RALEIGH : SATURDAY, AUG. 2, 1802.
Voting in Camps. Glorious Results I
The soldiers voted in camp on Thursday last, for
"Governor, members of the Legislature, and Sheriff.
We are indebted to a friend at Goldsborough for the
following dispatch :
Goldsboro', July 81.
Majority for CoL Vance in 64th regiment, 234 ;
Tnajority for Vance in 55th regiment, about 100.
Capt Bradbury's company, near this place, gave
Vance 40, Johnston none.
We aro indebted to a soldier friend for the fol
lowing: Petersburg, July SI.
Tn Ransom's brigade the vote for Governor is as
fellows: Vance 1,582, Johnston 210.
We learn that the 56th regiment, at Camp Man
gum, gave Vance 150 majority.
A friend just from Petersburg, informs us that
the 53d regiment gave Vance 260, and Johnston 63.
The 52d regiment gave Vance 357, and Johnston 42.
We learn that the vote of the Confederate sol
diers, (conscripts,) in camp near this place, was
nearly unanimous for Vance. Alamance, Orange,
Anson, Wake, Guilford, and other Counties voted
unanimously for him. Johnston County gave Vance
54, Johnston 2. Davidson gave Vance 165, John
ston 7. The vote for members of the Legislature
is said to be similar to the vote for Governor, the
Conservative candidates running with Vance.
As far as heard from, Col. Vance has received a
large vote in the ariny. Let his friends at home
exert themselves, and he will bo elected by thirty
thousand majority. We feel sure, not only of his
triumphant election, but of a Conservative Legisla
ture by a decided majority.
Col. Vauce.
We learn from a friend just from the camps, that
Gen. Ransom's brigade was ordered to leave its en
campment near Drury's Bluff, on the 3Hth, for City
Point Col. Vance's regiment belongs to this brig
ade. We have just conversed with a friend, who saw
Col. Vance, in Petersburg, on Wednesday night
last, about nine o'clock. The Colonel was passing
through with his regiment, towards City Point
Our friend walked with him for a mile. He was on
foot, having given up his horse to one of his sick
soldiers. The Colonel and future Governor was in
.good health and spirits.
To Advertisers. Persons wishing to insert ad
vertisements in the Standard will please send them
directly to us and not toother papers for us to copy,
for the reason that they may be overlooked. In
some instances we do not exchange with the papers.
Chowan. M. L. Eure, Esq. is the candidate for
the Senate from Gates and Chowan, and Lemuel C.
Benberry, Esq. is the candiiate for the Commons
from Chowan.
Cotton Mill Machinery. We call attention to
the advertisement of the Kinston Cotton Factory
Company, offering their machinery for sale, in this
day's issue.
At the request of friends, and because that de
graded sheet is evidently one of the official organs
of Gov. Clark, we to-day notice some of the false
hoods of the State Journal. This is most probably
the last time' we shall feel called upon to notice that
paper.
Dr. Clopton, of Alabama, is at present in the City,
at the Yarborough House, where he may be con
sulted. His stay will not be long. Sec Dr. Cs ad
vertisement in the Standard.
Orange County. We learn that the canvass in
Orange has been progressing for several days, and
that the Conservative and Reform candidates are
producing the best impressions by their speeches.
Gov. Graham will certainly be elected to the Senate,
and Capt Berry and Mij. W. N. Patterson to the
Commons. We trust our friends in Orange will not
sap their votes in any event, but vote right along
for Vance for Governor, Graham for the Senate,
Berry and Patterson for the Commons, and Guthrie
for Sheriff.
A Mean Stallfedzrate Trick.
We learn that on Thursday last Henry B. Hayes,
deputy for J. J. Ferrell, Esq., Cleik of the County
Court of Wake, was detected in the act c-f affixing the
County seal to what purported to be a proclamation
of Edward Stanly in relation to the exercise of the
right of suffrage in this State on Thursday next
The proclamation, as we learn, purported to be a
copy from a newspaper and is addressed to the Con
servative people of the State, offering ikem the priv
ilege of voting, and telling theu W?tbey are re
garded as good Union men. The copy was for the
State Journal, as Mr. Hayes himself admitted.
That this proclamation is a forgery we have no
doubt ; but if it be genuine, it was a mean trick to
attempt to use it against the friends of Col. Vance,
who are as true to the South as any men in it
We arc glad to learn that Mr. Ferrell instantly
dismissed Mr. Hayes from his place as deputy.
