rir ,7-. THE IJ nrf LdKitrn mm Smimiiril William w. holdo, DITOB AHD PROFRIBIO. .; . TERMS OP THE STANDARD. The terms of the Standard are as follow: , Semi-Weekly, six momna, a three months,'. Weekly paper, mx months, , three month. m,, ffoTernment through ill finaneial agents, end the i .:... nnriioratioiii and trading men. having eatimal i . jiip Hnu federate Dills u iwo-mirm w " - - .... . ..:.), ,ire compelled to o me same. r"'"s llr bills will be credited for two-thirds of tbeir face -and more, and no bill due the pffloe can hereafter belaid fires, save at suchdicjunt Two and ones and new .. .: ... j: A.. fcuepreierreu. - Advertisements iosertea ai iwo v" t - - - Ksorless, for first mserxion, u u. uentmsertion. The very large crculaUohj af tb. Lndard renders it a valuable medium lor ... Money sent by Express at ourr. RALEIGH: FRIDAY. JP5E 24. 1864. Tod B. Caldwell, Esq.-We e gratified to .u:. .ri u rvidwell. Esa.. will be supported Earn iui iw - , n . T the Senate by the Conservatives o f BurH C.W- ell, and McDowelL Mr. uaiawen - TT r high character, thoroughly inforaied in public bain, and will make a useful memoer oi u. s te. His election may be regarded as. certain. -n.-itGreensboroueh Patriot, in its anxiety L manufacture capital for Got. Vance, makes an nauthorized use of the name ana views oi Stipe, of Forsyth. The Patriot says Maj. Stipe proclaims that he cannot and will not support Mr. Holden." Maj. Stipe is present wnue wo w.. ne this, and he authorizes us to Bay -Action for the Patriate statement . If the Eitor of that paper will attend at KernrsviIleon he 9th of next month, ne wm .i .:AAt aa ivn hv himself tiews on mis suy. - -- Nor is the Patriot correct in us bwu. . - it th,. Pyittntff will eer- public opinion in orsy.. Uly cast a large majority against Gov. Vance, wL .w misstatement in relation to Maj. .Stipe, L a snecimen of the misrepresentations with which the Destructive papers abound as to the views oi many leading public men on ine.uu). ernor's election. 1802-and 1864.. A correspondent of the Conservative, Qne of Gov. ".... l t , rMItnr nt ft'ar.ce's organs, says mat we som i Li.. ,.j AvA with treason as blacK as Wht,"-and his other organ,, the Conftderate, Wilt kMdLILU.fi I U i M.v Charges that we aroa traitor, ana buiu I ktu. o.nMrnmpjit has lone had material enough L;.lst Mr. Holden to crush Jim, but.it prefers to J lleave n to tne peupm This is the same slang that was used against uov. hTance in 1862. J.ne very men wuu ro nvw mv- Wting him called him a Lmcolnite and a traitor then; and it was preaiciea oy meso wwm tiis election would so encourage the Jiincolnites that Kn six weeks their flag would float from the capitol hn Ealeieh. It was also charged that Mr. iiauger, kjov. Graham, and the Editor of the Standard were Nb secret correspondence with Mr. Stanly, Mr. liuv Icolri's military -Governor; and this charge a dis turbed the nerves of Got. Vance, who was then at Drewry's Blufi, that we had to issue a special hand till to contradict it But the federals are not here yet, nor are they likely to come on account of the Governor's election. And now, CoL McRae, how do you knor "the government" has all this "material" against ,usvT Have you turned common informer T it is kpown that you advised the suspension of habtat dorpiu and the'destruction of .civil liberty amopg your own iconntrymen, when there was no necessity: for the suspension of the writ, and for this you will be scorned by every freeman while you live, rnd your memory execrated when y ou are dead ; but it seems in addition to this, that you are one of the chosen custodians of the secrets of M tMjgovernment," and that you know all about the " material" that might be used to "-crush" a free press. If the govern sent reallv has this " material " it is false to itself in not using.it But if it has it not, and this threat is intended to intimidate us and to create a state of Lanxiety among the people to operate on the elec tions, what must be thought of the individual who has made himself the medium of such a threat T We know that those miserable' creatures known as spies and detectives are in all our towns, eaves dropping, and reporting, and marking their victims. They even dogged our sick and wounded soldiers last autumn, in the hospitals in Virginia; and when they expressed themselves in favor of the so-called hpeaae meetings, they were arrested and put. in the guard house. Gov. Vance knows thiB to be so,, for we informed him of it at the time. Detectives after our soldiers in Virginia and detectives. after the freemen of North-Carolina! It is declared by our Bill of Rights " that the people of this State ougkt to have the sole and exclusive right of regulating tilt internal government and police thereof." .These detectives have . no business ia North-Carolina. Their presence is a standing insult to our people. The Governor ought to give the administration at Richmond notice to this effect, and if they are not -removed they ought to be taken up and put in the common jails. 