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1 : fiflpS WMiiili Vxii V.JI; Jjv- - v JJjiWi : Ootiare the plaas of tail delightful Pav : ' UnwarpM by party ngito Utb like brothers. RAIiEIGH, X. C. j,,- SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 1, 1862. "A Scasn w 'Cmtmtio.--W think our nJL.fr ha done Injustice ta Messrs. - S Crtr rir" relation to whet he fe "1 W. witness the ".r. deliWadv. bod'-, a. the re.mll of ordin rT liutation and differeeee of opinion. We did not W Mr. Rayuer -bant nrUJ alT "P1 u Mr dr' nodid we prT. ihrt Mr. Bdcrw.. JSwd to tret Mr. R. diteoarteoutly or unkindljr I TV the disunion Uten tbie gedUemen, or bitteraeM u exhibit!. ' .ri a. if The intimation tbt Mr. Grebe acted the pert of CSftr- on the oecejion, U not only .Uard. Ut TrnrV llSon of oar neighbor', lmeffination. ilu rlw.M erery one in tne UonTcntUn perceired, .ly It the time to bU a the-ettion before the Coorention. We taw no "inanagwnenr wbaUTen , . a v. The a Liar trmi wbicu war - r tW I- -gsa-g- " We arc not vue tbt we ja t -11 re sponsible to the Kdito'r of the RalerghSW ard for anjthbg whioh we m-j choCse to write. (Jur Vemark. tpon the "Seene lajhe Convention" were understood by. eTerjbodj bat the Editor of the Standard, tnd if he did notluodcnUnd them, we are not respon sible fer bia want of brains.- We repeat that the scene between Messrs-. Bajner and Bad ger wss an angry one, and would have be come more angry, but for the interruption of Mr. Graham, who said, io substance, that'no good could .come out-; of a ; continuation of auoh a debate; and then went on and deliT ered himself of his own'tiewsi Our remark that Sir. Graham aoted'as Stage Manager" was mere persiflage, and conveyed no inti mation that?Mr. Graham bad "managed" in any manner discreditable to himself. We have knTJwn Blr. Graham from our school boy day a. -We knew him in Hillsborough, long before the present Editor of the Stand ard broke his . apprenticeship, and ebped from Dennis Heartt's printing office. We knew him,'too, before the present Editor of the Standard applied to him for aid in the purchase of a Whig ' newspaper, and before the present Editor of the Standard, failing to get the means of purchasing said paper, ratted the Whig party, and became its most envenomed enemy, berating Mr. -Graham, of whom toe never said a disrespectful word, in the bitterest manner. ?As specimen of the manner in which the Editor of the Standard, after he had swapped his principles for a news paper office, was wont ilo treat his friend (!!) Mr. Graham, we take the following from, the Standard of Jul 12th, 1854: The Recorder U the willing initrnment of the gen tleman (Gov. Graham) who- deserted hii friend, Mr. Fillmore, to ran on the Scott-Seward ticket for the We Presidency f and the letter of that gentleman (Gut. Orabam) belike fair, vnjtut m&jfuitUal. He had not read our article, it aeeiha, and seldom eee the Standard. Well, he shall hear from it, and what is equally consolatory, we expee to sarrire the .i:;aA .n1 .nntTO'ntnfinav manner in which he IS pleaded to refer to this journal, Real dignity of r ing is eert&inly commendable ; but affectation of dig nity, by which some gentlemen .of ordinary natural endowment haye contrived to pas for great men, is nothing more nor lea than starch and buckram : " "Our men in buckram' shall bare blow enough, And feel they, too, are penetrable stuff." Of his venerable, friend (!! ) Mr; Badger, the Editor of the Standard was for years and years the constant J reyiler, going so. far as to call him an "imbecile ,and to charge that in the course of a loog life, he. niever had done anything for the benefit of hia State or country. It is butgustice, however, to state. that the Editor of the Standard's "venerable" friend returned" his affection with ten fold interest,: carrying his admira tion so far as to refuse ! to 1 give in his list of taxable property while the Editor of the Standard was sitting as a magistrate, on the ground that "Holde.n was not a gentleman." But "times change, j and we change with them," and soon, probably, we shall see George E. Badger vote, for W. ,W. Holden as Governor of the State of North Carolina. We learn on good authority that a scheme is on foot in the Convention to elect W. W. Holden Governor for. the term which will be gin on the day after the first Thursday in An gust next, and -end on the firsMonday in Jan uary, 1 863. This is a! precious scheme, but the concoctors. of itjwill egreously miss their mark. Madly aa WW Holden has sought and is -seekiog rhigh position, and trucklingly as he is striving to build up a party for his own 8elfishvand mercenary pur . pose, he is doomed to' .utter and complete failure. The Convention dare not make him Governor, ?ecause the? Convention dare not butrageandjnsult the people of the State by -electing such a man. What! elect a man Governor who, oVthe 17th of April last, af ter the fall of. Sumter, charged upon the South the commencement of hostilities, by using the following language : ; - "A blow ha at length been struck by the Confede rate States on the Government of the United States." What ! electa man Governor who on the 17th of April last, used this language :- We Tery mneh fear that a general civil war im pend. W lave told omr reader from tke Jlrtl tkat eeemmiom waMf ciril war mud the eleetruatUnt of ,'! i What ! elect man Governor of; North Carolina who, W the 17th day of April last, used the folio winglangiiage : 7,. ;- . . ;. " " The ultra: Black Republican cry. .'