We caution all honest men to be on their guard
against the falsehoods which will be Started by the
Stallfederates to affect the election. These men and
their minions are as unscrupulous as they are des
perate. We learn that George W. Thompson, Esq., will
not vote for Mr. Bledsoe. .He has no confidence in
him. This is creditable to Mr. Thompson. Mr.
Thompson was Mr. Bledsoe's competitor two years
since for the Senate, and had a good opportunity to
estimate him as he really is. He knows him.
Excluded. Owing to the pressure of matter
upon our columns, wc are compelled to defer till our
next issue several obituaries and other matter. Our
friends must make obituary notices shorter, if they
expect them to be inserted free of charge. When
over twelve lines they must be paid for.
The Stallfederate Platform. The only hope
which the Stallfederates have of carrying the State,
is based on the charge which they are making that
a majority of the people of the State are sympathi
zers with Lincoln and in favor of a re construction
of the Union. This is their platform. Sh 11 they
he allowed to succeed If they do, a monstrous
calumny will have been endorsed by the people, and
Abraham Lincoln will have been told that a majori
ty of our people are his friends.
It is reported thit ascertain member of the bar,
who resTdes in Granville County, has been engaged
in the business of procuring exemptions for con
scripts at the camp near this City, for which he
charges and receives a fee of fifty dollars in each
case. Is this true? We believe it is. Is it right?
We think not It is reported, also that some con
scripts have employed him on the ground that; on
account of his political views, he has a special influ
ence with those whose duty it is to retain or exempt
conscripts. Is this true ? We fear it is. If 80,
party and money are at work at the very heart of
our liberties.
Vol. XXVIII. No. 32.
JRA
Hoses A. Bledsoe, Esq.
This gentleman, who is the Stall fed candidate for
the Senate in this County, solemnly covenanted
with his opponent, CoL Russ. and with the candi
dates for the Commons, at Auburn, not to elec
tioneer, nor to publish any speech or circular, until
the day of the election. He has broken that agree
ment He did so by handing to James Adams, Esq..
a bundle of documents to be distributed, in which
his competitor is grossly assailed. In addition to
this, the last State Journal contains a report of his
speech at Auburn, the materials for which must
have been furnished by himself. In the course of
this speech, as thus reported, he said :
" Why my fellow citizens, exclaimed Mr. Bledsoe,
on that very day and the very hour on which the
battle of the Seven Pines was being fought to up
hold the votes, of Mr.' Holden and others for seces
sion, Ur. Holden was in the courthouse in the city
of Raleigh, speaking, scheming and plotting to
organize a party upon a principle of opposition to
the State and Confederate Governments, the effect
of which in my opinion was to encourage the enemy ;
to paralyze the arm of the government ; to hazard
the cause of Southern independence and to expose
our soldiers, your sons, your brothers and your
friends to defeat and death, by the hand of a brutal,
heartless and merciless enemy."
In the course of the same speech he also said :
" If this party give aid and comfort to the enemy
intentionally, they are traitors. But Mr. Holden
and bis party claim to be as loyal and as true to the
Confederacy as you or I. Suppose it be admitted
that they have no intention of giving such aid and
comfort to the enemy, and yet they see, that the ef
fect of their course is to aid and encourage the ene
my, how much better are they than traitors ? They
think, or affect to think, that the organization of
Mr. Iloldcn's party will have no such effect That
is a matter about which there is a difference of opin
ion ; you can decide the question for yourselves."
Now, Mr. Bledsoe or Captain Bledsoe for you
arc fighting the enemy by word, at a safe distance
you have deliberately impeached our fidelity to the
South, and that of your fellow-citizens of Wake who
recommended CoL Vance for Governor and the Con
servative ticket for the Legislature. What had we
done to you, to deserve such treatment? We had
not assailed you. Your name even bad not appear
ed in our paper, except as a candidate for the Sen
ate. Old personal and political associations had re
strained our pen, so far as you were concerned.
We were reluctant to assail and expose you. But
you would have it otherwise. With a heartlessness
and a spirit of injustice seldom evinced even by
trading politicians, like yourself, you have trampled
upon every tie of friendship which formerly united
us, and charged us with being false to our native
land. If, in making that charge, you knew you
were uttering a falsehood, we pity you; if you
made it from passion or from ignorance, we pity
you. But you knew better. You knew that that
meeting was composed of persons as true to the
South as any among us. Yon knew that they had
sons, and brothers, and neighbors, and friends in
the war, ai.d that they had freely contributed of
their means to sustain the war. And yet you ar
gue to prove that they are traitors 1 Wherefore?
Because they did not recommend you for the Senate.