1862 and 1864 The same slanders Against the Conservatives now as -then, and the same indignant repudiation of -tbe-slenderers by the people at the polls. We are-calm because we are confident We defy our enemies. " Let the little gentleman rbi edits the Confederate do his worst We fijai; neith er him nor his masters, whetfaer at Kaleigb orfiieh- mona. The 1)odd Minbbal Spbio This sarin, near this City, is now largely resorted te4v eur citizens. Mr. Cole, the manager, .is polite and attentive ..as usual These, waters undoubtedly cinal virtues, and now that Htf elTs Springs are occupied by the government as a hospital, they will oe still mOTe highly appreciated by perBop who desire benefit from such waters. " (Thedistanee ifrom the City affords a pleasant morning and even mg walk. . ' " William X. Lane. Esa.. Coniedewte tax CiftW."'' Prfor this tate, gives notiae through the Destrue- i newspapers that in cooseguence of the Don cipt of the proper ,,Blanks;,, upon jrhieh.to as- and collect the taxes due the fist of Jus.. It fuld be WcU to fund the $5 notes in 4 per cent F'uneates, which certificates will be Tecfii table tn yent of taxes during the present tar. ; ' "n that the wheat inmerallvaa turnlno ant r8ry welL The crop is not as full as liereaofbre PJ thesame quantity of ground, wing to the hard lr"er, but the nualitv at K ta ..M t k. peellent The.com .!.. k.i JLz'a ptroB "M1 ST 4 6 I : "Vol. XXX. No 16. ; RALEIGH, N: 0V WEDNES DAT JUm Number 1519, - icdvi uev. ruee'i a tie real tBe-Co: ative Party.' ThaConserTative party f North-Carolina was formed and organized in" 61. It was the result of an overrulhg neceasityfhe secessionists, in conjunction with the abolitionists, had destroyed the old government, attempted to take possession of the hew gdvernment, to monopolize its offices and honors, and at the same time to set a "hideous mark " on the foreheads of alt those who had hon estly striven to ayert disunion. The Union men "were not onjy denied an equal voice with, the se cessionists in the public- councils, but tbey were branded as Lincotnites and traitors. . This led to 'the formation of the Conservative party ; and Sub sequent events have proved, what the Conservatives feared from the first, that- those publie aW who without good cause destroyed the old government, wat-a hiuutfa nonnsellnrs in the affairs of the new. and this compacted the Conservative organization Old Whics and bid Democrats had differed in for-1 mer times as to the .measures which were deemed best to -carry on the government; but when the gorersment itself was threatened, and when bad men were .concerting plans to destroy it and deluge the country in blood, the thoughtful, the wise, and the better .portion of these two old parties, forget ting past differences, united in the effort to save the government; and failing in that, they joined hands to perpetuate the new government in its purity, and preserve the blessings of civil liberty. These two old parties ceased to exist with the former gov ernment When the tree fell the vines that clung to it fell with it It required the genius of Clay to build up the Whig, and tbe'will of Jackson, to con solidate the Democratic party. The former dwin dled and passed away not long after the sustaining hand of its creator aras withdrawn by death; and the latter expired in a mighty effort to save the Union. Poth of these parties were useful in tbeir day in detecting and reforming abuses, and in con fining public men to a strict construction of the Constitution ; and both of them, in. accordance with the inevitable tendency of all human organizations, became more or less corrupt before they ceased to exist But the climax, of corruption and wicked ness was reached by that portion of the Democratic party under the lead of Yancey, Avery, and others of tha.fl'amp, when tbey put their shoulders against the pillars of the old government and aided the ab olitionists in breaking them down. Both of these parties are as dead as Julius Caesar, but one great principle which both of them main tained survives, to wit, the right of the people to gvtem themultet. The Conservative party is com jinsed of the best men of these two old parties, and is based on this principle, which was equally daar I . JOI e to Jackson and Clay, - LXTrc From 1861 to the present moment the Conserva -live party of North-Carolina has been the great bar rier which has protected civil liberty against mill tary power. Strike down that party, and the datk cloud of despotism would settle down permanently on this country. The Conservatives of North Car olinia have not only presented this barrier to mili tary aggression, but they have done more than their share hi repelling the enemy, in sustaining ou: troops in the field, in maintaining the public credit, and in providing for the families of those who are fighting our battles. They are true to liberty and true to their -country, and they will remain so, whatever may happen in the future. . The Conservative party, in 2862, toolr Gov. Vanea out of the army and made him .Governor. Xbey not only honored him in this way, but they saved his life, exposed as it was to the hazards of battle and camp diseasedOrdinary gratitude of itself, to say nothing of his professions of Conservatism, should have bound Gov. Vance as -with bodies of steel to the Conservative party. But what has been his course He has not only betrayed his par ty as far as he could into the arms of the Davis ad ministration, but he is now deliberately engaged in an attempt to disorganize and "destroy it by(calling on the old Whigs who are Conservatives to-desert the party and vote for him. The Conservative par ty was originally composed of about forty thousand old Whigs and thirty thousand old Democrats And the Destructive party of about thirty thousand old Democrats and ten thousand old Whigs. If the old Whigs should withdraw from the party, or if the .old Democrats should withdraw -from it, itoald pt once fall into a minority, and the Destructives would obtain