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Osnaburgs.

lS0 bales OsNABURGs just received and for sale by
scO (noy26-lwl ARASTR0NG& & co.
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trary.
The Adjournment.

Both houses of the General Assembly adjourned
sire die on Monday morning, at o'clock, the best
feeling seeming 10 predominant among those who re-
manned to the close.
OF the actions of the Assembly We do not now in
tend to speak, not having time to analyze the seve
raj measures passed. They are before the people
and they will pass Judgment upon them A large
number of public works have been chartered, invov
ing State liability, by endorsing or substituting
bonds, to considerable amount; probably some five
or six millions Of dollars
Two bank charters were also granted, and restric-
lions bank charters already in existence taken off
or modified
\ large portion of the session, as is well known,
occupied in the consideration of questions per-
tanning to federal affairs, in consideration of which
fact, it will be SEEN that much or more ordinary
legislation in proportion to the time, has been per-
fccted, as at any former session for some years
The doings and sayings of the members have been
entered upon the records and will 60 out for the de-
cson of their several constituencies and with them
We leave their actions for the present
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Union Men 10 the Polls !

We have no time-engaged as are in the cam
paign-to write FOR this issue of the Standard, but
we snatch few minutes to appeal to every Union
man who may see this, to be certain to go to the
polls and cork for the cause the day Of election.
Rain or shine, turn out and vote. Let nothing pre-
vent you from discharging this great duty to your
selves, to your families, and to your country. APP
peal to your ncighbors to go to the election and if
any of them are infirm aged, provide the means
for conveying them to the polls.
Remember that the issue is UNION or DIS
UNION. Remember, people of Wake County, that
if you vote for Messrs Rand Wilder, and Lewis
you cote for djsuni0n Are you prepared for dis
union. These gentlemen stand on platform which
binds them at once to cut the State loose for their
platform declares that North Carolina is not safe in
the existing Union; and if not safe, what remains
but to leave the Union?
We have recently visited various portions of the
COUNTY and we believe Seven eighths of the people
are for the Union. Maj Wilder believes so too, for
he processes to be most devoted Union man; yet
the Major is not willing, when pressed, to give the
time necessary to preserve the Union
Let the Union men of the County turn cut and
cork, and they will achieve signal victory. Beware
of false reports and sensation" dispatches on the
day of election. The disunion clique in this City,
who imagine they have Wake County in swing
and can sweep her in any direction, will not be very
scrupulous as to the means employed to influence
votes.
Union men, your minds are already made up
vote accordingly. Vote for no man who will not
pledge himself to work hopefully and zeaiousiy for
the Cniou That is the tombstone, after all. He
who says there is no hope is disunionist He
who will not work to save the Union is an enemy to
the Union, no matter what he may say to the con-
frarr
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The Departure.


The members of the Legislature have all left, ex-
cept here and there one lingering like "ast rose
ofsummer" to finish up some private business trans
action, or is delaying to make connection with some
branch route, stage or steamer. They have gone to
their constituents and must now obey the mandate,
give an account of thy stewardship" How many
Will hear the balance of the quotation, "for thou
mayest no longer be steward" is time to deveope
They have gone, many of them, to the embrace of
wives and loved ones at home, from whom some Of
them have been separated for weeks and months.
They have gone to enjoy the rest and relaxation
from toll that unprotected home can afford them
None of them expected to find, nor will they find,
their houses in ashes, their stock driven off their
barns and meathouses riied, and their families
shelterless. They have gone to happy homes in
(htherto) happy country, to sit down under their
own vines and fg-trees," there to reflect upon the
part they have taken during the session that has
just closed, in widening or healing the unhappy diff
ferences that threaten the destruction of public and
private peace which, unless checked will eventuate
in destroying, or at least seriously disturbing the
domestic quiet they are now enjoying
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THE "SOUTHERN TARIFF"

