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Conven tion--Thursday.

The proceedings of Thursday are unavoidably
crowded out Sundry petitions were presented
AGAINST the stay law, the converting of grain into
snir;tuous liquors. &c. Mr. Satterthwaite presented
rerort in favor of the payment of the Confederate
t,x bv the State. Among the resolutions offered,
Mr. Green presented one providing for the election
of Governor to fill Gov Ellis unexpmed term.
Most of the day was consumed in the consideration
of the numerous amendments proposed to MIR.
R,doer's ordinance. We fear the thing has been
so much tempered with, that it will amount to the
"Iittie end" of nothing sharpened. The people
ask for protection from extortioners and spectators
lint we fear from indications they will ask in vain
Mr.. Pettigrew from the committee on foreigners,
asked to be released from the further consideration
Of the resolutions offered by Mr.. Ferebee on We'd
nesday and that they be referred to the legislative
committee
The resolutions of Mr.. Ferebee are as follows:
Rssol,ed, That the committee on the condition
and rights of foreigners in this State be instructed
N repGrt an ordinance declaring,
LIST, That no one who shall become citizen OIL
tho Confederate States Of America after the close of
the existing war, shall be entitled to vote until he
has been resident thereof twcnty-one years.
Cd That no such person shall be eligible to a seat
in aither branch of the General Assembly. to the
office of Governor, Judge of the Superior or Su-
-rame COurt
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Messrs. Mason and Slidell.

The Northern papers seem not to be agreed as to
the effect of the recent capture of ministers up
on England. At first, their joy was mingled with
fear; now they profess to be fully relieved of their
Tears and give vent to their joy.
The Spanish minister, it is said, has openly de-
ciared that if MesSrs. Mason and Slidel had been
taken from Spanish vessel, he would have ordered
his Passports Immediately. No government, he
thinks, ought to submit to such an indignity. The
Canada papers loud in their denunciation of the
act. Lord Lyons, the British minister, has made
no communication to Lincoln's government in refer
ence to it 1t is understood he waits to hear from
his government In the meantime all accounts agree
that he is cool and impertinent in his manner to-
wards Lincoln's government, and he contends that
Lincoln must disavow the act and deliver up our
ministers to England. The masses are evidently
uneasy, whatever the papers may say about the af-
fair. Some of the Northern papers go so far as to
express the wish that CON- Wilkes had seized
the steamer as well as our ministers. Many dplo-
matsts it is said at Washington, some who are
friendly to Lincoln's government, express the opin-
ion unreserVedly, that there will be with Eng
land
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No Time for Old Disputes.

So says the Nashville ' Banner in an article de-
precating the introduction of by-gone issues into
legislative discourses and action. Wecordally agree
with our Tennessee contemporary that this is no
time for re-openng d disputes. 1t is, indeed, no
time for elimination and recrimination. Our duty
is to meet the enemy at the threshold and repe him.
1.-The common blood which has been shed and that
which must be shed washes out all personal jeal-
ouses all political prejudices, all party affiliations
schemes and purposes as it cementS our hands and
hearts" Let us postpone the formation of political
parties until the independence Of the Southern Con-
ederacy shall be rendered absolutely secure through
the united valor of the Southern people.
The above sensible remarks from the Richmond
Enquirer we fully endorse Let those who claim
to be par excellence the friends and the promoters
of the war; cease their libellous and venomous at
tacks upon the old Union men who are doing all in
their power to promote the war, and we would never
raise finger to throw them back. Let the author-
ties treat the old Union men as equals and brethren
in common cause, and no word of complaint would
ever escape our lips.
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GENERAL NEWS.

