OBITUARIES. 



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18th of November a convention assembled, 

 composed, as it was reported, of delegates and 

 proxies representing forty-live counties of tbe 

 I an ordinance declaring vacant 

 all State offices, and appointed a Provisional 

 Governor, &c. An election for members of tbe 

 Federal Congress was ordered by tbe Provi- 

 sional Governor, but tbe person reported elect- 

 ed was not allowed to take bis seat. 



In September, wben the scarcity of arms be- 

 gan to be known in the Confederate States, a 

 large force was set at work at tbe armory in 

 Fayetteville to alter the old flint lock guns to 

 percussion. There were several thousand of 

 these guns then remaining in the United States 

 arsenal. When they could not be altered to 

 advantage they were repaired and furnished 

 with new flints, and found to make very ser- 

 viceable guns. Hall's breech-loading rifles were 

 also altered to carbines, making a good gun for 

 cavalry service. Subsequently, two horizontal 

 high-pressure steam engines were made at 

 Richmond and sent to Fayetteville, when the 

 manufacture of new arms was commenced under 

 the charge of an officer named Burkart, once a 

 master armorer in the United States service. 



On the 1st of November the contributions of 

 the State for war purposes had reached the sum 

 of $2,044,522 96. The records of the passport 

 office at Richmond showed at this time that in 

 the contributions of clothing and money to her 

 troops, the generosity of North Carolina had 

 much exceeded that of wealthier and more 

 populous States. 



At this time the State had sent to the seat 

 of war in Virginia, fully armed and equipped, 

 33,000 volunteer troops, infantry and riflemen, 



and a regiment of cavalry, numbering one 

 thousand and ninety-four men. There were six 

 thousand troops on the State coast, and camps 

 of instruction established at Raleigh, Ridgeway, 

 and Gareysburg, and tbe number of volunteers 

 still offering was so great that General Martin, 

 commander-in-chief of the State forces, under 

 orders of the Governor, issued a proclamation 

 informing the people that no further troops 

 were needed or could be received. 



The Representatives from the States to the 

 Confederate Congress were W. 5s". H. Smith, 

 Robert Bridges, Owen B. Keenan, J. D. Mac- 

 Dowell, Thomas S. Ashe, Archibald Arrington, 

 Robert McLean, "William Lander, R. S. Gar- 

 ther, A. S. Davidson. 



The commerce of the State during the year 

 was so restricted by the blockade as not to fur- 

 nish an estimate of any importance. The fact 

 most worthy of notice in the agricultural pro- 

 ductions of the State, was a crop of tea, con- 

 sisting of about ten bushels, raised by Shelly 

 Spencer in Hyde County. It was well spoken 

 of as a beverage. 



Battles and Skirmishes in North Carolina in 1861. 



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OBITUARIES, AMEEICAN. Jan. 1. Soxx- 

 TAG, AUGUST, an astronomer of Swedish birth, 

 but for some years resident in the United States. 

 He accompanied Dr. Hayes in his Arctic expe- 

 dition, and while on a journey to endeavor to 

 obtain dogs for the sledges of the expedition, 

 he fell through the ice, and though rescued from 

 drowning, perished from cold in a few hours. 



Jan. 4. KEXT, WILLIAM, an American jurist, 

 son of the distinguished Chancellor Kent, born 

 in 1802. He was for many years an eminent 

 lawyer in New York City, and was appointed 

 Judge of the Circuit Court of New York by 

 Gov. Seward. After some years' service be 

 resigned, and accepted the professorship of law 

 in Harvard University, which he did not long 

 hold, but returned to New York, where he was 

 constantly employed as a referee. His resi- 

 dence for some years past has been at Fishkill, 

 where he died. 



Jan. 5. AxTHON', HEXET, D. D., died in 

 New York, aged 69 years. He was a native 

 of New York, and son of G. C. Anthon, Esq., 

 who was a native of Germany, but emigrated 



early to this country ; brother of Charles An- 

 thon, eminent as a classical scholar, and of John 

 Anthon, distinguished as a lawyer. He entered 

 the ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church 

 at an early age, and was distinguished for his 

 evangelical sentiments and for his amiable and 

 genial character. 



Jan. 5. WHITE, JOSEPH L., a prominent 

 and enterprising business man, formerly a 

 member of Congress from Indiana, but of late 

 years a resident of New York City, and con- 

 nected with the enterprise of the Nicaragua 

 Transit Co. He was shot at Nicaragua by an 

 American named Gavitt, and subsequently died 

 of his wounds. 



Jan. 10. HACKLEY, Rev. CHAELES W. (See 

 HACKLET.) 



Jan. 17. CHURCH, PHILIP, died at Belvi- 

 dere, Alleghany Co., N. Y., aged 83. He was 

 a grandson of Gen. Schuyler, and a nephew of 



* The Federal gunboats fired upon the Confederate force 

 on shore. 



t Shots exchanged with Confederate steamer. 

 $ Three vessels destroyed. 