The following g Act of Congress has been sent
from Montgomery, by mail, to the several Collectors
of Customs:
he it enacted By the Confederate States Of Amer
icn That the following articles shall be exempt from
duty and admitted free into the said States to-wit
Bacon, pork, hams, lard, beef, fish of all kinds,
wheat and -four Of all other grains, Indian and
meal, barley and barley flour, oats and oat meal,
gunpowder and all the materials of which it is made
lead in all FORMS Of every description, and mu
nitons of war and military accoutrements, percus-
sion caps, and living animals Of all kinds; also, all
agricultural products in their natural state.
Section g That all Goods Wares and Merchan-
die imported from any one Of the United States of
America, not being now member of this Confedcr-
acy, before the fourth day of March next (Which
may have been bona fide purchased heretofore) or
within ten days after the passage of this Act shall
be exempt and free from duty.
Section g. That the State of Texas be and is
hereby exempted from the operation of the Tariff
laws heretofore passed adopted by this Congress
(Signed) HOWELL COBB,
President of the Congress.
Passed by Congress on the eighteenth of Febru-
airy, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
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BONDS OF UNIoN--The Greenbrier Va) Indepen-
dent thus enumerates the bonds of union between
the Northern and Southern States:
Material interest bind them rivers bind them ;
railroads bind them; trade binds them; mutual
wants and necessities bind them; the laws of pro-
duction and manufacture bind them; the ice of the
North and the tropical fruits Of the South Sind them
safety against foreign danger binds them; the kim
bred blood that flows in myriads of veins binds
them; the most perfect constitution that was ever
formed by man binds them the memories of the
past bind them; the yet unful6lled destiny of this
great nation binds them; thousand influences seen
and unseen all conspire to bind these States togeh
er in indissoluble bonds"
All this is true But there is single agency
to disrupting that if persisted in, it will break all
those bonds as tow falls asunder at the touch of
fire. What is that potent agency? HATRED-ex-
pressing itself in words and deeds.
CoroItary.-Men who promote illwill between
the North and the South, take the readiest method
to destroy the Union.-Journal Of Commerce.
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DIsNFEcTANT POWER OF HEAT.-The British Med
ical JoarnaI gives account of the experiments of
the late DR.. Henry of Manchester, the dlsinfect
ing powers Of heat In these experiments, DR.. III.
ascertained first that cotton, silk and WOOL may be
exposed for several hours to any temperature under
two hundred and twelve degrees, without being in
the slightest degree damaged; secondly, that vac
cine lymph does not lose its characteristic properties
by exposure to temperature below one hundred
and twenty degrees but that it is rendered totally
inert by exposure to temperature of one hundred
and forty degrees and thirdly, that four children,
between the age of six ami thirteen years, who were
well ascertained not to have had scarlet fever,
with impunity jackets worn during the hight
of the eruption by scarlet fever patients and after
ward corked up in bottles, and exposed to dry
heat, varying from two hundred to two hundred and
six degrees, for period varying from two to four
hours. DR.. Henry likewise tried some experiments
on his person. with the infection of tyhus fever,
flannel waistcoats being similarly employed with
negative results-but on these he did not lay much
stress. These experiments form the chief ground,
and the only scientific basis, of belief in the dis
injecting power of heat.
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ArmY and NdUu Vacancies Filled.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22-The Senate has confirmed
the following Presidential nominations, among many
others: Lieut. Col Sewall to be Colonel; Major
Hoffman to be Lieutenant Colonel; Captains Bour-
ford, Whiting, Winders, Sackett and E. X. Smith,
TO be Majors; Leutenants Chas S. Stewart, Blunt,
Foster, Bryan, Reno, Mccarthy, Derby, Hatch, Ed
dy, Macarthur, Wilcox, Blake, Fink, and Marshall,
TO be Captains; Major Emory to be Lieutenant Co.
lionel; Assistant Surgeon Head to be Surgeon. The
following named Assistant Surgeons of the Army
were also confirmed: Sporb, of Pennsylvania; Me-
chum and Wagner, of Maryland; Ramseur, of North
Carolina, and Cormick of Virginia.
The following Lieutenants of the Navy were con-
firmed to fill vacancies occasioned by designations:
Dalton, Bgelow, Bradford Phitkion, Cook, and
Sheyock; Fitch, Harris, Eastman, Wallace, Hack
field, McDouga, Porter, Moseey, Perkins, Blodgett,
Phillips, and Lansdale are confirmed as Surgeons,
and Samuel j. Jones and Shveley as Assistant Sur
geons, in place of those resigned
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For the Standard.
To the Voters of Rockingham County:

