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THE j!nrt-tolmii Itankit wTlliam w7holden IDITOB AND rBOPRIBTOK. Oat Terms. Persons subscribing for the Standard will please observe that our terms are as follows : , , Weekly 6 months $10; Semi-Weekly 6 months $15. We regretted to have to advance our prices, but we could not possibly afford the paper at for mer rates. We are under obligations to those who have promptly renewed in acoordance with, our new terms. ' - Advertising: One square of ten lines or less, first insertion, $3, and $2 for each subsequent insertion. RALEIGH : FRIDAY, OCT. 28, 1864. The Disaster ra thb Vallet. It is stated that Gen. Early has issued an address to his troops, in which he attributes his recent defeat to "the dis graceful propensity to plunder and panic". We have heard from a soldier who was in the recent engagement in the Valley, thatour troops had won a signal victory, and then sucked tbeir arms and com menced to plunder the battle-field, when tb,e fed erals suddenly attacked them, and the result was the loss of many cannon and a total rout But the men are not alone to blame for this. Gen. Ear ly himself is said to be not freo from censure There were no panics, no stacking of arms to plunder the battle field under Stonewall Jackson. Gen. Early had a larger army than Stonewall Jackson ever commanded, and if the latter had been living and in his place we should have had a very h-WmiA. amount from the Valley of Virginia. As it is. we can only deplore these reverses, and " pick the flint and trv it again." Success is the test of merit in military enterprises. Tried by this test fion TSarlv has been found wanting;. Thousands of brave North Carolinians, including the gallant Ram- acur have bitten the dust in these Valley cam paigns, and what makes'this fact the more distres sing is they have probably died in vain. uen. aiar ly ought to be forthwith removed. Arming the Slaves. The Fayetteville Carolinian regards the resold tions of the Governors as proposing to " place ne groes in the army." That paper has committed it self in the most positive terms against the proposi tion. The Fayetteville Observer has not bad time to read the resolutions "deliberately," but it regards the idea of ' conserving slaves and putting them in the army as soldiers" as "inadmissible. The Charlotte Democrat is not " prepared at pre sent to express an opinion for or against it" But that paper thinks if speculation is not arrested, and if those white men who ought to go to the war do not go, and that speedily, " it will be necessary to take negroes or abandon the struggle for indeper dence." The Greensborough Citizen thinks it is not clear that the Governors have recommended that use slaves as soldiers in prosecuting this war." e think it is as clear as language could make it. But " if this is their meaning," says the Citizen, " we are bitterly opposed to tbeir policy. It would prove utterly ruinous." The Conservative, of this City, was positively committed against the proposition before the Gov ernors held their meeting. J The Richmond Sentinel, the organ of the Presi dent take for granted that the resolutions adopt- I ed by the Governors propose to arm the negroes, and it advocates the proposition; The Conservative of the 25th October, after re flection and consultation with Gov. Vance, takes the ground that the idea of putting in slaves to fight our battles "was not entertained by the meet ing." The Conservative will find it impossible to prove that two and two do not make four. Un doubtedly the resolutions do contemplate the em ployment of slaves as soldiers. Tn Soothers Cultivator. This sterling jour nal, published weekly in Augusta, Ga., has been laid opon our table. The present number is filled with useful agricultural articles, varied, entertain ing and instructive. Our farmers would do well to subscribe for 6uch a journal, as it will not only amp ly repay perusal, but the valuable suggestions it contains will aid them materially in their pursuits. For further information, see prospectus in to day's issue. We prefer independence to every thing else. The Standard seems to prefer any thing else to indepen dence. Richmond Sentinel. We reply in the language of Mr. Stephens: " Without liberty, I would not turn upon my heel for independence." We want liberty and indepen dence, and if we cannot obtain both we shall regard the battles of this revolution, as having been fought in vain. The Sentinel prefers one master to anoth er.' We have no choice between masters. This is the difference between the Sentinel and Standard. The Standard is still true to the great principles on which the revolution was commenced the Sentinel is false to those principles. Our Slave Code. At the late session of the Georgia Baptist Association, a resolution was unani mously adopted by the body declaring the laws of Georgia, in their failure to recognize ana protect the marriage relation among our slave population, to be essentially defective, and that they called for reformation. Bib. Recorder. By the law of North-Carolina, and we -presume by the law of other slaveholding States, a free ne gro is not permitted to marry a slave. The object of the law is to prevent a tree negro from having a slave wife. What would be the effect of freeing those male slaves in this State between eighteen and forty-five, who are married, in order to place them in the army 7 Would it not at once divorce them from their wives 7 If the Yankees come, we will neither get out a daily issue nor be good, for they won't