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Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-06-12

ref,iffn fo li3S eonsfi With brush and
naii,t md Sdcceeded IN heguilin and
Cheating The people u Ills diststc d Isnev their
Of His claims Bot now, where is he only
q few months ago. we lind his name written. high:
upon the folds of the Black Republican flag of CAL
iforna, heading The ticket, and claiming that his
friends IN Carolina had endorsed his course,
approved the abolition speech he made in Congress,
and asking all the odds and ends of al parties to
combine with him to defeat the Democratic party.
Such Are the weapons used against us Democrats.
How hard it is to fight well trained force face to
face, open warfare upon An open field but harder
STILL when called upon to meet these rebel
lonists at home, who always ready for the sake
Of promotion to give aid and comfort to the enemy
Some of the hardest battles of the Revolution were
while fire was constantly pouring into our rear.
Mr.. Ellis here again warned his countrymen to
look well to what they were about to do 1t matered
not what lip service Mr.. McRae might render them,
every vote poled for him. would be taken as evil
dence of the disafection by the abolitionsts, and
referred to by the black Republican presses at the
North, to show that the Democrats at the South
were divided. And hereafter when future contests
may arise, your representatives will be called on to
explain as best they may these incongruities.
By endorsing . mans sentiments which are
strange and devious you set trap to ensnare your
selves and others, while you may be honest in your
hopes, wishes and aspirations for the welfare OF
your State and country.
After some quick firing and falling back on both
Sides Mr.. McRae struggling for the last word, and
having had the first speech, the people began to
worry and drop off, until the scene closed much to
the rejoicing of the Democrats in the able selection
of their Convention.
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DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH IN WASHINGTON CIrY-h.
AND ORDER TRIuMPHANT!-TheD Democratic ca'''
date for Mayor has been elected by over h'e wv
bred majority, and the Democrats and anu h''.
Nothings have carried the City Councils oy 49,
majorities. The arrangements for the election "''
so well made that no rioting or bloodsbed OIL c0''
sqnence occurred.
This is indeed an important triumph. u.s. :
deemed the federal metropolis from the c'o''nI ~,
an unprincipled faction, and given assurance 'D''
I the future iiie and property will be respected
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Appointments for Messrs. Ellis and Mn
The following appointments have been ap,..s'
on between these gentlemen, with the unders.,s
that where they separate, they do so that each
may take the places where be thinks it most mUs.
tant for him to be:
FOR D. x. M'RAE
Warrenton, Warren, Monday, June 18th,
FOR J. W. ELLIS.
Oxford, Granville, Monday, June 18th.
FOR BOTH.
Ro1borough, Person, Wednesday, June 18th,
Yanceyville, Caswell, Friday, June 18th.
Wentworth. Rockingham, Saturday, June 18Th
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Railroad Celebration IL. Tennessee.

GREENv,LLE, Tenn, June 4.-The celebration here
yesterday of the completion of the East Tennessee
and Virginia Rail Road passed off successfully
About $4,000 persons were present. Speeches and
q dinner formed part of the proceedings. A grand
ball takes place to night There are alarge number
of lady visitors here.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
UNION.
May 29th, 1858.