-havoc and let lip the degf of war,"; while the ultra dJsunionisU of tho South reloiee over 5 the shedding of blocd a Charleston, in ta extreme, art ttiU t"? the conefry to tear and rin. Tht ptopU of the ecun trrcan alene save the country. A Convention of all the SUes would be able to command the P we said in our last, "neither Congress nor tie presi dent caa reoognixe the independence of the 'Confede rate State.' They have no power to do so. A Con rentkn of U the State could either reconstruct tne Union r permit the seceded State As it is, wV appear to be drifting to civil strife against the wish of tie people of the United 6ttes, and with out their having bad any opportunity in their prima ry capacity to remove the evil wbwh threaten allof as, both North and Sooth, with one common ruin. What ! elect man Governor, in whose pa per of the 17th of April last was found the following language : ; Who in the South are this day sincerely friends of the Uaion policy ? Who would now soaks an effort to reconstruct and perpetuate a broken fabric, whose Black Republican governor and bis friends are bear lag solid shot and destructive shell from the portholes of Sumter at th unoffending- but despised men, wo men and cbildren of the chivalric and devoted Pal metto SUie ? WViwtajfe' Herald, ' The Herald i speaking from impulse and passion. "Solid hot and destructive shell" were thrown firtt by the army of the "Confederate State among Fed eral troop. ;Th "unoffending? jnen , who were fired on, by Msj. Anderson'r lie, men whored the firet $ot. If the blood of brethren., ha beeh: thed by a brother hand, the awful responsibility of , the act is on Jefferson Davis and he-"Confederate States ." This is the truth of history. Raleigh Standard. t The above are fair, quotations from the Raleigh Standard after the war had begun, end after Lincoln had called for 75,000 men wherewith to whip the' South into good behaviour. And is sufh a man to be made Governor of one.of thefStates of the South ern Confederacy ? Should such an outrage be committed, a voice of execration would arise from the people which, would make the perpetrators calt on the mountains to hide them from the righteous wrath which they had provoked. . ' THE COAI-FIELDS RAlXltOAD. '. The Convention did a goo4 . day's work on Tuesday, when they . passed the Coalfields Railroad bill. There are but few persons in the State wno will not rejoice at the passage of a bill so pregnant with vast Benefits not only -to North Carolina, but the entire South. In a short time we shall have developed in the very heart of the Sate incalculable treasures of the finest coal and iron in the. world. The, Valley of Deep River, with its salubrious climate, its forests of the finest kind of tin ber, and its inexhaustible beds of coal and iron, will soon become the seat of a dense and thriving population. Everything to the manufacture of which the use of iron is es-' sential, will be manufactured in that region, and sent to the consumers by our. railroads. A bill more replete than the Coal Fields Railroad bill with benefit to the country, never passed any body. ; The bill provides that the Road shall commence at some point on the. North Carolina Railroad within 12 miles of Raleigh, and terminate at such point or points of the Coal Fields as the Company may select. This provision, will bring the different mines within reach of the main stem of the Road. The road will be 1 some 35 miles in length, and will, we presume," be made ready to . receive - the rails during the present year. v " 4 " " ; '- ... : : ' - ' . THE BURNSIDE FLEET, Intelligence reached here on Wednesday evening, by passengers in the train from the East, that v eighteen of the Yankee - vessels had been lost in the Sound, and a number of men drowned. Accounts differ as to the number drowned, one account , making it 2000, another 800, and a third 300. Upon the whole, the Burnside Expedition, the last card in the hand of the desperate Yankees, may be set down as a dead failure. " Three weeks have now . elapsed 'since the Expedition left Hampton Roads on its pVat- ical errand, and the socne of men and horses in crowded transports, amidst tempestuous weather, may be imaeined. . has been received from Newbe.ru that 22 of thA weA.ela have been losU- and 1000 men drowned. ' : . "Chtr Currency: Some of iis Evils and JRemedies for tlietj j)J a. Citizen of North Carolina- rRalela : John IP. Syme Printer to the State -v - - - - " Convention." '" Rn reads the title racre of a pamphlet which lies before us, and we take pleasure in reoommen din? it to the public attention. 