Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-05-03

SAND collars more than In 1901, and ninety thou
sand dollars more than in 1849. The whole amount
distributed during the four years of Gov Reds adj
ministration viii be $565,156 40.
Neither the cause of Common Schools nor Inter
nal improvements has suffered during the time the
Democrats have becnin power. On the contrary,
/ all interests have been improving and advancing.
Our mineral and agricultural resources are being
developed more rapidly than at any former period !;
our rail and plank roads are going forward; our
! Common Schools are doing more good than ever
heretofore, and more money is being paid out for
their support. Whg then should the administration
OF State affairs be changed Must our present pros
porous condition be put to hazard or exposed to
change, merely to crafty few hungry politicians?
We think the people will say mol
We observe, among the proceedings of the loco
foco Convention as published in the last Standard"
that James B. Shepard, Esq, is mentioned as mem
Der of the Convention We have been informed,
however that Mr.. s. not in the Convention, DUR
ing its entire session-not even as "lobby men,
Der" or spectator Wonder fthe Standard man.
as Secretary, for the sake of swelling numbers, has
put down any other individual member of the
Convention, who was not in hearing distance
Register.
The Editor of this paper, of the Secretaries
OF the Convention, and in publishing the proceed
ings, governed by the lists delegates handed
to him for enrolment. The Wake delegation was
published just as it made out and handed in by
one of the Wake delegation. We could not find
time, in the hurry and excitement incident to the
Convention, to examine the list of delegates with
much Particularly. What the Register says as to
Mr.. Shepard's absence is doubtless correct. The
Register, in wondering what we had done in other
cases, truly describes itself The Editor of that pa
per is the very individual to do what he nsinuates
we have done.
AZ. r.
ed in this place called the Metropolitan:
The list of Delegates to the State Convention as
published in the Metropolitan of to-day is correct
In the hurry of business the names of many were
omitted, and others inserted who not delegates
in attendance in the first published list
We have compared the list of delegates as pub
lshed in the Metropolitan with that published in the
Standard, and find that four omitted in
the Wake list by the former which were published
in the latter, to-wit W. W. Whitaker F. c. Shep-
ard, James B. Shepard, and A. K Clements and
three added for Warren, to-wit H. l. Macon, Henry
Harris and John W. White. This, we believe, is |
the only difference in the lists.
The Metropolitan of the same date says:
''f Democrats are driven, by force of crcum- !
Stances to advocate certain not laid down
in their creed the blame must and will fall upon the
shoulders of men in high places.
The expression men in high places" is intend
are never driven, by force of circun-
stances" to desert their principles.
GEN. DoCKERY AGAINST GEN. JACKSON.
We call the attention of the old jackson and
of the people generally to the fact that Gen. Alfred
Dockery, while member of the Senate of this State
in 1928, uoted against the following Resolution:
Reso1ced, That the fine imposed upon Gen. An
drew Jackson, during the late war by Judge Hail.
should, in the opinion of the Legislature, be imme
dately refunded, with full legal interest, without
any proviso qualification whatever, an act of
Justice to brave, meritorous and distinguished of
fcer. F"
The foregoing Resolution Gen. Dockery, with ten
other Federalists of that Assembly, coted against
thus taking sides with Tory Judge, and denying L
simple justice to the Hero of New Orleans. For
proof If this refer to Senate Journal, pages 352
353 of the session of 1923.
AcoUTTTAL OF WARD. The Washington Union of
Saturday last says: We understand that telc-
graphic despatch from Elizabethtown Kentucky,
was received in this city last ever ing, announcing
that Matthew F. Ward, tried for the murder of Mr..
Butler had been acquitted of the charge by the jury.
It is said that the jury out with the case but
five Minutes --.-
Ward it will be rccoilected shot and killed But
ler schoomaster, without any thing like just pro-
vocation. The murder represented at the time
most deliberate and cold-blooded. Gold and legal
talents have cheated the gallows of its victim. Thorn
as F. Marshall and John j. Crittenden the latter a
volunteer in the case, appeared for Ward We envy
these neither their regulations their con-
sciences. Trials of rich men for high crimes in this
country getting to be, in many cases, mockeries
If justice. If Ward had been poor man death by
lemp would have been his portion.
give are requested to state thatthe Cape Fear
md Deep RiUer Navigation Company are DESTROYS
o borrow Immediately to carry their works to a
speedy completion, the sum of twenty thousand dol 4
ars. The bonds will be made payable in the City !
# New York, five years after date, bearing seven
,er cent interest, the interest payable in the same
,lace semi-annuay; and the bonds will be endors-
d by eight gentlemen WHO represented as being
worth in the aggregate at least two hundred thou
and dollars. The names Of these gentlemen have
zen placed in eur possession; we know them to be
men of wealth and hig integrity, and we have no
oubt the investment would be entirely safe. Its ]
no inconsderabe one it isis that {
be bonds can be obtained at par, will bear seven
er cent interest," and the interest will be payable
in New York. t
w sincerely trust this effort on the part of the
company to raise the necessary means to complete
bis important work, will be successful
rE Gen. Dockery boasts that he Free Suf- !
age its first long, big, and heavy lick z the
Convention of 1885, when, as he says, he voted to
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