There are five candidates for Mayor in the city of
New York.
1t is said that the British Government refuses
clearance to United States vessels having on board
arms or munitions of war.
A dispatch from Louisville, XIV, says that ANDY
johnson had arrived there on his way to East Ten
nessee. We hope ZollicOffer will catch the lark
Gov. Moore, of Alabama, has issued call for
so companies of troops be in readiness to resist
the advance Of the Federas in Northern Alabama
We hope the Governor will send them to Northern
Tennessee, and not let the Vandas touch Alabama.
Rev. L. NJ. Lee, D. D. a prominent member of
the Va. Conf NJ. E. Church, South, was attacked
with apopIexy on Saturday last at Norfolk and his
situation was considered serious at the last account
The rumor that Arch bishop Hughes, of the Ro-
man Catholic Church was going to Europe to inter-
iere in the affairs of the U. s. and the Southern
Confederacy, is untrue. He goes to sisit the Pope
as his duty requires once in twelve months.
The French consul, Mon Paul. residing in Rich
mond, has called at the State Department to express
his thanks to the Government for the aid ana COM
fort afforded the officers and crew of the French
Frigate Prony wrecked near Ocracoke, by the army
and naval authorities.
Mr.. Kerr of of Salisbury, has been appointed By
Judge SaunderS, District Solicitor in the place Of
Mr. Lander, elected to Congress. ~
The Virginia Convention on Tuesday last, so
amended the Constitution as to transfer the election
of Judges by the people back to the Legislature.
In street encounter with pistols and bowie
knives in GoldSboro- some DAYS ago, Mr. Privitt
was instantly killed by pistol shot. Several par
ties were engaged on both sides.
The Greensboro Times will be discontinued at
the close of the year, and Mr.. Albright will issue
new paper entitled the way OF the world" 1t will
be an independent paper.
The Wilmington journal complains, very Justly
too, that our NorthCarona regiments have gone
to fight for South Carolina and yet our men who
have North Carona money in their pockets have
to lose of ten to fifteen per cent on their money!
Small business for the chivalry
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For the Standard.
WLNIxGroN, n. c., Nov. 81, 1861

hlLAlNGTON, NJ u, NOV. Il, loOl.
Mr. EDITOR: The attention of our whole commu-
nifty is drawn entirely away from local interests
The ears Of every is kept well opened awaiting
something further from Pensacola The Journal
being the only medium through which we obtain
late news, it is generally sought after In to.days
issue, under Photographic News" we learn that
uncle Abes boys are getting rather sick" of Pen
sacola, and doubt they are from the general ap-
pearance of things down that way. Under the
same head we find many rumors afoat One is that
Lord Lyons has demanded the release and return
of MesSrs. Mason and, Slidell. The Editor OF the
Journal however, states that he has not been able
to trace it to any reliable source. The opinion of
our people on this subject is varied. j heard an
old man bet last night that England would not
only demand their release, but make one of uncle
Abrahani's crackers carry them back. The opin-
ion of the old gentleman, by-the-by, is worth
something. =. -. g., - y. q,
One hundred and fifty Yankee doOdIss. passed
through here one day last week, bound for Dixie.
Three hundred of the same tribe passed Richmond
this morning bound this xay-of course We shan
see them Every thing is quiet in South Carolina,
up to yesterday morning, at o'clock This infor-
nation get from private letter. '5,s. NJ >s
WORRELL.
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For the Standard.