'JLhe subject o the Currency, ia 'one of the most important that can claim the notice of our government,and light pon it from any and every quarter fs desirable. We have not had time to read the view of the author earefully enough to form and. express a just opinion about them, but from his prefatory ktter and some hasty dippings in hia discussion,' we are inclined to think that he has acquitted himself with great ability. -His argument, at all events are entitled to themost respectful considr eration ol the eminent functionary to whom the) are addressed (the Secretary of ,' the Treasury, Confederate States) and Southern legislator. : The pamphlet ia very handsomely printed up on eood paper, and in all respeifs is creditable to to the press irom which ' 'Petersburg Exp oress. Salt. We don't" think-there will be much more difficulty experienced from an inadequte supply of salt ; our people are making it all along th coast, and apparently of excellent quality, j ' Hardly a day passe on which we do not get a fresh sample of salt from some parties just enter ing upon the making of it.Vf To-day we -have specimens of coarse and fine salt, made by Capt T. W. Gore, at Little Riveras. C. It is a nice article as any body need want. i M; f - ' Wilmington Journal. ' r SIGNS IN - INDIANA. : " ! The papers' give an account of IJemocraUc Con vention recently held .at Iadlanapolia, very numerously attended,' and in which all but five counties were represented.'- Resolutions very de nondatory of the". Lincoln Administrations were''t4optei;'The: temper of the meeting and of the great Democratic party of the N orth west Is clearly Indicated by the Interesting pech of John G. s Davis, which we publish': ' Hon. John G. Davisj in the absence of the Committee on Resolutiona, was called upon to address the Convention. ! He said he felt honors ed bv being thua invited by his fellow citizens, but if bet was unequal , to the task of doing justice to the subject, perhaps the inability might arise because of hia recent viait to Richmond, VaM by way of Hopkinsville Ky.; Laughter. If he bad known beforehand that he was about to take that trip, he; would have been happy to have been bearer of dispatches from DemocraU of the North to their friends in the South, (Cheers and laugh ter. ' If be had made I that ; trip, h -probably would have it in hia power to state . that hia old personal friend Jfff. Davis, was in good health, ni hi kind regard to hia many friend in Indiana whose name perhape it would not bo pru dent to mention, lor ne aia nm weuk uiu The worthy President of the Contention might be one, and we could not spare so valuable aapoke from the wheel of Democracy ". '. He (Mr. Davis) bad been abased by the press his life threatened by the black abolition party. He defied them. There : were but two parties in the country the conservatives; and the abolition" ists. The battle now being waged was between the friends of the Constitution and the Union on the one side, and the abolitionists on) the ntliA. i . - ' 'i - "' i " V " ! Threats conld not intimidate nl in. tie miena- ed to apeak hia sentiments. They rnignttmrn dm property, might take him to the block he would ascend the scaffold with a firm step but in deflT ance of theui all he would express hia opinions on matters relative to the eood or the country, tie was chanred wilhbeinr a secessionist, because, for- aooth, he was not all abolitionist.:"; The standard by whicn tne jsepuDiicani juugou If you were a friend of Old Abe and his ad mm- LfHtiAn nn woraairood Union man. but if you soueht to maintain.the Constitution and the Union t m STl. . CSaaAw w frs nApa yofl were a secessionist, iuhwumiwu iuwi X mnnh tr hl-m in thia controversy. They bad done many t'.inga which had tended to bring upon the country mis aire caiamny. bui we blame diq not an resi wim wew., auo 6,uuuu .iran kkha abolition Bartv of the North was the cornerstone of all our difficulties. If they bad let Ihia Blavery question aioueyi.ua y day have risen upon a free, prosperous and united people. 4 nia party, last wiutor m uuuKi, K..a ttled our difficulties if they had been die- rjoeed. They weiffhed the Chicago platform and the Unbn one against the tther, and concluded to take the Chicago platform, ana tei inc ww Every one of the peace propositions coming from the South was voted down by a solid Repub lican vntft'in both branches of Congress. In vibw of the dangers which. jBtared us then in the face, with civil war in prospect, uieBe xwpuuuuau vuia up and voted solidly against compromise, against agreement with brother, uiesoiution ox we Union was the consequence, ana an tne aire calam ities of dissolution are now upon us. He had said, in some of hia speeches, daring the summer, that this war would cost $300,000,000 per annuto. For that he naa Deen Draoaea;ns demagogue. He now believea n wouia coBimoro than $l,000,000,oou per annum. uupj.. Government this money T It comes out of the hard earninks of the tax-payers. The interest aione o ; . f a v fiTA aaa Ann on this sum wouia, aw per cent., w 'u)uuvu" per annum. After exhausting an oiner resources of the Government there would remain of this immense sum (S l,000,O0O,oou, i ?i4o,uuu,uuy vu be raised bv direct Uxation. Indiana's share of this would be $7,000,000, to do raiBeq, no rwiwai-tju, ujr direct taxation. Uowj is it w oe paia, tooamg aw the depreciation of property ? of the value of horses, corn, wheat, lands. Does not this thing, with this enormona depreciation of property, look I ke coming down with a crushing weight upon us?