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. - r'3 .sW-5 otv-; - -Sir.- - 1?. e . ' '.1 THE WILLIAM W. HOLDBN, Editob aw) PROPanwoa. TERMS OF THE WEEKLY Two Dollars per TS . eMfa. V m for which they have bun paid- ;v Terms of Adrertislng in Seml-Weklf Standard: Our regular rate of advertisinK are aa .follows : One smiare, ( 14 lines or less) first iniertion, . 1 00 Each subsequent insertion, - " . 85 Longer advertisements i in proporhon. ' Contracts will be madewHh advertisers, at th oboe rxular rates, for six or tweWe months, and at the close of the contract $3 per cent, will be deducted from the gross 'rofesaion' or business Cards, not exceeding five lines will be inserted in either the Weekly or Semi-Weekly, for $8 for six months, or $10 lor twelve months; or in both papers for jlO far six months,' or $15 for twelve months. Terms of Advertisln in Weekly Standard. One dollar per square for the first insertion, and twenty five cents for each subsequent insertion- Ai deduction mil be mnie on weekly advertieemente, no matter how long they man run. Only a limited number of advertisements-ill be admitted into the Weekly. All advertisements, noF other wise directed, are inserted in the Semi-Weekly, and charg ed accordingly. When the number of insertions is cot marked on the advertisement it is inserted until forbid. lf Money sent us by-mail is at our risk. RALEIGH: SATURDAY, AUG. 23, 1802. The Latest News. It is understood, that McClellan's entire force evacuated Berkley, below Richmond on Friday night last, and steamed down the river, leaving many stores and other valuables behind them. It is also understood that the enemy is evacuating Wes tern Virginia, and Suffolk, Va., and there are indi cations that Norfolk and Portsmouth will bo also. It is therefore evident that all the enemy's avail able force is being concentrated under Pope, Me Clellan and Burnside to oppose the advance of our army northward; the idea of "on to Richmond" being we judge at present abandoned, until our forces under Jackson and Lee are defeated. Gen. Lee is in chief command on the Rappahannock line, and the two great armies are near each other. Whether a fight is to come off at once is doubtful now, since the policy of Gen. Lee has been to wait until the enemy gets fully ready to attack or resist him. Jackson's dashing policy is evidently the proper one for the occasion. Were his tactics the guiding policy, Washington City and Baltimore would be ours in 30 days. From the West there is but little news. , The Yankees, it is reported, with, a heavy force at the mouth of the Yazoo river, have captured the trans port Fair Play, with 2000 Enfield rifles and a large quantity of army Btores, designed for Gen. llindman, in Arkansas. Fort Cliflf; near Hartsville, Tenn., was captured by our forces on the 15th inst, at the point of the bayonet. The Freeman's Journal, the leading Catholic pa per in New York, advocates a proposition for com promise with the South to end the war. The North is energetically prosecuting the effort to raise her additional 600,000 men. What we do, should be done quickly. In the Confederate Senate on Wednesday but little was done. In the House a number of reso lutions were offered in relation to substitutes in the army to the punishment of deserters, officers as well as men, the removal of secresy from the action of the House on the Conscription bill to investigate the condition of the army hospitals about Richmond, for the increase of the pay of privates, and various other important matters. Sword Pbesestatioic. In another column will be found the proceedings of the 26th N. C. regi ment, in connection with the presentation of a sword to Col. Vance, the Governor elect. The remarks of Sergt Major Polk and of Col. Vance will be pub lished when they come to hand. The Yankees in Onslow We leam from a gentleman, who left Onslow on Tuesday last, that on Friday the 15th, five Yankee steamers appeared off the bar near Swansboro', and that in the afternoon, three of the steamers came in and landed Yankee troops, artillery and infantry, reported by some to be 3,000, and by others various numbers up to 10,000. It is believed, also, that a body of Yankee cavalry from Newbern was co-operating with them. Our informant says, that he learned they had committed depredations upon the inhabitants in that section, destroying and taking their cattle and hogs and the growing crops that they had destroyed all the salt-works at Swansboro', and at all' the points between them and New River, ne had heard of no one having been arrestrfd by them, nor was the ob ject of the enemy understood, farther than to de stroy property, steal negroes, &c We bad three companies of Rangers in the Coun ty, who seem, however, to have offered no resistance, the idea prevailing that the enemy was in large force. We incline to the opinion, however, that not more than 1,000 Yankees have been landed. We know not what steps have been taken by our military to arrest thetn. The probability, however is, that by the time we have a sufficient force, there to attack them, the enemy will have re-embarked and gone to other points. Such raids may be expected in