lutOn cOnnnlng tue ordinary expenses OF the gov
eminent within g. OO00 900 dollars; also one grant
sions. The Naval Appropriations were next taken
up.
The House has been engaged in private bills; it
also took up the Senates amendments to the Civil
Bill.
WASHINGTON, June S-The Senate has agreed to
adjourn next Monday. The Army Appropriations
were taken up to-day.
The HOUSE resumed the Senates amendments to
civil appropriations.
Both Houses are in session at the time of making
up this despatch.
The Senates amendments to the miscellaneous
appropriation bill rejected and the bill other.
wise amended.
In the Senate, the credentials of Messrs Hunter,
Clay and Brown were presented for the next term.
Mr.. Davis, from the Military Committee, submit
ted an amendment to the Army bill, asking $1,000, :
600, for barber Notifications, including Richmond,
Charleston Mobile, Mississippi River, and San Fran
cisco, which adopted. After several other
amendments, the bill passed.
WASHINGTON, June Q, 1858.
SENATE.-The Indian appropriation bill was taken
up and passed. The ocean mail bill was then taken
up and discussed.
The Senate finally passed the bill
HoUsE-The House agreed to the Senate's reso.
lation to adjourn next Monday. biz was passed
authorizing settlement of the accounts Of Messrs.
Harris and Morgan. A committee of conference
was appointed on the civil appropriation bill. A
resolution adopted to take recess from four to
six o'clock, P. M. The naval appropriation bill was
then taken up. The Senate amendment for five
sloops of war was amended, by making the number
ten. Another amendment added for four more
for the Northern Lakes; then Mr. John Cochrane's
amendment for ten more Of lighter draft. None
of which amendments were acted on. The House
then took recess.
The House adopted the amendment providing for
ten steam screw sloops, and side wheel steamer
for the China seas. Twelve hundred thousand dol
lars were appropriated for this purpose.
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PERSONAL DIFFICULTY BETWEEN MEssRs ELLIS Avn
McRAE.-We regret to learn that personal Difficult
ty occurred between these gentlemen on Moudav
last, at Beaufort, Carteret County.
We have heard the particulars of the difficulty
from gentleman no was present, but we do not
give them. inasmuch as any statement by third
person might not be regarded as entirely just to one
or the other of the gentlemen
Judge Ellis made an assertion which Mr. McR.s
pronounced false; whereupon Judge Ellis struck
him. The blow was returned by Mr.. McRae, when
they were separated.
Both gentlemen, we learn, manifested deter
n,nation to maintain what they considered their
rights; and no imputation rests npon the honor
of either. We learn that they were on the best
terms personally before the discussion commenced;
and we sincerely trust that the difficulty may DO
amicably adjusted.
Since the above was written and put in type, We
have received the following Card, which we publish
with pleasure. showing that this unpleasant Difficult
ty has been amicably settled:
NEwBERN, June 7tb, 1858
To THE EDITORS OF THE STANDARD: You will please
give the following an insertion in your next paper
Being authorized by the highly honorable gentle
men concerned. We take great pleasure in stating
that the personal difficulty, which sprung up sud-
denly, in the heat Of discussion at Beaufort on ths
7th inst, upon mutual misunderstanding between
the Gubernatorial candidates, Hon. John W. Ellis
and Hon. Duncan K. McRae, has been promptly,
amicably, and satisfactorily adjusted. These gen.
tlemen take the stump again, with mutual and r.
dent wish, as they deeply feel the overpowerig
Sc of the obligation that the canvass may be con-
Quoted to its close, on the principles of true Chris
tan feeling and gentlemanly courtesy, which their
respective positions before the public SO imperative
ly demand. ,
T. G. HAUGHT0N,
j. D. WHITFORD
A friend in Beaufort has sent US an account OF The
rencontre between these gentlemen; but we have
thought it best, under the circumstances not topue
lsh it.
CANDn.-Our contemporary of the Register admits
that he cannot answer Mr.. Branch's Circular. That
is candid. But why does our neighbor if be c'nn@
answer it. continue to refer to it? Does he not know
when he is whipped? Hereminds US Of the French
man who got into fight, who got under his 'nas'
onist, and who was getting it most emph'tl''l'
about the ears and eyes, He concluded to eg
"enough," and SO, installing the word on such os.
casions, he cried out hurrah" This only men0sa
the blows of his antagonist and when we last Oea'
| Of that Frenchman he was hurrahing" Our esu
Dor, like the Frenchman, would like to say "en0us
| but instead Of that he has been crying "hur'aa'
| for the last week or two under the pumme'"s
which Mr.. Branch has given his distribution 0o~'
1 huo -
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He Is ONLY A PRINrER.-Such was the sneering
remark of the leader in circle of electromagnetic
Goldfish quality Who was the Earl OF Stanhope?
he was only a printers What is Prince Frederick
William Gust married to the Princess Royal Of Eng
land) he too wasa printer. Who was William
Caxton, one Of the fathers of Literatures he vas
only . printer. Who was Benjamin Franklin,
the lightning tanner only printer What were
George P. Norris N. P. Willis Joseph Gales Charles
Richardson, James Harper, Horace Greedy, Bayard
Taylor, Charles Dickens, N. Theirs Douglas Jerrold,
George D. Prentice, and Senators Dix, Cameron and
Niles They ], too, only printers And last,
though not least, what WAS James Buchanan, who
occupies tbs most snyiabls position earth Only
q printer IS Every one cannot Be. 4 printer brains
ne nscessSIy ehdnae s.
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FOR GOVERNOR:
HON. JOHN w. Ellis
HE OF ROWAN. NJ
FOR THE SENATE:
MOS e s A. BLEDSOE
FOR THE COMMONS:
G. HI. FARIBAULT, J. F. Hurcu,,,
ED. G. HAYWOOD.
--.-. -. FOR SHERIFF..
WILLIAM III. HIGH.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1858-11-08