They could not do that, Cup tain. They wanted a
candidate who could be relied on to rejtresent the
County, and not the office-holders, and so they re
commended Col. Russ. Besides, Captain, they had
heard that you were for martial law and the black
flag ; and they had seen for themselves, that you had
deserted the people, who had made you what you
were, and had cast your fortunes with the Clark and
Martin dynasty. They had heard also, that you,
a shade officer, had violated the spirit of the army
regulations, by purchasing your supplies of coffee,
sugar, salt, and the like, at low government prices,
while the people were paying full prices for these
articles. They felt that shade officers, like yourself,
ought to obtain their supplies as they did, and not
take them from the mouths of our sick and wound
ed soldiers. Did you do that, Captain It is said
you did. And yet you- claim to be a "Articular
friend to the soldier 1 Qft- -.
But martial law you advocated that You did
it in a meeting called by yourself, and your own
neighbors voted you down. Without cause, and
for no sufficiegt reason, you wanted xo place your
neighbors, and the people of the County for ten
miles around Raleigh, under military masters! It
is reported that Gov. Clark and Gen. Martin were
in favor of this, and so were you. If you had had
your way, free white men would have spoken of
abuses in the government with breath suppressed, and
would have come into town and gone out Willi pass
es, like our negro slaves. You wanted no more civil
law, becauso under it, the press and the people could
arraign officers who had abused their powers. If
you did not want to keep yourself, you evidently
wanted to keep your associates in the government
above the people. The people diflered with you.
They told you, in a voice of thunder, that you were
the servants, and they the masters; and that they
would have no martial law. They were right, Cap
tain, One of your constituents had just been to
Norfolk to visit a sick son, and he a man of char
acter and a free man wasrequired to take off his
hat at the door of the office of the military Governor.
Our people were anxious to avoid this humiliation,
except in the last resort They did not want martial
law unless it should appear to be absolutely neces
sary; you wanted it when there was nj more ne
cessity for it here, than there was on the summit of
the Pilot mountain.
The black flag you advocated that You advo
cated it when the war commenced, and during the
war. A soldier asked you on the streets of Raleigh,
last January, if you were in favor of the black flag.
You told him you were; and he then told you that
he had been your friend, but that he would never
vote for you again. You remember it, Captain.
The black flag means indiscriminate murder on
both 6ides. We are for civilized, not savage war
fare. If the enemy should hoist the black flag, we
would meet him with the black flag; but not before.
The Confederate States are struggling not only for
existence, but for a respectable and Christian exis
tence among nations. The black flag, if hoisted by
us, except by way of retaliation, would proclaim to
Europe that we were savages from choice, and not
Christians. Would they recognize us? Besides,
Captain, you did not propose to hoist such a flag,
but you thought others ought to do it You did not
say "came boys," but you said "floboya." You
proposed to remain in your shade office, hundreds
of miles from the field of battle, while your neigh-Ikh-s
and your neighbor's children incurred the fear
ful risk of being slaughtered like sheep aRer they
had been overpowered. '
When you were appointed Quartermaster, we re
membered the remark of Walpole, " every public
man has his price" but we believed you were proof
aeainst at least, ordinary temptation, and that you
would maintain your political integrity. Some or
your friends feared for. you, for they felt sure that
the office was designed only as a bait Alas 1 that
any consideration alas 1 that so paltry a consider
ation should have detached you at once from your
principles and your friends. We do not believe,
LEIGH. N. C, WEMES
and we do not say that you are a corrupt public
man; but your conduct has shown that you are
weak, unreliable, and selfish. Men who seek to
serve the people in times so degenerate' as these,
should be proof against not only ordinary, but
against all temptations. You have deserted the
people, Captain, to follow power and office. You
had a right to do this, but the people have a right
to discard you, as they will be certain to do on
Thursday next -
Captain, you will be defeated. "Holden" will
not do it, nor "Holdon's party" but the people ! will.
They will tell you, at the polls, that your charges
of treason against your own neighbors, are false :
and that you have been weighed in the balances ana
found wanting. We want no triumph over you,
Captain, as a man ; but if we were disposed to be
malicious, as you are, and if we had no heart for old
friends, we would rejoice even now by anticipation
at your personal as well as political downfall. We
wtil rejoice, however, when Bledsoe, the politician
and Stallfederate, is defeated. You ought to have
been defeated two years ago. We thought so then,
and so voted ; but subsequent events have made it
clear that you never deserved the public confidence.