our Eastern Coun ties frequently, until some spirited, daring man is put in command on our coast with sufficient force to drive the enemy out or to confine him in narrow limits. We hope the common government will at once relieve our Eastern people. They call for help and they deserve it Otherwise the State govern ment must do its duty and relieve them. Our Wilmington correspondent, whose letter is unavoidably excluded, says the rumor in that place is, that the Yankees have landed 4,000 at Swansboro' lie says, the military in that section are en the qui tine. OFriCEKS Reportiso fob Duty. Under the late order of Maj. Mallett we learn that officers of the twelve months reigimente who were defeated, or temporarily out of service on account of ill health, ronrtincr fnr dntv at Camo Holmes, near this iv... i n.iw. rn am triad to see in the City Capt W. M. Norman, of Surry, formerly of UlC 2lti, WI10 nas. reporieu uuuacu ww Capt N. has been out of the service for several months, on account of ill healtn. AVc were glad to see in the City, a day or two since. Cant F-ncsnfi Grissom. of the 30th Regiment, , r - o . ' . . who was wounded in me of the battles beiow Rich-. mond. Capt G. is rapidly recovering from his wound. He was elected to the House of Commons by the people of Granville, while absent at Rich mond, bj a very flattering majority. The people of that County could not have 'bestowed their suf frages on a more gallant or worthy man. Vol. xxviil-No. 35. RA The President's Message. Our readers will peruse with pleasure the mes sage of President Davis to Congress,' sent in on Monday last Like all his papers, it is short, manly, and to the point The emphasis with which he dwells on the barbarous practices of certain Yankee officers in the conduct of the war, and the determi nation at which he has deliberately but reluctantly i arrived, to arrest such conduct by prompt retalia tion, must meet the approval of every Southern man. It is a dernier resort for an enlightened Christian people, forced upon them by an enemy" who seems lost to all the claims of reason and hu manity. The President, it will be seen, again asks that Congress will assume the control of the Railroads within the States. Congress has no power, under the Constitution, to do this. If the Railroads are not disposed to do all they can in aiding the govern ment to transport troops and supplies, and muni tions of war, let the military power see to it in par ticular cases that the cause is not injured by such assumed indisposition on the part of the Roads; but let this power, when exercised, be limited and restrained by law. But we do not believe that the Roads are deserving of censure in this respect They have done all they could for the government, and the wonder is that in their condition they have done so much. Besides, these Roads belong to the States, and not to the Confederate government We . forbear, however, to discuss the subject further. The President admits that " Executive appoint ments in the army have been somenes unfortu nate." No doubt of it The power, however, to dismiss incompetent officers without trial is a high and summary one; but that such officers ought to be dismissed there can be no doubt This is due alike to our braae soldiers and to the cause. We regret to see that the President asks for au extension of the conscription law. If nothing tUe Kill do, let it be extended ; but we agree with Gen. Foote, that the best mode of raising troops for the future would be to call for volunteers for the war through the State authorities. We may hereafter point out the defects in the conscription law, to say nothing of its unconstitutionality. It can be shown that it operates unequally and unjustly, and, among other things, tends to foster the spirit of specula tion and extortion which is doing so much to em barrass our efforts for independence. We are satis fied that this State, if called upon for volunteers, would raise and tender twenty thousand at a much earlier period than the same number of conscripts could be obtained. Let the government give boun ties, and land warrants, and promise pensions to the wounded and disabled and let the volun teers have the right' to elect their own officers, and our word for it this State would have twenty thous and more men (her full quota, if not more) in the field in sixty days. The people of the other States can answer for themselves. The Battle of Cedar Ran. There can be no doubt that this was an impor tant battle, and that the victory was on the side of the Confederates. It was fought near Culpeper Courthouse, Virginia, which is one hundred, miles northwest of Richmond, and about fiftv miles from Alexandria, by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. The Northern accounts of this conuict are confessions' of defeat on their part One of the correspondents o! the New lork Times says: " During all this time the firing on both sides was terrific, and the men were falling by the score. The line advanced steadily, with the exception of the 3d Wisconsin, under a galling fire, and drove the rebels back. The Wisconsin regiment fled at the first fire, and it was with great difficulty and