S'oHN"AN'
To the Voters Of Rockingham County:
FELLOW CITIZENS: have been nominated by a
very respectable body of our w-citizens, as
candidate for your suffrages to represent you in
Convention called by the Legislature of NorthC Car
ona-Su6ject to your rote.
Ny health, | fear, will prevent my canvassing the
County yet feel that it is due to you, that should
make known my sentiments; and do so, assure
you, freely and unreservedly.
The meeting that nominated the Hon. Thomas
Settle, and myself passed resolution that meets
my hearty concurrence, and will commend itself ia
vorably, trust to those of our fellow citizens, ho
really and earnestly DESIRE an adjustment of our
troubles. 1t is this:
'Resolred That in the opinion of this meeting the
State Convention if assembled, should use EVERY
EFFORT to reconcile the present unhappy differences
existing between the two sections of the confederacy
and if possible reestabliSh the Union of the States;
and to this end the said Convention, should exhaust
all honorable means before entertaining propositions
for the withdrawal of North Carolina from the
Union"
Nv construction of this resolution (Which is in
perfect accordance with the Convention Bill passed
by two thirds vote of Legisature) is this, that
if all efforts for adjustment between this and the
assembling of our Convention Gf one should be call
ed) should fail that then CONVENTION shall pro-
pose and exhaust all honorable propositions for
curing the same and until this has been done IF
honored with seat IN tnat oody) snail oppose
every proposition looking to the withdrawal of
North Carolina from the Union. ALL EFFORTS FAIL
ING then North Carolina, "uncareing consequence"
must assume the same position that she did in ITS,
and her loyal sons from the Blue Ocean to the Blue
Mountains will rally around her flag.
There are many am sorry to say, who arc will
ing EVEN ANXIOUS, to preclpitate disruption, at all
hazards This think must be deplored, for can
see nothing beyond the Union, but darkness and
gloom. But whatever fate betide us-North- Caro-
ina's future is my future.
Yours, respectfully,
Rockingham County, N c., Feb Is, 1851.
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For the Standard.


Mr.. EDITOR The disunion party of Johnston
held disunion meeting at the Courthouse in
Smithheld to-day, for the purpose of nominating
candidates to represent Johnston in the ensuing
State Convention. After having advertised the
meeting in every precinct in the County, as we
believe they did, can sag in truth, there was
not more than twenty in attendance of that party.
They adopted strong secession resolutions, one of
which declares that if the Peace Conference should
fail to agree upon compromise satisfactory to the
South, they then in favor of secession without
appealing to the people of the States for Justice
through the baotbox. S. A. Smith, ESQ.,, spokes-
man for the disunon party, made very handsome
speech, in which he gave vent to strong disunon
doctrine which was applauded by the few disunion-
list present j. W. B. Watson, ESQ.,, and Maj.
Nathan Williams were nominated by the meeting
20 represent this County in the ensuing State Con-
venton both gentleman of high responsibility, but
mark my prediction, they will be beat 500 votes.
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The Pe1cs G0n1ress.,

WAsHINGToN. Feb 24-Various amendments are
yet to be voted OF; by the Peace Conference:
During last nights session, they agreed to the
first branch of the penG:pg proposition, prohibiting
slavery North of the line o. $500, and recognising
the status of slavery South of that line The States
formed out of the territory to be sdmitted with or
without slavery, as their respective constitutions
may prescribe. This received decided ahlrmatVe
vote Some of the Commissioners who are opposed
to the proposition, confidently assert that with seSe
raj exceptions this is satisfactory to all those frC
the border States The probability now is that the
Conference will not complete their labors before
Tuesday.
Yesterday four commissioners were received from
Kansas.
The deliberations have been, it is represented,
Characterised by dignity, ability and candor, while
proper respect has been shown to conflicting views.
After adjournment last night the commissioners
had brief but pleasant interview with the Presi-
dent-elect, whose presence in Washington some of
them say has already produced good effect in po-
litical circles
Lincoln to-day in company with Seward attended
service at St. Johns (EpiscopaD Church.
dispatch was received in this City yesterday
afternoon, stating that the Franklin proposition
had been adopted by the Peace Conference. This,
we presume is the same as the Guthrie PROPOSE
ton. l-ED. STANDARD.
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MARRIED.,