Your hobbies have all failed you. Ad valorem gave
you only temporary success, and that was achieved
by disorganizing your party. Your other hobbies
of the black flag and martH law have carried you
already to political destruction. You have cast
your lot with the Stallfederates and the fevilers of
your old friends, and you must take the consequen
ces. We predict that your next hobby will be the
white basis I
Gov. Graham and the Conscript Law. We hear
that Gov. Graham, who is a candidate for the Senate
in Orange County, denounces the conscript law as
unconstitutional. What wonder is it that conscripts
are deserting in scores ? If things come to such a
pass as to make the shooting of deserting conscripts
necessary, Gov. Graham, and such as he, may thank
themselves for it Register.
We have had no report, and we presume the Register
has had none" of Gov. Graham's speeches in Orange.
But we take it for granted, as even the Register
should have done, that Gov. Graham has said noth
ing to discourage the conscripts or to retard the
prosecution of the war. In discussing public af
fairs, and war affairs, Gov. Graham has no doubt
stated incidentally what every one believes, that the
conscript law is unconstitutional ; but he has made
this the basis for urging all good citizens, the con
scripts included, to obey the law as it exists, and to
Stand by the flag of the country. If the conscripts
are "deserting in scores," as the Register states, the
blame for it does not rest on Gov. Graham. The
conscript law has been wretchedly executed by the
officer or officers in charge of the camp near this
place ; and, in our opinion, nine tenths of the deser
tions referred to are to be traced to this source.
But is it true that the conscripts are " deserting in
scores ?" The Register says it is. If we had said
as much we should have been charged with giving
aid and comfort to the enemy ; but the Register and
its faction would do or say any thing to accomplish
their party ends.
There is no truer man in the Confederate States
than Gov. Graham. The press or the man who even
intimates to the contrary, is guilty of gross calumny
and falsehood. The people of Orange are also true,
and they will show their confidence in Gov. Gra
ham by electing him to the Senate without opposi
tion. The toothless viper of the Register gnaws
this file in vain.
The Standard is the only paper in this place, and
perhaps in the State, which has appealed to the con
scripts to submit to their privations and to stand by
the flag; and yet the Register, after reading our ar
ticle, goes to work to distort and pervert it, and to
produce the impression that we have caused the con
scripts to desert If the Editor had possessed one
spark of liberality or patriotism, he would have
copied tho whole of our article and commended the
spirit which pervades it
Words of Encouragement and Troth.
We take the liberty of making the following ex
tract from a letter recently received from a native and
leading citizen of Eastern Carolina, who, although
a decided Democrat as long as that party existed,
never took an active part in political affairs. He is
emphatically one of the people. No earthly tempta
tion could sway him from the path of right and du
ty. Highly intelligent and patriotic, a compliment
from such a source is much prized by us, as it would
be by any one; and we trust our readers will par
don us for inserting that part of the letter which
refers particularly to ourself :
" I have never been, and am not now, either a poli
tician or an office seeker, but I am a patriot, ardent
ly devoted to the Southern Conledcracy, and a lover
of right and justice. These feelings and sentiments,
together with a union of the South for the sake of
the South, should animate us all in these all-perilous
times ; an-1 I am convinced do urge on the South
ern people, with a unanimity and zeal never before
witnessed in any revolution. I btlieve you are with
us in this mighty struggle. I have always had con
fidence in your patriotism in your devotion to
North-Carolina and to our glorious, but persecuted
South. I am not among those who join in the hue
and cry against you, because I see no just grounds
for such extraordinary efforts as are now being made
to crush you. If I could see any wisdom or justice
in this marvellous opposition to you any good rea
sons for doubting your loyalty, surely I should not
subscribe to your paper. But because you have
been the architect of your own fortune because
you have risen by your own genius and honest per
severance to a commanding and useful position, it
ought to entitle you, if a patriot, as I believe you
are, to the favorable regard of good men. As long
as tho opposition to you has become so much of it,
as it seems to me, dishonorable and malignant, I
desire to subscribe to your paper, and to assure you
that I am not of those who condemn you on such
insufficient data as are now held forth.
If you who so long held out for the old Union, are
to be proscribed as treacherous, then ought my head
to be cut off too, with thousands and tens of thou
sands of the best men in the Southern army. It is
but the truth, so often told, that those who held out
longest for the old government, now constitute the
main bulwark of our armies, while many thousands
ol the original secessionists are at homo in the shade
doing nothing but abusing true patriots for support
ing that talented and noble hearted man, CoL Vaiiec.
The records will prove this.
But thank God the political excitement, so much
to be lamented in our State, will soon end. Col. Z.