at great person al risk that the General succeeded in getting them into line again. They had hardly returned to their position, however, oeiore iney orose anu ruu agum than useless. The remainder of the infantry charged upon the enemy's batteries, several' of whicn coma noi oe seen uiuu mejr mm oi tt.an-nmt trhprn thev Ram suddcnlvuDon alaree infantry force that had lain concealed from the com mencement ot tno ngnt. inis iorce opcuuu mo up on our men with frightful effect The slaughter at this point was very great, more than-one-balf of the men of the 28th New York were killed and wound ed. Colonel Donnelly, commanding, was mortally wounded ; the Lieut Colonel, Brown, and the Major, are both wounded, and there u not a Captain of a company left to th regiment The 10th Maine lost about one hundred and fifty in killed and wounded; the 5th Connecticut sunereo similarly, rau ""'"s 1 rkinmin tVa wns taken nrisoner. ihe UUIUIICI ., " - r - 4:6th Pennnyhania had hardly enough men lejt to form a full company, uoi. ivnipe was wouuucu the head and in the arm, but not fatally; Lieut Col. Selfridge was slightly injured, and the Major was shot through the arm." The loss of the enemy in killed, wounaea, ana prisoners, was heavy. Several of their principal officers are among the killed and wounaea Dome of the enemy, while engaged in burying their dead, admitted a loss of 400 killed, including many om cersl and one of their Surgeons incautiously stated i,f i inn wnnnded were under treatment The ..JU. A,VW Confederate loss was 100 killed, and some 4 to 500 wnunded and missinz. Gen. Jackson and Gen. Pope have both been large ly re-inforced, and a general pitched battle in that nimrter is looked for every day. It is said that Gen. McClellan has transferred the great body of his forces to that quarter, and Gen. Lee is in mi peper, in command of the Confederate forces. We have every confidence that in the great conflict which is supposed to be near at hand, our brave troops will be victorious. Law or Retaliation. We regret that want of space to-day excludes the interesting correspondence between Gen. Lee and Gen. Halleck, the command ing Generals of tho two contending powers, in re- eard to the late barbarous acts ot uutier, tr ope, DhUn Pitch and- Hunter. Gen. Lee indicates a. uvivuf very plainly the purpose of the Confederate govern ment to retaliate promptly for such acts if not dis avowed and prevented. Gen., Halleck does not ad mit the correctness of these allegations, assumes that his government will conduct the war according to the rules ot civuizca waiwe, wi icmiuo Lee's two last letters as insulting to his government Gen. Pettigrew. In response to inquiries from various quarters for the address of Gen. Jf cttigrew, wo have, been informed by Mr. Shepard of this City, that the General is not now in Richmond or, at lo.or. that anv communication to him for the present must be directed to him at Petersburg, Va, care of Gen. D. H. HilL We learned, also, irom tne same source, (as stated in our last paper) that Gen. P. bad MnArtxi fnr service, though still suffering from one ituviivu v w of his wounds, and though his right arm was still Knthinir can more fully prove, tnan facts like these, the noble daring and determined resolution of our soldiers to gite we xauaew warm reception. . , N. C, WEDNES Confederate Congress. This body convened in Richmond on Monday last A quorum was present in both Houses, and they pro ceeded to business. Messrs. Dortch and Davis, of this State, were in their seats in the Senate, and Messrs. Ashe, Bridgers, Gaither, Lander, and Mc Dowell, of this State, were in -their seats in the House, Messrs. Davidson,' McLean, and Smith ap peared in their seats on Tuesday, v Vanous propositions were introduced on the first and second days, but none of them strike us as be ing more fit and proper than those in the Senate and House by Mr. Yancey, of the former, and Mr. toote, of the later, to amend the rules so as to pro vide for legislative sessions with open doors. The Confederacy is now suffering under disadvantages and burdens which would never have existed, but for secret sessions of the Congress. Let the doors be thrown open, and let every Senator and Repre sentative feel that in reality, as well as in theory, he is responsible to the people, and immediately re sponsible, for what he says and does. The message of the President, which will be found in the Standard to-day, was sent in on "Monday. In the Senate, on Tuesday, the President's mes sage was taken up and referred to appropriate com mittees. " The Senate took no action on the subject of se cret sessions, but the House determined, by a vote of 57 to 15, so to amend its rule as not to go into secret session without a vote upon the motion by yeas and nays. We doubt whether this will amount to much in practice. The delegation from this State voted to amend the rule. In the House on Tuesday, Mr. Foote pressed his bill, introduced on Monday, to raise 250,000 men through the State authorities, instead of by an extension of the conscription law. That gentleman addressed the House at some length and with much ability, in support of bis proposition. Before arriving at any action on the subject the House adjouned. Prisoners Exchanged. Official notice is given in the Richmond papers that the following officers and men have been duly exchanged, and are now at liberty to take up arms again against our invaders: 1. AU'the officers and men who were delivered at Akin's on the 6th of August, 1662. 