let us do the first, and we won't be the last, for we shall certain ly feel like "cussing" them. Wil Journal. Better feel like fighting them, James. . James, you bargained for war in 1860, at Charleston and iialtimore. . You lost your rights in the Territ.riis about that time, and you seceded in the hope of re gaining them, and now is the time to fight for them. It will do no good to " cuss " the Yankees. Fight them. You have " cussed " them and made mouths at them long enough. A New Hymn Book. We are indebted to the Rev. William E. Pell, the compiler, for copy of a new Hymn Book" The Southern Zion's Songster " designed for Sabbath Schools, Prayer, and Social Meetings, and the Camps. The selections seem to have been made from the best authors, and the book will do doubt be highly appreciated by those tor Whom it was designed.. It is for sale at the Bookstore of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in this City. Vol. XXX. No. 34. DiscouBAorao Over. Bro. Pell, to be candid about the matter, the standard of morals in the army at present is very low. Profanity is on the increase. Stealing is unprecedented And I fear drunkenness will be added to the vices already practiced in camp, as Quantities of brand y are being brought from N. C. in the boxes of good things. wh'cn are sent to the soldiers. Army Lettef. The above extract from an army letter, is truly discouraging. If at a time when every interest of the country demands high moral.virtue and cour age in the army, our soldiers are thus demoralised, what can we nope for 7 And then to think of par ents and Triends sending brandy to the army, to root out every vestige of morality among the sol diers by making them - drunken, what is to be the result I Better let them d;e in the trenches gooa men, honest sober men, a thousand times, than make them drunken and worthless. If the au thorities intend to allow this, either among officers or privates, they had better disband the army and give op. We find the impression prevails that drunkenness is on the increase, both at home and in the army. We have ridiculed the drunken Yan kees, and now we are walking in their footsteps. Let every true friend of the cause discourage this in every possible way. N. C. Christian Advocate. We concur with our cotemporary in every word of the above. But we must go to the root of the matter in -this business. At the last session of Congress national distilleries were established by an act of that body ; and we learn that the impres sing officers are now engaged, in many of the Coun ties of this State, in impressing brandy from the people. These distilleries are carried on, and this brandy is impressed ostensibly tor medical pur poses, but really for the use of officials and for pur poses of speculation. There is not one sick soldier in ten who ever smells any ftf this ardent spirits except in the breath of some official. Congress should repeal this law establishing national distil leries ; and the President should stop these impress ments of brandy. Drunkenness is on the increase both at home and in the army. It is useless to pray, or even to hope for success when many of the rulers of the people, as well as officials of almost every grade, are almost constantly saturated with ardent spirits, and when this fire water is expressly provided for officials by solemn act of Congress. Nor will it do any good to pray, as some of our worthy preachers are doing, that God would re move drunken officials from among us, for the simple reason that the days of miracles have pas sed. Human means must be used to remove such characters. No fire will descend from Heaven to consume either the liquors or the drunkards. We understand there is a government distillery in full blast at Salisbury, and that if consumes about three hundred bushels per day of the precious grain, It is said to be guarded by Confederate bayonets. Words of Comfort. A correspondent of the Confederate who belongs to the Home Guards, Writes as follows to that paper from Kinston : ." The blueness of the three beef shanks furnished seventeen of us for one day's rations, defies com parison ; the almost jetty blackness of the wretched compound made from the spout ot a smut macnine called flour, beggars description. Some body ought to be hung; either the miller who put up such stuff, or the A. Q. M. who purchased it for the army. No man or dog on earth can eat thereof for a week and live. This is no idle complaint ; some of us are old soldiers and have lived roughly, but this is wholly unbearable." Whereupon the Confederate utters the following words of comfort : " The rations will be bad to begin with, but bet ter will come round in time. It is better to begin at the bottom of the ladder and go up, than at top and come down. Our friends are having about as bad fare now as they are likely to have." Could the fare be worse, if what the correspon dent says be true 7 " No man or dog on earth can eat thereof for a week and live." Why are these men treated in this way 7 The Stallfederates of Ral eigh draw their fine flour and com meal, their lard their sugar, their wood, and their bacon, at low rates, and some of them, we learn, sell their bacon at high rates to our shopkeepers ; but our soldiers in camp aro put off with what as this correspon dent says would kill a dog. But one of the or gans of the Governor assures them that their fare will be no worse ! Very consoling, indeed. " An act for the relief of maimed indigent sol diers," authorizes the Governor to furnish an arti ficial leg, at the