Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-05-07

N0RTH-CARoLlNA FoRCEs.-From a communca-
ton made few days ago to the Convention by Ad-
jutant General Martin, learn that this State has
organized SO regiments, besides companies on
local service, and 10 companies of artillery unat-
tached This does not include, however, COL
Wharton Green's battalion, attached to the Wise
Legion, and various other companies, We presume,
raised in the State directly by the Confederate gov
eminent; two Of the infantry regiments, the 31st
and Sth, and several companies of the 18th, cap
tured at Roanoke Island and paroled, and CON-
panes of artillery recently paroled at Fort Macon,
which cannot be numbered with our active force, at
present.
The State, therefore, has in service and nearly
ready 81 regiments, besides number of infantry
and artillery companies not organized into regi-
ments, not including the paroed officers and SOL
diers, or those raised by the Confederate govern
ment in the State. Of these As regiments are in
antry, cavalry and artillery regiments. These,
when filled up to the maximum number, will make
large army of ITSELF which if skilfully handled,
might defy double its number of Yankee invaders
For the Standard.
Will you, Mr.. Editor please inform the people
who are illegally exempted from military service"
In this county it is rumored that at recent draft
all public millers, and every one who was making
money by speculation or in any other manner, was
considered illegally exempted from military SERVICE"
and consequently not subject to be drafted The
people desire to know whether every one who tends
mill as public miller, and every cross-road post
master will be illegally exempted from military SER
vice. under the conscrpt law. If so, there will be
no old millers nor old postmasters. Every body
will be miller, postmaster, or Spectator, and
fear more spectators than millers and postmasters
together. Let US have the law of the Confederate
States, and of North Carolina on the subject.
Alexander County. S.
We have published the law of Congress in regard
to exemptions and refer our correspondent to that
As we understand it the law exempts all persons
who belong to the classes vacations named in the
bill, provided they are exempted by the Secretary
of War. From the regulations of the Secretary Of
War, made under the conscrpt and exemption laws,
as published in our last semi weekly and which will
be found in the present weekly, we conclude that
the Secretary of War will exempt all named IN the
bill, who proue that they belong to the classes or
vocations exempted by the bill.-.Stondard.
For the Standard.
Mr. HoLDEN:-It is astonishing with what tact
and ingenuity certain individuals OF the blood
and thunder stripe can evade rendering that SER
vice to the Southern cause which our bleeding Con-
federacy now demands at the hands of patriots and
which their former professions and political course
would have induced the credulous to believe would
have been rendered in more trying times.
Inquiry has been made through the public prints
why it was that our Legislature placed field officers
of the militia different footing from that of pri-
Yates in of draft. No satisfactory answer has
yet been given. But the fact of the law being thus
has doubt induced persons to seek those stations
But this aim was frustrated by the passage OF the
CONSUMPTION act superseding local law. So some
other expedient had to be resorted to. What was
that That guaranteed to every conscript provided
he has the means of procuring substitute? No.
But the idea has been conceived and acted upon,
that probably their carcasses might be saved from
the ills of camp life and effects of Yankee bullets by
representing to the General Commanding the num-
Der of slaves in certain localities and the danger to
be apprehended, and petitioning him to leave four
in each Captains District to guard the inhabitants;
and recommending persons for those appointments,
their patriotic selves first and foremost in the list
Such is the secret programme now on hand in the
County of Johnston. for one, in the name OF the
people, protest against such tricks. But if such
measure is necessary, let those who stood draft
or were drafted, and those who have been under
going the pains and penalties of company drill, at
least have an equal chance with field officers to en-
Joy the comforts Of home soldiers.
Our Colonel, Lieut. Colonel and Major have,
understand, succeeded in being recommended as
home guard. A CONSCRIPT
~ 4lst Reg. N. q. Militia