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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 " -
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,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
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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
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: "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