- i. - i. ". ;: . . He had predicted a war with tsngiana wnen our troubles began. For this he had bwn denoun ced as a demagogue. If it had! not been for the cowardice of those controlling the Government we would' now be involved in a war witn Eng land;-. The capture of; Mason and blidell had been indorsed by tne repuoiicana every wuero. Va in fca of this. In face of a solemn voice in Congress J endorsing Commander Wilkes, when the British lion roared, tne miseraoie, croucuing, corrupt Administratiod quailed backed down. tie was no aavocsweui mo iowjjinu v u Southern Confederacy, but the surrender of Ma enn r,A KiiAetU was morehumiliatioz than would be sucn recoeninon, x uao avwuwvUd at audisUnce, brave about banging honest men and mobbing printing pi esses ; dui, wnen me What :did these ;aoouuot.isw recommena i What did Cameron's Teport, before modified by the President, recomtnena r ne arming oi ci frtf the slaughter of their miateTs 1 And yefthis man was retained- by Lincoln in hia Cab inet. Oh for one hojir of General Jackson at 1 Washington. Tremenaous RppiauBH.jv,ouia there be a rattling of; dry bone among the pick ers and stealers and plundereraof ihe people there congregated.? Not one half ot,die money paid into the public treasuryby 'the people goes to defray the expen seaof tne war. It is stolen by the cormoranu at Washington. Would; Jackson have tolerated these thieves ? Would Jackson permit a man to remain a member of his Cabinet who had recom mended the rising of, the slave to cut his master's throat ? "John . Cochrane,' who holds a commis sion under thar Secretary of War,! had avowed like atrocious sediments. Neither he nor Cam eron, nor any other malignant abolitionist, was removed by the President; and all these things proved canclatively that the ultimate intention of the . Republican party! was the liberation of the slaves of the South- He predicted .the suc cess of the Democracy if the right kind of a platform was adopted. He would vote for no platform ("endorsing this. Administration. He would vote for no; platform which would pledge the people to aa unconditional pros ecution of thia war. , He never intended to en dorse anything which came out of that miserable Nazareth, thia Republican Administration. You might talk :o him about the honesty of Abe Lis i-nln about his conversation on the slavery que tion. He aaa as corrupt as those who surround him, and unfortunately, the smallest toad in the Middle f .He was. although at the time he roieht be politiei. a corrupt Ta : Simon Cameron, who onrr ht ta have been ho ear when he was a little boy T : They might talk about hanging him (Da vis) for expressing tnese sentiment, dui let u first go and hang the editors of their own papers I He would lav down his life for the restoration ot; peace and prosperity : to the country. He would lav it down on this spot. But he did not believe tne Unisa couia o preeervea oy coercion by force. Be was for preserving the Union by nrorjoaitione of peace. " JHe stood in this respect on Andrew Jackson's grounds But they said there wa nobodv to compromise South. Llneeln had said a majority of the! people there were Union men. If the Crittanden Compromise bad been adooted there would to-day have beau, no such thing as secession in the South;"- Virginia, Ten nessee and North Carolina had all voted to stay in the Union, bnt after the rejection ot the Critr-, tenden Compromise their votes were reversed;. That all the border sUtes are not loyal to day was owing solely to the action of the Republican party; y::- -:y-;:-- :j He (Davis) had : been charged .with being a member of a secret society of thn. M. P. S. by lying Republican editors.1 There was not one wOrd of truth in the charges brought against him in this, connection.. He never was a member of a secret poll tical association. ' There w as no secret political association among the Democracy of In diana. Yet thia charge came from me whose gar ments were dripping with the corruptions of Know Nothingism. - If there were secret political or ganizations in. Indiana they exUted among the Abolition; Republicans themselves.; x Bat these gentry raised the dry of no party f Was there a Democrat in Indiana that was a not a Union map ? Not one I No party I Do the acts of these men come up to their Siren song of no party ? How many . Democrat's head had been brought to the block by this Administration to make iway for plundering' partisans ? We must have nothing but a Union parly, they say ( Is not the Democratic party a good enough Union party T If this' Government is to be saved from irretrievable wreck the Democratic party must do it. ..iFrom the moment of the defeat of theDemo cratic partv yoff conld date the downfall of our country, Its institutions, the Constitution and the Union. Democrats had warned the country of the rain which would overtake the land in the event of the triumph of a sectional party. All of their predictions were now being fulfilled. The policy of the Administration, its ultimate object, was to liberate the slaves. Gen. Halleck, in Missouri, imakes a proclamatiqp prohibitingjfugi-i live slaves from entering his lines. Immediately Lovejoy, jbhe intimate friend of the: President, and the prince of AbolitionUts in Congress, sets on foot a: movement to remove him