Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-10-02
GENERAL NEWS.

Colonel Chipley, and other citizens of Ircdell
county, N. c., arrived in Richmond on the 18th with
too hundred and tsosny odd 6ores of stores, cloth
ing, &c, for the 4th and 9th regiments North Caro-
lima Volunteers.
The Southern Direct Trade Convention meets in
Macon, Georgia, on the 14th of October. The mer-
chants Of every city and town in the Confederacy
ought to be represented
Rev. John N. Andrews, late Chaplain Of the
Third Regiment N. c. Volunteers, is now raising
| volunteer company in Wayne and johnson counties,
N. C.. He is determined to avenge his brother,
Major 5. W. G. Andrews, who was captured at Hat.
teras.
A bale Of cotton was sold in Petersburg on Mon
day last for Is cents. 1t was raised by W. G. Gay
OF Northampton county, N. c., and was the first in
the market
Governor Brown, of Georgia, has, by proclama-
ton, exempted from military duty all telegraph.
express and rail road employees, all employees of
the State or Confederate Governments and all per-
sons engaged in the manufacture of articles for mill
! tary use.
! GEN. F. K. ZoLlIcorFER.-The Nashville Banner
urges the appointment of this gentleman to the
office of Secretary of War; the successor Of Judge
Walker.
| IMPORTANT RAILROAD CoNNEcrIoN.vThe trestle-
| work connecting the Nashville and Chattanooga
and the North Western Railroad, has been complet-
ed This work was one of great Importance, as it
in effect makes complete junction of all the rail-
road lines centering in Nashville.
ARRIVAL OF GUNs.-About 100 guns, of large
calbre, have arrived in New Orleans from Norfolk,
IN charge of an officer who was sent for them
There are few more on the way, which will soon
| be there
The Charleston Courier announces that an enter
prising gentleman, who can command the requisite
Il tt
South Carolina if the proper labor be procured
General Zollicorfer has telcgraphed to Gov. Magof
! fin, of Kentucky that he had occupied the three
long mountains in Knox county, Kentucky, and
would not leave unless the Lincoln troops did
The army supplies now going into Virginia are
said to be immensely large.
The Virginia Armory has contributed much to
the furnishing cannon and small arms to the army.
DIR. P. J. R. Edwards of Cleveland, Tenn, insists
upon it that cotton carded into bats is equal to linen
lint for dressing wounds.
The telegraphic lines are now open to Dumfries,
Brooks Station, Acquia Creek, Westpoint, Vii
liamsburg, Yorktown, Strasburg, Fairfax Station,
Fairfax c. H., and Falls Church.
w. R. Myers, ESQ, of Charlotte, was on Saturday
last elected Captain of corp of volunteers he has
been instr umental in raising
The New York Herald says that information has
been received, which shows that Spain will shortly
recognize the independence Of the Southern Con-
federacy.
California has gone Black Republican. The
Breckenridge Democratic State ticket received 49,,
900 votes; the Union Democratic 10000, and the
Black Republican 43, 600.
Garibaldi has refused to visit America.
Major Branenswen has rendered ZOO Italian
veterans to Lincoln.
The Collector of the port of New Orleans announ-
officially in the papers, that vessels from foreign
countries will be allowed to enter any harbor on
our coast and discharge their cargocs, without re-
gard to the sane being established port Of entry.
In Spain, the summer has been one of the hottest
ever experienced there Late letters say that the
heat increasing. At Madrid it had attained ITO
degrees in the shade.
TEXAS GUBERNAToRIAL Observation-Disclosures from
81 counties and towns in Texas shows the following
result: Lubbock 12,72S, Chambers 6,6l6, Clark
7,462.
The Governor of Texas has issued proclamation
calling for 900 more troops: 900 to go into camps
of instruction, and ten companies of infantry and
four of artillery to go the coast and on the Rio
Grande.
The Louisville Courier says that the gunboats
passing that city are oSensibly intended for brdg-
ing the Mississippi, but really to be sent up the
Green, Cumberland, and Tennessee rivers, to aid
Lincoln operations in that quarter.
Brig. Gen. ISnead, of the Provisional Army Of
Tennessee, with his staff passed through this city
yesterday, en- route for the Army of the Potomac
He may be addressed through b. n. Clements, Esq,
P. o. d., in this city.
A Col McCurry of the Federal army at Washing
ton has been sent home by Mcclellan because of his
attention excite mutinV among the men.
Texas is fully aroused for the war. Col Terrys
regiment of Rangers will soon be en- route for Fr-
ginia.
A woman dressed up in regmentals and strutting
about the streets of Lynchburg, a Lieut. Buford,
was arrested last week, who gave her name as Mrs.
Mary Ann Keith of Memphis. She was sent on to
Richmond as spy.
The Memphis CTenn) Aralanche has learned
through a reliable source that Mr.. Guthrie, of KY,
has come out boldly and openly for the South and
that large numbers of prominent men, who hereto
FORE have been neutral are now taking sides with
us. At the Columbus and other Southern camps
the Kentuckians are focking to our standard in
scores.
The Richmond Examiner says: ave are salts
fed that the statement Of divergence of views
among the members of the Government upon the
mode of prosecuting the is entirely incorrect"
len hogsheadS OF very hne Tobacco, the gilt OF
E. II. Cheat, of North Carolina to the government
of the Confederate States of America recently
transported over the Richmond and Petersburg
Railroad.
Three officers from the French corvette, Lavois-
ser, at the mouth of the Mississippi landed at New
Orleans on the oath, bringing up her mail bag.
1t is rumored that Mcclellan had been dangerous
ly shot, and that DR.. Smith, of Baltimore, had re-
fused to attend him: upon which the Doctor was
imprisoned.
The number of troops around Baltimore does not
exceed seven OF eight thousand They are stationed
part at Fort McHenry, part at Federal Hil part at
Canton, and part at the Relay, and some at Frank
lin SQUARE