expense of the. State, to every in digent soldier of Alabama who has lost a leg in the military service. Mont. Advertiser. Beore the late election for Governor in this State, our Surgeon General, by order of Gov. Vance, ad vertised in the newspapers that North Carolina would establish a manufactory of artificial limbs for her maimed soldiers ; but since the election we have heard nothing of this commendable enterprise. No doubt the Surgeon General 'would most cheerfully superintend a work at once so patriotic and philan thropic, but in this as in other matters he must act according to the orders of the Governor. - The true Fire or the Flirt In the Holston Conference, in session at Bristol, last week, onr ven erable friend, Bishop Early, in the course of a de bate upon some question, incidentally alluded to the expression that "the taking of Richmond was merely a question of time." The Bishop remarked that he did not think bo, and further said that " if he thought there was any danger that Richmond could be taken, he would be for adjourning Confer ence forthwith, and going to Richmond, to assist in tearing out every log and brick to prevent it" This is the true fire of the flint, and should be the determination of every man, old and young, in the Confederacy. Lynchburg Republican. What could the venerable Bishop accomplish by "tearing out" the "logs and bricks' of Richmond 7 That is tbe very thing the Yankees are trying to do with their big guns. Our Sable Dependents. We were gratified re cently by hearing from a highly intelligent and in fluential citizen of Charleston, the expression of some views which had often occurred to our own minds on a very interesting and important subject The subject of tbe remarks which gratified us was tbe negro. Tbe precise point which gave us pleasure was the earnest and eloquent expression of the idea. that one resnlt of this dreadful war will be, by God s blessing, a kindlier feeling than ever on the part of the master for his slaves. They have proved them selves for the most part so faithful so docile, so true to their only friends on earth, the' masters God has given to them-, that there is not a Southern heart that will not beat more tenderly towards these affectionate dependents than ever before. We look confidently to see slavery shorn of all its abuses, so far as may be in any way practicable, within a very short time after the close of this war.' So mote it be. Southern Presbyterian. Imitation is the lincerest of flattery. A RALEIGH; N. C, WEDNEti A aevr Scheme to AkotiOMbra the . It in painful tn reflect how soon the landmark of great principles are lost amid the throea of revo lution. For forty years the people of the soutn Lave been-fiercely battling against the mad schemes of the abolitionists to destroy the Institution, of do mestic slavery. We have uniformly contended that negroes were property, and that slavery was a local institution with which no power under tbe sua could interfere, save the sovereign States themselves" in weir uiuiviauai capacity. 2 or Mi great princi ple of tbe right of the States to regulate their do mestic institutions to suit themselves, we went to war with tbe North, and for nearly four years have maintained the dreadful conflict with' unexampled success. Just at tbe moment when all tbe gigantic schemes of the enemy to subjugate us have failed! wnen brant is panting for breath to renew a con test in which he has besn completely baffled, and Sherman is toiling to escape from the coils of Hood, which threaten the destruction of his army just at-f the au8picitus moment when tbe bright and glori ous day of independence is about to break upon us with tbe splendor of an unclouded sun just at such moment it is gravely proposed by respectabler though chimerical journals in the South to ignore all of our past cardinal principles, surrender the great question for which we went to war, and do for ourselves precisely what Lincoln and the abo litionists proposed to do for us without war abol ish slavery. ibis is tbe naked proposition ot those Who advo eate the conscription of our slaves as soldiers. They propose to conscript "all the able bodied negroes of the country, between the ages of 18 and 45, respec tively, arm ana equip them and put them in the field as soldiers, along with our white men. As an inducement to make these negroes faithful to our cause, they are to be given tbeir freedom, and per mitted to live amongst us after the war as freemen. The result of such a proposition, if successful, can not do mistaken by a blind man or an idiot It will convert the sovereign States of the Confeder acy into free negro colonies, with all the social and political evils which attend the amalgamation of ad verse races. If our negro men are made free, then justice and souud policy would require that their wives and children should be permitted to enjoy freedom along with their husbands and fathers, on the principles announced by tbe Richmond Enqui rer, "that they who fight for freedom, deserve to be freemen." Whether this be just or not, it is very certain that our slaves once made freemen, and trained in tbe skill of arms, and the hardships of the camp and tbe dangers of the battle-field, would not only insist on their owu freedom, but on the freedom of their entire race. Nay, more. They would insist and have the right to insist at the point of the bayonet uPon enjoying all the civil, so cial and political rights enjoyed by their former masters, on the ground that they had suffered equal ly the dangers and