7 SEPTEMBER 1861, Page 1
The intelligence from America is devoid of any new feature.
North Carolina seems to be completely divided. Both North and South adopt the most stringent measures with the press of the opposite party, and the mob, we are sorry to see, are beginning to take the direction of the press into their own hands. Between the censorship of the executive and the censorship of the crowd, the press of the American people is in a sorry plight. It flourishes, however, where not actually extinguished ; and probably suffers the less from this necessity of reflecting the passions of the hour, that it has always been essentially elastic in the fibre of its political principles.
