Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-12-10
Election of Treasurer.

81. Election of Treasurer
We are grati6ed to state that Jonathan Worth,
ESQ.,, of Randolph County, was on Wednesday last
elected Treasurer Of this State for two years from
and after the 1st of January next Mr.. Worth is,
in every respect, admirably fitted for this position
The Destructves are already raising the cry thft
the finances of the State will be embarrassed by the
non-eection of Mr.. Courts, the present Treasurer,
and that the State will be injured by the election Of
Mr.. Worth. Mr. Worth is better qualified for the
Office, in our opinion, than Mr. Courts; but even if
we admit that he is no better qualified for it than
Mr.. Courts, we do not see how the finances can be
embarrassed or the State injured by his election
the Treasury is in sound and safe condition now,
as we have no doubt it is, Mr. Worth will have
nothing to do but to begin where Mr.. Courts left
of, and go right with his receipts and disburse
ments his negotiations for loans and his issues Of
Treasury notes. Ifthe machinery is working well
now, it will surely not get out of order because
competent engineer takes the place Of another.
Complaints on.the score of prescription come with
bad grace from. Mr.. Courts and his friends. They
commenced that work, in the midst of war; in North
Carolina; and if they had remained in power, they
would not only have prescribed every Conservative
whom they could have reached, but they would have
passed test oatbs and gaglaws and arrested and i'm
pr;soned Conservatives account ofthelr opinions.
Every head that drops in the basket, falls by way
of retaliation forced upon the Conservatives. They
are acting strictly in selfdeence. They desired to
be spared this duty, but their opponents would have
0fhprUica Evarv heoH fhot SrnpS is oh hlo
to the Clark and Ellis administrations, and to the
administration at Richmond.
We trust that certain gentlemen understand now
the meaning of the word Conservative" 1t means
change of men and measures. Itmeans reform in
the government 1t means that hotheads, and
"peaccable" secessionists, and those who would
make the military power paramount to the civil, shall
goo and men of different temperaments and views
and opinions, shall 60 in. The people have willed
it, and the Legislature has acted accordingly. Amen
to it, say we.
+ PRICES.
We have not as yet heard of single tanner in
this county selling his leather for less than the very
highest prices, but rather. they manifest dispos
ton to push it still higher. was brought to
our knowledge last week where gentleman bought
calf skin (as it called) by the skin but when
he came to weigh it he found that he had paid ST.
pound for it.
In the above we do not wish to be understood as
intending to hold up but one class Of our citizens to
the reprobation of the Others But on the contrary
we have recently heard Of cases that will hit all
around
One of the very wealthiest of our planters, who
has not in the service of his country recently
charged poor soldier, who has returned paroed
prisoner and wounded, 40 cents pound for bacon
he was purchasing for his widowed mother. An
other planter, who has mill within convenient dis
lance Of town appealed to by some of our citi-
Zens, whose families were suffering for meal,
to bring them meal. He said he would do so for
$l50 a bushel and for not a cent less, when he
knew that but 81, was the rulingsprice.
We hear of shoemakers charging from IS to $40
for footing pair of boots when all the matcral'to
be used in the work to be found by the parties
having it done. And We have heard of individuals
selling remnants of their old stock, bought before
the war; at from one hundred to two hundred per
cent above what they originally offered them at
And We have also heard of an individual who was
offering home made cotton checks at 81 per yard,
and refused to take less, because somebody some
where was selling coffee at $3.50 per pound We
have heard, too, Of individuals buying up all the
jeans they lay their hands on, to send to Char
lotte or Richmond, where they say, they get Sc a
yard for it-going out of their legitimate line Of
business to speculate little.
In bright and shining contrast to all the above,
it has just come to our knowledge that Col. W. G.
Smith, has been selling what bacon he has had to
spare, to the families of INDECENT soldiers residing
in his neighborhood at twenty cents per pound
(when others asking thirty five and forty cents,
and other necessaries in proportion. We also learn
that he had given instruction to the overseer he
has employed for next year, to sell to the same class
of soldiers families, corn at fifty cents bushel
while there those in our midst who are trying
to push the price of corn up to $l.50 per bushe
The Colonel has also given instructions to his over
to sell other articles he has spare to the same
parties at equally as low rate Wadesboro' Argus.