responsibilities of the struggle. The horrible result would be either the amalgama tion of the black and the white races in the South, with all its attendant 'shame and ruin, or a dreadful civil war of extermination between the white men and the black ! Can soeh consequences be contem plated by the Southern mind without a shudder for the result 7 And yet this is the certain end to which it is now proposed to educate our slaves, for we hold it to be impossible that we can escape these calamitious consequences with a half a million of negroes trained to the use of arms and suddenly el evated to the rights and notions of freemen. .Look at tbe question in another point of view. If our slaves are made soldiers, then they will have to be governed by the same military laws which govern the white men, because we have only one military code. They will, therefore, be ipso facto the equal of their masters, entitled to the same rights and subject only to the same punishments. . The insolence of our former slaves would have to be endured, or, if chastised, they would have the right and tbe force to chastise back again thus destroying the first principle of negus subordina tion, which is tbe life of the institution of the South. But supposing the question to be fraught with none of these terrible social and political evils, it is perfectly clear to our mind that armed negroes would be a source of perpetual danger and weak, ness to the South in this struggle, instead of strength. When we shall have armed them what security have we that they will not desert us and join the enemy in a body 7 Reasoning from all na tural principles and from observation, they would certainly do so. It would be folly for them to fight for their proffered liberty, when by simply walking into the camps of the enemy, they would be ipso facto free by Lincoln's proclamation. Place our ne groes in the field as soldiers, and they would sur render every position which they might be placed to defend, for it is idle to talk to sensible men about the fidelity of slaves. That is a subject which will do to amuse the brains of romancers, but the expe rience of this war as well as tbe teaching of com mon sense, have shown that not one negro tn a thousand will refuse to accept the proffered boon of freedom teodered by tbe Yankees when he can do so with impunity. . To arm the slaves is to arm a powerful foe in our own midst I Nor is this all. When wo. conscript all the able bodied negroes, who are to cultivate our fields, and support our armies 7 Put the white men and ne groes all in the field, and what will follow but gen eral starvation? With the negro in the field and in the trenches he is a powerful and indispensable auxiliary to our cause. This is .the capacity in which Lincoln fears the power of slavery. Five thousand negroes with the spade have made Rich mond invulnerable to all the powerful and ingenious assaults of the enemy. The same number have enabled Charleston to withstand the most terrible and prolonged siege of modern warfare. With the Bpade and the hoe, our slaves are more powerful than an army with banners, but with arms in their hands, tbey at once become a source of fearful weak ness and inevitable destruction. We caution the people and tbe press in all sol emnity against countenancing this new and mad scheme of abolition this scheme to convert the Southern States into free negro colonies to make the slave the equal of the white man to rob the master of his rightful property to emancipate the slaves against positive State enactments to destroy all hope of civil liberty in the South, and make to Lincoln and tbe world the toumiliatiner confession that we are incapable of defending our property or our ireeaoin. juyncnourg xepuoltean. Gov. Brown on Rbconstuction. A correspond ent writes the Columbus Enquirer from Lumpkin, Ga., that it having been reported then that Gov. Brown was In favor of reconstructing the old gov ernment' provided we could get our rights, etc., in the Union, a gentleman of that placed addressed him on the subject and received the following in reply, which is explicit enough : " Executive Department, , ) Milledgeville, Ga 8ept 19, 1864 ( "Sib: In reply to your letter of the 16th inat, addressed to His Excellency, and desiring to know under what condition he would bo in favor of a re construction of the old Federal Union, ad go into fraternal embrace with the foul invaders of our homes and rights, the murderers of oar brave men, and the abusers and iasoltors of oar women in a word, the base and fiendish mcif ilisers of the age I am directed by the Governor to say that bis position on this subject has been so often given to the country in an official form that he does not con sider it bis duty to spend time in further explana tions. All who wish to understand, it have the moans of information at hand. Very respectfully, E N. BROYLES, AicUvdt-Cemp." An Imperial Trench decree declares the herring and mackerel fisheries henceforth free. DAY, NOV. 2, 1864. WAR HEWS. Front tbe Valley. Gen. Early was last reported at New Market, and from Northern accounts it seem the Yankees after their late victory, began a second pursuit How far they followed him, if at all, we have not learned. Gen. Early has issued a lengthy and eloquent ad dress to his command, attributing the recent defeat to a disgraceful propensity to plunder and panic He appeals to them to stand by their colors in the future at all hazards, and retrieve tbeir reputation. The Yankee Accounts of the late battles published in the Richmond papers