Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-09-11
GENERAL NEWS.

Lieut. John L. Pennington, of Capt Whitford's
Company of State troops, bids his readers OF the
Newbern Progress adieu in the last number, leaving
the paper in charge of Mr. w. l. Vestel. Friend
Pennington will win aurels if any thing like an op-
portunity should present ITSELF
The Quartermaster Generals department at Rich
mond has received 5000 of new kind of shoes for
the soldiers. The upper portion are made Of can
vass instead of leather, and are rendered water
proof 1t is thought they will be equal to good
leather.
The Confederate Congress, just before it adjourn
ed, passed law re-imbursing Florida to the amount
of 100000, for money advanced by her in the SER
vice of the government The reason for this was
that her treasury is empty. Are there no such
things as tares in Florida2 We should like to SEQ
the vote on this measure, and to have some better
reason than the one furnished for ITS passage: We
are opposed to petting any State above another
Give an inch and they will take an ell, and after a
while the pet may take it into her head to sccede.
The Richmond Examiner of Saturday last says
the treasury department will commence to-day to
pay off upwards of twenty regiments of soldiers.
Good news for the boys.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is informed of the
stoppage Of seveaal coery works, in consequence
of the low price of anthracite coal.
Capt Albert Pike has raised battalion of Semi
sas. The Choctaw and Chickasaw regiments will
also go to Kansas. y
The Washington correspondent of the Phladcl-
phia Inquirer estimates the entire Confederate force
in Virginia at 239 000
SCARCITY OF CorroN IN TIE NoRrH-A recent
letter from of the largest manufacturers in the
East, gives the stock Of cotton in New York, Phil
adcphia and Baltimore, all told at about 1000
bales while the stock in Louisville, Cincinnati and
Pittsburg is nearly exhausted.
GERS and members Of the Legislature of Mississippi,
will take place on the 1st Monday, the 7th day Of
October. g..
The elections for President and Vice President,
and for members Of Congress in all the States will
take place on the 1st Wednesday, the 9Th day Of
November. ..
A PATRIOTIC CourTy.-Adams county, Mlssissip-
pi, with voting population of eight hundred, has
| five hundred volunteers in the field, armed and
equipped at their own expense and the citizens of
the county have subscribed %, 600 bales of cotton
to the Confederate loan.
1t is stated that the gun mandatory in Pulaski,
Tenn, is turning out some splendid articles of fire.
arms.
| We were gratifed day or two since to meet Col.
David Coleman who has been absent for same months,
in the service of the State. He held commission
in the Navy of NORTH Carolina, until the State turned
over her little fleet to the Confederate States. He
isnow. we understand, ready for land service
| Asheritle Nesos
A friend, writing from Salem, Forsyth, says
"On Saturday morning the 31st at about 15 min
utes after o'clock there occurred the shock of an
earthquake accompanied by loud rumbling noise.
1t was so severe as to dslodge bricks from Chin
ney in Wilkesborough, and make the crockery on
the shelves rattle"
The surveyor of the port of New York on Monday
seized sa vessels, owned in whole or in part in the
South.
The Richmond Examiner. on information derived
froma wellposted friend, estimates Lincolns grand
army" all told, at 1!3, 900 men, $4,000 said to
be south Of the Potomac, and A, 900 around and in
Washington. -s ai5 -.a
| The earthquake on Saturday morning, the S1st,
is mentioned in nearly all the newspapers. The
shocks are said to have been and startling in
| Tennessee.