iLovejdy, who ran twesty-nine miles from Bull's Bun with out stoppifcg.to catch his breath. Gen. McCIel lan too, because he is an old fashioned Democrat, a Union man, he was to be supersedtJcL iAnd wdo aa you inmK is 10 ce. ois succesaor i7 thaniel PjBanks.;who said not more than three years ago,! "let the Union siide." If the Admin istration should declare against the emancipation of the negro, every Republican press! from Chi cago to 'Boston would denounce it ; . M The Committee on Besolutiona having come in, Mr. Davis concluded, saying I , i -1' ; . That there was a change going on In the public mind in regard to this war and its origin, and de claring .. that he looked only to the Democratic party to restore the Constitution and the Union. WHAT A PALL WAS THERE, MY COUN ,: ,K :' TRYMEN. . ! ;'. ';. The Chicago Tribune draws a contrast between the United States Of eighteen 4r months ago arid the Dis-United States of to-day, whicft rivals any thing of the kind that has comei to our notice from the most graphic pen of Seuthern jou reals : "But a year ago "it asserts, f our people," from Maine to Georgia, were in the actual enjoyment of more of, the blessings, and happiness attendant upon a state of peace And the operations of a gov ernment based upon the loyalty and patriotism of its citizen than ever fell to the lot of ny na tion... Our national debt was small and our taxes light! i Oar commerce, internal and external, was nowhere exceeded. At home every branch of industry was prosperous, and abroad we . were respected and feared in every quarter Of the globe. No nation could insult u?,and our friendship vas sought, arid an alliance with us courted by all, Then hear the pitooui but truthful contrast of the present : , . ; "In the short space of a twelve month this glo rious picture, so lull of peace, prosperity and haps piness, has become dimmed and stained with, na tional disaster, and degradation, Now we f, are realizingallthe dreadful agonies of a civil war". .Financial bankruptcy states us in ihe facQar na tional debt is counted by hundreds of millions. Taxes more onerous and oppressive Hum was.ever imposed on a free people are being assessed against us. Our commeice is preyed upon by the pirat ical 'privateers of the rebels and-' trailorSj and worse, far! worse, than all, wears becoming a by word and a reproach among tie nations of the earths Our great hereditary en omy dares to in sult us, and we ' tremblingly await each foreign arrival to learn the extent of our humiliation." j -Since the South' withdrew her resources, ; her atAtMmanshin and her support- from the : rotten concern at Washington, it has . been tottering like ome stunendous Parthenon, deprived of iU Co rinthian columns evidently destined to fall Witha deafening crasn, ana envelope mumiaues ui vi? tims within the fold of Its ruins. " f " ? GROANS OF THE ENEM Y Th Cincinnati Times of the v 2nd pours a hrnadside Into the Lincoln dynasty. Hear it: I Shall Wb Surbeitdkr. The dark days of th Republic are upon ub, and at no time more ihan the present has the lover of the Un ion had sb much cause to despair. Treason yet exults in the Southern (States unchecked- Withjqnlimile4 means at its control,a'4tsncairor menrnaore than fullv resnonded to, the War liepartmeot naa fiifthifl summer, the fall and half the winter to pass away wunoui a eiugio u;iwyouioomioui.( tionrvflhaa been exercised until the longing i heart erows laiut, and hope is fast expiring. The ret. Zu .tin rnh and murder in .Missouri : there is! no trance in Kentucky, where over one nunareo L ... . thousand ilroous are concentrated, and General MrClellan. with his army ol over three- nunareu thousand men, remains calmly at .Washington, watching the Potomac. The great naval expe ditions, on whose brilliant exploits we were led tb hope SO macn, nave, in a maaaure, -prpyour tan- nru ' f '' ' - ' ' i ' Charleston arid Savannah were within our grasp when Sherman landed his troop at Port f xtoyai. He could have marched upon both cities ' and ta ken them with ease. .Butfbllowing the recognized oolicv of the Administration he remained-quiet t Pnrt Tlaval. until the rebels had prepared to resist his advance. Now. be cannot stir a step to wards the interior. And now it seems , the only daahw. American-like acd brilliant act of the war. is about to be repudiated by the Admuiia tration. It is said that trembling before ihe awful j growls of John Bull, the 'Administration will surrender Alason and Blidell, and blot tiur history with another page of infamy. ! ' i i ' ; i. God help the nation if these things are to con tinue. We must confess we are losing our pa tience. - The Congressional reports show that the War, Department, at least, i& in - the hands of thieves. The masterly inactivity of the Admin istration is broken onljr when it comes fto the plun dering of the treasury. The report of the Con gressional! Investigating Committee thrills every honest man with horror. If is the saddest expo sition of our national history. f - : ' llATB NORTHERN NEWS. Norfolk, Jan. 28. rThe flag of tfuce steamer,' this evening, brought Mrs. Carl JSpping and three children, wife of the Dutch Consul at Sa vannah.' , ' ; The New York Herald, ot the 2Uhr has been received