from northern journals rep resent the first onslaught and pursuit of the Con federates as bold and courageous. Their loss' they admit to be heavy and between 6,000 or 6.000, while tbey claim a corresponding heavy loss on our side, together with some 1,500 prisoners. The glo rifications at the North over this -victory are still progressing. From Rich mead and Petersburg. All is yet quiet along the lines in front of these beleagured cities. The impression that Grant will not move until after the Presidential election is over seems to be growing daily. Gen. Archer of Mary land, died in Richmond Monday night last The forces of the enemy in front of Petersburg are principally of the 2d and 9th corps. There is picket firng and skirmishing, mingled occasionally with discharges of artillery. Deserters report the enemy building winter quarters in rear of their line of works. Our men are well fed, are receiving a full supply of clothing end blankets, and are in good spirits. So says the Express. A good many recruits are coming under the order revoking details. From Wilmington. - It having been reported that the fleet concentra ting for the stuck on Wilmington had on tbe con trary sailed up the James river, to aid in the attack on Richmond, the last Wilmington Journal says, "we have reason Co believe that these reports about the fleet having gone up the James river are wholly groundless. On the contrary, later information leaves little donbt of its having already sailed os tensibly in this direction, its officers openly pro claiming Wilmington as their destination. If so, and it would appear to be quite likely that it is so, we will hear of them ere long off our coast" There seeios therefore but little doubt that Wil mington will soon be attacked. Friday the 28th inst, has been set apai t by the "citisens as a day of fasting,-humiliation and prayer. From Georgia. There is but little news from this quarter. It seems that Gen. Hood's army is now on its way to Blue mountain, which henceforth will be the base of operation". Blue mountain is 58 miles from Rome, Ga., 70 from Kinston, 75 from Dalton, 104 from Chattanooga, 85 from Bridgeport and 7o from Huntsviiie. The topography ot tbe country is mountainous and rugged, with many streams and bad roads. From the North. . A sneeial disiiatch from Senatohia on the 24th says that the St. Louis Republican and Memphis Bulletin report Price in possession of the country from Marshal to Lexington. Federal commanders say they will compel him to fight his way out of the State. He left Boonsboro' on the 24th with four thousand of his troops. At Glasgow large acces sion were made to his force. Quantrell and Jack- man are reported to have joined him. Anderson and Jackman recruited 8,000 men North of the Missouri river in five counties.- Tbe army is in fine spirits and speak of wintering in the State. The St Louis Democrat says it cannot conceal the fact that the rebel army is assuming alarming proportions and is constantly gathering arms flom unsupported garrisons. The Glasgow garrison of 600 was captured and two hundred citizens surren dered. The Baltimore American of the 24th has been received in Richmond. Telegrams from Kansas City give a confused ac count of the battle between Price's army and the Yankees uner Rosecrans, Curtis, Smith and Pleas anton. The fight occurred of tbe 21st between Littlee Water River and Independence. The latest telegrams claims a Yankee victory, and says Price was reported retreating rapidly to tbe south, pur sued by Pleasanton. Among the Confederates kill ed is Todd, of Missouri. Lincoln declines interference with Andy John son's test oath. ' A party of guerrillas attempted to capture S. P. Chase while stopping at Covington, Ky. In Grant's army electioneering goes briskly on. Nothing from Sherman's army for four days, ex cept reports of tbe continued retreat of Hood. Trains from Atlanta bad arrived at Tilton. The Vermont raiders were commanded by Lts. Bennett and Young. Twenty-three persons were concerned in the raid. Tbe amount taken from the banks was $223,000. An application was made in tbe Superior Court at Baltimore lor a manaamus to compel the Gov ernor to throw out the soldiers' vote on the Con stitution. Tbe Judge refused to award the writ and an appeal was taken to tbe Court of Appeals. The Steamer . Wando, a blockade runner, with five hundred and fifty bales of cotton, has been captured. Gold 216. The Lateat News. From the late Richmond and Petersburg papers of the 26th inst., we make the following summary : Gen. Sheridan telegrahs as follows to Gen, Grant Cedar Creek, Va., ) October 214 P. M. ( Lieutenant General U. 8. Grant, City Point : I pursued the routed forces of the enemy nearly to Mount Jackson, which point he reached during the night of the 19th and 20th without an organized regiment of his army. From the accounts, of our prisoners who have escaped, and citieens, tbe rout was complete. About two thousand of the enemy broke and made their way down through the mountains on the left. - - - For ten miles on the line of retreat, tbe road and country were covered with small arms, thrown away by tbe flying rebels, and otner aeons. - Forty-eight pieces of captured artillery are now at my headquarters. I think that not less than three hundred wagons and ambulances were either captured or destroyed. The accident of too morning turned to our ad- vantage as much as though tho whole movement bad been planned. Tbe oniv regret I have is the capture, in the ear ly morning, of from eight hundred to one thousand of our