B. Vance, as I honestly believe, will bo elected by a
very decided major ty, and we shall find in him a
Governor who iias a mind of his own, and one who
will do justice to all parties. He is almost univer
sally popular with those of the army who know
him, and this will be demonstrated, I believe, on the
day of election ; and this popularity, both with civil
and military men, is based on those sterling traits
of character, those superior qualifications of heart
and bead, so necessary in those, who are entitled to
take the lead both in civil and military life.- You
have about Raleigh much abominable self-sufficiency,
a vast amount of obdurate selfishness, and su--percitiousness,
and a greater amount still of corrup
tion ; and Col. Vance is the man to check and sub
due such besetting evils."
DAY. AUGUST 6.
. . Public Sentiment.
The voice of the people of North Carolina is stilt
for Vance. Our letters are rich in evidences of bis
popularity.
A friend who has spent three days among the
people of Randolph, and saw numbers at public
gatherings, says:
" I did not see the first man who will vote fbr
Johnston."
A nautical friend, writing from Yadkin County,
says:
" We are all right on the main question, and the:
Standard can "carry all sail" through our latitude
without "tauting a brace."
Another says:
"Vance will make a clean sweep in Yadkin."
A gentleman writing from Hertford County, says :
"In conversation to-day with several persons on
the Gubernatorial election, I was very forcibly
struck by a remark of quite an illiterate man pres
ent, who said he should vote for the Colonel who
said " come boys," and not the one who said "boys,
go fight the Yankees."
An officer of the 38th Regiment, says :
" We are all right for Vance."
From Rutherford County, a friend says :
"Vance will carry this County, in August I
nave not heard the first man say that he would vote
for Johnston."
From Frankl:n County, a gentleman ordering
Vance tickets, writes :
" I feel well assured that Vance must carry this
County by a large majority."
One from Granville writes :
"The Standard is becoming more and more pop
ular in this County, and I think Vance will be tri
umphant in August"
From Brower's Mills a friend writes :
" I don't know the first man in this section that
will support Jonston for Governor all for Vance."
A friend in Wilkes says : '
" We are all here for Vance and the Standard."
Another from Wilkes says :
" Wilkes County is going nearly unanimous for
Vance."
From Chatham one writes :
" Col. Vance will sweep old Chatham like a new
broom would sweep a beeswax floor."
From McDowell, a friend writes :
" The people of this County will vote nearly unan
imously for Vance."
From Rowan, one says:
"Vance and Reform are the determination of the
people. Set him down for old Rowan. Mark it"
From Randolph, a friend writes :
" We arc all for Vance women and alL"
From Alamance, a well informed friend says :
"Vance will carry this County almost unani
mously." Partizan Office Holders. We have had evi
dence heretofore that certain government officials
were doing all they could to suppress the Standard.
A friend writes us as follows, from Lenoir County :
' u The fearless, straight-forward course of the Stan
dard is making many friends to it in this part of the
State. However, there are a few such men as your
old friend, CoL James W. Morris, that are cursing
Iiolden and hurrahing for Johnston. All true. con-'
servative men, Whigs and Democrats in this County,
are for Vance."
CoL Morris is the route agent on the Atlantic
Road. He may compliment us with his curses as
much as he chooses, if he will only sec to it that
the Standard is properly distributed. If we hear
of his suppressing or mi.-sending our packages, we
will at once report him at Richmond.
The little dog barked at the moon, but the moon
sailed on nevertheless, without being disturbed by
the little dog.
Playing the Organ for the Yankees. The for
eign organ in this City, says that if CoL Vance is
elected Governor
"In less than sixty days North-Carolina will be
overrun by an overwhelming Yankee invading army,
or the scat of war will be transferred to our doors,
and all the horrors suffered by our invaded sister
States will be upon North-Carolina."
Col. Vance will be elected. You knew he would
be, when you penned and published the above, an
you have invited the Yankees to Raleigh. You
have, in effect, told them that CoL Vance and his
supporters are friendly to them, and encouraged
them to come on. Well, let them come. Colonel
Vance and his friends will meet them like true
Southern patriots. They will not knuckle and take
the oath to save their property, or their persons
from prison. But where will the individuals be who
penned the above? Either claiming Yankee pro
tection, or showing straight nether integuments at
one end of the City while the Yankees are marching
in at the other. Men who will deliberately, and
without, proof, charge a gallant soldier with treason,
and brand his supporters as traitors, would them
selves betray their country for gold, or to gratify
their vengeance. .
From the Camps.
From tho several camps we have the strongest as
surances of tho popularity of CoL Vance in the
army. Among the rank and 'file especially, if let
alone, they would elect him by acclamation.
But we regret to record a fact which has been re
peatedly stated that some army officers high in po
sition are exerting themselves to defeat CoL Vance.