2. All officers and men captured at Roanoke Is land. 3. All officers and men captured at Fort Macon. 4. All officers and men captured at Fort Moun tain. 5. All officers captured at Forts Jackson and St Philip, La. 6. The officers and men delivered at Akin's, Au gust 10th, 1862. 7. The officers and men delivered at City Point, August 8th, 1862. 8. Officers paroled at Fortress Monroe, May 12th, 1S62. 9. Privates paroled by Brigadier General G. W. Morgan at Cumberland Gap, July 23d, 1862. . 10. C ptain Van Benthuyson's Marines. The officers and men thus exchanged, are ordered to join their respective regiments and corps without delay. It will be seen by a notice in our paper to day, that the 8th State Troops, CoL Shaw, have been authorized to recruit from the. conscripts in this State. It will be seen by an order from the Adjutant General, which we publish to-day, that the 8th and 31st regiments will rendezvous at Raleigh. Official Tote, In the Senatorial District composed of the Counties of Yadlin, Surry, Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga. The following is the vote recently cast in this District for Senator : Jakkatt. Neal. Williams. 856 153 66 433 310 9 89 391 207 35 177 33 59 144 104 1,472 1,175 419 Yadkin, Surry, Ashe, Alleghany, W atauga, Deserters. It would seem from the number of persons ad vertised in the papers as deserters, that this is be coming a common crime in our camps. It is one which must be checked by severe punishment if it cannot be cured by milder means. Already, we learn, some have paid the penalty of death for this offence an awful penalty, yet one which must be inflicted if a stop be not put to it In many instances of real desertion, we observe they are abandoned, graceless scamps, mostly for eigners, who have been going the rounds and hiring themselves for substitutes, and as soon as accepted and entering the ranks with full pockets, have eloped to try their hands again at other points. These men should be arrested at once and punished. We learn that at Camp Holmes, Maj. Mallett has very properly refused to receive a number of these men as substitutes. Foreigners who have declared their intention to become citizens, and who can es tablish a character, will no doubt be accepted, but otherwise they should not be. The publication of deserters, however, as a gen eral rule, ought to be very carefully done. Many of our soldiers who leave jon furlough seem to be ignorant of the rules of the service and remain off beyond the time, on account of ill health or other unavoidable causes, and fail to give due notice to the proper officer. Others have been discharged from the service, and others have been detailed for other service, and the proper entries have not been made on the roll books. It is extremely mortifying to such men to be published as deserters, yet the fault is often owing to their own neglect Several such instances have been noticed in our columns. The following seems to be a case which calls for correction: i Chatham Co., N. C, Aug. 12, '62. Editor JT. C. Standard: gin : In looking over your paper some week or two ago, I was much grieved to see my name among the list of deserters from company M. 15thReg't N. C. Troops ; in consequence of which I will say through your columns that it was never my inten tion to desert I was sick at the N. C. Hospital in Petersburg, and obtained leave of absence sometime in March ; since that time I have been too feeble to perform military duty. You will please copy be low a certificate from Dr. John A. Hanks, a well known physician of Pittsboro'. Yours, with much respect, - N. M. ALSTON. - . Pittsboro', Aug. 9, 1863. This is to certify that N. M. Alston is now and has been for months an invalid, too unwell to per form military duty. ' Given under my hand this day and -date, J. A. HANKS, M. D. Surg. 49th Reg't, N. C Mil DAT. AUGUST 27, 1862. The Vote for Governor. " We published in our last the vote of 72 Counties for GoTornor, making 48,093 for Vance, and 16,767 for Johnston. Since then we have heard from Cherokee, Hyde, and Currituck, as follows : Johnston. 