THE CENTRAL AMERICAN IMBRoGLIo.-British and
French Iatrtgues.-" Ton,% the shrewd Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Snn, writes the fol-
lowing letter. under date Of the Goth ult.
The Central American imbr0gliO now attracts the
attention of the world, though, as an old story our
people have almost ceased to take an interest in it.
The YrSsarri treaty, which was intended to protect
American interests in that quarter is not yet ratified
by Nicaragua and it is evident, Notwithstanding the
assurances ot Nh JereZ to the contrary, that il will
not be until after satisfactory arrangements shall
have been made by Martinez with England and
France. The treaty between England and Nicaragua
gives to the former power the right Of protecting the
Isthmns transit by force. similar concession was
proposed to be made TO the United States but while
that has been withheld, Nicaragua has sought and Oh
tanned the protection Of the Governments of Great
| Britain and France. American enterprise in that
| quarter must stand still, and American diplomacy BIZ
Dtfied until England and France shall have obtained
complete control of the transit of the Isthmus itself
How the President and Congress will view this statt
OF things will soon be seen. This movement on the
part OF Great Britain was not anticipated here Bu
at the time of the GOnsummation OF the Belly con
! tract, our Executive Government took the gr0unC
that in opposition to and inependenty Of any oreigI
| interference, the United States would assert anC
maintain a right to free transit over the lsthmu!
for both public and private purposes Whether tha
right can be asserted without collision is now very
doubtful.
For eight years we have dplomatzed with Eng
land on the subject, and the question is now NOR
complicated than ever. Perhaps, after the laps
of another term OF years, we may, by some treaty
with England, be admitted to q participation in tn
facilities for iuter-uceaniG communication which th
lsthmus Affords But as to any peculiar, not to sa.
exclusive advantages in the lsthmus, which we hav
claimed, they cannot be obtained
While other nations were passive, it was though
here that we could secure the Isthmns by the nsel
ton of a plank in a party platform, or some othe
legeTdemaln. II we now tall back on the " MOnro
doctrine, we shall the difference between an at
New Orleans daily crescent., 1858-11-08
The ocean and tlae aTounsalns.

One Of the pretest cOneeits and most truthful COM
panions Of the ocean and mountains, we find among
Mr.. Holmes paragraphs in his inimitabe sAutocras
Of the Breakfast Table" in the Atlantic for Septem
ber Nothing could be more picturesque and poetic,
nothing more like the reality in an imaginative sense
have lived by the sea.shoYe and by the mountains.
No. am not going to say which is best. The one
where your place is the best for YOU But this differ
ence there is you can dornestieate mountains, but
the sea is fere nutuTR. Y0u may have hut, or
know the owner Of one, the mountain-side; You
see light halfway up its ascent in the evening and
you know there is home, and you might share IL.
You have noted certain trees perhaps YOU know the
particular where the hem0eks look so black in
October, when the naples and beaches have faded.
All its reieis and IN aglios have eeerotyped them
selves in the madallions that hang round the walls OF
! your memory chamber. The sea remembers moth
ing tits feline. Itlicks your feets huge Hkspurr
very pleasantly for you but it will crack your bones
and eat y0u Tor all that, and wipe the crimson foam
from its jaws as if nothing had happened The mount
aims give their lost children berries and water the sea
their thirst and lets them die. The mountains have
grand, stupid, lOVeable tranquility the has
fascinating, treacher0ns intelligence. The mountains
lie about like huge rnninants their broad backs aw-
fu 10 look upon bnt safe to handle the smooths
its silver scales until you cannot see their joints, but
their shining is that Of snakes belly, after all. In
/ deeper suggestiveness find as great q difference
! The mountains dwarf mankind, and foreshorten the
procession Of its long generations. The sea browns
out humanity and time; it has no sympathy with
ether, I0F " belongs 70 eternity ana OF Enat IL sings
its monotonous song for ever andeveT.
/ Yet should love to have little box by the sea-
shore. should love to gaze out on the wild feline
element from a front window OF my own, Just as
should love to look on Gagged panther and see it
stretch its shining length, and then curl over and
lap its smooth Sides and by and bye to begin lash
itself into q rage, and show its white teeth, and
spring at its bars, and howl the cry Of its mad but
me harmless fury And then-to look at it With that
inward eye-who does not love to shuttle off time and
its concerns at intervPs-to forget who is President
| and who IS Governor, what race he belongs to- what
language he speaks, which golden-headed nail Of the
armament his particular planetary system is hung
upon and listen the great liquid metronome as it
beats its solemn measure, steadily singing when the
solo or duet of human life began, and to swing just
as steadily after the human chorus has died out and
man is fossil on its sh0res2
New Orleans daily crescent., 1858-11-08