~ For the Standard.
SIR l was glad to see in your paper of the 9th
instant, your expressed determination no longer
quietly to submit to the charges openly made by
some, and industriOuSly inSinuated by all Of the
original secession papers and politicians that the
old Union men are unfit to ill any post Of trust or
distinction in this countrys hour of peril, but
that those who made the revolution are alone Deem
ed capable and fit to conduct it."
SIR you are right in saving that there is a very
large majority of the old Union men now in. North
Carolina, who did all they could to avert this war
aud all its horrible consequences, who warned the
people that "pcaeeable secession" would end in
bloody warfare, but who, when the war came, were
willing to forget the past, and anxious to unite in
common resistance to Northern aggression
and SIR they proved their sincerity by going them
selves sending their sons, and pouring out their
treasure like water to maintain the Southern cause
They have never stopped to enquire who it was that
brought on the revolution but have been constantly
pressing forward with unfaltering steps to drive
back the invader, and maintain the Southern cause
and now for such a class of men TO be prescribed
and stigmatized unsafe, not fit to be trusted
either in ciUH or military positions of honor and
responsibility, is more than poor human nature
bear. ~ e5-ss,.. ~.
Yes, sir, the old Union men, as class, "owe it
to themselves to their children and to their memo
ries to unite in the majesty of their strength aud
hurl from po,oer and place all those who have thus
stigrnatised and traduced them, or who have con
ai0ed at it in others. Sir, you may depend upon it.
the old Union men who are nOw the strong South
ern men, are ready to do it. There is a. sIuGtheFed
feeling of indignant resentment throughout the
land and when an Eagliskmap and an Hishman
are to be placed at the head OF the Executive organ
IN North Carolina, and they are allowed without
rebuke) to assail the patrt0tiSa StQtesmanslp and
integrity of two such men as Gov Graham and
Hon. Bedford Brown, and hold them up as unsafe
to be trusted (eyen as electors that feeling cannot
be smotbered any longerf-it will burst out
repeat sir, | am glad that you have given The
warning; ifsit is UNDECIDED the consequences will
not rest withyou. We look to you as an able and
fearless defender of our patriotism, our ko10r and
our just right; and let the consequences be what
they may, | am With you to the end. sr'
DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERATE.
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FROM THE LADIES.

Mrs. Henry G. Lyon, 5 blankets. 20 pair socks,
10 flannel shirts Mrs. Sylvester Smith. ~ pair
socks, 2 pair flannel drawers 8 pair cotton from
the " AXE Aid Society, IL shirts 10 pair drawers
pair socks; Mrs. Elizabeth c. Clements, a, blanket,
pair socks; Miss Hannah L. 'eOiey, pair socks;
wood, pair socks; Letitia Olive, 8 pair socks;
Mrs. Partin and daughters, pair socks; Miss Julia
Peace, pair socks q towels Mr.. James Boothe, 6
pair socks, 2 blankets Mrs. Young Penney, 4 ban
ket pair socks Miss Anna Stephens, 2pair socks
Miss Annie S. Bryan, pair socks; Miss Charlotte
Bryan, 6 pair socks Miss Isabel Bryan, 6 pair
socks Griffin girls of Newbern, pair sockss Mrs.
Jesse WEIGH, l pair socks Mrs. Lucy A. Perry, 4
pair socks Mrs. Il. B. Allen, pair soekss.s--s-,,
s. e. SHERIFF HIGH.
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uosni,a, for Soldiers in Raleigh.

