Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1858-09-08

BACK AGAIN, &c-We see that our neighbor
Citizen Holden after luxuratng at Beaufort for some
ime has returned to his post oysterfed and we'll
washed individual. We are glad to see him back
again, for while he away missed him no little.
We had no idea before how necessary he to our
comfort Besides wished him to answer a
question. Everybody but him has had something
to say on the phase now presented by the Kansas
question: and everybody hereabouts wishes to know
what he has to say about it. We SHALL therefore do
no more than contribute to the qualification of the
general curiosity if shall elicit response to this
question Is he, like the Richmond Enquirer, for
admitting Kansas at once regardless Of the amount
Of her population, or does he propose that she shall
remain in territorial condition until her population
amounts to 93. 600? An early answer will obge an
anxious pubc.-Register.
We acknowledge ourself most profoundly quizzed
by our cotemporary of the Register, and we there
fore return him our thanks for the interest he is
pleased to manifest in behalf: We missed our
neghbor at Beaufort quite much as he could have
missed US here. Young as he is inexperienced in
the ways of the world, and never having seen the
or ship, we wondered how he would have
looked and how he would have felt at Beaufort with
the great waters before him, the sea breeze about
his ears and the steamers putting at she county
wharf" What acould he have said to proposal to
try the surf? That would have been an impossible
venture with him. He might, at length, have dis
covered that oyster was an edible, and that the
ocean, like his wit, was little salty; but far as
the washing" is concerned he would have protest
ed that he was not used to it. and would have given
the same reason for not tempting the surf and en-
countering the sharks that the urchin did for not
oftener combing his head, namely, that he combed
it once month, and that hurt him bad enough.
without going through the same operation every
day.
We are glad to be "comfort" to any one, even
to political job We returned from Beaufort to
lind our Job of the Register in the very ashes OF
defeat with the "dust Of death upon his garments
and to hear his lamentations sufficient to have NOV
ed the soutest heart, over the calamity which had
betalen him. A strong Democratic wind had blown
down his tents destroyed his flocks and his herds
whisted strange tunes through his cuverts, turned
his dark lanterns wrong side out, and made him 9
prey generally to evil spirits.
Of course, seeing him thus in the ashes, scrapine
himself in his agony, endeavored to "comfort
him. We told him, in the first place, that his ca
lamlty might have been much worse, and that h
ought to be thankful that he had been spared alive
and secondly, that if this strong Democratic wint
had not prevailed, and if he had not placed himsel
IN Its way, lie would not have been harmed. Gu
job bowed himself with thankfulness, for these view
We're new to him. and appeared to console him; bu
lie SAID never word-he was speeches. with doubt
as 10 what he was and as to what had happened
we asked him at length what he was, and he sal
ne believed he was Whig, he thought he had bee
d hnow Nothing, and he was not sure but he ha
voted for McRae. This evinced wonderful tenacit
o memory, and we "comforted him still furthe
uhni at last he was in a condition to pen and publis
the foregoing extract.