The most infamous falsehoods are being circulated
among the soldiers. We learn that a member of
Congress from this State, while visiting the camps
in Virginia, stated that it was reported that Hon. G.
E. Badger, Gov. Graham and W. W. Holden, were
in daily or frequent correspondence with Mr. Stan
ly, Lincoln's Governor at Newbern. Who reported
it? Did not that man know when he stated it, that
it was a falsehood, as infamous and black as ever
cane out of human or demon lips? He must have
known it Such are the means resorted to, to de
feat CoL Vance.
Capt. Josiah Turner, Jr. Wo learn that this
gallant.officer and sterling patriot, who was serious
ly wounded some time since, in the skirmish at
Gillett's, in Jones County, has gone to Kittrell's for
the benefit of his health. We learn that he is still
suffering from bis wound, but that his physicians
and friends entertain strong hopes of his entire re
covery. ;
56th N. C. Regiment. We Icarn.that this regi
ment was organized at Camp Mangum, near this
place, on Thurday last, by electing the following
officers: Maj. Faison, of Northampton, Colonel;
Capt Luke, of Camden, Lieut Colonel; and Capt
Schenck, of Lincoln, Major. Maj. Fiison was elect
ed by two votes over Lieut Colonel CantwclL The
56th has good officers.
Whole Number 1426.
T" Campaign la Wake.
ihe following letter from Messrs. Miller, Laws
andAlfordw.il explain itself. It seems that the
candidates for the Commons on the Bledsoe ticket
refuse to take the field, though the covenant not to
canvass, which was joint in its character, has been
Palpably broken by Mr. Bledsoe. This is aeon
fession on their part of defeat "
CoL Russ met Mr. Bledsoe at Cedar Fork, on
Thursday, and Messrs. Laws, Miller and Alford will
no doubt attend at the tax-gatherings still to be
held up to the day of the election. The following
letter, addressed to Messrs. Busbee, Jones and Mar
riott, places this determination of the Conservative
candidates in its true light, and will meet the ap
proval of every fair-minded man in the County :
. Raleigh, July 81, 1862.
Gentlemen : A Circular, without any name sign
ed to it, reflecting most unjustly on our motives in
one of the charges contained in it, was printed last
week in this City, and extensively distributed
amongst the people and the soldiers.
It now appears that Mr. Bledsoe, one of the par
ties to the written nmununt .1 j;
-- ,r vn.ccu tuu uauui-
, dates, discontinuing the canvass, gave a number of
Vi nr- niM..l. , T . . V. - .....
u vuiuiais iu ouraes .aaams, issq., tor distribu
tion amongst the people. It further appears that
Mr. Bledsoe, without giving us any notice, (though
one of us lives in a mile of him,) attended the tax
gathering at Barney Jones' on Wednesday last, and
made an electioneering speech to the people, that
he did the same thing at Holloman's on Tuesday,
and Green Level on yesterday. It further appears
ua aavenisea mat ne win speak
on Friday night next in this City, and that he will
attend the tax gatherings yet to come, and deliver
electioneering speeches. It further appears that
Mr. Bledsoe has published, or permitted to be pub
lished, his speech at Auburn, in which speech there
is a most unjust reflection upon us.
We regard these things as an express violation of
the written agreement between the candidates. It
was a joint agreement, signed by Mr. Bledsoe as
well as by us. It was not intended that under it one
candidate should be turned loose, to circulate hand
bills publish speeches make electioneering ha
rangues to the people, and attend the various tax
gatherings for electioneering purposes, whilst the
other candidates are to be muzzled, and not permit
ted to go beyond their respective neighborhoods.
Justice to ourselves and our friends demands that
we resume the canvass. We expect to be at Ro
ger's Store on to-morrow for that purpose.
Most respectfully yours,
WILL. LAWS,
G. H. ALFORD,
H. W. MILLER.
To Messrs. Busbee, Jones, and Marriott.
Mr. Miller addressd the people at Rogers' Store,
on Friday, the 1st Napoleon is again in the saddle.
A brilliant victory awaits us.
Shingled over with Offices.
Mr. Johnston, the Stallfed candidate for Governor,
heldour offices at the same time, Captain Bledsoe
held two, and Gen. Martin holds how many ? Let
us see: He is Adjutant General, Paymaster Gener
al, Inspector General, Commissary General, Quar
termaster General, and Brigadier General in the
service of this State; and Brigadier General in tho
service of the Confederate States. We. presume he
ia drawing his salary aa Brigadier from both gov
ernments. Gen. Martin is doing all he can to defeat Colonel
Vance for Governor. He knows that Gov. Vance
will take off some of these shingles, and reduce him
to the dimensions of a common mortaL
Truly, in the estimation of the Stallfederates, the
possession of office "is the chief end of man."