men. -1 am now sending to the War Department ten battle-Bags. The toes of artillery in the morning- was seven from Crook, eleven from Emory, six from Wright Front all that I can learn, I think that Early's remfbroemeats could not be less than twelve thou sand saen. P. H. SHERIDAN, Mai. Gen'l Oom'dg. - Fifteen hundred wounded Yankees have been sent to their rear to Martinsbarg, and also fifteen hon ored prisoners. - Stanton says that "Gen. Carter arrived at Wasfcktgtau the sfter&oen of the 32d with ton rebel battle flags displayed front the railroad ttha" - - : The Richmond Sentuul says that we captured a total of 9,400 prisoners, and that Sheridan is now felling baik down tbe Valley again, and that our Whole Number 1537. i cavalry occupy Tishefs Hill, three milan smith of Strasburg, and about five miles south of the battle ground of the 19th. Front Petorskarg . On the 25th there was more than the usual can. nonading and shelling, Tho Yankees are still per fecting their works en our right and have erected several forts of considerable strength. Every where in front of these works they have planted abattis and run heavy wires hi front for protection against Miauih 4 no lanaees are reported to have begun the construction of winter quarters. From tho North. - A telegram from Chsttanoom. dated tho 21 st after stating that " it is believed that both armies are in North Georgia," says: - ttooa is reported to be rapidly moving down Brownstown Valley to Jacksonville and Talladega, where he strikes the railroad to Montgomery. Sherman's army, stripped of every pound of su perfluous baggage, is in hot pursuit of the enemy, wuv ii m so mucn start ana hies so fearful that his capture is not assured. - For the Standard. Lines on the Death of Mrs. C. B. Clarke. She's gone ; and beckons us to come ; She s passed from earth away : An angel round His burning throne, , She lives in endless day. Though called so suddenly to go, Her lamp was burning bright ; And ere one day had run its course The spirit took its Bight We part but oh 'tis pain to part: Her place, oh who can fill 7 But memory kindly keeps for us Her voice and image still. And others miss tbee too, dear friend : - How oft thy feet hath trod The pathway to the soldier's home, To point his soul to God. Farewell 1 well meet again. I hear Thy last kind word, farewell 1 We'll meet thee in a happier sphere, vv nere saints and angels dwell. H. Raleigh, Oct 26, 1864. What the Times call for, of Priest and People. The pastoral relation is quite as much affected as any other by the. peculiar character of tbe times through which we are passing. It is not that new duties are suggested, for that relation embraces al ready tbe entire circle of human life, but that the old oihees are now called for in changed proportions. xjo. us spouuy su instance or two oi. wese cnangi 8. The " haste to be rich," which has always been a crying evil in our land, and has always needed I 11-J . t J . . una Bweueu tu buuu uimensions, nas last ened itself on so many hearts, has eaten deeDlv into the very life of so many, that he who has been entrusted with tbe care of souls may well feel that all his energies are doubly tasked to meet and resist it. iiis duty calls on him for singular plain ness of speech, not in set terms and general declamation, but in distinct application to the sev eral consciences of those of his charge who have exposed themselves to this fearful peril. How far tne evil can be checked, in this way even, may admit oi oouot. let some may be saved by it And there is no other Way- To take this course demands no slight degree of courage, and no ordi nary share of prudence. It may call for much thought involve' much perplexity, require much prayerfulness and watching : and he must now as never before, think and watch and pray for the ! !J J t , ... n 1 f . .. miaguiueu ones wno are oi nis dock, lest What is tneir great danger prove their ruin. Again, our land is full of sorrow. It is as " Ra- chael weeping for her children ;" hardly a village any where, which is not mourning for stout-hearted men gone down prematurely to the grave, hardly a household through the length and breadth of the land, whose spirits are not in heaviness for fathers, or sons, or brothers, whom this cruel war has taken away from their eyes forever. Then should all priestly ministrations be marked by a peculiar ten derness and depth of sympathy. Then should the consolations of the Gospel as God's providence has given tbem nearness of access be brought near by mm, aiso, to tne bowed and heart broken. Then should he stand in his M ster's place, and lift np the prostrate with bis promises, and impart to " the weary and heavy laden tbe strength and refresh ment and grace which that Master has commission ed bim to give. In these days of trouble and afflic tion, wnen tbe strength of men is so plainly shown to be but weakness, and all earthly supports to be only broken reeds, the hearts of multitudes are turn ing themselves hi secret hope and prepartion to the Lord, to find in Him that comfort and sustaining power which their old reliances can no longer give All such are to be sought out diligently, and guided with patient care in that way to which their own griefs point them, and in which our Lord is now so clearly calling them to walk. Then. loo. there are many who are in danger of being hardened by their amiction. They "refuse to be comforted." They will see no kindness in the hand that has smitten them. They are almost ready to "curse God and die." These, likewise, should be sought out and taught a more cneerful faith and a better way. They should be especial objects of tbe Pastor's care and sympathy and labor, as being in a. peculiar peril ; for we believe that Christ our Saviour, who loves all men with a divine love, looks also with a singular compassion on those whom their misery has made wayward. Let too Priest then, imitate His heavenly pity and care foe these as for sheep gone astray. - Is not this a time, too, in which the Sacraments, and particularly the Lord's Supper.