17L - - 18 186 16,767 Cherokee, Currituck, Hyde, 918 48,093 49,011 16,953 Add vote as above, 16,953 Vance's maj. in 75 Cos., 33,058 . This leaves Carteret, Chowan, Gates, Jones, Le noir, Lincoln, Mitchell, Onslow, Polk, Transylvania, Tyrrell, Union, Washington, and Yancey to be heard from. Carteret, Chowan, Gates, Onslow, Tyrrell, and Washington are all more or less within tho ene my's lines, and the vote in them is no doubt small. Transylvania, Polk, and Mitchell have probably voted with the Counties out of which they were formed. We learn that Jones, Lenior, Gates, Mitch ell, Onslow, and Yancey have given majorities to CoL Vance. Union has no doubt given a majority to Mr. Johnston, With the lights before us we in cline to think Col. Vance's majority will be about 33,500 unless, as claimed by a good-humored friend at our elbow, it should be 33,833. . We will publish the official vote in full when it comes to hand, . Election Returns. The following have been received since our last issue : Hyde and Tyrrell. Senate, Charles McCleese, of Tyrrell Eyde. Commons, E. L. Mann. ' We learn there was no election in Tyrrell or Washington, on account of the presence of the Yan kees, " Cherokee and Clay. . Commons, J. H. Bryson. BranforU Senate, E. J. Warren. Commons, R. S. Donncll, Capt. Win. T.' Marsh. Onslow. Senate, J. A. Murrill. . Commons, Harvey Foy. Yancey and Mitchell. Lt D. M. Young. Currituck. Commons, B. M. Baxter. .Hon. Abram Renciier. We had the pleasure of seeing this gentleman in town yesterday, on his way with his family to his old home near Pittsborough. Mr. Rencher, our readers will remember, was ap pointed by Mr. Buchanan Governor of New Mexico, and occupied that post with much credit to himself and beneficially to the Territory, until his State de cided to sever her connection with the federal gov ernment Gov. Rencher labored for some twelve months to get through with the settlement of his accounts, and to obtain permission to cross the lines ; and this-permission he obtained only recently, after numerous and most perplexing difficulties. His old friends and the people of tbe Stat generally will welcome bim back to North-Carolina, There is no truer Southern man than Abram Rencher. The Wilmington Journal says that the chief cause of the late election result in North-Carolina was op position, to the conscription law. Rich. Enquirer. The Wilmington Journal is mistaken. The con scription law was not generally discussed, either on the stump or in the newspapers. Ninty-nine hun dredths of our people, like the Wilmington Journal, were opposed to the passage of the law, and depre cated the necessity which appeared to lead to it ; but, after the law was passed, our people submitted to it like patriots. " Opposition " to it had nothing to do with the result of the election in this State, Tbe Wilmington Journal opposed the law, before it was passed, with more vehemence even than we did, and it seemed probable at one time that the Journal would advocate resistance to it We never thought of resisting it; and ours is the only paper in the State which has made a direct appeal to the conscripts themselves to obey the law and stand by the flag. The Journal has made no such appeal. That paper, we beg the Enquirer to remember, sup ported Mr. Johnston for Governor, and we support ed CoL Vance. - ' We will tell the Enquirer what was the "chief cause of the late election result" in this State. It was caused by the prescriptive spirit of the early secessionists towards the late-secessionists; and by the necessity which existed for reform in our State government The early secessionists, in power both at Richmond and Raleigh, had not only im peached the loyalty of the late secessionists or old Union men, through those who spoke for them in the newspapers and on the stump, but they bad studi ously excluded them as untrustworthy from every office of prominence and influence. It was against such injustice, which was injuring the common cause while it threatened to blast the political and personal character of the late secessionists, that the people of this State rose up, and this, we repeat, with the demand for reform, constituted the "chief cause " of the result in this State. The Enquirer very absurdly imagines that the old Democratic party is still in existence, and it considers the Baltimore bolters the Democratic par ty. Hence the confidence it places in such papers as the Wilmington Journal We may as well in form the Enquirer that the Wilmington Journal is any thing now but a Democratic paper ; that its in fluence, never great, is now confined to a small locality; and that even this influence is maintained by the manner in which it suppresses and perverts the truth. If the people who read the Journal bad been thoroughly posted in relation to the issues be fore the people in the late election, they would have risen above their prejudices and voted almost to a man for CoL Vance. North Carolina Troops. We learn from our friend, Capt J. W. Bowman, that the 58th N. C. Regiment was organized in June last at Camp Martin, in Mitchell county, by the election of John B. Palmer, Colonel ; W. W. Profit, Lieut Colonel, and John C. Keener,' Major. This regiment has 10 companies of infantry and three of cavalry. -North Carolina has, therefore, 53 Regiments in the field. These filled up to the maximum number, would be 72,000 strong. We are 'sura we apeak the general sentiments of our people, when we say that this number could be made up easier with ef fective men by appeals to them to volunteer, than by conscription or any other mode. The 58th Regiment is stationed near Jontsboro', in East Tennessee, and is no doubt a crack regiment, made op of the hardy sons of our mountaineers. Vance. . 