bales as we are advised. EXCHANGE. Bank notes 6 per cent OATS-4045 cents. GUANO, Ac For Peruvian there is bnt little demand, and sales are made at $6365.

Tbe Petersburg Fertilizer is in great demand, and the sales so far have been very heavy and tbe demand still continues. We suppose that so far five times as much of this Fertilizer has been sold as all others combined, and the reports concerning it continue of the most favorable character. We qnote it at $48, and from actual experiments made we have no sort of hesitation in recommending it to planters. i BOSTON MARKET. REPORTED EXPRESSLY FOB THK N.

C. "STANDARD." Br LONDON BRYAN, Commission Merchants, 82 India Street. March 18, 1861. COTTON Has been active daring tbe week with targe sales. Holders are very firm at V)c.

advance. We quote middling at 1212Vc, strict middling good i middling 12c. cash. Higher prices are expected. NAVAL STORES Spirits Turpentine firm 38c common Rosin $1 40 cash other grades dull, Tar $2 504 months.

Pitch (2 cash. GUNNY )i9c. cash Jute rope 6c; Manilla do. PEANUTS $1 251 40, with sales of good quality at latter price; Apples 22 15 for selections; Irish Potatoes $1 82. NORFOLK MARKET.

reported expressly for the n. c. "staxdabd. By M'PHEETERS GH1SELIN, Wholesale Grocers, Forwarding Oommittion MerehanU. March 16, 1861.

COTTON The market is firm bnt not active. Tbe sales of the week are not more than 1000 bales at 12c Holders are firm at 1 2c. for lots classing fully to strict middling, and some 600 bales have been sold at that as this price is higher than New York and within c. of Liverpool it will require considerable advance abroad to affect our mantel, xue news per suatmcr imua uu. htuiww.

Business at Manchester was dull, and tbe Bank had not reduced the rate ot interest. NAVAL STORES-A1I kinds are very dull, sales of common Rosin $1.2 Tar $1.50. No Spts. Turpentine here. FLOUR.

We bare no change to report. Market firm at $6 for Super $6 506 75 for Extra, and $7 for Family. DRIED FRDIT Very dull. No sales to qnote from. LIME.

Tbomaston in demand. Sales by cargo 80e. EXCHANGE. N. York and Boston 5V5 per cent.

Phi la. and Baltimore command full as high prices; N. C. money 3i discount. FOR RENT FOR SALE.

THE LAW OFFICE, on Fayetteville Street, occupied by the late Jos. K. Marriott, is for rent the balance of tbe year. Possession given at once. ALSO.

A select Law Library, comprising many standard works, will be privately sold, upon application to the on-- dersiened, or in his absence, to Quent Busbee, Esq. JNO. C. MARRIOTT, Adm'r. March 15, 1861.

81 tf. IfATOTICE. ON THURSDAY, 25TH APRIL NEXT, at the town of Lillington, we, the undersigned Commissioners, by virtue of authority from the County Court of Harnett, will proceed to sell tbe lots in said town. Terms, three, six. nine and twelve months' credit C.

C. BARBEE, 1 a. s. McNeill, jno. Mccormick, j.

p. hodges, J. S. HARRINGTON, 3 March 19, 1801. wtd.

11 OlA A CI 11 1. amic 11UI1UB. Treasubt Department or N. 0., March 10. 1860.

CJEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED at this office until 10 o'clock, A. 12th April next, for the purchase of $200,000 of bonds, issued by tbe State of North-Carolina on account of Western Railroad from Karetteville to the Coalfields," and also, for tbe purchase of 250,000 of Bonds, issued by the State of North-Carolina on account of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rnthcrford Railroad, each running thirtj years from April 1, 1861. The above bonds will bave Coupons for interest at six per cent, per annum attached, payable 1st April and October in each year. The principal and interest will be payable at the Bank of the Republic, in the city of unless where the party prefers to have them payable at the Treasury of the State. Successful bidders, upon being informed of the acceptance of their bids, can deposit the amount of their bide, including the accrued interest, to tbe credit of the undersigned, jf the Bank aforesaid, or in the Bank of North-Carolina, or Bank of Cape Far, Raleigh.

Parties bidding will please address their letters endorsed Proposals for N. C. Stocks," to tbe undersigned at Raleigh, N. C. The bids will be opened in the presence of the Governor, Secretary and Comptroller of State, and tbe President of tbe Bank of North-Carolina.

D. W. COURTS, Pub. Treta, 29 wAiwtd. TkRIED FRUIT.

VERY NICE PEACHES AND MW APPLES in store. JAMES M. T0WLE8, Agt. 81 tt March 17. 1861.

RASS 8 EED. ORCHARD AND MIXED LAWN GRASS for sale at the Fanners Hall, on commission. Also, uarden Seed. March 17, 1861. JAMES M.

TOWLES, Agt. 81 tt CORX FIELD PEAS. ON CONSIGNMENT A new variety, making two crops in a year. Plant upon wheat stubble, will mature before frost. JAMES M.

TOWLES, Agt. March 17, 1R61. 81 tl. CORN MEAL. NEW AND WHITE RECEIVED freh every week.

Families supplied regularly. JAMES M. TOWLES, Art. Farmers Hall, March 17, 1861. TTtOR SALE.

SEVENTEEN SHARES OF STOCK m. in the Railroad. Apply to ED. GRAHAM HAYWOOD. 81-ft.

Raleigh, March 17, 1861 THE TUNER'S TREATISE ON tuning the Piano Forte, Organ, Melodeon and Seraph inc. comprising ample instructions end a specification of defects and their remedies. Price 40 cents, on receipt of which it will be sent, post-paid. DITSON A CO, Publishers, Boston. March 15, 1861.

80 te. SPRING GOODS. HAMILTON GRAHAM, IMPORTERS AKD WHOLESALE DEALERS IK FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC H.X 66698, PETERSBURG, INVITE THE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE tbeir large and desirable stock of FRESH SPRING GOODS j. Now in store and ready for exhibition, consisting, usual variety and embracing the free Desirable Styles of the season, which they)ltla ,,4 to offer on the most (avoreble terms to iraw Moti Carolina and Tennessee merchants. 4ate and Owing to the unsettled condition of eOMj fa their sales will be strictly confined toCA8H, six months buyers.

To such tbe greatest in their nrompt nd careful attentiee). their promp HAMILTON A GRALl il.rehlS.18M. 0- GEO, BLOUNT, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Wiuoi M71LL ATTEND TO ENTRUSTED TO IT him in Nash, Wjlaon, ana nun Counties. Feb. 21,1860.

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