The last Legislature very properly provided Tor
the establishment of Hosp tai in Petersburg Va,
for the benefit of the sick and wounded \. G. sol
diers IN Virginia; and through the eXertions Of Dr.
johnson, the Surgeon General and the.benevolence
of our people, very excellent accommodations for
the sick have been made and all necessary and et-
fcent provision in the way of surgeons, nurses,
&c have been provided The institution is honor
able to the State and creditable to the Surgeon Cen
eral and those concerned in fitting it up.
But is this enough? Ought there not to be
Hospital here? We think so. We do not suggest
very large and expensive establishment house
or houses, if necessary, in different parts of the
CITY ought to be rented and furnished for the large
, number of sick soldiers who almost daily stop
ping here or passing Though, As well as for those
who are in camps near the city.
For the last six months scarcely company,
battalion or regiment has passed through the city
from any part of this State from the South, that
has not oeen obliged to leave some sick soldiers
here. In some instances, no doubt some poor fell
lows have been compelled to go on who were just
able to travel because of the neficency of our ar
rangements for taking care of the sick. Some of
our citizens both ladies and gentlemen, have done
what they could for them. 4 few families have
had to bear most of the burden and we know one
family has been seriously burdened and incommOded
by their unremitting attentions to the poor sick
soldiers 1t is well known that even if the State
were to attempt to pay one or more families for
such sacrifices, no moned consideration could pay
them. After the best We could do, under the cir
cumstances, a number have died here, who possibly
might have recovered if they could have been better
provided for
Now is it not better that the State should take
this matter in hand? If necessary, let the Conven-
ton make provision for hospital or let one or
more houses be rented and furnished and with suit
able attendants let it be placed under the general
superintendent OF the Surgeon General, and under
the immediate oversight of the excellent Surgeon at
the camp, DR.. E. Burke Haywood. Let it 5e hos
ptal and home for the sick soldiers passing
through from any quarter of the South, and for
those who may be sick in the camps this city.
Winter is coming on; it will be difficult to make the
sick comfortable, and medical and other attentions
cannot be so well bestowed upon them in the camps
OIL as they are now provided for in the town. Were
all of them removed to the city and placed in one,
two, or three comfortable houses and well cared for,
as they could be, their suferngs would be greatly
mtgated. We throw out these hints to he consd.
cred by all concerned but with no wish to dictate
to those who better acquainted with hygiene
regulations for the army than we are.
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81 The false, unjust, and malicious insinuations
thrown out in certain quarters, that our late article
upon the appointment of Gen. Branch, was dictated
by personal pique or political hostility to him, are
SELF and the facts connected with relations bear
no such construction except in the eyes of preju-
diced and partizan enemies of ours. We have had
no personal disputes differences with Mr. Branch.
We have objected to the course which he has pur-
sued politically for months, but this excited in
us no personal ilfeeing, and his recent disposition
to engage in the Colonel, had nearly
atoned for the discrepancies in his political course
If his appointment had not been made in connec-
ton with an important command in our own State,
requiring the presence and supervision of an expe-
rience6 military man, should certainly only have
noticed it. if at all as we would the appointment of
other civilians. We do not sympathIze with those
who think there is no danger of attack upon our
coast. We believe there is danger. Hence we
viewed it matter Of public duty to North Caro-
lima to state our objections to the appointment, and
the for those objections honestly and fairly
as we understood the matter. With regard to mil
tary appointments we utterly opposed to any
and all cases in which important military trusts
have been committed TO the hands Of mere civilians,
when men of military character and fitness can be
obtained
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The STAY Law.

We have spread before our readers at different
times anumber Of well written articles upon the
bad character and prospective evils effects of the
present Stay Law, and also several advocating the
necessity Of law for the protection of debtors
against the ruthless hands of merciiess creditors.
We take the liberty to-day of inserting, among
Others private note from friend, which presents
one or two strong in favor of some such law.
We have not been disposed to trouble our readers
with our own views upon the subject but we were
anxious that the public should make, up its own
Judgment from the views of persons more directly
cVgnizant of the effect of the law than ourselves,
and from those who had constant to the private
views and feelings Of the masses.
Personally, we opposed to the enactment OF
any law which is unconstitutional We believe in
the doctrine of strict construction of all constitu-
TONS and of maintaining them intact and invioa!e
until amended by constitutional means. This is
the only safe rule for the maintenance Of the rights
and liberties of the people in a Republic or State
We prefer what is right, Just, and honorable, to
what best or most expedent in certain cases. In
dividually we have no need of Stay Law or any
other relief law for our protection. Perhaps one
half of the community are in our situation.
From what We have been able to gather Of public
sentiment i'll the State, of the opinion, that
very large majority Of the people are decided in
their opposition to the present Stay Law. 1t is I'M
doubtedly more unpopular than the former one
passed by the same body. The people were not
prepared for so radical charge in Court system
They doubtless prefer the restoration of tire Courts
But while we are confident that large portion of
our people opposed to the present Stay Law, we
cannot close our eyes and ears to the evidence
before US, that large numbers are decidedly
in favor of some law for the protection of honest
debtors during the war. All are agreed that the
property of our soldiers while in the army, should
not be liable to ruinous sacrifices under the sher's
hammer. Besides these, there is large class of
| persons whose property and means of making mon
ey have been rendered almost worthless by the war.
Were they forced to pay their debts they would be
ruined beyond recovery, and their families reduced
| well nigh to starvation Again, number of our
| merchants are indebted at the North. Under the
sequestraton act, if the Stay Law abolished
and no relief law provided, these merchants would
be compelled to pay up to the Confederate govern
ment in short period. To do that, they would be
Obliged to press severely those who owe them. And
if this DONE who does not foreSee the distress
which must follow? 1t would SEEM therefore, while
the Convention pressed to rescind the present Stay
Law it must not be blind 10 the condition and wants
of that large class who protection against
| a speedy collection of debts at this time.
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Beaufort county which was strongly Union until
Lincoln's proclamation, has raised six infantry
companies, three of artillery and one of cavalry,
partly from that county. Efforts are makingto
raise two more artillery companies. 1t has about
1000 fighting men in the field out ola voting popu-
lation of 1900. Well done for Beaufort
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FINE RED WINE.-We are much indebted to our
friend James L. Paul, Esq, of Pitt County, for a
bottle of splendid red wine, made by himself from
the black bunch grape. 1t is said by good jud ges,
to equal to some of the best foreign wines
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the Convention entered into between Hon. R. N. T.
Hunter, and the Commissioners from Missouri, by
which that State becomes member of the South
ern Confederacy Add another star. s- 3.
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Gen. Pixies mission to the Indians in the Indian
Territory has been eminently successful. All the
tribes between Kansas and Red River have placed
themselves under the protection of the Southern
Confederacy
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n.LEIGH: SATURDAY, Noy. 30, 1861.