This is a pleasant doctrine to them, but ruinous to
the people who have the taxes to pay.
Behold the Contrast 1 In December, I860, Col.
Ashmore, of South-Carolina, and Col. Z. B. Vance,
both members of Congress under the old govern
ment, passed through this place on their way to
Washington. CoL Ashmore delivered a violent
disunion speech in Yarborough's Hotel, in which he
promised to slay any number' of Yankees; and CoL
Vance made a speech in the Court House, the same
night, in which he advised the people not to go to
war as long as they could honorably avoid it
Where la Col. Ashmore now? Enjoying a shade
office which pays him some two thousand five hun
'dred dollars per annnm. He is General Mail Agent
for the Confederate States, and rides from place to
place on the Railroads, performing light duties.
Where is Col. Vance? In arms, fighting the Yan
kees, and enduring the fatigues and privations of
the camp. Comment is unnecessary.
Raleigh Typographical Society. At a meet
ing of this Society, held on Wednesday evening the
SOlh ult, the following officers were elected for the
ensuing year :
Capt W. W. White, President
J. B. Neathery,' Secretary,
John N. Bunting, Corresponding Secretary.
John Nichols, Treasurer.
The Asheyule News. The Asheville News false
ly charges that the political excitement that exists
in this State is to be attributed to that "bold bad
man, the Editor of the Raleigh Standard."
The Editor of the News is not "bold," but he is
uladn enough, in all conscience. And be adds to
his wickedness by the cloak of hypocrisy which be
wears.
Mr. Atkin has the assurance to prate about "the
Democracy." Why, we taught him all the Democ
racy he ever knew. We introduced him into the
party, ne went with us and with "the Democra
cy" for years, except when his owner, Mr. CJing
man, gave him contrary orders.
The News would like to assail CoL Vance, but he
dare not do it The people of Buncombe and of the
mountains will put their foot on the News and its
supporters on the 7th of next month.
Johnston County. We have the most cheering
accounts from 'Johnston. The conservative and
Reform ticket, consisting of C. B. Sanders' for the
Senate, and Soth G. Woodall and W. H. Avcra for
the Commons, will be elected by a large majority,
if the people will only turn out and vote. We ap
peal to our Johnston friends to poll every tote.
4, '
The Difference. The great' body of the Stall
federates are abusing CoL Vance personally as well
as politically, and impeaching his fidelity as a
Southern man ; while others of them hypocritically
pretend that they do not want to lose his services
in the army. One of these latter said the the other
day, that be had nothing against CoL Vance, but
that he would vote for Johnston, because he desired
to keep Vance in the army. The person who said
this is a bitter Stallfederate, and is known to hate
refused Confederate money in this City, for some
property which he sold.
'. . . . , Tka Latest ITe w.
The papers ire exceedingly deficient in news.
TWe are indications that MoClellan is sending
5 rge refoferoemaits to Pope, who is ooooentra
g a large force in Culpepper ConatCYsL, and
the neighborhood, for aa attack npon jfcehmond
.hat quarter. It mppoBti p Md
McClelhn will attempt a simultaneous movement.
We hop, "Stonewall" wffl be able to defeat the
schema W the movemetf 6f troops we think it
prudent to keep dark.
Major Bailey of the Confederate Cavalry in Wes
tern Virginia, made a splendid dash W Friday last
upon the enemy at Stimmerville, Nicholas Co., Va.,
stormed their position and captured or killed the
entire garrison destroyed1 the stores -which' he
could not remove, and took many Enfield rifles,
horses, mules, 4a Maj. It only had ito men.
No further attack sterna to be apprehended soon
at Vicksburg. The eneiny is fortifying at Memphis.
No news from the West .
V Out with the Cormorants !
" Holden must be put down at all hatards," says
a dignitary who is closely connected with Go. Clari:
We i will see about that, Mr. Dignitary. This is a
free country, and the people will vote just as they
choose, without reference to yonr advice or frowns.
B the way, of what use are two Aids to Gov.
Clark at this time. Our people" are taxed to sup
port office-holders who are idle more than half their
time, and who are causing strifes and divisions
among us when we should be a unit These cor
morants are picking at the heart of the State. , Out
with them, say we 1 and we believe the people will
say the same thing. Let them either work or fight
They are doing neither. They are a clog to the
Southern cause. They care neither for the soldiers,
nor for the people, nocor the cause, if thef can
only enjoy power and spoils.
This is Df contest about " Holden," Mr. Dighftary.