the ascendency. Therefore, that loan who would re-establish old party lines that man who would withdraw either the old Whigs or .the old Democrats from the Conservative party, it enemy to that party and onrenemff to.civildiberfa Such a man thinks more of himself than he does.ef his party or of his country. Gov. Vance is not only engaged in .thisjteoenal work of State disorganization, buWiere, in Wake County, whese he received hisifirst County .nomina tion, lor Uovernor in 1862, he is making every .ef fort, through his newspapers and through his stall- federate dependents, to defeat the regular Conser vative ticket for the Legislature, and elect a ticket ' which must depend for nearly all the votes it wJU iceive on the Destructives of the County. So far as we are concerned, we have known jqo dulereace since the Conservative party -was -fosKed, between the old Whigs and the old Democrats who -compose it We ran with and supported Mr. -Bad ger and Mr. Battle for the Convention in this Coun ty in,ia61,-ee voted for Mr. Graham for President of the Convention against Mr. Edwards, with whom we had formerly acted for years aaa Deiooorat.; voted for Col. L. U. Edwards .as Secretary of the Convention; we voted for Mr. W. N. H. Smith, and Mr. JS. u. Keade, and Mr. Purvear, and Mr. David on for the Confederate Congress ; we voted dor Mr. B..F. Moore, Mr. Manning, Mr. -S: .Fhjllips, and Wr. P. H. Winston, Jr., for the Board of Claims and indeed, on every occasion since the formation rf the Conservative .party, we have voted for old line Whigs whore Conservatives' with s much, cheerfulness as for old line .Democrats. -We have done this -WtAonor and.ptineiple, and we ex pect to continue to do it And that Conservative who adopts a contrary coarsewho consults ibis prejudices and his passions instead of his judgment, jsnot only untrue, whether be intends to be so -or nof, to his principles, but he is striking a fatal bW at his own party organization and playing .into the bands of the Destructive leaders. These leaders-ase so odious to the ( people that tbey , can cherish no thops of success in running their own.men fbrofficq, and so they avail themselves of the fishineea," and weaknesses, and treachery or professed Uonserva tives to get into powtr. Beware of these bad era and of the professed Conservatives they are aoppor ting. r ." a man is Known oy tne company ne Keeps. A Conservative who feels that be owes hu eleotion to the Destructives will tltate to ami tent tftfJte tlrvetite. It is natural that he should do this. He is obliced to do if He has lost his old friends. and if he counts on having any friends at aH he must count on tne Des tractive. . xnis is eaapwau- cally the case with Gov. Vance. - He has mads his bed with tho Destructives, and -he must take the consequences. He is doing good Destructive work lor which bis new frienis will appreciate ana wans, . him, when he strives as he is now doing to disor ganize and destroy tbe Conservati ve party. - finUUbtt rreate. Wearensedto the asaaidto cf subsidized or, bought up prosses. In I860, when. We denounced uov. Ellis and' the disunionists for their efforts to dis solve the Union; certain monied men bought types, and a press, and an Editor, and established the State Journal to misrepresent arid, abuse us. And in 1864, when we expose the treachery of Got. Vance to the Conservative party, and warn the people that he has abandoned civil liberty, and popular .rights, and constitutional government, and is about to de liver them bound hand and foot to the tender mer cies of a central despotism, types, and presses, and Editors are again purchased to misrepresent and abuse uv. In the Standard of December 1st, 1860, we said: .- "It seems that Mr. John Spelman,the State printer, has purchased the Prett establishment and turned it into the State Journal Wher$ did the money come from that paid, or that is to pay for this concern f Wan it not raised by a set of disap pointed, fire-eating politicians T And is it not their object in thus purchasing the freedom of the press, to destroy us because we are true to the people? is not the .Governoa pi the State a party to this combination ? A pretty press truly, to speak for 'the people I The ' organ, or rather the slave of a clique 1 the mouth piece of scheming and mousing politicians the sewer into which all. bad passions, and all hatreds against us are to be emptied, and that too, and that only, because we are true to the peo ple and their rights." ' In the same number of the Standard we said : "It is not every man that fumes and threatens -Who will fight when the time comes. No high office gliuers before us to hire us on to disunion and civil war. We make no calculations looking to epaulettes, and high 'salaries, and commissions to consult with other States. We are seeking to serve and save the country, and we are not thinking, as others are, of our own promotion. The worst men in this country are those like the Salisbury Banner. and Stale Journal, and Wilmington Journal, and . other ere eaters, who are attempting to hurry Worm Carolina into disunion and civil war. In the name of every thine sacred and dear to man, we call on the people to come to the rescue to rebuke these agitators, and to preserve their own liberties from tne perils of anarchy and military rule." We were true to the people then, and we are true to tbem now, and because of this we are assailed ia this campaign as we were in 1860, by presses and Editors who have been purchased or hired by our enemies. - Tbe