here, t ! j It was reported In Washington yesterday that a battle bad occurred at Bowling Green, in which the. Federals were defeated, v Nothing official; re ceived. " , ; V- ': ' i f f VOKTHK BKGISTXa. ' WHISKEY - DISTILLERIES V E KS UB GRaIN SUPPLIES. . , , MiOxvo, 'in: I7th, 186S. Yi i i Mr Editor t Somer few years past a not over observant individual walked into a church in the city of New Orleans, during the morning service, and found there the Devil very actively engaged amongst its members. The next day he visited the' Metarie Race-coarse and - found the Devil quietly snooidng on a stampvperfectly unconscious of all around Mm. : He ' was truly surprised to find his honor so unconcerned,' and so remarked to htm. His Honor replied by saying, that there every thing! was passing off, to suit him,: but thai while in the church, the day before, he had I his hands full of work. I might, and that too not very inappropriately, compare the members of our present Convention ta his Honor's condition while on the stump ; not, however, ibr want of something to do, but for the want of. nerve and moral firmness to walk straight up 1o the mark, and do what the times, the interests of humanity, I and the safety, care aud protection of our" brave ; volunteers demand., Sir, the evutnav is.oemg com plained6f andao severely felt by so large a portion of .pur! population is so notorious and glaring, that I need hardly mention U to patriots and men who 'have the establishment of our, independence -at -heart. The demand for a remedy or protection 'Against thi imwitee evil in our State is coming up not only fvom a few-districts and counties, but the .voice, of the widowed mothers and volunteer husbands and sons is already added to that of the rnasses; and the members of the Convention, who shall permit these appeals to pass unheeded, will "have erected for themselves monuments.' of dis grace to lasting, that no future i repentance on their part will ever avne tor. Tne isepresenia ti ve who has' it in his power, either by words or deeds, to add to the happiness and protection of his constituency by abating or suppressing erposi tive nuisance, and fails to do so, ia unworthy the name, and upon such an one Cain' curse would be a mild infliction. 1 like prudence, ana am not aa advocate for hasty. and inconsiderate legisla tion uppn any subject, but I like not ' that pru dence which would lull me into a false security )nly to enable my enemies to bind and overpo wer An inordinate love of the almighty dollar has freduentlv caused good men to err, and I regret to know that it is now causing gentlemen styUng themselves southern patriots, and in one sense they, no doubt, are, to engage in a Dimness, tne robabie ana not lmpossioie euecis oi waica wui e the cause of much severe suffering to our Vol- unteers. their wives and families, and which may do more to hinder our efforts tor out liberties and .independence than all other causes put togetner; for, if you take away worn our army inav woicu. supports life and gives physical strength, it will be impossible for it to strike with effect, In any cause, however just 'or righteous. Icon fess frankly that. I impute no mean or unpatriotic motives to boso gentlemen now engaged in the maaufao ture of whiskey, but I trust they will at least par don me for accusing tnem ot muon snort-signtea- hess: In not seeing the paipaDieevu enects oi meir operations. Jfearlng tnat : simple., oeciarauons, without some positive arguments and figures, may fail to convince them of the error of their !: ... ' . : - r ways, and this 1 mean aiso ior ine , memoer oi lour Convention,; I will simply state, that corn, whichrsold in this market and through the coun ty generally tw months past at from $2.00 to 2.50 per barrel, can't be bought to day for mless tbari S4.00 and the only possible reason for this unpreceaeniea rise is i.ue uigu. prn uciu uor ed and actaally raid by the distillers. Nor is this all. Ana iarm,er seeing mu auuwiug t wsi the price of corn is being ' continoally enhanced by competition on the part of distillers, - are dis posed to hold back their surplus grain, and now it i3 with the greatest difficulty that it can be pro cured for present use. If Granville was alone to L. . . i-ri i j .1 . li.j blame in tne premises, x snouia mn nave irouoiea myself to write this article; out wnat. is true pi her, I-presume, is true of ; many counties in this State, and other Confederate States. . As a tur ther argument, from the information I can get, : . . "-a it.-' . i there are tnra aay not ins uian iwtsuiy aiauuenee In operation ia this county alone. The average capacity of each being about thirty gallons, it re quires about twelve bushels of grain to work or run each per day. .This being the fact and I have no good reason : to doubt it--there are being distilled into wniBKey, noi ies inan xoriy signs barrels of corn in Granville per day, Z81 oarreis per week, or 1248 barrels per month. Now, I put the question to our members of be Conven tion in all seriousness, how long, at the above rates, will It taae to consume every gram ot ar- : ' .... . M W M. -. . , plus corn in this county i xt is 10 oe greawy feared that the "day of grace1! has already passed, when we look at the above figures, but as an ear nest of the Convention to do what is proper and riffht. 