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Stocks have declined in New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore, in consequence of the fear of war
with England growing out of the Mason and Slidell
dificultv -.-- .-.... -....... F..-
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4 CoRRECTIoN.-For some time the rumor has
been going the rounds of the papers, that at the
late session of the Louisville Conference of the VI.
E. Church, South, about the close, every minister
Of the Conference and Bishop Kavanaugh who pre-
sided were compelled to take the oath of allegiance
to Lincoln's government, &c. 4 correspondent Of
the Richmond Dispatch at Norfolk, says the follow
ing correction given that statement by Bishop
Andrew, on Saturday last to the Virginia Confer
ence in session at Norfolk. The correspondent says
bishop Andrew took occasion to correct some
misapprehenSions which have gone forth to the
action of Bishop Kavanaugh and the preachers of
the Kentucky Conference. The preachers were not
all required to take the OATH but only such
travelling in the Louisville district None others
forced to take it, and to Bishop Kavanaugh,
he not only did not take the oath, but the floor
of the Conference assured the COnfederacy that he
would take no oath of any kind whatsoever, and,
in point of fact, did not and would not have done
So whatever might have been the result SO that
the representation which has gone forth to the
world, that the Conference, from the Bishop down,
was required to Jake oath, untrue, a mere
exaggeration. Thus much is due to Bishop Kav-
anaugh and as we'll to yourselves"
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The opinion is expressed that the Federal Con
gress will remain in session until next summer =
We hope Johnston and Beauregard will take the
yeas and nays on that question. -
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The London Times speaks of the discouraging
state of trade in the manufacturing districts of Eng
land.
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ATTENTIONS! MILITIA!l.

COMPANY ca
IN OBEDIENCE To THE GoyERNoRs ORDERS,
II You are hereby. patiied to meet at ibe BAPTIST
GROVE every SATURDAY, ifroa and sfteF this date
until further notice lat 29ceck for DRILL, armed
aaa eqgppeG as me iHp S,setS AZ asnqnes are also
ON SATURDAY. the S0th inst. at AZ o'clock. P. NJ
BY order of Capt. W. r. Riehardson-
Raleigh, Nov 81 1851 l03-lt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1861-02-23
Fayetteville, Feb. 18Lh.

An election being held, d large mum
Der OF votes were cast against a con
yention. Upon raising large Union
FLAG (thc old Stats ana Stripes over
the Court House, the enthusiasm ofthe
crowd was unbounded, and cheer after
cheer was sent up from more voices
than ever greeted it iii " asilin9ton
county before Parties are now parad
ing the streets with Union flags.