Governor of tbe State was a party to this mode of assailing us in 1860, as the Gov ernor of the State is a party to it now. We tri umphed then, and we shall triumph now. .The Confederate was bought and established by the "patriots and property-holders" who belong to one wing of the Destructive party, and the Conterta ' tUe was bought and established, under the immediate pationage and direction of Gov. Vance, by " patriots and property holders" who belong to the other wing. The Confederate has an odor of naval stores, and -of government money lavishly expended to keep it going j and the Coneenatwe has an odor of gains and profits corruptly obtained by illicit trade through the Advance, and speculation by means of our Railroads. . Every thought in these two jour nals is a bought thought, ground out to order. Vhey n obliged to puff Gov. Vance and abuse us. Cur journal is free. It is our property, honestly obtained and paid for.- No master pops' the lash over us. We are free to defend popular rights, to expose wrong, to commend what is deserving, and to print the truth. Let the people remember that it is not to the interest of the Confederate and Contervatite to print the truth. It is all the same to them what they print, since they only obey or ders. Where there is no freedom no discretion, there can be no motive to just action. Money is power,- and that is the power which controls those journals. . ' ; A correspondent writing from Rockingham coun ' ty says : " It is Currently reported in this county, that Mr.' Holden has all the wounded soldiers nasa- jng through Raleigh carried to his house, ana fed on the fat of tbe land." And we are asked" Is this true,- or a mere electioneering storr f" . We reply, that our intercourse with Mr. Holden does not enable us to ascertain what transpires about his bouse, and we -never enquire. As he has had the misfortune, however, lately to have the small pox in his household, and his premises have been under interdict, we presume and hope ne nas not risaea roe aisseminauon of the osota gion througn tfie army. We have heard that Mr. Holden gar fifteen do! law to a soldier lately, to buy a meal We think this highly probable, for it was published the next morning in nis organ, wun an accompanying tri bute. There are many men who do such charity uaujr, awi never poonsa ib voneaeraie. We regret to have to notice such articles as the above, but we are constrained to do so lesfsome honest and well-meanine sersons should he misled. Thffday has been when Duncan K. McRae would have Suffered the forefinger of his right hand slit to the bone, before he would have- penned such an arti cle, But ambition and the love of money bav so blunted the chivalrous edge of his character, that he appears to hesitate at nothing to accomplish bis ends. Our habits and manners have undergone no change since, we have been a candidate.. - We make no pretensions of any kind. Weclaim'nftthing on the ground that .we'are a friend to the soldiers. Current reports" may pass for what they are worth. JVe have said nothing andtfonft nothing, po far as the soldiers are concerned, with the view of obtaining their votes. All we ask is, that the soldiers be allowed to vote freely for the men of their choice, and, that no attempt may be made 1y tbe administration at Richmond, or by.Gov. Vance, or by Confederate or State officers, to make them vote for certain' persons against their will. fTbe soldiers are fighting for. the right to govern taeaasefves as' citizens ; and this right to govern, so -dear to them aud to us all, depends upon the freest -exercise by them of the right of suffrage . If OoL McRae had the power he wonld buck and hang up by the thumbs every soldier who refused to rote 'for Gov- Vance. And yet, two years ago this same CoL HcSiderivered a violent harangue to his men! sjgafant 3or. Vance, and the result wai-tbt' ! latter received but throe votes in that regiment ! iheba,redhotTancemaa Whohaschangedf Xhe Confederate charges that we gave -some,: money to a soldier, and then caused the fact to be published in the Progreu. . The charge Is utterly unfounded so far si tbe publication is concerned. When we gave the money we supposed the fact would never be known. We Spoke of it to no one, ' out it seems that fie toldier himtelf wrote a com munication from one of the Hospitals for the Pro greet, u which he mentioned the fact' The Con- federate refers to the publication in the Progreu, thus proving that the Editor had seen it ; and that publieatioB is ia itself conclusive proof that we bid nothing to do with it CoL McRae knew this when be penned the above, but it is no -part of his pur pose or business to treat us justly or fairly. .-. The Latest News. We give below an account of the battles around Petersburg. The news, received from Lynchburg shows that Hunter has been repulsed and is now hastily retreating, with the loss of 800.. Our loss is five "killed and 40 wounded. In their advance the Yankees burnt the railroad bridges on Virginia and Tennessee railroad across Big and Little Otter rivers and Elk Creek.