1 1 trust they will at once proceed to satis ;fy the public expectation, by at least adopting the 'suggestion of their honored member, B. Ar Kit- trell, Esq., or if possible, some more stringent act in reference to the same. ' '' ' It may possibly do some good In connection with the above, to give a summary of the grain "products of this State, together with her number of Horses, muies, neat ovue ana population, uu w show by actual, figures the i amount or gram cn PonnlaUon of N. C. inIfSO.? l - W2,667 No. Hones and Mules in 1862, 180,000 Neat Cattle, . 750,00(5 i "Swine, ' "' . 2000,000 Bushels of Corn, - f 32,000,000 't . " Wheat, i " , 4,000,000 I" OaU, . - ? "k- . 4,000,000 ' It is but fair to say, that I have ai rived at the above figures, as ' to number . of horse?, mules, neat cattle, swine and bushels of grain, byaaaing a moderate ratio of increase to tne census report of 1850L If there are any errors In the above, I am disposed to think I am below the true figures. My object In giving the above is to draw a com parison batween the amount tf grain; made in this State, and the amount needed for actual con sumption, and further t'i show that the present is no time for distilling it Into whiskey. ; The population of the State (992,667,) allowing ten bushels per head, consumes 9,926,670 bushels. Horses and mules (180,000) " t ; 8 bbls. each,:U : ,-; 17,400,000 Milch cows and beeves, 1,000,000 Swine, 1(2,000,000) bushel i ; . each, 16,000,000 Am'tofpaet year' crop needed ; ior consumpuon, . o,o4o,oiu Leaving a surplus of only 5,673,330 " In addition to the above, it most be evident to every one that large quantities of grain have al ready passed out of the State, and a larger pro portion of hogs fattened than ever before, both of which causes have tended to lessen onr surplus of grain. 4- Again,' Virginia having been for the last eight months the principle theatre of the war, her agricultural operations in many . localities were seriously j disturbed; and in souie entirely suspended. This, taken in connection ,with -- the fact that she has supplied a large portion of grain to our army in her borders, proves "conclusively that she will have to draw upon N. C. for a large portion of her present deficiency. I The same, in a measure, may be said of South Carolina, with the additional fact; that in times of peace and unin terrupted prosperrty she had to look 3 to NYC- for quite a portion of her grain supplies. The pro-' bability is that with our surplus grain not exceed ing' 6 or 8,000,000 bushels, we wilt , have to f arnish to some extent Virginia. Sooth Carolina. and to feed m large portion of our army, thVsiza of which, in our midst, is. being continually InV creased The surplus of grain in the Stateji prd dicated upon the supposition that not one bothel has been distilled, but if Granville Is a sample of the rate; at which it la disappearing and 4 coming . up inthe form of whiskey, we may bfgin !to dea pair, noon y of feeding our soldier, but ourselves at home. Sad thought, truly, and one thalshoalJ . crirnsoni the cheeks of every member bf the Con f ventionj ' In a few months the tfmei for which a large number of our regiments enllstd will have expired, and if they do not re-enlist,! it will be becaose the mean of feeding their families, and even themselves, if In the ervice, have been . so materially I lossened. "- We cannot expect meal to fight! for us, when there I positive danger of their families suffering for want of this necessaries of life, and I feel assured thjit many truly patri otic husbands and sons now in the service, will be influenced by the high prices of grain to stay at home when their time is out. Hers the argu- ment comes home tov every individual in thef, Southern Confederacy, and I think will hava its . eflect injuring the selfishness of the farmers andt cupiditof the diitil,lers ;! if not, the Tutor msyj reveal U them our temple of Jiberty desecrated,! ' mr,A h hnAM ftf nnr valiant volunloera bleachinr . on every hill and every valley pi our Confedara. j , cy.T xnese arei no . orainarj umw. iui tiui trust that the wisdom- of our Contention will cause It to act' promotive in the premies. In conclusion, I hope the dii tillers of N C, aMinf the propriety of stringent legisiatttmJ will submit with a gooa grace to wnatevsr ac qe lAinreu tion may adopt, thereby giving anot&er evidence of our determination to spend all tbat 'w ; have and are in defence of our beloved Confederacy. , HIGHLY IMPORTANT FUOM flA ' A telegraphic dispatch daleJ All ta, Jan. 28 th, says : -l;?'