- should be min istered, if not more frequently, certainly with more earnest faith and solemn preparation 7 should not the people be now taught as they have not usually been, and urged with - affectionate importunity to make much of what Christ bath so graciously insti tuted for them, and gather from it the strengthen ins erace which in it He so freely gives 7 So much may indicate the kind of change the changed aspect of tbe times has wrought in tbe du ties of tbe Clergy. We may instance the altered duty of tbe Laity in one point only, though in their ease the changes are hardly less manifold. Tbe great body of them have very much increased their wealth. Many of them have become rich beyocd all their former dreams of accumulation. Should not the old proportion at least of this increase be given into the treasury of the Lord's house 7 Should not, at least in this, if not in much larger measure, the means be provided for the Chorea's benefactions 7 Now, as ever, her institutions are to be maintained, her Clergy supported, the ignorant to be instructed, the poor to be relieved. She must look to her lay men for the means to do all this. Surely the claims of their duty cannot be satisfied by tbeir giving as they gave in former times. Rather should their hearts be enlarged as their wealth has been enlarged, as tbe need for their gifts has become greater. The providence of God has given them an opportunity of showing, as they nave never before been able to show, the generous impwlses of tbeir nature, tbeir gratitude to Him, their love for his cause. If they prove unfaithful to this call which so plainly He makes on them, we may well fear that their added riches will prove only a curse, and the unworthy steward he stripped of that imagined wealth which he held so closely, and would sot use in his Master's service. Church IuUTMgeneer. - Ms. Stably cat tbs ADutHnrraATios. San Fran oteco, Oct 11. Edward Stanly, the Military Gov. ernor of North-Carolina, publishes a letter favoring MoClellan and opposing the emancipation polioy of Lincoln's Administration, He expresses grat kind- i personalty ior tae. AWaiswauou, A Speech from Abraham Lincoln. -Lincoln was serenaded by Marylanders Wednesday night in hon or of that State now being " free." In the course of his speech he said something about himself and tbe Presidency. Here it is: Something said by the Secretary of State in his recent speech at Auburn has been construed by some into a threat that, if I shall be beaten at the election, I will between then and tbe end of my constitution al term do what I may be aSle to ruin tho govern ment . Others regard the fact that the Chicago Con vention adi.iurned not sine die. but tn meat Airftin if called to do so by a particular individual, as the in timation of a purpose that if the nominee shall, be elected he will at once seize control of the govern ment I hope the good people will permit them selves to suffer no uneasiness on either point. I am struggling to maintain the government not to over throw it. 1 therefore say that if I shall live, I shall remain President until the 4th of next March, and that whoever shall be constitutionally elected, there fore, in November, shall be duly installed as Presi dent on the 4th of March, and that in the interval I shall do my utmost that whoever is to bold tbe helm for the next voyage shall start with the best chance to save the ship. This is due to the people, ooinpn principle and under the Constitution. Their will, constitutionally expressed, is the ultimate law for all. If they should deliberately resolve to have immediate peace, even at the loss of the country and their liberties, I know not tbe power or the right to resist them. It is their own business, and they must do as they please with their own. 1 be lieve, however, they are still resolved to preserve their country and their liberty, and in this, in offico or out of it, I am resolved to stand by them. Outbreak or Net.ro Prisoners On Monday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, the negro prisoners engaged at work on the fortifications around Danville, made an attack upon the guard, biiu uor a. uesperate struggle, succeeded in over powering the small force, and gaining possession of about twenty muskets. One hundred of tho scoun drels then made their escape, following the Dan River in an Easterly direction. During the scuffle, eight of the negroes were killed. These negro pri soners, with their white brethren, were carried over tne uanvuie tfoad during last, week, on their way South, but for want of transportation were tempora rily detained in Danville. The authorities there upon determined to place the negroes at work on the fortifications, and while so engaged, they availed themselves of tbe opportunity offered to inakn their escape. The citizens armed with shot guns and muskets, turned out promptly, and started in pur suit of the fugitives, and hopes are entertained of tne capture oi tne entire party. Tub Vikws-of Napoleon on vns Yankee Presi dential Election Official Report