- Sheridan's cavalry has returned and is making its way to join Grant on the South side. It has probably done so. Among the casual ties in Gen. Hampton's cavalry which so gallantly. repulsed the raiders, are Gen. Roper, severe wound in tbe thign, and Vol carter, of tne oa. Virginia, who was killed. Attack on Petersburg. Saturday, June 18. This was a day of compara tive quiet only artillery duelling1 and a few demon strations along different portions of our lines, which were repulsed. An estimate made at ueauregaras headduarters nuts the loss of killed and wounded since the commencement of the attack up to Satur day night, at 1,000. The sheuiojr or the city continues, urant maae a speech to his troops in which he told them that if be did not capture Kicnmond no man could uo it, ; and it is said he swore that he would take Peters burg if he lost every man in his army. Our mili tary authorities were much encouraged at the pros pects? however, of a successful defence. SoNDAT, June 19. We have no advices of to day's operations, but we suppose all things passed in quiet as usual upon this day since the opening Of this campaign. Meade sent in a flag of truce asking permission to bury bis dead, which Gen. Beaure gard for urgent reasons peremptorily, but courte ously, declined. . ' Mondat, June 20. The public expected an en gagement to commence between the two great ar mies after the Test and preparations of- Saturday and Sunday, but there was only some skirmishing, sharpshooting, and artillery practicing. The ene my approach our lines" more cautiously since their late repulse. The shelling of the' City continues. But little damage has been inflicted thus tar, only some pave ments torn up in Sycamore street The enemy have thrown an aggregate of 150 or more shells into the City limits. " An ordinarily intelligent German captured 'on Saturday, made the following statements of Grant's forces, which is believed to be correct- lie says Grant's army now on the southside of James River, is composed of the Second, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, Eighteenth end Twentieth Corps. The Second, commanded by Hancock ; the Fifth by Warren, ana the Ninth by Bumside, are all operating immediate ly around Petersburg. Tbe Eighteenth, command ed by Baliy Smith, is at and near Bermuda Hun dreds. The Tenth and Twentieth have no regular commanders, and are "held near City Point as a re serve. All these army corps have been fearfully re duced since the commencement of the present cam paign, and many of the regiments composing them do not now muster 200 men. About 7 o'clock in the evening the enemy doubled his pickets on- our extreme left a generally sure in dication of an attack on his part But up to 1 o'clock this morning no engagement has occurred, but there was much sharpshooting going on. . We have received no later intelligence from Pe tersburg. Citizens of Wake county reported heavy firing in the direction of Petersburg Tuesday. - It was distinctly auaioie to an aiienuve listener. ' From Georgia. ' The enemy have been for the last few weeks at tempting to turn the left of our army. Friday the 17tb, the third day of battle of Ken nesaw, was ushered in by heavy skirmishing on our left Artillery and musketry firing occurred along the greater portion of the front About two o'clock in the afternoon the enemy attempted tor force our left, near Lost mountain. They made several furi ous assaults in strong lines sgainst our forces. We steadily fell back to our strong defences on the left The enemy, all this time, were receiving a steady and harrassing fire from' eur artillery and infantry, and were .punished severely. Finally, Cleburne rallied his lines for an onset, and .his command rushed on the roe, with their usual impetuosity, and drove tbem rapidly beyond the ground from which we commenced the retreat ' - The apparent object of the enemy, was to place a strong column on our left to turn that portion, of our position and advance by a rapid movement on the Sand Town road on our rear. " On our centre the enemy made a furious attempt to silence our lines, when a lively and spirited can-, nonade took place between the batteries and strong picket lines. . We could not leara of any attempt on the' part of the enemy to force our battle line, only heavy and rapid artillery practice oecurrmg. tuI MntrM nf Wh u-mim remain ahoiit the same. only the enemy's earth works have been strength- ened. It does not seem to be tbe intention of Sher man to attempt to force that position ' until he has some probability or certainty of success in bis as saults on the flanks. His wagon trains have nearly disappeared from Big Shanty, but we presume tbey are employed In transporting -supplies to his lines. It is evident from his maneuvres and style of attack that he in tends worrying our positions until be secures re inforcements, and makes his : parallels sufficiently strong on his centre to make them' impregnable to assault ' '.- ' .' . ; The heavvraina during Friday night have doubt- . less checked operations oonsideiably. Up to Satiir- -day noon we have no news of any further develop ments of the enemy's plans or any further collisions between the opposing armies. - . Mabutta, June 23. The enemy attempted to turn our left this morning, but were foiled. Very -: vigorous shelling has been' going en all day in Har dee's front. .Two lines of battle drove in Hardee's piakets, but our batteries opened a terrific fire, driving them back with much slaughter. ". ; Tftm. the Trans-Misaisalppi. . 