Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-06-19
Ibc Semi WceEIy STANDARD.
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ARMS
Tn the rural districts every house possesses arms
enough for its own deence-a gun for every third
male or about $50 0D0 rifles and shot guns, the pri
vate property Of the Southern population. Know
inr this to be the case, disposed to be little
increduOus when we hear it said that certain lOca
Tues could send additional companies into the field
if 1t we're not for the impO>sibity OF obtaining
suitable arms. No doubt every company organized
woulI like to have the best arms in Use; but when
this is unattanabe it ought not to follow that the
country shoud be left und. .ended 1t is true that
the ried mrSket can do execution, with some pre-
ciSon at the distance Of five hun II, d yards, and
that the shotgun, at the same distance, would do
none But then, is it to be supposed that Vr-
qinans are going to stand still and be shot down, at
their own doors, by Yankee invaders? There is a
very simple mode of shortening the distance. At
fifty yards, each barrel loaded With fifteen buck
shot the gum which was harmless at long distance,
fires Il whole bruadSide at every discharge. Any
one of the thirty buckShOt will disable man and
if aimed L0U a little above the knee the double
barrel piece may knock down half dozen Yankees
at every fire. VIII lie the Minnie ball can on" ht one
and even that is Improbable at short dlStrnce-
So much for the heavy double barrel shotgun
Then there is the hunters rifle, which will do eXecu-
ton in the hands of Southern markSmln, one
hundred and fifty yards. These will do for the
fences, rocks, and trees, Daniel Boone or Indian
fashion, until the shotgun can get within killing
range.
After all, 1t is not the arm so much as the man.
Let the Yankees find that their newfanoled guns
don't kill the whole of at safe diSta?ce, but that
we are still charging upon them, and they will drop
their arms and run away. Then we can get fresh
supply of arms and shoot the invaders IN the back
with their own guns But if there were not private
arms enough, still all male population should
be organized into companies, and tender themselves
for the war; for when the WAR ceases in Virginia. 1t
will not I've likely exist anywhere else. They
6,rht yClth l
reapho0kS with scytheS carving knives, anything,
in defence of their hearth-StOneS and the little ones
dearer to them than life. At all events, they can
drill, and soon our factories will supply all defc
cieneS of arms.
In all our great pitched battles, it may be taken
for granted that the enemy will be met with the
same pattern of arms they bring against uS, and
with the beSt-drilled men OF the South Lut the
long hunters rifle can be made to do excellent
vice on their tInkS, and the ShOtgunS III their rear,
on the battlefield. The Sh0t-gunS make a great
noise, and the men, particularly if mounted, can
make great dust, and this has, before now, produc
ed a panic on the battlefield. Such arms will dofor
ambuScadeS, for hight assaults and for guarding
prisoners Every man, and every weapln and every
horse in Virginia, should he engaged, without delay,
for the acar.-RichmOnd EnQuirer
CONFEDERATE ELECTIONS. act providing for
the permanent organization of the government re-
oures that all those States in which no provision
greSS under the constitution, al election shall
be held on the first Wednesday IN November next,
at which time the election of electors for President
and Vice President shall also be held The electors
required to meet in their respective States the
first Wednesday in December thereafter, and pro-
ceed to their votes for President and Vice Pres
ident.
Tine members who may be elected and the Sena-
tors to be chosen by the States, shall assemble at
the seat of government of the Confederate States,
on the 18th day of February 1852, and proceed
respectively to the election of Speaker of the House
and President of the Senate. On the 18th day of
February the President of the Senate shall open the
certificates the shall then be counted and the
President inaugurated on the 22d day of February,
1862.
These are the provisions of the bill as we find
them in exchanges ges.-SOuthern Guardian.
GREAT BRITAINs INTEREST IN THE CONFEDERATE
STATES-It has be IN estimated within the last year,
by English authorities, that the capital invested by
their cOuntrymen in spinning and weaving cotton
alone, is about 1926 $50 600, and that further sum
Of $15O, 900 600 must be added for the process of
dyeing, printing and bleaching The floating capi-
tai of the importers of the material is eStnat-
ed at $32, 800, 600 that of the ship at S15,
,OO0-makiEg total, independent Of all SUBJ
sidary trades administering indirectly, 1928, 759,
600. These are the estimates of Mr.. James a.
Mann, in his Cotton Trade of Great Britain, pub
llshed in London last year. The Westminster Re.
rt60 for April adopts these figures, and although
large does not think there is any reason for beev-
ing them to be exaggerated.
Five hundred and twenty three millions seven
hundred and fifty mine thousand of British capital
at risk in this contest! No wonder that the North
ern Journals begin to talk of forti!ying their
ports! They have had hitherto the sport most fasci
natlng ot all others to thOrOug ghpaced miScreants
and towards, of putting inotiensive people in
danger without peril to themselves. Possibly this
game cannot be kept up to the end and even if the
South Shall not carry the into Africa, which at
present is more than probable British SquadrOnS
may yet threaten their seacOastS and give New York.
Boston, Philadelphia, &c, taste of the amusement
which they have been visiting upon the seaboard
cities of Virginia. -Richmoad Eramiaer.
MILITARY OFFCERs-There is striking contrast
between the principal officers in the two armies now
concentrating in Virginia. We see it stated by the
New York Express that the ages of the general Off
GERS in Lincons army run as follows: Scott aged
70; WOOL 70 Harney, Go; Mansfield, CO.; TOtten
head of the Engineer Corps, 80; rhayer Engineer,
so; Craig, head of the Ordnance Department, rs !;
Ripley, Ordnance, 20; Sumner, IS Lawson, Surg
con General, 80; Larned, Paymaster General, 70;
Gibson, CommisSary General, Churchill, Inspector
General and Thomas, Adjutant General, are old men,
having entered the army in the beginning OF the
present century, Gibson in 1908, and Churchill IN
1912.
In the army of the Confederate States we find
Davis, Commander-in Chief young man, compara-
lively, and full of energy vigor and fire; Beaure.
gard, only between 40 and so, in the full vigor of
health; Lee, about 54 or 55; Bragg active vigorous
and efficient with others that might be named did
we know their precise ages. In the physique OF our
officers, and in the tnateriel of their command the
Confederate States have a decided advantage over
the enemy. But above all these they have the
higher advantage and the favor of the Almighty in
the fact that their cause is sjust-S0uth Guardiaa,