If yon want to put "Holden" down, come and try
it If you have any thing against him, come and
tell him of it like a man. If you want any satisfac
tion out of " Holden," you can have an opportunity
to obtain it, on application. But remember, Sir, if
you(endorse the State Journal in its course towards '
us, you know what we think of you..
Out with the cormorants 1 They hate every man
who sympathizes-with, or stands by the people.
We speak advisedly. We tell the people that their
liberties are m danger. Let them rally to the polls
as they never did before. - Now, or neter! Two
years hence may.be too late 1 '.
A friend "asks us by letter if the Editor of the
Winston Sentinel is exempt as a conscript on ac
count of his office as Clerk of the State Senate.
We presume he is. But he would be exempt on
another ground. He was pledged to " peaceable se
cession," t He did not bargain for war when he ad
vocated a dissolution of the Union; and, as a con
scientious citizen, he feels bound, so far as he is in
dividually concerned, to make secession what he "
declared it should be "peaceable." If he has
"no stomach for the fight," we beg our Forsyth
friends to let him off. Vance can do the fighting
for both him and Johnston,
. It is not our'-fashion to parade real or manufac
tured correspondence to affect public opinion.
Johnston will be elected, if there be truth iu signs.
Stale Journal. ( .
You have no correspondence to parade. What
few correspondents you have, give you no comfort.
Their letters are as doleful as the tombs. ,
"Johnston will be elected, if there be truth in
signs." There is no truth in your signs. Your
falsehoods, strewn through the camps and among
the people, will do Col. Vance more good than harm.
The plottings of the Stallfederates, and the money ,
of Mr. Johnston, poured out to influence the elec- -tions,
with all perish together. The people are
aroused, and arc determined to do their own voting,
while Vance and others are doing the fighting.
To the Newspapers of Richmond. We under
stand that the Confederate Surgeons at the camp of
the conscripts near this City, are in the habit of
charginga feeof ten dollars for examiningsubstitutes.
The conscriptio1 law provides for substitutes, and
it would seem to 'us that the conscript is entitled to
have his substitute examined without being required
to pay a foe for it These Surgeons are paid a reg
ular salary by the government Will the Richmond
papers favor the public with information on this
subject?
Depravity and falsehood. Iredell Express.
See Iredell Express.
Party Spirit. AH good- citizens deplore the ex
istence of party spirit, especially in the midst of
war. We have labored against this spirit for months,
and done all we could to put it down. The election
of Col. Vance as Governor will go further towards
banishing this evil from among us, than any thing
else. Ever since the war commenced he has fciiown
no party but his country. He has shown this not
by words merely, but by his acts. Under his ad
ministration the party excitement and the party di
visions that have heretofore prevailed among us, will
cease. They will cease, because he w81 do justice
to all, and will give no countenance to party strifes.
Let every citizen, therefore, who is opposed to
party in the midst'of war, tote for VANCE.
As to CoL Johnston's standing as a lawyer, we
nave vii.j iu mij uc Man tuu repuisiiwi ui '
good, sound lawyer, sedulous in his attention to
his business, and fully confided in by his clients.
Register. . . .
1IT1 i T . , r T t . . .
n nen me megmer claims ror jur. tioonston wo
reputation of a " good, sound lawyer," and at the
same time assails and. attempts to ridicule Colonel
Vance, that paper must expect ine tacts to be stated.
Mr. Johnston has been twenty-five years at the
bar, but during all that time be has never made an
argument even in the County C&urt , He is a
worthy, clc-.er gentleman, personally, but be pos
sesses only an ordinary mind, and is no lawyer.
He lacks grasp of intellect As Governor, be would
not be able to comprehend fully and clearly, as Col.'
Vance would do, important questions of common,
statute, Constitutional, and military law.
We have seen enough of our present State gov
ernment to understand and deplore, as we do, that .
want of knowledge and ability in the Governor
which places him, necessarily, under the control of
astute, designing, sclflsh and unscrupulous men. .
We want a man of head and thought a man of
ability, who can rely on himself, and who will bo
the Governor, as CoL Vance will be.
Besides, Mr.' Johnston cannot be spared from his
Railroads. The South-Carolfi guage, which be
has esUblisfed in the heart of this State, would not
prosper in bis absence. We want him to stay where
be is, to nurse that gnage, and to serve his fellow
citizens in a business which he understands. CoL
Vance has succeeded equally well as a business man
-. o il TT - . " 7 mmim atiil
and in ine ueiu. xic u me man jt
Mr. Johnston is the man for Railroads. Really, wo
do not believe Mr. J. can be spared irom bis present
employment, and we mink the people will so decide.