Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-12-22
CONGRATULATIONS.

For the Standard.
Editors of the North Carolina Standard
sGENTLEMEN Two epidemcs lately swept over tn IN
devoted communities of Norfolk and portsmouth
apparently devastating every thing in their
course: the one took hold of the minds OF men anu
Frustrated them with perfectly paralyzing Incu-
bus Men who once could reason and argue WIN
good sense and judgment, all at once ceased 10 re-
sort such rational expedients, and replied 10 an
questions and arguments by hurraing for certain
ubiquitous abstraction which had come full he1geo
from the crazed imagination of convict OF olng
Sing, and by certain gyrations OF the hands aooue
the lappes of the coat and vest Some persons were
amused and others greved at the strange antlcs cut
by the victims upon whom this moral leprosy, TINS
mental morbid diathess had seized The otheT,
with malignity unparalleled, seized upon the pod
les of men, women and children, hurrying them
with scarce a warning or premoniton by hundreds
to the grave exciting an alarm here and sympa,
thy abroad such as has never before been witnessed
or recorded
Both have now passed away. Know Nothinglsm
is already thing of the past in Norfolk and Ports
mouth Most of the persons who were the untor-
tunate victims of the benumbing and enerVatlng
miasma of pseudo Americanisln-know Nothing
virus-have returned to their former normal cond-
ton The other ep!demc-the Yellow Fever-las
disappeared, and the two PAGES were never health
than now.
1t is said that the remnant of the Know Moth
ings, those few by whom the disease fingers on ac
count of the constitutional obstinacy and perverse-
of the afflicted, meet in public; but no one I'M
initiated has been able to discover the public rendcz
vous There is strong suspicion that the meetings
referred to the casual ones occurring between
individuals in their daily encounters. the public
placc-the strickland the proccedings-"go NOR
ming, a very fine morning."
| have just gentleman from Washington,
who says that the Raynerites among the Know No
things hope the Philadelphia Convention to bring
out a man who has Nebraska anteccdentS, pro
con, and thereby to catch the Black Republican
but that these Republicans have scented their
intention and will not allow themselves to be so
caught because the X. Ms have not voted for
"SAM" Banks. 1t is perfectly understood now that
a Rayneritc among the Know Nothings means one
who will make any compromise of previous section
al views and any concession to the sectional ideas
and prejudces of Others so that President and
the officers may be secured by such compromise
and concession. 1t is noble spectacle, however,
that of some of the party resolving to stand by their
integrity and their MISREPRESENTATION principles,
which have nothing to do such with the doginas
of the X. N.'s-and to have nomination which is
and above-board
To leave politics for the present; we had giori-
ous launch on Thursday of the new steamer Roam
G, of the six prope,lcrs ordered by Con-
gresS. Captain BOurdctte, one of the popular con-
ductors on the Seaboard road, brought down bot
tie of the Roanoke river WATER with which the ship
Was chriStened by Miss Hart
| see your Correspondent Clcrmont quotes at
length an article once wrote ON your magnificent
seaport, Beaufort and envrons.
Yours, &C.,
Va \