upon Them. Mr. Pennington, the Secretary of the United States Legation at Paris, has just returned home from that city. The Herald gives the following result of his observations: - He reports to the government that the Emperor of France takes a deep interest in our present Presi dential contest and watches it especially in the en deavor to find in the result tbe true expression of the American people, and the real sentiments of the country upon the questions of union or disunion, war or peace. The Emperor, it is said, will regard the re-election of Mr. Lincoln as a determined and unqualified Jeclaration of the American people in favor of the Union at every hazard and through all the possibilities of war. He will regard that re sult as a confirmation, directly from the people, of all the statements that our government has made to European Powers to that effect On tbe other hand, it is said that he will regard tho election of General McOlellan as an expression of readiness on the part of the people to make terms with the Southern States ; to make a peace even that will anmit the independence' of those States. In short, that ho will find in tho election of General McClel lan, and in the temper that he will suppose it indi cates, that very opportunity which England and France have waited for the opportunity for inter vention in favor of the South. Fattening Swine. Farmers begin to fatten swine too late. Some do not commence till the first of autumn and others even later; the consequence is the animal scarcely gets under way when the time comes for slaughtering him. Our best managers make it a rule to keep the animal growing without intermission from tbe first period of its existence untill ready for the pork-tub. If kept over winter, tbey are fed and kept comfortable throughout and the regular fattening process is commenced early in spring. A bushel of corn given thus early in tbe season to a vigorous animal is worth much more than if fed in cold weather or in winte One rea son that farmers find it unprofitable to fatten pork, is that a large part of the process has to bo perform ed when the weather has become so cold that much of the feed is required merely for sustaining animal warmth. The best pork raiser we know of has in one in stance grown a pig eight months old so as to weigh about four hundred pounds; and in another four hundred and fifty pounds in ten months. He has the corn ground to let at half its value. Farmers who have not begun to fatten their swine regularly, as they should have done months ago, should commence immediately. By attending to the particulars just mentioned, they will find the business far more. profitable than the too frequent practice of feeding in the ear, giving the feed irregu larly both as to time and quantity and paying no at tention to cleanliness and comfort. The skillful farm er whose practice we have already described, finds that the mixture of meal and hot water makes twice as much pork as corn fed on the cob, according to careful weighing and sieasuring. He prepares it by pouring into a covered tub, four pails of boiling water to each heaping pail of dry meal After standing a day or more, it all be comes nearly a Solid mass, and makes excellent food. -The animals are kept perfectly clean, dry and com fortable, (not in a close pen, but in a small yard,) are ted with great regularity, and never quite as much as they will eat surfeit being carefully avoid ed. .He finds that pork thus manafactured costs him only five cents a pound when corn is a dollar per bushel. - MARRIED, In this City, on Tuesday 25th instant, by Col. J. P. II. Russ, Mr. Bold Robbik Hood and Mrs. Catii abini OvEBBr, all of this City. OBITUARY NOTICES. Died very suddenly of congestive chill, at his residence in Kinston, Lenoir County, North-Carolina, tbe 22d of October, 1864, Mr. Daxiel Hilton, son of William and Susan Hilton, aged 42 years, 2 months and 11 days. The deceased was a native of England, but re moved with his father to this country, when only about eight years of age. For the last thirteen years he has resided in the town of Kinston, where he was most favorably known both for the geniality of his temperament and the honest industry of his character. He was one of tbe first mechanics and architects in the South, and. under his own super vision, nearly every bridge on the Atlantic Railroad between the Towns of Goldsboro' and Ncvbern was erected ; and besides he has left more lasting monuments of his enterprise and attainments in other and more distant localities. His worth and ability made bim an ornament to the Town of which be was so long a resident and the kindliness of bis deportment and native gentility of character, but enhanced bis great value. His death has left a void among his relative-) and friends which can never bo filled, and bereft the community at large of an use ful and energetic citizen. He leaves a dear wife and one little boy to mourn their loss, together with relatives and friends. Which may it please tbe Wisdom of Almighty God so to be tempered, by this sad affliction, as that their im mortal spirits may be prepared to reap the true and lasting rewards of Heaven, which we trust he has now gone to enjoy- i. r-' r j p. D- O. Died, at Winder Hospital, Richmond, Vs., Aug. 16th, 1864, of wounds received around Petersburg, Mr. William Howard, of Kinston, N. C , 66th N C, troops. Thus has fallen another of North eiioa's brave and true sons. He leaves an " ate wife and a large circle of friends bad endeared himself by his manr . , qualities.