A VERY BAD HABIF.-"O, mother, / am tired to
DEATH said Jane Mills as she threw herself into
chair on her return from school.
"riTed to death " repeated her mother, slowly.
Eyes, mother, am almost, I mean, /" she added.
mo. my daughter, not even almost" said Mrs
Mills.
walk from here to school again to-day for anything
in the wOrd.1
30, yes, yon would, my dear. said her mother
gently.
"No. mother, / am sure would not; I am certain
nothing could tempt me!7
"Bnt am nearly certain you could be induced to
go without any urging" answered her mother.
'We, mother, try me, and see if anything could
make me willing TO go.h
"suppose," said Mrs Mills, 81 should offer to take
ynu TO the panorama this afternoon? expect 70
visit it.n
Do you, mother?H said Jane, with great anima-
| ton. May 60 You promised to take me when
You WENT
g intended to have done so. replied her mother.
but the place where it IS exhibited is very long
| way beyond your school,"
But am quite rested now, dear mother Y said
Jane =" would not tail OF going for oil the lcora
/ Why do you smile mother?n
I s. TO think what an Inconsistent little daughter
have"
What do you mean by inconsistent, mother"
| Why when a little girl says, one minute, that
| she would not walk particular distance for any
thing in the world, and in the next minute says she
would not fail Of walking still farther for all the
world she not only talks inconsisentIy or extrava
gantly, but foolishly. 1t is very bad habit use
| such expressions
yesterday, when you came home from school,
you said you were almost frightened out Of your life
and when inquired as to the cause of your alarm,
you replied that you had met as many thousand
cross dogs on your way home from school, Now, my
daughter, wish you to break yourself of this bad
habit When you are tired, or hungry frightened,
use the simple words that express your meaning.
For instance, you may be tired, very tired, or ex-
ceedingly tired or you may be alarmed, or fright
ened, or terrified.
From this time let your lips speak the thing you
mean. The Bible says, Let your yea be yea, aud
your nay nay )" and adds that whatsoever Is mora
than these cometh of eyiln viii you try to remem-
Der what have been saying, and strive to correct
this fault, my dear child 2 said Mrs. Mills.
Yes, dear mother" replied Jane ..for know it is
wrong, and I feel ashamed and sorry for it,
t ''Wel my dear" added her mother, "mproye
} And now you may get ready to go with me to the
{ panorama
New Orleans daily crescent., 1858-11-08

FEMALE CuROGRAPHY. Writing masters have
entirely destroyed the character of ladies' hand.
writing of the present day. Take twenty letters from
as many misses fresh from n boarding school, and
fifteen OF them might have been written by the same
sweet correspondent We do not refer to the delicate
little exclamation points, and the dear little inter
jectons that ripple the current of sentiment like
pebbles in brook, but the general fashion Of the
letters even to the querls of the VS. there is some
thing natty and spruce about it, but its character is
The penmaushp Of English ladies Of education has
more decision than finish there is a deliberate air
about it that makes us think that they will write
twice alike as they make their els now, so they will
continue to fashion them as long as they see at all
We do not know the author Of the above, but we
do not believe he would be willing to hazard wager
on his own handwriting against that Of almost any
educated lady selected at random in this any other
nit,
New Orleans daily crescent., 1858-11-08
DO m es tic IntelIig emo e.