2? MisroiAit, June 2i The Clarion has received . trustworthy information from tbe Trans Miaswaippi that Gen)ick Taylor, has been relieved from duty at his ewn, request by Gen. Kirby Smith. Reason : unknown. There are. 11,000 Yankees still at Mor-. genasa, on the Mississippi river- ' ,: - ; - ? Latest from the North. ,' ' Mobile, June 88. A special dispatch to the Bet--iter and Jtdrertiur from Senatobia says thatMem pbis dates to the 18th says that Vallandigham sud-v denly appeared at the Democratic Convention. Hamilton of Ohio was elected a delegate to the Chi-: oago Convention. Vallandigham urged discretion.' Lincoln might deprive'him of life but not arain of '- liberty.; He left for Dayton. Fears of an outbreak : tnere. - JSpeeebes m the Convention pledged tbe' Democracy of the State to defend Vallandigham and . individual rights under the Constitution. We have received no Richmond or Petersbnrr papers of Wednesday. The telegraph wires have not been in operation for a day or two between ' Weldoo and Petersburg probably cut by the ene- : my. we nave a report that a portion of the enemy were to the west of the Petersburg Railroad on thin aide, and that our forces were pursuing them. A friend writes us 'Jlat certain Destructives are complaining that we have not printed the laws of the State in time to be sent out to the people. There is no just foundation this complaint All the laws passed previously to the session before tbe last have been sent to the . Counties by the regular carriers ; anda copy of the laws passed at the ses sion before the last was laid upon the desk of each member at the recent session-of the Legislature, and a copy sent by mail to each of the County Court Clerks. It was judged best by tbe Secre tary of State, with the advice of the Governor, to retain the laws passed at the session before the last, and send them out to the magistrates with the laws passed at tbe last session. The sending out of the laws involves great expense at this time, and it is therefore advisable that the carriers make as few trips possible. All tbe laws passed at the sessions held before the last session are new in all the Coun ties, in the hands of members of tbe Assembly and the Clerks. We are performing our duties as State printer to the best of our ability. It is bard to be censured for neglect of duty under such circumstances, espe cially .as we. are now loeing seventy five cents on every page we print for the State. . " - For the Standard. Is fiov. Vance a Conservative T This is an important question and demands a thorough and impartial investigation, for the Gov ernor was elected by the Conservative parly and be still claims their support while his acts and speeches upon the great questions of national and State policy which so agitate and distract the pub lic mind, have placed him in an opposite and most absurd position to that party. It is well knoTn to tbe most casual observer of the history of the last three years, that North Carolina, by a very large majority, refused to leave the old government upon tbe issue made by the secessionists, the simple election of a sectional President And she persist ently held on to her position in the old Union, un til another and quite a different issue was presented by the commencement of actual hostilities. ' .The cotton States bad seceded, and Mr. Lincoln ignoring State sovereignty and overstepping all the constitutional limits of his office, called out a large force with which to coerce them back into his gov ernment, and North-Carojina still being a member of the old Union, was of course called upon for her proportionable share. ' This was the issue upon which North-Carolina seceded. She did net be lieve the simple triumph of a sectional party fur nished sufficient cause for breaking up the gov-, ernment, nor was she willing to engage in a bloody and ruinous war upon a mere abstraction, but when her honor and dignity as a sovereign and indepen dent State was insulted she no longer hesitated. Her citizens true to their illustrious ancestry, have always held these in. higher esteem. than life itself. North-Carolina then seceded upon a point of honor and State sovereignty, and having taken this sten she at once united her fate-to the newly, formed Confederacy. She pledged her all of everything except her sovereignty and the personal liberty of her citizAis to its support, and nobly has she re deemed the pledge. This, Mr. Editor, was her position three years ago when she seceded; this was her position when she elevated her Chief Magistrate to the highest' of fice in her gift, and this is ber position' now. But where does Gov. Vance-stand? Most Certainly not with the Conservatives, but with Abraham Lipcoln on the secession question and With Jefferson Davis on the questions of consolidation and the suppres sion of civil liberty. In bis Wilkesboro' speech from which he can never extricate himself, he argued at great length that the Convention movement in tbe State meant a withdrawal of the State from the Confederacy, in which event it would be both tbe interest and duty of the President to. send an armed force into our midst to force our citizens into terms, notwithstan ding there is a clause in the Constitution specially .providing for the withdrawal of a State at wilL ' Thus Gov.. Vance advocates tne very doctrine air. ! Lincoln has put into active operation and which was i the sole cause ot our secession I I North Carolina did not consider the issue upon which the States south of us seceded a. sufficient r cause for separation, nor would she .ever have sece " ded had not Lincoln committed the overt act an act of infidelity against ber sovereignty as a free ' and indepenuent State. Ana now, strange to say, Gov.. Vance advocates the very same action on the part of Mr. Davis, in case we should attempt to seek - through separate State nationality, what to all bur- man appearances we are likely to lose under the existing compact, the great boon of State rights and personal liberty, purchased for us by our Revolu tionary ancestors through so many years of blood and suffering. In addition to the coercion doctrine the Gover nor quietly submits to all the encroachments of tbe general government upon tne time nonorea saie- guard of sonstitutional liberty, as if tbey were houses of sand to be built up and torn down at oleasure. . ' Tbe President asu tors jaw conscnoing tne .. .. . . . . ... 