621 -25 maj 272 Whols Number 1431. Onr Eastern Counties. Every day8 observation of the war and the tem per of our enemy, satisfies us that we have not been at fault in advising our Eastern people to remove their negroes and other moveable property beyond the reach of the Yankees. Their rage against us is becoming more and more intense and bitter. If they fail to conquer our armies, they will despoil our people on our coasts and water courses, and rob and destroy all within their reach. " Let us defeat their madness by putting our property out of their way. We find in the Wilmington Journal an order from Brig. Gen. Clingman,in compliance with instruc tions from Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill, commanding the Military Department of North Carolina, which strikes us very strangely. The order requires the slave owners of New Hanover, Onslow, Duplin, Le noir, Craven, Jones, Carteret, Pitt, Martin, Bertie, Hertford, Gates and Greene Counties jn this State, to send at once one-fourth of their able-bodied force to be worked on fortifications in the vicinity of Pe tersburg and Richmond 1 Our Eastern farmers need all their force at this time to save the fodder crop. Besides it is evident that McClellan has evac uated James River. Moreover, we have examined the Petersburg Express, and find no such order to the slave owners of Prince- George, Surry, Isle of Wight, Nanseaaond, Southampton, Greenville, Sus sex, Dinwiddie, Brunswick and Chesterfield Coun ties in Virginia which lie more contiguous to those Cities, and which have three times as many slaves in them. What does it mean t We North Caro linians have done, and are willing to do, all we can for Virginia ; but she is better able to help herself in that matter than we are. Perhaps General Hill, finding .that our Eastern people will not remove their negroes from the enemy, has determined to do it for them. But how can the people of Craven, Carteret and other Counties send any Elaves with out the consent of the Yankees 1 If Gen. Hill will send a sufficient force, he can drive out the Yan kees and get 10,000 negroes at Beaufort, Newbern and Washington and our people will thank him for it The Conscripts. ' A correspondent calls our attention to the fact, that the conscription law has been violated at Camp Holmes, near this city, much to tbe dissatisfaction of the conscripts themselves, as well as their nu merous friends. The law provides, that in assigning tho conscript soldiers to the several companies and regiments, that regard shall be had te the particular section in which they were raised, the object being, as was generally thought, that conscripts from the several Bounties should be placed in companies raised in each particular county. We know nothing-of the course of procedure at Camp Holmes,. nor do we know the extent to which the officers there have concerned themselves to accommodate the feelings and wishes of the conscripts. If half that we have heard be true, we suppose there has been but little accommodation any way, nor do we know that the officers were able to do better than they have done. Our correspondent says, that some ot the conscripts from Chatham and Wake have been placed in the 1st and 5th N. C. Regiments, where they were en tire strangers to both officers and men. We know nothing of the facts, but our correspondent will per ceive, at a glance, that it was out of the power of Major Mallett, or any one else, to place every man exactly where ho wished to go. In the first place, we apprehend that the number which have come into Camp Holmes, has been much smaller than any one expected. Secondly, the de ficiencies in all the regiments was much greater than was at first supposed. Thirdly, some of the regi ments were much more reduced than others, hence to bring up those regiments, especially the 6th, 1st, and others, which were so greatly reduced, to. a number equal to what the, new regiments had, would take all the men in camp. Maj. Mallett was obliged to commence with some regiment and go on through as he had the men to fill them. We have no idea that he, or any one, purposely design ed to afflict the Chatham and Wake men, by placing them in .the 1st and 5th regiments. Tbe task in disposing of the conscripts properly, is a difficult and unpleasant one, and that complaints should ex ist even under the best possible, management, was to have been expected. The defects of the law it self are so numerous and objectionable, that we could not hope for entire satisfaction in its execution. "Oh, woman! in onr boars oi ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and auenish wring tbe brow, A ministering angel thou." We publish with pleasure the following deserved tribute, by one of our correspondents, to the ladies of Warrenton and vicinity. And we learn that they are hot alone in numerous acts of kindness to our sick and wounded soldiers, but that the ladies else where, along our railroads, are constantly minister ing to the wants of these gallant defenders of the country. Those referred to, however, by our cor respondent, deserve special mention, on account of the patriotic zeal which they have manifested in this work of benevolence and kindness : Raleigh, Aug. 20, 1862. Mr. Editor: I have travelled on the Gaston Railway frequently this summer, and I am obliged to write you, informing