-"""1" " " V'': '. Intelligence from Savannah states that six Fed eral vessels entered the river oo yesterday I back of Little! Tybee, and passed up to the' north aod of Wilmington Island, thereby catting off oom munication between Fort Pulaski and the; city of Savannah., 1 The i enemy! shelled WUmtogtoa Island, and fired on the Confederate teamer Ida, but no injury was done. ! Commodore . Tatnall's fleet was at Thunderbolt, but arrived safe at Sa. vanriah.) - The enemy 1 trying to rsmove the ob structions from the rivenU; , d " Fort Pulaski has provisions ' enough - to last them sis; months.;' i "- ' "., ' ,;i; Commenting on the above telegram, the Rich niond Dispatch -says; ' i . " ',. ; ' 1. " -A gentleman now in this city, ajteaidint of Georgia, and Who is. familiar with the approaches to Savannah, suggests that our telegraphic correa pondent is in error in his statement of the sffeel of the present position of the enemy jit the: north end of Wilminton Island.? ' j I L , : Granting that the enemy has passed up around I of Wilmington Island, still the . oucoraunlcatlon between Fort Pulaski and the oity rofloalni intact. Indeed, it would appear that the Federal steam ers have not entered the Savannah river proper at alh Entering at Warsaw Sound-Unto which St. ' Augustine creek (one of the numerous mouths of the Savannah) empties Its waters these vessels sought to turn the Fort by one of the outlett ' of St Augustine creek. Should they succeed . In j psssmg-the batteries along this creekJ they jwoald have still to go some miles further before they would .reach the river above the Fort. Until they shall have done this, the communication be tween the city and , Fort Pulaski will romaia open.':"!' ': ' ,;V..',; ".-"v. ; f ; 1 .'m ' The ship?, it is understood, in endeavoring to pars sraund the north side of Wilniinjgton Island, are tryifg to avoid a battery Which is on BtL Au gustine reek, southwardly from the island. Tbey had encountered obstacles, as already I stated, which they were endeavoring to Unoiove, and which labor may be one of more difficulty ,;' thin is supposed. : Fort Pulask( is upon the Savannah ' river, in a uotneny xiirecuon irom me present .1 I u.L. WL. . posuion pi vue x uw vtutuij uut, inwwn kuui ; and it, there is an impassable marsh., , I , 'Should the Yankee ships sucoeed in passing ) above Wilmington Island, and .proceeding on to " the Savannah, they have still most aorious dlffl cullies In their way. Fort Jackson ion the Ba- rl vannah, immediately above the point where they-, would enter it, while above that4 fort again there V. are batteries enough to 'make it a serious Under- L taking to proceed to Savannah. , " " ' , , When at Savannah, !what have tho Yankees attained;? ' The people there will hold no inter course with them. Were the trading Rhode Is land Senator there with hi vessels, he would find no. one to open ! a trade with him. There is, in deed, nothing there.' There is no cotton in Savan nah, and the banks have transferred their valuables to the interior ? so there Is nothing for trade and, little whereupon to employ the other predomi nant 'passion, of the Yankees in.! They may-burn Savannah. Weil, 1st them - if they carrreaci- it. ! 'it ia not as big a Niew York . When we do begin to retaliate, we can have lar ger ciue than savannah to burn. j k T ITOVfTPhDlUMWlfrtrflM ! t By flag of truce steamer from Fortress Monroe : Norfolk we learn that the steamer! Europa had arrived atllalif&xwitb dates to the) 12th. She brings farther news froaTths Trent silAir.lU po- -litical effect, &c. Great' ratisfactlonj was mani fested it the British 1 demands being, compiled with. - tit-',- . f,r: - The Paris Moniteuri with most bf the Lon don journals, condemn bitterly the stone! block f ade. ; : '. .,'., .-i ' ! ' ' J ' '' The Tuscarora was still watching the Con fed- -rate steamer Nashville, k 1 j " r) k It was reported that the Sumter had left Cadia for Southampton. 1" - : - j"! " i - Dresden had been visited by an eartbquaka. Lord Russell predicu that the fate off the Amer ican Government, is sealed, If January passes without some great victory. .' h .' C - i . I It is reported that notwithstanding the settle ment of the Trent affair, war preparations in Eng land ontinue. - '?': j- (j . ;h- -j :', , ; An additional steamer, was preparing ' v leave for Halifax and Jamaica with J troops and muni. lions. T lu! ' .. . ': ,: The steamer Kate, of Charleston, ! arrived ' at Nassau on the 18th, having made the run in forty-three hours. She entered withi the Confed erate flag fljing. '. :. ji. m : ! 1 i ; The London limes understands that jsogiana ' has returned an answer to Seward expressing gratification at his disavowal; of Wilkee' act in . capturing Mason and Slide!!. r .; . The rost announces mat i.ngiana js luuy sans- fled. - j'- - ;-.",( pf' J "J. ': : ' . Earopean powers are secretly discussing 'the j propriety, of recognizing the Southern Confede- j racy. It will probably be done within 1 sixty daysv1-i.-;t:-''-:i!!'--'ii ; 'j- ' i ' : , . 1 '.';-''' BU N N I N G THE ' BLOCKADE, . Y-'- i-.-:; i - $ , I) , Hobilx, Jan. 26. ' The Eegister states that private dispatch from Pensacola announces the afe! arrival thora; of a Confederate schooner. The Yankees fired at the schooner, but she escaped unhurt. I1 j ; x .' ' The British Consul at Mobile has 1 see t a mss ssge hy flag of truce to demand; the liberation T the schooner Wilder, which is claimed a rit Ish vessel: l - J: -r-'i "it L'iV - The schooner Jessie lticbards, while . attempt. Ing to run the blockade, got aground. The cap ..i ..it .mv aK nHrttifl heand burnt the ves- ' el, including about oon hundred and. flAy; oaif of coUon. on board. 1 ir i! ' ! 1 "V
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Feb. 5, 1862, edition 1
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