ST. LOUIS, Nov G.--The Mississippi river at this
point is rising at the rate Of half inch per hour.
The Illinois river is up nearly even with its banks
and continues to rise.
The upper Mississippi is still rising, with Z! feet
water in the channel
At Dubuque there is q feet in the channel.
nell
At the lower rapids on the Missouri the water is
falling.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 6-The Ohio at this point is
now stationary, but from the accounts above rise is
anticipated.
At PittsbRrg the river is rising, with feet water
in the channel.
New YoRE, Nov. 6.-The Cotton market is much
depressed, and closed dull. The sales of the day
amount to only 500 bales. Middlng Uplands are
quoted at Il 5l6 to Il 7-lG. Corn has an advancing
tendency-sales at 70 to 74c. Mess Pork-Eastern
is quoted at $l7 90. Flour closed dull at $3 95 to
81 20. Sugar had advanced, and closed firm at
G3 to 73c. for Muscovado. Coffee is firm at 10 to
ll5c Whisky is quoted at 225c.
DETROIT, Nov, ct is now ascertaned that
Cooper, the Democratic candidate, has been elected
to Congress by one hundred majority. The First
District is doubtful The Republicans have elected a
large majority to the State Senate and House of
Representatives as well as their entire State ticket.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6-General Ward has been
appointed Minister to Sardinia, instead OF China as
has been enormously reported.
ST. JoHHs, N. F.. Nov 5.-The Colonial Govern
meut of Newfoundland have made an additional
grant Of $45 600 tonduce the Galway line Of steamers
TO touch at St, Johns each trip. The time between
Galway and St Johns will be about seven days.
The Associated Press have made arrangements
with the Galway line and telegraph companies fol
the prompt delivery and transmission of dispatches tc
aud from Europe, via St Johns and Galway,
News from London, Liverpool, and all parts of Eu
rope up to the latest hour will be dispatched from
Galway by each steamer of the line, and immediatel,
forwarded from st. Johns on their arrival.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-The balance in the Treasur,
on the lst of November, was s. 543 900 TheTeceipt
into the Treasury for the week were $7S2, 500 Tn
amount of drafts paid, 81, 900. Amount of draft
issued, 81 ,l29,0OO.
BALTIMORE, Noy 5.-The Eastern Shore slavehold
ers in convention to-day at Cambridge, passed res
oution to the effect that the free negro system wa
incompatible with slavery a general conventio
will meet at Baltimore in June next, to devise sys
TEN to present to the Legislature of Maryland for tn
better regulation of the negro population of til
State.
\ committee was appointed to address the peopl
upon the grievances of the Eastern Shore slaveholt
= ers
New Orleans daily crescent., 1858-11-08
AIone.

Patient and faithful, and tender ard true,
Praying and MISUNDERSTANDING for yoa--
Bearing aIl.silently sorrow for Jears-
Hopefully striving to conquer my fears;
Say, did my patience, my tenderness, truth,
Merit not more than the blight Of my youth
Give me once more my wild energy back,
Give me the hopes that illunined iifes track
Give me the faith that ! wasted on you
Give me the love that / squan8ered thereto
You cannot too lightly you cast them aside,
and for you and all others these feelings have died.
Yet though the hopes that / cherished are dead,
Though the light from my spirit forever bath fed,
Tho twas doubting in God when doubted in you
As my standard aBdtype Of the leal and the true
Der Che wreck Of my lie would never repine,
II the peace have lost we're bat added to thine.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1858-11-08

LIBEHAN CoTroN.-The explorations of the cee
brated African travellers, Livingstone Barth, and
Bowden have revealed the fact that Africa is proba-
bly, adapted to the cultivation OF cotton. 1t has long
been growing there and scarcely markethas been Wis
tied in the whole continent where there not to be
found cotton exposed for sale. The Africans are not
only growers, but manufacturers of cotton. 1t is
stated that from Lagos and the Blight of Benin,
100000 cotton cloths of native manufacture, aver
aging p pounds each in weight, were exported in
1857 to the Brazils or elsewhere. The shipment of
cotton from Lagos in 1856 was 344 AL pounds and in
1857 it was ll4S54 pounds. Besides this export the
people supplied their neighbors with 100000 heavy
cloths weighing a or pounds each In this region
of western Africa were found towns that contain
10000 10000, 100000, and even 100000 inhabitants.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are turning their attention
to the production Of cotton and we hear Of many of
them who have planted several acres with the best
cotton seed, sent to Monrovia in May from England
On the 3lst of September last the Cotton Supply
Association of Manchester voted that 1.-THE sum oi
f25 per be granted for four years to the Pres
ident of Liberia to he awarded in five annual prizes
of f5 each and that five appropriate medals be asc
granted and awarded as second prizes for the bes
samples OF cotton grown in that district"
EPbiadehia INQUIRER.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1858-11-08

A K43rscHATKA FISHERY DlrFIcuLrY.-The fish
ing business in the vicinity of Kamtschatka has en-.
countered an unexpected disturbing force, in the
shape Of polite visitation from Russian cruisers,
inquring into the nature of their cargoes and the
object OF their voyages, and reminding them Of the
fact that no fishing would be permitted within three
marine leagues of the shore. 1t is admitted by the
whalers that nothing can exceed the courtesy OF the
Russian visitors or the choice phraseoogy in which
the warning was couched but they express no less
surprise at finding in the Klmtschatkian waters that
myth of publicists, closed sea, and want to know
the title ofthe claim, and the ground Of the new
Russian policy,