'Governors of sovereign States and all their aubor- dinate officers, and the placing of the enti .ire male oonulation of the country under his control, to come and go at bis sovereign beck, together with a full surrender of the agricultural and mechanical interests of the country to his own supervision and dictation, and Gov. Vance tamely submits, knowing at the same time that thousands of bushels of wheat must rot in the field as a consequence, and that in the present year extreme suffering if not starvation must ensue as the legitimate result , He solicits. law abridging contracts and depreciating his own, currency, by forced loans and the like, and Gov Vance says all right He demands and ohtaien a suspension of the writ, of habtat eorpu. and eon- . eentration of all power, legislative and 'judicial and executive, in the bands of bis own Royal Highness, r and Gov. Vance says amen, and reminds his hearers '- that " the King's name is a tower of strength.? Whether Hie Excellency will approve the hut gross i attempt of the President to obtain hjs aiia&al salary of $36,000 in gold, I do not k low, bus horn ertaia legislative aotidh it looks as if he at wast bad a hankering after a little of Oe yellow dust also. H was well the House rebuked, the Senate of tne Con federate Saves in this matter, for they had already endorsed this proposition of. the President and only the firmness of the former, vedy pvevented its pas-4 sage. The senate acts mi ea tne register ot tne edicts of the Executive, -- Now, Mr. Editor, iitbe taee-of all the foregoing improprieties, - and thavapoMven imperfections, of our supple and pliant vfoveimoi, some, persons are foolish enough to o3ajis Ge& Tance as a uaimon pure" Conservative. If this he so, if Gov. Vance is a Conservative ae is Jeft. Davis, JL P. Benjamin. W. W. Avery, Xfex Bragg end ethers, who helped to destroy the old government and are new fast feasteaiog thea&loueas destruction. - ' . . WILLIE. The annual Council of the Ipiacopal Chureh of North-Oarolfna wbleb' aJmrned froai Williams borough to Ralrign,vrflet here en Wedaavway. last . Bishop Atkinson with about thirty of the clergy agd number of lay delegates sro'ta attendance.. ; ' . t in" 'l-'f'.' - Preaidetft Uaeata ws) the jfrawi -In a speech recently delivered m'PtttJadelphJa on the 16th. he said : ' - , .. ." The terrible war which (s bow raging has dis arranged business totally in many localities, aad ' partially so in alt It has destroyed happy homes, produced a national debt, with taxation unprece dented in this country. it has earaied mourning into many , homes, and may een be said to have hung the heavens in black. : Ptertinent qies lions are often asked me, such as when' the war ' would end. I surely feel as great ah interest on that point as any one, but I would" not make a pre diction that it would end in a day, r a week, or . even a year, for fear of ereaf ing disappointment We accepted not - began this war for a worthy object ; and I trust in God it will not end until that end-ia accomplished. - Enthusiastic cheer. I The war has now lasted three years, and as we accepted it to establish national authority , over the whole national domain, we are to go through with it if it takes three years more. I would, bower, safely make the prediction that Grant, with Hancock and Meade, ' is to night where he will never be dislodged until Richmond is taken. If I shall discover that Grant's uoble officers and men need assistance to nut this thing through, will yea give it to me T I Yes. ell answered Well, then, I intend to call on you, and 1 want you to stand by me and tbe amy. . Extract from a letter to the Editor of the Stand. qrd, dated . ' Cabtiiaox, Moore Co., June 19, 1864. -" The true Conservatives of Moore are now fully aroused, and will give you their full vote in Au gust I was not a little pained a few days ago, to meet with one of the best .citizens of this county a poor mas who has WI two sons killed. in tbe service, and who was on his return from Raleigh, whither hwhad gone to to obtain trans portation to visit his third and last son, who sick in a hospital in Virginia; and he informed me that he remained at the depot in Raleigh two days-asa ing. for transportation and it was refused biro. while at the same time extra trains were beimr-nrH on ' tbe North Carolina Road for the purpose of transporting Gov. Vance's secession followers to hear bim speak. The hard working people of- the State, who are giving their treasure and blood to tne country, see and feel such conduct on the part of the Governor." ' - We had the pleasure yesterday forenoon of see. f ing vol McKethan or the 51st Reg t N. 0. T. (Clingman's Brigade) on his way to Fayetteville, he having been severely, but we trust not danger ously wounded in the face in the action near Pe tersburg on the evening of Friday the 17th instant In that action Clingman's brigade behaved with tbe most conspicuous gallantry, as did ab other portions of our troops. We have Genera) Cling man's testimony to the marked services of Col, McKethan and his regiment Lt