At Chapel HILL N c.. on Tuesday evening, Feb. 10, 1861
the residence of the brides father by Elder N. W. Will
son. of the Baptist church. Mr. Norman L. Shaw of Hsr
resvle N c., and Miss Mary Olivia eldest daughter Of
P. Ii. McDade Esq.
On the sea of life together,
Hand in hand and side by side.
May they all its tempests weather,
Ger its pillows sweetlY glide.
To each other fondly clinging,
May they rest their hopes above
MAY they their union bringing
Daily more of welded love W. B. B..
In Orange county, at the residence of NJ O. W. McCauly
the 18th inst, BY W. Q Hogan, Esq, Mr. VIM. Fender
grass to Miss NJ. E. Lewis, of Chatham.
- Spirit of the Age please copy.
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February %, 1861.
For the Standard.


JEFFERSON, N c., Feb. IA, 1861.
Editor of the Standard:
In noticing the proceedings of public meeting
held in this county a few weeks ago, and published
in your paper Of the 9th inst, find that my name
appears upon the committee of resolutions, and
among other things am reported as being opposed
to a convention. This is altogether msrepresenting
my position, and l was not in the meeting refer
red to.
have been ever since the meeting of the Legisla-
ture strongly in favor of convention of the people,
and for making ample provisions for arming the
State. If those measures could have been passed
during the first week Of the session, much would
have been gained towards safe adjustment of our
difficulties, which is now lost, perhaps forever
The report of this meeting likewise does injustice
to other good Democrats Of Ashe county, in repre-.
sentng them as opposed to a convention. Indeed,
the general feeling Of both parties, as far as have
been able to learn is in favor of that Please
give this an insertion in your paper.
GEORGE BOWER.
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Feb. 18th, 1861.
PROGRESS OF THE COMMERCIAL REVUL-
SION-INCREASE OF FAILURES.

In referring few days since to the effect of the
political crisis upon commercial affairs as indicated
by the number Of failures in the United States for
the month of January, table of failures was in
complete, and did not embrace the entire country
but have obtained list of failures for that month
from the Commercial Agency of Dun, Boyd Com
pany the branches of which extend to the remo:est
parts of the country, thus enabling them to COM
mand the fullest information, by means of system
which works with the accuracy Of perfect machine;
and it appears from this statement that the aggre
gate Of failures for last month as high as $50
in the United States and thirty in the British
Provinces making total of s92 failures in the first
month o. the present year. These failures were d.
vided between the States as follows
FAILURES REPORTED on THE BOOKS OF Dun BOYD l.
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1RGE BOWER.
For the Standard.
YIN. ". Holden, Esq.,:

YIN. " Holden, Esq:
find that the impression is endeavoring to be
made, that all those who voted against Mr.. Clark's
resolution offered on 3lst of January substitute
for Mr.. Hills resolution, for immediate
sion. Now, so far as am concerned, this is a mis-
take. | voted to indefinitely postpone and lay on
the table Mr.. Hills resolution, and also against Mr.
Clark's resolution a substitute Not because
opposed to it. but because l thought the con-
vention would be as well calculated to determine
what course h-Carolina ought to adopt as the
Legislature.
l thought it was none of our business, and it was
waste of time and the public money to be endea-
vorng to dictate to the convention what course they
ought to pursue and more than that was unneceS-
sary; for | suppose every man in North Carolina
would admit that if the present difficulties cannot
be amicably adjusted, our interest and our destiny
is with the Southern or slave States.
j. ID. WILKINSON.
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LincOln's Vie1rs.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 22.-Lincoln, IN a speech
this morning. at Independence Hail. made some inl-
portant points. He said the country could be saved
only by the principles contained in the Declaration
of independence, which gave Liberty not alone to
the people of this country, but the world for all m
ture time. If the country cannot be saved without
giving up this principle he would rather be assassi
mated than surrender it. In his view of the present
aspect of affairs there need Of bloodshed or
war. He was not in favor of such a course and
would say, in advance that there would be no blood
shed, unless it forced upon the Government as
an act Of self-defence.
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Litter from Europe-ArriraI Of the America.