yod, and .through yon the public, of the oft-repeated acts of kindness and hos pitality offered to our wounded and invalided soldiers on the cars, by tbe highly accomplished and alto gether lovely ladies of Warrenton and vicinage. Almost every day, these ladies, married and single, have prepare? at great trouble and expense, nice collations of the different delicacies of the season, and come down to tbe Warrenton depot, in propria persona pulcherrima, and waited on the wounded and sick. It is not the good things alone, but the good and charming grace with which they are ad ministered, that makes these kind acts so beautifuL And I could not rest satisfied with myself until I had written this short communication noticing these repeated charities on the part of those beautiful la dies of Warrenton. I understand these ladies com pose a committee on the part of the V Ladies' Asso ciation of Warrenton," for the relief of the wounded and sick soldiers. - Yours, Ac., SARSFIELD. For the Standard. CONTRIBUTIONS. I have received from ladies in and near Raleigh, $230, and from ladies in Chapel HUl,4hrough: the hands of Miss Susan C. Battle, $129, through Mr. G. W. Mordecat, from Rev. Cyrus Waters, on be half of the citizens of Windsor, $50, and from the ladies of Scotland Neck $250, through the hands of Miss HilL It is understood that this money was collected to build a Gunboat, or found a Widow's and Orphan's Asylum ; but as these objects were found to be impracticable, it has been appropriated to the purpose of providing for the comfort and wel fare of our sick and wounded soldiers. Certainly it could not be given in a better cause. CHAS. JL JOHNSON. ,' . (i3E!tERAX ITEWk . . The Tankes, st Hlftoo fieai, anaifest some alarm at an anticipates) attack from a new mm, tbe fingal, which has been taeentlr eonmleted at flaraKmb. Qa. Thev cell fere" Monitor" to help, . " ' . Bn.U, with a strong force, to fcrtifjfnjrat Stevenson, and at other points between Chattanooga sad Nashville, and is preparing for a vigorous defence.. Let him be esptared or drivea ont of Tennessee, at ail events, before tbe riven ' re ap again. Intimations are given that Qtn. Bragg is -looking after him, ,Thc temper of onr troops w (be Southwest, is to be fully avenged upon Buell for causing the hanging of Sve citheas of North Alabama, in retaliation for the killing of Gea. '' HeCook by an armed force in combat The Abolitionists North are said almost aniversallyto shirk the war. Thousands are escaping to Canada to avoid . tht Lincoln draft. What consummate blockheads tbe 5ortb ern Democrats sad coeservatives are to fight their war for them! f Gea. D. H. Hill has ordered tbe. companies of Bangers - Commanded by Capts. Johnson, Cherry, Sharp, Mitchell, ' Bryce, Lane, Lawrence, Mclntyre, Walker, and Carroway, to rendesvoos at Garysburg on the 80th inst to organise, and all other companies of Bangers in th State, to ren dexvous at Goldsboro' at the same time for the same pur . pose. In Memphis the Yankees are carrying on at a high hand. About 875 houses have been taken possession of by them, 'under tbe confiscation act, and 78 of them rented oat. " Small lots of cotton are being collected at various points to be sent on North. The Federal gun boat Sumpttr made sn attempt to land at Bayoa Sara on the 16th, and ran aground. Tbe Con federates demanded a surrender, but having no artillery to -enforce it, a Federal transport came along and took off her crew and abandoned the Sumpter. Many small arms and stores were taken from her, and she was burned; but the . flames caught tbe depot of the West Felicina Bail Bead and destroyed it, with 150 hogsheads' of sugar which had been captured by the Federals. , Tbs Bight Man. A Mr.' Hunt, of Guilford, a Quaker, ; the Milton Chronicle says, sells his meal at (0 cents per .bushel, while others ask $1.50. A farmer in Lancaster , Dist., S. C, sells bis flour at $9 per barrel, others ask 10 to 20. Another planter supplies the poor soldier's (ami- v lies with bacon st 20 cents per pound, others ask 40 cents. Another is selling a fine quality of seta wheat at i, others asktd$6. i Large numbers of Mary landers are floeking into Virginia. Let them come. Many of them, no donbt, leave te escape Lincolu's.draft, in order to enter tbe Southern army. The Concord Gtrelifallag speaks of suspending for the want of patronage. Tbe Yankees at Memphis having sent out a number of . drays towards Holly Springs, for cotton, onr guerrillas cap tured about 80, tbe mules were stripped of their harness, . and the drays burned. Yiixow Fivcb. Letters from Key West, dated the 4th inst., to the Northern papers, say that yellow fever is ra ging there " with unusual malignity." AU the Govern ment employees have been sent North sad the United States ships have left the harbor. Gold at New York on the lath was quoted at 115, and foreign exchange at 136 A suggestion in the British Parliament from Earl Malms burg, lad Lord Bnssell to say that it would be proper if a' proposition te mediate in American affairs were made, that all Ihe European powers should join in it. He bad just stated that no communication had been made to his gov ernment by