Col. W. 8. De vane of the 61st fell about the same time with Col. McKethan, while rendering most gallant and valu able service. His wound is through the shoulder, a severe woundv but not, it is Relieved, dangerous. We could ill afford to lose such a man as CoL Do vane. Captain Frank Roberts,, of Fayetteville, a noble soldier, fell Instantly killed. Lieutenant McKethan of the same regiment, shot through tbe thigh, also accompanied his brother-,, ' the Colonel, to their home in Fayetteville. We- -trust that both will soon be restored to health and usefulness; The great loss sustained for a time by our North Carolina Troops was due to the giving way of some brigades or parts of- brigades on their right not North Carolinaas. Where tbey hailed from we- prefer not to state. Our readers may draw their inference by never finding their names in the Vir ginia paper Wilmington Journal. ' For the Standard. "BRAZEN-FACED IMPUDENCE." The Editor of the Greensboro' Patriot calling on the people to vote for Gov. Vance and follow the advice of Gov. Brown and -Alex. H. Stephens,; when he persistently refuses to publish the speech es of these great men. - It is a well known fact, that the people of North Carolina would never have known the views and opinions of. these great . statesmen but for Mr. Hoi den and his friends, who entertain the same opio- . ions with Messrs. Stephens and Brown, and conse quently took a deep interest in disseminating their- ' views, and actually published tens of thousands of ' documents containing the speech and message audi scattered them broad cast over the land ' The great principles of conUUutional and eivil', liberty contained in these documents, took 'deep, root in the hearts of the people, and -scattered .to the four winds of Heaven the chajf contained in-. Gov. Vance's, Wilkesboro' speech, which. tbe Fay etteville Obterter, the Greensborougb Patriot, and other organs of Vance had -been trying to cram-, down the tbroate of the people. . Prior to the ap pearance of Gov. Brown's message and Alex. Ml. Stephens' speech, Gov. Vance's Wilkesboro' speech, was their.'political text book, and was, with tbem,. just tbe greatest speech ever made by mortal man, Now, when they find that the fires of freedom which, they had been trying to smother out by Gov. V.'V Wilkesborough speech, were still alive and burning in the hearts of the people, these Destructive organ and their apologists became alarmed, and try to, humbug and lie the people into the belief that they endorse the great principles of freedom enunciated) by Alex. H." Stephens and Gov. Brown, whichthey had studiously excluded from tbe columns of their papers I And to cap the climax of buabuggery,. it is said that Gov. Vance, a few days since,, in- his, speech at Lexington; said that his "WUkesboroogb ' speech had never been correctly reported," when, it is well known that he took with bito AVilkbqpo' his own reporter(with the evident purpose of fixing; : his speech Hp as bis great campaign document aaa that Gov. Vance revised it- himself before it was published Thus We see Go. Vancewhea he favdb bis Wilkesboro' speeoh has- become odious with the people, repudiating that great speesh himself pr white-washing it ovary, and trying te fall back upon the principles enunciated by the two distin guished statesmen of Georgia aad ia itfenee of which principles- Mr. Holden has. sacrificed bia property and "risked hie t Life. J ..: . -; .. The meeting oi the late extra- seaaioa of the Leg islature furnished Gov. Vance aa Opportunity to, tickle and humbug the peophv II sends' in a mes sage endirsing the principles of eonstitut'onal and civil liberty contained in Gov. Brown's message and! Mr. Stephens' speech, which, if ha had ever before entertaiaadv he htArepmeliattd in hie Wilkesboro speeoh. ' And having signally failed -to smother out tbe sparks ot freedom (Sowing in the hearts ei the people by bis speeeb, his friends Bow swear that he freely; endorses- Brown's message 'and Stepbeaa i - speech, and stands reedy to u put the great seal of i Sette on them." Was there ever a greater cheat and fraud attempted on the people t Another tnex resorted by Uov. Vance and some of bis old Whig, but now Destructive organs, ia trying to stir up the predjudes of oM Wbigs against, Mr. Uoloea because he waa a Democrat . the writer was a Whig, and has been ene aU bia aut env-wees gvawenfuijr wwvissevvm ew wwv w awawwrn Ut. Iloldea is new, and fcae bees for mere tha tnree years past, oeienaing tnese same greet prwcu 1 pies of constitutional liberty at the risk el propertj ana Hie lisei:; vsiwvi anianwwa mp im - verting their principles, end -uov. ranee among. . Ikepretrand conttttxtienal liberty te, beuncHen. down in tbe capita) of (the State, under hbewsqose y and the sovereignty of tne suite to. ee Mveaea eje an armed foreign mob, without making aeVr to. ' arrest them or bring them te pwushMtarOr-".' find him flippant arid mirthful ka his speeeheh esst4 . it! Ob,ahroe where is thy UuibJ , ? hers of tbe old Whig party for bis defence , oTtbe: great cardinal prinetflemt the party, tbk man' air. nnuMn ui-uiv. uuid - iTavaaxvji uansavs awmxsmr" men wno were oorn m tee party ana sioea dv in - prtndples in suasbhw, w,heB it cost nothing, bat when the storm caeu abandoned I tbem,.1 Because a man, H ia now' a Aettniotite m prjiw. eiple, was horo ie. the VPug party, does it there- -fore make hiaxa vYbizf. A well might it;e eeH tuld thkt hecausea wait' waa whelued in a shtttiB. -. " V.t. . n m lAfMA f .1 1 1 X I'll 1C rl