Litter from Europe-ArriraL Of the America.
HALIFAX Feb. 22-The America has arrived with
Liverpool dates to Feb. 9th.
The Asia arrived at Queenstown on the 10th inst.
The America brings .t34, 900 sterling of specie.
Lord PaImerston stated in Parliament that orders
had been sent to the Governor General Of Canada
not to give up the fugitive Anderson, without ex-
press orders from the Imperial Government. There
was no chance of his surrender without full discus
sion of the case.
COMMERCIAL.
LIVERPOOL Saturday. -Cotton-Sales of 5000
bales to-day but little inquiry, and prices weak
Breadstuffs quiet and steady. Provisions steady
Consoles better
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Curious TREATMENT OF PARALYSIS.-The ArchiU
fir PdthOlogiSche 44ndtOmie gives account Of a
ofextrenSive paralysis treated successfully by
electricity and "LingSm," by Dr. Gutenberg of
Berlin-the patient being girl of fifteen years.
When DR.. E. undertook the management Of the case,
the patient entirely unable to hold herself in
sitting posture, and when lying, her power of NOV
ing the limbs was extremely limited. The muscles
of the trunk and limbs all greatly wasted par
ticularly the muscles Of the back the latter muscles
moreover, refused to contract under the influence of
electricity. Intelligence was unimpaired, and
sibility intact The bowels would not act with
powerful purgatves but in other respects the health
seemed to be satisfactory.
Faradization and Lingsm" or Swedish gymnas-
TICS was the treatment adopted. The paralyzed
muscles were Faradized every day for ten minutes
by one of Du Bois-Raymond's induction apparatus,
and eight weeks passed before contraction began to
be provoked by this means. The gymnaStic seances
were Of two hours duration, twice day, morning
and afternoon. At first, the movements ex-
tremely painful. The seances are not particularly
described but they to have consisted OF passive
movements and of regulated attempts to move
the part of the patient. The progress of the cure
was extremely slow, and six weeks were spent be-
fore the power acquired of lifting foot from the
ground; progress, however, must have been more
rapid afterward, for in five months from the COM
mencement of the treatment the patient perfec-
thy cured
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Observance of Washiuotou,s Birth Dau


New York, Feb. 22-The weather to-day has
been clear and mild Flags were displayed through
out the city, and the military were out. Salutes
we're fred in the morning from various points, and
at noon 500 guns were fred on the battery.
ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 22.-The day observed as
a general holiday There full military parade;
flags were displayed and salutes fired.
BALr1sooRE, Feb. 22.-The day was generally OBJ
served as holiday in this city. Salutes were fired
at daybreak.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 22.-The celebration COM
menced at daybreak this morning. by the firing of
salutes At seven o'clock, Lincoln raised flag of
"a stars on the platform, in Independence Square
The working men turned out in immense numbers
to join the procession
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Supreme Cont.

By PEARSON, c. j. In Ashe v. DeRosset, from
New Hanover, Judgment reversed and Uenire de noro
In doe er dem Williams v. Council, from Moore,
Judgment reversed and renire de novo
BY BATTLE, j. In Biddle v. Carraway, in equity,
from Lenoir directing decree for the plaintiff Chief
Justice files dissenting opinion.
By MANLY, j. In Taylor v. Bennett from Gran
vile, judgment of the Superior Court reversed and
prOcedendO to affirm judgment in the County Court
Their Honors having decided all the causes sub
mitted to them at this term the Court adjourned
on Saturday.