any other power relative to a recognition of the Soutkent States. Garibaldi has issued a proclamation calling the young men of Italy to arms to free Borne. Victor Emanuel had issued a proclamation, threatening all who should obey Garibaldi, vyith the utmost rigor of tbe law. Queen Victoria, in.her late speech proroguing Parliament, says that she sees no reason why she should depart from the neutrality; adhered to by her government. The ifcw forier, a German paper in that city, considers that the draft ordered by Lincoln is a guarantee for a thirty years civil war. It says, " by a single stroke of the President's ptn. weare converted into the subjects of a Government, which considers the bodies of its citizens as its own property and claims the absolute right to use then according to its own whim until they are destroyed." Concord Female College, at Statetville, opens its Fall session with " a fair complement of young ladies." . St. Mary's School, near this city, under tbe control of Bev. Dr. Smedes, has a larger number of students than usual at this season. Greensboro' Female College, we learn, has 125 boarding pnpils already, thus early in the session. It is gratifying to see our female schools flourish, if the male schools lan guish. " i ... At a sale of negroes last week in Greensboro', a woman and infant brought $1,125; woman ends four year old child, $1 ,400 ; man and wife, thirty years old, $1 ,715 ; boy, 10 years old (960: woman, 40 years old, $600; a black smith 40 years old and ruptured, $1,619. Tbe State of Geergia received $250,000 on the 11th, from the Confederate Government for army stores recently turn ed over to it by Gov. Brown. It is said that Gen. Beauregard and Lovell were opposed to attempting any defence of Vicksburg, but the people and the Governor determined otherwise, and what a gloriens defence has been made. Equal vigor and determination elsewhere, wojrid have saved New Orleana and Norfolk.' A correspondent of the Petersburg Express, escaped from Suffolk, Va, gives a horrible account of tbe depredations, insults and injury inflicted on tbe people in that section, and very justly charges it to the ill advised evacuation of Norfolk andthe destruction of tbe Merrimac Many wealthy men' in that section have been robbed of all their property. ' Yankee vessels of war are keeping up a strict bloekade of the British port of Nassiu, by which thousands of .Bri tish property are destroyed. ' Lord John Russell, it is said, submits tamely to it and justifies tbe course ef the Yankees. Major T. L. Hargrove has been elected Lieut. Colonel of the 44th N. C Regiment, vice Cromwell resigned. Major S. D. Lowe has been promoted to the Lieut. Col onalcy of the nth N. C. Regiment, vice T. L. Lowe, de ceased. Gen. Lee, in a recent order, requires the suspension of duties habitual in camp on Sabbath, except those of inspec tion, in order to afford rest to the troops, to enable these to attend religious service. A good move. .. A Baptist jninister, named W. W. Lee, in Georgia, writes to the Index, that he has administered the ordinance of baptism by pouring, to satisfy the consoieaee of a jick and dying friend. The Index belabors Mr. Lee for his depart ure from the Baptist order in such esse. - - It is undei stood that the enemy is eraouatirg Westera Virginia. The Raleijh Register sneV Wilmington Journal, consider that the public service has had enough of CoL W.Uever hout Thompson id tbe Engineer Corps. The Standard said so long ago, and yet ha is retained in the service, while his superior, Col. Morris, was superseded. CoL M. has few equals as sn Engineer in the Confederacy.-bat he did not belong to the before-day party, as Mr. Thompson did. . The Confederate Episcopal preachers ia Norfolk, omit . public prayers for President Davis, but they won't pray for Lincoln. Let then! remember both of them in the right way ia private. We observe that some of the proprietors of Factories, and other extortion establishments in the South, now and then make handsome donations to tbe soldiers through Ladies Associations, They are sure, by that means to have it trumpeted, frbey can well afford a weekly dona tion, whan they are making 500 to a $1000 daily. Burglars have been entering smoke houses about Hills boro', and the cellar of tbe Messrs. Straybora, of that place, and quantities of bacon, sugar and whiskey are missing. Butler has issued another order in New Orleans, taxiag those wealthy men and Corporations in the city heavily on the amounts they snheoribed for the defence of New Or liesa slue its capture. . Gen. Cooper, Inspector General of tbe Confederate States, classes Brig. Gen. Fitch, and bis o&eers, with Gea. Pope;. for his outrages in Arkansas. '.).-.:. '- DTE STUFFS AKDJKEDICLKE8. BLUB 8T0NE, (BY THE KEG,) ALUM, (KEG,) TAN ner's Oil, (bbl ,) Indigo, Arrow Boot, Quinine, Bag. Calomel, Opium, Strong's and Hollowsr's Pills, (dot,) French Brandy, Old Port Wine, Black Lead, Castor OiL Nitrate of Silver, Bias Mass, Ac. S. NYB HUTCHISON 00. Cbarktt,N.O, Aug. , lata. . W-tw.
The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Aug. 27, 1862, edition 1
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